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Chapter 1
Sing Little Hummingbird
Fujimori Chidori was a bright child. Sure, she could be excitable, but she always knew when to tone it down with the others. And she was a bright spot in the usually dreary Hospital.
Sayaka was frankly quite happy with the young girl at the moment. ( The Tantrum after the discovery of the discontinuation of whatever that "Batman comic" came to mind for how bad she could get) Though she did wish that the girl would tone down the volume of her singing at times. Sayaka readied her Aroma quirk, it was a useful one too with her job. She could very easily calm down her charges by simply diffusing the calming scent of lilac into the air.
As Sayaka walked into the room of the aforementioned Chidori singing as loud as she could to some of the other children in the room, she mused to herself 'Yes definitely useful '. Especially against the pouts and teary eyes that turned her way, due to Chidori's unexpected pause. The periwinkle eyes grew wide, and her cheeks flushed a brilliant cherry as the girl ducked behind her downy white feathers.
Sayaka could not keep her own chuckles in at the sight but held firm in her reprimand. "Chidori-can, I know you are exercising with your quirk, but you need to keep the volume down. We do have other patients on this floor too, you know." The poor girl turned an even darker red, Sayaka was a bit worried the girl would faint frankly, " Ah , umm sorry Miss Sumire-san." Chidori mumbles, beating back a yawn at the beginning. Sayaka fights back a smile and starts reigning in her quirk and replies softly. "I don't mind you singing Chidori, it's quite lovely dear. You just need to be mindful of the volume sweety." Chidori beams at her praise and perks up like the bird her quirk is named after.
"Oh, Miss Sumire-san umm it's going to be my birthday soon, and Moku-kun had an idea for promotion with the hospital and my quirk. Umm, but we need a laptop for it." By the time Chidori finishes she is nibbling on her lip and is staring at the nurse's feet. "Hmm, well what is this idea of your Moku-kun, and how do Chidori and a laptop play into this?" Sayaka finishes her inquiry by turning to look at the older boy.
The poor boy freezes, and his inky body starts to shiver a bit from stress. Sayaka makes sure to keep her gaze gentle and a small smile on her lips and her body language relaxed and she crouches down to his level. Moku takes a deep breath and blurts out "WellIfiguredthatsinceChidorihassuchagoodvoiceandhersongsarecoolandallImeanIreallylikethemandsodotheotherbutthatdoesn'treallymaderbut-"Sayaka gently puts a finger to his inky skin to hold back the absolute surge of word vomit that had come spilling out. She doesn't even try to hold back her laughter this time, "So what you want is to have a laptop to post videos of Chidori singing to the Hospital webpage to promote awareness. Do I have that right?" The poor boy nods his head so fast she is slightly concerned that it will fall right off his skinny neck.
Sayaka kneels completely to look at Moku "That's a wonderful idea Moku," The young boy made of ink perks up so much that she almost does not want to finish her explanation. "But I'm afraid that it's not possible," Sayaka says in a softly apologetic manner. " But why not! " Young Shimo burst into ignition on Moku's behalf. “Because Shimo-kun since we are in a hospital there are others here, yes?” “Well, yeah .” Small ice crystals fall against Shimo’s shoulders as he tilts his head and small silver eyes squint at her.
“ Well , that means that you could accidentally record someone else too. Yes?” Sayaka answers with a raised eyebrow and a soft smile. Shimo blushes and frost starts to form on his cheeks at the drop in temperature. “Oh,” Shimo mumbles out. Sayaka gives a small chuckle and pats his light blue hair to reassure the young boy. “But Miss Sayaka-san what if we’re not doing any video?” Chidori pipes up. Sayaka blinks in confusion “Hmm?” The small girl’s downy hair and wing puff up a bit as she blushes and stutters out an explanation. “W-well since I c-can’t show video. I-I thought t-that umm i-it could just be me s-singing, and i-it would just b-be art and t-the s-song lyrics i-in t-the ba-background.” Chidori finishes her statement into her chest with who far the young girl is looking down.
“I believe that would be an excellent solution to our problem,” Sayaka announces with a gentle smile. “But let’s wait till your fifteenth birthday till we give you a Yotube account, alright?” And Sayaka just watches as the room seems to glow from all the little smiling faces beamed at her.
Well after that reaction, Sayaka is going to get Chidori her Yotube account even if she has to break Chidori’s caseworker’s arm to get it. Frankly, Sayaka wonders what Takara-san thinks she is doing sometimes. Because that woman is not used to working with children at all.
“Oh, Chidori-can,” Sayaka begins her question, “what are you going to name the account?” She finishes once she has the young girl in question’s attention. Chidori’s answering grin splits her face and makes her eyes close with how hard she squints in return. “I’m going to call it Hummingbird’sWisteria!” Moku laughs in delight at her pun and Shimo just tilts his head in confusion. Even little Aki joins in, leaves rustling in her equivalent of laughter.
“But isn’t that just your name?” Shimo asks Chidori, the poor girl is giggling too much to reply properly. Thankfully, Moku answers in her stead. “Yup, that’s why she’s doing it, that way when she can or if she does reveal her name and stuff, it’ll be super funny cause everyone will know her voice and her name already. So, the only thing they’ll be getting is her face. Which is her basically saying that if no one else pointed it out then your all so stupid that I had to point it out for you.” Poor Shimo still looks confused, so Sayaka jumps in before he blows up. “Chidori is basically playing Finding Waldo with everyone Shimo and when she tells everyone who she is it will be very obvious.” Shimo’s brows are still drawn in confusion, so she elaborates, “it is like when someone else points out where Waldo was, and it turns out that he wasn’t hiding at all Shimo.” Realization blooms across his face like the sunrise and then Shimo joins in with the laughter.
Sayaka just shakes her head at their antics and then goes back to her normal rounds. But before she shuts the door, “While that is rather amusing Chidori-chan, but what would be even better is a clean room.” The childlike groans are music to her ears, as a smile tugs at her lips.
Really though, they should have known better than to leave such a mess. But she does wonder how on earth they got all of those music sheets into their room. And such old music too, as she glances down at the sheet in her hand, she had picked it up because it rang a faint bell in her head.
Frankly, she had only heard about “Wannabe” by Spicegirls, when she was in college taking ‘Music through History: Prequirk-Era.’ It was an interesting class to be sure, but not a particularly useful one. I wonder what exactly Chidori is planning on doing with such old music, surely not singing it? But I guess I’ll see it next week.