Just sleeping the days away. [Tomoe & Akimi] [Completed!]

There was a real problem with this factory. A problem as serious and concerning than anything the rest of the kids here could have possibly imagined. Fuck any thoughts about murders or the fact some people may or may not already be planning on killing each other for the sake of…well to be honest Tomoe didn’t know what. She had been far too busy booping bear noses to pay attention to their speech on why people should be mean or whatever but based on the reactions she’s heard that other people had she can only assume it was bad, but that just completely and totally paled in comparison to the real danger that plagued this factory life.

That problem was obvious: slugabeds.

Jeez, people just wanted to be lazy around here and it made no sense to Tomoe. There were so many things you could do in a day, and did they even know how many activities they were cutting out of their day by sleeping in? Hell, not only that, did nobody here even know the importance of a proper sleeping pattern has on the human body? Okay sure, Tomoe was first and foremost an animal doctor but if you wanted to think about it in a biological sense, people were animals, right?

…Long story short, Tomoe had decided that it was her sworn duty to wake up these lazybones, as many as she could find in the best most effective way possible. The only problem was one particular sleepy head here this morning that seemed determined to not get up no matter what Tomoe tried. She had tried gently shaking the other girl and had gotten no response. She had tried the cat method which was just kind of leaning down and getting into their personal space, but that didn’t work either. And now, having spent a good few minutes sitting bedside pouting, Tomoe was now determined to bring out the heavy artillery.

Retrieving the heavy artillery from her own bedside, Tomoe wandered back over to the girls bed and ever so gently to not be rude, pressed the nose of her loyal stuffed rabbit to where she assumed the head of the other girl was hidden under the blanked and aimed for what she really hoped was her nose and not something else.

“Boop.”

Nobody could resist the siren morning call of the Ishiharu, the sooner people learned this the better.

Oh good, she was awake. Operation "wake all the sleepies up so we can all start the day" was a major success. Now Akimi could join all the rest of them in doing fun things to the full extent of her potential, wasn’t this just wonderful? Well Tomoe certainly thought so and that is why even though Akimi was visibly upset with being woken up by a cute white haired girl, Tomoe just smiled wide at the older girl, the offending rabbit that had done the actual awakening clutched tightly against her chest.

“Good morning sleepyhead. It’s time to join the world and start a beautiful day.”

Jeez, Tomoe give the cheer and good will a rest for two minutes, will you? Some people thought it was okay to sleep in every so often, it wasn’t that big of a deal to most people. And yet the young girl took a seat on a vacant bed next to Akimi’s and propped her head in her hands, meeting Akimi’s annoyed glare with nothing but smiles as she waited for the other girl to just give in and get up like the rest of them. It was kind of rude to keep people waiting Akimi.

“All of the other slugabeds are awake as far as Tomoe knows. Tomoe came to get you, Kimi.” The veterinarian nodded her head, agreeing with herself as if she really needed the support of someone to agree with her explanation, absent mindedly moving Ishiharu’s head up and down in synchronized motion with hers to double the sentiment and then thrust the bunny out towards the face of the other girl without any real reason or explanation as to why she was doing so. “But you didn't want to get up for Tomoe, So Ishiharu decided to come try and get you up.”

Because that made perfect sense, after all.

“Ah” As the other girl took the doll away from her there’s a brief moment of panic that washes over her. Ishiharu had been with her for years, through the darkest times when things were really bad and she had nobody and she just wanted him to be okay, don’t hurt him. Luckily for Tomoe all Akimi does is pat her rabbit on its head and she can take a sigh of relief as Akimi starts to write something down and offered Tomoe a pen so she could write back, a pen that is taken with a bright smile, and quickly scrawls back a response. Not the neatest handwriting in the world, but it should be readable. Good thing nobody graded penmanship these days, right?
 
“Tomoe has had Ishiharu for yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaarrrrrrrs and years, ever since she was small. He’s her most trusted friend that’s not Kachan.”

Tomoe nodded as if it gave her statement added validly and touches Ishiharu on the top of his head to reassure the bunny that what she said was true and she casually glances around the room to see if anyone else was around needing to be woken up by the generous little veterinarian as Akimi wrote a new message on the paper they were communicating on.

"You're very kind, Tomoe."

Kind, her? She wasn’t doing anything super nice or out of the ordinary she thought and so she simply shook her head at the words because they just didn’t make sense to her. Wouldn’t anybody do this who was gonna oversleep and miss all the quality friendship bonding time? Nobody really wants to be by themselves or unfriendly or lonely or whatever else they might say and the young girl began writing a new message in response to the other girl.

“Tomoe isn’t doing anything unusual. She just thinks you’d want to be up and have as much fun with the new friends we all met here as possible. That’s what Tomoe’s doing.”

"And I appreciate the gesture, but... it's not easy to make friends under such dire circumstances. I'm sure you understand, right Tomoe?"

The normal person under these circumstances would have no problem whatsoever understanding what Akimi was saying (well, writing) right now. They were in a horrible situation. They had woken up far away from home, most of them had no idea who the person next to them were, and they had been told randomly by two bears that they were now going to be forced to kill each other, you wouldn’t think that there could be somebody out there who could blindly try and make friends with the people there. Who could be that dumb?

This girl., that’s who. As soon as Akimi stopped speaking, Tomoe seems to think her words over for no more or less than six seconds before shaking her head to a degree where her long white hair could have been used as a weapon to slap someone in the face, and tucking Ishiharu under her arm protectively so he wouldn’t be lost, moved to grab Akimi by the wrist so Tomoe could introduce the older girl to everyone else. She knew exactly what the problem was here.

“You’re shy, Tomoe understands. But isn’t it a lot better to get to know the people around you in situations like this? Friends won’t hurt friends, so let’s all be friends already.”

Each word is punctuated with an impatient tug on the other girls’ wrist as Tomoe tries to drag her along like a child leading their mother. Which is an odd visual when you consider Tomoe was the larger girl of the two. Huh.