Here's chapter 6 but before I post it, here's the berryz outfits. I haven't drawn a final picture of the design yet, so you'll have to make do with piecing it together with a few pictures lol.
This is pretty much the whole design, being pink it would be Risako's version.
but i wasn't happy with the top and arms so I did some other pictures showing a variation on it.
This is the closest to final design, but it's not coloured in so that's why I posted the first one.(and yes i messed up the hand, so i hid it lol)
Enjoy!
Chapter 6
The van driver parked the van, then stepped out and left to report that the vehicle had been returned. In a place such as this, reporting when and where everything is, is essential. There was nothing much to see in this car-park, all the armoured vehicles and anything that was more interesting than their van was on a different floor. This included all the big shots posh expensive cars, only the low down workers parked their own vehicles on this level. The girls stepped out in their uniforms, full body white and their own respective colours.
Saki – Green
Momoko – Yellow
Chinami – Orange
Maasa – Blue
Miyabi – Red
Yurina – Purple
Risako – Pink
They walked along the white marked, grey car park towards the elevator. The three eldest stood in one the other four stood in the other, all in complete silence as here they had to show the other ‘employees’ that they were professional and deserved to work here.
Their elevators arrived almost simultaneously and them stepped out and walked together to the large office area.
“Hai,” Saki held out the chip in her hand, “We retrieved it successfully.”
“Thank you Shimizu-san, we’ll take it from here” and with that the man took the chip from Saki and went over to his desk area. The girls took this as the signal to leave and walked until the corridor was empty besides them.
“Onaka suita~” whined Momoko, just as her stomach began to rumbled. The girls began to laugh softly.
“Ok, let’s get something to eat; I can smell the food from here.” Yurina said.
“…I smell curry.” Said the usually silent one, Risako.
“Yeah so do I! C’mon let’s get some food!” Saki exclaimed. So with that they all walked to the cafeteria/dinning room. They all lined up with their trays, chose their food, and then chose a table with enough seats to sit at.
“So, what happened back there Momoko?” Asked Chinami.
“We were worried…” Added Risako, to the surprise of everyone, she her voice sounded indifferent but her face looked slightly pained. Maybe she was getting better, going back to how she was.
“Thank you Risako,” Momoko smiled, “Well, basically as I started getting closer to the street the van was on; I spotted some guards that had managed to get ahead of me. I knew if I carried on they’d either catch me or follow me to everyone. So I hid behind a dumpster in an alley…” she paused. Should she tell them what she saw, they might think she’s making it up, or worse – try to investigate it. Except, maybe she wanted to find out what happened.
“Momoko?” Yurina waved her hand in front of her face, trying to wake her up. “You still there Momo?” Then suddenly Momoko shook her face.
“Sorry about that, I was thinking through what happened next. Basically…I…saw something.”
“Something?” replied everyone. Momoko looked slightly worried.
“Well…I’m not sure what it was, but I saw something…in the sky…go towards the guards. Then there was a big bang and crash, followed by total silence. I checked it out using the glasses and there was no one, so I ran back.” She decided to not mention the flower, though she did not really know why.
“Eeeh~, that was a close escape Momo!” exclaimed Maasa.
“I wonder what that thing was?” said Saki, as her face changed. She was thinking hard through this.
“Well whatever it was, it saved me from those guards. It was likely that they would have eventually checked the alley I was in.”
They all then sat in silence, all thinking through what Momoko had told them.
“Well anyway, I’ll go write up the report then. Did everyone else return without incident?” Everyone nodded to Saki’s question. “Well then, guess we better get on with whatever needs to be done.” She said with a smile. Everyone nodded and stood up to leave.
Just as they were leaving, Risako stopped Momoko and said she wanted to talk, Momoko agreed.
“What haven’t you told us?”
“.Wha…what do you mean? My story? I told you everything. Zenbu”
“No you didn’t.” there was a pause. “I’m worried about you…please…let me…help you.” Her eyes were full of worry.
“Ok, but don’t tell the others…When I came out from the alley I found this.” She pulled the tulip out of her bag, “It’s my favourite flower. I didn’t think that was important, I mean. Tulips are common aren’t they? Red tulips must be common.” She was more trying to convince herself than Risako. Then Risako did something she had not done in a long time. She smiled. It was not a big smile, but it was definitely a smile. Momoko was tempted so point this out and give her a sort of congratulations, but decided this moment was far more important to treasure than to jump up and down about. Risako had actually smiled.
“Momoko, I never knew that red tulips were your favourite.” Momoko almost blushed at this, though she was not quite sure why. Then Risako’s face returned to the way it usually is.
“I will help you find out what happened back there, that’s a promise.”
“Thank you Risako.” And Momoko decided to be brave following that statement, and hugged Risako. She was not pushed away, but nor did Risako completely embrace her. She stepped back from Risako, said her goodbyes, and headed off upstairs.
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