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Hikaru walked out of the hot springs a few hours later, a giant smile painted across her face. She toweled off in the changing room, gathering up her clothing and not really bothering to change into her regular clothes for the moment. This attracted a few wolf-whistles from passing boys as she exited the springs, but she took care of that rather quickly by clobbering one of them with one of her judo throws. Turning to the boy's friends, she smiled cheerfully, causing them all to run off in fright. Giggling to herself a little, she made her way back to her dorm room for the night, full of resolve and self-assurance.

Kana tilted her head to one side, glancing at Kietaru out of the corner of her eye. "Well, I think it's more instinct than fear that makes me not like it..." she laughed, pushing a bit of hair that'd fallen from her ponytail from her face. "I am a cat after all," she added with a grin as her tail flicked out of the water as proof, splashing all three of them in the process. "Whoops!" Kana cried with a laugh. "Sorry!"

She glanced at Shojuto next and nodded, still grinning. "Yes! I just have to get used to it..." She closed her eyes after she saw him tilt back, a broad smile still upon her face. Her ears flattened lazily against her head as well.

Kana smiled at the twins, glad everyone was back to normal once again. That scene back at the nightclub, and then the lake, had really gotten her down... But now that she was relaxing and purposely trying not to think of anything negative, the memories tended to rush back towards her once again. It was what always happened. She tried to make herself not think of something, but reminded herself of it in the process and ended up remembering anyway. She opened her eyes suddenly, blocking out a sudden wave of images.

Then she glanced around, managing to keep her smile. She grinned as she fully noted how huge the hotsprings were and then turned to look at the twins. "I'm going to swim!" Kana cried, not even sure if she really knew how. But before she could talk herself out of it, she leaned forward, pushing off from the wall. She'd forgotten about hiding her back and it was in plain view as she moved away, splashing quite a bit more than you were supposed to.

[That seems to happen quite a bit xD;]

Kana bobbed under the water once, but then popped back up, kind of hovering in that one place towards the center of the springs. She blinked as Shojuto approached, and lurched towards him, clinging almost fearfully to his arm. "No, don't worry about me! Go back to relaxing!" she urged quickly, then froze as she realized she was still holding onto him.

"U-um, I mean..." she murmured awkwardly, and began glancing around. But she couldn't bring herself to let go, afraid she might drown. Truthfully, she'd only attempted swimming to distract herself. Well, she was certainly distracted now... But she kept thinking she probably could have thought of a better way.

Kana bit her lip anxiously. "I don't want to... bother you," she said quietly, bowing her head slightly, then lifting it immediately again as she saw how close the water was. "And swimming is something everyone should know how to do, right?" She let go of him, bobbed under almost instantly, and quickly latched back on. "I-I was going to teach myself!" she cried more loudly than necessary, eyes widened, as her tail wrapped nervously around her waist.

[Alright. T.T]

Kana chewed her lip nervously as she was led towards a more shallow part. Her feet touched the bottom and she stood on her toes to get as far from the water as she could manage, tail still tightly around her waist. Once she found her balance, she slowly withdrew her hands from Shojuto's arm and nervously clasped them together before herself. She glanced around, eyes settling upon Shojuto as he spoke. She somehow fought the urge to look towards Kietaru as she was mentioned, but still grinned at him. "Well, I'm sixteen, so..." she began with an awkward smile. "...that's even worse, isn't it?"

"Well...There was a girl who's whole expression changed when she got in, one who made the water steam when she got in, and then it didn't seem to do much to you. I don't see why it does different for different people..." Suka replied to KArin, he touched it again with his hand and then slipped in there by her and blinked as it did not do any of the previoussly mentioned things and so he looked at her curiously as if asking for an answer as to why it was acting like it was.