"CUUUUUUUUTE!"
Of course, she was also a teenaged girl who had a natural propensity for caring for animal life.
"Oh, wow! I've never seen such a sweet little thing! Can I pet him?" Akane gushed with a broad smile on her face.
"Umm...." Hotaru murmured uncertainly. "'She'."
"Eh?"
"Amethyst is a 'she', not a boy."
"I see. Well then, that's good to hear. A girl certainly can't have a problem with being cute."
"Uh-huh," the violet eyed girl replied with a small smile of her own as the martial artist gingerly petted Amethyst, clearly taking care not out of fear, but out of a desire not to hurt the winged lizard.
"I can't believe that something so great is happening," Akane commented, turning to her sister. "What do you think, Kasumi?"
The elder Tendo had looked up from the basket that was lined with a soft towel for comfort, bowl piled high with food, and dish that held some water that she'd pulled out, and looked over at Akane with a slightly confused blink. "I'm so sorry. Were you saying something?"
"Nothing important."
"Okay.... Then I'll just get back to making the preparations for Hotaru's darling little friend. It'll be so nice to have her here!"
"I can't help but agree, sis. Not that we have to guess her thoughts on this, right?"
Hotaru started a bit at the comment, but slowly found herself pleased that she had been so easily included in such a gently teasing comment. When she'd first come to the dojo, she'd been worried about what sort of reception she'd get. But almost as soon as she'd come in, Kasumi had started to treat her like her own child. She would have started earlier, but she had to get to her first.
For her part, Akane had proven to be a rather... odd girl, and didn't even seem to notice it. She tried so hard to be like Kasumi, but was showing strength that had the younger girl nearly looking for the signs of a fuku. Such power was astonishing, and she was a pretty strong girl for someone without some sort of empowerment from outside. She'd even acted as Hotaru's protector, as she seemed to have this need to defend the younger girl from trouble. And she seemed to have the will and skill to take on most problems with ease.
That included Tatewaki Kuno, who had to be the oddest boy that she'd ever met, and she knew someone who threw armor piercing roses while wearing a tuxedo. He just seemed to be incapable of understanding some things, and he got the strangest ideas, such as starting morning fights to see who could date Akane. During what had to be the single most weird experience of her life, he'd nearly hit her when trying to challenge Akane. Needless to say, both girls had been displeased by that. The youngest Tendo had really thrashed him on that instance, to the point that she had been scary. He'd managed to stay conscious somehow, and apologized for what he'd been about to do. So she'd accepted the apology, and given him a smile of understanding, since she'd felt bad for getting in the way.
Now he thought of her as the 'gentle angel with the heart of gold', who was to be protected and treated as one would 'china of the finest quality'. Basically, that worked out to where she was considered a sweet, willing to try, and shy little darling that he wanted to treat as a favored individual.
She wasn't quite sure if she would ever understand him, but whatever made it so that allowed her to unwittingly stop the morning attacks on Akane by being disappointed in being unable to stop them, and finding them distressing, she was all for it.
"She seems to be really happy to have Amethyst here," Hotaru commented softly.
"There is no way that we could have a problem with a little girl like this," Akane answered. "Though...."
"What?"
"You said that your sempai had given you her, right?"
"Yes, he did...."
"Then.... How did he get her in the first place?"
"Ummmm.... I don't know," the younger girl admitted in complete honesty, as she didn't know all the details of just how he'd created her new friend.
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"Aww...."
"What is it?"
"I want one!" Akane grumbled, looking disgruntled over not having a way to get one on her own.
"You do?"
"Sure! I mean, she's so cute."
"The only one who knows how to get you one is my sempai."
"You mean that I'd have to ask him for one?" the younger of the sisters asked.
"Something like that."
"But to bother the one boy who can treat a girl with some respect.... I don't want to cause trouble for you...."
"Would that make you not want to have one." "There's no way that I could not want one. Think of having two of them here. They could have fun playing with each other, and we could have them with us...."
The Senshi of Saturn watched as the older girl started daydreaming, giggling slightly at the happy expression that she was seeing. It was obvious that neither sister was going to complain about her bringing home a pet, and she felt more at home there. She'd already felt comfortable enough, but this just made it just that much more solid that she had a real place among these distant relatives.
Smiling at all the good feelings that brought up, Hotaru let Amethyst move over to where she could get fed by a happy Kasumi, while:
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