That said, the fact that she had knocked her sister out had caused her to feel rather guilty. No one needed to tell her to get moving on the situation, and she jumped to take care of Hanabi. Crouched by the other girl, she went to see what she could do. Much of what she thought of came from what she had seen from adults. Patting her sister's cheeks, she tried to see if she was awake at all. When that didn't get a response, she tried shaking her, and got not much of anything. It got her even more worried... but unfortunately, medical training wasn't exactly taught to those of her age, even for those of high clan status.
Still, she pressed on, pulling at her sister's clothing, looking for some signs of injury. Pushing off the garments didn't reveal much, other than the fact that the younger girl was all sweaty. In a panic, she tried to find any spot that she could definitely say was hurt from her hit. Yet, all that she found was the fact that she had managed to not only win the match, but had done so in the quickest and most bloodless way possible.
Settling back, she wondered to make of all this... until she realized that she'd just about stripped the other girl. Since they were siblings and were both female, that wasn't so bad, but the stain of a blush still spread across her face. Now embarrassed over what seemed to be another insult against Hanabi, she hurried to redress her. Flustered by her own apparent carelessness, she couldn't even keep track of what her hands were doing. Only by some minor miracle did she keep from making another disaster. In fact, she was actually able to do pretty well, even though she was mentally several steps behind whatever task that she was trying to accomplish.
A measure of her success would have been nice, had she not taken another look and wondered why she had not just fixed her sister's clothing. Rather than just put Hanabi back to normal, she'd found that she'd redressed her, though with clothing that she hadn't seen before. Hinata had heard of kunoichi managing to pull scrolls or kunai seemingly out of nowhere, but a whole outfit just seemed to be totally absurd. And even if she had managed that little trick, she didn't even know where the dress had come from in the first place.
Of course that was when Hanabi chose to wake up, moaning just a little bit before opening up her eyes to gaze at her big sister.
"Hanabi! You're alright!" Hinata gasped, tearing up a little with joy. "I'm so sorry."
"For what?" Hanabi asked, frowning a lot.
"I hit you."
"You wanted to hurt me?"
"No way!" yelped the older girl, looking horrified at the idea.
"That's good then."
"Yes... well. I'm glad to hear that."
Hanabi pushed herself to a seated position... and then blinked slightly. "These aren't my clothes."
"I know, and I didn't mean to do it. It's just that I got started, and couldn't stop myself...."
"You did it?"
"I wasn't trying for anything bad, honest!" Hinata blurted.
"You didn't."
"That's it. All that I wanted to do was to help you, but I made you look like that," the elder sister lamented, peering as the other girl fingered the lace edge of her hairband. "I don't even know why I did something like that."
"I can see."
"But those clothes...."
"They're cute," Hanabi commented, grasping the hem of her black frilled skirt and lightly kicking her black stocking clad legs.
"Yes, they are... huh?"
"Where did you get the idea for this, sister?"
"Well, I... that is...."
"I want to get more."
With her eyes going wide, Hinata simply stared at her sister. "You like it?"
"Why not? Is that bad?"
With her sister's deadpan delivery, Hinata was at a loss as to what exactly she should think. Nothing seemed to be going how they usually did, and she couldn't even keep up with the strangeness in her own head. All that she did know was that she seemed to think that Hanabi was apparently the perfect 'goth loli', whatever that was. About the only excuse that she could think of was that her confusion came with the odd tiredness that she could feel waiting on the edge of her consciousness.
Whatever the reasons, she did know that things were going a bit off the tracks right about then, while:
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