Green Comeback (Hatsumomo)

If she was quick she could do this bit of groceries before returning to her duty at the school. She was rather to be quick, she did not want to go after her working hours as sometimes she forget to get out of the school on time and those shops at a particular time were just unwelcoming. She was probably blind for things that were there and did see things that weren't there. But right now she would quickly pick up some mushrooms and tofu for dinner tonight and some things for lunch tomorrow but well she didn't have to go all out considering it was holidays, she had to make things for herself only and she kept forgetting that she was having lunch and thus it was delayed all the time. She sighed as she hurried to the butcher to see if she could get something to make katsudon. She wasn't sure what to do at all.

She hurried on to make sure to check the time this time, she didn't want to take too long at all. She heard some guys mutter something about a freaking green thing and snicker when they walked past her and she stopped and looked at them with an angry look on her face. But they didn't stop to look over their shoulder at her. She was rather cross with them before turning to see what happened, she only heard something, ticking, bumping, it was difficult to describe the sound but there was a feeling that Hatsumomo knew what was going on. There was only one green creature she knew and she extended her own hands. She shivered a little, what if it would spit in her face? She did not have water to clean and she didn't want her eyes to be hurt or anything for that matter. "Alright, calm down." It was a smart creature was it not? "I will open the lid, don't spit." She said, she could hear her own voice quiver but that was just cuz of the acid, she was sure. She opened the lid slowly, trying not to lean in and see what was going on. Was it hurt?

She would eventually have to see if it was the creature she had in mind, the green one. 

She leaned over the hole eventually to see the green thing there. Midori, she wasn't sure as she shouldn't give it a name but it did seem to be hurt. Was that blood on the steel floor of this thing? She grumbled some people were utterly ridiculous to animals. But she was a small woman and she would need to see how to get the creature out, he wouldn't be able to jump out in case he was hurt. She could not see where he was hurt but it must be too much of an effort to jump out in that case. She put her bag down and looked around until she found a few crates that she would put on each other and she would climb on it. "Okay I am going to get you out, so bear with me." She really hoped it was a smart one, she grumbled to herself as her mind drifted off while she leaned on the trash can, thank god she wore no dress or skirt today for sure. But what she had thought about was Shizume ask if it was her kid and she gritted her teeth. She did not want to think about that again. Ever again, so she tried to focus on the now.

She leaned over the disgusting garbage can and extended her green hands, she should have found something to hold him but she put her fingers and hands in his soft white mane, "Careful now." She said more to herself than to the creature as she tried to lift it up. Now she would be quick and in the end, flopped down on the pile of crates that she had created as a sort of stairs and she managed to get her back and tissues, "This is going to hurt but I have to clean it okay?" She said to it softly and offered it first a snack that she still had in her purse before she would clean the wound on the side. She should maybe call Nimue with what to do with pets and fur because she still was a bit standardized in her first aid, she should definitely work on that for sure but for now she did her best to clean it and she knotted tissues together to wrap around his little body and to patch it on the side so if the wound would bleed it would come into the tissue. What would she say to it, she simply let go and would see if it would run away.

She was quite afraid it would spit at her as it hissed and she tried to keep saying that she knew but that she had to get it out. She had to pretend the creature understood, it had seemed to understand a lot already before so why the heck not now. She felt like an idiot talking out loud, but she was going to do it and keep doing it as she would explain that what she was going to do next might hurt. So the best way to approach it was by giving it snacks first and she watched it nibble on the little snacks and well she took that to go and clean the wound. She noticed immediately he did not like it as he made louder crunchy sounds but at least not went to spit at her again and so on. Which was for the better. She wasn't sure how else she would fix it.

Well, that was that and she looked at the creature now that it was done and fixed for as good as she could, tissues in nature wasn't the worst... right? She watched it. She was hundred per cent convinced it would run away now but it didn't and she frowned. Hm, what to do. She took a few steps away from the make-shift stairs she made that she had put him on, she was convinced it was a he after all, and started to move. But it did not, it followed her, and she frowned as it seemed to have been thinking and now had an idea. She crouched down, albeit hesitant, "Don't you have a home?" She asked, giving it more snacks to nibble on, but not touching him. His mane had been very soft but if she would hand him, his new food, she was sure he would eventually spit on her. No thanks. She hoped that since his disappearance he would have found a safe place, outside the school. 

Hatsumomo would walk on eventually when the creature was eating the snacks. It did not seem to get her question so she would just let it be. She would turn around and walk away but she swore she heard the tiptoes from the creature but when she turned around it would sit there. It did mean it followed her. She took a deep breath and walked a little faster, she had to bring her groceries home before going back to U.A. Hatsumomo rather did an acid spitting creature near her house or the school for that matter.

she looked over her shoulder again when she got to the apartment complex where she lived and she noticed it. She sat on the stairs that were outside that would go to the first floor and she looked at it. "You can't stay with me?" It hated her before, so why would it now follow her? It did not finish eating its kibble, so it wasn't hungry. She really did not get it and just sighed again. If it continued like this, she would be late after her break back to the school. She had no idea what to do and she could not make it clear to the creature. She was afraid it would be hurt if she left it out here and it still was hurt. Maybe she could put him on her balcony? Would it understand that? Would it be okay with staying there for 3 or 4 hours still?

Truly the way it walked and followed her was a little cute if it was not a lying creature that hated her and would spit on her, with acid. But on the other hand it was hurt now, she should not leave it outside in the so-called wild of the urban city. She would maybe bring it to her garden. As Hatsumomo lived on the first floor, she had her own little garden and it could stay there for now, yes, was that the solution? She finally got up of the stairs and walked around it to go to her apartment, she had actually no idea if animals were allowed but why care at this point. She opened the door and walked in, she would have to trust society at this moment and she beckoned the strange creature to come along and she walked into her garden. If it followed her, she would jump back in the house, shut her backdoor and ran to close her front door to get back to the garden and open it, she would sit on the floor indoors with her legs outside and stare at it.

"I thought you hated me?" She remembered that moment with Alexa, it did not want her to watch it, it did not want her with everything and ignored her food, while she had cared. It made her feel scared now, why was it following her? She did not know what to do, at home, she at least knew how to reach the sink and get the shower head if it would spill acid on her. What more could she do? She should ignore the rolling thought of the hate she felt for this creature, not because of itself but because previous comments, it could not help they were both green.

Hatsumomo stared at the creature that tried to woof and she wasn't entirely sure what to do with it at this point. She just looked at this creature and was so not sure what to do. She extended her hand in the end and wasn't sure if that was good. She held up her hand flat, alright. Her mind was already running towards the sink to wet her hand and get the acid off, but her green hand was extended to the green creature. As flat as possible and unmoving, this so the creature would not feel like she was nervous or that she would attack it again. She had no longer any kibble with her, she wasn't going to say much about it. She would just see if the creature would react to her.

She tried to just let it go, no other thoughts, just stare at the creature with lidded eyes to make her stare not too intense. She would lower her shoulders a lot and look less intense. That's what she had to do and Hatsumomo would see, she closed her eyes and would see what would happen, let it be and let it happen. If it would be good, she would pet him and that was definitely something she would try and she be surprised how soft his mane was.

"Your life hasn't been easy has it." She mumbled as the creature sat beside her. She remembered how Alexa talked about it, though the pro-hero or scientist well whatsoever, was probably good with whatever she was doing but there must be a lot of things going on in the creatures live that spilt hate and so on. Hate for the unknown, for the acid, wanting to test on it because it was so weird. Who knew. She looked up really surprised when the soft mane and the little snout hit her and it rubbed next to her and showing it was nuzzling. Her eyes turned big in surprise and she did not know what to say, hesitating she lifted up her hand to pat and ruffle the manes of the creature. The mane might be a little dirty but it was still very soft.

She used in the end both of her hands to pet the creature. "Okay you can stay here, in my little garden, and I will make sure you get food and drink and shelter, and if I am sure you are not drooling, I will see what we do next." Because the acid in her home would be horrible. Here was hoping that no one in the building would look down in her garden and complain, this was going to be a disaster and she still had to tell Itsuki she had it, but those matters came later.