2026-09-22: Remi Meets the Baby
- Log: Remi Meets the Baby
- Cast: Yua Ijuuin, Miho Ijuuin, Remi Ryuuja
- Where: Aoba General Hospital
- OOC Date: 2026-09-22
- IC Date: Sun Jan 13 2013
- Summary: And learns that there are people who know who Yua and Miho are now, too.
<Pose Tracker> Yua Ijuuin has posed.
The private room Remi will find Yua and MIho in has Yua's hospital bed, of course, but there's also a second mattress tucked in by the wall; Miho's evidently been staying over with her. There are several drains and lines in her, right now, like the oxygen prongs attached to the wall, and the IV lines which go into her the back of her hand and her wrist, associated with not one but two IV poles. (One has a bag of medication; the other, just one of those machines they use to program them. It's patient-controlled analgesia, actually.)
She already did all the exercise she could tolerate in the morning, so now she's firmly in bed again... but with her, attached to her chest with a wrap, is a dark-skinned baby with a few wisps of green hair. It's Hiroki! He's tiny! And he isn't really breastfeeding -- he gets his food through the gavage tube which is one of the tubes going to his nose, because he, too, is attached to various lines -- but the dry run is important practice for when he develops enough to figure out his coordination a little better.
It means Yua doesn't have a gown on, but between the wrap and a blanket Miho's made sure to tuck over her shoulders she's decent enough. ... her braid is also dangling down the bed, impossibly long, because it's too much effort to pin into a bun right now.
Miho is also here!
<Pose Tracker> Miho Ijuuin has posed.
Miho has no such drains or lines; she's been doing fine. She mentioned the situation to Remi, but Remi was not allowed back to see Yua until visitors in general were cleared. Miho's sitution is... unique.
Miho is seated, in ordinary clothes, next to the bed, marveling at her son. She is here!
<Pose Tracker> Remi Ryuuja has posed.
Remi has been, to put it mildly, greatly concerned. These are concerning times in general, of course, but Yua's health and well-being in particular is something that sets her on edge.
There are just some things she can't protect Yua from, no matter how much her conditioning might yell at her to try.
So she's done her best to distract herself (and Tyrrha, if necessary) while she waits for news and developments.
She came the instant she was allowed, however.
Remi pauses as she sees Yua in the hospital bed, sucking in a sharp breath as her eyes trace all the lines and tubes.
And then her eyes fall on that small, precious bundle.
She reaches to gently knock on the door and announce herself. "Yua-chan, Miho..." her voice is soft and hushed. "... and this must be your little one."
<Pose Tracker> Yua Ijuuin has posed.
Tyrrha is a difficult proposition for a hospital; it's pretty risky to throw the robot girl in with a bunch of doctors. Thusly, Remi has been charged with her care.
"Oh, Recchi!" Yua chirps, brightly, hearing her voice; she notices the difference in honourifics between them, but the first thing she says is -- "Hands!!"
Miho, hopefully, will direct Remi to the hand sanitiser by the door, because Yua's hands are occupied and the doctor said he likes constant touch right now. There's more hand sanitiser, as it happens, on the end of the bed, and on the bedside table.
Germs are a big deal right now... and she expects Remi may, herself, want to touch baby.
"Look, look," she urges her, voice gentle, once she's spiritually 'X'ed her into oblivion (her hands are full, she can't mime properly right now), and the side of the bed which is not crowded by IV poles may shortly be crowded by people. (And Miho's lounging chair, beside the bed.) "Isn't he so little..?"
He is, in fact, SO LITTLE, to the point of being undercooked. He's not even 29 weeks old yet.
<Pose Tracker> Miho Ijuuin has posed.
Miho has been giving Remi updates, of course. When they released Yua from surgery; after she herself held Hiroki for a while. And, of course, when Remi was allowed...
"He is," Miho agrees, and then smiles. "Germs are a problem. You'll want to be very careful with touching anything except him while you have your hands clean from the sanitizer."
Then, when Remi has cleaned her hands, "He's so little," Miho agrees. "But he's breathing well, if with help. Hiroki-chan..." Because a baby gets to be a -chan. That's normal.
"I explained what happened before, but both Yua and Hiroki-chan are recovering well. ...As am I, as it happens. The power I used seems to have had no lasting ill effects."
<Pose Tracker> Remi Ryuuja has posed.
Remi will, of course, play the role of doting aunt as best as she is able.
Hands! "Of course, dear." She will sanitize those hands. Though she pauses when Miho speaks of touching Hiroki. "Oh--well, naturally, dear, but I wouldn't presume-- is that safe?"
"Yes, yes, I can see that," Remi says of littleness. "So he is. How.... how is he doing...?" Breathing well, and both mother and child are recovering. "That is such a relief to hear." Remi is stepping closer, though keeping her hands to herself. "Hello, Hiroki-chan," she says delicately.
That power... Remi's expression grows more serious as she nods. "That is... also good to hear, Miho-chan. It was certainly... quite a display."
<Pose Tracker> Yua Ijuuin has posed.
"They said it's okay so long as we're clean..." Yua pauses, and adds: "Oh, and no stinky perfumes and stuff, but I think that's just for me and Mimi? Since we're holding him! They call it 'Kangaroo Care!'" There's even a poster on the wall with parent education about it; apparently, it's important for preterm babies to have skin-to-skin contact with their parents for their health and development.
"They said Hiro-tan is pretty healthy, all things considered," Yua sparkles, and it's easy to imagine her saying it with more pep if she wasn't trying to stay calm for baby. "Since some girls helped me get here, they said... umm... what was it, Mimi? The placenta thingy?" She's talking about how the doctors told them that they were able to get her into surgery to cut him out before the placenta was completely unseated from the wall of the uterus -- the placenta, of course, being the membrane by which such vital things as oxygen are transported between child and mother before birth.
(Placenta praevia is the condition whereby that membrane attaches to the cervix and prevents vaginal birth; Yua's, luckily, was only partially covering it, so the damage wasn't as extreme.)
"... anyway, since that was okay, when they got him out, he was okay! Um... I wasn't so okay, though... they said I lost a lot of blood, so now I'm not allowed to stand up on my own, they're still worried I'll fall over. But it's okay, 'cause Mimi was here," Yua smiles, down to Hiroki. "Mimi took care of you, didn't she, sweetie? It's okay, baby, when you're done here it's Mimi time, okay? O-kaaay? We all love Mimi time! Mimi tiiime!"
Yua has, apparently, already developed her baby-talk voice. It's only after she's done baby-talking that she looks up to them, again. "Mimi told me," she says, to Remi. "It was really lucky... I needed her quick, and she made sure to get here right away!"
<Pose Tracker> Miho Ijuuin has posed.
"It is safe," Miho confirms with Yua. "We cannot allow you to hold him yet, but to touch him would be fine. It would be welcome, even."
No perfumes... "Indeed. And I have avoided such." Not that she usually uses them all that much... Deoderant is typically sufficient for Miho, unless she has a specific something in mind.
'All things considered'. "The placenta," Miho agrees. "It became unseated from the uterine wall... It was a problem. But they were able to account for it."
Yua was not okay. "Indeed... We must be very careful with Yua for now." She smiles, then. "Yes, I did. It was a wonderful chance to spend time with Hiroki..."
She nods then to Remi. "Essentially, my emotions appear to have emopowered me," she says. "In my need to reach Yua, I was able to draw on the power to make it happen. I do not think it was luck--I think it is a sign."
"...But do not worry. I was not ruled by that fear--I am used to intense emotions that I must then control. ...It must have been startling to feel an emotion that was not yours, if only distantly."
She then smiles at Yua. "...I also like 'Yua time'."
<Pose Tracker> Remi Ryuuja has posed.
"I shall bear that in mind, then," Remi says of the perfume. But Hiro-tan is healthy! "That is such a relief to hear." She nods to Miho, next, as she also confirms touching, but no holding. "Understood, dear."
Yua, though, lost a lot of blood. Remi frowns at that, but tries to stay calm. "Well--it is fortunate things went as they did, then. Please, do not push yourself to recover--we shall all pitch in, in your time of need."
But that power... "Mmm. I see. But a sign of what, then?" All these powers and forces... Remi is forced to interact with the supernatural, but does not always trust all of it.
A small shake of the head. "Forgive me for saying so, but my mind was more on the mission... as well as what I suspected the source of your distress to be, of course. But it was certainly... unexpected, yes."
She leans in to get a better look at Hiroki, while she can. "Tyrrha-chan is doing quite well. She's been asking after you and the baby, of course. Do not worry, I shall field them for you, so you can focus on recovering." Remi chuckles lightly. "But she is quite excited, all the same, and if you haven't yet, I do believe she would like a picture--when you are up for it, of course."
<Pose Tracker> Yua Ijuuin has posed.
Miho knows these details!! "Mm, mm!" Yua hums, nodding to her, gratefully.
She sighs, and adds, "Yua-chan's delicate... mooouuuu..." Pout. Yua doesn't like being delicate and in hospital! "They say I gotta stay in here 'til I'm better," she pouts, to Remi. "It's no fair... I wanna go home! Mouuuu... but I guess if I'm stuck here, I can be a kangaroo mama all the time..." That's what she's trying to tell herself, anyway.
At least thinking of Miho is happier. "Mimi's the most in control! She's so cool!" Yua sparkles, smiling to Miho. (Yua, who has never controlled an emotion in her life, is very impressed.) "It's a sign that Mimi loves us thiiiiiis much!"
There is a beat of silence, Yua's hands still occupied with her son.
"Imagine I stretched my arms out real big," Yua says, then. "Mimi, Mimi, show her." This, she implores of her very serious wife with a big, mookie eye.
"Yua-time for Mimi," Yua agrees, sunnily. "For Mimi and baby! Mimi, baby, Mimi, baby..." Oh, no, she can make it all sing-song. "Let's take a picture, baby! You want your big sister to see, right? Photo baby, photo baby~ o`" ... her hands are still full, though, so someone else will have to snap it.
<Pose Tracker> Miho Ijuuin has posed.
"That's right," Miho says to Yua. "If you're here, you can spend time with Hiroki." She smiles--and then nods to Remi. "Good, good."
"Right," Miho says. "You have my support... but you also have Remi's, and that of many friends. Between us all, all shall be well."
"I imagine it," Miho says solemnly of Yua's hands, and stretches her own hands out very large, with a completely serious expression.
Sing-song...
But first, "It is fine," Miho says. "But a sign of what? That is a question. ...It is a sign that I will have the power I need for our means, I think. When we find out opportunity."
The questions... And--
"Yes," Miho agrees. "First, would you take one for us, Remi-chan?"
"I will get one of you and Yua and Hiroki next, of course. It will be a treasure to see. But I believe Tyrrha-chan would most like to see her parents and brother, first."
<Pose Tracker> Remi Ryuuja has posed.
"I know, dear," Remi says sympathetically. "I do imagine it must get tiring to be confined to your bed, but right now it's what's best for both you and Hiroki-chan."
Remi chuckles as Yua explains how she would move her hands. "I quite get the picture, dear. There can certainly be no doubt of that, assuredly."
The sing-song makes Remi glad to see that Yua is at least in good spirits, if not fully in good health yet.
But the questions about Miho's newfound pwoer, at least, will go unresolved, for the moment. "Mmm. Perhaps. There are certainly many challenges arrayed against us, are there not?"
"I would be delighted to," Remi says to Miho with a smile. She has her phone on hand, of course, and will wait for Miho, Yua, and Hiroki to be ready. "Say cheese," she calls and...
- snap!*
She turns her phone to show Miho and Yua. "Are you happy with that?"
<Pose Tracker> Yua Ijuuin has posed.
"And Mimi will come to visit, and so will everyone, so it's okay..." Yua tries to reassure herself, though she frowns, consternated. "It's not even as simple as staying in bed!" She pouts, to Remi. "They said if I stay in bed all the time, I'll decondition, and I won't be able to walk any more! So I gotta do exercises, but they really hurt...!"
Miho, of course, already helped her with those today.
And lo -- Miho stretches her arms out reaaal big. "Just like that!" Yua nods, to Miho, directing Remi's attention that way. Remi doesn't have to just get the picture she can SEE the picture that's very important!!!
"Mimi's real strong," she nods, and smiles, to Hiroki. "Isn't she? Isn't Mimama so so strong? She's so strong, she could pick us both up! You'll see, you'll see...!"
And so -- "Briiiiie!" Yua warbles, cheerfully, for the photo. "... oh, it's beautiful! Mimi, get a copy for me here, okay?"
She repeats the process with Remi, of course, though this time she chirps, "Cheddar!"
<Pose Tracker> Miho Ijuuin has posed.
"It won't be as bad after you've had a chance to start healing," Miho reminds Yua, a little offering as much as she can do at the moment. Then she nods firmly to Remi. they all get the picture.
They see it!
Some questions are unresolved--but that can wait for later. "There are," Miho says. "And there are likely to be more.'"
Remi takes the photo! "Cheese," Miho says seriously, and then Yua of course is talking specific cheeses. Miho smiles at that. "I will," Miho assures Yua.
"I am pleased as well," she says, and she takes the second...
"Good."
"...I'll be relying on you a lot in the coming days," Miho says then to Remi. "I have many things that I have to do--including preparing for Hiroki's adoption." Which means, of course, making good on her engagement.
"So please allow me to count on you a bit longer."
Then, she pauses. "...Camembert..."
<Pose Tracker> Remi Ryuuja has posed.
"Ahh, I see." There are exercises. "Ma pauvre! It is a cruel fate, to be sure, but certainly, we want you to be in the best shape you can when you are permitted to go home, non?" But once Yua starts healing. "Yes, that is rather important to bear in mind."
"Yes dear, I see," Remi reassures Yua, when Miho stretches her arms. "Quite magnificent."
Remi will, of course, take her position for the photo next--though she will dutifully sanitize her hands, now that she has touched her phone. Hygeine is important! "Mimolette!"
Okay, she can get in the spirit of naming specific cheeses, too.
"Splendid," she says of the second photo.
And then she looks to Miho, who asks for her support... "Certainly, dear. You scarcely have to ask. After everything the two of you have done for me... consider it done."
She wants to make clear this is a choice of gratitude and support. At least for this moment.
<Pose Tracker> Yua Ijuuin has posed.
"I wanna be healed right nooooooow," Yua whines.
"Mm... like... how those girls know who we are now," Yua says, of the challenges. "But it really can't be helped... I had to summon Gretchen to get here quick enough, and Gretchen got mad at me, so if I'd been alone I would've got eaten."
But the photos are very good!!
"Mm, mm," Yua nods, looking to Remi. "I was helping Mimi get ready... but it'll be hard in hospital... mooouuu! I mean... I can still do stuff on your tablet...?" She says, looking to Miho. "You know, like ordering stuff... but there's all that stuff we need to see people for, and... I can't leave bed prison!" She wibbles with the horror of it. "So you'll help, right, Recchi?"
<Pose Tracker> Miho Ijuuin has posed.
She wants to be healed now.. Miho smiles, but it's a little sadder. "I know. I want that, too."
Then, indeed. Magnificent! But as to the girls... "They do," Miho says. "That's something we must be wary of; they could choose to spread our identities farther, if they wished. You would not be directly affected, Remi-chan, but it could become... inconvenient." Pause. "However, because they were instrumental to saving Yua, removing them is not an option."
Just putting that out there. She smiles though, at Remi's support.
"You can," Miho says of her tablet. "I know. But I'll handle those things. There's much i still have to do, yet..."
At least it's not foot prisons!
"Of course, he'll want to see you when it's possible," Miho says. "Just to make sure you're all right for himself."
<Pose Tracker> Remi Ryuuja has posed.
"Patience, dear," Remi says gently. "All things in due course." But Remi is still smiling a little at Yua's impatience.
Then she is very suddenly not smiling when Yua delivers that news. Her voice goes very flat. "... what." She takes a step back to pinch the bridge of her nose, taking a deep breath.
After a moment she says, "... well I am certainly glad you are not eaten..." She glances to Miho. "'Inconvenient' is putting it mildly. But if that is your decision, then..."
She'll take that as an order, and take no action.
But will she help? "Of course, of course. That is one thing you do not have to trouble yourself over. And I have already told Tyrrha-chan that she should expect many changes and adjustments in the weeks to come."
She's 23 and she's already having to do aunting. What a strange world to be living in.
<Pose Tracker> Yua Ijuuin has posed.
They both want that...
Still, Yua sees Remi stepping back, and it's a different kind of sadness, across her eye. "... did I do the wrong thing?" She asks, looking down to Hiroki. "Mimi said it was okay I went for a walk... uu..." What a sad little 'uu' it is!
Tragically, Yua is also in feets prison. They're just tucked in under that hospital blanket!
"... mm, mm, bring Tomo-kun here! I want to see him!" Yua insists. "And Sister, and Mother and Father, and Papa, and Me-chan...! And Kimi-san," as if he were not an afterthought, "oh, and Shishi and Ryouhara-kun! And Nobumizu, and Ayawata, and Akechi-kun, too! Oh, but he might be terribly busy... you know he brought me tea and rice cakes just a few days ago? He's such a nice young man... ohhh, and I want to go home and see Tykko! Can't I just go hoooome?"
<Pose Tracker> Miho Ijuuin has posed.
Remi's voice is flat--but it is an order, if phrased gently; if not for it, Remi's conditioning might force her to go after those girls...
"It is our decision," Miho says. Theirs--hers and Yua's. "It is how it must be." She looks to Yua. "No. You didn't."
Oh noooo feets prison!
Tyrrha will be helped... and all those others.
"Hmm. Yes, we have a number of people we should bring by..." She considers that. "And yes, of course. My cousin." Kimitake would want to see, right?
Of course.
"I'm afraid you can't," Miho says. "But we can make this place a little more like it, I think... I'm sure they'd allow us a few touches..."
<Pose Tracker> Remi Ryuuja has posed.
Remi suddenly feels very tense, and she gives a quick shake of her head. "No--no. Not at all, Yua-chan," she says quickly. "It is merely--a challenge, as has been said."
A challenge she has a complicated feelnig about. It is a matter that could compliate Yua's safety, after all. And her conditioning... Miho understands it well.
'Our' decision. Remi takes a long breath and lets it out slowly. "Very well, then."
But Yua wants to see a lot of people. "You may wish to space the visits out," she says, a touch playfully. "... but yes. I am certain there are many who will want to see you."
But as for touches. "... if there is anything you need from home, I shall be happy to bring it fo you, of course."