3rd paper flower [Text]

[origami_ninja]

[Konan is far from a social butterfly, but on occasion she's been making an effort to reach out to others in Luceti. Since the weather is nice and there are plenty of flowers in bloom, she decides to ask if there's anyone out there who shares her lesser known hobby.]

Out of curiosity, how many people here in Luceti have an interest in flower pressing? Specifically, who already presses flowers as a hobby, and who would be interested in learning how it's done?

[She's not going to immediately offer to demonstrate at Art Club, though she will teach how it's done if Rapunzel or Ikki asks her to.]

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voice

[fervidity]

Flower... pressing?

voice

[origami_ninja]

The art of preserving cut flowers and drawing out their colour after they have already been cut.

[It's less flashy than her origami hobby, but she enjoys it nonetheless.]

[fervidity]

Do you use the color for something?

[konan help]

[origami_ninja]

Oh, I meant drawing it out in terms of making the flowers appear as bright and vibrant as they were when they were still alive and uncut.

[fervidity]

[A thoughtful pause.]

Do they smell as good being pressed as they do when they're still alive?

[origami_ninja]

Their scent is fainter than before, but it remains pleasant.

[fervidity]

So what do you do with the pressed flowers?

[THIS IS INTEREstING AND NEW so she's curious]

[origami_ninja]

Typically, I stick them onto paper, and frame them.

[In fact, the only things that make her apartment look like someone actually lives there, are a few of the highly complicated origami pieces she was proud enough of to display, and some framed pressed flowers. Her apartment is rather spartan otherwise.]

konan you're adorable hahaha

[fervidity]

What do you stick them with?

[MAYBE she WANTS TO DO THIS their house isn't as decorative as it had been in Konoha but she is definitely trying]

[origami_ninja]

Glue, typically, although pins can be used.

[They just don't look as nice.]

[fervidity]

Hmm...

I think I'd rather use glue.

[Pins was almost brutal, even to a flower.]

[origami_ninja]

Glue is usually better.

[If the flower was too dried out, it could crumble.]

[fervidity]

So I glue a pressed flower to a piece of paper and frame it. Sounds easy.

[And her walls will not be so bare anymore. Not sure if she'll do the pressing right. It'll probably just look like a mashed flower squished in a frame.]

I won't even have to water it either I guess, so that's a nice plus. What do you do with your pressed flowers?

[Small talk helps with Kushina. Trivial things like chatting about hobbies and not worrying about the past when it's so bleak is things she does with friends. It's a long ways before they hit that point but it's something.]

[origami_ninja]

I usually decorate my walls with them. I've been doing so since I was much younger.

[It added a more feminine touch to their living quarters once upon a time when she lived with Yahiko and Nagato.]

[fervidity]

You must be pretty good at it now then, right?

Do you have any right now?

[origami_ninja]

[A smile comes to Konan's lips, and though they're just having a voice discussion, Kushina might be able to pick up on the slight change in tone.]

I have some on my walls.

[fervidity]

[She said she'd try. For Naruto. For herself, too.]

Can I see them sometime? And I'll show you the ones I'll make. I want to decorate my house with them.

[origami_ninja]

I'd like that.

[Because although she has trouble actually verbalizing it, she really would like to befriend Kushina.]

When would you like to visit and see them?

[fervidity]

[Hopefully she doesn't hear, but Kushina releases a relieved sigh. Skipping rocks only went so far.

There's a bit of sound as she begins searching for the things she needed to press flowers.

Would a rolling pin work? Well, she sets it aside to use anyway.]

After I finish mine. I want to give you something.

[origami_ninja]

Are you going to give me a hint as to what that something is, or do I have to wait and see?

[She doubts it. It seems to be meant as a surprise. It's nice, though, that Kushina wants to do something like that.]

[fervidity]

It's more fun when you have to guess, isn't it?

[Though it should be obvious. Kushina wants to give her some of her pressed flowers when she finishes them.]

[origami_ninja]

You have a point.

[Konan can guess, though she's not going to assume.]

[fervidity]

[So she's been told, countless times by Minato.]

I'll keep you guessing until I visit then.

[origami_ninja]

I'll keep guessing and perhaps have a surprise of my own for you.

[This is more likely to be origami than pressed flowers, but she might go for a bouquet of origami flowers. It seems fitting, since she once gave Naruto one.]

[fervidity]

[she tells herself it's a GOOD SURPRISE and not a bad one despite what she knows about Konan

she's learning other stuff too -- and Konan isn't a bad person, first of all]

You don't have to.

[she doesn't get presents from people sdlkjgs]