A transplanted flower (for CrystalLip)

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Haruka sat nervously in her seat, in her blue skirt and purple top, her long golden hair in a braid over her shoulder, tied with a pastel pink ribbon; reaching about her belly button, when she was standing up it was just above the small of her back. She fixes her bangs beside her deep green eyes, as the fasten seat belt sign came on. She hadn't removed her belt, but she tightens it a little, flinching a tiny bit from her dad's parting gift. It wasn't bad though, just enough to make sure she behaved until she met up with Akio, her dad said. She looks down at her feet, her white knee-high socks, and her black strap shoes.

The pilot comes on {Japanese}"Hello this is you captain speaking, we're beginning our decent into [location] international airport. The current local time is 3:23pm, we'll be landing in about 5 minutes. Please fasten you're seatbelts and return your tray tables to their upright position."

Haruka pushes up her tray table, she was feeling so many emotions right now, excited to see her big brother again, and this new land... but at the same time it had been so long since she saw her big brother, and she was lost in this new land. Her english was well for her age pathetic. Sure she could speak and understand some, but if she was an english child she'd be like a six year old vocabulary wise. She excelled at her native Japanese, but she'd failed the last two years in english, and the only way her parents; well mostly her mom, was emersion, so she was sent to spend a year with her brother. "Ahh-hhumm" She covers her mouth as she yawns, she had been turning her sleeping patterns a little the last full days to help with the jet leg, but it was still a big change. She shakes her head a little to wake up.

Once the plane stops and most of the other passengers have disembarked; cause she didn't really want to try and navigate the crowd, she undoes her belt and stands up, stretches out her smol size of 4'3'' at 12 years old she was very tiny... she'd been born premature and jus never seemed to catch up to the minimum average. It did make it hard for her to reach the over head compartment.

One of the stewardess notices and comes up to her, kneeling down to her smol height and speaking to her like a little girl. {Japanese} "Aww, don't worry little sweetheart, big sis will help you."

Haruka turns bright red, with both embarrassment and anger. "nnnn" She growls a little bit, wanting to tell the woman off, but at least until her big brother said otherwise she had to follow what her dad had told her and that was NO Japanese over there unless it was an emergency. {English} "um no call Haru um small. No nice." Ugh ya it was bad.

The stewardess jus smiles giving Haruka her carry on bag and patting her head. {English} "Aww don't worry sweetie, you'll sprout up any day now. What are you 7?"

Haruka was caught a little off guard by the head patting, and nods meekly {English} "um yess" as she takes her carry on. It jus, mmm, it reminded her of her dad, it was one of the few times she experienced her dad's comforting touch. He was a strict man, of the old ways, and rarely touched her outside of when she needed to be disciplined... She jus wanted to make her dad proud enough that he'd hug her, but although her dad did love her, he just wasn't as touchy as her mom was. Her mom was a lot more touchy, and with her big brother leaving five years ago, her mom has kinda babied her, as a result she's become more clingy than her big brother. As the stewardess walks away she can only glare at the woman back. She tosses her pastel pink duffle bag over her shoulder, only to jump a little as the bag comes back around her shoulder and lands her her bottom. ow... She takes a deep breath and quietly disembarks from the plane. She heads to the luggage carrousel to grab her suitcase and wait for her big brother. She takes her pastel pink suitcase, with a little bit of struggle, but manages, off and waits. She'd stand out like a sore thumb to her big brother, her long golden hair tied with the ribbon he had giving her years ago when he left.

(...dang, got a little carried away there lol. Um, you don't have to use the {language} thing I jus did for ease of swapping back and forth. Lol it got long, but I had a lot to work with, with all the pre-work we did. I can of course change some things if you want me too, as this was kinda what I ran with based on Haruka's past.)

~30 minutes before the plane landed~

Akio pulled into the airport parking lot. Given that it was the end of summer, the parking lot was crowded. families returned from family vacations, businessmen and businesswomen from busiess trips.

Akio leaned back into his chair, staring at the ceiling of his car. Akio ran a hand through his hair, which was dyed blond with red highlights, taking a deep breath. Akio exhaled. Akio then reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. He opened his messaging app and scrolled down to a message from Mom. Messages. It was a long winding conversation that had reached an undesired conclusion. All because Mom said please.

It was a stupid reason to cave. Akio was managing himself well--he had earned his degree a year ago and was now working an entry level job that had a decent payrate. Most of his money came from working overtime, though, which was common for him. Now that Akio had to look after Haruka, he wouldn't be able to work as late, which meant Akio needed to see what his finances looked like.

Fortunately, though, Mom and Him would be sending money to help support Haruka. Akio could keep track of the expenses she inccured and get his money back. It was much better than having to support a child by himself. Akio pitied the poor souls that had to raise a kid on less the ideal income on their own.

The time ticking down, Akio climbed out of the car. Akio locked the car and navigated the airport, taking terminals to reach the international flights pickup. Akio sat on a bench by the wall and waited, keeping an eye out.

Eventually, Haruka wondered in, although Akio didn't notice her immediately. When he did, Akio approached her. "Haruka," greeted Akio. He reached over and gave her a hug. "Welcome to America," he said in English. He took her suitcase for her before taking her hand and leading her out of the airport.

He switched to their native language. "Do you have everything? If you left something on the flight, now is the time to say something."

[[You don't need to do the English/Japanese thing. We'll know from context what the language is. Also, good start. My isn't as long though, so sorry about that.]]

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(Alright, also your reply is fine, I tend to have long starts anyways and this one really went long lol)

Haruka smiles brightly, happy that her big brother was happy to see her. She hugs him back, and almost slips up and says it in her native language but stops herself before saying anything and jus speaks in english. "um Big brother." She says happily. She eagerly takes his hand as they left the airport.

She swallows outside, not switching back to their native language, and still trying to speak in english as dad had instructed her. "Um yes have all things." She nods, blushing a bit, her poor english embarrassed her a lot more talking to her big brother than a random stranger.

She swallows again "um thank you for keeping Haru big brother. um mom sends love." She figured it might not be best to bring up dad, as while she didn't really understand what had happened she wasn't stupid, she knew it was something between dad and her big brother.

Akio wasn't aware that their dad told Haruka to speak in strictly English. It wasn't like the two were on speaking terms. So naturally he was confused why Haruka was speaking in only English. But he rationalized that she was probably just excited to be in America and was using English to express that excitement. Her vocabularly was limited and accent terrible, but it was a good effort.

The two went to the car. Akio opened the backdoor passenger seat, which had a booster seat he had purchased today. Haruka was too short to be able to ride without one, so she'd just have to deal with it. Akio took her suitcase and bag and placed them in the trunk before he climbed into the front seat. He then slowly and carefully navigated out of traffic.

"The school season starts in two weeks," he continued, speaking Japanese. "We'll need to get you registered. Also, Mom mailed some of your stuff. We can unbox it over the next couple of days. We'll need to go get you some new bedding and a new matress though."

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Haruka was visibly unhappy about the booster seat, but she knew this was an important time. While it couldn't really be called a first impression, she did want to show her big brother that she wouldn't be any trouble so she uncomfortably gets in the seat. ow ow ow owww It stung her bottom some, but her discomfort might have been hidden by how unhappy she was about the seat.

Her focus turns to her big brother when he speaks to her. Urk She swallows, she only had two weeks to learn how to talk, she knew she'd be made fun of speaking how she was... especially with how short she was. "Yes um Haru know." She uses her nickname cause she never felt right saying her full first name herself... it was jus, Haruka was always used to get her attention. Most people back home called her Haru-chan or jus Haru. "um Yes big brother, Haru do best Haru can."

Ugh this was SO embarrassing and kinda painful to her ears... but she did kinda deserve it, she failed english twice. She fidgets a little the seat might have been decent normally , but with her pink bottom it was kinda not comfortable. She tries to get her mind off it. "um big brother? store? home? first?" She was curious if her big brother was going to go to the store to get the bedding or home first.

Akio lived in one of America's biggest cities. Naturally that meant traffic was a big pain in the rear. A large volume of cars, many driven by drivers with no patience or sense of safety, countless stoplights and four way intersections. So yeah, driving was not Akio's favorite part of America. But unlike Japan, they had a terrible public transport system, which made a car a necessity instead of a luxury.

"We'll go home first," continued Akio. "And you're speaking in third person. It's 'I know', and 'I will do my best'. If you're speaking like that, you could end up in a younger grade."

America liked to test foreigners with placements tests. If Haruka wasn't prepared, she could end up in a class with actual eight year olds.

Eventually they pulled into a parking garage adjacent to his apartment complex. "Let's go," continued Akio. It was a 6 story double high apartment complex, and Akio was on the 6th floor. And of course the elavator was under repair, which meant a lot of walking to go up and down. Akio grabbed his sister's suitcase and led her up the stairs.

"The elavator doesn't work, so expect a lot of walking until it's repaired."

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Haruka nods before swallowing urk that. would. be . boring. as. heck. She excelled at most subjests, her dad had seen to that, it was only english that she had been struggling with. "Yes big brother, um I will do my best. um I no want um, um that." She was starting to become a little concerned now.

She follows her big brother "um yes big brother." She was happy to be out of the booster seat, until they reached the stair well... she looks up the endless stairs... well at least she didn't have to go up 64 floors... Oh well it couldn't be help and honestly she could use a little exercise after sitting for so long. She follows her big brother up the stairs.

"ugh, up...up...up..." She sighs, but she does slowly start out pacing her big brother, mostly due to him being bogged down by her bag and suit case. As she starts to pull away a little her big brother might inadvertently catch a glimpse of her pastel pink panties with her bottom around it pink and her sit spots were pink showing her spanking this morning. "um when uhh up thing work?" ugh this painful... there were SO many words she didn't know.

The stairs didn't bother Akio anymore. Walking up and down twelve floors every day had seen to that. Akio was amused at Haruka's obvious distaste for the stairs. Her lips were drawn in a very cute pout.

"Well, they said someone would come by in two weeks. That was three years ago, though, so the repairman is a little late," said Akio. He had been salty about that at first, but the stairs proved to be a good passive way to exercise daily. And he wasn't fat like many Americans were, so he considered it a win.

On the way up, Akio naturally caught glimpses of his sister's underside as she chose to walk ahead of him. His eyes caught a hint of pink. At first he didn't think anything of it because Haruka was known to color match her skirts with her panties, and both were pink. But then Akio realized that the pink extended past the pantie line.

"Did you get spanked recently?" he asked.

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Haruka sighs dropping down for a moment when she hears about the elevator, sure she could handle the stairs, she was in alright physique. But this was gonna get old fast everytime she left and came back.

She keeps going up the stairs, in a way it was handy it had been such a long flight. As it had been non-stop she was now kinda eager to burn a little energy after having to sit in the plane that long.

She pauses blushing a little, before she nods "um daddy say to help get here." It had really sucked at the start of her flight, but now her bottom had cooled a lot compared to what it was. She smiles weakly "help I good girl um plane here." She gestures with her hands like a plane taking off and landing. She was really struggling, being forced to only use english really showed how much she didn't know. It was probably becoming obvious that two weeks would be no where near enough time to get her to a 7th grade level... she'd be lucky if she'd make 3rd...

Akio pursed his lips at the mention of Him. His mood worsened, but he didn't let it show. Of course he would be spank Haruka as a goodbye present and not even because she had done something wrong. But Haruka didn't even seem to think something was wrong with it, only embarrassed that he had noticed. "And were you a good girl?" asked Akio, as they stepped onto the sixth floor.

He took a left and took his key out of his pocket. The door was the first to the left next to the stairs. Akio unlocked the door and led them in.

It was a spacious apartment with two floors. The bottom floor was the living room, dining room, kitchen, guest bathroom, and laundry room. The top floor was a platform that connected to the masterbedroom, the guest room (now Haruka's room), and a bathroom, which would be the bathroom Harkua uses for her business.


[Click here to see sample of apartment.]