The New Red

Talia found herself staring at the door of someone else's apartment. She wasn't entirely sure how this had all come about. But, she did need a new costume. And Tatsuki did offer to help her make it. Talia took a deep breath and knocked on the door. For a split second, she regretted doing so. But it really wasn't that bad of a thing. She needed to meet new people. Otherwise, she would forever be stuck with the same people who had always done her wrong. She just wasn't comfortable in social situations like this. And someone's apartment was the last place she wanted to be. She took another deep breath and smiled.

A few seconds after the door was knocked by Talia, it opens and a beautiful Japanese woman in a blue yukata who looks like an older Tatsuki with longer hair comes out. If Talia can put it together quickly it's obvious this woman is Tatsuki's mother. "Hello? May I help you?" The woman asked the red haired visitor with a welcoming and warm smile to help make Talia feel more comfortable if she was nervous or tense.

Talia was surprised when the door opened and it wasn't Tatsuki. It looked like her mother, in fact. "Hello...I'm looking for Tatsuki?" For a moment, Talia felt like she was a pre-teen asking to play with her friend. "My name's Talia, I think she's expecting me." She tilted her head and smiled. "I'm in the AFW with her."

Tatsuki's mother smiled more once the Talia introduced herself to her and asked for Tatsuki. "Ah, so you're Talia-chan? Tatsuki-chan did tell me she was expecting you for a visit." The mother moved closer to the door so Talia can have space to enter the apartment. "Do come in."

Inside the apartment, the interior is filled with Japanese and British culture decorations to give everyone a feeling they lived in both London and Japan at once while inside, and in one specific room is a like a training gym for athletes with lots of training equipment for all kinds of athletic events and sports but different then the usual kind of training athletes do.

Talia slowly walked into the apartment. She quickly combed her fingers through her crimson hair to straighten it. She didn't know what to think of the decore. It was unique for sure. She suddenly realized just how awkward this could be with Tatsukis parents here in the same home. She suddenly wondered if they knew what their daughter had gotten herself into as a career. "This is a nice place you have," she said as if feeling obligated to say something. She hadn't realized just how young Tatsuki really was. It made Talia feel so old.

Tatsuki's mother walked to the kitchen to resume cooking a gourmet meal she was making before Talia knocked on the door and smiles at Talia's compliment of their home."Why thank you, I decorated all this myself, but with some help from Tatsuki-chan." The mother said in a tone that clearly showed that she was proud of her decorating before focusing on her cooking. "Tatsuki-chan has been busy since that party, she used some of her salery from her wrestling career to buy lots of different clothing fabrics." She said before pointing towards the hallway with a pair of chopsticks. "Her room as at the end of the hallway. Hiroki!"

2 seconds later, a little natural blonde toddler boy who is obviously Tatsuki's little brother came running to her mother after he was called. "Can you show our guest here to your sister's room?" The mother asked as the boy looks at Talia and then walks up to the red head and grabs her hand with both of his. "Come to Onee-tan room!" Hiroki said, clearing showing he can't properly speak yet and then pulls on Talia's arm as he guides her to Tatsuki's room.

Talia kept her hands behind her back and nodded to Tatsuki's mother as she spoke. It almost felt surreal. And the little boy made Talia go "Aww..." She smiled to the mother one last time before Hiroki pulled her along down the hallway. She felt like she was in a children's novel. "Thank you..." Talia found herself suppressing a giggle at the cute boy as he appeared to just pull her along. As they came to a stop at the end of the hallway, the redhead patted the boy on the head and lightly knocked on the door.

"Tatsuki? It's me Talia."

Hiroki looked up at Talia with a curious expression after arriving at Tatsuki's door and getting patted on the head, and just before Talia was able to knock on the door, the little boy bursted into his sister's room unannounced as if and ran in energetically. "Onee-tan! Red visitor here!" The kid loves being with his older sister whenever she is free and once he ran up close to Tatsuki he jumped at her.

And Tatsuki, before Talia had came over, had been busy at her desk coming up with designs for Talia's new outfit. She came up with at least 5 design ideas as her creativity when making cosplay outfits helped make this easier. When Hiroki came bursting in, Tatsuki's sight instantly looked at the door and smile widely when her little brother came in as if she anticipated him coming in then she stood up from the chair and caught the kid as he flew at her. "Hiroki!"

She lifted her brother up high and spun around as the siblings laugh and giggled before Tatsuki gave Hiroki a big hug as she then spots Talia at the door. "Talia-san! It's great to see you came!" Her smile was just as wide from seeing Talia and can tell from the redhead's eyes that she feels somewhat uneasy. "Come in, and relax. There is no reason to feel tense at a friend's place right?"

Talia smiled as the door opened. The sight of the siblings hugging each other made her smile. For a moment, she missed her sister Aurora. But after a second, she didn't. It wasn't like the two would even hug if they got lunch or something. In fact, she couldn't remember the last time they had. Talia nodded and walked into the room. "Hello Tatsuki...thank you for having me over." She laughed a little bit and looked around. "It feels so odd being here...It's a nice change, really." Tatsuki's room reminded her of her youth. It was a simpler time.

"I've been excited about this costume! I'm really hoping to show it off sometime in the next month!" She walked up Tatsuki and sat crosslegged on the floor like a little kid. "Let me see what you have!"

The siblings hugged for a bit more before Tatsuki put her little brother back down. "Okay Hiroki, Onee-tan needs to have some time alone for a while with my friend here okay?" She told the tyke before he nods and dashes out of her sister's room but makes sure to shut the door. Once the kid was gone, Tatsuki sat back down in her chair and looked at Talia with a smile. "Your welcome Talia-san! It's great to have you here, and we all have to have a change at some point right?"

After Talia made the mention of her costume Tatsuki giggled and stood up wit her hands on her hips. "Of course! I will show you my work!" With that Tatsuki went over to her closet but before she opens it she looks at Talia again. "Oh, and can you lock the door please? I don't want Hiroki or my mother coming in while you change." Saying that, Tatsuki opens the closet and takes out 4 of the 5 designs she made then flashed them in front of Tatsuki. "Jaja! What do you think??"

One of the outfits that Tatsuki made was like a Chinese battle dress, the second was like a standard wrestler's outfit consisting of sports shorts and a tank top, the third was like a mixture of a plug suit and a sci-fi kind of outfit which she went overboard with, and the fourth one was like a kind of fighter style Fantasy Hero which was similar to Tatsuki's outfit and is also her favorite creation. All 4 of these were very creative, highly detailed and well made to the point of being authentic clothing, and Tatsuki even made accessories and boots for them too to show she went the extra mile. The fifth outfit that was left in the closest however is a standard but very detailed and well made leotard like outfit, and just like the other 4, it has it's own boots and its own gloves too. But all of these outfits had something in mind, they all parts of them which had a bright red color with fiery patterns on them just as Talia requested. A fiery like her hair.