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Ever since Elisabeth Fiorelli had reached out to Yumi about hosting Team Rocket's holiday party at Casino Starlight, the young Johtonian's schedule had become even busier than usual. Meetings filled her time: to discuss the party's logistics and decorations, to organize food and drink, to iron out details for security.[break][break]

She paused in the spacious fifth floor hallway that led to the various restaurants within the casino, bringing one such meeting to a close. At her side was Hitoshi Inoue, the head of the building's security.[break][break]

"I think that's all we have to worry about," Yumi said to him, her thoughts still dwelling on their earlier conversation about whether to allow Legendary Pokémon inside the building.[break][break]

Between the unpredictable Tapu Koko and Lugia's intense aura, they'd decided on a resounding 'no'.[break][break]

Before she could suggest they take a break from all the planning and get something to eat, however, a concierge from the front desk approached.[break][break]

"Miss Hasegawa? Someone is here to see you."[break][break]

Yumi raised an eyebrow. "Who is it?"[break][break]

"Her name is MARILYN HASEGAWA. She doesn't have an appointment, but she insists on meeting 'the Hasegawa who owns this place'."[break][break]

Time slowed around Yumi. Marilyn Hasegawa was not a name she'd heard in a long time. Her grandfather's first wife, she had been arrested and charged with first degree murder. Marilyn was supposed to be imprisoned for life.[break][break]

"Thank you. I'll see her right away," Yumi said to the concierge, not bothering to hide her shock and suspicion. "Hitoshi, come with me please."

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Between training and duty, the months after the battle have proved a pleasant blur. Tomorrow becomes today. Today becomes yesterday. Yet the players in his life remain the same. Yumi and those friends he has made within Rocket make this existence seem brighter than it once was, even as doubts plague his mind.[break]
Growing up's hard. Trying to be human even harder. It's why he welcomes the distractions when they come.[break]
His own reaction to the name Marilyn Hasegawa is a cock of the head. It is a stroke of luck that his brain translates the name into his preferred format before he can say something silly. His lips were moments away from commenting how Hasegawa wasn't a personal name.[break]
Then it hits him.[break]
Hasegawa.[break]
Reflexively, he takes a step closer to Yumi. His Kartana, all three of whom had been floating about the room and laughing, sense his mood. They converge around Yumi, forming a shield of swords.[break]
"Hasegawa, huh?" Not knowing the woman by name, he expects a fight.[break]
"Sure, let's go, Yumi." And so, he follows.

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Marilyn never blamed her kin for becoming estranged from her while she lived out her life behind bars, despite how much it hurt. It was an understandable feat, taking away the things that she loved the most for the sake of the refinery; what she did was something she should have gotten away with, had it not been for a single mistake. She blamed the systems in place at the time of her arrest, alongside her carelessness, for all the time that was lost. But time brought countless blessings that were once deprived, including the very gift of life beyond the cells, something nobody could have ever imagined she'd retain.[break][break]

It had to be due to her exquisite genes, no less. After gaining clearance to enter and exit Sootopolis as much as she pleased, as soon as she heard that the alleged owner of the Casino Starlight bore the name of Hasegawa.. well, she couldn't and wouldn't take postponing as an answer in correlation to her arrival. Welcome inside or not, there were great odds that one of her descendants was inside. One that she had never got the chance to meet due to her ex-husband's wishes, one that she insisted on being there for one way or another. She hoped for that to be the case and not a chance encounter with the man that left her, the man her heart still beat for despite everything that had transpired.[break][break]

She patiently waited as the concierge drifted away from the front desk, slumped in a chair, knitting away at one of her special projects. Time passed slowly as she anticipated just who would come out from the back; she was partially excited and partially nervous, her cane shotgun loaded just in case it was him to arrive in a hostile manner. With each weave of the yarn, she yawned, debating if her rotting appearance would be enough. But when the duo would part the doors, her knitting needles and the work-in-progress blanket hit the grand floors. One of the two she peculiarly recognized from her time in prison, the silly little lad that would bring her cigarettes and yum yums as contraband offerings; could he have been the one, keeping the family name from her all this time?[break][break]

"Oh dears, hi," she said with excitement and relief, picking herself up with the cane to slowly inch closer, ".. Granny Hasegawa is in the building, oh my, how youthful and full of energy the both of you look! You, boy, did you keep the Hasegawa name hidden from me every time you visited me in prison? Or you, lass? I've never met you, but you certainly have the looks to be one of my blood! Unless.. are you both my kin? Oh!" Squealing in delight, she would shakily raise one of her arms outward to greet them both with hugs, so delighted that she could not help but ramble in dazzling inquiries.

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The clicking of heels preceded Yumi's entrance into the casino's grand foyer. Passing staff murmured their greetings as she passed them, but she didn't once look in their direction.[break][break]

Instead, she fixed her gaze upon the ancient crone knitting yarn as she awaited Yumi's arrival. As the distance closed between them, the younger woman scrutinized the elder's features.[break][break]

She didn't recognize the visitor at all, but some of the features in her face were undeniably familiar. Yumi knew them from her father's face, and her uncle's.[break][break]

And her own.[break][break]

Before she could speak, the crone was upon her, embracing both her and Hitoshi in fierce hugs. Yumi shot a questioning glance at her bodyguard before extracting herself from the other woman's arms with grace and dignity.[break][break]

"My name is Yumi Hasegawa, and I'm the owner of this casino. I was told you wanted to speak to me," she hesitated, uncertain of the best way to address the woman, then settled on: "Grandmother."

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If he had a tail in fact as well as spirit, it would be wagging. All the fierce tension that held him deflates at the sight of this woman. A wide, toothy grin breaks out across the dog's face. When he is embraced, he returns the embrace just as fiercely.[break][break]
"Yoooooo, Granny! It's been so long!" Whether she is or is not his grandmother by blood matters little to him. She treated him with kindness, and for that he would kill for her.[break][break]
"Yumi, this is Granny. Your old man had me take stuff to her whenever I got a day off. Granny can run through cigs and booze like nobody else." Reaching into his breast pocket, he pulls out a pack of cigarettes. Unovan slims are hard to come by in Hoenn. A good dog is always prepared.

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Casting out the sensing of hesitation of what she had learned to be her granddaughter by sheer delight alone, she leaned on her cane with force as she slowly, creakily left the embraces of those she had grown to love- one from years of jail visits and one that had existed in her mind alone for all those years. "Speaking with you is something I've always dreamed of, as my time served as deprived me of such pleasantries," she smiled, patting Hitoshi on the cheek with a mutual grin, ".. now that I've been released, I have all the catching up to do in the world, my beloved Yumi, oh! It is ultimately deserved, as we share similar blood!" Perhaps it was a bit brash, arriving without notice- but insecurity was only able to take root in those acquainted with age and the rotting of the flesh, and Marilyn was indeed confident in her endeavors, regardless.[break][break]

"It's been far too long, my precious pup." She smiled, plucking one of the specialty cigarettes from the package and placing it into her dry, cracked lips. Shaking as she took to the lighter, struggling to light it, no doubt, she giggled as the words of chumminess left his lips. "That's the secret of old age, Hitoshi-Kun! Drown out the phlegm with all the liquor, burn it away, just like all the time lost. I've missed you, bud." A good dog he was, for she was ever indebted to him for his fierce loyalty and respect- she had grown a distaste for the younger generations, but he was an exception- and even if he had not been her kin, in her eyes, he was deserving of all the same amounts of love.[break][break]

She shakily inhaled and released a fit of coughing with the smoke, holding a hand out to Yumi which she would kiss if it was met with a similar grasp. "We are family, we must stick together- especially now, as fate has led us to the place I called my home in my youth," she nodded, "..and sticking together means letting it all hang out. Tell me, what have your father and grandfather told you of me? I hope for it to not be bleak, even if I have not seen them since.. I was about your age, I'd guess?"

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Yumi's eyebrows rose into her forehead at the revelation that Hitoshi and her grandmother already knew each other. The fact that he'd visited her multiple times during her imprisonment sent a pang of bitterness through the young woman. [break][break]

The ill feelings, of course, were not directed at her loyal dog or at her grandmother. Once again, she drew the bowstring of her heart and aimed her negative thoughts at her family back in Johto. [break][break]

"You're absolutely right, Grandmother," Yumi said, allowing the elderly lady to grasp her hand. "We are family, which is more that can be said of my father and grandfather." [break][break]

She allowed herself a small, aggrieved sigh. [break][break]

"I don't know if you know, but Grandfather remarried after your imprisonment and subsequent divorce. I knew of you, but I knew the other woman as my grandmother while I was growing up. Father barely spoke of you, and Grandfather even less." [break][break]

Yumi squeezed Marilyn's hand.

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"Let me get that for ya." A little known intricacy of the Rocket grunt ecosystem is that many carry lighters. Most of them treat their lungs like coal mines. The grunts react like well-trained dogs, each hoping to be the one who offers a helpful light. This one takes the form of a zippo. Keen manual dexterity brings the lighter up, scorching the tobacco cherry red.[break][break]
It's the least that a loyal stray can do for those who took him in.[break][break]
What comes after isn't much of his business. Yumi's family is, after all, her family. What the women choose to say or not say is their luxury. Without much fanfare, he adjusts from keeping one safe to two.[break][break]
There's only one thing he can really add.[break][break]
"All the goons were more scared of you than the old man." Words punctuated by a smile and warm tone.

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"Thank you, my dear Hitoshi-kun! Sweet sweet Hitoshi, always coming in with things that granny just loves," she smiled, shakily grabbing the lighter that had been offered- and surely pocketing it to never grasp the hands of the dog boy again. Being told that the goons were scared of her more than 'Big Wrinkly' was an undeniable aspect, one that she had grown fond of just as she had accustomed to. "And they should have been, most definitely so! You should have seen the look in their eyes when I confiscated one of their firearms.. they were too afraid to report it!"[break][break]

Perhaps they knew what was best for them, unlike the man she once called her beloved husband- as confirmed by Yumi's words, those which led her hands to clutch pearls that descended from the cracks of her neck. Ill feelings were mutual, similar resentments tied together by tongues that had lived in the same shadow fifty years apart. A part of her wished to live by what carried her mind effervescently through prison, letting loose and not seeking control over the controller, but having done so for so long stung knowing that she was not given the same generosities.[break][break]

How dare the man. Hearing the words waver from her granddaughter's lips and echo in her ancient mind led her to grimace. It bore the other half of the woman that had often remained behind closed doors, the woman of anger, the woman that she believed to ultimately lead her to death's door faster than it already was approaching. "Let the old man remarry, that's fine..!" She still loved him, he deserved love- or so she believed up until this moment. Maybe he still deserved love, only not from her.[break][break]

"But you mean to tell me that I carried two of his seed inside my stomach.. back to back, mind you! ..Full term, while continuing the operation of the business, only for him to deprive MY BABIES of the idea of their true mother? ..The woman that pushed them out?"[break][break]

She squeezed Yumi's hand in return, harder, like a death grip; like the hand that grasps the shotgun tucked away in her cane.[break][break]

"Is the old man still in Goldenrod?" Her eyes shot to Hitoshi, aging spots nullifying the reddening of her cheeks. "Hitoshi-kun. Take me to him, I'll slit his throat myself. He does not care of true family- only the taking of women's youth."[break][break]

There was enough time to let those who deserved to know of her truly know- those who were deprived without their consent, gaslit by a filthy man who seemingly took after the younger generations and their carelessness. Unless, of course, that ran deep in the real world; she never had to bear it to know, as, before prison, life was bliss. Or so she thought.[break][break]

She'd make it an effort to let at least Yumi know what was deprived before her mortal husk withered away forever.

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Marilyn's fingers were a vice grip on Yumi's hand, but she did not flinch. Instead, she looked her grandmother in the eye, as stubbornly defiant as she had been with her own parents. [break][break]

"Grandmother, as much as I understand your desire, you'd be walking to your death if you went after Grandfather. And after you've just been released from jail, too." [break][break]

She took a deep breath, exhaling slowly. [break][break]

"Think. Now's your chance to live your life the way you want, with the full backing of Team Rocket behind you," Yumi said, her tone and expression softening by a fraction. "Forget about Grandfather. You have us now." [break][break]

The young woman glanced at her bodyguard, silently conveying her wish for him to support her statements.

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