It was a clear and early morning, not a common scenario for our favorite biker to be out and about, she wasn't a morning person at all, yet she thought this would be the best moment to do the shopping she had been needing to do for a couple of weeks now. She had somehow managed to sneak a couple of things from a near by 24 hour store in the middle of the night but she could no longer afford to do this as she was just about to start school again and stacking up some supplies was the only option that made sense.
She drove herself to a part of town she expected no one to know at a time of the day she was most certain no one would be wondering the commercial stores she found along the way. She had only been here a couple of times in her life, mostly when she needed to buy something shady or somehow improper for a girl her age, so now this would have to serve a similar purpose.
After much walking and wondering around, she found the one store she was interested in and walked in trying to call as little attention as possible, she soon found herself surrounded with all the stuff she could ever need for this particular situation, she quickly grabbed a shopping basket and began cruising through the aisles, little by little the somewhat small basket began filling and she started feeling more and more confident, she had gone about this the right way, she had to make a big sacrifice the night before in order to obtain all of this (by this of course, she meant she had to put the controller down right in the middle of a boss battle when she was about to win, only because the stupid alarm wouldn't wait another 5 minutes before ringing and making her go to bed… as she had promised an hour before that) but her sacrifice was paying off, she would soon be on her way home with an unrecognizable black bag and a smile on her face. Soon she would be able to get home and tend to her beautiful lover without another worry in the world for days.
This was what was going through Natsuki's mind as she walked idly collecting all sorts of "necessary" items, she was so distracted inside her mind she was unable to recognize the red headed woman she happened to trip on, soon all the contents of her basket were dispersed on the floor that only seconds ago stayed still under her feet and now pushed against her cheek.
Her first reaction was to direct a violent tongue lashing at the "aggressor" (and then maybe take the "tongue" part off of it, depending on how much of a jerk this person was about it) "What the hell do you think you're doing you big fat moron!! Why wont you look where you're walking ass…" she was forced to stop mid sentence the moment she opened her eyes to an absentminded look on her interlocutor.
"Hi, its nice to see you too!" said the redheaded waving her hand and smiling childishly, Tohika Mai happened to be shopping at the same store Natsuki had picked for her "shady business".
"Mai! But.. what… why?!?!"
"As I said before… its nice to see you too, Natsuki"
"Ni… right… nice… I… I have to go!"
Natsuki didn't even know how she had managed to just grab everything that was on the floor with her arms and ran to the cashiers just dropping some money before continuing to run towards her bike and turn it on but before she even had time to blink she was already on the way home with all the stuff she had managed to collect in whatever time had passed before that unfortunate… no, scratch that, incredibly freaking inopportune, ill-fated, regrettable, disastrous, embarrassing, deplorable, hideous… encounter.
She just had no idea of how that could've happened, she had planned everything down to the very moment she would arrive to the zone to just how much time it could take her to be in and out of there… of course, the only thing she'd never thought of was that not everyone was like her and thought that the day actually began after 2pm… something Shizuru would never let her live down, well if she found out (not that she was planning on telling her… ever).
In any case, she had managed to get out, she managed to leave hopefully before Mai was even able to lift her sight from the ground long enough to figure out what had just happened. Hopefully.
As soon as Natsuki arrived home, she began taking the things she had bought out of her bag and placing them where they belonged, she had already got an special counter for all of these items she knew she was going to need soon.
She had a whole room in this house dedicated only to this, she took care of every detail herself, made it peaceful yet cute and warm, she made sure everything stayed in place and handy for whenever it was needed.
She had also built most of what now stood before her, she single handedly painted every corner of that room and built just about all the furniture around her, she had slowly managed to bring it all together and was now very very proud of her work. She would be ready to welcome her sweetheart tonight with the biggest surprise she had given her yet.
When Mai saw Natsuki run the way she did without even saying goodbye, or hello for that matter. She had automatically thought something had to be up, she just was uncertain as to what that something could've been, tracing her steps back, Mai had gone out of her apartment early to work without realizing it, simply because the lights had gone off on her neighborhood during the night and she hadn't realized, her alarm clock went off an hour and a half early making her jump out of bed and into the shower, the cold water woke her up enough to send her straight to the kitchen to make Mikoto's breakfast along with her own. She hadn't even bothered to wake the younger girl up, it was Saturday and she deserved to sleep until late, whenever she woke up she would go straight to the kitchen and then to do her chores, she was a very good roommate when it came to these things.
After she managed to run out of the house as she believed to be "late", she saw her bus arrive to the stop five minutes after she thought it should, it wasn't until she was standing outside the place she worked at that she realized her mistake, she looked at the watch she had on her wrist and confirmed that she had somehow woken up far too early, but since going back made no more sense than just staying there and maybe exploring the whole place, she chose to do that. She set off to visit all the stores that she could before her shift started, she would show up 20 minutes early just to cause a good impression, but she had an hour before that happened, so somehow along the way she had managed to get into this particular store, not quite sure of what they sold.
Then it hit her, as she picked up one of Natsuki's items from the floor she realized what this was about.. she was almost too baffled to think straight, that was of course, until the moment she thought of just how much Chie would love knowing something like this.
Natsuki was trying to buy a pacifier… and most of the items she had seen in that gush of color when they fell together had been pink…
