A bit later than I intended but...B-support is out!

This was rather hard to write, as I had no experience with this sort of thing (which I'm glad I don't), so imagining the awkwardness was difficult. I also had to imagine what kind of reaction a man would give if he witnessed something like that. Especially a man such as Chrom.


B-Support

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUT!"

Robin's scream was audible across the entire camp, and she didn't care, as long as that blue-haired idiot would leave the woman's bathing tent as soon as possible.

"R-right! Absolutely! Straightaway! I'll, er, wait outside the tent." A madly blushing Chrom stuttered as he exited the tent, almost tripping along the way.

"What kind of moron would ignore the huge sign on the front flap on the tent that has "WOMEN'S BATHING TENT" written on it with gigantic fonts?" After Chrom was gone, Robin lowered the arms that hugged her chest and grabbed a towel on a nearby table, mumbling to herself as she got dressed. "I swear, his stupidity knows no bounds."

~o~O~o~O~o~O~o~

"Oh, um, you're done." Chrom said awkwardly as Robin came out from the tent. Standing right outside the woman's bathing tent was enough to make him look like a suspicious individual, prince or no prince, so he decided to wait a couple of steps away from the tent entrance to avoid looking like a pervert attempting to take a peek inside the tent, though he has already successfully accomplished it without even wanting to.

Robin gave him a glare and went straight to the main tent, where all the battle strategies and meetings were done, while Chrom silently followed behind her without saying a word.

As they headed towards the main tent, neither of them noticed the suspicious shadow that appeared from an unnoticeable corner who was holding onto a wooden signboard. It approached the woman's bathing tent and put the signboard, which had the words "WOMAN'S BATHING TENT" written on it, back to where it belonged and left the scene before anybody noticed.

~o~O~o~O~o~O~o~

"Er, right. Yes. Good idea. So! I'll catch you later? Argh, no! I mean, I'll SEE you later!...ARGH! NO! I mean... Good-bye!"

Robin watched in amusement as Chrom clumsily left the tent, smiling at Chrom's awkwardness while shaking her head.

"Gods, this is the worst day of my life!" Chrom hid his face behind his palms as he sat on a nearby log as soon as he was far enough from Robin, exhausted. After a while, he looked up. "Actually, it's debatable if this is actually worst or best...but no! What the hell am I thinking!? Of course it's the worst. Just when I thought that last time's incident was already done with, the gods bless, er, curse me with another awkward encounter with Robin..."

"Hey, Blue, why looking so blue?" Gaius walked by and noticed Chrom with a troubled look on his face. "You look like you ate something nasty."

"Oh, good afternoon Gaius. Nothing, just contemplating on...something." Chrom almost told Gaius about the things that transpired between him and Robin, but quickly realized how bad it would be if he actually told him that. "It's nothing too important."

"Well your expression says the complete opposite. Now, tell me what's going on under that blue fur of yours."

"Like what I told you, it's nothing!" Chrom said, beginning to feel annoyed.

"Hey, Chrom, Gaius. What's wrong?" Lissa noticed them sitting together and Chrom with a frown so she decided to approach.

"Sup, Princess. Blue here was looking down so I thought of cheering him up, but that doesn't seem to be working." Gaius put an arm around Chrom's shoulder, but Chrom was too tired to even comment on it and just looked at the dirt beside his feet.

"Huh, let me guess." Lissa took a look at Chrom and looked up the sky with a finger on her chin. It didn't take her long, though. "I'm betting it's about Robin."

Chrom cringed at how accurate his sister's guess was, but he made no other reaction as his eyes remained glued to the ground.

"Oh, hey Bubbles." He heard Gaius beside him said, and he cringed again. If his memory is correct, he remembers Gaius calling Robin "Bubbles", so does that mean Robin is there? Chrom was afraid that if he looks up and it turns out to be actually Robin, he'll face will turn red like a beet.

"Hello, Robin. What's up?" Lissa confirmed Chrom's fears, and he cursed his luck. He didn't want to see Robin so soon after...what happened.

"I'm here to talk to Gaius." Robin said. Chrom sighed in relief. Good, she's not here to see him. Not sure how he should feel about that, but at least he didn't need to face her. "Would you mind coming with me?"

"Huh? Sure, I guess." Gaius shrugged and stood up. Soon enough, only Chrom and Lissa were left alone, while Chrom still had his eyes fixated to the ground. Not once did he look up to face Robin, and Lissa surely noticed it.

"Hey, Chrom, don't tell me you had another disagreement with Robin." Lissa asked as she sat beside her brother.

"Disagreement? N-no! At least...I wouldn't call it that..." Chrom sighed loudly. "Besides, we're...alright. Robin wasn't mad at me."

"She didn't look like she was mad." Lissa agreed. "Though she did give you a pretty long look. Not to mention you didn't look like you wanted to face her. Ah, I know! You did something unspeakable, that's why you didn't even want to look her in the face!"

Lissa's guess was so accurate, it scared Chrom. "Unspeakable?! Gods, no! Robin would fry me if I did!"

"Hmm...true, you wouldn't be here if you deliberately did something fishy." Lissa said, and Chrom couldn't help noticing her emphasis on the word "deliberately". However, before Chrom could question her about it, Lissa cut him off. "So what exactly did you do to be avoiding Robin like that? If you don't clear that up, people will start getting suspicious."

"I know." Chrom sighed. "I'd rather not let everybody know about this, so could you keep it a secret? I'll try figuring it out on my own."

Lissa frowned, but agreed. "Fine. But if ever you need help with women, you know I can always help you out!"

"You make it sound as if I'm hopeless with women, which is kind of true...but, thanks, Lissa. I'll let you know if the situation goes out of hand." Chrom affectionately patted Lissa's head before leaving. He did not notice the smirk on Lissa's face as she watched her brother walk away.

~o~O~o~O~o~O~o~

The next few days were hell for Chrom, and that's taking it lightly. Robin is the chief tactician and he is the general, making it impossible for Chrom to completely avoid meeting up with her. Chrom accepted that fact and still went to strategy meetings with her everyday, but every time he tries to talk to her, or even look at her, he just stands there, frozen in awkwardness as he remembers that day he accidentally stumbled into the woman's bathing tent and witnessing Robin in all of her naked glory. In fact, he can't seem to get that image out of his mind, and it's making things very difficult for him.

Luckily for him, Robin doesn't seem to notice it and continued to discuss strategies with him, even if most of the time it turned into a one-sided conversation. Outside of war, Robin doesn't actively try to converse with him, which saved him some time and energy from trying to avoid awkward encounters, and Chrom was grateful for that. However, even if Robin doesn't notice a thing, he needs to do something about his instant awkward state whenever he's with her.

"I feel so awkward around Robin. Ever since that bathing tent run-in... *sigh* Whenever I end up alone with her, I'm just frozen in embarrassment. Argh, what should I do? I've never had this problem before. ...Ah, I know: a bath! Yes, perhaps a nice hot bath is just the thing for my nerves... I'll have a soak and then find Robin for a relaxed conversation, like always." Chrom said to himself as he went inside the men's bathing tent.


There we go. B-Support.

I'll be releasing A-support right after this, since, as some might notice, I decided to put the start of the A-support's conversation here, and it'll be strange if I let it hang like that.

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