"Arrrghhhhhhhhhhh... I don't think I can fix this Yuu!"
"Sorry."
"How did you manage to drive into a small rock?"
"Sorry."
"Geeze... you should have let me drive onwards, Yuu-chan!" Chito leaned down in the front of their cart inspecting out the damage that Yuuri caused a few minutes ago. Yuuri carelessly drove it into a small boulder that was on the side of the gravel road. The chassis of the white cart was slightly bent inwards with some scratches from the collision. Nearby Yuuri laid down on the grass with her eyes closed mumbling a song she heard from Chito's device. "Mmhmm Mmhmm Mmhhmmm..."
"We barely had the vehicle for one day and you managed to write 'Just Marrod' with industrial paint on the side, and drive the cart into a rock!" Chito pouted with an audible grumble, as Yuuri kept laying on the grass without a care in the world. "Well, you didn't complain about my spelling. I am getting much better at writing and reading Chii-chan." Yuuri replied and continued mumbling on.
"You wrote 'Just Marrod' instead of 'Just Married' you dummy!" Chito still mildly annoyed kept looking at Yuuri with her arms crossed. On the other hand, Yuuri seemed to be without a care in the world laying down on the grass. "But I have to admit, I am really proud that you finally started learning to read and write."
A few months have passed since they moved into their new house. Both of them were slowly getting used to living in the 'unit'. Chito's health was getting much better and with regular exercise, her hand improved as well. After they return from their honeymoon, Chito and Yuuri planned to start working and help out within the 'unit'. Chito wanted to put ojiichan's engineering lessons to good use and help out working as a mechanic, and Yuuri had plans to learn to be a chef at one of the cafeterias. When Yuuri discovered that she could prepare food all day, she almost immediately decided that she would learn to be the best chef ever together with Mieko's husband, Kazuo. Both of them knew that they had to spend time apart from each other at their tasks, but at the end of their work they could always be together every day. Chito and Yuuri still had a lot to learn, but they both wanted to help out the people and the home that saved their lives.
"Hey, Chii-chan, I really loved our party last night." Yuuri smiled holding her hand up in the 'simulated' sky. The sun rays illuminated the shape of the wedding ring that Chito placed on her ring finger, just the day before during their ceremony. Finally, they officiated their marriage with a big party, and earlier in the day their new family sent them out on their honeymoon. Both Chito and Yuuri had similar wedding rings that they 'synthesized' from recycled materials, with a small synthetic diamond held in place in the middle. "The ring looks sooo beautiful!" Yuuri smiled as she kept checking it out.
"I know, I love mine as well!" Chito smiled as well looking at her ring, she was careful not to lose this one as well. Sadly she never was able to find the grenade pin that Yuuri gave to her the first day after they reached the last layer. That was the day they shared their true feelings for each other and the one that they would forever cherish in their memory. Even if the day afterward was the most difficult and the most traumatic event in their lives. "But I hope you get to keep my 'engagement' ring Yuu-chan. I know it's not as beautiful as the ones we got for our wedding." Chito replied as she still kept trying to fix the bend on their new vehicle with no luck.
"Chii-chan, please don't say that. To me, it's the most beautiful ring ever! Look, I made a necklace just a few days ago, to keep it near my heart." Yuuri got up from the grass and walked over to Chito showing her the necklace with the 'ring' that she gave to her many months ago. The 'ring' was a small can opener that Chito pulled out from the first time they had fish in their new home, she thought it was a cute 'ring' that she wanted to give to her. Ever since the day from the outside, Chito wanted to give Yuuri a ring when they found their home and knowing that Yuuri loved to eat fish she felt it was the perfect gift for her.
"Ahh... that's so cute!" Chito exclaimed looking at her necklace, she still had her fingers around the chassis of the vehicle trying to shape it into place but with no success... "I feel so sad that I lost the grenade pin Yuu-chan. I could have worn it on a necklace as well. I'm so sorry - "
"Don't worry about it Chii-chan! Better to lose the grenade pin instead of you. I am sure it will turn up somewhere, or I can always go down, find a grenade and pull another one from it - "
"NOOO!" Chito yelled and ran over to Yuuri "It's fine... it's fine... I won't let you go out there ever again!" Chito hugged her tight and leaned her head down on Yuuri's arm.
"Chii-chan, I was kidding! Are you still afraid to go out there? I know I said we should go out to the wall to see where they found us, but you never wanted to go out again. You said you were terrified of that idea." Yuuri replied as Chito held on her tightly. "I know I know - I guess I am still scared but we can go out again someday. I don't mind."
"Sooo... Chii-chan. Are we gonna go to the lake or stand here in the middle of the forest hugging each other?" Yuuri asked and smiled, as Chito broke from the hug and gently blushed "Sure. But I am never letting you drive again Yuu-chan!"
Walking back to the vehicle, Chito sat in the driver seat as Yuuri sat next to her. With a push of a button, she turned the electric motor on. The vehicle looked something like an old century 'golf' cart that could operate on electricity. The citizens of the 'unit' used these carts frequently inside to get from one point to another, and they were able to carry almost anything of use with them. Any vehicle from the old era that used gas or any kind of pollutants wasn't allowed inside and could only be used for exploration on the outer layers, they were more durable than the electric vehicles and even if oil was scarce on the outside, they could still find some on the bottom layers and salvage all they could, with the right materials they could even synthesize it. The back of the cart included a storage container that Chito and Yuuri filled up with clothes, camping equipment, and food. They decided to spend their honeymoon camping out at the lake and explore the forest for a few days.
"Chii-chan!" Yuuri settled her prosthetic leg right in front of Chito's view on the dashboard of the cart. "I never showed you, but look!" she smiled showing to her how she could wiggle her toes on the prosthetic leg, as Chito kept concentrated on driving towards the lake. "Reo-san said it would take a long time but look! It's soo easy... I can finally wiggle my toes!" she kept wiggling her toes right in front of her with a wide smile on her face. Her new leg was made from synthetic skin and was connected with electronic nodes surgically implanted in her stump. The leg was fully functional, waterproof, and looked precisely like the one she lost from frostbite. If it wasn't for the slight mechanical noises it made when she moved her foot and toes, one would think her leg was genuine. In a short time after her surgery, she made a fast recovery and could walk without her cane or support from Chito.
"Yuu-chan, that's great but do you want me to crash into another boulder looking at your cute toes?" Chito responded concentrated on the gravel road that led to the lake. It was a short one-hour drive from the community, but it almost took them the whole day as they stopped to check out the sights in the forest. Besides a few different kinds of insects and birds, they still haven't seen any wild forest animals cross their path yet. They lived deeper in the forests away from the humans.
"Chii-chan, does this vehicle kinda remind you of our 'Kettenkrad'?" Yuuri asked as she moved her leg away from Chito's face. "Yeah... It kinda does, but the 'Kettenkrad' was a military vehicle and built to withstand harsh terrain. This one is civilian and we managed to damage already!" Chito pouted again driving onwards. She wasn't used to driving a wheel before, but it felt easier than the motorbike handles. There wasn't much philosophy to driving these types of electric carts, just press a button to turn on the electric engine, press the forward pedal with your right leg and use the breaks with your left leg. They were significantly slower than the vehicles on the outside. "So, do we need fuel to drive this thing Chii-chan?"
"No. It drives completely on electricity. Toshi-san told me that you can drive it for 5 months on a single charge. Unlike small devices, this one has to be charged as it uses more electricity I think. " Chito replied, still she kept focused on the road ahead. Yuuri kept looking around the tree lines as they spread across the whole range. "I wish we had a vehicle like this one outside, Chii-chan. It would have saved us the trouble of looking for fuel."
"Yeah, I know." Chito replied "But we couldn't find any. They probably scrapped most of them, because these electric devices were easily fried out there, by something called EMP bombs. Still, the 'Kettenkrad' was so much fun to drive and much more reliable." Driving onwards the 'artificial' weather was quite warm with a gentle wind whooshing through the trees. They never knew how forests looked like in the old centuries, but this felt like the closest thing that remained in the world. If the traveler's plan succeeded than maybe in a thousand years he would be able to repopulate the planet with trees and animals. It hoped for a better future for what's left of humanity and it's living beings.
As they drove on, Yuuri had her hands around Chito's black device and kept trying to read one of the books by Chito's descendant from the 21st Century. Besides reading books, they found out that the device could play music, so they kept listening to all kinds of genres and even whole discographies by musicians and bands from the old centuries any chance they could. Both Chito and Yuuri found something they had in common, which was listening to all kinds of distinctive music the world had to offer.
"Chii-chan." Yuuri kept flipping through the pages of a book on the device "I've been practicing my reading with this book from your ancestor. It's fascinating that those girls resembled us so much, it's like we lived back then as well, it's so weird how is that even possible. I've never even heard about the place called Germany, Spain or Poland before this book, and yet they shared such a similar journey like ours traveling the world together."
"Oh -I wonder if that girl is still alive in some kind of a different timeline or reality. I wish I could dream about her again and warn her about their accident, but I don't think that you can go back in time and change the past." Chito responded with a sad sigh. "I talked with the 'traveler' about this encounter and it was perplexed as well. It told me that the stone we saw the day we arrived up here, was used to power their telepathic and mind hive ability, they built them in secret for thousands of years to keep in contact with the other 'Shimeji' around the world and the nearest one was the one we saw when we arrived up here. It told me that some people could absorb it's power as well and that the descendant I saw could have been metempsychosis or just a figment of a blood relative's memory that could have also been absorbed by the stone." Chito replied as she kept her leg on the pedal, driving carefully through the forest.
"That's really fascinating Chii-chan. I am happy that even in this life we found each other." Yuuri replied, and looking around she was still absorbed by the beauty of the forest. "I never had a dream about the other Yuuri, but then, usually my dreams are all about food and about you sometimes..." she blushed trailing her hand through her hair.
"Well, the traveler told me that in the records, not many people in history were able to have this kind of contact with their past selves. But in a way, it makes me happy that maybe we used to live back then as well. The dream was such a strange experience, but we've seen so much in this world that nothing seems unusual to me anymore. The traveler told me that such a coincidence to occur was so uncommon that I lost count of the zeroes it kept repeating. I thought at one point it broke as it kept repeating 'zero zero zero zero zero zero...' in a monotonous voice. Or as he called it 'the glitch in the simulation'." Chito replied as she kept driving the cart carefully through the stone boulders on the road.
"Chii-chan, the 'traveler' it's such a strange artificial intelligence, unlike the suicidal one we saw below. I wonder why it never told us about the 'unit' or the 'AI' residing here." Yuuri wondered as she kept looking around the forest.
"The 'AI' on the ground below lost contact for hundreds of years and I guess the other refuges or citizens of the unit never had contact with it in recent times. The city is so big that I guess you can find so many different entrances and access points to reach the top of the world. I wish we knew about it before so we could have found an elevator that reached the top of the world. I still wonder why 'ojiichan' never told us from the start about it. I guess I share the same quirks as him, I too was afraid what you would have thought about losing your leg back then. " Chito replied back as Yuuri listened in.
"Chii-chan, I would never hate you and it happened there is no going back in time. If we waited for a day we would have died out there and Mieko-chan told me that the blizzard raged on for days after." Yuuri spoke back and turned to look at her "But I am happy that we've had such a wonderful life back then as well. I am happy that after all that we've been through, we are also able to live happily again together. Oh, and should I learn to make what my past self made... ummm what was it called?" Yuuri asked as Chito turned to look at her and said "I think udon noodles. We can probably make them ourselves with instructional videos. It should be easy and tasty I think."
Driving on carefully through the road, the 'artificial' sun was still high up above in the sky. It was such a beautiful day to drive and hike around in the forest, yet they were alone on this path. It was a workday and the rest of the citizens had other tasks to do. Besides a few 'forest' robots they haven't seen anyone else on the road. The 'forest' robot tasks were there to keep maintaining the trees, plants and the needs of the animals in the forest and they varied in sizes. From small robots to huge ones just like the one they destroyed back at the fish factory. They operated within the 'unit' constantly without intermission.
"Hey, Chii-chan!" Yuuri exclaimed as she turned to face her. "Mieko-chan's belly is soo big!"
"Well, of course, her belly is big because she is pregnant Yuu-chan. She told me that she will have a baby girl in 1 week." Chito replied with a smile, she felt happy that life was able to flourish in this world and that people were able to have a family even up here too. She felt their lives were so much happier up here than on the bottom layers, and yet people still had families down there too. If only most of them knew about the 'unit' maybe they could have made the journey up there too.
"That's so cute!" Yuuri replied still smiling. "We should be pregnant one day too, Chii-chan."
Chito's face quickly turned red at Yuuri's idea. "Errr... Well... you know... it doesn't really... work... with two girls... to get pregnant... you know..." she replied with an embarrassed tone as she almost hit another boulder by mistake but quickly avoided it. "But we can always adopt an orphan... if you want... further in our life. Many children live without a family Yuu-chan, that's what Mieko-chan told me."
"What's to adopt Chii-chan?" Yuuri asked her back, as Chito kept driving forward. "Well... it's when you take care of a child who has no home or family. In a way, ojiichan adopted us on the bottom after we both lost our parents. We were both orphans Yuu-chan, and Toshi-san told me that his relative 'Daishi' adopted ojiichan and my otoosan when they found them on the outside. He was a mechanic and a teacher as well, but he passed away a long time ago though."
"Chii-chan... Do you think we will be good okaasan's? "
"The best Yuu-chan!" Chito replied proudly and smiled, however, Yuuri had even more troublesome questions to ask her. "But Chii-chan, why can't two girls get pregnant with each other?"
Chito unexpectedly hit the brakes, both of them almost flew away from the cart together with their stuff. "Errrrrrr..." Chito tried to answer something but she was still dumbstruck and embarrassed by Yuuri's question. "I mean errr..." she mumbled and turned completely red again.
Chito read in an embarrassing informational book about biology how it all worked and even saw a romantical movie with two girls when Yuuri was sleeping. But for girl couples, it was completely different. "I mean... errr... maybe when you learn to read properly and I'll show you this book I read a month ago why it doesn't work Yuu-chan..." They were married but Chito was still too embarrassed to talk about that stuff with her. Eventually, Chito had to talk to Yuuri one day how the creation of life was carried out, it was still a difficult and mysterious topic for her.
"But Chii-chan! How did Mieko-chan get pregnant? Should I ask her if she can show me?"
"WHAAA?" Chito with an inaudible scream and a shocked expression looked at her simple-minded wife. "NO! NEVER! NEVER ASK HER THAT! NEVER!" she was completely red-faced and from embarrassment, she lay down in front of the wheel. Where did these questions about pregnancy, and creation of life suddenly come from she absolutely had no idea.
"Chii-chan... Chii-chan... fine I won't ask her. I was just curious... but you can show me that book one day so I can read how it all works." Yuuri responded but Chito could almost melt from embarrassment and frustration as she just remembered something that they once talked about honeymoons. "Oh my goodness... I just remembered! I told you something on the outside about married couples 'consummating' their marriage on their honeymoon... I hope you didn't say something like that to anyone... Yuu-chan?" she turned to face Yuuri with an even more frightening expression as she seemed to be recalling something.
"Oh - Chii-chan..." Yuuri recalled an interesting discussion she had just a few days ago with Mieko while they were hanging out in the park. "I just recalled, I was talking about our wedding and our honeymoon to Mieko-chan while you were feeding the ducks a few days. I couldn't understand why she got so speechless and flustered. I told her that we planned to 'consummate' our marriage with lots of fish, food and - "
"YOU DID WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?" Chito screamed so loudly that several birds from the trees nearby flew away in panic. Completely embarrassed and frustrated she kept groaning as she lay down on the wheel in the middle of nowhere. "WHY?" she kept groaning and groaning, Yuuri was completely confused and kept looking at her.
"Just this morning she looked at me completely flustered and gave me her thumbs up. I had no idea why she did that, but now - AARRGHHHHHHHHHhhhhhh WHY DID YOU SAY THAT TO HER? - DUMMY! FOOL! IDIOT!"
"But you said that couples eat a lot of food when they get married on their honeymoon Chii-chan..." Yuuri replied as she looked at her groaning wife, Chito was almost ready to hang herself from embarrassment. "I knoooww... but to 'consummate'... it doesn't mean that... it's completely different... it has to do with 'that' feeling you also get when we take a bath together but... they also call it making love... on that movie that two girls did it...kinda..." she was just too embarrassed to even continue speaking anymore. Yuuri was still confused as she kept looking at her, and had even more questions. "But Chii-chan, how do girls make love?"
Chito groaned even louder from frustration as she got off the vehicle and ran away to the nearest tree and hid behind it. She was completely embarrassed and flustered. Yuuri felt like this was just another déjà vu since that time they took a bath together the first time, and many afterward in their home until Chito got more comfortable being close to her naked in the bath. She kept looking at Chito still confused as her audible groans became even louder behind the tree.
"Chii-chan! What do girls do when they get 'that' feeling when they are in a bath together?" Yuuri asked her loudly completely oblivious.
The rest of the trip to the lake both of the girls kept quiet and were completely red-faced as Chito finally got the courage to explain to Yuuri the questions that she kept asking her.
"But Chii-cha-"
"Shhhh..."
"Chii-c -"
"SHUSHH YUU!"
After some time passed, they finally reached the lake as Chito parked the vehicle close to the lake. The artificial lake was quite large and picturesque with a beautiful waterfall falling from one of the cliffs, it was even larger than they had imagined at first. About 20 minutes hike from the lake, there was another pillar that was used as structural support and an access point to get to the top level of the giant structure or underneath. Robots and even humans use these pillars to get to any part of the 'unit' in case of emergencies or maintenance. Just close to the lake the whole area was crowded with beautiful blooming sakura trees, sprouting beautiful rose petals that filled up the whole field with all varieties of expressive colors.
"CHII-CHAN! WOW!" Yuuri exclaimed with a wide smile on her face as she kept looking around. This was unlike she had seen anything in her entire life. It was one of the most beautiful sights they both had seen in the world. "What are those trees called?"
"It's called a sakura tree Yuu-chan," Chito replied as she got off the vehicle to check out the horizon. "They used to bloom in springtime, but these were genetically altered many years ago to bloom most of the time. Reo-san told me that he used to come here with ojiichan and his okaasan a lot of times and have a picnic. It's beautiful isn't it?" Chito replied as Yuuri kept laughing and skipping around in the field before she fell on the grass giggling loudly. "It's so beautiful - it's just like the lake from my dream! We finally reached it Chii-chan! We finally did!"
Chito was filled with joy every time she saw Yuuri so happy, as she looked at her skipping around the field. "Yes! We did Yuu-chan." she responded before she moved to the back of the vehicle.
"Hey, come help me set up the camp!" Chito called her over to the back of the cart as she opened the storage container. Yuuri ran over to her still giggling and helped her take everything out and place it nearby on the ground.
"Right... we need to set up the tent first, and then the rest of the camp." Chito stated as Yuuri took the tent in her hands. "Umm... how do you set the tent up?" She looked at the large peculiar circular-shaped object in her hand, wondering how it works.
"I think you have to throw it and it will open but first -"
"On it!" Yuuri exclaimed as she tossed it with all her might like a frisbee across the horizon, it drifted over into the tree line at the edge of the forest, almost out of sight.
" - first you have to open it - arrrghhhh." Chito groaned again as she held her hand to her face unable to understand why Yuuri just did that "That was our only tent!"
"Sorry, Chii-chan... I'll go take it!" Yuuri exclaimed still with a smile on her face as she skipped over to the tree line just where she tossed the tent.
"Hmm... where did I throw it at?" Yuuri kept wondering where she threw the tent at and kept looking around until she found it laying down on the ground just close to the edge of the forest. After she leaned down to grab the tent, she looked up and saw several pairs of curious eyes looking back at her.
"Umm... hello?" Carefully stepping back, she felt scared of the strange creatures just at the entrance of the forest. Turning around she yelled back at Chito "Errr... Chii-chan!"
"What's wrong Yuu?"
"Come here! QUICK!"
Chito dropped most of the stuff she was carrying for their camp and ran over to Yuuri fearing if she was in danger again. Coming closer to her she saw her staring at something in the woods. "What? What's wrong?" Chito asked her alarmed.
"What are those?" Yuuri pointed towards the odd creatures in the forest, she hasn't seen anything like that before in her life. The creatures were standing just close by curiously looking at the girls.
"Where?" Chito asked as she looked where Yuuri pointed. "Oh... don't worry Yuu-chan, these are called deer." she smiled trying to calm Yuuri down. "They are not dangerous don't worry."
"Wow! Are they alive?" Yuuri asked as she kept looking at the curious herd of deers that came over to investigate them. "Yes Yuu-chan, they are wild animals. I told you I've seen them once in my dreams with that girl as well. They live in the forest in large numbers and are quite calm."
The herd kept looking at them with curious eyes. The deer were in all different sizes, and a group of ten came to inspect the girls carefully from inside the forest. "Are the little one's children?" Yuuri asked as she walked back cautiously, she was still a bit scared of them. "Yes, they are a large family. Mieko-chan told me that some of the animals in the 'unit' move in herds as a large family. I think we can pet them as well, they are friendly." she smiled.
One of the deer broke from the herd. Still cautiously and curiously approached the girls. "Don't be scared just reach out your hand and you can pet it." Chito smiled as she gently took Yuuri's arm and moved it towards the deer.
The deer gently smelled her hand and leaned it's head down as Yuuri placed it to its soft head. "Eeee... It's so cute and soft... almost like Nuko." Yuuri grinned as she gently stroked the deer's head. Chito giggled softly and also reached out her hand and gently placed it on the deer's body. The deer seemed to enjoy being caressed by humans.
Over the years the animals that remained alive and safe from extinction have learned to get closer to humans without fear, they could almost be domesticated but they were determined to live in the forest without a care in the world. Robots or other humans tended to their care, but usually, they just let nature take its own path. Even the food chain was still active among the animal kingdom in the 'unit'. "Wow! Chii-chan! It's so cute!" Yuuri exclaimed chuckling softly with her eyes closed, still gently caressing the animal. "But can we eat it?"
The deer cautiously stepped back as it had enough of being caressed for the day. Turning around it returned back to the herd. "Pff... you scared it Yuu-chan." Chito replied as she looked at the herd move away from their vision deep in the forest. "I don't think we are allowed to hunt deer yet, but only when their numbers get too high. Their meat is called venison and I heard it's quite tasty."
"Oh, why is that Yuu-chan?"
Yuuri asked before Chito replied "Well... it's something called population control. Once their population grows it could be damaging to the ecosystem of the 'unit' and people or even robots can hunt them for food. It's only when the artificial intelligence gives the green light to hunt wild animals that they are allowed to do, else you would be hunted back by the robots and tranquilized with a dart. I heard that you could even be jailed or exiled from the unit for hunting forbidden animals. We should be careful Yuu-chan, I don't want us to be exiled like ojiichan."
"Chii-chan, 'population control'. Is that what humans did to the world outside? Did they damage the ecosystem and then they started killing each other off to help stabilize it?" Yuuri asked her back. "Aren't animals also alive and share emotions just like us? Why do they hunt them? They are so cute."
"I guess it's just the way of life Yuu-chan. Sometimes the stronger kill the weak for food and their population grows to the point that the weak go extinct. It's the same case with humans. Once there were too many humans to sustain the world, and suddenly the ecosystem of this planet collapsed. The resources on this planet weren't able to sustain every single human that was alive, so I guess they took to drastic measures, afterward it takes years and years for the resources to grow stable. It's the same in the animal kingdom, once the population grows in size then the ecosystem isn't able to sustain and resources could be scarce." Chito answered still looking in the forest, the herd was gone a few minutes ago. "That's just the mysterious way of life Yuu-chan. Maybe the unit's ecosystem might collapse one day from overpopulation so that is why we have to be careful."
"Chii-chan, is that why we are allowed to only take two fishies from this lake?" Yuuri asked as she turned to look at her. "I guess so. Two fish per day at this lake, else their numbers might go extinct in the lake if everyone in the unit started eating the fish here instead of the farms."
"So.. let's go catch fishies Chii-chan, I am hungry!" Yuuri chuckled as she ran back to the lake. "Wait... Yuu-chan, we have to set up the camp first."
After the girls set up their camp, Yuuri took off her sandals and went in the water to try to catch a fish with her bare hands, but she didn't know this was really a difficult way to catch fish.
"Here fishy fishy!" Yuuri kept splashing in the water looking at the few fishes that swam along in the deep. Suddenly she jumped in the water trying to catch one without luck and splashed in the water. Her clothes were completely soaked as she got out of the water. Chito couldn't help herself but laugh as she kept looking at her trying to catch a fish.
"Yuu-chan you will never catch a fish like that, we have to use a fishing rod." Chito said taking a fishing rod out from her backpack and with a press of a button, the rod extended to about 2 meters. "Oooh..." Yuuri got out of the water completely soaked looking at the device that Chito just pulled out of her backpack. "What is that?
"It's called a fishing rod, it's how people in the old century and even now catch fish, but I heard that it's adjusted with some kind of technology so it's easier to catch fish. I guess you throw the lure into the water and then wait for a fish to bite it." Chito answered as she inspected the rod.
"Oooh... can I try?" Yuuri asked as Chito nodded and handed the fishing rod over to her. Yuuri positioned it like a javelin and was ready to throw it in the lake.
"WAAIT!" Chito yelled at her just as she almost threw the rod in the lake. "That's not how you throw it Yuu-chan. Here - " she gently took her by the hands and with a swift motion threw the lure in the water. "See? Just the lure has to be in the water, not the whole thing. You won't be able to catch a fish otherwise."
"OOOO..." Yuuri exclaimed again as she held the fishing rod tightly in her hands with Chito. "What do we do now?"
"Well... I think you press this button to turn the lure on and then you wait until the fish bites it." Chito answered as she pressed the button. The lure started emitting an odd sound and vibration in the water. "And then?" Yuuri asked again. "And then you have to pull out the fish from the water. Stand here I'll go prepare for dinner."
After a few minutes of patiently waiting and mumbling, one unfortunate fish bit the lure and started pulling on the rod. "Chii-chan Look!" Yuuri exclaimed Chito who was closeby sitting on a rug and preparing their dinner. "It's pulling on the rod. What do I do?"
"Just press and hold one of the buttons to reel it in and pull upwards!" Chito answered as she placed a hot plate she brought along on their journey close to the rug, along with several ingredients.
"What this one?" Yuuri pressed another button just close to where she held the rod with both her hands. But with the combination of pulling and reeling in the fish suddenly hopped right out of the water and as it unhooked, it flew right into Chito slapping her in the face.
"EEEEEEEEEEH?..." Chito let out a shriek of surprise as she didn't expect the fish to come flying right into her. Yuuri standing close with the rod in her hands and still soaked, looked at Chito who was struggling with the fish and then she burst into laughter.
"AHAHAHA CHII-CHAAAN! You said there were no flying fish! AHAHAHHAHA!"
Chito kept struggling to place the fish in the fridge, and turned to face Yuuri with an angry expression on her face. "HOW ABOUT I SHOULD A FLYING DUMMY!" she jumped from the rug and started chasing Yuuri. "I'LL THROW YOU IN THE LAKE YUURI!"
Yuuri unable to compose herself from laughing tried galloping away from her. "Chii - wait! Another one might fly over! HAHAHAH!" but from all that laughter she didn't notice that Chito was actually gaining speed on her like an angry small cheetah. Grabbing her with a swift motion she swung Yuuri around back in the lake. With a big splash, Yuuri found herself soaked sitting in the lake. Chito just stood above her looking down on her and unable to control herself she burst from laughter. She completely forgot what she was mad about. "I told you I will show you a flying dummy! HAHAHAHA!" She didn't notice that Yuuri with a smirk on her face got out of the lake exclaiming "I AM A LAKE MONSTER!" and pulled Chito in as well. With another big splash, both of them found themselves completely soaked in the lake, laughing and splashing each other with water.
After they changed into their swimsuits and hanged up their clothes to dry, Chito took the fishing rod where Yuuri dropped it to catch another fish for their dinner. Yuuri seemed to have still been a recipe for disaster with everything she touched.
"Chii-chan! This smells so tasty!" Yuuri impatiently kept waiting and drooling as she watched Chito prepare their dinner on the hot plate she brought on their journey. Filled with an assortment of vegetables and the two fish they managed to catch from the lake, dinner was almost ready. "Mmm... smells better than the canned fish." Yuuri closed her eyes and with a delighted look on her face kept drooling sitting on the rug close by. "But why can't we cook them on fire?"
"As I remember fire is not allowed in the forest and if we start a fire the sprinklers will just turn on soaking the campground. You don't want the rest of our things soaked Yuu-chan?" Chito replied as she kept prodding the fish with her chopsticks to see if it's ready. The wonderful smell of grilled fish and vegetables filled up the air as it sizzled on the hot plate.
"Mmmmpphhh... I really wanna eat the fishy!" Yuuri continued giggling and drooling on as Chito turned to scour her bag for a plate and chopsticks. "Hold on, let me get a plate. I think it's ready." Carefully she placed Yuuri's portion on a plate and handed it over to her, and scooped rice she prepared at home from one of the food containers.
"What did you bring for drinking? We can't drink the lake I think." Yuuri asked as she kept drooling over the steaming plate.
"Ohh... let me see. I have water, beer, and this thing..." Chito opened the small refrigerator and pulled out a dark bottle that they got as a gift the night before. "Its called red wine, I don't understand what 'Merlot' means, it is written on the bottle."
"What's red wine?" Yuuri asked as Chito opened the bottle and took two peculiar shaped glasses that they got as a gift as well. "It's an alcoholic drink made from fermented grapes. The couple that gifted it to us told me they produce it from their own vineyard and told us to drink from these glasses as it enriches the taste. Do you wanna try?"
"Of course Chii-chan." Chito poured the wine in the glasses and handed a glass to Yuuri. Looking at the red liquid through the glass, they were curious to try and see how it tastes like.
"Oooh... it's strong. It's nothing like beer, its so much fruity." Yuuri sipped on the glass and smiled as it made her ticklish and warm all over. "Mmm... yes..." Chito tried a sip as well "It's so tasty, but we have to be careful. It's stronger than beer."
"But yes FISHY TIME!" Yuuri exclaimed with her hands up in the air bursting from happiness. Both of them placed their hands together and exclaimed"Itadakimasu!"
"Chii-chaan! Lake fish is the tastiest thing ever!" Yuuri replied laying down on the rug, her belly satisfied with the tasty meal she just had. "Of course it's tasty, it's fresh fish Yuu-chan." Chito cleaned out their empty plates from the water in the lake and poured another glass of wine for both of them. Chito was careful as to not get drunk again but it seemed like Yuuri could absorb much more alcohol than her without a problem. The warm sun was still high up in the sky ready for the evening.
"Chii-chan do you want to go swimming?" Yuuri asked as she got up from the rug and stretched "I've wanted to go swimming since we arrived here."
"Sure, I brought out this thing called a floater that I can inflate so I don't drown again." Chito scoured through her backpack and pulled the floater out. "I need to inflate it though." She turned to look at Yuuri but again found herself red-faced as she pulled out her swimsuit and stood naked at the edge of the lake. She had nothing else but just her necklace and her ring on. "Errr... you do realize its called a swimsuit for a reason Yuu-chan. But you just want any kind of excuse to get naked!"
"Chii-chan there is no one here just us two. Cmon let's go swimming!" Yuuri replied as she ran into the lake and jumped "NYUUUU!" she yelled and with a big splash found herself in the water "Eeeee... it's kinda cold, it's just like swimming in that water tank but it's much different. This is so much more fun!"
"One second." Chito finished inflating the floater and placed it around herself. It was a yellow floater she found somewhere in the program of the 'synthesizer' that said it could help with floating and she wanted to try it out. Slowly she moved into the lake accumulating to the cold water.
"Chii-chan, you should get naked too!" Yuuri chuckled as she stared at her blushing softly still swimming in the lake.
"Nooo! Someone might come and see us!" she responded carefully floating along the surface of the water closer to Yuuri. "Brrrr... so cold." Chito slightly shivered as Yuuri swam close to her and gently grabbed the floater. "You look so cute with that thing around you Chii-chan." she smiled bumping her nose with hers.
Chito blushed again as Yuuri got closer to her in the water. "You really can't resist being naked you silly girl!" she chuckled softly looking at her eyes. Yuuri gently reached her head closer to her and placed a peck on Chito's lips still holding on the floater. "Let's go check out the waterfall... I'll pull you along." Yuuri smiled as she held on the floater and swam to the waterfall.
"Oooh... it's like taking a cold shower!" Yuuri exclaimed as the water gently splashed over their heads. Chito with a smile kept floating next to her enjoying herself "But still, its kinda cold." she replied softly shivering.
"It's not so bad, it's warmer than the water on the outside." Yuuri responded as she peeked to see what was just behind the waterfall, "Oooh Chii-chan, look a cave." just behind the waterfall there was a cave that Yuuri just discovered and pulled Chito along with her inside. The gentle splash of the waterfall felt so comfortable and calm inside the cave.
"I wonder, how did they build this cave Chii-chan?"
"I think through a process called 'algorithmic terraforming', they told me that the whole process was an experiment to create landscapes like this on other planets as well. But yeah, it looks so wonderful." Chito replied looking around inside the cave, she could feel her feet touching the gentle rocks just below her. Yuuri got out of the water and sat down in the rocky interior checking out the small cave. "Do you want to live here the rest of our lives Chii-chan? We don't have to wear any clothes and we can eat fishies almost every day!" Chito kept blushing as she looked at Yuuri being so carefree with her nudity. "Well... I prefer our house its so much more comfortable Yuu-chan, and I know you can't get out of the kotatsu after some time passed." she replied as she got out of the water to check out the cave. "Besides we can't grow any food inside the cave."
"I know but still it's so cozy and cute." Yuuri giggled as she kept looking around the interior of the cave. "Chii-chan, cmon take off your swimsuit. I don't think anyone can see us here!" Yuuri replied as Chito kept blushing and sat down beside Yuuri looking around the cave. "And if someone comes, I'll protect Chii-chan!"
"Pff... fine... you win." she finally gave in and carefully took out her swimsuit, placing it on the ground beside her. She found herself nude again sitting close to her "Happy?" she replied and blushed as they looked at each other.
"Hihi... it's just like taking a bath at home Chii-chan. You shouldn't be so embarrassed." Yuuri replied as she jumped again in the cold water inside the cave swimming around. "But we have to wear the swimsuit around other people Yuu-chan, it's just... kinda embarrassing you know..." Chito replied still sitting on the cold ground of the cave, with her legs in the water.
"Chii-chan, cmon I'll show you how to swim!" Yuuri exclaimed as she grabbed her by the leg and gently pulled Chito back in the water. "Wait wait... I'll drown again."
"No! You won't I'll hold you tight!" Yuuri replied as she gently brought her along to the deeper side of the cave. "Ok, I'll hold you and you start gently swaying your legs. That is how you keep afloat." Chito was still scared but she did exactly as Yuuri told her and could feel she was staying afloat. "This is wonderful!" Chito replied as she swayed her legs around.
"You have to sway your arms like this too!" Yuuri replied gesturing a swaying motion to her as Chito repeated after her. "I will teach you how to swim around but, please remember this if you ever find yourself alone in deep water." Yuuri replied, but she seemed to have been worried about something that happened in the past as she looked at Chito who kept practicing staying afloat.
"Yuu-chan, I wish I knew this back at the water tank. I wouldn't have sunk in the deep."
"Chii-chan I kept telling you how to do it but you almost drowned, you really scared me back then!" Yuuri replied swimming close to her and gently she grabbed her closer looking her deeply in the eyes. "What if I lost you back then down in that pool?"
"Well, you came to my rescue, Yuu-chan!" Chito replied and chuckled but Yuuri had a serious look in her eyes. "I know, but we've been close to death so many times now... I was really afraid each time Chii-chan. I was really afraid of losing you..." Yuuri replied and snuggled close to her. Chito's heart started beating even faster and kept blushing as her bare body was close to hers. Both of them gently floated above on the water. "We are safe here, but if we ever go out again promise me we will stay safe and be more careful. After all that we've been through, I don't want to ever lose you again Chii-chan."
"Well, that's easy I am never going out there ever again!" Chito replied still in her embrace. She was never so close naked to her before and suddenly it felt so peaceful and wonderful, but she didn't care about that anymore. She felt like her soul connected with Yuuri's. "Chii-chan, that's ok but we will stay safe if we ever go out again. Please promise me?" Yuuri replied and smiled looking back at her, both of them gently floated back to the shallow area inside the cave still embraced.
"I - promise - Yuu-chan."
Chito closed her eyes and gently placed her lips to Yuuri's, kissing her deeply as her body felt connected with hers. She knew that she eternally wanted to stay in Yuuri's embrace like this. They kept kissing calmly with their eyes closed, just the sound of the waterfall gently splashing close by filled the warm ambiance of the cave.
"I promise you - my love - we will stay safe... I will never leave your side - "
"Chii-chan, I felt so warm and so peaceful - inside the cave with you by my side." Yuuri with a flushed face lay down on the rug near their tent gently holding Chito's hand close to her heart. Both of them already dressed up were looking up at the sky as the day was almost over, the evening sun lit up the beautiful forest in all kinds of different shades of colors. Chito with a flushed face as well smiled, laying in Yuuri's embrace. "I wouldn't have wanted it any other way Yuu-chan. I love you so much."
"I love you too, Chii-chan." Yuuri replied, still holding her close. The minutes passed away in sweet silence in each other's embrace.
"Yuu... I could almost forget the sky is not real." Chito said as she kept looking up, the virtual clouds gently drifted across the evening sky up in the thousands of the screens on the ceiling. Sadly to observe the genuine sun and sky one had to go out of the 'unit', but the citizens mostly preferred to stay inside and only ever went out of the unit on supply runs. "But I guess at times we forget we live inside a 'fantasy' Yuu-chan. If the last of humanity that's left here are not careful this will also be gone too, one day. It will just be a distant memory left in the 'archive'."
"Chii-chan, I guess it's a wonderful fantasy and I am glad that we get to share it together." Yuuri smiled as she kept gazing up in the sky.
"Oh Chii-Chan, I wonder what is that pilar we saw way over there?" Yuuri asked pointing towards the nearest pillar in the distance that extended up to the ceiling.
"I think it's just for structural support and there is a staircase that leads up to the ceiling of the 'unit'. I think you can see the sky from up there." Chito answered looking at the pillar in the distance.
"Chii-chan, do you want to go climb it up? I would like to see the real sky and stars once again. Besides, it looks like we haven't made the final climb yet, and ojiichan told us to climb to the top of the world." Yuuri asked as she looked up at the ceiling just where the pilar ended.
"But ojiichan meant to come up to the unit, and beside it's still really cold outside!" Chito answered as Yuuri leaned around and grabbed her backpack. "And it's going to be dark soon."
"Look what I took with us." Yuuri took out the old jackets that they wore on the outside that kept them warm from the cold. "We can wear our old jackets up there and it won't be that cold, besides I can always share my warmth with you. And we can bring the rug and the wine up there as well. I think they will keep us warm." Yuuri smiled as she got up and stood close to Chito showing her the jackets. She was already determined to go on their last climb together.
Chito also got up from the rug and looked at Yuuri who was standing at the ready "But you know that I am afraid to go out there again, Yuu-chan." Chito replied as she scratched her head with worry in her eyes. Yuuri looking back at her smiled and gently held Chito's hands. "Chii-chan, I was afraid of the dark and you were there close to me every time so the dark didn't feel so scary anymore. I know that together we can do anything and I will be there right beside you on the top! I really want to see the stars with you again, and they are out there waiting for us. I'll keep you safe and if it's dangerous we can go back to the tent."
Chito couldn't do anything else to convince her to stay, so she smiled and took the rug underneath her. "Ok Yuu-chan, you convinced me to do yet another crazy thing like earlier." She blushed and leaned down to take her rug and another bottle of wine with the glasses from the fridge.
"Ok then, let's go on our last climb."
It was already dark in the forest as both Chito and Yuuri kept on hiking towards the entrance of the pillar with their flashlights on. The dark forest already came to life with the sounds of all kinds of nocturnal animals.
"Chii - I was wrong! I am still scared of the dark!" Yuuri held out her hand as Chito gently squeezed her. "It was your idea, you silly girl!" Chito replied as they kept walking on the path towards the pillar. She kept pointing the flashlight around careful not to trip over the branches of the tree. "It seemed so close and yet we've been walking for a long time."
"There!" Yuuri exclaimed pointing towards small lights on the ground that leads up to the entrance of the pillar. "I think we have to follow the lights on the ground Chii-chan."
"Hmmm... sure" they both changed their directions and found themselves at the entrance of the pillar. The huge cylindrical shape extended up to the sky and it felt like another long climb to the top of the world. "This reminds me just like when we reached the pillars on the bottom Yuu-chan."
"So... are you ready to climb it Chii-chan?" Yuuri asked her as she took their jackets out from their backpack. "I guess so." Chito reached her hands to take her jacket and wore it on, Yuuri did the same with hers.
"Well, it looks like we are going out there again, Chii-chan!" Yuuri replied as Chito pressed a button near the entrance. A door slid to each sides opening to the staircase that felt like it went on forever to the top. The pillar inside looked like it was lit up from the top to the bottom with lights going off in every direction.
"Ok then, lets climb up. But you have to hold me Yuu-chan, I forgot I was afraid of heights."
After some time passed climbing up the staircase, they finally reached the top of the pillar. Covered in sweat and exhausted Chito sat down on the floor, she felt completely out of shape.
"Ahh... uhhhh... I forgot how hard it is - to go upstairs..." Chito complained with Yuuri standing close by and breathing heavily as well. "I am surprised - you managed to climb the stairs - with your leg - Yuu-chan, you really are - exceptional."
"I knoow... I am a - god... - after all ahh..." Yuuri couldn't stand anymore and also sat down on the floor to catch her breath. Chito pulled out her flask and took a huge gulp of water and handed it to Yuuri who managed to drink the whole thing. "So... how do we go out on the roof?" Yuuri asked as Chito slowly getting her composure back, got up and inspected the room.
Beside the staircase and a blast door, there was nothing else in the room, not even a window. The huge blast door could be opened by a press of a button on the screen located near it. "I think you have to press the button on the screen and we can go out on the roof." Chito replied as she trailed her finger along the blast door. It was made of some kind of metallic alloy and it looked like it could withstand anything that was thrown at it.
The blast door was the only thing that stood between the girls and the world outside. With just the press of a button, they would find themselves on the outside yet again.
"Chii-chan, Are you ready?" Yuuri asked and smiled as Chito stepped back, she was too scared to press the button. "I - I - am really not sure..." Chito replied as Yuuri got up and gently hugged her from behind. "What if I press the button and we wake up out there once again, Yuu-chan. Today has been another beautiful day with you and being so close to you - I just - never want this dream to be over."
"Chii-chan, even if everything up to this point since they rescued us was a dream and we wake up out there again, I know that we will be together. If this was all a dream, then I am sure we would find somewhere else we can be happy. Chii-chan - you have to understand that I will never leave you." Yuuri placed her head down on her and smiled "I will never let anything happen to you."
"Ok... I guess I have we have to find out once and for all. Yuu." Yuuri gently took her hand close to hers and after they looked at each other with a smile on their faces, they closed their eyes just as Chito pressed the button on the screen.
An alarm and a flashing red light started blaring loudly as the blast door started opening slowly. The cold and dead air rushed through them from the outside. Keeping their eyes closed and their hands locked together, they stood still waiting and waiting, until the alarm stopped blaring and the blast door widely opened.
The familiar dead silence of the world outside that they have comprehended for a really long time, terrified Chito to the essence of her heart. Walking through the door hand in hand with Yuuri, she kept her eyes tightly shut.
Once again, it felt so cold and dead outside.
"CHII-CHAN." Yuuri exclaimed standing close to her "Open your eyes!"
Chito thought to herself, it was time to wake up on the outside once again. Once she opened her eyes, she would find herself on the bottom layers surviving and starving together with Yuuri. But she had to do it, she had to open her eyes. She had to finally know that it was all a dream, and if all up to this point it was all a dream. Their wedding, their home, their family, the unit, being close to Yuuri... it was all a dream, but only when she opened her eyes. She had to open them now, and finally know the answer.
"Chii-chan! THE MOON! LOOK!" Yuuri exclaimed pointing up towards the sky. "ITS THE MOON! CHII-CHAN ITS THE MOON!" Chito opened her eyes and looked at Yuuri who jumped around from happiness. The blast door opened wide still stood behind them, the 12 blue lights shimmered far in the distance along with many other lights scattered across the whole unit. And then she looked up. The whole sky was covered in a carpet of glittering stars and only the light of the full moon lit up the whole world above them. The moon felt so close that Chito felt they could have jumped and floated up towards it.
"We reached the moon CHII-CHAN! WE DID IT!" Yuuri kept laughing and shouting "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! IT'S SO FRIKKIN HUUUGE!"
Chito couldn't help but start laughing out loud, it was real. The 'unit' was real. Up to this point, everything was real, she wasn't dreaming anymore. She finally found the closure she was looking for with her own two eyes. Up to this point, ojiichan told them to go to the top of the world, but in some way, he meant for them to come up here. To the highest point in the city, to know that they are safe and that they had a home and a future just beneath this huge fortress.
"Maybe what we are seeing is not there, but far into the distance. Or inside the layer..." Chito spoke to herself repeating the words she spoke the first day they reached the top of the world. Smiling and feeling a bit cold Chito reached her hands inside the pocket of the jacket to warm them up, but she could feel a familiar object inside.
"WE DID IT!" Yuuri kept exclaiming as she jumped into Chito hurling her towards the ground in a warm embrace. "Chii-chan... I am so happy. I want to say today was the happiest day of our lives, but with you, every day is the happiest of my life!"
"Yuu-chan guess what... I found it!" Chit started laughing again underneath her to the confused look of Yuuri. "I FOUND IT! THE GRENADE PIN! It's been inside my jacket the whole time!" She pulled it out showing it to her as she kept laughing and laughing. Both of them laid on top of each other and kept laughing. "I don't know how I forgot that it was inside my jacket all the time! But here it is! It's the grenade pin!"
"Chii-chan, give it to me I don't trust you with it anymore!" Yuuri jokingly replied as she took the pin and placed it around her necklace. "There... they will stay together just like the two of us. I will keep it safe near my heart until you get a necklace too. Just like I will keep you safe... my love." smiling and embraced once again, they both stared into each other's eyes as they kissed again.
"So, what do you want to do?" Chito asked her as Yuuri still laid on top of her. "Well, let's hang out here until we get cold and sleepy, and we can drink that wine you brought up."
"Yes! We need to celebrate our last climb." Chito replied as she got out from underneath her. Reaching in her backpack she took out the rug and neatly placed it down on the ground as she sat together with Yuuri looking up at the moon. She took out the two glasses and the wine and poured a large glass for both of them.
After a while, they kept laughing and drinking even more wine as they looked up at the moon with the widest and happiest smiles in the world.
"Chii-chan..." Yuuri spoke cuddled close. "I kept reading about that girl from your dreams and what happened in the end. I've been meaning to ask you, what does 'assisted suicide' mean?"
"Oh, I read somewhere that it means when you get help to end your life. Usually, it's with an injection or something similar to that. I read that after the accident, she was unable to move and was heartbroken that her wife passed away from the accident." Chito responded with a sad tone. "She blamed herself for what happened to her and couldn't live with it, and made a decision after she finished writing her memoirs from their last travel before the accident, she would go with the decision to join her in the afterlife. She was deeply afraid that they would be forgotten, but I am happy that they keep living in her books, even though I was unable to find the rest of her works there."
"Chii - please promise me if anything happens to me you won't do something like that. Please." Yuuri replied holding her close in her arms. "I know there is a family here that loves us and if we have children one day they will also love us. And if something were to happen to both of us, they would be devastated. But... if I go one day before you, I promise that I will wait for you on the other side. It will be lonely and dark but... I will wait for you to come forever. We are also lonely in this world, but I'm so glad that I get to share that loneliness with you."
Chito looked back at Yuuri and closed her eye,s gently resting her head to her chest. "Yuu-chan, I want to imagine that one day when we are like a thousand years old that one night when we are ready, we will have a nice meal together, a warm bath and then go to sleep in each other's arms and drift away together towards that darkness. Because I don't know what I will do without you, Yuu... I wouldn't want to imagine a world without you or if anything bad happens to us... I hope that we have a long life ahead of us and one day we will have a family of our own. I know that ojiichan wanted a good life for us because he was so far away from his family and struggled to help us." Chito replied and smiled. "I just want to respect his wish that we will be happy and together for a long time, he gave his life away so we can have one, Yuu-chan."
Yuuri hugged her even tighter "I don't know what I would do without you as well, Chii-chan. I just hope nothing bad ever happens in our lives - but I am happy that we are safe and we have food and a home, and one day we would have beautiful children. But I am happy. I've never been so happier in my life with you, Chii-chan."
"Me too - Yuu-chan."
They kept snuggling at the top of the world looking up at the moon that guided them towards their new home until they got cold and sleepy. It was time to go back to the camp, back inside their home.
"Chiiii-chaaa..." Yuuri kept stumbling and tried to keep close to Chito as both of them walked towards their camp. "Did I *hick* mention that *hick* you looked soooooooooooooo blutful *hick* under the moonlight..."
"Yuu-chan, you drank so much wine. C'mon just a little while and we can go to sleep." Chito kept struggling to walk forward with Yuuri as she stumbled around, she managed to drink the whole bottle of wine at the roof. "But Chiiii... I mean *hick* to say you are butifeeeeeeel..." she kept giggling and held on on Chito for support.
"I know, you tell that to me every day now. C'mon! Stay concentrated!" Chito replied, but reasoning with a drunk Yuuri was just pointless. "Chitooh... did you notice... we have 10 fingers *hick* WHOOOOA!"
"And one nose, I know Yuu-chan! Geeze!" Chito mildly annoyed still walked together with Yuuri towards their camp. It was so close by but felt they walked forever, and the climb down from the pillar was even more difficult holding onto Yuuri who was completely drunk.
"Chiii- can we do... waterfall thing again inside *hick* the tent?"
Chito got flustered once again at the mention of the waterfall, she kept holding her close for support. "Errr... maybe another day - Yuu - we have all the time in the world to do that." she replied and still flustered kept carrying her around "But we need to go to sleep."
Once they reached the tent Chito opened it slowly, but she let go of Yuuri for just a second as she fell inside it. "Oh no!" Chito exclaimed as Yuuri laid face down on their sleeping bag, drooling all over and giggling. "Chii-chaan I didn't know you were so *hick* so eager to staaart *hick*!"
Chito sitting close to her drunk wife helped her take her clothes off and in just her underwear, Chito somehow managed to tuck her in their shared sleeping bag. She immediately drifted off to sleep snoring softly. Sitting above the sleeping bag, Chito smiled as she looked down on her and leaned to place a gentle peck on her cheek.
"Today was such a wonderful day Yuu-chan. I want every day to be just like today, with you by my side." taking her clothes off and also in her underwear she got inside the sleeping bag and snuggled close to Yuuri turning off the lantern. She looked deep into her sleeping eyes and smiled once again. "Goodnight, my love."
Closing her eyes Chito also drifted off to sleep, deep in her lover's embrace.