Chapter 8
-Maiko's room-
-Narrator-
After cleaning themselves, our protagonists finally reach Maiko's room where there hoshidian style outfits are ready.
"Do you want to try yours first?" Kamui looks down at the albino.
"Can I?" His eyes shine in excitement.
"Yeah. Come with me." The knight says grabbing his outfit and going behind a panel to change.
Maiko can hear them changing and cannot help but blushes. "No you put it in there. Yes, like that. Don't be so rough." If you could die from embarrassment, the miko would have already left this world.
"Now go show it to Maiko." Kamui whispers in Kotai's ear.
"Ok." He gets out from behind the panel to let the maiden see his new outfit.
"Woa..." Maiko eyes finally lay upon the beautiful clothes she has helped Emiya-sama make and she is proud that her hard work has payed off.
Kotai is wearing a blinding white kimono with azure outlines with golden motifs, he also have wooden sandals called geta with a strange rubber like soles added by Kamui. To go with the sandals, Kotai have black tabi, socks worn with thonged footwear in japan.
He runs around the brunette, laughing while Kamui approach them. "What do you think?" She asks with a small smile.
"It's r-really beautiful." Maiko's face reddens from the knight's attention.
"It's my turn now." She says, taking her outfit as Kotai sits down next to the maiden.
After 5 minutes of: "This goes here, and this over there..." Kamui is ready to show her clothes.
Maiko doesn't know what it looks like because the petite girl didn't want help for her outfit. Said girl gets out of behind the panel, she is wearing a pale purple kimono getting gradually darker the more you look down with flame like lines creeping up of her feet and hands. She as a suit under her kimono visible only on her neck. Her forearms, waist and legs are protected by a leather looking armor but what Maiko does not know is that it actually kevlar, not that she would know what kevlar is anyway.
"So?" Kamui asks slightly blushing but still adorning her serious expression.
"It's so cool Miss Emiya!" Kotai jumps and turns around his guardian, admiring her new attire.
"Are you sure you are not a boy?" Maiko suddenly asks before covering her mouth.
The knight's expression darkens as the miko starts sweating bullets. "I know I don't have forms, but still..." Kamui now looks depressed.
"It's okay." The albino says patting the girl's back comically.
"I'm s-sorry." Maiko quickly apologies to the petite knight.
"*Sigh* Don't worry about it." The knight turns around and starts to get out of the room.
She is followed by none other than Kotai who wants to know where they are going. "What are we doing now?
"Find something to eat. It must be around one hour in the afternoon."
They are then joined by Maiko. "You can come eat w-with us if y-you want." She tells them with a nervous smile.
"Yeah! Let's go Miss Emiya!" The young boy drags Kamui across the shrine as they follow the brunette.
They reach a cabin were the priests and priestesses are eating peacefully. The knight doesn't see the Guji around the table and guesses he has already eaten. She sits down next to Maiko after helping Kotai taking his place.
However the calm is shattered by none other than Seiji after he makes eye contact with Kamui, who is sitting right in front of him. "What is she doing here?" He stands up before pointing at the blonde girl.
"Eating, obviously." She responds without any apparent emotion while serving her ward.
The mikos cannot help but admire Kotai's and Kamui's outfits and start asking questions to Maiko. "Wow Maiko, I never knew you were this good at sewing." A blue haired girl with a curvaceous body sitting next to the turbulent boy compliments her fellow miko, she is Toru.
"Don't ignore me!" Seiji cries out in indignation.
"Well I..." Maiko tries to say but is interrupted by a short orange haired maiden, Atsuko.
"Could you help me with my uniform? Mine is becoming too small in... Some places." She blushes, trying to hide her face with her sleeves.
"I'm not finished!" The idiot continues.
Maiko is determined to finish her sentence."But I didn't..." This time she is stopped by Kotai.
"You are all wrong! It is Miss Emiya who has created those outfits." Kamui starts to choke on her Katsu Yakisoba.
"What!?" The girls and Seiji yells in surprise.
"Is this for real Maiko!?" The boy asks with wide eyes, leaning on the table.
"That's what I was trying to tell you, I only helped for the young boy's kimono." She explains to them.
They all turn their heads toward Kamui who has regain her composure. "What?" She demands, her brows furrowed.
Now that they look at her with attention, they notice that she is even smaller than Atsuko and that she really acts like a boy.
"Ara, Ara, you really are a bully Seiji" Toru hides her smile behind her hand.
The blond knight shivers at what she says, is she an onee-san? She must keep an eye on her.
"You are defending this Nohrian too?" He shouts, desperate.
"I-It's true that you are mean to her for no reason." Atsuko adds with a small frown that looks more like a pout than anything.
"I have a reason! She is a Nohrian god dammit." He yells at her as she try to make herself invisible.
He then feels a hand on his shoulder, a hand belonging to the smallest girl in the room. "This is between you and I." Everyone recoil from the tone used by the surprisingly stealthy knight. "You don't have the right to be aggressive because people have a different opinion than an idiot like you." She says with an emotionless voice.
"You think a Nohrian like you can lecture me?" He stands up, trying to assert dominance.
Kamui just looks at him with a blank face. "See what I mean?"
He snarls before trying to hit the knight with a right hook, however she sidesteps effortlessly, grabs his wrist, turns around and throws the taller boy over her shoulder in one swift motion. His body makes a big crash when he hits the wooden floor after what the petite girl leans over him.
"And now, do you understand?" She asks him while everyone is taken aback by what just happened.
Seiji only grunts in response, still immobile. "That's what I thought"
The white haired boy then jumps on her back. "That was so cool! Can you please teach me what you did Miss Emiya?" He asks with shiny ruby eyes.
"Keep growing and I will, pipsqueak." Kotai pouts at her.
They then go back to eat like nothing happened as everyone is looking at the knight.
The other priests come closer to the her victim. "Seiji, you're still alive?" "We should use a rod on him." "Should will tell Guji-sama?"
"Do not worry, I saw everything." A calm voice says to the panicking priests. "Seiji." The old man turns to the orange haired boy with a disappointed look. "You are on cleaning chores for the next week." He looks at the other priests. "And nobody is allowed to help him."
The Guji then goes next to Kamui who is eating her fourth bowl of rice and bows to the surprise of everyone. "I deeply apologies for Seiji hateful attitude."
Kamui looks from over her shoulder. "Yeah. Sorry for the floor." She says like she didn't just send Seiji to Mr Sandman. "And thanks for the meal." She bows, making the priests and mikos look at her in shock. She didn't bowed when she was talking to the Guji but did when she was thanking him for the food? How unusual.
The Guji smiles at her. "I see you were able to make these beautiful outfits." He says looking at the strange design of the knight's kimono.
"Yes, thanks to Maiko we were able to do it in such a short time." Said maiden starts blushes.
"W-what?" She stammers out with a nervous smile. "I only h-helped for Kotai-kun's kimono."
"You need to give yourself more credit Maiko." The petite girl smiles at her. "This kimono is top class and I could never hope to have a better one for Kotai." The maiden's face suddenly lights up as she starts playing with her fingers.
She gets back to the Guji. "We will go tomorrow morning to the closest village." She says with a serious expression.
The old man seems to think about something before sharing his thoughts with the knight. "Maiko and Toru have to go in the village of Shirakawa in three days to get supplies, would you like to accompany them?"
Kamui thinks about it for a moment. "I don't see why we shouldn't, I will wait Guji. Thank you for everything." She bows again before going outside with the albino as Maiko follows them.
The Guji looks at Seiji. "*Sigh* What am I going to do with you?" He says in a defeated tone.