It's almost Halloween as the group takes to the city in the same flashy store where they went to when they wanted to help out with Hinawa's image and to ultimately fail. As a group, it was more like Shinra, Iris, and Tamaki. The others were preoccupied with decorating the fire station while Shinra's team was in charge of costumes in which he was totally against since he experienced first hand how bad the two girls' fashion sense was. It would've been worse if Maki came along, but that wasn't the case since she was at least aware of her lack of style.
Shinra was engaged in looking at flimsy tin helmets of the knight variety clearly set on what to get Arthur, and right next to it, and few tall, pointed hats for the company's own witch, Maki. Picking a few costumes to go with the headwear for the cart, Shinra moves to see what the other two up to.
"Shinra-kun, what do you think about this monkey costume? Isn't it cute?" Iris holds up an intimidating gorilla mask with sparkling eyes.
"I-Is that for the captain?"
"No, it's for Maki!"
"Maybe, this witch costume would suit her better. I mean she already has the gimmick, right?"
Iris pouts in defeat and accepts his suggestion in which Shinra lets out a deep sigh of relief thinking about the chaos that would've been unleashed if they went with the gorilla mask. Tamaki comes out of nowhere with a pair of glasses with a giant eyeball in the center of it.
"Oi, Shinra. Wouldn't this cool on Maki!?"
"Hey, are you doing this on purpose? How about you two find something for yourselves and I'll focus on the company's costumes." Shinra sternly tells them, wanting to avoid getting killed.
"Hmph! What's your problem? We're just trying to help." Tamaki spits fire at him.
"I won't take the fall for you again. A hero might sacrifice himself for his friends, but those pay cuts I suffer from your decisions are too much. Who paints the Matchbox pink and adds eyelashes to the headlights! Stop throwing me under the bus!" Shinra yells, pinching Tamaki's cheeks.
"Calm down, Shinra-kun. She was just trying to help."Iris drops in.
"You're guilty too, Iris. I looked towards you and you turned your head away. The betrayal." Shinra says with a tear in his eye, remembering all the times Iris broke eye contact to avoid punishment.
Iris and Tamaki retreat to the costume rack to try on costumes as Shinra returned to scoping out some more for the rest of the squad. It wasn't long before Shinra grabbed a few more costumes to put in the cart before rolling up to the changing rooms where he caught a glimpse of Tamaki walking in with clothes in hand.
"Hey Tamaki, don't spend too much time trying out costumes. We still need to help with the decorations back at the station." Shinra calls out through the curtain.
"Don't just randomly talk to me when I'm changing. Gross." Tamaki responds as she sticks her face out.
Shinra grunts at the comment and obediently stands by the cart when suddenly a large mascot mask plops over his head. The mask was cartoonishly big, but light for Shinra to quickly turn to see the culprit.
"It looks cuter than I thought." Iris says with a gentle smile causing Shinra's cheeks to flare up.
"R-really?"
"Yeah, Maki-san was right about Mamoru-kun being oddly adorable."
"Eh." Shinra's grin quickly turns into a frown at the realization.
"Ha Ha Ha! That suits you well, Shinra!" Tamaki hollers as she pops her head out from behind the dressing curtain again. A gust of wind blows through the store, lifting the curtain exposing Tamaki's underwear in which she slams the curtain close with haste.
Shira gets irritated, but Iris was quick to calm him down and eventually convince him to wear the rest of the attire which consisted of a fireman suit. As Shinra adjusts his suit in the fitting room, he looks in aversion to the old man mask sitting on the bench in front of him. After letting out another sign, he reaches out to grab it but is suddenly startled when he feels two bodies press up against him.
"O-oi, I'm still changing!" Shinra yelps, jumping forward and spinning around.
"Stop being a sour puss, nyan."
"C-come on, Shinra-kun, w-wan."
"Wan?... Nyan?...!" Shinra repeats the odd sounds that were emitted from his colleagues to find Tamaki in similar firefighter gear, but instead of a mask, she wore a helmet with white cat ears on top and the number 9 on the front. On the other hand,Iris wore a helmet with dog ears and the number 1 just like his.
"Hee Hee. Cute right? I think going as Wan Wan Nyain would be a great idea for us." Tamaki says as corning Shinra who fell on the bench.
"I-I guess it's cute, but can't you zip up your suit, you're bra is showing." Shinra mummers, trying to reach up and zip up her suit. Tamaki grabs his hands in retaliation.
"But what about you, Shinra-kun, don't you think this is a splendid idea for the party... My suit might be a little tight." Iris says walking closer to the pair.
During his fight with Tamaki, Shinra was, without question, in agreement with the idea, in fact, the two were adorable when donning the animal ears. He was just annoyed with his situation where he's Mamoru, why couldn't he just wear a dog helmet too? Shinra was deep in thought with his eyes closed, then breaks concentration when he suddenly feels warm, soft bodies on each leg.
"Answer the question nyan. Are we cute or nyant?" Tamaki asks in an undertone, pawing at him.
"U-Umm. Calm down, Tamaki, we're in a public store right now." Shinra hisses, getting flustered as she licks his neck and places his hand on her lower back.
"Sorry, Shinra-kun, It's very rare for us to be alone like this since we've been busy with work... also wan wan." Iris whines, perturbed, locking lips with Shinra before he could protest and guiding his hand into her suit.
Shinra was used to situations like this since they often do these things late at night back at the station or when baptizing weapons at the church where they were left alone, but he was in a panic as these two were unmindful of the strangers shopping for costumes behind the curtains. As much as he enjoyed Iris' sweet kiss, he attempts to break away. Tamaki sensing this quickly takes action, getting up and removing her clothes aside from the helmet before anchoring herself back on his leg.
"Damn it, Tamaki. Put your clothes back on. We only have an hour to get back." Shinra manages to says after breaking away from Iris' embrace as she begins to lick the other side of his neck.
"Then shut up and man up. For a hero, you seem pretty weak."
"Don't be mean, Tamaki-chan. We are being selfish." Iris words out between light nibbles, slowing sliding a hand into his suit.
"... A-Alright, fine." Yells out in an embarrassed tone, feeling defeated, sheepish, and amorous. Shinra pounces on the two causing a yelp to escape the two.
After 30 minutes of muffled moans and soft thumping sounds exuding from behind the curtain, an employee walks by to check on the three, unaware of Shinra.
"Um, miss is everything alright?"
"Y-Yes, Everything is f-fine. We're just about t-to w-wrap things up." Tamaki answers with only her face showing, ensuring the employee didn't see her naked form shaking as well as Iris covering her mouth with both hands to keep in the barks as Shinra goes down on her with full force, gritting his teeth.
"If this is your cart, we can go ahead and ringed it up."
"T-Then let's do t-that. We have costumes picked out t-too. S-so we'll be at the counter sooooon. Ah!" Tamaki yelps again, eyes rolling back, but quickly recovers.
"A-As I was saying we'll be o-out soon."
"Very well." And with that, the employee pushes their cart to register.
As for Tamaki, she is suddenly lifted back against Shinra who turns her head towards him for another kiss. Aside from Tamaki feeling him inside her, she could see the remains of Iris whose body was sprawled on the bench with a dazed expression on her face.
"You're definitely a devil." Tamaki whispers after breaking away.
10 minutes later, Shinra appears in front of the cash register with his costume on with Mamoru's mask under his arm while Iris and Tamaki with hazy expressions stood behind him with their costumes on as well.
"Did you find everything you needed?" the employee asks.
"We did we did." Shinra answers quickly paying for the costumes.
After the awkward silence, they finally exit the store and went back to the station with haste.
"J-Just so you know, a-all that h-happened because of my Lucky-Leecher." Tamaki expresses herself, looking away with rosy cheeks.
"What about all the other times?" Shinra asks with a sweatdrop then feels Tamaki kick him on the backside.
"Calm down, Tamaki-chan. We all felt good right? Plus I think we've been deepening our connection quite well." Iris claims as if it obvious, showing off a victory pose.
"He was pretty deep in you." Tamaki jokingly says then is surprised by Iris' barrage of pokes.
Shinra feels his cheeks heat up from how indecent these two were acting, so he kept quiet until they reached the station where the Halloween decor was finished. Shinra was wearing his Mamoru mask in which Maki runs to them with sparkling eyes as she witnesses the trio dressed up as Wan Wan Nyain. As the others began to sport their own get-ups, Vulcan starting taking pictures of Shinra with a girl in each arm then moved on to the others who appreciated the costumes choices. As much as some of them wanted the show their thanks, the three were already gone.