Chapter 13: Dining Out, in the Aino Minako Style
Saori strode up to the wall between two closed bedroom doors and sharply rapped her knuckles against it. "Ok guys! You can come out now!"
Both doors immediately swung open, revealing Yusei and Ryoto smartly dressed in their new suits. "Ohh! Looking really sharp! Just like movie stars!" Saori exclaimed. They descended the stairs behind the ginger-haired girl, searching anxiously for their soulmates.
"Where are our girlfriends, Saori?" Yusei asked. "I don't see them anywhere."
"They're waiting in the kitchen to make their grand entrance. I'll call them." Saori raised her voice for dramatic effect and pronounced, "Guys, it's my pleasure to reintroduce you to Nishizumi Miho and Akiyama Yukari!"
"This is their ausf.B versions" Hana giggled from the sofa.
The young Ooarai males stood waiting in eager anticipation, instantly becoming wide-eyed and awestruck as two teenage visions of loveliness emerged from the kitchen passageway. Flowing pale blue and soft pink evening gowns followed Miho and Yukari's' soft feminine curves to perfection, with their matching stiletto heels and immaculately-colored fingernails adding even more feminine accents to their elegant appearance.
Both boys uttered the names of their respective girlfriends with sharp gasps of astonishment.
"Miho darling!"
"My Yukari!"
"I think our guys approve of our new look, Nishizumi-dono!" Yukari giggled.
Miho gazed at the love of her life in his dark blue three-piece flannel suit. "And I like what I see too! A whole lot!"
"Hai, me too!" her loader beamed at her boyfriend. "You're so handsome in your suit, my Ryoto! Please hold me close!"
A moment later the two girls were tenderly embracing their boyfriends at the center of the living room as their friends looked on from the sofa.
"Miho my love... you are absolutely stunning tonight" Yusei reverently spoke. "A true goddess."
"Hontou?" his girlfriend giggled. "I'm so glad you approve, darling!"
"You look even more like a princess in that gown, my sweet" Ryoto softly murmured to his girl. "You're taking my breath away."
"I'm your princess, Ryoto" Yukari smiled at her young man. "Yours and yours alone."
"Minna, don't they make the perfect couples?" Saori exclaimed. She sniffled, "I think I'm going to cry!"
"Perhaps you should save some of those tears for their wedding day, Saori" Mako teased her friend. "This is, after all, just a dinner date."
"Hai! I just need a second to compose myself." She smiled at Yosuke and kissed his cheek. "Soon it'll be our turn to go out to our romantic dinner, darling. I hope I look even half as good as Miho and Yukari do tonight."
"I have absolutely no doubt that you will, sweetheart. None at all."
Mako walked over to the couples, handing both girls their purses. "Have a wonderful fun evening together."
'We certainly will, Mako!" her commander exclaimed. She thanked her friends, "Arigatou, minna. You helped make this moment extra special for all four of us."
Hana glanced up at the wall clock. "Your reservation in Nerima is ten minutes from now, Miho. Enjoy your dinner, and don't forget the rest of us will be dancing when you get back to the house. You should join us."
"Unless you want to skip that part of your evening and go directly upstairs!" Saori teased. "We probably will when it's Yosuke's and my turn!"
The Anglerfish commander took her boyfriend's hand in hers, the couple's fingers intertwining. "Would you escort our friends and me to the car, my Yusei?"
Her boyfriend lovingly replied, "But of course, sweetheart."
Yukari fretted, "We'd better hurry or we'll be late, Nishizumi-dono."
"Don't worry, Yukari" Miho turned to smile reassuringly at her friend. "With my new shoe on the pedal, we'll arrive at the restaurant with time to spare."
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After a brief, breathtakingly brisk drive to the upscale establishment, the two couples were quickly escorted to their reserved private rooms. The boys politely held their girlfriends' padded chairs for them until they were comfortably seated, and the tuxedo-clad maître d bowed deeply to each couple before he left, wishing them 'bon appêtit' before sliding a silk privacy curtain across both entrances.
"Usagi described the atmosphere here perfectly, my love" Miho remarked. "It's the very picture of luxury and opulance!" She noticed that the wall seperating her room from Yukari's was inlaid with a long rectangular stained-glass window, leaving a clear area just large enough to see the other couple. Yukari and Ryoto waved happily at her and her boyfriend, with Miho giggling and she and her young man returning the wave.
Yukari suddenly left her seat, hurried from her room and poked her head around one side of the closed curtain. "Nishizumi-dono, I just thought of something. If you'd like to have a glass of wine with dinner, please don't worry about getting behind the wheel afterwards. I'm only having coffee tonight, so I can drive us home."
"You wouldn't mind? That's so very kind of you, Yukari. Arigatou!"
"My pleasure!" The curly-haired girl scurried back to her seat shortly before a server arrived with their menus, happily noticing that her boyfriend was still spellbound by her appearance.
"I guess I look a lot better tonight than I do in an Ooarai school fuku, my Ryoto."
"More elegant... most definitely" he agreed with a bright smile. "But better? That would be impossible, my princess. To me, you were already perfect in every way. And nothing can improve on perfection."
Yukari's reply was spoken not with words, but by her shimmering lovestruck eyes.
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An hour later, after they had finished the final main course of their sumptuous meal, Miho and Yusei perused their dessert menus. "Usagi said this was always her favorite part of her dinners here" Miho spoke. "And seeing the pictures in this menu I can understand why. Everything looks so deliciously decadent! But... I honestly don't think I can eat another bite."
"Hai" Yusei nodded, setting his menu down. "It'd probably be best for me to skip dessert tonight too. These new pants are already feeling a touch snug after that fantastic meal."
"They are?" his girlfriend coyly asked. "Where?"
"The waistband is a little tight... oh!" he grinned. "You were thinking of... uh... somewhere else, weren't you?"
Miho surprised herself with her uncharacteristic boldness. "I was. A little lower than the waist, to be more precise."
Blushing at her own suggestive reply, she stole a glance through the dividing window seperating the two rooms, at just the right moment to see Yukari smile coyly at Ryoto and raise her right foot, extending her leg and slowly positioning the sole of her stiletto shoe high up in the gap between her boyfriend's knees. Miho quickly turned her head away, allowing her friends more privacy.
Deciding the time was right to try Minako's advice for her own tease, Miho reached into her purse and extracted her pink lighter, placing it on the table between her and Yusei. Trying to appear as sexy and alluring as she possibly could, she slowly slipped a cigarette from its pack, cradling the long slender white cylinder between two fingers with its filter poised expectantly near her soft red lips.
"Would you, darling?" she purred.
"Of course, my love." Her smiling boyfriend took the cue, happily lighting her cigarette for her.
"Arigatou, lover."
Yusei found himself strangely captivated and physically aroused by the sight of his beloved Miho as he watched her enjoy a long, decadently deep inhale.
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In the other private room, Yukari eased her foot away, grinning at the wide-eyed expression her boyfriend now wore. "Did you like that, lover?"
"Hai. Very very much" he blushed. "Yukari honey, that was so hot! You really know how to turn a guy on!"
"I thought you'd enjoy it. I did too!" she giggled, thinking 'Minako was even right about footsie!' The Anglerfish loader again briefly glanced through the window, watching her Sensha-do commander finish her tease with a slow, sensuous exhale in her boyfriend's face, causing Yusei to promptly snatch his napkin from the table and drop it onto the prominent bulge beneath the zipper of his pants.
Yukari turned away from the glass, giggling.
"Is something funny happening in the other room, my love?"
"I wouldn't call it funny, Ryoto. I guess one way to describe it would be..." she giggled again, "... my Panzer's commander just employed another fun tactic to elevate her boyfriend's gun into firing position!"
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Miho smiled, "Hiding something, my Yusei?"
"Uh... hai" her boyfriend blushed. "My pants are even tighter now. Below the waist this time." Yusei murmured, "Miho my love, that was so incredibly erotic-" He quickly became silent, blushing even more deeply when their server abruptly reappeared at their table and bowed to them.
"Have you decided on dessert?" the young woman asked the couple. "Our signature dish, Japanese cheesecake, is always highly recommended by our regular patrons."
"I think we'll both pass on dessert tonight" Miho spoke after sipping her wine. "But would you mind refilling my lover's coffee? He's nearly out."
"Certainly, madam. I'll be back in a moment with a fresh pot."
After the server had bowed and left, Yusei gasped, "Do you think she noticed?"
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