It was night at the naval base of the Sakura Empire. Only the moon shone brightly upon the shipgirls patrolling the port and nearby waters to alert the fleet in case of an attack by the Azur Lane. Everyone inside the base was vast asleep. Shikikan however was awake and sneaking through the halls of the base, his heart racing as if it was about to jump out of his chest. In spite of his normally calm and level headed nature he felt uneasy and as if being seen now would destroy his reputation. He was headed towards Akagi's room as she was one of the girls on patrol and likely not around the base for a few more hours.
...what he was about to do felt shameful, but he couldn't stop the feeling of excitement coursing through his body when thinking about it. He walked through the dining hall, weary of every sound, even the sound of the waves crashing against the walls of the docks.
Walking through the corridor he felt a shiver running down his spine. Why was he so scared and excited? It was only clothing, wasn't it? Finally he arrived at the corridor with the doors to the shipgirls rooms. No sound but the distant waves and the faint snoring of one of the girls. His heart raced as he looked at the metal plates next to the doors in search for Akagi's room.
There it was.
He looked at the door, his heart racing, making him feel slightly nauseous. Why, why did this feel so overwhelmingly complicated, scary but also exciting?!
With his hands shaking he fumbled out the general key he had that allowed him entrance into every room of the naval base. Slowly and careful not to make too much noise he inserted the key and opened the door, millimeter by millimeter until it was just open enough for him to slip into the foxgirl's room. He shut the door in the same careful, slow manner as he opened it. His body was now shaking because he was so overwhelmingly nervous.
As he stood inside Akagi's room he could smell green tea and something else he couldn't quite make out. Perhaps it was how Akagi smelled, but he had never been so close to her body that he could say for sure. He looked around: the small room was cosy and kept in a style traditional for the Sakura Empire. The middle of the room featured a small wooden desk with seating cushions around it and the futon lay next to the window allowing moonlight to shine onto its blue fabric.
Aside from that a simple desk with a chair in front of it and some papers and a lamp on it were the only furniture in the room. The walls were adorned by a few scrolls with prayers on them.
Then he saw it: the wardrobe was integrated into the right wall, separated from the simple room by a sliding door. Carefully, his whole body trembling he opened the wardrobe and looked inside:
A second pair of sandals stood on the floor and above it a few of her brown overcoats adorned with golden threads hung next to her white tops with slight golden borders and a big dark belt. He opened a drawer and inside were multiple pairs of dark brown thigh high socks. He took out a pair and was surprised at how silky they were. He admittedly had glanced at Akagi's legs a few times but he never thought about how comfortable those really must be. Then he noticed that the drawer also contained a few dark red panties. A shiver ran through his body. Was it truly alright to take those? He felt like an incredible pervert. Taking a deep breath he quickly grabbed a pair and closed the drawer.
Opening the next he saw two pleated red skirts.
His body trembled from nervousness. But he couldn't stop. Now that he had seen Akagi's clothing before him he knew that he had to take it. Slowly Shikikan undressed himself, putting his clothing onto the ground before grabbing the pair of crimson panties again and looking at them. If he did this there was no going back he knew that, but was at the same time scared of not liking it as much as he hoped he would. Taking deep breaths in the hopeless attempt to calm his nerves the brown haired Commander put the delicate underwear on and felt his penis bulging in it, giving him a sickening feeling of perversion that he hated. But he needed to continue because he wanted to know what Akagi's clothing, no a woman's clothing felt like. He sat down on the tatami flooring and slipped his foot into the sock and pulled it up. It felt good in a sense he couldn't describe. It felt like scratching an urge hidden in the deepest depths of his mind. He repeated the process with his other leg and felt the silky material clinging to his legs. This definitively felt good.
Next he grabbed one of the skirts before closing the drawer and putting it on. Much to his surprise he noticed that the skirt was supposed to start at the waist and not at the hip.
Then he grabbed a white top and pulled it over his head. The way it clung to his body was unusual but felt good beyond comparison. Last but not least he took one of the brown overcoats and couldn't help but smell it. He pressed his nose onto the fabric and took in its comforting scent.
Yes, this was probably how Akagi smelled up close.
Suddenly the room lit up: Akagi had entered the room and lit one of her paper planes ablaze, illuminating the room softly. A shock ran through Shikikan's body, paralysing him and leaving him defenseless. Akagi looked at him, her face as if she had returned to a pleasant surprise.
"Did you desire Akagi so much that you needed to sneak into my room and smell my clothing Commander~?" He was scared. He didn't want her to think he was a pervert who was aroused by wearing her clothing. "I… Akagi… it's not what it looks like… I-" He was cut short by the fox eared woman softly hugging him from behind. "Then what is it~? Tell me what you want and I'll do everything for you…" "It's… I… I don't know… I've been wanting to try on a woman's clothing for so long… And I knew you were gone and… I just couldn't hold myself back and it feels so good…". Tears began to drip down Shikikan's cheeks from feeling so many overwhelming things at once. A slight chuckle escaped Akagi's mouth as she hugged him closely, giving him a weird comfort amidst this raging storms of emotions. "It's okay. I'm happy that you are doing it with my clothing. Let me teach you how I dress.". His strength had left his body with his tears and so he didn't resist against Akagi taking off the top he wore and slipping a brown bra over his chest, carefully closing it behind his back and then putting the top back on. After that she helped him to slip into the overcoat and placed the spare pair of sandals on the ground for him to put on. To finish the outfit Akagi handed him a pair of her gloves into which he slipped his trembling hands.
His mind was a jumbled mess of emotions, but something deep inside of him felt warm in a sense he had never felt before.
The fox eared woman hugged him closely and he could both feel her skin rub onto his and smell the warm comforting scent of her body that now also clung to his body thanks to her clothing. He didn't know what to say. His mind seemed to have been overloaded with so much fear, nervousness and shame but also an intense feeling of warmth and comfort that he had lost the ability to properly express himself. For a second Akagi left his side to slide away another part of the wardrobe door to reveal a full body mirror. Shikikan looked at her reflection through the thick haze of tears and felt like she saw a person she could accept in the mirror for the very fist time in her life. It felt so overwhelming and she couldn't help but continue to sob as Akagi embraced her tightly, filling her with a formerly unknown sense of love and warmth that seemed to melt through her last mental barriers. "Akagi… I… I… what is this feeling? I… I…" "It's okay. I love you. Nothing will ever be able to change that.", the fox eared woman whispered into the crying Commander's ear.
For a long time the two of them just stood there, Shikikan in Akagi's embrace and neither of them said a word. As the tears subsided and slowly became hickups the foxgirl broke the hug and instead put her arm and the Commander's shoulder and guided her to the futon underneath the moonlight.
"How about you spend the night here with me? I want to be as close to you as I can."
Amidst her tears Shikikan nodded and slipped out of the red sandals and into Akagi's futon. The fox eared woman did the same and hugged the Commander closely again. Her warmth and scent and the feeling of comfort flooded Shikikan's mind and filled her with a heavy drowsiness as she hadn't cried in years. As her vision grew dark she heard Akagi whisper: "Akagi loves you with all her heart, no matter who you are…".