-Tsubasa's POV-

I smile softly as Ayako walks through the portal which I promptly close after her. "Good morning Kurumin, you don't have to stay hidden you know." I purr as I collect the dishes and walk them to the sink.

"Hmhm, good morning Tsubasa. Guess I couldn't hide from you could I?" Kurumi chuckles as she emerges from the shadows.

I start rinsing them slowly, not bothering to turn and greet her. "You've never been able to hide from me and my eyes Kurumin, you know that." I chuckle.

"Oh I know." I hear her sit down at the table while I keep working. "Ayako really loves you doesn't she." She comments.

"Yes, she's a cute little brat. I always knew since she woke up that she loved me like this, but if you asked me a year ago if I thought she would win me over I would've told you no." I pause as I put another dish away. "And if you had asked me if I thought I would be in love with the two most beautiful girls in the world I would have definitely called you a liar, but here we are."

"Aww you think I'm beautiful?" She teases playfully. "Still, it's nice to hear you say that you love us both. I know you do, but you only really say it in the heat of the moment. Sometimes you should make sure you say it to Ayako, not in a sisterly way, but in a lover kinda way, just so she gets the message."

"Since when did you care about Ayako so much?" I ask her.

"Do you ever wonder what would've happened if we had gone through with our fight?" She asks, changing the subject suddenly.

"That certainly came out of nowhere." I continue working on the dishes. "I don't think it would have played out any differently than it actually did."

"Really? You think we would have had the same relationship even if we had tried to kill each other that night?" She asks with a laugh.

"Oh Kurumin, I would never try to kill you." I put the last dish away and turns to her, smiling. "I think it would've gone exactly the same way it did whether you attacked me or not. One way or another we would have ended up here. Someone as alluring as you, there is no way I would have let you slip away from me." I pull her into a seat with me, making her straddle my lap and pull her into a kiss.

She kisses me back happily, slipping her arms around my neck as she pulls me in deeper to the kiss. I hug her back, slipping my arms around her waist and pressing her close against me. "Mmm, you're quite affectionate today aren't you." She licks her lips and smirks at me.

"Aren't I always?" I ask her, grinning at her cheekily while I stroke her back lovingly. I lean in and kiss her neck, sucking on it and earning a sweet groan in response. "So out with it Kurumin, what's the purpose of your visit today?" I nuzzle against her, pressing her firmly against me.

"Do I need a reason to visit my girlfriend?" She groans softly and hugs me tighter and I can't help but smile.

"Of course you don't, you're welcome here anytime. In fact," I bite her ear, earning an adorable yelp from her. "When are you going to move in with us Kurumin?" I ask her softly and she shivers as my warm breath washes over her skin.

"We already talked about this Tsubasa." She responds. I lean back a moment and kiss her again.

"We may have talked about it, but that doesn't mean I liked your answer." I tell her after breaking the kiss. "Come on Kurumin, come live with us."

She bites her lip and sighs. "I already said I like being able to come and go whenever I please. I may love you but I don't want to be tied down."

"And I said that's bullshit." I cup her face. "You belong with us Kurumin, I understand it's not something you are used to, but don't forget your home is with us now. So why not move in? I'll never stop you from traveling if that's what you want."

Kurumi sighs softly and rests her head on my shoulder, hugging me tightly. "I'll think about it." She mumbles.

"Thank you." I hug her warmly. "Now then, why did you come today? We both know it's for more than a cuddling session."

"DEM seems to be making moves." She says, leaning back with a serious look on her face. "I'm not entirely sure what their goal is but most likely it's Shido. I figured I better let you know."

"Right, thanks for keeping an eye on them for me. I have a business meeting soon but I'll be sure to watch them when I can, what are you going to do?"

"Well I'm currently with Ayako, I figured it would be best if I stayed near all the Spirits and Shido just in case they could use some help."

"Aww you and Ayako gonna go on a little date at the fair? I hope you two have a lot of fun." Kurumi blushes and sputters in embarrassment. "Make sure you don't tease her too much, I want my two girls to get closer to one another and you tend to get just a little aggressive with your teasing toward Ayako." I chide her gently.

"It's not a date Tsubasa! I'm just going to have her show me around so I get the layout of the fair. If she asks me to stick around because she is lonely I MIGHT consider sticking around, if I'm bored." She shoots back, glaring at me.

Tsundere Kurumin is just as adorable as I thought. I smirk to myself and kiss her one last time. "Whatever you say, Kurumin." I stand her up. "I have to go to my meeting with Ratatoskr now, you and Ayako have fun. Oh and let her know I will be giving her a call later so she can give some details over her VR project."

"Alright, good luck with your meeting." Kurumi says as she starts to melt into the shadows.

I smirk at her. "You know me better than that Kurumin, I don't need luck." I head to my room and quickly finish getting ready for work. So DEM is finally moving in force against Ratatoskr again. Hopefully this turns out like it did with the Yamai sister, but if not they have Ayako and Kurumi there for back so they should be fine. Ayako and Kurumi can take care of themselves so I don't have anything to worry about.

"Good morning Miss Tenshima." My new secretary says as I walk into the office. "Today all you have planned is a business meeting with Ratatoskr, you never gave me any notes on the meeting other than the day and time." She finishes apologetically.

"It's alright, it's still an experimental deal that I am working on personally. Until the project is complete, it's on the highest secrecy level, only me and my head developer know about it, so don't feel bad for not having any notes to help out, I appreciate the thought." I flash her a smile.

"Of course ma'am, is there anything I can get you before the meeting?" She asks earnestly but I decline.

"Thanks but I already had breakfast with my sister, I'll be fine for now. Please let everyone know I will be dealing with this today and after I'll be heading home. I'm not doing any extra work and no more meetings today." I inform her as I walk past her desk toward my private office.

"Yes, of course ma'am, I'll send an email out to everyone." She replies and turns back to her computer.

So glad I got her to replace the last secretary, Ayako was totally right, she needed to go. I muse to myself. Not that I'll ever tell her she was right on that. Can't let her think she is a better judge of character then her big sister.

I lock my office and sit down at my desk to check my mail before the meeting. I quickly sort through my emails and send replies as needed until my desk phone rings. "Miss Tenshima, Ratatoskr's Kyouhei Kannazuki is on the phone, they are ready to begin the meeting if you are available."

"Go ahead and patch him through, thank you." There is a slight pause on the line before the transfer clicks through. "Good morning Kannazuki, I hope you are doing well today."

"Good morning Miss Tenshima, are you ready for the meeting?" He asks politely.

"Of course, I've been waiting on you to begin, beam me up Scotty." I chuckle at my own joke.

"At once." I wait for a moment before the room around me shifts and Kannazuki is standing in front of me. "Welcome back aboard the Fraxinus Miss Tenshima."

"Please Kannazuki, when I'm not in the office you can call me Tsubasa, we've worked together enough to be that familiar with one another can't we? Now then, is the meeting on the bridge or are we going to a meeting room today?" I ask.

"You told me this was a private venture so we will go to a meeting room this time, only you, myself, Kotori, and Miss Reine will be in the meeting." He informs me. "Shall we?"

I follow Kannazuki to a small comfortable room where Kotori and Reine were already waiting with a small spread of drinks. I quirk a smile and pour myself a fresh cup of coffee before sitting down. "I appreciate the drink, coffee always makes meetings more enjoyable." I say thankfully as I sip it. "Mm, and you choose some very high quality beans too."

"Yes, well we know about your love of coffee, so we prepared some Black Ivory Coffee for this meeting." Reine comments as she starts putting way to many sugar cubes into her cup of coffee.

"You certainly know how to treat a girl." I smirk as I take another sip. "So then, shall we begin the meeting?" I set my cup down and look at the three of them sitting across from me.

"Yes I suppose we should begin, I must say I'm quite interested in what you have for us today." Kotori says smoothly, not bothering to touch the bitter and strong smelling coffee, instead opting for hot chocolate. "You never gave us any details other than 'it will revolutionize gaming'. So what's your new business proposition?"

"Let me start from the top and I'll explain everything. I will also be calling Ayako at some point to go into more detail on the matter in question because, I have to admit, this project of hers is completely beyond me." I confess, earning a surprised look from Kannazuki.

"Interesting, for someone who is the CEO for a major gaming company and hardware developer, it must be something very unique if you know so little about it." He comments.

"Right then, for the past several months Ayako has been working on a new project in her workshop at home. I'll admit it wasn't until recently that I learned of it myself, she apparently wanted to leave it as a surprise, but she tends to have problems keeping secrets from me." I smile cheekily. I clear my throat. "Pardon me, I suppose that doesn't matter."

"It's alright, being a younger sibling I understand, older siblings always seem to sniff out anything odd the younger one is doing." Kotori says with a sigh.

"It's a gift. Back on topic though. Ayako has been working on a new VR headset and software." I finally state.

"Miss Tenshima, obviously Ayako is brilliant at what she does, but VR is already deeply invested in industry, you'll have to give us some details on why this is any different from any other VR sets." Reine says, looking at Tsubasa seriously.

"Of course, VR is a heavily oversaturated market. It's been at the forefront of gaming for years now and it has only gotten better as time goes on." I agree.

"However, you wouldn't have come here if it was JUST normal VR, am I right?" Kotori asks slyly.

"Ayako has been working on a Full Dive VR headset and software." I finally announce. "She has already finished the custom headset for the Full Dive system and is currently working on programing the world she is going to use as the base for all her work."

"You're kidding right? Full Dive isn't possible, it's science fiction." Kannazuki says in disbelief.

"Like Reine said, Ayako is brilliant. She still has a bit to go before the system is done but she works on it every weekend and when she isn't busy with school and other activities." I tell them.

"How safe will this be? Obviously most instances of full dive come from manga or movies, but in them are some pretty valid fears, like how will it affect the physical body." Reine points out.

"Or getting stuck in the game." Kotori adds.

"Ayako has assured me we don't have to worry about those problems. However, I'm sure you want more than my side for it, so I've informed Ayako that we might be calling her today for more information on her full dive set, shall we call her?" I wait for them all to agree and give Ayako a call.

"Hey Onee-san, is it already time for me to join the meeting?" Her voice chirps over the phone.

"Yea, do you have a few minutes?" I ask her.

"No problem, let me find a quiet room." I wait as she puts us on hold and looks for a quiet place to talk about the project. "Alright what am I starting with first?"

"Hi Ayako, before we start I just want to confirm, are you serious? You've actually figured out how to create a full dive environment for gaming?" Kotori asks.

"It wasn't easy, I'm still working on getting the program up and running, but once I finish the base programming andthe world programming, I'll have finished the first full dive environment." She confirms and I can't help but smile in pride.

"So you are certain it can be done then." She says quietly. "Alright then most of our questions are about the security and safety of this system."

"Of course they are. This is something that has never been done before, if you weren't worried about safety I'd be worried." She chuckles over the phone. "First of all let me assure you anything you see if manga is completely fiction, even if I altered the program while players are inside the system it shouldn't do anything to them, there is no way that just the program could trap them in the game." She starts off assuring that those kinds of options aren't even possible. "The largest issues that could happen would be things like account theft and hacking, such as stealing money from peoples accounts, identity theft, standard hacking stuff."

"You say standard hacking, but that stuff is still pretty bad Ayako, how do you plan on stopping those kinds of activities?" Reine asks.

"I don't have too. The code I'm writing isn't like any other code made right now. I'm confident it would take a supercomputer years to even be able to crack into the system. On top of that, by the time this is ready to be mass produced the program will be much more complex and harder to crack. The biggest issue for this system are running into would-be bugs in the code, however I have already written a program into the base code to alert me anytime a bug is created or found so that I can fix it."

"So what you're saying is there's virtually no worries when it comes to user safety. That does sound very intriguing, but I have to ask, why come to us over this?" Kotori asks after Ayako finishes her explanation.

"I'm glad you asked." I draw their attention to me. "I had the idea that this could be used for training for Shido. It would make an excellent simulated environment for him to practice in, as well as a perfect testing ground for the full dive system."

"Hmm, you aren't wrong, it does sound like an interesting idea." Kotori agrees hesitantly.

"There is actually more to it than just Shido testing it actually." Ayako cuts in. "I remember a conversation once where you were talking about upgrading Fraxinus at some point, so I had an idea about that. See, to help manage the virtual world I'm building, I'm also working on an AI for it, something to help handle maintenance and once bugs find their way into the system and I fix them the system will learn how to take care of similar issues as well. I was thinking I could integrate the AI into Fraxinus' systems to help improve its performance."

Damn Ayako, clever girl. You didn't tell me anything about this. I think I'll have to give her a nice reward for this idea, it'll really help seal the deal. I try to hold back my own surprise as the 3 heads of Fraxinus look at one another.

"To be honest, that's an excellent idea Ayako. How long would you need to complete everything you are working on?" Kotori finally asks.

"Hmm, good question. It'll still be awhile unfortunately. I need to finish the base version and make sure I can get into it, then from inside the system I will copy it and edit it to make it game worthy, and then I will create a more solid headset version that's a bit less clucky. So probably a few months at best." She finally says after a bit of contemplation.

"So do we have a deal?" I ask them finally as they look between one another.

"Alright, we didn't have any plans to do the upgrade anytime soon." Kotori finally agrees. I reach out and shake her hand, a cool smile on my face.

"I'll make sure to provide you with updates as Ayako continues her work. You hear that Ayako, no more secrets, this is an official project so you rope me on everything you do." I direct my comment to her and I'm rewarded with a groan.

"Yes Onee-sama…" She says with a sigh.

"Alright Kotori, Kannazuki, Reine I think everything is done here." I tell them and stand up. Everyone follows suit and I shake Kotori's hand once again. "Kannazuki would you mind showing me out? I can't imagine you have much extra time to entertain me, so please return me to my office so we can both continue with our work."

"Of course, please follow me." I bid Kotori and Reine goodbye and follow Kannazuki back to the teleportation room. "As always, it was a pleasure to see you Tsubasa." He offers his hand and I shake it, a smile on my face.

"Can't say the same thing back, but it's always a pleasure working with you." I respond before stepping into the teleporter and returning to my office.

"Um, Onee-sama is there a reason you didn't hang up on me yet?" Ayako finally asks as I return to my office.

"I just wanted to make sure you know I'm going to reward you for your hard work today." I let her know, my voice slipping into a soft purr. "You never told me about your AI idea. I'll be honest I think it was that little addition that pushed them to accept that deal."

"Aww thanks, I totally forgot to mention it to you, so I brought it up." I can hear the proud smile in her voice.

"You did great Ayako, when we have some free time I'm gonna treat you real good." I purr to her and picture her shivering in desire. "Go enjoy your festival. I'll see you when I get home, my little Aya." I say in a sultry tone before hanging up the phone. I certainly hope she brought some extra panties, because if that didn't get her excited I'll be more than a little disappointed in myself.

"How was the meeting Miss Tenshima?" My secretary asks as I walk down the hall from my office.

"It went perfectly, thank you. Once this project is complete and ready to be mass produced we will be years ahead of our competitors. Now I'll be heading home, have a good day." I head out of my office and start making my way home.

Hmm, I think some food is in order. I think to myself. I stop at a nice little cafe on my way home and order an omelette. After the quick meal, I take some time to run to the store and pick up groceries for dinner for the next few days and warp myself back home to put everything away.

I drop the groceries off in the kitchen, putting them away quickly before heading back to my room to undress. I strip down my underwear and flop down on the bed with a groan. I think I'll take a nap, I rarely get time to nap or do anything like that. I scoot up and flop my head down on my pillow and close my eyes trying to drift off. I toss and turn for a few minutes before opening my eyes again. Geez… I roll over and grab Ayako's pillow and hug it tightly and close my eyes again. Guess she isn't the only one that has gotten more clingy. The thought floats through my head as I finally doze off, cuddling Ayako's pillow.

I groan softly as I hear my phone go off. I don't remember setting an alarm. I roll over and grab my phone to check my messages, only to sit up a moment later. Head downstairs, throwing on some sweats and a tank top and powering the TV on. On the news channel they are warning putting up a warning to stay indoors as a mob has been moving about the city centered around the exhibition hall.

I know she's fine, Ayako can take care of herself, but I am worried about the fact she hasn't even messaged me with all this going on. I start looking through the convention center until I finally find her in a room with her favorite idol Miku. At least she is ok. I let out a sigh of relief. Something is definitely off, but she's ok so for now I'll just keep an eye on her. I grab my phone as it goes off again and open a message from Kurumi.

I narrow my eyes as I read her message. "Westscott's made his move."