Walking down the streets of Japan or more specifically Asaka, Saitama was a man with a unique shade of auburn hair, whether it was dyed or natural was up for debate. But as ordinary he looked; he was their target of interest. Each member of M.O.N. was on standby, ready to act as soon as needed.
Doppel the infiltrator of the team as well as shapeshifter was in the disguised herself as a regular human as she cautiously tailed behind the man keeping herself a moderate distance away, not too close and not too far.
Zombina like the name references is a zombie or an undead as well as the team's commando and unlike Doppel, she wasn't suited for spying on people or blending in with the masses as well as Doppel so she alongside another member of M.O.N. were on standby as they waited patiently.
Tionishia, an ogre, was that other member. She was tall, far too tall for the operation and stood out far too much but if anything went awry, she served as the brawns of the group since she was unmatched.
And the last member was Manaka, a monoeye who served as the team's sniper and because of her vision, she like the other members was unmatched in their specific role.
So as Manaka looked down the barrel of her scopeless sniper she hovered it above her target, but her finger was off of the trigger preventing any unfortunate accident, but she couldn't help but gulp. M.O.N. was meant to deal with "monsters" who exploited the Interspecies Protection Acts so their usually target was always Liminals. And their target this time around was a human, at least one that looked remarkably close to a human.
"Smith! Why are we stalking some human stranger? We've been doing this for days!" Zombina openly complained and Manaka heard her as well as the other members because of their earpieces.
"You don't know?" Smith is the liaison and leader of M.O.N. and as she responded her voice sounded as baffled as baffled can be.
"I've been sitting in this car with nothing to do, of course I don't know!" It didn't need to be said that Zombina wasn't the only one who didn't know why they were following the auburn-haired man.
"Well, he looked interesting."
"..." Zombina's response was silent, something unusual for the zombie.
"Z-Zombina, calm down!" Tionishia though was Heard and everyone else could already guess what was happening.
"I'm going to approach him." And by the tone of Doppel's voice she shared the same frustration as Zombina. Manaka herself was getting curious but maybe not frustrated as their other two memebers. They still didn't know anything about the target and didn't even have a name on him. The only thing they learned through their endeavors of stalking was his appearance and his habits but even then, they didn't get much.
Doppel, true to her word, had approached the man and started a conversation. From her perch on top of a building she could easily see that it seemed to be going well as Doppel, in her persona of a Highschool girl during her last year, repeatedly bowed. The man seemed to be in thought and with a nod of his head and the movement of his lip Doppel's plan, whatever it was, had been successful.
Doppel quickly evacuated the area making sure cheer all the while and once she entered an alleyway her persona slipped off and had unmuted herself. It was a handy feature though Manaka barely used it.
Finally unmuting herself Doppel's answer shocked all of them, "I've got myself a date tomorrow."
When Doppel said she had a date tomorrow, the members of M.O.N. were of course shocked, even Doppel herself was shocked. She was normally patient, at least during missions so when they've been following a guy for nearly a week with no reason why and barely got anything good out of it, she had finally cracked.
Doppel was just glad that she didn't get an earful out from Smith but trading one evil for another, she was getting an earful from Tionishia, Manaka, and Zombina. She couldn't tell if it was that the mission may finally be coming to a close or if it was for the date, if it was didn't, they remember she could just shift into another form along with the clothes?
Due to her hastily made plan which wasn't a plan at all but in fact something made on the go, the moment of her date had finally arrived. Arriving at the location that the two of them would meet up, she found herself in a park with a fountain in it which made for a nice view and overall decoration.
She was pleasantly surprised to find him waiting for her and smiled upon seeing her.
"Alright Doppel, like any hot-blooded young man in his youth be careful not to get yourself 'accidentally' groped. Wait, forget what I said and do that so we can get more information out of him but don't shift the topic to suddenly." And muted. She didn't want to hear any more of Smith's rambling especially if it was getting herself groped.
"Yuri-san, it's good to see you." The man, that they finally identified as Shirou Emiya greeted her. She was frustrated that all it took was one conversation just to find out his name, how didn't they know it any ways?
Her name for this persona was Tamiko Yuri, and like the horny- youthful, yes, like any youthful person in love she insisted on Emiya calling her by her given name. With a mental crack of her fingers, it was time to fully become Yuri Tamiko and not Doppel. Though Yuri didn't exist, probably.
"S-Shirou-kun, thank you accepting me!" She bashfully told him blushing all the while, nailed it.
Unlike what she had expected there was no embarrassment or even an ounce of nervousness, just him letting out a chuckle, "Don't worry about it, I couldn't say no."
Her small attempt at charming him failed spectacularly so she allowed her eyes to roam his body. He definitely wasn't a sight for sore eyes that much she was sure of especially with the way his exotic amber eyes looked at her and it wasn't lustful, just happy to see her. Today he wore a black jacket with a scarf along his neck to protect himself from the cold and wore jeans and shoes, overall, pretty basic but it wasn't like they were going to any high-end place. But curious of all was a bag, did people bring bags to dates?
She, on the other hand wore a biege skirt that just barely reached her knees with black stockings and a comfortable black sweater that would warm her upper body for this cold day. Not to brag but she was good looking, good enough to draw a few eyes her way.
A particular cold wind blew and she visible shivered only to find a warm and comfortable scarf wrapped around her, "Should've worn something more appropriate for the weather huh? This should help you." Yuri blushed as well as laughed at the quip.
Doppel now just needed to recall the planned events that everyone made, first thing to do was find the coffee shop and get a light meal then see if she could scrounge anything from small talk. The first step of the plan was easy enough, so Yuri grabbed Shirou's hand and her date quickly found himself being dragged. Not to forget, she let out a melodious laugh just in case, whether it charmed him didn't matter too much.
Good thing the coffee shop wasn't that far away from the park and the two of them already found themselves inside and at the counter. What Doppel didn't expect to find though was Smith to be standing there with a smile on her face. She tried her best though to ignore her suprise, "Two hot chocolates, please." It failed and some of it leaked through her voice, and it only served to widen Smith's smile.
"Here, I was making one for myself so you can have it." Smith handed Shirou one hot chocolate still steaming hot though he didn't seem to mind the burning sensation, was it even burning?
"Oh, uh, thank you." Shirou accepted the drink easily enough since it was all but shoved into his hands, "I'll go find us a seat so order anything you want." He quickly left the counter drink in hand.
Doppel sent Smith the stink eye, she wasn't supposed to be here, she was supposed to be talking to her through the earpiece and monitoring the situation! Speaking of earpiece, she realized that it was quiet, too quiet. Oh, she muted it, how could she forget? "What'd you do?" It didn't stop Doppel from accusing Smith though.
"I did nothing, why? Don't trust me?"
"Because I'm supposed to be on a date, doing my thing. Away from distractions. Does this place have any breakfast anyway?" Doppel was feeling a bit hungry since she hadn't eaten anything, supposedly it was a rule for dating that she learned.
Smith shrugged her shoulders, "Go sit with your date then, "Yuri". I'll see if there's anything, but I'm not going to cook it for you."
Doppel let out a sigh, what was she expecting from her? Smith was a lazy person and the one time she went into her house she immediately left and never came back.
Looking back, she saw Shirou casually drinking his hot chocolate while observing the sight outside the window. It was time for Doppel to continue operation date, "Shirou-kun, I'm back." Yuri dreamily stared at him all the while as she made herself comfortable on the chair, "So, I was thinking we could go visit the aquarium after we finish warming up, have you ever been there?"
"The aquarium, isn't that pretty far?"
"We can drive there, can't we?" Yuri suggested as if it was the most obvious thing they could do.
"I don't have a car, even if I did, I never been to an aquarium so I wouldn't know where it was." He sent her an apologizing smile, but Doppel filed that piece of small information away. Smith had explicitly told her to keep note of anything and Smith meant anything that they could learn from him.
"Ehhh?! You've never been to one?! But every time I saw you you've been everywhere! I'll make sure to remember that so we can go their next time then, I swear it upon my name!"
"I just like traveling, Yuri. Never really indulged myself in anything really because I could always be doing something else." What that something was eluded Doppel, but the way he said it and the way he gazed off into the distance seemed like that something was of great importance.
"Ehhhhh?! So you've never been to a zoo too?" He shook his head, "A water park?" Another negative, "A-A amusement park?!" He shook his head for the third time, did he even do anything fun?! "But you said your traveled!"
"I did, but mostly traveling around the world. I've never stayed in one place for too long unless there was something I could do." Doppel sensed that there was a relation between that "something" that he was doing and his travels, he didn't even seem to be trying to hide it anyway.
"Can you tell me about your travels then?" Yuri eagerly asked as she began to lean over the table.
He put on a thoughtful look, possibly searching for anything to tell her about, "I've probably visited every country there is, Africa being the latest."
"Here's your bacon egg breakfast-ahh!" Smith who once carried her appetizing breakfast alongside her steaming hot chocolate was now carrying nothing as everything flew into the air and towards her. She only wished that Shirou hadn't caught the women and instead allow her to fall face first into the ground.
"Hot! Hot hot hot!" Doppel's clothing was drenched in hot chocolate alongside hot food that stuck to her long hair and shirt.
"Are you ok?" Shirou quickly righted Smith up so that she could stand by herself and ran up towards Doppel unsure of what to do as he spotted the dark patches of brown that covered her from head to toe.
Doppel meanwhile while was screaming curses but made sure to do so mentally and especially made sure to curse Smith. "Just take it off! It burns!"
"T-Take it off, now?" Shirou unlike Doppel was more hesitant about removing her clothes in a public area.
"Yes, yes! Take it off!" Everyone in the building by now had already turned their gazes towards them and now that the mention of taking off one's clothes was all but yelled out, some seemed even more interested in the accident.
Smith on the other hand observed them from the side with a keen interest on what their little unknown person would do. She even idly noted that his eyes shown with an inexperience and hadn't even encountered a situation even similar to this. Something that hadn't happened yet since he always seemed to have this experienced look.
Shirou seemed to be on an impasse, struggling to just concede with Doppel's command to just take off her shirt then and there or not. His decision was made not long after when he quickly dragged her to a shared bathroom that immediately found itself locked once they both entered. A quick decision maker as well, Smith noted. This man just seemed to get more and more interesting as time passed.
Inside the bathroom Shirou had quickly taken of her Shirt leaving nothing but her bra to cover her upper body causing Doppel a great deal of relief and Shirou a great deal of discomfort. Her skirt on the other hand would be something he wouldn't remove.
Letting out a sigh of relief she looked towards Shirou who found the ground to be highly interesting, "Thanks, I thought I was going to burn to death in that."
If she was looking for a verbal response there was none, only the nod of the head as he avoided looking at her as if she was the most hideous thing in existence. If he had heard that though, he would disagree. He may not be interested in anything romantic like any other person, but he knew that she was a beautiful, the way that her brown hair seemed to cling onto her drenched body as she profusely sweated made the sight all the more erotic. She wasn't even trying to hide her generous bust from his sight and if he did look, she probably wouldn't even care.
Shirou just wondered how everything led to this.
"Finished" on: 08/14/2022
Imma be honest, besides Infinite Stratos and Sword Art Online this was the anime that deeply, and I mean deeply cemented my love for harems. And oh boy let me tell you what, it wasn't exactly a good influence for me. Especially so since it was one of my first few introductions to anime as an ever so young and impressionable mind.
Anyways, this is one of the many few side projects that I have been writing and just never posted due to my, well, anxiousness and by the time you're reading this I am still embarrassed at the fact I published it. I've barely changed much about this little project so some things may be off since I just really did a quick skim with my not so brand-new computer, I built myself.
Don't expect a new chapter soon. Like, seriously, don't. I've fallen out of my writing craze and as much as I want to get in the groove, I'm too anxious to do anything and my bursts of motivation come from my depressing thoughts after listening to music like Hololive Errors soundtrack and posting this was like a last-ditch effort. Makes me want to write about Hololive... Heh.
Not much of a good explanation of why I basically abandoned all my stories for about a year, like, at all, but to dumb everything down: Local man loses motivation and has another mid-life crisis as he enters college for the first time.