Shigure Shuts Up by AmberFox
To Girlwho was too lazy, thanks for the only review last chapter! And Manga Con Rocks HARD!
"It's awful, I tell you! The stress is too much! Because of him I look like a forty year old, and I'm only 27!" Mii wailed on as she walked down the high street beside her friend.
"You poor thing! Working with Shigure-kun can't be that bad." Ritsu said next to her. He was on his way to buy groceries at the market in his kimono when he had saw his friend tragically stagger past him. He had decided the first time he met her that she had even less esteem then he did. He didn't even think that was possible! So he decided to listen to her as they cruised around the shops and hopefully help her relive some of her anxiety, maybe by getting her a new dress or makeup.
"No, It's worse!" The publicist said. "I know he's finished the chapters, he knows I know he's finished the chapters, but I can't get them off him! He all 'I'm sorry, I think I lost them.' or 'They slipped out of my hand and were flushed down the toilet' or even 'Was that today? I haven't started it yet.'! I can't take it anymore!" She sniffed and began to cry.
"There there, It's alright." The monkey patted her back uncertainty. He never knew what to do with crying women. Due to his curse he wasn't the comforting sort, and he knew that if she got any more depressed she might want to hug. To make a grown woman cry in public like this at the sheer mention of his name made the timid monkey want to hurt his older cousin. Preferably on a talk-show about abusive bosses.
Steering the girl down the street he suddenly got a spark of an idea.
"I think I may have the solution to your problem…" The man dressed as a woman said. Taking Mii by the hand he lead her down the street.
"Welcome!" A pig-tailed nurse said as the two entered the shop.
"A haberdashery?" Mii asked her friend.
"Not just any haberdashery!" Ritsu said before asking the nurse, "Is Ayame-kun here?"
"Who is it!" A voice sang from the backroom. The curtains parted as a tall white-haired figure appeared in front of them. "Ritsu-chan! What a pleasant surprise! I was just thinking about making you something!"
"Can you help us?" The monkey asked. "This is Mii-chan. Mii, meet Sohma Ayame."
"Ahh!" The man said as he gave a little bow to the stammering woman. "It's nice to know my cousin has made a friend! She was always so shy, and now she's introducing me to others! I'm so proud!" The mad sniffed dramatically.
"Umm, thank you Aya-kun." Ritsu blushed a little. "But that's not why we came here…" He said as he explained their situation.
"I see, so you went to me because I know everything about Shigure." Aya nodded seriously in understanding.
"That, and I thought a new outfit might cheer her up." Ritsu told him as the two glanced over at Mii, who was sitting down to some tea with Mine.
"Oh Ritsu-chan!" Aya's sombre mood quickly vanished. "Making friends and now helping my business! My how you've grown up so quickly!" He headed towards Mii at break-neck speed. "Mine! Get everything ready! We have a make-over to do!"
"Yaaah!" Mine shot out of her seat in excitement and went to get her things."
"Wha…?" The woman said before being whisked away off her seat and into the changing rooms, tea and all!
"Now," Said Aya, oblivious to the monkey's stunned face. "Tell me all about your self-help classes!" before ushering him to the empty seats.
'She's fast!' Ritsu though. 'Like a rabid lion with a baby deer!' "Oh, they're going well… Ano, your assistant seems very keen to please." He said to the snake.
"Oh, she's just loves dressing people up." Aya told him as they sat down. "She went positively ape when I gave her a set of Barbie-dolls for her birthday!"
"That's nice…" Ritsu said, sipping the tea that was left out.
"She might give you a look-over too." The snake continued. "I wouldn't be surprised, after all you have such a nice figure you keep on hiding in your kimono's, and she loves getting pretty girls in dresses."
"I'm a guy." The monkey pointed out.
His cousin laughed. "And I can't wait until she realises it!" Taking a sip from his own tea he then said, " I still want to make a new kimono for you. You'd look fabulous in any of my creations!" He then tilted his head to the side in thought. "I wonder…"
Ritsu looked at his relative. "Excuse me?" But Ayame wasn't listening.
Aya turned to the backroom curtain beside them. "Mine!" He called out. "Put her in 'The Other Thing', she's got the perfect frame for it!"
"Aya aye, mon captáne!" Mine shouted back before the two could hear a "Hey!" from Mii along with the sounds of moving cloth.
"Here, put this on!" They could here Mine say.
"Are you nuts!" The sound of Mii's protests could be heard from the street. "I can't fit in that thing! It's too… you know!"
"Not to worry! The material is not only quite sturdy, but it's made in a way that'll go on any waist size. No matter how small you are, it'll fit perfectly!"
"Who's smaller than that!"
"Umm, what's 'The Other Thing' Aya-kun?" Ritsu tore his ear away from the conversation.
"Well, it's only in it's experimental stages, but it's suppose to be- Ah! You're finished already Mine?" The snaked looked to see his assistant leave the backroom, smile quite evident on her face.
"Yep! Presenting!" Mine announced. "For the first time ever, Sohma Ayame's newest creation!" Before opening the curtains to reveal…
"Absolutely Fabulous!" Aya crowed.
Ritsued gaped. "Mii-chan, is that you?"
Another sunny day at Shigure's house and the dog in question was reading the paper in the living room. He had finished his set of chapters late last night but got up early anyway for a very special reason. It was the third week in the month, and to the dog that meant that he would be getting a visit and a chance to play with his favourite toy, Mii's emotions. Sure, he felt guilty after watching her leave with the documents, crying, but sometimes it was just too darn fun!
"Shigure-san, Mii-san's here to see you" Tohru sounded from the front door.
"Coming!" He said, rubbing his hands in glee but not before hiding the documents under his desk.
"Ah, Mii-chan! Is today the day for the manuscripts?" Shigure said as he entered the hallway, meeting his victim. He did a slight double take at Mii. "Is it raining?" He asked her. Mii looked back at him, blinking innocently. Instead of her usual powder blue dress-suite she wore when meeting him she sported a large tan raincoat.
"It was this morning." She told him. "I had to get up early because I needed my photo taken." She looked at him with pleading eyes. "Have you finished the manuscript yet?"
"Oh, yes!" The dog told her, getting into the swing of things once again. "It's all written and ready to be handed in, but I can't seem to find it. I'm sure it's not in the fridge this time…" He pondered to himself.
"Don't tell me you lost it again!" Mii said shocked.
"I'm sorry but I can't find it any where…" He nodded to himself, affirmatating his situation.
"Please find it Sensei." Mii told him. She sighed to herself. Knowing him, he would take hour's and then tell her how hopeless her situation was, then find it in some ridiculous place like the rice-cooker or something.
Luckily, she had a plan.
She shrugged her shoulders, looking helpless under his sadistic dictatorship of the incapacity of not finding anything. "I'll wait." She sighed as she took of her coat. "Can you put this in the coat-room please?" She asked him, handing it to him.
Unfortunately, he wasn't listening. His mind was a blank due to the vision before him. Standing there, in nothing but a royal blue string-bikini, stood Mii. White tropical flowers patterned her right breast and left hip as the scarcely clad woman's curves left little to the imagination. Heck! The whole outfit was a suggestion! The cups dipped suggestively, but still kept the wearers modesty and the bottoms rode low, as if it could fall off her hips at any moment.
Seeing Shigure just gape there as he held her coat Mii then put on the most innocent, adorable face she could muster and pressed her index finger to her lips coyly as she said sweetly, "Please find the chapters for me, Sensei…"
The man smiled, still dazed. Before Mii could say any more he turned slowly towards his office, coat in tow, and walked thru the door. Seconds later he returned, with both coat and manuscript in his hands, still with a dazed but happy look on his face.
Mii giggled in glee! It worked!
"Thank you Sensei! I'm so happy!" She told him, and to prove it, she kissed him on the cheek in gratitude.
Shigure hit the floor hard as torrents of blood shot from his nose, his smile widened into a ecstatic grin.
'Oh Crap! I didn't mean to do that!' Mii thought in panic. Quickly she put her coat back on, grabbed her papers and closed the door behind her and began running to her car, hoping this meeting wasn't a dream.
But not before hearing a poof from the other side of the Sohma's door.
Yuki swung open the door, finding who he wanted to talk to. "Shigure just gave in his chapters without any screaming. I think this may be the end of the world." He told Kyo, who was reading on the floor of his room.
"I flirted with Kagure, Akito's happy and your actually bonding with your brother and now your acting like him." The cat relied, "I knew that months ago." before turning back to his book.
"Success! Actual success! You should have seen the look on his face!" Mii crowed to Ritsu. "I can officially say that I can now die happy!"
"Don't say things like that!" The monkey told the woman. "It might come true."
The dynamic duo were now outside the infamous Ayame's Shop. The publicist had changed out of her outfit and now sported her usual blue dress-suite. The outfit in question was in a little bag beside her, ready to be returned.
"If death comes I'll happily embrace it with the memory of that pervert engraved into my head!" She told her friend as they entered the shop.
"So, how did it go?" The snake asked as he saw his two customers walk in.
"You," Mii pointed to Aya. "Are a genius!"
"Yay! It worked!" Mine shouted in celebration.
"Well, I try…" Aya said modestly.
"As soon as he saw me he couldn't stop drooling! And as soon as I left, he fainted! I've never made a guy faint before!" She continued.
Unbeknownst to her the two zodiac members sighed with relief. He fainted when she wasn't looking!
"Speaking of making people drool…" Mine turned to Ritsu, with a evil gleam in her eyes. "When I'm finished with you, every guy will drool once they see you!"
'It's the look!' The monkey thought as he tried to escape the rabid girls clutches.
"Come with me!" The assistant said as she tried to grab his hand. Succeeding, she then pulled him towards the changing rooms.
'Noooooo!' Ritsu thought as he dug his heals into the carpet.
"Take it like a woman. I went through this, now it's your turn!" Mii told her friend as she decided to help in pulling them into the backroom.
Not finding any sanctuary with his friend, Ritsu looked to Aya for help, but saw that his cousin was actually enjoying the situation.
"Come on!" Mine continued to drag her victim. "I need your measurements…" She strained.
It might have been seeing Ayame smirk, or it might have been the fact that Mii goaded him, that made the monkey begin to get fed up with his situation. Without thinking (for if he did he certainly would have apologised) he said stiffly. "I don't see why you can't measure me here!"
"Er…!" The three said in union.
"But you'll be undressing." Mine pointed out to her captive.
"So." Ritsu yanked his arm away from her and crossed them. "I don't see a problem. What's wrong," He started to undo his obi. "With me undressing here." He began to take off his top. "After all," The top dropped on the floor. "I am a man."
The two women couldn't speak. Their stood Ritsu, his chest revealing his smooth hardened abs, hair blowing in an imaginary wind as his eyes sparkled defiantly with an arrogant smirk. His left hand combed thru his hair as he wondered where the wind came from, then turned back to the girls.
Thud Thud
"Well, that when better then expected." The snake said to the monkey behind a small fan. "That performance deserves a standing ovation, pity they can't move their legs let alone stand."
"Huh." The monkey said to himself, picking up his discarded garments. "They deserved it."
Tune in next time (hopfully soon. Once we get our lazt asses into gear). Pleas RR
