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Scouting Circle Park

Nagatoro sat next to Senpai on a bench overlooking Tohatsu Lake, Tohatsu Park's main attraction. People named the place Circle Park because the paved path surrouding the lake formed a near perfect circle. Ducks floated across the water and birds flew in the distance. An early morning mist dampened the grass and trees.

Senpai tugged his yellow raincoat shut while Nagatoro adjusted the blue sarong she wore under her favorite rain poncho. Her canvas gym bag sat next to her.

"It's 7:12 AM. Why are we here so early?" Senpai glanced at the bag, then the water. "We're not swimming here are we?"

"Nope. No swimming today. I'm on a mission of vengeance."

Senpai closed his legs. "What type of vengeance are we talking about?"

She rubbed his knee. "Don't worry. It's got nothing to do with you, Senpai. Gamo-chan and I have some unfinished business. Remember when you scouted around for a place to paint me outside, and you found that awesome spot overlooking the ocean? Consider this a scouting trip, sort of like that."

"Why are you wearing the rain poncho?"

"I have warm feelings for this garment. It's the first thing you dressed me in after we finally had sex, remember?"

He pointed at her dress peeking out from the vinyl. "As I remember it, you weren't wearing that."

"Give me a second." She glanced from side to side, scooted about underneath the plastic, and produced a blue sarong in her extended hand. "How's that?"

Senpai raised his brow. "I'm not complaining, but what's your plan?"

Nagatoro opened her canvas bag, pulled out her collar, leash, and handcuffs, and stuffed her dress inside in their place. She took off her flip-flop sandals and set them upside down on top of her dress before zipping up the bag.

She dangled the cuffs from her index finger. "Do you have your key to these?"

Senpai checked his key ring to verify that a small silver key hung from it. "Yes, I do."

"Excellent."

"I still don't know what's going on."

"You're taking me for a walk." When Nagatoro removed her hood and lifted her hair, Senpai fastened the collar around her neck. Nagatoro clipped the leash to the collar's silver loop and handed him the end loop. "Here's the plan. You're going to lead me around the circle. Then we come back here, and I get dressed."

"I really wish you'd be more open about this. None of what we're doing makes any sense."

Nagatoro frowned. "Yeah, I guess you're right. I have been acting kind of sus. Here's the thing. Gamo-chan pulled a prank on me, and I don't want to tell you what she did."

"Because it's too embarrassing?"

"Right. Now I'm doing to her exactly what she did to me as payback."

"She leashed you, stripped you naked, and walked you around a lake?"

Nagatoro thought about it and nodded. "Yeah, actually, that's pretty close."

"I see." Senpai rose and gripped the leash. "I promise not to ask for any more details."

"I don't mind if you ask me about my plan to exact revenge. After all, you're going to be a major part of it." Nagatoro pulled her arms behind her back, fastened the handcuffs around her wrists, and rose next to her boyfriend.

"So, this is a scouting trip?"

"That's right. I'm going to make Gamo-chan walk around the lake exactly like we're walking around it today, except for the poncho."

Senpai picked up the canvas bag. "You want to see what it'll be like for her."

"Exactly."

He scanned the area, noting several people walking about with their pets. "I imagine a sight like that might attract a good bit of attention, even now."

"I'm going to make her walk the loop after the park closes and nobody's here."

"Why aren't we doing this at midnight then, with you in the buff instead of hidden under plastic?"

"Because what you and I are doing now is moderately safe, and she's the one getting revenged. Come on, let's go."

They walked up the hill and turned right, starting a clockwise circle around the lake.

"How are you feeling so far?" Senpai asked after they'd walked a hundred yards.

"I feel vulnerable as hell. My heart is racing." She glanced down. "Also, my feet are starting to hurt. Can you take out my flip-flops?"

Senpai kneeled, removed the sandals from the bag, and set them by her feet. "There you go." He reached under the plastic and squeezed her bum.

"Pervert." She stepped into the shoes with a wiggle of her hips.

Senpai took a deep breath and adjusted his pants. "You're current state of dress is making me, um, uncomfortable."

"I know, right?" Nagatoro replied, wide eyed. "I want to fuck you so bad right now I can taste it. But let's finish the loop first."

The two walked side-by-side along the path—just a regular guy dressed in a yellow coat strolling next to a regular girl in a dark blue poncho. Several people walking in the opposite direction met their eyes and politely waved or nodded. Most kept walking.

"So how are you going to convince Gamo to make this walk?"

"I'm going to use her strengths against her and work a big con."

"And I'm going to be part of this con?"

"You're an integral part of phase one. It's like this. I need to turn up the temperature. Right now, she'd never do anything as crazy as this, so I have to build up to it. I'm going to make something Gamo considers totally nuts seem almost plausible, and you're going to help. After I finish phase one, she'll be at 50%."

"Like a 50% full fuel tank in a video game?"

"Something like that. Then we move on to phase two, which is going to be a lot trickier. If I pull it off, and I'm pretty sure I will, that'll take her up to around 95%."

"How are you going to manage that?"

"By lying and cheating."

"Is that a good thing to do?"

"We're talking vengeance, Senpai. I get a free pass because she did it to me first."

"If you say so. What makes you think she'll go the distance?"

"Gamo is insanely competitive. It's one of her biggest strengths. She'll go for the win no matter what."

"But you control the outcome."

"If I do this right."

Senpai glanced at his girlfriend's bare legs peeking out from under her poncho. "Aren't you getting chilly?"

"Nope. I'm toasty warm and enjoying life." She bumped her shoulder into his. "I think Gamo's going to get into it too."

"Right." Senpai gripped the leash and shook his head. "Once you've tricked her into doing this, what makes you think she'll follow through?"

"Honor. If she says she'll do it, she'll follow through. It's another one of her strengths."

"After she completes this loop leashed, cuffed, and totally naked, you'll consider yourself even?"

Nagatoro nodded. "Even Steven." She stopped and turned toward the lake. "Unbelievable. There's our bench. Don't tell me we're finished already."

"Looks that way."

The two walked down the incline toward the water and sat on the bench where they started. Senpai opened the lower buttons of his coat, lowered his zipper, and pulled out his manhood. A kneeling Nagatoro straddled him before lowering herself down onto him.

Nagatoro gasped, then collected herself. "This is kind of cool, isn't it?" She glanced from side to side. "It looks like we're just being frisky instead of having full-on sex. The poncho covers everything."

"It's going to be pretty obvious once you start bouncing up and down on me and screaming."

"I'll tone it down whenever someone walks by."

"Works for me." He pulled her into his arms and they kissed.

Thirty minutes later, Nagatoro was back in her sarong, having stuffed her poncho into her bag. Senpai carried his coat over his arm. They held hands.

"Thanks," he said. "Our walk around the lake turned out to be a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be."

"I wonder if Gamo will feel the same way." Nagatoro's lips curled into an evil grin. "I guess time will tell."


Author's Notes: Sorry for the delayed chapter. I'm hoping to crank out the next few chapters a bit more quickly. Hopefully, I'll finish this arc before season two starts. — S.K.