Disclaimer: Obviously I do not own To Love-Ru
The night was not over for Rito, once Nemesis had left his presence. He had sat on his bed contemplating his actions of the day, and wondering just how he was really going to accomplish this with Saruyama's help. Nemesis said she wasn't going to get in the way of his plans, but to be careful with Mea and Yami's feelings. Mea of course would be a bit harder to sway, because she seemed to support the Harem Plan with fervor and glee, if only to tease him about the many perverted situations he ended up getting himself into with the many girls around him. Yami- Yami was Yami. It was hard to always gauge her feelings toward him, as they seemed to swing from tolerance, to embarrassed rage, to an overpowered slap to the face with her Trans ability, or just plain, hopefully exaggerated, death threats.
Sighing, after moping around in his second room for half an hour, he moved his weary muscles from his bed and out the path to leave his Cyber Hangout behind him. Finding his room unchanged, empty, and free of any signs of Nemesis, Mikan, or any of the other girls, Rito decides to think some more of how to approach the other weakest link. Nana Astar Deviluke was, to be fairly put, blunt in her reasoning, open about her feelings, and quick to anger if you upset her. She was by no means the simplest to approach over a matter like trying to clear up mixed signals and confusing emotions, but Rito believed the simplest approach would suit her best. He would just have to ask her outright, confirm her feelings about him, dissuade her if there was anything there, and try his best to survive her wrath.
Rito, honestly didn't feel anything but fear and respect for the second princess of Deviluke. Fear he could die if he crossed either her or her sisters, and that she could send an army of the most vicious, rare, and most dangerous creatures of the galaxy after him at any moment. There was also the respect that she had stronger morals than Momo, a chaste outlook on love, or so it seemed, and loyalty to her friends and family, especially her Eldest Sister. Perhaps she wouldn't break his neck, or mince him up for food for her animals, if he tried to play up the fact he didn't want to hurt Lala's feelings, and that he really was trying to change the way he was viewed by everyone. With that in mind, Rito made up his mind, and decided that the only way to make sure he didn't chicken out, was to do this right here, right now.
Getting up from his bed, he decides to leave his room and seek Nana out right now, knowing she was probably in her shared room. His hand on the door, Rito goes to pull his door open wide. Tumbling to the ground due to contact with a heavy object, he barely has time to blink as the view of the open hallway goes dark for a moment, only for him to, confusingly, be staring up at the ceiling of his room. Realizing he had seemed to have blacked out, Rito tried to move, to see just what had caused him to end up on the floor. That was when he felt an unusually warm, almost sweaty presence on his arms and legs. Looking down, he noticed a towel caught on the door handle, and proceeded to nervously look down, praying it wasn't Nana.
The sticky feeling and the weight subsided as Rito glanced upwards, his face heated by a blush and cooled by dread. Rubbing her forehead and nose, Lala sat legs spread apart, tail covering her more delicate areas, and one of her arms across her breasts. Rito instantly went fully red, seeing her position, as well as the fact his kneecap was currently pinning her tail to her body as she had sat up. Going to help her up, he quickly found his hands missing her shoulders by inches as he shifted his body, causing Lala to loose her balance, and resulting in one hand sneaking around her waist to catch her, while the other ended up in an entirely different, awkward spot. Realizing this, Rito began to babble incoherently, as Lala slowly smiled and laughed it off.
"Rito, it's alright, I know you were only trying to help," she says laughing, as he removes his hand from her breast, and helps her to her feet before reapplying her towel as a cover, "I wanted to ask you something..." At that, Rito snaps out of it, once he realizes Lala's intentions might make it harder for him to talk to Nana, making him have to wait until another opportunity, which may not arise. "Nana just got in the shower with Momo, and Mikan is washing Celine downstairs," Lala says, "Since we don't get to spend much time, like we used to Rito, I wanted to ask you a favor..." Rito swallows, as she stares up at him with doe eyes, and he becomes increasingly conscious of the lack of clothing acting as a thin barrier between both of them.
"Lala, while I would love to help you with whatever you are wanting me to do," he says finally succumbing to the need to cover his eyes and his embarrassment, "Could you please get Peke, or put a night shirt on, or at least put on anything other than just a towel?" Rito turned away to walk into his room to even grab her a shirt from his dresser, only for Lala's hand to roughly grab his elbow as he turned away, causing him to freeze in surprise at the strength of her grip. He turns back to see what was up, only to notice the almost embarrassed expression on her face, as she turned her face, mainly her eyes, away from him and blushed heavily.
"Rito- Rito I need you-" she says, still too embarrassed to meet his eyes. She bites her cheek and lip in a cute way, that causes Rito to lose focus for a moment. Suddenly he feels her move past him, still gripping his arm tightly, and roughly he gets pulled to his bed, where Lala maneuvers herself between the slightly open doorway and Rito with his back to the bed. Pushing him roughly down onto the far end of the foot of his bed, and following him onto it, she takes her time to crawl up and straddle his stomach, her towel somehow remaining in place, despite the roughness and force she used to get him in that position. Leaving down, she brushes her lips against his right ear, and her breath feels hot on his skin. Closing his eyes and praying Mikan, Nana, and Momo didn't stumble across this scene, he waited to see what she would do next, only to feel something hot and soft curl itself into his hand. He feels the weight of Lala shift over to the other side of his bed, springs creaking as Lala laid herself out across the rest of the bed, her back to Rito and the ceiling.
He hears something else, like a thud, in the distance, but he barely notices it as he was completely unable to hear it do to the ringing in his ears. Feeling Lala's tail coil itself around his forearm, unnaturally warm to the touch, he feels her try to guide him to her side, where she looked at him expectantly. "Well, are you going to do it?" she asks him calmly, her tail unwrapping itself from his arm, but softly pulling his hand to her lower back, "Come on Rito, I know you have experience; don't think I haven't heard..." Rito sputters at this, before Lala half turns herself towards him, propping her head on her elbow, a half bored and confused expression crossing her face. "Rito, did you even listen to what I asked of you?" She asks. Rito dumbly shakes his head, not trusting his words or actions currently, in case his unlucky curse of perversion managed to strike him in this situation at the most unfortunate of times.
Lala physically sighs and breathes a string of wet hair out of her face. She calmly grabs his hand and squeezes it gently. "I heard about your experience from Nemesis," she states, "I wanted you to give me a massage, just like you gave her one too!" Rito takes a moment to process this, before his jaw falls slack and he slightly yells out in utter disbelief. "Rito?" Lala asks, noticing he had gone quiet, her words sinking in heavily, "Rito, are you okay?" Rito's face goes dark for a second, a shadow passing over his eyes before he looks up, completely normal and happy, even smiling at Lala like nothing had happened.
"Sure Lala, I'll give you a massage!" he states, "I misunderstood completely, because you took my breath away..." Yuuki Rito then and there resigns himself to his fate, knowing clearly that this was his punishment set up by Nemesis for deciding to break Mea's and Yami's feelings. That cold fish could set up some really twisted revenge schemes, though Rito felt this one was more or less meant to cause him to embarrass himself in front of Lala, probably hoping he would somehow slip up and incur Nana's, or even Mikan's wrath. Rito Yuuki decided he would go with the flow and not fight it, he was going to embarrass himself one way or the other, he just hoped whatever happened, Lala would forgive him for it later. He would prove Nemesis wrong, just this once, and then perhaps he could gain some confidence in himself, showing he was greater than the disease that afflicted him.
Rito then decides what he has to do, and has Lala return to her position, flat on her stomach. Getting around her feet and on Lala's left side of her body, Rito carefully suspends himself above Lala's almost nude form, happy the towel was still in place. Doing what just came natural to him, from easing his own sore muscles, and letting his body do the work, he started with Lala's shoulders. Finding nothing but some light knots easily kneaded out, he begins to follow the path of her spine, feeling for any tight spots he could rub the pain away. Finding the towel in his way, he decides to speak up. "Do you mind if I remove the towel?" he asks, his voice cracking a bit at his own boldness, "It will be in the way, and I won't be able to feel anything because it is too thick..." Nodding her affirmation, he exposes Lala's back, but keeps the towel wrapped from her tailbone and below. He finds her tail snaking above the towel, gently lowering itself over the cloth to keep it from slipping any lower.
Just as he finds a spot above her tail, he hears another thud, this time followed by the opening of the door. This causes Rito to freeze in his place, before slowly turning his head towards the door in panic, the movement sounding like a rusted gate creaking in his head. Nana Astar Deviluke stood at the entrance to Rito's bedroom, eyes glinting like stars, filled with fire and brimstone and anger, all directed at Rito Yuuki. "Yuuki Rito..." Nana says icily, "Yuuki Rito, what are you doing with Ane-ue, you Beast?" At that Rito tries to explain the situation, Lala loudly chiming in to placate her sister's anger, only for it all to be ignored as Nana pulls out her D-Dial.
It was then that Rito knew he had to act quickly, so he slammed the door on Nana, activated the entryway to his Cyber Hangout, and quickly grabbed Lala and her towel and jumped into the Cyber portal. Needless to say, Rito Yuuki remained in Cyberspace until morning, unable to sleep with Lala happily snuggling into him all night long.