Day 2: Admiration

Kuvira couldn't help but wonder why she kept on doing this to herself. Well, that wasn't entirely fair.

She really did have talent within the dance troupe, it wasn't hard to see that. Her metalbending paired with her fitness made her kind of perfectly suited for the job at hand, and the fact that she had to keep up her physique for her job as Captain of the Guard anyway only expedited the process.

So even though it was good for her physically, it definitely wasn't good for her psychologically, because every time she danced, it was with Suyin.

And today had been one of the most agonizing ones of them all.

It wasn't even so much the exercise itself, that was okay. They were practicing for an elaborate setup with metal cables, and because it was one of the first times they did it, not everyone had all the paces quite down yet. One of them, Chen, had slammed into Kuvira following his swing, and she knocked into Suyin, making them both fall over.

That would have been perfectly excusable, were it not that Kuvira made a pretty soft landing. Suspiciously soft, really. It took her a moment to notice, but she literally got a face-full of boob, landing right in the middle of Suyin's chest.

Kuvira turned into a heap of sputtering apologies, and even though Suyin quickly brushed it off as an accident, she hadn't quite had her head in the game afterwards. All she could think about was how much she wanted more of that.

And it wasn't just that she wanted to squeeze them, though that was a part of it, but it was the intimacy. Suyin's first instinct had been to look Kuvira straight in the eyes and ask her if she was alright. Of course she was, she was a guard, having received a military level of training. Her pride was far more hurt than her body, but she wasn't about to let anyone on to that little fact.

And honestly, Kuvira didn't know if she should thank Chen or punish him. Probably the latter, for causing her so much embarrassment. And since he is a guard as well, guess who's pulling the graveyard shift for the next month.

Since most of the troupe had either jobs that needed attending or families that needed dinner, Suyin and Kuvira offered to put everything away again, clearing it out for the gymnasium it usually was. It went in silence, but they were so in tune that they didn't really need verbal communication anymore in order to work together efficiently.

When it came time to move the last piece of equipment back into storage, Kuvira was basically just in the way. "It's okay, I got this," Suyin told her. "You go and change."

"Thanks," Kuvira muttered, and made off for the now empty changing room. The first thing she did in there was slam her head against her own locker. Why her, of all people, why her. Any combination would have been fine, but nope, she had to basically motorboat Suyin.

The cool metal of the locker was actually nice against her flaming skin, and it did help somewhat in calming that raging blush of hers that Su had hopefully mistaken for being a result of their workout.

She started unwrapping her arms, and decided it would be nicer to take a shower at home. It wasn't far anyway, so she could walk those 200 yards without making to many people throw up from her smell.

Soon, Suyin entered as well, and when Kuvira looked up, she saw that Suyin had already pulled her tank top over her head, being down to her bra and sweatpants.

Damn, that was unfair. Even though it was fairly clear that she was ageing, Su was definitely ageing well. Her belly was still pretty flat, and even though it did have a few faint stretch marks, it was nothing that made the sight less appealing.

Kuvira's blush returned with a vengeance, and she turned back to her own locker to pull out her stuff.

"Hey, Kuvira, are we still on for tomorrow night?" Suyin asked after a little bit more silence.

"Hmm, what was..." but Kuvira never got to finish that sentence, because just as she was turning around, Suyin was unclasping her bra and let it slip down her arms. And even though her back was now turned on Kuvira, it still only increased her already furious blush.

"I meant your monthly report tomorrow night," Su said, and then things got only worse, because she turned around.

And there they really were. There was a slight bit of sag to them, as was to be expected, but on the whole, Suyin's breasts still looked amazing. Kuvira had a hard time not just outright staring with her gob wide open, so instead, she focused herself on Suyin's face, hoping that her blush wouldn't be too bad, but that was only fooling herself. "Right... umm, yeah, I was... umm, gonna finish that in a bit," she stammered.

"Ah, good," Su nodded, and she just kept on casually undressing herself, seemingly not the least bit bothered by Kuvira's presence. She had already pulled her pants off, and was now down to just her panties. She'd never take those off in front of her, right?

Wrong. The thought hadn't left Kuvira's mind or those were discarded as well, leaving Suyin completely bare in front of her. Fit, toned, gracefully aged, she was gorgeous, and Kuvira couldn't do anything other than shut her eyes and turn back around and try to spare herself the embarrassment of being caught.

"Hey, aren't you going to shower?" Su asked her, though there was more curiosity than disappointment there like Kuvira was secretly hoping.

"No, I'll just shower at home," she said, not turning around again.

"Right," Su said. "You're close anyway. Well, guess I'll see you tomorrow."

Kuvira made the mistake of looking over, seeing Suyin walk into the shower room with only a towel over her shoulder. And if nothing else, her backside was just as beautiful as her front, making Kuvira bite her lip. "I guess so."

As she walked out again, she couldn't help but feel like it was way past time to get reacquainted with the massage setting on her showerhead.