Ch. 7 – Serenade For Two

Magi Association

Shirou looked around, donning the black muscle shirt over his body that clearly defined his muscles. Then he proceeded to wrap his white trench coat over his entire body. The room was bright that morning as the sun brought its wondrous warmth and solitude with the light. The sound of the air conditioner chugged along from the floor below while the commotion of a new day erupted from the front desk. He bent over and picked up a half-drunken whiskey bottle and a couple glasses on the floor. The sound of cloth rustling emerged behind him. The source of that sound came up very slowly, looking at Shirou dressing. Shirou smiled as he just took a glance at her.

"Morning Rin."

Rin lazily sat up on the bed, the bed covers concealing her body from view. He rubbed her eyes a couple times before opening them slightly. She looked completely incapacitated by any stretch of the imagination. She coughed a couple times before grabbing the left over alcohol from last night and chugging it down. Her long black hair covered a large portion of her face and spilled all over the bed sheets.

"Hey, Rin, that's a bit much."

She tossed the bottle onto the nightstand where it banged against the hard wood very loudly. It spun around a few times before coming to a complete halt almost falling off of the nightstand. Rin murmured incoherently before flopping recumbent onto the goose-feather bed. She rolled around it before clinging onto a pillow as she slept. Her soft, pale body huddled up into the fetal position as if she were a small child.

"Wait, no, Rin! Wake up!"

Rin opened one of her eyes and spun it around the room to get a good look of where she was at now that she was somewhat awake. She finally spoke, half-mumbling, half-drunk as she swung her legs out of the bed. The bed covers still concealed the majority of her body, but she made no effort to hide herself from Shirou. In fact, she grazed her leg with her finger and provocatively licked her lips.

"Shirou, it's only morning..."

Shirou frowned and his face was flushed bright red as he looked away from Rin who finally got out of the bed. Shirou tried not to look, but his eyes constantly wandered to her body, looking, wanting, wishing. He rubbed his eyes and walked away into the bathroom. He tried to avert his attention by freshening up like he always did every morning. He remembered that this was what they had done together last time they met too.

"Rin, we have to get to the airport now or we'll be late."

Rin didn't answer, Shirou slowly looked back and saw that Rin was moving as quietly as she could towards him. He focused back onto himself as if he had not noticed Rin.

"Rin? Did you hear me?"

Rin remained silent, but Shirou could hear the light petter-patter of footsteps getting closer to him. He knew exactly what was going to happen, almost instinctively because this was the first time in a while that they had been together. Shirou's dull eyes immediately brightened up as he poured shaving cream into the large basin of a sink as he trickled water down from the silver plated faucet into the mixture. Shirou traced a large stick in his hand to mix the shaving cream and water together. In an immediate reaction, the two started to shoot out foam in every direction, filling the luxurious sink with pure white snow. Shirou looked back once more and saw that Rin was coming dangerously close, her back was hunched over as if she thought she was some sort of assassin on a job. Shirou looked back at the edge of the sink before shoving a number of towels over it in preparation for what he was going to do.

The soft footsteps became louder, now Shirou could see Rin through the reflection of the glass window at the side of him. She was still wearing nothing, but she was on the balls of her feet getting ready to jump Shirou. He saw that she crouched down, looking like a tiger about to pounce at its weak prey. Right at the moment Rin lunged at Shirou she shouted out a greeting to him.

"Good morning!"

Shirou evilly grinned at Rin who caught his eye right as she flew into the basin of shaving cream foam. The white mess flew all over the place, splashing everything from the windows to the walls, even the fine Indian-style, colorful rug outside of the room. Rin immediately woke up, from both the pain at her chest for landing on the edge of the sink and from the shock of being enveloped by a foamy mess. She jumped out, face completely covered with the foam, and nagged Shirou in her usual tone.

"Shi-rou! That was not nice."

Shirou couldn't help but laugh at Rin, he thought at least her body was covered now, even though it wasn't voluntary. Unfortunately, no matter how many barriers Shirou created to protect himself from being caught in Rin's web of seduction, she could knock them all down. She gathered up some of the foam in her hands and flung the mass at Shirou who had been splatted by it. Shirou smirked and took off his undershirt, throwing it onto the only place that hadn't been covered by foam. He jumped over the bathtub and started to use the rest of the contents of his shaving cream. More and more foam began to invade this small room, as if expanding exponentially. Right as Shirou jumped on top of Rin and shoved her face full of the cream, the young attendant that had served them before stood at the doorway, showing signs of both arousal and embarrassment. Rin and Shirou stopped laughing as they both froze where they were after seeing the young girl. Their position didn't help them any bit, Shirou was on top of Rin, her legs wrapped around his body as he was hunched over her naked body. His pupils widened and he immediately tried to find a solution to the new problem.

"This... this isn't what it seems like!"

The young girl covered her face with her hands, trying not to look before slowly backing off as Shirou came closer.

"Mr... Mr. Emiya, I... I was going to tell you that your ride is here."

Shirou didn't seem to care about that as much as the misunderstanding that the young girl had about them. He played the entire event through his head, he had jumped on top of Rin while both were screaming and laughing like little children. Obviously, because of their age, they could not blame it on the curse of naivety. Rin rose, covering her body with a towel now that she realized the position she was in.

"Look, we were just...

"No... Miss Tohsaka, I understand... A little... It's what adults do."

Shirou slapped his forehead and groaned a little, he judged that the girl was only around fourteen, someone who had just became one of the junior ranks of magi. He could say that she wasn't even a 2nd rank maga. She slowly covered her face with the clipboard she carried in her hand. Rin disappeared and reappeared with a white shirt over her body. It didn't truly help since she was still wet from the foam, but at least she felt clothed.

"Honey, can you just tell the driver to wait a little? We'll be there soon."

The young girl dashed off with the clipboard still over her face as if she tried to preserve her own purity by blocking her view of the vanity that occurred. Rin slowly walked out, now dressing up so that she could go out properly. She wiped herself with a towel and wore her usual raiment. A white suit and soft linen dress. Shirou put on his clothes which seemed to have magically stayed relatively dry and clean despite the massive battle he and Rin just had. Rin's voice had singingly called to him from the hallway of the hotel style rooms. He walked out carrying a briefcase with the instructions he had been given by Tristan. As he walked out he saw Rin looking at a painting on the wall displaying a man in crusader armor sitting down on a tree that looked like a throne. He had a crown over his head as he looked at another man holding a goblet. Rin spoke to herself, fully aware that Shirou had come out of the room.

"Robin Hood entertains Richard I"

Rin had turned around easily on the marble floor; her stilettos clacking against the polished rock. Rin looked at Shirou who stood there awkwardly because of the fact that they had both been found out by the girl.

"Shirou, don't look so embarrassed."

Shirou looked up and saw Rin cling around his neck as if they were lovers, but Shirou knew otherwise.

"Don't worry, you're still waiting for Saber, I know."

Shirou looked at Rin as if a bullet passed through his head, but she remained as happy as usual, now that Shirou was perplexed at her attitude.

"But you know Shirou..."

Rin smiled as she walked ahead of him, her suit's opaque white purity amplified by the large glass windows running down the sides of the wall. For the first time in a long while, Shirou saw Rin smiling radiantly, her seemed to permeate through everything, as if she were reflecting sunlight off of the sun, rather than the sun reflecting sunlight off of her.

"We are adults, that's what adults do."

--- Hello everyone, please comment and because of restrictions, I'm not sure I can show certain passages...