Reminder: The outfits used in this chapter can be found in my dropbox. Link is on my profile.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Love Live!
"Honoka-chan, can I ask you something?"
Muse was getting ready to leave the clubroom for the day. Nico had pulled Honoka away from the others, and tried to ask what she wanted as quickly as possible before the others pulled them back.
"Sure, what is it?"
"C-can you come by my house for a while?"
Honoka was a little surprised by the request. But after a moment she smiled. "Of course, Nico-chan. I'd love to."
"Really?" Nico asked, relieved. "Then, can we hurry? I don't want to have to wait."
But before Honoka could answer, Nico had taken hold of her hand and quickly led Honoka out of the room.
"Hey, wait!" They heard Eri call behind them. But they were already out and halfway down the hall before the rest of Muse was able to notice and react in time.
Nico kept them at a quick pace until she felt they were far enough that they wouldn't catch up. By this point they were a few streets away from the school. Honoka stopped, trying to catch her breath.
"N...Nico-chan... why did we... have... to run?" she managed to ask.
"I-it was just easier this way," Nico said. She didn't want to wait for the others for fear they might interrupt her plans.
"Well..." Honoka seemed to be fine again. "What was it that you wanted to do?"
Nico smiled. "You'll see," She answered before grabbing Honoka's hand again and leading her down the streets toward her house. Once they arrived, Nico had to get her sisters of Honoka before leading her to Nico's room and closing the door.
Honoka sat on the bed and looked around before asking again. "So, what did you want to do?" Honoka was a little on edge, after what being alone in her room with Umi brought about yesterday.
Nico moved from the door to her closet, and she started rummaging through it. She pulled some outfits from the closet and turned to show Honoka.
"I made a few outfits for you. Now it's time for you to try them on," Nico said, smiling.
Honoka froze for a second. "E-eh?" she sounded in surprised.
"No?" Nico's expression saddened.
"Ah.. shoot..." Honoka thought to herself. In this situation Nico had already cornered her. "Ah.. I mean.. I can try them on for you.."
"Yay!" Nico smiled cheerfully.
Nico handed Honoka the two outfits she pulled out while she went back to her closet to pull out a few more. Honoka tried on the outfits. The first outfit was a cream top and shorts, a white jacket with blue stripes, and a yellow ribbon and heels. The second was a black and white top, black skirt, a beige hat with a black ribbon, and beige with black shoes.
"These are nice," Honoka said, looking at herself in the mirror for each outfit. "I can keep these, right?"
Nico handed another hanger to Honoka. "Of course. I just put those together for you. This one as well."
Honoka took off the outfit and put on the next one Nico handed her. It was a yellow shirt with orange pokadots and oranges on the bottom, blue shorts with a flower design on the end, black leggings, a black ribbon with orange stripes, and orange earrings and necklace. Honoka looked in the mirror.
"Hmm, what's with this?" she asked curiously.
"What? It fits you nicely!" Nico said happily. "You look so cute.."
"Eheh..." Honoka chuckled before Nico handed her more. She noticed it wasn't it wasn't an outfit this time, it was a costume.
Honoka got out of the orange outfit and put the costume on. It was a yellow top covering her right shoulder and her breasts. There was no right sleeve, but a separate left sleeve. There was also a long yellow skirt with a red belt. She regarded herself in the mirror.
"Ah.. this is pretty nice," Honoka said.
Nico smiled at Honoka's approval. "Thanks. Maybe we can use this for a single some day. But right now it just looks lovely on you."
Honoka blushed before Nico handed her another outfit. She undressed out of the first outfit and began putting on the next. A dark red top, red plaid skirt with a orange ribbon, red long sleeve gloves, a red ribbon, and...
"Nico-chan... a Santa costume?"
"Eheh, perfect," Nico said, taking in the imagine in front of her.
"Nico-chan..." Honoka wasn't sure why, but she felt a little embarrassed like this.
"I didn't even have to wait for Christmas, and the others haven't seen this.." Nico said to herself, though Honoka heard.
"Nico-chan.. this isn't fair."
Nico looked at Honoka, confused. "Huh?"
"You... you need to dress up too..."
"Eh? Why me? The point was to dress you up in outfits I made for you."
"Yeah.. but.." Honoka looked away, the blush on her face more apparent to Nico. "Santa needs help, you know..."
"Eh..?" Nico was a little shocked.
"You made another outfit, right? To go along with this?"
Nico took a half step back, still surprised. "Well... yeah... but..."
Honoka looked back at Nico and put her hands together. "Please? I want to see you in that outfit as well."
Nico almost couldn't believe what Honoka was saying. She wasn't as shocked that Honoka somehow knew Nico made an accompanying outfit, but that Honoka was asking her to dress up with her. And now the pleading look from Honoka sealed Nico's fate.
"A...alright." Nico said. She slowly turned to her closet to grab the other outfit. She as well wore a red plaid skirt, but with a pink jacket with little antlers and two ribbons in her hair.
"Wonderful," Honoka said, smiling. Now Nico was the one blushing. Honoka gave Nico a hug. "Thank you, Nico-chan."
"Y-yeah..." Nico realized this might be her only chance. "Honoka-chan?"
"Huh?"
"Since we're doing this... let's do one more outfit. Please?"
"A..alright."
Nico pulled out two last outfits from the closet and handed one to Honoka. Honoka undressed one more time and started getting into the outfit. A white dress shirt, black pants, red tie... and...
"This... this is..." Honoka said, looking at herself in the mirror.
A tuxedo. A simple tuxedo. "Wait.. so is Nico-chan..." she didn't finish her thought as she saw Nico. She was right, but she was still surprised.
Nico had on, a simple wedding dress with gloves and the veil.
"Beautiful..." Honoka said, taking in Nico's beauty before her.
"Hehe, thank you," Nico smiled. She pulled out a camera. "One picture?"
"Ah... well..." Nico almost gave her another pleading look. "Alright, alright."
They got close together, and Nico took the picture of them. Then, she turned to Honoka and planted a kiss on her lips. Honoka simply kissed back.
"Thank you, Nico-chan, for today," she said as they pulled away. "It was a lot of fun."
"No, thank you, Honoka-chan," Nico said, a tear touching her eye. "This afternoon was perfect because of you."
"Nico-chan..."
Honoka wiped away the tear, then leaned in a kissed Nico once more. Finally, Honoka decided she needed to go home, and put back on her uniform. She grabbed the bag of the outfits Nico was giving her, gave one last goodbye kiss, and left for her home.
Hey guys, nobodD here! I have quite a bit to talk about in these notes this time. Bear with me a bit.
Firstly, and most importantly, let's talk about season 2 of the anime. I will, for the most part, NOT reference season 2 in my stories for a while. Why? Well, with season 2 we're going to see a lot of changes (ep 1 already had quite a change) and things are going to become more canon (certain things appearing in the anime will feel more official). I want to wait for season 2 to finish so that we can see the end results of everything. As another Love Live author put it, it'll be really hard for us to write stories with the new season in-progress and changing a lot of things. And because this story is underway already, I want to continue writing without having to edit constantly after seeing new things emerge. So I will keep season 2 references away as much as possible. I hope that's okay.
Now, back to this story and this chapter. Originally I had this idea for the previous chapter with only one outfit. But then I thought, this would be a lot better if it were a little dress-up chapter and there were a few outfits. I am a pretty big fan of using fanart to describe outfits in my stories, so that's also a thing. Pixiv has such awesome artists on there. The first costume I described, by the way, is Honoka's from the 6th PV. As I said you can find the pics I used on my dropbox which you can find on my fanfic profile. I figured this would be useful to actually have something visual to work with while reading, haha.
Uhm, ok I think that's everything for now. Catch you next time~