3rd Contact
"Are we there, yet?" the girl whined from behind her shopping bags.
"It hasn't even been two minutes!" Natsuki replied, rolling her eyes.
Nia let out an unhappy sound and then started walking faster. "I'm really hungry-nii~!" The warm scent of the melon bread still surrounded the bags. The brunette looked over, smirking a bit at the alien girl. It was nice to know that some things never changed. She moved a little closer, their shoulders nearly touching. She still couldn't believe that Nia was really back.
She didn't want to let the alien go again.
Hoisting her own two bags to a more comfortable position, Natsuki looked forward, making sure they didn't miss the turn. People on the streets stopped and stared as they went -- maybe some of them vaguely recognized the vibrant orange hair, or the weird tail hanging from her head. Maybe they were just surprised by the eccentric clothing.
"So," Natsuki asked, "what's with the get-up? Are you a full-fledged Biter, now?"
"Yes!" Nia exclaimed proudly, almost dropping her bags in her excitement. "I trained hard and worked harder and remembered all my training with master and mama-nii~! The Iron Ring was really hard, though-nii~! I completely tore through Heeling, Tracking, and Retrieving!" The girl met Natsuki's eyes with excitement. "My absolute favorite feat was the Tug-of-War-nii~!"
She certainly was good at that. Natsuki smirked. "You're probably the best at that one, right?"
"The best of the best-nii~!"
The girl smiled, happy for the weird alien girl but also a little worried. "So, is that a real Biter collar, nii?" All of the collars looked the same to her, but to the rest of the aliens it seemed like there were obvious differences. A faint itch ghosted across the skin of her throat, remembered sensations of wearing Nia's old Sheep collar.
"You noticed!" Nia exclaimed with excitement. "This is the symbol that Nia is the champion! I beat out all of the other competitors and won the rank of Biter-nii~!"
"Was there a lot of competition?" Natsuki asked, a bit surprised. She figured there would be tests and such, but who else would have been in the running?"
A competitive growl rolled from the taller of the pair. "The little zero number that onii-san gave a name!" Giving Natsuki a deadly serious look, Nia exclaimed, "China was not qualified-nii~! She's loud and tiny and hyper and doesn't think about anyone else!" With a grumble, while Natsuki tried to hold back her laughter, the DearS began walking again. "The little brat had onii-san completely fooled but Lady Io knew that I was the much better choice-nii~!"
Sounds like you're describing yourself, silly, Natsuki thought fondly, but silently. "So, you've been keeping everyone else out of trouble, then?" she asked, having trouble picturing Nia as the policing force.
The DearS giggled as if that was a ridiculous notion. "Nobody gets into any trouble. They're all busy!"
Natsuki tilted her head, her side-tail dangling freely. "Busy doing what? Is there a lot to do in a spaceship?"
"Making babies!" Nia shouted. People all across the street stopped and stared.
Natsuki's bags hit the ground. She stared in disbelief at Nia. "You mean... having..?" She paused. Khi and that big DearS guy were here on Earth. "With... who..?" The realization hit her like a ton of bricks. "Onii-chan?!" she shrieked.
With a grin, Nia nodded. "Yep!"
"But... but..."
"Onii-san does call for help sometimes," Nia reflected thoughtfully, "but Lady Io says I'm not supposed to rescue him in those situations." Her emerald eyes brightened up, and she looked around, seemingly oblivious to Natsuki's state of shock. "Oh, oh! I know this street-nii~! Onii-san's place is right over... there!"
"What do you mean 'those situations?'" Natsuki demanded. Nia was already hurrying off, though, so Natsuki snatched up her bags and rushed after her. "Nia! What situations do you mean!"
A bright grin spread on the DearS' face. "Oh! Come on, Natsuki-nee! You need to meet my cubs-nii~!"
Natsuki's jaw dropped. "Cubs..?" she repeated. "Your... cubs..?" It couldn't be... he wouldn't... she wouldn't...
"My cubs!" Nia affirmed cheerfully. "Come on! Let's go-nii~!"
"Wait..."
"Hurry-nii~!"
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The door was partly open and Nia gracelessly kicked it in as Natsuki hurried to catch up. Is Neneko finished already..? Natsuki wondered, sure that she had locked the door. Without concern, Nia dropped her bags to the floor just inside the door.
Before Natsuki had even gotten a look inside, Nia crouched down and pounced across the room with a playful "nii~!" The brunette hurried in behind her and stopped. There in the doorway, the teen stared incredulously.
Nia was in the middle of the room, with two tiny children caught in her arms, while a third one had caught her from behind, arms wrapped around the Biter's neck. All three kids wore suits just like the one Nia used to wear, but with different colors. The four giggled as they struggled on the floor, tumbling around and over each other.
Three... kids...
Natsuki was so shocked that it took her several minutes to realize that... "None of them are blonde," she whispered, a bit surprised.
"Nope!" Nia replied, letting out a victorious chuckle as she managed to snag all three little girls. Nia sat in the middle of the room, all three children restrained in her lap. The girls looked up at Natsuki shyly, seemingly unsure what to say. Nia was more than ready to speak for them.
Nia nodded to the one on the right, with pale violet hair and bright red suit. "This is Chiya!" The tiny girl waved with her fingertips, all she could move past the Biter's tight grip. Nodding to the one on the left, with a huge mass of bubblegum pink hair and a dark maroon suit, Nia introduced the next one. "This is Miuya!"
The second -ya sank in and then it became clear. These children were... onii-chan's. An angry cloud crossed over the girl's face. All this time she'd been sitting here worrying and fretting over Takeya and Nia and all the others and they were just on some sick, kinky, pleasure cruise doing god only knew what kind of twisted beeping beep.
"And this little bud is Natsuki!"
The words cut through her building anger. Shocked, she looked at the girl in the middle. "Natsuki..?" she breathed out. In pale purple clothing, the little girl nervously looked away. Her hair was a very familiar shade of aqua but her eyes... her eyes were the same warm brown she had always seen in her brother.
"I call her Natsuko, though." She released the girls, who quickly scurried away, though they stayed near, staring at Natsuki. The brunette gently set her bags down on the ground, a little overwhelmed. "I wouldn't want to confuse the little one with the original-nii~!" Nia threw her arms around Natsuki and kissed the dumbfounded girl.
"So... they're..?" Natsuki began, the picture coming clearer.
"My cubs-nii~!" Nia said once again and then spun to face them. She pumped a fist into the air. "Soon to grow into super-awesome Biters-nii~!"
"Yeah!" the girls cried out, each punching up in the air with their tiny fists.
The teen couldn't help but smile at the little future Biters. Nia grabbed the bag of melon bread while she was distracted, pulling out one of the lumpy round loaves. The three girls came closer, suddenly noticing the smell. "You're gonna love this-nii~!" the Biter exclaimed, pulling out four loaves.
With a grin she broke one loaf into three pieces and handed them out.
Nia took a huge bite out of her first loaf. A look of elation filled her eyes and she chomped through the rest of it in seconds. Little cries of excitement came from the kids, and they ran off into the next room with their prizes.
The blond-haired DearS rocked back and forth on her feet and hurriedly wolfed down the second loaf of melon bread. The shorter girl opened her mouth, but quickly closed it, unsure how to say what she wanted. Apparently thinking the motion meant she was hungry, Nia eagerly cracked her third loaf in half and held the bigger portion out to Natsuki.
A little surprised, Natsuki took the bread and nibbled at it, the warmth seeming to bring her senses back. "Nia... did you and onii-chan also... try to..?"
Nia grinned. "Onii-san wasn't interested in a no-boobs Nia type!" she explained happily, to Natsuki's relief. She moved closer, leaning her face very near and tenderly licking Natsuki's cheek. "I wasn't interested in a no-boob onii-san type-nii~," she whispered.
Blushing, Natsuki happily wrapped her arms around the DearS and pulled her closer, her boobs pressed tight in-between their bodies. She looked into Nia's vivid green eyes and felt warmth roll through her body, a feeling like she had been broken and now was whole again. Tenderly, her lips brushed against Nia's and the cat-like girl responded enthusiastically. Caught up in the passion, Natsuki began kissing harder, her eyes closing and her arms tightening, the bread squishing a bit in her grip.
"Nii... ni...." the DearS breathed out needily, sounding as if she'd been longing for this just as much, just as desperately. Their bodies pressed even tighter against each other, hands roaming over each other's backs as their lips remained locked firmly together.
A pleasant breeze wafted in from the open doorway at her back, ruffling their hair and tugging at her shirtdress.
"... n't wait to see her expression," a voice was saying behind her. Before the two could even think to react, there was a stunned shout. "Natsuki?!"
Her eyes shot wide open and she guiltily whirled around, crying out, "Onii-chan?!"