Ch5 - Misunderstandings just keep escalating

Author Notes

It's the Year of the Dog. I want to share this. XD

May you enjoy, wan!~ :P

Clear blue skies - pretty like Honoka's eyes. Fluffy white clouds - soft and gentle like Honoka's girlfriend. Healthy green trees and grass, brown and dark grey for the soil and pathway in which jolly families and individuals walk - scenic like Honoka's date with Kotori is.

"This sort of dates are nice too~ Right, Kotori-chan?" Honoka grins to no one in particular while giving her girlfriend's hand in hers a squeeze.

The ash-brunette turns to her girlfriend and giggles. "What kind of date?"

I'm glad Honoka-chan doesn't find walking in the park for a date boring…

Honoka stops walking to look at Kotori with those blue eyes of hers that shone brightly with affection. "This sort of…relaxing and simple kind of dates."

Honoka-chan… I like spending time with you whether it's relaxing or a little more to the surprising side~

Kotori's cheeks grew warmer as she couldn't remove the eye contact with Honoka's, which made her heart thump harder and faster. "I-"

"AH!"

"H-Honoka-chan?!"

Before Kotori could tell the gingerhead that she felt similarly about the date, a soccer ball flew over and hit Honoka right in the head, causing the gingerhead to be knocked to the ground – unconscious.

Oh my gosh! Honoka-chan?!

"Honoka-chan?! A-Are you alright? Ah! Your forehead is all red now…" Kotori pulled her knocked out cold girlfriend into her arms the moment she realized Honoka was on the ground, and now she was shaking the gingerhead's shoulder lightly, hoping for Honoka to wake up.

"I-I'm sorry! Is Onee-chan alright?" The owner of the soccer ball and culprit for rendering Kotori's girlfriend unconscious had run over, picked up the ball and asked worriedly.

A small boy? Oh, he's the one who kicked the ball…

"S-She's okay." The ash-brunette answered unconvincingly as her expression was full of worry and voice spilling with concern.

"Onee-chan doesn't look okay. Could I help?" The young boy felt really bad as he stared at Honoka's forehead with a huge red circular mark.

"No…It's okay." Kotori shook her head with a frown.

Will Honoka-chan transform like that? If that is so…she'll transform in public! That's not good!

"I know! I'll call the ambulance-"

"No! No…Um…Honoka-chan is just acting…she loves to act. So she's pretending to be asleep now." Kotori shouts and makes up really bad excuses out of panic.

Ah…What do I do?

The young boy stands there awkwardly, though still wanting to be able to do something to help since he felt that he is to blame that the gingerhead older sister was lying on the ground "asleep" right now.

Puppy ears started to grow from Honoka's head which the ash-brunette did not fail to notice with a gasp. "Ah! Honoka-chan is changing!" Kotori panics and her free hand flailed around uselessly.

Oh no! This is bad! How do I hide her ears? How do I stop the transformation in this situation?

The young boy on the other hand covers his eyes with both hands, blushing. "She's changing?"

Ah! The boy is still here too!

Kotori looks left and right for an answer or something to say so that the boy doesn't misunderstand or notice the furry brown ears on Honoka's head. "Ah, no, um, not that changing."

What are you even thinking of, little boy? What are you even thinking of, Kotori?!

"I-I'll take Honoka-chan elsewhere to rest. You don't have to worry about a thing!" Kotori takes a deep breath and lifts her girlfriend up in a bridal carry before running in the opposite direction, while the boy watches as Kotori runs past two empty benches and an available pavilion into the distance.

"What weird and pretty Onee-chans…"

Kotori manages to hide behind some large trees and bushes as she lays the already transforming Honoka on the ground. The warm, magical light flashes and Honoka-dog was resting unconscious under her clothes.

I made it…

The ash-brunette sighs in relief before she reaches over to pick up Honoka's clothes which were unfortunately muddied and wet now when it touched the ground. Loving golden eyes gazed on the rising and falling of Honoka-dog's body, her hand reaches out once again to stroke the now sleeping brown dog's back. The softness of Honoka's fur was so addictive and calming.

I could probably rub Honoka's fur for hours and not get tired of it~

Kotori could not help but grin as she runs her hand up to the back of Honoka-dog's ears, caressing it and giggling at the slight twitch.

I should take Honoka-chan home like this… If I change her now…she won't have clean clothes to change into.

Kotori's cheeks lights up in a pink shade at the idea of her girlfriend naked in the park's toilet. Letting Honoka wear her dirtied clothes doesn't sit well with Kotori too, so the only choice for a loving girlfriend to make is to carry her sleeping girlfriend home to help get her clean.

Wet footsteps and the sound of running water wakes Honoka, but of course, her view is only that of a giant bathtub and a butt. Kotori's butt. Her girlfriend's butt. Honoka-dog swallows hard and barks out of panic.

"Wah! Kotori-chan?! I-I-I didn't see anything! It's only because from where I am. And I- Ahh! I'm a dog again! Oh man, what happened? Did I cause you trouble?" Honoka-dog rambled on and scurried in circles, whining in a low tone her guilt and worry.

Kotori flinches in surprise from the sudden barking but recovers quickly as she watches her girlfriend now in dog form, running about, clearly worried and sorry.

Honoka-chan…You're so cute when you're worrying as a small puppy~

The ash-brunette watched the brown puppy run in circles a number of times before speaking up. "Honoka-chan. Honoka-chan. It's okay. You didn't do anything wrong, you were hit unconscious by a soccer ball."

"A soccer ball?!" Honoka-dog barks loudly as an exclamation and proceeds to lift a paw, using the back to rub her forehead. It wasn't easy so she lowered her head to her paws on the ground instead and rubbed her forehead; she could make out a hint of pain.

Oh my gosh! Honoka-chan… If you do that sort of adorable actions as an adorable puppy, how am I supposed to keep my hands off you!

Kotori could not keep a squeal of delight from bubbling out of her throat, and scooped her girlfriend up into a hug and nuzzle. "Honoka-chan, you're too cute!"

"Eh? What? Kotori-chan…You're embarrassing me…" Honoka-dog whines a protest though she likes how soft her girlfriend's cheek is against her own body, and the smell of her girlfriend up close is really nice too.

Kotori brings her puppy girlfriend in front of her so that their eyes can meet after she calmed down. "So…You got mud on you after you transformed…And I was going to help wash you." Kotori explains with a blush; Honoka and her bathed together many times, sure, but bathing one another is another case all together.

But if I'm washing you while you're a puppy…It shouldn't be as heart-racing and embarrassing…

Honoka-dog nods her consent. "Thank you, Kotori-chan!"

The ash-brunette puts her girlfriend down carefully and turns to get the showerhead. "I'll help wash off the mud first."

I got to be careful not to get water into Honoka-chan's eyes…

Woof! Honoka-dog barks a yes happily, and howled in delight at the sensation of warm water seeping through her fur to clean her, and she also loved the way Kotori's gentle hands runs through her fur from ear to head to body and paws, cleaning her thoroughly. Woof! Woof!

Wet fur is fun to touch too… They are so soft and silky like Honoka-chan's hair~

While Kotori was distracted by her girlfriend's hair as a dog, Honoka herself got overtaken by doggy impulses as she shook her body for the water to fly in all directions, wetting Kotori in the process.

"Wah! H-Honoka-chan..!" The ash-brunette complains with a smile.

Woof! Woof! Honoka-dog runs away from the showerhead and Kotori's hands, more doggy impulses to run.

"Ah, Honoka-chan. Wait!" Kotori puts away the shower to chase after her girlfriend.

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Outside the lively bathroom, a slightly annoyed Yukiho was approaching as she kept hearing the barking sounds which isn't exactly common but certainly was becoming common in her life.

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"Honoka-chan, stop running awayyy." Kotori pleads as she kept missing by a few centimetres or her girlfriend jumps away to avoid being caught at the last moment.

Woof! "But it's fun!" Honoka-dog is enjoying the impromptu game of tag in the bathroom with her girlfriend way too much.

"I got you- ah!" The ash-brunette slips on the wet bathroom floor, her hands managed to catch Honoka-dog who stopped running but ends up touching her lips to Honoka-dog's snout. The warm light engulfs Kotori and Honoka and the bathroom as Honoka changes back to human form.

"Nn…" The now human gingerhead lets out a soft, involuntary moan as Kotori's body weight and hands pressed against her.

H-Honoka-chan?! Did she just..?

Kotori moves her lips away from Honoka's, blinks multiple times as she felt nervous and fidgety. She also lets a short, muffled gasp when she realised where her hand was touching.

I squee- touc- pressed onto Honoka-chan's br-breasts!

Her hands slipped off her girlfriend's bare chest as Honoka moves to look at Kotori, hands rested on Kotori's waist. "Are you okay, Kotori-chan..?"

But before the ash-brunette could answer-

"Ah, Yukiho?" Honoka notices her sister standing where the bathroom door is opened. Kotori flinches and tenses up in Honoka's innocent but not so innocent embrace.

The Kousaka youngest daughter on the other hand counts to 3 three times in her mind, does her best to breathe evenly, before slamming the bathroom door shut.

Kotori whimpers into her girlfriend's bare shoulder. "Honoka-chan…"

"Ah, Kotori-chan! Don't worry! This was my fault to begin with! I'll tell Yukiho-chan, so don't be sad!" Honoka remembered that her girlfriend was still stressing about the chance of Yukiho not allowing their relationship to be approved because of the many times her sister happens to catch them in a very compromising position that tend to have Honoka herself clothless.

"Wait, Honoka-chan! You can't run out naked!" Kotori grabs the gingerhead who was going to run out of the bathroom without any clothes on, plus the ash-brunette herself was wet from Honoka-dog's earlier splashing and running about. And unfortunately, Kotori forgot to prepare towels.

"Ah…Right…What should I do then? I need to tell Yukiho-chan that I'm okay with you seeing me naked." Honoka holds her girlfriend's hands in hers, hoping to transfer her love and assurance to the worrywart Kotori.

Okay with letting me see you naked…

Kotori shook her smoking and reddened head internally; she is more than very embarrassed by Honoka's method of wording.

Yukiho was right outside the bathroom down she slammed however, so she steps away to get two dry towels for each of them. The redhead opens the bathroom door again, startling Kotori who was stepping closer to Honoka, and throws the towels to her older sister.

"Yukiho-chan-"

Honoka's thank you was cut off by the person she wants to thank. "Don't make me worry for you, onee-chan! … And Kotori-san..!" Yukiho scolds her older sister, stops mid-sentence about her older sister's childhood friend and stomps off after she closes the door loudly.

Once again, leaving Honoka to reflect on how she's worrying her younger sister and for Kotori to imagine the worst of her fate.

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But first, the simple-minded gingerhead will get her girlfriend to soak in the bathtub with her; hugging and reassuring the ash-brunette that everything will be okay. Not noticing that Kotori's overall body temperature was super high and her cheeks was a bright cherry red, all because Honoka was clueless to the fact that her skinship in the bathroom was causing Kotori to overheat and had to practice the utmost self-control to not touch Honoka more as she desires.

Author Notes

It's the Year of the Dog! So of course we would want more of our adorable Honoka puppy, right~? *w* …At the expense of Kotori's dignity? XP hehe~

I hope everyone enjoyed the chapter! XD

Leave a comment if you like~ =w= (Honoka and Kotori will get out of the bath soon, get dressed and then take a look at your reviews! XD)