Chapter 19: The Calm Before
Erstin had the most complicate feeling when she was taken to the dorm room Nina and Arika shared. She was thrilled to be able to peek into her blue-haired savior's private life, but at the same time she couldn't help but feel envious.
She wished she could take Arika's place.
I'm such a horrible person for thinking like that. The blond girl scolded herself mentally.
This room was furnished with two single beds and two desks, each sitting on the opposite sides of the room. Obviously the tidy side belonged to Nina and the messy side belonged to Arika. There were also a small kitchen and a bathroom adjacent to the sleeping quarter.
"That Arinko... I told her to clean up after herself..." Nina shook her head as she picking up discarded clothes from the floor and tossing them into the laundry basket. "Arika won't be here tonight, feel free to sleep on her bed..." Nina paused when her amber gaze fell on her roommate's rumpled bed sheet. She sighed. "Never mind. You can sleep on my bed tonight. I just washed my sheet yesterday."
"S... sleep on your b... bed!" Erstin's eyes bulged to the size of tennis balls.
"Of course. I can't make a guest sleeping on such a messy bed." Nina said matter-of-factly. "I'll get you something you can sleep in."
Oh God, oh God, oh God. I am going to sleep on HER bed. Erstin gulped. Her bed. It must smell like her... WHAT THE HELL AM I THINKING?
"Here, you can wear this." Nina handed the half-panicking girl a grass green pajama.
"Thanks."
"It's mine, I hope you don't mind wearing my cloth."
"..."
"Does it still hurt much?" Viola asked. Earlier she had stripped Kruger naked as fast as she could (which was very fast) and was now washing away the salty seawater from the girl's aching wounds with a detachable shower head.
Kruger groaned. "Does my bruised ego count? I can't believe I did something this stupid. I've completely forgotten about those tiny cuts."
"You haven't told me about how you got them in the first place." Viola said, her finger tips caressing the slightly swollen wounds on the naked girl's arms as if trying to sooth the pain.
Distracting... Kruger averted her gaze, determined to look at anything but her girlfriend's delicate fingers moving on her body. Now that just sounds WRONG in my head. "I got myself cut by some broken glasses when I was fighting the fembot this morning."
"Fembot?"
"The girl with light blue hair. She is a robot or something like that."
"Android, you mean?" Viola thought for a second. "I believe her name is 'Miyu'. The cute blond child called her that. So, who won?" She asked.
"It was a draw... I think." The naked girl pouted. "We didn't finish the fight."
"Ara." The chestnut-haired girl chuckled. "There, there. Don't sulk. Want me to do the 'pain, pain, fly away' thing to make you feel better?"
"No!" Kruger blushed furiously. What am I, five?
"Such an dishonest child. You really want me to do that, don't you? I understand, you don't have to ask, I'll do that anyway." Viola hanged the shower head on the wall and bear-hugged the naked girl from behind. "Pain, pain, fly away!" She cooed and giggled, while planting light kisses on her girlfriend's reddened cheeks.
"Your cloth is getting all wet!" Kruger struggled in the older girl's arms.
"I'll just have to take it off then."
"Wait..."
Viola disregarded the other girl's protest and started zipping down her lilac dress. A few seconds later, the two Otomes were as naked as newborns. "Now we don't have to worry about getting my cloth wet." Viola purred and snaked her arms around Kruger's slender waist from behind, pressing her front against her girlfriend's back.
The raven-haired girl had to clam her mouth shut to stop a content sigh from escaping her throat. She closed her eyes and tilted her head back, leaning into the embrace. Being this close the one she loved, the past few months' separation seemed but a faint memory. "Hmm... What are you doing?" She caught the pair of naughty hands and opened her eyes.
"Touching you, of course." Viola admitted shamelessly.
"You don't even want to make up excuses like 'washing my body' or 'applying soap'?"
"Ara, do I have to?"
"Ba-ka... I miss you too." She mumbled, and closed her eyes again.
"Fufufu... My cougar pup said she missed me, my cougar pup said she missed me..." Viola chirped in a sickeningly cheerful singsong voice while squeezing and nuzzling the warm, slippery body in her arms.
"Baka! Viola, you..." Kruger scolded her childish girlfriend, but her lips were quickly sealed by a searing kiss. She leaned back more and put her arm up to grab the other girl's head when she felt a soft tongue diving into her mouth. She is so soft... Kruger moaned into the kiss, darting out her tongue to meet with her partner.
Having shared so many kisses in the past, they soon fall into a familiar pace. They never fought for supremacy, they danced in perfect synchrony. When one advanced, the other would retreat, giving room for the advancing one to roam free. Licking, sucking, nibbling, they took in as much of each other as possible, as if making up lost time for the past few months.
The kiss didn't last long, the shorter girl's knees had started to buckle even before they both ran out of breath. Viola's wandering hands were to blame for that.
"You are so cute when you are like this." Viola's voice was thick with desire. Her teasing remark earned her a muffled protest from her partner, muffled because she had put her hand up to cover the girl's mouth. "Shhh... You don't want to make too much noise, unless you don't mind others hearing what we are doing right now." She took in Kruger's earlobe between her lips after the half-hearted warnings, and her other hand went further down to continue tormenting the raven-haired girl. She almost laughed out loud when the young girl unconsciously bit on her hand.
Like a wild animal. Viola thought, licking the warm water and sweats off Kruger's neck. Such a beautiful beast. She sped up the stroking when she felt the young girl's fingernails scratching her arm in frustration.
Kruger spat out of the fingers she was chewing when she tasted blood. She turned around and pushed her girlfriend against the wall. "I've hurt your hand, you happy now?" She growled at her girlfriend, but her expression softened when she took the Kyoto girl's hands into her own and laced their fingers together.
Viola rested her forehead against the young girl's and sighed. "I only wanted to make you feel good."
"I know." Kruger blushed. Very good indeed... "But you don't have to rush. We are not Searrs' lab rats anymore, we are not in a hurry. It's not like before, when we had to break the security cameras just to steal five minutes together without them watching our every move." She reached up and licked the taller girl's petal-like lips slowly, savouring the soft texture on her tongue. "I am not going anywhere, you can take your time with me."
"Promise?" Viola's question came out sounding very much like a trembly moan. The anticipation alone was almost enough to drive her crazy.
The raven-haired girl stared into her lover's lust-filled crimson gaze and felt a jolt of electricity ran down her spine. "Promise." She breathed, and was pulled into a devouring kiss right after.
They missed dinner.
While the two Otomes taking their sweet time in the hot tub, the rest of the party had took turn washing up in the other bathroom upstairs. Mai made dinner (ramen) with Mikoto clinging on her back like a baby koala, but that was a good two hours ago.
Miyu and Alyssa were still busy hacking into Searrs' database, they had been working on this for the better part of their day. Apparently, stealing electronic information from the world's most influential secret organization was not an easy task, not even for an ex-HiME-power-infused child prodigy plus a super-computer-for-a-brain fighting android.
After the dinner, the recovering biker had fallen asleep in Shizuru's arms while they were watching TV. The couch was not a great place to fall asleep on, so the Kyoto born had to carry her unconscious girlfriend back to the bedroom upstairs. Shizuru's strength surprised everyone, but then again, she was not a seasoned naginata expert for nothing.
Haruka and Yukino had dug out every last blanket and comforter they could find in this place. Fortunately, there were more than enough to go around, so everyone could sleep comfortably tonight. Although there were not enough beds, no one objected to the idea of sleeping on the floor since it was carpeted.
The rest of the gang had turned the dinning table into a poker table. It was after everyone had lost their pants to Chie had they finally realized that the poker cards the grinning grey-haired devil graciously provided was a special deck, the kind that was marked and tempered for party tricks.
After that, they dug out a box of fantasy based role-playing game from under the coffee table and started playing it instead. Youko was the Dungeon Master, Nao was a halfling Rogue who had managed to set herself on fire after she picked open a treasure chest. Aoi was a human Cleric who can only use 'Cure light wounds', and she had no idea how to put out the fire. Chie was a human Paladin with a ridiculously high charisma and a laughably low wisdom, and she had lost her sword and armour after drinking a flask of spiked liquor offered by a pretty girl she met in a bar. Mai was an elf Wizard who went delusional because she forgot to rest after casting one too many spells. Mikoto was a dwarf fighter who was sick as a dog because she ate some poisonous mushrooms she found in a cave. Haruka was a half-orc Barbarian who just kicked awake a sleeping dragon in the eyes. Yukino was a half-elf Druid who was trying to talk to the dragon so it wouldn't kill them, but the problem was she couldn't speak Draconian.
They got wiped out in the next round.
When the suspiciously mellow and wabbly bathrobe clad couple finally came out of the bathroom, Haruka was just about to flip the table.
"You two have been hogging the bathroom for an awful long time." Nao smirked at the two Otomes. "Thank God there are two bathrooms in this house, otherwise we would have turned to popsicles while you two having hot lesbian sex in the hot tub."
"They did WHAT?" Haruka shrieked.
"What else did you think they were doing in there? Read poetry?" The redhead laughed at her own joke. "Ha! Read poetry, that's a good one."
"We were TAKING A BATH! Damn it!" Kruger's cheeks were almost on fire.
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever." Nao waved her hand dismissively.
Kruger was livid, but Viola didn't care about the redhead's taunt. As for now, the Kyoto beauty was meek as a lamb.
She could not go back, not yet. It was not the time. She failed her mission, and on top of that, she got her GEM shattered. Tomoe knew if she crawled back to Searrs right now, she would be severely punished.
She needed to redeem herself.
Besides, she still needed to recover from her injuries before she could do anything. Thankfully, her nano-enhanced body would heal itself faster than normal human body could. Tomoe was planning to use that to her advantage. After all, no one would suspect an injured and amnesic girl, not those fools in Fuuka. She had heard about the failed invasion took place one year ago back when she was still a trainee. Armed with twelve HiMEs, Fuuka was a tough place to take down. But without HiMEs, this place was nothing more than an over-funded private school. Riddled with useless students... powerless, mindless drones too stupid to realize they are nothing more than cockroaches, pests of a human race.
Not like us.
"Tomoe-chan, Fumi-sama said you need more medical attention, so she told me you can stay right here in the lounge. Fumi-sama asked me to keep an eye on your condition, she is really nice, don't you think?"
We are the chosen ones.
"She said you might develop a fever because of the injuries, Fumi-sama is thoughtful like that."
Viola...
"Too bad Nina-chan had to take Ers-chan back the dorm, there isn't enough room for the four of us to sleep in. What a shame. It will be so much fun if we can all sleep here and have a slumber party."
I will find you. You were here for a reason, I knew that. Why else would you show up in Fuuka of all places? Our fates are intertwined, Fuuka's, Searrs', yours, and mine.
"We can tell each other ghost stories, the mood is perfect, don't you think? Have you heard? A typhoon is coming."
We are destined to be together.
"Arika-chan." Tomoe interrupted the babbling girl.
"Yes, Tomoe-chan?" Arika asked.
The teal-haired Otome smiled at the enthusiastic young girl and asked. "Would you mind telling me more about this place? Fuuka Academy, right?"
Author's Notes: Blame 808tenshi for the smut. She sent me the urahime doujin and polluted my pure, innocent mind... XD Please read and review.