5:49 pm
Shimada growled. She was standing over her bed, in her underwear, looking at the lineup of dresses she had set out so she could quickly decide and swap out whatever ensemble she felt wasn't right for the night, and it was utterly contrarian to what she was saying earlier that day at the meet up in the café; turning down the invite to Fumizuki's summer party event, only to have been roped in to it by the most unlikely people. After that it was all downhill as she ran home and took a hot shower before she stood in her room now, cramping her brain before picking up a red strapless dress and looking herself in the mirror.
"Big sis, that's the fourth dress that you've tried on." Minami's little sister lisped as she watched her older sister try on the dress she picked out. Lord knows why she's even been allowed in her room, and for now Minami wasn't paying much attention to anything than what she was putting on so it seemed that had a mutual unspoken agreement.
"Yeah, what about it?"
"Are you going to meet up with Stupid Head?" and by the innocent and sincere, un-ironic way she referred to Akihisa made Minami stop.
"Well yeah." She admitted going back and choosing a two piece outfit and running to the closet to change out, hopefully to avoid Hazuki from seeing her as bright red as a lamp. She was just a very little kid though it was all rendered moot, but Minami was nervous so who could blame her?
"and you want to look very pretty for him don't you?" again, if she wasn't in the closet Hazuki would see her big sister fall over herself right before she burst from the closet with only the skirt piece on.
"Why are you even asking me that?!"
"because of the other times Stupid Head invited you to do things with him." you had to give the kid credit, she was very observant, but it was much to Minami's dismay as her shoulders slumped, and was forcibly flashed back to, yes, the other times she pulled similar events when it came to Akihisa Yoshi.
"Aki." Minami muttered, once more showing that she was avoiding something that she was having trouble admitting to herself. Scratch that, she does know it, she just has trouble understand why she hasn't tried to just say it to him, or how he hasn't caught on just yet, and most stupid of all is that she was hoping Aki could admit it to her first. None of it has happened, and she was still a bit afraid of doing anything about it as it seemed.
"here." Minami was brought out from her thoughts by hearing the lisp of Hazuki, who was holding up a bundle of clothes to her.
"Uh Hazuki?"
"I looked through mom's closet while you were busy looking at the floor, and I found this."
"What? Wait, did you say you got this from our parents room?!" the younger red head smiled brightly to her big sister, innocently pressing the clothes to her arms.
"C'mon big sis, you'll look pretty in it!" typical Hazuki; meaning well, but so young to understand what implications are. Still no harm in trying this for one night, plus she could spend the night at a friend's house to hold off from the yelling for a bit longer. Minami smiled and took the bundle and knelt down so she was eye to eye with Hazuki.
"Thanks Hazuki."
"No problem." Minami smiled and patted her head, and without further delay she took off the half-dressed skirt she had on from earlier, and rolled out the dress she was given before slipping it on. She looked in the mirror, marveling right away at what she had put on
"Hazuki, I…" she was having trouble describing the way she looked, and how she felt, both to her, and to Hazuki.
"Just saying thank you is enough." The little girl smiled, and Minami, her eyes watering up, smiled back.
"Thank you." She said before feeling a grip on her legs. She saw it was Hazuki, giving her a hug.
"Say hi to Stup- I mean, Akihisa, please?" she told her little sister yes, and after a few minutes, got herself to showering, excited and giddy for tonight now that she had something that hopefully Akihisa can notice. It went over her head though that Aki keeps thinking, by joke or moronic sincerity that he thinks she's a guy, even though she keeps disproving that with the way she tries being feminine.
A half an hour went by and Minami was ready, walking out from her room after checking herself in her mirror, she spoke with Hazuki one more time, tanking her on getting her dress for tonight before giving her a hug.
"I guess I'll see you tomorrow." The older sister said as she stood back up.
"Bye big sis!" the little one said as Minami Made her way out. She walked down the street, as the sun was at the point that it wasn't yet setting, so the sky was a blazing orange color, the blazing summer heat kept away by the breeze she was feeling. Something else about the day right now though that she was feeling, but she couldn't figure it out just yet. And no the orange hair psycho that tackled her out from the alleyway was not it, though it did suddenly bring to mind a problem that she was overlooking:
"Miharu!" she looked at the girl that barely had her face in her bust if not for Minami holding the weirdo with the drill styled hair back.
"Oh baby you look absolutely gorgeous, I knew you'd want to go all out for me!" this suddenly had Minami in a bizarre spot. Did Miharu possibly know?
"wait what are you talking about?!" but it took just one look at her attacker/borderline harassment-lawsuit-waiting-to-happen to see that she was wearing a linen sleeveless dress to realize that yes she knew about the party, and was waiting for her to come out to attack her.
"oh baby, now we will be able to dance the night and when we get to your house we will be able to coil our naked bodies together!" this spittle of nonsense got to Minami as she tried wriggling her way out from the monstrous grip that had her pinned to the ground.
"Wait Miharu, I'm going with someone else right now!"
"Oh don't be shy! We can have perfectly good time together, you can forget about all those boys, especially that brown haired idiot!" it was a few seconds before Minami felt herself calm down, a weird though as she was panicking a second ago.
"Wait, what just..." she then looked and saw Miharu, lying face first with a massive welt on her head to realize what went on. On the one hand she was finally free, but there was the serious case of her actually beating on Miharu for once!
"Oh crap." The red head muttered as she stood up. Conflicted about what she just did right now.
"Oh, I'm sorry." She said before running down the street, leaving the other unconscious girl on the side walk, no real idea about why she did it other than panicking for her life.
A few more seconds, and the little camera was set up in the corner of the locker room perfectly. The perverted ninja didn't even have much to worry about since the staff was still busy putting in the last minute preparations to this shindig.
Once he was done hooking up his camera wires to his equipment in the custodians closet, and getting the wireless feed from that to his phone, he made like a bug and crawled to the ventilation shaft, his nose dripping by just the slightest bit, and he popped out from the vent he had come in from. Pulling a James Bond he took the shinobi suit he had on off to reveal a very fine, and oddly unwrinkled suit, with a dark blue sports coat and white dress shirt. He didn't need to go all out for this. After dusting himself off and wiping at the blood on his nose he confidently strutted his way out from the school and to the front steps, and down the road since he did agree to meet up with his friends. What, he never decided to start anything early without them.
He kept walking down the path, not paying much mind to anything since he knew he couldn't possibly get caught doing what he did best. He did stop once a familiar presence hit his radius though. He did a 180, looking for whoever decided to get near him.
"As sharp as ever I see." Aiko said standing out in the open, wearing a lemon colored two piece dress with a yellow blazer. As stunning as she looked, Kouta furrowed his eyebrows, always sketchy when his enabler/saboteur in his perverted escapades show's up. "So what do you think?" Aiko struck a pose, but still Kouta gave the same look.
"Fine I guess." He said flatly.
"Oh why say it like that?" Aiko asked despite her cheerful demeanor.
"because that's what it is.' he said before turning and walking back the way he was going.
"And where are you headed? The school is the other way." Aiko caught up with Kouta, who didn't bother trying to outpace her.
"I'm meeting up with my friends, what does it look like?"
"But you were already at the school, why walk back?"
"Because I always meet up with them whenever we meet up. Plus the party doesn't start until later." Seeming a tad disappointed, Aiko let a 'humph' out, and simply kept up with Kouta.
"Okay, I guess that's fair." She said, and Kouta left his retort for another time she let out a quip like that. Both kept walking in silence, walking by the houses and several cars that were driving by, it almost brings to mind how a path can feel longer depending on the direction you travel on it, and Aiko and Kouta… were not thinking that. Instead Kouta focused on something he knew he should have asked earlier.
"What were you doing there, back at the school?"
"What?" if Kouta wasn't imagining things he'd have sworn he just caught her off guard. "Oh, why waiting on you silly!" and just like her bubbly demeanor came back, and his suspicious tragically shot down.
"So you think I'm that predictable?" he said in an attempt to salvage whatever parts of this conversation he had an edge on.
"Only to me of course." She teasingly replied, adding a wink for a bit of a bonus effect on him, but he just scowled it off.
"Don't think you can outdo me Kudou. If you say I'm predictable, then I'm allowed to say the same about you."
"Yeah, but you and only you can say that." God it was like she practiced for this verbal sparring with him. Honestly it wouldn't surprise him if he found out she did.
"So?" he figured this little number could throw her off.
"So what?" Bingo, all that was left was provoke her just a bit more
"So what did you think you could get from meeting me here?" it was a fraction of a second, but he knew he saw her face falter just the slightest bit.
"Why exactly this." She smiled, making it look very natural, and Kouta gave her credit for that since he knew she just made that up from nowhere. Seems like he could finally have her at the disadvantage for once.
"Hey Kouta!" that was until he heard Akihisa call out to him, and turned his attention to him.
Another time. He thought walking up to his fellow F-class student.
"Good thing I didn't get here before anyone else." He said as he nervously laughed, rubbing his head.
"What makes you say that?" Aiko asked practically jumping out from behind Kouta.
"Oh, no reason Aiko." He said as Akira walked up next to him wearing a strapless tube dress.
"Hello you two." Akira said as she stood beside Akihisa, and the two of them went from looking at Akira, to looking at Aki with some very suspicious looks.
"If you wait on the others to get here, I'll explain to everyone there." He mumbled almost like he was half dead now.