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Chapter 6: Cat Shop
Motoko, Fuka, and Yuki just got home from the store they went. It was around noon and a lot of time to spare to read some of the doujins she bought, Motoko first thought but the thought was immediately shattered as they were met by one of the other tenants of the apartment.
"Oh, you're back," the girl wearing sipping a cup of tea said. "Well, we don't have much time."
"What," Motoko asked the girl as she was quickly dragged from the apartment building to a café in town. Yuki and Fuka who were standing right beside her didn't even say a word as Motoko was being dragged away. "Why did you brought me here?"
"Please," The girl stated harshly banging a cat costume on the table before turning to Motoko with tears on her face. "Help me…"
Motoko was dumb struck. She didn't know what to say as she watched the girl who dragged her there plead in front of her. "I'm going to get bankrupt if you don't help me," she kept saying as she took the same costume and started wiping her nose with it. In the end, Motoko agreed to help the girl with the request that if she could work with a less or more revealing attire. The girl stopped crying and went into an office onto to come out with two cat costumes, one was the more of the comedy side, while the other was the same one as she took out minutes ago.
"Thank you so much, Aoyama-san," said the girl, looking at Motoko who was currently wearing a really revealing cat suit. The body of which looked or more the same with a bunny suit with the difference in the tails. The headgears were automated cat ears and the footwear, were black high heels but with the case of the kendo girl, they were replaced with flats instead.
"I can never get married now," Motoko whimpered as she tried really hard to cover some of her feminine parts. "What do you want me to do anyway, miss?"
"Nanami Sarutobi," the girl introduced her self. "Just call me Nami for short and skip the honorifics. I'm one of the tenants of the apartment you currently leave in."
"I see," Motoko said but quickly returned to interrogating the girl. "So why did you drag me here?"
"Well, I would like to ask you to help me run the café for a day," Nami stated but was met with refusing glares from Motoko. "You'll get paid if you help."
"Sorry Nami," Motoko said trying to sound as friendly as she could. "But as a samurai, I cannot find my self serving tea to strangers while wearing this."
"But I'll do whatever you want," Nami continued to plead. "I'll even give you everything in my tea collection."
"You sound like someone I know," Motoko sighed with a sweat drop on her head.
Kitsune was lying at the sofa as she before sneezing. "I guess Naru's talking behind my back again," she sighed before taking another sip from her bottle.
"I heard that Kitsune," Naru shouted as she came into the dorms.
"Oh you guys are back early," Kitsun said with a slight frown before growing into a huge grin. "I guess Keitaro did something stupid again to cut the date so short."
"It's not a date," Naru denied. "Anyway we're going to leave again, we just came to get something from Suu."
"Oh, I guess you guys came to pick the Motoko tracker she's been making for the past few days," Kitsune said matter-of-factly. "I think you're the one who asked her to make it right, Keitaro?"
"Well, she does make a lot of those things that you guys use to search for me right," Keitaro said. "So I thought she could make one for Motoko."
But before the conversation get side tracked with the small chatters, Suu came down from the stairs and jumped on Keitaro's back. On her hands was a beeping machine.
"Here's the thing you asked for Keitaro," Suu said with a grin on her face. "Will Motoko come back now?"
"Maybe Suu," Keitaro said as he held on to the machine. "If we can find her that is. But don't worry, with this we're surely to find her."
"Good luck Keitaro," Suu shouted as she clung harder around Keitaro's neck almost snapping it into two.
"Let go of me Suu," Keitaro chocked but luckily the girl complied. "Let's go Naru, before it get's dark."
Naru nodded. Yet the thought of seeing Motoko after everything she just said was really starting to get to her. "What should I say, wait what should I do," She asked her self. But before she could even decide on the matter, Keitaro was already leading her to the place the tracker was pointing.
"Welcome master," Motoko said with a forced smile as she bowed in front of the door. She was indeed cursing her decision early since she was forced to wear really revealing clothes and serve people who were looking at her perversely. If only she brought her wooden sword, she would be able to hurt those men badly. But sadly being dragged from the apartment to the café without any preparations meant she left it there. If only the woman who dragged her there wasn't so carefree, and where is this woman? Well, she was busily bringing coffee to the customers wearing the same cat costume except her was in the color of red.
"Are you doing okay Aoyama-san," Nami asked as she passed by the kendo girl.
"I'm good," Motoko answered before greeting another customer.
"I was worried at first," Nami said with a small chuckle. "Putting you at customer service was a bad decision at my part. Almost lost a regular," she continued with a small grin. "But looking at you now, you're almost like a natural. Maybe you would like to become a regular employee."
"No thank you," Motoko replied immediately. "I'm already busy with my training as a Shinmeiryu swords woman so I don't plan on taking up any side job."
"Shinmeiryu," Nami asked as she tilted her head in confusion. "Oh, that popular swords school at Kyoto? You're a student there? Then why not act as a body guard here while you're at it," She finished with a laugh.
"Are you intimidating me," Motoko said getting angry at the earlier comment.
"Oh, sorry, sorry," Nami said trying to calm down the angered kendo girl. "I was just trying to tease considering you are getting along with the other two, I thought I could get closer to you a little more."
"I see," Motoko said while calming down a bit. But before she could continue with her sentence she saw two familiar figures passing through the windows heading for the door. "If the next two customer's ask if I was hear please tell them 'no'."
"Eh," Nami asked but was ignored because Motoko has already run inside the employee's lounge.
"Are you sure this is the place," Naru narrowed her eyes on Keitaro as he started sweating profusely. "If it's not you know what'll hit you right?"
"I'm sure of it," Keitaro shouted as he tried to save his skin. "The tracker is pointing here. So there can't be any mistake."
"But this is a maid café," Naru tried to argue but whispered. "Or could it be she has reached a point where she's forced to work in such a place?"
"Well I know that but look at the radar," Keitaro said showing the tracker to Naru, it surely was pointing to this place but even Keitaro couldn't stop to think about it. "Maybe telling her to only lay off the mature stuff was a bad move, maybe a should have advised her to stop all the way. But she looked so serious."
The two stopped daydreaming after realized they had been standing outside the shop for quite a while now, earning the passerby's suspicious stares. The two looked at each other and decided that it was better to just check the place out.
"Welcome master," a girl wearing a red cat costume greeted the two. Keitaro immediately had blood dripping from his nose and a few minutes added a red knuckle shape dent on his face.
"Is there a Motoko Aoyama staying around here," Naru asked trying to calm down after beating Keitaro. "We're searching for her and we were led here."
"Sorry," the girl answered. "But there's no person going by that name here."
"I see," Keitaro said feeling the angry stare from Naru. He could just hear her say, "I told you Motoko wouldn't be in such a place."
"So what now Keitaro," Naru said coldly at her companion.
"Well, how about we rest here," Keitaro suggested. "We can also use this opportunity to think of another plan since looking at the tracker now, it looks like its still pointing at this place."
"I guess you're right," Naru agreed. "But if do anything perverted here, I assure you you'll see everything in black and white."
Keitaro simply chuckled a little, and asked the girl in front of them for a table. The girl complied and showed them to their sits before leaving with their orders.
"So? Are they gone," Motoko asked immediately as she noticed Nami entering through the doors.
"Well," Nami tried to search for the right words. "Not exactly, they're still out there and here are their orders. Who are they anyway?" Motoko was surprise to hear this and decided to look at the door's window. Surely there they were, Naru and Keitaro sitting at a table next to the windows.
"The man over there is the manager of the all girl's dorm I left," Motoko explained. "And the other is one of the tenants there."
"I see," Nami said. "So mind telling me, why you left? A manager and a fellow tenant won't search for someone who left by her own will, do they?"
Motoko was caught of guard by the question. She didn't expect to tell the people at her new place about her circumstances but it looks like there's no way out of it. "I'll tell you guys when we get back later," Motoko decided before mumbling to herself. "But why would Naru be here? She kicked me out right? It's not like I'm mad at her or anything but I just don't understand her, she was prideful after all."
I feel like this chapter came out quite nicely… emphasis on the "I"… Hehehe… But there are some problems here and there I could just feel it. Anyway… Please stay tune to the next installment of "Himitsu", will Motoko be caught or will something incredibly stupid save her. Oh and to those who continue and are just reviewing my work. I would really like to show my gratitude… With every review you give, how short it might be, I fell like some weights are lifted from my shoulders. Oh almost forgot, If you have any suggestion for a motokoxkeitaro story then please stop by my forum named Motoko's choices. Thanks