Shards Under a Mask

by The Scarf Girls

After the events in Lies Under a Mask, Suwa Nanaka's heart needed to heal. Thankfully for her, she is not alone doing it. This time, Suzuki Aina is by her side to gather all the Shards of her fallen Mask and Heart. How can this affect Aqours, the project and Nanaka herself? Moving on is always hard. The 3 Part of the Masquerade Series.

3. Chapter 3

Notes:

Hi! Misha here!
This Chapter is straightly connected with chapter 02.
May I say that Sarah - the other Author- participate a lot in this chapter since Masquerade it's on hold.

There's a lot of details! please be sure to notice!
Also, there's is sex! raw and hard! you have been warned!
And with no further issues, please enjoy it!

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

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Shards Under a Mask.

Chapter 3.

… change the formality.

Komiya Arisa.

Blood Type B.

Female, skinny, long brown hair, tall, about 163 cm, 22 years old.

She was from Kanazawa prefecture but raised in Shimotsuke in the Tochigi prefecture.

The oldest child in her family.

She started her career as an actress in 2011, but she became famous starring as a yellow buster in a well know Sentai series back in 2012.

She is also known for being a gravure idol.

Her first role as Seiyuu was Kurosawa Dia in Love Live! Sunshine!; the role of a serious 17-year-old girl, who was a Third Year school girl, at an all-female school in Uchiura. Her seriousness and diligence made her almost the most reliable character in the series, but also, the most feared.

Attribute that Arisa and Dia, unfortunately, shared.

The high level of commitment in the Love Live! Franchise made the actresses blend with the characters they voiced at a whole new level, no matter if the characters were far distant and had a lot of differences with them, in the end, they blended.

So, it was hard for even the actresses to tell; when Arisa Komiya began and were Kurosawa Dia ended.

Suwa Nanaka blinked a few times reviewing Arisa's profile.

In a moment of high tension and stress, the human brain worked fast to gather all the "useful" information it could about the threats the person was living; at that moment, that threat was Arisa Komiya, her fellow teammate in the project, her "rival", her Subunit team member, and the "Third Years" leader.

Arisa was a serious person. She was diligent and sharp.

She was there to work, and took everything with such passion, that most of the time she was even a dork about it, a socially awkward person, because, within the looneys that Aqours housed, she just couldn't fit in.

And with reason; she was scary.

"So! I'm listening…" said Arisa with her imperative tone.

Nanaka tightened her teeth; this wasn't the first time she had to face an angry Arisa Komiya or her scolding, but sure, it wasn't funny.

"Why….why don't we discuss this over breakfast?" asked Aina in her sweet tone; of course, her statement made Arisa lock her angry face on her, as well as Nanaka's seriousness.

"Nobody moves from this room until I get answers," said Arisa with an angry tone.

"Why should we give you answers…?" interrupted Nanaka in her low and dry tone.

Arisa closed her mouth with a serious face and locked her gaze on Nanaka; Aina also looked up at Nanaka with astonished eyes.

"Nanaka-san, you are such a pain! I don't even know why I waste myself even trying to be your friend…seriously…" said Arisa still with her angry tone.

Nanaka tightened her teeth and her grip on Aina's hand.

"Arisha, you are so mean…" said Aina trying to defend Nanaka in a weak tone, but the three of them knew that Nanaka was always bitchy towards Arisa, even if she always had the best of intentions trying to help her.

"Seriously?!" snapped Arisa.

Aina just smiled at her shyly, knowing that Arisa was everything but mean towards Nanaka.

"What's with your timing anyway? You are always in the middle..." said Nanaka in her low and bored tone.

"Suwawa, please..." murmured Aina; Arisa just crossed her arms.

"I'm sorry to always be in your way, but as it happens I have to share space with you! And despite all my poor efforts to tell you that you can rely on me, you keep doing this to me! And you keep lying to me!" finished Arisa with her mad tone.

Nanaka raised her eyebrows in surprise.

Of course, Arisa had been always in the way; she had been the only witness to Nanaka and Shuka kissing back in the training camp, and now with Aina, but this time it was worse.

She had caught them doing it.

It was like fate, Arisa Komiya was destined to catch Nanaka in her romantic affairs, in a way, making her stick with her in the lie, in the plan, in short, sticking Arisa's existence to her.

"You are not mad because we were doing it, you are mad because we didn't tell you..." said Nanaka still in her bored tone.

Arisa uncrossed her arms and looked at Nanaka with a serious face.

"Nanaka, I told you that I don't give a shit who are you doing, as long as you tell me, especially if this person is one of the members!" she said pointing at Aina; both raised their eyebrows in surprise.

"Actually, no, I do care, it's not that you have to tell me everything you do outside the project...but...it's, the thing... Jesus Christ! I asked you about this back then, in the taxi, and you lied to me! Suwawa, you were with Shuka, what the hell is this?!" finished Arisa now with her loud tone.

"Are you mad?" asked Aina in her sweet tone.

"I...actually I don't know what I feel right now..." said Arisa softly.

"You feel lonely." mocked Nanaka.

Arisa deadpanned her.

Aina giggled.

"Suwawa, you are being too harsh on her..." said Aina softly.

"Uhm" hummed Nanaka with her "Suwa face".

"Are ya' gonna scold us?" asked Aina shyly; Arisa was about to say something but Nanaka spoke first.

"Why would she? She is always scolding me, and interrupting me in my personal affairs; this is not your business, I do whatever the hell I want, and I'm done apologizing to you, or explaining myself to you; who do you think you are?!" said Nanaka with a frown on her face.

Maybe Arisa was one of the most experienced members of Aqours, maybe Dia and her were equally scary, but deep down, Arisa was a dork, a lonely person that acted as a hard nut to crack.

Someone needed to face her.

Arisa twitched her tongue and chuckled.

Then she looked at Aina.

"I really don't understand what you see in her...actually," then she looked at Nanaka, "I don't understand what they see in you; you are such a pain, stubborn, so unpleasant, so—" Arisa was saying with a very discomforted face.

"Stop stop, Arisha, I can't tolerate this, I'm not going to allow you to speak like that towards Suwawa..." defended Aina, stepping up and facing her.

Arisa bit her lips and then she gave Aina a very pitiful gaze.

Then Aina looked back at Nanaka.

"Suwawa, Arisha is only concerned, guys..." then she looked at Arisa and Nanaka trying to be the "mature one" there, "We are 'Third Years', we are a team, let's not fight...ok?…"

"I'm not fighting! Dammit!" snapped Arisa trying to hold her nerves, "I just wanted my phone! And instead, I find this! You guys doing it! How can this be normal! Where's the decency?! Show some respect! This is my room too!"

"Oh…" murmured Aina.

"Your phone?" asked Nanaka astonished.

We got caught….because Arisa forgot….her phone?!

Nanaka quickly looked down to Arisa's stuff, and effectively, her phone was just there, on her futon.

She mentally facepalmed.

"That's what surprises you?" asked Arisa with an ironic tone.

"Well… yeah…" said Nanaka softly.

"So…ok… there it is…" said Aina pointing at it with her left hand, because her right hand was busy being held by Nanaka.

Arisa deadpanned her.

"I don't care about it…anymore..." said Arisa and took a deep breath, like gathering all her patience, "Are you guys messing with me?"

"Always," said Nanaka.

"No.," said Aina.

Both locked gazes and then giggled.

Arisa massaged her temples.

"Well, guys, I'm sorry, but now I know your secret…" said Arisa in a calmer tone, "I'm sorry Suwa-san, but you are stuck with me once again…"

Nanaka blinked with her boring and usual "Suwa face", like if she had another choice.

Aina smiled wide.

"I think that is fantastic!" said Aina in her happy goofy tone.

Nanaka looked at her with annoyance.

Of course, to Aina, that meant that now Nanaka had to tell the truth about Shuka and her.

At least to Arisa.

"You are not happy…" said Arisa looking for Nanaka's gaze.

Nanaka looked at her still with her boring face, blinked a few times and took a breath.

"Of course, I'm not…" said Nanaka with her serious tone, tightening her hand on Aina's, "My private life is no one else's concern but for me and my partner…"

"Oh, am I your partner?" asked Aina eagerly, looking up and doing some little jumps.

Nanaka looked at her and curled the tips of her lips cutely.

"But what about Shukashuu? Are you cheating on her?" asked Arisa softly.

Nanaka and Aina looked seriously at Arisa once again.

Nanaka took a deep breath while Aina looked at her with sad eyes.

"We...we are not together anymore…we…broke up…" said Nanaka with a knot in her throat.

"Oh…thought so…" said Arisa softly.

"Did you?" asked Nanaka.

"Yes, something was off… you two haven't been fucking in the showers or being cute towards each other for a while…I told you that back in the taxi the other day...and you told me that everything was fine, clearly, you lied to me, again."

Nanaka didn't say a thing, her sight was glued on Arisa's socks.

It was a mix of shame and pain, shame because of the lying thing, and pain because even if that had happened almost a month ago, it was still something sad and painful.

"Suwawa…" called Aina softly by her side, like bringing her back to Earth.

Nanaka looked at her and faked a smile, like telling Aina that everything was ok; "She moved on".

But Aina and Arisa weren't dumb.

"So, that 'fainting' show you had…was that about Shuka?" asked Arisa now with a soft tone.

Nanaka looked at her with her "Suwa face"; damn Arisa and her soul!

"Yes…that day…we broke up…well, Shuka broke up with me…" said Nanaka with bitterness.

"Suwawa be fair! You had to end it! Shuka was a brat!" said Aina trying to tell Arisa the truth.

"Uhm, thought something like that might have happened…it was weird that her outfit was there with yours, thought that she was responsible for you being a mess..." said Arisa, then her eyes were on Aina, "And you knew this…"

"Eh?…me?…yes, I knew that day…but—but because I found her like a moppy mess… and she told me that no member should know…I'm sorry I couldn't tell you…" finished Aina softly, Arisa shook her head.

"It was what Suwa-san wanted…" then she looked at Nanaka, "She always does things like that…"

"What do you mean?" asked Nanaka now more annoyed.

"Well, you always have secrets and lies…" said Arisa.

"That's— hey! Arisa, why do you always think that this is personal? Shuka and I agreed that the members shouldn't know, Aina included, but she found me in that state…and things developed in that way…"

"But that was about a month ago! You have been playing the happy couple all this time!" said Arisa now recovering her mad tone.

There was silence.

Aina looked at Nanaka with sad eyes, but she never said a word, instead, she started to softly caress Nanaka's hand.

Nanaka looked away in shame, as Arisa gave Aina a sad look.

Aina was always there to pick up Nanaka's pieces.

"So, are you two a thing now?" asked Arisa with a softer tone.

"I…are we…?" asked Aina looking at Nanaka.

Nanaka looked at her and raised her eyebrows.

"Eh… I don't know…? Are we?" Nanaka asked back, losing herself in Aina's eyes.

"Eh?!" snapped Arisa.

"So, you two were fucking your brains out and what?… Jesus! I…I need some explanations…" asked Arisa still confused.

Aina laughed and did some more little cute nervous jumps.

"And before you tell me that it's not my business…" said Arisa in a hurry towards Nanaka, "…It is! Suwawa, we are a team! Aqours is important! And if you were having a hard time you should rely on us! You told us about your relationship with Shuka for the sake of being helpful! Now I found you screwing Aina-san, at least tell me what's going on!"

Nanaka tightened her teeth; Arisa was right, she was always right.

She and Shuka agreed to tell the members about the NanaShuka relationship, of course, they had omitted the breakup part, lying to the members about it, and now Arisa had caught them doing it. Yes, it needed an explanation.

"You know? If you had told me that both of you needed space to fuck each other I would have asked for another room… Or I would have set my futon in the spare room or whatever… but… this? This was disrespectful! This is my room too!" scolded Arisa.

"I'm sorry Arisha…" said Aina softly.

"And... actually, if you want to be with someone outside the project it's fine if you don't want to rely on me; but this is Aina-san, it's ANOTHER Aqours member, seriously Nanaka, what the hell?—" Nanaka tried to interrupt her but she couldn't, "So, if you hate the idea that I care, I DO CARE!, I care about you, about Aina and Shuka…because they are part of Aqours, and that's my business too!"

Finished Arisa panting very elaborately, only her noises filling the room.

Nanaka nodded softly.

Of course, Arisa got all the points, set and match.

At the very first moment, she made her relationship public to the members, her relationship wasn't with Shuka but with all the members as well. And now that she was messing around with another, it was a concern for the rest of the members.

"You are right…I'm sorry… and I'm sorry about you having to find out about us...in this embarrassing way…" said Nanaka and bowed politely.

"I'm sorry too…" said Aina bowing too; Arisa nodded.

"Ok…now explain! How long has this been going on?… and what about Shuka?" asked Arisa crossing her arms, so Dia like.

Nanaka frowned; that was what she hated about Arisa, her acting as if she was some superior being.

With her diligent tone, her serious eyes, her bossy posture, her...

"Well…you aren't missing much….right?" asked Aina in her happy tone looking at Nanaka, then she looked at Arisa.

"The truth is that we just started last night… we…hadn't done anything….till last night.." finished Aina red as a tomato, and really embarrassed, as if she was remembering the kisses, the touches….and all the lovemaking.

Arisa opened her eyes wide in surprise.

"Oh my God!, that's why you didn't want to go to the Onsen with me! You wanted to stay here and fuck!" snapped Arisa outraged.

"Not quite…" tried Nanaka.

"Eh…We….we didn't know it would grow this much…? Right?" said Aina still embarrassed.

"Don't fuck with me…I thought you two had been screwing each other for a long time …" said Arisa with a frown.

"Then why are you acting so surprised?" asked Aina.

"I THOUGHT about it, but didn't expect to find you two actually DOING it!" said Arisa with a mad tone, maybe she was recalling her memories from a few minutes earlier.

"We weren't…" said Nanaka, "truth is that we had this 'palpable' thing as you said, but we hadn't crossed the line till last night…"

"Yes…that…why?" asked Arisa surprised.

"Because I'm not a heartless person," said Nanaka.

"Because I'm not a replacement!" said Aina at the same time.

Arisa raised her eyebrows in surprise.

"Woa…ok…calm down…one at a time…" said Arisa.

Nanaka and Aina shared some looks. Then Aina gave Nanaka time for her to speak.

"Ok…" she nodded, "It happened after the September Niconama, Shuka had had enough, she was just overwhelmed by her own jealousy, but she…she just couldn't end the relationship, so I had to do it for her…for us..."

"Ok…" said Arisa with a sad face and nodded.

"Aina found me… I was a mess…and I told her that I didn't want any of the members to know…" continued Nanaka.

"I understand why….then…?" said Arisa now looking at Aina.

"I… I'm her friend…" said Aina and tightened her hand and faced Nanaka; they shared a sweet and tender gaze, "Above everything, I'm her friend…and I've always supported her, and told her that I would wait… for her to heal… for her to move on…"

Aina finished with a coy smile.

Nanaka smiled back at her, and with her free hand caressed Aina's cheek, somehow forgetting that Arisa was just standing in front of them.

Aina was just lost in Nanaka's eyes; she kept licking her lips and was indeed ready to continue giving her some love.

"Hey hey!" interrupted Arisa; both girls looked at her with surprised faces, just remembering that Arisa was still there.

"Sowy…" said Aina cutely.

"Ok, so in short," said Arisa clearing her throat, "you and Shuka are no longer a couple; I'm assuming that you moved on to start doing things with Aina… Am I right?"

Nanaka shared some looks with Aina, then looked at Arisa and both said;

"Yes."

Arisa nodded with a somewhat satisfied expression.

"Ok." and walked to grab her forgotten phone.

Nanaka blinked a few times in surprise.

And that's it? No scold? No more moral speeches?

Just, 'Ok'?

"So…you are ok with us?" asked Aina with surprise seeing Arisa just pass through them.

"Eh?…" snapped Arisa and looked at them seriously, then smiled cockily, "Yes, actually I'm happy for you…both of you…you look happy…"

Nanaka blinked again, surprised and making an "o" with her mouth, while Aina smiled widely.

"Awww Suwawa!" Aina screamed joyfully and hugged Nanaka while making cute jumps.

"You look happy too…Suwa-san…" said Arisa, phone in hand and giving Nanaka a sweet smile; Nanaka smiled back at her, while Aina still hugged her and jumped all over her.

"Ya' heard?! We are 'Arisha proved'!" said Aina still celebrating; Nanaka looked at her smiling sweetly and hummed.

'Arisa proved'? What the hell—
Like I need her blessing…

Aina stopped her cute jumps to look up at Nanaka with lovely eyes, and both understood that they needed to seal the deal with a kiss; so Nanaka hugged her back while Aina tiptoed to reach Nanaka's lips, and they kissed. It was soft and tender, not to mention, quick because Arisa cleared her throat once again.

They broke the kiss with nervous giggles.

"That, doesn't mean I approve you fucking in my face…" said Arisa with diligence, "or fuck in the changing room…decency!"

"Yes…" they murmured but giggled once again and Aina hugged her tightly.

"Now move! We'll be late for breakfast!" said Arisa leaving the room.

"Arisa…" called Nanaka softly but seriously; Aina broke the hug while Arisa stopped in the door frame to look back.

"I…we… we need this to stay as a secret…no other member should know this…"

Arisa frowned.

"See? Secrets and lies…" said Arisa in a tired tone.

"The members think that Shuka and I are still a couple…" said Nanaka.

"Yes, you want to prevent a civil war, I get it…" said Arisa taking a deep breath, "and this is the last thing we need…"

"Yes…"

"Don't worry Suwawa, I've got your back…" said Arisa turning around and leaving the room.

Nanaka blinked a few times with her heart in her throat.

Somehow she didn't feel relieved at all.

"See? She isn't a bad person!" said Aina looking at Nanaka with a goofy smile.

"I know…but now somebody else needs to lie for us…" said Nanaka with bitterness.

Aina gave her a sad smile.

"Well, ya' know what I think…all of this wouldn't be necessary if you opened up to the members…" said Aina with a "matter of fact" tone.

Nanaka gave her a bitter frown; of course, for Aina, it was easy to assume her new role as Nanaka's lover, no minding if Shuka would get hurt, or if the members became angry with each other.

It's like killing people for no reason…

"What?" asked Aina in a very cute tone, with her big shiny eyes, of course, it melted Nanaka's heart.

"Nothing…" said Nanaka and hugged Aina, once again getting lost in a kiss.

A quick kiss this time, not because of Arisa, but because time was still running and they would be late for breakfast, remembering that they were in Awashima to shoot the TekuTeku Aqours, not to be fooling around.

So, very reluctantly, both of them got ready and went downstairs with Arisa to have the deserved breakfast.

It would be a lie to say that they weren't acting like a stupid couple because they were sweet and annoying as diabetes.

They went downstairs holding hands, took similar food from the buffet, kept the silly and loving gazes, fed each other, and of course, kept ignoring the third wheel Arisa at the table.

Arisa did her best to show them her support; the subject about them being a couple was still on, but at least it was in some cheerful and happy mode. Of course, the couple didn't realize that they emanated a lovely vibe, and they were caught daydreaming with each other frequently. It was Aina who pointed that out and was afraid of being all over Nanaka too much while working.

Of course, Nanaka just couldn't care less and gave her a goofy smile about it.

Nanaka was someone who could get easily absorbed in her own happy world, and being in a fancy hotel being fed and loved by Aina made her lost her sense of time and space.

And because Arisa really supported and approved them, it felt even good to be so careless about expressing love toward each other. Of course, no kisses were allowed, mostly because they knew that if they started kissing they just wouldn't be able to stop.

Arisa calmed Aina down, telling her that it was ok for them to keep the lovey-dovey feeling and thingies because of the KanaMari act they needed to do for the cameras, and right now it wasn't just an act but the real deal, and she felt proud about it. So, probably it wouldn't be any trouble if they could just be their gay selves for the sake of the shoot, she bet a platter full of strawberries that The Chief of Staff and his crew would be delighted about it too.

Nanaka and Aina smiled at each other widely.

Indeed, Arisa having their backs was somehow relieving -not that she didn't before, but somehow it felt different back then-, and now it surely made Nanaka more comfortable around her.

For the last year, she could truly feel her friendship.

Changing for the shoot was "painful" for Nanaka and Aina; that feeling of getting undressed in front of each other and not being able to touch, taste or take the other one's skin was hard on them, especially for Aina who was more obvious and weird about it, and this time they weren't alone in the room, the assistants and the makeup and hairstyle artists were there...

"Aina-san! Please behave! We aren't alone!" scolded Arisa trying to not be loud while putting on her shirt.

"Can't help it!" said Aina in her old man tone putting on her skirt.

"Suwawa say something!" said Arisa.

"I can't complain..." she answered in her boring tone; of course, Nanaka being Nanaka, was daydreaming about Aina's body, but she had her "Suwa face" on, making it hard for anyone to tell that her mind was into deep thoughts about Aina.

But of course, their fooling around, silly giggles, and gazes needed to end abruptly when The Chief entered the room to see how everything was going, and it was like a mental switch; at least for Arisa and Nanaka, they started to behave like the professionals they were, Aina was just weird.

Of course, Nanaka asked the hairstylist to do her classic Kanan ponytail, Aina asked for the braid over her hair but, not Mari's loop, and Arisa just asked for a weird half bun with some weird braids as well. She said she didn't want to wear it straight as Dia because it was windy outside and her hair would be a mess as soon as she stepped out of the hotel.

And yes, it was mid-October, meaning it was Autumn, and it was pretty cloudy, chilly, and windy outside.

The girls asked about using the winter outfits since they had them already there, but they got a huge "NO" from The Chief. So they needed to bear the cold as long the shoot was going.

They arrived at the "Rufal" restaurant once again to find out that the whole crew was there.

The girls took a seat at one of the round tables with the Chief.

"Ok girls, we are on schedule!" said The Chief while the girls sat down; Aina in the middle, Nanaka to her right, and Arisa to her left.

One of the assistants gave them the Script for the TekuTeku.

"Oh…wouldn't it be better to have reviewed this last night…?" asked Arisa looking at the paper.

"But we did…we gave you the papers yesterday…" said The Chief.

The girls shared some concerned looks; of course, they had received lots of papers the previous day, but Arisa was more eager to go to the Onsen, while Nanaka and Aina were busy fucking each other, to care about…well, actually…the job.

"So, I'm assuming you have already read the script, so this will be quick…" said The Chief lost in the papers: the girls just opened their eyes wide and buried their sights on their own papers.

"We will start on the pier back in the mainland, for the welcome shoot, Komiya-san will be the MC in the center position, you will introduce yourself and then Awashima" The Chief was saying, the girls just nodded while their sights were lost in the papers.

"Next, the ferry will come to bring you back…it will be good for you to show the inside of the ferry as well since it is wrapped in the Franchise and all…As we want the cleanest scenes we will give you a handy cam to record that; the staff will go downstairs while you take the roof…the trip is only five minutes…Suzuki-san, Suwa-san, are you listening?" finished the Chief with an annoyed tone, seeing that Aina and Nanaka were spacing out into each other's eyes.

"Guys…" tried to scold Arisa, but with a dorky smile.

"Sorry…" said Nanaka softly.

"Ferry, Handicam, Check!" said Aina a low tone.

"Ok, next…" continued The Chief, "you will go down Awashima Marine park's pier, say some few words and go explore!... We will hike to the shrine!"

"EH!" snapped Nanaka.

"Oh…really?" asked Aina.

"Do we…? I mean…are we in comfortable enough clothes to do that?" asked Arisa showing the Chief the school uniform.

"Of course, you must climb it…don't worry, the assistants will provide you with some sneakers…" said The Chief waving off the problem, "We will shoot briefly at the base of the steps; this is 'Kanan-chan's' territory, so it would be good if Suwa-san can say some words…"

Nanaka nodded.

Of course, Kanan used to run up and down those steps every freaking morning without sweating.

Glad she was just a cartoon.

"Remember to point out the similarities of the real thing with the Anime, later our audiovisual staff will edit with some Anime portions and such…" continued The Chief.

"Yes…" said the girls.

Nanaka noticed that the staff was taking notes too.

"Ok, the Shrine is at the top, so you must walk up… it's about twenty minutes or so…" he continued reading; Nanaka looked at Aina with pleading eyes, actually she was feeling tired about the extra exercise she had done the previous night, she didn't know they would be actually climbing the hill all the way to the shrine.

Aina just smiled at her.

"Guys…you sure are really distracted today…Did you sleep well?" said The Chief giving them some "Emas", "As I said, you need to write something down on this 'Emas' for you to hang them at the Shrine….you can write or draw something after we are done here…"

Nanaka took the piece of wood in her hands; the "Emas" were a small wooden plaque, very common in Japan, in which Shinto and Buddhist worshippers write prayers or wishes. On one side, it had the typical "Love Live! Sunshine!" picture of the nine characters, and the other it was blank so she could write down her wishes to later hang it on the shrine.

She couldn't help but frown at it.

"Maybe we could have a stop in the 'Rock Terrace' on the way to the top…" suggested the Creepy assistant with some serious tone.

"Oh…I thought that we could do that on our way down…" said The Chief thoughtfully.

"The climb is a bit hard… the girls might need a break…also to make some touches to their makeup and hair…" added the Creepy assistant.

"Uhm…" hummed The Chief while lowering his papers to see the girls, but his sight was stuck on Nanaka.

He raised one eyebrow.

"You might be right…ok, we will, shoot at the 'Rock Terrace' on the way up…thanks…" and he grabbed a pen and wrote that down.

Nanaka deadpanned him. Of course, she had the lowest stamina in the trio, so this "consideration" was for her.

Dammit! I need to change that!

I need to be more energetic!

"Ok, here the similarities with the Anime are about 'Dia-san' and 'Hanamaru-chan', please point that out…" said The Chief with his sight glued to his paper, the girls just said "yes".

"At the top, well, make sure to ring the bell, pray and bring out your 'Emas' and hang them…" he continued, "Then we will go back down… shoot again at the base of the stairs, and then go to the penguin reserve…"

"Penguins!" snapped Aina in her loud tone.

"Penguins?" asked Nanaka surprised; of course, they had seen them in the Marine Park the day before when they went to the Frog Museum to take some pictures for the "Walker".

"Yes…Penguins…there are penguins in this Marine Park…" said The Chief a bit annoyed.

"Pen-Pen!" shouted Aina excitedly, making her cute claps and leg movements on her chair.

"You didn't read a thing…" murmured The Chief.

"Why…penguins? I mean…they aren't featured in the Anime…" said Arisa.

"Who cares! They are penguins! They are cute! I WANT!" said Aina in her childish tone; Nanaka's heart melted.

"Because they are having a collaboration with us…there are nine penguins, one for each character… don't you want to hold a baby penguin?" asked The Chief.

"I WANT I WANT!" shouted Aina with enthusiasm.

"See?…" said The Chief.

"Jesus…" snapped Arisa.

"I want to hold baby penguins as well…" said Nanaka in a cute tone.

Aina and Nanaka shared wide smiles.

"C'mon, stop it…" murmured Arisa, "So, penguins…"

"Yes, here you don't need to do much, there will be a person from the reserve giving you instructions, but mostly it's holding some baby penguins…" said The Chief waving that off too, "Next, you will walk to the frog Museums…Suwa-san" called The Chief.

"Yes!" snapped Nanaka sitting straight in her chair.

"Here…I need you to be the MC, this is 'Kanan-chan's' house, you need to guide the visit, you are already familiarized with it since the shoot from yesterday; show the tanks, the swimsuits…and the terrace. The shoot will only be outside the Museum." he finished.

"Okay…" said Nanaka nodding confidently.

"You will do great!" said Aina with a smile, Nanaka answered with another one.

"Ok, later, it will be time for you to have some lunch….so we will go to the floating restaurant 'Rikyuu'…of course, they are having a collaboration with us as well…" said The Chief.

"Eh?!" snapped Arisa and Nanaka.

"A floating restaurant!" asked Aina surprised.

"Yes, the one that's on the pier…" said The Chief with a calm tone.

"Oh…" said the girls at the same time.

"Didn't see that…" said Aina.

"Also, isn't featured in the Anime…" said Arisa.

Nanaka just hummed.

"Of course not, not everything should be featured in the Anime, but this will be featured in the 'Walker'…so we will take the chance to take some pictures too…" said The Chief.

"That means that we will have to change our outfits?" asked Arisa.

The Chief looked at her with his eyes opened wide, then looked to his assistants.

"My my, we can't take pictures of the girls…it would be too long for them to change and all, geez… well, we will take only pictures of the food! That's it!" he determined.

The girls giggled; The Chief was human too and made mistake as well.

Of course, they couldn't take pictures in their Summer outfits since they took the trouble of shooting the Walker in the Winter ones.

"Ok, there you will be served the 'Aqours-don', the special menu they have, but not Suzuki-san!" he said with a smug face.

"EH! Why not me?!" asked Aina surprised.

"Maybe they are considering you need to go on a diet…" said Arisa softly, but giggling.

"EH?! I'm not fat! What are you saying!" said Aina in an outraged voice, Nanaka giggled.

The Chief laughed in his loud and particular way.

"No no, you Suzuki-san, you will ask for the 'Usual'…" said The Chief.

"And what the hell is that?" asked Aina in a low tone.

"You…you will see…and you will like it…" said The Chief.

"Maybe it's the kid's menu…" said Arisa still giggling; Nanaka raised her eyebrows.

"EH?! I'm not a kid! I can eat whatever! I'm not picky!" complained Aina, then she looked at Nanaka," Suwawa! I can! Tell them!"

Nanaka shut up abruptly and her cheeks became red as a tomato.

"I…I think Suwa-san gets that…" said Arisa troubled.

"It's a surprise, and you will like it…Remember that your role is 'Mari-chan', she has a fancy taste, be sure that you are on character while asking for the 'Usual'..." said The Chief and dropped the issue.

Aina took a deep breath while Nanaka grabbed her cheeks in embarrassment.

"You…have no shame…" murmured Arisa.

"Also, there is another surprise for 'Kanan-chan'…we will tell you when you are in the restaurant…because I don't know if they could actually make it…" said The Chief scratching his chin.

"Eh?! Why do these two have special things! And do things I don't know about!" complained Arisa.

"Because we are the ones that live in Awashima…" said Nanaka with a smug face.

"Yepyepyep!" said Aina nodding with a smile.

"What's with that…" said Arisa annoyed; The Chief laughed once again.

"Ok, ok, after lunch you will have a 'Numazu Quiz', said the Chief.

"A what?" asked Aina.

"First and Second Years did that?" asked Arisa.

"Of course! They did…well, it's normal that you don't know because you haven't seen their TekuTeku…" said The Chief.

"Ok, and what is it about…?" asked Arisa.

"You…will see...in time…" said the Chief.

"EH?!" snapped the girls once again.

"It's another surprise, you really didn't read a thing last night!" scolded The Chief.

"Sorry…" they said apologetically.

"Ok, moving on…after the Quiz, we will go to the sea lions!"

"Sea lions! Cute!" said Aina with energy.

"Again, none of that is featured in the Anime…" said Arisa bitterly.

"But it is on the 'Walker', without you of course…it will be fun! You can play with the Sea Lions…" said The Chief, "Just follow the instructions from the staff …"

The girls just nodded.

Maybe this was just some random activity to fill the program; Awashima was actually quite small, and there wasn't that much to see in the island. Maybe the attraction that lasted the most was just climbing to the Shrine.

"And finally, you will walk back to the hotel, where we will have some shots by the fountain…and in Mari's room."

"EH?! We will visit 'Mari-chan's' room?!" asked Aina surprised.

"Yes, of course…"

"Why didn't I stay there then?… I'm 'Mari'!" said Aina.

"That… are you crazy? That's too expensive…" said the Chief putting his papers away.

"You wouldn't be with us in the room…" said Arisa with a suggestive tone; Nanaka nodded.

"Oh...right…" finished Aina with a sexy tone.

"So, at the fountain…as we took some pictures yesterday…I thought that... could we recreate the scene from the Anime?" asked Arisa.

"Yes, that's a good idea…" said the Chief.

"Great…" said Arisa and wrote that down in her paper.

"The final shoot will be in 'Mari's' room, where a few snacks will be prepared for you, but the most important is for you three to discuss your experience as 'Third Years', it would be great if you combine your experiences of dubbing your characters and the feelings of spending the day in Awashima..." concluded The Chief with a warm smile.

The girls nodded.

"The final and ending shot… will be in the room or its terrace depending if it's too windy…but those are some closing words…any questions?" finished The Chief.

"Yes," said Arisa raising her hand, "When will this be released?…"

The Chief narrowed his eyes trying hard to remember and then said;

"February…twenty-something…maybe… it will depend on how this turns out…anything else?"

The girls looked at each other and shook their heads.

"Ok, then, finish writing on your 'Emas', and let's go! We have a busy day ahead!" said The Chief standing up.

The girls left the hotel and took the branded ferry to the mainland pier to start shooting; of course, it was early and there wasn't a soul walking on Awashima or the pier. The Chief explained that the earlier the better because that way the scenes could be "free of people".

Of course, Awashima Marine Park was closed to the public that day due to this, they just couldn't afford to ruin the shoot because some random fan might appear or by chance spot the girls walking around the place.

But still, they couldn't get rid of the people who actually worked there.

The day seemed sunnier and clearer, but still cloudy and windy; the staff put wireless microphones on them and now were ready to start.

At last, after a month of waiting, "Third Years" was finally able to shoot the famous TekuTeku Aqours.

The shoot started well.

Maybe the fact that Arisa found out about Nanaka and Aina doing their thing really helped to clear things up, at least for Nanaka it was obvious that thanks to that little incident, there was now a bond.

A real bond with Arisa.

And it could be shown in the shoot.

Nanaka was very energetic, cheerful and very nonchalant around Arisa and even comfortable in the shoot. Making more conversation, interrupting more, even "hitting" Arisa as a joke. Indeed very different from the Suwa Nanaka that was shown in the normal Niconamas.

Maybe it was that she just simply felt happy.

Her thing with Aina had finally happened, she felt loved and confident, and having Arisa really supporting them also made her feel happy.

Also, Awashima had this incredibly calm vibe that made you feel at ease with life.

Maybe it was because Nanaka had gotten laid the previous night; maybe the place was indeed beyond wonderful; or because she got laid the night before, Awashima just looked brighter and more wonderful as ever. Maybe everything just mixed inside Nanaka's heart, but one thing was for sure; Awashima was now special for her, not just because her beloved Kanan lived there, but also, her love bond with Aina had started there.

And despite all her poor efforts to try to act as the professional she was supposed to be, she just couldn't hide her love for Aina. Every time she could she was caught staring at her with loving eyes, touching her, grabbing her hand, or petting her. But, as Arisa had told her, no one said a thing about it.

It fitted perfectly with the KanaMari thingie they were supposed to do, so nobody cared about it.

"Ok, Cut!" said The Chief panting very elaborately, "Alright! Let's rest…a few…here, a few minutes…"

"Oh…is he tired already?" asked Arisa looking back between the trees.

"Looks that way…" said Aina with a goofy smile, "Suwawa how you doing?"

"Pretty good…" said Nanaka with a smile.

They were in the "Rock Terrace" on their way to the Awashima Shrine at the top of the hill. The "Rock Terrace" was located after a 15 minutes climb, marking two-thirds of the way up, it was a little viewpoint located a few meters from the main road that allowed the tourists to catch their breath, or lose it because of the outstandingly clear view of all Uchiura bay it had.

Getting to the Shrine wasn't actually climbing a hill, but following very steep steps all way to the top. So it was a very good exercise and no wonder why The Chief was having a hard time, at least the girls were skinny, or in Aina's case, she was in better shape than the Chief due to her dance practices.

The Chief sat on one of the two benches in the Terrace and started drying his sweat.

Well well…and he thought I was going to be the one who would need to rest here…

Serves him right!

Nanaka just took her sight from the poor guy to look at the wonderful scenery, this time enjoying it better without the camera on her shoulder.

"Girls, you should hydrate as well…" said The Chief handing off some bottled water to the girls.

"Thanks," said Arisa taking them.

"It's good that the sun came out…" said Aina opening her bottle.

"You make everything shiny…" said Nanaka nonchalantly, accepting the bottle from Arisa.

"Awww Suwawa!" snapped Aina doing some little jumps.

"The camera is off you know…" said Arisa, "Aina-chan you are spilling water!"

"Sorry!" said Aina in her childish tone.

"I don't need the camera to tell her that…" said Nanaka, her eyes still on the scenery, forgetting the bottled water.

"I know…" said Arisa, "Did you notice how you acted back there?"

"Eh?" asked Nanaka now looking at Arisa.

Aina was drinking water but opened her eyes wide while paying attention to what Arisa was saying.

Arisa looked behind her, making sure that no one from the Staff could hear her; the "Rock Terrace" wasn't big, The Chief sat with the cameraman, drying themselves and drinking water on one bench, while one of the Assistants had just sat on the other one to start drying her sweat as well. In the distance, more voices could be heard, maybe those were from the other cameraman and the hairstyle artist who were slower than the rest and were just catching up.

She signed with her hands for Nanaka and Aina to get closer to her by the railing.

"You two aren't aware of how gay you look…" said Arisa in a whisper.

"But, we are gay for each other…" said Nanaka in her dry tone.

Aina laughed in her old man tone, of course, making all the gazes fall on them.

"Aina-san!" scolded Arisa.

"So—sorry…" she apologized.

"Jesus…" mumbled Arisa looking around.

"What's the big deal; Arisa you told us that it would be fine, right?" said Nanaka turning to them once again, then took some cute sips from her bottle.

"Suwawa that was a really tight close-up of you caressing Aina-chan's cheek…!" whispered Arisa in a concerned tone.

"Oh…yes, you did that…do it again…" Aina asked sweetly at Nanaka's side, of course, Nanaka just couldn't resist, and with her left hand touched Aina's cheek, making Aina rest her head on Nanaka's left shoulder.

Arisa opened her eyes wide.

"Geez! Guys!… the Chief!" whispered Arisa with a small frown on her face.

Nanaka just raised her eyebrows while still caressing Aina's hair and cheek.

"Don't worry…" mumbled Nanaka.

"This is bliss…" said Aina.

"Stop it!" said Arisa now louder, "That is for the camera….save it…"

"Weren't you complaining about it just…now?" asked Nanaka dryly.

"Yes…you were— oh Nana, I love your fingers on me…" said Aina with her mature tone, eyes closed, enjoying Nanaka's touch; but of course, that statement was way out of the line.

Nanaka withdrew her hand from Aina, making her open her eyes abruptly.

"What?!" asked Aina surprised and in her loud tone.

"You, are….dangerous…" said Nanaka softly, but her cheeks bright red.

"See? If you are not careful enough you might end up saying that kind of weird things…on camera…" said Arisa still whispering.

"Got that…" said Nanaka feeling week in her lower half.

"Aww…but—" tried Aina.

"I just…I'm really happy that you two are enjoying each other… but that was caught on camera, I hope my poker face was there too…but guys, I'm concerned…you need to be more careful...I want the best for you, you know?…" said Arisa in a very sweet way.

Nanaka gave her a sweet smile, while Aina a wide one.

"We love you too Arisha!" said Aina in her cute and childish tone; Nanaka looked at her with one eyebrow raised.

Speak for yourself…

Nanaka blinked a few times.

Aina smiled at her and then moved back to fix something about her hair with the hairstyle artist, who arrived panting as well.

"I know you don't love me as Aina-chan does…" said Arisa softly at her side.

Nanaka looked at her with her "Suwa face", blinked a few times and then took a deep breath.

"But, I don't hate you…at least, not anymore…" said Nanaka softly and thinking every word.

Arisa looked at her, astonished.

Maybe it was the mix between getting laid with Aina and the wonders of being in Awashima, but Nanaka felt at total peace with the world. Arisa included.

And despite the fact that she could still be bitching about her, well, whatever, she just could see through her own failure that Arisa wasn't at fault, she had never been, but Nanaka wanted to put her frustrations on someone. And of course, the only one that was fitting enough was Arisa.

And in a way, she let Nanaka do that.

But it was enough.

No matter how many times Arisa herself told Nanaka to stop bitching, that she wasn't the one to blame, that she wanted to be her friend, Nanaka was stubborn enough to still blame her about all her failures.

It started because production had tossed all of Kanan's attributions to Dia because her Seiyuu wasn't good enough, then ended up in the same Subunit with her, giving her the same problems; and it must be said, having Dia, meaning the perfect being of Arisa Komiya, in every Unit, was frustrating.

And adding up to that, maybe Arisa never really supported the NanaShuka relationship as she was doing now with the NanaAinya, it made their relationship hard.

Nevertheless, Arisa supported her, helped her, and was there, trying to be at least a truthful colleague. She was worried about them and wanted the best for them.

And maybe Nanaka was too short-minded to see that back then, but she could see it clearly now...

"I'm sorry, Arisa…" said Nanaka softly, " about everything…I was a jerk…"

"Yes, you were…" said Arisa softly at her side.

They kept silently enjoying the sight, but of course, that made Nanaka uncomfortable.

"You are a jerk too…" retorted Nanaka in her dry tone, Arisa giggled.

"I know…" said Arisa with a chuckle.

"You know, I was trying to change the formalities, and you just ruined it"

"Well…our friendship was never sweet, you want to change that?" asked Arisa now looking at her with one eyebrow raised.

"You…you considerer our relation as friendship?" asked Nanaka a bit surprised, because to herself, "friendship" wasn't the word she would use to define their relationship.

"Yes; You are part of Aqours Nanaka, and I love Aqours, the same way that you are kind enough to keep lying to us about your thing with Shuka because you care, you want to prevent a fight with the members and want to suffer alone… I see you Nanaka…" said Arisa softly, but not making eye contact.

Nanaka was speechless.

"Within the members, with who I feel most comfortable is you and Rikako, because we get each other…and it's nice; I don't want to be soft with you, it doesn't feel right…you like the challenge, you hate to lose, you are a hard worker, you are very diligent, we make a good team, I couldn't ask for a better Subunit and 'Year Member' companion and rival… and I like that you don't hate me anymore… but it would be totally awkward if you started acting sweet and soft with me…" finished Arisa giggling.

Nanaka snorted.

"Don't worry, you aren't my type…" said Nanaka with giggles.

"Good! You aren't mine either!" answered Arisa, and both ended up laughing.

"Ok people! Let's keep going!" said The Chief standing up.

Nanaka looked at him, then at Arisa and smiled.

"Arisha…" she called.

Arisa looked at her with surprise, Nanaka was the only one that didn't use her nickname.

"Yes?" asked Arisa surprised.

"Can we take a picture?" asked Nanaka softly, but with conviction.

Arisa smiled wide and nodded.

"It would be my pleasure…"

Maybe that was the first picture they took together for the sake of having a genuine memory.

Not because they were promoting an event, or new merchandising, or because they needed to for the sake of the franchise, or with other members; this wasn't 'Third years', this wasn't AZALEA, it was just Arisa and Nanaka.

Finally making peace with each other, and recognizing their relationship as friends and rivals.

But, the journey couldn't end there.

The day was just starting; climbing Awashima Shrine was just the first thing of the list.

Of course, when they got to the top, they rang the bell, prayed and did the "Ema thingie". Which was to show to the camera their special and unique "Ema".

Every member wrote and draw some special wishes…

Aina wrote: "I hope that Aqours and all our fans will be able to keep smiling shiningly!" with an incredible picture of Mari with lots of hearts and "shiny stars", and her cat signature.

Arisa as the diligent soul wrote: "I'll work hard so lots of people will know about Aqours and Komiya Arisa!" with a cute picture of Dia and her bunny signature.

And Nanaka was more into the general wishes and wrote: "I hope that Love Live! Sunshine!, Numazu and Awashima will become more popular", she also drew a cute Kanan head and her signature, which is a bit hard to define as a bunny, a cat, or some sort of animal, but her signature was for sure cute too.

They hung their "Emas" but couldn't help noticing the others that were there; it melted Nanaka's heart to realize how many people loved them, the characters, the actresses, the Franchise, Aqours. It was full of "Emas" dedicated just for them, sending them their love and appreciation. It made Nanaka feel blessed to see that there were lots of people cheering for them.

And she couldn't let anyone down again.

So, after hanging the "Emas" and helping Aina do it, they walked down the steps once again to continue strolling around Awashima.

Next was the penguin reserve where the three of them could hold cute baby penguins, and Aina was all over the place with her loud and cute voice, making it hard for Nanaka to not throw everything to the sea and start making out with her in an over cuteness overload.

It was almost noon and it felt like she was losing her strength as her lips and body were far from Aina. It was somehow painful, she was there, but she couldn't touch her, and after what Arisa told her, she needed to be more careful.

Following the schedule, after the penguins, Nanaka guided them to Kanan's house, meaning the frog museum. She guided them through Kanan's stuff and sat on the terrace where in the Anime, Chika and You always came to play with Kanan (Nanaka made sure to repeat that a few times…she wasn't sure why…). They sat there just because they were there, and they just looked good, and the weather was now incredibly nice.

Nanaka played as the host of the house, of course, remembering that it was Kanan's house, she felt the power to do it, and it just needed to be said that she completely nailed it. It was like being the real Kanan herself.

While walking towards "Rikyuu", the floating restaurant, Nanaka and Aina just couldn't take it anymore and in the middle of the walk, they simply held hands, not caring if there was a camera, the staff, the Chief…or God. They needed to touch each other, so they entered into the restaurant holding hands, if that was recorded, well, that was a cute KanaMari point for the fans.

The restaurant was Japanese-style, it had western wooden tables as well as low Japanese tables on tatami.

They sat at a tatami one with their backs to the windows; Arisa in the middle, Aina to her left, and Nanaka to her right.

They presented the "Aqours-don" and Aina did her part asking for the "Usual", that turned out to be an "Aqours-don Mari-chan Special", which was basically a very luxurious dish with lots of salmon and sea urchin; the dish was actually custom made and was not on the menu. All the dishes were nicely decorated with a cute seaweed printed with their characters, a really nice touch.

In the middle of the tasting, Nanaka received the cue from the Chief to stand up and present the "other surprise", which was a HUGE boat of sashimi; the same boat that Kanan brought in on Episode 12 of the Anime. This also was custom made just for the crew.

So the girls got a lot on camera, tasting different cuts of sashimi and their reaction until the Chief shouted "CUT!"

"Nice, ladies!" he said clapping while the two cameramen took their cameras down, "Please don't be rude and leave some for the rest of us!" he finished with his laughter.

Arisa was busy chewing the piece of sea urchin she had just eaten on camera, while Nanaka just blinked about his lame joke, but Aina sure broke into her loud old man laugher.

"I can't promise that…this is really good!" said Aina laughing.

"Glad you like it! Please take whatever you want, but I need to share it with the rest of the crew…" said The Chief, then he turned to his cameramen.

"We should take some shots of the restaurant and dishes for the 'Walker', ok?"

The two guys nodded and stood up from the table and left with The Chief to continue their job.

"I don't know what to take…" said Nanaka looking at the boat; indeed there was a lot to choose from.

"I'll take more sea urchin…it's really tasty and sweet…" said Arisa putting more on her spare plate, "I need to say it, you look quite different today...and I'm glad..." finished Arisa towards Nanaka.

"Eh...? You think so...?" said Nanaka still trying to decide what else to take from the boat.

"Yes, I mean, you are really participating...I don't know...you seem in your element here..." said Arisa taking a bite.

"Mmm, I guess...I'm happy..." said Nanaka putting stuff on her plate, "I don't know what else to take from here..."

"I get you, there's a lot…" said Aina taking stuff from the boat, "it's a shame that the really tasty thing isn't on the boat…"

"Eh? What are you talking about? Did you taste the sea urchin?…" said Arisa with her sight glued on the orange thing.

"Yes Arisha, I have in my 'Aqours-don Mari-chan Special'…but I didn't mean a fish…" said Aina with a "matter of fact" tone.

Nanaka stopped taking food from the boat; then started to sweat bullets.

"What the hell do you mean?" asked Arisa now looking at her side.

"Don't pay attention to her randomness…" said Nanaka in a low tone at her other side.

"I'm talking about Suwawa of course!" snapped Aina with her loud tone and a wide smile, she even leaned forward to lock gazes with Nanaka on the other side.

"Oh Jesus…" said Arisa in a tired tone.

"Ai—Ainya…" said Nanaka embarrassed, her cheeks bright red.

"What?! It's the truth…I'm just dying here—" Aina was saying, but the Chief came back to the table, causing them to shut up abruptly.

"So, did you take everything you wanted?" asked The Chief, of course, he would take the boat away.

Nanaka nodded, Arisa looked at Aina and Aina smiled at him.

"We are fine…are we?" asked Aina looking at the girls; they nodded.

"Ok, I'll take this…" he said bending down to take the boat, once he stood again he added, "I'll ask for the assistant to bring you a jacket…I don't want you to spill on the outfits…besides, it's a bit chilly…"

And he left.

The girls were left there, looking into the nothing with their chopsticks down.

"Ow…he left with the boat…" said Aina with a sad tone.

"I… I think I lost my appetite…" said Arisa still looking into the nothing.

Nanaka just blinked a few times.

"Aww…I have more sea urchin if you want…" said Aina with her goofy tone, "don't be sad about the boat…"

"It's not about the boat…" said Arisa now a bit annoyed; Nanaka grabbed her chopsticks again.

"Eh?…then what?…Geez! Arisha…" said Aina taking her chopstick again too and started eating again.

"I don't know…maybe I've got the image of…well...you two doing your…dirty…stuff—Oh my God! what Am I saying!" finished Arisa covering her face embarrassedly.

Nanaka almost spilled her food as Aina started laughing like an old man.

"Hey- Hey! It isn't funny!" Arisa tried scolding her.

"No? It's hilarious!" said Aina still laughing.

"Oh my…" said Nanaka embarrassed.

"So, are you imagining things?…like the things this morning? or…just imagining new stuff?" asked Aina between laughs.

"EH?!" snapped Arisa outraged "WHAT?!"

Aina looked at Nanaka through Arisa and both share some grins.

"Oh…Arisha, are you having dirty thoughts, about us?…" asked Nanaka with a low tone; Aina giggled.

"What?! NO!… Jesus!" snapped Arisa closing her eyes.

"You know, coz I was having some thoughts…mind if I share them with you?" teased Aina in that sexy mature tone that made Nanaka squeeze her thighs.

"EH?! Aina-san! Decency!" scolded Arisa, then looked at Nanaka, "You! Say something!"

Nanaka blinked a few times, shared a smile with her, and in her low tone said;

"Can't help it, I'm having them too…"

Maybe Arisa had a stroke. But she just covered her face with her hands and made some frustrated sounds from behind them.

Aina and Nanaka just laughed at her; Arisa Komiya was indeed adorable when frustrated.

"Excuse me…" interrupted the Creepy assistant, "The Chief sent me with your jackets…"

"Oh...Sure…" said Aina cutting her laugher, so did Nanaka.

Arisa tried to compose herself too, but she was having a hard time.

The assistant turned around and left as soon as she left the jackets with the girls.

Aina stood up to put the jacket on.

The same way as production had kindly managed to get the matching sneakers for the girls to wear for climbing to Awashima Shrine, they gave them matching dark blue jackets to put on.

But, the only one who stood was Aina, of course, she was so short that she needed to stand.

She looked at Arisa and then her eyes glued on Nanaka.

"Hey…Arisha…" called Aina in her serious tone; Arisa and Nanaka locked gazes with her.

"What? Are you going to share your thoughts?" asked Arisa with bitterness; Nanaka snorted.

"Eh? No no, I…I want to ask you if we could change seats…" asked Aina shyly, maybe afraid of Arisa's reaction.

Nanaka raised her eyebrows in surprise as Arisa smiled at her.

"Can't take it anymore?" asked Arisa.

"I can't, I'm dying here…" said Aina with her serious tone, also smiling shyly.

"Sure Aina-chan…I don't want to be caught in the middle of you two anymore anyway..." said Arisa softly, then looked at Nanaka, "She really loves you…"

And just like that, Arisa and Aina switched seats, and as soon as Aina sat, they hugged.

"Wow…hold on you two…this is a public place…" said Arisa with her eyes as wide as fried eggs.

Aina looked back at her and smiled wide.

"We know! Don't be silly…" said Aina with her fake mad tone, "I just miss her…"

"I miss you too Ainya…" mumbled Nanaka in the hug.

Arisa raised an eyebrow.

"Glad there's no dessert…can't bear this sweetness…" murmured Arisa taking her chopsticks again.

"Are you feeling lonely?" asked Aina with her goofy tone and returning to her seating position.

"No, I'm feeling disgusted…" said Arisa bitterly.

"Aw, don't be silly, we love you! Right?" Aina asked Nanaka, but she was busy chewing.

"Really, you two are unbelievable…Suwawa, I'll have my revenge…you'll see."

"Next time you can bring Rikyako, don't get mad…" Aina said while eating, then turned towards Nanaka, "Should we have dessert in the hotel?"

"Eh?!…" said Nanaka with her mouth full while looking at Aina with astonishment, she had just asked that question with her normal tone, like if it was the most common thing in the world.

Arisa almost spilled her food.

"Aina-chan!" she scolded.

"What?!—you know, for a gravure idol, you take sex very bad…" said Aina still with her serious tone.

"Ainya, it's not that…we are working…" said Nanaka.

Arisa cleaned her mouth.

"Being a gravure idol has nothing to do with sex…" said Arisa with a serious tone, "That's beside the point here…"

"Then why you act so…so …so 'Dia-san'?" asked Aina still eating.

Nanaka just didn't say anything and enjoyed her meal, she couldn't deny that this conversation was quite interesting.

"Maybe we have that in common?… I don't know! It's just… maybe I'm still assuming that you two do those kinds of things?… I also had my process for it when it was about Suwa-san and Shuka—ah… sorry…" finished Arisa looking at Nanaka with sad eyes.

Aina turned towards Nanaka with sad eyes too.

Nanaka just opened her eyes wide and raised her eyebrows. She was just eating.

Maybe…it isn't interesting anymore…

"What?" asked Nanaka trying to play dumb and swallowing.

"Sorry…Aina-san, you both are my teammates, also my friends and those kinds of things are just…you know…I need to process it...I guess…" said Arisa a bit troubled, "I love that you two are together…but I don't want details about sex…also, I don't want to see it or hear it again…Jesus Aina, you are so loud…" finished Arisa in a low conflicted tone.

Aina just laughed.

Nanaka smiled softly and kept eating her lunch; Arisa was right, even if she was a modern 22 years old Japanese girl, gravure idol, bold actress, and from time to time a prickly pear named Dia Kurosawa, watching/hearing two of your colleagues have sex or talk about it, was a bit out of place. Arisa loved them and cared about them, and having now the clear image of them doing it could be a bit troublesome.

"Sorry, I couldn't resist, Suwawa has amazing fingers…besides, you didn't hear me last night—" Aina was saying.

"I don't want to listen to you now…" interrupted Arisa.

Nanaka giggled.

"Suwawa," Arisa called with her serious tone; Nanaka swallowed her food and looked at her with her eyebrows raised, "I wanted to ask you…if you don't mind…how is Shuka?"

Nanaka narrowed her eyes, of course, Arisa was worried about the wellbeing of the Unit, in a breakup, there are two to blame, and no one had said how Shuka was dealing with that. Of course, no one knew, so no one should care about her. But Arisa did.

Silence filled the table.

The only noise they could be heard came from the crew table.

Aina twitched her tongue.

"You don't want to hear me, but want to hear that?" said Aina annoyed.

Arisa looked at her with a small frown.

"I don't want to hear your moans again…and this is important…" said Arisa, she then looked at Nanaka, "Back in the room, I asked about her, she is part of Aqours, of course, I care…she doesn't know that you two—?"

"No.," said Nanaka drily, "She doesn't know…"

Aina left her chopsticks on the table and touched Nanaka's thigh; Nanaka looked at her and gave her a shy smile.

"You should have sat on the other side of me…" said Nanaka softly, of course, Aina being a lefty they could hold hands without troubles that way, but no, Aina sat at Nanaka's right, so both dominants hands were busy with chopsticks.

"I don't care on what side I sit, I just want to be near you…" said Aina softly.

Nanaka dropped her chopsticks and grabbed Aina's hand, entwining their fingers.

They became lost into each other eyes once again, loving, admiring, desiring the other woman.

"Hey…cut it out…" said Arisa in her low tone at her corner of the table, with a little bowl of soup that came with each menu.

"Sorry…" said Aina with her goofy tone.

"So…? How is she? She will freak out when she knows about you two…" Arisa said.

"She can get mad, I don't freaking care!" snapped Aina; Nanaka squeezed her hand.

"Ainya!" she scolded, "Well…to tell the truth…I don't know how she is…about …us…I mean, her and I…" said Nanaka softly.

"You two haven't talked?" asked Arisa surprised.

"Well, we have…a few times…but not actually to talk about our feelings…but to figure out how we should act…" said Nanaka with concern.

"Aqours is first." sentenced Arisa.

"Yes… Aqours' wellbeing comes before us…the Unit needs to keep going on…and two members being in despair could cause a humongous disaster…and not to mention the chaos we might create if we tell the members that we are no longer a couple…and adding up that Ainya and I are something now…" said Nanaka with some sadness in her voice.

"I told Suwawa that she should tell the truth," said Aina in her strong voice, "We are all adults, and I think they can handle it…like you did…" she finished looking at Arisa.

She hummed, took some sips from the soup, then left it on the table.

"I think I don't agree with that, Aina-chan…" said Arisa softly.

Nanaka raised her eyebrows in surprise, and Aina snapped with a weird sound.

"I'm in this mess because I caught you doing it…not because you had the kindness of telling me…I'm not happy about it… And I still believe that dating a member is something… uhh, difficult…and hard, you just can't be jumping from member to member…" said Arisa like putting her ideas in order, "Not all of us are 'adults', and not all of us would take this news with arms open wide…I think Suwa-san is right to think about the wellbeing of the Unit in these difficult times…"

"I can't believe you…" murmured Aina.

"Besides that, you want to make your thing public to the members? I get that you don't care a damn about Shuka's feelings…" said Arisa now with a strong tone towards Aina, "and I can't agree with that, it's like you don't regret your mistakes, you just move on, not minding who has to get hurt in the way!"

Nanaka opened her eyes wide and Aina made another surprised sound.

"Hey hey! That's not true…I—" tried Aina to defend herself, but she couldn't.

"It is! You said it a few minutes ago… Shuka can get mad, you don't care…but what about Nanaka's feelings…?" asked Arisa with a serious tone; Arisa looked at Nanaka and Aina turned around.

"Suwawa…?" called Aina.

Nanaka tightened her lips and her hand holding Aina's.

"From what I understood, they broke up because Shuka was tired of her jealousy rushes, and it was Suwa-san who set them free, but not because they stopped loving each other, but because they were hurting each other…" said Arisa with her serious tone, Aina's eyes became all watery, "So, if you don't care about Shuka, well…so be it, but if you hurt Shuka, you will be hurting Suwa-san…do you want that?"

"No no, of course, I don't!" snapped Aina and hugged Nanaka tightly, "But I don't want to share her!"

"Aina…" called Nanaka softly while being hugged.

Nanaka looked at Arisa with a sad face; Arisa shrugged.

"How are you doing Nanaka?" asked Arisa, "About the breakup? And here…with the shoot…I guess it's not easy to see your ex everywhere…"

Aina separated from Nanaka's body and turned around to face Arisa.

"Now I'm the one who lost appetite! Why are you bringing THAT into the table?!" asked Aina in a mad tone.

Nanaka raised her eyebrows seeing how Arisa had such power over Aina.

"Well, didn't you think that Suwa-san might have trouble moving on with you? And HERE from all places?!" asked Arisa turning again to her food.

"Eh? On the contrary! I thought that here would be excellent!" said Aina with a smug face.

"Excellent?! How?! 'You-chan' is everywhere! Aqours is everywhere! The goddamn franchise is everywhere! And WE are shooting for it here!" said Arisa losing her nerves; Aina jumped in surprise about it.

"I...I thought…" Aina started mumbling.

"You thought?! You didn't think a thing! And I'm surprised because I thought that from all the members you were the most considerate of her! But you are quite cruel…" said Arisa making a set and match point to the conversation.

She ate another sea urchin to set her score.

Aina sniffed and turned around to see Nanaka.

Nanaka had a concerned face, but she was looking at a big piece of salmon.

It was really huge.

"Su—Suwawa…?" called Aina with sadness and some tears in her eyes.

Nanaka hummed.

"Why…is that…we always turn to have some serious conversation around food?…" asked Nanaka with a frown on her face, then opened her mouth and put in the big piece of salmon.

It was tasty.

Aina snorted, but Arisa cleared her throat.

After several seconds of Nanaka chewing and thinking carefully, she swallowed and looked at her fellow "Third Years" members.

"Don't be so hard on Ainya…" said Nanaka in her serious tone, "it's true that here seemed to be a bit difficult….yes, 'You' is here, everywhere…I'm not going to deny that it's been hard to not think about her…I mean, look at the wrapped ferry; it has the official illustration where 'You' and 'Kanan' are hooking arms, or the official illustration of the Sea lions from the Marine Park, it was taken from a picture of us, so…'You' and 'Kanan' are arms hooked once again…because Shuka and I were like that…" Nanaka spoke with a knot in her throat, "Also, the lineup, 'Kanan' and 'You' are always sided by side… I mean…even in the 'Ema'… so yeah… it's like seeing Shuka everywhere here…"

Aina opened her big eyes wide, brought her hands toward her mouth and couldn't help but cry. Maybe realizing that her pushing Nanaka to "move on" quickly and making their move there, in Awashima, where everything was screaming Shuka's presence loud and clear, was a selfish and cruel move.

Like if Aina was forcing Nanaka to fuck her in sight of her previous relationship.

"Oh my God, Suwawa…I'm sorry…" said Aina behind her hands, some tears falling from her eyes.

"Aina, don't cry…" said Nanaka drying her tears with the sleeves of the jacket in a hurry, "You will ruin your makeup…"

"Oh...Aina-san, I'm sorry…" said Arisa quickly while resting her chopsticks.

Nanaka cleaned her tears with soft touches and very carefully, losing herself in Aina's eyes.

"Don't worry…you ok?" asked Nanaka.

"No, I'm not…I…I'm sorry…" said Aina again with all the intentions of continuing to cry.

"I said it's ok…Ainya, this is something inevitable…" said Nanaka still drying her tears.

"How so?" asked Arisa.

"This was something we already knew at the moment of dating a member…I…I work with Shuka; 'Kanan' and 'You' will still be part of the franchise…moving on from one member to another isn't simple, and it will always hunt me… but that doesn't mean I can't move on…" said Nanaka with a sweet tone, and with a gentle touch, she touched Aina's cheek and caressed it softly.

"What we did yesterday, Ainya, I don't regret it…I wanted that too, so it's not your fault…and now I have a special memory in my heart of this place…Awashima is important…"

Aina gave her a coy smile.

"Aww…really? Can you…can you forgive me?" asked Aina shyly.

Nanaka smiled at her sweetly.

"There's nothing to forgive Ainya-chan…" she said in a loving tone, "we can't change the past, but we can create new memories…"

And they couldn't resist it anymore and kissed.

It was a quick peak on their lips but was full of love.

Arisa made a loud sound on her soup, breaking the spell.

"You two…are just like 'Kanan-san' and 'Mari-san'…hopeless…" she said with bitterness.

Aina giggled and turned to her dishes once again.

Nanaka smiled at her and grabbed her chopsticks to finish her lunch.

"And you are just like 'Dia' Arisha…" said Nanaka nonchalantly.

"You think so?" asked Arisa between bites; Aina laughed.

"Yes…you are always looking after us…just like 'Dia-chan'" said Aina, eating too.

"Well, someone has to do it right?… You will ruin Aqours if not…" said Arisa strongly.

Aina and Nanaka giggled.

"It's quite amusing to say something like that in a place like this…" said Arisa concerned.

"'This'? Like Awashima?…" asked Nanaka.

"Yeah yeah, I mean, don't you have the feeling that the girls might be somewhere around here and such…? And we are here as well…" Arisa continued, "I've had this incredible feeling all day, like… I don't know, this place somehow feels magical, that we can be part of the Anime…"

"I get it…I have the same feeling, back in the frog museum, I really felt as if 'Kanan' lived in there…I think that it's really thanks to the people from here that we can feel this way, they put so much effort into transforming this place in a little piece of the Anime…" said Nanaka seriously.

Aina nodded.

"You know…this reminds me of when we recorded Episode nine…" said Aina now taking her soup.

"Eh? How so?" asked Arisa.

"We…had so many troubles voicing that Episode, and we ended up drinking tea…and trying to connect with our characters…I feel like that now…" said Aina taking some sips of soup.

"You need to connect with 'Mari' now?…" asked Nanaka a little bit off.

Arisa looked at them with one eyebrow raised.

"Eh…no no…well...yeah…" said Aina a little bit out of place, "You see, when I was recording that scene…it was hard…because I didn't get what 'Mari-chan' wanted or how she felt… and I couldn't help but reflect her feelings and what was happening in the Episode with…well…what was happening with us…" said Aina shyly pointing at Nanaka.

"Oh…" said Arisa surprised, Nanaka blinked a few times, maybe because she noticed it at that moment.

"We were having trouble, you were with Shuka, and we had these communication problems…" said Aina seriously, "And well, Arisha had always been looking after us…just like 'Dia-chan' was with 'Mari-chan' and 'Kanan-chan', and…I'm feeling that you are doing that right now…" said Aina giggling and looking at Arisa.

Arisa smiled at them softly.

"Well, I understood both of your circumstances, but I couldn't do more…and right now I'm feeling the same way..." said Arisa softly, "But! Remember that I'm not 'Dia', so I'll scold you if you need to be! I'm not suppressing my feelings like her!"

Aina and Nanaka giggled.

"You do, what you need to do," said Nanaka.

"No formalities, we can take it!" said Aina giggling.

They finished their lunch but didn't leave the restaurant.

Not before taking some pictures and signing some things in the restaurant to prove that the Seiyuus had been there and had lunch.

Of course, the restaurant had a lot of merchandise, posters, and things supporting the franchise, and the girls couldn't do less than at least signing some posters.

They came back to their previous seats, of course, to give some continuity to the recording, and they did the "Numazu Quiz" as the schedule said.

The next place they went was to the Sea Lion show, played with "Maaru the Sea Lion", to later go back to the hotel for the final shoot, where it was time for Aina to be the host and the guide on "Mari's house".

They recreated the scene from the fountain from the anime, and even Arisa got hugged as well in a cute group hug. But the truth was that Aina and Nanaka just wanted to hug each other, but it looked cute and accurate to the fact that in that fountain, Dia, Kanan, and Mari started their friendship, and after what Arisa, Nanaka and Aina had talked and exposed their feelings, that hug by the fountain was like sealing their bond right there.

Moving on with the shoot, they went towards "Mari's room" which was truly luxurious and huge. Aina was waiting for Arisa and Nanaka with an expensive and luxurious "Teatime" in Mari's very extravagant style.

Nanaka asked Aina if that was the "dessert" she was talking about, but Aina just broke into laughter while Arisa snorted and murmured that they were hopeless.

Of course, they faced some weird stuff in that teatime remembering that Mari was half Japanese, so it was obvious that there would be some western snacks as well. The three of them were caught by some "grissini with prosciutto", a very well known snack in Italian cuisine. Of course, none of the girls knew that, but Arisa and Aina were the brave ones to try it. Nanaka just stabbed some grapes.

They ended up wrapping up the characters feelings with their own, and somehow it felt really nice after what they had talked at lunch.

And finally the "TekuTeku Aqours with Third Years" ended up with them in Mari's balcony, saying the final and closing words.

The recording ended up nicely and with the Chief telling them to go to their room and change fast because they needed to go back to Tokyo for the Radio recording.

Yes, that day was far from ending soon.

Arisa opened the room and made them enter first; they took their shoes off and took them into the spare room where the hangers were.

"Jesus, what a day..." said Arisa putting her shoes away in a box.

Nanaka took her own box to follow what Arisa did, but...

"OH! This is beautiful!" snapped Aina from their room.

Of course, there was no futon on and the table was there once again.

Nanaka and Arisa shared some looks and then turned to look at Aina in the other room; she just dropped her shoes elsewhere and was glued to the window beside the terrace furniture, watching all of Numazu bay and a beautiful sunset.

"This place is really something….isn't it?" said Aina in her serious tone, dazed by the sun.

Nanaka looked at her with her eyes wide in astonishment; Aina looked so bright, so beautiful and pure…

The sun found its way to show itself through the clouds, giving the room a vivid touch of a yellow and orange hue, making it feel warm and cozy.

Nanaka blinked a few times trying to take a mental picture of Aina under the warmth of the sunset when Arisa interrupted her…

"You should go…" said Arisa standing at her side.

"Eh..? What?" asked Nanaka slowly and faintly.

"Go to her…you two were dying to be with each other all day…" said Arisa in a calm tone.

Nanaka softly turned to lock gazes with her.

Arisa gave her a cocky smile.

"You can have a few minutes with her…I'll close the door…" said Arisa with a soft smile and pushing Nanaka out of the spare room.

Nanaka took a few steps into the hall and looked back at Arisa with a surprised look.

"Just…try not to be to loud…?" said Arisa grabbing the door with an apologetic smile, "And…remember we have to go, so you better be quick…"

Nanaka smiled at her and murmured a soft "Thank you…"

Arisa gave her another smile and slid the door shut.

This trip had indeed been something, not only the chance to connect with Kanan, the project, and the people of Numazu but her bonds with her fellow "Third years" members; with Arisa, finally finding peace, recognizing each other as friends and rivals, finally winning an ally. And with Aina...well, their love being pure and passionate, with someone she could enjoy as her equal.

And it was time to put the cherry on top to this trip, a final memory to create in Awashima.

Nanaka took a deep breath and walked towards Aina, who was still looking out the window mumbling some things about the sight and letting herself be absorbed by the incredible view.

But Nanaka didn't mind that, the ocean would still be the ocean, but Aina was unique and gorgeous under the sunlight, and that beat everything about Mother Nature and her meaningless sunsets.

The room felt hot and almost suffocating, but Nanaka didn't know if it was because of the sun or just that she was feeling very excited and nervous. Walking into that room to meet Aina, that room that had witnessed their love, their passion, their lust…their history together...

My everything…

Nanaka hugged Aina's shoulders from behind in a tight hug, of course, Aina didn't see that coming and jumped in surprise.

"Oh!… Su—Su—Suwawa…" snapped Aina in surprise, but on the very next second, she felt comfortable and brought her hands towards Nanaka's arms and started caressing them softly.

"I love you…" said Nanaka in her low tone into Aina's ear.

It made Aina shiver, and why not, wet too, because she twitched her hips.

"Su…Su—wa—hmmm—"Aina bit her lips at the very second Nanaka's lips were in contact with her cheek; she started to give Aina some soft and cute kisses on her left cheek.

"I…think…that….you…are…more…beautiful than this…sunset," said Nanaka between kisses.

"Ah…Nana, you are totally…getting me…in the mood…here…" said Aina in her mature tone and sexy voice, resisting the kisses.

"We have a few minutes…" murmured Nanaka into her ear, "Arisha approved it…"

And she traced the shell of her ear with her tongue.

Aina let out a soft moan arching her back a bit; she slightly turned her head towards Nanaka with a lustful face, devouring each other with their eyes.

They took their time, to fill their hearts with each other's presence, scent, and love. There was so much love in their eyes, their hearts beating loud in one sound, they just couldn't take it.

And they kissed.

It was a kiss full of passion, of love, and it was just perfect.

But it needed to be short, due to Aina's neck position.

They broke the kiss looking at each other intensely, maybe they were seeing each other's souls, but it was painful and heartwarming at the same time; maybe that was what it was to be in love.

Aina turned around while still looking at Nanaka's eyes; Nanaka tightened the embrace on Aina's body and pushed her back for Aina to sit on the terrace table, this way Aina was at her eye level.

Aina brought her hands towards Nanaka to touch her arms, not braking their intense gaze competition. It was a sight full of love, full of passion and desire.

It was as if they were talking through their gazes; their cheeks slightly flushed by embarrassment, or maybe because of the intense heat between them.

The room was hot, their sweat was noticeable on their temples, and being in that position, in that hot and tender embrace.

Aina gave her a coy smile and never stopped looking at her with her big and shiny eyes.

Nanaka smiled tenderly at her; what she adored about Aina was that she didn't need to use her mask with her, she could always be herself, no fooling around, straight to each other, always looking at each other…

Well, besides that, Nanaka loved Aina because of her cuteness overload and her tiny size, which made her mad about her; she felt that she could just eat her up completely in just one bite…

Mmm, dessert…

Nanaka rested her forehead on Aina's, still looking at her, getting herself lost in her as if she could stay there just looking at Aina and the world could burn for all she cared.

"Suwawa…" Aina called softly; Nanaka just raised her eyebrows like asking "What?"

"I'm….I'm sorry for today…" Aina said softly, almost like a whisper, "I…I thought that we…that here we could start our story fresh…in a new place…I—"

But Nanaka hushed her with a kiss.

A kiss that Aina, of course, answered by closing her eyes and introducing her playful tongue in Nanaka's mouth. They started kissing in a lovely and soft way, even if it wasn't long because Nanaka cut the kiss, again resting her forehead on Aina's.

"Don't apologize… I told you… I don't regret anything about us, yesterday or today…" said Nanaka softly, "I can't change my history with Shuka…she is part of me and who I am now…Who I've become this year…and I have to live with that…"

Aina gave her a sad look.

"But now I'm changing with you…for you…I'm changing once again…and I want to achieve my true goals…" said Nanaka getting lost in Aina's eyes once again, "You make me happy…thanks to you, I have overcome a lot of things…Arisa and I are friends…and…I don't know…I feel happy…" finished Nanaka embarrassed, feeling a lot of fluttering feelings trying to get out of her chest abruptly.

"Suwawa…I…I…I love you so much…" cried Aina.

Nanaka smiled wide.

"I know…" said Nanaka in a low tone as she grabbed Aina's cheek softly but with confidence with her left hand, while her right touched her lower lip and chin, "You know?, I'm done with formalities…"

And with that, Nanaka sent all her senses down the balcony once again, and trapped Aina's lips into hers in another kiss, a passionate one.

Aina rounded her arms on Nanaka's neck and made herself lost into the kiss; both did.

It grew with passion and lust, both biting their lips, playing with each other's tongues and getting incredibly wet, their mouths too.

The room grew with incredible heat, as both started to pant and let out some cute moans into the kisses.

Nanaka felt Aina's hips becoming a little bit inpatient, of course, that made her grin into the kiss; Aina was ready and needed some release.

Nanaka broke the kiss while licking her lips, giving Aina a very intimidating look, her gaze darkened by lust.

Without any warning, and not even taking her sight away from her, Nanaka withdrew her hands off Aina's face to her thighs and spread them abruptly, making Aina snap in surprise.

Aina's eyes widened with astonishment while Nanaka just grinned.

"It's time for dessert…" said Nanaka in her husky tone

Aina smiled shyly but never said a thing, she just entered into a new mode for Nanaka; a shy one.

Aina brought her left index towards her lips, softly biting it and spreading her legs a bit more for Nanaka to have a clear view of her wet purple panties.

Nanaka licked her lips and they didn't need to say anything else.

Her mind felt clear, after that incredible day in Awashima, her goals were set, and she was ready to give Aina her everything and submit into this new relationship, giving herself to her.

Nanaka knelt down, lowering her body as the sun setting in the horizon, telling them that the day was ending, but surely the night was rising, so as the wet sounds and the passion of both girls consummating their love into louder moans.

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It was a really fine Friday night of October 21st, the clouds were threatening with possible rain and a chill, but nothing that a good cup of hot green tea, a warm blanket, and a nice cardigan couldn't take.

Suwa Nanaka was laying in all her 157 cm long self on her couch, resting her head on one side with the help of her purple pillow, and her feet crossed on the other side. The TV was on, of course, her parents were gone, back to Saitama to attend God's know what for the weekend, so there she was, enjoying the warmth of her home, the green tea, the blanket, and her social media.

That morning Nanaka had uploaded to her Twitter account a nice picture of her hugging Aina, the one they took back while recording for the NHK NAOMI's Room TV program, and wrote for the fans to stay tuned because that night the TV show would be broadcasted featuring Second years, but at the end she added "NanaAinya during public recording!"

Of course, the fans went wild.

The picture was extremely cute, there was something in Aina's smile that made Nanaka feel so soft and warm inside. Also, she was smiling nicely too. They indeed looked good together. It was totally different from the picture she had taken with Shuka; so gloomy and not happy at all.

Well, that day after the recording of the performance, it had been the day that Nanaka had realized that she needed to move on for her and Aina's sake, and then, the rest was history.

But the thing was that her Twitter was on fire with responses, favs, and retweets.
She couldn't help but smile wide, not only the picture was cute and warm, but her popularity had started to increase. And of course, that was crucial since the "Third Center" poll was still going.

So, every time she could, she would twit a picture or something to remember the fans to vote for Kanan -meaning her- for the position, and not only uploading pictures, but also commenting in Aina's with some sort of "flirty message" that of course made the fans wild too, and maybe that was giving some results because in the mid poll Kanan was somewhere in the middle of the chart, at least not last.

Her peace was somehow interrupted when the Aqours LINE chat started to get busy.

With lazy fingers, she switched the screen to see what was going on.

It started with Arisa giving "Second years" a good luck message for that night and telling them that they needed to behave because they were representing Aqours, so they better not fuck it up.

So diligent.

But clearly, "First years" didn't take this too smoothly. Of course, the fact that only "Second years" had been invited to the live part of the broadcast was like introducing a huge chili pepper right in their butts. And there they were complaining about their position.

Anchan tried hard to play down the situation, Rikako just answered to Arisa a nice "Thank you!", but Shuka was a complete brat. Of course, she tried to defend "Second years" pride and position in the Unit.

Nanaka massaged her temples; this wasn't "Second years" choice, Production had determined that the end of the story, but it was a little bit annoying that "Second year" was picked for almost everything.
And well, seeing that most of the discussion was Shuka against "First years", clarified to Nanaka that there was no chance that she could come clean to the members and tell them that they had broken, then it would be Shuka against the world.

And yes, she was a kid, but she just couldn't let her deal alone with that kind of fight.

She was about to return to her Twitter when the collateral damage touched her.

HEY! Suwawa! Leash up your girl! ( )

That was Aikyan.

Nanaka blinked a few times, it wasn't her responsibility to leash up Shuka, it was "First year" who had started.
So there was nothing for her to do there, but they continued, and this time she was caught in the middle…

Leave Osuwa out of this! -` д ´-
The 3 of you are taking this out of proportions! don't be so envious! ( 눈 _ 눈 )

Nanaka smiled faintly, indeed Shuka was trying adorably to defend her...

Suwawa you should control your kid! she is throwing tantrums again! 눈 _ 눈

Hey! King! I said to leave her alone! ノ ಠ _ ಠ ノ

Shouldn't you be focused on the program? ( ´) Ψ

Go and play with the adults! Ψ ( ｗ ) Ψ

That was Aikyan.
Nanaka massaged her temples once again, but another message snapped her out from her concerns; it was Arisa in the "Third years" LINE chat.

Jesus with these kids! ( ノ _ 。 )
Suwawa you ok? ( ‿ )

Nanaka smiled faintly since they had come back from Awashima her relation with Arisa had indeed changed.

With diligent fingers, she answered.

Yes, but I don't know what to do…( ＾＾； )

The answer came fast.

Just ignore them!
They will grow tired eventually… （； д ）

Nanaka was about to write but another message came first.

Aina's.

Nanaka felt her heart stop for a few seconds.

Nana! I'm coming home! ( ๑ ᴗ ๑ )
Sorry for the delay! I almost lost the last train! ( 〃艸〃 )
I'll make it up to you at soon as I come back…it's my turn anyway~! ( ๑ ゝ ڡ ๑ )
IM HUNGRY~! ԅ (º ﹃ º ԅ )

Nanaka facepalmed, Aina was just too reckless for her own good.
Of course, Arisa didn't want to read that.

HOLY SHIT! Σ ( ȏ )
AINA-CHAN! this is the THIRD YEARS chat! save that for the private chat! (# 皿 ´)

Oh!
OH! SHIT! (○o○)
IM SORRY ARISHAAAAAA~! Σ (T□T)

What if this was the Aqours' chat?! (# 皿 ´)
You dummy! ( )
I got enough of you two in Awashima... Suwawa I told you not to be so loud! ( ノ _ 。 )

Nanaka giggled.

Of course, that last time, Aina just couldn't be silent and moaned louder than ever.

Poor Arisa was caught in the spare room hearing every single sound…

Nanaka typed.

Sorry Arisha….our bad…( 〃艸〃 )
Ainya-chan! don't worry…come soon~! (Ő ω Ő 人 )

I'm coming~!

EH?! Σ ( )
I hate you guys…(lll- ω -)

Nanaka snorted, of course, that wasn't her intention, she wrote again…

You have such a dirty mind...┐(´ )┌

It wouldn't be a thing…if..
I HADN'T SEEN OR HEARD YOU already… ( ／ ‵ Д ′) ／

HAHAHAHAHAHA! ( ՞ ਊ ՞ )

We said we were sorry…(*´ 艸 )
Geez! Ainya-chan! hurry up! ( ๑ ゝ ڡ ๑ )

Hai Hai! ( ゞ

Nanaka giggled once again and changed the chat to the private one she had with Aina.

Where are you Nyan-chan? （ ﾉ ）

Awww, Nana! ( ๑ 3 ๑ )
I'm dropping off the train!
Has the program started yet?

Nanaka blinked a few times and looked up to the TV, of course, she had totally been ignoring it.

Then she typed.

Not yet…( ๑ ᴗ ๑ )
You are on time…but I'm not eager to see the show! (-‿◦)
I'm eager to see you (ˆ⌣ˆ ԅ )

Awww! NANA! ( ๑ ๑ )
I'm coming I'm coming!~

Yes, you will…( 艸 `)

And then she closed her phone.

If "First years" continued mocking Shuka, she didn't care, she had already given them her "Good luck" message on Twitter, and that was enough, they would nail it and life would continue.

What was important was that Aina was going to spend the weekend with her, and that made her feel butterflies everywhere.

She started giggling for no reason, just because she was feeling happy.

It had been 2 days of not touching Aina or being lovely with her, and that was making her feel impatient. Of course, no sexual intercourse had been had since that last time in Awashima, and that was mostly because Nanaka was busy with work, and Aina was busy with her "Queenty" project.

A project that had started in April of that year, but Nanaka was just starting to feel its presence in Aina's life.

Not because she didn't care, it was because Aina was full of jobs all the time, and at that time of the year Nanaka had been absorbed by Shuka, her relationship, and her own jobs. So clearly she couldn't be a very good friend with Aina and wasn't very aware of her infinity of jobs and full schedule. But now that they were a thing, she needed to pay more attention to what Aina was doing.

Also because this "Queenty" thingy smelled fishy to Nanaka…

For what Nanaka understood, it was a radio program from the A&G+ (the same agency of her "Fuwasata" radio program show) that mixed 5 girls talking nonsense. Well, it was Aina after all…

But lately the program did a turn in the content and somehow the girls had formed a band, and Aina was its vocalist and keyboard player, and on the 23rd they would have an event, so that day she had been at A&G+ headquarters rehearsing for the radio transmission and for the event.

But what gave Nanaka a weird feeling was that Aina was spending too much time with these girls, and in her mind, it was a room with 4 girls and Aina, and all Nanaka's insecurities started to fill her mind.

Because Aina was just too cute.

Nanaka opened her eyes wide.

Yes. That was jealousy.

She put her phone on the coffee table with cold sweat running down her spine.

No no, Nanaka, you are not like this…

This is Aina, she loves you…

Nanaka took some sips from her green tea trying to put herself together when she felt the bell ring.

She almost dropped her tea in surprise.

Ai…Aina!

She left her cup and jumped off the couch, and at her own pace "ran" towards the door.

If Nanaka had a tail, it sure would be wiggling from one side to another.

She opened the door and smiled wide to greet Aina under a very thin sweater, a scarf, and ridiculous sunglasses.

Of course, she took the glasses off, showing Nanaka her beautiful and shiny eyes.

Aina looked at Nanaka and gave her a wide smile.

"I'm home…" said Aina softly.

"Welcome back…" said Nanaka with a warm smile and then move aside to let Aina in.

"It's pretty cold outside…ohhh so warm!" said Aina getting inside, Nanaka closed the door.

"Pardon the intru—oh….—sion." finished Aina softly.

Nanaka just hugged her from behind.

"Oh…Nana…" said Aina softly.

"I've missed you…" murmured Nanaka into her ear.

"Re—really?" asked Aina a little bit weak.

"Of course, I've been waiting for you… I've got dinner, the bath, and all that for you…" said Nanaka in a very sweet way.

"Eh…did you?… You…you shouldn't ha—" tried Aina.

"Why?" interrupted Nanaka, "It's normal that I want to spoil my Nyan-chan right?"

Aina twitched in her spot under Nanaka's embrace.

Maybe this was new for Aina; a very sweet and caressing Nanaka.

"Are….are you ok?….I mean…aren't you just too sweet…?" asked Aina a little bit troubled.

"What…?" asked Nanaka in her boring and low tone.

"Eh…I…" tried Aina a bit confused.

"You don't like it?" asked Nanaka shyly.

"No…no it's not….that…" said Aina moving her head slightly towards Nanaka, both met gazes and their cheeks became red as tomatoes.

"Then, shh and kiss me…"

And they did.

Aina turned around trying to stick to the kiss, but Nanaka made it deeper; Aina had to break the kiss to catch her breath while grabbing Nanaka's cardigan with strength to not lose her balance.

"Ah…Su—Suwa…" tried Aina.

"Should we skip to dessert?…" asked Nanaka into her ear with a husky tone, and tried to balance once again over Aina.

"Dess—oi oi! Wait!" snapped Aina in panic stopping Nanaka and breaking the mood.

Nanaka looked at her surprised.

Aina had rejected her.

"What's with you…? So suddenly…are you ok? Did something happen?…" asked Aina with a shy smile.

Nanaka's smile faded, she put on her best "Suwa face" and walked away.

"Nothing…your sleepers are in the closet," said Nanaka waling inside.

"Eh? Suwawa, what's wrong?" asked Aina, but Nanaka didn't pay any attention and walked back to the couch where she sat with a heavy thud, taking her blanket once again and covering her legs.

Nanaka felt movement in the entrance hall, of course, Aina was taking off her shoes, her scarf, the sweater, and later her shy footsteps towards the living room.

"Suwawa…?" she called.

"Mhmm?" Nanaka murmured not giving her a second glance.

"Are you mad?" asked Aina shyly stopping beside the couch.

Mad?…
Should I be mad?
She rejected me…so…coldly…

"No, why?" said Nanaka, her sight glued to the TV.

"Well...you are acting weird…may I sit?" asked Aina.

"Please…" said Nanaka.

Aina sat by her side, but not too close, it was clear that Nanaka was mad.

"So, the program hasn't started yet…" started Aina slowly; of course not, there was some silly commercial about something that Nanaka didn't even catch.

"Mhmm" hummed Nanaka coldly.

"Ok…Eh…so dinner…you said you made dinner…" asked Aina with a shy smile, but Nanaka's sight was still glued to the TV, "Should I bring it…?"

But Nanaka didn't say a thing.

Aina stood up and walked towards the kitchen, maybe she was really hungry, not for sex, but for real food.

But this was Aina, she was always eager for some rounds, right?

Well, how could Nanaka know? They had only fucked in Awashima, one night, one morning, and a quick oral session before leaving…it wasn't that Nanaka had much information about Aina's sexual preferences…

But Nanaka's train of thought was broken by Aina's old man laugher.

"Oh Suwawa you are hilarious!," said Aina stepping out the kitchen with two cup noodles in her hand, "This is your dinner?"

Nanaka looked at her with an annoyed face.

"And I thought you went into all the trouble of cooking for me…but you got us some noodles…"

"You know I'm not good at cooking…and no! Those aren't our dinner…" said Nanaka annoyed while standing up.

"Then you should be here….serving me dinner….instead of being all gloomy and mad on the couch!" retorted Aina with a strong tone.

"Unbelievable…" murmured Nanaka stepping inside the kitchen, "Put those away…"

Aina went back into the kitchen and did as she was told.

Nanaka opened the fridge.

"I went to 'Seijo Ishii' and brought us food…" said Nanaka dryly.

"Eh?! The gourmet market?" asked Aina surprised.

"It's not a gourmet market…it's a supermarket…" said Nanaka taking out some trays with food.

"It's a gourmet boutique for food!… So fancy…" mocked Aina.

Nanaka put the trays on the counter.

She took some dishes and bowls and started splitting the food.

"So…what did you get?" asked Aina shyly.

"Some soup with clams and shrimps…and some pork cake…I got you a portion of rice…" said Nanaka still serving the dishes.

"Fancy…"

"Shut up…" said Nanaka with her low tone.

"Why are you mad?…" asked Aina shyly.

"I'm not mad…you are annoying…" said Nanaka putting the dishes in the microwave.

"Then…why you got into the trouble of inviting me to see the show and spending the weekend with you if I'm so annoying…?" asked Aina in a strong tone.

Nanaka started the microwave.

Then she looked at her.

Both shared a serious gaze.

"You are annoying with this too…" said Nanaka.

"I don't get you at all….I thought you were happy to see me! You were eager…." said Aina with a concerned tone.

Nanaka blinked slowly and tiredly.

I can't believe this…
She isn't aware of her own actions…

"Forget it…" said Nanaka turning around at the sound of the microwave beeping.

"But…Suwawa…" called Aina almost like whining.

"It's ok…do you want some tea?" offered Nanaka while taking the dishes out.

"Oh, yeah…that would be lovely…" said Aina softly.

Nanaka took out a tray and put the dishes on it, then took out a mug and poured some tea for Aina.

Both slowly went once again towards the living room to start eating.

The TV was on while they dug in, mostly as ambient noise waiting for the NAOMI's Room show to start. That was the main point of the gathering.

While they chitchatted about the day a bit while waiting, and Aina started to tell Nanaka all about her "Queenty" adventures from the day.

Aina was hilarious and pretty funny, and in no time Nanaka forgot her bitterness towards her.

She even asked Nanaka for some piano lessons to improve her performance, which Nanaka said that she would gladly help her.

Suddenly their phones started to ring, meaning that the Aqours LINE was back again; it was time for the Show.

The girls started to comment about the show on the chat.

"Holy shit… I'm nervous…" said Aina resting her chopsticks on her dishes.

"Why? It's prerecorded…" said Nanaka with her low and boring tone.

"Yes…but it's our first time on TV…you should be more eager…" retorted Aina.

"Uhm…I was eager for you more than the show…" said Nanaka softly.

"Ah…well...oh— it's starting!" snapped Aina, Nanaka took the remote and turned the volume up.

The segment started with a brief presentation of Aqours and the Anime with some reactions from Naomi Watanabe herself.

They showed how the Anime had had such an impact in Numazu, showing the wrapped taxis, busses, the train, and the Ferry.

Naomi's face about the Ferry was a poem. Aina laughed like an old man because of it.

Well, it was normal, Numazu had a Sunshine fever, not everybody could get that.

And then a doorbell rang, meaning it was time for the guest's to show.

"Second years" made their appearances into the set while the chat rang furiously.

"Should we set this thing to silent mode…" said Aina putting her phone into the mode.

"We should all be together to see this …instead of commenting on the chat," said Nanaka doing the same.

"Don't be silly it's one AM! There's no house that can take six of us..."

"You are right…" said Nanaka.

"Aww Anchan looks so nervous!" said Aina.

"Shuka too…look," said Nanaka pointing out Shuka while Rikako did her introduction.

"HAHAHAHA" laughed Aina.

"Oh my…Rikako…they are really nervous…" said Nanaka dryly.

"Yes! They look so stiff!" said Aina still giggling.

Then Naomi started talking about the footage, about Numazu but stuck with Shuka's catchphrase and Call&Response.

So they invested a few seconds on explaining it, giving Shuka a lot of screen time.

She even did her Call&Response with Naomi, Anchan, and Rikako.

Nanaka couldn't help but get lost on the screen and feel excited.

Shuka was on TV.

Maybe that feeling was pride.

She smiled.

"Aww they look cute!" said Aina, but Nanaka was glued to the screen with astonished eyes.

Then Naomi made the girls introduce the song, so the 3 of them looked at the camera and introduced "Aozora Jumping Heart".

"OH OH, Rikyako! That's the wrong camera! HAHAHAHA!" said Aina breaking into laughter

But Nanaka had her eyes glued on Shuka.

Her heart was in her throat for 1 minute and 42 seconds. The time the song lasted, and they were on that screen, and all Japan was watching them; all eyes on Aqours, all eyes on her.

The chat, of course, was silent for that whole minute and 42 seconds until the performance ended.

Then they returned to Naomi and "Second years".

Maybe Nanaka and Aina were grinning just like them over the performance.

Also, the chat started again, but Nanaka just didn't pay it any mind, she was still gazing at Shuka and processing the whole performance.

She was on TV.

Nation wide.

A huge step indeed.

Maybe the whole Aqours segment lasted 6 minutes but was 6 minutes of joy and pride.

But in no time the segment ended, while introducing the next guest artist who was no other than Nanjo Yoshino from the duo "fripSide" (meaning one of their predecessors in the Franchise), for this part, "Second years" were still with Naomi commenting about Nanjo and Satoshi, even if the guests' voices were in off, but to tell the truth, Nanaka wasn't getting anything at all.

Aina was commenting on the chat with quick fingers, but Nanaka was just glued to the screen.

"Awww it was amazing!" Aina was saying, still glued to her phone, "Your winks were really cute, I noticed them!"

But she didn't get an answer.

"Wooo! I'm really excited! We did it! And we looked great didn't we?!" continued Aina.

Still no answer.

Aina stopped typing and looked at Nanaka with concern, Nanaka was still looking at the TV, her eyes softened and a wide smile, blinking from time to time, but still glued on the screen.

Aina looked at the TV to understand what Nanaka was looking at; "Second years" were saying goodbye to the camera to move to the next guest.

Aina frowned.

Nanaka was glued on Shuka.

Aina looked at Nanaka again, but with a sad face.

She left her phone on the coffee table, and without saying a thing stood up and in a quick movement, she just sat on Nanaka's legs, facing the TV.

"Oh! Eh?! What the hell—" tried Nanaka, annoyed of course, because Aina had just blocked her sight.

"The program is over! Let's do something else!" snapped Aina.

"I...I get that...what are you doing...?" asked Nanaka annoyed.

"Sitting on you..." said Aina with an angry tone.

"I'm not your one-man sofa, get down!" said Nanaka with a frown in her face and trying to push Aina off her.

"You are my 'Suwa-sofa'... amuse me..." said Aina with a demanding tone and pushing back, and moving her hips very-very suggestively...

Nanaka blinked a few times trying to understand what the hell Aina was doing.

She wanted to be a good girlfriend by "making" dinner, preparing the bath and being all lovely and sweet towards Aina, greeting her very fondly at the entrance, but she had rejected her, and later Aina had demanded to be fed, to amuse her, and had just sat on top of her. Provoking her.

Was Aina toying with her?

Maybe she needed to be more straightforward with Aina? No sweet talk? No fooling around?

For someone like Aina who was very spontaneous and very carefree, this was a challenge. Aina didn't mind others, she just had her way, and if there was collateral damage, she just laughed.

"Killing people for no reason", and this wasn't new, Aina had always said that she used to not mind her surroundings until Mari came to her life, with Love Live! and watching Nanaka she had learned to mind others and to care about them.

Nanaka twitched her tongue.

"You know? I tried to change the formality and everything about it!" said Nanaka.

"Oh really?" said Aina in a very defying tone, moving her neck to the side to see Nanaka.

"Yes, and you make mistakes, you don't regret, so make a conclusion."

And Nanaka hugged her tightly and bit Aina's left ear lobe.

"Oh~ ah...Suwa—" tried Aina, but Nanaka was done with her shit.

She used her right hand to firmly grab Aina's right thigh and softly started to go up to her crotch.

Aina was only wearing a black fluffy mini skirt, with a maybe oversized white blouse, actually, those thighs were screaming to be touched.

This time there's nowhere to run, and I don't care if she is ok with it or not...

Nanaka, with her left hand, grabbed Aina's left breast and started groping it with strength, squeezing her body towards her, she felt some buttons giving out as she started biting and licking Aina's neck, while her right hand lifted her tight skirt up to her hip bone.

"Suwa-Wait...what are ya'—" Aina tried to say, but Nanaka hushed her, biting her left lobe.

"I'm preparing dessert…" said Nanaka huskily into her ear.

Aina moaned.

Maybe that had completely disarmed Aina.

Aina moved her body backward and raised her legs and getting on her knees on the couch to find support, her crotch touching Nanaka's thighs, and in seconds she started to make some friction with Nanaka's lap.

Nanaka opened her eyes wide, somehow the joke was on her, so she stopped her moves.

"Oh..." she said softly, she had a plan, but Aina had her own…

This was what she wanted all along…

Dammit…

Nanaka took a deep breath, trying to figure out how to continue, but Aina was far ahead of her; with her left hand, she lifted the other side of the skirt to have more space to move while her right hand opened her blouse; indeed Aina was so in control, even if Nanaka thought she was.

And of course, Nanaka wasn't happy about it.

Aina was practically using her to rub herself, and that was it.

Geez!

"Ai—Ainya…" called Nanaka softly.

Aina stopped her movements for a few seconds to turn her neck slightly and lock gazes with Nanaka; Aina's checks were red in embarrassment, but her eyes were shouting with lust, maybe Nanaka was angry with her, but she couldn't deny that everything about Aina was just so damn sexy.

"Kiss—kiss me…" asked Nanaka shyly.

And Aina did as she was told while she resumed her hip movements on Nanaka's lap.

Nanaka trapped her lips and started losing her mind while kissing her, her plump lips, her curious tongue, and the cute and soft moans and pants that escaped Aina's lips.

She could totally feel Aina's aroused treasure on her lap.

With her right hand, Nanaka started touching Aina's private place through her panties feeling the wetness, while with her left hand she continued squeezing Aina's left breast, now directly thought her bra.

Aina broke the intense kiss to moan, and of course, that moan was loud and made Nanaka tense up her thighs.

Jesus…she came…

"I guess…dessert is ready…" said Nanaka stopping her movements.

Aina was panting very elaborately and looked at Nanaka with flushed cheeks.

"I… I guess you are right…" said Aina almost in a whisper.

And both understood what was coming; Aina moved to the side and sat on the couch.

"You ok?…" asked Nanaka softly.

"Yes…" said Aina shyly; Nanaka raised her eyebrows in surprise, Aina changed her moods suddenly, and there it was, the "Shy mode" again.

So…she felt vulnerable and shy when it's about oral sex…

Uhm...

Nanaka smiled softly and moved to her side.

"I…it's ok, right?" asked Nanaka trying to hold back her desires.

"Yes…go…go ahead…" said Aina shyly.

But Nanaka smiled kindly.

She went closer and kissed Aina, getting lost in a wet kiss, maybe telling Aina that she wanted to enjoy her more than to actually make her come indiscriminately a lot of times.

But of course, Aina was a bit impatient, so in the next few seconds of the kiss, her hips started to move, giving Nanaka her cue that dessert was ready.

Nanaka started to softly cares Aina thighs until reaching her crotch, and slowly started to rub in circles; Nanaka broke the kiss to start giving Aina some wonderful sensations while rubbing.

"Let's take this off….shall we?" said Nanaka while moving and taking Aina's panties and skirt off.

Aina said a shy "Ok", and watched with watery eyes how very delicate Nanaka was being with her.

Nanaka threw Aina's panties somewhere in the room and kept softly rubbing Aina's clit, making her moan softly at her touch.

Aina spread her legs a bit more for Nanaka to have more access, and with reasons, the room started to be filled with her wetness.

"You, are incredibly wet…" said Nanaka, dazzled by the sight and the sounds.

Aina grunted a few more times biting her lips and trying to hold her voice back a bit.

"It's ok….you can moan freely, my parents are gone…" said Nanaka moving down and kneeling on the floor.

Aina nodded shyly.

Nanaka made Aina sit more comfortably on the couch, her back on the cushions, her knees lifted and exposing her everything to Nanaka.

"You are beautiful Nyan-chan…" said Nanaka looking straight into Aina's more private place; Aina brought her left index to her lips and softly started biting it.

Nanaka couldn't take it anymore and licked Aina's slit from south to north, her inner thighs, and back to Aina's entrance.

Aina started to moan softly at every lick Nanaka took; her tongue curling, twitching and moving intensely inside Aina's treasure. Aina's legs started to tremble, so Nanaka grabbed them firmly with her hands, at the same time trapping Aina's clit between her lips and sucking it fierily.

Aina started to moan louder as she brought her hands towards Nanaka's head, crawling her scalp in an intense grip.

"OH~!—YES~!—Mmmm Dee—Deeper….!" Aina moaned her head now to her back on the cushions.

Nanaka tried to speed up her tongue movements and sucking, seeing that Aina was losing control over her legs and her moans.

It made Nanaka feel relieved that her parents weren't home, Aina was indeed too loud.

She went more south and introduced her tongue inside Aina and started fucking her, moving inside her, twitching her tongue, curling it and sucking everything, filling the room with wet sounds.

"AH— Nana—Nanaka…I'm…AH~AH~!" Aina moaned, she looked down at her crotch to see Nanaka's head between her legs, her deep eyes looking straight into Aina's eyes, lustful gazes as Nanaka was intensively fucking her with her tongue without taking her eyes off her.

"Hmmm, I'm gonna!...AHH~!" moaned Aina, arching her back and getting lost in the intense orgasm.

Nanaka moved a few centimeters off Aina's treasure to look at her; Aina was panting hard, her cheeks very flushed, and her breath very elaborate.

"You ok Nyan-chan?" asked Nanaka shyly between her legs.

"Ah…ye—yeah…geez…Suwawa, what's wrong ….with your tongue…?" asked Aina panting.

Nanaka's right eye twitched and she bit her lips to not tell her joke about the yogurt.

She felt her heart shrinking.

"Uhm…" hummed Nanaka, and gave Aina a long lick from south to north trapping Aina's erected clit between her lips once again, sucking it deeper and giving Aina one last tease.

Aina moaned louder and arched her back.

"Ahh! Su—…Suwawa! No, I...Already….HMMM!"

Nanaka left her clit and licked her lips suggestively, without taking her eyes off Aina.

"Thanks for dessert…" said Nanaka in her husky tone.

"Su...sure…" murmured Aina.

"But I'm not done with you…" said Nanaka moving up.

"Eh…?" snapped Aina opening her eyes wide.

Nanaka sat by her side and grabbed Aina's arm to make her stand.

"Eh…? What are we doing…?" asked Aina confused.

"You wanted to sit in the 'Suwa-sofa' right?" said Nanaka, and guided Aina to sit on top of her, then she hugged her.

"Oh...oh…right…" said Aina softly, receiving the embrace tenderly.

They hugged.

Aina smiled softly at Nanaka's embrace, breathing softly and fully content.

"Thanks for dinner Suwawa…it was delicious…" murmured Aina in her embrace.

"Not as delicious as you…" said Nanaka with a low voice.

"Geez! No…don't say…that…" said Aina embarrassed.

Nanaka tightened her embrace to hold on to Aina's tiny body.

She moved back to lock gazes with Nanaka.

"You ok?" asked Aina with concern.

Nanaka smiled at her softly and nodded.

"I'm ok…" said Nanaka touching Aina's cheek with one hand while giving Aina a loving gaze.

Aina smiled wide at her and hid in the crook of Nanaka's neck.

"I…I love you…" murmured Aina hiding her embarrassment.

Nanaka giggled into the embrace.

"I love you too Ainya-chan~…" said Nanaka with her singsong voice.

"Even if I'm weird…?" asked Aina in her childish tone.

Nanaka giggled.

"Yes…even if you are weird…" said Nanaka softly, then raised her eyebrows in surprise; she started to feel her lap wet again.

Aina was getting aroused once again, or all of Aina's honey was dripping off because of the previous orgasm.

Either way, Nanaka was not done with Aina yet.

She smoothly slid her hand under Aina's body and reached her wet core once again, touching Aina's wetness.

Aina jumped in surprise

"Ah— Suwawa…"

"I said I wasn't done…" murmured Nanaka into Aina's ear with a husky tone, and without any warning, she introduced two fingers inside Aina's wet core.

"AH...Uhm…" Aina started to moan once again and to move her hips.

They look into each other's eyes, and without any words, they kissed.

They became lost in the wet kiss while Aina incrementing the speed of her hips while Nanaka's fingers were inside her.

She started to curl them and move them inside Aina, she couldn't take it.

Aina broke the kiss to start moaning loud once again, getting herself lost on Nanaka's fingers and the pleasure.

She started moving her hips at an incredible speed while tightening her hug on Nanaka's body.

"Ahh Nana— fuck me…fuck me harder…." moaned Aina losing herself completely.

Nanaka opened her eyes wide at the sensation of Aina's wetness and looseness inside her core with her 2 fingers; it was pretty clear that she was ready for more, so Nanaka wordlessly inserted a 3rd one deeper, Aina moaned instantly.

"AH~! YES~! Dee—Deeper~!" moaned Aina, moving her head to the back and closing her eyes tightly.

She continued moaning loudly and moving her hips intensely, making it hard for Nanaka to not come just because of that.

It wasn't long before Aina released herself in another moan while arching her back.

Silence almost filled the room, except for the lonely TV that was on and forgotten, and Aina's soft panting.

Aina returned to the crook of Nanaka's neck hugging her tightly, panting hard, her breath very elaborate, and her legs shivering from the position.

"Are you ok…? Ainya-chan…?" asked Nanaka softly.

"You…you are amazing…" murmured Aina shyly.

Nanaka smiled softly.

"I love you…" said Nanaka softly.

But she didn't get an answer.

Nanaka tightened her hug, maybe Aina was exhausted, it had indeed been a busy day for her, and now she had released 3 orgasms straights.

So surely, it was normal that she was tired and sleepy.

Maybe she indeed was just good at this thing called sex.

Aina's breathing was getting calmer as time passed.

Nanaka couldn't help but smile wide at her;

"Ainya…? We need to move…it's late…" said Nanaka softly.

"I…I love you too Nana…" said Aina with her eyes closed but with a sweet smile.

"Let's get you to bed…" said Nanaka with a cute tone.

Then she realized that Aina was still "connected" to her and her fingers, and she was on top of her.

So how on Earth was she supposed to carry Aina to her room?

Hum, I'm not strong enough to bride carry her…or in this position…mmm so...tight…

and…wet…

I'm wet…

Nanaka blinked a few times and smiled proudly.

She moved her fingers once again inside Aina's core hearing the wet sounds.

Then she giggled.

"Uhm…Suwawa…no…I…can't anymore…" said Aina with a tired tone mixed with a whine.

"I know…but my fingers are stuck…" said Nanaka with an amused tone, "And it's so good to be inside you…"

Aina made some grunting sound while using her strength to lift her hips for Nanaka to remove her fingers out of her.

Nanaka took them out and Aina moaned softly because of the sensation; then her body fell over Nanaka once again.

She hugged her with love and gave Aina a sweet kiss on her forehead.

"I really love you…" murmured Nanaka lovingly as she departed from Aina's forehead.

Aina moved her head and locked gazes with Nanaka and smiled wide.

"I…love you too…truly…madly…deeply…" said Aina in a faint voice.

They smiled towards each other and kissed.

The kiss was tender, soft and full of love.

But it was Aina who broke the kiss...

"Maybe we should move…I can't feel my legs…" said Aina with an amused tone.

Nanaka giggled and nodded.

Aina made an effort to stand with some troubles in her legs, she shook a bit at soon she touched the floor, and then started to look for her panties and skirt; Nanaka tried to stand up, but she felt weirdly stuck to the couch.

Aina looked at her with a puzzled look.

"What is it?" she asked.

"I…I can't move…" said Nanaka with her sight lost somewhere in the room.

"Why?… What's wrong…?" said Aina with concern.

"I'm…uhm… wet…" said Nanaka shyly, "And...I feel…weird…"

"Oh...Well…" Aina smiled wide, her eyes shined with some evil light, she threw her panties away somewhere again, "I can fix that…"

And licked her lips.

"Eh?….weren't you tired?…" asked Nanaka shyly, unconsciously squeezing her thighs.

"Yes, but I LOOVEEEE~ a midnight snack…" said Aina getting closer to Nanaka once again.

"Ah… just… just help me stand up…you can snack later…" said Nanaka troubled.

"Eh?… Really?" asked Aina with sadness in her voice, "I…I want to snack now…" and she pouted.

Nanaka extended her right arm for Aina to help her stand, of course, Aina helped her with a coy smile and holding back her giggles.

"Hold your appetite…I'm not comfortable doing it …here…" said Nanaka with efforts while standing up.

"Eh?…why?...I'm ready, half-naked and all!" said Aina extending her arms wide showing herself "ready" for Nanaka to continue.

Nanaka raised one eyebrow studying Aina's body from toes to hair.

She licked her lips.

"Yes…I see that…but…you were tired…and I can't do it now…between this mess…" said Nanaka in her low tone, extending her arms to show Aina all the things from dinner that were spread out on the coffee table.

"You…are exchanging me for that?" asked Aina astonished.

"I'm not 'exchanging you', or rejecting you…as you did with me back then…" said Nanaka turning off the TV and taking the plates and cups to put them on the tray.

"Rejecting you? What are you talking…?" asked Aina confused.

"I'm just…can you wait a few minutes…? And then we can continue in the bedroom…" finished Nanaka taking the tray and walking really weird towards the kitchen.

Aina laughed like an old man.

"What?" asked Nanaka getting into the kitchen.

"You look like a penguin! You are really wet…aren't you?" asked Aina peeping inside the kitchen.

"I'm a bit uncomfortable…yes…" said Nanaka putting the dishes in the sink, and then looked back towards Aina who was in the doorframe.

Half naked.

Nanaka's cheeks became wild red.

"You…you have no shame…" said Nanaka shyly.

"Oh?…OH!" snapped Aina looking at her lower half," well...my panties are soaked…and I don't want to walk as you do…" finished Aina with a wide smile.

"Jesus…" murmured Nanaka turning around and opening the faucet to fill the dishes with water.

She was in the middle of that when she felt Aina's body sticking to her back.

Nanaka stopped breathing.

"Ai...Aina…" called Nanaka softly as she closed the faucet.

"I'm not going to wait…" said Aina with a strong tone behind her, "I've waited enough…"

"It's just a few—" Nanaka tried to say, but Aina was stubborn and pushed Nanaka towards the sink, and with a quick movement took down Nanaka's long skirt exposing her, of course, soaked panties.

"Ai—Aina! Wai—" tried Nanaka once again, but Aina wasn't patient about this.

"You are so soaked…" she heard Aina say, but at the second she felt Aina's hands grabbing the hem of her panties and pulling them down too.

Nanaka let out a little scream of surprise; her bare butt exposed for Aina.

"Aina!" scolded Nanaka with an angry tone as she tried to turn around, but actually that made it worse.

Nanaka turned around but Aina who was squatted in front of her just pushed her back to the sink, grabbed Nanaka's butt cheeks firmly, and without any word or anything her face disappeared between Nanaka's legs.

"Ai—Aina!" scold Nanaka in an angry tone with a cry; she brought her right hand towards Aina's hair and tried to pull her out of her crotch, but the more she pulled, Aina's grip on her butt cheeks tightened at the point of being painful.

Does she have claws or something?!

Jesus…my…God!

Nanaka closed her eyes, Aina's tongue was driving her crazy; it was everywhere, and because she was soaked the kitchen was being filled with wet sounds coming right from her most private place.

Nanaka started to pant and her hips to move, of course, even if she didn't want to, Aina's tongue was incredible and she felt really needy.

But at some point, Aina needed to take a breath, so in one more try Nanaka succeeded at pulling her out of her crotch.

Nanaka looked down at her but couldn't say a thing to Aina.

She just opened her eyes wide at the sight.

Aina's face of happiness, clearly showing some huge satisfaction, as if Aina was possessed or drugged with something while licking those plump and wet lips, she smiled at her…

"I love a midnight snack…" said Aina out of breath, and she licked her lips again.

Nanaka felt the grip on her butt cheeks getting tighter, meaning that Aina was going to take another dip into her.

"Wai—wait AinaaaaaaAaaahhh~" moaned Nanaka closing her eyes and moving her head to her back, of course, she couldn't stop Aina from going back into her crotch and eat her out with more eagerness.

Nanaka just couldn't fight her.

Actually, she just couldn't fight Aina at all.

It was always Aina's way; what she wanted, how she wanted, when she wanted it...it didn't matter if Nanaka was ok or not with it.

Nanaka opened her eyes once again and looked down at Aina; she was now kneeling, knees apart and touching herself.

Nanaka's eyes widen in astonishment, she bit her lips and took a deep breath; none of that was what she wanted, yet she couldn't deny that that was turning her on more, and she just couldn't fight about anything.

Aina wanted to eat her, so be it.

Aina wanted to touch herself while doing it, why not.

There was no point in fighting any of that.

So, Nanaka threw her senses down to the sink; used her left hand to lean more onto the counter, and opened her legs more for Aina to do whatever she wanted.

The response was immediate, Aina started to go deeper, finding her entrance and started fucking her with her tongue, indeed, Aina was a great eater, and Nanaka pushed Aina's head with her right hand more into her to reach her goal.

Nanaka's hips started to move as she started to moan louder, panting hard and grunting in pleasure.

The kitchen was filled with her own moans and wetness.

She just couldn't help it, she was being fucked in her kitchen, against her will, against everything she had thought.

Ahhh I'm being fucked in the kitchen...
In my kitchen...
Uhmmm—

Nanaka moaned louder as she was reaching maybe one of the most powerful orgasms so far.

The kitchen fell silent except for some lonely drops from the faucet and the lonely clock, with Nanaka's elaborate panting.

Aina left Nanaka's crotch and started kissing her thighs and softly touching them with her right hand, of course, her left hand was busy in herself.

"Uhmmm so smooth...your thighs are really smooth..." purred Aina while kissing them.

Nanaka just didn't say anything, she was too busy gathering her energy to back to recover her dignity.
For the second time, Aina had just fucked her against her will.

"You ok Suwa-chan?" asked Aina with a soft voice.

Nanaka opened her eyes slowly; she fixed her sight to look around, Yes, it was her kitchen... then she looked down to meet Aina, she was looking at her with a goofy smile, hugging Nanaka's leg. Like a puppy.

Nanaka nodded, but not because she was ok, mostly by inertia.

Aina smiled wide, gave her a deep kiss in one of her thighs and then stood up to hug Nanaka tightly.

Nanaka answered the hug very weakly.

"I'm...I'm tired..." murmured Nanaka.

"But now you are not wet...I took care of it..." said Aina in the hug, Nanaka just hummed softly.

Aina separate from Nanaka to look at her.

"Shall we go to bed now?" she asked.

Nanaka just nodded.

Maybe she had a hell of an orgasm, but how she achieved it was making her doubt. She wasn't used to having that kind of sex.

Aina grabbed her hand and guided Nanaka to her own room.

Of course, her long skirt and wet panties were left behind on the kitchen floor, with all their.

Aina moved in the house as if she owned it; turning off/on the lights when it was needed, and moving things as she pleased.

They entered Nanaka's room, it smelled nice and clean.

Of course, the bed was ready, because Nanaka had settled everything before Aina arrived, remembering that Nanaka had thought of a very romantic and chill night. But of course, nothing turned out how she had planned.

She had dinner with some bitterness because she was mad, fucked Aina on the couch, not because she had planned it, but because Aina wanted it that way, and then she was eaten in her kitchen. No matter how ironic that sounded.

Aina off out her blouse, and later her bra, exposing her body to Nanaka.

Nanaka just looked at her with astonished eyes; she only had her blouse and the cardigan.

"You mind if tonight I don't use pajamas?" asked Aina with her goofy tone.

"You didn't bring one?" asked Nanaka with a tired tone as she started to remove her cardigan.

"Well, no...kinda forgot..." she giggled.

"You want me to lend you one?" asked Nanaka now trying to remove her blouse.

"Eh? No, why...? I thought that...we... could just sleep naked..." said Aina shyly and locking gazes with Nanaka. Now she was just in her bra.

"Eh?"

"Well, it's a waste don't you think?...we will end up fucking anyway," said Aina and shrugged.

"Mmm" hummed Nanaka; yes that might be right, but she wasn't used to sleeping naked. Well, maybe yes, but after sex.

Uh? Didn't I just had have sex...right?

That was sex...right? Why I feel it was just...fucking around...there's a difference, right?

"What? Are you gonna tell me that you slept fully dressed with Shuka?" asked Aina bringing Nanaka back to earth.

"Eh? What?"

"You slept with Shukashuu with your clothes on?" asked Aina once again, with a serious tone.

"Eh? Well..." started Nanaka, recalling her memories while she unhooked her bra, "We usually got inside the bed dressed, we cuddled, shared a few kisses...we...chitchatted a bit sometimes, and then...if we were in the mood, yeah...we—"

"Fucked." finished Aina with a strong tone.

Nanaka looked at her with her bra in her hands with a serious face. Maybe with some shades of sadness.

"No Aina, we didn't fuck...we had sex, or maybe we didn't, we held onto each other and that's it" said Nanaka with a serious tone.

"Bullshit! You used to fuck her in the showers." retorted Aina.

Nanaka raised her eyebrows in sadness.

"Aina, my bed, is for sex...not for fucking...you asked about my sleeping habits with Shuka..." said Nanaka putting her clothes on top of her desk.

"Aren't that the same?" asked Aina confused.

"Not for me at least..." said Nanaka looking at her; Aina raised her eyebrows in sadness.

Maybe Aina realized that Nanaka wasn't a sex toy, that when she committed she did it fully, not just for the sex.

"So, naked it is?" asked Nanaka spreading her arms wide, showing Aina that she was fully committed to all her wishes and ideas.

"Oh, Yeah...I'd love that then...it will be pretty handy if I want another midnight snack!" said Aina with her goofy tone.

Nanaka pouted.

"Geez! You keep teasing me!" said Nanaka and then dropped herself on her bed, flat on her stomach and hugging her pillow, feeling her body really tired.

And maybe she just shouldn't have done that.

"Maybe we can change some of your habits..." heard Nanaka behind her, "You can't live with 'Shuka's habits'..."

"Eh? What are you—" but Nanaka just couldn't finish; Aina's soft touch was on her spine, softly caressing her back from the top of her neck to her lower back, giving Nanaka some electric sensations running through her body. "Ai—Aina!"

Aina reached her butt and without any warnings, she just kissed one of her butt cheeks.

"He—Hey stop that!" said Nanaka lifting her torso to look back at Aina, but it was too late, Aina was in the mood once again.

"Why? I just...adore...this 'marshmallow butty'" and she bit her butt cheek.

Nanaka grunted about it; Aina was hungry again, and Nanaka was feeling too weak and tired to fight this again.

"Ain—Aina stop!" shouted Nanaka but it wasn't any use, Aina started chomping at the bit of Nanaka's butt cheeks, until she spread them, "Ai—Aina dammit!"

"I'm in the mood for another midnight snack," said Aina with her goofy tone, and Nanaka just couldn't help but moan at the sensation of having Aina's tongue all over her wet core once again.

"Aina! For God's sake!" tried Nanaka, pushing her torso up to move out of that indecorous position, but as she lifted her torso she couldn't help to put her knees down, making the position more exposed for Aina to kept eating her.

Nanaka just couldn't help it and moaned.

Aina's tongue was exploring her treasure from another angle, an angle that maybe she didn't think it would feel that good.

She started to grunt; Aina's licks were long, teasing all the right spots, and the fact that Aina was spreading her cheeks to have more access to her didn't help to resist to that good feeling.

So she couldn't help it and started to move her hips against Aina's face again, moaning and grunting.

She didn't realize, but she also started to rise her butt as her torso came back to the bed.

"Mmmm..." teased Aina behind her, as the wet sounds started to join Nanaka's moans in the room.

Nanaka was starting to feel her head spin, her thoughts blurry, it felt so good that she needed to bite her pillow to hold on to her desires...

But then, something slippery started to tease a special spot. A spot that no one had ever teased, touched or ever look at it directly before.

Nanaka opened her eyes becoming aware of that.

"Wait...wait...Aina—...aahhhhhh no no, get out of there...mfffff...that place...it's dirty...! Sto—" but Nanaka bit her lips and shut her eyes tightly and tightening her grip on her sheets.

Now it was out of her control; her butt fully up for Aina to do whatever she wanted, she just limited herself to moaning and grunting, it was a weird sensation but she couldn't deny that it felt good.

She could have reached the top, an incredible orgasm, but Aina wasn't satisfied, she just inserted 2 fingers inside Nanaka's wet core while still teasing the forbidden spot with her tongue.

In the beginning, those fingers entered smoothly, but soon it became painful.

Too painful for Nanaka to resist it anymore.

"Ai—Aina...Aina stop stop...it Hurts! IT HURTS!" she shouted.

And only then Aina stopped.

"Suwawa...What...you ok?" asked Aina in panic, like coming back to normal.

Nanaka was panting and breathing very elaborately.

"TAKE THEM OUT!" she commanded, and as the shout was clear, Aina removed her fingers out of Nanaka.

"Sorry...I'm sorry, what...I didn't...I'm sorry..." Aina apologized.

Nanaka's body dropped dead on the bed, and with her poor leftover strength, she moved to rest in a fetal position, still panting hard, sweating crazily.

Aina crawled to embrace her from behind, making a weird "spooning" position because Aina was just too small for Nanaka to embrace her that way.

"Suwawa, I'm sorry...I'm sorry...are you ok?" Aina was saying while trying to embrace her.

Nanaka's breathing started to become steadier, as Aina was hugging her tightly and giving her cute kissed on her shoulder while murmuring "I'm sorry" repeatedly.

Nanaka touched Aina's hands softly, caressing them until reaching the wet fingers that used to be inside her.

She started feeling them; Nanaka opened her eyes wide in realization.

"Ai...Aina..." called Nanaka softly.

"Yes, Suwawa?" answered Aina, quickly moving her body up to see Nanaka's face.

Nanaka's sight was glued to Aina's fingers.

"You...you need to cut your nails..." said Nanaka with her dry tone.

"Oh...so-...sorry..." said Aina with shame, "But you? How?"

"Nail extensions...but my nails are short...because of this..." said Nanaka with her monotone showing Aina her nails, indeed they were cut nice and short.

Aina had dangerous claws, that of course, inside Nanaka they had hurt her.

Nanaka closed her eyes with bitterness, of course, in Awashima, Aina never used her fingers on her, she always used her tongue. So this was the first time that Aina had used her fingers with her, she just hadn't realized that before.

"I'm I'm sorry...Suwawa..." said Aina hugging her tightly, "It wasn't my intention to hurt you..."

"I know...it's ok...but I can't continue now...it hurts..." said Nanaka still in her position and dry tone.

"Yes...right... it's ok..." said Aina in her normal tone.

Aina started caressing Nanaka's hair softly.

Nanaka made a bitter face, why couldn't Aina be this careful while having sex? It was like for her, sex was about fucking around, making her come quickly and hard but not feeling it.

It wasn't like that with Shuka she didn't have those kinds of rounds, yes, of course, they had, mostly when they were in Lantis building, or somewhere else like that, but in the confines of a bed was where they could love each other.

Maybe it was too early to define that with Aina?

They had been together for what? 2 days. She couldn't declare that yet. Aina didn't know her preferences either.

"Aina..." called Nanaka.

"Yes?"

"You ok?" asked Nanaka with a soft tone.

"Me? Suwawa, I'm not the one who got hurt...why are you worrying about me...?" asked Aina with an outraged tone.

"Because...I'm worried..." she just answered.

"I'm sorry Nana...this is my fault..." said Aina now returning to her position at Nanaka's back, hugging her.

"Aina, you just need to cut your nails..." said Nanaka with a tired tone and closing her eyes, in the end, it wasn't a big deal...

"It's...it's not that..." said Aina with a somewhat cracked tone, "I...I'm just a selfish brat..."

"Eh? What are you saying?" asked Nanaka in her boring tone.

"I just...I want you all for myself, I don't want to share you... I want you to love me...if I could, I would tear your old memories out of you and make new ones..." Aina was saying at Nanaka's back with a cracked voice, Nanaka opened her eyes wide.

"Eh? What do you mean?..." asked Nanaka confused.

"I...saw how you...how you look at her...I...I'm..." tried Aina with her voice cracked and tightening her embrace.

Nanaka blinked a few times with cold sweat running from her temples.

Could that be...

All of her later behavior was because of that.

Aina was jealous of Shuka.

Even if they weren't together anymore, Shuka was still in Nanaka's life, weather Aina liked it or not, because they worked together, and were stuck in the same project.

Shuka's ghost was hunting Aina, not Nanaka.

Nanaka moved, she turned around and hugged Aina tightly.

"Su—Suwawa..." called Aina, she was crying "I'm sorry...I just...you will hate me...I'm no better than her!" she cried in deep sorrow.

Nanaka's eyes teared up too, she was feeling Aina's pain.

So she tightened the embrace more, for Aina to feel safe in her arms, that everything would be ok.

"It's ok Ainya-chan...I'm not going to hate you, I've already said that I love you..." said Nanaka with a tender voice, but Aina started crying loudly in her chest.

Maybe it was guilt.

"I'm sorry Suwawa...I'm sorry..." Aina kept saying in her cries, but Nanaka just closed her eyes and started caressing Aina's hair softly, trying to comfort her.

Shuka was selfish, yes, but Aina was too.

Aina saw that Nanaka still loved Shuka, it was clear as they were watching the show, so she had become jealous, and took Nanaka's attention and body because of it.

She was desperately trying to erase every trace of Shuka in Nanaka's body, taking Nanaka's control away from her, doing whatever Aina pleased, even if Nanaka said "no", she was going to take it, because Shuka had done so already, so Aina needed to even up to her game.

She needed to do whatever Shuka did, but better.

They slept in pajamas, then Aina would remove that "habit" from Nanaka.

They used to fuck on the bed, well, Aina would fuck her in other places of the house, no matter if Nanaka was against it, she was going to take it.

And because she was that desperate to change Nanaka's love, she had ended up hurting her.
And that had been too far.

Aina knew it, that was why she was there, crying in Nanaka's arms.

This was what happened when someone wanted to change the formalities.

The shards stopped gluing back together in Nanaka's heart.

-0oo0-

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Notes:

Wanted to change the formality.
Chapter 02 and 03 together.

No one is perfect, and sure, Aina it wasn't. We are really sorry Suwawa... we really love you! please don't hate us!

Next update will be on here, Masquerade is still on hold! :)
And I promise that things will get better! and more love for Suwa it's going to be delivered.
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