"Are we there yet, Takina?"

"If I'd known you'd complain this much, I would've bought a cart or something to help us carry this."

Takina wondered how the most athletic Lycoris in Japan was struggling with carrying one half of a futon. Heck, it was barely a challenge for her, so Chisato shouldn't have been struggling at all.

"We're almost there. I'd say that you should be as quiet as you can to make sure we aren't being followed. Actually, maybe we should take the long way to the safe house. You know, just in case we're being followed."

"Sounds like a plan."

Takina raised an eyebrow at Chisato's sudden cooperativeness, turning around to find that Chisato had fixed her posture briefly before going back to her slouchy, tired posture the moment Takina showed any hint of turning.

"What was that?"

"What was what?"

Takina narrowed her eyes, slowly turning back to face forward. As she did, however, she felt some of the weight of the futon being taken off of her shoulders. Immediately, her muscles tensed up as she prepared to whip around, but even before she had turned around, she felt the weight of the futon return to its original amount as she found a slouching Chisato behind her.

"Are you seriously doing this right now?"

Chisato merely gave a giggle as she stood up straight. Takina rolled her eyes, but before she could return to her original orientation, she felt the futon being wrenched out of her grip which was immediately followed by a red blur flashing past her.

"Chisato!"

They ran all the way to the safe house.

###

It didn't take long for the two of them to arrive. As Takina discovered, Chisato was unfairly fast when she wanted to, even while lugging a futon on one shoulder. Takina opened the door, holding it open.

"Come on in, Chisato."

Chisato took two steps forward before…

*BANG!*

She tossed the futon in front of her into the air before kicking it straight into the wall. Takina watched this, her eyes immediately going wide as she could've sworn she saw smoke billowing from it. Takina stood still, staring at the futon, trying to discern whether or not there was any damage done to the wall. This was interrupted, however, when she heard Chisato flopping onto the couch.

Seriously?

Takina gave a sigh and walked over to Chisato after closing the door. She was about to shake Chisato awake, though she hesitated right as she was going to put her hands on Chisato's back. Shaking her head, she pushed forward and began to rock Chisato back and forth on the spot.

"Oi, you can't fall asleep now. It's your turn to cook today, remember? And we still need to set up the futon."

"Urgh… 5 more minutes…"

"Judging by what happened this morning, your definition of '5 minutes' isn't exactly trustworthy!"

Chisato grumbled as she slowly sat up out of the bed, though instead of heading to the kitchen, she began walking towards the bedroom. Takina began to follow her, beginning to grow annoyed.

"Where do you think you're-"

"I'm just getting changed. What, do you wanna watch or something?"

Chisato gave Takina another grin as she went bright red at this remark. Waiting outside, Takina sat with her back against the door, thinking to herself.

Guh… How'd I even fall for her?

She cupped her face in her hands, having sat down and brought her knees up to her chest as she stared at the floor.

So, what'll we do now? It's about 7 pm, so we've got a few hours to kill. I can probably make the futon in 15 minutes and cooking, eating, and cleanup should be about an hour to an hour and a half depending on if Chisato cooperates. I wonder what food we have?

Takina got up, heading over to the fridge and taking a look inside.

Hm… some ground meat, veggies, fish… ah, dumpling skins. That should work. I remember having a few dumpling dishes back at the cafe, so Chisato should be able to figure that out.

Takina began to hum a tune as she took the dumpling skins and various ingredients from the fridge, setting them up on the table.

Now that that's all done, all I need now is Chisato.

She looked towards the bedroom and to absolutely no one's surprise, the door hadn't budged an inch. Rolling her eyes, Takina walked up to the door and placed her hand on the handle before stopping herself right as she was about to open the door.

Wait… if Chisato is changing on the other side right now…

Takina went crimson as she shook the thought out of her mind. Taking her hand off of the door handle, she lightly knocked on the door several times. After no response, she tried again, this time yelling to get Chisato's attention.

"You there? It's been, like 15 minutes."

…

No response, huh?

Takina rolled up her sleeves, taking a deep breath before:

"Chisato! I am coming in there whether you like it or not! You have 10 seconds to finish changing! 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!"

The door swung open as Takina pushed it forwards with a flourish, only to find that:

"She's not here? But where-"

And that's when she looked down. Lying down on the futon was a smiling, definitely-already-having-changed Chisato.

"Seriously? C'mon, it's not even 8. Wake up, Chisato."

After receiving no response, Takina sighed as she started to shake Chisato back and forth.

"It's time to wake up. Just get out of bed already."

Chisato appeared to stir, her eyes fluttering open for a moment as she poked her head out from under the covers just enough to see out of it. Takina watched as Chisato opened the covers with a grin as she said:

"It's been a long day and it's already dark. Don't you want to join me here?"

Takina's eyes locked onto Chisato's frame, taking in every single element in front of her. The only thing that she could hear was the slow inhaling and exhaling coming from Chisato, the only thing she could see was the rhythmic rise and fall of Chisato's chest, and the only things she could think about was how perfectly Chisato's pink pajamas fit on her and how inviting her arms were beginning to look.

"Seriously… we should really go now…"

Takina tried one last time to rouse Chisato, but to no avail. All the while, Chisato stayed in the same position, gesturing for Takina to follow.

"Honestly…"

As Takina slid under the covers, she cursed herself for being so weak to this girl's charms.

###

"Chisato…we should really get up now."

It had been 20 minutes and by this point, Chisato was hugging Takina from behind with a smile of absolute bliss that didn't falter no matter how much Takina said that they should leave the futon.

"You know you want to stay, Takina~"

Takina felt her breath hitch as Chisato wrapped her arms even tighter around her stomach, going red as she started trying to squirm free of Chisato's grasp.

"Seriously, we need to make dinner. Honestly. Just get out of bed already."

"Eh? But I already have all the snacks I need right here, though?"

"What's that supposed to-"

*chu*

Takina froze as she felt lips pressing into the nape of her neck.

"Chisato, I'm being seriou-"

Takina's voice was once again cut off as she felt something touch the back of her neck, but this time, it didn't feel like just a kiss. Whatever it was, it felt harder, more rigid, and after feeling a light prick, Takina realized that she wasn't feeling Chisato's lips.

She was feeling her teeth.

"Chisato! Why are you… nngh…"

Takina flinched as she felt Chisato sink her teeth into her neck again, again, and again.

That's gonna leave marks…

Takina covered her mouth, stifling any noises that may have unintentionally left her lips before, all of a sudden, the bites stopped as Takina felt Chisato's grip on her loosen. Time seemed to stand still, Takina wondering if Chisato could tell how red her face was as neither of them said anything until Takina decided to try one more time at extracting Chisato.

"It's probably already 8 now. Aren't you hungry, Chisato? I mean seriously- ngah!"

Takina failed to stop a moan from surfacing as she felt Chisato lick over each of the bite marks she had made before saying:

"I already told you, didn't I? I told you that you're just the snack I'm craving right now."

Takina didn't have to turn around to know that Chisato was probably sporting the biggest grin of her life. Takina's face burned bright red and her voice went quiet as she said:

"P-please have some self-control, Chisa-"

*GROWL*

Both of them stopped and Takina turned around, trying to discern the origin of that noise before spotting Chisato staring at her own stomach. Without hesitation, Takina stood up, dragging Chisato along with her to the kitchen.

"Hey, wha- Takina! Put me down!"

"We're eating."

"Ok, ok, I get that! Just put me down already, ok?"

And as Chisato ran ahead into the kitchen and got started with making the dumplings, Takina thanked whatever gods there may be for Chisato's lack of awareness in terms of the colour of her face.