Yuyaki woke up at precisely 8AM. Letting out a yawn, she brushed away her silver hair that stuck to her face, only for the sweaty, sticky locks to flop back onto her face. She grumbled softly as she got off of her tatami mat and stood on the wooden floor of her house. Her night kimono absorbed a lot of the heat, but it was a testament to the sun's irritation that she was still this sweaty.
And it was a testament to the technology of senpai's that they could develop clothes that wouldn't slip off of her in her current state. Puberty already made wearing clothes hard enough as it is, and the last thing she wanted was to go braless again because the stupid thing broke if she so much as jogged.
"So hot…" The heat and humidity had been unbearable for the past few weeks, and with her home so high up above the rest of the village, with the sun having direct access to her bed, she'd bore the brunt of it. Years of living with the summer heat as a seasonal companion had conditioned her childhood friends to think of the heat as a minor annoyance, Yuyaki, their leader, was not so lucky. Crows and summer heat didn't mesh well as is, and having Crow chakra within her made it even worse for Yuyaki. Compounding that was her naturally dark complexion, which absorbed more heat when the sun was out. It was often that she wished she'd forgo her self control, just grab a weapon, and let the bloodlust take over. At least then she wouldn't have to worry about the heat or heatstroke!
Her friends could sympathize in their own way. The Tohno Tengu Shinobi Alliance was the official Shinobi squad for Tohno Village, blessed by the land itself with powerful chakra based on different mythological animals, whose shape also formed what their Shinobi Spirit would look like. Ushimaru(U-chan) was the cow, and her Shinobi Spirit was the Ushi-Oni, Nachi(Na-chan), the village leader, was the kappa, and her animal was a powerful Kappa spirit that had been with her family for generations. Kumi (Ku-chan), had the fox, her spirit animal the Kitsune, and Misato (Mi-chan) had the raccoon, her spirit animal the Tanuki. It took years for them to reign in their animalistic traits, helped by the arrival of their sensei and his training methods, but there were some factors that persisted through in their biology that just wouldn't go away.
What was going to go away though,thankfully, was all this sweat. Thankfully Na-chan was able to convince Senpai and his Shikigami to use some of his technology to introduce a few modern conveniences into the village, like indoor plumbing for all housing, or in this case a shower. Until recently Na-chan was the only person in the village with indoor plumbing, and she never let any of them use it after the amount of hair they had that clogged the drain. Now, everyone had a shower, and these were clog proof!
The refreshing chill of leaving the shower went away as soon as a now dry Yuyaki put on her clothes, Shinobi tailored, which meant they fit her perfectly. And with the few modern conveniences Na-chan and the elders allowed integrated into her daily life, that also meant she saved a lot of money on upperwear as well.
She looked herself in the mirror to make sure everything was spic and span. Vanity was a trait Yuyaki rarely indulged in, but years of experience outside of Tohno forced her to admit that yes, she was very attractive. She didn't like thinking about that, but everyone said she was attractive, and you know people: if they don't shut up about something, it's eventually going to stick in your head.
And let's just say she had quite the complex, in addition to the other complex she had. Like any properly trained Shinobi, she had a slim, athletic physique with noticeable, toned musculature that didn't clash with her feminine build. Her well developed chakra network made up for the lack of physical musculature, allowing her superhuman strength to remain hidden.
…And then there was the other thing….even now she still didn't feel that comfortable about it. As the advent of multicolored hair mysteriously popped up around the world, the standard of black hair when it came to the standard Japanese beauty was even more vaunted, with the pale, almost ivory skin being a constant mainstay. Aside from their chests, her friends had more normal, Asian skin tones, so they wouldn't look out of place when it came to infiltration missions or reconnaissance should the need arise.
Yuyaki was not blessed with that. Instead she was 'blessed' with dark, almost coco-brown skin. At first she thought she was naturally tanned, until U-chan slept in the summer sun too long, and proved that to be false. It…certainly made things difficult, when they had to leave their village. You had a red eyed, blonde haired girl (Ku-chan) , a brown-haired girl in pigtails that'd fit in anywhere (Mi-chan) , a strawberry blonde girl with gray eyes (U-chan) and a blue haired girl who never opened her eyes. (Na-chan) and then there was her and Senpai, the two 'Gaijins' that stood out like a sore got used to him, and kids their age couldn't get enough of him. Back then, no one knew how old he truly was, and his ability to get people on his side was awe inspiring. Shame it didn't help much for her and her friends. For a Shinobi, especially one in training like she was at the time, the inability to blend in because of a physical trait you couldn't control was, to put it lightly, enraging.
Her long white hair didn't make things easier, moreso the length than the color. Both of them were big targets for bullies, which wouldn't be a problem normally, as she'd dealt with worse during her Shinobi training. But she wasn't supposed to be a Shinobi at the time, she was just a normal civilian, so she just had to let it happen. A lot. And with Senpai's Shikigami's technology hiding them at the time, she couldn't even give in to her own bloodlust to fight back, which ironically was one of the few bright spots about her exile. It was a tumultuous time in her life, fourth on the list compared to the banishment from her village, that disgusting worm binding the people there to their whim, and the takeover to get Tohno Village back. In retrospect, it was almost like a fever dream.
Before all that happened, and before her and her friends got a taste of the outside world, she thought herself the same as every other Japanese girl. Why, at age 8, she thought you could stick her in any school in Japan, and she'd fit right in!
Her first taste of the outside world quashed that notion, and puberty reduced it to atoms with not even a hint of ash remaining. Neither her nor her friends had the slim, demure figures of a Japanese woman. No, their proportions were more 'American', to put it lightly, or, as Ku-chan would put it in her usual crude way, 'hot as hell. Except Testicle Bitch over there'. Yuyaki went her whole life thinking that her friends were just a bunch of regular Shinobi with abnormally large chests, only to find out that 'abnormal' didn't even begin to explain how much more curvaceous they were compared to the average Japanese woman, heck, to the average woman.
Especially U-chan.
When last Yuyaki checked, her bust size was around 90cm, an F-cup to be exact. And even with these clothes specifically made for girls like her, they were still very prominent. Thanks to Senpai, they were able to have clothes that fit them, thanks to a certain legendary hero predicting their measurements over the years. It took a lot of guesswork, mostly because Senpai wouldn't let the one of the most prolific ninja in the world around them after he guessed their measurements, but she'd never say she hated the results. Her chest stretched out the fabric something fierce, but it wasn't like with most Shinobi, whose breasts magically caused the fabric of whatever they wore to contort to their bodies, as if their shirts or dresses had sockets specifically stitched in to accommodate their chests. It was a phenomenon that was accepted as part of the Shinobi life, and even the legendary super ninja couldn't give an answer. But then again the man was a lecherous hedonist, so he probably wouldn't have told them the reason if he did know.
As for the attire in question, it was far different than what she usually wore. Today, she wore a bright blue, short sleeved t-shirt, and a dark blue skirt, both of which didn't contort to her figure like cellophane, and the skirt had some weight to it, so she wouldn't have to worry about any unwelcome upskirt shots because of a stray gust of wind. The color blue wasn't a color she was privy to, more preferring whites and greys and blacks herself, but today was special. These were his colors, and…well.. It's been so long; and she grew up a lot over the years. She couldn't wait to see how much he grew as blushed and left her home through the window, thinking about her senpai who wore the same colors she was.
Even now she could remember all the time the six of them spent together. The TV dinners, the bath water senpai spent hours cleaning out for them to bathe in, the horrible summer heat that made it all worse…those were some of the worst days of her life, yet she couldn't help but get nostalgic as she reminisced.
