Chapter 5: It's Just Going to a Resort

BEEP-BEEP! BEE-!

Komi quickly reached over and tapped her cat alarm clock on the head, shutting the alarm off. She rubbed her eyes, then she stared up at the ceiling. Her eyes were half-shut and bags had formed underneath.

[She didn't sleep at all last night.]

Once again, the humidity in her room last night made her sweat profusely. It made her skin stick to her bed sheets and covers, making her too uncomfortable to sleep.

But that was the least of her worries.

After the dream she had yesterday afternoon, she was afraid of going to sleep and having another dream of her friends naked at school.

And as if seeing her friends naked wasn't enough, then…there was her mom.

For the second day in a row, someone had caught Komi in the middle of her nudist escapades. First it was her brother, and now her mother. And her mother turned out to be a full-blown nudist too!

You would think Komi would appreciate that there was someone else in her family that enjoyed being a nudist too (that she knows of).

But things…turned out a little differently than she or her mom anticipated.


"I'm so happy!" Shuuko said, nearly crying tears of joy. "I've waited so long for someone to share my love for nudism with! Now we can both be eternally 17!"

While Shuuko was ecstatic to have a nudist family member, Komi was freaking out that her mother was an actual nudist and that her breasts were pushed up against hers. She thought it was weird. She tried her best to break away from her nudist mother, but Shuuko held onto her equally-nude daughter tight.

Just then, a loud beeping echoed throughout the house. "Oh! Dinner's ready!" gasped Shuuko. "Come on, Shouko! Let's have our first mother-daughter nudist dinner!"

Shuuko took her daughter by the hand and led her to the door, seemingly blind to Komi shaking her head "no." Komi planted her feet and tried to slip out of her mother's grasp, but her mother proved to be very strong.

As soon as her mother was out the door, Komi managed to break free from her mother and slammed her bedroom door shut.

"Huh? Shouko?"

Shuuko tried to open the door, only to find it locked. "Shouko! Come out, Shouko!" she said, knocking on her door. "There's no need to be embarrassed!"

Komi sat down on the ground, her back against her bedroom door. Her body shook as she tried to calm herself down while processing everything that just happened.

[Komi refused to budge.]

[She kept herself locked in for the rest of the evening.]


Komi hated that two members of her family now knew her secret.

There was only one more member of her family that didn't know she was a nudist. And she dreaded what would happen if he found out.

" Shouko, are you up yet? " called out her mom.

Komi didn't respond. She only sighed and draped her arm over her eyes.

[She really doesn't want to go to school.]

" Shouko! You're gonna be late! " her mom shouted.

Reluctantly, Komi rolled out of bed to get ready for school.

As she searched through her closet for her school uniform, there was a small knock at the door. Her bedroom door opened…and her father, Masayoshi, poked his head in.

Komi screamed as she quickly covered herself with her arms. Her dad jumped, banging his head on the doorframe. He bowed repeatedly and quickly shut the door.

[He wanted to check on her because she was taking a long time.]

Komi's face turned red.

But then, Komi looked down at herself…and saw that she was fully-dressed, wearing an oversized shirt and basketball shorts.

[She didn't sleep naked this time.]


The walk to school proved to be a test of endurance for Komi. She had no energy at all. And whatever energy she did have was being drained by the sun beating down on her. With each step, Komi felt her bag getting heavier and her arms and legs getting weaker.

Before she left the house, both of Komi's parents noticed that looked sickly and fatigued. Komi's mom offered to let her stay home for the day, but Komi refused.

[She didn't want to be home alone with her mom right now.]

Komi persevered and pushed herself all the way to the school entrance. As with yesterday, all of the other students were walking around trying to stay cool and not pass out from exhaustion.

Komi dragged herself inside the school. It was there that she ran into Tadano Hitohito. Thankfully, it appeared he was in a much better mood than he was yesterday.

"Oh man, I wish this heatwave would just go away," he complained. He wiped his face with a cool towel.

After changing into his indoor shoes, Tadano saw Komi staggering her way to her locker. He immediately froze up.

"Oh! G-Good morning, Komi!" he said, nervously.

Komi looked up and noticed Tadano staring back at her. She kept her head down, covering her face with bangs.

" Oh no, " thought Tadano. " She knows that I know! "

Tadano took a deep breath. " Just be cool ," he told himself.

"Um, hey listen," he said, "I'm sorry I hung up on you yesterday. It…sounded like you were busy and I…didn't want to interrupt."

Komi just stood there. With her bangs hiding her eyes, Tadano couldn't tell what she was feeling. But he continued on.

"Um, about what Najimi said yesterday, I…I know it's not true. And I'm sure everyone in the class knows that. I mean, you getting into that lifestyle? That's crazy!"

Tadano then began sputtering. "I mean, not that it's a bad thing! It would just be rather surprising is all! Y-you just never struck me as someone who would…do that! But it's great if you did! It takes a lot of confidence to do that, right? And you have the body to pull that off!"

Tadano covered his mouth. " Oh no! Why did I say that?! That sounded so perverted! " he thought, berating himself.

Tadano frantically waved his arms around, backtracking what he had said. "N-no, that's not what I meant!" he said. "I mean, you look great no matter what you wear! So you look even better when you're not wearing clothes!"

Tadano then smacked himself on the forehead. "Oh god, what am I saying?! That's even worse! Stupid!"

Tadano was so busy tripping over his own words that he didn't notice Komi stumbling back-and-forth, trying hard not to lose her balance.

Finally, Komi's brain broke and her legs gave out. She fell to her knees before completely collapsing. The contents of her bag spilled out onto the floor.

"K-Komi?" Tadano asked, worriedly.

He dropped his bag and kneeled down beside her, gently lifting her up from the ground.

Tadano held Komi in his arms and began shaking her.

"Komi? Komi! Are you alright?!" Tadano asked, horrified.

The last thing Komi heard were Tadano's panicked cries and the rumble of what sounded like hundreds of people running towards her.

"Komi! Komi, wake up!"

"Her face looks flushed!"

"Oh no, she's burning up!"

"What did you do, Tadano?!"

"This is bad! She must have pushed herself too hard!"

"Never fear! I shall transfer my charismatic energy to her body and revive her!"

"This is seriously not the time or place!"

"Should someone give her CPR?"

"I'll do it!"

"Not you, Yamai!"


"I'm sorry. I feel that this is my fault."

"Yes, I believe it would be better for me to take her home and let her rest for the day."

"Thank you very much."


Komi slowly opened her eyes and lifted her head up. She felt a powerful wind blowing over her body. Komi lifted her head up and found herself back in her own room. She looked down at her body and saw that she was dressed in a tank top and shorts. She was feeling much cooler than she did before.

Komi then realized that the powerful wind was coming from having three large fans blowing cool air directly at her. With the fans blowing at their highest setting, her room had practically become a wind tunnel.

Not wanting her things to be blown all around her room, Komi sat up and turned off two of the fans, leaving one set at a much lower speed.

Komi looked all around her room, still confused as to what happened. The last thing she remembered was arriving at school. And now, she was back in her own room.

Was it all just another dream?

As Komi tried to understand what was going on, there was a knock at her bedroom door. " Shouko? Are you still sleeping? "

Komi recognized the voice as belonging to her mom. Remembering the last time her mom walked into her room, Komi began to worry.

Shuuko then opened the door and let herself in.

"Oh, thank goodness! You're awake!" she said, relieved.

Komi quickly covered her eyes before she could get a glimpse of her mom.

Her mother slowly reached over and pulled Komi's hands away from her face. Komi let out a sigh of relief as she saw that her mother was wearing a tank top and skirt. "Don't worry, I'm fully clothed this time," she teased.

[After yesterday, Shuuko decided not to get naked.]

Shuuko placed her hand on her daughter's forehead. "You're not still overheated, are you?" she asked, concerned.

Komi wasn't. Then again, with three fans blowing at her, how could she be?

"Good, it looks like you're getting better," said Shuuko, letting out a relieved sigh.

Shuuko then placed a plastic bag full of drinks on the table. "I got some cold drinks for you. The nurse said you collapsed from heat exhaustion. A lot of your classmates were very worried. The school nurse said it was hard to shoo them all away from the health office."

Komi gasped as she suddenly remembered more of what happened. She remembered Tadano talking to her, but the heat became so overwhelming that she keeled over.

Komi covered her face with her hands.

"Oh, don't be embarrassed, Shouko," Shuuko said, trying to comfort her. "The nurse said this has happened to many of the students at your school. In fact, your school just called and told me that even some of the homeroom teachers fainted today. They had to cancel classes for the rest of the week."

Komi was shocked to hear the news of classes being canceled. Even during the hottest of summer days, the schools had never canceled classes.

"I'm not surprised," continued Shuuko. "This heatwave is just relentless! I wouldn't be surprised if it made everyone in this town become nudists, if only to deal with the heat!"

Komi winced upon hearing the word nudist . It was something she still didn't want her mom talking to her about.

Realizing she was making Komi uncomfortable, Shuuko made her way back to the door. "Let's not worry about that," she said, "today, you just worry about resting and feeling better."

She then left Komi's room, closing the door behind her. Komi grabbed a water bottle and pressed it against her neck. She plopped herself back onto her bed and stared up at the ceiling.

Komi still felt embarrassed about collapsing at school and worrying everybody. She could only imagine how scared everyone was, especially Tadano.

She hoped that none of her classmates fell victim to the heat.

Or became nudists.

She shuddered as she suddenly remembered the dream she had yesterday.

Still feeling exhausted, Komi closed her eyes. It didn't take long for her to slowly drift off to sleep again.


MEANWHILE

Shuuko sat down at the kitchen table, sipping one of the cold teas she brought for Komi.

"Thank goodness she's getting better," she sighed.

She then began flapping her shirt rapidly as she was beginning to feel very hot. Around the same time yesterday, she would have been parading around in her birthday suit.

She stared down at the drink in her hands, thinking back to yesterday afternoon. She was so elated to have another nudist in the family. But that moment of jubilation was quickly dashed once Komi locked her out of her bedroom and refused to come out, even after Shousuke and Masayoshi came home.

Today, she decided to stay clothed for Komi's sake, but she longed to be nude again, especially with it being so hot outside.

"She just had to be her father's daughter," she complained. "And here I thought I had a nudist partner at last."

Leaning back into her chair, she let out a sigh of frustration. She flapped her shirt again, trying to relieve herself of the heat.

Eventually, she moved to the living room. She turned on the aircon, filling the room with cool air, then she turned on the TV.

"If only there was some way to show her that shared nudism is the best nudism!" she groaned.

A minute later, the T.V. played a commercial advertising some new hand cream that supposedly smelled of palm trees and white sand. It showed a mother and daughter playing on the beaches of Okinawa.

"A trip to the beach sounds wonderful right about now," said Shuuko. "Maybe I'll take Shouko too, since she now has the week off. We can have our own mother-daughter time!"

Shuuko went to take another sip before her eyes shot wide open. An idea suddenly popped into her head.

"Wait, that's it. That's it!" she said, happily.

She got out of her seat and picked up the phone. "I hope the number still works!" she said, hastily dialing the phone.

She held the phone up to her ear. The dial tone rang over and over again until finally someone picked up.

" Thank you for calling the Hadaka Beach Resort! "

"Himi-chan?" asked Shuuko.

" …Shuuko ?"


BONUS

"I'm home," Tadano said, as he walked into his apartment.

He closed the door behind him and slipped off his shoes. He let out a yawn as he walked into the kitchen, where his mom would normally be preparing dinner. But she was nowhere to be seen. "I wonder where mom went," he said to himself. "Maybe she's running errands."

Tadano then walked into the room where he and his sister slept. "I guess Hitomi wasn't lucky enough to have her classes canceled for the week."

He dropped his school bag on the floor and wasted no time taking off his school uniform and changing into something more comfortable and appropriate for the heatwave, an oversized T-shirt and cargo shorts.

After wiping himself down with body wipes, he crawled into the bottom bunk of his bed. He was grateful to have the whole apartment to himself. He felt he could use the peace and quiet.

"So hot…" he groaned, as he plopped his head down on his pillow.

With classes canceled for the rest of the week, he was hoping to catch up on some sleep. But much like the past two days, the humidity made his skin stick to his sheets, keeping him awake.

But that wasn't the only thing keeping him up.

While several students and teachers passed out from heat exhaustion today, there was one that affected him the most.

The image of Komi fainting in front of him continued to play on repeat in his head, from the moment it happened to when classes were dismissed early.

"Why did I say all that stuff to her?!" he said, berating himself. He covered his face in shame and rocked his bed violently.

[He thinks Komi fainting was his fault.]

He still had a hard time believing that Komi could ever be a nudist. And not just her, but her mother too! "I shouldn't have brought that up to her," he murmured. "If Komi truly is a nudist, that's her business and not mine!"

Tadano sighed as he felt a bead of sweat trailing down his head. He hated the feeling of it snaking between the strands of his hair. "Maybe being a nudist isn't so bad, especially in this awful heat."

Tadano looked down at himself and gently tugged on the waistband of his shorts. "You know, I am home alone. If Komi can do it, I wonder…"

[The seeds have been planted.]


CHAPTER 5 END

A/N: Next time, Komi and her mom finally arrive at the Hadaka Beach Resort! How will Komi react to being at a nudist resort surrounded by other nudist people?

Well…if you read the beginning of the story, you kinda already know. But perhaps someone will make her feel more comfortable?