Weeks had passed as they finally settled into their new base and got everything up and running again. "Tailsko, you wanted to see me?" Kuro asks, leaning onto her.
Tailsko looks over at him before leaning her head around and sees only a wall in his direction. But then looks towards the other way to see the door to her workshop. "Yeah. Time for your shoes," she says, working on one of the shoes before placing it next to the other.
Kuro hums as he picks the other one up as he assumes them to be done by now. A sharp red style with a broad white band going over the top and middle of it. The white soles even hold a golden orb area in the heel as he wonders if that makes him be faster. "How tough are these things?"
"I have done several tests. I had to go through ten prototypes for the right material for toughness. More to get them to work," Tailsko assures.
Kuro smiles and kisses her cheek. "Then I'll trust you with this. I used to step on a lot of acid things, so my old shoes were special," he sighs before grinning. "So can I try them on?"
"Go ahead. Still will need some adjusting to get them to work optimally with you," Tailsko informs before frowning as she looks down to see his tail wrapped around both of hers.
"What?" Kuro says innocently.
Tailsko shakes her head as her wolf starts to put on the shoes. "So that you know, I had to use Sonica's as a base."
"Just in my size, right?" Kuro asks.
"I figured it out," Tailsko shrugs off, and Kuro snarks to the side, obviously thinking of a dirty joke.
"I am proud of you, my vixen," Kuro says, smirking.
Tailsko blushes before sighing. "They fit well?" she asks, trying to make her blush go away and change the topic.
"They do," Kuro says, testing them out before suddenly rounding on her and pulling her into a kiss.
Tailsko yips into the kiss and tries to hold him back. But slowly, she falls into the hold and kisses back, wrapping her arms around him. 'Idiot.'
Kuro wraps his arms around her and slowly rubs his hands along her back while subtly having one of his hands slip down to get a feel of her ass.
Tailsko yips again and grabs his hand that was on her ass, pulling her head back. "Come on, Kuro. You have to start testing this."
"Alright, just had to get that out of the way, dear," Kuro teases, starting to walk away to test the shoes.
Tailsko nods before following him. "Using rings, if you want, it can give you a big burst of speed. Not close to Sonica, but close enough you can try to keep speed."
"What about with you, and are these affected by our ion-based tech?" Kuro asks.
Tailsko sighs and rolls her eyes. "I can keep up just fine. And no. Rings usually aren't since they have no electricity."
"You have tested that then?" Kuro asks, stretching a bit in preparation for running.
Tailsko hums thoughtfully before tossing a golden ring in the air that is about the size of her hand. "Nope," she responds and hears an angelic clink as Kuro snatches the ring out of the air as it falls beside him. "At this point, you can just toss that thing at your feet. It will do the rest," she instructs while watching the energy readings on her tablet.
"Alright," Kuro says, tossing it a bit ahead of him and starts running, and when the ring hits the ground, it is right next to his feet and is quickly absorbed into the shoe's metallic parts.
Kuro yips in surprise as he suddenly picks up at crazy high speed. Tailsko smirks as she hears the yip, finding his shock and fear very amusing for this. As he runs around the course, Tailsko raises an eyebrow as she records the data coming off of his shoes. But also finds the power is coming out in a non-consistent amount. It drains the shoes at different rates for each shoe, which can be very problematic. "Okay. That's enough."
"Results?" Kuro asks, blinking to her side.
Tailsko shows him the screen. "Power draw is different. I need to do some calibrations," she answers, showing the numbers for each shoe.
"So it will be done by tonight because you are so brilliant?" Kuro asks in a flirting tone as he leans on her.
Tailsko nods while flipping through some screens. "Yeah. So I will be busy, of course…as always."
"When you are done, I will try and make you a meal. How is that?" Kuro offers.
Tailsko frowns at him. "You better make it good."
"I will. Oh, and Whisper and Sonica will be joining us, but only I will be cooking," Kuro says, petting her behind the ears.
Tailsko yips in surprise before sighing. "As long as there is nothing…extra in it," she suggests, her tails waving behind her like mad once she mentions the last bit.
"No, there won't be any of that. I don't do drugs like that," Kuro assures, letting her go and starts taking off the shoes so she can work on them.
Tailsko's tail twitches. "Not…that," she puffs some air out before sighing. "Just make sure you check up on the others when needed. I think there might be some plans being made."
"Oh, there are, but I don't need to attend after our exchange in the trailer. Sally and I talk more, and I help her strategize. Plus, my notes give her a lot of intel to work with and plans right now. She is briefing other cells on locations so they can attack and slow the egg armies down," Kuro assures, placing the shoes on the table for her.
Tailsko sighs and takes a shoe before opening up the sole to find the system inside. "Good. At least we would be safe somehow," she says before raising an eyebrow as she looks closely at a part. "Do me a favor…handle any of those guys still having grudges against you. We don't want another base invasion."
"What guys? All those with a grudge against that degree are long dead," Kuro says, completely serious.
Tailsko sweatdrops when Kuro said he would be cooking. She expected cooked meat or something like that. Instead, she is looking at an entire bowl of rice with miso soup for each of them and some barbecue meat in the center of the four of them.
"Holy…" Sonica laughs while sitting in a flowing dress that ends below her ass as she looks over the table full of food. "I was expecting just some noodles or chili dogs."
"A very Yurashia style meal? Did you learn it while operating in Storm's territory?" Whisper inquires, looking over at Kuro as he wears a pink apron with hearts on it. Though, that doesn't stop the quiet wolf from wearing only her spandex pants and a tight white tube top that presses against her breasts.
Kuro is silent for a bit as he looks at the food. "No, this was something me and my first partner cooked a lot back before…" Kuro pauses and thinks back as an image comes to mind of a feminine form with six arms in a black whole body shinobi outfit. "Yeah, my dear friend Milena," Kuro says in such a way that all of them know she is gone, and she is special to him.
Tailsko's expression turns into a sad one before looking at the wolf as he sets down another helping. "What was she like?"
"She was sarcastic, sneaky, someone you had to watch constantly, or possessions would go missing. I swear I lost three or five million in cash or items we stole over the years," Kuro says before chuckling a bit as if that is something funny making the three sweatdrop. "She was also kind, diligent, loyal to a fault, and patient. She was the one who refined my fighting prowess to be far more than street brawling," Kuro says.
"Would you like to tell us how you met?" Whisper asks.
"If it wouldn't be a problem with you. It would be honoring her memory, I guess. Now then, wh…" Kuro stops immediately, and his expression twists into one of rage, and his claws on the table are clenched, and blood is leaking onto the table. His sudden change in attitude is shocking, but it didn't seem to be directed at them. None of them says anything until Kuro calms down. "I keep trying to bury that memory, but I guess I can't as it's connected to how I met Milena," Kuro says, unclenching his palms showing his claws had dug into them.
Whisper gets up and starts to grab some paper towels and wet them. "Do you still want to talk about it?" she asks, walking back to him and cleans up his bloody hands.
"No, it's fine. It started after I watched my adopted father being murdered," Kuro informs.
"Oh…" Sonica says, getting where all that anger came from now.
"You would think I wouldn't have such a reaction to remembering him. After all, he is now dead. Though I guess it's better I only have undying hatred from him and not the whole Echidna race," Kuro says, scratching his head. "Now, after that, the bastard didn't kill me, and I wandered the streets for days stealing what I needed to survive. The old man was a thief by trade, and you can guess how much that rubbed off on me."
"We noticed," they all say besides Sonica, who is slightly confused by that.
"By the way, how much money have you stolen from Eggman?" Tailsko asks, smirking.
"Rough estimate or what I can give direct value to?" Kuro asks, wanting some clarification.
Tailsko leans on an arm, looking at him. "We know you're a good counter when it comes to monetary value."
"Around two point two million," Kuro says, making her facefault with Sonica.
Whisper just looks at him with the same closed-eyed expression. "I expected three, sir."
"Storm hounding me, and before you get excited, all of it is stored across continents, and I have no idea how much has been found and reaquired," Kuro says, trying to make sure Tailsko didn't get her hopes up.
Sonica groans as she and Tailsko get back into their seats. "Where did you find this hunk of a wolf sister?" she asks, turning to Tailsko while rubbing her head.
"Being hunted down by Egg Boss Conquering Storm. The first encounter nearly choked out Espio," Tailsko says, getting a look. "I read reports."
"Dangerous canine," Sonica mutters to herself and notices Kuro's ears perk up towards her. "So…back to the story…?" she asks carefully, not wanting him to get angry again.
"Well, funny enough, we met when we both were robbing a jewelry store," Kuro informs, getting a sweatdrop from all of them.
'Why am I…am I surprised at this point?' Tailsko thinks, seeing that he is proud of that. 'Please don't let our kids be master thieves,' she thinks hopefully.
Sonica smiles at his demeanor that is becoming more gentle and happy. "So you guys split the profits fifty-fifty? Or you two went and robbed another place?"
"We fought. She was kicking my ass before the private security arrived, and we ran together, taking what we had stolen. Short story after that, we stayed together honing our skills and her teaching me how to fight. Weird thinking we became a team when we were both seven," Kuro says, reminiscing as he pours his miso soup into his rice bowl.
"Sorry. Seven?" Tailsko questions as Whisper washes up from cleaning his bloody hands.
Sonica then smiles and points at him. "Is this where the love story part starts happening? Or a few years later?"
"…more like thirteen. During the war against the bastard. She died five years ago for me," Kuro informs.
Every one of the girls looks at Kuro, seeing him staring into his bowl with some condolences. Whisper sighs as she walks over before sitting by the wolf. Kuro looks at her as she digs into his bowl with a set of chopsticks and holds up some noodles to his muzzle. A faint smile appears from him before he opens his mouth and bites onto the noodles, slurping and chewing them down. "She was a good girl, though, right?" she asks, opening her eyes a little bit now.
"That she was. She was one of the best shinobi there was. If she saw how I let myself go…" Kuro says, shuddering at the thought. "Let's say the beating she would have given me makes what Storm wants to do look preferable."
"Besides ending up with some other girls?" Whisper questions, getting more food for him.
"Eh…she had five girls she was also seeing," Kuro says, flooring all three.
Tailsko groans, eating away at her meal now. 'Yep. It sounds like someone who worked their life like Kuro. I will never be surprised by anything anymore,' she thinks, keeping her eyes down at her food.
"Come to think of it, she had an arm for each of them and me as she was an arachnid mobium," Kuro adds.
Sonica blinks before counting on her fingers the number of partners this girl had. "Five…two other guys. Wow," she says, impressed. "Must be quite an orgy," she chuckles pervertedly.
"I never got to meet her girlfriends. For the longest time, it was an unspoken rule never to mix work with pleasure. Because how many times has everyone here ever been taken prisoner?" Kuro asks, looking around, not expecting an answer, but the facial expressions tell him at least once each. "You will not believe how much that leads to someone getting captured or in hostage situations. It's like that old warning of never asking how things can get worse. As it always happens," Kuro explains.
'And for some reason, I don't doubt you one bit,' Sonica thinks.
"So I told one lie at the end, can you three figure out what it was?" Kuro asks, relaxing as Sonica lays on a hammock, and Tailsko works on the shoes she is making for Kuro.
Tailsko is silent as she keeps working away. She then lifts her soldering iron before sighing. "The girlfriends she had. No way she held onto five at a time. Including you and another guy," Tailsko speaks up, returning to her work.
"You are correct, but I never mentioned another guy, so wh…oh. Does Tailsko have naughty ideas and fantasies?" Kuro asks, his tone turning into a teasing one at the latter half of it.
Tailsko blushes as she pauses and slowly looks at Kuro, who is grinning at her very pervertedly. "Better…not get many ideas."
Kuro chuckles. "Says the vixen watching the new security cameras for some great sexual fun and orgies and gangbangs," he laughs as Tailsko turns her eye to her computer and sees the folder among many of them on the screen marked with such a stupid name to hide all the footage. "Try something else other than 'Boring Shit,'" Kuro laughs.
"Also, put a few password locks on it," Whisper adds.
Tailsko yips quietly as Whisper lays on her bed, reading a comic. 'These idiots…' she thinks, sighing as Sonica snickers from her hammock. "It just proves you watch them too," she tries to shoot back.
"I'm not the one recording for pleasure. But it seems you are following a certain blue jay," Kuro winks, smirking. "Let me guess? Hot, sexy, meek, and very much up for fun always like you?" Kuro lists off and sees Tailsko's tail twitch each time.
"Wait. The same one you modeled the disguise they put me in after?" Sonica asks, sitting up.
Kuro nods and smirks at her. "The very same. Tailsko…saw enough to make a good replica," he suggests as he grins evilly at the blushing and embarrassed vixen as she hides behind a welding mask now.
"Explains the good details. That blue jay has been getting around," Whisper mentions, pulling up some footage of the blue jay getting cornered and pinned by a german shepherd. "There are a lot of guys this one has been with. Not Kuro though or even tried to," Whisper mentions frowning and growling deeply in her throat, but keeps focusing on the dog lick and bite at the bird's neck.
"Oh, she knows who not to go for," Tailsko assures.
Kuro grins even more. "Ah. Tailsko, the voyeur. She knows exactly how someone is by watching for such a long time. Do you have cameras set up to record us, maybe?" he teases, laughing as Tailsko gets up and walks over to him with a frown on her face. "And what punishment is it today, my sexy vixen?" he keeps joking, still with a smile on his face.
"And this is the one I will have kits with," Tailsko mutters under her breath as she facepalms.
Kuro hums and leans over before kissing her on the cheek. "Relax, my vixen. After all, what's life without a little fun?" he asks while his tail wags behind him eagerly. "And this is one of the few times we get a big break with all of us here. So enjoy that you have your pseudo sister and mates all in the same room as you," he comforts soothingly before reaching out and grabbing her ear, rubbing it between his fingers.
"She is no longer that. She is another of her cowives," Whisper corrects.
Kuro grins at the still engrossed wolf as she keeps watching the footage with the bird now pinned on the ground and being fucked away. "And how is the show, my dear? In fact, what if I sought out the bird to see how good she is?" he asks, humming while Sonica snickers again.
"No, I already talked to her," Tailsko informs.
Kuro's smirk turns to the fox and leans closer. "Oh, is it 'run away if she sees me?' Is that what you told her because that's no fun."
"Vixen is territorial," Whisper points out.
Kuro hums before pulling Tailsko in a small hug as he wraps his arms around her neck. He chuckles while still swinging away in his hammock. "You know I will get bored. But that doesn't mean you have to place roadblocks everywhere. I will always treat you as one of my top girls," he whispers into her ear as it twitches under his hot breath.
Tailsko gives him a disapproving look as she goes back to work, not justifying that.