Oh my, all the perv requests.
I don't even know what I'm doing here. Ok, actually, I do.
>_>
I wanted to drop by and present some fluff before burying myself in my hated revisions again. No, it's not quite the continuation to the continuation to Malfunction, but its set timeline-wise before it. I thought it was cute, so yeah.
In case anyone was wondering, I've gotten started on the non-perv continuation, but the actual perv will have to wait until after my exams. It ends on Wednesday, so yeah, be patient!
Anyway, gonna stop blabbering and post now. ^_^
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One Night in SeoulThe knocking on the door was persistent, and it made a certain girl twitch uncontrollably as she hurriedly washed her hands and scrambled out of the bathroom.
"Coming!" She called out, skidding around the corner and almost slamming facefirst into the door. Rubbing her forehead gingerly with one hand, she opened the door with the other, her pained expression giving way to pleasure as she took in the sight of her visitor.
"Ai-chan!" Niigaki Risa, the aforementioned occupant of the room blurted out happily. Her visitor smiled vaguely as her eyes traveled up to where Risa was holding her hand to her forehead. The thud when Risa's forehead had made contact with the very unyielding door had been clearly audible on the other side of it.
"Are you ok?" Ai asked in concern. Risa laughed nervously as she swung herself to one side, allowing entry for the older girl.
"Eh, I ah, ran into the door just now." Risa mumbled embarrassedly, rubbing at her slightly sore forehead before brushing her fringe over it to conceal the reddened spot.
"Mou, Gaki-san, you should be more careful!" Ai sounded like she was somewhere between laughing and being concerned. She was dressed quite casually, just a t-shirt and sweatpants, seeing that her own hotel room was just across from Risa's, and she saw no point in dressing up if they weren't going anywhere else.
"I was too! But Ai-chan was knocking so hard, I thought it was something urgent!" Risa complained, pouting slightly as she closed the door behind them.
"What do I have to do with anything? You still should have been more careful!" Ai retorted, plopping herself down on the edge of the bed unceremoniously. Risa stuck her tongue out at her leader, pretending to sulk a little, and Ai did laugh out loud this time.
"Come here." Ai gestured to Risa, patting the space beside her. Risa pretended reluctance for a moment, but gave in anyway. It
was her room and her bed, after all.
"So, Ai-chan, what are you doing over so late? It's past 10 already and I'm..." Risa yawned mid-sentence. "...getting sleepy."
"Let me see?" Risa blinked, wondering what Ai was referring to, but the smaller woman had already leaned towards her, brushing aside her fringe and running gentle fingers across the still reddened patch where Risa had hit her head. Risa let out something between a sigh and yawn as Ai stroked the sore flesh almost tenderly.
"Does it hurt?" Ai sounded quite concerned. Risa felt a pleasant warmth spread from her heart at the heartfelt question.
"No, I'm fine..." Then she frowned slightly. "Were you listening to me, or did you just ignore me again?"
"Eh?" Now it was Ai's turn to blink uncomprehendingly at Risa. "I was!"
"Really? What did I say then?" Risa asked suspiciously.
"Um, you asked me what I was doing over here?" Ai answered a little warily, after a moment's recollection. Risa pretended to glare at her, making the older girl shrink backwards. "What?"
Suddenly Risa grinned and reached forward, tweaking Ai's nose. "Just kidding~" Then the younger girl scooted backwards further up the bed to avoid the playful punch Ai was aiming at her shoulder.
"Mou Gaki-san, don't do that!" Ai whined, puffing out her cheeks as she turned to face her grinning sub-leader, who had already fallen back to rest on the pillows. Ai pretended to scowl at her as she crawled up to sprawl belly-first beside her friend. Risa grinned remorselessly and turned on her side to face her leader.
"So? What's up?" Ai tried to maintain her expression but after a moment's struggle, decided it wasn't worth the wrinkles and smiled slightly.
"Just came over to hang out for a bit. We don't always have the time to do that." Risa returned the warm smile and also turned around to rest on her belly, resting one cheek on her arm which was thrown over the pillow, as her other eye lazily rose up to meet Ai-chan's gaze.
"So, how was Koharu? I was going to go check on her later, before I slept..." Risa started. Ai shrugged, propping up her chin on steepled fingers as she rested her elbows on the bed.
"No need, I swung by her room before I came. I made sure she was in bed before I left." Ai smiled half to herself. "She was a bit homesick earlier, so I helped her make a long-distance call back to her parents. I think she'll sleep better tonight."
"That's nice of you Ai-chan." Risa beamed approvingly at her leader. Ai tilted her gaze down modestly, letting her short hair cover her face.
"Well, I try..." Risa smiled encouragingly upwards, reaching out with her free hand to pat the older woman's shoulder.
"I'm sure you'll be a great leader." Ai shrugged again.
"The younger ones like you better though..." Ai mumbled. "You're the nice and friendly senpai, and they all think I'm a bit...odd."
"You ARE odd." Ai huffed in response and hit Risa lightly on the shoulder, but Risa just grinned indulgently back up at her offended leader. "But I like you that way."
"Hmph, you're the strange one, Gaki-san." Ai replied, slightly flustered by the sudden compliment, but secretly pleased by it anyway.
They made some more small talk for a while, though Risa's responses grew shorter and shorter, ranging fromm "hmm" to "yeah", until she completely stopped responding to Ai's increasing monologue as the older digressed into Japanese history again (unconscious habit).
After a long period of no answers from her companion, Ai leaned over curiously, nudging Risa with her shoulder. Risa shuffled around in her sleep, sprawled over her half of the bed, limbs spread in awkward directions as she kicked unconsciously at the sheets. Ai giggled at the sleepy little frown that appeared on Risa's face as the latter tried to get comfortable unconsciously.
Ai sighed aloud at how adorable the younger girl was in her sleep. It was cute seeing Gaki-san sprawled so messily all over the bed, her lips slightly parted and a trickle of drool starting to gather and ooze its way out from a corner of her mouth. After watching indulgently for a moment, Ai decided to leave her Gaki-san alone to her slumber, not quite having the heart to wake the younger girl up.
Getting off the bed carefully so as not to wake her sleeping friend, Ai tiptoed over and tried to pull the blankets over her unconscious (and definitely drooling now) sub-leader, not wanting her to catch cold. It was a bit difficult since Gaki-san was lying on half of the sheets, and after some tugging, Ai gave up. Frowning for a moment, she stared helplessly for a second before a lightbulb went off in her head.
Zipping off into her own room just across the hallway, she retrieved something and scooted back into Gaki-san's room, where the younger girl was still obliviously dead to the world. Tenderly, she spread the spare blanket she had accidentally packed along on her friend, making sure that the other girl was tucked in warmly. Her fingers brushed over the messy forelock covering Gaki-san's forehead, watching adoringly as Risa twitched in her sleep, mumbling incoherently to herself. The sore spot were Risa had hit her head was fading already, but Ai could still see the contrast to the pale skin of her Gaki-san.
Unable to resist the impulse (well, Gaki-san was somehow pouting in her sleep, and it was absolutely adorable), Ai leaned down and kissed Risa's forehead gently, blowing lightly on where Risa had hurt herself just earlier.With an enigmatic smile, the leader reluctantly pulled away, but not after whispering something before she left the room.
"Sleep well, Risa."
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Ok, I so ripped the title off "one night in Beijing" >_> Yeah, says a lot about me, no? XDDD
Anyway, fluff done. >D
-skips away-
EDIT: My 400th post devoted to Takagaki fluff! <3