SSX Start
Yawning as she walked into the kitchen of her home, Nanoha nodded to Arf. "Morning." She blinked several times as she saw was Arf was wearing. "...Why are you wearing just shorts and no shirt?"
"Because I got an apron on!" The familiar, in her child form, smiled at Nanoha. "And it's not like I've got breasts in this form, so nyah!" She stuck her tongue out and went back to cooking for everyone. "I'll have breakfast ready soon."
"Thanks, Arf, you've been a really big help."
Arf turned and smiled at her. "Of course! I am Fate's familiar after all, cooking breakfast, helping you, Fate, Yuuno and Miyuki adjust to living together along with Vivio is simple for me."
"Don't forget Erio and Caro." Nanoha smiled tiredly as Arf nodded.
"Of course, they're coming home soon, aren't they?"
Nanoha nodded to her. "Yeah, it's a shame that Fate, Yuuno and myself are heading out today on that mission."
Arf shrugged, she knew about the mission. "You'll be gone, what? A week? Relax, even if something weird happens you know Erio and Caro can take care of themselves." Nanoha nodded at that and blinked as a leer came across Arf's face. "Speaking of taking care of yourself, did you have fun last night?" Arf giggled as Nanoha's face turned red. "I'm surprised you're the first one up, really. You know how loud you get when you..."
"Alright, that's enough of that!" Nanoha snapped, trying to get her blush down. "Little girls shouldn't be grinning like that." When Arf shrugged and shifted to her adult form, Nanoha fell over as Arf's large breasts spilled out of her apron. "ARF!"
"What?" Arf shrugged, then looked down. "...Oh."
"Sheesh! I didn't mean for you to do that!" Nanoha said as she rubbed her head. "Besides, what I do at night isn't really your concern, is it?"
Shifting back to her child form, Arf gave Nanoha a flat look. "It is when you keep me up half the night."
Before the two could argue any further, Vivio walked into the kitchen, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. "Morning, mama, Arf-nee..." Her hair was sticking out at odd angles as she scratched her head. "Thirsty..." She muttered, grabbing a glass and filling it with water. "Ngh... Is Mary done with that new device she promised me yet?"
Nanoha smiled at her. "Not quite yet, she got distracted by the data Thoth sent her." Vivio groaned and drank her water. "Go get cleaned up."
Vivio nodded and left the room quickly. After she left, Nanoha looked at Arf with narrowed eyes. "You're lucky you transformed back before she showed up."
Arf sighed at that. "You take a bath with her, it's not like she hasn't seen this kind of stuff before. We went to that outdoor bath last month with Hayate and her family, remember?"
"It's not that, Arf, this isn't the time and place to get naked, okay?"
"All things considered, she lives in a house with three women and one man and you four really don't keep quiet when you're having fun, I don't think seeing naked breasts is going to be a problem for her." Secretly, Arf was just waiting for Vivio to accidentally run into one of the adults during those moments. She wondered who it would be more embarrassing for, the adults or Vivio.
"I'm going to go get ready and wake everyone up." As Nanoha got to the stairs, she bumped into her older sister. "Sorry, Miyuki-nee."
"Hey, no problem." Miyuki smiled at the younger woman. "And don't worry about a thing, I can watch over Vivio and the house while you're gone."
"Thanks," Nanoha nodded and looked at Miyuki, before biting her lip, sighing and going upstairs, causing Miyuki to blink at her retreating back.
Shaking her head, Miyuki walked into the kitchen just as Arf was finished with making breakfast. "You know what's wrong with Nanoha?" She found it a little odd that Arf was only wearing shorts and an apron, but mentally shrugged it off.
Arf gave her a flat stare. "Considering the situation between you for and your bedroom antics, why shouldn't she feel a little awkard?"
Miyuki sighed and rubbed her eyes. "I see." It was pretty easy for her to forget that not everyone got a crush on their older sibling when they were growing up. "So, what do wolves do?"
"I wouldn't know." Arf answered honestly. "I was only a puppy when Fate made me into her familiar, I'd be dead right now without her. If he can remember that far back, Zafira would be have better answers."
Miyuki nodded, that made sense. "Anyway, you're going to stick around, right?"
"Of course I am." Arf rolled her eyes at Miyuki. "Someone has to cook food for everyone. You're completely hopeless."
Miyuki groaned at that. Just because she messed up with ingredients once in the past two years didn't mean she was horrible. How was she supposed to know that wasn't nutmeg? Mid-Childa didn't have everything the same as Earth did. "Fine, but if you wear just that apron, someone might do horrible things to such an innocent child."
A moment later, Miyuki was hit in the face with a hot, wet towel.
(---)
A couple of hours later...
Shamal shook her head as she walked into Hayate's office. "Hayate," she smiled at the shorter woman, who nodded back to her, "you know, you don't need to go with us..."
"Shamal," Hayate narrowed her eyes at the doctor, "I told you, I just felt a little nauseous this morning, nothing serious. Besides, I'm more worried that you don't have your affairs in order."
Shamal shook her head. "No, I got it taken care of two days ago..."
*Flash*
Kyrie blinked as she and Shamal finished up their session. "What do you mean you won't be here next week?"
"I told Amitie already, but I guess she didn't tell you, huh?" Kyrie shook her head. "alright, I'm going to be gone all next week. There was a request and most of the top staff of the Riot Force are going to be on this mission."
Kyrie stared at Shamal. "Must be some mission." Shamal shrugged. "So, what am I supposed to..." Kyrie trailed off as Shamal tossed her something. "What's this?"
"A journal." Shamal said to her. "Just record your day to day activities in it. You don't need to comment on any dreams or thoughts in specific, just write what comes to you, okay?" She blinked as Kyrie looked down. "Something wrong?"
"It's just..." Kyrie surprised Shamal by suddenly hugging her. "You've been so kind to me and Ami and you didn't need to."
Shamal sighed as she hugged the younger girl. "And I've told you before, I've never tried to be cruel in my life. So, you just relax and do this for me, okay?" Kyrie sniffled and nodded while leaning against Shamal's chest. "...You aren't going to let go unless you cuddle for an hour, are you?"
"Well..." Kyrie looked at Shamal with a weird smile on her face and before the knight could figure out what she had planned, the younger girl's lips were planted firmly on her own. Shamal's eyes widened at the kiss and her brain nearly shut down when she felt Kyrie push her tongue into the blonde's mouth even as her breasts pressed against Shamal's own. Regaining her balance, the doctor's brain finally rebooted and she broke the kiss with the younger girl. "Aww..."
"Kyrie," Shamal panted, a blush on her face, "that was totally inappropriate." Seeing Kyrie's eyes widen in fear before she whimpered and looked down, Shamal sighed. "Look, you can't just do that, okay? It's very inappropriate for doctors and their patients to fraternize."
"...If I wasn't your patient, would you let me do that?" Kyrie asked, hopeful. Maybe Shamal wasn't mad at her after all?
Shamal just sighed.
*End Flash*
"Anyway, Hayate, I'm just saying that you should be careful, if you're coming down with something..." Shamal trailed off and sighed as Hayate shook her head. "Alright."
"Hayate's getting sick on us?" Shamal and Hayate looked up as Fate, Nanoha and Yuuno walked in. Fate gave Hayate a pointed look. "If you're getting sick, you should stay home."
Hayate waved her off as she saw the rest of her family follow Reinforce Eins into the office. "Alright, the mission that we were given isn't going to be extremely difficult, thankfully." That drew a few chuckles from everyone as Reinforce move to stand beside her. "As for what it entails, well, guard and escort duty."
"If we have to keep clients alive, I swear, I'm going to bind all of them in one area so they can't move," Vita grumbled, remembering all those horrible, horrible escort missions. Just how could the computer be so stupid?!
"Thankfully it's not like that." Reinforce spoke up for Hayate. "There was a rather large find of various things, from materials, to Lost Logia and even some relics of old civilizations. Unfortunately, it's out in the furthest reaches of Bureau space, near the out lands..."
"Let me guess," Signum spoke up as she adjusted the black glove on her right hand, "they need at least two ships to cart it all back, it's spread across several worlds or there's a major risk of being attacked by criminals out there?"
Hayate nodded at her and looked at Yuuno, Nanoha, and Fate before looking at Zafira, Shamal, Rein Zwei and Agito. "Because of the rather lawless nature of the area out there, we were all asked to play bodyguard." Hayate leaned forward slightly and laced her fingers in front of her face. "I don't like the thought of all of us leaving Cranagan at the same time. If something happened, none of us would be here, so, I ask, do any of you have any reservations about going?" She smiled lightly when they all shook their heads negatively. "Well then, we fly to the space port by helicopter and then leave as soon as we get there." Hayate smiled and stood up. "I hope you all packed plenty of clothes for the mission. Dismissed."