RP: YSS Miharu Mission 2, Day 2

A chime sounded in the rooms of the Miharu's crew. "Good morning everyone. I suggest you rouse yourselves from bed and present yourself to the wardroom," Hinoto's spoke over the intercom. There were worse ways to be awakened: Hinoto's voice was gentle and polite. "Delay, and I cannot make any guarantee that Mara will leave Anti-Matter-Os. She seems to like them."

"Ugh," Serizawa grumbled sleepily. "Too sweet."

He continued to mumble to himself but his words were slurred to the point of being unrecognizable. The science specialist pulled the covers of the blanket over his head and rolled onto his side, his back turned toward his lover and bedmate, Sora, as he drifted back into a deep sleep.

Every bit like a bear when it came to the subject of sleep, Serizawa was always reluctant to push himself out of bed. As long as alarms were not going off in his ears, he had no qualms in sleeping in, even if it meant skipping breakfast.

Sora woke up easily and glanced at Serizawa's sleeping blaket covered back for a moment. She smiled as she lifted the blanket and kissed his neck. "Ichi-kun, it's time for breakfast," she whispered into his ear as she pressed against his back. "COme on sleepy head, join me for a shower?"

The Meng Po assault. The memory had come back to him in a dream. The Black Mindy and the unarmored neko were in his view.

"Takuma-Hei, snipe the unarmored Neko with your SMG," she said, her tone confident.

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Takuma grasped his gun, his mind confident. With an arrogant smirk, the technician squeezed off a shot, and hide behind cover. A few seconds passed, and nothing happened. Silence.

Curiosity made him round the corner. The Black Mindy had disappeared, along with his teammate's armor. All that was left was the unconscious neko, with black hair. Wait...didn't the neko have brow-. He then realized that it was not his enemy on the floor, but his commanding officer. His fellow soldier. His friend.

The realization of what he did caused him to forcefully leave the unconscious realm and to appear in his bed, covered in sweat.

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D-dream... That was it... He couldn't get the image of the dead Kurohoshi-Juni out of his mind. After hearing the announcement, he wiped his sweaty face on a towel and walked to the ward room, still shaking a little.

Groaning again, Serizawa's eyes opened up at the sound of Sora's voice. He placed a hand on the mattress of the bed and pushed himself into a sitting position. His crimson hair was in a chaotic, spiraling mess atop his head. Stretching his arms out wide, the physicist stretched out while simultaneously yawning. Once his stretch had concluded, he rubbed at his eyes with balled up hands and smacked his lips together slowly. His mouth was as dry as desert sand.

He turned back to his lover, leaned in and placed a quick peck on her forehead, speaking in a deep and rumbling voice, "Okay. Let's go get showered. Maybe we'll have time for a quick one too."

Kai shifted around slightly in his bed, wondering what all this small sound was. In the past months and at the Fort he had gotten used to Rude awakenings, but this, he could not comprehend. Groggily, he arose from the bed and stared at the ceiling wondering what was up. He checked his communicator as he got dressed, noting it was about breakfast time, and wandered to the wardroom sleepily, thinking he had heard something about it recently.

Sora blushed softly as she smiled at Serizawa. "I'll make you a morning person yet, Ichi-kun," the young Ketsurui beamed at her lover before she slid off the bed and with her hair for a moment, deciding to pull it back into a loose ponytail until she could wash it and brush it out properly. The straps of the short green satin nightgown she wore slid down her shoulders accentuated her ample bosom.

"Don't wear yourself too hard today, I want to try some different perimeters tonight when we have some free time," She said very shyly before she went to gather her bath robe and her other shower things.

"Oh?" Serizawa replied groggily as he journey toward the closet for his own white bathrobe. "I can't say how much work I'll have to do to today but I'm sure I can find some energy for after-work experiments."

He yawned again as he wrapped his robe around his narrow frame. Next on the search list was his showering kit, complete with soap, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste and other items he require for morning grooming. It wasn't located too far away from his robe, a deliberate placement made to allow Serizawa to find it without much trouble in mornings like this one.

Once he was ready, he moved behind Sora, grasping her on the sides of her waist with both his hands.

"Ready yet?" he asked, placing a kiss on her neck.

Sora leaned against Serizawa with a smile, "Of course." She pulled on her bathrobe over Ichi's hands with a grin. "Let's go then." She lightly took one of his hands from her waist and gently lead him forward and out the door of their quarters towards the showers.

"You know, I kind of wish that Hanako-san had more time to visit with me last night... but the nation comes first," the young neko said a little wistfully. She lightly pouted, she had hoped to have gotten to see her aunt for longer than the couple of minutes she did but there was really nothing she could do.

Masako had actually had a pleasant night sleep for one. No nightmares or disturbing dreams had seemed to haunt her. Maybe it was because something else had been on her mind before going to bed. Or maybe ST Back-ups did something to her brain to help her avoid such unpleasantness.

Masako didn't know for sure, her own line of thinking wasn't even close enough to pondering such things as she groaned underneath the amount of pillows that cluttered her bed. After all, four large pillows of green and blue inhabited the bed of satin sheets she slept upon. Moaning a bit more, the voluptuous Neko arched her back and stretched out her body as she lay upon her small piece of heaven.

Attired in her usual sleep wear of XXL White T-shirt and simple boxer shorts, the young warrant officer slowly rose to a sitting position and yawned vocally. "Antimatter O's," she mumbled before frowning. Whatever happened to a nice breakfast of Eggs and Toast? Simple, easy, nutritious. Unfortunately for her....she couldn't cook eggs...nor anything else.

"Maybe I should learn," she mumbled absentmindedly before sliding off her bed. Soon, she began to gather her toiletries, uniform, and accessories for her short jaunt to the communal bathing area. True, Nekos didn't really sweat or produce oils the way Nepleslians or Yamataians did, but it helped wake the young warrant officer up.

Serizawa followed along dutifully as Sora led the way toward the bathroom.

"I'm sure the feeling is mutual on Hanako-Taisa's part too," Serizawa tried to console his lover. "When things settle down in Yamatai, I'm sure you'll get a chance to visit with her properly."

Sora smiled. "I hope so." She brought them to the showers and gave Serizawa's hand a gentle squeeze before she let go to allow the man to properly prepare for their shower.

She set her shower stuff down on a bench for a moment to get a towel and shed her last bit of clothing before wrapping the towel around herself, modestly. She blushed despite the fact that she knew Serizawa was already quite familiar with all of the curves of her body.

Serizawa set his hygene kit onto the bench just like Sora had but rather than start to get undressed for the shower, the Yamataian man sat down on the bench and feigned a deep yawn while he kept his eyes trained on his Neko lover while she undressed. Sure, he had seen her nude plenty of times but he had yet to get tired of watching her.

Once Sora had wrapped the towel about her, Serizawa stopped yawning and almost immediately asked, "What's with the towel? There's nobody in here yet."

Nyton quietly roused from sleep and began his daily wake up routine. The night's rest had been peaceful enough and he even allowed himself a little freedom from the puzzles laid before him. Like clockwork though he knew it was time to resume his duties. He now added several volumetric windows with news feeds, fleet data, and other pieces of information to his daily waking ritual, angled in such a way that he could watch them while exercising. Food, while important, was not foremost on his mind. Besides, he didn't care much for Anti-Matter-Os.

Exercise, keeping up with current events, clean up, focusing and mental preparation were the order of the morning.

"I know... but... you never know when someone else might walk into the showers," Sora replied sheepishly. "I don't think we'll be the only one showering before breakfast." She picked up her shower kit with a light blush on her cheeks.

"Let's go get wet then?" She smiled softly at Serizawa again with a shy wink before she meandered into the showers proper.

Sighing a little to himself, Serizawa removed the robe from his body and left it on the bench. He picked up his showering kit and followed after Sora into the showers. Some soap, hot water and Sora would help to chase some of the sleepiness out of the science specialist's nerves.

Miyoko rose from bed, reluctantly as always and foggily considering the implications of wake-up calls from Hinoto. Does that girl ever sleep? She vaguely wondered if there was a name for when enthusiastic young sprites overworked themselves and ended up snapping. Some sort of syndrome, likely. Ashitaka would probably chew me out for not knowing it, if so, she brooded quietly.

Dressed only in her t-shirts and shorts, both of which were well-wrinkled from a long night of sleep, she pushed her hair back with a headband and snapped on her collar. "Mirror please, Miharu." She inspected herself in the resulting holowindow. Eh. Not bad. I can straighten up a bit later, before I go on duty.

Being left to her own devices, Miyoko had fallen into a lengthy morning routine during the downtime, and it was taking her a while to snap out of it now that she was back on the Miharu. She didn't have time to laze around in bed for an hour reading anymore. The morning wake-up call was the start of a scramble to get ready for duty most days. She did, at least, manage to work in one part this morning, a quick workout, doing a few dozen jumping jacks and a handful of sit-ups to get her blood pumping, eventually getting enough to her brain to wake her up with any luck. She was usually sedentary, but even though she'd been a Yamataian for a good while, she was still a neko at heart. It just felt good to move sometimes. Asher still owed her a sparring match, too, something she planned to collect on before long.

The young Ketsurui was hiding behind a veil of steam and water, waiting for Serizawa to join her. Sora smiled brightly at him and assisted him with his shower....

Yuril's time at Fort Ready had made her use to the idea that you never were woken up 'softly', the instructors always had some devious idea of how to wake up the recruits. Stun grenades for one... or the time they had power armors bust in and start shooting with training rounds.

So with such a way of waking more or less habit by now, the neko almost didn't know it was time to wake up. She was still expecting the bed to suddenly explode into shrapnel or something. But it didn't. It was a very odd feeling not being forceably rushed out of bed and into another day.

"Anti-Matter O's...?" the neko hadn't heard of those before... Oh well, she hadn't heard of them so it wasn't anything to get all excited over

The silver-haired crawled out of bed and ran her hands through her hair to straighten it all out. She debated taking a shower, it only seemed right, but decided for once she could wake up without having to be seen naked by who knows how many other people. That appealed to her.

So she settled to just strip off her night clothes and get dressed in her uniform and go straight to breakfast. Maybe she could shower when no one else was instead.

Masako reached the door of the communal showers before stopping, ears twitching for a moment as she blinked in confusion. "Something faint," she muttered as she allowed the door to open before hearing it a bit better.

After a moment, Masako clearly identified the noise. Quickly stepping back so the door would close, the young neko's cream-toned cheeks were flushed bright red. True...she had never had such....activities...in her life, but the warrant officer had walked in on her 'siblings' and co-workers enough to witness such sounds before.

"In the public baths..." she squeaked in shock at the very idea of such a thing. Sure...she'd heard stories...but. Such things seemed to have been apparently true. "Mi...Miharu-san," Masako actually seemed to telepathically stutter to the ship's AI. "Lock down the entryway to the Public Baths...make up a reason why." she thought as she pondered another location to bathe.

The problem was that the flustered Neko couldn't think straight as she stood there, holding her toiletries and uniform in her arms. "Point me to the nearest....alternative bathing area, please," she asked the AI once more.