Taharial smiled and looked over to Tsuguka "Well the hair dye is actually for my wings, not for my hair but I can use a different colour for it but I grown attached to the red, it is the closest colour to my hair I can find. Also I would love to get the telepathy stuff because then I can hear what you want to tell me" She grinned and chuckled "My flying is a bit different to yours, would you like to fly like a bird sweetie?" She offered Tsuguka her hand and giggled "I can hold you and fly."
Tsuguka just slowly palmed her beret under the epaulette of her left shoulder, then hopped directly into the Elysian's arms. Surprisingly light, alrough that was just because she was using her gravity organ to mess with her weight, rather than flying directly.
"Think you can handle this, Rial?" A small, sharp grin crossed her angular face. "What colour are your wings really?..." The communicator was still bundled in her left hand, showing the location of the rental place.
Taharial smiled at her partners eagerness and giggled as she holds Tsuguka tightly to her body and started to flap her wings, with a hard push of th ground Taharial was airborne with her partner as she giggled again going as high as she deemed safe for them to go.
"Well I seem to be handling it really well as you are so light Sweetie" she smiled as she span them around a few times as a little stunt "Hehe I forgot how good it was to fly around everywhere, oh and like all Elysian's wings are suppose to be white, when my mother comes to see me you can see that." She giggled and looked at her partner's communicator "Well it won't take that long to get to that shop."
Taharial started descending happily while holding her partner close so nothing bad would happen "It is right there, so you have the booking, when we get down we can get it and go" Taharial's descent was slow but made the perfect view last a long time.
Tsuguka felt strange not to be flying under her own power, suddenly gaining some insight into what it must have felt like for Rodia. Still, the smaller and softer form of Taharial's body was what she would have chosen any day of the week. It was almost like surfing, with the waves of air ebbing and flowing around them.
"Your mother?" The red neko gave her a quizzical look, then immediately settled her gaze back downward. She supposed it made her the strange one, to find it strange. The sprawling views of pristine cityscape around them made it all feel a little dreamlike. "...Do you have to give her a progress report?... Sorry, I don't really understand. I think I might have seen it in some drama show, once."
Wazu was the only other particularly 'natural' person on the crew, and he wasn't exactly the kind of person to talk about that sort of thing... The concept of being born and already having some genetic cousin looming over you... Tsuguka just found that kind of judgement scary, if she was perfectly honest.
Taharial giggled and landed on the hard ground gracefully, it didn't feel like they landed until she started walking "Well sort of similar to that, we are catching up and gossiping, it is like a progress report but more close, like if we started with to chat about missions we did without the otheronebeing there." She blushed darkly and stopped "Um would you like to step off the Taharial or shall I carry you to the shop like a newlywed?"
Taharial kissed the cheek of her partner and waited for her to choose what she wanted to do as she was happy to feel so close to the Neko and giggled as she could feel the heartbeat of her partner "You could come with me to meet her in a few days, as I told her about you and she hopes to meet you soon, but I didn't tell her we were dating yet."
Hopping out of her partner's hands was a brisk and fluid motion. Having a couple where both members could fly was pretty handy. Even through it was the furthest that they had been from the rest of the crew in months, through, Tsuguka still looked left and right at the passing pedestrians before grasping her girlfriend to complete a more impassioned kiss. Reattaching her hat came second for once, so it was obviously playing on her mind.
"Aren't you worried that she's going to be really angry about... Well, you know?..." Backing away only slightly, the shaded soldier made sure to keep both of Taharial's hands in her own whilst they shared this space together. "Not just the girl thing. The nekovalkyrja thing."
Taharial smiled at the kiss with her girlfriend and while they were kissing she took Tsuguka's hat and put it on the Neko's head for her "I could see you wanted your hat on baby" she smiled and kissed Tsuguka's nose and then held her softly.
When Taharial felt her partner pull away a bit she thought she said something wrong but realised that it was just her partner's nerves "Well I wouldn't care, she said that she was okay with me being in the Star Army, this will be a surprise but I am sure that she will be happy with it when she sees how happy I am darling."
Taharial looked at the shop "Shall we head in and get our car now?" still holding her partner's hands she headed into the shop "If you are still worried later, I am sure I can help you out with your nerves" she winked and licked her lips at the Neko "I am interested with what sounds you make in private~."
The red neko did not feel prepared for this. Well, emotionally, she was fine, but technically, none of the relationship manuals she had dug up over the last couple of months seemed any good. Not good enough for Taharial.
Making a rare full smile with just a hint of nervousness, Tsuguka turned and guided her companion into the car showroom. There were a lot of random glossy sights to behold in there, but even the bored dealer at the reception desk seemed to realise her mind was on other things.
Some quick data and money exchanges later, and the keys were in her hands. Inside the car, Tsuguka had a quick browse around the console and back seats, then closed the door with a completely blank and stern look on her face again.
"Okay. Yeah. We can do this." Sounded like she was trying a little too hard to convince herself, although a distracted hand quickly made it up to one of Taharial's wings for comfort. "Just got to deal with the genetic predecessors. You can count on me."
A rare occasion. Tsuguka had literally no idea what she was doing. Looking gruff and manly tended to be her thing, through, so she just did that, and hoped it was what her girl wanted.
Taharial watched her girlfriend act randomly throughout the deal to get their car and sighed lightly, when they were alone in the car she made a little noise with the touch from her girlfriend and her face goes a bright red colour "T-That feels amazing Tsuguka."
Taharial turned to her girlfriend and sighs "Darling, just do what you feel is natural, like this" she turned to face her partner and put a hand on her partner's knee and stroked up her leg "There is a T.V built in here by the look of it if you want to check out what I gave you as a present."
Taharial could see Tsuguka wasn't used to this stuff and closed her eyes "I won't force you to do anything and when you want to do this stuff I will show you everything that you need to know about me and what you need to do." She blushed and looked away "I do those things to you now because your reaction is so adorable to it."
A new heat was filling Tsuguka's veins. Difficult to tell if Taharial was intentionally bringing this out of them, or... Well, that fey curved body, those lips... Didn't really matter if it was intentional or not.
The storage device, that's right... Tsuguka fumbled it back out of her pocket, then found the receiving port on the dash's entertainment system. As it loaded up, she was just pleased about the temporary distraction, giving her a small solemn chance to think of a more solid plan of action.
A small solemn chance that quickly vanished when the movie file began to play, impacting Tsuguka's senses with what can only be described as some intensely sultry daydream on overdrive. Taharial... Younger Taharial?... She was?... Why was there music? What was with the costume?... Did that little in the way of clothes still count as a costume?
No use fighting it now. Tsuguka's senses were frozen, struck by a bombardment of this new information, new implications. Good thing they were already in the car park, or the nekovalkyrja may have found a colour beyond red to blush.
"..." It was a noise, not a word. Difficult trying to speak. Her legs were coiled up onto the seat. "W-What is this? Rial, did you make this... for me?..."
Taharial gulped and was looking away from the video of her past where she had pink neon wings and nurse outfit while she danced and took more of the costume off on the video, when it was finished she let out a sigh "That was my past, I thought you deserved the right to know what I was."
Taharial looked at Tsuguka and had tears in her eyes "I guess I wanted you to see why I am like I am with all the flirting and all that, I learnt that through this, this was while I was at the Academy because I needed money quickly...." She looked away "I hope this doesn't ruin anything, I really care for you and don't want to see my past coming between us as I would rather be doing the things on that video for just you and no one else now."
Taharial looked into her girlfriend eye's and placed a hand on her leg "Well this is the old me, I am not like this anymore but I can do that for you."
After the video ended, Tsuguka just slowly placed her feet back into the foot well and listened to what the angelic girl had to say. Plenty of responses came to mind, but it was difficult to pick one that made sense from a logical standpoint... So she didn't.
Turning sideways and placing her body across that of Taharial's, she softly kissed the woman's face, then once again on the neck. Her waist felt so warm and weightless in her hands.
A pause, just for a moment to recollect. Laying across the car seat, Tsuguka had her back across Taharial's lap now, staring up into the ceiling.
"Back after that first Rixxikor operation, I disappeared, remember?" A voice as comforting as the red neko had ever made, slow and whispering, to make obvious she was also conferring some kind of secret. "Just straight up cut all my hair off in the mirror one day. I really crashed and burned under the stress... Nobody noticed, because, you know, volumetrics. But it's no wonder they ported me back to training."
"I'm not going to judge you. I could never judge you like that, Rial." A hand made it's way to her face, seeking to clear away the other woman's tears, whilst she made eye contact again. "You always make me feel happy in everything that you do... This... This civilian stuff, it... I'm not good at it, but... Knowing you have secrets too, it..."
"Thank you. It makes me feel more normal..." Grinning again, Tsuguka just rubbed her left hand along Taharial's back, seeking only to find that feeling of closeness that would make all the other petty details else seem redundant. "And now I have a side of you all to myself."
Taharial watched as Tsuguka kissed and her and didn't know what to do, she was surprised by the woman's reaction to the secret but as she listened to the girl her face turns a little sad "Well I remember that, at that point I sort of locked myself away from the rest of the crew and stayed in the Med Lab, I could of helped you now I hear that I feel bad that you went through that." She started playing with Tsuguka's hair and the other hand was placed on the woman's stomach as she listened to the girl's worries.
Taharial sighed and lightly poked her girlfriend's nose "Well I can't judge you either my sweet kitten" she giggled as she watches the girl in her lap "Well we can try the Civilian thing together." She giggled and checked the time "I think we should get going and buy what we need, I want to get us both a cute dress for this festival and some other things that I think you will love."
"The past is the past. I think we have both grown." There was a small moment of being unsure what to do with her hands, before Tsuguka fixed Taharial's collar again, attempting to mend the disarrangement she had only just caused. "Things turned out good. It's all okay, now that you are here with me."
Took a bit longer to rearrange her own clothes. Military garb really not designed for this flavour of inside-car-contortionism. Also, continually being distracted by the angel sitting next to her. Inside the car was damn hot, too. This planet needed a little air conditioning. Thoughts lurked on the feeling of those fingers against her navel. Thoughts of Taharial in a flowy black dress, spring festival lanterns above them.
"Yeah. Let's get going." The car started on mental command. Tsuguka backed out by touching the steering wheel, although it kept moving without her, suggesting her brain was doing most of the work. "I'm not going to request camouflage, but as long as it's not military, something comfortable would be nice..."
Taharial smiled as she waited in the passengers seat, she felt really hot as well, she looked over the buttons and put the air con on full blast as she sighed happily "That feels amazing now, you got me all hot and bothered." She giggled as she listens to Tsuguka "Well I was thinking we could get similar outfits, I was thinking ob a backless dress so my wings aren't a problem."
Taharial smiled as the car came to a stop at the shops and she took her girlfriend around the hair care shops till she found her wing dye "I am sorry that took a little longer than I thought." she smiled as she took Tsuguka to a clothing shop and blushed as she saw a cute black dress that was plain, it was long with a cut coming up to the thigh so it was easy for the girl to walk "This would look perfect on you sweetie, also." Taharial got Tsuguka to sit down by all the shoes and Taharial found a pair of flats and a pair of high heals that match the dress, she knelt down in front of her partner and helped change her shoes.
Taharial smiled and blushes still "try out both sets and see which one you like more, then go into the dressing room and try out the dress darling." Taharial had a dress for herself and some red high heels "I am going to try this at the same time."
"What happened to comfortable?" Tsuguka protested, although her companion had already disappeared by that point. The high heels were technically possible if she just floated, although the neko suspected that might be missing the point.
Uniform flattened and pressed beside her, the changing room felt claustrophobic considering the dress felt like she was wearing almost nothing. Well, compared to what she was used to. The bodysuit technically covered a person. That counted. This didn't.
Meeting Taharial outside again with the dress on, she just meekly pulled it downwards to hide her embarrassment, simultaneously observing just how effortlessly that her girlfriend had managed to pull her dress off.
"Well... You look pretty..." A smile. Other people walking around made Tsuguka feel awkward, through. "You... You sure this is a good idea, through?..."
The red neko had accepted the challenge and worn the heels. The flatter shoes made her look a bit too childish, even despite her toned arms... Maybe it was the braids?... This was all just way too new to her. She didn't know how the elysian did it so effortlessly.
Taharial blushed and noticed some things as she walked over to her girlfriend she sorted out the girl's dress first making it better fitting and then sighed and got the flats and kneeled down then swapped Tsuguka's shoes "Hey Sweetie, please don't do anything your not comfortable with, I can tell when your not liking it, that should be better for you and you look hot~."
Taharial gave Tsuguka a spin and giggled "I am use to thinks like this though baby, but you look so good in that outfit" she walked close to Tsuguka again and plays with the girl's hair "Have a look in the mirror baby."
Tsuguka tried crossing her arms, smiling, all sorts. Maybe it was just beyond her capacity to detect this sort of thing... And yet she did when looking at Taharial? It wasn't extreme dislike, it was more just a kind of a weird experience. Perhaps she just never regarded herself as being for that function, so it wasn't making visual sense.
The flat shoes were more comfortable, at least.
"Thank you." She smiled. It made her happy that it made Taharial happy, if nothing else. "You look stunning, by the way."
Tsuguka insisted that she paid for it. Pretty much nothing had been done with her 'civilian funds' even after her last break, so it seemed only right.
Taharial smiled at the girl as she watched Tsuguka looking in thee mirror "you look great in that and I am glad you think I look good, well now, lets pay for this."
She frowned when she heard Tsuguka insisting "Well darling, I haven't even touched my funds yet and I want to spoil you while we are here as I need to thank you for everything."
She waited till they both changed back and before Tsuguka could say anything she had taken both sets of clothes and went to the checkout and paid for it all "Hah I paid for it."
She smiled and went back to Tsuguka "Now lets get me an implant then lets go to a hotel sweetie, oh one more thing, I love you Tsuguka."
As they left the store they sorted out a few more things then went to find a hotel so that they can rest before the festival.
