/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Yamame stared at me like I had grown another head. "Are you, er, sure you're okay? Like...Really?" I nodded, then winced as my head protested. Mostly okay, then. I promised that I'd explain later, but for now, I was wondering what she was doing. And...What had happened to the moult. Yamame looked away for a split second. "It's gone." She spoke. "Um, that's all you really need to know, right?" I watched her for a moment. "Seriously, it's - It's fine. I don't have a secret dungeon filled with them, if that was on your mind." I thought for a moment, and then decided that I was okay with that, but I'd probably ask again in the future. Was it going to happen again? "Um...Probably, but it's not that often, so..." Slowly, I nodded. I supposed that it would just be something that came with the territory of being with a spider. I was determined to not fall into another major crisis like I had when I'd found out about my parents. "S-So, um...We're good?" We're good, I replied, and Yamame breathed a sigh of relief. "Phew...I - With everything that's been going on since I - Um, met you, it crept up on me. I really thought I had longer." I just hoped that she'd be able to give me more warning next time. "Yeah...I will, promise. I knew it was coming when I started to feel itchy, but I thought I'd have enough time to explain when you got back from Reimu's. Um...Did you stay there?"

Shaking my head, I said that there had been a bit of a mess there and I'd stayed with someone in the village, but I told her that I would explain later. For now, I was more curious about what exactly she was doing in here. "Urgh..." She groaned. "Well, you know how I said that it crept up on me?" I nodded. "None of my clothes fit!" She cried, throwing a shirt from her bed - empty, since I'd had all of the covers - on the floor. "I didn't have time to make anything that would fit!" She did seem to be...A bit restrained in that bra. Sighing, she smiled weakly. "It's the best I could do."

Sighing, she unhooked the bra, pulling it off and revealing that her chest was indeed a little bigger, and as she breathed in deeply, the movement was even more hypnotic. She picked up another shirt from the bed and pulled it over her shoulders, then tried to pull it together so she could do the buttons up. Already, I could see that it was a lost cause. "Why...!" She wailed, tilting her head upward. Stepping forward, I gathered her up in a hug. Her skin felt amazingly soft, with just the slightest give, though I could still see that she wasn't all that far from the spider that had asked me to put cream on her after being hit by Reimu's gohei. "Urgh...And I'll need a while longer before I do anything too...strenuous. Even eating. Er...You probably shouldn't hug me too tightly, either. We spiders get all soft after a moult. Even our fangs, so..." I nodded and released her. "Clothes would be fine, but clearly not this time. Of all the times, just..."

She groaned, then sat down on the bed, and pulled her underwear off. I really wished she hadn’t, because it just made the whole thing even harder. "Um, can I have a bedsheet back? Sorry for - Um, you know. Wrapping you up." I laughed a little, then fetched one of the bedsheets from the floor and gently laid it over her. "Thanks." She said quietly. "I think it'll be fairly quick until I'm all sorted. Overnight, if I'm really lucky." I was not usually so lucky, so I expected that it wouldn't actually be overnight. Could I sleep with her? She smiled apologetically. "Sorry, but...Best not. Just for now." She really did look sorry about it. And then, a few moments later, she didn't look any way about it, because she'd fallen asleep. Sighing some more, I nodded dejectedly and trudged back to the couch, then threw the remaining blankets over myself. If I ended up back with Doremy Sweet and her weird classroom dream, I was going to go completely insane. My head hurt enough already.

As I drifted off, it occurred to me that Yamame looked just a little bit more like Kisami now.