/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Oftentimes, things change around you so rapidly that you don't even realise until it could never go back to the way it once was. There I sat, behind the Hakurei Shrine Maiden, one of the most powerful people around. Someone who youkai were supposed to fear. Someone who had saved my life in the past. And she was naked. Completely unclothed. Her bloomers sat in a heap over in the corner of the room where she had thrown them. She sat stiffly, her shoulders back and tensed, and I could see that her jaw was clenched slightly. I imagined I was in much the same way, though. I felt like I was in a spider's web, only it was metaphorical instead of the literal spider's web I'd already been trapped in.

Lady Hecatia's last conversation was weighing heavily on my mind. Decisions. The crossroads that I stood at. Familiar and the unknown. Now, I could tell that I'd been making a mistake. Putting off the decision was a decision in itself, and all it had done was drag me further and further into the choice until each side seemed so monumentally huge that I didn't know how I could choose at all.

Reimu scooted the stool she was sat on backwards until she was nestled between my legs, which made my throat run dry again. I was sweating, and I wasn't all that sure it was entirely from the heat of the bathroom. "Hey, what are you waiting for?" She asked me. I stammered something about my clothes getting wet. "Take them off, then. I don't mind." This, I found, only made things worse. I didn't know if I could do that. I especially didn't know if I could do that around Reimu. "If you're worried about modesty, wrap a towel around yourself." Reimu said, leaning back and looking up at me. I could see down her chest from this angle, from the way the shadows traced the contours of her collarbone all the way down to her smooth legs, which I could now see in their entirety. I forced my eyes shut before I could see anything more, then blindly fumbled for Reimu's shoulders and turned her back to face ahead of me. I opened my eyes, now more than a little worried about certain...reactions.

I couldn't help it, but I could help the way I felt about it. Reimu was very attractive, after all. I slowly asked Reimu if she really wanted me in here to do this. "Why not?" Reimu asked, looking back at me. I swallowed heavily. "I still feel pretty weak when I try raising my arms too much." She poked me in the chest. "You're already sleeping with me barely clothed. How's this any different?" It felt very different. It felt like a line. One that I was stepping firmly onto the other side of even though I wasn't sure I was ready to. I felt a little nervous, but there was something deeper down. A feeling that I was struggling to identify. I shook my head, then gently placed my hand on Reimu's head and turned her view back to facing forward.

Regardless of my feelings, it was still sort of my fault that she had been injured in the first place, so I did feel a little obligated. I told Reimu that I was untying the ribbon, then pulled at one of the sections of ribbon that hung down. Reimu took in a sharp breath. "Gently." She said. "You'll pull at the hair." I tried to calm my breathing, then tried again. This time, I used my other hand to hold her ponytail still so none of the hair could be caught. Happily, it came loose this time, and after I had repeated it with the other side, the main bow sagged, beginning to collapse. Fearing it tangling with her hair, I accidentally pulled back on her ponytail just slightly too hard, and Reimu let out a strange sort of whine. "Ngh...Careful, I said..." She whispered, and I - gently, this time - unwound the ribbon from her ponytail. It came loose now, and I slid the ribbon out of her hair entirely. Her hair fell in a cascade out of the ponytail once I let go, and I had to strongly resist the urge to run my fingers through it.

I tossed the ribbon with a shaking hand to land on top of Reimu's discarded bloomers. The tubes came free easier. I reached my hand out, where it brushed against Reimu's ear just slightly before I grasped it, but the action sent a full-body shiver through Reimu. I pulled it free, though the length of her bangs meant that I had to slide my hand down her chest to get it free. I caught Reimu's second shiver, and asked her if she was okay. "...Fine." She croaked, sounding not very fine at all. I quickly repeated the action with the other tube, gently pulling Reimu to the side by her shoulder so I could get better access. She leaned into my chest again, and I finally got the final tube free. Now, she was entirely naked, and the enormity of what I was doing was fully hitting me.