/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>45523640
She will appreciate it but if you want to give her a real treat, you should put out some coffee.

>>45428498
Both are fine, aswell as huge petite yamame and oppai loli yamame. Yamame is great in all sizes.

"Well, you don't have to make a decision right now." Tenshi said, rubbing her forehead. "It's a complicated situation. Best to sleep on it, perhaps." I opened my mouth. "No, I don't want to know who you'll be sleeping with." I closed my mouth again.
"Wait." Marisa said, slamming her hands on the table. "What?" She looked at me, then turned and looked very closely at Tenshi. "Who's he sleeping with?" She looked at Reimu. "You?" Suddenly, I realised that Marisa had no idea about my...spider situation. Reimu raised her hands and shook her head. "Then - Who?" She was starting to look a little desperate now. "C'mon, don't leave me out of this. He's supposed to be my client. Romantic fulfilment? All that?" The blonde girl looked seconds from jumping across the table. "Who was it? Narumi? Patchouli? Don't tell me it was Junko. Don't leave me in the dark like this, man!"

"Marisa, leave him alone." Reimu tiredly said, slapping Marisa's hands away, which had been starting to edge across the table toward me. "If he doesn't want to tell you, he doesn't have to." I found that to be a very big-sisterly response, which made me feel just a little warm inside.

"But - But-" Marisa was at a loss for words, and Tenshi finally rolled her eyes.

"Alright, let's leave it there for now. Back here in a day or two? Good? Good." Tenshi got to her feet, wrapped an arm around Marisa's neck, and dragged her from the chair. "Come on, you. Maybe I'll give you a hint if I feel like it." Marisa's complaints and pleas for answers faded as Tenshi dragged her through the flap, pausing to wave goodbye to us.

Reimu and I looked at each other. Were they-? "No." Reimu said bluntly. "Definitely not. Even Marisa has better taste than a washed-up, delinquent former celestial." I remarked that Reimu really should try to be nicer to Tenshi. "Well, maybe you should try to make your precious Kurodani be nicer to me." I raised an eyebrow. "Shut up. I'm plenty nice." I rolled my eyes and fished around for money, only to remember that my money was in my other trousers. Which were discarded somewhere in Yamame's bedroom. With a lot of tears in them. Reimu looked at me, then rolled her eyes. "Oh, fine. You're so lucky you're endearing." That was a nice compliment, even if I wasn't certain it was meant to be taken as one. She fished around in her sleeve, then withdrew enough money to pay the bill. I promised I would get it next time, though the glint in Reimu's eye did concern me slightly when I said that.

We left the shop, and I wondered where I should go now. Back to the Shrine? The dojo? Yamame's home? "I can tell where you want to go, so let's get going before I die of old age." Reimu told me. "But seriously, make sure you're drinking enough water." How did she know that Tenshi had said that to me, too? "Marisa probably can't tell, but I'm just as sensitive to spiritual changes as Tenshi is." I probably blushed from that. "Look, just...Oh, I don't know." She began leading me in the direction of the caves, and before long, we were walking through the darkness, a ball of light lazily floating ahead of us which Reimu had thrown as soon as I had felt the shakes starting to come on. "Seems like everyone's got things going on these days. Kasen's busy trying not to throw herself off a cliff, Ibaraki-douji's arm is trying to reinvent herself, you're getting sucked dry by a spider, whatever's going on with Tenshi and Marisa..." I coughed somewhat violently as I began to see the soft glow of light in Yamame's home. "Oh." Reimu giggled lightly, patting me on the back. "I just...kind of miss the old days. Things seemed much less complicated." The past generally seemed that way, I said. When I thought back to when I'd first met Marisa, everything had seemed simple, but I was definitely happier now. "Yeah. I guess you're right." Reimu said, staring off into the darkness.

Once we were stood outside the door, Reimu turned to face me properly. "I'll come by in a day or so, whenever those two get around to meeting again." She rapped on the door. Within moments, it was flung open and there Yamame stood, looking like she'd been lifting heavy things around because she was sweating. "Just returning my brother, Kurodani." Reimu stepped back. "I'll see you later." She told me, eyeing Yamame who was breathing somewhat heavily. With a wave, she turned and took to the air, floating back down the tunnel.

"You." I turned to look at Yamame, who's eyes had started to become wildly unfocused. "Inside, now." She grabbed me by the coat, hauled me through the door, and all but threw me at her bedroom. "Have you ever heard of coffee?" She asked me, looking like her already abnormally high energy reserves had somehow shot even higher as she pushed me through the door. "I think I've developed a taste for it!"

I thought I was about to develop a taste for something else entirely.

"I won't try and..." Yamame started, but trailed off. "You know." She finally muttered. I hadn't really frozen up like I had done previously, but I knew that things definitely weren't quite back to where they were before my...incident. "Just, um..." I felt her press her forehead against my back and breathe out heavily. "How are you?" She asked hesitantly. "It's been a while." She wasn't trying to bite me, and was in fact doing a rather good job of helping me warm up. I tried, despite the rusty quality of my voice, to tell her what I'd been up to in the time since I'd last seen her, though I found that a lot of it was slightly more personal than I could really reveal. How could I explain Lady Kasen and the sealed oni arm? Reimu and I's new, if a little strange, relationship? In the end, I simply explained that I had spent the storm taking care of Reimu and had learnt about the Eientei Investigation in the time since, then I had met Wakasagihime at the lake.

"Fishing?" Yamame asked me curiously. "You want to take up fishing?" I shrugged a little and said that it seemed like the sort of thing I would enjoy. "Hmm...Do you remember that bridge, when we went to the Old City?" I thought back, and asked if she meant the one where I'd suddenly become intensely jealous. "That's the one. It's above an underground river that runs through from Genbu Ravine. There's some other bridges that aren't so...green. I imagine that there's some fish in there." I tried to turn my head and ask her if she was planning to help me. "Sure, I mean, if you want to?" Somewhere, deep in my chest, there was some sort of warm feeling blooming, and it was spreading through my body rapidly. I finally managed to say that maybe once everything was over, I would do just that. "I probably shouldn't go to the Ravine, though. The kappa always try and attack us. Someone got it into their heads that we're dirtying up their rivers, even though we aren't." It just seemed to be another one of those things that had made tsuchigumo so hated.

I awkwardly tried to put Yamame on the back, but I couldn't reach. I asked her if she had sealed up the hole to the surface that I'd once fallen through. "Oh, er, yes. I figured that once the Hakurei Shrine Maiden had fallen through, it was only a matter of time before someone came to find out what was going on. Good thing, too, because we heard someone checking up on it not long after." I decided not to mention Hearn and her ominous words, because it seemed like the issue had been resolved before it could become a problem. Still, I asked, did that not make work more difficult? "Oh, not too much. We haven't had much work on the surface lately, anyway. The weather's been too bad to do anything outside." I asked her what work she was doing, then. "Some clothing commissions, mainly. Yuugi - the oni you, uh, met in the Old City - wants a new outfit. One of Satori's pets needs clothing repaired after a vengeful spirit got loose. That sort of thing. My sisters have all been tied up in the Hot Springs lately." I asked her what was happening there. "Some fool apparently lodged a giant rock in the centre of the springs. Sent hot water everywhere and rotted a lot of good wood, so we've been on repair duty." I had a feeling I knew exactly which fool had done that, but I didn't say anything. Tenshi had - I hoped - learnt from her mistake.

"Speaking of..." Yamame said, grasping at my shoulder and pulling on it slightly until I'd managed to shift enough to look at her properly. "I've had a lot of time to think about your clothes, and now you're here and can't run away, so I'm going to force you to try some of them on as soon as you're better." I couldn't feel much enthusiasm for anything at all right now, but she looked very excited about the prospect, so I managed to mumble out an agreement.

After a while spent in comfortable silence, I knew that I needed to ask a question that I didn't think would be all too comfortable. Slowly and painfully, I sat up, then moved from the couch to the smaller seat. Yamame sat up too, but she didn't ask me why I'd moved. Quietly, looking at my hands, I asked her how she was doing. "...Fine." She muttered, sounding a little put out. I looked up at her silently. "Really. Fine. You already asked Nai, didn't you?" I had, and I told her so. But Nai couldn't tell me as well as Yamame herself could. "The underground was already more or less separated from the surface anyway. It took a little getting used to, but I realised that I don't really need...that as much as I thought I did." I asked her if it was difficult. "For a bit, it was. It's not...necessary. I'm doing fine. Just fine." She smiled, but I could tell that there was maybe just a hint of insincerity to it. Not that I thought she was lying, but I imagined that it was slightly harder than she was letting on, if Nai's words about her being more frustrated were anything to go by. Still, at least that meant that she was sticking to it.

Giving my wife some coffee

>>43098356
Look at her. She's perfectly fine!

Have a cup of coffee, it will cheer you up!

>>20874486
No arachophobia is stopping me from get married anon

Yamame have two threads, I guess that cool.
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>>18396566
only if you cleared atleast 2 extra stages

>>11917742
I wouldn't trust a medicine man with simple cold medicine, so no.

>>11917747
I don't know what you're talking about.

>>11426808
Probably not, but it would be interesting if she did.