Shun nervously ran her nails over the tips of her fingers. They were pruny and wrinkled, as bodies tended to do when spending a lot of time in the bath. That and the fact that she was as red as a cooked lobster indicated that she had been in this tub far too long.
Our heroine had staved off the encroaching unconsciousness through sheer force of will and endurance. But now both were reaching their limit. Shun felt increasingly like her head was stuffed with cotton, her vision was blurring, and she was feeling groggy and disoriented. She recognized these perceptual shifts as bad signs as soon as she was able to process them.
Crap... I'm starting to go under... she thought, a strange calm alarm settling over her. How do I get out of this... Gotta think... gotta...
And Shun knew no more.
Furusawa sighed as he saw Shun close her eyes and slump against the side of the tub. Her grip around her legs slackened, and the ball she had curled herself into unfolded. The waterline began crawling up her body and she slipped down the tub's side.
"Shun!" Furusawa shouted, reaching out to her. He pulled Shun towards him by her arm, spinning her around, setting her back against his chest, then grabbing her about the torso and lifting her completely out of the water. Furusawa stepped back to pull Shun out of the tub, but paused as he noticed a pleasantly firm squishiness that shouldn't have been there.
*MU-NII*
Furusawa blinked. Then looked down to get a good, clear look at the person he'd just rescued.
A girlish scream tore through the air.
"KYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"
Like an arcane incantation, the scream summoned a stampede of Greenwoodians heading straight for the bathroom. They were about to tear open the doorframe to get through, when Shinobu stopped them dead cold by obstructing the path.
The questions came fast and furious:
"What's going on there, Shinobu?"
"What was that scream all about?"
"Is everyone alright?"
"You didn't sneak a girl in here, did you Shinobu-kun?"
etc...
Hermod poked his head around the corner and hissed a question of a different nature, "How did he get there so fast?!" He wasn't heard, nor noticed, within the mob of Greenwoodians concentrating on Shinobu.
Said Total Master of Cool raised his hand, silencing everyone. "My colleague and I are already addressing the matter. We shall keep you informed when we have assessed the situation," he said, in a tone that quashed any thought of bypassing him. So they turned away.
After they all left, Shinobu stepped back into the bathroom's changing area and locked the door. In no particular hurry, he crossed the changing room floor to the bathing area, where he found Mitsuru nursing a nasty bump on Shun's head. Shun herself was wrapped in a few layers of fluffy towels, serving both to dry her off and keep her warm.
They also served to keep her decent, and although he knew intellectually that this girl was a boy two days ago, it was hard to believe looking at her now. Very hard. Shinobu coughed as he steered away from that line of thought.
Shinobu tracked over to Furusawa. It was interesting to see a young man who was strapping enough to carry his own motorcycle (weighing a good half-ton) up and down the Greenwood stairs everyday babbling in the corner. Admittedly, the bike rider had gotten a severe shock, finding out that a dormmate was female in the most shocking way.
Shinobu listened in on Furusawa's babblings:
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