...Who had the a real Mausian, Artemis, sitting on her lap. And she was having a ball out of petting him senseless, as evidenced by their purring.
The blue-furred Raccoon looked up from her Physics Book. “Perhaps, we’d best use this time as a study group?” Ami suggested after the long quiet pause of silence.
Makoto looked at Ami and pouted. “Ami, can’t we just give it a rest for today?” She was dangerously close to her date and didn’t want to ruin her good mood with studying.
Ami nodded. “Well, I guess we could do something else...” She admitted hesitantly. “Any ideas, Rei?”
The Kitsune looked up from her manga, which Usagi wasn’t around to steal for once, and shrugged. “Whatever you girls want to do.”
Minako smiled. “Really?” She asked, the claws on her hand still petting and lightly scratching the Moon-cat on her lap behind the ears.
Rei paused for a moment before correcting her words. “Well, almost anything.”
Minako pouted. Nuts. She was hoping to talk the others into buying her Halo 2. She SO needed some cash.
Makoto smiled at Minako’s pout and turned to Ami. “What do you suggest, Ami? Aside from studying, of course.”
“Well...” Burying her face in her book to hide the blush threatening to show up from underneath her fur, she said, “How about we head out to that nice leather store I saw in the shopping area? There’s a sale that’s still going on, and I didn’t get to buy anything since that nice man...” She stopped and closed her mouth shut. Talking about guys in front of Minako and Makoto was NEVER a good thing.
Minako’s eyes took a predatory gleam to them. “What guy?”
Makoto, incredibly, didn't react as the others expected. Instead of asking the same question Minako did, she just continued sitting there.
Raising and eyebrow, Rei looked at the Tigerskunk as if expecting the girl to ask, but she didn’t.
Ami looked about the room nervously. “Oh... No one in particular...” She said lamely. “Just a nice Cat-spliced guy that bought me a few items so I wouldn’t have to spend my own money...”
Rei blinked. “A nice guy that bought you items?” Okay, she was definitely entering the twilight zone.
“Doo-dee-der-doo, doo-dee-der-doo...”
Rei’s eye twitched. “Artemis, stop whistling.”
Ami blushed. “Yes... Some rather nice leather pieces... A pair of tight pants... A nice tight top... A few pieces of lingerie... A nice Dom suit...” She blushed as she realized she was actually listing the items off.
Rei’s eyes widened and she dropped her manga.
Makoto remained frozen in place, completely motionless.
Minako stared at Ami for along moment. She was the only one to voice what everyone was thinking. “Details!”
Ami blushed now, and shook her head, not wanting to speak.
Minako turned to Makoto and Rei. “Are you girls thinking what I’m thinking?”
“Oh no!” Makoto said after recovering. “You’re not leaving us hanging like that!”
Minako nodded. “Right on!” Now THAT was the Makoto she knew!
Slowly, Rei turned a shocked look on Minako. “Did Ami get laid before all of us?”
“That’s what I’m thinking!” Minako said. “Admit it, Ami!” She shouted while pointing a finger at the blue-furred Raccoon. “You got lucky!”
“What!?" Ami shouted, blushing tremendously.
“Oh Kami-sama... She did!” Makoto said, taking Ami’s blush as a written confession.
“N-no! Nothing happened...” Ami said feebly. “I only posed in a few sexy lingerie pieces for him...” Her eyes then widened when she realized WHAT she said. Oh why, WHY did she tell people this?
“AMI!” Makoto cried in disbelief.
Here arms crossed over her breasts, the Kitsune nodded her head firmly. “It’s always the quiet ones...” Rei muttered.
Minako pulled out victory fans. “She IS normal! Alleluia!”
“Nothing happened!” Ami whined cutely. “All he did was save me from being a plaything from two female leather fetishists! And he was very nice to me...” She started to smile at the memory. “His hands were sooo good... Especially when he rubbed my tail...” Closing her eyes, Ami couldn’t help but start to churr.
“Ami...” Rei said slowly. “Are you sure you didn’t get laid?”
“Huh?” Ami started to snap back to reality. “NO! I didn’t get laid! I’m a good girl! I’m not going to ‘put out’ unless it’s to my husband, wife, sugar daddy, or a sexy lesbian lover...” The Raccoon trailed off and slapped herself in the face. Forcing herself to become freer sexually was causing her to act like... Well, the others! The Raccoon realized there must’ve been some correlation between sexual alertness and ‘bimbosity’, there must be.
Minako’s eye twitched along with her tail as she continued to star speechlessly at Ami. From her lap, Artemis was staring as well.
Rei shook her head in disbelief.
Makoto smiled slowly in understanding. “Welcome to the club, Ami-chan.”
“NOTHING HAPPENED!” Ami shouted in embarrassment, then blushed at having realized she shouted. “Sorry, guys.”
Makoto and Rei just looked at each other and shrugged. “We were wondering when you’d finally snap,” Rei said with a smile.
Minako leaned forward. “So come on! Give us the juicy info. How was it?”
Blushing, Ami insisted, “Nothing happened! He was just a very kind man. A nice Calico Splice.”
Minako blinked her eyes. “Calico? You like cats?”
Ami blushed. “Well, he was nice.”
“Spill it, Ami,” The Kitsune said a little forcefully. “You’re blushing too much for him to be just ‘nice’.”
Ami blushed. “Okay, okay. We made out in the women’s dressing room and we groped each other senseless while he cleaned my tonsils with his tongue.” Taking a breath, she shouted, “BUT WE DIDN’T HAVE SEX!”
Minako smirked a little in victory. As before, she had the Japanese-flag victory fans out and waving.
“You go, girl!” Makoto cried.
Artemis just smirked. Wait until Luna heard about this one.
Rei just smirked knowingly.
Ami felt very small. “We just made out. He was a gentleman otherwise, really...” Her voice was sounding small and pathetic.
“He did feel you up pretty good, didn’t he?” Makoto asked a little jealously.
Ami was blushing incredibly so. “My tail at least. Oh, how he knows how to stroke, rub, and caress a tail...”
“She’s got it bad alright,” Makoto said with a smile.
Looking over at the tiger-patterned Skunk, Rei nodded. “Definitely.”
“I want a boyfriend that’ll know how to stroke MY tail...” Minako said in a purr. “So, anything else you want to tell us about this Calico?”
“Well, his name is Maverik Calicas. We got to talking a bit, really professional. He even gave me his business card,” The Raccoon said.
“What does he do?” Makoto asked trying to hide her smirk and failing miserably.
“Oh, hold on. I have his business card right here,” Ami said as she took it out of her text-book, since she’d been using it as a bookmark.
“Oooh, let me see...” Minako said as she reached forward to grab it...
*WHAM*!
...Only to then shout out in pain as Ami slammed the book shut. “E-TAI!” The Blonde Mausian rowled in pain.
“Ami!” Rei protested. She wanted to know, too.
The Raccoon had a look of dread on her face, as if realization had come over her. “Oh, oh no. I can’t show you guys this.”
“Why not?” Minako yowled around her finger that she was sucking on.
“Come on, we want to see,” Makoto asked. “Be a pal and show us.”
Clutching the book protectively to her breasts, the blue-furred Raccoon shook her head violently. “N-no!”
Makoto nodded slowly and turned to Rei and Minako. “Get her!”
“Ack!” Artemis shouted as he was thrown off from Minako’s lap when the girl leapt.
“EEK!” Ami shouted and jumped back as the Kitsune and Mausian tried to pounce where she had been. Animal Instincts were on, and Ami’s Flight or Fight Syndrome was telling her to run like hell!
“After her!” Minako rowled as she tried to get back on her feet, her hand atop Rei’s head as she tried to get her balance back.
Nodding her head, Makoto rushed after the retreating form of Ami.
“Minako! Get your hand away from my head!” Rei protested angrily.
“Oops!” Minako said as she got back to her feet. “Sorry!” She apologized as she took off running the way Ami and Makoto went.
“Hey!” The Kitsune shouted as she got back onto her feet. “Wait for me!”
In the room alone now, Artemis lowered his head. “I’m staying here. This will only lead to trouble if I follow.”
(------)
On his knees, Yuiichiro Kumada was finishing up washing the floors of the Main Hallway to the Hikawa Shrine. He’d been at it all morning, but even he had to admit the floor needed a washing and a new coat of wax.
Standing up, he clapped his hands together. “Done. Just wait until old man Hino sees this!” He said to himself proudly.
Blinking his eyes, Yuuichiro heard sounds coming closer. “What the... Sounds like a Stampede...”
“AFTER HER!” Came a female cry.
Although it could not be seen with his bangs in the way, Yuiichiro blinked his eyes. “That sounds like Rei.”
“LEAVE ME ALONE!” Came another female cry.
“NOT UNTIL YOU SHOW US YOUR BOYFRIEND’S CARD!”
“HE’S NOT MY BOYFRIEND!”
“YOU CAN'T RUN FOREVER!”
Yuiichiro started to sweat as he heard the voices get closer. Upon seeing the blue-Raccoon Fur that he knew to be Ami turn the corner, he started waving his arms frantically. “Slow down! The floor! The floor!”
Just then Makoto turned the corner as well, giving chase, followed by Minako...
Ami didn’t listen to Yuuichiro’s warning and just kept running, her eyes forward. She had to lose them, and kept running to do so!
“I can lose them,” Ami told herself, I can lose them, I can-HUH!?” Falling onto her side harshly, Ami kept sliding forwards across the floor thanks to inertia and a recent coating of wax.
Makoto was able to stop in time, thanks to her martial arts training...
...Too bad Minako had no such thing and slammed into her, sending both herself and the Tigerskunk sliding after the sliding Raccoon.
Seeing the Raccoon, Skunk, and Cat Furs slide towards him, Yuuichiro lowered his arms in defeat. Why did he even bother?
Rei turned around the corner and saw the girls sliding down the floor. She had the good sense to stop running.
*KER-CRASH*!!!
Laying in a jumble against the wall of the other end of the hall where it made its turn, Yuuichiro, Ami, Makoto, and Minako laid there in a mangled heap.
The Kitsune couldn’t help herself. She burst out laughing at the sight of the heap of limbs that resulted from that crash.
Groans from the heap were the answers Rei received, Makoto moaned as she tried to recover her breath. She hit her jaw against Ami’s knee just as Minako slammed against her derriere.
Minako groaned from her placement; her head underneath Makoto’s skirt. “Nice panties. Who’d you find to make a decent tail-hole?”
“Get out of there now, Minako!” Makoto hissed. NOW Makoto wished she HAD kept the ability to spray people.
Fortunately, this would have been worth it. Makoto saw Ami dazed, her face in Yuuichiro’s crotch while the book lay beside the group, opened to the page the business card was.
Making her way across the hall, Rei carefully walked over to her friends, still laughing, and picked up the book. She took the card in her hand and her eyes widened upon reading it. “Ami!”
Hearing that was enough to get the Raccoon’s attention. “It’s not what you think!”
“Yeah, she’s not trying to suck off Yuuichiro,” Minako said in her friend’s defense, while absent-mindedly rubbing her face against Makoto’s cheeks.
“I SAID GET OUT OF THERE!” Makoto snapped.
“Then what is it?” Rei asked with narrowed eyes, completely ignoring Minako and Makoto for the moment,
Her whole body going from blue to scarlet, Ami jumped back and away from the group in embarrassment. “He’s... He’s...” Ami as blushing. How the hell did she tell her friends that Maverik was a Strip Club Owner without making him seem like a pervert.
“Woah, woah, Rei!” Minako spoke as the Kitsune seemed to get angry. “What’s the big deal about Ami’s boyfriend?”
“He’s not my boyfriend!” The Raccoon insisted/
“I’m going to kill him!” Rei raged. How dare that bastard take advantage of her innocent friend!?
“What!?” Both Makoto and Minako shouted.
In answer, Rei showed them the card
Crazy Calico: Adult Entertainment
We Specialize in Furry Fantasies
Call (555)-555-5555
Ext: 69 for Maverik Calicas
The Mausian and TigerSkunk’s jaws dropped in unison. “Holy...” Minako mumbled. “Ami’s boyfriend is a gigolo.”
“He’s not my boyfriend!” Ami insisted. “And he’s NOT a gigolo either!!!”
“And here I thought I was being a pervert for trying to date my doctor,” Makoto mussed.
Sitting up as he finally came to, Yuuichiro asked, “Did I miss something.”
“STAY OUT OF THIS!” Came for female cries, which caused Yuuichiro to run out of the area like a scared rabbit... Or Usagi Kamen.
“Please, listen,” Ami said. “I didn’t want to show you that card because I knew you’d overreact. Maverik is a nice man, really. And he’s not a prostitute.”
“Of course he isn’t. He’s the one that rents them, isn’t he?” Rei asked seriously.
“NO!” Ami shouted. “Mr. Calicas assured me that the club he’s opening is strictly blue-collar. There won’t be any prostitution.”
“So, it’s Mr. Calicas now, huh?” Makoto asked teasingly, seeing that Rei was starting to calm down. Hopefully her teasing tone of voice would ease up the tension a little.
Ami blushed. “Please, guys you’ve got to believe me. Maverik Calicas is a sweet and gentle man... With a good pair of hands.” She allowed. “I asked him in detail what was up with his club and he assured me it’s to be upscale. No riff-raff, no sex, and strippers aren’t the only entertainment. There’s a sports bar, and there’s a small kitchen so people can get food, and if things go to plan, they plan to add onto the building and open up a dance floor later for when they can get enough money and a good DJ.”
Rei nodded dubiously, thinking Ami was duped.
“So, Ami...” Minako said. “How did you get the card from him? I don’t think he’d want you to know about his work right on the soccer ball.”
“That’s ‘right off the bat’,” Rei corrected the Mausian.
Makoto smiled. “So why were you so upset about this, Ami? You should’ve told us from the beginning.”
Ami blushed. “I... Didn’t know how you’d guys react. I mean, he pretty much saved me from being taken by a pair of lusty-for-fur leather fetishists... And we got to talking and... Cuddling...” She blushed. “And... He gave me the card because he offered me a job and wanted me to call him back.”
Makoto’s eyes widened at that. The last thing she’d ever expected was for Ami to actually consider becoming a stripper.
Minako stared at her good friend in disbelief. “Ami, you’re not actually thinking of...”
“Well...” Ami blushed. “It’ll give me a chance to meet up with Maverik more... Plus it’ll be good money...” She blushed and then lamely said. “Medical school is awfully expensive...”
“You’re not actually considering it, are you, Ami?” Rei asked in disbelief.
“...Yes...” Ami said seriously. Moving her head to meet her friends’ gazes, she said more forcefully, “Yes, I am!”
Rei was shocked to say the least. “But... Why!?”
Minako leaned forward. She wanted to hear this.
“I do because...” Ami took a deep breath. “Part of why I got Spliced was because I wanted to fee myself. I don’t want to be the bookworm. I don’t want to be the person who’s youth passed her by since she spent it all preparing for her adulthood... I just...” She stared Rei right in the eyes. “I want to be sexually free to explore my feelings... And to have someone to love...”
Slowly, Makoto smiled at her friend. “I’m not sure that’s what your mother wanted, Ami. But I say go for it.”
Minako smiled. “You’re right, Mako-chan! We need to support Ami through this, not scorn her!” Smirking, she asked Ami, “Are they taking applications?”
“MINAKO!” Rei and Makoto shouted.
“What?” The Mausian of Venus asked. “I could REALLY use the money. Plus, this would be a job that WON’T cut into guy-hunting time!" She smirked. “It’ll be like fishing. I’ll have all the bright and flashy lures to reel them in!”
Raising a hand to her mouth, Ami giggled. “That’s actually a pretty good analogy.”
Rei shook her head in disbelief, but couldn't hide a small smile of her own.
Makoto giggled. “That’s a first.”
Mianko nodded. “So Ami... Are they hiring?”
“Actually...” Ami was about to say ‘no’, but then her eyes widened as a realization once again came to her. “Yes! They are looking for more people to work at the club. Maverik even told me to tell my you guys about this to see if you wanted to audition as well.”
“Really?” Rei asked, suddenly very interested. It would be the final straw and the sweetest revenge on her father if his daughter not only was Spliced, but also a stripper.
Makoto was a little more reluctant.
“Really,” Ami said. She ‘eep’ed as Minako circled her arm with hers.
“Come on, girls, this is our chance!” The blonde-haired Venusian Mausian said. “We can watch each others’ backs and make sure we’re okay AND make big bucks in the process!” She grinned. “We’ll be the Four Musketeers! Cum for all and cum for none!”
“That’s ‘all for one and one for all’,” Ami corrected.
Minako smirked cattily. “I know what I said.”
Ami began blushing a bright crimson again.
“Uh... girls... I’m not sure about this,” Makoto said hesitantly.
“Come on, Mako-chan!” Minako mewled. “It’ll be fun and it’ll make things easier to support ourselves.” She smirked. “PLUS it’ll let us scope out cute guys!”
“I know that but... I got a date in a couple of days and...” She sighed. “I don’t want to do anything that would ruin it.”
All the girls blinked. That's right. Makoto was telling them about the date she made with the guy at the Splicing Center, that rather nice Raccoon Splice that helped them all decide what they wanted to look like and-
“Makoto!” Ami shouted. “When was the last time you heard from Dennis-san?”
“Uh... Just a couple of days ago. He called to confirm the place and time for our date,” She said not knowing what Ami was getting at.
Ami was looking very nervous. “Makoto. He was one of the technicians of the Splicing Center. They were all LIVING there!”
Rei paled at that.
Makoto nodded. “Of course he was. He...” Suddenly realization struck and she paled enough for it to appear on white fur. “Oh no!”
Minako’s eyes were wide. "What if he...”
“Don’t say it,” Ami said as she held her hand up to stop her friend.
Before they could say another word Makoto ran out of the shrine grounds faster than they had ever seen her running.
“Makoto!” Rei cried after her.
“Makoto!” Ami and Minako cried after Rei as they took off into a sprint, all thoughts of Stripping the farthest thing from their thoughts at the moment.
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