Sitting back against the chair as he waited for Isis to get done measuring both Material-L and Material-D. Really, he couldn't believe the situation he was in, a weird-looking version of three of his best childhood friends that had to suck on Linker Cores to survive.
'Wait a second...' His eyes narrowed, sucking on Linker Cores to survive... 'That sounds like the corrupted version of Reinforce...' He refused to call her the "Book of Darkness", especially after she sacrificed herself to keep Hayate safe. It had been a long time since he had thought about that incident, even though it did introduce him to the Wolkenritter, Hayate and Reinforce.
Still, after all was said and done, they were good friends with each other, despite how they started. Idly, he began to wonder just what was taking so long, even if he allowed for more time for how hyper Rai was, it was still taking awhile longer than he had thought it would. Maybe Rai was too hyperactive and maybe Yami was being too stubborn and didn’t want to… His thoughts trailed off as Isis pulled back the curtain. “Ta da!” She grinned, looking extremely pleased with herself as she stepped to the side. “Here they are!”
First out was Yami, who was wearing some ankle boots, stockings that went from her feet up her legs and disappeared under the dress, which was blue-green with white trim on the ends. She had a corset of the same color over her body with a white shirt underneath it. He was slightly surprised by the cute little collar around her neck, or was it a choker? He wasn’t sure. On her wrists were red bracelets that hung slightly loose on her and in her hands was a folded up fan. To be honest, Yuuno thought it was a very nice outfit.
“Hmph!” Yami narrowed her eyes at him. “Do you find this outfit distasteful?”
“No! It's... quite nice.” Yuuno was relieved as Yami’s mood seemed to pick right up.
“Yes, I thought that it was appropriate for me, though I wish it were a touch more regal.” She glanced at Isis, who shook her head.
“It would be too expensive, and I’m trying to help him not spend a lot, remember?” Isis was smiling still, it seemed that she was used to this.
Yuuno shook his head slightly and gawked as Rai bounced (in more ways than one. How the hell was she NOT spilling out of her clothes at that moment?!) out of the changing area. “Hey, Yuu-nii!” She grinned, wearing a pair of light purple leather pants and a shirt of the same color that only covered her belly and the bottom half of her breasts, the only reason he knew that was because the jacket she was wearing was left unzipped. Her device was on a silver chain and rested in the valley between her breasts. “I don’t know about the pants, they’re a bit stiff.” Rai pouted as she bounced a bit more, causing more distractions by the movements of her breasts.
“You just need to settle into them.” Isis rolled her eyes as Rai turned around to look at herself in the mirror and nearly fell over laughing as Yuuno went bug-eyed as he saw how tight the pants were on Rai’s shapely rear. Oh, gods, this was priceless, not that she blamed him, there was more than one man and woman stopping to stare at Rai’s rear in those tight pants. “Now then, might I have the measurements for the last one?”
Yuuno nodded and handed Isis a slip of paper. As she looked at it, Isis frowned, before sighing. “Please tell me that you didn’t only get the measurements of her waist, hips and bust.”
“Um… There’s more?” Yuuno was rather confused, he had thought you only needed those measurements.
“I need to know her height, her shoulder width, how long her legs are, her arms, her inseams!” With each word, Isis took a step forward before she was poking him in the chest. “There are a lot of variables that need to be covered before I can just give her clothes.” She then sighed and rubbed the bridge of her nose. “Sorry, I forgot that you’re a guy.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?” Normally Yuuno didn’t mind what people thought about him, but that was a pretty bad insult, even to him.
She shook her head. “It’s just that you wouldn’t know the problems that women have with clothes shopping. Look, I’ll make it easy for you.” She smirked as she grabbed some measuring tapes. “Just take me to where she is, and I’ll measure her and get her an outfit.”
“I want chicken!” Rai pouted and crossed her arms under her breasts, pushing them up and letting Yuuno actually catch a glimpse of some shoulders on her shirt, which answered how she wasn’t readjusting it every three seconds. “And I wanna look around!”
“Hmm… It might be a good idea to do some shopping while we wait for Material-S to get some clothes on.” Yami looked around and snapped open the fan with the flick of her wrist before using it to gently move the air around her face. “Come along now, servant.”
Yuuno sighed before grimacing as Isis tugged on his hair, forcing him to bend down slightly so she could speak to his ear directly. “They were both naked after cancelling their barrier jackets, is this… Material S naked as well?”
Yuuno blushed slightly and shook his head as she let go of his hair. “Not entirely. She has a large shirt but that's it.”
Isis shook her head. “It wouldn’t be the first time I helped give someone clothes when they were wearing only a shirt, and it probably won’t be the last time. So, you go shopping with them, I’ll help her.” Isis pushed Yuuno away so that he would chase after the other two Materials before she sighed and grabbed up bundles of various clothes and blinked. “Ah, dammit! Hey, wait!” She yelled at Yuuno, who was a bit further away and unable to hear her which caused her to have to run after him. “I forgot to ask! Where is she?!”
It was a couple hours later, after dropping Isis, with all those clothes, and their items, off at the ship and getting all the stuff that they needed, found Yuuno, Yami and Rai walking back to the ship. “Hey, Rai?”
“What, Yuu-nii?” She asked as she walked backwards in front of him.
“Just where did you go?” He asked, referring to when she suddenly disappeared on him. Thankfully, when he found her, it didn’t seem like she had gotten into any trouble.
She shrugged at the question. “There was this really neat old shop and I wanted to see what was inside and there were lots of neat books.”
“You like reading?” Maybe he could get her to calm down if he gave her a bunch of books.
“THERE SHE IS!” An angry male voice spoke up before Rai could speak and Yuuno, Rai and Yami found themselves surrounded by several angry men, all of them glaring and holding various weapons and pointing them at the three. “Now, missy, you might be a sight from the gods for our eyes, but stealing is just wrong!”
Rai pouted as Yuuno looked at her. “What did you do?”
“Those meanies said that they stole it first.”
“I told you! We acquired it completely legally from some ship wreckage!” The first man yelled at her.
“But then you said that you may or may not have made the ship blow up on purpose.” Rai grinned at him. “Besides, you said that you couldn’t use it either and… OOOH! Shiny!” Rai seemed to bounce over one of the men, knocking him down as she picked up a coin that was on the ground. “Yuu-nii! Can I keep it?”
“That’s it, get'em!” The leader yelled and his men attacked Yami and Yuuno, only to crash into Yuuno’s barriers before he grabbed Yami and ran to Rai, grabbing her arm, he ran faster.
“Hey! You brute!”
“I’d rather not injure them if I could help it.” Plus Yuuno didn’t really care to fight, if it was Nanoha, she would just blast the whole lot of them.
“Hmph! Fine!” Yami glanced back and raised an eyebrow. “They are persistent, I’ll give them that.” After a few more moments of running, Yami managed to get her arm free of Yuuno’s grasp and floated into the air. “We can move faster flying.”
“Oooh! Is it a race?” Rai grinned as she took off like a shot towards the ship. “See you there!”
Yuuno shook his head, he didn’t fly, simply because he had been too used to not flying in the various civilized worlds, since there were usually laws in place to stop people from flying all over the place, but still, now would be a good time to get the hell out of there.
“Dammit!” The men below yelled before their leader smacked one of them.
“Stop gawking and chase after them!”
Isis sighed as she finally got Seikou, that was a rather nice name in her opinion, into her outfit. The short-haired woman was now wearing a heavily modified red cheongsam which had no sleeves and had two side slits running along the long dress which gave room for her legs. There were two openings in the upper part of the red cheongsam, one which was just above her breasts to show off a little cleavage and the other just below to expose only a small area around her navel. For footwear, the older woman chose to go with the brown boots which reached up to just below her knees which she found comfortable along with a pair of red fingerless gloves for her only accessory. "Hm... what do you think?"
"This is most acceptable. Thank you," replied Seikou softly.
"Don't mention-" Isis paused when she heard the commotion outside. The minute she reached the ship's door to check out what was happening, Material-L crashed into her. “Um… Normally I’d be flattered that someone decided to tackle me, but what’s with the flying?” Isis blinked as Yami and finally Yuuno flew into the ship, only to stop and stare, bug-eyed, his jaw going slack, as he saw Seikou, who blushed slightly.
“What is going on?” Seikou, still blushing, asked as Yami ran for the controls of the ship.
“It seems that Material-L was an idiot and stole something and now we’ve got idiots after us.”
“Why didn’t you just blow them up?” Seikou asked, knowing it was that simple to get away from someone, after all, if they were out cold or dead they couldn‘t chase you.
Yami glared at Yuuno. “I would have, but someone decided that it would be a good idea to run.” She quickly resumed fanning herself to cool herself down from the previous chase.
“When there aren’t civilians around who will get hurt if we start a fight, I’ll let you blow them up, okay?!” Yuuno grumbled, he wasn’t used to being chased down like a dog. “Anyway, we should get out of here.”
“Hey, wait a sec…AHHH!” Isis yelled as the ship suddenly shot up and took off. “My shop's still back there!” She pouted as Yuuno looked at her, in surprise. “I was waiting for you to pay me, now you kidnapped me.”
“Um… Sorry?” He chuckled nervously as the former shopkeeper started looking worried.
"Now what am I going to do?"
"If you're interested, you can take on the position of being my Royal Tailor," said Material-D without missing a beat, not even noticing the simultaneous looks from the others and Yuuno's subtle groan.
"Aren't you getting ahead of yourself?"
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