It was a cool autumn morning over Iwatodai Dorm, the Sunday of September 6th, 2009. While most Japanese Students went into the city on Sundays, many to do lots of fun activities with their friends, the teenagers that made up the numbers of S.E.E.S were not like most Japanese Students. This Sunday was one the had been proceeded by one of the most strenuous "Full Moon Operations" that they've underwent to date...everyone in the dorm was exhausted. This included their field leader, Minako Arisato, who was ordinarily bouncing with so much energy that you could easily mistake her for a field mouse on crack. But today, she had her face buried deeply into her pillow, drool comically leaking from her mouth and off the side.
Even though her alarm clock had rang out at least 4 times, Minako was still fast asleep. Not even heavy construction or even a nuke going off could wake the red-headed girl...but a nuke was nothing compared to the wrath of Mitsuru Kirijo. Without any regard for privacy, Mitsuru slammed open Minako's Door, the knob thudding against the wall. Even if the noise didn't wake her, when her door opened, Minako instantly jumped out from her covers, hair disheveled and pajama shirt partially unbuttoned. She stared wide-eyed to her left, Mitsuru standing in the door frame. At this point, Minako had been apart of S.E.E.S long enough to sense when the imposing 3rd was not happy, so she was on full alert. As Minako shifted from her bed and onto the floor, Mitsuru began to speak.
"Arisato! Can you care to explain why you were still in your room, sleeping while it's currently 11 in the morning?"
"Um...", Minako hesitated, " 'Cus it's a Sunday? And we also got back from an operation last night, as everyone was really-"
"Everyone?!", Mitsuru retorted, eyes gazing at the shorter red-head, "When you say 'everyone', you don't mean to say the entire team was exhausted, do you? Because if I can recall correctly, It is just yourself, Iori, and Akihiko who consistantly sleep in late! You and Iori because you two stay up playing Video Games, even on School nights! And Akihiko because...sigh he insists on training on his punching bag for hours into the night..." Mitsuru's eyelids lowered upon mentioning her good friends childish attribute..."Regardless!", she continued, "Since I have already taken the liberty of awakening Iori, saving you the trouble of looking into the trash pile he calls a room, someone needs to get Akihiko to wake up! I would do it myself but..." Mitsuru paused for a moment, shifting her body, looking off to the side while gripping her arm in a typical fashion for her, "I do not think he would appreciate me invading his privacy in such a manner..."
With an additional 20 seconds of awkward silence, Minako sat up from her bed and approached her closet, shifting through her casual shirts as she picked her outfit for the day. Taking an orange sweater of it hanger, Mitsuru broke the silence, "However!", she bellowed, startling Minako, causing her to slip and fall on the cold floor, one are already through the sweater. Looking up, she was greeted by Mitsuru's finger pointed at her. "I know you are already in a rather intimate relationship with Akihiko, so it would be no problem for you to infiltrate his room in order to awaken him, correct?"
Minako, still on the floor, tried to respond to the request. "Um, yeah, I guess I could-" Mitsuru again interrupted her. "Trei Bien! I'll be counting on you, see to it that he is up within the hour. Farewell." Before she could even blink, Mitsuru had shut Minako's door as quickly as she'd opened it. Minako was left on her bedroom floor, wondering exactly what she did to deserve this. Taking her new assignment in stride, she sat up from the floor and finished getting dressed.
Her outfit picked out and her disposition back to the cheery norm, Minako emerged from her room and ran down the stairs to Akihiko's room. Walking down the hall, the door to Junpei's room was wide open..."I really don't see what the big deal is. It's only a little dirty, so what?", Minako thought, briefly peering in before she continued on her way. Arriving at Akihiko's Door, Minako did the proper thing and gave a few knocks before barging in like Mitsuru had done. knock knock knock "Akihiko, sweetie, it's time to get uuuu~p!"
......There was no response. Being a bit more forceful with her knocking, Minako tried again. KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK "Aki, come on, It's almost noon! You'll miss the morning special at Hagukure, and I know how much you love that!" ......Still no response. Minako couldn't believe it. "Wow, even at the mention of half price beef bowls, he's not up yet...that normally works."
She then turned the knob of the door, finding it unlocked. Slowly pushing, the door creaked open. Mitsuru was right to let her wake Akihiko up, as she'd been in her a number of times already. And from her previous experience, she also knew Akihiko slept naked...And there, on the bed that her and Akihiko had shared at least 2 'tender moments' on, layed Akihiko. Carefully approaching the bed, Minako crouched to quiet her steps. "He's always so cute when he mumbles in his sleep...I'll just have listen real quick", Minako thought, as came close to his still sleeping head. Here, she listened to his tired mumbling, things involving training, something about Shinjiro seeing what he did, the usual. But about 2 minutes into her listening, Akihiko began to shift in his covers, his legs buckling and his hands were...squeezing his pillow? Minako didn't know what to make of this...she'd never him do this before....but it was what came out of Akihiko's mouth that surprised her most.
Now almost fondling his pillow, Akihiko mumbled several strange things, things like "Uggh...yeah Minako-chan...you're so soft, agh!" and "Your belly makes such a good pillow, ya know...so plump and warm" and most shockingly "Mmmmh...I love you so much, Minako-chan...I love that you did this for me...makes our cuddles so much softer..."
Minako...didn't quite get what she was hearing..."Soft? Plump and...warm? Cuddles...did it for him?", she went over the strange phrase again in her head. This was just too much for her to process...did Akihiko, the Akihiko that was so obsessed with fitness it was a second language to him...like fat girls? No...that can't be. But as Akihiko's girlfriend, she had to know for sure. As she jostled him awake, she thought about asking him right then and there....she ended up: