Your morning routine

Waking up with Anastasia's head resting on your shoulder give your heart a bit of flutter. Brushing some loose strands of her hair from her face and getting a complaining moan in response puts the flutter into a skipped beat. Planting a soft kiss on her forehead you slip out of bed trying not to wake her. She stirs and looks at you but smiles and closes her eyes again. You hurry to the bathroom and find your uniform. Your shoes are still sole-less but that is probably more down to you not actually asking Black or White for their help.

You consider going to look for them but you aren't sure where their bedroom is and going looking through rooms before dawn seems rude. Eschewing footwear you walk to your dorm room. You don't really want to disturb Edin without Clare there so when you arrive you sneak inside and get changed with a new pair of shoes. You did give him a check over and see a calmly snoozing body. You sneak over and kiss his forehead, unable to simply look at him without some level of affection involved. He doesn't wake and you head to the training area for your morning exercises.

Vatarie and Asune are already there and you have to take a moment to look at them. They are running through forms in tight outfits which makes their very well defined muscles and, other, assets stand out. Your observation doesn't go unnoticed as Vatarie stretches a bit more, overtly pushing her ass and chest out flexing her arms and legs for your eyes.

You keep watching for a bit longer before joining them in the forms. The three of you warming up together is kinda nice. Doing something with them that doesn't involve sex, or academy stuff, reminds you that despite being in a Hanun with them you don't spend much social time together. "Know anywhere in the city to have lunch?" You ask randomly.

"There is a good restaurant that my family attends, I can have them arrange lunch today." Asune states rather plainly. "Will it just be us or will others come?"

"I know somewhere better." Vatarie says finishing up her form by shifting her weight on her feet making her ass wave at you, "It has food from my homeland and it will be a lot more interesting than anything you could take him too." Vatarie's aura was competitive and anticipatory. Her duel with Delilah must be on her mind.

"I was think for all of us." The form running was coming to an end and Asune had only just noticed that Vatarie was showing off her body.

"Are you trying to seduce Christopher before your duel? He tends to last a while so I would be happy to take over while you fight." Asune says this as she sways her way over to you pulling at her neck line and puffing up her chest.

"Really?" Vatarie asks striding over to Asune preparing for a fight.

"Hey you two, I'm trying to plan a nice date with all of us can you not fight while I'm doing it?" You feel a bit annoyed that Vatarie is doing this now.

Vatarie gets suddenly bashful. "Oh sorry I didn't know you were doing that."

"I would be very happy to go on a date with everyone. I can send a message to the restaurant to prepare for lunch right now." Asune said suddenly far more interesting in this topic.

You really should get more clarification of what a 'date' means in this world. But not right now. "I think I'll try and find a place on my own for tomorrow." The two look at you a bit expectantly but when you don't reconsider and ask about their suggested locations they back away from the topic by moving onto another.

"When are you duelling Delilah?" Asune asks as the two of them walk out to the field proper. It looked like they were about to spar which you were a bit surprise by.

"Whenever she shows up." Vatarie says as the two stare each other down. They remain like that for a few seconds and you wonder if they are waiting for you to say 'go'. Very suddenly they are not waiting. Both launching themselves and clashing mid-air. Vatarie is pushed back with a momentarily surprised look on her face. It was the first time someone had clashed with her opening strike.

"You shouldn't become repetitive." Asune said pushing the advantage with a punch to Vatarie's stomach.

The sound of hand hitting tensed muscles is follow by the sound of Vatarie's hand hitting Asune's untensed side. "And you always reflect your opponents first strike in your own." Vatarie said back as Asune took a step back not looking at all affected by the hit.

You don't really remember Asune mimicking anyone else's openers but on the other hand you've only been watching them for three weeks and they've known each other for way longer. The thought reminds you of the first time you saw the two interact. "Who'd a thought you two would end up like this?" You muse out-loud. You comment catches both women off guard and they seem to have the same memory as you.

Asune smiles at Vatarie. "I am happy we did."

Vatarie looks uncomfortable at the topic. "Yeah sure." She raised her hands ready to keep fighting. "Let's get back to it."

The pair resume their sparing match. It is fighting but you think you can tell that it is friendly, there is no active bleeding or serious injury which is what happens when you and Asune spar. Which makes sense since Asune was using your sparing matches as romantic bonding sessions.

As the match goes on you feel Anastasia and Delilah approaching. You turn to look at them approach and give a wave and smile. The two wave back and Vatarie notices their presence. She and Asune stop their match halfway through strikes and approach. "Ready to try and prove your worth?"

Clare's absence made you a bit unsure of this. You don't want them to fight but her pretty direct advice was to let Vatarie find her place in your relationship by being the gatekeeper of the Hanun. "Vataire, Delilah you-" You are cut off by Vatarie waving her hand at you.

"Want in or not."

"We, hhmmmm," Eve starts when their mouth snaps shut, everyone looks at them with confused expressions. "We are, mm," she tired again and was once more silenced. "One moment." Eve said then turned around. "You said you want to do this." Eve said quietly. "You saw what she did yesterday." Delilah said nervously. You look around and see the others not making any note of this private conversation. It's still wild to see how no-one else notices this. "That was with magic and she said we aren't using magic, and I won't let you get hurt you." Eve said stroking hugging themselves warmly. "But she's a noble, we can't hit a noble." Delilah shot a nervous glance at Vatarie who flexed her arms and grinned back. Eve sighed she was aware she wasn't winning this and you hoped that meant there wouldn't be any fighting. "If we don't beat her now she won't let us have sex with Christopher ever again."

Delilah's consideration lasts for about two seconds before they spin around and match onto the field. Vatarie smirks and walks out to oppose her. Asune, Anastasia and yourself take seats on the stands. You're still kinda thinking about how to stop this while also aware that you shouldn't stop this. At least there isn't any magic that should mean this won't get messy.