Tenko can't just hang around naked!

Tenko practiced her deep breathing as she continued to back her bare back towards the locker room door. "Breathe, Tenko... Just breathe... Moments like this are what Neo-Aikido prepares you for! With Neo-Aikido, you can face even a situation like this with total confidence as long as no degenerate males show up in which case you have to execute them immediately! Neo-Aikido helps with that, too! F-forget about your humiliation and embrace the calm strength and male-slaying power of Neo-Aikido-"

When her naked ass contacted the cold, shaded surface of the girl's locker room door, Tenko jumped and used her calm strength to whirl around in a spinning heel kick, knocking it clean off of its hinges. "Show yourseeeeelf!!"

Of course, there was no one there. Self-consciously, the martial artist turned around to enter the room, deciding it would be better to face anyone inside that way. Her luck continued, as nobody seemed to be inside... Well, breaking the door by accident wasn't great luck, but it was mostly bad for the ever-haggard maintenance staff of Hope's Peak required to clean up after its eccentric students.

The bigger concern on Tenko's mind was where she would find a swimsuit. She hadn't thought to bring one of her own, and, of course, since she couldn't swim, she didn't keep one here. "But maybe... Maybe Himiko brought a second one for me to use? Ah, I'm sure an angel like Himiko would bless this poor Tenko with a gift like that! Thank you, my angel...~!"

Tenko was giving a lot of credit to the exaggerated angelic Himiko of her imagination, but when she opened Himiko's locker... That stopped abruptly. It was locked. "Oh? She didn't give me a key? Then I'll just-!" Another door ripped from its hinges by ****. Himiko would probably have some things to say later about Tenko's ability to violate her privacy with brute strength.

When she opened Himiko's locker, she found that there was a hanging swimsuit: a full body, classical school-style one-piece with "Yumeno" printed across the chest. It was obviously too small for her. "Ah... I wonder if Himiko will wear this during the show? M-maybe I should... check if it's clean for her...!" With a silly grin, Tenko began to reach for her friend's swimsuit, before rapidly shaking her head. "N-no, remember your training. Calm, focus, remembering you'll get to see it on Himiko's lovely body later today, anyway... These are the cornerstones of Neo-Aikido."

Tenko searched if there was anything else of note. She found a half-empty bottle of some strange substance called "Magic Protection Salve..." "Oho! This must be one of Himiko's special tools. I wonder if she uses it to ward off curses or other spells? The world of magic might be almost as deep as the world of martial arts... I'll have to ask her later."

The bottle wasn't important, obviously. When Tenko brushed the school swimsuit aside, she found a long t-shirt, but that wasn't a swimsuit (and it looked a size too small for her in the chest, anyhow). Tenko kept looking, and when she finally found what she was looking for, and her jaw dropped open. She put her fingers to it, pulled it out of the closet, and stared at it with a furious blush, her nostrils flaring. "This is...!" She couldn't finish her thought.

What she was staring at was a hot red bikini. It was about the right size for Himiko, but even on her, it would be pretty daring. It had a strange, slick texture to it Tenko couldn't place, but she was hardly concerned about that. Instead...

"Oh... my God! H-Himiko picked this swimsuit for me? She's telling me to wear this?!" The girl's eyes spun with a mixture of complicated emotions, and she put her slightly slimy hands to her cheeks to feel the heat there. "H-Himiko, that's... I-i-if you wanted to see it privately, that would be one thing, but... To boldly strip me naked, then ask me to appear before you in this in public is too forward! You're too honest with your emotions and desires! Y-you need Neo-Aikido so you can stop being so horny and control your carnal urges! I j-just wanted to start as friends, you know...?!"

Still, the last thing Tenko wanted to do was ruin Himiko's show. She thoroughly toweled off her wet body with the fluffy, rainbow-colored towel she also found, not noticing how even the fibers of that cloth seemed to disintegrate in contact with the residual water on her muscles... Then, she put the half a towel back in the locker and steeled her nerves.

She crammed herself into Himiko's tiny red bikini.

Tenko started with the bottom, stretching it dangerously to allow it to slide up her shapely legs and fit around her wide bottom. "Fit" was probably the wrong word: even when she pulled it up so tight she was afraid she was going to wedge it in, it only seemed to cover half of her butt crack, indenting the soft skin of her hips. She even thought a bit of the front would show, if she wasn't careful...

Next, Tenko went about tying on the top. Somehow, this was even worse... The panels that would have looked suggestive and flirty on Himiko's small chest looked downright perverse on her own breasts. The strained strings of the top struggled against the curves of her body, and the panels didn't even manage to cover a full boob each, revealing under-boob, side-boob, and all the cleavage a viewer could want while doing the bare minimum to hide her nipples.

"Uuu... Neo-Aikido... Master... W-we never prepared for anything like this..." Even without an audience, Tenko squirmed and fidgeted in her barely-sufficient bikini. It honestly felt a little more embarrassing than moving around naked had. "I can't believe the seemingly innocent Himiko held such a dark side, craving after my body and eyeing my honed muscles like a tasty buffet all along! Both an angel and a devil. But, if it's Himiko... I g-guess I don't mind... Uheh heh heh..." Unbeknownst to her, as she blushed and shuffled in a maidenly way on her feet, Tenko had begun unconsciously punching a locker next to Himiko's, and by the time she was done, she'd reduced it to scrap metal.

Finally, Tenko braced herself in a strong core stance, holding her fists up at the ready. "Yes! By confronting my own feelings and desires, with the help of Neo-Aikido, I'm sure I've cleared all my doubts and understood Himiko's heart! Now, to finish the rest of the preparations so that Himiko's poolside magic goes off without a hitch!"

In no time at all, Tenko had finished getting the things from the nearby pool storage shed where Himiko had stored them (another key she didn't have, another door fallen victim to Neo-Aikido). She'd set up a circular curtain at the edge of the deep end of the pool and left the t-shirt and school swimsuit from inside the locker hidden inside. Then, she'd set up a few fold-out benches at the wide edge of the pool, enough to seat eighteen students, easily. Doing all of this was no sweat for her at all... Well, not literally, as her sweat glands seemed to be working overtime from a combination of the sun and her excitement. The main challenge, though, had been doing it in the tiny bikini she was sure Himiko had chosen for her, which seemed to threaten to pop or slip with each of her characteristically energetic motions. "At least I can be sure there are no degenerate males watching... If there were, I'd get goosebumps, feel vomit rise in my throat, then have thirty seconds to kill them before their disgusting gaze killed me! Since I'm mostly fine and still alive, I must still be alone."

Tenko wiped sweat from her forehead once more and glanced around. It still felt like there was some time before noon... "Well, I'm sure Himiko will be back any second now. She'll want some time for us to prepare before the actual show... Mm. I didn't bring any sunblock, and I haven't mastered the art of using Neo-Aikido to deflect the sun's rays. Not yet, anyway. I guess I'll just... wait in here and meditate. Try to clear my mind and heart of worldly desires, like thinking of Himiko splashing and playing in that cute blue swimsuit and inviting me to join her... Huh? Doesn't it seem like I'm getting more worldly desires instead of clearing them?! Focus, Tenko! Remember your training!"

The girl sat cross-legged inside the ring of the curtain, trying not to think about Himiko shyly fixing a wedgie in that school swimsuit, still trying to ignore her own not-at-all imaginary wedgie... Her eyebrows trembled erratically on her squinting, grimacing face. "Hurry, noon! I can't take much more...!!"