Saving Face

With a low chuckle you pat the top of Luppi’s head, an action that drives her to nuzzle deeper into your chest and softly purr with a deep sense of satisfaction, “Tisk, tisk, Luppi-chan, you’re such a naughty and lazy girl. What am I ever going to do with you?”

Luppi moans softly as the memories of the previous night flow through her mind’s eye, her breasts rubbing against your stomach as her leg strokes your own, “Punish me master, your Luppi-chan’s been so bad-“

“Oi!” Grim’s voice shouts from the other side of the door, an echoing and frighteningly enraged snarl breaking Luppi’s seductive little speech and your own rising sense of animal lust, “Get up you horny bastard! You too Luppi you bitch!”

After stopping Luppi from shouting back at Grim with a powerful kiss the two of you get dressed and head down stairs to a scene that almost makes your spine shake right out of your body. Sitting all around the table are the rest of your Arrancar house mates and none of them, even the normally expressionless Coyote and Tia, even so much as look remotely happy, “Eh heh…er, good morning girls?”

“Quite,” Tia quickly quips, “I take it you and Luppi rested well after keeping the whole house awake using Luppi to live out your perverted fantasies?”

From the moment you left the room Luppi has attached herself to your left arm, her sleeved limbs holding tightly to your body as if you were going to float away at any moment. However, the second Tia’s snarky comment leaves her mouth Luppi steps away from you and gives the blond haired woman a rather uncharacteristic snarl, “Do not insult my Master!”

This comment gets a wave of surprised looks from all around the table, their eyes shooting from you to Luppi and back again before they narrow once again. As it had, been Tai is the only one who seems to be able to voice her words logically and with a definite order. Yet, while Tia’s tone is mostly neutral there is a definite sense of warning and sadness held beneath her tone as she says her next words, “I see…so perhaps you are not as altruistic as you appear.”

“Wait,” you quickly say as you hold up your hands, your gaze turning from the glaring girls to Luppi as you speak, “Luppi-chan, you don’t have to call me that if you don’t want to.”

“B-But Master,” Luppi begins to blubber, her eyes filling with tears as she gazes up at you, “I’m your Luppi-chan, how can I not call you Master?”

With a groan you place your face in your palm, the heat from the girls glares growing by the second as you speak, “Luppi…remember how you told me how you were betrayed by your previous…er, leader?”

Luppi nods but then quickly shakes her head, her arms wrapping around you in a tight hug as she speaks, “Aizen-teme never cared like you do Master, you listen and care for your little Luppi-chan…you even went along with my dirty fantasy without a second thought. I love you John-kun…and you are my Master.”

“L-Luppi,” you mutter with a bit of surprise, your eyes watching as Luppi releases you from the hug and turns to the others.

“John-kun didn’t **** me to do anything,” Luppi says as she crossed her arms, those long sleeves of hers draping over the sides of her limbs as she faces a now shell shocked group of female Arrancar, “I went into his room last night and masturbated next to him until he woke up. I’m the one who called him master first and the one that asked to be tied up and fucked until I couldn’t tell what universe I was in.”

This last comment sends a wave of blushes through the faces of the girls present, even the still grumpy and glaring Grim has more than a little hint of cherry red on her cheeks. With a sigh you catch the girls attention, your hand lightly patting Luppi on the head as you begin to speak, “Girls, I never want to make you do anything you don’t want to. You know my past and I think I know most of yours so I know where you are coming from…hell if I was on the other end of this I’d be suspicious too but what I said yesterday I meant with all of my heart and soul. I love each and every one of you to the depths of my heart and beyond.”

As you finish your statement you glance around the room, your eyes catching every one else’s as you assess their reactions. Coyote and Lilynette seem to be the most accepting, their knowledge of what true loneliness and how it feels most likely influencing their decision as to trust you or not. Tia is a bit more of a mystery, her impassive eyes staring at you without revealing her true emotions. However, as they say the body never lies and you can almost swear you see two small bumps on the tips of her breasts where her pert nipples press against the thin fabric of her top.

Grim is very easy to read, a deep glare set on her face as she growls darkly, “You son of a bitch, you’re on hell of a liar.”

With a sigh and a quick squeeze of Luppi’s shoulder to stop her from attacking Grim outright you speak in your defense, “I am not lying Grim-chan but if you choose to believe I am then I won’t stop you. I was serious about earning your trust though and I know I might have slipped a bit with this whole fiasco but I still intend to show you how much you mean to me and how you can trust me like I trust you.”

For a long while the kitchen is silent, Grim simply staring up into your eyes as you look back in a battle of wills to see who turns away first. Without warning Grim scoffs and stands up, roughly thrusting her chair into the table as she stomps away, opening a door to a random room and vanishing into it with a slam of the wooden frame.

With another weary sigh you scratch the back of your neck, turning to each of the now confused girls as you speak, “I’ll be right back…”