(part 2)
"Oh, something like that wouldn't work. It would just leave a big hole in their memories, and then they might realize something strange had happened and try investigating and cause all even more problems," she stepped back from the closet carrying something, apparently having found what she was looking for. "Instead I came up with a good explanation for what happened and I made them remember you telling it to them and making sure they understood and they were ok with it and everything. That way they won't think it's anything strange is going on and they won't tell anybody about it."
"An explanation...? What...? What do you mean?" she was getting confused again. "This sounds like it's getting pretty complicated..."
"Oh don't worry, it's not complicated at all. It's totally simple and it's totally perfect. And they were really understanding and and they all said they're just fine with it and they promised they won't tell anybody."
"Tell what? Fine with what?" she demanded in exasperation. "Just what do they think is going on?"
"Like I said, it's just perfect," she bent and placed the clothes she was carrying on Chidori's bed, then looked back up with the biggest smile she had shown so far and proudly declared, "You're a nudist!"
Chidori's mouth fell open. She gaped and sputtered and eventually stammered weakly, "I... a... wha..."
"It's the only explanation. After all, why else would you be running around outside in just a towel and then spend all afternoon lounging around playing games with a bunch of boys in just a towel and not even get upset or anything when your towel slips and they all see your perky little tits and your lovely little p-
"Stoppit!" it was more than she could take, hearing about what happened yesterday on top of what was happening right now and most of all what she was becoming pretty sure was just about to happen any minute. "I remember all that... but... it's just..."
"But if you're a nudist it all makes perfect sense! You love being naked, and you love relaxing around the house naked, and that's why you didn't bother to get dressed when you had unexpected company over yesterday," Jinni declared triumphantly. "And more importantly, they totally respect that you're a nudist, and they would never want to get you in trouble by telling anyone about it."
"But... but I still..." Chidori had to admit that all of that made sense, but it didn't make her much more comfortable with the idea.
"After all, if they got you in trouble then you might have to stop, and then they wouldn't get to come over and enjoy it anymore. Of course, if they find out you're not really a nudist after all then there's nothing to stop them from telling everybody all about what they saw yesterday. As the tone of smug satisfaction in Jinni's voice Chidori finally put the last of the pieces together, and her face fell as she realized she was trapped. She had to go along with this ridiculous 'nudist' story, or else her brother's friends were sure to start spreading stories about her. "So come on then, pick what you want to wear," Jinni urged breathlessly, directing her toward the bed where the three outfits she had retrieved were laid out. "They're all just perfect. Exactly the sort of thing a nudist might wear when unexpected company arrives."
Chidori looked down at the bed and surveyed her options, shuddering at each one and the mental image of what she would look like wearing it. But she couldn't see any way out that wouldn't make everything even worse. So, telling herself that even if she ended up accidentally flashing the boys downstairs they wouldn't end up seeing anything that they hadn't already seen yesterday, she took a deep breath and picked...
Chidori peered down at the bed and examined her options. The yellow dress seemed to be the longest of the three, so she picked it up and held it against her chest to see exactly how far down it came. Then she held it out in front of her to inspect the elastic. She looked back down at the bed, considering the alternatives, and when she looked back up she blinked for a second, then let out a gasp.
"What's the matter?" asked with a note of concern.
"It's... it's... it's seethrough!" Chidori blurted. She picked up the other sundress and held them up side by side. "They both are! They're totally seethrough!" The colorful fabric was so light and so thin that she could look right through it and clearly make out the window on the opposite side of the room.
Jinni looked over Chidori's shoulder. "Hmm... well, maybe a little bit, but only in direct sunlight like this."
Chidori hurried to put them both back down on the bed. There was another window downstairs, and in the afternoon sunlight always came streaming in even with the curtains drawn. There was no way she could go downstairs wearing either of those dresses without letting the boys see absolutely everything as soon as that sunlight hit her, and there was no way she was going to do that. "I'll wear this one," she declared firmly, picking up the T-shirt.
"Great! Here, I'll help you change," with that, Jinni started to deftly undo Chidori's uniform, working so quickly that in seconds she was down to just her green-and-white shimapan. She slipped on the T-shirt at the same time as Jinni slipped off her panties, shivered slightly at the unexpected sensation of cool air against her suddenly exposed nether regions, and reflexively gave the shirt's edge a tug to better cover everything. Then she looked down and gasped again when she saw the result. The old T-shirt was so big and baggy on her that tugging at it like that made the neckline dip down far enough for her nipples to peek out.
"It's wonderful," Jinni remarked happily, standing there and giggling as Chidori hurried to cover herself again. "Totally casual and totally comfortable. Just perfect for a nudist to relax in."
"Well I don't feel comfortable..." Chidori muttered. She felt naked. The T-shirt was covering everything now, but only just barely, and even that was really precarious. If she let it slip down even a tiny bit she just knew her breasts would pop right out, and if she let it rise up at all it would be even worse.
"Oh, don't worry about that. I'm sure you'll get used to it in no time." Chidori winced at the thought of having to wear something like this long enough to get used to it. She was about to protest the idea, but as soon as she looked up the complaint was cut off by yet another gasp at the sight that greeted her. Jinni's slightly modified school uniform was gone, and in its place she was wearing what just had to be the skimpiest little hot pink scoop neck top and the tiniest little blue-green miniskirt ever. The top was so tight and low-cut that her breasts were bulging out above the neckline and looked like they were right on the brink of spilling right over the edge and tumbling out at any moment, and so sheer that her nipples couldn't have been any more visible if it was painted on. The skirt was poised very low on her hips, but so short that it still barely covered anything at all, and so light and flimsy that it looked like it was about to lift right up and expose everything at the slightest puff of breeze or careless movement. "I know. Spectacular, isn't it?" Jinni was still smiling just like before, apparently interpreting Chidori's expression of shock for one of amazement. "Now come on, we should get downstairs before they wonder what's taking so long." With that she took Chidori's hand and led her out the door, and Chidori was too stunned to offer even a word of protest.
She was starting to recover when they reached the stairs, and managed to tug her hand free. But then Jinni whirled around and the sudden movement made her skirt flutter all the way up past her hips exactly like it looked like it would, and the sight stunned her all over again. Jinni, meanwhile, leaned out over the railing to call down, "Okay boys, we're ready. Is the game all set up?" Downstairs, the boys all looked up and stared back her in open-mouthed silence, clearly entranced by the sight of her pendulous breasts dangling before their eyes. The TV screen was showing the Gulch Racer 5 title screen, however, which Jinni took as an answer to her question. "Great! Come on Chidori," she called back with a beckoning motion, which caused one or two of the boys downstairs to glance in Chidori's direction. The feeling of male eyes upon her shocked Chidori back to her senses, and she became suddenly and acutely aware of how extremely exposed she was, particularly from such a low angle. Her legs snapped together and her hands fluttered down to clutch at the fabric there, and she caught herself an instant away from making the same mistake she had in her room. Trying to suppress the impulse to tug, she instead pressed one hand against the front of her thighs and the other into her chest to hold her shirt in place, gathered her courage and gingerly started down the stairs.
"Try to relax now. If you want to act like a nudist you're going to have to act like you're enjoying yourself," warned Jinni's voice in her mind. Jinni herself was now halfway down the stairs, moving so energetically that she was practically skipping. The boys were all staring at her again, now equally entranced by the motion of her breasts and the fluttering of her skirt, which seemed to be right on the brink of exposing absolutely everything. Even with their eyes occupied, however, Chidori knew there was no way she could even begin to relax, so she settled for forcing herself to smile, and when she got to the bottom of the stairs she forced herself to let go of her T-shirt too. Jinni trotted over to the couch and took a seat right next to Suguru, immediately resting her feet on the coffee table, then lowered them again and leaned forward to pick up her controller, then beckoned Chidori over to take a seat as well.
Chidori started to follow, her forced smile quivering. To get to the couch she had to walk right past three of the seated boys, their eyes almost exactly level with her chest. It was like walking a tightrope, every step a keen reminder that her modesty was balanced precariously on the arrangement of her T-shirt and that the slightest wrong move could make it slip down or rise up and she would end up totally flashing everybody. She kept her arms pressed against her sides to hold it in place, but the tension only grew worse and worse as she approached her goal, and by the time she carefully lowered herself to the couch she felt about ready to snap. Her head swimming, she tucked the shirt under her rear and between her legs as best as she could, trying to catch her breath and ignore the way the plush upholstery felt against her tender skin.
Slowly calming down, Chidori told herself that all she had to do now was hold still. As long as she sat straight up and kept her legs together and didn't move around too much then she might just make it through this with whatever was left of her modesty still intact. Keiji handed her the first player controller and she took it with a nod, hoping that the game might help her handle the stress she was under and hoping even harder that it wouldn't be so distracting that she ended up doing something careless.
And so they started playing. And while Chidori sat as still as she could to avoid any accidental exposure, Jinni made no effort whatsoever to do the same. She bounced with excitement before each race, she leaned forward at tense moments, she sat back in relief and triumph afterward, and every little movement made her breasts bounce and jiggle as if she was trying to demonstrate just how much mobility they were capable of. She kept moving her legs as well, crossing and uncrossing them again and again, resting one or both feet on the table in front of her, tucking them under her butt, and never making any apparent attempt to keep her skirt in place as she did so. Every time she started to shift position like that it looked like she was about to totally flash everybody, but somehow it never quite seemed to happen. Naturally, the boys sitting all around couldn't keep their eyes off her, which gave Chidori a very welcome respite from their uncomfortable attention. Eventually she even managed to relax a little, although the sight of Jinni constantly right on the verge of exposing everything kept her from getting complacent.
Eventually Jinni got up and went to the kitchen to get some snacks, and as soon as her voluptuous rear end disappeared through the door Chidori got an unpleasant little jolt as she suddenly realized the boys were all looking at her instead. She redoubled her efforts to sit still and avoid giving them any more of a show than she already was, and by the time Jinni came back her head was swimming from the tension. Then Jinni bent over to set the big bowl of treats she was carrying down on the table and the boys all turned back to look at her and admire what that particular movement did to her boobs. Chidori's blush began to subside and she tried to relax again, reflecting on how much worse this whole ordeal would be if she had to go through it alone like yesterday.
After that Jinni went back to her previous array of movement, and she also started reaching forward for a handful of snacks from the bowl from time to time. Chidori was getting pretty hungry now, and watching Jinni munching happily was only reminding her of how she hadn't had anything to eat since lunch. So once she managed to relax a little she started to join in the snacking herself. The fourth or fifth time she leaned forward to reach for the bowl she happened to notice Keiji rather sharply glance her way, but she didn't think anything of it at first. The next time she caught Noboru and Masao doing the same and had an unpleasant thought about just what they might be looking at. She took a moment to make sure that her shirt was still tucked securely in place, then told herself she was being too suspicious and tried to relax again. But the next time she reached out she noticed all four of the boys looking at her and had an even more unpleasant thought, one that made her stop in mid-reach and look down. She had to bite back a gasp at what she saw. Leaning forward like that made the neck of her big baggy shirt hang wide open and expose nearly all of her breasts, and the sight made her freeze, her skin turning colorless and her mind turning blank.
Once the shock started to pass she sat back as calmly and casually as she could manage, the color rushing back to her face all at once in a furious blush. Her thoughts raced and she glanced at the boys, trying to figure out exactly how much of her chest they had seen just now. Their expressions weren't much of a clue, since they were already turning away to enjoy Jinni's continuing antics. She resumed her efforts to sit as still as she could, telling herself again and again that they might not have seen too much just now, although she couldn't quite seem to get herself to believe it, and she made sure not to lean forward again. She was really glad when it was finally time for the boys to leave.
They got up and headed over to the front door, taking plenty of time gathering up their stuff and saying goodbye to Jinni and telling her all about what a great time they had, all the while hardly lifting their eyes from her chest at all. Chidori felt a surge of relief at the thought that this whole ordeal was almost over, which made her smile seem mostly genuine for the first time since she came downstairs. She got up as well to show the boys out and a puff of cool air slipped between her legs, making her shiver and tempering her relief somewhat and reminding her not to get careless just yet. She adjusted her shirt again and she hung back to stay mostly out of sight as they all went to the door, and once the boys were outside she stood in the doorway and waved goodbye, keeping one arm pressed against the front of her shirt as she did so. The boys stood there on the walk, waving back and staring, and after a few moments she realized they were staring at Jinni. She was also standing there in the doorway waving goodbye, and so energetically that it seemed like her chest was trying to wave goodbye too. Suddenly noticing that her own waving was making her own breasts start to sway a bit, Chidori caught herself, fought back a blush and a surge of annoyance at the same time, and moved to put an end to the ridiculous standoff herself. But just as she stepped forward and reached out to close the door, disaster struck.
Without warning a gentle gust of wind blew, caught the edge of her shirt and lifted it right up past her waist. It hovered there, fluttering in the vicinity of her bellybutton, as she started to pull the door closed, then belatedly noticed the boys' shocked expressions and even more belatedly realized what was happening. She jerked back and let out a little squeal and thrust both hands down to cover herself, knowing even as she did so that it was way too late. The expression that blossomed on those four staring faces before her left no possible doubt of that, and as the door clicked shut by its own momentum Chidori could only stand there, overwhelmed by an absolute tidal wave of embarrassment.
"They... they... they saw..." she began, her voice quavering. "They saw... they saw my..." her whole body began to tremble, her hands covered her mouth and tears welled in her eyes as she took a deep shuddering breath, then exclaimed in utter helpless anguish, "They saw my pussy!" Her knees shook, then folded, and she crumpled to the floor in a daze.
"Uh-huh! They totally saw it! And they totally loved it! It's such a lovely little pussy too. So soft and tender and fuzzy. And you kept it hidden so long!" Jinni bubbled with unrestrained excitement, apparently oblivious to Chidori's condition. "They spent this whole time trying to see my pussy, and they came so close so many times, and after all that suspense you totally flashed them your pussy instead! It's perfect!" she dissolved into giggles, then gave a dreamy sigh. "It was the most perfect flash you could have possibly flashed."
"I didn't mean to..." Chidori whimpered from the depths of her daze. "I didn't mean to flash anybody..." Jinni just giggled some more at that, then gently pulled Chidori to her feet and guided her back upstairs.
"Come on now, you don't have to get so upset about it. Like I said, they won't tell anybody, so it won't cause you any trouble, and when they come back tomorrow you can just pretend it never happened." Chidori shuddered at that. She didn't want to think about those boys coming back tomorrow, and she didn't want to think about trying to pretend anything didn't happen. She just wanted to curl up somewhere warm and safe and alone.
"That's not... there's more to it than-" she murmured weakly.
"Yes, I know. There's more to embarrassment than embarrassment and there's more to modesty than modesty, and I'm sure there's more to this, too." Jinni recited with a weary sigh, wryly summarizing what Chidori had been trying to teach her since yesterday. "Still, you got over everything else that's happened to your modesty so far. I'm sure you'll get over this too."
They reached Chidori's room, and Chidori flopped onto her bed and crawled under the covers and curled up. Somewhere deep inside she knew she probably would get over it eventually, but she couldn't think about that right now. Seeing her little friend and ostensible master looking so miserable, Jinni got a sheepish look that was the closest thing to guilt she had shown so far. She floated there for some seconds, the silence stretching out as she tried to decide what to do. At last she said gently, "Just, um... look on the bright side. At least nobody took any pictures of you today."
That seemed to penetrate Chidori's despondent haze, and she shifted slightly and muttered "Wha-" into her pillow.
"Didn't you even notice?" Jinni sounded more amused than surprised. "I made sure that whatever happened, nobody would take any pictures of you today." Chidori found herself thinking back to all the awful embarrassing humiliating stuff that had happened at school today, and realized for the first time that not once had she seen anybody trying to take a picture of any of it.
She shifted again and peeked out through the covers. "You did that?"
"I guess you really didn't notice," Jinni sighed again. "I realize this is all pretty hard on you and your modesty or your... whatever," she waved her hand dismissively at that vaguery. "But I'm not trying to be cruel here, and I'm doing what I can to make it better. You know?" Chidori pouted for a moment, sniffled and wiped the tears from her eyes. "I made sure nobody took any pictures, and I made sure none of the girls spread any vicious gossip about you, and I made sure none of the boys got too excited and tried to touch you, and I made sure nobody reported anything about it to your teachers or the police or anything like that." Jinni ticked each of the horrible possibilities off on her fingers. Chidori vaguely remembered warning Jinni about all those things last night, along with a few others, but she hadn't even noticed when none of them came to pass today, and she certainly hadn't considered the possibility that Jinni herself was protecting her from all of it. "Did I miss something?" Jinni inquired candidly. "I can't very well protect you from your own emotions, but if there's something else you're still worried about I'll see what I can do about it tomorrow."
Chidori gave another little shudder at the mention of tomorrow, but at the same time she felt her energy returning. It seemed the thought that there was something she could do to alleviate what was going to happen to her next gave her the strength to tolerate what had just happened. She pulled back the covers and sat up, trying to come up with a way to make tomorrow's ordeal more bearable. Eventually she suggested that it would help if...
"Well now," Jinni started, looking thoughtful. "that might be a bit tricky, depending on how many of the little artists have spread the word already, but I should be able to figure it out. I don't think the artiste of a teacher herself has told anybody yet, so at least it-"
"And don't forget what you said about her earlier!" Chidori cut in, suddenly reminded of that previous agreement.
"Hmm? Oh, of course. Don't worry," Jinni smiled reassuringly, "I won't interfere with her artistic decisions at all. And I haven't forgotten about our other agreement either," she added before Chidori could interrupt to remind her.
"Right. About my... um... about these," she finished, cupping her breasts with both hands rather than say the word again.
"Yes, those. Just like I said, when you get to school tomorrow, your boobies will be a perfectly normal size."
And they were.
"It... it's... that's..." Chidori was standing at the school gates, stammering and staring wide-eyed at the spectacle all around.
"See? It's exactly like I said," Jinni replied, the air of deliberate innocence in her disembodied voice somewhat undercut by the mirthful giggle that followed.
"But that... but that's not..." Chidori sputtered some more, still staring at the crowd of students as they passed through the gates.
"You told me you couldn't stand the attention and you didn't want everybody staring at your tits like yesterday," Jinni explained, sounding calm and patient yet still giggling. "And they're not staring at you now, right?"
"But... but I... but this..." Chidori sputtered a bit more, then exclaimed with exasperation, "but this isn't what I meant at all!"
It was true that nobody was staring at Chidori or her breasts right now. As a matter of fact, nobody seemed to be paying her or her breasts any more attention than normal. As a further matter of fact, that was because her breasts were indeed a perfectly normal size right now. But the reason for that was because every other girl in sight had breasts that were every bit as big and bouncy as hers.
Jinni just giggled even more for several seconds, then admitted, "well, it might not be exactly what you had in mind. But it's exactly what you asked for, and it's exactly what I promised. And besides," she added with a self-satisfied air,"nobody else seems to mind."
That was true too. None of the spectacularly well-endowed schoolgirls now arriving at school were acting as if there was anything unusual at all about their newly enlarged bust sizes. Most were giggling and chatting with each other or hurrying to class just like normal, paying no attention at all to the way that sort of movement made their breasts bounce and jiggle under their tight uniforms. Even the mousy bespectacled freshman now passing the gates, who normally walked with a book demurely covering her modestly-endowed chest (and whose name Chidori could never seem to remember) made no effort to cover her newly enlarged chest, and she didn't even seem to notice the staring boys all around. They were the only ones acting like Chidori would expect, and just like she would expect they definitely didn't seem to mind the situation at all. Some were trying not to be too obvious about it, most were just grinning like idiots, a few were open-mouthed with awe, but they were all staring at the plethora of gently bouncing breasts all around, and they were all enjoying it.
"But that doesn't-" Chidori started to protest, but just then somebody called her name and she turned to look and immediately trailed off.
"Chidori! There you are!" It was Akiha, calling out as she ran up to her friend at the gate. "Look! isn't it wonderful? Aren't they all just so beautiful?" Akiha spread her arms to indicate the scene around them, her eyes sparkling and her face alight with excitement. Chidori made no reply, but only stared at Akiha's chest as if in a trance. Akiha's breasts were just as big and just as bouncy as those of any of the other girls there, and the way they moved as she ran was absolutely majestic and completely enthralling.
Akiha drew up in front of Chidori, who kept staring at her friend's magnificent pair for a few more seconds until they stopped jiggling and her trance began to fade, then managed to breathe, "Yeah... They're so beautiful..."
After a moment Akiha seemed to notice what Chidori was staring at "Oh! Yeah, mine are nice too," she agreed with a giggle. "Here, you can feel them if you like." She reached out, and before Chidori could do anything more than give a startled squeak her hands were being pulled into Akiha's chest, and the trance returned.
They were even softer than she could have imagined, so soft that it felt like her fingers were being welcomed into a warm and loving embrace. It was such a wonderful feeling that all her anxiety and distress at the morning's events seemed to melt away, her sudden gasp of surprise became a blissful sigh, and before she even knew what she was doing she started to squeeze. Her fingers sank into that warm softness, and she had the giddy thought that it felt like squeezing a nice fluffy cloud. A big grin spread across her face and she started to giggle. Then Akiha started giggling too, which added a new and exciting element of jiggling to the sensations that Chidori was enjoying. Jinni was giggling too, and for a few long seconds Chidori was aware of nothing beyond the wonderful feelings beneath her fingers and the three overlapping giggles.
Eventually she began to realize that their giggling was the only sound she could hear, and the oddly contrasting silence pierced Chidori's trance and pulled her back to her senses. The casual chatting of the crowd of students seemed to have completely stopped, and with a growing feeling of dread Chidori looked up. Just as she feared, everybody all around was staring right at her and Akiha, watching in silence as the two girls gleefully squeezed each other's breasts. Some of them were shocked and some of them were appalled, and all of the boys were enjoying the show.
Chidori squealed and pulled back, breaking off the mutual groping. She felt herself blush as the realization finally hit her that she was just openly and shamelessly fondling her best friend's boobies in public. Embarrassment gave way to panic, and suddenly she had to get away. She turned and started to run for cover, with just enough presence of mind left to...
"Come on," Chidori called over her shoulder, "we've got to get out of here." She hurried through the yard, leading Akiha by the hand and trying to remember which building didn't have classes in the morning. Before she could come up with an answer Akiha took the lead, suggesting, "Come on, this way. I know the perfect place." Chidori wasn't quite sure what her friend had in mind, but she didn't have a better plan and she really didn't want to stay out in the open any longer than she had to, so she followed along.
Akiha led them around the side of the nearest building to a door that Chidori hadn't seen before. Inside was a dusty stairwell, and when they were both safely inside with the door closed behind them Chidori leaned against the wall and sighed with relief. It wasn't a whole unused building, but at least it was somewhere private.
"There, this should be nice and private. Now where were we," Akiha purred. She grinned, her eyes sparkled, and with a gleeful giggle she grabbed Chidori's chest to resume her interrupted groping. "Mmmm, it feels so nice," she cooed, ignoring Chidori's surprised squeal. "Yours are still the best, you know. Everybody else's are nice and fun and all, but there's just nothing quite like this feeling."
After a few seconds Chidori managed to regain her wits and took Akiha by the shoulders, interrupting her fondling and her commentary. "Stop it!" she cried. "That's what I need to tell you about. It's Jinni! She did that to everyone! She increased my bust size yesterday, and today she increased everybody else's too!"
"Really? I knew it!" Akiha declared with a note of triumph. At Chidori's uncomprehending look she continued, "Well I mean I couldn't be sure, but it just makes more sense that way."
"Awww, you mean you figured it out already?" Jinni's voice seemed to echo in the enclosed space, sounding a lot like it did when she was only talking in Chidori's head, but not quite. "But I was so careful. What tipped you off?"
"Well I was already pretty suspicious about something since yesterday, but I couldn't put my finger on it," Akiha admitted, showing no particular unease at speaking to the empty air. "And then this morning I realized my dresser has a whole drawer full of bras that I never wear and that don't fit at all. You must have changed my memory or something, right?"
"Mm-hmm. I knew there would be little bits like that leftover that didn't quite fit, at least at first. I tried to make sure nobody would think about it too hard and get worried or anything, though."
"It must be because I already knew about you and your magic and everything after what happened the other day. I don't think anyone who doesn't know all that would have figured it out so soon." Akiha gave a confident nod, and with the issue settled she returned her attention to Chidori's chest, grinning again.
"W-wait!" Chidori cried, seeing what was about to happen a bit sooner than she did the last two times. Akiha didn't wait, and Chidori's next protest dissolved into a startled squeal as her chest got another nice big squeeze. After a moment she managed to pull away.
"What's wrong?" Akiha looked quizzical, seeming to notice for the first time that Chidori wasn't enjoying herself like she was outside. "Oh! You want to touch mine too, right?" Akiha grinned and giggled again. "Well go ahead. I don't mind or anything." Once again Akiha grabbed her hands and pulled them into her bosom, and once again Chidori gasped and then sighed as the wonderful sensation once again drove everything else from her mind.
This time the sound that pulled her back to her senses was a soft and uncomfortably familiar popping. It was followed by Akiha's voice. "Ooh! Now that's a nice look." Chidori looked down through her fading trance and saw that, just as she expected, her third button had popped open under Akiha's touch and she was sporting a nice big boob window.
That sight drew her fully out of the trance, and she squealed and pulled away, fumbling at her top. "Come on! We don't have time for this!" she cried, which seemed to halt Akiha's next advance. Chidori was about to say that they needed to figure out something to do about the ridiculous situation Jinni had created, but Akiha spoke up first.
"You're right," her grin had turned into a thoughtful look, and there was a resigned tone to her voice. "We really need to get going or we'll be late to class." Akiha brightened somewhat again and concluded, "Just meet me in the library at lunch like yesterday, alright?" before turning to the other door, opposite the one they came through earlier, leading to the building's main hallway.
Chidori finished getting her top buttoned and went to the door, but Akiha was already hurrying down the hall. with a sigh that mixed disappointment with relief, she realized Akiha was right. Thanks to the time spent arguing with Jinni as soon as she woke up and saw that her bust size wasn't any smaller and the time spent with Akiha just now she was quite a bit behind schedule. Fortunately, upon looking into the hall and seeing which building she'd ended up in, she also realized that her class was only a quick walk away.
On the way there she soon noticed that some of the other girls walking down the hall were unbuttoning the top button of their tops as they came inside where it was warmer, which allowed their boobs to bulge out over a newly lowered neckline in an extremely prominent display of cleavage. Naturally, the boys walking down the hall were enjoying this display, but what seemed decidedly unnatural was the way that nobody but her seemed to notice the way they were leering or what they were leering at. It seemed unbelievable that anyone could overlook such a thing, particularly since Chidori was getting pretty embarrassed just looking at it.
"No, they don't notice, and they won't notice anytime soon either," Jinni replied to Chidori's unspoken question. "See, as long as they don't notice it they won't be embarrassed. And I promised I'd make things less embarrassing, so I make sure they don't notice." Chidori had a few problems with that reasoning, which grew deeper at Jinni's gleeful mental laughter, but she didn't have a chance to bring them up because by then she was already at art class, and as soon as she opened the door she heard someone call her name.
"Oh, Chidori! There you are!" Chidori looked up just in time to see Mioko, who had called out and was now getting to her feet in excitement. That also meant that she looked up just in time to see Mioko's boobs burst into view. After a moment her shock and sympathetic embarrassment subsided slightly when she saw that Mioko was behind the changing curtain where the rest of the class couldn't see her. After another moment she saw that was because Izumo-sensei and Sakaki were behind the curtain too, where they had apparently been helping her to change.
Then Izumo-sensei turned around and noticed Chidori standing in the doorway too. "Ah, I'm so glad you could make it. We were starting to get a bit worried our finest model wouldn't show up," she said, coming over with a warm smile to welcome her finest model and guide her to the curtain. Chidori saw as she did so that what Jinni did to all the girls at school today had clearly not been limited to the students. Izumo-sensei's boobs were every bit as big as those of any of the girls Chidori had seen by the gates or on the way here, and her extremely low neckline was showing them off far more blatantly.
Once Chidori was behind the curtain Mioko began breathlessly explaining about how she heard that Chidori modeled for the art class yesterday and how she decided to volunteer to model for it today and how excited she was when Izumo-sensei told her that she had an idea for a scene with two models because that meant that both of them could pose together. In the meantime, Izumo-sensei asked Chidori to help Mioko with her costume while she went to get Chidori's costume. Chidori was quite relieved to find that Jinni had apparently kept her word about not influencing the art teacher in favor of a nude model again, and further relieved when she looked at Mioko's costume. It was a plum-colored qipao, and from what she could tell once it was properly fastened over her chest it wouldn't even be particularly immodest. Sakaki was currently helping her to squeeze her breasts into the thing well enough to fasten it, which was apparently what they were trying to do when Chidori came in, which is why Mioko's boobs popped out when she sprang up in excitement.
Chidori was about to start helping with that when she realized that she had an opportunity here to get some help with doing something about Jinni. Akiha didn't seem to be much help with that just now for various reasons, but from what she said earlier it seemed like there was a possibility that Mioko and Sakaki might still know about what was going on, and in that case they might be able to come up with a plan. On the other hand, they might not remember anything, and if they did they might not be interested in helping her. Even worse, Sakaki might just fall to pieces if she was suddenly reminded of what happened to her the other day. Knowing that she only had a little while to talk in private before Izumo-sensei came back, Chidori quickly decided...
"So, um... you mentioned you heard about how I modeled yesterday?" Chidori asked, trying to sound as casual and friendly as she could.
"Uh-huh. Akiha-senpai told me about it when I went to the library after class yesterday." Mioko replied easily and cheerfully, sitting back down and smoothing her hair out of the way before getting back to the task of trying to fasten her qipao. "She said that sensei asked you to pose for the art class, but she didn't know much about the details or anything. I asked sensei about it too when I got here this morning, but she wouldn't tell me anything else because she said she wanted it to be a surprise for everybody." It seemed that Jinni had done at least some of what she agreed to last night, Chidori thought with some relief and a bit of gratitude.
"Okay now, let's try this again," Sakaki said, getting to work. She leaned over Mioko's shoulders and took hold of the open portion of the qipao while Mioko gathered her breasts in her hands and maneuvered them into position. Sakaki slowly brought the garment's edges together and Mioko carefully removed her hands, but before they were close enough to be fastened shut Mioko's breasts suddenly slid out of place and they had to start over. Sakaki gave a little irritated sigh and turned to Chidori to suggest, "Ok then, um, why don't you help her hold them steady."
"Huh? Y- you mean... her..." Chidori sputtered.
"Oh yeah, good idea," Mioko seemed oblivious to Chidori's discomfort. "They're too big for me to really keep them under control. Here, I'll push them together from the sides and you hold them from underneath."
Chidori really wasn't sure if it was a good idea for her to touch Mioko's breasts, let alone try to 'hold them steady'. She remembered what happened with Akiha earlier outside and then in the stairwell, and from close up now she could see perfectly well that Mioko's boobs were just as big and soft and beautiful, and she really didn't want to end up getting carried away or slipping into some sort of weird trance like she did earlier. But she knew sensei would be back soon and she didn't have time to spend arguing about it, so she just took a nervous breath and reached down and got to work.
"I'm really glad I volunteered for this, it's gonna be so much fun. I just can't wait to get up there in front of the whole class and pose so they can all create beautiful works of art," Mioko bubbled with a cheerful giggle and a dreamy sigh. She didn't seem at all uncomfortable with having Chidori's hands squeezing her breasts. Chidori was still pretty uncomfortable with it, but she was quite relieved that that at least Mioko's boobs weren't sending her into any kind of trance like Akiha's boobs did earlier. They were just as warm and soft and smooth, and squeezing them still felt really good and all, but somehow it just wasn't the same. "I'm sure they all made wonderful works of art when you posed for them yesterday, too," Mioko continued. "I just can't wait to see them." Chidori had to suppress a little shudder at that. She hadn't had a chance to think about it too much yet, but she really didn't want anyone to see those pictures at all. "You're so beautiful, Chidori-senpai, just like sensei says. So slender and lush and elegant and everything. That's gotta be why she wanted you to model yesterday." The tone of admiration in Mioko's voice suddenly gave way to giggles. "That and your nice big boobs, of course. I'm really glad Jinni gave everybody nice big boobies like yours."
It took a few moments for Chidori to realize what she just heard, and when she did the surprise made her hands slip and sent Mioko's boobs sliding out of place again. Sakaki sighed sharply at them both and said to hold still as they all started over again. "You knew about that? I mean about Jinni and what she... um, about how she did that?" Chidori asked in a breathless whisper, leaning closer to Mioko's head as she rearranged her grip on Mioko's boobs."
"Uh-huh. Senpai told me about it when I went to the library before class this morning. She said she couldn't quite be sure, but it was the only explanation that made sense." Mioko sounded completely honest and guileless.
"You went to the library? And you talked to Akiha there?" Chidori was relieved and a bit surprised at how easy it had been to find that out without having to ask.
"Oh yeah, Akiha-senpai was there too. She was the one who asked us all to come and everything, but it was Kirika-senpai that figured it out and told us."
"I was there too. Hold still now, I just need a little bit more..." Sakaki concentrated in silence for a few moments and finally managed to get Mioko's costume fastened. "There," she grinned with satisfaction, quickly and deftly tidying up the qipao, then straightening and securing it as best she could. "Those two said they wanted everybody who knew about Jinni to come to the library before and after school so we can all stay on top of what's going on with the whole situation."
"Really? That's great!" Chidori burst out with a rush of relief and excitement. She had been hoping to get some help from Mioko and Sakaki, but it looked like Akiha had already got them and everyone else who was involved together to work on it. Maybe when she went to the library at lunch they could make some real progress instead of getting distracted with breast measurement and fondling. Or for that matter, she thought suddenly, maybe all the breast measurement yesterday was actually an important part of some sort of plan they were working on. "So what did they come up with? Do they have some kind of plan?"
"Well, maybe. They said they're working on something, but they wouldn't tell-"
"Oh good, you're ready," Izumo-sensei announced, returning and bustling behind the curtain with them and cutting Sakaki off. She stopped and looked Mioko up and down, her eyes sparkling. "And you look simply splendid, dear. Stand up now, let me get a better look." Mioko stood, and Izumo-sensei crouched to smooth her slightly wrinkled qipao, incidentally placing her face right in front of Mioko's chest and taking nice long close-up look at the girl's boobs at the same time. "Simply lovely," she cooed. "A lovely costume on a lovely model."
Taking a better look now, Chidori had to agree that Mioko's qipao was really pretty, and Mioko looked really cute in it. It was really tight, especially in the chest, and the fabric wasn't quite thick enough to hide the fact that she wasn't wearing a bra, but that couldn't be helped. It had a pair of asymmetrical side slits too, that went halfway up Mioko's right thigh and all the way up to the top of her left hip, but that asymmetry made the overall effect more striking than immodest.
"Now, as for this little model," Izumo-sensei purred, turning her attention toward Chidori. "Sit down, dear. We've got to hurry and get you changed." Chidori was gently urged into the seat Mioko had occupied, and three pairs of hands began swiftly undressing her. Chidori briefly tried to protest that she could undress herself, but then Izumo-sensei leaned forward to help lift the lower edge of Chidori's top and dangled her boobs right in front of Chidori's eyes in the process. Chidori fell silent at the sight of those big boobs just barely contained by sensei's plunging neckline and clearly perched right on the edge of bursting free and tumbling out right into Chidori's face, and by the time she cleared her head of the mental image of that happening and came back to reality she was naked except for her red-and-white shimapan, which were already sliding down her legs.
"You really like stripes, huh," Mioko pointed out with a quick giggle as she finished slipping off Chidori's panties and placed them on the little pile of Chidori's other clothing. Between that little friendly barb and the sudden awareness that she was now totally naked Chidori felt herself start to blush, but mercifully her discomfort with the latter lasted only the few moments that it took Izumo-sensei to slip the costume around Chidori's shoulders. Her relief at being less naked became mixed with puzzlement as she looked down and saw what the costume was.
"A... a yukata?" she blinked, confused. Chidori had expected she would be posing in a qipao like Mioko's.
"Uh-huh. Isn't it just so cute?" Mioko bubbled happily, reaching down over Chidori's shoulders to squeeze her breasts together while sensei and Sakaki gently folded the fabric over them. Chidori gasped slightly at her touch. That feeling too seemed to be somehow different from when Akiha did it, but it wasn't any less uncomfortable or any less distracting. When they were done she looked down and decided that, just like Mioko said, her yukata really was cute. It was bright blue and decorated with little white flower and red leaf patterns. Looking more closely she thought they might be daisies and maple leaves, but before she could decide for sure Izumo-sensei said for her to get up, and when she did so the sudden feeling of cool air between her legs drew her attention to just how short the yukata was. She tried to tug it a little lower, but that only made the fabric folded over her chest start to loosen, while the lower edge remained at the level of her upper thighs.
Meanwhile, sensei was telling her how wonderful she looked and leading her out from behind the curtain along with Mioko. She looked up from her fruitless efforts in time to see the class looking at her as the three of them emerged, and her hands fluttered to her chest and her thighs, reflexively fumbling to keep everything as covered as possible. Today the pedestal set up at the front of the class was a bit higher, and Izumo-sensei told Chidori to sit down on it. She carefully did so, grateful that there was no felt this time and telling herself that no matter how embarrassing it was to pose in front of the art class in a tiny little yukata with no underwear, it was way better than posing naked.
Chidori was trying to relax and calm herself down like that when Izumo-sensei crouched and slipped a pair of geta on her feet. Looking up, the teacher gave Chidori a warm smile and whispered, "Don't be so tense, dear. You look wonderful." Chidori smiled back in gratitude, but then she saw exactly where Izumo-sensei was looking and snapped her legs closed, blushing again.
Ignoring that, Izumo-sensei got up and went to help Mioko into her position. After carefully crossing her legs and taking a moment to calm herself again, Chidori glanced that way and saw that Mioko was placing her right foot on the pedestal to Chidori's left and sliding a sheer, dark stocking up that leg. She stopped when it was just a bit below the knee and Izumo-sensei stepped back in front of the two of them, looking as proud and excited as ever. "And now for the finishing touch. Chidori dear, do you think you could hold your hair just like yesterday?" Somewhat relieved that was all she had to do, Chidori reached back and drew her fingers through her hair. "There!" Izumo-sensei exclaimed, "Just like that." For a moment everything was silent, with a strange undercurrent of tense anticipation. Then there was a soft rustle of fabric, and Chidori was seized by sudden panic as she felt her yukata fall open.
"Perfect! Now don't move!" the order was quite superfluous, since Chidori was still frozen with shock and embarrassment. The feeling ebbed somewhat when it occurred to her that her legs were still crossed and the fabric at her chest was still covering her nipples, although by only the tiniest margin. She frantically tried to reassure herself that nothing important was showing, but it still felt like she was perched right on the edge of exposing herself, just one slightly careless movement or deep breath away from flashing the art class again. "Ah, and if you could turn just a bit more to the right, Mioko?" Izumo-sensei continued, taking a step back, then beamed with approval. "Yes, much better. Such a marvelous scene. Two lovely traditional beauties dressing themselves in lovely traditional clothing."
Chidori had to suppress a little sigh of annoyance. At least that explained why her yukata was missing the obi that was supposed to hold it closed, although she was just as annoyed with herself for not noticing sooner. She spent the rest of class trying to focus on taking shallow breaths and otherwise remaining as motionless as possible, all the while reminding herself that no matter how embarrassing this was it still wasn't as embarrassing as posing naked like she did yesterday.
When the bell finally rang and she could finally lower her arms and pull her yukata closed she made sure to do so slowly and carefully to avoid ruining all her efforts with a last-second exposure. Then she got up and followed Mioko back behind the curtain to change. Mioko was saying something about how wonderful it was being a model and exciting it was to pose in front of everybody like that, but Chidori was so relieved to not be in front of everybody like that anymore she hardly heard it. She slipped her panties back on, took a moment to savor the feeling of having her lower body covered once again, and looked up just as Mioko managed to wriggle out of her qipao far enough to get it halfway down her hips. The sight made Chidori gasp. "Mioko! You're... you're not wearing any panties!"
Mioko looked over her shoulder and giggled, "Well of course not." She struggled with the qipao a bit more, wiggling her bare bottom in Chidori's direction in the process. "I couldn't possibly wear panties under something like this. See?" she slid the garment off, turned around and held it up in front of her hips, pointing to the costume's left thigh. "Look how high the slit goes. I didn't have a choice!" She giggled, folding the costume in her hands, then knelt to retrieve her uniform top.
"Oh... right... of course" Chidori muttered, absently reaching for her own top as well. That made sense, she had to admit, but even if it made sense and even if she herself had just spent the whole class with no panties on it was still surprising to suddenly see that Mioko had just spent the whole class with no panties on too.
"Maybe if I wore a thong today I could have kept it on," Mioko continued as she buttoned her top, then reached for her skirt next, "but since I wore a thong yesterday and the day before I thought some variety would be nice. I mean, I didn't expect I'd get to model for the art class, and I really didn't expect I'd get to model wearing a costume that didn't cover my panties. So I just had to take them off." She giggled again, then picked up her little pink satin panties and held them up for Chidori to see. "Can you imagine if I tried wearing these under that? Everybody would have totally seen!"
Chidori shuddered slightly and gave a sympathetic agreement. If Mioko had tried to pose like that the qipao's thigh slit would have left her panties totally showing and everybody would have totally seen them, and it would have been totally embarrassing. Just like she said, Mioko really didn't have a choice.
The two of them finished changing while Sakaki and Izumo-sensei put everything away, and Chidori hurried out and down the hall to her next class before they could come back. Her morning classes was less uncomfortable than she expected. Unlike yesterday, she and her big bouncy boobs were no longer the center of attention everywhere she went, because unlike yesterday all the other girls all around had big bouncy boobs of their own, and most of them had their tops partially unbuttoned. That part made things a bit uncomfortable itself, particularly in classics when a third-year girl who happened to have her top two buttons unbuttoned got up in front of the class to recite a poem or something. Chidori spent the next several minutes staring with equal fascination and anxiety at the girl's third button, which was under so much strain from containing the girl's bust all by itself that it looked like it was on the brink of popping right open at any moment and letting her big bouncy boobs burst out right in front of everybody. It didn't happen, but when the girl finished and sat safely down again Chidori realized that she had no idea what the poem she just heard was, and she had a feeling that none of the boys in class did either.
After that she decided that even if things weren't quite as bad for her as they were yesterday, they were sure to be a lot worse for everybody else, and she still had to try to do something about the whole situation before things got even worse. She spent the rest of the morning trying to come up with something she hadn't thought of yet, and based on what Mioko told her it seemed like the best plan was to see if anybody else who was involved in everything from the beginning like she was still had their memories of it and if there was anything they could do to help her and Akiha and Kirika come up with a plan. After thinking everything over, she decided to...
"Right, I've gotta find Shizuoka," Chidori muttered, heading toward the Kendo club room. With any luck she'd find Shizuoka there just like the other day and explain everything and finally come up with a way to deal with this whole mess. Of course there was a chance she wouldn't remember anything about what happened and trying to explain it would only cause problems, but Chidori just told herself she would have to bring up the subject carefully like she did earlier with Mioko and Sakaki. She was thinking about how to do that when she got to the club room and slid the door open.
The room was empty. Chidori stood there for a few moments, confused, then slid the door closed again and saw the sign taped to it saying Kendo Club activities were suspended until further notice. Chidori's face fell, but before she could start trying to decide what to do next someone called out to her.
"Chidori! There you are." She turned at the voice and saw Akiha trotting down the hall toward her, smiling happily. "Kirika said you might be here. I guess you didn't hear about Shizuoka-senpai. She hasn't been at school the last few days." Chidori hardly even heard what Akiha was saying, because she was still staring at Akiha's boobs. Just like before they were big and beautiful and the way she was running made them bounce majestically, and now they were nearly bare besides. Akiha had her top two buttons undone just like that girl in classics, and the way that left her boobies mostly exposed and right on the brink of bursting free at any moment they was even more enthralling than before.
After a quick explanation of of why Shizuoka wasn't at school, which Chidori likewise barely heard, Akiha led her friend away, saying, "Anyway, we should get to the library. I've been looking forward to this all day, I can hardly wait." Chidori tried to say something to that, but suddenly discovered that walking at Akiha's side gave her a whole new and exciting perspective of Akiha's chest and found herself so preoccupied trying to look over Akiha's shoulder and down into Akiha's cleavage that the next she knew they were entering the library doors. "Here she is, everybody!" Akiha called out as she pushed through the door.
Belatedly realizing where they were, Chidori finally managed to look up and saw Kirika getting up from her desk. "Excellent, now we can get started," Kirika announced. Her top was mostly unbuttoned too, Chidori noticed, a moment before she saw Mioko and Natsumi turn around and noticed that their tops were mostly unbuttoned too. She was a bit surprised to see Mioko was here, and a bit more surprised to see Natsumi was too. "Come on everyone," Kirika continued, stepping around the desk, "this is a very important part of the plan, and we must begin immediately."
That got Chidori's attention. "Wait, the plan? You actually have a plan already?" she stepped forward with a mix of excitement and relief, realizing that she had been worried that nobody was making any progress on the situation at all.
"Of course. I expect we will be able to deal with your Jinni and the surrounding problems soon. First I will need your help, however." Kirika beckoned everyone down a row of bookshelves, and Chidori hurried to follow them.
"We're gonna help out too!" Natsumi cut in. "We explained everything to each other. Everything we forgot about, I mean. And then senpai came up with a great idea, and we all get to help." she was talking rapidly and eagerly and bouncing with excitement, and Chidori couldn't help but notice that the way Natsumi's big bouncy boobies were bouncing looked even more striking on such a slim and petite girl.
"Indeed, I will need some help from each of you. And we must get started right away," Kirika reiterated, opening a door and leading everyone inside. It was only after Chidori stepped through that she recognized the reading room from yesterday.
"Huh? Wait, this is... um, what kind of help did you need exactly?" Chidori asked with a hint of suspicion, which only grew when she saw the tape measure Kirika was holding.
"Measurement, of course. Just like yesterday." Kirika intoned as calmly as ever. "Would you like to go first, then?" Chidori's eyes widened and she backed away, suddenly realizing that this was going to end up just like yesterday, only to bump into Mioko and Natsumi who were coming in behind her.
"Oh, I don't mind getting measured first," Mioko spoke up, stepping to the middle of the room in front of everyone. "Here, go right ahead." With that she undid her top and pulled it open, allowing her boobies to burst free with a nice graceful bounce. Chidori gave a little gasp at the sight.
"Uh-uh, measure mine first!" Natsumi piped up, "I've been waiting all day to know just how big they really are," she stepped up and opened her top too, and Chidori gasped again at the sight of the small girl's big boobies bouncing energetically into view.
"Oh, there's no need to hurry. We'll all get a turn." Akiha purred, stepping inside and locking the door behind her. Grinning, she took her place between the two topless girls. "The important part is that we all enjoy ourselves. Right, Chidori?" she giggled gently and reached up to her top. Kirika suddenly seemed to remember something and hastily undid her own top, but Chidori didn't notice at all, as she was staring in helpless open-mouthed fascination at Akiha. She could tell what was about to happen, and her mind raced with the image of it happening, and she really wanted to see it happen in a way she had never wanted anything else. And then it happened.
Akiha undid her top and pulled it open and set free her luscious tits. Chidori gasped softly with sheer delight and grinned a big helpless grin. She stood there motionless for a few moments until Mioko and Natsumi came over with a chair and gently pushed her down into it, and then Akiha came forward, jiggling magnificently with every step. Chidori's grin got bigger as Akiha got closer, until her lovely tits were jiggling right in Chidori's face. Chidori's hands slowly reached up to touch those lovely tits, until what was left of her self-restraint managed to reassert itself. Her hands stopped, trembling in midair, and Akiha giggled gently again.
"There's no need to hold back now," she cooed, grinning down, "go ahead and touch them." She leaned forward a tiny bit and let her magnificent tits make the most wonderful tiny bounce, and Chidori's resistance collapsed. She grabbed her friend's big beautiful naked tits and squeezed, letting out a blissful sigh as the magnificent feeling of unbelievable softness, even better than squeezing those same tits earlier when they weren't naked. Everything after that was a blur. A big soft warm happy blur, filled with fondling and bouncing and squeezing and giggling.
When it was over and she could think clearly again she was standing at the library doors waving goodbye to Akiha. The doors closed and she started down the hall, but after a few steps she abruptly stopped, struck by the images flickering through her mind, mostly images of Akiha's tits. Cupping them and stroking them and squeezing them and fondling them and bouncing them. She gasped in shock, stood there a few moments blushing and open-mouthed, then gasped again at the even more shocking scenes that followed, of kissing them and sucking on them and burying her face between them. Some other images were mixed in too, like Mioko and Natsumi gleefully fondling one another and Kirika using her tape measure on everybody, and a particularly strange scene where she was pressing her own big soft tits up against Akiha's big soft tits while everybody giggled madly at the sight.
"What... what's going on..." Chidori whimpered after long seconds of shocked silence. "What did I... and why would I... how could I ever..." With the surge of memories beginning to abate, she gradually became aware of more giggling back in the present. Jinni's giggling. That echoing sound seemed to trigger something in her mind, and suddenly everything seemed to fall into place and all the inexplicable events of those blurry memories made sense. Her shocked confusion transformed into anger, and she shouted, "You!" into the empty air. "It was you! You did all that! You made me... and you made everybody else... you made us do all that! How could you!" She stamped her foot in a classic gesture of anger, yet the giggling only grew. Then Chidori realized something else. "You must have made everybody do all that stuff yesterday too, didn't you!"
"Well of course I did," A faint image of Jinni's face appeared and hovered in the air, grinning even as she admitted it. "Don't tell me you just figured that out now." Chidori glared back at the insubstantial face with all the anger that she could. "Oh, don't be like that." There were more giggles, and then, "After all, you enjoyed it, didn't you?"
"That's not the point!" Chidori spat back, stamping her foot once more. "It's... it was so..." she was about to complain that it was embarrassing, but it seemed like making her embarrassed really was the point. "It's indecent. I would never do something like that. And neither would Akiha, or any of the others! Making us do things we wouldn't... it's just not right!"
"Is that so?" Jinni's grin dropped away. "I guess I must have missed that part." Suddenly the hovering face was glaring right back at Chidori. "I think I missed the part where Humans get to decide what's right. And I just know I missed the part where Humans get to tell everyone else what's right, too." Jinni's eyes were pits of dancing flame, now. Chidori's anger was quickly melting away, fear rising up to take its place, when all at once the image vanished and she was staring at a silent, empty hallway. She stood there for a few seconds, trying to calm herself, then hurried away.
After that she headed to class, trying to focus and put that little episode of fright out of her mind along with all the rest of the day's distractions, particularly the extremely distracting memories of what happened in the library. She spent the rest of the day trying not to think about that, yet despite her efforts she found herself thinking about it again and again and again. Because now it seemed like almost every girl in school had decided to make herself more comfortable by unbuttoning a button or two on her top. And every time Chidori caught sight of a pair of big beautiful breasts bulging proudly from one of those half-unbuttoned tops she couldn't help but compare them to Akiha's big beautiful breasts, and every time she decided that Akiha's were softer or smoother or bouncier or all three, and most importantly that they were much more beautiful. Every time she thought about Akiha's big beautiful tits she wanted to see them again. She wanted to see them naked again, and she wanted to touch them again, and she wanted to squeeze them and kiss them and suck on them again. She tried not to think about Akiha and her big beautiful tits, but she just couldn't seem to stop.
Things got a little better at cheerleading practice, mostly because the cheerleading uniforms couldn't be unbuttoned. They had tight stretchy tops, which clung to the cheerleaders' breasts while still letting them bounce and jiggle freely, making it as obvious as could possibly be that every single cheerleader was totally braless today, but at least they kept the cheerleaders covered. The boys hanging out in the bleachers to watch seemed to be enjoying themselves even more than usual, even if they didn't actually get to see anything more than usual. After everything that had happened over the last two days, however, Chidori found that she didn't mind the way they were looking at her nearly as much as usual.
After practice she left school and started home, and soon found Jinni suddenly walking at her side once again. This time she had on a cheerleading uniform just like Chidori's, except that the skirt seemed to be a little shorter and a little lighter and more prone to fluttering around in the breeze. Jinni herself seemed just as cheerful as ever, her outburst from a few hours earlier apparently forgotten. Chidori calmed herself in preparation for the silent conversation she had been anxiously awaiting for those few hours.
"I'm sorry about what I said earlier." She really didn't want to make Jinni angry like that all over again. "I don't mean to try to tell you what's right and wrong. That's not something I want to dictate to anybody, especially... well, you." With that concession made, she took a deep breath and steeled herself. "It's just, if you keep using that kind of mind control or whatever on people it'll cause all kinds of problems. You've been saying this whole time that you don't want to cause problems like that, right?" She allowed herself to look up, then, and saw with relief that Jinni was still smiling.
"Apology accepted." There was a tone of dry humor in her mental reply, followed by a brief chuckle. "I already know you're not the sort to tell everybody else how they ought to act. But you should already know that there are plenty of Humans who love to do just that." She gave a short sigh of annoyance. "Binding and sealing up all of the Jinn they could find, then trying to claim we were the ones breaking their rules. But that was all a long time ago." She waved a hand, dismissing ancient history and all its injustice. "As for your little friends, they already know about me. The clever ones even figured out part of what I was doing all by themselves, but they haven't given me any trouble over it. What kind of problems do you think it'll cause if I make them have a little fun with you once in a while, hmm?"
"It's..." Chidori started, then trailed off, taking a moment to think about it. "Well what if somebody else notices? I figured out what you were doing to them by myself, didn't I?" Jinni started to look a bit concerned. "And if somebody who doesn't know about you sees people acting weird like that, who knows what they might think is going on? It'll be a really big problem if people start thinking there's something wrong with us and start seriously investigating." Jinni's concern was turning to genuine worry now, and Chidori saw her chance to try convincing Jinni...
"Hmm... I don't know," Jinni muttered once Chidori had finished explaining her suggestion. "Even if people get upset or whatever I think I can take care of myself now."
"Huh? B-but..." Chidori sputtered. She had expected her suggestion would meet with at least a little more agreement than that.
"Besides, I've almost got all my power back now. This should all be over in another day or two, and then it won't matter what anyone does."
"You what? so... does that mean," she tried to sound hopeful, "you won't need any more, um... help after that?"
"I won't need anything from anyone," Jinni laughed. It was a merry laugh, but vaguely discomforting at the same time. "I could just leave right away, as soon as I have enough power to break the seal. Or I might stay around and have a little more fun. Or maybe I could let you have some fun instead, since you've been so helpful." She stopped and turned, showed Chidori a big grin and gestured toward Chidori's front door just in front of them. "But we can talk about all that later. Right now, I expect we've got guests to entertain."
Chidori grimaced at the sight of that grin and the way she said that last word. She gathered her courage and got ready for her next ordeal, then went inside. Sure enough the boys were there again, but this time Jinni didn't even give them a chance to say anything before she stepped forward and said hi to the boys and announced how happy she was to see them all again, bouncing and jiggling away while the boys just nodded and enjoyed the show. Chidori, meanwhile, took off her shoes and tried to ignore them, vaguely glad that at least she herself was spared that kind of attention for the moment as a result. But then Jinni said, "Now I'm sure you like seeing us in our cheerleading uniforms and all, but we just got back from practice and we could really use a nice shower. Right Chidori?"
"Oh, um, yeah. That's right, Jen." Mentally congratulating herself on having somehow remembered that fake name from the day before, Chidori followed "Jen" up the stairs. Then she got a glimpse up "Jen's" skirt, blushed and quickly looked away, noticed the boys at the bottom of the stairs also looking up "Jen's" skirt and enjoying the view of "Jen's" nice plump butt in cute colorful cheerleading panties, and reached back to try to cover her own butt and her cheerleading panties.
Once inside the bathroom she leaned against the closed door and tried to relax a bit. She sighed and closed her eyes for a moment, and when she opened them again Jinni was there in front of her. Something unpleasant suddenly occurred to her and she burst out in a fierce whisper, "Wait, we're... we're not going to have to shower together, are we?"
Jinni just giggled. "Of course not, silly. Why would I need to shower, anyway? I mean, I guess I could wash your back if you like..." she giggled again at seeing Chidori blush in response to the suggestion. "Anyway, the important part is that your guests imagine us showering together."Chidori shuddered at the thought that they must be imagining exactly that right now while Jinni faded from view, still giggling.
Now alone in the bathroom, Chidori gave a resigned sigh and started to strip off her cheerleading uniform. She got in the shower and forced herself to relax, trying her best not to think at all about the boys or what they might be imagining or anything else that was going on today. By the time she was done it was sort of working, and she felt at least a little calmer than before. She dried herself off and wrapped a towel around herself and crossed the hall to her room to get dressed. She was just beginning to gingerly think about what she might wear that was just embarrassing enough but not too much when she reached the door and froze at what she saw inside.
The boys were there, in her room, and as soon as Chidori came into view in the doorway they all turned and looked at her, grinning just like before. Her brief relaxation shattered instantly and she clutched at the front of her towel with both hands, then saw the direction of the boys' gazes drop and moved one hand to the bottom of the towel to clutch it there too, wondering why she had to pick a towel that was barely even long enough to cover herself.
Before Chidori could move otherwise or say anything she heard Jinni's voice call out, "That was nice, huh?" Turning her head, she froze again in shock and embarrassment at the sight of Jinni stepping out of the bathroom door, totally naked and vigorously drying her hair with a little towel in a way that made her boobs jiggle even more wildly than usual as she came over to the door right behind Chidori. "So what do you want to- Oh!" she looked up then and saw the boys in Chidori's room. "I thought you were still downstairs," she said with a little giggle, still calmly drying her hair with only Chidori's towel-clad body between them and her own. "Are you looking for something new to play?" she asked cheerfully, then stepped around Chidori and into the room, whipping the towel around just in time to cover herself with a perfectly casual yet unbelievably swift motion.
Then Jinni went over to where the boys were standing by the little stack of video games on the floor which they might have been looking through just now. She knelt to examine them herself, picked up a pair of games and moved to plop herself down on Chidori's bed to look at them more closely, crossing her legs in a way that made her towel fall open while simultaneously concealing just barely enough of what was underneath. "These two look good, let's play them," she declared, hopping back to her feet and trotting out past Chidori. As she cleared the doorway and turned toward the stairs, however, her towel suddenly came undone and fluttered to the ground. "Oops!" Jinni giggled yet again, "how careless of me!"
Chidori watched Jinni kneel without turning around to retrieve her towel, and at the same moment the boys in Chidori's room came rushing out to see what was happening. Chidori stepped back just in time to avoid them, and Jinni lifted her towel just in time and just far enough to keep the boys from seeing her bare rear end. She wrapped it around herself again, making no particular effort to secure it any better than before, then turned and took Chidori by the hand. "Come on, let's go. I can't wait to give these a try." She trotted for the stairs, pulling a still-stunned Chidori along after her and making both their towels flutter open. Chidori clutched at hers again, with one hand at the top and the other at the bottom just like before. Then they reached the stairs, and as Chidori took the first step she felt the back of her towel flip up and moved to clutch at it there instead. Jinni made no attempt to do likewise, and seemed to be almost skipping down the stairs in a way that made her towel rise way up past her hips with every step.
By the time they got downstairs, with the boys following close behind, Chidori's head was already swimming from the embarrassment of it all. Just like yesterday, things got a little better once they all sat down, partly because that meant she could keep still and keep her towel in place without giving it quite so much of her attention and partly because Jinni didn't seem to be giving her own towel any attention whatsoever. She was moving around and bouncing and giggling and shifting position and always seemed to be right on the brink of flashing everybody at any moment, but somehow it never quite seemed to happen. And her towel seemed to be constantly right on the brink of coming undone and falling off and revealing everything to everybody at any moment too, but somehow that never quite seemed to happen either. So the boys kept staring at her, just waiting for one or the other to finally happen, and just like yesterday it gave Chidori a welcome respite from their attentions and a chance to relax a little bit.
Then Jinni got up to go get some snacks again, and as soon as she turned and took a step towards the kitchen her towel suddenly came undone and started to slide off. Chidori gasped and stared in horror, the boys grinned and stared in lascivious fascination, and for a moment everything was completely still except for that towel, opening and fluttering toward the floor. But just as the falling fabric reached her rear end Jinni reached down and caught it, arresting its descent at the last possible moment and revealing only a tiny glimpse of the upper edge of her butt.
"Oops!" she declared, "That was a close call. How very careless of me." Grinning over her shoulder in a way that contrived to look both sheepish and smug, she lifted the towel back up to her chest and trotted into the kitchen. Chidori sighed with relief as the sudden tension of the apparently close call drained away, but as soon as Jinni was out of sight the boys all turned to look at her instead, and beneath their eager, piercing eyes her brief relaxation shattered.
She clutched at her towel, feeling her skin flush beneath those stares. Suddenly she just knew she couldn't simply sit there and try to ignore it like yesterday, and got to her feet. "Wait, Jen. I'll, um... let me help you." She hurried into the kitchen as fast as she could while keeping her towel under control.
When she got there Jinni was reaching up to get a bowl from a high cupboard. "Isn't this just so much fun," she asked without looking or turning around.
Chidori, leaning against the doorframe to catch her breath, could only sputter, "What? What do you- Fun? What part of this could possibly be fun!?"
"Well, the suspense for a start. The tension. The anticipation." Jinni turned around halfway, grinning and giggling. "The constant awareness that both of us have nothing to protect our precious modesty but these flimsy towels. It adds all kinds of delicious flavors to the embarrassment, you know. Her giggles turned into cackling as she turned and reached up to the cupboard again. "After all, you just can't stop thinking about them. Especially the way either one might just totally fall off and completely expose absolutely everything at any moment." Her hands closed around the bowl she was reaching for, and just then, right on cue, Jinni's towel totally fell off and exposed her plump, round rear end.
Chidori gasped again, while Jinni looked down and loudly exclaimed, "Oh! Oh dear. I'm just being so careless today." Chidori noticed vaguely that the rest of their conversation had been silent, while that part was not merely spoken aloud but loud enough for the boys in the next room to hear. Jinni carefully set the bowl down on the counter, then bent over to retrieve her fallen towel, wiggling that shapely rear end in Chidori's direction in the process. Instead of covering herself like before, however, Jinni simply picked up the towel and turned around. "Now then, you said you wanted to help, so how about you take care of this for me." She tossed the towel to Chidori, who fumbled a bit but managed to catch it. "Since I've got my hands full and all," she picked up the bowl, which was now filled with a variety of snacks, "and since I've been so careless today, it might be safer if you help me hold that up." Chidori just stared in confusion until Jinni continued, "I mean, if I get careless about the silly thing like before, I couldn't possibly be expected to catch it with my hands full like this." Chidori's eyes went wide as she caught the thinly veiled threat in Jinni's tone, and she hurried to wrap the towel around Jinni's body.
Before she could try to tuck it into place, however, Jinni stepped through the kitchen door, forcing Chidori to stumble after her and struggle to keep the towel in her hands from lifting too high or slipping too low and revealing too much. "Here we go," Jinni announced merrily to the boys as they both walked out in front of them, "sorry to keep everyone waiting." Chidori did her best to ignore the way they were leering and to not think about how absurd she must look holding up "Jen's" towel for her. They both reached the table and stopped, which made Chidori gently bump into Jinni's back. Then they both crouched to put the bowl down on the table, which made Chidori really grateful that Jinni didn't decide to bend over like yesterday. And then they both stood up, which made Chidori relieved that now Jinni could take back her towel and they could both sit back down. But then she heard a soft rustling and felt the gentle brush of cool air on her skin, and she looked down and froze at the sight. Her towel was lying there crumpled on the floor, and she was standing there completely naked.
"Oh no! I'm so sorry, Chidori!" Jinni exclaimed, also looking down at the freshly fallen towel, one corner of which was still underneath her foot. She had carelessly placed that foot there when they both knelt and carelessly left it there when they stood up, which was why Chidori's towel was now on the floor. "I just can't believe how incredibly careless I am today." her smile might have looked just a little bit sheepish if it wasn't quite so triumphant. Chidori, meanwhile, just stood there, stunned and immobilized by the sheer overwhelming embarrassment of suddenly being totally naked in front of three leering boys, with nothing to conceal herself from their piercing gazes but Jinni's body. She pressed herself into Jinni's back, clinging desperately to her only remaining cover as well as to what remained of her modesty.
After a few more moments of giggling, Jinni reached up and took her own towel from Chidori's unresisting grip. Then she grinned even bigger and with a swift twirling movement reversed their positions. Suddenly Jinni was standing behind Chidori and holding up the one remaining towel to cover both of them. They slowly walked backwards until they were back in the kitchen, where Chidori finally came to her senses and took hold of the towel once again.
"Now that was just wonderful. Such delicious embarrassment, it was totally worth all the setup." Jinni cackled madly yet silently while Chidori wrapped the towel around herself as best she could. When Jinni spoke next it was with her voice, again quite loud enough for the boys to hear. "Would you mind picking that up for me?" Chidori blinked for a moment before she understood, then trotted back out to where the second towel lay crumpled on the floor, still blushing all the while and trying to ignore the way the boys were staring at her.
After that they both went back out, once again wearing their towels, and things went back to normal... or at least as normal as could be expected in a situation like this. Chidori was even more uncomfortably aware than before of the flimsiness of her towel, struggling constantly not to think about how it might totally fall off and leave her totally exposed at any moment. Mercifully nothing of the sort happened, but even so when the boys finally got up to leave her relief was immense. When she went to the door to wave goodbye to them she made sure to keep hold of her towel at both the top and the bottom, in case of a sudden gust like the other day. With her hands occupied like that she couldn't close the door normally, so once she got fed up with waving she reached out with one leg to do it instead. That worked fine, but as the door swung closed she felt her towel being yanked away, and she was too off-balance to even try to hold on to it.
Chidori squealed and tried to cover herself and spun around in time to see Jinni toss both their towels to the floor, giggling gleefully. "So much fun! This whole nudism thing was a great idea. I'm glad I thought of it." She cackled some more while Chidori stumbled over to retrieve her towel yet again.
She was in the middle of tucking it back in when something occurred to her, and she gasped. "Wait, did... did... did they..." She looked up with apprehension. "Did they... see?" She knew the door was halfway closed when Jinni pulled her towel away, but she couldn't be sure that the boys didn't get a quick glimpse of her naked. Just the possibility of that was even more embarrassing just now, after trying so hard for so long to keep it from happening.
"Hmm... maybe." Jinni laughed even more. "I'll let you keep wondering just what they saw. It's more fun that way."
"What the hell!" Chidori snapped, angry enough to bring Jinni's laughter to a sudden stop. "How could you! How could you be so cruel!" She stood up and glared at Jinni with her fists balled and tears welling in her eyes.
There was a little pause, and for a moment Jinni just blinked back at that furious glare. Then she smirked. "Cruel, am I?" She looked down pointedly, and Chidori felt something that made her follow the direction of that gaze in time to see her towel coming undone. The corner that she had carefully tucked in only seconds before was slowly but surely loosening all by itself before her eyes. She clutched at it, but the fabric seemed to turn so slippery beneath her fingers that she couldn't grip it at all, like satin coated in oil. She could only fumble uselessly at the towel as it came undone and watch helplessly as it fluttered gracefully to the floor.
"I could have done that anytime I wanted," Jinni purred, her smirk growing. "I could have let those little perverts see as much of you as they wanted. I could have made you come downstairs with nothing on but a smile, and I could have made you spend the whole time dancing around and doing cartwheels in front of them or whatever else I felt like." Chidori's anger vanished and she quailed at those cold words and blushed at the mental image they produced, perfectly certain that it was no exaggeration. "If I was cruel I might have done all that. So be grateful that I'm not cruel." With that Jinni's anger disappeared as quickly as it had arrived. "Besides, it was more fun this way. Like I said, all the suspense and anticipation makes your embarrassment taste so much better." She floated backward and started to fade away, once again grinning happily. "So go ahead and get dressed and get ready for tomorrow. I've got all kinds of fun plans..."
Chidori stood there shivering for a little while, until eventually she just sighed and gathered up her towel and went upstairs to get dressed. She thought about what tomorrow was going to be like and tried to come up with something to do about it, but for once she couldn't think of anything at all...
The next day she was pretty nervous. Akiha didn't meet her on the way to school, again, but when she got there without anything happening she calmed down a little, and from a quick look around it didn't seem like much of anything had changed either. Akiha wasn't waiting for her at the school gates either, but when she went up to the main building the door burst open right in front of her.
"Chidori! I'm glad you got here early. Look! Isn't it just beautiful?" Akiha stepped back from the door and did a little twirl so Chidori could see.
Chidori just stared for a second, then stammered, "It... it's a... a yukata?" Akiha was wearing an elegant lavender yukata with long sleeves that trailed and fluttered around her as she twirled, and just like she said it was beautiful. "Why are you wearing a yukata?"
"Because of New Year's, of course," she replied with a giggle. "The student council decided we can wear traditional clothes for a few days since it's New Year's." Finishing her twirl, she carefully rearranged her sleeves and then her neckline, which was tucked so loose that it just barely covered her nipples.
"But... but that's not..." Chidori protested, looking apprehensively at her friend's mostly-exposed chest. "But it's so... um... well, aren't you really cold like that?" Even aside from the most obvious places, the thin fabric couldn't be much use against a chilly morning like this.
"That's why I waited to change until I got to school. It's nice and warm in here. See?" She took Chidori's hand and tugged her through the door, and sure enough it was much warmer than usual inside. That seemed strange, and after a moment Chidori realized with a sinking feeling that just meant Jinni had to be responsible for it, along with the whole yukata thing and all the other stuff that was going on.
"But still... yukata are for summer," she tried again. "Wearing them in the winter isn't traditional at all..."
Akiha just shrugged. "So think of it as 'a little taste of summer to break the spell of winter', or whatever." She giggled again. "That's what student council president Mitsuka said about it, at least." She was still taking the two of them down the hall and around the corner. The building seemed to be mostly deserted this early, but when they turned the corner there were a few small groups of students standing around chatting quietly and casually. "Anyway, never mind all the little details like that. I'm sure Jen can take care of things just fine." At the mention of the name Akiha glanced around conspiratorially. "For now let's just wait here. We'll see something really interesting in a second."
They'd stopped in the middle of the hallway, at the edge of a big bright sunbeam that was coming through the window. Chidori wanted to ask what they were waiting for and what they were going to see. She wanted to ask where Akiha had heard the name 'Jen' and how she was so sure things would get taken care of. She wanted to ask why Akiha and Mitsuka and the rest of the student council was going along with all the weird stuff that was happening so easily, and she wanted to ask lots of other stuff too. But before she could even decide what to ask about first someone came around the corner at the other end of the hall and the casual conversations all around seemed to die away. "There. Now watch close," Akiha whispered, her eyes fixed on the new arrivals.
Chidori looked that way and saw that it was three girls in brightly-colored yukata, flowing and elegant like Akiha's but louder and gaudier. They were chatting with each other and laughing about something, and after a moment Chidori saw that all three had dyed hair and tanned skin and glittery nails, and after another she saw that the one in the middle was Eiko, the kogal from the other day, which meant the others must be a pair of her kogal friends. A moment later they stepped into the sunbeam, and what Chidori saw then made her gasp.
The direct sunlight turned those three yukata totally seethrough, and suddenly the three kogal seemed to be wearing nothing but some colorful fluttering mist and tinted clinging cellophane. They gave no sign that they had any idea how completely exposed they were but kept walking and laughing just as casually as before, which made their nicely tanned and plainly visible breasts jiggle slightly. Chidori felt herself blush with sympathetic embarrassment, both at the sight and the soft giggling of the other girls all around.
Akiha was among them. "Not exactly the best choice of underwear for a day like today, huh?" she added in a catty whisper between giggles, which made Chidori drop her gaze from Eiko's breasts to Eiko's panties. At first she was just confused. Eiko was wearing perfectly normal, perfectly modest full-cut plain white panties. But then she saw that both of Eiko's kogal friends were wearing cute little thong panties with loud designs and sequins on the edges, and she realized why the other girls were really giggling and blushed even more. "I guess she must be nervous about wearing thongs after what happened the other day," Akiha added once the kogal trio were past them, once again out of the sunbeam and out of earshot. Chidori shivered and frowned thoughtfully at this strange situation where being seen wearing unexpectedly modest underwear should be paradoxically more embarrassing just because they weren't cute enough or whatever.
"I guess I can't really blame her for not being quite as bold as usual," Akiha continued. "Still, it's a pretty careless thing to do, walking through a sunbeam dressed like that and not even noticing. I'm sure I'd be more careful if I was wearing something I didn't want anyone to see."
Chidori nodded absently, then gave a start when she realized what her friend just said. "Wait, so you mean your-" she caught herself just about to ask what Akiha was wearing under her yukata, but decided she might not want to know the answer. "Um, your yukata... is it, um... I mean, will it... in the sun..." she stammered instead.
After a moment Akiha seemed to understand. "Oh! Of course. See?" She waved an arm into the sunbeam to demonstrate, the sleeve turning into a mere wisp of violet haze. "But don't worry," she continued, seeing Chidori's expression, "I'm not going to just walk through it and flash everybody." Another giggle. "I might be wearing nice cute panties today, but that doesn't mean I want to show them off." Her expression and her giggles made this less than convincing, but before Chidori could reply someone called out to her.
"Oh, Chidori! There you are!" It was Mioko. She was at the far end of the hall, waving, and she was wearing a yukata too. It was orange, and it was really cute, and it was really really short.
"Wow. How bold," Akiha murmured. Chidori knew exactly what she meant, although she probably would have chosen a different word. Mioko's yukata was extremely short, just barely long enough to protect her modesty in her current position standing still with one hand raised to gently wave. From the looks of things if she tried to lift that arm any higher or move any faster than a brisk walk it was just sure to rise high enough to reveal everything. Mioko stopped waving then, which let the hem of her yukata drop a tiny bit lower and let Chidori relax slightly. But when she she started trotting toward them it started to flutter even higher and made Chidori wince. Her expression grew even more apprehensive as she belatedly realized what was about to happen. Everyone else was already staring at Mioko in silent anticipation by the time she heedlessly headed straight into the sunbeam, and Chidori's mouth dropped open at the sight.
"How incredibly bold..." murmured Akiha. This time it was even more obvious what she meant. The sunlight turned Mioko's yukata every bit as transparent as everybody had expected, and they could all see that Mioko wasn't wearing anything at all underneath. The sight of not just her big soft boobs bouncing and jiggling freely for all to see, but also her tender pussy peeking out from between her thighs and beneath her little tuft of soft feathery deep red fuzz was so blatant and so unexpected that Chidori was absolutely stunned. And to make it all even worse, Mioko clearly had no idea she was totally flashing everybody in sight.
"Come on, we've got to get to class right away," Mioko was saying as she came up to the two of them and stopped, stepping far enough out of the sun even as she spoke for her yukata to turn opaque once again. Chidori was still too shocked by what she just saw and embarrassed on Mioko's behalf to respond, however. "Sensei wants us there as early as possible so we have plenty of time to change and get ready and everything..." Mioko went on, taking Chidori by the hand and turning to lead her back down the hall. Then they were both in the sunbeam, and the sight of Mioko's cute plump butt suddenly exposed beneath her once again seethrough yukata rendered Chidori again too stunned to speak or resist or do anything but gaze down at it wiggling back and forth. At least, she saw at the same time, her own uniform was still as opaque as ever.
Mioko led her around the corner and up to the art class door before Chidori got ahold of herself. "Wait! Mioko, you..." she started, catching the other girl's arm and turned her half around. "You... your... you're..." Chidori stammered, searching for the right words, for some way to let Mioko know about what just happened and what she just saw without causing her even more embarrassment. In the end all she managed was, "You're not wearing any underwear!" She said it in a fierce whisper, with as much wide-eyed urgency as she could, but Mioko just giggled.
"Of course not. After all, it's more traditional this way." Chidori had no chance to reply before they were through the door and Izumo-sensei and Sakaki were upon them and all three were bustling Chidori behind the curtain to get changed. Sakaki was wearing a yukata that looked just like Mioko's except for the color, and as they all reached the curtained area Chidori saw another one waiting there and knew right away who was going to end up wearing that.
She took the seat they firmly guided her into and sensei went to complete the preparations while Mioko and Sakaki 'helped' Chidori change. They were even faster at it than yesterday, and in just a few moments her uniform was off, followed by yet another pair of shimapan. Then they slipped the yukata around her, and she was relieved to see that the obi wasn't missing this time. She carefully made sure that it was securely fastened and tried to adjust everything to keep herself covered as best she could, but no matter how she tugged and tucked and pulled it still felt like the tiny yukata was just about to slip down a bit too far or lift up a bit too much and let everybody see everything any second.
At last she got up and stepped around the curtain, trying not to think too hard about what kind of embarrassing pose she was going to have to strike for the class. Her fears were replaced by surprise when she saw the goldfish-scooping pool that was set up on a long table, where Izumo-sensei already guiding her three models into positions around it and explaining about the lovely 'taste of summer' that the class would be painting, with lovely traditional beauties relaxing and enjoying themselves at a traditional summertime festival. Somewhat relieved, Chidori took her place at one end of the pool and knelt down, carefully arranging her yukata as she did so to make sure her butt didn't peek out into view. Tugging at it like that caused the yukata to slip halfway off one shoulder, which gave her a quick shock of panic, but after she reassured herself that her nipples were still covered and that it wasn't going to slip any further by itself she left it that way.
After a moment Izumo-sensei came over and murmured that she loved that careless and relaxed 'off-the-shoulder' look, but she also made Chidori shift from kneeling to a more 'cheerful' pose, which turned out to involve squatting with her toes balanced on her geta and her knees peeking over the top of the pool. That was a bit more uncomfortable, but with a quick glance she confirmed that her hips were still mostly covered and her butt probably wasn't peeking out, so she smiled and tried to relax a little.
But then she noticed that Mioko on the other side of the pool was in the same pose, as cheerful and relaxed as sensei could ask for, and it didn't look like she was being careful about how her yukata was arranged at all. Chidori could just imagine what kind of a view the class must have just now, with Mioko's bare butt peeking out from under her extremely short yukata. Anybody who looked close enough was just sure to notice she wasn't wearing any panties, Chidori thought, suppressing a little shudder. But at least, she told herself after that, both Mioko and Chidori herself were on the ends of the table instead of the side opposite the class. If she had to face the class in a pose like this, and if the table with the pool on it was high enough and if she wasn't really really careful to keep her legs closed at all times or make sure part of her yukata stayed between them, she'd end up with something peeking out that was way more embarrassing.
And that thought made her glance over at Sakaki, who was on the side of the pool opposite the rest of the room and facing the class, and who was in the same pose as her two fellow models, and who didn't really seem to be trying that hard to keep her yukata properly arranged, and who really didn't seem to be trying at all to keep her legs closed. Even as Chidori watched, Izumo-sensei murmured something to Sakaki, who nodded and leaned forward over the pool with the little paper scoop held poised to strike at an unsuspecting goldfish, which incidentally required her to spread her knees just about as wide as they would go. Chidori couldn't see any lower than that with the pool in the way, but she couldn't help imagining the view that anyone in class might have right now, looking under the table and right under Sakaki's wide-open yukata and between Sakaki's wide-open legs, right at Sakaki's... panties.
Her panties. Sakaki was definitely wearing panties right now. She just had to be wearing panties, Chidori reassured herself, putting a stop to her steadily worsening train of thought. Mioko might be so eager to model that she was perfectly happy to pose in a tiny little yukata with no panties on if it was more traditional that way, but Sakaki was different. After what happened the other day Chidori could be quite sure that there was no way Sakaki would be as happy and relaxed as she was now if she wasn't wearing any panties under her tiny little yukata.
So with that settled, Chidori calmed herself down and focused on keeping her own yukata in place and managed to get through the rest of class. Afterwards she headed behind the curtain to change, only to encounter a bit of a problem.
"Something wrong?" Mioko asked cheerfully as she came behind the curtain as well."
"Oh no, not really," Chidori replied in an absent voice, still looking around. "It's just... um, have you seen my uniform?" She was sure she'd left it folded neatly right here before class, but now it was nowhere to be seen.
"It's not there?" Mioko muttered as she went over to open the supply closet and look inside. "Oh! I know" Chidori hurried over and looked over her shoulder, thinking she must have found the lost uniform, but it wasn't there either. "Sakaki must have taken it." Chidori just blinked at this, uncomprehending, while Mioko reached into the closet. "I asked her to take my uniform back to my locker after class, so I guess she must have got yours at the same time."
"Taken back...? to the lockers...? But... why?" Chidori sputtered, becoming worried and even more confused.
Mioko looked up at her, only now seeming to notice the distress in her voice. "Oh, we don't need them anymore. Didn't you hear? The student council decided to let us wear yukata all day, since it's New Year's." She giggled. "Isn't it great? I mean after all, who'd want to wear a boring old normal uniform when we can wear something cute like this instead?"
It took a few moments for the meaning of this to sink in, and then Chidori was struck with panic at the thought of having to spent the rest of the day dressed like this. She hurried out from behind the curtain and looked frantically around the room for Sakaki, then went to the door and leaned out to look up and down the hall, but the other girl was nowhere to be found.
Behind her, Mioko was still talking. "And these ones are just so cute, too! I was kinda upset that I didn't have a chance to get one of my own, but then Izumo-sensei said she brought enough for everybody!" Chidori turned back and immediately saw what she was talking about. Mioko had a whole stack of neatly folded yukata, apparently retrieved from the storage closet, and she was handing them out to the girls standing in line to go behind the curtain and change. A few other girls were emerging from behind that curtain, having already done so and now wearing their borrowed yukata, and Chidori could see that all of them were just as tiny as Mioko's, or Sakaki's, or Chidori's own yukata for that matter. "She said the art classes would get to pick the ones they want first, but she's getting more, and by lunch there should be enough for anybody who wants one," Mioko continued. "Oh, would you like to help?" Chidori made no reply, but only stared wide-eyes at the girls leaving class. None of them seemed at all uncomfortable to be wearing a tiny little yukata that barely covered anything and was constantly on the brink of revealing everything, which only made it all even more embarrassing for Chidori to watch. Then she noticed the sunbeam.
She didn't remember seeing it there before, but there it was now, shining right through the window to dapple the floor and the far wall in direct sunlight, and the first two girls from art class were headed right for it. Chidori had just enough time to feel a little pang of dread before they stepped into the light and their yukata turned transparent. And then all she could think was "at least they're wearing panties." The one on the right had cute little lacy white bikini-cut panties and the one on the left had a cute little black v-string thong, and they were both on display, and worst of all neither girl seemed to even notice.
Then they stepped out of the sunbeam and Chidori took the chance to calm herself, but three more girls were headed the same way and about to reach the sunbeam, and the feeling of dread came right back. This time, however, before they reached it Chidori turned and hurried away. It was all nearly too embarrassing to bear. Art class was bad enough, but all those girls wearing their tiny little yukata in public and accidentally flashing everybody and showing off their panties whenever they stepped into the sun and not even realizing it... And for Mioko it was even worse, since she wasn't wearing any panties... And worst of all, neither was she...
That thought made Chidori stop in her tracks and quickly check to make sure she hadn't let her yukata slip out of place or walked through a sunbeam while she was distracted. After reassuring herself, she continued at a cautious pace. She was going to have to be extra careful from now on, she realized. Spending all day in just a tiny little yukata with no underwear whatsoever was incredibly embarrassing, of course, but there was nothing she could do about it now, and she should at least be able to keep from flashing everybody as long as she was careful enough. She just had to be sure not to move too quickly or suddenly and to stay away from sunbeams, and not to raise her arms too much, and to keep her legs closed when she sat down, and not to bend over at all, and to...
With a sigh and a little shudder of dread at what the rest of the day was going to be like, Chidori headed for her next class.
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Getting to class was just as uncomfortable as Chidori was afraid of. With every step she took a little puff of cool air would slip under her yukata and stroke her softly between her legs and constantly reminded her of her lack of underwear, no matter how slowly and carefully she walked. And no matter how slowly and steadily she walked it made her chest wobble and jiggle enough to make her yukata gradually loosen until it felt like her boobs were about to pop right out any second. Again and again she had to pause to try to tuck them in a little better, and when she wasn't doing that she was trying to keep her hands positioned where they could hold down her yukata in case a sudden breeze hit it, and she was always trying to ignore all the boys staring at her. They seemed to be everywhere, just standing around and talking, or more likely pretending to talk and trying to act like they weren't watching Chidori and every other girl in a yukata who walked by, and there were even more of them standing near the sunbeams. There seemed to be a lot more sunbeams than usual too, bathing whole hallways in bright cheerful light, and twice Chidori had to turn around and take a different route to class to avoid walking through one of them. One of those times she came around the corner just in time to watch a group of three girls step into the light, and the one on the left was wearing a cute sky blue yukata which turned totally seethrough in the light and revealed her big soft jiggling boobs and her little lacy royal blue panties. Chidori whirled and hurried away so suddenly when she saw it that she realized too late what the sudden movement would do to the hem of her own yukata, and she was really glad all the boys weren't looking at her just then.
It was all just so awful and it was left Chidori in such constant tension and embarrassment that she was really relieved when she finally got to class and she could sit down and cross her legs and relax a little bit. But she didn't get much chance to relax, because after just a little while Miaka came in. Miaka was a first-year that Chidori recognized from the cheerleading squad, and she was wearing a yukata just like Chidori, and just like Chidori's yukata it was so tiny that she must have got it from Izumo-sensei. But unlike Chidori, Miaka seemed to be perfectly comfortable in her tiny yukata, which made Chidori really nervous. And sure enough, as soon as Miaka took her seat in the front row the first thing she did was lean over to whisper something to the girl next to her, and that made the back of her yukata lift right up and let her cute perky butt peek out into view.
Chidori had to stifle a gasp at the sight. After a moment Miaka sat back up and absentmindedly reached back to tug the back of her yukata back down, but she didn't seem to have any idea that she just accidentally flashed everybody sitting behind her, and she certainly didn't get any more careful after that. Only a few minutes later she leaned over again, only this time in the other direction so Chidori had a better view of the front of her yukata and the way it came open and slipped to the side just far enough to let her cute perky nipple peek out.
Meanwhile the rest of the class was still arriving, and Chidori counted five more girls whose names she couldn't recall wearing yukata just as tiny as Miaka's. And just like Miaka, none of them seemed at all concerned about accidentally flashing everybody. And just like Miaka, as soon as they sat down they all ended up doing just that again and again and again. Their tiny little yukata seemed to slide out of place with every little careless movement, opening up in the front to reveal their boobs or lifting up in the back to reveal their butts, or sometimes both at once. Unlike Miaka none of them were sitting in the front row, but even so it didn't take long for Chidori to see that all five were wearing brightly-colored thongs. After a while the shock and the jolt of sympathetic embarrassment at every accidental flashing she witnessed began to fade into a dull constant pulse, along with the acute and even more uncomfortable awareness that since she herself was wearing a tiny little yukata just like they were, she was only a single careless movement away from accidentally flashing everybody just like they were. Wincing and shuddering at the thought, she redoubled her efforts to be as careful as she could not to let that happen.
The rest of class dragged on just like that, with flashing and flashing and more flashing the whole time. Chidori tried not to look, but since the six girls doing the flashing were scattered around the room she couldn't look away from one without looking at another, and eventually she settled for mostly looking at Miaka. She was flashing just as much as any of the others, but since she was sitting in the front row at least when she flashed her boobs it wasn't quite as obvious as it was when she flashed her butt. Eventually Miaka got out a pencil and paper from her desk and started taking notes, hunching forward over her desk to do so in a way that made the back of her yukata lift up just enough to let the very edge of her butt peek out beneath, the two gentle curves looking like those of a pale plump peach. At last the bell rang and the class ended, and with a big surge of relief Chidori got up to leave. Everyone else started to leave too, but when Miaka got up her pencil rolled off her desk and clattered to the floor, and the sound made everybody turn that way just in time to see what happened next.
Without hesitation Miaka bent over to pick up her pencil and the back of her yukata lifted all the way up, revealing everything underneath and letting everybody see that Miaka wasn't wearing any panties at all, and Chidori let out an even bigger gasp than before which she couldn't even try to stifle. Her mind was still filled with the sight as she hurried out into the hall, along with the image of all the other times she'd seen Miaka's butt, now with a fresh added layer of embarrassment. It had never crossed Chidori's mind that the reason she never glimpsed even a little bit of Miaka's panties, when she could clearly see the thongs the other five girls were wearing every time one of them flashed her butt, was that Miaka simply wasn't wearing any panties. She found herself wondering if anyone else in class had realized it any of the other times that Miaka flashed everybody, and that made her wonder if anyone else had suspected it even before Miaka flashed everybody, and that made her wonder if anyone could tell that she herself wasn't wearing any panties either. Shuddering again, she stepped out into the hall and renewed her determination to make absolutely sure that she didn't accidentally flash everybody herself.
And getting to her next class without doing just that quickly proved to be a whole lot trickier than before. For one thing she had to avoid all the sunbeams, and they were just about everywhere. It seemed like nearly every hallway she saw was awash with that dangerous light, and nearly every hallway that wasn't had an equally dangerous breeze. It was a very peculiar breeze, gentle enough to easily go undetected yet strong enough to lift an unsuspecting girl's yukata right up past her hips in an instant. Chidori nearly fell victim to such a breeze herself as she started down the first such shaded hallway she saw, only to stop in her tracks at the sight of a trio of girls a few steps ahead of her, their tiny yukata suddenly taking flight and revealing a trio of cute butts and the trio of cute little thongs adorning them. After several long seconds the girls noticed what was going on and pushed the fluttering fabric back down, giggling and trotting past the naughty breeze yet paying no attention to all the boys they just flashed.
And they were far from the only ones to accidentally expose themselves like that. Nearly every girl that Chidori saw seemed to be wearing a yukata, and nearly every yukata seemed to be so tiny that it could only have come from Izumo-sensei's costume collection. Yet nearly every one of the girls so immodestly attired seemed to be extraordinarily careless about protecting her remaining modesty until the very moment that she stepped heedlessly into the sun or the wind and found herself suddenly revealed for all to see. It was like some kind of flashing funhouse, a maze of traps totally designed to completely expose unwary girls in skimpy flimsy clothing, and Chidori was the only girl in sight even trying to navigate the labyrinth with her modesty intact. She searched and searched for a hallway free of either sun or wind, but her search yielded only the uncomfortable and unavoidable observation that under nearly every skimpy yukata in sight was either a tiny little thong or, more frequently, no underwear whatsoever.
Ultimately Chidori was forced to give up the search and brave a sunbeam herself, following close behind a trio of girls walking side-by-side so that the front of her brightly illuminated and highly exposed body would be hidden by theirs while she kept her hands casually clasped behind her to keep her equally illuminated backside at least mostly covered. She made it to class just before the bell rang, her head totally swimming with embarrassment, took her seat and tried to steady her nerves and steel herself for another ordeal of being constantly flashed again. In no time at all her expectations were confirmed, as class began and all the students got their textbooks out of their desks. Quite a few girls seemed to have trouble finding theirs and had to continue rummaging for quite a while, which meant they remained leaning way over and showing off their bare or almost-bare butts. Then one girl got frustrated enough with searching to slide out of her seat and kneel on the floor to peer into her desk, leaving her rear end totally uncovered, and Chidori could only gaze helplessly at the gently wiggling bottom and tell herself that at least the girl was wearing a thong. Moments later another girl did the same, except she was facing toward Chidori instead of away from her so Chidori just had to hope that she was at least wearing a thong too. And then the front of that second girl's yukata began to slowly come open, and Chidori could only watch in helpless horrified fascination as the fabric slipped more and more until the unsuspecting girl's nice big boobs totally tumbled out, bouncing and jiggling for all to see.
Eventually those two spectacularly careless girls found their books and sat back down and stopped flashing everybody, but all around the room the flashing went on. Again and again one girl or another would carelessly knock something or other off her desk and it would clatter to the floor and she would bend all the way over to pick it up and end up totally flashing everybody just like Miaka did earlier. It happened so many times to so many girls that eventually Chidori began starting to wonder if she was starting to get used to the awful sight, since the shock and sympathetic embarrassment she felt seemed to be slowly dulling and growing a bit less horrible every time she saw it. By the time class was over she had seen nearly every girl in class flash herself at least once, and most of them way more than that, but even so she smiled with relief when the bell rang and told her that another phase of her ordeal was over with. She was getting up to leave when a burst of loud giggling from across the room got her attention. It was Yui, another first-year that she knew from cheerleading, giggling at something her friend just said. Yui was just about the only girl in class besides Chidori who hadn't flashed everybody, since she was the only girl in class who wasn't wearing a tiny yukata from Izumo-sensei. Yui's yukata was an unusual design, ruffled and sleeveless and even more loose-fitting at the shoulders and arms than most, but it was also full-length and thus kept her covered no matter how carelessly she moved or bent over or what... until now. Because as Yui got out of her seat, still giggling happily, she carelessly stepped right on the trailing lower edge of her yukata, and when she stood up it fell down, slipping right off her shoulders and sliding all the way to the floor. She noticed what was happening just in time to look down and squeal with horror and try to catch the falling fabric, only for it to flutter away from her clutching fingertips and leave her totally naked right in front of everybody.
Yui crouched and covered herself, immobilized with shock and embarrassment and blushing brightly for long moments until her friend knelt beside her and helped her back into her clothes. Chidori spun away then, hurrying from the room and leaving behind the sound of Yui once more giggling with self-effacing mirth at her own carelessness. Once outside she had to lean against the wall to catch her breath. Everything seemed to be getting even worse even faster than ever, and she didn't even want to imagine what it would be like by the end of the day. A quick glance around the hallway only confirmed her fears. The sunlight was practically everywhere now, and every girl in sight seemed to be wearing nothing more substantial than cellophane. Before Chidori could start trying to plot a way through the sun without exposing herself any more than she absolutely had to, a familiar voice called out to her.
"Oh good Chidori, there you are," Akiha trotted up, smiling. Chidori turned around slowly, afraid of what Akiha might be wearing now and how much of her friend she was going to see, only to smile right back when she saw it. Akiha was still wearing the same lavender yukata as before, and it was just as beautiful as before, and more importantly it was just as long as before. Even though it was still so loose in the front that it only just barely covered Akiha's nice big boobs, that still meant Akiha was the most modestly-dressed girl in sight. "I'm glad I found you right away. Come on, we need to hurry if we want to get there before it gets started." Akiha took Chidori's hand and started to pull her down the hall.
"Huh? What do you mean? Before what gets started?" Chidori protested halfheartedly.
"The assembly," Akiha replied eagerly. "At first it was scheduled for after school tomorrow, but then Mitsuka had it rescheduled for today, and at the last minute she had it rescheduled for lunchtime. I meant to tell you about it, but everything's just been so busy. Anyway it's about to start now, so we've gotta hurry." Chidori started to protest again, only to have her words dissolve into a gasp and some sputtering when Akiha walked into a sunbeam and her yukata turned totally transparent, and instead of seeing the cute little panties that Akiha mentioned earlier beneath the suddenly seethrough fabric she saw only Akiha's cute little bare butt. "Hmm?" Akiha looked over her shoulder, then glanced down at where Chidori was looking. "Oh, that," she smiled again and giggled, quickly guessing the reason for Chidori's surprise. "I took my panties off earlier. It's so much more traditional this way, after all. And it's a lot more comfy too, isn't it?" she added that part with a meaningful glance downward, and it was only then that Chidori belatedly realized she was walking through the same sunbeam and it was turning her own yukata seethrough too.
With a little squeal Chidori scrambled to cover herself with her hands, but that only attracted even more attention by making her stand out among the other girls in the sun-dappled hallway, none of them making any attempt to conceal their similarly exposed bodies. After a few moments she forced herself to act casual, while trying to ignore the staring eyes of the boys all around and the heat of her deepening blush. Akiha was saying something else about the assembly, but all Chidori could think of was her own long and determined effort not to flash anybody and how easily all that effort ended up being destroyed by a moment of distraction and carelessness and ended up making the embarrassment of actually flashing everybody that much worse.
Then they reached the gym and Akiha threw open the doors, and Chidori looked up and her eyes went wide as she saw everybody inside. It looked like almost the whole school must be here. The bleachers on either side of the room were packed, and so were most of the rows of folding chairs on the gym floor. Akiha motioned her toward some of the empty seats near the back and left her there, trotting up to the stage that had been set up at the far end of the gym. With a sinking feeling Chidori took her seat and crossed her legs and rearranged her yukata a little bit. She wasn't sure what was going on here, but somehow she didn't think it wasn't going to be any less embarrassing than everything else that had happened today.
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Chidori sat there, making sure to keep her hands folded and her legs crossed and trying not to draw anybody's attention. That wasn't hard, thanks to all the girls in the bleachers chatting and giggling happily and not trying to keep their legs crossed at all and drawing lots of attention. Eiko in particular, sitting with a few of her friends, seemed to be doing everything she could to make sure that everybody saw that she had removed her unfashionable panties from earlier and was now dressed as traditionally as all the other girls all around. After a few moments Chidori forced herself to look away from the nonstop flashing festival and keep her eyes on the stage. Akiha was trotting up the steps and Mitsuka and the rest of the student council were already on stage waiting for her, along with Shizuoka and Kirika and representatives from a few of the other clubs. As soon as Akiha took her seat with them, Mitsuka got up and went over to the microphone and started speaking.
"Thank you so much everybody for joining us today. I'm really glad to see so many in attendance on such short notice. Now we're a little short on time, so let's just introduce our first presenter." With that brief introduction and a smattering of applause, the presenter got up from the front row and turned to wave to everybody before starting up to the stage, and Chidori saw with some surprise that it was Izumo-sensei. Then she winced, because Izumo-sensei trotted up the steps a little too energetically and the back of her yukata flipped up to flash her plump bare butt to everybody behind her.
The applause grew more enthusiastic as she reached the stage and took the microphone, smiling happily at everyone. "Oh, thank you so much everybody. Now I know we don't have much time, but before we get started with the main event I'd like to take a few moments to show all of you what a wonderful week we've had in art class and to give an extra-special thank-you to the lovely and talented models who made it all possible. First of all, from the fun and breezy scene we did just this morning, Sakaki Shirokyo! Come on up!"
Sakaki got up from her seat on the floor just a few rows from the stage, looking surprised and excited to hear her own name called, and started up to the stage while the audience started applauding again. Then Izumo-sensei motioned to Mitsuka over at the far corner of the stage, who pulled the cord to lift the curtain that covered the back half of the stage and all the paintings set up behind it. Just like sensei said they were from art class that same morning, with Sakaki and Mioko and Chidori herself in their yukata posing crouched around the goldfish-scooping pool, and just like she said they all looked really fun and breezy. All the art students had really captured the relaxed and casual atmosphere of the scene, in particular the careless way that Mioko and Sakaki were leaning over the pool and how it left their boobs right on the brink of carelessly spilling out from their tiny little yukata. Chidori was really glad she had been careful to make sure her own pose wasn't nearly that revealing.
After a few seconds the applause suddenly got more enthusiastic, and for a moment Chidori was afraid Izumo-sensei had done something careless again, but she was just admiring the paintings along with everybody else. Chidori took a closer look at them herself, and after another few moments she saw it and she gasped. Because just like Chidori was afraid of earlier and just like she told herself couldn't possibly be the case, Sakaki wasn't wearing any panties after all, and thanks to her pose every single painting had captured the sight of her carelessly exposed pussy. Sakaki herself took a few more steps before she saw it too, and when she did she gasped even louder than Chidori and put both hands over her mouth and her ears turned bright red.
"Just magnificent, isn't it? So detailed and so lifelike. Come on up and tell everyone what you think." The applause was dying away now, and Izumo-sensei motioned for Sakaki to come up on stage. Still practically paralyzed with shocked embarrassment, Sakaki slowly obeyed, moving like a sleepwalker and never taking her eyes from the paintings. They really were lifelike and extremely detailed, and the most detailed part of all was Sakaki's pussy, soft and delicate and perfectly framed by her slender ankles and topped with a little tuft of feathery pure black fuzz.
Once she was on stage Sakaki finally dropped her gaze away from the depictions of her own most intimate and private spot and started to come out of her daze, but when Izumo-sensei held the microphone in front of her she could only stammer, "I- I- I... I didn't mean... to let them... see..." Sensei gently turned her to face the audience then, and Chidori could see she was still blushing brightly. "It's just... I just... I was so excited, to model and everything, and... I didn't think... I just..." her lips trembled for a few seconds, tears welling in her eyes, before she burst out, "I totally forgot I wasn't wearing panties!"
Chidori's heart ached with sympathy for Sakaki's anguish at the truly horrible embarrassment of having her accidental exposure put on display for all to see. Izumo-sensei didn't even seem to notice the girl's misery, but only beamed even more. "Ah, yes, such a wonderfully traditional detail to add to such a lovely traditional scene. And our next scene is just as lovely and just as traditional," she continued, her eyes sparkling. "From the wonderfully intimate candid scene we did yesterday, Mioko Kitaraku! Come on down!"
Mioko was sitting all the way up in the top row of the bleachers, but Chidori could still hear her delighted squeal just fine. Everybody else in the gym did too, so all eyes were on her as she hurried down to the gym floor, totally bursting with excitement and bouncing with every step. There was more applause, and at first Chidori started applauding along with everyone else, but after a few seconds she saw something that made her freeze with alarm. Mioko was wearing her yukata pretty loose, and her energetic movements were making it loosen a bit more with every step and every bounce. Mioko herself was so excited that she didn't even notice what all that bouncing was doing to her yukata, and Chidori could only watch in helpless dread as it continued to slide and slip open, until at last the fabric parted and Mioko's boobs burst free. She was about halfway down the bleachers, and after a few more steps and a few more majestic bounces she finally glanced down and belatedly realized her exposure and squealed and crouched to tuck herself back in. She was still blushing when she resumed her descent and looked slightly sheepish, but having a spectacular wardrobe malfunction right in front of everybody somehow didn't seem to have dampened her excitement at all. And to Chidori's continued anxiety, Mioko's hurried effort to close her yukata seemed to have left it just as loose and just as quick to loosen as it was in the first place. This time she was at the bottom of the bleachers when it came open and the last little hop to the gym floor made her boobs spill out for all to see. Once again not noticing what had happened she trotted over to the stage, still bouncing, to raucous applause, and this time when she did notice she didn't stop walking or even miss a step but just casually pulled her yukata closed and started up the steps to the stage.
At about the same time the second curtain rose to reveal the second set of paintings, and this time Chidori gasped right away as soon as she saw them. The scene was from yesterday, with Chidori posing on one pedestal with her hands in her hair wearing a wide-open blue yukata and Mioko posing on the other pedestal putting on stockings wearing a plum qipao. But what made her gasp now and what was making everybody else clap and cheer was something she hadn't noticed at all at the time. When Mioko lifted her right leg it lifted up the front of her qipao and made the slit on the left side of it open wide and totally reveal everything underneath, especially her totally exposed pussy. It was way more blatant than Sakaki's exposure in the first set of paintings, and as soon as Mioko looked up from tucking herself in again she saw it too.
"Oh! Oh no!" she cried, reaching the stage and trotting up to Izumo-sensei. "I'm so sorry! I had no idea! I never thought that just lifting my leg like that would let everybody see everything!" She demonstrated by lifting her leg just like that, and her yukata lifted up far enough that it would have let everybody see everything all over again if she was facing the audience. As it was only Mitsuka and Akiha and some of the others on stage in front of her saw, and to Chidori's confusion none of them reacted at all to the sudden close-range flashing.
"Now now, there's nothing to apologize for, dear," Izumo-sensei comforted the girl before her, chuckling softly. "After all, it's that lovely intimate pose that makes the scene so perfectly candid." Mioko's distress vanished instantly at this ridiculous reassurance and she smiled happily and turned to wave at the audience, deepening Chidori's confusion. For a moment she couldn't decide if the blithe reaction or the earlier distraught reactions were more embarrassing to watch, but after just a few seconds of wondering she suddenly found something much more important to worry about.
"And now, our finest model of all, a truly magnificent beauty," Izumo-sensei announced, beaming more than ever, and as soon as Chidori heard the word 'beauty' a really uncomfortable thought occurred to her and she froze, seized by a pang of dread. She tried to shake it off, telling herself she was jumping to conclusions, but the thought wouldn't go away, and the dread only grew as sensei continued. "A young lady as elegant and voluptuous as anyone could dream of, captured in a classical and wondrously uninhibited pose." Chidori was trembling now, the dread quickly turning to terror, but still she clung to the idea that she might be wrong and the slender hope that sensei wasn't just about to say what she was afraid of. "A vision of loveliness who's inspired all our artists to new and splendid heights. I just know you're all going to love her..." Izumo-sensei paused for effect, and Chidori could only sit there in agonized suspense, now almost certain of what was about to happen next yet hoping with all her might that it wouldn't. "...Chidori Kujiro! Come on over here!"
At the sound of her own name Chidori felt the last of her hopes slip away. Applause filled the room once again as she slowly stood up and took a few steps toward the stage, her eyes fixed on the third curtain that was already starting to rise. She knew what was behind that curtain, and she really didn't want to see it, and she really really didn't want anyone else to see it either, but there was nothing she could do to stop it. In terrified helpless agony she watched the curtain come up and the paintings behind it come into view, and as soon as they did the applause turned into a cheering cacophony. It was exactly what she was afraid of, and her mind seemed to go numb at the sight. They were the paintings from the other day, the first time she posed for the art class by herself... when she posed completely naked.
It was like being hit by a tidal wave of embarrassment, the worst, most overwhelming embarrassment she had ever felt in her life. The paintings were so incredibly detailed and her pose so incredibly shameless that it was as if she herself were up there posing naked in front of everybody right now, only even worse because no matter how much she wanted to squeal and cover herself and run and hide the paintings just stayed right where they were. She walked forward in a daze, unable to tear her eyes away from the unbearable sight of her own naked body with her back arched to put her huge boobs proudly on display and her thighs positioned just far enough apart to let her pussy shyly peek out between them. Tears were welling in her eyes and making everything get blurry, and Izumo-sensei was saying something else but she couldn't hear it over the noise of the applause from all around. She kept walking, but it felt like she was wrapped up in a fuzzy cocoon of pure embarrassment until...
"Now!"
The shout cut through her haze and she blinked away the tears in time to see Akiha leaping to her feet. Then there was a swooshing sound and she caught a sudden movement in the corner of her eye that made her look around in time to see some of the girls from the front row get up and dive toward the steps. Then there was a loud crack and a scream that made her stumble and fall to her knees, looking up. Jinni was hovering in the air above her, screaming in pain and clutching her head with both hands.
"We've got you," Akiha called out from the stage. She was the one who'd shouted, and now she was standing there with a sneering grin of triumph and pointing at the huge rainbow-swirled figure floating before her. "We've got you now," she repeated. "You're trapped, and you'll never break free again."
Jinni roared and turned bright red all over and lunged at the stage where Akiha stood unflinching. Chidori did flinch, covering her eyes at the last moment, but instead of the awful sickening crunch that she expected there was a deep noise like the ringing of a muffled gong.
"What!?" Jinni's voice cried out. Chidori looked back up at the surprised exclamation and saw that huge first drive toward the stage again, but halfway there it stopped with another noise and some weird ripples in the air. "But... how!?" She tried a few more times with the same result, growing more and more frustrated.
"You're trapped, just like I said." came Akiha's calm response, enraging Jinni even more. She drew back and took a deep breath, and flame and lightning sprang from her skin, wreathing her all over and slowly creeping down her arms to gather on her clenched fists. Then with another furious shout she attacked once again, and this time the sound was like a thunderclap. Chidori felt the ground shake, and instead of just ripples now there was a sheet of pale light standing in front of the stage and all around her. Jinni held her fist against it for a few long seconds while the flames crackled and blazed and the lightning arced all around, until her roaring turned from fury to pain and frustration and she sank to the ground. "You can't break that barrier," Akiha repeated, still sneering. "You'll never get out, and you'll never cause any trouble for anyone again."
Chidori looked around at the barrier while Jinni lay on the floor panting with exertion. It was a circle of light that stretched up toward the ceiling, and there were some strange glowing symbols painted on the floor all around it. "Shut up," Jinni growled, getting her breath back and rising unsteadily into the air. "I won't be sealed up again. I won't let you Humans seal me up again." With that she lifted her fist and brought it crashing to the ground. The floorboards cracked with the first blow and began to buckle and snap by the third. Chidori scrambled away backwards as Jinni started ripping up the broken chunks and tossing them aside, focusing on the area nearest the barrier and rapidly working her way around the circle that surrounded them, and when the curtain of light started to flicker and waver Chidori realized why. That ring of symbols on the floor had to be what was generating the barrier, and that meant once Jinni ripped up enough of the floor to get rid of the symbols then the barrier would disappear and she could escape.
Chidori watched the destruction in helpless dread, and in moments nearly all of the circle was gone. The light dimmed and flickered even more, until with a sort of hollow pop it finally disappeared altogether. But just as Jinni raised her head in triumph there was another great thunderous CRACK along with a blinding flash, and then Jinni was screaming again. "Nice try," Akiha called out again over the noise, sneering now, "But we thought you might try something like that, so we made the second barrier even stronger." Chidori looked back down, and sure enough there was another circle with another set of blazing symbols on the concrete under the ruined floorboards. "The calligraphy club worked so hard on it, too," Akiha's grin turned mean enough to make Chidori shiver a bit, "they all wanted revenge for what you did to them, for what you did to everyone, for what you-" She was cut off suddenly as Jinni lunged again, striking the barrier with a tremendous crash.
Chidori covered her ears against the noise as Jinni attacked in a blind fury, hitting the barrier again and again, but its light didn't even flicker at all. Realizing that it wasn't working she paused for a moment before shifting her attacks to the ground again, but the blows only left a few little cracks and scorch marks on the concrete. Seeing that she wasn't getting anywhere, Jinni groaned in frustration and sank back to the ground, but then fresh contemptuous chuckles from Akiha made her spring back up and slam her blazing fists into the barrier again. "You're beaten, monster!" Akiha taunted. "Give it up, you'll never break through that."
Something flashing on the ground caught Chidori's eye then, and she looked down and saw her hairpin, the one she'd been wearing for days, so long she'd almost forgotten about it and hadn't noticed at all when it fell off during the commotion. The three gems set into it were glowing bright, and little tendrils of smoke were gathering around it. The smoke was gradually getting thicker, and now she could see that it was coming from Jinni, emerging from all over her in a pulse each time she struck the barrier. Seeing it, she suddenly realized Akiha really was taunting Jinni on purpose, goading her into wasting her strength attacking the barrier so the hairpin could finish sealing her back up. But then she saw that a few of the symbols under the part of the barrier Jinni was attacking were starting to flicker, and as she watched one and then another turned dull red and went dark. But just when she was starting to worry whether the barrier could take the beating it was getting, Shizuoka came down the stairs.
She was wearing her kendo gear and she had her shinai, but as she approached the barrier Chidori saw it wasn't a shinai at all, it was a real sword, flashing in the light as she drew it and cast the empty sheath aside. She approached the circle and stood before it, took her stance and waited motionless while Jinni kept hammering at the barrier without even looking down at her. Then she struck, thrusting the blade into the front Jinni's fist and ripping it out the side with a gout of billowing blood-colored smoke.
Jinni roared in pain again and reared back, clutching her hand. "I too shall have my revenge, fiend!" Shizuoka called out, holding up her sword one-handed to show the guard and the hilt-wraps and the symbols drawn on both of them, the same as the symbols on the floor around the barrier. Then she leaped inside the barrier, slicing faster than Chidori's eyes could follow at Jinni's legs and slipping back out of the circle just ahead of her furious retaliation. She dashed around and struck again from another angle before Jinni could return her attention to the barrier itself, and now the smoke was flowing out in waves and Jinni's screaming and roaring was tinged with fear. Soon she was gasping for breath and her movements seemed to be slowing down, and Chidori watched with rising hope, silently cheering Shizuoka on.
But Jinni must have only been pretending to slow down, because suddenly she lashed out with an incredible burst of speed and caught Shizuoka's leg before she could reach the barrier and started to drag the struggling girl backwards. With a last wild swing Shizuoka managed to drive her sword into Jinni's wrist, only to have it wrenched from her hands. Then she was being lifted into the air with her arms and legs pinioned, but she kept struggling until Jinni started ripping her clothes off and her grunts of effort turned into helpless squealing.
Chidori could only watch, horrified, as Shizuoka was stripped down to her sarashi and fundoshi, and her horror reached a peak right along with Shizuoka's piteous squeals at what happened next. Jinni plucked the sarashi open, and like a slow-motion explosion Shizuoka's boobs burst free from the unraveling fabric and tumbled out, and Chidori could only gape in astonishment at the unbelievable sight. They were just so incredibly big - way beyond huge, beyond enormous, even bigger than she had ever imagined possible - Shizuoka's breasts were absolutely gigantic, and the way they wobbled and flopped around while Jinni cackled and shook her helpless victim was absolutely obscene. It was so awful Chidori could hardly stand to watch, but she couldn't look away either. Jinni finished plucking away the last scraps of Shizuoka's underwear and started trying to pry her legs apart, and Chidori's vision was blurring with tears again.
"Stop it!" she cried out before she knew what she was saying. "Put her down!"
"No," Jinni called back without looking away from what she was doing. "She hurt me. She cost me a lot of power with that sword of hers. So now her body's going to give me all the power I need." Chidori glanced down again and saw that the swirling smoke was going the other way now, flowing out of the hairpin and back into Jinni. And even as her brief hopes shattered, the spectacle playing out above was getting even more awful. Jinni was swinging Shizuoka slowly back and forth like a pendulum, holding her legs wide open so that absolutely everything was on display, while everyone in the audience just stared back silently like they were all hypnotized or something. It was too much to bear. She couldn't stand it. She just had to do something! But what could she do... She didn't have any way to fight Jinni, and Jinni wasn't going to stop until she got what she wanted and that meant...
Suddenly she had an idea, one so horrible she could hardly even stand to think about it. There was no way she could possibly do such a thing... but she didn't have a choice. She just couldn't leave Shizuoka like that, she just had to save her, no matter what it took. gazing up through her tears at Shizuoka to steady her courage, Chidori slowly got to her feet, lifted her trembling hands, took a deep breath and shouted, "Here!" and with a single swift motion she pulled her yukata wide open, exposing herself completely.
All at once she was struck by the most unbelievable, unbearable embarrassment she had ever dreamed of, an endless ocean of embarrassment, and she was drowning in it. Everything she had spent so long trying so hard to keep covered was totally uncovered, up top and down below and in the front and even behind, it was all on display right in front of absolutely everybody. She could feel their eyes on her, crawling all over her, squeezing her. Her head was spinning and she could hardly think, and she couldn't move at all even though every last bit of modesty she had was screaming frantically at her to cover herself. But then she caught a glimpse of Jinni staring down, having interrupted her torment of Shizuoka. Seeing that it was working, Chidori felt a bit of her courage return. "This is what you want, isn't it?" She bounced her chest, making her boobs jiggle and sway. "Well then here, use my body instead. I'll give you as much as you need, so just... just put her down!"
Chidori stood and whimpered while Jinni just looked at her silently for long seconds. "Such compassion," she muttered at last, then abruptly she turned toward the stage where Akiha and the others were still standing and shouted, "What about the rest of you? Aren't you ashamed, making your friend clean up the mess you made?" She sneered, waving Shizuoka in their direction. "This is your fault, so why don't you take some responsibility for it. Maybe if all of you come over here and offer yourselves too, I'll agree to show a little mercy.
There was another long silence, broken only by Shizuoka's gentle sobs. Looking into Akiha's face Chidori could see the same struggle there she herself had just gone through, and she saw her friend reach the same conclusion. Setting her face in fierce determination, Akiha reached up and opened her yukata, parting the fabric in the front and lifting it below and totally exposing herself as quickly and easily as could be, as if it was designed to do just that. "Fine then, if that's what it takes," She called out, trying to sound as defiant as she could even as her voice and her body both started to tremble.
Kirika, by her side, pulled her own yukata open too, and they both started down the stairs, totally on display and blushing brighter by the second. Jinni grinned and chuckled at their approach, while Chidori marveled at their selflessness. Then a voice cried out, "Me too!" and everybody looked that way to see Mioko hurrying down the stairs behind them, yanking her yukata open and bouncing wildly with every step.
Jinni just laughed even more at that, and when they were all inside the circle she said, "Alright, I guess that'll do," and laid Shizuoka on the floor to one side, where she immediately curled up in a ball. Chidori hurried over and threw her own yukata over the sobbing, naked girl, while Jinni continued, "Now as for the rest of you, let's start with-"
Before she could say anything more there was an enormous noise like some kind of explosion from the direction of the gym doors, and Chidori looked up along with everyone else to see them land in a crumpled heap, blasted off their hinges and reduced to twisted metal. A plume of pale smoke filled the doorway where they used to be, and she could see the silhouette of a large man approaching through the smoke with slow and purposeful steps like someone in an action movie. For a few moments she watched in the same stunned confusion as everybody else, until the man came out of the smoke and she saw his face and got even more confused.
"Uncle Jojo?" she murmured, uncomprehending. It was definitely him, and she definitely recognized him, but she had no idea how he got here or what he was doing. He came forward, not even glancing at any of the naked and mostly-naked girls, looking only at the naked rainbow-shining monster hovering above them. When he was right outside the circle on the floor he stopped, struck a weird sort of pose and pointed up at her.
"You!" Jinni shouted, recoiling from Jojo's finger. "How!? How did you find- No! Stay back!!" She turned away as if trying to flee, but unable to get through the barrier. She struck and clawed at it a few times, but it only flickered again, still too strong for her to break. With panic in her eyes she turned back to where Chidori and the others were huddled and raised one hand toward them. There was a burst of light from her palm that made Chidori flinch away and cover her eyes, and then suddenly she was being lifted off the ground by the arms and legs.
She squealed and struggled, but the grip didn't budge, and then she saw with a shock that it was Akiha and Kirika holding her legs, and craning her neck she saw it was Mioko holding her arms. But the even bigger shock was their eyes, empty and glowing with a swirl of rainbow color. Then her legs were being pulled apart, facing the bleachers so that everybody there could see absolutely everything, and suddenly she was drowning again. She struggled and squealed some more, but with her arms and legs still held fast she couldn't do anything more than make everything bounce and jiggle and made the ocean of embarrassment deepen even more. She could feel herself blushing all over and tears were filling her eyes, and she forced herself to look away from the crowd silently gaping at her and instead looked down, just in time to see Akiha take a single finger and gently stroke it across the underside of her foot. Instantly Chidori's squeals turned to shrieks of laughter and her struggles turned to ineffectual squirming that only made her boobs bounce and shake even more.
She tried to stop, but her feet were just so ticklish and Akiha knew exactly where they were most ticklish and exactly how best to tickle them and she could hardly even begin to control herself at all. Then Kirika joined in on her other foot and it got even worse, and then Akiha started using her tongue instead of her fingers, and then there was nothing she could do at all to stop the helpless peals of laughter and the helpless reflexive writhing that made her boobs bounce and wave wildly for all to see.
Everything was a blur of tickling and laughing and absolutely overwhelming embarrassment, the worst, most unbearable embarrassment she had ever even imagined gripping her, crushing her, going on and on and on until it felt like it would never end, like there was nothing else in the world...
Then there was a sudden tremendous crashing noise and she fell, landing in a heap with the other girls. The blur fading, she gasped for breath, wiped the tears from her eyes and looked up, only to see nothing empty blue sky all around.
"It was Kirika-senpai's idea. She discovered the Seal of Solomon and she figured out that it could trap Jinn and drain their powers, and she came up with the idea to get the calligraphy club's help drawing it. The assembly was her idea too. We had to find a way to lure Jinni into place and make sure she didn't realize what was going on before we could spring the trap, and we didn't know if she could read minds or what, so we had to keep her as distracted as possible the whole time, and that meant..." Akiha trailed off and looked down, abashed.
"It's ok, I totally understand. And I totally don't mind," Chidori hurried to reassure her friend. If all that embarrassment she went through at the assembly was part of the plan to trap Jinni then it was all worth it, even if the memory was still agonizingly embarrassing and even if it didn't end up working after all.
Akiha nodded. "Still, I'm sorry you had to go through all that. And I'm sorry we couldn't tell you anything about what we were doing before, without letting Jinni know about it too. We couldn't risk letting her figure it out for herself, either. That's why we had to keep her distracted whenever you were around us and keep you from asking any questions that might make her start asking questions too. So I volunteered to be as distracting as I could whenever we were together. Like before school, or, um... in the library..." she looked down again. "I'm really sorry about that."
The thought of what happened in the library the other day made Chidori shiver uncomfortably and adjust the position of her hands, which were currently covering as much of her breasts as they could. "It's ok," she repeated, "I don't mind at all," before she noticed where she was looking and quickly turned her head to avert her gaze from Akiha's breasts, similarly and just as inadequately covered.
"She volunteered too," Akiha continued, nodding toward where Shizuoka was lying on the floor. "She said she wanted to avenge herself with her own hands and her skills and her ancestral sword. She was really serious about it, so even though Kirika-senpai didn't think it was a good idea she eventually agreed to find a seal for the calligraphy club to draw on the hilt-wrap that would help." They both looked over at Shizuoka. She was sleeping now, but until a few minutes ago she had been curled up there alternating between pitiful whimpering sobs and horrible hysterical wailing while everybody tried to comfort her. It was only once she finally passed out exhausted that Chidori and Akiha had a chance to sit down and cover themselves with their hands and folded legs and talk about what happened.
"Hey! I see something," Kirika called out over her shoulder, and they both jumped to their feet, dropping their conversation to hurry over. Chidori again had to avert her gaze, since Kirika was also quite naked and currently on her hands and knees.
"What is it?" Chidori asked, coming up and crouching beside the other girl to peer out into the distance, but all she could see was the empty sky above and the ocean far below. They'd been flying for over an hour already, as best she could figure, and she hadn't seen anything but sky and sea yet.
According to Akiha and Kirika, as soon as they snapped out of whatever mind control they were under and collapsed in a heap together, the chunk of concrete inside the barrier had ripped itself from the gym floor and crashed through the gym roof and soared away with all of them riding it. By the time Chidori herself got her bearings they were already over the ocean, and within minutes they were out of sight of land entirely. Jinni hadn't shown herself or said anything the whole time, leaving nothing for them to do but comfort poor Shizuoka and talk over what happened and watch the horizon.
"You mean that little speck?" Akiha asked, pointing, and now Chidori saw it too. That speck of land on the horizon was growing fast, and soon enough they could all see that it wasn't just some desert island but the edge of an actual shoreline.
"I guess that must be where we're going, huh," Chidori said with a note of apprehension. "Where do you think it is?" She had only a general sense of how long they'd been flying, and no idea how fast or in what direction. "And, um... what's gonna happen when we get there?" She'd been trying not to think too much about where they were going or what was going to happen when they got there ever since she woke up, but it looked like she couldn't avoid thinking about it much longer now, and unpleasant possibilities were already flashing through her mind.
Kirika shrugged and opened her mouth to reply, but a sudden rattling noise interrupted her. They all turned around and looked at where it came from: the hairpin, still on the floor where it landed earlier. All three gems were cracked and darkened, but even so nobody had wanted to touch it, and it hadn't moved since then. Now it was shaking, clattering slightly on the floor and emitting a little wisp of smoke. They all watched in tense anticipation as that smoke curled, gathered, and took shape.
"You!" Chidori jumped to her feet and pointing an accusing finger at Jinni's disembodied face, now floating above the hairpin and wreathed in smoke. "Where have you been? And before that, what are we going? And what happened back there? And what the heck is even going on!?" She burst out, then remembered to put her hands over her breasts again.
"Oh pipe down," Jinni grumbled. Her voice was different from before, rougher and more breathy. "I don't need you getting mouthy. I need you getting to work." She glanced down, and the hairpin jerked up off the ground. It hovered and shimmered for a moment, then started to ripple and stretch out, and before Chidori could recover from the surprise it flew at her. She squealed, grasping at the black thing as it wrapped itself around her neck. "Just wear that. The rest should take care of itself," Jinni smirked. "And don't try anything like before, either. I won't fall for that kind of trick twice." She glared briefly at everyone, then faded away just as quickly as she had appeared.
"Wait! Don't just leave!" Chidori cried, but the floating face was already gone. "Come back! Answer me!!" She shouted helplessly at the empty air, then sank to her knees, despair rushing in to replace her rapidly draining anger.
Akiha came over to help her calm down, and then Kirika came over to took a look at what had happened. "It's become a choker necklace," she concluded after examining the black stone for a little while. "It doesn't seem to be doing anything now, but I can't see any way to remove it either. I imagine that may be the point."
"A necklace..." Chidori muttered, feeling the chain of smooth beads around her neck. "But... but why?"
"It would seem she wants to make sure that you can't take it off," Kirika sat back and nodded, as serious as ever, "The gemstones are gone as well. As I expected, they must have been the source of the artifact's seal, and having shattered them she can now exert her power upon the-" She stopped, looking up and noticing Chidori's confused expression. "The Jinni has broken free, that is to say, as she wanted all along. She must have gathered the last of the power she needed from the display that-" she caught herself about to bring up something unpleasant, "ahem, ah, from what happened in the gym. She then used up all of that power to escape, so now she must remain in the artifact while she gathers more power. From us." she added, her face reddening just slightly.
"From... us..." Chidori repeated, her eyes widening as the meaning of those words slowly sank in. Reflexively she squeezed her arms around herself, her skin getting hot as the memories of everything that had been happening all week and especially what happened today came rushing back. "You mean we... we're all gonna have to... go around in public n-... n-n- na-... like this?"
Kirika nodded gravely, "I imagine so. A great deal will depend on the exact situation we encounter, of course. When we arrive, that is." She looked back toward the horizon, and Chidori followed her gaze to the land in the distance, not nearly as distant as it was before. The two of them went and sat down by the edge to watch as that landmass grew steadily closer, Chidori's mind already filling with awful visions of what awaited them there. Before long Akiha and then Mioko joined them as well, and before long they were close enough to make out a line of white sandy beach on the shore and sprawling gray streets and buildings beyond. Chidori whimpered slightly as she fought to suppress the horrid image of streaking through those streets, filled with gawking, shouting foreigners.
She clutched herself even harder, dread rising within her as the shore rose up beneath them. There was a gentle bump, followed by a soft pop and a brief shimmer in the air as the barrier surrounding them vanished. Then they were on the beach, with a tall ridge of sand dunes in front of them and a warm salty sea breeze all around.
"It's so warm..." Mioko muttered, looking around in surprise.
"Yes," Kirika nodded. "As I expected, it appears to be summer here."
"What!?" Mioko squeaked. "It's... you mean... did we, like... time travel or something?"
Kirika gave her a strange look. "We are in the southern hemisphere, where it is summer in January." She looked away again, toward the nearest dunes. "I had concluded as much already, from observing our trajectory in flight, but I cannot yet be sure of much beyond that. In any case, we will need to explore a bit to decide what to do next." With that she stepped off the floor and started across the sand. Chidori just whimpered again, unable to suppress the cascade of horrible mental images of what they might have to do next.
Akiha took her hand and looked into her eyes. "Come on, it won't be so- um... well, it might not be so bad." Chidori looked vaguely up at her friend. "I mean... it's just, well..." Akiha stammered, searching for words. "It can't possibly be as bad as what we're imagining, right? So the sooner we see what it's really like, the sooner we can stop imagining." She seemed to be trying to convince herself as much as anything, and Chidori found herself thinking of how much Akiha and the others had already endured and how hard it must have been on them. After going through all that while keeping it a secret, surely they could get through a little more now that they were all together. Buoyed by that thought, she felt the overwhelming dread and the begin to recede slightly, and she nodded. Gathering her courage, she took Akiha's hand and the two of them went to follow Kirika, with Mioko following after them.
Kirika was crouching motionless on the slope of the sand dune and peeking over the top when they got there, and they all crouched beside her. "What is it?" Akiha asked, and at first Kirika could only respond with a slow shake of her head.
"I should go out there..." she muttered distantly after some moments. "I should go... but... I can't." They saw tears welling in her eyes, and Chidori's dread returned as she tried to imagine what the usually perfectly calm and unflappable Kirika could be looking at to react like that. Akiha turned and nodded, dread and determination showing on her own face, and all together the three pulled themselves up to peek over the ridge.
"Oh!" she exclaimed with a gasp when she saw what was on the other side.
"Oh! It's..." Akiha burst out beside her with another gasp, then trailed off immediately.
"Oh! It's a nude beach!" Mioko declared, and she was definitely right about it. There were a few dozen foreigners scattered all across the white sand as far as they could see, women and men together, strolling around or sunbathing or splashing in the water, all of them totally naked. But while the shocking sight left Chidori and Akiha speechless, Mioko's voice held an eager thrill, and the others all looked over just in time to see her stand right up and pop right into view of all those people.
"M-Mioko! W-w-wha- what are you...?" Chidori sputtered, glancing frantically between Mioko and the nearest of the naked sunbathers, who were lounging on a large beach blanket under an umbrella and already starting to look their way.
Mioko didn't seem to mind or even notice their attention, any more than she noticed Chidori's rising panic. "Oh wow, it's just beautiful," she sighed, then giggled happily, "and I was so afraid this would be embarrassing." Chidori could only gape in uncomprehending astonishment. The sight of those foreigners looking their way was enough to make her want to cover herself and squeal and run and hide somewhere, and they couldn't even see her. And Mioko was standing there totally naked in front of them, but she wasn't embarrassed at all. It just didn't make any sense. "Oh, I can't wait!" Mioko exclaimed next, and with that she started to clamber right over the ridge, pausing only to beckon for the others to follow her. "Come on, let's go!" she exhorted them, and at the sight of her just about to run heedless toward the foreigners Chidori jerked into action.
"Mioko!!" She cried out, catching Mioko's hand in time to stop her. Mioko just looked at her, confused, and it was just so bizarre that she could only sputter for a few seconds before blurting out the first thing she thought of. "Are you some kind of exhibitionist!?"
"I'm not an exhibitionist!" Mioko protested, whirling around, "I'm a nudist!"
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"See, it's got nothing to do with being some kind of pervert or anything like that. I mean a nudist is just a person that walks around naked at home sometimes. Or, you know, all the time." Mioko giggled. Chidori nodded and squirmed uncomfortably, trying not to think about her own recent experiences with walking around naked at home. "Well, my family's like that, and I've been like that since I was little, and I always just thought that's what you're supposed to do at home. It was only when I started elementary school I started realizing that wasn't right. I mean, I couldn't really tell anyone about something like that, and I thought it'd be best if no one knew what I was, so I tried to avoid standing out. I kept it a secret for years and years, and I didn't even tell my best friends until... um, until they kinda found out." She blushed slightly, and this time Chidori couldn't help but think about how that might have happened. All sorts of awful embarrassing possibilities flashed through her mind before Mioko continued.
"See, I was just relaxing one day and nobody else was home, when someone knocked at the door. So, in a rush, I put on my skirt and a blouse and ran down to answer the door."
"It was Natsumi and a couple of my other friends, and they were going to the amusement park and wanted to know if I could come too. So I told them to wait while I got ready, and I went back upstairs to get dressed." Chidori nodded along attentively. "So I went back up, pulled the blouse off and put on a fancy top and some really cute shoes. I didn't want them to wait too long, and I was really excited to go to the park, so I ran down the stairs and grabbed a coat and we got going." The story seemed perfectly innocent so far, but somehow something about what Mioko hadn't mentioned made Chidori just a bit uncomfortable.
"I didn't even notice... We went down to the station and got on the train, and the whole way there, I had no idea anything was wrong... until it was too late." That ominous phrase set Chidori's mind racing again with more unpleasant possibilities about what she might mean. "I totally thought everything was just fine, until we got to the station and the train stopped and the doors opened and Natsumi and the others got up to leave." Mioko paused and blushed brighter, and Chidori's uncomfortable suspicions about where the story was going grew stronger. "I was just about to get up too, and I reached down to adjust my sock, and just as I lifted my leg Natsumi turned back around, and she totally gasped so hard I looked up and... and..." She lifted her leg a little as she described the scene, and between the demonstration and the tension in her voice, Chidori's suspicion was growing impossible to ignore, even though she really didn't want to be right about what she suspected.
"And she just shouted so loud that everybody could hear, 'Mioko! You're not wearing any panties!' And everybody looked... and then I looked too... and that was when I realized I really wasn't. I totally forgot my panties, and I totally flashed everybody, and it was totally embarrassing!"
It was even worse than Chidori had imagined. As soon as she heard Mioko's description of getting dressed that didn't mention her underwear at all, she got a little bit worried that Mioko might have forgotten to put on her underwear that day and ended up letting her friends find out somehow. But to end up accidentally flashing a whole train full of strangers was way more embarrassing than anything Chidori had been afraid of. It would have been just unbelievably embarrassing, if it wasn't for all the other even more unimaginably embarrassing stuff that she'd been hearing about and seeing and experiencing herself again and again and again all week.
"So everybody found out my big secret, and I was all afraid they'd all think I was some kind of pervert or something and I tried to explain, and I ended up telling them everything. And they were totally fine with it!" Mioko's face brightened again, and she giggled. "None of them thought I was a pervert or anything, and it turned out I was all worried about nothing." They both smiled at the story's happy ending, until Mioko continued, "The rest of the day was great, nobody else noticed at all, and I had such a good time I didn't even let it bother me.
Chidori's smile froze. "Huh? N-noticed?... What do you mean...?" She had a feeling about what that might mean, but she was hoping she wasn't right about it.
"Oh, well, see, we were already at the amusement park and we couldn't go all the way back, and nobody had spare panties with them, so I... I just had to be careful for a day and wear none." It was just what Chidori was afraid of, and she shuddered slightly as she pictured Mioko happily running around that amusement park all day in a little skirt without any panties. Mioko's assurances only made things even worse, since she could easily imagine the bubbly redhead having such a good time that she inevitably forgot all about her own missing panties and all about being careful, and got careless enough to end up accidentally flashing everybody in sight all over again without even noticing it.
Not noticing Chidori's discomfort, Mioko went on, "That was the first time anybody ended up finding out about it, but it wasn't the first time I forgot to wear underwear." Chidori snapped back to attention, her imagination racing anew with all sorts of uncomfortable images. "I mean, I know you're supposed to wear underwear, but it's just, see, I'm not really a morning person, so um, sometimes I kinda space out in the morning, while I'm getting dressed. I mean, I've tried to lose the habit over and over, but... I still end up screwing up sometimes, and every once in a while I don't notice until it's too late, and I end up going to school or other places like that." Once again Chidori couldn't help but imagine Mioko spending all day without any panties under her uniform and all the ways she might have ended up totally embarrassing herself by accidentally flashing somebody.
She was still lost in thought like that when Mioko got up and trotted back down the beach to run and play in the water again, just like she did earlier. At the time, Chidori had been absolutely shocked to hear Mioko suddenly announce she was a nudist and immediately run off, totally naked yet not even the least bit embarrassed by the countless foreigners watching all around. Even now, after listening to Mioko explain how her family had been vacationing at nudist resorts in the summer ever since she was a little girl, and then explain what a nudist really was and what being a nudist really meant, all Chidori could think of as she watched Mioko wade into the gentle waves and splash happily in the water was how unbearably embarrassing it would be to do something like that herself.
She shuddered and pushed the thought away, then remembered where she was and snapped her legs closed, blushing. Talking to Mioko just now had helped her relax and stop thinking about being naked in front of everyone, but now that Mioko was gone she realized it also let her get a bit careless. Trying not to think about how long she had been sitting with her legs wide open like that, she carefully returned to her previous position lying facedown on the beach towel so that at least everyone could only see her naked butt. She had been 'sunbathing' like that since they arrived, along with Shizuoka, while Mioko played in the waves and Akiha and Kirika sat nearby and talked with the friendly nudist ladies, the ones that had invited the five of them to come over and use their beach towels as soon as they arrived. They were all speaking English, and at first Chidori had tried sitting over there with them too, but between their unfamiliar accent and the difficulty of concentrating while she was totally naked in front of everyone, she could only understand a few words here and there.
Sighing, she lowered her head onto her arms and tried to relax and stop thinking about all the people that could see her bare butt right now. Instead she found herself thinking about Mioko again. Mioko was running around totally naked in front of all those same people right now, and she wasn't embarrassed about it at all. She said that there was nothing to be embarrassed about since it's perfectly normal to be totally naked on a nude beach, and maybe for Mioko and all the other nudists here there wasn't, since they were all used to being naked around other nudists, but for Chidori it just wasn't that simple. No matter how much she told herself that she was on a nude beach and it was perfectly normal to be naked here and there was nothing to be embarrassed about since everyone else was naked too, it barely made any difference at all to the awful overwhelming embarrassment of being totally naked in front of everyone.
She stayed there like that until eventually Akiha came over with some sunscreen. "Oh gee, I didn't even think of that," she exclaimed when she saw what the bottle was.
"Uh-huh, we don't want to get sunburned on top of everything." Akiha knelt and began to gently rub the oily stuff into Chidori's back. "The ladies noticed we didn't bring any sunscreen, so they gave us enough for everybody." They both glanced over to where Kirika was still sitting and chatting with the nearby nudist ladies while applying her own sunscreen, then they looked over to where Shizuoka was lying, just in time to see Mioko arrive to help with her sunscreen. Instead of sitting on the towel like Akiha, however, Mioko knelt and bent down to rub Shizuoka's back, and Chidori had to snap her eyes away from the sudden and unexpected sight of Mioko's naked rear end wiggling in her direction.
"I don't know how she can stand it..." Chidori murmured, her head spinning with the thought of how much of Mioko she just saw. Everybody else behind Mioko could see it too, but Mioko didn't even seem to notice.
"I guess it's different for her, since she's been going to places like this for years," Akiha replied, shifting position so that she wasn't facing that direction. "At least for Kirika and me, it seems to help if we just focus on something else, like figuring out what we're going to do next. And anyway, we've all been through worse already, right?" she added with an uncomfortable little chuckle.
Chidori thought about that. She thought about everything that had happened all week, about everything Jinni had put her through and about everybody that had seen her naked, especially all the boys. Even thinking about it now was almost too embarrassing to stand, but she had to admit Akiha had a point. After all, even just at the assembly in the gym earlier today there were more people that saw her naked than all the nudists on the beach right now. And even more important than the numbers, the way that the nudists here looked at her was nothing at all like the awful perverted stares that all the awful perverted boys at school stared at her with every time they saw her naked all week. Thinking about it that way made her feel a little better at least, and she tried to tell herself that there was no reason to be embarrassed about a bunch of nudists seeing her naked. Then she realized what else Akiha had just said.
"Wait. Then did you figure it out? I mean, what to do next?" She looked up with a surge of expectant hope, but Akiha just looked back at her blankly.
"Oh, um, well, we've got to find something to wear. Right?" She said after a long silent moment, and Chidori's face fell and her hope faded just as fast as it arose. Of course she didn't want to stay here naked with a bunch of naked foreigners, but how were they supposed to find something to wear on a nude beach? "Anyway, turn over, I need to get your front side now," Akiha continued, and Chidori's face fell even more. She gingerly propped herself upright and looked around nervously before shifting position, only to freeze when her eyes happened to fall on Mioko again just as Mioko finished applying sunscreen on Shizuoka's back and started on Shizuoka's front. Because instead of having Shizuoka turn over, Mioko bent down even more to reach underneath her, sticking her own naked wiggling rear end up in the air so that absolutely everybody could see absolutely everything.
Chidori looked away again, her head spinning even worse than before even as she rolled onto her back, telling herself that there was nothing to be embarrassed about like this, and that none of the nudists would be interested in staring at her bare boobs, any more than they were interested in staring at Mioko's bare butt. Yet between the sight of that butt still fresh in her mind and the feeling of the gentle breeze stroking her boobs, nothing she told herself could quite suppress the rising wave of embarrassment at all that exposure. And the embarrassment only got worse when Akiha finished applying sunscreen on her belly and started on her chest, squeezing and kneading her boobs and making her gasp and squeak and squirm, until she was just sure that the whole beach must be staring at them.
After what felt like way more time and way more squeezing than it should have required, Akiha finished up with the sunscreen and went back to sit with Kirika and the others, while Chidori rolled back over. Without looking up she buried her head in her arms again, too embarrassed to even look around to see who was or wasn't staring, even as she tried again and again to convince herself that nobody was doing anything of the sort and there was nothing to be embarrassed about at all.
"Come on Chidori, it's time to get up," the voice called, and Chidori jerked awake to see a blurry Akiha standing over her.
"Oh... oh, sorry. I guess I fell asleep," Chidori muttered with a sheepish grin, sitting up and rubbing the sleep from her eyes. She opened her mouth to say something else, but instead she felt herself start to yawn, and then she was stretching her arms over her head like she did every morning in bed. Then she opened her eyes all the way and saw the beach and all the people all around, blinking at them in a sleepy daze for a few seconds until she belatedly remembered where she was, and then for a few more seconds until she belatedly remembered that she was naked.
She snapped her arms back down to cover her chest, blushing at the thought of how many people had just watched her stretch topless like that, and then she snapped her legs closed, blushing even more. Then she realized even more belatedly that since she had been lying face-down earlier and she was face-up when she woke just now, that meant she must have rolled over and ended up totally exposing herself in her sleep. Now blushing more than ever and trying not to think about how many people might have seen her lying like that and for how long, she carefully got up and followed Akiha across the beach. Akiha was saying something about how it was getting late and they should make sure to leave before it got dark and the beach closed, and Chidori was trying to listen while also telling herself again that being naked on a nude beach was nothing to be embarrassed about, but then she saw where they were going. A line of open-air showers stood there at the edge of the beach, right next to the part of the fence with the changing rooms and the main gate, and most of them were occupied by showering nudists. Chidori stopped in her tracks and gave a little whimper as she realized she was going to have to take a shower there herself to wash off the oily sunscreen residue before they left, and the thought of showering naked in front of everybody was even more embarrassing than just being naked in front of everybody until now. And then she saw Mioko.
"Oh, Chidori!" Mioko said with a cheery wave, seeing her at the same time. She was using one of the showers, carefully applying a little more lather to her already very soapy breasts before rinsing off, paying no attention to any of the people all around. "You need to clean up a little too, right? Come on, I'll help wash your back," she trotted over, still dripping wet, and suddenly Chidori was being ushered underneath a showerhead by Akiha and Mioko together, where Mioko began to apply soap all over her back while Akiha did the same to her chest. She squirmed and squeaked again at the rubbing kneading and squeezing just like before with the sunscreen but even more slippery, trying not to look around at anybody that might be staring at the unbearably embarrassing display. And when it was finally over and the soap was all rinsed off, then it was her turn to help Akiha.
Mioko was already helping with Akiha's back, which left Chidori with Akiha's chest. She looked at her best friend's bare breasts and thought about what happened the other day every time she touched Akiha's big beautiful boobs, and she gulped and tried to prepare herself so she wouldn't get carried away again. But as soon as she reached out and felt that delightful softness beneath her fingers it took only a few brief moments before all her resistance melted away and her world dissolved into the wonderful slippery squishy squeezing. She didn't know how long she stayed like that, but she was still grinning and giggling when Akiha and Mioko pulled her hands out of the fluffy clouds and she slowly came back down to Earth as they walked away together, her bliss turning to horrified embarrassment at the thought of having lost control and ended up groping Akiha all over again like that in front of all those strangers.
"As we've discussed, the first thing is to find something to wear," Kirika was saying. They were walking at the edge of the sand with, with the long tall fence that marked the edge of the beach to their right. Chidori fought the urge to look over her shoulder at all the people who just had to be staring at them right now, gawking at the shameless girl who was just groping and fondling the other girl's huge breasts, and tried to focus on what Kirika was talking about instead. "I believe there is sort of mall or shopping center nearby, but I am still working on finding a way to get there." Chidori's spirits lifted a bit at hearing Kirika actually had a plan for how they might get something to wear, only to collapse again as she realized what kind of plan it was.
"Wait... a mall? Does that mean..." she glanced at the fence, picturing what was on the other side. "Are we... gonna have to just walk around... like this?" She was only starting to get comfortable with being naked in front of a bunch of foreigners on a nude beach. Walking around totally naked in the middle of a town full of foreigners was something totally different, and way too embarrassing to even think about.
"Hopefully we can find a way to reach the mall unobserved," Kirika replied with an unreassuring sigh. "That is the major difficulty with finding a way there, and the primary reason I would like to get some sort of help." She stopped and looked down in thought, and Chidori noticed they had reached a smaller side gate with two sets of doors. "I tried to ask for directions earlier, but it would seem that my English is not quite-"
Just then something caught Chidori's eye and she turned and gasped and cried out, "Mioko! Wait!!" Mioko kept walking when the others stopped, happily strolling right through the inner door before Chidori noticed, and she was just emerging from the outer door and onto the street beyond when Chidori's panicked cry got her attention.
"Hmm? What is it?" she turned and asked, smiling sweetly. "Is someth-" she started, only to suddenly stop, her eyes going wide at the sight of something outside the gates. She froze and stood there motionless for a few moments, then squealed and blushed all over and covered herself and ran back through the gate into Chidori and Akiha's waiting arms. "Ohmyghosh! I... I wasn't... I didn't..." she stammered, her skin almost the same shade as her hair, then gasped a few times to catch her breath. "I can't believe it. I didn't... I just... I wasn't thinking! And... and... and..." she trailed off, and Chidori and Akiha glanced at each other, nodded, and both leaned out to peek around the outer gate.
Chidori's eyes went just as wide as Mioko's had when she saw them. There were three boys standing there, and they were staring right at her, and the way they were staring was exactly like the boys at school. She felt her face getting hot as she ducked back behind the gate again. "And they all saw," Mioko finished gloomily, her voice beginning to quaver. "They totally saw everything!" Chidori just stared straight ahead at nothing and nodded, already picturing the awful scene. Mioko was so completely relaxed and comfortable being naked on the nude beach that she didn't even notice she was leaving the nude beach and she didn't even think about anybody that might be there on the street and see her naked as soon as she did, and Chidori didn't notice either, until it was too late. "Ohhh..." Mioko was muttering, "I can't believe I got so careless..."
"I should have been more careful too," Chidori muttered back, moving to place a consoling hand on Mioko's shoulder as Kirika came over to take her place peeking around the gate. "If I just noticed a few seconds earlier, I could have warned you in time." Mioko only sniffled and nodded, still looking at the ground. It was strange to think that the same girl who had just spent the afternoon happily running around naked in front of everybody on the beach would be this embarrassed at being seen naked by just three more, but then again they had been involved in all kinds of stranger things this week. "Um, but still, it'll be okay. After all, we can just-" she stopped with a squeak as something caught her eye again, gasped and cried out, "Kirika! W- what are you..."
She was going out there, right through the gate and out into the open, and she was even smiling. "Hello, boys!" she called out in English, and started over to them. Chidori could only watch in stunned silence from the gate again, while Akiha and Mioko crowded behind her. Kirika waved hello as she walked, and the way she was walking made her boobs bounce and sway and jiggle so much it looked like they were trying to wave hello too. She said something else, but from back here all Chidori could make out was something that sounded like English for 'phone'.
Once the initial shock passed, Chidori took a moment to try to figure out what was going on. Kirika could barely even stand to be naked in front of all the nudists on the nude beach at first, at least until... until she could focus on what to do! That had to be it! The only way she could go out there in front of those three now is if she was still focused on some kind of plan. But what was it? The boys were standing around a big foreign car, Chidori could see from here, and from Kirika's voice it sounded like she might be asking for something. Maybe she was trying to get a ride to the mall? It might solve some of the problems she mentioned earlier, but getting in that car naked with those three boys and sitting next to them like that was way too embarrassing to think about. Kirika repeated herself, and this time Chidori clearly caught the last three words. "... your phone? Please?"
The boy right in front of her stared for another few moments, then reached out to offer his phone, which Chidori didn't see at all until now. "Oh, thank you so much," Kirika said, reaching out to take it in a way that rewarded him with a nice big bounce right in his face. Then she turned and started tapping at the screen while the boys maneuvered for a better view, and after a moment she sat down on the hood of the car and crossed her legs without even looking up at them. Chidori couldn't tell what she was doing with the phone, but it had to be something really important if she was willing to go that far for it. Before she could figure it out, Kirika called out, "Hey, come over here."
The boys looked up at them, and even though they could only see her face it still made Chidori want to squeal and duck back out of sight. But Kirika had just gone right out there where they could see everything, and she did it for everyone's sake. If she needed some kind of help, Chidori couldn't just let her down. Kirika called out again, "Come on, it'll just take a second," and made a beckoning motion with one hand. The boys looked back down at her, and Chidori gathered her courage and determination and stepped out into the open.
She took a single step before all three boys looked back up at her again and she froze. They were looking at her naked, and she couldn't think about anything else, and she couldn't move. She could only stand there trembling, drowning in an overwhelming flood of embarrassment and fighting the incredible urge to cover herself and run for it. It took all the willpower she had, and she could feel her resistance fading by the second. It felt like her legs might start moving all by themselves and take her back through the gate at any moment, until Kirika came to her rescue.
All she did was shift her position a little, lifting one leg and reaching down to absently brush some of the sand off her foot. And as soon as she uncrossed her legs and revealed the fuzzy tender private spot between them, all three boys looked down at once, their eyes pulled away from Chidori by the sudden sight of Kirika's exposed pussy.
Now that they weren't looking right at her, the unbearable embarrassment holding Chidori immobilized receded slightly, just enough that she could move and think again, and before she could think twice about it she seized the chance. Hurrying forward as fast as she could without bouncing too much and bringing down a fresh flood of embarrassment, she came up to Kirika and tried to ask what she needed.
"Here, how about this?" Kirika said before she could open her mouth, holding the phone's screen up so Chidori could see it. There was some sort of map there, but everything was labeled in English and before she could try to make any sense of it one of the boys glanced briefly up at her again and for a quick moment she once again couldn't think about anything but how close and how naked and totally exposed she was in front of them. Kirika went on, "It seems to be a large mall, and it's close enough to walk to. Think it'll do?"
"It's... I, um... that's..." Chidori stammered, partly from confusion but mostly from the way the boys kept looking up at her and back down at Kirika and back up at her again, their attention torn between the naked girl sitting in front of them and the other naked girls standing in front of them. "I... I guess..." she finally managed.
"Yes, that's it. It looks just perfect," Akiha said from behind her. Chidori had almost forgotten Akiha was there, but as soon as she said it Kirika smiled and stood up.
"Great!" she declared, turning back around so fast that her boobs almost hit the nearest boy's wide-eyed face. Akiha tugged on Chidori's arm, and she realized that was their cue to leave. They both trotted away, Chidori fighting the urge to dash for cover and the urge to cover her butt with her hands, while behind them Kirika was thanking the boys and probably bouncing for them again. Then she reached the safety of the gate where Mioko and Shizuoka were waiting, and once she was through it she sank to the ground trembling with relief.
"Are you okay? Ohmygosh are you okay? Ohmygosh Chidori I can't even imagine doing something like that, right in front of them like that, and... and totally naked like that!" Mioko was saying. The same Mioko who was totally comfortable with all of them spending all afternoon totally naked in front of everyone on the beach was wide-eyed and breathless with apparently genuine amazement at seeing Chidori take just a few steps off the beach while still naked. Until now Chidori would have said that didn't make sense at all, but now she knew better. She wasn't a nudist, so being naked on a nude beach was still totally embarrassing for her, but even for her taking a few steps off the nude beach and having those boys look at her like that was way worse.
Then Kirika came through the gate and crouched next to them, hugging her knees to her chest and trembling and staring wide-eyed into the distance. "Oh... oh Kirika, I..." Chidori began. She hadn't let it show until now, but walking out in front of those boys totally naked must have been at least as embarrassing for Kirika as it was for her and Mioko. Unable to think of anything to say, she just put a comforting hand on Kirika's shoulder.
Akiha knelt down and put a hand on her other shoulder, and the other one on Chidori's, smiling warmly at them both. "That was hard, but we all got through it together, right? We can get through all of this, if we just stay strong and all work together." She took Chidori's hands and helped her to her feet, and Chidori managed to smile back at the encouragement.
"Yeah. We'll make it through together," Chidori sniffed and wiped at her eyes as she stood up, feeling her spirits lift at her friend's encouragement.
Kirika didn't stand up, though. "I had to..." she muttered, still staring vacantly straight ahead. "I had to do it, but... but they saw..." she bit her trembling lip and tears sprang to the corners of her eyes. "they all saw my..." her hands moved down between her legs, as if remembering by themselves to try to cover the precious private place that she had already exposed for them to see. "They saw everything..." Kirika looked like she was about to start crying, and watching her like this made Chidori want to curl up somewhere and cry too, and next to them Shizuoka started to whimper and wrapped her arms around herself again.
"Oh no... Oh Kirika, I... I didn't realize..." Kirika had been so focused and strong and confident just now that it was a shock to see her like this.
"Don't worry," Akiha told her firmly, still smiling. "We just need to rest and collect ourselves. Then we can get going, and it won't be long before this is all over.
"Get going... oh, um, you mean to that mall, right?" Chidori thought back to the map she had seen on the phone, "but... but how do we get there..." Everything happened so suddenly that Chidori could hardly even recall the map, let alone picture it well enough to figure out a way from the beach to the mall.
"I know the way," Kirika looked up, sniffling and wiping her eyes. "It's not far. We should be able to get there before sundown." She stood, the distress of moments before already gone from her face.