As if instinctively reacting to his usual routine, Azi awoke at first light. He felt a wet sensation on his lips and as if there was a soft sensation in his palms that was missing. Taking stock of his surroundings, he recognized that he was looking at the wooden ceiling of his room.
He felt oddly refreshed from his recent lucid dream, it felt so real that he thought he would get completely lost in it. He slightly flushed as he remembered the finer details of his dream and he thought to himself.
'That was quite a dream, it is a good thing it didn't actually happen..... Right?'
A bit of doubt sprouted in his mind, but he nonetheless lifted his body up with his hands. He saw that Shizu was lying beside him, which was no surprise. Shizu did have her top off like she did in his dream, but this had happened before when they slept together. Shizu had a sloppy posture when sleeping so he played it off as coincidence.
Remembering that he had to stay in bed for a month and had no pressing work, Azi began to wake Shizu up as he knew that she did have work to attend to. He knew that since Manu was busy with the expedition turned extermination mission, Shizu would have her work cut out for her until he returned.
Shaking Shizu, Azi spoke up to wake her.
"Shizu, Shizu, Wake up, Shizu"
Giving a slight grunt, Shizu's eyes began to slowly open from their stupor. She could feel a wet sensation on her lips and chest and felt that her body was overly warm. Seeing Azi looking over her, she was reminded of her dream which made her flush a bit, but she was able to recompose herself as she believed it was only a dream.
Getting up she noticed her top was off so as she was about to move to grab a change of clothes, Azi had already anticipated her next action as he had grabbed a change of clothes from her luggage. Presenting it in his arms to Shizu, he told her.
"I'll help you get changed, it's the least I can do as your "little" apprentice."
They both chuckled as Azi's emphasizes on the word little and Shizu gladly accepted. She stood up with her arms raised from her sides in a T pose.
With practiced motions Azi began to disrobe Shizu from her sleepwear and began to clothe her in her usual attire of a red and white dress with a long skirt that exposed the outer sides of her legs and front of her hips.
Azi was used to the sight of Shizu bare skin and no longer felt an aversion to looking or touching at her chest or more delicate parts. This was a lesson in etiquette that Shizu had taught him as he learned that he would likely serve under someone of a higher standing than him or swore fealty to in the future.
Shizu expected that Azi would climb the ranks and one day even become an Ordained knight one day, but she kept her optimism tempered. Should this occur, he might meet with other people of higher standing which might have him assist this person, so Shizu had to train him to serve with stout discipline and an unshakable heart.
While Azi was going through the motions, he felt the missing soft sensation in his palms return as he grasped Shizu's chest to move it so that her cleavage did not spill out from the sides of her attire.
Shizu was also somewhat affected as she felt a familiar buzz in her mind as Azi ran his palms across one of her nipples.
Both of them kept their composure and shook off the familiar yet pleasant sensation. Finishing up, Azi tied the yellow ribbon around Shizu's abdomen as a bit of decoration she had recently added to her attire. It added more color to her overall outfit as the yellow helped draw people's eyes away from her chest and thigh.
Their attention would be somewhat drawn to her stomach where they could see how well defined her figure was, which Azi had to attest was appealing to look at.
Checking herself over, Shizu nodded in content at Azi's performance in his duties.
"Well done, you best get changed as well. You won't be in the forge or training, but it is best to always be prepared. After that let's head out for breakfast. Here, I'll help."
"Oh there is no need. I can do it myself."
"No, you are my apprentice, I did say that I would take care of you."
Sighing, Azi accepted Shizu's help as he got into a T pose of his own. With smooth and fluid-like motions Shizu undressed Azi and redressed him in a quicker manner than he thought seemed more like magic.
Shizu did pause when she saw what was contained in Azi's pants, but she continued only a brief moment later after Azi gave a bashful chuckle in embarrassment.
Setting his tool belt around his waist, Shizu gave it a tug to ensure it did not come loose before standing up to see Azi examining himself. He gave her a nod of approval and turned to leave the room, but before he reached the door he heard Shizu cough audibly.
"Ahem."
Azi saw that Shizu was puckering her lips a bit with her closed eyes with her arms outstretched. Picking up on what she wanted, he wanted to ask why but knew that Shizu would just convince him with some twisted reasoning.
After sighing wryly, he wrapped his arms around her waist and Shizu did the same to his back as Azi got up on his tiptoes. Shizu slightly slouched to meet Azi half way and they gave each other a kiss for a few seconds and released. The flavor of something bittersweet got their attention and realized that it was the dessert they had yesterday,
They both smile when they remembered last night's dinner.
"Shall we go"
Said Azi, with his hand grasping Shizu's.
"Yes." Answered Shizu, who had a cheerful atmosphere radiating from her expression.
Making their way to the dining room through the living room and past the kitchen, the duo saw the new residents of the house sitting around the table.
Their expressions were that of tired soldiers that looked as if they had not gotten any sleep for days. Their eyes were red and were slumping over in the chairs. Oddly enough, Ougi was the only one sitting upright but with some bags under his eyes that noted his slight exhaustion.
"GOOD MORNING, MY LITTLE RULU! WHAT'S THE MATTER ARE YOU OK?"
Shizu approached first as she ran up to her younger sister Rulu and lifted her up from her chair as she began to hug her with immense love and care.
"Sister, I umm wait huh?"
Confused and flustered by the sudden display of affection, this woke up the other slumped figures at the dining table.
"What happened to you guys? Did work come up in the middle of the night?" Asked Azi as he ran his hand through his disheveled hair. After giving a brief yawn to help shake off the sleepiness that Azi had left in his body, he noticed Yashimu staring at him with a dumbfounded expression.
"What is it Yashimu? It's like you've seen a ghost?"
"How did you survive the night, no wait, how did you survive for 2 weeks?"
"What the heck are you talking about?"
"You and, huh and Her, did uh umm. That, did..."
Yashimu stuttered his words out with much difficulty, it was as if he had a hairball stuck in his throat. Looking from the chair at the far side of the dining room table from Azi, Ougi picked up on what Yashimu wanted to ask and plainly stated on behalf of everyone sitting at the table.
"I believe what Yashimu wants to ask is how you survive your escapades in bed with Lady Shizu for two weeks."
"Yes, I agree. You two were so loud last night that I couldn't get enough sleep in." Added Nosuri with a huff. "Just how ludicrously horny can you two be?!"
"Sister, I think you should have more tack as a good woman in this situation."
"OH I ummm, Ahem....please explain yourselves."
Azi and Shizu looked at each other in befuddlement. They had no idea what they were referring to, they remembered talking to each other sharing another informal kiss of fealty but after that they could not remember.
"Shizu? Do you remember what happened last night? I remember that we talked and, you know, swore fealty to each other."
"As do I, but I did have a nice dream."
"You as well? What was it about?"
"It was hmmmmm...."
Shizu's face blushed as she recalled her own lewd actions towards Azi, rebutting she asked.
"No, let's umm have you share first. You are my apprentice so this should not be an issue."
"Oh Ok?" Acquiescing, Azi began to think aloud about the events of last night. "After that, I remember dreaming of something soft on my hmmmm, then we hm...? I feel asleep and then she huh...?! I then woke up and did hmmmm? Then I fell asleep and then... it kept going....."
As Azi attempted to figure out what had happened in his dream, he prevented himself from speaking of the action he and Shizu took and as the details became clearer to him, he became increasingly paler.
Turning his head, as if it was a creaky rusted joint, he made eye contact with Shizu's befuddled expression. Through a quivering smile Azi asked.
"Shizu, did your dream happen to have me in it?"
Shizu nodded in affirmation, as she began to explain a bit of what she could, but it then clicked in both her own and Azi's minds.
"Yes, you were in my dream and we...!!!!"
Stopping her words, Shizu suddenly dashed in front of Azi as if teleporting and began shaking him violently.
"It was just a dream, right, right Azi, just a dream?!"
Being continuously shaken, Azi did not answer as he had fallen unconscious from the realization of his perverted actions.
The four figures around the dining table could only look on with wry expressions of the two passionate idiot's exchange. They swore they could see Azi's spirit escaping from his mouth and felt that Shizu was about to melt away from her reddened face that had a considerable amount of sweat on it.
*YAWN*
As if on cue, Kajima had exited his room next to the kitchen and saw the sight of Shizu shaking an unconscious Azi while their four new residents were sitting with a wry and tired expression on their face.
"Just what happened last night?"