Chapter 8: Reflections

Sometime later, in the privacy of her room, Sasami stopped after a third pirouette before an elaborate full-length mirror. The short white dress she now wore flaring on the breeze as she turned with Ryo-Ohki siting on edge of her bed looking on.

"So Ryo-chan what do you think of my secret weapon?" She smiled, posing coyly for her best friend. So what if she bought a spring, instead of a summer dress like she'd told them? It was really none of their 'beeswax' to use another 'Earth-ism', anyway!

"Meyow!" Ryo-chan gave her the thumbs up from the small bed, prompting Sasami's return to eying her self critically in the old Jurian mirror. A gift from their mother Misaki, miraculously survived from the crash of Ryeo. Though it had sat on the lake bottom for a few years, waiting until Ryoko had happened upon it one morning. The ancient curing of the dense, darkly rose colored wood insuring that a thorough cleaning, plus a new glass were all that required bringing a piece of her early childhood back to vibrate life!

Looking at her new dress, light pretty and comfortable with a dangerously abbreviated hemline! Sasami would have loved to share this moment with Ayeka! Even having dropped 'the royal robes' so to speak however, her sister was so 'bogged down' in Jurian tradition, she still favored a layered look to the point where it was almost embarrassing! This in spite of her constant attempts to 'Terran-ize' her way of speaking, pasting bits of slang and other tidbits gleaned from hours of 'soaps'!

"Do you think it's too..." Sasami searched for the word, glancing up at Ryo-Ohki's location in the mirror. "HEY!" She immediately snapped panicking, noting Ryo-chan going though the package on the bed! "Get out of there you!" She added turning. Before Sasami could take a step, Ryo-chan held up the article of her sudden interest, Stretched between the delicate claw tips of both hands, a tiny pair of lacey, racy, red silken panties. "Put those down!" Sasami ordered, her face rapidly changing color to match.

"Naughty! Naughty!" Ryo-chan 'signed' letting the panties dangle from one hand rapidly mocking with the other. "Is this the sort of thing 'good little girls' are supposed to be buying with their hard earned money?" Having been taught 'Universal sign language' by Mihoshi same as Ryo-Oki, Sasami was of course able to understand. More surprising still, Sasami once noted that 'Universal sign' was in fact almost identical to 'International sign language' used on here earth.

"Where do you think GP acquired it from?" Kiyone had simply shrugged. Both policewomen, going on to state, 'signing came in handy during class examines and other covert operation involving information exchange! It worked out real well since Ryo-Oki had difficulties vocalizing. Turns out once she had 'gotten it down' she had a lot to say!

"I know a naughty secret! I know a naughty secret!" She taunted as Sasami drew a deep breath then strolled over, leaned on the bed bringing her face to within a few inches of Ryo-chan's...

"Keep up that attitude and you won't get your present!" Sasami informed her coolly.

"Your wouldn't do something like that!" Ryo-chan gaped, instantly 'caving in' regarding her aghast. "Come on Sis!" She then signed. "I was just teasing!"

With an elaborate sniff, pretending to ignore her cabbit friend's increasingly frantic expression, Sasami rummaged around in the flat box. Producing two items a moment later. Unfolding the first, she held out a yellow nightshirt with a silk-screened image of 'Bugs bunny', complete with his patented 'What's up doc?' printed in bright red kanji.

"For me?" Ryo-chan signed her eyes sparkling.

"For you." Sasami replied. Tossing the panties into the open box, Ryo-oki all but tore the nightshirt out of Sasami's delighted grasp.

"Meyow!" Ryo-chan mewed happily, springing to her feet hugging her present, Ryo-Oki commenced dancing on the bed.

"Don't get too carried away just yet" Sasami told her after a moment or two of enjoying the show. "These go with it." Holding out a pair of matching yellow thong backed panties. Ryo-Oki eyed them curiously. "I know Ryoko has been on you about underwear lately." Sasami continued mater of fact. "Somehow, I just really don't think she or Washu have any ideal how uncomfortable normal girls underwear are for you!"

"Neither of them have a tail." Ryo-chan signed, accepting her second gift numbly.

"Probably." Sasami added dryly. Adding to her self, that weird belt of Ryoko's did not count! Holding both items, happy tears in her eyes, Ryo-chan now seemed at a lost. "Well?" Sasami finally asked. "Aren't you gonna try them on?" A short few minutes later Ryo-Oki paraded around Sasami's small bedroom purring with deep satisfaction.

"They don't pinch me at all!" she signed happily, displaying dairy-air and wagging puff tail with a half twist before bounding over to where Sasami stood, Ryo-chan promptly gave her an affectionate squeeze. "Thank you big Sis!" She signed, after releasing her friend from the bear hug.

"And that's not all!" Sasami signed in return. Ryo-Oki referring to her in that fashion always made her happy almost to the point of tears. On the one hand, it made sense 'oki' could be like a younger sister! They were, in 'physical appearance' close to the same age...

On the other, it made no sense at all. Ryo-chan was older than Sasami by at least a couple of decades. On yet another, that didn't count, cause 'technically', Ryo-oki died in the impact, which destroyed Ryeo and was reborn! On a fourth, none of those conditions mattered in the slightest, because Tsunami, to whom she herself was bonded, was far older than that!

Sasami shook her head, deciding as always to just 'skip it' and spare herself the head injury that 'sort of' thinking most likely would cause. Moving back over to the package, she preceded to remove to more articles.

"See?" She smiled brightly. "I got a matching set for myself!" Indeed the two sets of attire were similar, both being made of yellow satin. Sasami's nightshirt had crossed spatulas on the front with the words 'Kiss the cook' emblazoned in large red flaming kanji. Sasami held up the normal panty bottoms belonging to hers for Ryo-Oki's inspection.

"Meyow!" Ryo-chan said nodding and giggling at a silk-screened jalapeno on the panties front panel instead of a carrot like hers.

"Give me a minute!" Sasami told her, pulling off her spring mini dress. "I'll try mine on, then we can show 'em off to who ever is up!" The dress had just cleared Sasami's head when Ryo-chan touched her on the arm. Slightly concerned, now dressed only in bra and panties, Sasami glanced at her friend and saw Ryo-chan shaking her head. "Is there something wrong?" Sasami asked. By way of response, her companion walked over to the package on the bed and retrieved the red silk panties she had teased her best friend about earlier.

"Why don't we see how you look in these instead?" She signed quietly.

A few minutes later, blushing quite visibly from head to toe, Sasami inspected herself in the full-length mirror. Essentially the outfit consisted of a nightshirt of translucent red fog. Gathered under the bust, its front seam held together by a pair of invisible clasp. Designed to part at the smallest pressure, whether applied by her or, 'oh yes!' a certain someone else! Her pail skin, which she like, both her sisters inherited from their mother Masaki, was colored a captivating shade of pink by the silk, perfectly matching her eyes. A deliberate coordination of color, guaranteed to be classified 'a vicious assault' on the male psyche. She hadn't quite inherited Tsunami's form, just yet! However, evidence of its pending eruption was all too clear. Still, she was already a generous 'b' cup and the tiny crimson strapless bra showed her off to good advantage, making her appear even more bountiful. Sasami had a virtually unbroken jewel line, a finely sculpted navel, presently sporting a deep red jewel. Besides that, her hips had definitely arrived! Completing an almost classic hour glass shape. Sadly, while her behind was still in the larval stage somewhat, soon enough though it would be Valentines Day!