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"You're staring at me, Wondergirl."
"Your body is pleasant to look at."
Asuka's brain screeched to a halt.
Wondergirl had just expressed an opinion.
An opinion that made her feel peculiar in ways that were unpleasantly reminiscent of Hikari talking about how she felt when she looked at that muscle-monkey boy in their class.
Ways that a girl had no business making her feel! She wasn't into boys, sure, but that was because she was into men.
Like Kaji. And... no, really, it was just Kaji.
And Kaji never looked at her like Rei was looking at her now, with parted lips and flushed cheeks and half-lidded eyes. Even though she really wanted him to. Every woman with a brain would want a man like Kaji to look at her like that.
"There's a viewing fee." It felt stupid.
"Of course." Rei stood up, still naked from her shower, and turned on her heel to face away from Asuka. Asuka was still trying to catch up with what she was seeing when Rei planted her feet in heikodachi stance and bent all the way forward.
It was like the muscle-monkey's little stunt on the UNS Over the Rainbow, except the only place her blood had rushed to back then was her face.
"Is that a satisfactory exchange?"
Asuka froze, staring fixedly at what Wondergirl was showing her. There was no good answer. If she said it was enough, Rei would straighten up—no, that wasn't the right word, she'd stand up. Because there was nothing straight about what Rei was doing.
Rei swung her body back up and turned towards Asuka, stepping towards her in the process. Blue, Asuka thought, as Rei's breasts took pride of place in her view.
"Sōryū?"
Asuka dragged her gaze back up to Rei's deep crimson eyes, and took a step forward, then another. She reached out and cupped Rei's face in her hands. "Rei. What the hell are you doing?"
"I like the way you look at me in a plugsuit. I believe it has a great deal in common with how I look at you out of your plugsuit."
"Shut up!"
There was fire in those red eyes all of a sudden. "I believe the customary response is 'make me.'"
Their lips met. Asuka's hands slipped down, one to Rei's hip and the other to the back of her neck.
Maya hurriedly retreated from the entrance to the locker room.
She'd just won her bet with Akagi-senpai, and she didn't know what to do about it.
"Did you hear something?" asked Asuka, gazing into Rei's eyes.
"No," lied Rei. Lieutenant Ibuki's shoes made a faint, but distinctive sound on the tile floor of the locker room. If Asuka thought the Lieutenant had seen them, she would panic. Rei wanted Asuka to not panic. "But we should probably get dressed before Major Katsuragi tries to find us for our debriefing."
Asuka leaned her forehead against Rei's for a moment, then sighed and stepped away. "Right. Debriefing."