medicine man, i'll lay my head in your hands; medicine man, you will clear my mind

Shrugging off her heavy winter coat, Nuriko stands in the middle of the back room to Urahara Kisuke's cat café, giving the nearest feline a suspicious look as it lingers a few paces away. To the side, a seat has been prepared with treats and sweets for Robin, who seems to be examining the contents of his plate with interest, though Nuriko suspects that he's still keeping his ears trained on herself and the shopkeeper, as per his agreement. His presence relaxes Nuriko, allowing her to follow Urahara's steps as he enters the room with careful confidence.

She has very little idea what to expect, but budgeted for the time just in case. As far as Rin knows, she's out running errands all night for the restaurant, only available by phone, and likely only to return until morning.

"So... it feels to me like there are two options. Either I stay in my body, which will let you examine whether or not it acts and behaves like a regular human body, or I step outside of it so that you can see the stone it will revert to," Nuriko says, folding her coat over her arm and resting her hands in front of her person. "Is there something I'm forgetting? What do you want me to do first."

Her hands tighten against the folds of her coat, and Nuriko bites down on her lower lip, looking slightly apprehensive.

now that your wallet is all lit up, you're gonna wanna wear it out

After months of being intimate with Rin, Nuriko's starting to wonder if it's the right time to take things a bit further. The most difficult part, of course, in bringing up the subject is both of their relative inexperience in the area, and furthermore for Rin himself, a sense of bashfulness about intimacy.

Nuriko can understand it to an extent. Rin was brought up in a strict environment, after all, where sex was relatively unwelcome. Perhaps the same should have been said for Nuriko herself, but if there was one secret shared among the women of the harem, it was how much they turned to one another in order to understand their bodies. Eventually, humility where everything physical was concerned was only affected towards the emperor during his visits so as to maintain their pure image; women meant for him and only him. But when sisters of the harem were together, there was no need to be so shy.

And it wasn't like Nuriko was an especially shy person to begin with.

With Rin constantly blushing and Nuriko with very few resources to turn to for her own edification, she decides to head to a popular sex shop in the city, hair carefully tucked underneath a cap to prevent people from recognizing her. (Again, mostly for Rin's sake, rather than her own.)

Stepping inside, she takes off her cap, violet hair cascading down over her shoulders in large waves as she gapes at all the products on display.

"Huh," she says, tilting her head curiously.