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Nuriko has never been the sort of person to place too much stock into numbers, but even she has to admit — twenty is a major milestone. She's young enough that frozen time has yet to make its mark deeply on her skin. Not old enough to consider wrinkles, not old enough that Rin's time to even risk skirting ahead. Just old enough that worries she'd pushed to the side all her life are easy enough to continue ignoring.

After dying once, she's loath to waste time she could spend smiling instead.

Urahara Kisuke had an interesting proposition. A body that would actually give her a second life, no different functionally than the one she originally had. It didn't take much convincing for her to sign the dotted line — but only for a trial, a test run, to make sure there weren't hidden catches she had yet to consider.

She's wearing the new body today, curves filling out the folds of her dress, showing off bare shoulders as she tiptoes into the living room.

"Rin, are you ready?" she asks, coy as she peeks around the corner of the wall.
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When Nuriko complained of the quickly arriving autumn chill, forcing her to pile blanket over blanket, it didn't take very long before Rin began offering to spend the night with her. She enjoys the warmth of his body, and the steady cadence of his breathing is quick to lull Nuriko to sleep; even the soft noise of his snoring feels welcome in place of what would otherwise be a damning silence, too quiet after months of relentless conflict and war. Humming under her breath, Nuriko draws herself closer to Rin in the moments before falling asleep, lips quickly pressing against the line of his jaw before she lets down her walls, letting them be replaced by the snug embrace of Rin's arms.

Until now, they've always woken up somehow separated on the bed. Maybe Rin takes care to slide back before he falls asleep; maybe they're both restless sleepers and don't quite realize it. Either way, usually the distance is enough for them to wake peacefully, sneak off to the bathroom when necessary, brush teeth before morning breath becomes a problem.

Only today, when Nuriko wakes first, she still feels the weight of Rin's arm draped over her waist, and the soft sound of snoring by the shell of her ear. Peeking over her shoulder, she smiles, reaching out to brush her knuckles lightly along the curve of Rin's cheek.

Which is when she feels a slithering across her chest. Barely suppressing a yelp, Nuriko glances down her front, gaze settling on the tufted hair of Rin's tail as it winds up and swings across, hair tickling the line of her collarbone. Huffing a laugh, Nuriko carefully sneaks an arm out from under Rin's hold, fingers reaching to trace along the long length of his tail.

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Nuriko (Chou Ryuuen)

July 2020

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