Long Day (Natsuki x Yuri DDLC)

Nat the Rat is Tired

Natsuki yawned. And then again. And again. She stayed up late, doing who knows what in her room. All she apparently knows is that she really fell asleep at around 6 am? An hour or so before school.

So when the Literature Club came around, she was yawning and running sleep out of her eyes constantly.

The author will know reveal this information: The reason Natsuki stayed up late was because of her dad. He kept her up. So all day, she had kind of been trying to hold back tears.

"Hello, Natsu-" Yuri finally takes a long look at Natsuki. (Yuri is the only one in the club so far.)
She almost gasps. There are little dark circles under her eyes. Her pupils themselves are swimming dark clouds of fear and sorrow. Her hair is tousled and her blazer is unbuttoned, she looks like a hurricane just hit and somehow she made it through the school day like this?

"...Would you like a cup of tea? It helps the tiredness." Yuri finally speaks again, standing up.

"...y-yeah. Sure. I-I'll be in the b-bathroom for j-just a second t-though."

"Okay..." Yuri says, worriedly looking Natsuki over before grabbing her tea stuff or whatever is the stuff she uses to make tea.

When Natsuki arrives at the bathroom, she locks herself in a stall and cries. She's done this twice in the school day today. It just really hurts, emotionally, to look at the giant bruise on her thigh. It was right below her skirt, and if she lifted her skirt anyone could see it clear as day.

She sat in the bathroom, crying, for so long that Yuri started to get worried about her girlfriend. The tea was getting cold. All other members except MC had shown up. Yuri decided to investigate herself.

"N-natsuki?" Yuri calls quietly into the restroom. Upon hearing the door open, Natsuki immediately tries to stop and cover her crying. No use. A sob choked out.

"Natsuki..." Yuri knocked on the stall door. "May I...um...come in..." She lost her boldness after realizing she was knocking on a bathroom stall and asking to come in. She remembered that it's a weirdo thing to do.

After a minute or so, Natsuki unlocked the door. She opened it, and stood looking at Yuri for a second. Yuri became visibly sadder after seeing Natsuki in such a state; her eyes wobbly with tears in them, her outfit even more messed up, with her skirt pulled up a little...

Yuri gasps, and pushed Natsuki into the stall a little more and locks it.
"W-what happened? Y....your thigh..."
"My stupid dad, ok? That's why i'm tired, too." Natsuki murmurs this before shutting up.
"C-can I...touch...it?" Yuri asks quietly and nervously.
"...go ahead."
Carefully, Yuri touches her bruise and lifts her skirt a teeny bit more, not wanting to lift too far...yknow, reasons why.
Her heart sinks to look at Natsuki like this. So she forms a little plan in her head.
"I can't do anything for it now, but please...come with me." Yuri says, wiping her tears away. Natsuki doesn't have a choice, so she reluctantly follows.

Yuri sets Natsuki in a hallway, currently abandoned, which itself is one hallway away from the club.

"Stay...right here."
"O....k?" She sits down on the floor.
Yuri rushes away. Natsuki wonders if she'll just leave her there.
No. She wouldn't just leave me here to disintegrate. Yuri is the best.
And Yuri was the best, as she came back with two cups of tea and a manga she pulled from the closet. No one had questioned her as she did it and left again, actually.

She sets the tea down and the floor, and sits beside Natsuki.
Natsuki takes a few sips. It's cold, but it's good.
"Turn around a little." Yuri mumbles. Natsuki is too tired to question it.
Yuri then pulls a hairbrush out of her pocket. She begins to brush Natsuki's pink mess of her hair. Natsuki's cheeks are a little pink, because the one and only Yuri is babying her and brushing her hair.

And she wouldn't rather it any other way.

"I'm going t-to take the ribbons out of your hair, ok?"
Natsuki nods. She was sure she lost a ribbon somewhere anyway.
As soon as every ribbon is untied, Yuri almost audibly gasps-
she's so adorable like this!
Her face is a little pink after this, and she busies herself with Natsuki's hair. Natsuki is trying to ignore the beating of her heart by burying her face in the manga Yuri gave her.
After brushing her hair, she begins to put the brush down, and is stopped by Natsuki.
"Can...can you keep going?" She mumbles nervously.
Yuri smiles and nods. At one point Natsuki finally falls asleep, extremely fatigued.

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Club is already over, so Yuri cleans up a little and (stubbornly) wakes up Natsuki. She really wants to leave the adorable being to rest, but she has no choice.

They return to the classroom and clean up a little, then Yuri puts away the book she was originally reading.

"Can I-"
"Yes, Natsuki, you may come over."
Natsuki grins, she was tired and scared, but she grins her wolffish smile anyway.
"Thanks."
Natsuki then, apparently full of energy, loosely grabs Yuri's neck and gives her a kiss.

"Let's get to it, eh?" Natsuki points to the door.
Yuri smiles, a little giddy from the kiss. "Alrighty then, Natsuki."