Takahashi, Mikako

[Bakamono]

Nagatas bunk room on-board the Matsumoto.

For the admiral and Nagata it is late, their shifts ended two hours ago, they have spent just over an hour in each others company.
Nagata rose from the small bed pulled on his trousers, then sat to pull on his boots. Sitting upright in the bed, Takahashi had exposed the workings of her left arm. The forearm lay open and lax against her thigh as she adjusted something unseen within the stretched sprawl of wires and pipes.
Yuri winced '€œDoes that not hurt?'€
Mikako gave a brief distracted giggle '€œno my love, not really: though it is strangely uncomfortable; like someone playing your tendons like a shamisen.'€
Yuri laughed and nodded as if he understood, but he could not. '€œI cannot understand why you do not just get that thing checked out Mikako, surely they can save you all this effort?'€
'€œHah! No: I have spent more than enough time with doctors and I can do it myself. Besides, then I would miss these run-ins of ours.'€ She looked up from her work at her jest and met her lovers gaze. Yuri smiled in assent as he tugged on his last boot.

*****

Junko was busy thinking about the kiss she was now owing to Hideaki - for having lost that duel - while she was heading to Nagata's quarters.

It was the second time he asked her that report concerning the activity in Tau 23, and, since she didn't want to get yelled at again, she intended to either give it to him now or leave it on his desk.

That way he would stop annoying her.
Lost in her thoughts, she knocked absent-mindedly and opened the door without waiting for any invite or acknowledgement.

*****

Suddenly, preceded by the briefest of knocks, the door opened. Mikako quickly pulled the sheet to her naked chest with her good arm and glanced obliquely toward Yuri, who awkwardly paused as he buttoned his shirt. Junko Sanada stepped through the threshold hurriedly.
'€œKaishō I '€“ Oh! Erm....Gomen?'€ '€œimportant intel on the outcasts sir. Sorry to have disturbed you.'€
Mikako coughed. Nagata spoke '€œVery good Commander, This is a little unexpected: I am on Kyushu time, it is three a.m for me.'€