Plans & Apologies

Cassie looked up at the sky and held onto Akashi's hand for balance. The sky was always so pretty.

Then it was back to reality, and she looked around at the shop in front of them. She was a little scared at first, until she figured out what she was looking at.

"Ohhhhhhh..." She groaned. "Akashiiiii..."

"You have to."

Akashi said as she tugged the red head into the shop. "Don't worry, I'm getting one too." She said, trying to reassure Cassie. "There's only one other option and I don't think you want that one." Akashi giggled and leaned forward, pressing her lips against Cassie's ear.

"You could get your pussy pierced instead."

"Ohhhhhhh..." Cassie groaned again.

The little bells at the top of the door jingled as Cassie walked through the door. She started to respond to Akashi when the sumo leaned in, and then she almost choked.

"Oh my gosh, Akashi!" She hushed back. Her face was already red, but she couldn't help but giggle.

"So we're getting a tattoo?" She asked, though the answer was obvious.

"Hai!" Akashi chirped. "I have two tattoos and both of them I got with people who were special to me. Imouto-chan still is, of course, but I consider you just as much my family as her so you can't leave until we've done this."

Akashi beamed. "What do you think best represents us, Cassie-chan?" Akashi asked.

Cassie was quiet. She hugged her arms around her midsection, and slowly they crept up until she clutched her hands together against her chest. She nodded.

"Okay," she said, and it felt like a release. "Bears. Little and big." She may have thought about that before.

Akashi smiled at Cassie's answer. She took Cassie's hand and pressed it against her large chest. "Kuma." She said. It was the Japanese word for bear. She then took her own hand and pressed it against Cassie's chest.

"Koguma." Akashi smiled. She walked over to a board with all sorts of kanji on it for reference. "Both words have the same kanji for bear. See how it even kind of looks like a bear?" The kanji was blocky looking with "claw marks" under the main part. "Except koguma adds the kanji "ko" which means child or little. Ko, little, plus Kuma , bear,is koguma! Little bear. It's perfect, Cassie-chan." Akashi said, smiling softly.

She then looked at Cassie and pressed her fingers into Cassie's chest."Right over our hearts, ok?"

Cassie nodded her way through Akashi's explanation and payed rapt attention. Maybe being half-cocked had something to do with it, but it was so interesting. She couldn't understand how she hadn't learned Japanese yet. She could speak a bit, but she wasn't fluent, and she couldn't write.

"Oh, okay," she nodded, and then bit her lip and stepped on her toes. "But... Does it have to be right there? Could it be a little more... off to the side?"

Would her future husband think it was ugly if it was right in the middle of her chest?

"Oh?" Akashi tilted her head and smiled. "I suppoooose. Where?" She asked.

"Umm..."

Where to put a tattoo was not something Cassie had ever thought she would need to consider. She put a finger to her lips in thought, and then touched her ribs under her arm. "Maybe here? Or..." She moved her hand down to her hip. "Here? Or down here?" She stood on one foot and grabbed her ankle. "I dunno..."

She nervously glanced at the girl with the gloves and the needle.

"Here."

Akashi said and pressed against Cassie's side. "That is a good spot." She said. Akashi then turned her body and pointed to her side, the other side of her body. "I'll get mine here, so..."

Akashi then wrapped her arm around Cassie and pulled them together. "They're hugging!"

Akashi giggled and turned as the woman finished up and sent the tough on his way. Though she was covered in tattoos herself, as she approached, her bow was still polite and Japanese.

"So, who is next?"

Akashi gave Cassie a little shove towards the girl.