Bath scenes are iconic in far too many mangas to list. The mix of the everyday element with the titillation of female flesh only hidden by bizarrely persistent puffs of steam heroically striving to keep the censors away has granted them a place in any rom-com worth said name and plenty of mangas that would, at first glance, not fit the genre at all.
There's also plenty of variety in said scenes. From the always favored hot springs (extra points if the whole story occurs in a building with easy access to them), to the mundane yet classic girl throwing a bucket of water over herself behind the ground glass of the door before sliding into the weirdly green and opaque water of the tub, to the almost folkloric visit to the public baths after the water heater gets inexplicably broken (with a nearly guaranteed martial arts battle in which the resident not-completely-scummy guy tries to stop his "friends" from peeking on the girls' side).
To the shower scene.
The shower scene is a special breed among bath scenes. There's not the same languid relaxation to be found, as the character in question is upright, actively washing themselves. Yet such an act also serves to highlight how they are touching their naked bodies, only covered by strategic suds and errant hands. It highlights every lewd aspect of the scene while having the barest, thinnest pretense of being setting appropriate. And, as all Westerners who have heard the word "cinema" know, it's been used to great effect to showcase the vulnerability of the nubile, lithe, attractive character in question.
For instance, such a showering character could be completely naked, rubbing shampoo into his itchy scalp, just as the door to the bath creaks open and a dark silhouette appears on the threshold.
"Kyaaa?" he will inevitably protest, fearing his chastity in danger.
"It's my bath, brat," he will be cruelly rebuked after his efforts to maintain a decent, wholesome scene with no erotic undertones that would make black bars plentiful over the page prove futile.
"It is my turn, though," he will understandably argue.
"Are you… Are you really protesting me joining you?" his Christmas Cake teacher will gape at him, her silhouette more distinguishable now that she's closer, inside the room, and very clearly naked in a way that makes the colorists splurge on the pink.
"Look, if I pretend this is something I don't desperately crave, I can maybe ask you for something in return."
"… Do you realize how unlikely that's to work now that you've said as much?"
"Kyaaaa. I'm so embarrassed. Please, Shizu, don't get in the shower with me unless you plan on soaping my back with your bare breasts."
She, for reasons only known to her and inscrutable to men who are sadly not privy to the mysteries of the fairer gender, sighs.
"You're gonna give me white hairs before my forties, aren't you?" she grumbles as she opens the ground-glass door of the shower partition.
I stare at her, at the gorgeous, beautiful woman who's now suddenly bashful, twisting her body, her legs shifting so I can't catch a glimpse of her lower lips even as her arms strain not to cover her breasts, her pink nipples, and the gooseflesh swiftly going through them.
"If I did? That would only make you look like a silver-haired beauty, like something mythical, out of a fairy tale. It would only make you look even more unbelievably beautiful than you already are."
And now she blushes.
How unfair. I am the character caught unaware while showering, you know? It's my Heaven-granted right to squeal and throw a bucket at you to protect my chastity.
['Your what?!']
Technically a virgin—
['Even if that was still true, which it isn't, your "technical virginity" would be enough to write an entire doujin tankoubon.']
I know. I'm proud of that. I think I'll tell my grandchildren.
['If you do, you'll be a worse parent than your own.']
Each generation should strive to overcome the one that came before. By the way, Shizu must never know we considered her to belong to said preceding generation.
['Agreed. Also… Self-Preservation-kun, is that you?']
"Well, are you gonna grab the soap and rub me up and down with your gorgeous breasts, or are you just going to stand there and stare at your underage student as he stands defenseless in your shower?"
['Never mind.']
"You going to keep teasing me about the underage thing?" she asks with an arched eyebrow that belies the flush bridging her nose from one red cheek to another.
So I fully turn around, her eyes briefly dipping to my very evident erection, and I hug her to me, dragging her beneath the falling, warm water before I kiss her, her skin growing wet by the second as I feel her breasts on my chest, as I slide my hands up her back just to press her closer to me as rivulets of water try to flow between the two of us only to be denied enough space to do so.
"I am going to tease you about absolutely everything I can tease you about, Shizu, because I fear if I don't take absolutely every advantage I can, I'll just stand paralyzed in front of your beauty, unable to do anything but marvel at how I ever managed to touch such a perfect woman, never mind kissing her, caressing her, making love to her—"
She kisses me.
Rougher than I was, her tongue intruding in my mouth, her hands on my face making my head tilt back, her body close enough that my erection can't do anything but slide between her legs.
"We don't have time for this," she whispers, her eyes lidded.
"For what?" I answer, almost growling, my hands sinking in her ass and forcing her to grind against me.
She moans, bites her lip, looks at me pleadingly.
"We [really] don't have time for this," she tells me as she keeps shifting her weight from one foot to another, her thighs rubbing together with my dick between them.
"For what?" I repeat before I pull away and turn her around, pushing her until her breasts flatten against wet glass, spiling from her sides, letting me enjoy her round curves even when she's not facing me before she slides down, her back arching and her backside sticking toward me.
"For… [this]," she whispers.
I grab her waist, feeling the soft, taut flesh pushing between my fingers before I step forward and the tip of my cock naturally finds itself pushing against wet warmth, against clenching heat.
Against Shizu.
"Why?" I ask, pushing forward just enough that she gasps, that she turns her head to look at me over her shoulders as black, wet hair sticks to her back as water rivulets keep flowing between matted tresses, glinting with the warm light of her bathroom that's reflected off gleaming, earth-toned tiles on the walls and floor even as said light is distorted and refracted by the water sliding down the glass in mesmerizing, shifting hues that only serve to highlight the devastating beauty of the woman both light and water surround.
She bites her lip yet again, worrying at it with her teeth, and I could swear I hear a low moan coming off her before she closes her eyes and forces herself to answer.
"Iroha… Iroha and Haruno are… cooking lunch," she says, her voice tremulous.
And I…
I push inside.
"Hachi!" she yells as the head enters her fully, her tight grip on me clasping me right after my glans breaches her opening.
"I… I can stop. When it's time, I can stop. But you can't ask me not to take you when you're here. With me," I tell her.
And she twists around, her right arm snaking behind my neck to pull me down, toward her lips, to meet me in an imperfect, messy kiss that makes my head swim.
And then she pushes back.
"I wish I could resist you…" she whispers, her eyes blazing in front of mine.
"No. You don't," I tell her, hoping she won't contradict me.
And she smiles.
"No. I don't," she answers, her smile broad and full of something that makes my chest clench.
And she pushes back until I'm completely inside her.
And then…
Then I fuck the woman I love against the glass partition of her shower, which means I don't go nearly as hard as I wish I could—though Body-kun may appreciate the slight reprieve on his grueling training.
Maybe even a fraction of how much I appreciate Shizu's body undulating beneath me, as much as I appreciate the way her wet skin glistens, the sounds she makes whenever I bottom out inside her, the way she keeps pulsating around me, pushing back against me whenever I go back inside her…
The way her eyes open in wide panic when the door to her bathroom yet again opens.
"Senpai… Lunch's going to get cold," Iroha resignedly admonishes.
"I… I can stop whenever I want to?" I tell her.
"Yeah, that [really] doesn't work," Shizu grumbles before I slap her pert behind, and not just because I want to compare it to Haruno's.
…
Both are incredible.
['You are despicable.']
I know, isn't it great?
"Ah! What are you even—" Shizu starts to (belatedly) protest right before I sink myself in her yet again.
And the door to the shower opens, and a shirtless Iroha grabs my neck before she drags me to her lips to hungrily devour me before she pushes me away and grabs Shizu, making her turn so she isn't leaning against the glass but against Iroha's naked breasts as the younger girl slides her hand along wet, black hair and thoroughly kisses Shizu while she trembles around me before her hands go from limply hanging in surprise to grasping Iroha's chest, massaging it thoroughly enough that I can see the way its shape changes even from behind Shizu.
"Cum," Iroha breathes out. "Both of you, cum."
And I grasp Shizu's hips and stare straight into Iroha's eyes as I speed up, as I fuck my teacher against my junior, pushing the two lovely women together with every stroke, with every time my cock bottoms out and makes Shizu gasp against the shorter girl as they devour each other while Iroha studiously keeps her hungry eyes open and trained on mine.
The warm water splashes against my back, Shizu's ass smacks against my pelvis, and Iroha's eyes pierce my own.
And, just as Shizu throws her head back in a loud moan that Iroha takes advantage of to devour her neck, I push inside her, as far as I can go, and I shake as the first burst of my ejaculation fills her.
I don't know what happens after that, just that, when I finally open my eyes, I'm sitting on shallow, warm water, my back against wet, smooth tiles, and Shizu panting on top of me, my cock still inside her even as it slowly deflates with every pulsing, loud beat of my heart.
And Iroha, wet, her nipples erect, her hair in disarray, and looking like she very much needs another shower even if her turn was before me, looks down at the two of us while biting her lip.
"I…" she hesitates, "I want more of this. Of… I loved to plan, to prepare for our first time. I loved the way you treated me, the way you handled me as if I was the most precious thing in the whole world, but… I also want this. I want all of us to be comfortable enough with each other for this to just… happen," she says, her tone almost trembling as her body shifts in a way that never manages not to highlight how her breasts move with every change in eloquent body language.
"Iroha…" I tell her, my voice not quite deep, because I think that gets somewhat depleted after two ejaculations so close together (one can only hope), "You just sucked my soul out right after breakfast."
She blinks down at me and then at a chuckling Shizu.
"Oh. Right."
"… If you tell me you forgot, I'm going to feel very offended."
"No, it's just… I mean…"
"She means me, Hachi. She means she still isn't as close to me as she is to you," Shizu tells me, her tone far too light for what she tells me.
Yet Iroha just smiles in relief.
"Yes. That. I meant that," the Strongest Junior bashfully agrees.
…
Ah, right. Relationships are work. And complicated.
['And to work is to lose?']
Not that. The other thing.
['Ah, you mean: relationships are work, and complicated. And genuine.']
Yes. That. Thank you, Brain-chan.
['Anytime.']
***
"You two are going on a date," Haruno tells us right as we exit the bathroom.
Which is a bit confusing, seeing as there are three of us coming out of it.
"Huh?" I eloquently ask, hoping for Haruno to make things less confusing.
['Hahahahahahahaahahahahaha—']
Yeah. I know. Oh gods, do I know.
"You and the foxy little thing. You've had precisely one official date with each of us, but plenty of unofficial ones with Shizu and me, so you're making it up to her. And this time, I'm not giving you enough time to come up with something dramatic that only manages not to scar her for life by the skin of your teeth."
"I… It wasn't that [bad]," I try to defend myself.
And Shizu, wrapped in a sky-blue fluffy towel, gives me the kind of look that usually only the school's career advisor gives me, full of compassion and deep sadness.
Iroha, wearing my slightly wet undershirt, fidgets and looks away, refusing to meet my eyes.
Haruno, once more in her apron, but with some green lingerie that doesn't detract from the effect yet at least allows her to use the furniture without further concerns, arches an elegantly Yukinoshita eyebrow
['Brain-chan, wearing the spacious inside of your skull, commiserates and pats your back.']
Fuck you.
['As if. Thrice in one day?']
You and I both know that's far from my record.
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This work is a repost of my second oldest fic on QQ (https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/all-right-fine-ill-take-you-oregairu.15676/), where it can be found up to date except for the latest two chapters that are currently only available on on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/Agrippa?fan_landing=true)—as an added perk, both those sites have italicized and bolded text. I'll be posting the chapters here twice weekly, on Wednesday and Friday, until we're caught up. Unless something drastic happens, it will be updated at a daily rate until it catches up to the currently written 84 chapters (or my brain is consumed by the overwhelming amounts of snark, whichever happens first).
Speaking of Italics, this story's original format relied on conveying Brain-chan's intrusions into Hachiman's inner monologue through the use of italics. I'm using square brackets ([]) to portray that same effect, but the work is more than 300k words at the moment, so I have to resort to the use of macros to make that light edit and the process may not be perfect. My apologies in advance
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