It was early evening, and Himiko put her book down and stood up from her bed as she hummed happily on the way to the bathroom. On her way to it, she ran into Kaede.
"Nyeh...hi, Kaede!" Himiko chirped.
"Hi, Himiko!" Kaede replied cheerfully back to her. "You're in an unusually good moo-" Himiko gave Kaede a perplexed look, wondering why she stopped speaking so suddenly. Kaede's eyes were bugging out, and her mouth hung agape as she stared at Himiko. Himiko's look of confusion became one of concern.
"K-Kaede?" Himiko whispered hesitantly. Suddenly, Kaede grabbed Himiko's arm and pulled her into hers and Miu's room. Miu looked at them with confusion as well, but Kaede kept her eyes on Himiko's neck.
"Himiko...when did you get that?" she asked.
"Nyeh! Get wh-what?!" Himiko asked with a tone of fear in her voice. Instinctively, she reached for her neck. Miu went over to see what the fuss was all about. When she saw Himiko's neck, she burst into laughter.
"Hahahaha!! Wow, Himiko! Didn't think you'd be the type of girl to let THAT happen to ya!" she cackled.
"Wh-What do you mean?! What are you talking about?!" Himiko shook. Kaede brought Himiko to the mirror on her side of the room and showed Himiko what was on her neck. There, on the lower part of her neck near her shoulder, was a purplish mark. Himiko's eyes widened with terror. "Wh...What is that?!" she squealed. "I-Is that a bug bite?! Am I gonna die?!"
"That depends. Do you wanna die?" a voice asked in the doorway. Himiko, Kaede, and Miu turned to see Maki with her arms folded and a small smile on her face.
"N-No! I don't wanna die!" Himiko replied tearfully. "There's something on my neck, and I don't even know what that is!"
"Let me see it," Maki said as Kaede moved out of her way. "Whoa," Maki said once she saw the mark. She looked at Himiko with raised eyebrows.
"What is it?" Himiko asked in a horrified whisper after noticing Maki's expression. "Do you know what it is?"
"Yeah, it's a-" Maki began.
"My Himiko senses are going off!" Tenko interrupted, bursting into the room. But she wasn't alone.
"Nyahahaha, Atua told me that something is bothering Himiko, so I must intervene!" Angie said cheerfully. Tenko and Angie ran up to Himiko to see if she was okay. When they saw Himiko's neck, Tenko gasped in fear while Angie gave Himiko a playful grin.
"WAAAAHHHHH!! HIMIKO!!! YOUR NECK!!" she screamed. "HOW COULD YOU LET THIS HAPPEN?!"
"Nyahaha! Himiko, you have been a very naughty girl, haven't you?" Angie laughed mischievously.
"What?! No...I-" Himiko began.
"Pardon me for interrupting, but what is happening in here? I heard Tenko screaming." yet another voice asked from the doorway. The girls turned to see Kirumi with Tsumugi behind her looking in with a concerned expression.
"Oh, Kirumi! Tsumugi! It's terrible! Himiko, she's...she's...she's LOST HER INNOCENCE!!" Tenko wailed.
"WHAT?!" Tsumugi exclaimed, now fully invested in what was going on. Kirumi's eyes widened with horror as both she, and Tsumugi, ran inside the room.
"Nyeh...great. Everyone is here to witness my death," Himiko sniffed.
"Wait...death? What death? I'm confused," Kirumi tilted her head with a puzzled expression.
"There was a death, alright!" Tenko said. "The death of Himiko's innocence! Look!" She pointed at Himiko's neck. Kirumi gasped, whereas Tsumugi merely giggled and gave Himiko the same naughty smile that Angie had given her.
"Himiko, I have to say that I'm very surprised!" Kirumi exclaimed.
"Yeah, Himiko...I didn't think you were so...*daring!*" Tsumugi added, "I'm plainly shocked as well as...impressed!"
"CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IT IS?!" Himiko squeaked, tears streaming from her eyes. "AM I GONNA DIE, OR WHAT?! WHY IS MY INNOCENCE DEAD?! JUST, SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON!!!"
"You mean...you DON'T know what that is, Himiko?" Angie asked.
"If I DID know, do you think I'd be freaking out like this?!" Himiko gasped.
"It's okay, Himiko, just calm down," Kaede said, grabbing Himiko's shoulders and spinning her around so that Himiko could face her. "You're not going to die, so take a deep breath, okay?" Himiko nodded, wiping her tears. She took a deep breath and began to relax. "Are you okay, now?"
"Yeah...I'm good," Himiko replied. Kaede took a deep breath herself.
"Okay, now, Himiko...have you, um...made out with Kokichi, lately?" she asked slowly and quietly. Himiko gave her a weird look.
"Nyeh...what does that have to do with anything?" she asked.
"Because I think that's where THAT came from," Kaede said, gesturing to the dark purple mark on Himiko's neck.
"R-Really?!" Himiko asked quietly, putting her hand over the mark. "Well...um, Kokichi and I were...making out...about an hour, or two, ago." The other girls mouths hung agape.
"Himikooo!" Tsumugi said with a sly grin.
"Well...what exactly is this thing?" Himiko asked, looking at her neck in the mirror.
"It's a hickey," Kaede responded. "It's a bruise you get in a make-out session when someone bites your neck and sucks it."
"Oh!" Himiko exclaimed, turning bright red. The other girls all gave her sly grins, with the exception of Tenko, who still looked horrified.
"Does Kokichi...always do that to you?" Maki asked. The others huddled in closer, curious to know Himiko's response.
"Nyeh...well...no, not *always,*" she replied. "Sometimes, we have a 'regular' make-out session where we're just, you know...kissing and cuddling a little. But, today, it was, um...maybe a liiittle more than that?"
"Uh-huuuhh...go oonnn," Miu said, eager to learn more as her smile grew wider.
"Well, um...sometimes...Kokichi can get a bit too caught up in the moment, I guess, and he starts kissing other parts of me," Himiko said. The other girls' mouths hung agape and they all turned bright red. Noticing their expressions, Himiko shook her head quickly and lifted her hands at them. "NONONONONONONONO!!! THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT! I didn't mean THOSE parts, I just meant, like, my neck and cheek, and stuff. Even my shoulder, sometimes."
"S-So...that's what happened today?" Tsumugi asked, fanning herself.
"Well...yeah," Himiko shrugged bashfully. "So...we were just kissing, maybe a bit too passionately, until he gently pulled me closer to him. I kinda felt his tongue on mine...it sounds gross, but I actually liked it. His arms and his chest were so...warm. I guess I was so lost in his warmth that I gave up kissing him, and he started kissing my neck below my chin. Then, the next thing I knew, he pinned me against the tree and started kissing my cheek. I felt his lips brushing against the side of my neck after that. The next thing I knew, my back was against the ground, and he was on top of me. That's when he went straight for my neck and started kissing it. He moved the part of my sleeve that was covering my collarbone area and that's when he gently bit down on the spot where this thingy is...I already forgot what it's called."
"Go on," Kaede said, not even bothering to correct her, so intrigued was she in Himiko's story.
"Well, he gently bit my neck, and the next thing I knew, I just...I dunno, it felt like he was massaging my neck, only...with his mouth, and I dunno...it felt kinda good," Himiko continued. "I don't remember everything, since it kinda felt like a dream, but I think I put my hand against the back of his head because I wanted him to keep doing it. Um...I think I was giggling a few times, too. After a few seconds, he stopped sucking and started giving that same spot a few gentle kisses, and then he put the collar of my shirt back over my shoulder. That's when he put his forehead against mine and stared deeply into my eyes. He asked if I enjoyed that experience and I said yes."
"Y-You...told him 'YES?!'" Tenko asked, her face deep red, but not from anger. Himiko nodded.
"What else did he say, Himiko?" Kirumi asked in a quiet voice.
"He just said 'good,' and then we kinda took a little nap after that," Himiko answered. "Then, we woke up, headed back inside, I went to my room to read, then I was about to go to the bathroom, Kaede pulled me in here, and now...here we are."
"Wh-When he was on top of you...did you feel something hard towards your lower area?" Miu asked, her face also red. She was fanning both her face and chest.
"MIU!!" Kaede scolded.
"Eee-eeeee...wh-whaaaat? I just wanna knooow!!" Miu squealed sheepishly.
"No, I didn't feel anything hard," Himiko replied. "But I DID feel something wet." Yet again, the other girls' mouths hung agape, a little wider this time.
"Nee-heehee...that was a lie!" Himiko laughed, putting her arms behind her head, just like Kokichi.
"D'aawww, great! Not only did Cock Itchy give her a hickey, he also transferred some of his personality into you!" Miu spat. "I bet that was his REAL goal!"
"So, wait...does that mean that whole story you told was a lie?" Maki asked.
"It can't be," Angie chimed in. "She has the hickey to prove it!"
"But it could be just makeup, you know," Himiko said with a sly grin similar to Kokichi's. Kaede reached out and rubbed Himiko's neck.
"Ha! It's not coming off, Himiko," she said. "Definitely not makeup!" Himiko puckered her lips sassily at everyone.
"I could've put a vacuum cleaner to my neck and used that to create a fake...thingamajig. Nyeh...what's it called, again?" Himiko said.
"A hickey," Kaede said.
"Honestly, that sounds more like something you would do, Himiko," Tsumugi said. "No offense."
"Ya got me!" Himiko exclaimed. Everyone looked at her in confusion.
"Come again?" Maki asked.
"Nee-heehee...that's exactly what I did!" Himiko said. "It was actually Kokichi's idea to secretly take the portable vacuum cleaner that Miu built. He said that we were going to fool you guys into thinking that I got a hickey. He then used the vacuum cleaner on me and that's when our plan was put into action!"
"WHAT?!" Miu exclaimed. "That has to be a frikkin' lie! I left the portable vacuum cleaner in my clos- HEY! It's not even in here!" She looked around her closet for the vacuum cleaner, but it was nowhere to be found.
"So, that hickey story WAS a lie?!" Tenko asked hopefully.
"Yyyyuppers! Totally a lie!" Himiko exclaimed triumphantly with a cheeky grin.
"Well, as much as I am against lying, that's totally a relief," Kaede said.
"I find it plain disappointing," Tsumugi said with a bit of a sad face.
"If you want, Miu, I'll go to Kokichi right now and give you your vacuum cleaner back," Himiko offered.
"Of course I want it back!" Miu said. "I don't want my inventions in the grubby hands of that pubeless hobknocker!"
"Nyeh...okie-dokie!" Himiko replied cheerfully, heading towards the doorway of Kaede and Miu's room.
"Just a second, Himiko," Maki said. Himiko turned to Maki with her arms still behind her head.
"Yeeessss?" Himiko asked.
"You're acting a lot like Kokichi," Maki said. "Is that vacuum cleaner story really true?" Himiko shrugged.
"Who knooows?" she replied, looking back at her friends and with her hands now on the doorway. "I'm not telling yooouuu! What happens between Kokichi and me, stays between Kokichi and me!" With a sassy flourish, she exited the doorway. She headed downstairs to Gonta and Kokichi's room, and knocked on their door. The door opened, revealing Kokichi, who gestured to her to come inside.
"Sooo...did they buy the vacuum cleaner story?" Kokichi asked with a sly grin, handing Himiko the vacuum cleaner.
"Nyeh...most of them did, but Maki wasn't completely convinced," Himiko replied bashfully. "At first, I told them what REALLY happened, like you told me to. I also pretended to not know what a hickey was so that in case someone spotted it in the first place, I would make myself come off as innocent. Then I told them all it was a lie, afterwards. They seemed relieved when I told them the hickey story was a lie, but like I said before, it seemed like Maki was the only one who wasn't convinced of the whole vacuum cleaner thing."
"Nee-heehee...I see!" Kokichi said. "You're getting better at lying, Himiko! You still need to work on it, but I'm impressed that you managed to fool most of them. Especially when you pretended not to know what a hickey was. That wasn't initially part of the plan." He gave her a smile of respect, causing her to blush.
"I know, but...I don't wanna make it a habit," Himiko said. "I just didn't want them to know that...you actually gave me this hickey. I'm just glad you came up with the vacuum cleaner as a ruse."
"That's fine," Kokichi replied. "There's room for only one liar in this house, anyways! Well, actually, a bunch of you guys are liars. But nobody can outlie me, and that's that!"
"I understand, Mr. Supreme Leader, sir," Himiko replied, batting her eyelashes playfully at him.
"You are dismissed, my Supreme Lady," Kokichi said, gesturing towards the door. "And come back soon for another one of our...steamy sessions." He winked at her and bit his lip seductively as he booped her nose. Himiko giggled bashfully and left to return Miu's vacuum cleaner to her.