Upside Down

Everyone says, "Okay," or nods.

We gather up our trash and dump it. Then head to the elevator to go to the shop I saw listed with the best rating.

We exit the elevator and head to the shop. After we enter, we are greeted, "Welcome to "The Customized Man." Please, let me know if you need any help."

I smile at him and say, "Thank you. We do. I need these two measure and fit for tuxedos and suits. Black for the tuxedos and for the suits, one in black and one in dark grey for each of them."

"Of course. Do you want them custom made, altered to measure, or off the rack?"

"I doubt you could have custom made done in time. How long does it take for altered to measure?"

"We do offer a rush service, but it adds ¥22,000 to the price of the suit or tuxedo. Rush service is done within 24 hours."

"Hmm… Alright. I need the tuxedos done on a rush order because we need them for a party Sunday. The suits aren"t that big of a deal."

"Certainly. If you"ll follow me, I"ll get your measurements."

I look at Ryu. "See you in a few minutes. We"re going to look at the tuxedos."

Ryu lightly squeezes my hand before he releases it and he and Ryo follow the clerk, while I lead us girls over to the tuxedos. I had never realized there were so many styles of tuxedos. Looking through them, I finally settle on one as the clerk brings the boys back.

"Did you find what you like Miss?"

"I did. I"d like two of this style altered to their measurements. Rush order please."

He looks at the tag on the style, writes it down on the pad he"s carrying and then says, "Certainly. Now, about the suits. Have you thought about the kind you would like for them?"

"Not much beyond a 2-piece suit in black and dark gray for both of them. Oh, I"ll need a dress shirt, tie, slacks, and dress shoes for both of them to wear today."

"Huh? Why?" Ryu asks.

I look at him. "You see soon." Returning my attention to the clerk. "Will that be an issue?"

"Definitely not Miss. If you"ll follow me, we can pick out the suits you want for them."

We follow the clerk over as he shows and explains about each suit and the differences between them. I finally settle on a upper-middle priced brand for them.

When Ryo starts to say something, I give him a "Shut the h.e.l.l up" look, and he settles back down.

The clerk writes down the style number on his pad again. "As for the rest, if you"ll follow me." He leads us first to the shoes. I settle on a style in black for them and he checks them for size. Once he has, he heads in back and comes back out with two boxes and hands one to each of them.

"If you"ll follow me." He leads us to slacks and I pick out a style in black for each of them. The clerk checks his pad, then select the sizes and hands one to each of them.

"This way please." He leads us to the shirts. "Is there anything specific you"d like for them?"

"Umm… I don"t know much about men"s clothing other than what looks good."

"Do I a.s.sume correctly these will be worn both with and without the suits and with a tie?"

"Definitely with a tie and yes, they"ll be worn both ways."

"Then may I recommend b.u.t.ton down collars with long sleeves?"

"Sounds good to me."

He walks over a couple of aisles and pulls a shirt off the rack to show me. I take it and hold it up to Ryu. I like it, this will do fine.

"Alright. This will work can I have 2 white ones, a gray one, a blue one, a red one, and, hmm… do you think yellow would look good with their suits?"

"With contrasting ties it would look very good."

"Okay, then a yellow ones each and a contrasting tie for each color. I"ll leave to you to pick out the contrasting ties."

"Certainly Miss, I"m happy to be of a.s.sistance."

He picks out the shirts for each of them and hands them to them. He leads us to the ties and look at each of them, then picks out 6 different colored ties for each of them and hands them over to them.

"Will that be everything for today Miss?"

"I think that covers everything for the moment. We"ll definitely end up coming back though."

"I"m happy to hear that. If you follow me, we"ll get you checked out."

He leads the way to the register scans the shirts, slacks, ties and shoes, then enters the numbers for the suits and tuxedos. Once he"s done, he look at me and says, "The total is ¥640,656." Ryu almost chokes when he hears the total and I give him a look.

I hand him my card with a mental sigh, hoping Dad doesn"t have a meltdown over today"s expenditures since I"ve spent almost ¥1.8 million. I probably should cut back on my spending for a while, at least until I build my balance back up or the transfer from the court comes through.

He hands me the slip to sign, then tells me, "Do you want us to call you when the tuxedos are ready?"

"Yes, please do. I stay rather busy, so that would be a big help."

He indicates a line on the slip. "If you"ll put your phone number there, we"ll call when we finish with them and also when we finish the suits."

"Thank you. May they use your changing room?"

"Certainly, they are right back through the curtain there." He tells me pointing.

"Thank you." I turn to them. "Ryu, Ryo, you need to change your shoes, put on your slacks, a dress shirt and tie. We"ll be going to dinner after this and your attire is inappropriate."

Ryu asks, "I thought we would be eating at your house?"

"I never said that. We"re having dinner with our parents at Kunimi"s in," I glance at my watch, "25 minutes, so I suggest you hurry along."

Both of them sigh loudly, which prompts Chinatsu to say, "You both were told already that we like places like that and that it would be with our family from time to time, so I don"t want to hear any sighs. As Sora said, you had best get a move on."

Ryu says, "Alright, see you soon," and both of them go to change.

The clerk chuckles. "Ladies, you"re certainly training them well."

Chinatsu looks surprised for a moment, smiles, and says, "I"d say less training than trying to get our boyfriends accustomed to our life style."

"Miss, that"s nothing more than another form of training." He says with a smile. "Young men these days aren"t as cultured as they used to be. I"m happy to see you are working them in that direction. Not to mention, the young ladies tend to be the same. I have to say it was a pleasant surprise to see you young ladies dressed so well when you came in."

I chuckle. "If you knew our Mama and Dad, you wouldn"t be so surprised. They are rather finicky in how we dress. Personally, I"m trying to get our boyfriends to start dressing better. My boyfriend wants to be a lawyer, so he needs to get used to this. I have no idea what my sister"s boyfriend wants to do in life."

Chinatsu mutters, "I don"t think he even has a clue."

The clerk chuckles again. "Miss, he"s still rather young, so that"s to be expected. Your sister"s boyfriend is an exception to that rule. Do you two even know what you want to do in life yet?"

I nod. "We do. I want to be a Biotechnology Researcher and my sister wants to be a Doctor."

"That"s certainly unusual for ladies your age. Very commendable to know what you want out of life."

"I hope this doesn"t sound rude, but did you always want to be a clerk?"

He chuckles. "Miss, I own this store and I"m also a tailor. I always wanted to be a tailor just like my father was. I did that. My work earned me enough to open this store and we"ve done very well. I simply enjoy interacting with my customers as well, that"s why I"m out here."

"My apologies, Mr.?"

"Kano. A pleasure to meet you ladies."

"A pleasure Mr. Kano. I"m Sora Kobayashi, this is my sister, Chinatsu. The two quiet ones back here are our sisters as well, Honoka and Sofi." They smile and bow to him as I introduce them.

"I know your father then, he buys his suits from me. Did he send you?"

"Dad didn"t know we were doing this today, so no. I simply looked up the suit stores in here since we were here and you were the highest rated, so we came here first."

Coincidences like this always amaze me. I catch sight of them walking back toward us out of the corner of my eye, and turn to look at them. The way Ryu looks makes my heart flutter and brings a smile to my lips.

As Ryu comes close to me, I take his hand to pull him down to me, and quietly tell him, "You look so handsome Ryu. I can"t wait to see you in your new tuxedo and suits if you look this good in just this." I giggle. "Girls are going to be so jealous of me."

"Sora, you amaze me. I love you very much, but you do. Don"t you ever see the looks the guys give me over you?" He asks with a smile.

"Huh? No, why would I?"

"Exactly. You never look at any other guys when we"re out."

"Again, why would I? I have the one I love, so why would I look at other boys? I"m much happier looking into those gorgeous eyes of yours." I glance at my watch. "That said, we need to go, now, or we"ll be late for dinner and Mama and Dad won"t be happy." I turn to look at Mr. Kano. "Mr. Kano, thank you so much for your help. We"ll be seeing you soon."

"You"re quite welcome Ms. Kobayashi. Have a good evening."

We quickly make our way to the elevator to ride up to Kunimi"s on the 31st floor. Now for those of you don"t know this is a fairly high end venue. Richly decorated in the style from the Edo period and surrounded by floor to ceiling windows, so the view of both Tokyo bay and Tokyo Skytree is spectacular. It"s mostly open table seating, but they also have private rooms. I have no idea which Dad booked for us.

I won"t go into a lot of detail about dinner, but Dad ordered everyone crab for dinner and it was simply divine. Dad talked to Ryu and Ryo quite a bit, not that I minded too much since I was so concentrated on my food. Mama did ask us about shopping and I fully expected Dad to explode when I told her how much I spent, but thankfully, he didn"t even bat an eye. Maybe knowing how much I was awarded made him not so worried about it.

After dinner, Mama and Dad take his car home, while the rest of us had the driver take us home. Once home, we carry the mult.i.tude of bags inside and separate them out. That done, Chinatsu and I take the boys to our room. I pull out my phone, set the alarm for 10:30 to make sure they won"t be late getting home and set it down on the nightstand. I want them to be able to come back more often like this and his parents won"t trust is if they are late getting home.

"Finally, we"re all alone." I say with a grin as I push Ryu onto the bed, while Chinatsu wastes little time following suit with Ryo, and we crawl onto their laps. Wrapping my arms around him I give him a tight hug and he wraps his arms around my waist to pull me closer. I simply love the way he feels against me. I nibble on his earlobe and whisper, "I love you Ryu. Thank you for not fighting me today."

He chuckles and quietly says, "As if it would have done me any good. I know better than to fight a battle I can"t win."

I giggle. "Not only handsome, but smart too," which makes him laugh. I lean back to look at him. "Ryu, kiss me."

Even with Chinatsu and Ryo in the room with us, he doesn"t hesitate and pulls me to him for a kiss. Of course, I think he knew I didn"t care that they were here. h.e.l.l, what does he think they are doing now? The same thing as us, of course.

Parting my lips I tease his lips with my tongue inviting a deeper kiss, which he happily responds to. Gently exploring my tongue with his and I slide my hand up to the back of his neck to pull him even tighter to me. He responds by almost crushing me against him, which elicits a soft moan from me, and I demand even more from him. He jerks back in surprise when his hand brushes my breast. I suppose he thought I"m going to slap him. Instead, I give him a devilish grin, grab his hand, bring it up to kiss it, and then slide it down the front of me until his hand is on my breast. His shocked expression makes me grin even bigger.

I lean forward to whisper in his ear, "We can"t go all the way, but I don"t mind you touching me Ryu. I"m yours and you"re mine."

He swallows hard, shakes his head wonderingly, and whispers, "Are you sure?"

"Of course I am, or I wouldn"t have put your hand back."

I make him scoot away from the wall, sit down in his lap, and wrap my legs around him to allow me to be even closer. I lean back in for another kiss as he ma.s.sages my b.o.o.b with one hand and pulls me tighter with the other.

When I moan softly again, he pulls back and quietly asks, "Did I hurt you?"

I smile, shake my head, and whisper, "Of course not. Quite the opposite actually." His confused expression begs me to explain. "Ryu, it"s not hurting me, you"re exciting me honey. Just as I can tell I"m exciting you."

Yes, I can feel his erection against me, which merely serves to further arouse me.

"Sora, how can you be so open like this?" He asks quietly.

I look at him seriously and quietly reply, "Do I have a reason to hide how you make me feel? I know you won"t try to make me go further than I"m willing to go. You can touch my b.r.e.a.s.t.s, you can grab my b.u.t.t. You can touch me almost anywhere you want. What you can"t do is touch my v.a.g.i.n.a. That will net you one h.e.l.l of a slap if you try to do so. That is reserved for my husband. I have hopes you"ll be him, but that"s a ways off."

He shakes his head again and whispers, "I keep saying it, but you truly do amaze me Sora. I don"t think I"ll ever understand how you can just say things like that. Most girls would completely freak out if they tried to do it."

I chuckle. "Ryu, you already know I"m not a normal girl. I"ll always tell you what I think and feel. Now, shut up and make out with me."

He chuckles and grins for a moment until he pulls me back to him for a long, deep, extremely sensuous kiss. This time he didn"t even pause as he slid a hand down to cup my b.u.t.t in his large hand and plays with my nipple with his other. By the time we break our kiss, I"m flushed, breathing roughly, and very, very aroused. My panties would be sopping wet right now if I didn"t have a tampon in.

I lean back in and latch onto his neck to give him a kiss mark. He"s taken, he"s mine, and I want every girl out there to know it! I guess I"m a possessive girl and I"m not going to apologize for it. He doesn"t seem to mind either since he has to know what I"m doing and all he does it pull me tighter against him. When I"m done, I lean back to admire my handiwork. Yep, very noticable. Mission accomplished. I give him a coquettish grin and he pulls me forward to lightly brush my lips with his, and then along my cheek to my ear where he whispers, "You"re a naughty girl."

I giggle and quietly reply, "You"re just now figuring that out? You"re mine and I want everyone to know it."

He kisses his way up my neck making me shiver. "They already know from the last one Sora. Everyone wants to know who you are too. You may have a lot of girls that won"t like you because of being with me."

I push back so I can look at him. "As if I care what they think about me, or even if they hate me. I have friends, I have my sisters, and I have you. That"s plenty enough for anyone. That said, I want to make out, not talk about something that means nothing to me."

He smiles, grabs my b.u.t.t with both hands, which makes me smile, until he squeezed it and makes me squeak in surprise. "Now who"s being naughty?"

His smile gets even bigger, then he replies, "You did say anywhere, except…"

I giggle again and shake my head. I love him so very much, he makes my heart flutter every time he looks at me, or touches me. Right now I don"t see how I could be any happier than I am. h.e.l.l, I feel like I"m going to burst from it. I lay my hands on his cheeks, lean in and force his lips apart with my tongue to kiss him deeply and fiercely, trying to impart an inkling of just how much I love him and how happy he makes me.