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I said this in my last update, but some of you probably missed it since, for some reason, you don't care to read about Cyber Sui-Feng. So, this update to almost 5 months to the day, but I'm not going to apologize for it. Many things came up in between that took precedents (everything takes precedence over this) and more things look to be coming in the future. I'm not going to lay out any time table for updates or make any promises that I can't keep.

Also, I've set up a Tumblr. I'm SoldierG65434-2 on there was well, so if you care you already know how to find me (I can't link you there directly or else I would). I'm going to cross-post fic updates there as well as on Team YoruSoi. Because of this I'm going to stop posting ANs. I've never cared for them, I find them intrusive and distracting, but only used them as a necessary way to communicate with my readers en mass. Now that I have two means of doing that, and in greater detail no less, I'm going to stop posting ANs here short of any gravley important news that everyone needs to know or give credit where it is due. So if are interested in any supplemental information related to my updates, follow my on Tumblr. I mostly use Team YoruSoi to discuss the actual content so if that's more your thing than sign up there.

Big shoutouts to PolarisAmane for helping me with this. If you haven't read Winning isn't Everything by her, you really should.

"Oh shit!" Rei's eyes snapped open at the voice. She sat up, her head throbbing, and looked around, trying to get her bearings. She was on a couch in the middle of a room she couldn't recall ever being in before. In their sweep, her eyes came to rest on a rather disheveled and groggy looking Rangiku Matsumoto. "We didn't…did we?"

"We didn't what?" Rei's head was pounding too hard to understand what Rangiku was insinuating, but whatever it was she didn't seem to care for it much by the look on her face.

"Oh thank goodness." Rangiku slumped against the wall in relief, her robes barely staying on. "I swore that the first time would be the last." She waved her hand adamantly.

People liked to pretend that they knew themselves well enough to predict how they would react to hypotheticals, but very few, if any, actually had any idea what they would do in any of the fanciful situations they dreamed up. That's where Rei found herself; trapped in someone's thought experiment. And like any person faced with an impossible choice, she did the sensible thing and tried to drink the problem away.

It wasn't even that Rei was one that tended towards liquor; it was just that her situation was so outlandish that when she heard Rangiku trying to badger Isane to go drinking with her that night, she had been more than happy to take Isane's place.

"Hey!" Rangiku barked, rummaging through a cabinet. "You're from the Fourth right? Don't you have any of those magic anti-hangover pills?" Most people never had the misfortune of seeing how thoroughly unpleasant Rangiku could was when she was hung over. She normally kept a healthy stock of the pills the Twelfth devised to combating the unsavory side-effect, but forgot to restock on them before she went drinking last night.

"I'm sorry," Rei still wasn't fully cognitive yet. "I don't have my medicine bag with me." She looked around. At least she didn't think she did. She didn't see it anywhere.

"Fine," Rangiku groaned. "I'll guess I'll have to cure it the old fashion way." She shambled over to a counter top.

"What are you doing?" Rei asked.

"Making coffee." Rangiku replied flatly. "Want some?"

"We need water." Was Rei's response.

"Do you want some or not?" She snapped back and Rei nodded sheepishly. A few minutes later she stumbled over and handed Rei a warm mug. The caffeine helped kick start her brain at least. She recognized now that she was in Rangiku's office in the Tenth Division. She couldn't for the life of her remember how she got there, though since only her brain was sore the ride mustn't have been too rough.

"Hey, I think I recognize you," Rangiku said after a few sips. "Aren't you Sui-Feng's-"

"Nurse!" Rei interrupted. "I'm her nurse, fifth seat Rei Komatsu."

"Nurse huh?" Rangiku chuckled. "I guess that explains why you hit the booze so hard last night. I'd probably try to drink myself to death too if I had to spend that much time around Sui-Feng." Rei shot her a dirty look, but she continued. "At least she's gotten better though. After the Ryoka Incident she was unbearable! It was all "Yoruichi-sama!" this and "Yoruichi-sama!" that. She would never shut up about her! Ugh! It makes me sick to my stomach that I…"

"You what?" Rei asked, her voice slightly combative.

"Nothing." Rangiku buried her face in her mug. "Oh! This one time I got her a shitty little stuffed cat from some street vendor in Karakura. The thing was battered and faded. She loved the stupid thing! She seriously obsessed with that woman. But what am I telling you all this for? I'm sure you know all about her precious Yoruichi-sama." She huffed. "Honestly, what does she see in her? Always running around naked like some kind of a skank. Who does she think she is?"

"I-I should probably get going." Rei finished offer her mug and quickly made her way towards the door.

"Wait! Don't tell Sui-Feng I said any of this, 'kay?" Rangiku called after her. "She might actually kill me!"

Rei didn't respond, only shutting the door roughly behind her before collapsing against the wall, tears threatening to spill. She had prayed that Yoruichi had been lying to her, but unless she had concocted some elaborate scheme and had Matsumoto in on it, she must have been telling her the truth.

A crushing hopelessness enveloped Rei for a moment, and then was quickly washed away. No, there was still hope. Wiping the wetness from her eyes, she moved her feet, heading towards where she and Sui-Feng lived. After cleaning and sufficiently hydrating herself, she made her way to where Yoruichi had told her to go. It was a storeroom on the outskirts of the Eighth Division, so no-descript that most people didn't even know it was there.

"Morning." Rei jumped slightly at the masculine voice and the soft feeling brushing against her leg as she closed the door behind her.

"M-morning." Rei fumbled for a moment. Yoruichi had warned her about her feline form, but the experience of talking to her was still a little unnerving.

"I take it since you're here that you have an answer for me?" Yoruichi perched herself up on a stack of boxes.

"Yeah," Rei instinctively reached out a hand to pet the cat, but pulled back before touching when she remembered that it was actually a grown woman. Yoruichi leaned her head into her hand, accepting the pet with a soft purr. "I think we should try it."

The little nuisances that came from only having one arm were really starting to bother Sui-Feng. Before, at times likes these where she wasn't doing anything in particular, she would have crossed her arms and rested her hands in her sleeves. If she was overlooking the training grounds, the posture would give her an appearance of being busy, even when what her men were doing wasn't of any particular importance to her at that moment. But now, she couldn't figure out what to do with her remaining hand.

Leaving the limb dangling at her side felt too lackadaisical for her tastes. She tried resting it on the banister that lined the outside of the walkway but that too left her looking unoccupied. For now, she settled with standing with her one hand on her hip, but she hated how much that enlarged her profile.

It did have the desired effect of driving off anyone that would have come to seek her attention, however. Looking over the training troops, she looked appropriately absorbed in their activities. She frowned slightly as she caught movement out the corner of her eye heading in her direction. Her frown deepened when she turned to face it.

Sui-Feng had learned how to read Yoruichi's movements a long time ago. It was hard not to pick up some thingswhen you spend a lot of time around someone, and it was impossible when you spent that time surreptitiously staring at them. As she approached there was a small, almost imperceptible bounce in her step, and her stride was slightly elongated than her usual gait, giving her hips an added sway. Her shoulders were square and her head was held high, neither of which were unusual, but there was a faint smirk on her sculpted face and a gleam in her eyes. All of this was even easier to spot than usual with Rei walking next to her. She seemed small, almost insignificant next to her.

Yoruichi was confident about something, perhaps even cocky, and that alone was enough to cause a knot to start to form in Sui-Feng's stomach. But watching Rei approach with her, Sui-Feng couldn't tell if it was from dread, or excitement.

"Hey Sui." Yoruichi greeted, coming to a stop in front of the woman. "You got a minute?" Sui-Feng hesitated for a moment before answering.

"I'm afraid I'm occupied at the moment." Sui-Feng replied evasively, turning back to the training men.

"It'll only take a minute!" Rei chirped. Sighing, Sui-Feng relented.

"What it is?" Sui-Feng asked as irritably as she could. Part of her hoped that whatever was going to happen could be avoided if she was prickly enough.

"Let's talk in your office." Yoruichi motioned with a hand her handand the women headed off with Yoruichi in the lead. Along the way, Sui-Feng tried to catch Rei's eye, to glean any information out of them, but she had no luck. They arrived at the office quickly and shut the door behind them.

"Well?" Sui-Feng's bristly demeanor was already beginning to falter.

"Ever since that stunt I pulled the other day," Yoruichi began. "Rei here started to suspect that maybe there was more to you and I than we were letting on. So we've been talking. We like each other." She turned to Rei for confirmation and received a nod. "We get along well enough and we both have some common ground." The look Yoruichi gave her made Sui-Feng fidget slightly. "So we decided that we're willing to share you."

"Share?" Sui-Feng recoiled as if struck.

"What?" Yoruichi smirked. "You're already in a rather unorthodox relationship, what with your ranks and all." She shrugged.

"And you agreed to this?" Sui-Feng turned to Rei.

"We both care about you deeply." Rei spoke softly. "And we know you care about both of us." There was some reticence in her statement. "There's no reason to make you choose between us." Sui-Feng began to pace around the room.

"You two can't be serious about this!" Sui-Feng stopped for a moment, but began to pace about again when she saw both women looking at her.

"You always make a big fuss out of everything." Yoruichi sighed. "It's just like when you got your hair cut that one time…"

"This is hardly comparable!" Sui-Feng's voice was airy from a lack of breath.

"Please calm down, Sui-Feng." Rei put a hand on her shoulder, stopping her frantic movements. "I understand this is sudden, but please…we just want to make you happy."

"Just give us a chance." Yoruichi sounded almost pleading. "That's all we're asking."

Sui-Feng leaned back against her desk, attempting to take it all in. Not two days ago her and Yoruichi were dancing around their feelings for one another, and now here she was proposing some sort of ménage a trois. It seemed too good to be true. She would be a fool to refuse this, but that knot in her stomach had only tightened, and she still could tell what was causing it.

Her mind was racing. There was so much to consider, and yet before her scattered thoughts could coalesce onto any one thing, her mouth spoke.

"And what if I refuse?" Sui-Feng asked slightly franticly. Her response was a flat look from Yoruichi. She searched for any foot hold she could find, anything that would ease the knot in her gut, but found nothing.

"Fine." Sui-Feng acquiesced. Mere moments after the words were uttered she was nearly tackled by Yoruichi, who grabbed her in a near-deathly tight embrace.

"I promise you won't regret this, Sui." Yoruichi gave her a quick peck on the cheek and let her go. "I have to go get a few things. I'll see you both later tonight." Seductiveness crept into her voice as she left, leaving both Rei and Sui-Feng with a creeping blush.

Sui-Feng didn't know what to expect when she got home, which is why she avoided it for as long as possible.

Her normal efficiency was absent from her day after her visit from Rei and Yoruichi. She walked to her destinations, rather than using shunpo. She lingered in her observations and suffered the company of many officers and other senior member for far longer than she needed to, all because of the twisted knot of nerves in the put of her stomach.

She couldn't put it off forever, though. Short of sleeping in her office, she had to face then eventually. So she dragged her leaden feet towards her villa, where two beautiful women waited to greet her. She let out a chuckle at how that elicited such dread in her.

Slowly, cautiously, Sui-Feng slid the shoji open, as if she could sneak in with her around. Even though she expected it, she was nonetheless surprised when she was greeted by the tight embrace of Yoruichi.

"Sui!" Yoruichi cheered, practically hanging off of her neck. She punctuated the greeting with a kiss, delivered with no hesitation or warning.

"We were starting to worry." Rei approached from the kitchen, a warm smiling hiding the fact that even though she had been preparing for it all day, seeing Sui-Feng kiss another woman stung her deeply. At least the look of utter shock and embarrassment on Sui-Feng's face helped eased the pain a little. It was just something that she was going to have to get used to. "Dinner's just about ready." She turned away a left Sui-Feng to Yoruichi, who seemed content to enjoy Sui-Feng's reddening face.

The rest of the evening was shockingly uneventful. The women shared a relatively pleasant meal and Sui-Feng retreated to finish her day's paperwork while Yoruichi and Rei cleaned up. She could hear a faint conversation between them, but she tried her best to ignore it.

Nightfall came quicker than Sui-Feng would have liked. It seemed that not more than a few minutes after they had finished their dinner, the Moon had replaced the sun and was illuminating the cloudless night sky.

"I'm sorry, this all happened so suddenly, I don't have a place prepared for you to sleep." Rei apologized to Yoruichi as her and Sui-Feng started to drift towards their bedroom. "I'll go get the spare fut-"

"That won't be necessary." Yoruichi held up a hand.

"But where will you sleep?" Rei asked, not seeing Sui-Feng shake her head slightly at the question.

"With you two, of course." Yoruichi smirked as she watched Rei's face pale. Before either woman could offer a protest, Yoruichi wrapped her arms around them and pushed them into the bedroom.

"Isn't this moving things a bit fast?" Rei looked to Sui-Feng, but all she saw on her face was a look of ambivalence. When she had agreed to share she hadn't meant this!

Sui-Feng, for her part, didn't know what she was feeling. Part of her was pained to hear Rei's pleading, but another part was equally amused by her trying to get out of a situation that was at least partially her fault. Most of her, however, was realizing that she was about to have a threesome with Yoruichi and was quickly becoming absolutely giddy.

"Come on," Sui-Feng began to move towards the finely made futon in the middle of the room. "Once she's set her mind on something, it's almost impossible to persuade her otherwise."

"You don't have to sound so fatalistic about it." Yoruichi pouted, joining them on the bed.

Rei wasn't normally an earlier riser. Normally, Sui-Feng's early morning rutine was what wok her, and even then, she normally fell back asleep for a time. This morning, however, Sui-Feng fast asleep by the time she woke up. Getting out of bed, she looked down at the other two inhabitants. Sui-Feng and Yoruichi were still tangled in each other, their faces towards one another.

It's just the first time, Rei told herself as she looked away from the sight and got dressed. She was sure they would be hungry, so she hurried out of the room to prepare them breakfast.