Tenmei awoke that same day, and after getting out of bed and putting his glasses on, he found that something rather smooth softly hit his stomach once as he trotted to the door to open it.

“Last time I checked, I went to bed without the kitchen sink…” He mumbled, trotting to his dresser drawer and sitting before it. He then looked down, and found a dark mass protruding just between his forelegs, bobbing up and down like it was a stick being waved at something.

“What the…?” Tenmei inquired, grabbing a cloth to clean his glasses. Before putting them back on, he rubbed his eyes and blinked a few times. After putting his glasses back on and looking down again, he found that the thing had not vanished from between his forelegs.

A red blush immediately came onto his face, and his eyes widened. Instantly, he put his glasses back on the drawer and jumped into the bed, making sure to cover up whilst laying on his side.

“I’m not walking out there with a piece of wood dangling between my legs…” Tenmei mumbled to himself, his face reddening still. “Just gonna stay here and hope it goes away…”

As soon as he finished mumbling, someone began knocking on his door. A voice called out from the other side, “Tenmei? You awake?”

“Yeah, just feeling like I’m about to puke!” Tenmei lied, raising his head with his gaze directed at the door should someone decide to come waltzing in.

The door opened. In peeked 01, though he didn’t fully enter the room. “Alright, just get some rest, and come up for breakfast if you feel better.” He said before closing the door and trotting away.

Tenmei lay his head on the pillow again. He was still blushing red as a tomato, and his member didn't slide back into its sheath as he hoped.

Someone began knocking on the door again. Tenmei rose his head, and this time the door opened before Koto stepped in.

“What now?” The stallion asked, ears flattening on his skull.

“Get out of bed. Nurse Redheart’s gotta do an evaluation on you.” Koto sighed before she walked out of the room and closed the door.

Tenmei lay back down, this time covering his head with the blanket. The thought of the nurse of all ponies checking up on him now made his stomach do flips and his mind scramble. As an extra measure, he grabbed his pillow and held it before his body tightly (after shifting his little friend so it was right in front of his stomach), hoping it would cover the problem until it went away.

The door opened a third time. The pony who opened the door then spoke. “Sorry, doctor’s orders. Get up and we’ll go and do some tests to ensure your bones are working correctly.”

Tenmei’s heart sank again, and his pupils shrank.

“Get up.” The pony repeated, and when the stallion didn’t oblige, it trotted to him and the next thing he knew was the blanket flew off his body in a second. Nurse Redheart loomed over him, brow furrowed at his reluctance to get out of bed already.

Tenmei damn near had a heart attack. His body was paralyzed, and his jaw hung wide open in horror.

“Remove the pillow. Quit acting like a foal.” Redheart groaned, raising her front hooves to remove the pillow if he didn’t comply.

That, needless to say, was what exactly had happened. Before she could react, he rolled onto his stomach.

Redheart’s hoof connected with her face, and she groaned in annoyance. She then placed her hooves on his left side and began to pull. She pulled hard enough for the stallion to literally roll off the bed and onto her.

Tenmei quickly scrambled to his hooves, looking down at the nurse to see if she was alright. She was looking back at him, and found the reason for his reluctance pointing right at her face.

“What was--” A voice started, but suddenly fell silent. Both ponies looked to the door, only to find Nagare staring back at them with wide eyes.

An awkward silence hung in the room at that moment. It lasted for another two minutes.

“Okay….then…” Nagare stated, walking away from the door after shutting it.

“That...was awkward…” Nurse Redheart murmured, a furious blush of her own on her face. Quickly, she pushed Tenmei with her hooves, then scrambled until she was standing. She looked the stallion dead in the eye. “We’ll do the evaluation later today.” She sighed, making her way out of the room quickly.

Tenmei put his glasses back on just long enough to put the pillow and blanket back on the bed before removing them and hiding again.

“I hope that never happens another time…” He murmured, this time trembling at the thought. Given the look on Nagare’s face when he came upon the sight, it was little wonder what had been running through the pegasus’s mind at that moment. Though, after that unsightly display, he felt his little friend finally relent and retreat back into its sheath.

The hours flew by after that, and the evaluation went smoothly. Tenmei was trotting his way back home, a huge smile on his face. He passed the evaluation with flying colors, and Nurse Redheart didn’t acknowledge the awkward ordeal this morning, which made him all the more happier.

Upon opening the door and trotting into the living room, he immediately noticed that something didn’t sit quite right: namely, Nagare looking at him with a smug grin on his face as he sat at the table.

“Did you have fun?” The pegasus asked, still grinning as Tenmei closed the door behind him.

Tenmei arched a brow. “The evaluation went smoothly.” He replied.

Nagare rolled his eyes, still smiling. “Really?” He inquired. “So...what did you do?”

“I did the exercises Doctor Stable kinda threw at me. He said he needed to make sure my bones were working properly.” Tenmei answered, brow still arched.

“Ah.” The stallion seemed to understand where Tenmei had been coming from with the reply. He nodded once, and stared at him nonchalantly. “Tapping of the knee bones and whatnot?”

“Yes.” Tenmei sighed, brow furrowing. The pegasus was beginning to annoy him, and it didn’t help that Yuuki, Rekka, and Koto were at the table as well, and they were watching him intently.

Nagare’s smirk only grew wider. His face darkened under his hair as it did, and a fire sparked in his eyes. “Did you have fun with the nurse?” He asked.

Almost immediately, the other three spectators looked at the pegasus with widening eyes. Tenmei’s eyes had widened as well, and a blush came onto his face.

“I-uh...WHAT?” The earth pony asked, comepletely dumbstruck by the remark.

Rekka slammed his front hooves on the table, and he rose onto his hind legs whilst using said table to support himself. “You’re saying he fucked the nurse?!” He cried, his pupils shrinking.

Nagare merely nodded, that damned smirk still not leaving his face.

“DID NOT!” Tenmei protested, his outburst once more garnering the attention of the spectators who only looked at him in utter disbelief. His face was completely flushed in red now, and his ears had flattened.

“Really?” Asked the green pegasus as if he were about to counter those two words. “Then what explains your little friend sticking out this morning? With the nurse beneath you no less?”

“He...did what?” Koto asked, her jaw physically dropping open.

Yuuki was silent. She pursed her lips together to begin speaking, only to stop when her jaw worked up and down, but words failed to form.

“For the love of…” Tenmei mumbled in a whisper, taking in a deep breath afterwards. “I tried hiding it, but she pulled me off the bed and I was trying to hide again.” He answered.

“Didn’t hide fast enough.” Nagare jabbed back, grinning still. Tenmei winced as if stung by a bee at his remark.

The earth pony huffed. “Ugh!” He hissed, his hoof connecting with his red face before he shook his head.

“Looks like that argument’s over.” Remarked a feminine voice. Everyone glanced to the stairs and found Kaguya looking at them from the square platform that marked the halfway point of the flight.

The elder mare had her eyes set on Nagare, one brow arched and the other lowered. “Please, don’t spark anymore verbal fights. Especially in regards to anything revolving around reproduction.”

“Alright.” The pegasus relented, his smirk fading into a frown at last.

Author's Note

Awkward intensifies.

~Dragon