Novella of Nakari: Swinging Two Ways
By: Monica Vix


The pair ate their food together. Nakari ate with more vigor than the bunny before her. The voracious shark almost didn’t stop as she wanted to eat all of the food that Monica was paying for, not wanting to waste any of it. For once, the brown rabbit was taking her time eating her veggie burger, looking towards the blue shark’s chicken salad.


“Thanks for meeting for lunch, still.” The bunny sighed out as she took a bite of her sandwich, her hair blowing in the gentle wind. “I know you’re kinda… rushing to get to practice, too. If you want, I can get your salad in a box and save it f-” There was a sudden buzz of her phone on the table, her sentence getting stopped as the lapine’s emerald eyes were cast towards the screen. White furred fingers quickly unlocked the device to steal a peek at the text.


Nakari saw the rabbit looking at her phone and nodded slowly. Her black hair was brushed out of the way, displacing the pink streak along the rest of her hair. “Oh, sure! Thanks a lot. I’m already like… halfway done though, so it shouldn’t be too much to scoop into a box.” Her indigo eyes narrowed more on Monica’s expression than the screen of the phone, watching the surprise and interest dance along her face muscles like a musical. “Is… everything okay?” Nakari said with some concern, her mechanical fingers fidgeting without her input as the nervous energy sent signals to her limbs, plastic clacking against the metal edge of the table.


“Apparently my brother’s in town on a job tomorrow.” Monica said bluntly. More in surprise than anything else. She looked up to the shark with a shrug and slight smile. “Want me to invite him to your game?” She asked in a more relaxed tone. The bunny mellowed out as she leaned back in her chair, wincing for a moment as her ears were pinned to it.


“Wait, wait, you have a brother?” The shark replied in surprise! Her eyes opened wide in pure shock at the fact that her friend, and now girlfriend, that she’s been living with for a year or so has a brother! “You never told me about him! What’s he like?” Nakari was enthusiastic, leaning in to hear more of what Monica had to say.


There was a snicker as the rabbit picked up a glass of soda, taking a slow sip of it. With a mischievous grin, she stared at Nakari for a moment before answering. “He’s a little shit. Older than me, shorter than you, but still acts like he’s six foot tall.” Her tone sounded neutral, despite the words themselves being a little more aggressive. “Very clean cut and by the book with just about everything under the sun. Even then, he’s kind of fun to be around. I think he’s doing some programming thing now for work? We don’t… really talk much, in all honesty.”


The shark tilted her head at the statement. “Did… something happen between you two?” With a look at the clock of her own phone, indigo eyes widened. Nakari began to get up out of the seat, standing on her prosthetic legs with her hands still on the edge of the table. She didn’t run away just yet, standing there to get the answer to her question before darting off to practice.


“Nah. Just… we don’t talk much.” Monica shrugged. She watched the shark’s motions and met them by standing up herself. “Just kinda happened with us. Wyatt’s nice, but at the same time, our family has never been good about keeping up with each other. I don’t mind, I got you around to keep me company instead of some stupid family.” The brown bunny wrapped her arms around the back of her shark companion, squeezing the white shirt covered torso of her partner, giving a quick kiss on the cheek. “Have fun at practice.” The bunny sighed in a loving voice. “I’ll see you after?”


With how sudden and quick the entire romance was going, it was somewhat disorientating to Nakari. She only stood there with a dumbfounded smile on her face, not even trying to hide the blush at this point. “Y-yea, yea. I’ll see you then. Do you think you can send a picture of your brother, so I know who to look for in the audience?” The shark said, her plastic plated arms quickly squeezing the rabbit close to her warm body for a split second before drawing away, stepping back for a moment.


“Yea, sure, I’ll try to dig something up. It’s been a few years, so if I look different… don’t say too much?” The rabbit joked with a smile. Monica took her seat back at the table and picked up the rather messy burger in her hands again to continue eating.


“Promise I won’t make fun of you. See you tonight!” Nakari said, starting on a jog away towards the baseball field.


Looking over her shoulder a few yards away, Nakari watched Monica for a moment more. The shark could feel her heart beating heavily within her chest. It was more than the exercise getting to her brain and body, the usual process of sending waves of adrenaline like a consistent energy boost. The entire sensation was something else, making the shark feel a little drunk in the affection that burned subtly in the core of her heart. Monica was driving Nakari in a way that she hasn’t felt for years on end, that sort of pleasure now energizing her more than any generic energy drink. 


Stepping and jogging, her plastic feet hitting the asphalt and concrete along the path, the trip being three or four blocks. Nakari didn’t even keep track of how far away it was, just taking the same route again and again to the field in order to relax and let her body take control, allowing her mind to wander. Although, all of her thoughts were completely laser focused on the rabbit that she lived with and how their relationship has changed so drastically in a single night! Just simply holding her, being held so close to her warm and soft body, the gentle touch; the thoughts were just pure pleasure to think about! They were like a warm blanket and hot chocolate on Christmas morning to her brain. 


She almost didn’t notice the buildings and cars passing by her as she moved down the sidewalk, crossing streets and taking her time with the traffic. Nakari’s feet ran against the grass towards the park, gazing up and blinking as she was suddenly snapped back to the reality around her. Looking towards the large fence of the baseball field, she took a deep breath and sighed, seeing a handful of her teammates already on the field stretching and getting ready for a bit of practice.


Striding into the girl’s locker room with a sense of fragile confidence, Nakari changed out of the simple jean shorts and white tee into something more reasonable for baseball: an actual jersey! The white jersey with the number “83” stitched into the back of it clung to the shark’s body rather well, the rolled-up sleeves revealing her prosthetic arms. Grabbing the rest of her equipment, she went out onto the field to join the rest of her teammates, a smile on her face upon seeing their welcoming expressions. After greeting the other twenty or so members of her team, the shark was put to work right away with the rest of the group.


Once she joined the rest of the group, that’s when the real work began. It started with pitching and catching drills, tossing the balls back and forth and putting some genuine heat on them. As this round of practice went on, the distance between the pairs grew larger and larger, to the point where Nakari was halfway across the field from her orange tabby cat partner! Each time the ball was thrown towards her, it looked like a star forming in the sky. And every time she pitched it, it looked as if she was pitching a white gumball from how small it got. Every pitch from the other pairs looked like shooting stars, an imaginary comet trail of speed behind each one to the shark.


This was where she thrived! Nakari enjoyed this more than she could ever say. The smell of the leather glove and the glint of the white baseball was her bread and butter out here on the field. Even lacking the necessary parts to perform in a professional way didn’t affect her when her mind was focused on the game, even if it was just simply practice. Every weighty impact of the ball on her glove, sending vibrations through the prosthetic arm, just excited and enthralled the shark. Her energy was completely self-contained, not shown outwardly as she was just brimming with electricity.


Training continued on and on, seemingly never ending as the sun slowly set. Batting practice, endurance training, and of course the water breaks and brief respites from the intensive preparation for the next day. The most boring part of reviewing game plans would come just before the game. Those chess-like, intricate plans were of no interest to the shark. Seeing Xs and Os on a whiteboard being moved around with arrows connecting them didn’t enthrall her in any way. The sounds, the feelings, the sensations! This was where her mind was awake as her body was put to work slinging the leather balls or smacking them right back.


Hours passed as the training slowly came to a halt, everyone dispersing to their respective locker rooms to get changed out of their jerseys. The shark was dripping in sweat, not even having the energy to change out of her dirty jersey. She only popped into the locker room to grab a quick snack from the vending machine before leaving. Walking sluggishly along the concrete and asphalt of the city she called home, Nakari continued forward. Thoughts of what Monica was doing in the time she was out came up in her head, unable to stop thinking about the bunny. Suddenly, she got the idea to check her phone. Drawing it from her pocket and using facial recognition to open it, Nakari stared at notifications as she walked the mostly desolate streets. 


Looking up every now and again, Nakari continued on the route back home while looking at her phone again and again. There was a picture of a pair of brown bunnies on her screen from Monica, one of them clearly being the shark’s new girlfriend and the other, shorter one being her brother. The two of them looked like they were dressed up for a wedding event, especially with the large cake in the background. Monica was wearing a simple black dress and Wyatt had on a navy-blue suit, the two of them looking like they were barely even eighteen if even that. The caption just a message below stated that it was a cousin’s wedding three or four years ago, and the last time they were together and had a picture taken.


A smile came across the shark’s face as she looked at the picture. She turned the corner to come face to face with the apartment building that she lived in. Setting the phone back into her bag, Nakari began to sluggishly climb the stairs to get just a little more exercise in for the day before succumbing to all the exhaustion pent up in her body. Huffing going up three, four, five flights of stairs to reach the level they were at, the shark began to walk down the carpeted hallway towards the apartment she shared with Monica. Using her key and slipping within the rather small and modest apartment, hearing a running shower.


“Hey, I’m back home!” Nakari called out towards the bathroom. Her bag was set aside as she stretched, her back popping with a gentle groan escaping her lips. “Just finished with practice. Don’t turn the shower off when you get out, let me get a chance to use it!” The shark spoke to the bunny, huffing as she began to strip out of the dirty baseball jersey. White cloth was removed to reveal her blue sweat-stained scales underneath, as well as her matching black bra and panties. 


The sudden thudding of what sounded like a shampoo bottle hitting the bathroom floor got Nakari jumping in shock for a moment. “Hey!” Monica called out loudly from the bathroom. A much softer thunk of the bottle being put back up on a little ledge filling the air. “I’m just about done, give me like… three minutes!” The rabbit said, the water turning off and falling quiet. “Actually, you can come in now, as long as you don’t mind seeing me naked.” She shouted. The sound of cloth wrapping and flailing about filling the air now that the rain of the shower head clearly hit the tub more than the bunny. 


Nakari stopped for a moment while being called out to, being offered the inviting view of her girlfriend all naked and wet from the warm shower. Walking over towards the bathroom, the shark couldn’t stop her fingers from twitching or her cheeks from growing red with blush, slipping towards the door. “O-oh, okay, I guess.” She shyly muttered. Looking in, Nakari saw Monica standing in front of the fogged-up mirror with only a white towel covering her body. It covered her from her brown thighs to just under her armpits. The shark tried her best to obscure her vision of the bunny, the sauna-like bathroom not helping the blush along her cheeks.


“Nakari?” Monica said softly. The bunny dried off her torso to the point where bits of her brown and white fluff were visible over the towel, “Did you like that picture I sent you?” She asked with a head tilt. She then took a step closer to the shark. “Oh, wow, you were working hard, huh? I see all that sweat. Guess you wouldn’t be up to playing around in bed after your shower, huh?” Monica joked with a snicker. A gentle kiss was pressed to the blushing shark’s cheek as reward for putting up with the bunny’s antics.


Growing stiff in the legs as she was kissed so suddenly, Nakari could barely turn to look towards her girlfriend’s mostly naked body in embarrassment. After a moment, she turned and wrapped her mechanical arms around Monica’s waist. The hug was to keep the towel up without the rabbit able to drop it and make her more flustered. And, of course, to simply hug, too. “Y-yea, yea! I saw it on my walk back home. You two look really cute in it.” She complimented the two bunny siblings to the only one she’s ever spoken to. “Why not get together more for stuff like that? You said it was a few years ago, just no… family events?” Nakari spoke softly, carefully. Her sensitive nose was nuzzled into the still wet fur of Monica’s neck, able to feel the intricate texture of her sopping fur and even able to smell the lavender soap in it.


“Well… our family’s weird, don’t want to get into it.” The rabbit sighed before snuggling into the shark. A moment later, she pressed her leg up through the towel and into Nakari’s crotch. “But I got an idea for what we can get into, if you’re up for it~ You know exactly what I’m thinking.” She said in an intense, sultry voice, stopping it with a hard laugh as she took a look at her arms. “After I use the blow drier for… maybe half an hour at least?” The rabbit undercut her own erotic words with a bit of levity, getting a laugh from Nakari. “But really, hun, you can say no. I promise I won’t be upset if you say no, especially if you’re not ready for that sorta thing yet.”


Allowing Monica to dominate the conversation, the nervous and slightly twitchy shark nodded slowly, her black hair falling in front of the bunny’s face. “Y-yea… maybe? I’ll decide after my shower, if… that’s okay?” The shark’s answer only got a long, drawn-out sigh from her partner, who pulled away and gingerly brushed the hair off of the sweaty brow of the sporty fish.


“Whatever you say with your consent is okay. Hell, if you need it, wait until the heat death of the universe for an answer.” Monica spoke with a sarcastic, loving tone. The pair broke free of the soft hug after a moment. “Regardless… I’m gonna get dry. Take as long as you need, sweetheart.” The rabbit leaned in and gave a gentle kiss to the shark’s sensitive nose, smiling as she walked away before the bashful girl could even react!


Huffing with a bright blush, Nakari rolled her eyes as the rabbit slipped out of her plastic arms with ease. Footsteps were barely even heard as the lapine retreated from the bathroom! Turning her attention to the shower instead, the shark began to strip out of her underwear before stepping into the steamy shower. The water began to run over her naked body, all of her blue and pale blue scales getting wet within an instant as the cool water ran across her form, from ears to tail! All the sweat was slowly erased from her slender body as a wash cloth was brought to her armpits, the mechanical hand gingerly grasping the soap covered cloth and rubbing it against her scales. The cold water felt nice after such a hot and sweaty exercise, giving her brain some cool sensations to focus on and making thinking a little easier.


Her thoughts about Monica and the teasing advances that she pushed towards the shark was all that spiraled in Nakari’s head like a hurricane. The idea of getting hot and heavy with the bunny was such an inciting thought, but it was enough to get her nervous within an instant. Washing her hair and leaning back to rinse the soap out, the shark closed her eyes and attempted to envision the scene with the two of them so close together. It was a level of closeness that would rival everything in her nearly nonexistant romantic and sexual life before dating; such an intoxicating idea that seemed so tantalizingly close. The swiftness of these events was nauseating. The other side of the stellar idea of such intimate moments. After all, they have barely been together for a day!


Turning off the shower of cold water running over her body, Nakari let out a long and slow sigh while stepping out. Plastic feet stepping into the soft bath mat right outside the shower. The shower was barely even fifteen minutes as she took her time, her mind running wild with the feelings and trying to make a decision. Huffing and walking towards the mirror, grabbing her designated red towel, Nakari began to clean the water from her body. She dried off her scales with broad strokes and cleaned off her prosthetics more meticulously. Looking at herself in the foggy mirror, able to see parts of her body through the streaks water droplets have made, letting out a soft sigh while cleaning off her limbs. She didn’t like her reflection that much, to the point where she rarely looked in a clear mirror and was more akin to a vampire for her avoidance of them. 


After tossing on a robe and walking out of the bathroom, Nakari felt the warm air run over her body. The sound of a hair dryer blowing loudly was coming from the shared bedroom, a soft smile on her face as she began to walk over there. “Hey, Monica, are you about done? And do you have clothes on?” The shark asked, hearing the loud fan of the hair dryer buzzing to a stop like a wasp flying away.


“No and no!” Monica shouted quickly to the shark. Rustling of covers came as the rabbit’s hair dryer started up once more. “Come in, I covered up!” The rabbit invited the shy shark in. A smile on her face appeared as Nakari walked in to see her drying off her long and fluffy ears. “How was your shower?” Monica spoke to the shark as she walked in, screaming over the hairdryer’s loud fan.


Nakari could only smile at Monica as she continued to talk with the loud machine in her hands going wild, blowing the brown fluff of her outer ear until it was fluffy and dry. All she gave was a thumbs up before sitting on the bed, rolling onto her side. The shark looked up to see the ornately pierced back of her partner. The corset piercings strung together like a lovely loom of black silk threads. Monica’s body, although a little chubby, was just simply nice to look at. Nice enough that Nakari could feel her cheeks warming up, and not because of the backdraft of the hairdryer.


Monica turned to look over her shoulder, giving a sly smile to the shark as she looked at her bare back. Turning off the machine as she fluffed up her ears, the rabbit leaned back slowly and laid next to Nakari, her bicep brushing up against the sensitive shark’s nose. “So, did you decide what you wanted?” The bunny teased. She shifted under the covers and draped her arm around her girlfriend’s head, brushing her black hair and ruffling the pink streak in it. “If you’re not up for it, that’s fine.” She whispered, squeezing Nakari just a hair closer to her soft body.


“Well… I don’t think I’m… really ready to go all the way?” The shy shark whispered out. Simply the feeling of the naked body of her partner through the thin covers drove her wild. “But, uh… naked cuddling? Maybe we can watch a movie or something?” Nakari suggested with an uneasy smile. The shark sat up and rested her head against the rabbit’s arm, indigo eyes looking over towards Monica for her thoughts.


With that, the rabbit unfurled the covers off of her brown and white body, huffing as she pulled herself to her feet by the bed. Stretching and showing off her naked form to Nakari, Monica took a step or two towards the door before looking over her shoulder, a smirk along her lips as she answered the shark. “If you’re fine with me being naked, it’s all good. I’ll go make some popcorn.” She simply walked away. A soft laugh came out of her mouth as she turned the corner, flashing a momentary nip slip at the shark as she slinked away.


Blushing and frozen in place for a moment, Nakari had to shake her head to snap out of the almost trance-like state the rabbit’s teasing put her in. Huffing and rubbing her warm cheek, the shark sat up against the heading of the bed. Indigo eyes gazed down at her underwear. A soft beep of the microwave in the kitchen was enough of an indicator that Monica was holding up her end of the deal. The thought of the naked rabbit making the squirmy shark get excited once again. Reaching up behind her back, Nakari slowly peeled off the bra. There was a relaxed sigh as the fabric was removed from her rather flat chest with a simple squeeze of the clasp.


Discarding the bra on the ground and revealing her barely AA cup breasts, the shark relaxed and stretched out. Casting a glance towards the kitchen where Monica was humming to pass the time, she felt comfortable enough to discard her panties as well. They were rolled down her legs, past the plastic legs and into her hands, only to be unceremoniously dropped to the ground on top of the bra as well. Looking over her naked body, Nakari ran her plastic fingers along her leg. Prosthetic digits slid across the soft blue thigh, to the connector, to the leg prosthetic. The feeling of her leg growing duller as she touched the paler scar tissue. There was a slight pang in her heart as she touched the deadened area, the thought quickly being pulled away by the sharp sound of a rustling popcorn bag.


Monica burst into the room, holding a brown popcorn bag in her hands by the corners of the top, steam still pouring out the open top. Her pierced nipples were on display as she held it just below her chest, turning to plop her butt right next to Nakari. No comment was made about the shark being naked as well. The rabbit dug into the bag and fished out a rather buttery popped kernel, offering it to the shark with a smile. “Did you think of a movie to watch?” She said nonchalantly. A brown furred arm draped her arm over Nakari’s shoulders, tugging the shark in closer. Fur on scales for warm snuggles between the pair.


“O-oh, uh… I’m not sure.” The shark muttered. She gently took the piece of popcorn from Monica’s fingers without even touching her with the sharp teeth within her maw. Chewing it up and nuzzling in closer to the rabbit, Nakari reached for the remote control to the TV right in the middle of their room. They never really cuddled while watching TV before, usually watching it from either side of the room. “Do you have any preference or…?” Nakari inquired. Digging her unoccupied hand into the bag of popcorn, she leaned in to watch her unfeeling hand to make sure she grabbed a good amount.


The bunny shrugged, waiting for her partner to fish out the snack before digging for some herself, just before hungrily munching on it. “Maybe we can do John Wick or something? It’s been a bit since I’ve seen any of those movies.” Monica laughed for a moment before pressing her head against Nakari’s with some of her long brown hair getting in the shark’s face. “Honestly, I might fall asleep halfway through.”


“Heh, you’re that comfortable with me?” The shark joked with a smile. She ate out of her plastic palm while slowly putting in the second John Wick movie in the search of their shared streaming app.


“You know it.” Monica shot back, seeing her chance to fluster Nakari with just three little words. The rabbit moved away for a moment, shifting down to be eye level with the slightly shorter shark before placing a kiss to her cheek, feeling the heat of her girlfriend’s blush. “Oh, also, I love your outfit.” The lapine joked in return. A wide, shit-eating grin on her face as she played with her bashful shark.


Nakari turned her nose up and looked away from the rabbit, refusing to give her the satisfaction of a flustered answer. Keeping her mouth shut and closing her eyes, the shark leaned against her partner. As the two of them rest together, watching the movie and eating the bag of popcorn, both equally fawning over the hot golden retriever of Keanu and the action. As per her prediction, Monica fell asleep with her arm loosely around her shark cuddle buddy, her head lulling against Nakari’s shoulder as she gently slept.


With a smile, the shark would turn the volume of the movie down. Then, the empty popcorn bag was discarded, tossed away onto the pile of underwear she left on the ground. The warmth and gentle touch of Monica’s body was a sweet bliss for her, just being held by the unconscious rabbit. Removing her limbs one at a time, starting at the legs, then removing one of her two arms. Nakari whined in pain from the disconnection of artificial nerves. Then, she looked towards her dominant arm, still holding the plastic forearm and hand. “How am I… ugh.” The shark struggled to get it off, using the friction of the bed to knock it off of her body before biting the now limp hand and setting it on the ground with the rest.


Once getting all of her limbs off and ready for bed, Nakari wiggled her blue scaled body up close to Monica’s warm torso, stealing a look at the sleeping bunny’s chest for a moment. It looked and felt soft as she gently pressed into it, feeling the furred boobs against her own. Then, the unconscious rabbit wrapped her arms around the frozen shark, stopping as if she was caught in the middle of a crime while being pulled into sleepy snuggles. After realizing what happened, Nakari could only smile as she relaxed in the arms of her lover, her short stumps gently embracing the bunny in return.