Mitsuri's Famous Handstand
Art I commissioned from the wonderful @dizzieskizze for Chapter 13 of my fic ITCOW on AO3.
Mitsuri's Pussy Poppin Handstand.
a reminder of the scene again:
Once outside she bent, touched her toes, rolled her shoulders, and then, because she couldn’t resist loosening her body the way she used to at the Corps, decided to throw in a slow, balanced cartwheel for good measure. Maybe even hold herself on her two hands for a few seconds. Do some upside-down wide air splits with her legs.
Mitsuri smiled, bracing herself as her arm went sideways, ready to maneuver into the air.
At that exact moment, Sekido came stomping outside.
“Oi! Get inside, you—”
He stopped.
Time seemed to slow.
Mitsuri’s body flipped gracefully through the air, her legs splitting in perfect form. But she hadn’t bothered with a fundoshi beneath her kimono. The garment flared open mid-arc, right in front of him, as he had no choice and looked down.
For one long eternal heartbeat Sekido had a full, unobstructed view.
His brain blanked. His mouth snapped shut. His eyes went wide.
And then, her legs split wide, perfectly upside down, legs out and stretched perfectly horizontal in opposite directions like a circus acrobat.
Right in front of his face.
A flawless air split that left absolutely nothing to the imagination.
Sekido’s face flamed, the flush spreading all the way to his ears. He stood frozen, rigid as a statue, staring down at the worst possible angle.
The cartwheel ended, Mitsuri landing neatly on her feet with a bright little laugh, oblivious.
“Ah! That felt good!”
She turned.
Sekido was frozen where he stood, face scarlet all the way up to his ears, eyes wide, mouth hanging open in stunned silence. He looked less like a fearsome Upper Moon and more like a carp yanked out of a river, gaping, rigid, utterly undone. For a heartbeat, he seemed on the verge of combusting where he stood.
Abruptly, he spun on his heel and retreated back toward the temple without a single word, the tips of his ears still glowing red.
Mitsuri blinked after him, tilting her head.
“…Hmm. Did he need something?”
