White Tiger

Tiana smiled as she felt happy for the doctor, in the next moment she couldn't help but blushed as she felt her superior large and warm hand patted her head gently. 

"Thank you, lets go inside..." Kimimaro moved away right after he patted Tiana head. 

Tiana pouted slightly, however she felt an indescribable happines swelling inside, she waited patiently for Kimimaro as he undoing his bone dome and ordered his crew to follow him into the facility. 

Once the group entered the base, warm air blown into their face as bright light coming from the corridor lamp illuminate the white corridor. 

Vegapunk was nowhere to be seen and as the group leader, Kimimaro lead the way in front while Tiana, Sentomaru and the other follows. 

Pressurized air could be heard once again from their back as the facility gate were closed protecting them from the harsh weather outside. 

After walking for a while, suddenly, a steel wall emerged from the floor a few steps ahead of the group, preventing them to continue following the path. 

"Sir?" Tiana gripped her sword's scabard as the situation turned weird. 

Kimimaro raised his vigilance for a second before the wall on their left lowered, showing another path for the group. 

After he found nothing noteworthy of his vigilance, Kimimaro lead the group toward another path. 

warm air current flowing inside the corridor making the group felt cramped within their thick winter Marine jacket. 

Sentomaru looked back and fort between the path ahead and behind, he was feeling slight agitation as Vegapunk personal bodyguard. Not knowing where his superior went toward somewhere without his supervision made him quite uneasy. 

Noticing the boy awkwardness, Kimimaro pat his shoulder and reasured, 

"Don't worry about the doctor, this is his base." 

Sentomaru squinted his eyes toward Kimimaro, as he saw the later calm attitude, he calmed his heart down and try to readjust his state.

after walking mostly in straight path, the group finaly reached their designated room. 

A huge brightly lit room welcomed the group, it looks like common guest lounge with several sofas and long table meant for having a meal. there were several platter of snacks and drinks on one corner and serving of hot meal on the other. 

the aroma coming from those hot meal was truly tentalizing making most of the crews gulping down their saliva. 

on another note, there were several door connected to the lounge with one in particular took Tiana attention the most. 

"Kimi-sir, may i excuse myself?" Tiana asked Kimimaro immediately. 

Kimimaro noticed that there was a room with a sign ladies bathroom on one of the door, with a smile Kimimaro nodded, 

"Sure, go ahead..." 

Tiana smiled brightly as she soon disappear into the ladies door. 

Kimimaro finally gave an order for his crew to relax and took their time as he went into man's bathroom himself. 

The crew cheered as they began to mostly took some servings of hot meal, drink and snack. While the rest jumping to the sofa or strolling around the guest lounge trying to find something interesting. 

Rome took his time to approach the still uneasy Sentomaru and began to chat with him and asked him for a meal which the later nodded in agreement.

After the gruelsome battle unfold before, the crew's body and mental fatigue had reached their limit, and seeing a warm room with relaxing atmosphere and especially hot meals gave them a sense of peace albeit temporarily.

Half an hour had passed and the crews were more or less regained their spirit and refreshed while Kimimaro soaked alone in the man's bathroom huge comunal tub. 

water vapor dancing in the air as green warm water washed away the young Vice Admiral exhaustion, the feeling of relaxation let him forget his trouble and weariness away. 

Soon, there was a commotion coming from the adjacent changing room as some marine crews with their chatter and laughter accompanied them inside the bathroom. 

"Woaaaa! so huge!" 

"Hey wash up first! Damn it, did you smell your own body?" 

"Ahahaha, and so i told the bartender that the trio was just messing around with each other..." 

"Have you told her about your feeling? Dude! You need to move fast before she got snatched by others!" 

a throng of muscular men came into Kimimaro vision behind the gentle vapor, he chuckled as they didn't even bother to cover their private parts as if it was something to be proud of. 

in between their casual chatter, one of the man noticed their superior was currently soaking inside the huge tub looking quite relaxed. 

"Sir!" exclaimed the man as he smiled in salute. 

while the others followed suit. Kimimaro chuckled as he waved his hand casualy. 

"At ease, it's your free time guys. no need for such formalities." 

the men laughed and nodded in aknowledgment to their superior, soon everyone washed their bodies with the available soap and shampoo before they step into the large tub one by one. 

The tub was quite large for the men to soak together akin to small pool. 

Kimimaro noticed his men were awkwardly silent in unison only for small hushed voice could be heard among each other. 

He shook his head with bitter smile, no matter what, having superior soaked together, gave them some sort of pressure and reservation. 

it didn't take long for Kimimaro to finished his bath, then he stood up slowly letting the water to flowing down his sculpted body. 

when Kimimaro stepped out and walking outside of the bath, the men had a dumbfounded look plastered on their face. They awkwardly glanced below before seeing each other with peculiar feeling. 

One of the marine suddenly spoke, his voice was low yet everyone could hear him due to the silence atmosphere.

"Damn! Did you guys see that?!" 

After the first guy sentence, another commotion broke as they have new topic to talk about. 

"Our captain is still in his 17 right?" 

"God damn! i'll be proud if i have just as half as the captain!" 

Hearing the last guy's sentence, most of them looked at him in weird manner and shifted their seat away slightly. 

"i just felt unfortunate for the woman who will become captain's wife in future." 

"Yeah, poor wife..." 

"Poor wife..." 

"Ahahahahaha...." 

Soon the men forgot about the thing and boisterous laughter could be heard once more from the bathroom. 

Kimimaro was still in the middle of changing while he heard his men talking about him, he just let out a chuckle without bothered by it.