This story is part of my My Naive Boyfriend series, though it's meant to stand alone. If you haven't read the other two, no worries, I've written this to be understood either way. Also, it's divided into three distinct chunks, in case it's too long for you to want to read at once.
Sidenote: most of what I know about Japanese onsens comes from watching (untranslated) porn. Though the tone of the story is purposefully ludicrous, I nonetheless apologize for any inauthenticity.
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For those who haven't read about our other exploits, David is generally a great partner to me. Loving, caring, good in bed, etc. He's everything I'd want from a guy except that sometimes he can be infuriatingly naive, especially when it comes to women. I don't mean in reading and responding to a woman's needs (namely mine), I mean in sometimes utterly failing to read the intentions of other women. He gets into these situations that I definitely do not approve of, but he always has some reasoning behind it and I can see how he thinks he's truly done nothing wrong. He just assumes the best of intentions behind any woman's actions. It's admirable to a certain extent. But I think he's straight-up naive.
I don't know why women have been giving him so much attention recently. Don't get me wrong, I love him, but because he's a loving, committed partner, not because he's some sort of sex god gifted to women. He's actually pretty normal in appearance. I thought I could relax about other women because of this, but they've gone after him way more than anyone else I've dated. Maybe they can smell his dumbness...err, naivete...and know they can get away with whatever they want? Maybe he exudes some sort of maniac sex pheromone? I don't know.
I put an end to our "friendship" with Clara after the events I told about in my earlier stories. She'd had enough of him beating around her bush and straight up told him to leave me for her. He was shocked she would ask such a thing, and shot her down. He told me immediately what happened and we've since cut her out of our lives. Good riddance. David may let himself get backed into some crazy corners, but at least I can count on his honesty.
A while after that, David surprised me during vacation and proposed! Of course I said yes. I've never met anyone so loving and supportive as him. Obviously, I still had some concerns about his naivete, but after he cut Clara out like I asked and as he was down on one knee, asking me to be his forever, I knew we could get past whatever life threw at us.
Anyway, this story started when our friend Yuki's family opened a spa. Her parents are from Japan, and following her father's death, her mother decided to bring a Japanese-style onsen spa to our city. Yuki had been excited about it for months, and construction had recently completed. It was not set to open for another couple weeks, but she invited me and David to spend a day at the place so she could show it off to us. I love a spa day as much as the next person, so I readily agreed. David did too and so we set a date for that Saturday.
That week was really busy at work, so I was extra excited for the day of relaxation. Naturally, fate wouldn't let me have a good thing, and my boss called me in to work that on Saturday. David said he would cancel his spa date with Yuki too, and I almost took him up on it. Given all the issues I just laid out regarding him and other women, I naturally didn't want him anywhere near an empty spa with someone else. But Yuki had said that there were separate boys and girls sections, plus the other Sakagawa women (her older sister and mom) would be in and out of the place the whole day with preparations, so what could really happen? Ultimately, I felt bad denying him a spa day just because I couldn't be there too, so I told him to go along without me.
When I finally got home from work, I found David zonked out on our sofa. I shook him awake and he smiled his dumb, sweet smile up at me.
"Hey baby, how was work?" he asked. I gave him the summary (it was bad), then asked how relaxing his day at the spa was.
"Not very relaxing, to be honest," he said.
"You were passed out when I got back!" I said.
"More from exhaustion," he said. "It was the craziest day."
"Oh no, what happened?" I asked. I obviously started to worry, but told myself that a crazy day didn't necessarily mean he spent the afternoon banging all the Sakagawa women.
"Well, it... I... uh," he said, still trying to shake the sleep from his head. "Why don't I just start at the beginning."
"Sounds good," I said, plopping down next to him. He took a deep breath and began.
"I was nervous on the way over because Yuki is more your friend than mine, y'know?" he said. I nodded. "I mean, she'd be in the girls side of the spa, and I'd be in the boys side, but I assumed we'd have to interact together some anyway."
I understood his nervousness. Yuki is a bit prickly. She's usually very serious and into following all the rules anyone could give to her, but she also has a darker side to her that comes out sometimes. I don't really understand it. But she's generally sweet and generous, and her offering to give us free reign of the spa for a day before it opened to the public wasn't out of character. I hoped her sweet and rule-following side was out today and not that darker side that worried me more.
"Anyway, that nervousness melted away when I knocked on the door and Yuki greeted me with a huge smile," he said. Yuki may not smile much, but when she does, it can light up a room. I guess I should take a moment to describe her. Japanese women come in all shapes and sizes, but she embodies the petite stereotype, not much more than five feet tall and quite thin. Her face is very pretty and her boobs and butt are both small and perky. She's never been the friend of mine to make me the most jealous, but she's never had trouble finding dates either.
"She said it was too bad you couldn't make it, but at least we could have a fun spa date together," David went on. "I thought it was funny, her calling it a date. I guess we were spending the afternoon together, but we were just friends." I thought Yuki was too reserved to try to make a play at my boyfriend, but now I was starting to worry that dark side of hers had come out.
"She gave me a quick tour of the place," David said. "We walked through the men's locker room. Well, locker room might be an exaggeration, it was more of a room you undressed in, as she explained it, with little cubbies to put your clothes in. You then entered the bath through the opposite door. The bath area was lined with tile and the bath itself filled most of the room, while shower stations lined one of the walls. They weren't showers, exactly, more like spots to sit with handheld showerheads and various soaps to clean yourself before getting into the bath.
"I thanked her for the explanation, and she told me to get undressed and enjoy it all, then left for the girls' side. I undressed and left my clothes in a cubby, then wrapped a towel around myself and entered the bath area. I felt weird plodding around this giant empty room by myself, but I figured it would be really relaxing once I got into it.
"I turned one of the showerheads on and took my towel off, which felt weird. I mean, I was in this big empty room, totally naked, and Yuki said her sister and mom might pop in at any time. I didn't think that meant the boys' bath, I couldn't be sure," he said.
"You'd think she'd tell them you were in there," I said.
"Yeah, probably, but what if there was some mistake or miscommunication or something?" he said. He was right, anything could happen. "So then I started thinking about one of them walking in with me totally naked and alone and well...," he trailed off.
"What?" I asked.
"Well, I uh... I got hard," he said. "Not like, aroused or anything. Just like, feeling embarrassed at the idea of these older women finding me naked and vulnerable like that just caused a reaction. And getting caught naked would be one thing, getting caught naked and hard would be much worse. So I really focused and just told myself I was taking a normal shower and thankfully it went back down."