It was September, but the rays of the sun were poking out at the unholy hours of 5AM, regardless of Yuuki’s half-asleep protests. Crawling out of her futon and rolling onto the wooden floor of the dorm, she laid down on the cool surface as her bed-warmed body began to cool, until it was too cold to stay down any longer. She shivered in the chill room as she got up, stretching out her slim arms and arcing her delicate back until a nice crick could be heard. Then, the plain-faced girl sneezed. Sleeping naked had its benefits, but she wasn’t looking forward at all to the winter months. Didn’t help that the dormitory’s heater had been broken since ten months past.

Smiling slightly at Erika, who was tucked away in a bed that Yuuki never actually used, she scratched an itch on her crotch as she strode a few feet to the small kitchen of the single-person dorm. An apron was draped on, the coarse fabrics rubbing in a mildly irritating fashion against her chest. Well, no matter. A small knife was pulled out of the block as she surveyed the contents of the refrigerator. Her parents had sent her a shipment of soy beans two weeks ago, so she should probably use that…and perhaps with the three day old rice that she planned to use for Chinese-style fried rice but never got to? Then there were that bag of frozen peas and carrots, as well as the discount eggs that she got on the weekends…

Yeah, the fates were pretty much aligning towards fried rice for breakfast, huh?

With that settled, Yuuki tied her hair back with an elastic band, washed her hands, heated up the stove, and got started. Eggs cracked and mixed, oils were poured, chives were chopped, rice was fried, and then everything was tossed together, with a liberal amount of salt and soy sauce put in as well to give it a nice, golden texture, before she finished, just twenty minutes later. As an afterthought, she made a pot of miso soup on the side as well, before putting a lid on the both of them to let the dishes retain their warmth.

With breakfast and lunch made at the same time, the girl smiled at her one stone, two birds methodology, before tossing off the apron, undoing the ponytail, and spending the next ten minutes basking in the warmth of a hot morning shower, finally shaking off the autumnal chills. The goosebumps retracted from her skin and she felt positively amazing as she stepped out of the bathroom, beads of bathwater still clinging to her skin as she marveled at just how overpowered that lifehack was. To think that using a hairdryer while a towel was over your hair would be THAT effective.

It was another reason for her to smile while she set aside a bowl of vegetable fried rice for lunch, before sitting down to eat, her baby blue bathtowel draped over her nude, petite body.

It would appear that Yuuki wasn’t going to be putting on any clothes any time soon.