Told you I'd have it colored! ^_^

I really wish I had a story to tell here, but honestly, I just did this because I found this pic ( http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5959354/ ) that I did a few years ago, and thought, 'Hmm, I can do much, much better than that now.' Not sure how much better I did, but I'm pleased, even if the linework drove me crazy. ^^;

Ami and Makoto © Naoko Takeuchi and friends
pic, as always © me!  jaymanney4life

UPDATE: I wished I had a story, and lo and behold, a nice deviant by the name of LilJennie ( http://LilJennie.deviantart.com ) busted a short one out! Thanks a bunch hun, you're awesome! ^_^

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"It's easy," said Ami, "I've done it hundreds of times." She dusted a teen-size disposable diaper with baby powder and slipped it under herself. "The doctors say it will probably just go away as I grow up, so until then I should take precautions whenever I sleep. Normally I don't go telling people about it, obviously, but as one of my closest friends, and since you're sleeping over, it's probably best that you know."

"I guess I would have found out anyway," Makoto said as Ami finished fastening the tapes on her diaper. "Do you have any that would fit me?"

"You? Makoto, do you have a bedwetting problem too?" Ami asked. "No, that wouldn't make sense, because if you did, you would have brought your own diapers."

"No, but I don't want you to feel bad because you're in a diaper and I'm not," Makoto said.

"I won't feel bad, Makoto," said Ami. "Don't worry --"

"I don't even want to take the chance!" said Makoto. "Are there any extras?"

"Well ... I don't think this size will fit you," said Ami. "I'm kind of small. But we have a pack of the next larger size that we bought by accident once. We've been keeping them around in case I grow out of these. Maybe one of those would fit."

Ami helped Makoto into the first diaper she'd worn for over a decade. "... So then you just fasten the tapes like this, and you're done!"

Makoto stood up. "It seems kind of ... big on me," she said.

"Hmm, you're right. Those aren't just too big for me -- they're too big for you! But ... here, wear this!" said Ami, taking what looked like a long green T-shirt from a drawer.

"What's this?" Makoto said, slipping it over her head. It dangled down well past her diaper.

"It's a onesie," said Ami. "See those snaps at the bottom? It fastens between your legs. It helps hold the diaper up. That way it won't slip off while you sleep."

"Oh, OK," Makoto said, fastening the snaps. "Hmm, it feels snug. Kind of ... comforting, you know? But anyway, now I know that you're not wearing anything that I'm not."

"I just hope it makes you worry less about whether I feel bad," Ami said. "Now, we can sleep in here," she said, leading Makoto to her room.

"Ami, why does your bed have bars around it?" asked Makoto. "It kind of looks like a crib."

"Well yes, I suppose it could look like that," said Ami, blushing, "but I really have a problem with rolling over and falling out of bed. It's got sides like this so I don't get hurt." She paused. "But you don't have to sleep in my bed. We have a folding bed, so you can pick whichever you want."

"I'm not taking my friend's bed away from her! But I also don't want to make you sleep in a ... a bed like that while I sleep in something different. It's just like the diapers. It wouldn't feel right for me to do that." Makoto sounded adamant.

"Well, my bed is kind of big," Ami said. "We'd both fit."

And so it was that Ami and Makoto both slept in Ami's crib. Ami also showed Makoto the pacifier that she always slept with, which never failed to soothe her to sleep quickly, and just as with the diaper and crib, Makoto wouldn't allow Ami to bear the burden of sleeping in such a babyish way alone. Fortunately, Ami had a spare, and it was green to match Makoto's onesie! Ami was right, though ... there was something soothing about sucking on a pacifier that helped her fall asleep really fast.

The next thing she knew, Makoto woke up, and it was morning. She groggily pulled her thumb out of her mouth -- wait, thumb? Where was her pacifier? Oh, there it was, on the pillow. It must have fallen out during the night. But why did she put her thumb in her mouth? She looked at Ami, still asleep. Ami was also sucking her thumb; her pacifier appeared to have fallen out in her sleep too.

Makoto woke up a bit more and gasped. Her diaper felt different. She reached down and felt it, between the onesie and the diaper. She was wet! But how? She never wet in her sleep! Not since she was 5! What was going on?