From: The Fox Gift From the Death. **************** Chapter 5. (light)romantic warning??? Aoshi had made a little fire and carried water and fruits. For her surprise, the cabin seems ready to live: it had groceries, and even wine and a big futon. She prepared rice for the both, and they ate in silence, next the fire where an orange smells quite nicely... - What we will do?.- - I'm not exactly sure where we are. - - I'm afraid we were put under heavy drugs, Shinomori. Possibly, vivenssi.- - As you say, and my reflexes weren't quite well. I think the best is wait till the drug wears off. And surely with a day or two I will be able to locate where we are.- Megumi nods.- Do you have some clue why someone would like to kidnap the both? Could be something to be with Kanryuu?.- - Maybe.- Aoshi finished his rice, and then looked at her.- I will check the stars position. You can sleep.- Megumi nodded gain. Then, fox ears popped out. - I will not * share * that futon with you, do you know, Shinomori.- Aoshi eyed her coldly. - If I wanted to sleep in the futon, you can be sure NOTHING would stop me, Takani-san.- He was out before she had mid-way blushing. After some moment, she cursed a few choice words she maybe had heard from Sano. ****************** But maybe wasn't so bad share the futon with him, Megumi thought after some hours, curled in the futon feeling the cold even next to the fireplace. He had been rather...hot, for a cold-blooded fish like he is. Her face goes serious, remembering... Was a night when the rain was falling heavily. She has been slapped for Kanryuu and menaced with something worst if she don't go faster with the opium production. Shinomori had seen the whole episode without a flinch. But then, he had given her a handkerchief to dry her blood. She trembled when her door was open from outside. Half-terrorized, horrible Kanryuu menaces in her mind, she just waited frozen in terror. But was Shinomori who walked to her side. Was him who touched her face, and her lips, asking for silence. She was trembling when he took off his coat and shirt, and then waited by the bed. What, in hell's name, impulse her to open the covers? He just curled in her side a while, hugging her against herself as she cried hysterically, the ice broke when he touched her skin. But when he started to caress her she didn't resist, just tried to be closer to him, begging for a caressing touch- any touch.- They made love furiously in silence, biting the covers, muffling their cries. She was still twisting in the bed when after make her reach climax Aoshi dressed and goes away. The next day, they even didn't looked at each other. The next night, he came again. Sometimes weeks between. Sometimes five days in a row. Always sudden, always mute and violent, always passionate. She never asked for more. He always waited for her to open the futon. Till the day she resisted her desire and whispered "no". >From that day, he never came again. ***************************** She had fallen asleep soon, and when she woke up the cabin smelled like rice and fish. Breakfast. - I've never guessed you know how to cook.- she said, turning in the futon, all hair messed and yawning, looking Aoshi leaning over the oven. Aoshi looked at her. Then he smiled just with the eyes. - Blame the Zen.- -Huh?.- Aoshi served the rice with skilled hands in two wooden pots. - I've checked our position from the sun and stars position. I'm pretty sure we are in the center of the Kwanto, next to the Furandoji' forest. And I've revised a good part of the forest and we're pretty much alone. We don't have guards, or even neighbors. So I think we can start our way tomorrow morning to Tokio.- Megumi yawned. -To be sincere, Shinomori, if we skip the drugged part this is a welcomed vacation. The clinic goes wild in these days with all that colds...- she shrugged. - Do you remind who kidnapped you, Takani-san?.- - Little. I felt grabbed and something black falling over my face. I fought a lot, but I've hear a whisper and then I've fallen unconscious.- - A whisper?.- Aoshi was calmly eating his rice. - You can think that I'm crazy, but I've heard a " Don't resist my girl of the forest."- she stared to Aoshi, who was looking at her intently.- Go to hell if you think I'm crazy Shinomori...- - I believe you.- Aoshi started with the fish, looking hungry.- In fact, it happened much the same to me. - Megumi blinked at him. - "Girl of forest " to you too?- Aoshi chokes. The pool has something truly lovely. The way the water splashed and lingered in the air, making a lot of rainbows under the bright sun made Megumi smile. Some birds sung in the sky, but apart from them a a little squirrel watching her she was alone, Shinomori in the cabin sleeping in Zen position. When she saw him made the lotus she thought the man was crazy, and keep washing dished: but when a muffled snore reaches her she had to suppress a fit. Sleeping like a baby, and drooling a bit. Cute. That's for my I-don't-sleep Okashira, awake all night. It was hot. The day, I mean. She was sweating. Oh heck. Megumi stripped and jump in the pool. Freshness enveloped her, and made her sigh. So quiet. So good. So calm and... Megumi floated looking the sky over her. "Blessing" "This is a blessing" The forest made a sound under the wind, a soft rush and a moan. Megumi swim to a rock and then enveloped herself with her inner kimono. Something in the forest. What...? ********************** ********************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shop the web for great deals. 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