Day 1 – Sleeping Habits

Blackstar's sleeping habits are like his eating habits: messy.

Tsubaki finds out the very first day of their partnership, because he already has a place to live and Blackstar apparently has absolutely nothing against her moving in at once and just like that they're living together and there's only one bedroom with only one bed and he thinks both he himself and (a bit surprisingly) she too are "much too awesome to sleep on the floor!" Thus, it's unanimously decided that they'll share.

A few hours later, when they've actually gone to bed and Blackstar has started sleeping already, Tsubaki begins to think that it might not have been such a good idea after all. Because even though the bed might have normally been big enough for two people, Blackstar doesn't only snore extremely loud but also shifts around every few minutes and now she thinks she knows why he got himself such a big bed even if he's only one person. She'd at least be afraid of him falling off. The times when he doesn't shift for a few minutes he's mostly sprawled out like a starfish and there are a few times where he accidentally grabs her breasts. He's asleep though and even though she feels a little awkward, she's too nice to wake him.

Tsubaki gets used to Blackstar's antics quickly, all of his antics, and that includes the ones even he himself is unaware of too. Like sleeping the way he does and somehow always getting in a few gropes here and there. At one time, she wonders is he is actually awake during that and if he might just be touching her on purpose. But Blackstar sleeps like a stone and really, he can't hide things like that. I he did that on purpose, it would end up like all of his attempts at sneaking glances while she's bathing. If there's one thing he's not good at, it might just be being a ninja (she'll never tell him that. he'd sulk and she'd feel bad), because he just can't keep quiet. He's Blackstar after all. And that ends her research on the subject of this whole … touching thing.

But – as Tsubaki finds out years later – maybe his accidental touches aren't that bad, because his hands are big and warm and – and nothing. She has to stop there or else she will completely lose it. She's never had to deal with something like this, something like liking a boy's (only Blackstar's, really) touches and it drives her crazy. She feels just a little too attached to him for her to still be able to keep up her role of an older sister and maybe that's the whole problem. Well, as long as no one finds out …

But of course that's impossible. Because there's the book of Eibon and the chapter of Lust and its effects and Tsubaki transforms back last, as the undoubtedly horniest, so to say, and it's horribly embarrassing and Blackstar innocently mentions that they sleep together. In the platonic sense. Which wouldn't sting nearly as much as it does if she didn't – maybe – want just a tiny bit more than that. Really, just a little bit. Just Blackstar maybeplease falling in love with her – and it probably won't happen. He sees her as an older sister probably, maybe even as a mother figure! It just isn't possible, as much as she may want it, and maybe she should stop reading those romance novels. They give her all the wrong ideas and hopes.

Apparently though, "not possible" has never been in Blackstar's vocabulary and before she notices it, Tsubaki is on the receiving end of kisses, hugs and – because it's Blackstar and she really shouldn't have expected anything else – groping. Not only in his sleep now, but at day, at night – whenever there's time and boobs to squeeze, Blackstar does.

His sleeping habits have changed too, just a little. He's still a messy sleeper, but he rarely takes up the whole width of the bed with his arms, instead wrapping them around her securely and Tsubaki always feels a lot warmer when he does it, heating up from the inside, because in a way, it's everything she ever wanted (or maybe part of the everything she wants, because she does want to become a splendid weapon and – maybe one day – a splendid mother too).

Blackstar still manages to shift around and get a hold of her breasts in his sleep though.