Summary: Tahu X Hotaru fluff. Prompt: Tumble. But then that became 'Serious'. I'm not very good at this prompting stuff. Oh well. Reviews/Opinions are very sorely needed guys.

Serious

Tahu chuckled deeply against her neck as he pressed her against the wall that was erected around Ta Koro, a red plated hand already beginning to freely roam against the amethyst coloured plating of her body causing her to giggle shyly.

He shouldn't be doing this, he knows it. This is way past merely toying with her brother now.

This was getting serious.

And it shouldn't be getting serious. This was supposed to be revenge mixed with a bit of fun.

Just a passionate kiss and whispered sweet nothings when they thought no one would see, but Tahu always made sure someone could, and Kopaka could find out and he could grit his teeth because how DARE Tahu touch her, HIS little sister.

And of course there were those OH SO SATISFYING days when Kopaka stormed into Ta-Koro to retrieve his sister or those mornings when Tahu exited out of Hotaru's hut in Ko-Koro and he'd catch the look of 'I'm going to MURDER you' in Kopaka's eyes.

'A fair enough trade,' Tahu had bitterly thought when he first came across the idea. 'You took Gali, so I'll take your little sister.'

Tahu had hated Kopaka for doing that, for taking Gali, taking his Gali.

At first, the more noble part of his heart had told him this was wrong, he was going to use an otherwise innocent girl, one who happened to hang on his every word, to hurt not only Kopaka, but Gali and Hotaru as well.

And for what?

For some sick and twisted idea of revenge? Because he hadn't had the stones to confess to Gali himself before Kopaka did so?

But then something had happened.

He couldn't quite remember what it was but Gali was suddenly giggling like a Ga-Matoran schoolgirl and Kopaka actually gave a ghost of a smile before he pressed his lips to her forehead and Lewa had dreamily remarked, "What a cute couple-pair they make."

And that was it.

Whatever nobility he originally had against the idea had been crushed by a tidal wave of jealousy. Screw whether it was wrong or not.

It had helped that Hotaru was already infatuated with Tahu, it had helped that she blushed at his very gaze and it had helped that she never turned away his advances, as embarrassed as they made her.

And it would've been just fine.

… But then he began to notice how much he hated it whenever she wasn't there, how much her smile lit up the room and just made everything okay and how he could never stand to see though beautiful sky blue eyes of her, even if they were also Kopaka's eyes, filled with tears.

And before he had realised it, damn it all, he both wanted to let her go to save from the pain of what he had done and hold her tighter than ever because he just didn't want to lose her.

"I love you, Tahu…" She whispered breathlessly between kisses.

He froze at those words, voice caught in his throat.

"…Tahu?" the Toa of Flora asked, a hint of concern in her tone. "I… I'm sorry, was that too … soon?"

He finally pulled back and his magenta eyes looked up at her beautiful blue and suddenly everything felt perfect and nothing else matter.

The Toa of Fire lips twitched into a smile and he kissed her forehead like he had seen Kopaka do to Gali's so many months ago. "I love you too, Hotaru."

In the end, Tahu got to simultaneously piss off Kopaka while be happy with someone he loved.

Revenge really was sweet.