A/N: Greetings, ladies and gentlemen. In accordance with her promise made in her last story The Living Yurei: Reunion Is Her Salvation, AskForXYZ brings to you its cutesy sequel. It is about forty-five chapters shorter than its predecessor. The author hopes this story will be well received by the readers and that it shall garner favourable reviews. The rest is rust and stardust. Thank you. *tips hat*

Disclaimer: I do not own City Hunter or its characters.

KAORI VS MOKKORI: LET'S MAKE LOVE

[Chapter: 1]

Kaori Makimura had survived another traumatic life-event. Her brother's girlfriend, whom she never knew, had come to their doorstep to change a large portion of her past. They tried to save her, Ryo did. And they learned that some people are doomed to destroy themselves no matter what you do. Memories of the few days she had spent with Saki Nogawa were treasured in as many ways as she could. Kaori's bedside table now had two picture frames – one of her brother and one of the woman he loved. Despite of the tragic death of her sister-in-law, Kaori was grateful that she met her however late it may be. The colossal impact of Saki's death was made on Ryo. He finally told Kaori that he loved her and wished to marry her, because he didn't want to live the rest of his life like the poor teacher from East Tokyo had. That was the reason Kaori was blushing in the Cat's Eye Cafe.
"Oh Kaori, I am so happy for you!", Miki told her.
The bride-to-be smiled,
"I know. Thank you"
"This calls for a celebration! Right, Falcon?"
Umibozu gave his typical response,
"Hmph!"
He left the ladies alone at the counter. Kasumi said as soon as he was gone,
"I still can't believe it. I thought Saeba-san would never propose to you. Thank god, he did!"
Miki asked,
"Why are you so happy about it?"
"Now I can go back home and tell my grandmother that Saeba-san is getting married to someone else. She might get mad at me for not trying hard enough but I am sure that she will like Shinji when she meets him. Then we can finally..."
"Finally?", Kaori said.
Kasumi squared her shoulders,
"We can finally start dating publicly. I am sick of doing everything with him in secret"
Miki chuckled,
"Are you saying that you want to do it with him in public?"
"Miki-san!"
Kaori and Miki both laughed while Kasumi pretended to be angry. She said to Miki,
"Says someone who spent most of her honeymoon in the hotel bedroom"
"Well", Miki put up her hands in defence, "I saved myself for him all these years. The repressed desires were bound to be set free. Very soon, the same is going to happen to Kaori. Or has it happened already?"
Kaori's face took a brighter shade of pink. She said with haste,
"No, nothing has happened yet"
Kasumi leaned over the counter with her hand on one cheek. She asked,
"When is it going to happen then?"
"After the wedding?"
Kaori gave them an answer which she herself wasn't sure of. The wedding was a month away. There was no harm in waiting to get married, right? Miki thought otherwise. She said,
"You don't want that, Kaori, trust me on this. If your wedding night is spent getting rid of your virginity, it ruins half the fun. I made the same mistake"
Kasumi agreed,
"She's right. The first time hurts like hell. You don't want to cry during sex on your wedding night, do you?"
"Wait a minute", Kaori said, "Why do you both think I am a virgin?"
The two looked at each other in anticipation. Miki said with an awkward smile,
"Uh, you aren't? That's great. I just thought you, well, never mind"
Kasumi supplied her own laugh of discomfort,
"Yeah. It's not like I thought you never got laid. I was just spit-balling"
"I am a virgin", Kaori told.
Kasumi said,
"That's cool too. Many women are. Even Miki-san was one before marriage. It's completely normal"
"But still, Kaori, I don't think you should wait till after the wedding", Miki said.
Kaori said,
"It's not like I can do anything about it. It depends on Ryo"
"Are you saying that Saeba-san wants to wait until the wedding?", Kasumi shook her head, "No, not possible"
"He didn't say that. We haven't talked about it yet. I can tell from his behaviour though that he isn't too eager about it"
"What happened?", Miki asked.
Kaori narrated the incident from three days ago. Miki and Kasumi listened with undivided attention.

Kaori hated having to share her problems with others. In this case, she had no choice. Ryo's behaviour had started to make her suspicious. After she finished telling Miki and Kasumi about what had happened on the night he proposed, Kaori grew silent. She believed it was her fault Ryo was acting like that. This wasn't how she had thought it would be. Her one chance at happiness, and she had possibly messed it up too.
"So", Miki said, "Saeba-san tried to flirt with you and you pushed him away"
Kasumi said,
"You said he was scaring you and he hasn't touched you since"
"I know it's my fault, okay?", Kaori sighed, "I panicked. It... it felt so different. I thought I would faint any minute if he kept touching me"
Miki said,
"There's no use blaming yourself now. You have to set things back in place though"
"How do I do that?"
"By having sex with him", Kasumi said.
Kaori tried hard not to blush again. The image of Ryo hovering over her in bed was a hard one to ignore. She said,
"I just told you that Ryo is not taking any initiative. How are we supposed to do it then?"
Miki said,
"Why are you not taking the initiative?"
"Huh?", Kaori almost fell off the stool, "Me?"
"Who else?", Kasumi grinned.
"But... but...", she said, "But I am the woman. Shouldn't Ryo take the first step?"
"Those gender roles belong in the seventeenth century, Kaori. Women are as sexual as men. They just don't express it much", Miki said.
Kaori said in a tiny voice,
"It would be so embarrassing"
"Not at all", Miki said, "On our wedding night, Falcon was more nervous than I was. I had to almost spell it for him. Men can be quite thick-headed"
"Except in your case, Saeba-san is just offended that his feelings intimidate you and he might be waiting for you to make your move", Kasumi said.
"Make my move?", Kaori asked.
Miki said in her friendliest tone,
"Look, Kaori – do you want him or not?"
"I do"
"Then isn't it stupid of you to wait for him to do something first?"
"But what can I do to make him change his mind?"
Miki smiled,
"I have a few ideas. Do you have some too, Kasumi?"
"Yep", she winked.
The three leaned closer to each other and exchanged ideas. Some of them made Kaori put a hand on her innocent face, while some seemed promising enough. By the end of their short meeting, Kaori was determined to put the moves on the player.

He despised prudes. It never made any sense to him why people believed making love in public was more scandalous than violence in public. She - of all people - why did she have to be a prude? Sex was as natural a biological function as respiration. But no, Kaori Makimura was scared when her fiancé tried to kiss her beautiful neck. What was the use of being so patient with her for all these years then? Ryo was really mad at her. She was pushing her own sexuality in a pit and he wouldn't tolerate that. She was scared of his advances? Alright. Then he wasn't going to make any henceforth. Unless Kaori said to him in clear words that she wanted to take the next step, Ryo wasn't going to touch her with even a bargepole. It was kind of fun though to make Kaori so anxious.
'She looks adorable when she's nervous', he smiled.

Ryo was watching the evening news after dinner. He had been his own self for the last three days, but he hadn't approached Kaori after she said he scared her. It had hurt him pretty bad. However, he wouldn't release his sexual frustrations on Kaori. It wasn't her fault that she had been raised to regard fornication as taboo. That was Makimura's fault.
'You had all the fun you could with Miss Saki and taught Kaori such bull. Hypocrite'
"Ryo?"
Kaori was in the same room. Ryo didn't look back though.
"Hm?"
She was trying to speak,
"Um... uh... I..."
Ryo grinned like a capuchin once, and then resumed his stoic expression. He got off the couch, said,
"What is it?", and turned around.
Nothing had prepared him for this. No mokkori magazine, no porn film, no amount of adult literature could have ever prepared him for this. No one had told him that when the woman you love comes before you wrapped in a towel, with her toes clutching at the mat and her face crimson as cranberries, you will forget the sun rises in the east and that your jaw doesn't belong on the floor.
Kaori looked down, then up at him, never letting go off the towel she had wrapped around. Ryo's heart jumped to his throat when she lowered her eyes a little and gave him a timid smile. She asked,
"Bath time?"