Let's just start with the Author's note this time. (For once, I'm writing the author's note in real time rather than adding it later.) This fic is yuri, obviously, but it's also nearly lemon. People usually call that lime, but I'm not going that far either, so I'm hereby dubbing this orange. I'll go beyond kissing, but I'll stay within the bounds I have to and want to keep to. Why have to? I'm a guy, and I write about girls. I'm not going to pretend I know anything about girls, so I can't do too much. Why want to? Well, I don't like writing lemon. Here, I'm looking for the fine line that separates lemon from non-lemon. Anyway, enough of my ramblings. You should know the drill by know, but if not: R&R, flames are fine just not the pairing, be constructive in your reviews, and, since it's a Oneshot, don't ask for updates since there won't be any. With that in mind, enjoy!

When Two Hearts Beat As One

"Ugh, where did I put it?" Ritsu exclaimed angrily.

She and Mio were at her house, to pick up a manga she borrowed from Yui. Afterwards they were supposed to meet up with the others so they could go on their – pretty much annual by now – training camp.

"Maybe you should try to clean up some of the mess here, then you'd be able to find stuff," Mio said, scanning through a bookshelf to find the manga.

Suddenly her eye fell on a sketchbook, showing an amateurishly-done drawing of what appeared to be Mio and Ritsu. Mio glanced over her shoulder at Ritsu, who was still digging in a pile of junk on the other side of the room, and decided to inspect the drawing more closely.

She picked up the sketchbook and flipped through it. Some drawings were generic manga characters, but Mio saw that as she got to the more recent drawings, there were a lot depicting the members of the light music club, and even more that seemed to focus on Mio and Ritsu alone.

Mio smiled when she saw the drawings. She'd never known Ritsu liked to draw – or at least liked to try.

When she came to the final drawing, her eyes widened and her heart seemed to beat faster all of a sudden. This one, too, showed Ritsu and Mio, but they were kissing in this one. Written underneath were the words 'I wish you knew…'

Mio stared at the drawing for a moment, before being shaken from her trance by Ritsu, who approached her and asked, "Hey Mio, did you find it ye…"

She fell silent when she saw that Mio had found the sketchbook. Mio blushed and put the book away.

"I'm sorry, I just…"

"So you found that, huh?" Ritsu said softly.

"I didn't mean to…"

Ritsu shook her head. "Nah, it's okay. I shouldn't have left it there…"

She walked over to her bed and sat down. Mio sat down next to her, and softly said, "Ritsu?"

Ritsu lay down on her back and said, "You must really think I'm stupid now…"

Mio shook her head. "Why would I think that?"

"I drew a picture of us kissing," was Ritsu's only reply.

Mio shrugged. "So? What's so stupid about that? If it's because you think I don't feel the same way…well, I do," she said, blushing and looking the other way.

Ritsu sat up again. "You…feel the same way?" she repeated, seemingly unable to believe what she just heard.

"Of course I do, idiot," Mio said affectionately. "Really, would I have freaked out so much when I thought you had a boyfriend if I didn't feel the same?" she continued.

Ritsu just stared at her, still not believing what she heard. Mio smiled. Ritsu looked very cute like that.

"Mio…" she whispered.

She leaned closer to Mio, and Mio felt her heart speed up and her cheeks redden. Ritsu, like Mio, was blushing now, but still she came closer, until eventually their lips met. Mio felt how Ritsu slowly wrapped her arms around her and pulled her closer, and she responded by putting one arm around her friend and stroking her hair with the other.

Slowly their lips parted, and as always it was Ritsu who made the first move, softly prodding Mio's tongue with hers. Mio moaned softly, moving along with Ritsu now and stroking the drummer's back with her hands.

Ritsu pushed Mio lightly, just enough to lay her on her back, and all the while she kept kissing her, feeling pinpricks of heat all over her skin at the sensation of French kissing her best friend.

Mio wondered what Ritsu was going to do and tried to say something, but Ritsu pulled back a little and placed a finger on the bassist's lips.

"Don't say anything," she whispered, after which she resumed kissing Mio, now moving down to her neck.

Mio gasped when Ritsu softly bit her neck, but the amber-eyed girl knew her friend liked it. She stealthily slipped her hands under Mio's shirt, causing the dark-haired girl's breathing to quicken.

Ritsu's hands felt cold on Mio's body, but it was a pleasant kind of cold and Mio couldn't keep from holding Ritsu tighter, now daring to mimic her friend and putting her hands underneath Ritsu's shirt, slowly caressing her back.

"I love you Ritsu…" Mio whispered when Ritsu kissed the other side of her neck.

"I love you too, Mio…" Ritsu whispered back.

With each gentle movement of her hands, she moved further up. Mio realized what Ritsu was doing and, driven by the burning desire to feel her touch, grabbed her hands and placed them on her bosom.

Ritsu stopped kissing her for a moment, and gave her friend a confused look. Mio stared back, lust giving a feral gleam to her normally friendly eyes.

"Yes, Ritsu, I want you…" she said, breathing heavily.

Ritsu nodded and went back to kissing Mio while her hands slipped under Mio's bra, softly squeezing the soft but firm breasts, which caused Mio to moan in pleasure.

Mio, in turn, moved her hands down Ritsu's back, lower and lower, sending a shiver of pleasure down her spine.

Mio slipped her hands into Ritsu's jeans, and as her fingers brushed against the elastic band of the amber-eyed girl's panties, her heart beat faster than it ever had before. She worked her fingers past the stretchy band…

BZZZT! BZZZT! BZZZT!

"Jesus!"

Both girls immediately pulled back their hands and sat up, their harts thumping loudly, now no longer from passion but from being startled.

Ritsu groaned, "God, that nearly gave me a heart attack."

Mio, meanwhile, was so brightly red she could have been mistaken for a traffic light from a distance.

Ritsu opened the phone, the source of the buzzing, and looked at the text message.

'What's keeping you so long? We'll leave without you!'

Ritsu glanced at Mio, who seemed to have petrified, and sighed.

"We'll find a quiet spot once we get there, okay?" she teased.

Mio jerked as if someone had shocked her, and when she and Ritsu got to the others, Yui asked, "Ricchan, why is there a bandage on your head?"

God, that was awkward to write. You have no idea how weird it is for someone who's been writing yuri for all of a week to now immediately go to something like this. Anyway, if people like this…I might actually do it again. If not, well, that's fine by me tooXD Ah well, please review and tell me what you thought!Oh, and I usually don't implement review limits, but since I'm letting you be the judge of whether I should do this again or not, I'm gonna say five positive reviews means I'll write an orange again.