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Skinny Dipping

Chapter One

Natsuki opened her eyes when she could no longer ignore the scarce but still bright ray of light that shone through the thin curtains that decorated the windows of the room. Bright and expressive jade colored eyes stared at the ebony colored ceiling for a short moment before closing again in tiredness.

She hardly had a moments sleep the night before so her body was feeling more than a little tired at the moment, still her mind was very mush awake from the past recent events. The memories made a happy smile form in her face but she couldn't hold back a yawn that made a few drops of water surge from her eyes.

'Whatever, I don't care'. She thought to herself. Yesterday's happenings were certainly worth her lack of sleep and she had grown used to pulling all nighters catching up with her studies. Honestly, who would've thought that Kuga Natsuki, former delinquent and ditching queen had now become a model student.

She chuckled at the thought. She had surprised her teachers and classmates by showing them that she wasn't stupid at all, just more than a little bit lazy.

Like before, she still had a reputation to uphold at school, but unlike before it was now one of a nearly perfect attendance record – damn those unexpected colds!- and astounding grades. She still held her cool and detached demeanor though, and although she did try to socialize a bit more, she couldn't just go from being an Ice Queen to social butterfly in the span of a couple months. It suited her just fine though, she couldn't and wouldn't try to please everyone around her just because she had changed her ways a little bit.

'Okay, maybe I have changed more that a little bit.' She thought looking down to her left side and smiling. 'But I sure don't mind one bit.'

There, perched on her side, lay a very beautiful and a very naked Shizuru.

A bit tired from laying on her back without actually getting any rest , she began to turn around to get into a more comfortable position when she heard a whine coming from her side. Following the rather childish, came the soft sound of rustling sheets and a pair of cold hands taking hold of her arm in a tight and possessive way.

Slowly so she wouldn't disturb her sleeping partner again, she started to turn around so she was now facing Shizuru, deciding to admire her companion's naked form for a moment thinking of a way to get out of the tight grasp, instead she couldn't help running her free hand along her soft curves. She started by tracing her hand across the back of a scantly covered thigh, up along the round flesh of Shizuru's butt, the curves of her hips, waist and the swell of an uncovered soft breast. A soft groan encouraged her to gently squeeze the soft mound and caress the slightly hardened nipple smiling with satisfaction at the moan she received. On the downside, this action made Shizuru squirm a little into her arm making her loose her soft grip on the soft mound.

Deciding to leave the fun for later, her hand continued her journey up to Shizuru's neck blushing a bit when her eyes spotted the various red marks on her collarbone and neck. 'Those are gonna be hard to hide.' What had she been thinking, biting Shizuru like a rabid animal?' Obviously she hadn't done much thinking the night before. 'We'll figure it out later.'

By this point her hand had already reached Shizuru's face, were she traced her fingers along her lips and finally settled on her cheek, she lovingly caressed for a few moments before taking the flesh between her fingers, pinching it with enough force to make Shizuru groan in discomfort. Her smile grew wider at that and it only incited her to squeeze a bit harder.

Although she was content being like this: laying in bed next to her best friend, her arm was starting to feel numb by Shizuru's strong hold on it.

"Shizuru." She called out hoping to wake the sleeping beauty up. "Wake up, come on.'

'Best friend, huh?' She supposed that they were something more than just best friends now, but that was fine, they were still each other's most important person. And that was all that mattered.

At last Shizuru's eyes began to flutter open, they settled on Natsuki, blinking rapidly to keep them open taking on a confused expression.

"Natsuki?" She asked in a groggy voice, her hand coming to rest atop Natsuki's but not making any efforts to move it away.

"Hey there." She answered with a grin. "You're killing my arm you know."


Ok, this is...short. And I haven't updated anything in about two years but I felt like writing again. The muses are in! Yaay!