YuiAzu - 12. things you said when you thought i was asleep

The once-empty apartment now glowed with color. The walls alternated in vertical stripes, one set a vibrant red-orange to match Yui's guitar, and the other decorated with a pattern of black cats. The two girls shared a large bed, with both of their electric guitars guarding either side. There were plushies strewn about, as well as various clothes and music sheets. The occasional candy wrapper poked through the mess. A laptop lay open on top of a small pile of clothes, the screen slightly flickering as it played a looping playlist of relaxing piano instrumentals.

The heavy rains had faded into a calming snowfall. As the glistening flakes slowly fell on the quiet town, two girls quietly snored the night away, both undressed and intertwined as if they were tied together. As the laptop continued playing a soothing song, a screen popped open in the corner, and the device made a loud pinging noise. The brown haired girl awoke with a jolt, thinking it was her alarm. As she sat up and peered over the edge of the bed, she could just barely make out Ritsu's face on a box in the corner of the laptop screen, along with the word "Online". She had forgotten to log out of Skype, and since she had the volume up for the piano playlist, the notification was louder than it should have been.

Remind me to log out of that before I sleep, she thought to no one in particular. Yui untangled herself from the sleeping kitten that was Azusa, and swung her feet over the edge of the bed. Azusa moaned a little, and then turned her body to face the other side of the room, and began snoring lightly. Yui smiled, and reached over and brushed some of Azusa's hair away from her ear. She got up from the bed and made her way over to the door, pausing only to shut the laptop.

A few minutes later, she returned from the bathroom, and sat down on the bed once more. Azusa's breathing was even and slow, as evident from her exposed breasts. Yui giggled a little, still a little in awe that the two of them have been dating for this long, to the point of them being able to be in bed together without clothes on. To think that they were able to make it this far, after all the fighting and drama that happened a few months back. To her, it was simply amazing that things were able to be fixed.

Yui leaned back and simply stared at Azusa's naked form in the darkness. For a long while, she said nothing, and then started to speak out loud.

"Thank you for being mine. Thank you for always putting up with me, for letting me put up with you. Thank you for making me smile every single day, and for being there when I need you most. Thank you for loving me, even when I was at my most difficult to love."

She paused here, thinking back to the time when she moved out of the apartment. She had asked Mio and Ritsu if she could live with them for the time being, until she could patch things up with Azusa. She didn't want things to end right then and there, and she couldn't bear to lose Azusa, so she figured that time away from each other would be the best course of action. No calls, no texts, no visits. Not even an email. Yui had decided at that moment that she wouldn't contact Azusa for a while, so that everything could cool down, and they could fix things when things were less likely to cause a fight.

Yui stared once more into Azusa's motionless face.

"I'm sorry, Azu-nyan. I'm sorry that I was impulsive. I shouldn't have walked out like that. I should have at least contacted you and told you where I was. That was a big surprise when you showed up at Mio-chan's when you did. I'm glad that things were able to be fixed . . ."

At this point, she couldn't hold back a few tears, and said quietly,

"Thank you, for being mine. Thank you for accepting my apology, thank you for taking me back, thank you for understanding, thank you for being mine . . ."

Suddenly, she felt a weight around her neck, and she felt Azusa's entire body roll until it was on top of hers.

"A-A-Azu-n-n-nyan! You were asleep! You weren't supposed to hear that!"

Azusa looked down at her girlfriend, her long hair encompassing Yui's face, and smiled through the darkness.

"You know I can't sleep without music playing, Yui. You shouldn't have turned off the laptop if you wanted me to keep sleeping."

"Crud, and here I thought I could vent a little to you while you slept," said Yui sheepishly. They both giggled, and Azusa tilted her head to the side.

"I love you, Yui. You don't have to apologize. If anything, I'm at fault too. We both have flaws, we both aren't perfect, but you know what?"

"What?"

"You're perfect to me. And I'm perfect to you. So why don't we continue making things work, with you loving me, and me loving you. After all, you're the best thing that happened in my life."

"Aw, come here you."

Azusa lowered her head, her long dark hair billowing around Yui's head. The two came together for a long, slow kiss, and then they hugged each other close once more. Their bodies couldn't be any closer, and as their chests rubbed against each other in their embrace, they could feel each other breathing, feel every heartbeat between them.

And so they fell asleep once more.