Temptations of the shiny
It was possibly the most insignificant thing in the entire room yet, due to some sort of morbid fascination, Inoue Orihime found she could not tear her eyes away from the small shiny object. Even after Tatsuki had caught her staring a few times, and even admonished her that staring was impolite, she found she could not look away. The tiny metal object just grabbed her attention and she was hard-pressed to ignore it.
Three times already today he had caught her staring as well and, ducking to hide the hot color that filled her face, she would steadfastly return to her books only to, just moments later, return to her fascination with the shiny metal object.
It was most unnerving how the small object would entice her, winking at her flirtatiously every time he talked. It was as if it was playing a mischievous game of hide and seek, flirting with her by appearing and then disappearing in the next instant.
Of course, she had tried to ignore it in the beginning- valiantly so- but, as time passed, she found herself only becoming more and more enthralled by the small metallic object- so much so, she found herself wondering once or twice in only the space of the last hour, what it would taste like on her tongue. Would she be able to taste the shininess? Would it taste like the rainbow of colors it seemed to reflect when it hit the light? Hmm… she was sure rainbows would taste very yummy and could not help thinking that perhaps it too would be quite yummy.
If only she could find out…
Unconsciously, her tongue darted out, wetting her lips now at the thought and, as fate would have it, he looked up in that instant, catching her in the act. Her face heated at being caught and, obviously puzzled by her reddening complexion, an eyebrow cocked over one hazel-brown eye in silent question.
"Inoue… is something wrong?"
More heat suffused her face as hints of shininess came at her again and she vaguely heard herself stuttering something that sounded like an apology for staring before hurriedly excusing herself to the kitchen. Once there, she hurried to the sink to splash cold water on her face, before, with a sigh, she fell back against the wall tiredly.
Mou!!… Who knew that a tongue ring could be so distracting!!
Sighing again, she silently vowed not to be taken in by its sly winks and rainbow colors anymore. She was not going to be taken in by it- not for one second more!
This was easier said than done however and it seemed the devil just loved to play with her.
As if the shiny barbell passing through the pink appendage was not enough of a distraction, the very next week-end, he showed up at the impromptu barbecue at Tatsuki's house with yet another shiny temptation. Orihime told herself fervently on seeing it that she would not fail the battle this time- she would resist and overcome the challenge of the small shiny object. If she didn't, then she was sure she would be lost under its enticing sell and then all her planning to one day become the queen of the little blue men would all be lost.
And she would have succeeded too, was well on her way despite a few bumps in fact, but fate had other things in mind it seemed as to how the battle between her and the tiny shiny objects would end.
"Christ! Hime, could you grab us some water please? I feel like the Sahara," Tatsuki whined as she made her way from the hot barbecue.
"It's boiling hot out here and standing over that hot grill isn't helping," she added, flopping down next to the auburn-haired girl for a quick break while fanning herself quickly with one hand.
Dragging her gaze away from where the guys where playing a game of volleyball, particularly from a certain orange-top and his enticing metallic companions, Orihime set down the book she had long forgotten about and turned to her friend.
"I'll go get water for everyone then," she said and stood up quickly to head for the kitchen. Moments later, however, she was back and empty handed.
"There are no bottles in the kitchen," she explained at Tatsuki's questioning gaze and knowing that Tatsuki really hated drinking water from the tap or cooled-boiled water, she quickly followed up with the offer to run to the convenience store.
"No need," Tatsuki quickly assured her, flopping back unto the blanket the auburn-haired girl had been occupying only moments before. "There's some in the storage area in the shed."
The shed Tatsuki was referring to was a small building at the back of the yard, pretty much the size of a big doghouse which her family often used as storage for odd things and extra stuff like bottled water and detergent. As Orihime had often spent summers here, she already knew this and knew as well exactly where to find water if there was any around. That in mind, she hurried off without question to the small building.
Flicking on the light as she entered, Orihime started humming. She made her way easily through the mass of boxes and, still humming softly, was soon standing in front of the very things she needed- the bottled water. The problem was, however, they were on the top shelf of the storage cupboard and, as much as she tipped, stretched and jumped, Orihime found she could not even touch the plastic wrap surrounding the case. Growing frustrated, she was just about to start looking for something to stand on when, without too much warning, an arm reached out from behind her and pulled down the twelve-pack peeking from the shelf rather easily.
Gasping in surprise at the action, Orihime quickly turned around, ready to thank her hero. The words of appreciation and gratitude stuck in her throat however, as her eyes met none other than the sweaty orange-top, and his mischievous friends- the very ones whom she had taken on this mission to avoid- if only for a moment.
"Did you want this?" he asked and Orihime found she could not even nod in reply, cursing her easily distractible state as her eyes once more found the winking piece of metal.
"Inoue?"
The call of her name went unheard as another flash of metal caught her eye and her gut twisted in sinful delight. The other shiny friend!
"Inoue?"
This new shiny addition moved as he talked as well and, transfixed, Orihime found her gaze glued to it.
"Inoue?"
Shiny 1 flashed by with Shiny 2 peeking at her and it took a hand grasping her shoulder and shaking her slightly to finally pull her gaze away from the tempting metallic twins.
"When did you get a lip ring, Kurosaki-kun?" she asked immediately on coming to, her face flushing in embarrassment when the question echoed in her ear seconds too late.
The sensuous lips in front of her eyes curved slightly, the shiny metal catching her attention once more.
"Sunday," he replied, "I lost a bet with Renji…this was the price."
"Mmm," she found herself mumbling in reply, once again lost to the play of the two tiny pieces of metal moving as he talked.
"Inoue? Are you okay?" he questioned again at her visible distraction.
Shiny 1 and 2 moved again with the question and the light overhead seemed to fill them with color. Rainbows, she thought and almost whimpered at the sudden urge to lick the myriad of reflected colors in the metal.
Must resist, she told herself firmly, must resist the shiny metal taunting me.
"Inoue…"
Gahh…
"Inoue…"
No....
"Oi..."
No longer able to resist the temptation as the shiny objects winked at her once more, Orihime gave in with a low groan, her mind totally not processing the consequences of her actions as, leaning forward, she licked the shiny ring at the left corner of his mouth.
Hmm… she decided with a contented sigh as her tongue met the cool steel, totally ignoring the sharply indrawn breath above her, it tastes like metal.
It wasn't quite the rainbow-y taste she had imagined but, deciding it was a taste she rather liked Orihime licked the shiny ring again.
And again…
And again.
Then her tongue hit the skin that was beneath the shiny piece of heaven and this time, the quickly inhaled breath did not escape her attention.
A full body blush filled her entire skin with color as the reality of what she had just done hit her and she could not help the way her eyes flew to the quickly darkening hazel-brown gaze above her before ducking to the ground quickly again in utter embarrassment.
She had just licked Kurosaki-kun's lip ring….while it was still attached to his mouth!! She almost groaned in shame. What was wrong with her!? Had she really no shame?
Please, she thought fervently then, please… somebody just kill me now.
She was brought out of her thoughts as a callused hand grabbed her chin and forced her head up.
Startled grey eyes met stormy hazel-browns of an even deeper hue than normal. Such pretty eyes they were too, the thought came then. Very comforting despite the lingering wildness in them now…
Her gaze slid up…
And such nice hair- such a cheery color with it's unnaturally bright orange color- Hair that was as messy as usual, carelessly so with spiky ends but such soft looking tendrils curling around his strong tanned neck, the softness of which seemed to beckon her hand to bury themselves in it to satisfy her curiosity on its softness.
Her gaze slid down his face again, too distracted by him at that moment to even notice the heated look he was giving her in return.
Nice nose, she mused as she continued her perusal, strong despite the small ridge where it had obviously been broken once… a great strong chin, very manly, and dusted with the faint hint of a five o'clock shadow… and such delightfully sexy lips- lips with a shiny ring.
Pulling her gaze away from the shiny temptation, she drew her gaze up again only to see him staring at her lips, his gaze fiercely wild. It was a look that made her shiver pleasantly as if in anticipation- of what she was not sure.
"Kurosaki-kun?" she questioned then, finally finding her voice.
"Hmm?" he returned obviously distracted.
Orihime licked her suddenly dry lips before asking timidly, "What are you doing?"
"I'm not sure," he returned, adding softly, "but I think I'm about to kiss the pretty girl who had the audacity to lick my face..."
"Wha-I didn't…" she began hastily, her gaze flying to his eyes, only to be cut off as he shifted suddenly and his lips came crashing down on hers.
He swallowed her surprised gasp, his mouth moving heatedly yet possessively over hers, scorching her lips with the heat of his as if he was imprinting himself on her. Momentarily winded by the action, Orihime sucked in a sharp breath, lips parting, and the moment they did, Ichigo seized the opportunity to deepen the contact even more, his tongue sweeping into the warm, moist cavern of her mouth. Orihime felt her knees give out as the appendage slicked across hers and the cool metal of the barbell piercing in his tongue rubbed against hers. The caress sent a shot of pure electricity through her veins and, had his arms not circled her waist to keep her standing up in that moment, she was sure she would have been a puddle on the floor. When his lips pressed harder into hers, his tongue devouring her mouth, the other cool metal piercing his lip rubbed across hers and she couldn't hold back the mewl from her throat or the way her hands snapped up to his biceps, tangling in the fabric of his t-shirt and clenching hard over the bulge of muscle there as her entire body seemed to become a throbbing pile of goo.
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If someone had told him a month ago that he would find himself in this position, Kurosaki Ichigo would have likely laughed in the bastard's face and then beat the ever loving shit out of him for even raising the unlikely possibility.
God, it wasn't even that he had not wanted, imagined himself even, in this position back then but he was all too aware of the huge differences between them. She was the popular good girl that was liked by almost everyone, quiet and caring and smart despite her ditzy nature while he was the bad boy around campus, redeemed only through his good grades and idolized position on the championship Kendo club. They were worlds apart, and he had no doubt that, had it not been for a few mutual friends in their circle- Tatsuki Arisawa and Ishida Uryuu... he would likely not even have had the chance to really meet her.
Despite knowing all of this however, the instant they had met, he had been no more capable of denying that he wanted her like he had no other girl than he could have cut off his own hand.
He could still recall vividly, even now, that fateful day.
It was the day, quite by accident, he had run into his childhood friend in campus, Tatsuki Arisawa, and, wanting to catch up, she had invited him and his friends to come over to the new flat she had just moved in. He'd taken her up on the offer later that week and almost as soon as she had opened the door, she was there.
She had obviously not been expecting anyone, and had been in the middle of gulping down what he later found out had been a tub full of strawberry ice cream mixed with red bean paste and peanut butter, the spoon stuck in position in one corner of her mouth as she had stood there frozen by their sudden entrance. She had been clad only in a red terry cloth robe that barely touched the middle of her thighs, her auburn hair an even darker shade as it stood in wet straggly curls around her face. Even then however, he thought he had never seen a more enticing sight.
Fate had been particularly kind to him after that initial meeting and by sheer good fortune, he had even ended up in almost all her first year classes. That being the case, they often found themselves in the same spot in the library, often times, studying the same things. It was thus only natural for them to fall into the role of being each other's study buddy.
Yet, despite the growing closeness that situation offered, nothing seemed to happen in their relationship to further it past that.
That was until he'd lost a fight with Shinji and had been forced to get a tongue piercing.
She had been distracted by it and more than a few times, he'd catch her just staring at his mouth when he talked, her expression dazed, blushing madly when he caught her. At those times, he'd almost burned with the curiosity of what thoughts she had had staring at his mouth that caused her to blush so hotly.
Never in his wildest dreams had he thought it was anything like this however.
Is this even real? he questioned himself then, suddenly afraid to even open his eyes. What if it was only another of those very realistic fantasy, another erotic daydream much like the ones he'd been having almost daily since he'd started studying with the gentle natured girl? What if what he felt right at this moment, the sound of her soft mewls against his lips was only an illusion?
His eyes squeezed shut even tighter at the thought, the reluctance to open hem even stronger. He was so afraid that if he did, everything would shatter and this bliss filling his soul would only be another erotic fiction of his thoughts.
The shy move of a tongue against his, the movement sending a hot frisson of sensation to his groin as it stimulated the nerves next to the barbell, told him in no uncertain terms at that moment that it was not a dream however. His breath hitched, then a slow euphoric relief flooded through him as the sensation came again and his arms tightened around her, his legs shifting so that he could press her even more intimately between him and the shelf behind them. He had to make sure this sweet dream would not shatter...
Orihime made a faint sound of surprise in the back of her throat, momentarily tensing at his action but then the sound changed to a low moan as he caressed her tongue again with his, purposefully letting the barbell brush across hers in a soft caress. The silver ring at the corner of his lips bumped against hers as he did and she finally seemed to grow bolder, tracing her tongue along the edge of his teeth, over the smoothness of the barbell in his tongue and out to trace the small ring in his lips, her touch almost curious.
Her innocent actions sent a wave of not so foreign and unbidden images through his mind, images so blatantly arousing it effortlessly pulled a deeper groan from his throat. His body heated alarmingly in response and as another soft mewl spilled from her lips, her hand pulling him closer, her tongue hurrying to follow the direction of his with growing enthusiasm, his head turned more into her. The hand in her hair arched her neck up to make it easier for him and without thought, his mouth latched even more firmly over hers, deepening the heated kiss even more.
The new contact made him groan ferally as it allowed him to delve even deeper into the sweet recesses of her mouth and Orihime's body just seemed to melt into his at the wealth of new sensations that sprung up between them. Her generous bosom pressed even harder into the hard planes of his chest then and, desperate to increase the delightful friction the shift in position sent through his body, his other hand shifted from the wall next to her head, sliding down her side to curl under one leg and hitch it over his hip. The new position settled him even more comfortably between her heated thighs and he couldn't help but hiss at the heat the position sent searing into his body. Not anymore at least than he could as her hips bucked instinctively into his at the contact, her body shuddering while yet another of those sexy mewls graced his ears.
Her hips shifted again, her body seeming to crave an even closer contact with him and, unthinkingly, he ground his hips into hers. The sensation from the contact had him tearing his lips from hers to gasp some well-needed air into his lungs as the action robbed him of the life-sustaining gas.
"Kami," he gasped.
Orihime's eyes fluttered open at the sound, her chest rising and falling in a panting rhythm like she had just run a mile. Her heavy lidded gaze met his dark ones in slow confusion. Her thoughts were racing furiously, but refusing to settle on any one thing except for the incredible feelings still running through her- not that she minded one bit either. The moment his lips had touched hers, she had given up on any chance of maintaining coherency whatsoever and now, staring up at the dark heated look in his eyes, she felt she would not have been able to think straight anyway- not even if she had tried.
Shaking her head to clear her cloudy thoughts, she opened her mouth to ask him what had just happened. The words never made it out though as just then, the sudden clattering of metal alerted them that they were no longer alone.
Turning towards the sound, they both met the furious gaze of one Arisawa Tatsuki.
A flood of heated color suffused Orihime's face then as it the reality of exactly what Tatsuki was seeing hit her.
Here she was, pressed up tightly between the hard body of the orange-top, her back against the shelf, one leg over his hip, her mouth surely swollen from his kisses...
"Tatsu..." she began, only to break off into a scream as Tatsuki suddenly launched at the unsuspecting orange-top, her fist making sickening contact with his jaw.
"What the fuck?" the orange top bellowed as soon as he recovered but Tatsuki was already walking away, pulling a startled Orihime behind her.
Ichigo watched the auburn haired girl disappear from his view, her wide slate grey eyes focused on him, then wiped a hand across his bloody lip. The action brought his hand against the ring at the corner of his mouth and, unable to help it, a smile turned the corner of his lips up as he recalled how she had licked the silver jewellery, starting off everything. The grin widened as the rest of the episode filled his mind to a smirk...
Fuck if getting hit wasn't worth it, he thought then, rubbing his cut lip with his tongue.
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A few months later, just out of the blue, it occurred to him that he never really understood exactly what had led to the events that played out that day, events that had led to said auburn-haired girl being his girlfriend for the last three months. Curious about it, he asked her one night as they sat on the floor of his room doing homework.
Her eyes had widened at his question, a blush filling her face delightfully and just when he thought she would not answer him, she had stuttered, "It...It was the temptation of the shiny."
That answer alone had led him instantly into thinking rather heatedly of what other shinies he could use to tempt the buxom beauty and, needless to say, they never did get much homework done that evening.
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