Sensing her ambivalence, Guile put his finger under her chin and tilted her face to look at him. "Hey," he said softly, "it's okay. If you want him gone, just say the word and I'll tell him to GTFO." She looked down and shook her head. "Okay." In a slightly louder voice he said, "Hey, Chun I'm dying for a coffee, mind grabbing one for me?" He looked over her shoulder at Ryu. "And you're buyin', capicce?
"Kapeeshee?" Ryu echoed.
"Chun get that idiot out of my face before I kick his ass," Guile barked.
Closing the door behind them, Chun Li pressed the button for the elevator and tried not to look at Ryu. The awkward silence between them was deafening. Walking out of the hospital, she crossed the street and entered a small bakery. Paying for a coffee, he held the door open for her as they left. Half shy, half ashamed of how he had behaved, Ryu held out the flowers to her. "Please accept these."
He seemed more himself again, but there was something new about him – he lacked the assuredness that he normally had. She also noticed that for the first time since she had met him, he was not wearing his red hachimaki. Taking the flowers, she asked, "No headband today?"
A small smile escaped his lips. "I thought I would leave it at the hotel. I am not training today." His forehead bare, clad in jeans and t-shirt, he could have passed for any other person on the street. It was strange how something as simple as a piece of fabric could change someone's appearance so. That explains the whole Superman / Clark Kent thing she thought to herself. Shuffling his feet, Ryu focused on his sneakers as he said, "I ask your forgiveness for my rude behavior the other day."
Chun Li couldn't help but smile at that. There was something so old school about his formal way of speaking. She could picture him four hundred years ago as a ronin, wandering feudal Japan. "Apology accepted."
"Arigato." Another long silence ensued. "Ano, will you walk with me?"
They walked over to a nearby park and sat down on one of the benches. Feeling her heart race, Chun Li fiddled with the flowers and bit her lower lip. Ryu, if you want me to leave you alone, just tell me. Please? I'd rather just know instead of being confused all the time."
"I have been difficult," Ryu admitted.
She sighed. "I feel stupid enough as it is, throwing myself at you all the time. I'm such an idiot, you'd think I'd be able to take a hint." She took a deep breath and said, "Just tell me once, so I can hear it, and it'll be easier for me to leave you alone. At least it will save me from being hurt again." She braced herself for his answer.
"I do not wish you to leave me."
Stunned, she turned to face him, not certain that she heard him correctly. "What?"
"Please pardon my stupidity," Ryu asked, moving closer to her. Feeling the warmth of him began to make her lightheaded. "This has never happened to me before. All my life I have been used to being on my own. It is strange for me to think about another. I am not familiar with these feelings," he explained.
Her lower lip began to tremble. "Please don't say it if you don't mean it. That would be too much for me. I don't want to be hurt like that again."
"I am quite serious about this," Ryu assured her. "And I am deeply sorry that I have caused you pain."
Still not sure that he was in fact being honest, she held back, not wanting to believe his words, lest they be fiction. "I want to believe you. You have no idea how much I want to believe you." A few stray tears traced a path along her cheekbone. "Ryu, I'm so scared."
Taking her face in one hand, he kissed her softly and felt her shake at his touch. Her lips were soft and she tasted sweet. Pulling away, he looked into her eyes and said softly, "Please, do not leave me."
Throwing her arms around his neck, she hugged him to her so fiercely that she knocked her flowers off her lap. Tears of happiness streamed down her face. "Oh, thank god. I'm so happy!" He held her tightly, enjoying the feel of having her close again after what felt like ages. Suddenly she pulled back.
"What is it?" he said, his brow furrowed with concern.
""Guile!" She picked up the coffee. "We completely forgot about him!"
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Opening the door to his room, Chun Li smiled sheepishly as she handed Guile the coffee. "Sorry we're late."
"As long as you had good reason," he said, winking so that only she could see. "Hey, Asshole!" he shouted to Ryu. "It's cold!"
"Gomenasai," Ryu said, bowing apologetically.
He turned back to Chun Li. "Happy?" he asked quietly. She nodded, unable to contain herself. "Get outta here then," he said as he pinched her cheek.
Kissing him on the forehead she said, "Sorry again about the coffee."
"I guess you forgot I don't actually drink coffee," he reminded her.
When it dawned on her that he had done it yet again, she hugged him affectionately and laughed, "Guile, you're the best."
"Just remember the hat," he scowled, pointing to his head.
Before exiting, Ryu turned to Guile and asked, "Question, what does that mean? G-T-F-O?"
Guile plastered a fake smile on his face and waved bye-bye. "Get the fuck out."
"Ryokai!" Ryu said, hurrying out.
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Chun Li entered their hotel room for the first time in days. Wrapping her arms around his neck, she whispered, "Tell me I'm not dreaming."
Pulling her to him, Ryu confirmed for her, "It is no dream."
She kissed him in response, softly at first but she became more insistent as the tension she had suppressed for so long broke free of her control. Her passion had an almost animal quality to it. Pressing herself along the length of him, she slid her hand down the front of his jeans and stroked him through the fabric. He moaned louder than he had wanted to, his cock straining to free itself from its tight confines. He grabbed her hand and pulled it away. "Do you want me to stop?" she asked, unsure of what was wrong.
"Iyah," he said with an embarrassed smile. "But I have never done this before."
"Really?"
"Mm."
When she thought about it, that made sense. He had spent his entire life in relative isolation. That didn't leave much opportunity for romance. She caught him off guard when she threw him onto the bed. Crawling on top of him, she nuzzled his neck and told him, "I don't mind." She ground her hips into his and was delighted when he responded by pushing harder against her. Slipping his shirt off, she ran her hands over his front, loving how firm he felt under her fingers. Kissing his abdomen, she tasted the saltiness of his skin and she made her way to his waistband. Her eyes flashing, she slid her hand down his stomach and encircled his very stiff cock with her hand. She could feel his pulse racing as she stroked it, her hand slippery with his precum.
Ryu couldn't help bucking as she played with him. This level of pleasure was completely new to his experience and it was overwhelming his senses. "Stop," he begged, breathing heavily.
Her hand never slowed as she met his gaze. "Why?"
He was so embarrassed at the admission he was about to make. "I am already too close."
She smiled slyly and pulled her hand out of his pants. It was slick, covered with the fruits of her handiwork. Ryu watched with his mouth open as she licked him off her fingers. "You taste so good," she purred. Raking his jeans with her nails, she slid them completely off with a violent yank and seconds later his boxers joined them on the floor. "This is for being so indecisive," she said with a hard edge to her voice. Taking his fully erect cock in her hand, she took it into her mouth in one deliberate movement and began to suck on it. She enjoyed watching him convulse as she blew him.
The lack of blood flow to his brain must have made it difficult for him to remember his English because all of a sudden he was speaking entirely in Japanese. She had no idea what he was saying, but she could make out a few words, "…yamiro…hanase…ikku…" She could tell that he was close by the way he swelled in her mouth and as the first wave of his orgasm hit, he grabbed her head and forced himself deep into her throat as he launched his cum inside her, unable to stifle a loud cry of "Ikku!" as he emptied himself over and over again. As his head cleared, he felt her gag around him, and looked down to see his cum spilling out of her mouth onto the bedsheets. "Ah, gomen!" he said, ashamed of his lack of consideration for her. She slid her lips off him and he heard her swallow. "I am sorry," he said regretfully. "I finished too quickly."
Standing up, she pulled her dress over her head and slid her thong off her hips. Kneeling over him, she took his hand and guided it between her legs. She was soaked, her inner thighs coated in a slippery sheen and Ryu was shocked to feel his cock stiffening again even though he had just cum. "Looks like there's no need for apology," she said coyly. Taking his hand in hers, she licked his fingers clean and then kissed him hard, forcing her tongue between his lips. His cock was now fully hard again and she began stroking it with her hand. "Do you like how I taste?"
He could barely breathe, he was so aroused. "Oishii," was all he could say.
Laying on her back, she pulled him atop her and ravaged his mouth. "I want it inside me," she told him. Positioning himself above her, he slid the length of his cock deep into her in one thrust. She was incredibly tight and he was amazed that he was getting close already. "Chun Li," he warned. "You are too tight. Let me pull out or it will be over too soon again."
She responded by clamping down on his cock even harder, eliciting a loud groan from him. "No," she breathed. "I'm too close. Come for me." Locking her knees across his back, she screamed as her orgasm tore through her.
Ryu gritted his teeth and tried to hold back his own until she had finished. "I don't want to come inside you," he said. "Please let me go." But she couldn't hear him as a second orgasm almost immediately followed the first and the feeling of her walls contracting around him sent him over the edge. He came almost as violently as he had in her mouth and the sensation was so intense that he involuntarily bit down on her neck as he came, drawing blood.
Next door, Ken and Eliza were watching TV when they heard screaming and banging from the other side of the wall. At first, Ken looked alarmed but when he saw Eliza smiling, he started laughing incredulously and punched his fist in the air. "Woohoo!!! After thirty some years the boy is finally getting laid! Good job, Ryu!" he said to the wall, holding up two fingers in a victory V. Turning back to Eliza, he wiggled his eyebrows at her and said impishly, "Hey, Baby, we're not going to let ourselves be outdone by them are we?"
Eliza looked at him dryly. "Does everything have to be a competition for you?"
Grabbing her off the couch, she squealed as Ken slung her over his shoulder cave-man style. "Now this is my kinda competition! Come, Wench!" he announced. "Round Two, FIGHT!!!" Eliza laughed and pounded her fists on his back in mock protestation as he carried her into the bedroom.
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It was 4 o'clock in the morning and Ken was at his wit's end. In the last ten hours the longest period of silence from the next suite was a mere ten minutes. Muffled screams and pounding sounds were still emanating from the wall. Ken clamped a pillow over his head but it was completely ineffective at drowning out the noise. Throwing it angrily at the wall, he shouted, "Alright already! For fuck's sake give it a rest! Some of us are trying to sleep, goddammit!"
From Eliza's side of the bed, he heard a chuckle. "Does that mean they win?" she teased. A mischievous grin began to spread across Ken's face. "Uh-oh…"
"Not ye-e-et…"
"Ken, don't even think about it, it's 4 o'clock in the morn-OOH!"
Downstairs, the management was fielding multiple complaints regarding the noise level on the 25th floor.
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ronin: masterless samurai
gomenasai: so sorry
ryokai: roger, check, you got it
yamiro: stop
hanase: let go
ikku: I'm coming
oishii: tasty, delicious