Believe when I say that I know how long it took to write this chapter. I blame school and work. A little of writers block but mostly lack of free time to sit down and write.

With this chapter I wanted to show what might happen when the lust dwindles down a bit, show perhaps how Tala and Akahana might act after they get that first lust crazed days. It was one of the reasons it took me a long time to write and finish this chapter. I wanted to get Tala's character/persona just write and not too OC those I am hopping I accomplished that.

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Chapter 7

Akahana woke up with a gasp as she felt someone make contact with her back. Turning around, she felt her breath get stuck in her throat. Tala was trashing around and smacking her along the way. Sitting up, she made a grab for his wrists
but it made his trashing worse. She was shoved off and fell back on the mattress. She rolled over just as he kicked his legs out. Grabbing his hands, she dove for his chest and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Wake up! Tala wake up!" His trashing became violent. "Please wake up! Tala!"

Tala's eyes flashed open as he yelled out and sat up with a start.

Akahana held onto him as she tried to calm him down. "Shh, it's ok. It's ok."

Tala was gasping as sweat ran down his face. For a moment he didn't know where he was or who was hugging him. He grabbed the person by the arms and shoved her away from him to take a look at her.

She looked up at him. "Tala?"

He looked down at her in confusion.

"It's Akahana, your woman. Your tsvetok." Wolborg clarified.

In the next second, Tala pushed her against his chest and whispered against her hair. "Tsvetok."

"It's ok Tala. It was a nightmare." She rubbed his back. "It was just a bad dream."

"No one will take you from me. No onewill get their hands on you." Tala pressed her painfully tight to his chest. "No one will hurt you. I'll kill anyone who tries."

Akahana tensed in his arms at his threat. She knew that Tala had a temper but she never imagined he would go to such extremes, for her of all people.

"Shh. I'm right here Tala." She pressed a kiss to his neck. "It was all a bad dream. Let's lie down."

Akahana helped him to lie down and nearly squeaked when pulled her down with him. He pressed himself to her chest and she ran her fingers through his hair to relax him. Pressing a kiss to his temple, she whispered to him. "The only person that could take
me away from you, who could ever hurt me, is you Tala."

He held her closer. "Never from me."

"Do you want to talk about your nightmare?"

"No." He wanted to forget it. Didn't want to dwell on it in case a turn of bad luck it came true. He shook his head against her chest trying to dissolve his ill thoughts.

"When you're ready then." She kissed his forehead and did what had been done to her when nightmares would interrupt her sleep. Akahana hummed to him a lullaby.

She ran her fingers through his hair while her other hand skimmed his back. Akahana hummed until his breathing was deep and even. She wondered what kind of nightmare he had. As tall and strong as he was, she couldn't imagine him scared of anything or
anyone. Perhaps it was something from the past. She still had nightmares of her own from her childhood.

Still, she would make sure everything was okay in the morning. Getting comfortable, she joined him in sleep.

- Akahana groaned and slapped her hand back. She didn't want to wake up yet. Why couldn't Tala just wake up late for once?

Her hand was pulled back and her body was moved onto its back. She blinked her eyes open as a shadow loomed over her. Her eyes widen and relaxed only for a second before noticing that something wasn't right.

"Tala?"

Tala didn't say a single thing as he shoved her thighs wide open. He positioned the tip of his shaft at her entrance and shoved to the hilt. Akahana cried out and pressed her hands against his chest. A growl vibrated from his chest as Tala moved down
on her and pulled down the straps of her baby-doll to expose her breasts, ripping one strap in the process.

His arms came around and wrapped around her back and pressed her against his chest. He had her cocooned in his arms. She looked up at him and found him staring down at her before he started pounded her in a relentless rhythm.

Tala never let his gaze stray from hers. He must still be plagued by the nightmare he had. He needed reassurance and she would help him achieve it. Akahana pressed a kiss against his lips. He responded by invading her mouth and kissing her possessively
hard. She raised her legs and wrapped them around his back. This seemed to please him as he pounded harder against her. Akahana cried out as he hit her spot and climaxed. Tala pumped a dozen more times and bit down on her shoulder as he drowned her
pussy with his seed.

He kept moving against her even after he let himself put his full weight on her. Akahana wrapped her arms around him and sighed. Her hands ran over his back before going back to his head and running her fingers through his hair. She knew that she might
piss him off and was already become pissed with herself but she had to ask him.

"Tala, are you still troubled by your nightmare? Do you want to tell me what it was about?" He tensed in her arms and pulled away from her. She reached for him but let her hands drop and watched him go to the bathroom. Leaning back, she closed her eyes.
They didn't have that kind of relationship. She didn't know if this was a relationship to begin with. This was the exact reason why she wanted to leave. She was afraid that at the end of all of this, she was going to be the only one
to get her feelings hurt.

Taking a deep breath, she looked up at the ceiling but her eyes caught something else. She turned and her eyes widen as she looked at the metal bar headboard. The bars whereshe had tied her gold chains were pulled out. She couldn't believe the strength
that Tala packed. The bathroom door opened and she turned to face him. "You fucked up your headboard."

Tala came up to her and carried her like damsel in distress. "You made me fuck up my bed."

She kissed his cheek. "I guess I owe my prince a new bed."

"It seems like itbut for now a shower awaits us." Tala played along as he walked them to the bathroom.

-Tyingher silk robe that Tala purchased for her, Akahana went about drying her hair as best as she could with the towel. She went to the kitchen for a glass of water and brought it back to the room. Hearing Tala turning off the shower, she
hurried to her purse and took out a compact. She opened it and took out a small pill. Swallowing it, she drank it down with water. She placed the compact back in her purse and turned just as Tala was coming out of the bathroom.

She didn't know why but she didn't want him to know that she was on birth control. It would be normal to assume that he would be relieved of the fact that she was using protection and that she wouldn't accidentally get pregnant with his baby but he was
acting the opposite of what she thought he should be. She wasn't sure how he would react and that was the reason she hadn't told him. She would tell him but when the time was right, for now she would be hush hush about it.

Tala dried his hair and tossed the towel in the hamper. He watched as she brushed her long hair and braided it to the side. He moved towards her and made a move to unbraid it. "I prefer your hair loose."

"It's going to get puffy when it dries up." She made a motion with her hands as though there was a fluff ball over her head. "Why don't I braid your hair too and we can match?"

She wiggled her fingers as she moved towards him and watched a scowl formed on his face. "Don't you dare."

"Come on it will be fun." She rushed as him and Tala sprinted from the room. Akahana chased him all the way to the kitchen and laughed when she cornered him. "You do know I was kidding right?"

She let a moment pass and she gathered up her courage.

"Tala." Akahana grabbed his arm and looked up to face him. She knew that he would pull away but she still had to convey what she felt he needed to know. Wrapping her arms around him, she hugged him as hard as she could. "I just want you to know that you
are here in the now. A nightmare is just that, a nightmare. Nothing there can truly harm you."

Tala didn't know what to say. He never had anyone reassure him like this before. She got nervous under his gaze and took a step back releasing him from her embrace.

"My mother always did this when I had a nightmare. It helped me get myself together. I thought it might help you as well." She might have been wrong about that. They were different, grew up and were raised in different circumstances. What she might think
was helpful, he could define as fastidious or annoying. "I'm not going to pester you to tell me. You will when you're ready or maybe never. I had and still have nightmares about my childhood traumas that I will never confess to my mother or Akatsuki,
ever."

"What traumas?" Tala stepped closer to her and took her arms in his hands.

"From when I was first kidnapped as a child and some kidnappings as I grew older." A shiver ran through her body. "It wasn't as if they ever achieved anything. It was what they said they had planned for me. I didn't understand until I got informed, it
was then that my nightmares took form."

What could have those sick bastards said to her that to this point she still had nightmares? That shivers still racked her body when she thought about them?

"Don't ask her Tala? You would only be needlessly hurting her." Wolborg warned him. "Let her be the one to tell you when she is ready. She is giving you that opportunity as well."

Wolborg was correct yet..."Have you had nightmares recently?"

"No...which is strange." She thought about the times she had a chance to actually sleep. "I should have had a nightmare or two by now."

The doorbell rang and both turned to it. Akahana moved towards it but Tala shoved her behind him. He moved towards the door and opened it. A security guard stood on the other side with a duffle bag.

"Lady Tsukiko Hiwatari ordered for this to be delivered and handed to lady Akahana Kumori." The guard informed to the glaring Russian. Tala grabbed the bag and opened it just as Akahana reached his side.

"Thank you so much." Akahana thanked the guard as she took the bag from Tala.

"No need Kumori-sama." The guard bowed before leaving.

"It's my hair products and make up Tala." She said as she searched the bag. There were also two change of clothes and a pair of shoes. "My charger!"

Akahana rushed from the living room and to the bedroom to get her cellphone. She connected it and while it charged she went to the bathroom to do her hair and make-up. Coming out, she found Tala in a pair of slacks and an opened dressing shirt. She bit
her lip at the sight. He looked like he stepped out of a magazine cover.

He placed the box with all the clothes he bought her on the bed. She moved to it as she placed the duffle bag next to it. "When did you have time to buy all of this?"

"While you were taking a shower the other day." He raised another baby-doll set he purchased for her and held back a groan before placing it on the bed.

Akahana took out three sets of underwear and bras and emptied the rest of the box, setting them down on the bed. "You do have impeccable tastes Tala."

Tala leaned over her as she admired her gifts and rubbed his erect shaft against her ass. "I imagined you with them on and then ripping them off as I made you mine again and again."

She trembled and bit her lip. "Like the baby-doll I had on this morning? I really liked that one. Especially the matching underwear."

"More of those will come. I will make sure of it." Tala whispered against her ear. "Now finish getting ready. Put this set on."

"You want to dress me too master?" Akahana arched her eyebrow, challenging him.

Tala smirked. "That doesn't sound like a bad idea."

He looked back at the bed and picked a set. Removing the silk robe, he tossed it on the bed and did the same to the short matching nightgown. Tala traced his hands over the curve of her hips up her rib cage to her breasts.

Akahana grabbed the bra and snapped it on. Turning it around, she looped her arms inside the straps. It was a push up bra with daring straps in front that frame the curves of her breast with low-cut cups veiled in stretch floral lace and mesh. Tala fixed
the straps over her breast with slow deliberation and the four on the back.

Next came the matching lace and mesh cheekini (bikini) with racy straps on the front and back. She held onto his shoulders as he kneeled in front of her and pulled on the cheekini. He fixed the two straps on her hips and straightened the lace over her
bottom.

Tala's hands lingered before he cupped his hands full of her ass. Hefting her up, her legs wrapped around his hips and he rubbed against her nub. Akahana locked gazes with him and encircled his neck as she leaned forward and kissed him. Their lips came
together as their tongues twirled, searching and tasting. Their kiss was slowly and long.

Their lack of oxygen is what got them to come apart for air. He nipped her lip before letting her slide down his body. A moan escaped her lips. Tala smirked and lightly slapped her ass. "Get dressed tsvetok."

-They walked down the sidewalk; she had dawned on an olive green sleeveless, V-neck, lace sheath dress with a back zipper. They walked into a mattress store, as promised they were going to buy a new bed. A sales man approached Tala as
Akahana set on the nearest bed she bounced lightly on it, testing it.

"Are you looking for a specific type of bed?" The salesman asked as he watched Akahana move to another bed and test it as well.

"I want something firm but soft." Tala watched as Akahana move to another bed and bounced her tush on it lightly. "My girlfriend will be choosing it."

Akahana froze at his words. She was not sure if he had meant for her to hear them but she had and she couldn't believe them. First of all he hadn't even asked her and second she didn't think that just because they had sex they were a couple now. Well
it hadn't been just sex for her but love.

She didn't think he thought it the same, this surprised her. She always thought Tala was the typical playboy who jumped from one woman to the other looking only for his own pleasure. The newspapers had deemed to him that way and sometimes they weren't
too far from the mark.

Was he serious about her? About them?

Akahana looked up just as she felt him stand in front of her. He cupped her chin. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing. Just got lost in my thoughts."

Taking her hand, Tala took her towards the section the salesman had shown him. She sat on the nearest one and bounced her bottom on it. Shaking her head she moved to the next one. Padding it, she motioned for him to come and join her. "Come try it out."

He smirked at her. "If I tried it out the way I wanted to, we would surely get thrown out and arrested."

Akahana looked at him with a stunned look as her face turned bright red. Then her chuckle slipped past her lips and she fell back into the mattress. "Do you think of nothing else?"

Tala fell back into the mattress and looked over at her. "Yes, I think it's time we go eat soon."

"I am kind of hungry." She agreed as she looked up at him.

They picked a new bed and Tala glared at her as she made a motion to take out her wallet. "But it was because of me that you broke your bed."

"I was joking. I'm not about to let you pay for this."

She glared at him. "What's wrong with my money? It's the same as yours."

Finished with their purchase, Tala led her towards the exit. "I can afford it and if the day comes where I can't, then you will. Though I doubt that day will ever come."

"We will see about that."

"Why don't you think about this instead…" Tala pulled her against his chest and leaned down to her ear, whispering. "When we get home we will make sure to give our new bed a good welcoming."

Tala nipped her ear as he felt her face heat up. He chuckled as they walked to the car but groaned a second later when Akahana elbowed him in the ribs.

-They made a short pit stop to a bed bath and beyond to get bed sheets and a comforter. Another couple caught her eye, they were shopping for pillows. It had reminded her of what Tala had said back at the bed store.

He said "if the day ever came" and "when we get home" and "our bed". Was Tala thinking of taking this relationship for the long run even as bizarre as it had started?

"Did you find them?"

She flinched, startled by his voice. Turning around to meet him, she said. "I couldn't remember the size of the bed."

Tala grab three king-size bed sheets.

"Why white?" She saw that he had a white comforter as well. "The comforter too? Why am I getting the feeling that you like white?"

"Because I do." He saw that she looked over at the red bed sheets. "We can't get red. It's enough that we have red hair."

"So you don't like my red hair?" She falsely glared and pouted at him.

"Don't put words in my mouth." He moved closer to her. "It would be pleasant if just one of us had red hair."

"You're thinking of dying your hair?" She held in her amusement as she saw his face. "I would suggest blonde. It would be the typical Russian stereotype." (Made up, not real stereotype)

She speed walked away from him while giggling like a crazy school girl after the look Tala had given her. He caught up to her, turned her around and cupped her nape, bringing her close. "Well too bad you're stuck with a redhead."

Akahana pressed closer to him. "I don't have a problem with your red hair." She pulled him down and kissed him.

She backed off and gave him a sensual smile.

"If we weren't in public, you would already be up against the wall with my cock rammed deep inside your hot pussy."

Madly blushing, Akahana held her moan back. "Shouldn't we save it all for our new bed?" She wiggled her eye brows at him as she walked away.

Tala couldn't hide the smirk that made its self-known. She was a dangerous weapon in more ways than one.

- Tala took her to the best Italian restaurant that there was in Bey City. He wrapped his arm around her waist as he noticed all the men ogling her. They walked to their table and he glared at anyone who stared at her too long.

"They're just staring Tala, that's all they can do." Akahana said as she looked at the menu.

They should know that you're my woman. Tala thought and Wolborg agreed. Show them that they have no opportunity with what is already yours.

Tala wasn't able to give her an answer as a waitress came to take their order. Said waitress ogled Tala and completely ignored Akahana. "Have you decided what you will be having today?"

Akahana glared at her and cleared her throat. "I will be having the cheese tortellini with no parsley."

The waitress finally turned and looked at her. Akahana gave her a sardonic look and raised her eyebrow at her expectantly. The waitress wrote down the order and quickly turned back to Tala. She tried not rolling her eyes at the women. After all she had
just told him to calm down when she was being ogled, she didn't want to be a hypocrite by acting childish.

"I will have shrimp pasta please."

"Anything to drink with that sir?" The waitress asked.

"I will take the finest wine you have." Akahana leaned back on her seat and looked at her expectantly.

"I will have the same thank you." Tala ordered and handed back the menus.

The waitress took the menus and walked away. There was an extra sway in her hips.

"What was that again? They are just looking?" Tala asked smirking.

Akahana stuck her tongue out at him and turned away. "Shut up Tala."

"Stick your tongue out at me and you'll see what I do to it." He snapped his teeth together.

She tried to hide her blush and grin. "You perv."

"Only with you."

Before Akahana could answer him, the waitress came with their drinks. She glared at the waitress as she served the wine and nearly knocked her wine glass over her dress. Was she that desperate to grab Tala's attention and favors?

Akahana took a good look at him. Sure he was very good looking, tall, manly, strong but she had always thought so since she had met him at her sixteen years of age. Was he the type women would fight for with cheap and dirty tricks?

"What are you thinking about?" Tala asked her taking her hand in his.

"Just wondering how far women have gone to get your attention or more." Akahana tilted her head to study him further.

Tala scowled at her. "I don't wish to speak of this matter unless I can ask you the same question."

Akahana chuckled. "Smart man, very smart."

Their food came and they ate silently or as silently as Akahana could. "Hmmm. This is so good."

Tala smirked. He hadn't expected to enjoy watching Akahana eat with vigor. She wasn't the salad type girls who barely ate a thing. When she was hungry it seemed she ate all she could. He tempted down his chuckle. She would definitely need all the energy
she could get to use later today.

"Is there something in my face? Am I eating too fast?" Akahana asked as she noticed that Tala was staring at her.

"No. I was lost in thought." He took a bite from his food and couldn't help but silently agree with Akahana. The food was excellent.

"Really? I never pegged you as a day dreamer." She grinned. "I wonder what you day dream about?"

"They aren't dreams if I have made them all come true. You should know, better yet feel them."

Akahana was left stunned at the meaning behind his words. She turned as red as the sauce on her food. Tala chuckled and she couldn't help but giggle alongside him when she noticed that he was teasing her.

-She ordered tartufo and tried to feed him some and while he protested that he didn't like sweets, she stuck the spoon past his lips.

"Now tell me it's not good." Akahana asked as she smirked at him.

"It's not good." Tala scowled. "I don't like sweets."

"Your loss." Akahana took another bite of her desert.

"Not really." Thought Tala as he watched her eat. He inwardly cursed when he felt himself growing hard. Her lips pressed against the spoon making sure to get all the sweet goodness. She ran her tongue over her lips and that was it. He had to have
her soon. "We are leaving."

Akahana looked at him as he signaled for the bill. "Why? I'm not done with my desert."

"We will come back soon for now we go." Tala said getting the bill and placing his credit card inside the folder before handing it back.

She took a last bite of her desert before a waiter came to take the plate from the table. The waitress came back with the receipt and waited for him to sign it. She gave him back his credit card and with a white paper below it. Akahana glared at her as
she got up from her seat. Tala crumbled the paper and tossed it on the table before wrapping his arm around her waist and walked out. She smirked at the pissed off look on the waitress's face.

"Wait here while I get the car." Tala went to the valet and handed his ticket.

"Akahana? Is that you?"

She turned around. "Mystel, it's good to see you. How are you?"

Before she knew it, she was enveloped in a hug. "It's a relief to see you."

As the question was ready to leave her lips, she closed her mouth. She understood what he meant. "I'm sorry if I worried you."

Mystel took a step back but held her arms. "Where have you been? Everyone has been on the lookout for you. Are you ok?"

He looked her over for any injuries. "I'm fine, really. I just caught up in something…someone."

"What exactly do you mean Akahana?" Mystel asked getting a suspicious look on his face.

Akahana never got to answer his question.

Tala came in like a battering ram. He pulled Mystel away from Akahana and punched him in the face.

"Mystel!" She screamed watched him fall back into the ground.


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