To my darling readers:

Before we begin the madness: this chapter is rated M, as in, if you aren't old enough to look at naked pictures without blushing as red as a tomato, you aren't old enough to read this. Go away - kink will still be around when you're older.

That said, I need my brain scrubbed, because for a while I was wondering if this was PG-13.

Again: despite what the rest of this series might lead you to believe, this is not for kiddies. I have done all that I can. If you're brain hurts after this, it's your own damn fault.

Also, this needs a title. Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Much love,

Adali

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He's a bastard. In the proper sense, too, but mostly when people say it they mean that he's an asshole. Which he is, and he'll be the first to admit. Some people think he's joking, because he'll often say it right up front: I'm not really interested in you, I'm just bored; I'm just using you to accomplish my own goals; I don't actually care what you do. They think he's just playing, because no one actually says things like that. Except that Shigure does.

People might not realize it at the time, but when Shigure says something, it's because he means it. It doesn't matter if what he's saying is, "I don't care who I hurt, as long as I can achieve that," or, "I really want to see Tohru in a French maid uniform."

He's really not joking: he wants to see her in that cute little black dress, with its lacy white apron and starched cap. Silk stockings, smoothly encasing those slender legs from delicate ankle to just below the hem of that tantalizingly short dress. High, high heels, that make those legs seem impossibly long. He wants to trace his way up those legs, touching and licking, until he reaches the top...

He's a kinky bastard, too, and he'll admit that just as readily. There's no embarrassment left, after you've been in some of the positions Shigure's been in - especially not if you liked being there.

Spanking, for instance. One day he catches Hatsuharu watching porn: he comes in right as the couple on the screen are really get into it, whaling on each other's bare asses with hands and paddles and whatever else they can lay their hands on. He waits, watching quietly until it gets to the point where Hatsuharu's head should be just about to explode - really, teenage boys and cheap porn are both so predictable - then says, "It's much better if you spank them other places, too." Then he saunters out, whistling, knowing that Hatsuharu is twenty kinds of embarrassed and will never live this down. The poor kid is probably so traumatized he'll never dare try that himself, now.

But spanking, Shigure figures, is hardly a kink at all. Everyone does it. (He said as much to Ren and, although she slapped him soundly for it, it was definitely worth it.) Bondage, now... but even that's become mainstream. For a junishi like him, it even makes sense: tie the girl up, and she won't be able to squirm about and inadvertently hug you, because then it would be bestiality, and... well, yeah, Shigure's done that too.

Ayame's got a thing with snakes, and snakes are sexy (as is Ayame), and they were sixteen and randy and stupid... luckily, Ayame warned him before he let that poisonous one get too close to his dick. Oh, sure, Ayame said he could have just sucked the poison out afterwards, but it still would have been sore and throbbing, and not at all a good ending to a very, very hot evening.

He's done the threesome thing. It makes him laugh, how the teenagers that share his house all dance around the topic with each other. Maybe they'll end up that way, maybe they won't - they're still easily embarrassed, after all. What would he say to them, anyway? "It's hotter than hell, but pay attention to where the girl sticks her boobs, in case you transform"? That'd probably get him kicked through the wall or pounded into the floor. It's something to think about, though, because Shigure learned that lesson the hard way. It was damn lucky Hatori was there (and hadn't he given Shigure an earful about it later) or the whole family would have been in big trouble. Seven witnesses with the same story... someone might actually have believed it.

And fetishes... he's done those too. Leather? Rin looks hot in leather. She looks even hotter afterwards, when the sharp marks from Shigure's teeth are imprinted in the leather like a brand. Somewhere deep inside every dog is a wolf that's waiting to get out - the one inside Shigure comes roaring to the surface when he sees something that can only be prey... really, it's a good thing Rin wears all that leather, since it saves her from having to explain the bite marks.

Or silk? Akito never wears anything else. It's expensive and refined - beautiful, even. Some days, Shigure likes to stroke it, and the skin beneath which shares nearly the same texture. Other days, he rips it apart, as though destroying Akito's clothes will destroy the godly bonds which hold her.

And satin and velvet? As though Ayame would let him reach twenty without trying it out. His favourite part of them, though, is that they serve as the perfect distraction for Ayame - get him talking about his favourite fabrics, and he'll shut up about everything else for hours. You'll still have to listen to him talk shop, though, so that tactic is something of a last resort.

Blindfolds and disguises... he quite liked those, but then, he's always liked anything that played to his imagination. He's a writer, after all. And they say that depriving one sense heightens the others. Shigure's a dog, so his eyes are already his weakest sense: depriving him of sight allows him to better appreciate the subtle sounds and intoxicating perfumes of sex as no one else can.

Feet? Well... that wasn't him, exactly. One of the girls he fooled around with in college had a thing for his feet, and if she got that hot for them, Shigure wasn't going to argue.

Blood, now... blood has never really been his thing. Shigure's squeemish by nature, and doesn't like the sight of blood, especially his own. There's something undeniably fascinating about watching it slowly swell, then run off in drops, leaving faint pink trails behind, though. And the adrenaline kick from even the smallest cut leaves him dizzy and gasping. But still, he's not much for the blood. That was always more Hatori's thing.

Older women, younger women... incest, rape fantasies, cross-dressing, cheating, cosplay and role-play and toys and water-sports and... yeah. Liked some, loved some, could have done without certain others (although Shigure firmly believes in valuing every experience, even the ones that make you want to scrubs yourself with sandpaper and bleach to get the dirt out). If there's a position he hasn't tried at least once, then it's probably not physically possible - but he's still willing to try.

Shigure spent some time with a girl, once, who wanted to test that claim. Or maybe she just got off on the sort of thing, and was hoping Shigure would indulge her. Whatever. Licking his own balls didn't bother Shigure - dogs do it all the time, and when you come right down to it, it's just skin like everywhere else - but she really seemed to like it. Seemed pretty shocked that he was flexible enough for it, too, but Shigure has Ayame to thank for that. Sparring with Ayame when your joints aren't the consistency of cooked spaghetti almost guarantees that you're going to have something ripped out of place - and Shigure likes all his limbs properly attached, thank you.

He makes no secret of any of this. But the weird thing - and Shigure really can't figure it out - is that the only reason Kyo and Yuki call him a pervert is because he sings his little song about high school girls. It's like they don't believe he'd really do any of the other stuff, and just think he's saying it to get a rise out of them.

And if he's being honest - which Shigure always is, in his own way - then Shigure will admit that although he's tried all that, the only reason he tells them about it is to see their reactions. That's why he'll actually buy a maid outfit for Tohru, instead of just imagining her in one, and why he'll make insinuations to Kyo, and stuff Yuki into dresses. Because of everything, the thing that turns Shigure on the most is messing with people's heads - and they are just too easy.