I've got to apologize for the last chapter. For those who read it the first time it was posted, I must say that I've posted teh wrong version! The thing is I've written two versions of 3G, fanfic and fic. The last chapter was actually from the fic so Aiko is actually my name for Mariah in the fic and Yasashiku is Rei! I've fixed my mistake and hope that I won't do it again. GOd, it must have been confusing. So sorry. :(

Chapter 35

Innocence

Kai was sitting at the bar. She was dancing again, in a loose red outfit of silk that flew along with the movement of her curves. He was trying to avoid her gaze as well as his own on hers. Her black hair was hidden by the red hood. She wasn't looking at him.

"She's just like alcohol: once you've tasted her, you want more. Even though it's fucking bitter."

He turned to look the person sitting next to him. He was not much older than Kai but he somehow looked weary beyond age. He smiled a toothy smile at Kai and bowed his head.

"Morphine," he simply said, noticing Kai's gaze on him.

Indeed his hands holding the mug of beer were trembling uncontrollably. The eyes had lost its vitality but the lips were still smiling.

"How much did it cost you?" the drug-addicted asked.

"My virginity," he replied.

Kimi didn't see the Ice Prince as he sat there talking to the drug-addicted. She was too busy dancing, coped up with her mind. Mariah hadn't been up and refused to eat anything from the day they came back from town. Something was clearly wrong. Normally Mariah would confide it to her but now all she did was hiding under her covers. Madame Cho was talking of dragging her down the next time she missed her shift. Tonight Feryle came and even the coming of her favorite porn star couldn't change her mind. The star came with new boyfriend and a friend. Kimi, Mariam, Mathilda and Hilary squealed when they saw the Porn Star's koi. He was smaller than Tala, had soft floppy beige hair and he was wearing a white net top showing off his muscles, contrasted with Tala's black one. The people hanging around the brothel knew more than enough that Tala was gay so they weren't perturbed by his breaking news. Nonetheless jealous gazes were cast upon the young couple. Kimi had hoped that the Porn Star would remember her and ask for her but he did nothing of the sort. That was why the girl was dancing away on the platform. She still didn't feel like having sex. But that didn't mean that the customers didn't want to fuck her. The yakuza were back and they didn't look happy. She was conscious of Brooklyn's gaze on her all evening but Kimi was used to that. Even after their kiss, his attitude didn't change and Kimi was determined not to change hers either, except maybe to loath him even more. Then she noticed something: the Rock Star wasn't with them. Her glance met with Brooklyn's as she tried to find the missing man. The yakuza immediately walked toward the platform where she was dancing, with his friends behind him. Kimi mentally swore but kept on dancing as if she hadn't seen him. There were already a lot of customers around the platforms but the young yakuza made his way through easily.

"So, Kimi-chan, ready to be mine tonight?" Brooklyn asked grinning his usual smile.

Kimi glowered at him. She had stopped dancing and was sitting down on the platform swinging her legs so that he wouldn't come nearer. His friends had their eyes glued to her breast, barely hidden under the loose silk. She felt like killing them on the spot.

"In your dreams, Brooklyn," the girl answered fiercely.

"Well, I guess that I no longer want to dream about it, Kimi-chan," Brooklyn said, playing with his cigarette. "I'm fed up of waiting and my friends here, they're asking for a repayment for what you did to them the other night."

"You seem to be having fun with Hide and Etsu last night," Kimi retorted back.

Brooklyn laughed.

"Who can blame me, if you keep me waiting for too long?"

"So why keep on waiting?"

Kimi was about to go back dancing when Brooklyn said.

"You want to fuck him, don't you?"

"Who?"

His green eyes flashed with mischief.

"Your Ice Prince or whatever you call him."

To his surprise, Kimi laughed chilly.

"Already did."

Brooklyn started at the girl but her childish eyes bore no lies. He felt wrath and jealousy boiling up, sawing his insides. He couldn't stand the fact that the girl had once again hurt him.

"You bitch!" he yelled. "I'm going to kill him!"

Kimi jumped off the platform and ran past Crusher, into the crowd.

"Catch her!"

Her hood had fallen off, revealing her immaculate black hair. Kimi got to the corridors and turned around to see Brooklyn's friends after her. It made the situation more hilarious and for her who was getting bored, she was determined to make them suffer. She jumped over a couple who were Frenching, turning into different corridors as much as she could.

"Stop right there!"

But like anyone with enough sense, Kimi did not do as the voice commanded. She was laughing too loudly and didn't see where she was going. She suddenly bumped into someone.

"Kuso!" she swore, seeing Mystel in front of her.

The boy was grinning with triumph. But Kimi knew more than the boy about how to get past enemies. Before he could do anything to stop her, she clutched his collar and pinned him against the wall.

"This is what you want, isn't it, big boy?" she breathed.

Desperate situation demands desperate measures. The smile on Mystel's face was washed away as Kimi caught hold of his dick. His baggy jeans were all scrunched up in a knot in Kimi's hands. His breathing accelerated. Her perfume suddenly filled his mind and the only thing he could think of was her clutch.

"I'm cuming," he moaned.

Kimi's smile widened as he pressed her boobs up against the yakuza's chin. The boy was trembling but she could feel his dick getting harder. She quickly licked his lips up to the end of his nose with a flick of her tongue then wrapped his mouth with hers. She could feel her hand getting wet from the thick semen ejecting from the erected penis. Mystel answered her by meeting her tongue with his. He barely had the control of himself since the sensation Kimi was making him feel by imprisoning his excited prick was almost asphyxiating him. As he was paralyzed by the effect she had on him, Kimi pulled away so briskly that Mystel had trouble in breathing. It was as if someone had zapped the air out of him. When her fingers left his rock cock, He felt like a river crossing the dam. Kimi licked her semen-covered fingers before giving Mystel one last peck on the cheek and sprinted off. The boy was unable to recover from the shock and all he could do was shouting after her.

But instead Kimi wriggled out of her vivid red costume, too bright to pass unnoticed. She ran further to find an open door leading into an outdoor swimming pool. As she dove forward she realized too late that there was someone sitting by the poolside: she shoved into the guy and they fell into the pool together. The water splashed noisily as the two bodies crashed into the warm tranquil surface. Kimi could feel the other person's wet clothes against his skin as he fought with the waters. She caught hold of him as he struggled and pulled him up. They regained surface and could breathe again once more. Kimi drank in the other person's features. His damp brown hair flopped on his round face, his rectangular glasses askew. He looked quite comical with water all over his lens, not knowing what had happened. But before anyone of them could say a word, there came a noise from the inside. Kimi recognized the yakuza' footsteps. They were pushing their way towards the inside courtyard where the swimming pool was. Kimi had only the time to duck the boy's head down under the dark waters again. Fortunately for them, the swimming pool's tiles were black: nothing could be seen from the surface. Nevertheless, Kimi wanted to wait long enough to be sure that the yakuza were gone. She grabbed the boy's head and clasped her mouth on his. Water gurgled in their mouths as they clung on each other for breath. The boy was overtaken by surprise but he couldn't struggle her initiative. Her grip was firm on him. Thus they rose back to the surface where they broke from each other. Kimi was panting from need of air and the boy from the unexpected kiss. The whore let the boy's eyes move from her face down to the wavy image of her body under the waters before smiling.

"Hi! I'm Kimi. Is this your first time here?"

The boy was still under the shock. He wasn't used to swimming with a naked pretty girl who kissed him without even knowing him. But what was new to him was the way she chatted with him as if he wasn't repulsive. Then he remembered where he was and his joy lowered.

"Y-yes," he managed to say. "My name is Kenny."

"Hi, Kenny-kun! Nice to meet you."

Kenny couldn't help not being stunned by the girl he had before him. She didn't seem to notice that she was naked. Even though she was a prostitute, he doubted that they did this everyday. And the way she talked to him really touched the nerd.

"Are you here alone?" she asked.

Kenny shook his head, hoping not to do anything ridiculous.

"I came with Tala-san, he-"

"You know Tala?" the girl asked as she swam to the poolside.

However as Kenny was beginning to answer his eyes met with an unforeseen scene. The girl climbed out of the pool and stood at the poolside, twisting her long dark hair to dry it. He was thunderstruck by the nude body above him. This was the first time he saw a naked girl so close up, even in the Onsen the women weren't so real to him. He could see the water tickling down from her groins, dancing along her thighs to her smooth strong legs. Her raised arms revealed a sketch of her breasts' curves, opulent and fresh-looking. But what caught Kenny's eyes the most was her soft bottom, round and firm like a ripen peach in summers. Her legs, slightly apart made his insides lurch. The nerd didn't think that he'd see so much by coming to the Palace. He only had visions of big-boobed women walking in G-strings, licking his spotty cheeks because they were paid to. What he was experiencing now was beyond the world of sex: Kenny saw for the first time, beauty.

She must have felt his gaze on her since she turned her head and smiled.

"So? Are you gonna get out and answer my question?"

Kenny scrambled out of the pool. Kimi was already sitting on the deckchair where he was sitting earlier before she jumped in. Her boobs were resting on her perfect body, considerably leaning to the right. Kenny couldn't help gawping. The girl looked his age but he had never seen any girls in his class so… sexy.

"Um, I…"

The girl laughed. Even though she was the naked one, Kenny felt so uneasy himself. He suddenly became aware of his wet clothes and his skinny body. It was more than the boy could bear to be seen in a wrenched situation by such a beautiful girl, even though she was a prostitute.

"Come here," she patted the deck chair beside her.

Kenny walked stiffly towards her, feeling his legs giving way beneath him. Kimi had never seen a guy so shy. He wasn't good-looking like Kai or Brooklyn but that was what made him so enticing to her. His flaws seemed to attract her somehow. When he sat down next to her, she apologized for getting him wet.

"That's alright," he said, recalling the underwater kiss. "Erm, what were you running away from?" he asked.

Kimi laughed again. She seemed to do that a lot. Her laughter was an easy one. It made him feel easier as well.

"Some blood-thirsty yakuza," she answered merrily.

Kenny's eyes widened.

"So, it's true?" he asked before he could stop himself.

"What is?" the prostitute inquired.

Kenny caught hold of himself.

"I mean, they all say that the Palace of Nightingales was yakuza' hideout. I saw some odd-looking people this night but I couldn't make out whether they were yakuza or not."

"Do you want me to tell you how to recognize a yakuza?"

Kimi leaned forward on the deckchair's arm. Kenny opened his ears.

"They all have at least one finger missing," she breathed.

"Arghh!" Kenny jumped with surprise.

Kimi laughed again and this time, Kenny laughed along with her. He couldn't help feeling somewhat friendly to the whore. He was even getting used to the fact that she was naked even though the night was fresh.

"You mentioned Tala," Kimi said after they had calmed down. "So what are you to him and what are you doing here?"

Kenny coughed.

"Well, we can say that he's a friend of a friend and since I'm writing a… story," he heard himself saying. "I asked him for some help and he brought me here."

"What kind of story?"

He looked down to his own lap.

"Porn."

Kimi' laughter made him look up then down again, too ashamed to meet the whore's gaze.

"Actually I'm waiting for someone right now," his voice was saying. "Tala reserved the area for me so that I can… so that I can have the 'real thing,'" he finished by saying.

"Tala did that for you?" she sounded at the same time doubtful and dumbfounded.

Kenny nodded.

"Wow, he has changed a lot. Last time I saw him, he was still thinking about his own dick. Maybe because he has this boyfriend of his. Do you know him too?"

But Kenny never got to answer that question because at that time someone came through the sliding doors.

"Hey, Kimi-chan, go get your own customer!"

They both turned and saw a tall woman with breasts ten times bigger than Kimi's. She was wearing a tight halter neck bikini which made her breasts spill out of the cups.

"Soz, Naomi-chan but you'd better find another one. I'm taking this guy," Kimi said.

To his surprise, the older prostitute left without further arguments though she was muttering about waste of time. Kimi then turned back to Kenny.

"What were we saying? Oh, Tala's boyfriend, do you know him?"

Kenny thought back of Miguel's soft beige hair and friendly smile as the carriage doors opened for him. The young photographer was nice and attentive to what he had to say on the contrary of his boyfriend the porn star. He must admit that they were good together, no matter what the news said.

The boy and the prostitute spent the night talking about porn stars, movies, music, schools- at that point, Kimi got very excited and Kenny saw childish exhilaration in her eyes ("You go to school?" she squealed as if he was a member of the Samurai Squad or something)- then their conversation turned to personal points of views when they shared their likes and dislikes. Kenny was very surprised to find out that Kimi liked drawing and walking in the forest. It didn't seem a very slutty thing at all. But then Kenny concluded that prostitutes were humans after all and had as much right as him to like normal activities. Kenny talked about his book again, to which Kimi responded enthusiastically. She wanted to read it and the boy promised to bring it next time.

"Tala thinks it's crap though," he warned her.

"That's alright, I'm sure his new movie won't be better."

He smiled nervously.

"So when are we going to see each other again?" Kimi suddenly asked.

Kenny looked up at her then turned his gaze away from her breasts. He still couldn't believe that he had talked all that time with a naked girl.

"Um, tomorrow?" he said without thinking.

Kimi laughed.

"Just call me, okay?"

Before he knew it, Kimi was scribbling three numbers on his arm with the pen he left on the table between the chairs.

"Ask for Kimi-chan."

Just like that, Kennyreceived for the first time in his life, a girl's number, whore or not whore. His heart was still pounding as she walked out of the courtyard, leaving only a thin breeze behind her.

I juts love how Kenny is stutteruing and so innocent! He's just the perfect guy for Kimi, don't you think so? Lol.