Scales of the heart
Ch. 11
Draco smiled along with Kimihito as the both laughed. Their smiles glowed with their smiles.
"I still can't believe she hit that billboard like that!" The young dragon newt laughed. Recounting a story form her work day form when their wyvern co-worker had fly into a massive sign on one of her routes.
They are on another date, the third one this week. With all the days off they've both had with the winter weather. This time at a rather quite western style outdoor café. Yet even though they are surrounded by the rich white snow covering the city, the outdoor patio of the restaurant is utterly warm and cozy. Thanks to it being heated from below.
Being as such made Draco and other reptilian people there enjoying their meal. Many a reptilian person sat around, on dates or just to escape the cold bite of the mid-winter air. It was an impressive and grateful find for Kimihito. The fall was hard on Draco given her species. Ever since the drop temperature of mid November she's been holed up in her house.
And the times she does go out for work, she bundled up so much that she could barely move. Or anyone could barely see her face. She is grateful for her boyfriend going out of his way to find this place for their date.
"Was Kedea-san alright?" Kimihito asked about Draco's ditzy co-worker.
"Oh, she has such a hard head that everyone was worried about the billboard then her." Draco waved off Kimihito's worry. "Although Akira kept scolding her when he picked her up."
Even with the fiasco with their parents, who they pray never meet, the two lovers have been going strong in their relationship. Dating and living their daily lives. It was a peaceful existence that Draco prays last forever.
"Excuse me. I have to use the bathroom." Kimihito said as he stood to leave from the table.
"Sure." Draco nodded as she watched him leave. She stretched out her back with a cheery sigh as she actually enjoyed the relaxing mix of cold and hot air. Normally any reptile would be hibernating form the snowy weather, like her boss who she huddled up near the heater nearly every day, but Kimihito had went out of his way to find an outdoor heated restaurant for the both of them.
The past few months have been great for her and her human lover. She had thought that maybe the spark between them would eventually die out but it still going strong. With even more long nights of them sharing a bed.
"Mmm…" Draco blushed as she thought of that. Even with the fiasco with both their parents everything has turned out well for them.
'I wonder…. how far we'll go…' Thoughts of children and wedding bells shocking covered her thoughts. And with a raging red face she shook them away.
"I-It's way too soon for that!" The reptilian girl said to herself frantically.
"Oh, excuse me."
Draco turned to the sound of the voice behind her that brought her out of her thoughts.
A young man, a dragonnewt like her, gave a wary smile at her. His short black hair framed his sharp angular face. He is tall, about Kimihito's height, in a very stylish jacket and a gorgeous friendly smile that made his bright blue eye glowed. He is unnaturally handsome. To the point that most of the women in the area kept their gazes on him. His dark red wings and tail added to his handsome appeal.
"I am sorry to bother such a lovely lady, but wouldn't happen to have a heat pack?"
"Oh sure." Draco handed him on of her own. "I tend to keep some extra with me just in cast."
"Oh, thank you! You are quite the godsend my dear." The man took the pack and sighed in relief as he felt his body heat up a little more. "I had forgotten a few extra of my own at home and well…if I took one step out this restaurant, I would be herniating in the middle of street."
"Yeah. I know it's rough during the winter." Draco gave a wary chuckle. "I am under three layers and a few heat packs myself."
"Oh, we cold blooded reptiles do have it terrible this time of year." The man chuckled. "I just want to stay in my bundle of sheets at home."
"Or curl up under the kotastu right?" Draco laughed with them. Enjoying having a conversation with someone of a similar species.
"I am Kenryu by the way." The man introduced himself.
"I am Draco." Nodded with her instruction as well. Happy to meet another person of her kin.
"So, what is a lovely woman like you doing here all alone." The man smiled. A flirty grin on his face showing his clear intentions.
"Ah." However, Draco didn't notice and said. "I am here with my…b-boyfriend."
"Eh?" Kenryu blinked in surprise.
"Sorry for the wait." Kimihito said as he rejoined Draco. Smiling sheepishly, he added. "There was a bit of a line- "
"I am sorry, and you are?" Kenryu glared at Kimihito's arrival.
"Oh, I am Kimihito. Are you a friend of Draco's?" Kimihito asked politely.
Kenryu looked between the two them. His eyes darting between the simple looking human and the amazing dragonnewt before he broke off in a harsh chuckle.
"Please tell me your joking my dear." Kenryu snorted. "This…limp noddle of a man can't possibly be the boyfriend of such a lovely, stunning woman such as yourself."
"L-limp noddle…" Kimihito starched his cheek in confusion. However, Draco glared at the other dragonnewt.
"Excuse me!? Who the heck do you think you are!?" Draco jumped in anger at the smug dragonnewt.
"A true Dragonnewt!" Kenryu flexed his wings. "A powerful relative of the dragon! Far superior then any human!"
'Ahh…I heard this before.' Kimihito thought in nostalgia. Remembering how Draco used to act just like this when she they first met.
"Really? What are you an eighth grader…" Draco groaned at Kenryu's passionate words. However, Kimihito nervously answered her.
"Er you were kind of like that too…"
"Ack!?" Draco blushed with shame at the mentioning of that. "B-Be quite!"
"I am sorry if I am rude, but you can't make me take the idea of an amazing dragonnewt such as you being with this…. slog of a human being." Kenryu chuckled before smirking back at Draco with a rose in his hand. "You shouldn't need to stay this lowly human. I mean he couldn't even take on an orc."
Kimihito rubbed the back of his head. A little confused about this. "Well I did distract them one time- "
"A beautiful, stunning woman such as yourself should never have to-gak!?" A sudden heavy karate chop on Kenryu's head sent him crashing to the floor.
"Sorry about that." A tall dragonnewt woman, shocking wearing a tee-shirt and jeans in the cool weather. She is impressively tall and shockingly busty for a dragonnewt. Her long black hair in sited in a long pony tail and very stern and stoic face. The beauty mark under her stern blue eyes added to her clod icy allure. She looked strong, with soft but hard muscles rippling through her arms and stomach. She bowed politely to the couple as she spoke.
"My older brother can be a bit of a pain. He has a bad habit of flirting with every cold blood woman he meets." The woman said as picked up her unconscious bother and politely bowed. "Excuse us."
"Well that was…something…" The human said. Still bewildered as to what just happened.
"Let's hope we don't see that guy ever again." Draco sighed as the odd siblings left.
-OOO-
"Oh, what a coincidence to see you here on this fine day~."
"You and I both know that isn't the case you stalker…"
Draco really wished she had kept her mouth shut three days ago. The young dragonnewt was on her morning route for her mail job. It was a quite run, greeting her regulars in her massive bundle of clothes. Until Kenryu had suddenly appeared form behind a lamp post. With a rose in his hand.
For the past few days Kenryu has been trying to win Draco's affection in verse ways. Mostly due to stalking and popping up where he is least wanted. Form her dates with Kimihito to the times she dines out with her friends, her annoying stalker seemed to be anywhere and every where Draco is.
The only solace is that he didn't appear at her home. But she has a feeling it's because he knows she would kill him if he did. Or his name less younger sister has been stopping him. And what made this all the more strange is that Kimihito didn't seem to care about his love rival. Or notice he has one.
When he ran into the lovestruck lizard, Kimihito was always as polite and as kind as normal. Treating Kenryu to heat packs when he was cold, offering to help him when he got stuck in a bush. Even telling the officer that the flaming car wasn't Kenryu's fault.
Although that didn't stop them from arresting him.
The daily lives of the two lovers has become disrupted by a idiot in Draco's words. And while Kimihito found Kenryu lively, Draco found him a thorn in her side. And she's ready to pull it out and burn it.
"This rose…" Kenryu growled seductively. Give the flower a romantic sniff. "Is like you…"
"Seething with red rage ready to stab you with my thorns?" Draco's voice is colder then the weather.
"Yes! Wait thorns?" The male reptile looked at his hands to see that yes. The thorns are poking in his skin. Not that he had felt them. Since he hands are as cold as ice. Maybe he should have worn actually warm clothes instead of trying to look good for his one-sided love.
Kenryu smiled and replied, "The pain of not being with you is- "
"I've got work to do." Draco growled as she stomped past him. Utterly tired of dealing with this for the tenth time this week.
"Come on. It doesn't have to be a date." And Kenryu fallowed her. His handsome smile on his face as he chased after Draco.
"Ugh!" Draco growled. Rounding on the man with her fangs beard under the third layer of her scarf. "Look I told you to back off already! I have a boyfriend!"
Yet still Kenryu pressed on. Scoffing at her he argued back, "You cannot expect me to believe that- "
"Excuse me." He dark voice behind Kenryu made him stiffen. Looking up he saw a wall of fur and muscle bearing down at him. The harsh glare of burning red eyes raging down at him. It didn't help that his face is covered up. Only showing his deep read eyes while his dark voce growled of eerie promise.
"Is this you-Ah." Ryu watched as the Dragonnewt he was trying to help run down the street fast enough to kick up piles of snow. As if the cold didn't bother him at all.
"…. Why do they always run?" Asked the scary werewolf. A little sad at that someone was scared of him again.
"Thanks for that Ryu-san." Draco sighed in relief at her neighbor. Glad that he had showed up when he did.
"Oh, and here's your mail. Say hello to Hina-san for me." Draco handed over the wolfman's daily news and took off on her next job. Hoping that Kenryu would turn into a popsicle.
-OOO-
"Is it fate that brings us together my sweet?"
"No. But what it is going to get a beat down by me…" Draco growled as she glared at Kenryu. Who had popped up from a trash can. Outside the story she is was shopping with Kimihito.
"…. How long have you been in there?" Draco asked with a bored and bothered glare.
"Ah what dose it matter when I finally have-achoo!"
"…."
"…."
"S-Since this morning…"
"Are you brain damaged?" The young monster girl asked a question she already knew.
"Oh Kenryu-san." Kimihito said as he walked out of the store. Greeting the dragon newt with a smile. "You seem to be doing well today."
"Silence human!" Kenryu jumped up from the trash can and snarled at Kimihito. "I am done taking your sympathy and you are through tricking this lovely young lady-achoo!"
Not even the fire in Kenryu's passion could warm him enough to save him form the biting chill of winter.
"Ah you look cold. Here." Kimihito handed the shivering dragonnewt a heating pack.
"Oh, thank yo-Bah!" At first the male Dragonnewt happily took the pack. But hee swiftly threw it to the ground in rage.
"I would never accept any help form an enemy!"
"Oh, then please die." Draco groaned coldly.
"Enough of this human!" The dragonnewt growled. "I challenge you to duel! By the end of it we will see who the best man for Draco is!"
"Eh? A duel?" Kimihito tilted his head in confusion at Kenryu's words.
"Yes! I a-ack!?"
"Next time I am just going to leave you in the snow." Kenryu's sister appeared out of the store and picked up the trash-her bother out of the trash can and tossed him over her shoulder. Giving the couple the peace and quite they wanted. Yet the stubborn reptile still barked as he was being taken away.
"Don't think this over human!" Kenryu yelled form the back of his younger sibling. "I will beat you and win the lovely Draco's heart!"
The lovers watched the siblings leave. Draco giving a heavy tired sigh while Kimihito looked a little worried.
"Er you don't think he'll actually do that whole duel thing will you?"
"No." Draco sighed as she started their trek back home. "I think he'll make a fool of himself and I'll finally deck him. Or his sister will."
"Please no violence…" Kimihito gave a weary chuckle as he fallowed after his girlfriend.
Their daily lives seems to become more lovely.