Hunted
Take A Seat

"Morning sleepyhead." Sora greeted her with a warm smile.

Yoruichi groaned and pulled the covers back over her head, unwilling to deal with any of this.

"Oh come on now, don't be like that." Sora chuckled. Yoruichi's response came in the form of muffed grumbles, "That's what you get for drinking past your limit." Sora added once Yoruichi fell silent beneath the covers and took a sip from her coffee mug while she waited for a response from Yoruichi, who remained silent under the covers this time. She was too busy remembering what had changed everything last night.

Yoruichi blinked at her phone for a moment, taken off guard at how excited Sora had sounded now that Yoruichi had agreed to return to her house for the night.

"Someone's eager..." she muttered under her breath as she put her phone away. For some reason this fact scared her a little bit though not willing to put any other reason behind why she felt that way ,Yoruichi pegged it down as nerves to it being their first time together.

Not wanting to spend any more time at the party, Yoruichi weaved through the crowd towards the exit, her eyes moving towards the balcony but someone always got in her line of sight so she couldn't tell if Soifon was still standing out there or not. She had nearly reached the lift that would take her away from the party when someone grabbed her arm and forcefully pulled her to the side before she could turn on the stranger.

"What do you think you're doing?" Yoruichi snapped impatiently when she saw the stranger was actually Soifon and she was suddenly thankful they were apart from the others and out of earshot so they didn't create a scene.

"We need to talk." Soifon told her, determination sounded through her voice unlike before, a reminder to Yoruichi of how she had sounded when Soifon had asked her to dance on the night they met.

"Famous words." Yoruichi responded, annoyed that she was enjoying the warmth coming from Soi's hand still holding onto her arm, though with a more relaxed grip now that they were facing one another.

"Yoruichi." Soifon warned her in a low tone that she was not playing games this time round.

"What do we need to talk about then?" Yoruichi pulled her arm free of Soi's grip and found no resistance to the movement, Soifon let go of her willingly, her traitorous mind already comparing it as a direct contrast to the struggle she had to go through to get out of Sora's grasp each and every time.

"Us."

"According to you, there is no us." Yoruichi folded her arms across her chest and quirked an eyebrow at hearing Soi's simple statement. She wanted to give the impression that she was fed up over getting nowhere with Soifon and uninterested in what she had to say now though in truth, Yoruichi couldn't help but want to hear more.

"That's why we need to talk." Soifon repeated.

"Well any idiot could have worked that out." Yoruichi rolled her eyes at hearing Soi's comment again.

"Look, I'm trying here and you're not making this any easier." Soifon gave up any pretence of trying to be patient.

"Ok, let's talk." Yoruichi had no intention of talking; Soifon was the one who needed to explain herself.

"What, here?" Soifon threw a quick glance around them, still very aware that they were under the public eye and appeared hesitant for the first time since she pulled Yoruichi aside.

"Why not here?" Yoruichi was losing patience as well, she had just made up her mind to go through with things with Sora and now she was doubting her resolve to do so since she wanted things with Soifon to work out. That thought changed everything for her that night and it didn't feel like she had changed at all from how she used to be like in playing around with people's emotions just to suit herself.

"I was hoping we could talk somewhere more private." Soifon explained further.

"Sora is expecting me." Yoruichi turned and left Soifon standing alone for the second time that night, out of spite this time for the way Soifon treated her before and because she swore she was going to make a change and not mess around with Sora anymore; Sora was her girlfriend so she was going to commit to her.

Yoruichi pulled the covers off her head in frustration at how things were far from the normalcy she so desired at this stage.

"I'm a mess." She mumbled to herself.

"You're not a mess." Sora responded without taking her eyes off the newspaper.

"How can you say that?" Yoruichi looked at Sora and how calm she appeared despite what had happened the night before.

Yoruichi hadn't been at Sora's apartment for very long before Sora suggested they move into bedroom, not that it surprised Yoruichi, she had thrown herself on the blond woman the second she opened the door and they been making out since then. She was exploring Sora's body at a frenzied pace, desperately searching for something, that thing that was missing, that made her heart soar above the clouds and made her feel complete with no luck. They separated briefly for air and Sora used that moment to start unbuttoning the blouse she was wearing.

The movements remaindered her of the ones Soifon had done when she had unbuttoned her shirt the night they met and she recalled how Soi's pale skin had felt like silk beneath her fingertips. "Yoruichi…" Soifon breathed through a moan of pleasure and leaned into her, pressing their lips together, her eyes sliding shut to enhance their tender kiss.

When Yoruichi opened her eyes again, she was surprised to see green eyes looking up at her and not Soifon's silver ones. Her body locked up in protest as Sora placed her arms around Yoruichi's neck to try and pull her closer to her.

"You ok there?" Sora questioned when Yoruichi refused to move closer to her.

Yoruichi stared down at Sora, unable to say a thing because she didn't know what to tell her, she was overcome with the need to have Soifon in her arms again and she didn't know why she hadn't stopped and listened to her when she had the chance.

"I can't do this." She whispered in realisation and pushed herself off Sora and rolled onto her side so her back was facing the now confused woman.

"Care to explain that one?" Sora asked her and Yoruichi felt her sit back up.

"I don't think I can keep seeing you." Yoruichi decided to get it out and over with instead of dancing around the subject.

She waited with baited breath for Sora's reaction.

"I had a feeling that was the case." Sora sighed though didn't sound surprised at all which really threw Yoruichi off guard, so much so that she sat up to see if Sora was just trying to act calm but from the look in her eyes, she really meant it, her saying things were over came as no surprise to Sora.

"Erm…I'm sorry?" Yoruichi replied tentatively, not really sure how to proceed next.

"It's alright; you can't help it if you're not attracted to me." Sora smiled back at her briefly before she focused on buttoning up her blouse.

"Erm hey, odd question: How long have you been psychic?" Yoruichi couldn't help but ask this, it seemed a fair question to ask seeing as how Sora had hit the nail on the head so to speak.

Sora chuckled at this, "It feels like we have been going through the motions of a relationship without any follow through. I like you Yoruichi; I do but all this time, it's felt like we've been at the end of a relationship instead of the start of one."

"Don't know how but that actually makes sense." Yoruichi mused out loud. Sora nodded in confirmation. "I should go." Yoruichi declared once she couldn't take the silence between them after this.

"What? No, look, its past midnight, I've been drinking, you've been drinking so just stay here tonight and I'll drop you off in the morning."

"I couldn't ask you to do that for me." Yoruichi protested but preferred the sound of just being able to go to sleep instead of facing a long walk home.

"You didn't so that means you can accept my gracious offer." Sora stuck her tongue out at Yoruichi playfully.

Yoruichi continued to watch Sora as she set aside her mug of coffee, things may not have worked out between them but she was still glad she had met Sora and part of her hoped that they could stay in touch.

"You're a lot of things Yoruichi, but you're not a mess – you just know what you're looking for."

"I think I already found it…" Yoruichi murmured more to herself than to Sora and she recalled Soifon's expression faltering when Yoruichi told her she was going to Sora's place right before she left the party.

"Then you should go after it." Sora advised her with a soft smile.

"I think it's too late..." Yoruichi sighed. The two of them were quiet for a moment. A loud thwack rang through the air. Sora had chosen that moment to hit Yoruichi's head with the newspaper she had been reading.

"It is if you think like that!" Sora chided her while Yoruichi rubbed her head, more for show than out of any pain. Yoruichi stared back at her in disbelief. "Come on, get some breakfast and maybe then you'll stop moping around and think more positively." Sora than proceed to shoo Yoruichi off the bed and she was suddenly thankful Sora had let her borrow some warm pyjamas to sleep in since she noticed the temperature drop now that she was out from under the warm covers as Sora pushed her into the kitchen area.

Soifon stormed along the corridors, her usual stoic expression replaced with a look that could kill any weaker beings the second they looked at her, as it was, many of her employees were making a point of hiding being paperwork and doing their dammed best to appear busy as hell lest she unleash her fury upon them.

A night she had been looking forward to and actually thought she could enjoy had somehow turned into the night of living hell, made worse by her own mind torturing her all night long with dreams of being with Yoruichi only to be denied like she had been after she spent ages struggling over the idea of going after her, reflecting reality perfectly as it were. Her saving grace in the form of a sleep in had been cancelled by a frantic call from Nanao explaining that someone had got past security and the only reason she called her was because the intruder had been evading capture for over half an hour now.

By the time Soifon had reached the office building that made it 45 minutes… 45 minutes and still not captured, that has to be some sort of record; this was high praise as far as Soifon was concerned, though it did mean that the thief obviously wanted something he couldn't find in the building or was doing it to get her attention and that they really wanted to talk. Since no one had been approached as of yet, it obviously indicated that they wanted to speak to her directly.

Not wanting to run around like a headless chicken trying to chase after the intruder like her security team was currently doing, she decided to go and wait in her office and knew that this person would soon pick up on the news of her arriving at the building if they didn't know it already. Nanao was sat at her own desk outside of Soifon's office, whispering frantically into a headset.

"Soifon, I'm so sorry to have -"

"Don't worry about it. I'll be in my office should our guest drop by for a chat." Soifon cut her off curtly, without slowing down her stride and marched into her own office, shutting the door in time with the last word to leave her mouth. She really was in no mood to deal with this day so seeing Yoruichi leaning back in her own chair, with her feet up on the desk, one leg crossed over the other like she truly belonged there was enough to render Soifon speechless for 4.5 seconds.

"So you're the reason my security force are acting like Armageddon has arrived." Soifon stated after she managed to collect herself, not really needing any kind of confirmation to this.

"Yep." Yoruichi replied smugly, showing off a bright smile as well, it was almost infectious.

"You interrupted my sleep." In more ways than one, Soifon added on mentally though managed to stop herself from saying it out loud.

The bright smile broke somewhat at hearing this and Soifon felt very exposed as Yoruichi's expression turned sombre, her golden eyes studied her appearance, soaking up every little detail about her worn down state.

"For which I'm truly sorry about but this couldn't wait another second." Yoruichi spoke honestly, again throwing Soifon for a loop with the amount of emotion that was behind the apology.

"What couldn't wait another second?" Soifon blamed her sleep deprived state for giving into whatever Yoruichi was after, knowing full well she would have acted like her usual stubborn self and gone a few rounds with the goddess sitting in front of her before anything of use was achieved, but today she did not have the energy to do so.

"Take a seat." Yoruichi indicated to the two chairs in front of the desk opposite her. Nanao forgot to mention 'cocky' on that list of hers. Soifon stared back at her briefly with a raised eyebrow before she relented and sat down in one of the chairs, focusing her attention back on the purple haired goddess sat behind her own desk, in her own chair. Yoruichi took this time to remove her feet off the desk, clasping her hands together neatly on the desk in a very business-like manner. "Comfy?" Yoruichi asked, her powerful gaze not leaving Soifon for a second. Soi nodded once to convey her answer. "Right, I'm going to say everything I need to say and then you can say whatever you want to say. Everything clear so far?" Again, Soifon nodded as her response, she was having a hard time trying to work out what Yoruichi could possible say to her this time.

"First off, I'm sorry about last night and the way I behaved to you, at the time I believed my reasons just and valid. Secondly, the relationship in place with Sora ended last night and finally, I still have feelings for you and if I go off that kiss last night, you still have feelings for me, correct?" Soifon could do nothing but nod this time round, she had not expected that at all and was enjoying the sense of relief wash over her as the images of Yoruichi and Sora lying together naked, their bodies entwined together, fade from her mind and being replaced with the fact that Yoruichi was now single and free to date.

"With this in mind, I propose that the two of us go out together on a date and I would prefer more than a nod this time." Yoruichi finished speaking, a slight smile curved across her lips, her hands were still clasped neatly together on the desk as she waited patiently for Soifon to answer her.

"You make it hard to resist such an offer with sound logic like that." Soifon stated calmly though the sight of Yoruichi sitting at her desk and asking her out as if they were discussing a business transaction was oddly amusing and she found herself smiling back at the tall beauty in front of her.

"Does that mean you accept?" Yoruichi pressed her for an answer, making it quite clear she wanted whatever it was between them resolved once and for all.

Soifon hesitated, not because she didn't want to accept but because she really was new to the whole dating world and if she had another moment of doubt and did something stupid; she would end up hurting Yoruichi again. On top of that, what if she couldn't keep up with the expectations Yoruichi had for their relationship, from the brief interactions she had witnessed between her and Sora, Yoruichi was very comfortable with her sexuality while she was still learning about it. She was bound to make rookie mistakes so the question was how many would Yoruichi withstand to still go out with her. When it felt like her head would explode from all the inadequacies she faced within herself at the prospect of dating, she looked at Yoruichi and nearly got lost in the determination shinning deep within her eyes. "Are you sure about this? If anything, all this has shown us that we don't do things normally."

"I've found normalcy to be overrated." Yoruichi countered without a pause.

"Then I accept." Soifon told her despite her doubts about entering a relationship; there was just something about Yoruichi's personality that appealed to her.

"Great!" Yoruichi's grin turned into a bright smile and Soifon couldn't help but smile in return at seeing the childlike hopefulness glistening within Yoruichi's eyes.

"I still have my doubts about this." Soifon voiced her concern, not able to shake the feeling that she was betraying her mother's wish despite wanting to be with Yoruichi.

"I'm asking for a date not you're hand in marriage." Yoruichi teased, earning a snicker of laughter from Soifon. "It's just a date, doesn't have to be a big romantic night, it can be right now if you're free and if you really can't stand the thought of being with me after that, I promise not to break into your building again." Yoruichi succeeded in making Soifon laugh again.

"Well…I was going to take the day off…" Soifon admitted, preferring the sound of their date being more casual.

"So it's a date?" Yoruichi asked, sounding very hopeful.

"It's a date." Soifon confirmed much to Yoruichi's delight.

"Great! Let's get going then." Yoruichi declared happily as she leapt to her feet now that she finally got her date with Soifon.

"So what's the plan for this date?" Soifon asked as she allowed Yoruichi to take her by the hand and lead her out of the office. Yoruichi looked back over her shoulder at Soifon before she opened the door to leave.

"Err…" She responded sheepishly with a look that clearly meant she had no clue.

A/N: Sorry for the long delay on this update, hope it was worth the wait and if not, I will try better next time so don't throw anything at me please!
Also, since Yoruichi's last words mimic my ideas for their casual date, I'm open to suggestions for inspiration :D
Oh, if this feels a bit rushed, it's most likely because it is - I left it too long sicne Ilast updated so I fell out of the pacing I usually use but like I said, I'll try better next time lol
As usual, I hope you enjoyed reading this.