Shuuichi Minamino: I thought it would be nice for me to introduce you all to Kurai's family. I had a lot of fun bringing them into the story. ^_^ See if you can spot a cameo appearance of one of my sister's favorite Gundam Wing (which belongs to Sunrise and Bandai) yaoi couple in this chapter. A gold star to those who guess right!
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Every time Kyo saw Kurai in his dragon form it never failed to remind him of just what a powerful being his best friend really was. Kyo sat on his friend's back while Kurai held the jubako (stacked boxes used for holding food) that was tied securely with a furoshiki (carrying cloth). They were headed to Kurai's family's island to visit his aunt Meredith and her eggs.
"This is going to be so…cool! I've never witnessed the birth of a dragon before," Kyo said to his friend.
"Me neither!" Kurai called back over the wind. "Momma told me once about the day of my birth, but I gather that the birth of my cousins will probably be different."
"How so?" Kyo asked.
"I wasn't born from an egg!" Kurai replied.
A few minutes later up a head Kyo could make out a tiny speck that slowly revealed as the island. Kurai flew down to the beach and gently landed on a large dock made from bamboo. Kyo dismounted and took the jubako, and watched as Kurai changed back into his human form, dressed in a indigo yukata that had a kanji "home" motif and a pair of setta. Kyo himself wore a blue yukata that had a white bamboo cane motif.
"Kurai! Kyo!"
The fighter and dragon half looked to see Kurai's mother running towards them. She wore a violet yukata with a cherry blossom and Mt. Fuji scenery print.
Following behind her was Taiyo, Kurai's father, in his humanoid form. He was tall, perhaps a few inches taller then Iori, with bronzed colored skin with scales that reflected a hint of gold. The scales were more noticeable around his collarbones, shoulders, and the back of his neck, down the line of his back and along the sides of his torso. His shoulder-length mahogany hair parted from the center of his window's peek. Taiyo had very handsome, royal features, and Kyo could see that Kurai had gotten his plum colored eyes from his father. Taiyo wore a black yukata with a wave and koi motif.
"Momma!" Kurai greeted and was quickly pulled into a fierce hug.
"Oh, I've missed you!" she said.
"Ame," began a sensual baritone voice as Taiyo joined them, "allow the boy some room to breath."
Ame gave her husband a little pout smile and released her son. She then turned her attention to Kyo.
"Kyo," she greeted. "Welcome."
"Thank you for inviting me," Kyo replied and bowed back.
"It's always a pleasure to have you. I'm surprised that you come by more often," Ame said.
Kyo laughed, feeling a little embarrassed and promised that he would try. Taiyo gestured for them to follow him to the castle.
When Kurai's grandfather Aka, a red fire dragon, arrived on the deserted tropical island, he built a large traditional Japanese castle and surrounded it with Japanese styled houses and hundreds of gardens before bringing his mate Ao, Kurai's grandmother, a white water dragon, to her new home.
"How is aunt Meredith doing? Is she and the eggs doing well?" Kurai asked as they entered the castle.
"Yes. She is exhausted, but sleeping peacefully," Taiyo replied. A look of pride shined in the dragon's eyes. "She's given birth to a cluster of four eggs rather then the three we anticipated."
"You're kidding?" Kurai gapped. A smile crept over his face. "That's wonderful! She's always wanted a large family and it looks like she's gotten her wish."
Taiyo nodded his head. "Let's go join the rest of the family while we wait for Meredith to wake up."
Following the second head of the household, Taiyo led his son and Kyo to a room where the other family members sat talking and enjoying some refreshments while playing a game of card. Sliding the door aside, they walked in and the family greeted the new comers.
Kyo smiled as he greeted them back. Although he didn't visit Kurai's family and their home often, Kyo always felt very at ease and not overwhelmed whenever he did. He easily fell into their daily routine of every day life as if he lived there. Umi and Shinji gestured for Kyo to come join them and made room for the young fighter to sit at the large circular shaped chabudai.
Kurai quickly spotted his younger distant Chinese cousin in his human form; a petite slender, lithe figure with a nice muscle tone he required from hours of martial arts practice, golden skin and shoulder-length black hair pulled into a neat ponytail. He wore a red silk, jacquard bamboo pattern Chinese ankle-length tunic that had a mandarin collar, frog-closures down the front and slits on both sides of the tunic, and a pair of matching draw-sting pants. Kurai noticed that he sat with his back leaning against a gorgeous taller man with elegant aristocrat features, short ginger colored hair and blue eyes. The man had the largest set of eyebrows, but somehow they work on the man. The man wore a white muslin shirt and a pair of khaki colored slacks. Both looked very content in the other's arms.
"Hello, Wu!" Kurai greeted.
"It's Wufei! Not Wu!"
"Now, dragon…"
Kurai hid a chuckle behind his hand as his cousin's lover tried to calm the embarrassed young dragon down. It was always to tempting to tease his younger cousin and Kurai could never resist.
Kurai spotted his aunt Umi in her true form free from any spells, a white water dragon, and his uncle Shinji also in his white water dragon form. They were talking to each other while catching quick glances at Kurai's cousin and his new lover before smiling at each other. Kurai walked over to greet them.
Kyo sat on the far end of the room and watched the family of dragons before him. Next to sat Ame who drew him into a conversation.
"Would you like to see Meredith? She's most likely awake now," Ame offered.
"Shouldn't we wait for Kurai and ask him to join us?" Kyo asked.
"Oh, he'll visit her in a bit. Right now he wants to catch up with the rest of his family first," Ame explained.
"Okay then," Kyo said. He picked up the jubako he'd brought with him before he joined Ame.
Ame escorted Kyo out of the room and down the hall. They walked through several of the water gardens most of the large ponds were filled with different colored koi. They walked over an arch shaped bridge to one of the houses and entered quietly. Inside one of the house's largest rooms were Meredith and her mate, Kin, a gold wind dragon.
Meredith was in her humanoid form: the tail of a dragon and the torso of a human. She had the same skin coloring and scale line as Taiyo. Unlike Taiyo, her eyes were a golden topaz and behind her ears was a set of transparent gold fins (something she had inherited from her mother Ao). Her very long mahogany hair was pulled up into a ponytail with a gold ribbon. She wore a gold yukata that had a violet, blue and plum irises print.
Meredith was leaning against her mate's side, as he was in his dragon form, when Ame and Kyo entered the room.
"Ame," Meredith greeted with a smile. "Why, hello, Kyo. I haven't seen you since the wedding. How have you been?"
"Quite well," Kyo said with a bow. "I see that you're doing well also."
"Yes, thank you," Meredith said.
"I've brought you something," Kyo said, approaching her and handed her the jubako.
"Why how thoughtful! Thank you, Kyo," she smiled. She unwrapped the furoshiki and removed the top cover.
"I know that you like spicy foods so I hope that you enjoy it," Kyo said.
"It smells heavenly and very spicy. Just what I need to perk me up," Meredith said, her eyes flashing with delight. She placed the cover back on and set it aside. "Thank you again. I know I'm going to enough it."
"You're welcome."
"Would you like to see my eggs?"
"Sure, if not any trouble."
Meredith uncurled her tail from the large irori (sunken hearth) and carefully unburied her cluster of eggs from the sand. Kyo peered down to see the very tips of the eggs.
"They're very warm so they'll be hatching soon," Meredith said a gentle voice. She held one of Kyo's hands and placed it on one of her eggs, a gold colored egg with specks of red. "Feel how warm they are."
"Wow," Kyo murmured. "I can even feel the little one inside moving. This one's a boy right?"
"You guessed correctly. His name is Nikko and he'll be a gold fire dragon. This one," she moved his hand to an egg that was completely red, "is Nichibotsu and he'll be a red fire dragon. This is," she moved his hand to a gold egg with specks of a deeper gold, "Kumo. He'll be a gold wind dragon. And last this is," moving Kyo's hand to a red egg with specks of gold, "Kazefuyu. She's my only daughter and she'll be a red wind dragon."
"She's lucky that she'll have three older brothers to look after her," Ame commented with a smile. Ame looked up at Meredith. "She's almost like you."
"Mmmm. She certainly is," Meredith agreed. "But I only had two older brothers," she laughed, "which was enough."
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Later that day just as the sun began to set over the horizon, Meredith's and Kin's eggs began to make it known that they were ready to hatch. The family was called into the room to witness the hatching. The egg that held Nikko began to shake as the baby dragon wiggled inside; the shell began cracking and a small snort poked its way through the shell. The rest of Nikko followed and the room was filled with a tiny cry that sounded very much like a kitten's. Meredith lay out on her side to greet her first born. Nikko looked just like his mother in her dragon form with golden scales and was covered with a slimly mucus. His plum colored eyes looked curiously at the beings surrounding him, and when Nikko turned around and saw his mother, he gave a happy little cry, and crawled over to nuzzle up against her. Meredith began purring softly as she cleaned her new born.
Kin moved in closer so that he could greet his son as well, purring softly. Nikko looked up at him behind his mother's arms and began purring as he recognized his father's scent.
Ame wiped a few tears away as she witnessed the event, and Taiyo wrapped an arm around her.
Shortly after Nikko was born the other eggs began to follow their brother's led; Nichibotsu hatched second and was quickly greeted by Nikko, purring away. Kumo was the third to be born and after a few moments, he crawled over to his father. The last to be born was Kazefuyu. She pushed her head through the tip of her egg and looked around. Her family waited patiently to see if the baby female dragon wanted to join her brothers. Kazefuyu gave a little sigh and finished breaking apart her shell. She shook her head, causing the slime to go flying everywhere and arched her back to stretch out her wings.
Aka and Ao made a gasp as their eyes fell upon their granddaughter's wings.
Kyo looked at Kurai to see that the dragon half had an expression of shook and awe on his face.
"Kurai, why's everyone looking so shock?" he whispered.
Kurai took a moment to clear his head before answering his friend. "Baby dragons aren't supposed to be born with wings, especially when the dragon's female."
"Does that mean something's wrong with her?"
Kurai shook his vigorously. "No! Nothing like that! But something like this just doesn't happen a lot. The last time it did was when my great, great, great, great…um…" Kurai counted on his fingers to make sure he went back far enough. "A female dragon born with wings hasn't happened in my family since the second generations of my grandfather's bloodline and it's a long bloodline."
They both looked up to see that a now cleaned Kazefuyu had crawled her way over to Kyo and laid her head on his knee to look up at him with golden topaz eyes. Everyone watched them as Kyo picked her up and placed her into his lap. She began purring immediately. Kyo blushed as everyone stared at him.
"I think somebody likes you," Kurai smiled.
Kyo looked into Kazefuyu's eyes and smiled down at her. "Well, she is rather cute."
Kazefuyu seem to beam.
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That very night after the hatching celebration and millions of miles back in Japan, Iori was tossing in his bed as another steamy wet dream of Kyo invaded his sleep. It seemed like every other night the tall redhead would dream about Kyo and each one got better then the last.
In his dream Iori was laying on his back, purring as Kyo stroked the base of his arousal while repeatedly dragging his tongue up before clamping his lips over Iori's head. They were positioned in a classic 69 and so far Iori was the one getting all the attention.
Iori tipped his head up just a little and ran his tongue across the tip of Kyo's drooling arousal. Kyo gasped around the piece of Iori in his before continuing his treatment on the redhead while Iori pulled his hips down and began giving his lover some well-deserved attention. Kyo whimpers vibrated around Iori's arousal and it felt very good.
Kyo held onto Iori's waist as he felt the redhead nudge something slick against his entrance and moaned when he realized that it was a digit. Carefully, Iori inserted the digit while he continued to pleasure his lover. Kyo rested his head on Iori's side bucking his hips against his fingers once the redhead located his nub. Kyo sat up on his elbows and came with a cry as his climaxed raced through his senses. Sighing, Kyo sat on his knees and turned around to face Iori who pulled him down for a kiss. Tongues sweeping and caressing each other, Iori positioned Kyo over his hard arousal and eased the boy down.
Kyo sat up, settling himself comfortably as he got used to Iori's length. Iori bucked once upward hard and Kyo cried out pushing back as he felt the head on his lover's member push against his nub. Over and over they repeated the motion until Kyo was steadily ridding Iori for all his worth, crying out each time his prostate was struck.
Iori held onto Kyo's slim hips, staring up at the younger fighter's face. Iori brought one of his hands off of Kyo's hips and wrapped it around the brunette's hard member, swirling the tip of the head with his thumb. That made Kyo scream as he thrust harder to reach his climax, upsetting their rhythm. Iori wrapped his free arm around the boy's hips and took control, bucking up hard and faster into the boy. Kyo arched his back enjoying the ride, crying out Iori's name as the redhead brought him the climax he wanted, with Iori following a few heart beats later.
Iori woke up with a gasp. A few moments of catching his breath, Iori looked towards his side half expecting to see Kyo curled up besides him exhausted. He gave a soft regretful sigh when he saw that he was alone.
