WARNING: This WOULD have been a lemon. but well. we won't get into THAT
piece of shit! Enjoy!
~An American Miko~ Chapter Fourteen A Night Alone & A Journey
After dinner Myst found Tamahome walking down one of the many walkways. They both laughed as Boushin reached up and grabbed onto a lock of Tamahome's hair as the seishi carried the young prince.
Myst put her hands into her sleeves in front of her in the tradition of that world as they walked. "Do you think your father will mind taking care of him while we're gone?"
Tamahome tickled Boushin's chin. "With a face like this? Not in a million years would he mind."
Myst nodded and smiled. "Oh he is his father's son at that. A charmer to the core. It think he's going to look a lot more like his father than me."
"He'd still be beautiful even if he does turn out to look more like you. He has two very beautiful parents."
Myst threw her hands up in mock disgust. "I've said it before and I'll say it again. Save that kind of talk for Hotohori."
"Yes His Majesty does seem to enjoy it." They both chuckled as they opened the door and stepped into the first of the rooms kept for Tamahome's family.
Myst was the one to call out first. "Hey! Where's my munchkins?!"
There came a squeal of laughter and a thunder of feet from the hallway. Within seconds she had three children latched onto her while Chuei went to stand by his brother. She knelt down amid the children. "How have you all been? I haven't seen you for a few days."
With that the children all started speaking at once. Myst laughed as Tou- san came in and broke them up. He helped her up and they shared a hug. "To what do we owe the great pleasure of being in your beautiful company majesty?"
"Now I know where he gets it." She mumbled as she looked sideways at Tamahome. "Anyway Tou-san, I have a favor to ask of you."
Tou-san nodded. "Then ask Empress."
The seishi and I will be leaving the day after tomorrow to go find another seishi. We'll be going to a slightly dangerous place and Hotohori and I were wondering if you would like to watch over Boushin while we're gone."
Tou-san nodded and beamed a smile of pride at his son. "Of course your majesty. It would be an honor and a pleasure to take care of the young prince Boushin while you all are away. Might I just add that you are safe with my son. He is a seishi and has finally been called to his duty and I am so proud that he has embraced it with open arms. I know he will serve you well."
Myst squealed and threw her arms around his neck. "Thank you! Thank you Tou- san! You're the best! Um." She looked a little sheepish and blushed slightly. "Do you think you could keep him tonight as well? I know it's kind of short notice, but I was kind of hoping to have Hotohori alone tonight. You know."
He put a hand on her shoulder. "Say no more your majesty. It would be no trouble at all taking Boushin now. Go and enjoy being in the arms of your husband. He needs you now too I'm sure."
Myst gave a huge smile that lit her strange eyes. "Thank you Tou-san!" She practically hopped over to Tamahome and gave him a big hug and a kiss on the cheek.. "Thanks Tama! See you tomorrow!"
He hugged her back with one arm since he was still holding Boushin. "Goodnight Myst."
She then bent a little and kissed Boushin on the forehead. "And goodnight my precious baby love. You be good for you uncle Tamahome and Tou-san tonight."
The baby gurgled and she kissed him again. She kissed each of the children and then hurried out of the room.
They looked after the empress and Tou-san said, "Why can't you find a nice wife like that?"
Tamahome face-vaulted but swiftly recovered. "Dad, I don't think there is any woman in this world quite like her. She is one of a kind and the emperor is truly a lucky man."
Tou-san nodded as he thought about the royal couple. "Yes, and we are lucky to have an empress who knows a good thing when she sees one."
Tamahome nodded then began cooing back at the baby.
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Myst practically ran down the hallway to toward her rooms. Nuriko and Chichiri were walking out of one of the rooms along the seishi's personal hallways and saw her heading their way. Nuriko raised a hand. "Hey Myst, what's the hurry?"
Myst ran past not even looking directly at them "Can't talk now. Horny."
As she rounded the corner, Nuriko and Chichiri looked after her with wide eyes and blushes on their faces. Nuriko shook his head and shrugged. "Well there's Myst for you."
Myst finally reached their halls and settled into a calm walk. She slid open the door to their bed chamber and smiled as she spotted Hotohori, still sitting in full garb in front of his vanity mirror. She walked quietly behind him and wrapped her arms around him, laying her palms on his broad chest. She bent her head and nibbled lightly on his left ear.
Their eyes met in the mirror and Hotohori laid his hands over hers. "Where's Boushin?"
She breathed lightly in his ear. "With Tamahome's family. He'll be there tomorrow night too. We're going to need our rest tomorrow night, 'cause the way I'm feeling right now." She took her own headdress off and laid it down with a soft click in front of Hotohori in front of the mirror. She tipped his head up with a loving hand under his smooth chin and kissed him passionately before breaking away. "We won't get any tonight."
Hotohori let her pull him to his feet. "Are you sure we should be doing this so soon after you've had Boushin?"
She stopped and faced him, pulling the pin on his hair-box and letting the silken hair tumble down. "You really haven't been around women much have you? Love, I'm fully healed. Even without Mitsukake healing me, I have been for a long time and I'm perfectly tired of being celibate. Now are you going to come to bed or am I going to have to drag you there?"
Hotohori smiled and took hold of her shoulders. He kissed her tenderly. "Yes Empress."
Myst's eyes softened and she leaned her head against his chest. "I can hear your heart beat."
Hotohori wrapped his arms around her and swayed back and forth. He pressed his lips against her hair. "What does it make you think of?"
Myst smiled and hugged him tighter. "It makes me think that if anything ever silenced this heart from beating that the silence would spread over the land and no one would ever hear the sound of love again." She leaned back and his lips captured hers again.
He touched his tongue to her lips and she opened her mouth at the silent command. He thrust his tongue into her hot mouth and they sparred for a few moments. It ended with Myst as the winner when she captured his tongue between her teeth.
Myst erotically sucked on his tongue as her hand wandered down to the slightly tented lump in his robes.
Hotohori let out and animalistic growl at the touch and swept her up as she released his tongue. He strode with his burden over to their bed and climbed on. He gently laid his precious wife down and kissed her as he climbed partially above her and began to undo the tiny ties and bows that held he clothes together.
As he was doing this, Myst was doing the same for him. She succeeded first and flung his red over-robe god knows where and pushed open his under-robe. They broke the kiss so he could shrug out of it, leaving him clothed only in a light pair of silk pants. She pulled herself up to kiss the bare skin over his heart. She ran her hands over the smooth planes of his back and felt the toned muscles under the velvet skin. She ran her hands down his sides and a mischievous idea crossed her mind.
Suddenly her caress turned into a tickle. Hotohori's eyes widened and he gasped, collapsing to the side of her. Myst grinned and rolled over to straddle him. She kissed him , deeply inhaling his scent. He wrapped his arms around her as they tasted each other once again. When the kiss broke, she ran her fingers through his hair and caressed his smooth features. "I pinned ya love."
He smiled and caressed her face and back since he had already succeeded in getting her clothing off. "And what are you going to do with me now that you have me at your whims?"
~~~Insert Lemon~~~
Hotohori collapsed onto her as his strength gave out. They both breathed hard and she kissed the sweaty skin of his shoulder. He eventually pulled out of her and rolled onto his side. Even after all this time, every time was still as perfect as if it was the first. He laid his head down on her chest and wrapped his arms around her like he had so many months ago, and like he had so many months ago, he fell asleep with his exhausted breath brushing gently across her collar bone.
Myst fell asleep soon as well with one arm wrapped around him protectively and possessively and the other hand combing through his sweat-damp hair.
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Later that night Nuriko knocked softly on the door, seeing that the lights were still lit. When he got no answer he opened the door quietly. He didn't know why he had come by instead of just walking to the next room, that was now his, he had just felt the urge to.
Nuriko stepped in silently and looked around the room, then focused on the two naked, tangled figures on the bed. He blushed slightly and walked as quietly as he could up to them. He pulled a wine colored silk sheet and blanket up to cover his emperor and empress.
He looked at them for a few minutes. 'They look so peaceful. I've never seen that look on Hotohori's face before. He looks so happy and relaxed. He looks so young and so beautiful, especially with the strands of hair in his face. There's no tension at all, and all of it is because of her. She loves so well and so openly. Look in Hotohori's eyes when he watches her do anything. He's not with me, but I couldn't be happier with this arrangement if it were me. They need each other. No. they are each other. They are one with each other and born of each other. Be happy. I love you and am watching over both of you, forever.'
He went around the room and quietly extinguished all the candles. He looked once more at the sleeping couple before walking through the doorway that connected both of their rooms as quietly as he had come, instead of the one he had come through.
Over on the bed, Myst opened her eyes and smiled slightly against the top of Hotohori's head. 'I always have been a light sleeper.' She mused as she kissed the top of her sleeping husbands head and cuddled him closer. He sighed in his sleep and turned his face up into her neck.
Myst smiled again and caressed his bare shoulder slightly as he continued to sleep peacefully. 'It's a good thing I think. This way I an always protect you. I won't let anyone else get hurt. You've already been so hurt in your past. I'll protect you from all of that my sleeping angel. You keep on saying that you are supposed to protect me, but I am the Miko am I not? Moreover I am your wife and it has always been a woman's duty to take care of protect the one's she loves. I will protect you through hell and back because wherever you are, there is my heart. Wherever you are, there I see heaven. Wherever you are, there I live. There is my home.'
With that thought, she began to drift off again. Right before sleep fully took her, she felt her husband shift in his sleep and mumble, "I will protect you too my heart."
She knew that, in his sleep, he had heard the words that she had thought with her mind and heart.
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A.N.: YES! DAMN I'M GOOD!!! So, what do you think of it. I think it was really sweet. Not going to write much now. You know the drill. Feedback, keep reading, more to come, enjoy, yada, yada, yada, LOVE ME! AAAAAAaaaa. @.@. too many meds. *~* . not enough sleep. O_o. DDDDaaaaaaaaa.... -_-U... Yeah. Anyway.. JA!
~Celesta Hellewise Harman
~An American Miko~ Chapter Fourteen A Night Alone & A Journey
After dinner Myst found Tamahome walking down one of the many walkways. They both laughed as Boushin reached up and grabbed onto a lock of Tamahome's hair as the seishi carried the young prince.
Myst put her hands into her sleeves in front of her in the tradition of that world as they walked. "Do you think your father will mind taking care of him while we're gone?"
Tamahome tickled Boushin's chin. "With a face like this? Not in a million years would he mind."
Myst nodded and smiled. "Oh he is his father's son at that. A charmer to the core. It think he's going to look a lot more like his father than me."
"He'd still be beautiful even if he does turn out to look more like you. He has two very beautiful parents."
Myst threw her hands up in mock disgust. "I've said it before and I'll say it again. Save that kind of talk for Hotohori."
"Yes His Majesty does seem to enjoy it." They both chuckled as they opened the door and stepped into the first of the rooms kept for Tamahome's family.
Myst was the one to call out first. "Hey! Where's my munchkins?!"
There came a squeal of laughter and a thunder of feet from the hallway. Within seconds she had three children latched onto her while Chuei went to stand by his brother. She knelt down amid the children. "How have you all been? I haven't seen you for a few days."
With that the children all started speaking at once. Myst laughed as Tou- san came in and broke them up. He helped her up and they shared a hug. "To what do we owe the great pleasure of being in your beautiful company majesty?"
"Now I know where he gets it." She mumbled as she looked sideways at Tamahome. "Anyway Tou-san, I have a favor to ask of you."
Tou-san nodded. "Then ask Empress."
The seishi and I will be leaving the day after tomorrow to go find another seishi. We'll be going to a slightly dangerous place and Hotohori and I were wondering if you would like to watch over Boushin while we're gone."
Tou-san nodded and beamed a smile of pride at his son. "Of course your majesty. It would be an honor and a pleasure to take care of the young prince Boushin while you all are away. Might I just add that you are safe with my son. He is a seishi and has finally been called to his duty and I am so proud that he has embraced it with open arms. I know he will serve you well."
Myst squealed and threw her arms around his neck. "Thank you! Thank you Tou- san! You're the best! Um." She looked a little sheepish and blushed slightly. "Do you think you could keep him tonight as well? I know it's kind of short notice, but I was kind of hoping to have Hotohori alone tonight. You know."
He put a hand on her shoulder. "Say no more your majesty. It would be no trouble at all taking Boushin now. Go and enjoy being in the arms of your husband. He needs you now too I'm sure."
Myst gave a huge smile that lit her strange eyes. "Thank you Tou-san!" She practically hopped over to Tamahome and gave him a big hug and a kiss on the cheek.. "Thanks Tama! See you tomorrow!"
He hugged her back with one arm since he was still holding Boushin. "Goodnight Myst."
She then bent a little and kissed Boushin on the forehead. "And goodnight my precious baby love. You be good for you uncle Tamahome and Tou-san tonight."
The baby gurgled and she kissed him again. She kissed each of the children and then hurried out of the room.
They looked after the empress and Tou-san said, "Why can't you find a nice wife like that?"
Tamahome face-vaulted but swiftly recovered. "Dad, I don't think there is any woman in this world quite like her. She is one of a kind and the emperor is truly a lucky man."
Tou-san nodded as he thought about the royal couple. "Yes, and we are lucky to have an empress who knows a good thing when she sees one."
Tamahome nodded then began cooing back at the baby.
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Myst practically ran down the hallway to toward her rooms. Nuriko and Chichiri were walking out of one of the rooms along the seishi's personal hallways and saw her heading their way. Nuriko raised a hand. "Hey Myst, what's the hurry?"
Myst ran past not even looking directly at them "Can't talk now. Horny."
As she rounded the corner, Nuriko and Chichiri looked after her with wide eyes and blushes on their faces. Nuriko shook his head and shrugged. "Well there's Myst for you."
Myst finally reached their halls and settled into a calm walk. She slid open the door to their bed chamber and smiled as she spotted Hotohori, still sitting in full garb in front of his vanity mirror. She walked quietly behind him and wrapped her arms around him, laying her palms on his broad chest. She bent her head and nibbled lightly on his left ear.
Their eyes met in the mirror and Hotohori laid his hands over hers. "Where's Boushin?"
She breathed lightly in his ear. "With Tamahome's family. He'll be there tomorrow night too. We're going to need our rest tomorrow night, 'cause the way I'm feeling right now." She took her own headdress off and laid it down with a soft click in front of Hotohori in front of the mirror. She tipped his head up with a loving hand under his smooth chin and kissed him passionately before breaking away. "We won't get any tonight."
Hotohori let her pull him to his feet. "Are you sure we should be doing this so soon after you've had Boushin?"
She stopped and faced him, pulling the pin on his hair-box and letting the silken hair tumble down. "You really haven't been around women much have you? Love, I'm fully healed. Even without Mitsukake healing me, I have been for a long time and I'm perfectly tired of being celibate. Now are you going to come to bed or am I going to have to drag you there?"
Hotohori smiled and took hold of her shoulders. He kissed her tenderly. "Yes Empress."
Myst's eyes softened and she leaned her head against his chest. "I can hear your heart beat."
Hotohori wrapped his arms around her and swayed back and forth. He pressed his lips against her hair. "What does it make you think of?"
Myst smiled and hugged him tighter. "It makes me think that if anything ever silenced this heart from beating that the silence would spread over the land and no one would ever hear the sound of love again." She leaned back and his lips captured hers again.
He touched his tongue to her lips and she opened her mouth at the silent command. He thrust his tongue into her hot mouth and they sparred for a few moments. It ended with Myst as the winner when she captured his tongue between her teeth.
Myst erotically sucked on his tongue as her hand wandered down to the slightly tented lump in his robes.
Hotohori let out and animalistic growl at the touch and swept her up as she released his tongue. He strode with his burden over to their bed and climbed on. He gently laid his precious wife down and kissed her as he climbed partially above her and began to undo the tiny ties and bows that held he clothes together.
As he was doing this, Myst was doing the same for him. She succeeded first and flung his red over-robe god knows where and pushed open his under-robe. They broke the kiss so he could shrug out of it, leaving him clothed only in a light pair of silk pants. She pulled herself up to kiss the bare skin over his heart. She ran her hands over the smooth planes of his back and felt the toned muscles under the velvet skin. She ran her hands down his sides and a mischievous idea crossed her mind.
Suddenly her caress turned into a tickle. Hotohori's eyes widened and he gasped, collapsing to the side of her. Myst grinned and rolled over to straddle him. She kissed him , deeply inhaling his scent. He wrapped his arms around her as they tasted each other once again. When the kiss broke, she ran her fingers through his hair and caressed his smooth features. "I pinned ya love."
He smiled and caressed her face and back since he had already succeeded in getting her clothing off. "And what are you going to do with me now that you have me at your whims?"
~~~Insert Lemon~~~
Hotohori collapsed onto her as his strength gave out. They both breathed hard and she kissed the sweaty skin of his shoulder. He eventually pulled out of her and rolled onto his side. Even after all this time, every time was still as perfect as if it was the first. He laid his head down on her chest and wrapped his arms around her like he had so many months ago, and like he had so many months ago, he fell asleep with his exhausted breath brushing gently across her collar bone.
Myst fell asleep soon as well with one arm wrapped around him protectively and possessively and the other hand combing through his sweat-damp hair.
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Later that night Nuriko knocked softly on the door, seeing that the lights were still lit. When he got no answer he opened the door quietly. He didn't know why he had come by instead of just walking to the next room, that was now his, he had just felt the urge to.
Nuriko stepped in silently and looked around the room, then focused on the two naked, tangled figures on the bed. He blushed slightly and walked as quietly as he could up to them. He pulled a wine colored silk sheet and blanket up to cover his emperor and empress.
He looked at them for a few minutes. 'They look so peaceful. I've never seen that look on Hotohori's face before. He looks so happy and relaxed. He looks so young and so beautiful, especially with the strands of hair in his face. There's no tension at all, and all of it is because of her. She loves so well and so openly. Look in Hotohori's eyes when he watches her do anything. He's not with me, but I couldn't be happier with this arrangement if it were me. They need each other. No. they are each other. They are one with each other and born of each other. Be happy. I love you and am watching over both of you, forever.'
He went around the room and quietly extinguished all the candles. He looked once more at the sleeping couple before walking through the doorway that connected both of their rooms as quietly as he had come, instead of the one he had come through.
Over on the bed, Myst opened her eyes and smiled slightly against the top of Hotohori's head. 'I always have been a light sleeper.' She mused as she kissed the top of her sleeping husbands head and cuddled him closer. He sighed in his sleep and turned his face up into her neck.
Myst smiled again and caressed his bare shoulder slightly as he continued to sleep peacefully. 'It's a good thing I think. This way I an always protect you. I won't let anyone else get hurt. You've already been so hurt in your past. I'll protect you from all of that my sleeping angel. You keep on saying that you are supposed to protect me, but I am the Miko am I not? Moreover I am your wife and it has always been a woman's duty to take care of protect the one's she loves. I will protect you through hell and back because wherever you are, there is my heart. Wherever you are, there I see heaven. Wherever you are, there I live. There is my home.'
With that thought, she began to drift off again. Right before sleep fully took her, she felt her husband shift in his sleep and mumble, "I will protect you too my heart."
She knew that, in his sleep, he had heard the words that she had thought with her mind and heart.
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A.N.: YES! DAMN I'M GOOD!!! So, what do you think of it. I think it was really sweet. Not going to write much now. You know the drill. Feedback, keep reading, more to come, enjoy, yada, yada, yada, LOVE ME! AAAAAAaaaa. @.@. too many meds. *~* . not enough sleep. O_o. DDDDaaaaaaaaa.... -_-U... Yeah. Anyway.. JA!
~Celesta Hellewise Harman