Addicted To Your Embrace
Chapter 3-Nightmares
Shinobu Maehara. (v9 p135)
"I just can't believe that...Naru goes to Tokyo U and she's smart, pretty and grown up!"
I started eating slowly and then picked up pace the more I thought. I began talking with my mouth full in my rage, continuing to fill it as I spoke.
"And look at me. I'm just some stupid kid who can't even pass a simple test. Plus I don't even have a decent chest!"
Keitaro's friendly demeanor suddenly faded. "You're absolutely right."
I began to choke and grabbed a glass, which wasn't wine this time, I noted somewhere in the back of my mind. It was water.
"Wh-What?" I managed to choke out.
"You know yourself so well, Shinobu-CHAN." He said 'chan' with distaste. "I don't know what I ever saw in you..."
I began to cry softly, trying to contain my urge to wail in such a public place. I heard retreated footsteps and raised my head to see Keitaro walking off, shaking his head.
"No...no, sempai...don't...leave me!"
I sat up with a start in a cold sweat. I shuddered. I realized at that moment, it was all a dream. Thank god it didn't happen that way. No, something much better happened. I shuddered again, this time with a memory of water running down my body as soft and yet strong hands wandered across my flesh.
I started feeling hot, a need welling up inside of me. I gasped at the feelings I started having and my breathing became ragged. I held myself as I stood; knowing I needed to seek release, and confirm it was all just a dream. Keitaro was still my Sempai...my love.
I quickly, yet quietly, hurried to the door and scanned the hallway for any signs of other residence. I was greeted with silence and an empty hallway. I walked at a brisk pace, the hallways seeming repetitive and spinning around and past me. I was in a daze. I wasn't sure if I was in a mad dash or just walking but I quickly made it to his room.
I slide the door open quietly, and stepped in, shutting it behind me. I then let my nightgown fall to the floor as I approached Keitaro's bed mat quietly. I lifted the sheets and snuggled in with him.
Keitaro awoke feeling someone pressed so comfortably against him. He knew that body so intimately now. It could only be Shinobu. But now? Naru was right above them. Usually almost everyone would be out or busy when she did this.
"Shinobu," he breathed. It was more of a statement, than a question.
"Keitaro," I whispered intimately back.
Any other words were unnecessary. He knew why I was here. I knew why I was here. I knew he knew why I was here.
I confirmed my reality and found my comfort.
We had to keep quiet but as I climaxed, I nearly forgot, barely holding it in. It came out rather loud compared to the quiet of the night. I realized that Naru could have heard, and for some reason this turned me on even more. I bit my lip as I stifled my moan from going louder. I heard Keitaro beneath me, panting lightly. I lied down on his chest and enjoyed the feeling. I felt so much better now.
"Sem-pai," I said.
"Yes, Shinobu-chan." After times like this, all his reluctance (not resistance, she refused to believe that), would be faded away.
"I had this dream. This dream that what happened to make us this way, never happened."
"Oh?"
I snuggled up closer to him, savoring being close for him for as long as I could.
"I would never want that sempai. I could never imagine not being close to you...like now."
Keitaro felt the pain lingering under her voice at just imagining the possibility.
"You would not say those mean things or leave me, right, Sempai?"
I lifted my head to look him straight in the eyes looking for an answer. I was on the edge, my emotions swinging every which way imagining each possible answer. Anger at him for not wanting me, and me giving him my body anyway. I felt painful depression and sadness for unrequited love. I felt great joy at the though of him loving me back, needing me, and never leaving me. Keitaro took a deep breath and closed his eyes for a moment. I almost panicked and took off in tears. He looked up at me with a serious look, eyes full of emotions, in turmoil, and answered.
"No. Never."
Narusagewa Naru.
My sleep abruptly ended in the middle of the night. Why the hell did I wake up? I just had this...feeling. This feeling that all was not right. I felt that I should be questioning my whole reality; it's truth. I tried to ignore the feeling. I thought I heard something below me. Leave it to that idiot to wake me up in the middle of the night with a girly ass moan. I'd belt him when I wasn't so tired. I yawned and let sleep encompass me once more.
I awoke before the dawn. I always woke up this early to make a decent breakfast for all of the residents. I yawned and smiled down at my lover as I rose my head off of his chest. I let my hand roam across his chest before coming to a stand. He moaned in protest to the warmth taken away from him, but I had food to prepare and appearances to keep.
I went towards the bathroom to do my business and get ready to take my bath in the hot springs. I really had to take Keitaro with me one day and get all of the other residents out. That is a must-do spot. I mentally put this in my "things to do" list in my head. Perhaps I should make a second list...I thought mirthfully, "places to do." I shrugged and continued towards the bathroom. I suddenly felt ill and my stomach upset. I speeded up my pace, yet tried to keep quiet as not to wake up everyone else. I reached the bathroom in time to release what was left of last night's dinner into the toilet. I felt better right after, but I wondered if I was sick. It was so sudden... I'd find out later on today if I were really sick.
Motoko Aoyama.
Most people think I am quiet and in my own world. This is far from true. If one does not speak, one learns. You learn much more by watching than participating. Shinobu this morning made an odd change of seating. She sat RIGHT next to Urashima. Naru sat on the other side, but that was normal. Kitsune normally had that seat. I did not wish to sit by him, and Su would beat on him too much to eat, so she sat there by order of deduction. That was somewhat odd, but it was common knowledge that Shinobu had a crush on Keitaro. What made this odd to me, however, was that sitting together their ki signature looked more synchronized of late. They sometimes unconsciously traded ki, because it was so similar. This shows an emotional bond.
I narrowed my eyes. But how deep?
Then there was that something else I noticed before. That disturbance in her ki and life force. Was it a demon? Shinobu seemed to be in perfect health. But there was a small percentage of her life force taken somewhere. I'm not sure what that means. I might have to ask my sister for she is more of an expert on such matters.
Everyone else was oblivious to this. Of course, they lacked her extra sense for Ki, but they still should have noticed something was different.
Naru did seem to think something briefly. Her expression showed she thought it odd, and was irritated by the change of seating.
"I hope you two aren't playing footsy under the table. You two have been really friendly lately."
Keitaro, as usual, became flustered and tried to stammer out a denial. Shinobu got quiet and pressed her index fingers together in a shy fashion. Naru turned her head away with a smirk, looking back at them with sly look on her face.
"I wouldn't be surprised if you two were secret lovers..." Panic. Loud and clear. Maybe I'm just feelings things, but that wave of emotional ki they gave off sent shivers up my spine. Keitaro looked like he lost a breath and his heart skipped a beat and Shinobu choked on a piece of food. No one else noticed, but this was a bit more reaction than most teasing got. And that wave of panic.
"Urashima." I said my voice dripping with venom. I looked over at Shinobu she looked back with wide eyes. She did not have the eyes of a victim however. Oddly, however, Keitaro did. A brief amount of shame past his features but it was so little I dismissed it. "You didn't?!"
Keitaro was stammering, but not entire denials, something that was lost on everyone. That was understandable, though, because nothing he said was coherent.
I sent him on a trip to Tokyo U.
Naru's head snapped back to me as Keitaro left my range of sight.
"WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR? I WAS JUST KIDDING!"
"But Naru..."
"What?!"
"He sullied poor Shinobu."
"He may be a pervert, but not THAT much. He'd never force himself on a girl."
Naru's words sunk into my head. She was right. He wouldn't. Still, something didn't add up here. She would go and meditate, perhaps the answers will come to her. She has enough pieces to figure out the puzzle, but no idea how to begin putting them together. Shinobu derailed my train of thought.
Shinobu did not have the usual sadness and concern that put you on a guilt trip, but Genu-Ine feminine anger.
"How DARE you hit him like that with NO CAUSE!" Shinobu's tone took them all by surprise. "You call yourself a warrior of honor, yet striking FIRST asking questions LATER!"
That hit me hard. Then I became angry with her for making me feel bad. It clouded my judgement. "How DARE YOU tell ME about HONOR!"
Shinobu gave me one last withering glance before turning to follow Keitaro.
End Chapter 3
