Chapter Five
Getting Closer
Naomi woke up that morning with an unfamiliar weight over her. Kouga's tail was wrapped over her waist, his hand a few inches from her bra. His warm breath whispered over her neck as he slept, sending chills down her spine. Then, she wondered, Did we do anything... She recalled the night before and how she had poured her heart out and cried herself to sleep in Kouga's arms. They didn't do anything. But how did she get this way? Kouga must have moved them and pulled a blanket over them.
Kouga's arm wasn't holding her very tight, so she turned so she was facing him. Kouga frowned at the sudden shift, but then relaxed again, pulling her a little closer. Then she noticed he had removed his armor. When had he done that?
He looked so peaceful while he slept. The strong, protective look that was usually on his face was gone for a serene, relaxed expression. Naomi smiled at him. She'd never seen this side of him, but she definitely liked it.
Naomi looked at the waterfall and she could see that it was still dark out. Okay, so it isn't morning, she thought to herself. She saw it as her chance to take a bath, as no one but the one single youkai would be out there watching her. True, she didn't care, but she knew Kouga did, so she wanted to go when the least amount of people would be there to watch her.
Trying to move out from under Kouga's arm, she awoke him.
"Hey Naomi," he said drearily.
"Hey," she said back.
"Where were you going?" he asked, moving on top of her to pin her down, showing her he didn't want her to go anywhere.
"Nowhere now," she said with a small giggle. "But I was going to bathe. Why don't you join me?"
Kouga snickered and brought his mouth down to her neck and moaned. He licked her and started nibbling her neck. Naomi smiled. "I'll take that as a yes..."
Kouga lifted his head up to nibble on the other side of her neck, but she wrapped her arms around his neck and she captured his lips in hers. She rolled, so she was on top of him, the light weight of her on top of his manhood enticing a moan. He held tighter to her then, holding his hands at the small of her back and at the back of her neck. Naomi could feel his arousal pressing against her through the material between them. He pulled away for a second. "The moon might be beautiful, but it's nowhere as appealing as you," he said, and rubbed his hand up her back, lifting her shirt.
Naomi moaned as he rubbed his hand back down and moved his thumb beneath the material of her jeans, intending to take them off, but when she heard one of the wolves that had been sleeping near by, she pulled away to look at him. It was Rusty who was staring back at her with a very annoyed face. Kouga lifted himself to see what Naomi was looking at and she whispered to him, "We're being too loud."
"Then let's go outside," Kouga suggested.
Eager to go further, Naomi agreed, dismissing the fact they would be on the ground and the fact that she really wanted to bathe. He got off her and she went over to her pack to grab clothes and shampoo and soap. Kouga grabbed a few fur blankets and took Naomi by the hand. The two walked out of the cave as quietly as they could, stopping at the ledge. Giving the blankets to Naomi, Kouga leaped up the cliff instead of down, carrying Naomi in his arms to a field. He stopped at the base of a tree and set her down, taking one of the blankets from her and laid it out for them to lay on. Naomi set her clothes and the extra blankets down in the corner of the blanket and walked over to Kouga, wrapping her arms around his neck. "How do you wanna..." Naomi started, but trailed off. Sex had always been a hard thing to talk about for her because of her rough childhood.
"I don't know," he said, wrapping his arms around her waist. "I've never done this before... I was kinda just gonna go with it."
"Okay," she mumbled before Kouga brought his mouth down to hers again. He brushed his lips against hers, bringing out yet another moan from Naomi, this time in surprise of the difference in touch. With her moan, Naomi opened her mouth, and Kouga took the chance to push his tongue in. She moaned again, pressing her hip against his arousal.
Kouga slid his hand up under her shirt and gently rubbed the soft flesh of her back up and down her spine with his claws. She arched her back against him with the sudden tickle on her back. Chills of pleasure ran up and down her spine and she got more vigorous with the kiss.
Pulling away briefly, he asked her, "You like that, do you?" He grabbed the bottom of her shirt and raised it up, his claws tickling her sides, she lifting her arms to help him take it off. Then she brought her mouth to his neck and began kissing and nibbling him as he went to trying to get her bra off. He fiddled with it for about half a second before he got annoyed with it. "How do you get this off?" he finally asked her.
She looked up from his neck. "Hn?" She hadn't heard him over her own moans. He ran a claw down next to one of the straps of her bra and she immediately knew what he had asked. She took his hands in hers and brought them back to the clasp in the back. He unhooked it and pulled it off her shoulders by the straps, making sure his claws ran down her arms, knowing she liked the sensation. He tossed it off to the side with her shirt and pulled her down to her knees, he sitting down on his ankles. He ran his claws gently down from her shoulder over her breast and then moved his mouth to her nipple, gently nibbling with his fangs.
"Oh, god, Kouga..." she moaned as she closed her eyes, her head tilting back at the sudden rush of pleasure. She arched into his mouth and he brought his hands around to the small of her back, dragging his claws along the way. Looking down again, she pulled his hair out of the ponytail, pulled off the bandanna and started running her fingers through his hair, giving him a light scalp massage.
Kouga pulled away from his teasing briefly to switch to her other breast where he started to nibble and kiss again. Naomi was getting anxious. She wanted to touch him as much he was touching her. "Enough," she moaned and pulled his head away from her. "My turn," she said, slipping her fingers under the waist of his fur pelt, pulling it down. She pulled him up to his knees and bent down to his arousal, her mouth molding over his tip. She slowly took him inside her mouth, Kouga moaning with pleasure. He closed his eyes, his hands moving to her head. She flicked his tip with her tongue and took him inside her mouth once again. If she can do this with her mouth, I wonder how she is... he wondered to himself.
"You wanna go?" Kouga asked, dying to take her. She slid him out of her mouth and agreed. They stood up so Naomi could take her jeans off and Kouga could get the fur the rest of the way off.
Kouga kissed her gently one last time and turned her around. He wrapped one arm around her waist, his hand coming to rest on her lower stomach. Naomi knew where this was going, and went down on her knees with Kouga. She leaned onto her hands, and took one hand and moved her hair off to one side, allowing Kouga access to her neck. She spread her knees apart wide, allowing him entrance.
With Kouga's erection running along her slick womanhood, Naomi's breathing sped up as he leaned over her. Now his tip was at her entrance and he pushed himself into her thrusting in and out of her. He was bigger than she had expected, but she soon grew used to him, and she knew he was made for her and only her as she began to feel intense pleasure hit her entire body. Naomi moaned and rocked with each thrust, her aroused scent almost too much for him. His breathing sped up with hers as he thrust faster and harder. She squeezed her eyes closed and moaned his name.
"Naomi... you feel so... oh my god..." Kouga moaned into her neck, his hot breath running over her neck.
Naomi was almost overwhelmed with pleasure she could barely hold herself up anymore. One of her elbows gave in and Kouga caught her. He moved his hand up to her ribs and held her up. He pushed into her a few more times and then one final time, releasing himself into her, crying out what she could swear was her name. Naomi's body shuddered and went near limp in his hands. Kouga bit the back of her neck, beads of blood dripped down her shoulder. He pulled out of her and let her lay down gently. Naomi turned over and looked up at her lover. He laid down on top of her, his head coming down just below her breasts. He kissed her stomach gently and looked up at her.
"You're trembling," Naomi noticed, almost breathless.
"I'll be fine," he said with a smile and kissed her again.
Naomi suddenly felt a small pain in her shoulder. What the hell? "I think something bit me," Naomi said, looking around for bugs.
"On your shoulder?" Kouga asked.
"Yeah. How'd you know?" she asked, placing her hand on the bite. She felt the two puncture wounds and immediately recognized them as fang marks. Kouga bit her.
"I bit you. It's to mark you as my mate."
"I thought you already did that," she said, running her fingers through his hair.
"I clamed you as my woman, not my mate." Kouga kissed her gently and asked, "Didn't you want to bathe?"
"Oh, yeah... I completely forgot about it." she said
"Glad I can take your mind off things. Mind if I..." he kissed her again and continued, "... join you?"
Naomi reached behind her and grabbed their clothes, the shampoo, soap and the two extra blankets. "Please," she begged. She passed Kouga his clothes and a blanket. Kouga took them and stood up. He helped Naomi up as well and wrapped the blanket around his waist. Naomi wrapped the blanket under her arms. Then she moved to Kouga and wrapped her arm around his waist. Kouga passed his clothes to her and out of reflex, she reached out to grab them. Kouga picked her up honeymoon-style as he usually did and started walking away from the den and the river.
"What are you doing?" Naomi asked confused. "I thought we were going to go clean up?"
"There's a spring a little ways in this direction," Kouga explained. "And you're probably too tired to walk."
"You were the one trembling a little while ago," Naomi argued.
"I've got youkai strength. You however are human. Your body can't take as much as mine."
We'll see, Naomi thought to herself. She smiled and snuggled against his bare chest as she recalled the past hour or so. How he was gentle, like he didn't want to hurt her, but rough at the same time. She looked up into his eyes and into the two beautiful pools of blue. They were calm and gentle, and he looked so peaceful, like he made her feel. Not only that, but she felt safe in his arms. So relaxed, so peaceful... she could just... fall asleep...
"Naomi... Naomi, wakeup." She awoke to Kouga's calm voice. "We're here." Once he was sure she was awake, he set her down on her feet. She set the clothes and the soap, save the shampoo, down by a rock and took a look around. They were in a forest now, the full moon reflecting in a steaming pool. A few boulders surrounded the pool and there were also a few in it.
Kouga took off the blanket and looked at Naomi. "Coming?" he asked with an outstretched hand. Naomi removed her blanket and took his hand. He lead her into the spring, right to the middle where the moon reflected.
Naomi flicked off the top of the shampoo, but before she could pour any into her hand, Kouga took it from her.
"What are you--" she stopped as he poured the shampoo into his hands, set the bottle down on a nearby boulder and started rubbing them together.
"Oh," she realized, ducking her hair into the water.
When she came back up, Kouga started running his now soapy hands through her hair, giving her the scalp massage she gave him earlier. He worked from her temples back to the back of her neck, gently rubbing his fingers in circles. Naomi closed her eyes and enjoyed the massage, absently moaning with pleasure.
"You like that?" he asked with a smile. Naomi giggled a bit as a response. "I'll take that as a yes."
Kouga massaged until her entire head was soapy. Then, holding her up by her back, he dipped her head back into the water to rinse her hair free of the soap. He pulled her back up and she finally opened her eyes.
"You are the most amazing person I've ever met," Naomi said as she wrapped her fingers around his penis. She gave him a slight squeeze. He almost jumped at the sudden action, but he relaxed and let her have her way. He wrapped his arms around her neck and pulled her close. "You're sweet."
"No really. You're absolutely amazing. You're everything I've ever wanted." she said, as she started pumping her hand over him, slowly at first. "Let me thank you..." she said, lowering her tone an octave as she began to pump faster.
Closing his eyes, Kouga rested his head on her shoulder and moaned helplessly into her neck. "God, Naomi," he cried, his hot breath rolling over her neck.
She giggled a bit. "Does it feel good..?" she asked, pumping even faster.
He whimpered at the change of speed, and held tighter to her.
She stood there pleasuring him for a moment, listening to his short breaths, feeling his warm breath across her neck... Then, looking for a way to help him climax, Naomi looked down at his neck. She got an idea. She growled and said as dirty as she could "You're so sexy I could pleasure you forever and never get tired. You're getting me so hot right now."
Just as she had hoped, Kouga released into the water, whimpering in pure bliss. Naomi brought her arms around his waist to help him stand. His legs were, for the second time that night, failing him.
"You're welcome," he said, in between rapid breaths.
It took Naomi a second, but then she got it and smiled, nuzzling against the head still resting on her shoulder. "I love you," she whispered and began nibbling on hi earlobe.
"I love you too," he said, not in a whisper but in more of just a lowered tone.
"Can you stand?" she asked, beginning to loosen her grip around him.
"I don't know," he said, unwrapping his arms from her. He took a step back and looked into her eyes and smiled.
"I guess so, huh," Naomi said, taking his hand and leading him to a boulder she had noticed earlier that was about a foot under the water. She helped him sit down and then she came up beside him. She wrapped one hand around his muscular arm and leaned on the other as she gently placed kisses up and down his arm.
"Playful, aren't we?" Kouga asked, aroused at how she could never tire from pleasuring him.
"You want a turn?" Naomi asked, sliding her hand down his arm to his hand. She stopped kissing him and stood up. Kouga sat Indian-style and Naomi got in his lap, wrapping her legs around the back of him. "Then, here. I'm yours."
Kouga laughed at her bluntness but then brought his lips to hers and gently kissed her.
"All mine?" he teased.
"Yours for the taking, you animal," Naomi said, licking along his jaw line.
Recalling how his claws made her feel, Kouga brought his hands around behind her and rubbed them up and down her back. Naomi giggled and said, "Ah, you remember my weakness."
"Yes. I know my prey's weakness, and I will use it to my advantage." Kouga said, acting like he was on the hunt. "Do you know how I catch my prey?" he asked her.
"Your claws?" she asked, enjoying him tickling her back with his claws.
"You catch on quick... actually, I usually bite the neck, but since you like my claws better, we'll go with that, but do you know what I do after that?"
"There's not telling."
"I overpower them, using my body to pin them down," he said, pulling her close to him and holding tight.
"What next, Wolf Boy?" she asked anxiously, wrapping her hands around his shoulders.
"I slit them open, right here," he said, drawing a claw from between her breasts, across her stomach and to her bellybutton. Normally, she would find nothing romantic about slaughtering some animal, but in this case, she found it incredibly racy.
"You're very strong, however. It will be more difficult to bring you down. You must be tasty." Kouga brought his hands around her butt and lifted her up so his tip was at her entrance.
"Again?" she asked almost surprised he wasn't too tired.
"Unless you're still tired from before..." he wondered, privately hoping that wasn't the case.
"No. Actually, I was thinking you might be too tired," Naomi explained.
"Demonic power is a nice thing," he said simply before standing up, Naomi's legs and arms still wrapped around him so she was easier to lift. He turned and sat her on the boulder, both smiling all the while.
Naomi leaned back, resting on her elbows, and brought her legs from behind him and up so they were resting on his shoulders, he taking a hold of her thighs. Kouga began thrusting in and out of her slowly, but hard and deep. Naomi moaned and rocked back and forth with reach thrust, creating little ripples in the steaming water. Naomi leaned her head back, dipping her hair back into the water, and closed her eyes.
Kouga's sensitive ears picked up Naomi's heartbeat over her moans. He wanted to make it beat faster. He bit his lower lip, squeezed his eyes shut, and started thrusting faster, but kept his strength. Just as he wanted, her heart sped up, and her breaths got more short and gruff and he knew she was about to climax, which was fine with him, because her scent, her short, raspy breaths, and the friction she was creating on him were bringing him to yet another great climax as well. He released into her with another little whimper just as her body shuddered in ecstasy. They were in sync with one another, heartbeats beating at the same sped up pace. Kouga leaned slightly on Naomi, doing all he could not to fall over.
Naomi, feeling the same way, wanted to help him ashore so he could lay down, but knew she would fall into the spring before he did, so she let him lean there.
A few moments later, Naomi lowered her legs and quickly sat up to catch Kouga if he were to fall. He didn't however. Instead, he kissed her forehead and went back to the shampoo on the boulder in the middle of the spring. "Wanna wash up now?" Kouga asked picking up the shampoo bottle. Naomi slid off the boulder and made her way over to him.
"Sure, I guess," Naomi said, "Let's just not let it go anywhere again."
"Why not?" he asked confused.
"I do actually want to get some sleep tonight," she explained.
"Oh, alright," he said grateful. "Just as long as it's not me."
"There is no way in the seven depths of hell that you could be the reason I didn't want to go again... unless you were too hurt or something. Then I might refuse." Naomi laughed at her statement and walked over to Kouga, taking the bottle from his hand. As if he'd ever be too hurt to have sex. She squeezed some shampoo into her hand and lathered it up by rubbing her hands. She started rubbing the soap into Kouga's hair, slowly running her pointer and middle fingers in small circles.
Then she remembered that Rusty liked getting scratched behind the ear and started wondering if Kouga might as well, being part wolf as he was. She massaged her fingers up to behind his ears so he wouldn't know she was going to do it. Then, she changed her massage to scratching. Kouga started whimpering in bliss. She really needs my claws, Kouga thought to himself.
"So you do like it," Naomi stated as he wrapped his arms around her waist and started nuzzling his nose in her neck. "Geez, Kouga, you're worse than Rusty," she said with a smile. She scratched behind his ears a bit longer and then let him free of his wonderful torture.
"And now I guess I know my prey's weakness..." she started, repeating what Kouga said earlier. "I will use it to my advantage."
"You cannot be human," Kouga said pulling away from Naomi's neck.
"Why not?" she asked with a smile.
"How did you know that?" he asked, recalling her nails scratching his ears.
"If Rusty liked it, why wouldn't you, Wolf Boy?" she explained. "Now, c'mere. Let me finish washing your hair."
Naomi scrubbed his hair and helped him rinse it out, just as he had done for her. Then she took the shampoo bottle back to shore and traded it for the soap. Walking back to him, she lathered her hands up. She set the soap on the boulder and rubbed her hands over his body, paying special attention to his length and buttocks.
"I thought we agreed we weren't going to do anything more tonight," he said with a raised eyebrow.
"Sorry. We're not," she confirmed and passed the soap to him. "Now you do me."
Kouga took it, smiling. Lathering, he rubbed the soap over Naomi's body. "You have a beautiful body, you know that?" he asked coming to her thighs.
Naomi smiled and giggled at the compliment, turning a little red.
He continued rubbing until she was covered neck down in the soap and they both ducked under the water to rinse themselves off.
"Hey, you know what? I have an idea," Naomi said as she grabbed the soap and shampoo, and headed for the shore.
"Hn?"
"We can be blood buddies," she said, holding up her hand. "My friends and I did it a few years ago to signify that we'd be friends forever. Maybe tonight, we can do it to signify that we'll be together forever."
"That's what mating's for," Kouga said with a smile.
"Well, yes. For wolves. For human, we usually get married, but since we aren't in the time period where we can get rings, not that either of us could afford one, we can be blood buddies."
"Okay. How do you do it?" he asked.
"Well, we'll need something to break our flesh," she said grabbing her blanket and passing his to him.
"What about my claws?" he offered.
"That'll work. Now all I gotta do is remember what to say. Of course, I'll have to tweak the words a bit, seeing as we're more than just friends... if I can even remember what to say..."
"Okay, but what are you supposed to do?"
"Oh, sorry. We sit together and slit our palms. Then we line up the two wounds and hold hands. Although, don't you think you've lost enough blood for today?" she asked, pointing to the wound the monster Bird of Paradise left on his right arm.
"I'll be fine." he said simply, wrapping the blanket around him.
"Alright."
Naomi sat down on a boulder and Kouga sat down after her so they were face-to-face. Naomi held out her palm.
"Right here," she said, drawing an imaginary line across the middle of her palm. Kouga brought his claw to her palm as Naomi watched, but he didn't move.
Naomi looked up at him confused. He was still looking down at her palm, but he had a worried look on his face.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
He looked up at her almost startled. "I don't want to hurt you..." he explained.
"You won't," she said, trying to convince him. "I've done this seven times."
But he still didn't move. "Look," she said taking his hand, extending one of his claws. "You won't hurt me," she said, bringing the claw to her palm. She slowly dug the claw in a line over her palm, wincing only a little when it hurt so Kouga wouldn't worry. When she was satisfied with the cut and her palm filled with her blood, she let go of Kouga's hand. "Your turn," she said, squeezing her wrist to slow the blood flow.
The sharp scent of blood filled Kouga's nose. It was going to drive him nuts to see his woman sit there and bleed, so he quickly cut himself so they could get this over with and stop her from bleeding.
"Okay, now give me your hand," she said and Kouga did as he was told. She took his wrist and held his hand up, placing hers up to his, lining up the two wounds. She laced her fingers through his to hold their hands together more tightly and Kouga did the same out of reflex.
"Since this is to seal us as more than friends, do you think we should kiss or something?" Kouga asked.
"Yeah," Naomi guessed, "since I can't remember the words anyway." Kouga hooked his available finger under her chin and brought them together for the kiss. "I love you," Naomi whispered.
"I love you, too."
Naomi removed her hand and stared down at the blood covering it. She noticed a lot of it was darker than her own and figured it must have been Kouga's youkai blood.
"Let's wash up," she offered. "The scent of blood is bothering you, huh."
"Only because it's yours," he said simply.
They both went over to the spring and washed up. Naomi slowly put her hand in the water, hissing in pain as the cut went in.
Kouga looked at her concerned. "You okay?" he asked.
Naomi took a second to respond, getting used to the water. "Fine," she said, relaxing as the pain vanished. She watched her blood leaking into the water and spreading out until she couldn't see it. She grabbed her wrist and held her thumb over the veins to slow the bleeding. Kouga did the same until both their bleeding stopped. Naomi pulled her hand out of the water and wiped it on the blanket around her. Kouga pulled his hand out and shook it free of water.
He walked over to Naomi's side and wrapped his arm around her waist. "Wanna head back?" he asked.
Naomi agreed and they turned for the den.