Author's Notes
I'm trying to expand on their romantic moments but with my limited imagination and my lack of knowledge in the field, I came up with this. I'm more worried about this fic than my exams muahahahaha!
Disclaimer: I do not own Sakura Taisen or any of its characters.
Reni awoke first, her eyelids fluttered open slowly and the first thing she saw was not the ceiling but the wall at the far end of her room. Then she remembered that she had been sleeping next to Ohgami the night before. The thought of Ohgami made her turn to her left.
To her surprise, it was not the empty wrinkled bedspace she had dreaded to see. Ohgami Ichiro was sleeping peacefully with his back on the back of the bed like her with his arm around her waist.
"Ichiro?" She whispered, hoping that she was not dreaming as she crept closer to his face.
Ohgami groaned and opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was the cute German's face. She was definitely the most pleasant sight to see first thing in the morning and Ohgami was still sinking into Pleasantville when memories of last night rushed into his mind. He sat up straight immediately, holding Reni's shoulders tightly and inspecting her face.
"R-Reni? You're alive?" He whispered, disbelief evident in his voice.
Reni herself was too immersed in her own happiness to notice what Ohgami had said and she lunged forward to embrace Ohgami.
"Ichiro! You are still here!" She cried with joy behind his neck, her arms clung tightly to his back. She pulled back a little while later, feasting her eyes with his image.
Ohgami blushed a bit when he saw how intent Reni looked at him. Her eyes were watery with tears of happiness and she was displaying one of her rarest smiles. Ohgami wiped her tears and stroked her cheek, all the while not believing and glad that she was still alive even though Kaede had said she would not survive. Reni only held his hand onto her cheek, enjoying his touch and wishing that he would not stop.
"I'm so glad that Kaede was wrong Reni." Ohgami said softly as he stroke her neck.
"Wrong about what?" She purred lovingly, closing her eyes to concentrate on Ohgami's touch.
"Wrong about you dying."
Reni's eyes snapped open and glanced at him in confusion. "Dying?"
"You don't know?" Ohgami's fingers stopped moving.
"No. She said that you were going to be sent to prison."
It was Ohgami's turn to stare at her puzzlingly.
"I lied." Kaede's voice intruded. The brunette stepped out from a dark corner of the room.
Reni jumped off Ohgami immediately at the sound of her voice and hid her face behind her pillow, not believing that she did not notice the vice-commander in the room the whole time. The couple on the bed stared at the brunette in embarrassment.
"K-Kaede-san!" They both exclaimed. "What do you mean?"
Kaede chuckled at their reaction before explaining her lie. She even included how they both reacted to her lie as she recalled the events of the night before, leaving the new couple blushing uncontrollably and exchanging shy smiles with each other.
Seeing that her ruse had worked and that she had achieved her goal, Kaede decided to leave the lovers alone.
"Well, I have work to do, so I'll leave you two lovebirds alone for awhile." She winked at them before heading out the double-doors; the couple blushed even deeply at her last remark.
When Kaede closed the door behind her, she stifled a giggle.
Oooh, I'll leave you two alone. For now.
Reni glanced at Ohgami timidly over her pillow; her initial drive (and reason) to give herself totally to Ohgami was lost with the unveiling of the truth. Now her mind began to kick in and warned her of consequences.
Ohgami, however, washed those budding doubts away when he swept away her pillow and kissed her deeply as he pushed her downwards onto the hospital bed. Reni felt the familiar heat rising in her as she felt Ohgami's hands over her and his advancing tongue battling with hers.
They made out on the bed for many minutes, each of them indulging in their desires for once without having to be considerate about anything. Ohgami's kisses moved from her lips down the length of her neck and gradually moved towards her chest.
Reni moaned with pleasure and her fingers were moving to remove her gown when the most embarrassing thing occurred.
Her stomach growled.
Ohgami stopped kissing and they both stared at each other. Reni could only blush and scold herself for ruining the mood, feeling disappointed again for not being able to give herself to Ohgami again. Ohgami smiled warmly at her and kissed her lightly on the lips before he got off her.
Reni sat up, clutching her loose gown as she watched Ohgami getting off the bed. She grabbed at his hand unconsciously, not wanting him to leave. Ohgami moved back towards her and pecked her on the lips again.
"I'm going to fix you something to eat. You haven't had lunch and dinner yesterday you naughty girl."
Reni reddened more and nodded before letting his hand go a bit reluctantly.
Yuri almost bumped into Ohgami as he headed in the direction of the kitchen. He greeted her cheerfully and Yuri only glanced at his hurrying back, puzzled. Ohgami's hair was messier than usual and his clothes were wrinkled. Normally these signs say that a person is in a bad mood but Ohgami looked like he was in heaven.
Yuri shrugged and headed into her office where Kasumi and Tsubaki were waiting for her. It was their early morning gossip hour before work starts at nine o'clock.
"Good morning Yuri, you look like you have something interesting to say today." Kasumi greeted her partner as she read her expression.
"I do actually but let me hear about what went on in the Teigeki yesterday. I heard one of the Hanagumi was hurt."
"It was Reni," Tsubaki chimed in, "but she's ok. Ohgami-san brought her back in time for the doctor to patch her up. Manager Yoneda is quite furious with the way he brought her in though."
"Yes," Kasumi chuckled, "Ohgami-san even ignored the manager's orders to come to his office. Seems like something interesting is going to develop from this."
"What? The ever-obedient Ohgami-san disobeyed an order? This is definitely unusual." Yuri replied.
"According to my sources, Ohgami-san was extremely agitated when he brought Reni back. More agitated than he would normally be." Kasumi provided.
"He looked rather happy in the hallway just now."
"Probably glad that Reni was all right I guess. Kaede-san told us a minute ago." Tsubaki answered.
"Probably. Speaking of Reni, I found her doing something strange yesterday."
"What? What?" The other two looked at her like vultures.
"She was standing in front of a mirror."
"Strange is definitely the word for it but what's so interesting about that?" Tsubaki said a bit disappointingly.
"Naked."
"What?" The two's attention returned.
"She was standing in front of the mirror naked. When would you do something like that?"
"Umm... To see if I've gone fat?" Tsubaki offered.
"I don't think so. I hate to admit it but Reni is more slender than any of us."
"Checking her sizes?" Kasumi ventured.
"Close to what I have in mind but no."
"Could she be... um... you know... shaving?" Tsubaki suggested timidly.
"She wasn't carrying a razor." Yuri shook her head.
"Could it be that she was touching herself?"
The younger members of the Kazegumi stared at Kasumi, their faces started to become crimson as the image formed in their heads.
"She is at that age you know." Kasumi only added a-matter-of-factly.
Yuri coughed and cleared her throat as she disposed the vulgar image out of her mind. "N-no, I don't think so."
"Then what is it?" The other two of the Kazegumi asked impatiently.
"I'm not sure, I was hoping you two might be able to tell me."
The two narrowed their eyes and gave the gossip queen a disapproving look.
"B-but I do have a theory. She must be wondering how she looked like to others." Yuri quickly added.
"Why would she suddenly want to know that?" Tsubaki queried.
"Unless the others you mean is actually a him."
"You mean Reni is concerned how males look at her?"
"Not just any male. Him." Yuri suggested.
"Ohgami-san?"
"Yes Tsubaki. Who else's opinion would she really look heavily on?"
"Why the sudden interest in his opinion?"
"She's in love with him."
The other two stared at Kasumi.
"How can you tell?"
"It's just a guess."
"It might be true too you know." Yuri said thoughtfully.
The three of them continued their lengthy discussion, presenting and ditching theories. They didn't notice Ohgami walking pass their open door with a tray of food in his hands.
Reni had pulled on her gown again and was waiting for Ohgami impatiently on her bed when he came in.
"Ichiro!" She called to him, brightening up significantly.
Ohgami walked towards her and laid the tray on her lap before he sat next to her. Reni looked at what Ohgami brought for her. A bowl of porridge, some fish and a glass of milk was on the tray. They weren't anything exquisite but the fact that her Ichiro made it for her was more than enough for her.
To her surprise, when she reached for the spoon, Ohgami snatched it away from her. He scooped up some hot porridge, blew at it to cool it and told her to open her mouth. Reni obeyed and smiled shyly at him as she ate. Ohgami wouldn't let her eat herself, insisting on feeding her and she didn't mind. She was on cloud 9. No one had shown how much they had cared for her like Ohgami did now and she thanked whoever watching over her for making her dreams into a reality.
Ohgami's romantic advances did not stop there. Whenever Reni sipped her milk, she left a white moustache, which Ohgami would wipe away with a cloth before planting a surprise kiss on her mouth. He did that several times that Reni protested a bit.
"Ichiro. If you keep kissing me, how am I going to finish my food?"
Ohgami grinned apologetically and continued feeding her. He realised that he was acting like a love struck puppy but he couldn't help it. One look at Reni and his body moved with a mind of its own.
When she finally finished her food, Ohgami moved the tray onto a table and the two of them lay together again, doing nothing but enjoying each other's presence.
"Ichiro, you can't stay here forever." Reni said softly into his ear while she nibbled at it.
"You're right, but I don't want to leave you."
"And I you. But you can't ignore your responsibilities because of me." She whispered softly and continued to play with his ear.
"You're making it hard for me to leave you know." He teased.
"I know." She sighed and released his ear. "You better go. The others might wonder where you were the whole morning."
"I'll come back later ok?" He said as he got up from the bed, their fingers still locked between each other.
She nodded. "Please don't tell the others about us Ichiro. I'd like to keep this between us."
"Whatever you want Reni."
She smiled.
"Ichiro," she paused before adding hesitantly, "ich liebe dich."
Ohgami knew the three German words well enough.
"Ich liebe dich auch Reni."
They had another passionate kiss before he left. Reni slid under her blanket, happy that she finally said those three words.
"I love you," she whispered to herself before she slept, dreaming of Ohgami.
To be continued...
Hmm.... I hope this is not too cheesy. It felt ok when I was writing it. Then it felt rather strange a day later. I rewrote it a bit, felt satisfied and became unhappy the next day until I decided to post it to keep myself from staring at the same passage every day.
Pls R&R. :-)