"... Nicholai, you bastard..." She swore in a low wisper. Yuri mumbled something about breakfeast, rolling to the other side of the bed. It was amazing that he did not fall off the small bed. Karin smiled, knowing that he was still there, with her. "As long as i'm with him, i'm content"
She leaned over and kiss him on the cheek, before getting up from the bed. The night was an amaing one, one that she could never forget. Even remembering it now made her blush furiously. She crossed the tiny cabin to her clothes but stopped half-way, notcing the mirror. She stared at herself, turning from side to side, measuring her own waist.
"I've grown fat." She sighed. No one else thought that, however and even lucia was envying her. The flight was smoother now, it seemed as though roger had placed the ship in what he called "auto-pilot" and yuri had told him many times to just switch that on instead of him trying to fly it. Karin picked a towel from the chair, and quickly stepped into the shower. It was a wild night for both of them but at least they were happy by the end of it, but of course she wondered how did most of her clothing end up all over the place. Above the carboard, under the chair, on the door knob. They seemed to be doing a waltzing strip dance around the room by the looks of it. Karin turned the shower on and let the cooling water flow down on her, washing away most of her sweat and some of yuri's. If there was one person who could detect what they did at night, it would be blanca. Karin could not risk the embressement, but then again, what was there to be ashamed of? She loved him as much as he loved her, which she hoped was more than it seemed. It just seemed so natural. "But does he really? What about alice?" Karin pondered. She thought about the subject for awhile longer, before bursting out frustration, almost breaking the shower head. Instead, her elbow banged agains the shower knob and boiling water came out of the shower, instead of the warm she wanted. "AAHHHH"
A few moments later, she came out of the shower, almost as red as her hair, wrapped in the towel. Yuri sat up on the bed, smiling at her.
"Cooking something?" He joked.
"Ha ha, very funny. It hurts, alright?" "Alright, alright... want me to kiss it away?" He smiled devishly.
Karin smiled.
"I just had a shower." She said. Yuri's face almost dropped immediately. Karin knew what he was thinking. Once a pervert, always a pervert.
"But i guess no one will notice." Karin reassured him, pulling the towel off and throwing it aside, jumping onto the bed.
"Where were we?" She smiled.
"Hm... i think here." Yuri leaned forward and kissed her.
"al-..ways... sta-..rt... fr-...om...be-..gin-...ning..." Karin said between the flurry of kisses. She released a slight moan as yuri travelled down, leaving a trail of light, feathery kisses. Unfortunately, the entire group just could not get some sleep after hearing the noises from last night. Roger had turned on the auto-pilot so that he could listen in on what was happening. As of now, the entire party, execpt for blanca who just could not care less and lucia who was busy stuffing her face with more rice cakes, were pressing their ears closely to the door, trying to make out what was happening. All of their faces were very red except for roger who was literally blowing off steam. Anastasia stepped away, face all red but still determined.
"I knew that both of them could do it." She said indifferently. Everyone else, however, were not paying any sort of attention. Seeing how no one was paying any attention to her, anastasia planted herself back onto the door.
The rest of the journey was less eventful, having both karin and yuri very exhuasted. Yuri sat up, running his fingers through her hair. The hair running like silk, bending to his very touch. It seemed so peaceful, so much so that he wished it could last forever. But how long was forever? Yuri smiled, cupping her cheek. There was nothing else he could ask for right now. Karin snuggled unconsciously in her sleep even more closely to him. Yuri responded by wrapping his arms around her. His touch seemed to soothe and relax her muscles, while her skin was welcoming for him to touch, smooth and soft.
"Karin... don't leave me." He wispered into her ear, kissing her cheek.
The ship gave a sudden jerk, before a speaker suddenly blurted out from some unknown hidden place in the cabin.
"Everyone buckle up! We're going in for a landing!" Roger's voice boomed.
Yuri quickly got up and pulled his clothes back on, before waking karin for to do the same.
"Huh? What's going on?" Karin mumbled out of her sleep.
"We've reached." Yuri said, before runnning out of the cabin to the cockpit.
The ship buckled a couple of times, before actually hitting ground land. They had landed just on the outskirts of the Inugami village. The inhabitants were already used to the sight of the flying and crashing ship so none of them actually paid any attention. Kurando was the first to stumble out of the flying menace, coughing and choking on the smoke from the ship.
"Kurando! Welcome back!" A familiar voice came out, followed by a familiar old hag, hobbling along with a stick.
"Er.. sure." Kurando thought about it hard but up till now he could still not remember that old hag's name. Sometimes he wondered if she actually came from the village in the first place.
"You're mother is expecting all of you in the house." The hag explained, hobbling past to collect something like most old hags do in the village. Kurando sighed, how many times must he see his mother each time he comes back? But she may hold the answer to yuri's curse, besides, there were some 'short' issues he wanted to talk about with her. The group hurried along to Saki's house, mainly because someone was very worried that the ship may blow up. The house, itself, had not changed much. One of the few noticable changes was the addition of rooms. Saki had told them on one of their earlier trips back here that since they were going to stop by so often, she might as well build more rooms to accomodate the number of guests. She also hinted something about some "extra family members" in the future, though karin had no idea that it had pointed it at her too. Saki was in her room, as usual, sipping on some green tea as she flipped through some old book.
"You wanted to see me, mother?" Kurando asked, not sure whehter she was listening at all as she never tore her eyes away from the book even when they entered the room.
"Yes... But more importantly, yuri"
"Yes?" Yuri stepped forward, sensing kurando's nerves popping due to being ignored.
"You are searching for three books, am i right"
"Yeah." He was about to ask how she knew but he suddenly remembered that she could see things in the future so she probably knew about this too. Saki stopped reading the book and tossed it over to yuri. Yuri caught it and studied it. The pages were yellow and smelled faintly of cat urine. The cover was worn and was titleless.
"What is this"
"That? That is the inijin manuel. The book that dictates about the balance of life"
yuri stared in disbelief a the book. The first step had just landed in his lands, literally.
"Ho-.. how?" He asked.
"I found it lying somewhere in the attic. I figured that it was of some importance but could not figure out why"
"... what the"
Karin stopped him before he could throw a swear word.
"Thank you, saki! I'm sure Yuri is VERY grateful." She raised an eye at yuri.
"Er... yeah, thanks"
Saki smield warmly and turned back to her son.
"So, how goes the honeymoon?"
Kurando's and anastasia's faces both turned brightly red, almost matching karin's boiling face.
"Er... well, it was short." Kurando placed it with great difficulty.
"Hmm.. short, huh? Oh, by the way, i have a mission for you, kurando"
"Huh? What is it this time"
"Its the dog shrine again"
"What? Geez. No more of that. That place reeks of dog poop"
"Don't put it like that. I know its stinks but it is a shrine dedicated to our protectors." Saki frowned at her son's new-found profanity. In the corner of her eyes, she stared fiercely at yuri, most likely the source.
"Alright, alright. I'll leave tomorrow"
"Good, its settled then. Oh, by the way, i'm a little short of rooms as i have some important visitors here. Kurando, you can sleep in the same room as Anastasia as both of you are already married, in my terms." She stared hard at him before he could protest, silencing him of whatever he was about to say.
"And yuri... you can stay with karin. I know both of you have already been very close so it wouldn't hurt." She glared at yuri with twice the strength then the one she used against kurando as she was pinning the blame for all the profanity on him. Karin's face went way above her hair colour. Unknown to karin, Saki was very worried about her. Saki, of course, would be able to see what is happening. It was just up to karin to find the strength within herself to fight her own fears.
