Chapter 9: Flames in the ocean

"I told you to relax yourself, Kuro!" How should he relax when she was running next to him... and hoping... up and down... up and down... up and down... Kuro's eyes followed her movements like a hypnotised bunny.

°Damn! Stop staring at them!° When Kira looked aside for a moment Kuro slapped himself to clear his head. His hormones drove him mad again, if it would go on like this he would have to pay attention that he wasn't getting to hot´´...

"Well, ok. Little boy! On the count of three, we run! One, two, three!" She dashed forward, Kuro tried to slacken, control his breath and coordinate all movements. It wasn't quite easy for him because he was getting furious every time Kira called him little boy, though he was nearly half a meter taller than her.

Kira trained him now for one year and still he got some problems with the Running, especially as he did not manage to reach a speed like at that time. No matter how hard he tried, he maybe was invisible but he could not hold the tempo that long. Perhaps he was afraid of the consequences, nevertheless he nearly died once.

Five minutes their bodies worked on high level, than they took a break of fifteen minutes. At the beginning Kira had to force him to make a pause. Kuro was proud and stubborn; he overestimated his potential, although Kira called it colossal. But she didn't want to take the risk, that he would hurt himself or worse... the risk to loose him.

It was an unbelievable muggy and dry summer's day, they had started the training in the early morning, at this time it had already been unbearable warm. Meanwhile it was noon and the sun stood merciless burning in the sky. Not even Kuro fancied doing something but lying sweating in the yellow grass.

They took a long pause and although in the afternoon it hadn't cool done a bit Kira consisted on continue the training. They ran along the beach through the wind still air, the sand hindered their feet and impeded the training appreciable. They breathed heavy and sweated out off all pores.

Kuro let himself fall down into the hot sand; his throat was desiccated like a desert, his nose twitched. "Uaar... I'm soaked like hell!...I'm surely stinking like a pig...!" Kira let herself sink down and carefully smelled at his neck. The top of her nose tickled him pleasurable on his skin. A light tingling flooded through his body.

"...Well you're smelling quite tart, but still ok. Kagami's smelling worse when he's soaked in sweat." Kuro was happy that Kagami's parents went on a trip with him, when he would work hard enough, he probably could get Kira's attention. °... But not when I'm stinking like a decaying cat...°

He sat up and shoved up his specs, he dragged his shirt above his head, what wasn't quite easy for it nearly adhered on his skin as drenched as it was. Kira starred at him, actually he was embarrassed to do it for he knew he wasn't nearly as brawny as Kagami and all the village's girls were after that bloke... but it was simply too hot!

"I can't stand it anymore, I'll go into the water!" He stripped his trousers; they didn't wear shoes while Running... In his black shorts he ran through the hot sand and leaped into the water. Kira gazed after him, she could not dress off her bodice so easy... well she could... but not in front of Kuro.

She enjoyed seeing him running through the sand he wasn't a muscle-poser like Kagami. Ok, Kagami had shoulders wide like a closet, but Kuro was intelligent and humorous, beside of this she thought a svelte boy much more attractive than a crude bodybuilder. °...Mhm... what a tasty arse... When he's coming out now with his wet underwear... I'll think I'll faint...°

The heat was terrible for Kira but she did not dare to go into the water, Kuro floated on his back and enjoyed the pleasuring freshness. He looked to Kira, sweat pearls stood upon her forehead, but if he would ask her to join him, he surely would receive a box on the ear... Anyhow would she not want to swim with him.

Kira wiped the sweat from her forehead, the sun was low in the sky but still the heat drove her mad. And not just the heat, Kuro too... water drops on his body shimmered in the sun like sparkling diamonds.

"Kuro? Would you mind me to come in to you?" Kuro's mouth flapped open he calmed himself fast and shook his head... Kira would come to him, he couldn't believe it! Kira really would come to HIM into the water; he hadn't dared to imagine this!

Kira kept her clothes on; Kuro was slightly disappointed but happy though that she would at least share the same natural element with him. She dashed into the water and let herself fall, next to Kuro she emerged. She was wet through like him; the clothes of both adhered on their bodies and showed all contours clearly.

The fifteen years old regarded the girl, her long hair shimmered even darker now and laid smooth over her shoulders. Water drops ran over her cheeks like little stars when she looked up to Kuro. He looked gorgeous when his hair was wet and strands hang into his face. A little bit saucy and a little bit innocent but quite a huge bit sexy...

"Kira... hold still..." She did not understand why she should, but whatever Kuro said, she would do it. His hand came closer her head, when he touched her a wonderful tingling flew through every fibre of her body. She felt him wiping something from her hair.

"... There had been... a... jellyfish..." His hand sojourned still in her hair, she enjoyed this pleasuring prickle. Her hair was soft and warm; they laid smoothly on his skin. He too relished this feeling, but she would notice it if he would touch her any longer...

Though he didn't like to, he had to release her, but suddenly she laid her hand onto his. They did not speak, the understood each other without words. He skimmed through her hair and over her cheeks, her neck and her shoulders. She put her arms around his hips and cuddled up to him. Her head leaned against his chest; she looked up to him.

°I've got no plan! Say something... something romantic. You gotta capture her! Let your charm sparkle... what charm!° He searched through his memory for something beautiful, something that would deserved to Kira and was able to express his feelings... He looked into her grey-blue eyes...

"I want to be a tear of yours..." Kira hearkened up and searched in his unfathomable black, beady eyes.

"...I want to be a tear of yours... being born in your radiant eyes, peregrinating as a pilgrim over your divine cheeks and expiring in bliss on your paradisiacal lips..." He sighed slightly awkward and awaited Kira's surely destroying reaction.

"Kuro... I...I love you... since the very moment we met for the first time..." At last both were conscious of their feelings. They felt like they were created for each other, as if their genes would magnetize mutually. It seemed to be their fate, their destination, they belonged together...

He was unsure what to do, he hesitated, his gaze rested on her shirt. The contours of her breasts stand out clearly on it...She had inhibitions just has he had and felt his embarrassment. She released her embracement. He suggested doing something wrong and retreated a step, but she took his hands into her, although his were so much taller.

She put his arms around herself and gain cuddled up to him, encircling her arms around him. He lowered his head and smelled at her hair; there it was... this unique scent that fascinated him so much. She felt his chest lifting and lowering regularly; she listened to his heartbeat and petted over his back, like he did with her.

Kira could not see it when he blushed; she just felt a gentle, tender kiss on her forehead. Kuro laid a finger under her chin and lifted up her head softly. She surrendered to him when their lips met and they sank into the mild weighing ocean. Their tongues caressed each other and an intoxicating warmth spread in the young adults.

Slowly Kira's fingers slid down Kuro's back, devout fondling his skin. Her eyes were closed like his were; both savoured every moment of this gentle liaison. Gingerly Kira shoved her hands under the elastic band of his shorts, he twitched... Kuro opened his eyes and gave up the kiss, he loosened from her...

"Kira...I..." She laid a finger onto his lips; he didn't need to continue speaking. She hadn't knew if he was ready for this, she had not considered that despite of his height he still was two years younger than her... He had not been ready and in the end, she neither...

But there were other possibilities to epitomize one's flaming love for each other than letting body fuse with body. They seized each other in the genial warm water, without deeper intentions, only to be near to themselves and sense the others heartbeat, in the smooth sunset.

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"And? Something special happened while I was away?" Kagami's vacation was finished and so the Terror Trio sat on the quay wall again, like so often before and together they watched the seagulls that looked for fish.

"Na! Nothing important!" Kuro and Kira blushed, they had inadvertent answered at the same time and were now starring embarrassed onto their shoes. Kagami wasn't sensitive enough to interpret this incident right and the other two had decided to tell no one of their event. Kuro believed also that his mate would ridicule him, because nothing really had happened...

°Nothing! Perhaps in the eyes of a macho like him, but not for me...° Kuro had another idea of this than Kagami, this hadn't been NOTHING, this had been marvellous beautiful. Her skin was so warm and her kisses like downs on his lips... They would keep their liaison as a secret as long as they thought it to be necessary...

And it was much more exciting if one had to fear to be discovered every time. Kuro admittedly looked forward to go further with her, but he was also afraid of the enormous responsibility that laid on his shoulders, after all he did not want to make a mistake. He did not want to hurt her neither psychical nor physical, besides she still knew nothing of his long hairy appendix...

So in the next time they would stay at kissing and petting. This was leastways as equally romantic and thanks to Kira he had learned a new word: as equally ecstatic. Kira wanted to change the topic and asked Kagami what nice things he had experienced in his vacation.

"Huh? Erm... We've been to Rogue-town, you know! The place where Gold Roger died! It was so cool! Full off sinister guys and crooks! And lots of marines there! And of course pirates! Really every second man was a pirate and they had trouble with the marine every day! My parents didn't like that town very much!"

Kuro listened up. Pirates? Did he say pirates? This was interesting for Kuro, his friends didn't know that his father had been a pirate, but Kuro knew it. And he also knew that Arkas for real was a good pirate, even though most people thought there wasn't such thing as a good pirate.

What Kuro would prefer not to know was who was responsible for his father's dead, the marine! Personified in one soldier, meanwhile surely an officer called Morgan! This name he would never forget in his whole life just as the horrifying pictures... but Kira was very good in distracting him.

"Pirates, really? Man, I always wanted to see pirates! They are so cool, at least better than the marine!" His friends agreed with him, they too thought of the marine to be a rabble of phoney hypocrites. Every villager had to pay high taxes if he did not want some trouble with them. This was a complete protection money blackmail.

"Hey Kuro, when I'm grown up, I'll gonna be a pirate captain! If you like, you can be cabin-boy in my crew!" Kuro had to laugh loudly, he didn't know what he wanted to do when he was an adult, but to his ideas did surely not count to scrub the deck of Kagami's cutter. If he was going to be a pirate, he would be the captain and nothing else! But when he looked aside to Kira, perhaps he just would like an uneventful job that allowed him to spend a lot of time with a beautiful, young woman and finding tranquillity of the soul...

"But, Kagami! As a captain you gotta be clever! Especially if you want to mess up with the marine. And let's say the truth, you're just the man for the dirty jobs; you got no idea of leadership qualities! You actually consider an ukase for a guy that's to stupid to write his own name correctly!"

Indignant Kagami starred at him. "That's not true! I just say it's a stupid name! I mean no one's name is Ukase, or what! I mean, whose parents are so evil to call their child Ukase? The name is Lukas and not Ukase for Christ's sake!" Kuro slapped his flat hand against his own forehead and shook his head.

"Yes Kagami... you're right. Oh, look! Look what this seagull there is doing!" Obviously was that seagull doing nothing important, but Kuro perceived his time on earth for to precious as to waste it in such an uninspired discussion. More likely he would prefer to snuggle with Kira now... When he was looking at her this way, an irresistible impulse to nibble at her earlobe overcame him...

Kira felt his eyes upon her skin and looked towards him, the sun reflected in his glasses. Why she had this inexplicable desire to pet over his belly every time she looked at him? Slowly she was getting worried because of that. One could not uninterrupted think of fingering each other all the time, could one? They were yet no cats in heat or such animals!

With highest efforts Kuro prevented himself to lick from her shoulder over her neck up to behind her ear. So he looked at Kagami... in the hope that this would turn him off. And really Kagami's masculine, muscular appearance was asexual enough to cool Kuro down.

And this although there was not much that could bring Kuro down on the floor again, when his craving was on such a climax once again. Actually it was a miracle that he did not fall upon Kira and dragged her clothes from her body right in this moment... But somehow there was still a border between his plans and the things he actually realised.

This border was probably the fear of that he was still not able to control his cat's tail. He smiled spoiled. °...Nor the other one...° Again! Again he just thought of the ONE THING! Hadn't he wanted to talk about something with Kagami? Yes, but what... oh yes...

"Anyhow, Kagami! I'll surely not join your crew! I'm going to be a famous pirate myself! A famous, notorious, feared and loaded! And if you beg me veeeeeeeeeeery kindly, you probably join my crew! But only probably! And only if you'll perform unrestricted obedience to me!" Kuro sighed theatrical and rolled with his eyes.

"It's really difficult to find good personnel in these days. If you want something done in the right way, you gotta do it yourself!" Kira giggled, Kuro as a pirate... Not that she couldn't imagine this, but he looked not really like the showpiece of a pirate. Tall, yes, but thin. Unbelievable strong but he did not appear like and glasses... What pirate was wearing glasses? As far as she knew there was none that looked like a complete nerd!

But Kira did not care about all this very much, she thought a nerdy to be extremely attractive and when she imagined him wearing one of this cool captain's coats, she started shivering and purring. Kuro and Kagami looked at her surprised, they did not knew what she was thinking of in this moment, although Kuro probably could imagine it.

Yes, Kuro actually knew very well when Kira was purring... mostly when she was with him, especially loud she purred when he was biting her into her neck... but this was another story...'

°Pirate Kuro...Captain Kuro...sounds good... real good... But didn't they all got some sort of title? Ah, I'll have to make some plans about this...°

Kagami stretched and longing looked onto the ocean. "You know what? It would be really cool if some pirates would show up in our boring little village! Man that would be a blockbuster!" Kuro laughing agreed with him. Real pirates in this chaff, that'll be great! Perhaps he would meet some from his father's former crew, if they were still alive.

"Yeah but see it like this: If some pirates would come to our village, they would beat you off with one strike!" Sulky Kagami offered a nudge to Kuro, this one rowed still shortly with his arms before he completely lost his balance and fell from the wall. He just managed to grab Kagami's foot and drag him with himself into the deep. Coughing the boys emerged and Kuro waved to his girl friend.

"Hey, come in! The water is wonderful warm!" Thankful Kira refused, not just because she knew that the sea on this side of the isle was never warmer than 10°C but also for Kuro's teeth were slamming that wonderful onto each other in the cold. The young men climbed aloft the quay and trembled like an aspen leaf. Kagami had enough, he said good-bye and went home to his parents for warming up.

Kira regarded the freezing Kuro, his skin white like freshly fallen snow, his hair black like ebony and his lips... blue like a sapphire.

"Oh my poor little Kuro, are you freezing? Shall I warm you up? Perhaps I should rub you until you're really hot again!" Kuro looked up to her Kira loved it to talk about certain topics in a very suggestive way, that's why he paid most attention to her eyes. And this sentences was unambiguous ambiguous! Kira's glance... this glance was even for her, extremely spoiled, Kuro could be sure now.

"I'm not letting me being ask this twice!" He leaped up and put his arm around her shoulder, he was still soaked and Kira began shivering when the cold spread over to her. Kuro grinned the whole way to his home like a child in a candy shop. Obviously it had been his plan to make Kira freeze.

"Don't worry, Kira. I'll take care of you getting really hot!"

Actually I wanted it to be romantic especially the first part... but it suffers a bit under my translation... '