Courtship

Sao: Ummm... what to say? we started early, but...

Saor: That doesn't mean we won't finish late.

Sao: Pessimist.

Neko: Stop arguing so that we can actually write for a change.

Sao: NEVER!

Saor: (sweatdrops)

Neko: Never? (One eyebrow raised) (in human form)

Sao: ano... yeah? Never?

Saor: Surrre...

Karuri: Are you guys actually planning to write anything?

Sao: ...Maybe...

Saor: (sighs)

((a/n: that was all written BEFORE the a/n at the end... just btw))

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"Are we planning on doing anything today?" Karuri asked. "Aside from watch Yusuke and Kuwabara get tortured?"

"Nothing in particular." Youko answered lazily. They were seated on a soft patch of grass in the corner of the dojo, Youko on his side, propped up on one arm, and Karuri in front of him, now currently sitting up and leaning against him. She was clothed in a dark red tank top that fit her figure snugly and gray short-shorts with "Cali 02" printed in pink on the front of the left leg. He wore white cargo pants, slightly grass stained at the knee, as ningen-made cloth was prone to staining. Two of his tails were languorously wrapped around her body, as several of hers reached back to wrap around him.

Yusuke pronounced them hopeless five minutes into the day.

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Youko loved the way everything was brought into sharper detail as it was his body in control, ignoring the mild complaints from his human host and focusing more on the warm body pressed against his. It felt right to just sit there. It was calm and peaceful and loving. It could never last.

Karuri stood up and reached down to pull him up with a dazzling evil smile. That was the type of smile that could lead to ultimate destruction. It should not be legal. Of course, many things that were not legal in other circles were perfectly legitimate in kitsune society. It was stated somewhere, who knows by whom or when, "kitsune are a world apart and of their own." ((A/N: in case you're wondering, I made that up.))

A flash of time later, they were in the forest near their initialization clearing. The youki swirling in the plants around there was still radiant, probably marking that clearing for several years to come as theirs.

"Do you think Genkai quite knew what she was agreeing to when she let us stay here?" the tickle of Karuri's breath caressed his cheek as she reached up to cradle her head into the crook of his neck.

"I believe it may have not been mentioned that she would be hosting a mating ritual." he purred slowly.

"What dreadful unmentioning she was fed." she whispered, flicking one ear against his chin.

"Indeed." he murmured back, a slow smile creeping across his face.

One hand snaked up along his body, starting at his hip; the other remained around his neck. He mirrored her lazily, trailing across the breast when he got there and delighting in her shiver, they having separated enough to gaze at each other. Her scent intensified, gaining a slight tinge of hot cinnamon. This didn't help his control, as a low heat flushed through his body. Carefully he pulled her closer, to nip carefully at her lower lip, trailing downward across her neck, feeling the heat radiating from her skin along with a continuing increase in the spicy cinnamon scent as he neared the swell of her breasts, arms tightly around her waist.

And then her hands brushed along the base of his tails, against the grain of the fur to bring her closer to his body, and immediately burning heat flashed through his body. She repeated the action slowly, deliberately sliding against the fur, gazing up at him innocently. Or at least as innocent as any evil youkai seductress could look, as he fought for control of his body.

"Told you I'd get you back." she rasped in his ear, fingers departing his tails to once again wrap her arms around his neck.

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Sao: ya know what? I'm a sucky author and Neko has deserted me again. So, I figured that there might be a few people who would prefer this little scrap to absolutely nothing, so I'm sending it out. Even though it sucks.

Saor: Sao's being a little bit manic depressive. Plus we think Neko might have shifted to our actual, ORIGINAL stories that might be published in real life someday, so this is a good thing.

Sao: yeah, and it might just be that it's two in the morning.

Saor: Sao is not a morning person.

(Readers): we noticed.

Sao: so, yes, this entire thing sucks and with author's notes is less than four pages (bad me) gomen. Kami I'm a horrible person, but right now I feel vaguely sick and I won't repeat what I just said a couple seconds ago.

Saor: So anyhow, in the meantime, enjoy the meaningless smut interaction between our two favorite kitsune! And don't worry about Sao; she's much too happy a person to stay like this for long. It's probably the two a.m. thing.

Neko: thank you so much to all who review! We're sorry there are no responses this chapter. (Yawns)

Saor: OH! I just remembered. We have gotten a site up that contains all of our good art of karuri and such.I will be posting the site onthe bio, so go see it!If you do, please tell us what you thought! (Unless of course you thought it sucked... in which case we would really rather you refrain...)