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The Sweetest Five Minutes - Chapter 3

(Warning: Lemon in chapter!)

Once Tenchi's done in the bathroom, Ryoko follows his example. Deciding that maybe he's harmless after all, she takes a few more minutes to fluff up her hair and arrange her dress for more allure. The royal blue sheath hangs to her ankles, clinging lightly to her bosom and her hips before falling in a graceful swirl, hiding thigh-high slits on each side. With a few movements, she detaches the thin straps, exposing her smooth shoulders. She then removes the panel covering her stomach, revealing a glittering royal blue navel ring. The last thing she removes are her royal blue, three-inch spiked heels, allowing the jeweled rings on several of her toes to sparkle. Her ministrations are not lost on Tenchi whose eyes light up as she walks toward him.

"Wow," is all he can muster.

Quickly making his way to her, he runs his fingers delicately through the cyan tresses which mesmerized him. He is taken aback by a surge of energy accompanying his strokes. A gasp escapes him when he realizes what that means. Her aura is tangible! Thrusting his hands deeper into her thick curls and moving close enough to brush his check against her forehead, he revels in sensations he's never experienced before. He can feel the power in her aura firing every synapse in his brain, its waves coursing through his veins and nearly driving him into frenzy.

Drunk with arousal, he cups Ryoko's face in his hands and kisses her passionately. She responds eagerly to his fire and searching tongue. Wrapping his arms around her back, he draws her tightly against him, breaking the kiss momentarily. Grasping the cheeks of her ass with a moan, he pushes her against his growing hardness, resuming his passionate kiss. She finds herself wrapping her arms tightly around his neck and opening her legs to him. They squirm together and a low moan escapes her lips as she realizes he is arousing her.

'Wha-what's this', she questions herself, as a warm, sensuous feeling begins spreading from between her legs. 'That's never happened before! Is this what it feels like to want sex?'

Another moan escapes her as Tenchi backs up a little and begins lightly fondling her breasts and running kisses down one of her bare shoulders.

'I want him so much,' she admits to herself. 'Kagato will punish me if he finds out that I'm actually enjoying myself. I-I can't do this. It's too much!' A louder moan comes as Tenchi has discovered her lack of panties as he nips lightly on her neck.

Frightened by these new feelings and sensations, she pulls away and stumbles to the balcony for some air, realizing too late that the railing is a lot closer and lower than she thought. As she is about to tumble to the street at least 10 stories below, she feels arms around her waist pulling her back into the room.

"Are you okay," he whispers to the trembling woman, after they collapse in a heap on the floor.

"F-fine," she lies. Being that close again she can barely think for wanting him.

'This can't happen! He's just some man who paid to have sex with me just like thousands of others! Nothing more!'

But as he turns her face to his and kisses her gently, she knows that's not true. His kisses become more insistent and within moments, their clothing is discarded and they are writhing on the floor in ecstasy.

His thrusts, varying in speed and duration, are driving her closer to the edge of a completely alien experience; a real orgasm. She's faked more than she can remember and now, after dismissing her fear, can't wait to claim this new sensation for her own.

As she reaches her climax for what she realizes is the first time in her entire life, she nearly stops breathing and can only gasp her pleasure at this mind-blowing occurrence.

Her legs are wound so tightly around Tenchi's waist, it's a wonder he can breathe. Even so, he finds himself clinging to her almost as tightly as his seed fills her. Feeling her aura so strongly confuses him for many moments as her body completely relaxes beneath him.

Unbelievably content, she curls into Tenchi's arms, preparing to doze off until he nudges her, suggesting that the bed might be more comfortable. She crawls under the covers and snuggles against him a moment before drifting off.

As he watches her sleep, he begins unconsciously memorizing her face.

He tries to let her rest, but after about an hour of watching her slightly parted lips and the slope of her bosom and teasing himself with jolts of energy from her aura, he is fully aroused again. This time, he decides to dive right in and let her aura overtake him.

She is awaked by him kissing lightly around and between her breasts.

"Mmm," she intones as he slowly kisses up to her face.

After several sensual kisses, he moves from her soft lips to nip at her neck and shoulders, eliciting moans of pleasure. Moments later, he pauses to gaze at her again, noting a slight change in her aura.

'It's stronger somehow', he thinks to himself as he contemplates its pulse.

Ryoko feels him watching her and opens her eyes, shocked by the intensity in his face, but feeling a happiness she never knew existed.

'Why does it warm me so when he looks at me like that?' she sighs to herself.

With a low moan, he begins lightly running his hands up and down her sides and nuzzling his face between her breasts, alternating between nipping and licking them..

'Her aura is so powerful that I can taste it on her skin', he reflects.

His desire at its peak, he begins kissing her passionately again and soon enters her.

As he slides in and out of her warm center, he allows himself to fully bask in her powerful aura. Before, he'd only sampled it. This time he can't stop himself from falling in completely, succumbing to the most intense lovemaking of his life. As they rock together, Tenchi reaches out with his mind to join hers, expecting to heighten the sensations even more.

In his experience, the minds he enters always erupt with chaos and color. When complete darkness greets his astral form he pauses, unsure of what to do next. After a time, a door the same cyan of her hair appears before him. Carefully, he takes the handle and opens it, stepping slowly into what appears to be a large, dimly lit room. His footfalls echo around him as he cautiously moves forward, exploring a little farther. More surprises greet him as he spies a collection of crystalline shapes on low tables around the room. As he picks up the nearest one, he feels a faint energy pulse.

'How unusual,' he thinks to himself. 'I've never seen anyone's mind this…..sterile; this controlled. Almost cold. And I don't 'feel' Ryoko here at all.'

He puts the small, cat-like crystal back on the table in front of him. While heading for a nearby table containing a larger red jewel, something catches his eye; an odd shape on the other side of the room. Stepping closer he eyes the black obelisk curiously. It's nearly 5 meters tall, dwarfing the smaller objects around the room. A stark white etching of two intertwined names accentuates its front with blood red lines adorning its edges.

Drawn by a morbid curiosity, he reaches for its smooth surface. At his touch, the obelisk emits an ear piercing siren.

"Aaaaaahhhhh!" he screams into the darkness, clutching his head painfully.

As the sound threatens to render him unconscious, he lashes out with his aura, knocking the obelisk away. It shatters against something in a dark corner.

"Shit! What have I done? I'm in her mind! Who knows what harm I've caused," he curses at himself.

Quickly making his way across the room, he comes upon a life-sized crystalline Ryoko; but not the Ryoko he's with. This Ryoko has hair of spikes and a feral, yet seductive grin on her face. And this Ryoko exudes happiness. He can feel it from the pulsing, cyan-colored energy inside the clear statue. Around her feet, he sees the remains of the obelisk blowing away like dust. When his looks back up, the statue is smiling at him and he suddenly feels a warmth he can only imagine is Ryoko's soul. Shaken, his concentration slips, abruptly returning him to his own mind.

As the pleasure of being with Ryoko in the flesh coupled with the memory of the warmth in her mind fills him, he buries his face in her damp tresses and thrusts into her in earnest. It isn't long before Ryoko is thrashing with a huge orgasm as she screams his name and he climaxes right behind her. In that moment, part of him knows she's ruined him for anyone else.

During their lovemaking Ryoko swears she felt Tenchi inside her mind.

'But that's not possible,' she contends. 'Only Kagato has free reign there. Even my mother can't get past my shields. But I definitely felt…..something; a connection of some kind with him'.

'What the hell am I doing', Tenchi wonders, still enraptured by her. 'How can allow myself to get this attached to a woman who's just my rental for the night?'

Slowly opening her eyes, she is greeted by Tenchi's deep chocolate gaze and warm smile. Contentedly, she smiles back.

"Ryoko", he whispers sensuously, not realizing that his lips never move.

"Tenchi", she replies in almost a purr, also not realizing that her lips aren't moving.

He kisses her lightly, almost lovingly before cradling her in his arms. Completely fulfilled, they fall into a sound sleep.