Chapter Four – Blisters and the Couch Invasion!

Tohru and Yuki stumbled home at a quarter past eleven, both of them collapsing on the cough with weary groans of relief. "Thank god!" Yuki breathed, leaning down to help her when he saw Tohru struggling to get her shoes off. "Wasn't that fun?" an exhausted Tohru managed before slouching, a yawn widening her mouth and distorting the words.

Yuki nodded sleepily as he threw her shoes to the entry mat, not even bothering to get up to do so. Instead of sitting back up, he simply sprawled across Tohru's lap, nestling his face into her silk-covered stomach with a little murmur. He was too tired to care, as was Tohru, but her cheeks still lit up with a blush. Her hand drifted down to play with his hair, loving arranging it away from his face.

Before she shifted to her side to sleep, Yuki rearranging himself to curl protectively around her from behind, both still fully dressed in their prom clothing, Tohru somehow managed to find a blanket and drag it over them. She winced as it rubbed against the blisters on her toes, mentally cursing the heels that Ayame and Miine had somehow managed to talk her into.

Yuki caught her wince, worry jolting him to almost full awareness as he sat up. Digging around under the covers, he managed to find one of her ankles and drag it onto his lap. Laughing at his tickling her legs as he searched for her feet, Tohru propped herself up on her elbows to watch him study her blistered toes. "Do they still hurt?" he asked quietly, head still bowed over her foot. She nodded, before realizing that he couldn't see it and said instead, "Yes, just a little bit. Did you get any blisters?"

She hadn't seen him take his shoes off, so she dove under the blanket, blinking when she saw his sock-covered feet. When she peeked back out, gulping in air, she gave him an accusing look. "What?"

"Where are your shoes?"

"Oh. I took them off when we came in; didn't you see?"

"Ohh…" Yuki laughed at her facial expression, which was a mixture of surprise and confusion.

Yawning again, she crawled up towards him once more, sprawling lazily across his chest. Yuki smiled as he began to gently rub his love's back, relishing her little sigh of delight as the tension eased from her muscles. Her softly uttered "Yuki?" caught his attention once more.

"Yeah?"

"Let's not do that again…Ever."

"Deal."

I can't just leave it here, even if I want to! Too short, right?…sure, why not…and here we go!

….In the Morning….

Shigure's hysterics brought them awake at 5:47 AM the following morning. "MY COUCH! OHMYGOD! YOU SOILED IT!"

"What the hell?" Yuki groaned, one hand cradling the back of Tohru's head, the other around her waist as she curled, still sleeping, against him. Cheek on his shoulder, she looked at peace in her sleep, which was undisturbed by the pathetic, not to mention irritating, ranting of Shigure as he lamented their invasion of 'his' couch.

"Shigure! Shut up!" Yuki yelled, now using both hands to cover Tohru's ears so that she wouldn't wake up. The dog immediately shut his mouth when he saw what the rat had done. "Ohh…AWW!"

When Yuki gave Shigure a dark look, warning him to either be quiet or suffer the teen's wrath, the man left the room, running up the stairs. "Hope he bothers Kyo this time," Yuki mumbled, before going back to sleep.

Tohru smiled, smothering a giggle until she was sure that her prince had fallen asleep once more. 'How lucky am I?' she thought. 'Maybe I'll talk him into dance lessons….mwhahahaa!'

Author's Note:

….what, no stones? Sweet! beams and does a freaky little jig…ahem, anywho

Did you like it? I hope so, because I enjoyed writing it! I didn't know if I was just going to leave it be with three chapters, or continue it, so I need you guys to review so I know what you want. I may oblige, but not always. After all, I don't have a spine of Jell-O, unlike some people I know…coughcough