Year: 772
4 years after the Cell Game
Healing
Ruri had never really taken the slightest "initiative" in their intimate moments before. 17's surprise was therefore great, and his curiosity quickly took over the anger he felt before she arrived. So he did not move, observing the young woman, waiting to see what was going to happen, contemplating the beauty of this body of which he never got tired.
Ruri was startled by the almost scalding water from the shower, but she did not stop moving towards him. On the contrary, she approached him, without looking away or lowering her eyes, until she was able to put her hands on 17's chest, before placing a tender and brief kiss on his lips. The contrast between the determination of which her glance testified and the still palpable hesitation in her gesture made her even more attractive for him, each of her timid caresses acting like a breath on the incipient embers of his desire.
He kissed her, and they stayed like that for several interminable seconds, before 17 managed to regain his senses.
On second thought, nothing about this situation was normal. Ruri had made such a drastic change of attitude that he could not get the idea out of his mind that there must be a reason for it.
But which one? Why did she act like that?
- What are you doing, human? he finally asked her.
- I kiss you, Ruri simply replied.
- That wasn't my question. What are you trying to do?
- Something nice for you.
- Why?
- Do I need a reason?
- You are different. I just wish I knew what was going on with you.
Before answering, Ruri ran her hands through 17's long hair.
- I know that it was not easy for you in the laboratory, so I just wanted to make you feel good, nothing more, she ends up telling him in a soft voice.
- Are you doing this because you have pity for me?
This sentence slammed into the room like a whiplash. The tone of 17's voice had suddenly become much harsher, betraying annoyance but also some sort of pain, as if this idea alone had hurt him deeply.
Hearing this, Ruri stepped back and let out a deep sigh.
- Is that what you really think? That I'm only doing this because I have pity ?
- Yes.
- Then you have definitely not understood anything. Nothing at all.
- About what?
- About what it meant when I told you I loved you.
- That means you care about me, I know that.
Faced with the naivety and simplicity of this answer, Ruri could not help but smile, before speaking again, looking him straight in the eyes:
- Why didn't you want me to stay with you earlier?
- I didn't want to do what I did last time. I wanted to protect you.
- From what?
- From me. And from... Ruri, I'm just... so angry... so...
- I know. I know you're angry, I get it. But precisely. Loving you is not just "caring", it's more than that. It means that your pains are mine, that your problems are mine. That when you suffer, I suffer too. And that I am here, I am here for you, to support you and help you. This is not pity. You're not in the lab anymore, you're here with me. And I want so much to make you understand that.
She punctuated each of her words with a kiss, sometimes on one cheek, sometimes on the other, and let her hands caress 17's body again.
His chest. His back. His arms.
17, on the other hand, remained impassive as he found it difficult to understand what she meant.
Help him? But how? He didn't feel he needed help. What he was looking for was answers, and he was enraged at the idea that he had no way of getting them, that once again he was unable to act on his own destiny.
He remained obsessed with this anguish, this need to understand. His anger grew with every passing second, and 17 struggled with all his strength to contain it.
To not hurt Ruri.
To not scare her.
To not loose her.
To not be left alone anymore.
But at the same time his whole body instinctively rejected Ruri's caresses, refusing to be at the mercy of anything that might happen.
Never let his guard down again.
Never close his eyes again.
Never turn his back on the enemy again.
Never again to delude himself.
Since that fateful day, 17 had never felt safe, never felt free. He hated his naivety, his pride and his weakness at that time. He was haunted by the fear of going through the same thing again. He was filled with hatred, towards everything around him, towards himself, towards Gero, towards Cell, towards the accumulation of his mistakes that had made him lose everything.
But if his mind was still disturbed by a stream of thoughts and uninterrupted interrogations, his body was not insensitive to the feeling of softness caused by the contact of Ruri's skin now stuck against him.
Then, almost without thinking about it, he grasped with one hand her butts that his fingers pressed with envy, the other hand placing itself in the labyrinth of her hair to better seize it, before bringing back his face towards her. Avidly, he placed his mouth against Ruri's and kissed her, provoking in her a moan of surprise. He kissed her with all the intensity of his physical desire now awake. Ruri immediatly leaned back. But if her posture was familiar to him, 17 quickly realized that her attitude was not at all as passive as usual. She was responding to the force of his kiss, playing with her tongue, and he could feel Ruri's hands on his body trying to return his caresses, moving hesitantly but steadily down to his lower abdomen.
Suddenly, he felt the point of her fingers touching his sex just for one second, before Ruri finally grasped it completely and began a slow back and forth movement. Added to his surprise, this sensation procured him a pleasure so intense that he could not retain a cry, hoarse, deep, a moan even stronger because he absolutely did not expect such a gesture. She was gaving him so much plesaure in this precise moment that he found himself unable to react. Little by little, his penis hardened and he felt in him this divine sensation of heat and this increasing pressure in the hollow of his back.
An exquisite and different sensation, a free pleasure that ran through his whole body. A real treat, similar to that of the human candies she had made him taste and whose sweet flavors went from his mouth to his throat with the same disconcerting ease. He wanted so much to abandon himself, to let her act and to see until where this unseen caress could lead. He felt on his sex the precision of Ruri's gesture growing. With time she was less hesitant, more affirmed, more intense in her movement. And the pleasure that he felt of it was only bigger and bigger every second, cutting his breath, making him unable to speak.
For her part, the young woman was more determined than ever. She was attentive to the least expression of 17, watching in his attitude an approval or a mark of displeasure, to guide her hands better. She saw him for the first time being at her mercy, yielding his body to her without seeking to undertake anything. He kept for several minutes a silence interspersed with weak moans, the tense face, the eyebrows frowned above his closed eyes. She intensified her speed and the pressure of her fingers. She guessed in her hand the sex of 17 growing and becoming harder, and never before had she perceived herself as a woman more than at this precise moment. However, whereas she wanted to be concentrated on him, she also started to feel the beginnings of excitation. She never stopped looking at his powerful body, those prominent muscles on which the drops of water trickled to better emphasize the angular design. Each fiber of his flesh was tense, contracted. From his biceps to his thighs emanated such an underlying force that Ruri was as if intoxicated.
She was burning with the desire to experience the power of 17 inside her again.
This evening, she also sawing him finally, all of him. She had not turned off the light before entering the bathroom and she nonchalantly let her gaze roam over him, seeing what she had never dared to look at before.
She suddenly felt very foolish for having been so apprehensive during the previous months, because she had never found him so handsome that this night. He was simply irresistibly attractive. While continuing to caress his sex with her right hand, she placed her left hand on his athletic and well-shaped butts. Although he didn't look like it at first, once naked his anatomy was nothing but robustness and solidity, and Ruri loved it. She loved being the one who could thrill a man like him, and shuddered at the thought that she would soon be his, that he would make her his at any second, that she would still feel how strong he was. The wetness of her crotch was increasing as she gave speed to her back and forth movement.
Suddenly she saw 17 flinch, his whole body shuddering so much that he had to bite his lips to hold back a cry between his clenched teeth.
- Oh sorry, am I doing it wrong? Should I go faster? Slower ? she asked immediately.
17 then opened his eyes. He gave her a strange smile that she couldn't quite decipher. Without a word, he brought his face close to hers and kissed her very gently, with the tip of his lips, caressing her right cheek with one hand until his thumb was placed on her mouth to make her stop.
- Shhhh, human, he murmured, as his other hand slowly moved down her body.
Without saying anything else, he inserted two of his fingers in her, making her quiver immediately of surprise and delight. Not wanting to remain a spectator, the young woman accentuated still a little the pressure and speed of her hand. Immediately, 17 reacted by moving his hand too. None of them said then even a single word, both embarked in this strange fight to give to the other the most possible pleasure, to tear off the strongest possible moanings.
Both of them, masturbating in the shower, as if nothing else existed around them, as if nobody could hear them.
As if they were alone.
- You're wet when I'm near you, human, 17 finally said, breathlessly.
- And you are hard when I am near you, cyborg.
He stroked Ruri's lip with the tip of his thumb, before continuing, getting more and more excited.
- You are playing a very dangerous game, human.
- I thought you liked to play games.
- Yes, I do. But when I play, I play to win.
Ruri felt an almost burning itch between her thighs. An irresistible desire. An almost vital need. She was forgetting everything that had happened that day, and why she was doing all this. Nothing else mattered now but this moment they were living, there, now.
- Me too, she answered.
Then, without thinking about it, she passed her tongue over 17's thumb, before suddenly taking it in her mouth. She sucked it slowly, looking at him with her big green eyes, in which he could see an immense excitement, as he had never seen before in her. Her glance glittered literally, he saw confidence in her and a boldness that he had never suspected in Ruri. She was sure of herself, beautiful, proud and everything in her attitude showed that she was waiting for an answer from him. He did not want to remain indefinitely without reacting.
This caress had acted on him like an electric shock.
The heat of this greedy mouth on his skin made him like to take fire.
He wanted that warmth on him, everywhere, immediately, without further delay.
Then he grabbed abruptly Ruri's butt and raised her above the ground, before plating her against the wall of the shower. He didn't have to wait, didn't have to ask her, didn't have to read in her eyes the approval he was always waiting for before penetrating her. Everything in the body language of Ruri made him understand that she offered herself to him, in the way that she had to embrace his lower back with her legs and to cling to him. Then he entered her, introducing himself between her thighs opened for him, pushing a sigh of ease and relief when he felt on his sex the tepid wetness of Ruri's. He had the impression to have waited for this moment all his life, and nothing had more importance than to benefit from it.
17 delighted to hear the young woman whimpering in his ear while he took her. He felt her heart stuck to his beating faster and faster, he perceived in his back the pressure of the young woman's nails tightening on his flesh. She shouted, strongly, and these screams were for him only encouragements to go even more quickly, vigorously. Ruri answered his movement, she seemed to be a whole other person now, and that was drinving him crazy.
Again and again.
Never before that moment 17, usually so in control, felt on the verge of being overwhelmed by passion. It was an indescribable feeling, almost painful, so impossible to hold back.
In fact, he didn't want to hold back, he just wanted to cum.
And it is what he made, pushing a long rattle of pleasure when finally he could feel this so much desired satisfaction, that to unite and to be welcomed by the other, to release one single second all the accumulated tension.
Then 17 stood there holding Ruri tightly in his arms.
She was trembling but had a beautiful smile on her face, which was glowing like never before. He contemplated her for several seconds, during which they both gradually caught their breath, slowly returning to the surrounding reality.
She was so pretty, this human. He was captivated by the delicacy of her features, the softness of her lips, the tenderness of her skin. Compared to the rough surface of his warrior's hands, the touch of Ruri's body was so delicate that with every movement he feared to break her into a thousand pieces. Her butts and thighs were firm but malleable, as much as his muscles were rock solid. He could grab her, hold her. He looked at her young breasts, firm and made rigid by ecstasy, pointing towards him like an offering that he wanted to be only his.
He still wanted her so much.
He had so much desire to do it again.
Especially since he was somewhat frustrated to have let himself be overwhelmed so quickly. Carried away by the extent of his excitement, he had not really been able to restrain himself and now that he was calmer, he regretted not to have benefited even longer from the charms of Ruri.
He just wanted some...
- ...more... sighed 17, his voice sounding almost like a plea.
- What?
- I want more. I want you again, human.
Ruri placed a kiss on his eager lips.
- Tonight I'm all yours. As long and as often as you like. If you have any energy left, of course.
17 was stunned for a brief second, before bursting into laughter. Each of Ruri's provocations only strengthened his thirst to possess her again. She fanned his desire like the wind rekindling the flames of a fire that was about to consume them both. Ruri acted as if she was subjected to him, but being at the same time the mistress of the strange match which was engaged between them, and this ambivalence made it only more intoxicating.
"If this is really a game you play, human, ok. So let's play" he thought with a smile, before leaving the bathroom, the young woman still in his arms.
Once arrived in the bedroom, he threw her on the bed and joined her, placing his body against hers.
- My stamina is infinite Ruri, he finally whispered to her.
- Prove it, she replied.
That's all 17 needed.
This single phase set him on fire.
He then kissed her, strongly. Her mouth. Her neck. Her shoulders.
But he was well decided to win, then he amplified his caresses.
Taking in his hands each of her breasts, he began by passing his tongue greedily on each of her nipples, alternatively, guided by the complaints of Ruri which intensified, until finally biting them, just strongly enough so that she starts to shout again.
Small screams, brief, but which were for him calls to continue.
Then he went downstairs.
Slowly.
Covering with kisses her belly, strayed along her legs that he spread of a gesture, before going up and reaching her clitoris that he began to lick quickly. He felt Ruri's body tightening while the young woman placed a hand in 17's hair.
She let out a groan, trying to close her legs.
- Wait, it is too much... too much... she tried to say, overwhelmed by a pleasure as brutal as sudden.
It wasn't the first time 17 had done this to her, but he had never gone so fast or so hard before. And usually, when she asked him to stop or slow down, he always did.
But this time he didn't listen to her and didn't stop.
On the contrary, using his hands, he began to spread more the thighs of Ruri, and accelerated again the rhythm of his tongue, taking in his mouth this so tender and delicate flesh, his palate soon invaded of this salty savour which he recognized at once... Ruri was panting, pleading, her back arched on the bed. But 17 held her firmly, and each time she dodged a move of retreat, he brought her back to him, so that she could no longer escape his caresses.
He let himself be guided by her screams, her moans, her suffocations, and perceived when, finally, she stopped fighting. When finally she let the pleasure overflow and invade her. Then her whole body relaxed, and her complaints became rales of joy until she gave a last shout, followed by a long sigh.
The pressure of her hand on 17's hair suddenly slackened and with a gesture she beckoned him back to her.
Lying under him, Ruri seemed even more beautiful than she had ever been, with her bright smile, her cheeks flushed with ecstasy and her lips parted to help her catch her breath. Her shivering legs didn't hold up, and her arms were slumped helplessly on the bed. In fact, she was simply radiant, and this spectacle delighted 17, who didn't seem determined to get tired of it.
Suddenly, Ruri started to laugh, chuckling mischievously by seeing him thus immobile above her.
- Tired? she asked, teasing him.
Surprised, 17 did not delay to react. With a sudden movement of his pelvis, he penetrated her again, extorting a cry from her which he immediately stifled again with a kiss.
- Human, he said, I can make love to you all night and all day tomorrow if I want to. I can make love to you until you fall from exhaustion.
- Prove it!
17 expected this answer.
It was exactly what he wanted to hear, and as soon as he heard it he did it, moving inside her even more powerfully than before. He continued, again and again, as if he could not live without her. He was subjugated by her beauty, the voluptuousness of her forms, of her breasts, of her butts, his desire of her being a devouring hunger that nothing more seemed to be able to fill. He wanted to be with her, as much as he wanted that she was not anywhere else than with him.
Take her.
Possessing her.
All his thoughts were focused only on her. On her side, Ruri could not and did not want anything else than to remain thus, in this victorious submission to 17's desire, which made her as much the object as the beneficiary of his pleasure.
Long minutes passed during which 17 did not cease to increase his speed, taking her each time a little more strongly. Only a regret remained in him, a feeling of incompleteness, that of still having to hold back a little, of not being able to enter her completely, because he still felt a slight resistance of her body, a tightness which he did not want to force.
Suddenly, a jolt more powerful than the previous ones made Ruri scream. Her mouth opened as if she was suddenly out of breath and 17 stopped, suddenly worried that he may had been further than Ruri could bear. But no sooner had he stopped moving than he heard his companion groan in frustration.
She opened her eyes and asked, annoyed:
- Why do you stop?
- I thought I had hurt you.
- You don't hurt me, you make me come idiot! So don't stop, cyborg !
Amused by her response and the disgruntled eagerness she showed, 17 noticed that Ruri had suddenly become very bossy.
The game was definitely not over between them, and as he had said, he was only playing to win.
- I don't take orders, human, he said in return. And stop calling me that way, I have a name. So say it. I want to hear you call out my name.
- I don't take orders either, cyborg. If you want me to scream, you'll have to make me scream.
- Challenge accepted, he whispered to her in reply.
The hours went by, ticking away to the rhythm of the jerks of their entwined bodies. Their game seemed to have no end, as 17 could use his infinite energy at will. Determined not to lose to him, Ruri tried to keep up the pace, but she began to show signs of fatigue as the dawn approached.
17 noticed this, feeling Ruri's body slowly draining away under him.
His fingers sank into the firm and soft flesh of this now defenseless prey, whose beauty he had been contemplating for hours. Suddenly, he saw appearing the image of his hands resting on her, like a projection of a distant memory, his body returning to him the memory of gestures which he had already made.
Then grabbing Ruri's hips, he withdrew while lifting her slightly above the bed, before making her turn around in one move.
Ruri suddenly found herself kneeling, leaning on her hands, without being able to say anything or do anything because 17 had been so quick. She was so surprised that she didn't had time to be afraid, and while she felt 17's hands moving gently over her, she just turned her head towards him, trying to see what he was doing, and especially what he was going to do. On the palms of his hands, 17 could feel Ruri's slight trembling, but he immediately understood that she was not pushing him away. He even thought he saw a hint of curiosity in her eyes. So, gently, he spread her thighs, without her refusing. He just heard her breathing to be made deeper, as if she xas trying to reassure herself a little.
He liked nothing more in her than this mixture of strength and weakness. She was so fragile this little human, but at the same time so brave, so beautiful, so...
Exciting.
Leaving a hand firmly posed on her butts, he placed the other one on her chest which he seized with grip, and again he brought back her towards him in only one abrupt movement, Ruri feeling on her neck the burning breath of 17, his sex hardened of desire plated right at the entry of hers.
- Wait, I...
But hardly had she pronounced these words that he penetrated her again, slowly.
He knew what he had to do.
He knew that in this position he could enter her even more deeply, so he had to proceed gradually. Ruri stopped breathing immediately. She could not imagine that he could invade her in this way, and that she could also take in more of him. 17 was not letting go of her. In this position, he had absolute control over her body. She could feel the strength of his arms, the power of his hands.
She couldn't escape, she was all his.
He pulled her back again, tightening his grip, until finally he felt he was fully inside her. Ruri moaned, biting her lips at what she thought was pain at first, and immediately 17 stopped. He stood still, letting Ruri get used to it. Gradually she loosened her jaw and her body seemed to relax.
In fact, it did not hurt her. He had grazed the bottom of her vagina, but without hitting it.
Just enough.
Just on the edge.
Before she had time to really realize it, 17 began to kiss her neck. Very light kisses, almost touches. But each flyover of his lips on her skin gave her this exquisite impression of tickle which rekindled the flame of her desire. She had again terribly desire of him, in spite of her extreme tiredness.
17 sensed this, but he did not give her the opportunity to speak.
He was there to win.
- I think it's time I stopped being nice to you, he whispered to Ruri who immediately shuddered.
Then he withdrew, before penetrating her again, this time of a single movement of his basin. Still holding her against him, he moved in her again, again and again, in a more powerful and fast back and forth movement. He did not wait for her answer, nor even that she sketches a gesture. She was ready. She had suddenly become incredibly docile again. 17 increased the intensity and the pace every second, approching to the border between pain and pleasure, but never crossing it. He took her with an almost violent impetuosity, so much so that she was soon forced to lean on the edge of the bed.
First with one hand. Then both hands.
The room was filled with the sounds of his sex going in and out constantly, as well as their joint complaints which were also gaining in power. 17 did not hold back any more, each penetration gave him such a benefit that he could not contain the moans of pleasure. He did not have to pay attention anymore, no more the least obstacle, no more the least resistance, he penetrated her completely, and vibrated of all his body with each time Ruri moaned.
After several interminable minutes, however, he finally pulled himself together and asked her:
- So, human, what's my name?
Ruri could not answer immediately and could hardly articulate a few words:
- Cy ... Cy ... Cyborg, she managed to say in a final bravado.
- Haha! You know you're really undisciplined, he replied, laughing.
- I ... do not ... obey.
- Yes, I know….
Without saying anything more, he seized her long hair with one hand, placing the second directly on her clitoris, before bringing his mouth close to Ruri's left ear and whispering:
- … But now the game is over.
He then pulled Ruri's hair back. The brutality of this action left Ruri speechless, but before she had time to feel pain, 17 began again to caress her clitoris, by fast circular movements. The young woman felt like crossed by a lightning, a sensation of burning which emanated from the bottom of her entrails to extend to the whole of her body in the space of a fraction of second. This instantaneous mixture of a pain and a pleasure of equal intensity was in nothing comparable to all that she had known before.
She wanted to scream, but bringing back slightly her head towards him, 17 placed his lips against hers, stifling her scream with a deep, bestial kiss.
Ruri felt herself close to losing consciousness 17 was possessing her completely: his tongue in her mouth, his sex inside her, his fingers and hands caressing her so much that she felt like he was everywhere at once. But the pleasure invaded her little by little. Unconsciously, she was still spreading her legs to better welcome him, and ended up rolling her hand along 17's neck, encouraging him by this gesture to kiss her again, revealing her chest as if to better offer it to him.
He further intensified his movement.
- What's my name? he asked again after a few minutes.
- C ...
- Yes, tell me Ruri. What is my name?
- 17! she finally screamed, unable to resist further.
- Say it again.
- 17 !
- Do you want me to stop?
- No! No! Go on!
- Is that an order, human?
- No, go on! Please! Don't... stop... 17!
Then, Ruri does not say anything more.
She couldn't do it anymore.
Neither she nor 17 said anything else. It was no longer necessary, because it was only now a matter of enjoying themselves. To give themselves to each other, to experience the greatest pleasure together, without anything else coming between them. Ruri was like freed from a weight, that of the shame and her inexperience which had made her remain in withdrawal since months. 17, on the other hand, was no longer thinking about anything other than what he was experiencing now. He let himself go as he had never done before, as if nothing could threaten him anymore.
They made love again, as long as possible, before finally, in an ultimate jolt, being able to feel the ecstasy of cumming together. An absolute enjoyment, of an incomparable extent with the previous ones.
Then, exhausted, breathless, Ruri almost collapsed on the bed.
17 caught up with her and laid her down gently. His gaze wandered over every inch of Ruri's body, but now he no longer felt that burning desire, as if he was finally satiated. He felt something different. An attention, a need to hold her against him, to kiss her, to watch over her and her sleep that was coming. A soft warmth in his chest, close to his heart.
Neither of them could speak, so they remained like that, motionless and silent, gradually coming back to their senses. Ruri had the impression of gradually regaining consciousness of herself and the rest of the world, her senses having been so overwhelmed that she could hardly realize where she was. Her vision became clear again, she could see the white walls of the small room again. Silence reigned again in the room, only the sound of their gasping breaths persisted. But she had not yet managed to recover the use of her body. She had no energy left, all her muscles seemed to have become soft, cottony. She was lying comfortably on a soft mattress, perfectly relaxed and wrapped in the soft warmth of 17's arms, who was smiling down on her. In this context, she was immediately seized by a desire to sleep. Her eyelids felt like they weighed a ton, and she struggled as much as she could to stay awake.
17 saw the exhaustion in her eyes, and then turned his head to look at the alarm clock on the nearest bedside table. It was almost 3 a.m., they had been making love for hours. He felt like laughing, almost flattered by this performance. But Ruri was a normal human. He could see the effort she was making not to fall asleep when it was clear that she couldn't take it anymore. So he walked over to her and placed a kiss on her forehead before caressing her right cheek, slowly.
- Tired? he whispered to the young woman, who answered between two breaths:
- A ... little.
-Haha, stop lying, human.
- I... tried...
- I admit that, for a human, you showed an impressive endurance. But you have to admit that I won!
- This is ... cheating ... infinite stamina.
- I knew its advantages in single combat, but I must admit that you have just made me discover another very useful aspect of my generator.
- I bless ... your generator ...
- Haha, me too. Sleep now Ruri.
- But ...
- Shhhh. You're tired. We'll talk tomorrow, but right now you need to rest.
Ruri didn't want to, but sleep was far too powerful. So comfortable, she closed her eyes, and almost immediately fell asleep.
17 waited several more minutes without moving, to be sure that Ruri would not wake up. Then, as soon as he was sure, he decided to get up. It was only then that he realized that he was thirsty. His throat was dry, as were his lips. He had never felt so thirsty in his life, so he went to the bathroom. Once in front of the sink, he started to drink a little before raising his head and seeing his reflection in the mirror.
He almost jumped at the sight of his sweaty face and messy hair. He looked like he had just come out of a war.
"Haha, human, you've almost exhasuted me," he thought at the sight of this disaster.
He took a quick shower before trying to put some order in his hair. He put on the black tracksuit that Ruri had bought him, then he came back in the room. This outfit had the merit to be indeed very comfortable, and he had taken the habit to put it on the evening when he had nothing more to do, trying to "relax" as she recommended him to do, although he never completely did it.
Until tonight.
For the first time, 17 felt that he really understood what Ruri meant. Once back in the room, he hesitated for a moment about what he should do before the day broke. Should he go out, fly around to pass the time? Or stay here, but to do what?
But he finally decided to join Ruri in bed.
He sat down beside her before turning on the television, hoping to find something to watch during the few hours of waiting that lay ahead.
No sooner had he settled down than Ruri turned over, placing one of her arms on his stomach and resting her head against his chest. 17 froze, fearing that he had woken her up, but no, Ruri was sleeping soundly. Her breathing was slow and regular, and she even began to snore slightly, which she often did when she was tired. After a few seconds, 17 tenderly picked Ruri up and gently pulled her back to him. He heard her give a long sigh of satisfaction, before the sound of her breathing took over.
17 watched her sleep. She was so beautiful and peaceful that all of a sudden a feeling of calm and quietness came over her. There was no more tension in his muscles, which were usually always on the alert. No more bad memories clouded his mind. He couldn't even remember why he had been so angry just a few hours before. It was as if all of a sudden none of it had existed. The memories of his buried past, the hatred and pain he had felt, his deep resentment and intense contempt for humans, the despair and fear that had never left him since his resurrection, none of it seemed to exist anymore.
This little human had changed everything.
The pleasure he had experienced had been intense, devastating, and he was still feeling the effects in this body that had previously brought him so much pain.
He had made love to her like never before, and it had given him a new kind of pleasure: a pleasure that was no longer "just" physical. Something that was happening in his mind, and that he didn't really realize.
Ruri was his, she was his companion, his partner, his confidante, the one who brought him everything he was missing, the one who was in fact everything he was not.
But this evening, in this room, both had formed more than one being, vibrating in unison, acting in concert, decided the one the other to bring to each other the most possible pleasure, to reach together the most absolute orgasm.
A real, complete, consented fusion, an abandonment of oneself which was not an alienation but which, on the contrary, had strengthened him at every second.
Among all the sufferings of 17, the worst of all had undoubtedly been that of being considered by Gero and Cell only as an object, and his visit to the laboratory had revived this painful wound in him. He had been humiliated, in his body and in his soul. And from that, he had never really healed, despite his resurrection and his newfound freedom.
But tonight, in that room, he had finally felt like a full-fledged being again. He had felt powerful again. He was even the master of this woman's body that he possessed entirely. Ruri had given back to him his self-esteem, she had simply swept of a gesture all the negative load which weighed since years on his shoulders.
When he thought about it, all his past suffering seemed to have suddenly become remote, almost trivial, compared to all the good he was experiencing, to all the good things that had happened to him since he had met her.
He had thought himself powerless, useless, unable to protect what was dear to him. He had lived for years in the pain of one who had lost everything once again.
But at that very moment he understood that everything that had been broken, he could fix. He could and should take care of Ruri, her dreams, her hopes and everything she held dear. With her he had discovered a world he didn't know existed. New, pleasant emotions. Smells. Tastes. An immense and wild nature which did not cease revealing to him each day the extent of its secrecies, a whole world in which it seemed to him finally to succeed in finding his place, a role to play.
He was never quite sure how to express it, but seeing Ruri peacefully asleep against him made everything clearer to him.
- I don't know if what I feel for you has a name. I don't understand this need that humans have to find a name for everything, but I don't care. Before you I was dead, and you gave me life. When you laugh, it's as if all the evil in this world doesn't exist. When you're around, I feel invincible. And every time I see you, I want you. It's almost annoying, this strange power you have over me. But that's how it is.
17 felt immediately relieved after whispering these words.
Happy.
As if he was cured of something.
Then, after a last kiss on the forehead of Ruri, he raised the eyes towards the lighted television and quietly looked for a program to look at, without realizing that the young woman had half-opened the eyes, and that she was smiling.
