CHAPTER 3: THE DATE NOT SO DATE.
The sun was rising, the birds were chirping and the one and only mountain king opened his eyes after a long slumber. The house was still quiet. The cool morning breeze was refreshing as he inhaled the clean air, his brain and lungs indicating him it was a brand new day. Since when was he in bed, well, he couldn't remember but the only thing he was sure about was that he had passed out after killing a demon that almost killed him. Then, wrapped in bandages and with a numbing pain, he had opened his eyes in the Butterfly state.
He threw his covers to the floor and left his bed already able to walk. He stretched his sore muscles a little. The girls had told him he had been sleeping for a long time and he only shrugged at them before asking for food. Since he had woke up after his big arrival (two Kakushi had to carry him due to the seriousness of his injuries) had passed a week or so.
It was still very early when he decided he was tired of being in bed all day and was time to move around the huge place. He liked to call it "to patrol" but it was more like walking around the house till his wounds heal and he could go to missions again (that pigtailed woman still won´t discharge him). He had been a mess this time, aside from the cuts and bruises, he had two stabs on the chest, broken bones and a very big wound on the back of his head. His uniform was completely torn and his swords broken in pieces, not to mention his boar mask had a big hole on the back of its head, evidence that the demon's attack would have killed him if he wouldn't have avoided (barely) the blow thanks to his sharp senses. He remembered the girls had said they will take care of his beloved mask ("a patch its the best solution") and that his uniform and his swords would be remade too.
He sighed uncharacteristically as he groggily made his way to the bathroom.
It wasn't like he didn't like to be in that house, it was the most peaceful place and the most one he felt comfortable with, but if he continued lying in the bed without doing nothing he will go fucking crazy. Not to mention he felt incomplete without his mask and his swords. Besides, the white shirt and the white pants were unbearable after a while. Not to mention the horde of injured demon hunters that was there till two days ago. So after having a bath to get rid of the sleepness that remained in his body and wash his mouth as the motherly sweet Butterfly pillar had taught him years ago ("Inosuke kun washing your face and cleaning your mouth is very important for a young man like yourself") he started his self established mission.
When his walk took him to the front door he saw the girl who treated him every single day preparing herself to go out. She was like always with her demon hunter uniform beneath a white nurse dress and her loose pigtails dancing with her movements. Sometimes he wondered when he had started to follow her with his green eyes or since when he had started to use his brain while she was around him. He looked at her petite frame as the girls were insisting to her to take a bento and she was refusing. Is she going to go out? It was the first time, in all the years they knew each other, that he was seeing her going out of the big house. Curious and kind of interested he approached her and called.
"Oi Aoku, where are you going?" The four girls turned to him.
"Oh good morning Inosuke!" the blue-haired girl smiled calmly and politely making him feel the usual sponginess he always felt when she gave him attention, even when she was yelling, quarreling with him or ordering him around. Although with time and with the thing his minions called adulthood, he had understood that she was worried about him. Anyways, it was rare for her to smile that brightly. He frowned at her radiant face thinking she might have been possessed or something. Maybe he was still dreaming. Maybe she wasn't feeling good, she wasn't shouting at him and he was more than sure that he was breaking some of her fucking rules about he must be in bed resting and all that shit.
"I have to go to the next town, the herbs and supplies I have ordered arrived and if I go now I will be able to return before the sun sets". She then patted the head of one of the girls. "That's why it's better if I eat at town Kiyo".
"But we are worried..."
"I have to take advantage of these peaceful times" Aoi smiled at them "Besides, Kanao and Inosuke are the only ones here so better I go now before more hunters come in".
"But, the demons..."
"I have my wisteria charm in my pocket, don't worry girls!"
The green-eyed guy looked at the girls noticing they were still unsure about her to go alone. He clicked his tongue and crossed his arms over his chest because he too wasn't keen on the idea of her going alone but Aoi's bright smile made him gulp the complaint he was going to throw at her. Fuck.
"I promise I will be alright girls! Besides I'm only going to the town near here" The girls hugged the blue-eyed girl whining but muttering "take care please" and returning to their duties and leaving Inosuke and Aoi alone. He heard something about his breakfast and he nodded at one of the girls he stubbornly had called "the three Midoris".
She sighed and turned to him poking her finger at his hard chest covered by a thin white shirt. "You better not move around too much and make sure to drink your medicine". She grinned, hand on her hip and eyes shining as he was sure she (definitely) was possessed by something. "Or I will scold you when I return and will make your medicine two times bitter than before!"
"You are in a terrific fucking good mood" he rolled his eyes. Without his boar mask, he was exposed. As the honest and the simpleton guy he was his expressions were showing his feelings and thoughts. Aoi could comprehend he was kind of against the idea too. His sarcastic tone gave him away. She arched an eyebrow.
"Language Inosuke and yes I'm happy today" She gracefully turned to the door ready to leave, "It won't take me too long by the way". She turned to him again, this time her trademark frown appearing and Inosuke exhaled a breath of relief he didn't know he was holding.
"Better behave or be assured I will make your medicine taste awful".
"That fucking thing can't be more awful than already is" he snorted crossing his arms over his chest. "I don't need it by the way".
"Yes, it can! Yes, you need it even if it doesn´t have much effect on you! And I mean it Inosuke!"
With him, the honorifics had been forgotten long ago and he wondered when that happened. She still calls Gompachirou and Monitsu with the -san thing though.
He leaned to her face. "Haaah? Is that a threat? Are you challenging me?". Aoi held his eyes for a moment noticing that she had to look up (considerably high) to do it and he had to lean (considerably low) to be eye level with her. He had grown so much, the time making him more manly and handsome, driving her to think about things any girl would be ashamed about. She wondered when exactly it had started the development of his big self. She was already used to him however days like those, days when she recognized the changes of his body, features and personality, always startled her. After glaring at each other for more than 10 seconds she then laughed cheerfully, patted his cheek lightly with her soft hand and then she turned ready to leave.
"Good to see you are better than yesterday!" She grinned brightly at him "Please behave while I'm gone! Don't cause too much trouble".
She closed the door leaving Inosuke standing there in silence, feeling a warmth that made a blush appear on his face that (thanks to the god of the mountain and every fucking deity who was up there) nobody could see.
Definitely, she had been fucking possessed by something.
Why was she so happy?
...
He frowned.
"Didn't I tell you to rest and behave!?" Aoi Kanzaki was in the middle of her way to the next town when at full speed, wearing a black kimono he had found somewhere inside the state, without his mask and swords, Inosuke reached her. He was cursing about his damn uniform wasn't ready so the Midoris happily gave him that black thing. He was cursing louder about Kanamori just because the man always took more time than normal to do his swords thanks to the ragged shape the beast breath user wanted. Aoi listened and sighed. It had been an hour maybe or an hour and a half? She wasn't sure how much time it had taken the guy to decide to follow her.
And to change into...that.
"Oh shut up Akai!" Inosuke rolled his eyes, walking beside her. "I'm just walking, not fighting, the sun is up, I'm wearing this..." he looked down his new attire "...this fucking thing, my swords aren't fucking ready and if I lie down on that bed any longer I'll lose my mind and my concentration!" He then put his arms behind his head. "Fresh air, nature and the wild are better for me!"
"WHY AREN'T MY SWORDS READY DAMNIT!"
"You just wanted to come, right?"
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH THE GREAT ME IS THE BEST COMPANY YOU'LL HAVE!"
Blushing Aoi huffed as she muttered an idiot while Inosuke looked at his surroundings completely distracted. She watched at him with the corners of her eyes. He really showed off that kimono, it was like it was made for him and she knew the clothes had belonged to one of the former pillars who had left it at the state years ago. Comparing heights, she recognized her length was around his shoulder and chest. He truly had grown so much. Time was doing marvels to him and his body, being his muscled perfect built chest the thing he most put on exhibition. She looked at her feet, she had grown too. She wasn't like her beautiful big sisters (Shinobu and Kanae had had the body of a doll) but she was taller and curvier than before. Although, beside him, she looked like a petite little girl. She looked down her breasts noticing they were bigger. Sometimes, the changes scared her because she had felt men ogling at her. Even some injured demon hunters were well aware of her being a woman.
More than one time she had felt a heated gaze over her.
Was Inosuke aware of her being a woman? She frowned. Did he understand the implications of a man and a woman being so close to each other? She knew why nobody had made a move on her and it was because they were too familiar with each other, nobody will try to mess with her knowing he was in the picture. They were always touching each other, fighting with each other, talking to each other. Even Kanao had asked if she was in love with him. Since Shinobu's death and that horrible day he arrived almost dead too, she had cried till he woke up and she had cried more when he hugged her and tried to comfort her even if he too was crying. Since then, the Butterfly state had fallen in the hands of Kanao and her. While the pink black-haired girl took the field and the demon hunt, the blue-haired one took the medical part. She felt it was a huge task and job, she felt it was more important than anything, so when Kanao asked the big question she told her she couldn't give herself that luxury.
The love part.
But she knew it was a lie. Even Kanao had known it was a lie as she had arched an eyebrow at her while a smug smile (something completely uncharacteristic from her) appeared on her face and then she had told her she should listen to her heart. Aoi knew that was the influence of Tanjirou.
Anyways, lately she had been tired and just wanted to relax. Secretly she was happy Inosuke had come with her. She liked him, a lot. He had always been honest with anybody but with her it was different. He let her touch him. He told her directly what was in his mind and didn't waver when she blushed embarrassed. He told her she was strong, although she still couldn't believe she was as strong as he thought. Even if he complained or fought with her about everything, he always looked for her company. He always helped her with her chores too. She loved how he complimented her food with a happy grin every time she cooked. And she, well, she was in love with the idiot boar.
"So why are you so happy?" His raspy voice broke her train of thoughts.
Aoi looked at him blinking and trying to process his words. She found his green eyes and got lost in them as the only thing in her mind was how could he be so sensual without trying.
"Huh?"
"Why are you so happy?" Inosuke arched an eyebrow at her but noticed the slight change in her eyes as he saw a spark of desire in them. He gulped and looked away from her intensity focusing on a pebble he suddenly found interesting.
Was she happy? Oh yes, she was happy because she was going to the town and had heard there was a festival in there. She would go to buy their supplies, the herbs she needed to create new medicines and then she would walk through the stalls and the happy people, buy a souvenir for the girls and some sweets. She had been pleased with her plan and imagining the face of the surprised happy girls filled her with satisfaction. But her heart completely put that in the back of her mind when he suddenly appeared beside her, claiming he was going to go with her.
The happiness she had felt when she saw him beside her was on another whole new level.
And looking at him wearing something so different and appealing made her anxious and excited.
It is like a lovers' date.
"Oh-oh yes!" She stuttered. "There is a festival at the town", she explained smiling at him leaving out the I'm-happy-because-you-are-here-and-wearing-that-kimono truth. She looked aside from him blushing, finding it extremely difficult to stop ogling him and continued. "I was planning to go through it after buying the medicines, I was planning to buy some souvenirs for the girls and I was - WHAT ARE YOU DOING IDIOT PIG!?"
Before she could finish the explanation of her plan she felt her body being pulled up while Inosuke's big hands got under her knees and her back, carrying her in a way she could only feel embarrassment. It wasn't the first time he had carried her like that and every time he did it she had felt so silly, like a princess. Her heart jumped feeling his grip tighten and his almost bare chest came against her face. Instinctively she ran her hand from the hard skin of his chest to his (thick manly) neck and put her hands over his broad shoulders for support. Her shout came as his childish blinding grin appeared on his face.
"I WANT TO SEE THE FESTIVAL!"
Securing her in his arms he beamed at her as she blushed at his cute silly face shining with childish innocent sparks. He dashed forward at a speed she was sure it wasn't the speed for someone with those injures but dismissed the thought knowing he will not listen to her and that probably this kind of thing won't worse his condition. She shook her head helplessly and she hugged him more firmly feeling the air on her face.
But well, she couldn't be happier.
She smiled sweetly as she snuggled at his neck relieved he couldn't see her. Oblivious to her, he smirked at the feeling of her face nuzzling his neck.
There was something he was sure about the relationship with this woman, he liked, really liked, her touch.
...
The festival was completely overwhelming with Inosuke as a companion. Each stall was inspected by him, each food was tasted by him and every souvenir he liked he wanted to buy it. Not that she let him of course because, well, how will they return with a two-meter long boar shaped wood carving!? Shining and grinning with his cute innocence, Inosuke told her he was strong enough to carry the thing around. The problem was where were they going to keep it plus his injured condition. No matter how strong he could be, carrying that thing all their way back seemed an impossible one-day long task. Fortunately, he was quickly distracted by the fried shrimp stall she pointed trying to make him forget the beautiful but impossible to buy at the moment big ornament.
Sighing she smiled at his happy bright face when the stall owner gave him the shrimp. He devoured it completely moaning at the flavor as he asked for seconds. She looked around the place looking for the apothecary she often went. She saw the always friendly old man smiling at the door frame of his drug store watching the lively festival. She turned to Inosuke who was sitting on a bench beside his new favorite stall finishing his fourth shrimp plate.
"I'm going to buy the suppli-" She couldn't finish when someone pushed her hard. Inosuke, feeling the movement, stood quickly to grab her before she could touch the floor. His arm circled her body and his hand came in contact with her bouncy breast. When she noticed what had happened she blushed and looked up at him. His eyes, though, were glaring (deathly glare mode on) at the man who had dared to push her and was running away from them. He narrowed his eyes after a few seconds, his grab squeezing unconsciously her soft breast making her grab his arm to stop him but a not too quiet moan escaped her mouth.
Too many hormones and too much desire.
"I-aah -Ino- Inosuke" the soft whisper she made with the sudden squeeze of her breast made him look at her surprised as it was the first time he had heard his name in that sultry tone. Following the touch of her hand, he noted the position of his hand and the reason why she was blushing mad and why she had made that sound that had ignited a fire in his gut. Let's say Hashibira Inosuke, age nineteen, was not so clueless anymore as he understood exactly what he had done. He blushed slightly moving slowly his hand and straightening up with her still in his arms. He turned at the guy who was now further away from them. She felt his arms curling around her waist pulling her up to him protectively and her hands came in contact with his chest. Before she could ask what was going on with him a shout was heard through the festival.
"THIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEF"
That was the cue he needed. While the blue-haired girl widened her eyes startled at the sudden shout, he reacted before the woman who had shrieked could finish. Letting go of Aoi's waist he leaned, crouched a little and inhaled deeply before he dashed at full speed to the man who thought he had succeeded, leaving a blinking-at-the-dust Aoi having the sudden realization he probably didn't need the whole lot of medicines she had been trying to made him gulp.
"YOU COME HERE YOU FUCKING BASTARD!"
Quickly and easily the demon hunter grabbed the man from the collar of his clothes and pulled him to the floor with a force that the thief could not fight with. Inosuke knelt on his chest to stop him moving, his hand not moving from his collar. Looking down at the guy he exhaled his breath from the corner of his mouth while the man tried to free himself from the iron grip. He was smaller and thinner than Inosuke, besides the beast breath user was an intimidating sight. Inosuke shouts ("FUCKING BASTARDS LIKE YOU ARE THE WORST DIPSHIT IN THE WORLD!") were making people come around the scene as Aoi arrived with the robbery victims and the police behind her. She saw the robber pull a shining knife from his sleeve and try to stab Inosuke on the arm, a thing the self-proclaimed king of the mountain practically laughed off. "YOU ARE TEN FUCKING THOUSAND YEARS EARLY BEFORE YOU CAN INJURE THE GREAT INOSUKE -SAMA!". Pulling him off the floor he slammed the thief against a wall with too much force that it cracked the wood. The guy couldn't help but let go of the hateful thing, groaning in pain.
"YOU STOLE FROM US TOO RIGHT BASTARD!?"
At that Aoi widened her eyes and searched in her pockets noticing her purse was gone. Smiling angrily (Shinobu had taught the girls the marvels of a sweet smile and a dark aura) she approached behind Inosuke, tapped his back and before the wild man could turn to her, she punched the robber on the face with all her force, breaking his nose. Inosuke widened his eyes at her sudden outburst completely shocked. He felt his heart jump and his gut burned with excitement as he saw the blood running from the man's nose. A slight blush appeared on his face, she was really attractive. He smirked at her "ouch" and returned to the now victim. The poor man, who was crying to the pain the blue-haired girl had inflicted on him, asked for forgiveness while Inosuke shook him like a ragdoll demanding him to return each one fucking penny he had robbed. After that, he handed him to the police.
"You really can't hold your temper woman." Arms crossed over his chest and a playful smirk, Inosuke came to the girl who still was examining her hand.
"He robbed us of the money for the supplies and medicines!" Aoi frowned at her swollen hand "I couldn't let him go without pain knowing I almost couldn't buy anything".
"And you are the last one person who should talk to me about holding my temper".
He rolled his eyes when she implied his own uncontrollable temper. She wrapped her hand with a handkerchief she had in her other pocket and admitted quietly. "I got mad".
He blinked at her and leaned at her face smirking. "See, you can't hold your temper". Before she would say anything he added "You are really strong Aoku".
Aoi blushed and felt the familiar sultry heat she feels when he kind of flirts with her. Subtly rubbing her thighs together she suppressed the sudden desire to jump to his arms and instead grabbed his hand pulling him to the drug store while muttering about the list of herbs and supplies and "oh look at the time, we have to return home quickly" and "Oh please can you stop looking at me like that? You are making me nervous".
Inosuke liked her like that. Since some years ago she lit a fire in him he couldn't explain well. Flushed, nervous thanks to him, squirming under his heated gaze and dominated by his words. It happened a lot of times before and he learned she wasn't the only one who could win a word fight. With years he had mastered the way to shut her up. However, he liked her when she made those displays of strength and headstrongness too. He liked her, a lot and it wasn't a secret. Well not for Santarou and Chuistu and the green-eyed guy was sure the Midoris and Kanako knew it too. It was like the medic girl was the only one who hadn't known about it and when he asked Santarou said it was because he hasn't told her. Chuistu had also told him it had to be special and he frowned thinking what it meant to be special. He remembered both of his minions telling him he will know it when the time will come. He rolled his eyes focusing on how her small soft hand was pulling his rough big hand as they arrived at the store. What should he tell her? That he likes her touch? Her voice? The way she nurses him? The way she always tries to boss him around without success? The way she smiles at him? The way she shouts and gets angry at him? The way her warm body presses against him every time he makes an innocent caress? The way she leans looking for his touch every time he carries her? The way she makes him think he should mark her?...
He noticed he could go all day with that...
He hated thinking about it too. He wasn't a very good friend with his brain.
"Hummm, mister?"
Inosuke stopped his mind battle and he turned to an old lady on the door of the drug store. She had a warm smile and he immediately noticed she was a good person. The old man of the drug store who was attending Aoi greeted her with familiarity and the blue-haired girl turned at her too intrigued by the sweet smile. The old woman who Aoi swore was sparkling with happiness walked to the teens with a wide grin.
"You saved me a big-time there. I came to thank you! Both of you!"
Inosuke arched an eyebrow and Aoi politely nodded at her. The woman's smile got wider.
"You know... the money that man had stolen from me was the money that I had to return to a bank. If I hadn't returned it today they would have close my business so you saved me today". The woman then said the words that made Aoi's heart stop.
"I want to invite you two to spend the rest of the day in my business, it is the hot springs that are on the outskirts of the town".
...
"Did Aoi left already?" a sleepy Kanao, with tousled hair and wearing a pale pink kimono, appeared in the kitchen as the girls were preparing for dinner.
"Yes, she left very early!" Naho grinned.
"She went to buy medicines!" Sumi smiled.
"And Inosuke kun went with her!" Kiyo giggled.
"Ahhh, he looked very handsome with that kimono right?" Naho smiled more as she put the rice bowl over the desk.
"If only Aoi chan would have left with a kimono too it would be the perfect date!" Sumi jumped eagerly as she put vegetables over the same table.
"Ahhhh it would be so romantic!" Kiyo sang while she fried the shrimps.
"But hey! They are already on a date!" The three girls said in unison as they hugged each other happily.
Kanao arched an eyebrow at the girls who were in a romantic daze but smiled because she knew her sister's feelings. Too bad she had been too tired to wake up early but thank good only Inosuke had been in the state. Aoi was too restless lately making new medicines and stock antidotes and antibiotics not to mention the bunch of injured demon hunters that had come before her and Inosuke arrival. She looked at the sky as she noticed the sun was setting and narrowed her eyes when she saw a crow coming to her.
"What?" She blinked.
Kanao reached for the note the crow had and reading the letter she smiled.
"Awww, good luck Aoi" She then went to talk to the girls, it seemed their lovely sister won't be sleeping at home tonight.
...
Aoi was beaming happily as she hummed satisfied following the woman. She without thinking it twice (well she had to admit she had glanced at Inosuke to see if he sensed if the woman was dangerous) had asked for a piece of paper to the store owner, had written a letter, had asked for Inosuke's crow and had sent a letter to the girls. She was sure, Sumi, Naho and Kiyo would be enough for that night and Kanao was also at home. She had been working without stop lately. She needed the time, she needed the hot spring relaxing bath and she wanted to spend some quality alone time with the blue-haired man before he would go to a mission again and she won't know when he will return.
It was kind of a big uncharacteristic move from her but she couldn't care less, not at that moment.
Inosuke was healing pretty fast, she was sure in two or three days he will have to go.
She grinned when they arrived at the place and eagerly grabbed Inosuke arm (he was thinking again she was possessed) and happily muttered to him "Oh my god I haven't been in a hot spring in months!". Said guy arched an eyebrow to her, clueless at why she was that hyper about a place with hot water but didn't make a comment, not wanting to ruin the moment. Secretly he wanted the grip on his arm to stay longer. He tightened the hold on the bag he was carrying that contained their recently bought goods and looked around the place. He heard Aoi ask about the flowers and he noticed they were surrounded by a wisteria garden. It wasn't big like the one the grandma had but still was impressive.
"Oh this wisteria garden is the pride of my family!" the old woman said grinning. She welcomed them inside the building "I know it's silly but we believe in the rumors and legends about monsters who eat people so we learned about the wisteria garden".
"They are real" Inosuke said with his blank stare.
"Of course darling" The woman sung entertained by the declaration.
Aoi made a mental note to send demon hunters there after treatment, it was very close to the state. She looked at the sky and noticed the sun was setting on the horizon. The woman was not stopping talking about how they really had saved her and how she was eager to show them her family business and that they could order whatever they wanted to eat and drink for the rest of the day as thanks. She was still rambling about the thief and how lucky she was to have young lovers like them near, that they should think about her offer as a honeymoon because a sweet couple of married teens like them should have a good rest for the rest of the day.
However, they were so distracted looking around the place that they didn't pay attention to her. Not even Inosuke, who was charmed by three trays full of food that had passed beside him and were being carried to the other end of the corridor. He sensed they weren't the only ones in there. Another tray full of food passed beside them again and his mind got lost as he eagerly asked the woman if he could have one, no maybe two or three, of those. The woman nodded happily as she ordered one of her workers to prepare the food immediately. Aoi rolled her eyes at the black hole his stomach was as the woman opened a door of a room and indicated them to enter it. She was grinning warmly.
"This is your room!". Aoi widened her eyes turning at the only one big futon at the right side of the room. "Feel free to call me if you need anything! The food you ordered will come soon! Enjoy sweeties!".
Closing the doors Aoi felt the whole reality washing her over. She tried to remember what the woman had said to put them together in the same room with only one futon. She blinked a few times, her heartbeat racing faster with each second it passed and her body temperature was rising. She focused on the details of the place. There were some oil lamps on the corners of the room, two blue kimonos elegantly hanging on the wall for them to use, a little table in the middle of the room and she saw some wood shelves carefully placed on the opposite wall of the futon with towels and other things. Widening her eyes she looked at the big sliding doors on the other side of the room that lead them to a private garden where a small hot spring awaited them.
"You are a sweet married teenage couple so rest for the rest of the day"
They were on a suite. Goddammit. Yes, she had sworn but hell they were on suite. She blushed mad. A suite was for married couples, not for friends not so friends. Panicking she turned to him as she saw him wandering the place quietly. She looked at him carefully feeling the nerves on her body and gulped. God, he really looked gorgeous in that black kimono and had he been all the day with that little short ponytail? She blushed as he oblivious to her stare looked around, marveling at the big quiet room and focusing his eyes on the hot spring.
Was that damn small hot spring only for them?
Inosuke had been in hot springs with the guys. He liked how the hot water relaxed his tensed muscles and often dragged Ponjirou and Konistu with him. When they were with more demon hunters it was not as relaxing as when the three of them were but still the other demon hunters were his friends. They were the ones who gradually had explained the growing up thing after Gompachirou and Chuitsu had been too embarrassed when it came to the sex part (a thing he understood when Monitsu said it was like the mating season for wild animals). Anyways, after hitting Zenitsu (a crimson Tanjirou said it wasn't like wild animals) the other guys decided to talk with the clueless boy.
He had never been so uninterested in a topic in all his life.
Not till (faithful to the cause) Monitsu said "think about it with Aoi chan as your partner and tell us what you think after."
That idea had blown his mind and at that exact moment, Hashibira Inosuke graduated from being an innocent child. He had put his brain to work about that topic in that instant (at his seventeen years old) and till the present day he hadn't stopped. He even had told all his friends not to touch or think about the blue-haired nurse.
He approached the spring and dove his hand in the hot water. He grunted at the satisfying sensation and wanted to get in the water but the rock of truth and reality had not only hit Aoi but him as well. He was conscious of everything the moment they entered the room and he only saw one futon. It was the first time he had been on a hot spring this small...and with a girl.
...With a girl.
...With a girl.
WITH AOI.
He felt his heart beating crazily and his body started to heat up. Looking at Aoi's back, he saw her passing her hand over the blue kimono hanging on the side of the room and his green eyes shined. He recognized the situation his demon hunters friends had been talking about that day years ago. He remembered what Santarou and Chuitsu had said before, the thing about the right time to talk...and do.
Yes, this is it! The right time, this is the right time! I have to do it!
He gulped. He was a fucking king and the boss won't chicken out about something even if he didn't quite understand what was happening and what were his feelings. Instinct was his only ally. Besides. instinct had been telling him since a few years ago they felt attracted to each other.
They liked each other, they wanted to be together with each other so where was the bad in the situation, right? They would talk about it (he was sure she was going to talk because he felt her sending him telekinetic rays of reasoning). So ok, this was right, he was the king of the mountains and he wasn't embarrassed. No, of course not.
Besides, he was at his limit, all day the woman had been touching him and being cute.
And that hot spring looked so tempting...
So... fuck everything!
Feeling a rustling behind her Aoi turned just in time to see Inosuke taking off his black kimono and she shouted embarrassed begging him to change back.
"WHY THE FUCKING HELL YOU ARE SHOUTING? I WANT TO GET INTO THE HOT SPRINGS!"
"YEAH BUT CLOSE THE DOORS!"
"YOU SAID YOU WANTED TO GET IN TOO! WHY WOULD I WANT TO CLOSE THE FUCKING DOORS THEN!?"
"I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE WOMEN SIDE!" She looked aside from him and whispered "not in a suite room...with you...alone"
At that Inosuke got angrier. Didn't she want to be with him? So why was she talking about going somewhere else? He grunted annoyed by her outburst.
"WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO LEAVE!?"
"BECAUSE WE SHOULDN'T BE BATHING TOGETHER!"
"YOU SAID YOU WANTED TO SPEND TIME HERE!"
"I WASN'T TALKING ABOUT THIS!" Aoi pointed at the whole room trying to prove her point about the two of them being alone in a suite with all that sexual tension and unspoken feelings. Inosuke frowned.
"If it's because of my naked body you had seen it every time you treat me so what?" He got in the water while a crimson Aoi glued to the opposite wall was staring at him intently and gulping. Yes, he had seen him plenty of times, but those times he was covered in blood, cuts everywhere and on the verge of death so did she check him? no, of course not. This time she checked, she checked carefully. Her body trembled and she bit her lip when she saw him undress and got into the hot water. She only saw his backside (his full of muscles back) but, hell, it was a very good side. His butt was a perfect good great sight.
Control it Aoi. She mentally slapped herself.
Too tempting, too tempting, too tempting.
"And if it's about I will see your body, well..." She flinched at his sultry voice as he got under the water and instantly came out again, groaning satisfied by the feeling of the hot water relaxing his wounded sore body. He pulled his wet hair backward, revealing his beautiful and now almost manly face (he still had some girly features). "I won't look if you want". He shrugged at her and she could only follow the drops of hot water wander from his face to his lips, his chin, his collarbone to finally return to the spring. She growled quietly clenched her thighs together and exhaled. Inosuke licked the water of his lips slowly and he moved till the water was level with his v hip bone.
Breathe Aoi breathe.
This caveman doesn't know what he is doing. He is a natural flirt...a natural sensual flirt...
...But he's very good at it...
HE DOESNT KNOW WHAT HE IS DOING TO ME.
Worse was Inosuke knew exactly what he was doing. He wanted her not to leave (women's side? The only thing he knew about that place was that it wasn't in the same room as him) and stay with him. So if he had to do something to persuade her, no matter how strange it was, he will do it till she took off her clothes and get in the water with him in it. Besides, he liked the game. Without being conscious about it, he was seducing her. He was aroused since the moment he felt her heated gaze over him.
He had felt like a cornered prey and nobody corners Inosuke-sama.
Inosuke-sama is the one who does the cornering thing.
Heated and panting Aoi stared at his insinuating eyes. She stirred in her place, pressing her body against the wall with more force while her eyes followed the droplets of water on his exposed torso. The moonlight only made it more sensual. She gulped and licked her lips unconsciously and Inosuke knew it won't take her long to get into the water with him. A smirk appeared in his face and her eyes darkened but a knock on the door broke their trance. Sighing, the blue-haired girl peeled herself off the wall as she walked towards the door and opened it a little just to see three young women (her age maybe), each one carrying a huge tray of food. Shocked by the massive trays but also by the girls who were smiling politely, Aoi asked for a moment before she closed the door and ran towards the small hot spring and started to close the sliding doors.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING WOMAN!?" Inosuke said loudly fearing the blue girl was going to leave him there but she frowned at him and whispered.
"The food is here, you are in there and there is no way I will let those women see you naked!"
The last thing he saw was Aoi blushing face, frowning angrily at him as she closed the doors and went to receive the food. He stood there quietly, hearing to the footsteps and to the pigtailed girl talk with the hosts. But his mind was lost in the "I won't let those women see you naked".
Ok, that was new...
He frowned and got into the water up to his nose as he welcomed the train of thoughts that were threatening to go out. As a former mountain kid, he was ok with exposing his body. It was his upbringing and form of thinking. Nakedness was ok. It wasn't something he had to avoid, one because it was natural and normal, two because his skin was the source of his amazing senses. Even if he wore the boar fur he couldn't be at his hundredth percent. He always had felt clothes got him dull but he learned that people weren't ok with nakedness like him so he ended up putting some pants just to avoid troubles and meddling people.
But well he liked it when Aoi was looking at him.
And he liked it when Aoi didn't want people to look at him.
His ears picked a noise and he recognized the footsteps, the "thank you" in Aoi's voice and the closing doors. Relieved she wasn't going to leave him and picturing the trays full of food, he got out the hot springs and walked to the sliding doors when it opened alone and a surprised Aoi came face to face with him. He widened his eyes at her as she marveled at his bright green eyes. The heat came again in an instant and he wasn´t sure he was hot due the springs or because of the mix of feelings that were invading him. She was emanating that intensity again and he gulped as she roamed his face and chest with her eyes. The droplets of water were running from his hair and going down his body but she didn't give herself the pleasure to look down.
Without thinking twice Inosuke leaned against her face. "You didn't leave huh?".
He was suffocating.
"I-I...I was going to do it soon".
She was trembling from desire...and she didn't care anymore.
When the girls came with the trays full of food, Aoi had felt stupid when one of them politely said "have a great time miss, enjoy your stay". She suddenly remembered why she had accepted the unusual gift, she wanted to spend time with him. He will soon go to kill demons and risk his life so she had decided she wanted to convey her feelings. So, why had she been fighting with him? Why had she been so stubborn? After saying goodbye to the hosts and close the door, she had stared at the closed sliding doors that led to the small private hot spring.
She wanted him so why had she told him she will leave him alone?
No wonder he had been angry.
Feeling bold she got on the tip on her toes before her lips grazed his in a chaste kiss. He looked at her surprised when she pulled away, his eyes darkening before he opened his mouth and kissed her deeply. Inosuke hands passed from her hair to the back of her thighs and pulled her up for her to surround his waist with her legs. They both groaned while he walked backward still kissing her. Her arms tangled around his neck while his tongue went into her mouth and when he felt the edge of the hot spring he jumped in and got both of them inside it.
She shrieked when she felt the hot water on her but noticed she was over him and he had moved them for her to straddle him. "What-" Aoi tried to speak but Inosuke caught her mouth again. "You-" and again. "-doing?" and again. She moaned when he put his tongue inside her mouth again while she felt his hands trying to undress her. Fearing her clothes will be ripped by him and his impatience she stopped his hands and broke the kiss looking at him in the eyes.
He looked completely lost at the feeling of having her over him in his arms and she liked the savage look he was giving her.
Slowly, she pulled her wet white nurse dress off and threw it outside the hot spring. Smirking playfully at him (he almost lost his breath) she unbuttoned her jacket and shirt slowly until the impatient guy leaned over her face and crashed his lips over hers, pulling off the dreadful clothes from her body and throwing it outside the hot spring too. She moaned when she felt his hands over her wet hot skin. Desperate to feel more, his hypersensitive senses were shouting, he ripped the bandages around her chest and finally came in contact with the hot creamy skin of her breasts. He groaned satisfied grinding his hips against her as she moaned and hugged him.
"Take this off, now" Inosuke whispered huskily to her in the ear, his finger got inside the waistband of her pants and pulled it. She moaned again rolling her hips over him.
"Or I will rip it" he bit her ear and licked the skin behind it.
Aoi flinched and purred. Looking at him with blurry eyes and flushed skin, she untangled from him slowly, stood up and sat on the edge of the hot spring, making sure he had the view of her everything. The fresh air of the night giving her goosebumps as Inosuke saw her perky nipples. He gulped. He was too aroused, he was very hard and couldn't take the feelings anymore. This was a new Aoi and she was driving him mad since the moment she had kissed him.
It had felt so right when they had kissed passionately that the doubts and the restrictions they had felt before were forgotten.
They realized they were a couple before they have said it out loud, no words needed.
Aoi took off every piece of clothes remaining while the blue-haired guy watched every detail with his bright green eyes. He didn't miss how she slowly passed her soft hands over her toned creamy legs or how she bit her bottom lip to provoke him or how she opened a little her legs to let him see that spot he was so curious and hungry about. He growled loudly pulling her to him immediately after she threw her clothes behind her. He sunk his teeth on her neck and she moaned pulling his hair. His hands roamed her body as she straddled him again. The water making everything wet and slippery and hot and unbearable for both of them.
There wasn't anyone who will fucking stop him, there wasn't anyone who needed her, besides him.
She was his and only his.
Inosuke kissed her again as his hands still roamed her petite figure. Both of them were burning so much the hot water was cold for them. He pulled her from her buttocks to his chest and they groaned, her straddling position making her feel his big erection against her hot clit. Aoi caressed his gorgeous face with her hands. Before she could react he took his fingers to her entrance and played with her.
Aoi moaned when she felt him press her clit and move his fingers in circles over it. She bit her lips as she dug her hands on his shoulders. The mountain king licked his lips looking closely at her, watching her face, her reactions, her blurry darkening blue eyes, her quivering lips while she shouted when he put a finger inside her and then put another one. Two of his big fingers turned her in a mess of moans and messy movements as she desperately rode his hand. The guy, completely lost in her, in the feels and in the flesh against his own flesh, bit her and sucked her breasts and nipples. The blue-haired girl desperately moved when his hand got quicker, her nails dug on his shoulders and she threw her head back feeling his tongue travel from her breasts to her neck, tasting her skin.
He was moving on instinct but hell what a good fucking instinct he had.
A natural she thought before she made a silent cry signaling she had come. Inosuke felt her walls pushing his fingers and retreated his hand, the hot water cleaning the mess.
"Felt good? he whispered against her neck, kissing her and making another mark while she was panting sprawled over his strong big body.
"I...yes...It... was so ..good" Still in a trance, Aoi nibbled his neck missing Inosuke movements as he was putting the tip of his manhood in her entrance. "I...need you... now" Aoi whispered to him and he grinned at her flushed face.
"You can't bossy me Aoi" his playfully husky tone made her shiver.
"I- ahhh" Inosuke pressed her sensitive clit with the tip of his erection unintentionally but seeing and hearing her reaction he did it again. "I - ahhhhh ohmygod - please please I need you..."
"...Inosuke-sama..."
Being called like that was the trigger as he didn't have the will to play with her aroused state anymore. He was desperate to feel her and being inside her so he placed his erection in the right place and pushed. She shouted again, arched her back and threw her head back as he licked her neck and sucked her neck-pulse. He pushed hard and fast, in one go, not knowing it will hurt her or the pain it will cause to her. He almost came but he halted in place and hugged her from the waist hard, squeezing her against his hot sensitive muscled chest. He hid his face on the crook of her neck and growled trying to not lose himself. Aoi was too wet and too excited and lost in pleasure to feel the pain as she only felt him sliding inside her and filling her and for godsakes, she had even forgotten how to speak.
"So-so big" she muttered, eyes shut, head thrown back as she trembled at the big intrusion.
Inosuke grunted in response still trying to control himself a little and failing when he felt her move. She moved and everything got loose. The slow pace she was setting felt so good, making him hiss in pleasure, his big hands playing and squeezing hard her buttocks. They both liked the sensation, completely charmed by the pleasure every time she moved and he dived into her. One time, two times, three times. But the slowness wasn't his thing. Inosuke turned in a beast, moving his hips so fast, wild and without stop, not caring about if they were heard or not. He ravished her, his tongue and teeth played with her breasts and nipples and his hands gripped her waist to guide her movements and tempo. Aoi couldn't stop her loud moans, the overwhelming pleasure making her cry. She thanked they stayed in the water because he didn't notice it and she was sure he would stop everything if he saw her tears.
That would be a problem because stopping wasn't in her plans.
Not till his greatness make her come and he comes inside her.
"Oh god I-Inosuke!"
"Ah fuck!"
He couldn't think about anything other than her and when he focused his eyes on her trembling but flushed form, dominated by him, by the pleasure he made her feel, by his hands and his movements, he felt a rush of pride over him. He slowly pressed her clit with his thumb, the spot he was sure will make her plead his name like a mantra. Fuck he was so close and she was so hot and his fucking senses were in a high cloud. His whole body stung addictively and it was so pleasant. His demon slayer friends had told him it felt good but he never had imagined how good it was, they had never told him he wouldn't want to stop as he desperately wanted to be inside her for the rest of his damn fucking life. This was something he will do with her till he has to go to missions and he will ravish her every time he would come back to the state, wounded or not.
So be prepared Aoi.
His possessiveness made him leave a big mark on the skin of her neck and shoulder, she was his and only his.
Aoi pulled her own hair as she arched her back feeling the delicious pressure of his fingers on her most sensitive spot with the overwhelming sensation of his big cock inside her and she shouted his name. She moved faster encouraging him to put more force into the movement as the water splashed around them. She rolled her eyes and saw white as her orgasm came hard and long, her high and the squeeze of her walls made him grunt and thrust few more times before he came inside her.
Everything got quiet as she collapsed over him, panting hard and trying to regain consciousness, rationality and sight while he let his body lean against a rock behind him. He sighed satisfied. His heart was beating like crazy and he focused on her heartbeats too. His hands came to caress her back and disheveled hair and he noticed her pigtails were long gone. He focused on the dark sky, the moon and the sparkly stars. He smiled closing his eyes indulging in the aftermath of sex and in the satisfying feeling of getting down the orgasm.
"I love you". He opened his eyes like plates when he heard her soft quiet voice.
"I love you, I really do, I love you so much, I-I am - oh my god - I am so happy and so afraid..." He felt her snuggling against him, her arms got around his body and her palms were caressing his muscled back. He frowned at her sudden confusion but then he remembered he had to leave her to risk his life with his demon hunter job. He smiled.
"I will always be with you Aoi"
She stopped her voice and straightened her body to be able to look at his shiny sparkling eyes. She blushed as she nodded slowly at him.
"I will never leave you Aoi I promise, sure, I will have to go but I will come back for you, safe and sound" At her narrowing eyes he caressed her face with his hand, his thumb making circles in her cheek. "Come on, I will only come back with some injuries but the amazing me only needs an equally amazing doctor to treat me". He leaned against her face "Don't you think we are the perfect combo?" He captured her lips in a slow deep kiss and then he grinned cutely at her.
"I love you too Aoi".
She stuttered at his confession and launched over him, hugging him from the neck and kissing him with more passion this time. As the kiss was escalating quickly and his hands roamed her hot body, she felt him going hard again. He was still inside her and she moaned and he twitched, sex beast mode turning on. Standing up with her legs around his waist and her body glued to his body, they left the hot spring and he got them over the futon. Crawling over her, he nibbled her skin and she smiled.
"Don't you want to eat first?"
Looking over his shoulder at the three trays of food over the small table he turned to her face and grinned.
"Nahh first the main dish".
It was the first time Inosuke dismisses a meal.
...
The next day Aoi and Inosuke returned to the Butterfly state, like newborn babies, shining and completely relaxed, with all their medical purchases and, well, holding hands, much to the happiness of the three Midoris and a knowing-all smiling Kanao.
"You look like newlyweds!" The Midoris shouted as Inosuke smirked proudly and Aoi hid her red face embarrassed with her hands. Maybe they weren't too far from that stage.