VII:
Naoto was dosing in and out of sleep as she felt the warmth of her boyfriend's skin against her back. She sighed as she snuggled against him further, his embrace pulling her further and further into the spell of sleep. The soft sound of Souji's level breathing clued her in that he was super relaxed or he's drifted asleep.
She wasn't sure what it was about intimacy and what caused people to tumble into the abyss of slumber right after. Normally both she and Souji have way more energy than that, but maybe the Midnight Channel has finally taken the toll on their bodies.
Seemed plausible.
She could feel his breath along the back of her neck and while she didn't find it arousing, she found it comforting. Knowing his presence was there and he's able to fully give himself away while she was there. From the times she's slept with him, she has known that he still suffers from bouts of nightmares from Nanako's kidnapping. But as their coupling sessions continued, the frequency of it coming up seemed to lessen.
She hugged herself with pride knowing that she has loosen the chains that keep him connected to that incident, hopefully in the future she can free him of it in the end.
There was a knock on the door that startled Naoto out her thoughts.
'Wait I thought we were alone?'
"Big Bro?" She could hear the daughter of Detective Dojima on the other side of the door. She must have come in while they were napping or maybe...
Naoto started to panic.
"Big Bro, are you here? You're shoes and someone else's was by the door." Naoto's eyes widened.
'Crap...'
This was the first day of Naoto wearing new shoes so Nanako has no way of recognising them. Not good. She physically bristled, the movement jerked awake Souji as he opened an eye lazily, looking around for a moment.
"Nao-" She quickly turned around and covered his mouth with her hand. The secondary effect of her movement caused her to press herself against him causing him to shudder.
"Big bro?" Nanako called worriedly, which instantly caused Souji to be fully awake. He looked to the door then Naoto.
Her eyes told him. 'What the hell are we going to do!? She'll see us!'
Souji took another glance at the door and acknowledged what he had to do. He slowly took Naoto's hand off his mouth and carefully chose his words.
"Yes Nanako?" He called. They could hear her sigh of relief from behind the door.
"Sorry, I disturbed you. I saw your shoes and someone else's then I got worried when you didn't hear me come in. It was really quiet." Naoto let out her own breath of relief knowing she didn't hear any action going on.
"Oh, Naoto is with me today, we're just finishing off some work."
"Ah!" Nanako made a small squeal of excitement. "Can I come in and say hello?"
Naoto shook with fear and held Souji closer.
"This place is a mess with books and papers everywhere it's not safe, we'll come down stairs in a minute." Souji hoped that this wouldn't get mentioned around Dojima, he would easily know what was going.
"Aww ok, I'll see you down stairs."
"We will, I'll start dinner once I'm down there."
"Yey!" She called out happily before jetting off downstairs. As soon as her footsteps faded, Naoto frowned.
"That was way too close." She told him with Souji nodding in agreement.
"Tell me about it, let's get dressed quickly and head downstairs." He threw the covers off of them and got up to reach for his boxers. He paused for a second before picking them up.
"Naoto could you open the window?" Reaching for her panties, she gave him a strange look, for a reason why.
Souji grinned, finding it amusing that she's already used to it.
"It smells like sex in here, would be an instant tell-tell sign if Uncle came in."
Naoto blushed heavily.