I'll admit it- I've lately become OBSESSED with Shizuru/Botan. And I know this is the second short story for the pairing in the row, so I wont write on them in a while.
The winter storm down here in the south has given me off days from school, and therefore time to write. I'm having a blast.
I don't own Yu Yu, appreciate criticism, and hope you enjoy.
Short Story 3: Morning After
Genre: Romance
Pairing: Shizuru/Botan.
Scenario: A "morning after" ficlet. The night before, Shizuru and Botan had their "first time". Simple concept, simple fic. Just some fluff that we all need after a long school day.
Song for Inspiration: Melt by Rascal Flatts.
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It's winter time. The temperature is below freezing outside, with a 87% chance of snow. There is still snow on the ground from days before, and icicles hang from dead trees. Big trucks fight to clear the roads of ice, so that they may be safe for drivers. Other than that, no one is outdoors.
Despite it being so cold, I stay warm in an apartment complex on the top floor, laying in bed, and nothing covers my body, except for a thick blanket with a heat control. The heat control is off. Around my waist are two long, feminine yet toned arms, holding tight to my naked torso.
Feeling her breath in my ear as she lies asleep is my lullaby, trying to make me fall back asleep. Nothing keeps us apart now that we're alone and in our own "personal Nirvana", a term I had heard people use out in the streets as they talked of being in love. We were skin to skin, protected only by a blanket and each other, which was all either of us needed.
The last thing I wanted was to wake her up, but I slowly turned to face her, her arms still anchoring me down by the waist. To no surprise, she stayed asleep, despite my change in position.
Light brown hair cascaded around her face and shoulders, and her lips parted slightly. She was already a beautiful creature, but she was the most lovely, in my opinion, when she slept or smiled. I softly swept away some hair out of her face so that I could get a better look at her, though I had seen her face a multitude of times before. I never got tired of it. I never got tired of her.
Unable to fight the urge any longer, I lassoed my arms around her waist much like she had mine and cuddled against her body, putting my ear to her heart. The constant Ba-Bump made my chest tighten as I just lay there and listened for a moment.
I felt her stir in my embrace, so I looked up at her to see her tired eyes looking downward at me.
"Did I wake you up?" I said quietly, rather taken aback at how small my voice was. She didn't reply with words, rather she allowed one arm to leave my waist to take my chin and lift it to her, so that she could give me my first kiss of the morning. It was wonderful, and warm.
"You sleep okay?" I inquired, gazing lazily into her eyes as we held each other.
"Yeah." she said groggily. "Dude, was I dreaming or did you really try to convince me to do it on the balcony last night?"
I laughed loudly, filling her bedroom with sound. "No." I said smiling. "I'm afraid you were dreaming, Shizuru."
She cursed disappointedly in reply and pulled me closer to her. I moved my arms from her waist to her shoulders and kissed her once more, which led to another kiss from her and then a loving shoulder kiss.
"You're warm." I whispered, burying my face into the crook of her neck. Her lips moved from my shoulder to to my ticklish spot right below my earlobe, where she playfully nipped and kissed while I squirmed and released high pitched giggles in her arms.
"Shizuru!" I exclaimed, laughing. "Stop! I just want to cuddle for a little while!"
The brunette did as I ordered and chuckled, and then kissed my neck once again. "I hope last night was what you expected."
"It was everything I had dreamed about and more." I replied, trying to keep this conversation on a calm level.
"You dreamed? Of me? And you?"
"You know what I meant!" I sensed my voice getting high and calmed it back down, remembering that I wanted this to be somber. "Though I will admit that until I met you, I never really thought that my first time would be with a girl."
Shizuru seemed to ignore the comment as she brought her hand to my hair, raking through it gently. It was one of the few times that my hair had been down, and It had gotten a lot longer then I remembered it being the last time I didn't have it up.
"I like it when you leave your hair down." she said, almost as if she had read my thoughts.
"I know."
"You did it just for me, right? Leave your hair down?"
"I didn't have much of a choice, Shizuru. After we started kissing you had pulled the hair band out of my ponytail and threw it on the other side of the room." I peeked to see if I could find the vibrantly colored elastic on her floor somewhere, but because of my inability to move in her loving hug I didn't get much of a look.
"Oh, yeah." she said right before she inhaled a big yawn. She released it with a loud exclamation and I giggled. "Go back to sleep." I told her as I closed my own eyes.
"No way. You can, but I'm going to savor this while I can. No telling when diaper-breath will take you away from me again." she was referring, of course, to Koenma.
"He has other people that can do his dirty work for him." I told her, reassuring her that not even Lord Enma himself could drag me away from her this morning. "Besides, Koenma is powerful and has plenty of authority to do stuff himself."
"He wasn't looking so powerful when that officer shot him across the cave after Yusuke 'died'." I was starting to sense the slightest hint of envy in her voice.
"You weren't even there, Shizuru."
"Yeah, but I heard about it."
I just sighed and left the conversation at that. Not really one to enjoy silence I changed the subject.
"So… when was your first time?"
I kind of felt stupid after I had asked her such a thing, but I was rather curious.
"Sophomore year at high school. Only this was a dude."
"Oh dear."
"Tell me about it."
I had always suspected, even since I had first met her, that Shizuru was attracted to women. I wasn't stereotyping her by her appearance or masculine tendencies, but it was just something about the way she spoke to women and looked at women. Perhaps exploring the possibilities of having another woman attracted to me was an intriguing thing back then. Or perhaps it was what I wanted to believe was a suspicion, when it was really a string of hope that she returned my feelings that I had yet to surface.
It didn't matter though. Not at this point.
I whimpered sadly when she let one arm slip away from me to reach for her cell phone on the night table.
"Oh, be quiet. Can't you share me for five seconds?"
I sighed. "What are you doing?"
"Nothing." she replied, grinning. "Sending out a mass text that I just fucked the Grim Reaper."
My face turned an insane shade of deep scarlet. "You… you're kidding right?"
Shizuru laughed until she was the same shade of red I was. "Of course! You're kind of a moron, huh?"
I didn't comment.
She checked her phone briefly for any messages or missed calls, and then put it back in it's original place on the night table. I smiled as her loving warmth returned once her arms were once again around me securely. Snuggling into her embrace, I felt her lips at my ear.
"Hey. Botan."
I looked upward at her. "Mm?"
Her expression was a dangerous mixture of nervousness, sadness, lust, contentment, and fatigue. Or maybe that amalgamation of conflicting emotions was just my imagination.
"Do me a favor."
I blinked. "Okay."
Shizuru sighed and kissed my nose. She didn't lift her face from mine and stared into my eyes as she told me of the "favor" that needed to be carried out.
"Would you… say what you said last night?"
I blushed an outrageous shade of scarlet, totally aware of which of the many combination of words she wanted to hear that I had said, whispered, and screamed the night before. She was talking about the last sentence to escape my lips before I fell asleep in her embrace. Just remembering the way that I had breathlessly blurted out the words made me blush in embarrassment.
"I… Love you." I said, blushing outrageously. My voice had cracked because of embarrassment, not shame, but I didn't want Shizuru to believe the latter. Instead of apologizing, I tried again. "I love you, Shizuru…"
She laughed that adorable, feminine yet hardy laugh that I had come to love so much. She then proceeded to kiss my lips softly and lovingly, holding on to me tighter then she had ever had before. "My adorable little Reaper…"
How a sentence could be both so cheesy and romantic was beyond me.
"I love you too, Botan." she whispered, her hand returning to rake in my hair. "I'll always love you."
I couldn't find anything to say. I had already said all it was that I felt it was necessary that she hear. The only thing I could have possibly thought of to say at that point was that I loved her again, but she already knew that.
We didn't need words after that. And after she had said those words to me, I didn't care if we ever spoke again. Just as long as she was with me.
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Hope you guys enjoyed that one. I'm thinking that next fic will be HxK. Woo I'm so excited!
R&R please!
