SCROLL FIFTEEN:

Therapy at the Hot Springs

Reiki: "Hey, we've supplied the last paragraph of the last chapter for you! Having two lemons in one chapter kind of raises ones expectations, and you know how we work under pressure…"

Hikari: "Well, depends on the guy and if we're under or taking top…"

Reiki: "…"

After Kagome's hourly 'kicking the shit out of Koga' (making his nose bleed, again for the again'th time), which Inu-Yasha encouraged to help her rebuild her confidence, they went on their way traveling aimlessly. They decided to stop at a clearing, and marking home base they dispersed for some free time, Inu-Yasha and Kagome staying put, Miroku and Sango slipping away, Sesshomaru scouting the area to satisfy this demon's curiosity of territory, and Koga, well, kinda just had to sit there as Rin poked him with a long stick and Jaken kept watch, and Takibi was napping in the small fire Reiki built for her…

Where as the others:

"So, you're saying she can't go home because of the wish?"

"Yeah," Shippo stated, taking a seat next to Reiki to enjoy the grassy sun-bathed hill and it's view. "She's crying a lot at night too."

"Oh, the poor thing…" came a voice from above.

They both looked up at Hikari, who was on the lookout at the top of a tree.

"… I thought you couldn't climb," Reiki stated. There was suddenly a series of crashes and cracks as Hikari came plummeting out of the forty foot pine tree, landing on her stomach as various branches mounded up on her. Littered with pine needles and spitting out a pine cone, she back slapped Reiki for making that happen, and the one with a now pink hand printed face replied with, "um, what were you looking for anyway?"

Hikari giggled evilly. "I've decided to enthusiastically begin a demon harem! I'm looking for guys!"

At this Shippo squirmed a tad closer to Reiki for safety.

"Um, that's the 'H' wish I was referring to during the Naraku incident..."

"I know," Hikari replied, head bobbing quickly side to side in delight. "I just decided to actually begin working at making it. By the way, there's some hot springs over there!" she announced with the point of a finger.

"Girl's night?" Reiki asked, and they headed off to get Kagome, Sango and Rin.

"What the hell is a bachelor's night anyway?" Inu-Yasha demanded, now alone with Miroku, Shippo, Sesshomaru, Jaken and Koga. Kaede, discovering the girl's activities, since they dropped the guys off at the village for safe keepings, decided to trail after the real young girls to get in on the youthful activities.

"What ever it is I don't like the sound of it," Miroku admitted. Jaken nodded in agreement.

"Why can only the girls go in the hot springs?" Shippo demanded, infuriated. "I wanna go too!"

Inu-Yasha scoffed. "Not on my watch you're not!"

"Now, Inu-Yasha," Miroku began, giving the look. "Are you sure you don't want to tag along to see if Kagome sprouted a tail too?"

From outside the hut, all you could hear was a lot of loud smacks, punches and crashing around, and: "OOWWW!! Hey, Inu… AAAAH-OOUCH!! Please control your - AIEE!!!!"

"See Kagome?" Hikari cooed, splashing more hot water over her head. "Isn't this relaxing? Soooo much better than crying. Plus now you don't have to worry about school anymore! You can just stay here and have Inu-Yasha's pups!!"

…

"What game are they playing?" Rin asked Kaede, who just shook her head with a sigh towards Kagome and Hikari and looked up at the stars.

"Wow, Kagome's rather vicious lately," Reiki commented to Sango as the two half-breeds tried to drown each other in the background.

"Well, at least that's some spirit returned to her," Sango replied, closing her eyes again and sinking into the pool just up to her eyes.

"Maybe too much."

"… Hm?" the demon slayer asked, snapping out of a daze.

Reiki gave her a considering look…

"Damn girl, you've got to get your mind off of that lecherous monk! It's not healthy," Reiki scolded. Sango wasn't listening.

"Blub… Rei-(bubble)-ki!!"

"Will you two quit it! And Kagome, please stop drowning her!"

(Not too far off)

"I can't believe you guys actually dragged me all the way out here!" Inu-Yasha almost barked, in the hot spring nonetheless and mostly at ease. In fact, he sounded almost grateful.

It seemed that, at that particular site, the overflowing hot spring forked around a boulder and continued on like a pooled river, creating separate linked springs for the men and women. The men's though was about thirty feet down and bordered by a sheer cliff, making it easier for them to hide the fact that they were there. Now, everyone could relax in the hot water. Well, almost everyone…

"Will you guys just leave already? You're mucking up the atmosphere."

Shippo, Sesshomaru, Koga and Jaken glowered at Miroku, who was blissfully dazed by the warmth. Miroku and Inu-Yasha were quite enjoying themselves, but had to keep an eye out for Shippo, who wished to go up and join the women, as per usual.

"No damn way!" Inu-Yasha refused yet again to the fox's question. He was the guard, who had his back to the women's side, and he refused a now-mature male to go anywhere near Kagome.

Giving up, Shippo decided to slip in. Setting aside his clothes, he turned and noticed Miroku, Inu-Yasha and Koga glancing at him and his, and frowning.

"What?"

They looked away. He was definitely, not with that package, going anywhere near their women!

Sensing a vibe, Hikari suddenly grinned underneath the water, threw off Kagome, and booked it through the woods.

…

"Where be she off to?" Kaede asked.

"We have got to work on your accent," Reiki commented, and she would have said more had a sudden scream not cut her off.

"GYEAAH!!!!"

"Get back here!"

"No!! I'll stay on this side, I promise! PLEASE!!!!"

"Hahaha!!" Hikari cackled wickedly. "Looking like that, you're not staying alone!"

"Wait one fucking minute!"

The women were baffled as they listened.

(On the men's side)

Hikari all of a sudden ran to the men's side of the hot spring, discovering them, and on the way knocked Sesshomaru into it with a splash.

It went dead silent as everyone stared at the perfectly at home unicorn halfling in the water amongst them.

"Why hello Shippo!" the dangerous vixen greeted merrily, reaching a hand down into the water towards him.

"GYEAAH!!!!" he shrieked, jumping away from her searching clutches. Hikari caught a glimpse of his manhood and licked her lips, growling at him. Sesshomaru's eye actually twitched slightly at that, weather from actual jealousy or a horribly ingrained reaction to the sound, it is left undecided.

"Get back here!" Inu-Yasha warned as Shippo made a move for the women's side.

Shippo, not allowed to scale the rocky wall, found himself cornered. "No!! I'll stay on this side, I promise! PLEASE!!!!"

"Hahaha!!" Hikari cackled wickedly. "Looking like that, you're not staying alone!"

Feeling like he had no other choice, Shippo scurried up the wall and booked it to the women's side, Hikari close behind.

"Wait one fucking minute!" Inu-Yasha bellowed, jumping out, Miroku close behind. Hell, you think he'd be first to miss out on chick booty? The others dispersed, Jaken following his lord after he shook himself off and meandered through the woods. However, Koga couldn't go anywhere.

(back to the women)

Over the several exclamations of masculine voices, one could hear a quickly approaching: "Kagome, help me!!"

Kagome shrieked as a wet and naked and very well endowed Shippo leaped at her for comforting.

"Shippo, get away!!" she yelled as he came splashing almost on top of her like a scared child. Hikari happily relieved Kagome of Shippo and dragged him whimpering off to another secluded spring. "Hey!" Kagome yelled, standing to go after her. "Don't you dare…!" She stopped when Reiki put a hand on her shoulder.

"It's all for the best."

"The best?!? He's just a chil…!"

"You mean a fine and damn-hot demon adult," Reiki corrected.

"F-fox fire!!" Shippo yelled out desperately.

"Wow, they're making memories."

Kaede, Rin, and Sango were staring wide-eyed at where they had disappeared to, small stupid smiles of disbelief on their faces.

Kagome opened her mouth to reply, but…

"Okay!" Inu-Yasha yelled, bursting into the clearing and perching (in the full buff) on the edge of the pool, eyes scanning. "Where'd that little runt g…"

"AIEEEEE!! Inu-Yasha SIT BOY!!" Kagome yelled, and he splashed into the hot spring with a cut off cry. Kagome stared angrily at his clouded up and bubbling form at the bottom, then looked around… "S-Sango? Hey, where is everyone?!?" (Sango slipped away with Miroku, f.y.i., and Kaede escorted Rin back to the village whereas Reiki went to get her head bitten off by Hikari for disturbing her fun.)

Inu-Yasha gasped when he came to the surface. "I really hate it when you do that over the hot spring vent!!"

"Then don't come here peeping, you jerk!!" Kagome yelled, covering herself.

"Like I'd just wanna peep at you!!"

"What's that suppose to mean?!?"

"What do you think!!" Inu-Yasha demanded, not noticing the emphasis he had put on the word 'peep', and, regrettably, Kagome began to cry, thinking he didn't even want to glimpse her when he meant the exact opposite. Inu-Yasha's memory to be more kind towards her failed him. "Will you stop that already!! Half-demons don't cry!!"

"RRAAGH!!!" she growled, leaping at him despite her full nude. She began to scratch the living shit out of him, and he fought back, or tried to while refraining from hurting her. Kagome, growing tired of it, stopped and settled for pinning him down by his upper arms, panting over him. Hot water wasn't the best place to hold a fight…

"Are you done now?" Inu-Yasha asked, almost sounding bored while lifting a hand out of the water and licking the blood from it. His blood, that is. Kagome suddenly felt guilty, and sat back.

"Are you alright?" she asked.

"Fine," he replied, shifting in his seat. His chest was marred with fingernail scratches and slowly bleeding.

"… I'm sorry!" Kagome began to cry again, and he rolled his eyes.

"Sad, angry, sad, angry," he sighed, pulling his arms out and resting them on the ground above the hot spring. There were scratches there too, but healing right before her eyes. "Make up your mind."

Kagome frowned at him. "You said to take my-"

"Yes, to take all the time you need, not all the time you want!" he replied, a tad sharply. "Because if you take all the time you want, you'll emotionally kill yourself and those who care for you."

Kagome looked at him, a question in her eyes.

"Inside, if you dwell on something for too long, it will begin to eat away at you," he explained as though from personal experience. "I don't want to see you die inside. I never want to see you in pain, either. But if that's what you need to heal, then I'll suffer with it, with you. But to be taking your own time, dragging me down with you like this, knowing that you can because I will be there for you… I will not accept it. I am here, and always here, to help you, not to accompany you to hell."

"Like Kikyo," Kagome thought bitterly, and she was confused. Who was Kikyo? She had never heard that name in her entire life! … Had she? Maybe the wish…? She shook her head, and looked Inu-Yasha straight in the eye. Whoever the woman was, she was not going to be like her. "… Alright, Inu-Yasha," she replied, sitting away from him. "It's just that, I feel a very big part of me was stolen, and never to be returned."

"Well, we've all got our cross to bear," he admitted, thinking. Had he said that before? No, must be his imagination… Did he? Feeling the last scratch on his person seal itself back up, he stood and began to get out, placing his hands on the edge and lifting a leg, but not before Kagome reached out and placed her hand on his. Shocked, he looked at her.

"Please, stay," Kagome requested, staring up at him. His heart skipped a beat. There was a look in her eyes. There was sadness, of course, but also they sparkled magically and closed slightly as her mouth relaxed with desire. Unconsciously, he did the same as he stared at her, and slowly he sat at her side in the water.

It started very gradually. Kagome took his hand into hers, and rested her head against his shoulder, feeling his chest clench and then relax beneath her foreign touch. The water curled around her body as he moved, and she discovered his clawed fingers cautiously stroking her arm slowly. She nestled more comfortably against him, recalling all those nights of sleeping beside him, and sometimes in his lap, and she smiled softly when his lips touched her head and he breathed in her scent with an inward sigh. She released his hand and brought hers slowly from the water and up his chest until she could clasp his shoulder under her cheek, making him shiver ever so slightly. She watched the streaks of water leave her to travel across his breast, just kissing the top of his built abdomen before merging with the spring, and he reacted by tracing up the valley of her back, making her exhale longingly. He stopped, flattening his palm to her back.

"Don't stop," she thought. Her finger traveled to stroke the point above his collar bone, where his neck ended and gave way to his well sculpted torso, and realized that he was slowly pulling her to him. She felt a momentary rebel towards the idea, but it vanished and she placed her entire palm on the side of his strong neck and began to pull herself onto his lap with his assistance.

(Beginning of Lime!)
She was there, perched and watching him. She, unwilling to wait, traced her fingers from against his rapidly throbbing jugulars to his jaw, transfixing him, and began to lower her face towards him, to press her body to his as she got closer. Unsure of how she felt about things though, whether this was just an opportune moment or not, Inu-Yasha began to recline as she advanced, making sure she was the one doing the advancing. His back soon hit the weathered rock, and she continued. His breath caught as she slowly came into contact with his member, his chest, and her thumbs gently stroked his cheeks. Everywhere she touched became agonizingly hot, fire melting into his being and merging into his very soul. She feather-brushed her lips to his, sending a shock through the both of them. His mind wanted to sleep forever in the moment, but his body on the contrary was very alive. Her shuddering breath hit his suddenly overly sensitive face, and unable to restrain it he raised his lips to her own and brought a hand from the water to keep her head towards his mouth. She moaned against his mouth, and clasping his face even more firmly she leaned into him. Their kiss turned passionate, and that long suppressed yet always itching bloom of affection went rippling through their bodies, synchronizing them, uniting them in a surge of passion that heated their very skin.

Kagome groaned, her insecurities and doubts and loneliness washing away. She felt whole inside, her heart beating alongside his which throbbed beneath her breasts. This she liked, as he obviously did as well, and she surprised him by parting his lips with her own and licking his fangs. They slowly began to explore one another's mouths, their tongues dancing as their hands roamed. Oh, how he had longed for a sweet moment like this, and as his hands entwined in her raven hair and traveled the curvatures of her soft-as-silk body it was difficult for him not to flip her onto her back and straddle her. The very image made him harden longingly.

She felt his member come to life, and even though she flinched she also smiled against his lips. She wasn't expecting to react like that, or at the least not to give an honest reaction, and just because she could she decided to torment her to-be-mate a little.

From where her hands were settled on his shoulders, she sneaked one to his back and began to scratch and rub sensually. He stopped kissing her a moment, their lips hovering millimeters apart, and with closed eyes he drew her cheek against his, lifted his chin and growled.

Her entire body shivered while laying above his, and she felt his continued vocalizations vibrate against her fingers and chest as it filled her ears with an instinctively desirable sound. She liked it. A lot. Resuming her play between his shoulder blades her other hand traveled up to his furry ear as he resumed his plague upon her with his mouth, traveling down her neck as he moved his leg along her own, coaxing her. She gasped, enjoying his attentions, and began to rub her finger on the rim of his ear. Again he stopped, and gave his purring growl of pleasure. With a naughty smile she slid her other hand down his chest, across his abs, and began to fondle his shaft with her soft fingertips.

"Oh, kami," he groaned inside, not knowing how much more physically alert he could be until she started her stroking of him. His senses were being tortured, his instincts raising to the fore to absolutely take her as his own. He licked her neck, tasting her as her scent filled him, and unconsciously pressed his fangs to her flesh.

Kagome gasped. Deep inside herself, something was screaming with every heart beat: "yes, YES! Oh, please do it! PLEASE!!" Another side, however, flinched and asked "is he trying to BITE me?"

Everything stopped then as Inu-Yasha, closing his mouth, was brought back to reality by her confused scent and was forced to realize what he was doing. He looked at her, his eyes holding words that she had longed to hear, and in her mind the pieces fell together.

"Inu-Yasha," she whispered his name, stroking his smooth face along his new jagged purple markings. "Please. I want no other man to claim me. Will you mate me, and make me your wife?"

He wasn't expecting this, Kagome's small insight to demon rituals, but with a naughty grin he rediscovered his strength and turned her onto her back. Having her beneath him drew at his instincts even more, but also something else stirred. He bent his mouth to her ear.

"That requires pain on both of our parts." He puffed breath into her own doggie ear, and it flicked as she gave a surprised gasp. "And before that happens, I think a little payback is in order." She growled to him, tempting him, taunting him, she was probably surprised to produce such a noise, and he licked the rim of her ear.

She gasped, turning her head away as the sensual tickle coursed down her back and made her toes curl and knees bend. Never before had she felt anything like that, but she wanted it again, and without words he obliged, nibbling lovingly on the other ear as his right fingers found the previous one and teased it. She began to giggle and groan out in pleasure, her back slowly arching. At this he took his free hand and traveled it down her spine and teased her nerves, making her spasm as he tortured her, bringing their abdomens together. Abruptly, she fell away, out of her arch, and reached her hands from the water, grabbed his silver forelocks, and pulled him down to her.

She flinched and grinned when she felt the brush of his phallus against her inner thigh, and seeing this he covered her grin with his lips, massaging it off her beautiful face. She returned the kiss, deeply and passionately, and laced her hands over his back, pressing herself to him once more, beaconing for him to lean upon her. He groaned, and her heart missed a beat as she felt his hips pivot over hers, as she felt his hardened self nestle comfortably between her legs, waiting. Her breath was spasmodic, anticipation sending her body near the edges of reality, and he broke their kiss and lowered his face next to hers.

"Kagome," he whispered hoarsely, as though he had neither spoken nor breathed in over a decade. He was longing for her, she could sense it, even smell it in his husked odor, and it enticed her almost to the point that she would raise her awaiting cavern and sheath him herself. He swallowed, not helping his strained voice much. "Kagome, now, before we continue, would be that time to claim mate."

"What do we do?" she asked, feeling the hovering presence of his hungry fangs again over her soft meat flesh at the base of her neck and shoulder, and the hot air of his yearning breath.

"We bite one another, in a place where we wish to present the mark of mating." He breathed in deeply before continuing. "As you can tell," he continued, licking her in a lavishing way where his fangs once trailed. "I have chosen my place of marking."

Immediately she wanting to mirror his marking on her, eying that section of his own neck. "Inu-Yasha? Would it be uncanny, in the ways of demon rituals, if I chose the same spot on you?"

"It is quite common," he replied. His breath caught, and she felt his body twinge ever so slightly. She was holding out on him she realized, and leaving him to fight his desires. Something about him was a little, odd. Strained. "I believe this will go more smoothly…" he inhaled sharply, his hands roaming her again, "if you marked me first."

"It's waiting," he thought, feeling his blood coursing actively through him. He sensed it stir, the demon dwelling inside him, wanting to enact its animal behaviors upon Kagome. "She's not a human any longer," it whispered to him, its voice growing stronger with every word. "She can take it, no matter what I do to her. Bite her, Inu-Yasha. Taste her, mark her, take her."

Kagome delicately opened her mouth and placed it over the flesh of his neck, feeling it depress under her little fangs, and paused.

"You're fine," he reassured, sounding far away. "Don't be scared by this." She sucked, bringing his flesh deeper into her mouth and bit down. One of his muscular arms abruptly hooked around her waist and drew her towards him, as the other, supporting them both, flexed at the fingers and audibly scratched the rock under the water below, creating furrows. She licked the sweet blood from his neck, the wound slowly ceasing its flow. She believed she did that correctly; there was a gut feeling that told her she did. And another feeling...

He still held her, clasped to his person. Part of her was in alarm as an aura bloomed from him, yet another part almost seemed to be expecting this.

Almost harshly, Inu-Yasha pressed her against the rock with his body.

"Bite her, Inu-Yasha! Taste her, mark her, take her!"In a suddenly reeling and hazed reality he listened, and almost savoring it, he plunged his teeth into the skin of her neck, making her cry out in pain. That noise, that exclamation, and the flow of her life giving liquid pouring into this mouth called to his inner self, and stirred from his blood the demon which sought the satisfaction of the mating bite.

Kagome cried out again as she felt Inu-Yasha's fangs grow, deepening the pierce, and gasped with every lick and drink he took of her blood. He lapped forcfully at her neck, his hands moving with bent fingers, cutting her sides. She winced, calling out his name as the water of the hot spring slowly tinted pink. When the bite in her neck sealed and deprived him of her blood, he brought his eyes to hers, and she gasped to see them red and his fangs hanging out from under his upper lip. As she noticed this she felt him repositioning himself, bracing her against the rock as he stared desirously at her. Wanting her Inu-Yasha back, she raised her head and kissed him.

Inu-Yasha's blood was set to boil, and yet was cooling. His red eyes closed as she roamed his mouth with her tongue, and in the passionate moment his demon became submissive, allowing him to return the kiss with enough force to separate them both from air for a good minute.

They broke apart in a gasp, and Kagome was relieved to see his eyes returned to their deviously shaped amber form. "Inu-Yasha, what's the next step?" she asked. He grinned down at her, massaging her left breast and feeling her perfect curves interrupted.

"I hurt you," he stated mournfully, smelling her blood and feeling the furrows in her sides.

"Scratches," she replied before repeating her question.

"You really want to know?" he teased her, placing his mouth over her nipple. Her back arched slightly as her tip hardened against his tongue, pressing her chest closer to his face, and once satisfied he went on to the other.

"Yes!" she cried out, making him grin. "Yes, I want to know! AAAH!"

(Beginning of Lemon!)
She was longing for him, and she was awaiting him. The scent of her deep arousal tickled at his nose demandingly. He removed his mouth from her breast, and while teasing her lips and feeling her body with his palms his hips moved and he probed her nether regions, finding her entrance. She gasped anxiously at his nearing her, breaking the kiss, and he decided to start off slow. He languishingly sheathed half of his length into her, making her cry out and grasp his shoulders as he hungered for more of her thick rippled inner flesh to touch him. He thrust slowly, exploring her inside and out as their lovemaking advanced. She was tight around him, embracing his member and enticing him to no end. He wanted more, to feel his entire self lost within her welcoming chamber, to know the sensations of mating and to feel the release of himself.

"Deeper," she whimpered, clutching him harder as her inner muscles contracted around his pulsating shaft with every movement.

"What was that?" he asked teasingly, licking her neck opposite the mating mark and fondling an ear.

"OO-Ooooh!" she moaned. "Deeper!" she cried out pleadingly to him. She became even more anxious when he braced the dip of her back, and ever so gently, he allowed her to feel the entirety of him. She wailed with desire and delight, bringing herself to him. He withdrew halfway, rippling her inside and almost making her entire body shiver, and plunged back into her depths.

He watched as she screamed, a look of pain and pleasure mingling on her face as she tore at his back, arousing his demon side yet again. He repeated his actions, quickening his pace and still pushing deep into her core, to his limits. Her cries echoed through the forests, ringing in his ears like bells of victory. As he rode her, she brought her heels up and dug them into his buttocks, and she began to rock with him. Their love making made the hot spring waters feel cool against their naked skin, and the heat of the steam was nothing compared to the breaths they shared in the small gap between their faces.

Kagome was the first to orgasm, her back arching herself into him, and moments later he spent his seed into her awaiting cavity.

Of course, that wasn't the end of things…

Kagome, gasping for air, was somewhat shocked when he only slowed his pace and ceased going in all the way, allowing her some time to recover as she too rocked into his pelvis in time to him. So, he though he had stamina, did he?

After they released again, in his split second of weakness, she rolled them both over and wrought havoc on his chest as she rode him. He was not about to lie back and take it though, and shocked her in a very pleasurable way when he grasped her buttocks and thrust up into her, filling her cavity. Her head fell back slightly as she let out a gasp and raked her claws lightly against his breast, but recovered and commenced what she had started. Her body began to glisten with sweat as they continued. During a thrust on his part Inu-Yasha brought himself up and licked up the valley of her perfect breasts, taking in her salty taste. She came as he was licking his lips, and with an almost evil chuckle he turned her back downwards with a great splash, and did not stop riding her until he had licked every square inch of her glorious exposed body; multiple times, taking in her delicious taste. By the time he had finished, she came twice more, and he gifted her his seed in three volleys.

At this point, both of them shaking from exhausting their muscles, he withdrew, and with a huge sigh of relief, weariness and achievement, he took his seat next to his mate and pulled her into one last passionate kiss. That ended quickly, as they were already panting for breath even before the kiss, and she rested her head on his chest and felt it rise with his inhales as he placed an arm over her back, securing her nude body possessively to his.

(End of Lemon!)
She began to twirl a lock of his wet sliver hair around her finger, and he rubbed his fingers throughout her own raven tresses, stirring from it her intoxicating scent. Never, not even in the wildest of their fantasies, had they come close to imagining the sheer volume of their delight in making love to one another. Their eyes made contact, amber meeting wholesome brown. At that instant the same thought ran through their fatigued minds, and it made them grin evilly to the other.

They thought: "We have got to do that again soon…"

(Off and completely forgotten in the distance…)

Koga was sobbing uncontrollably all over himself. He heard the entire thing. From start to finish. Every goddamned moan and splash.

"My poor mate!" he whimpered. "So confused she'd sink down to the level of a dog!" He wailed even harder, Inu-Yasha and Kagome completely oblivious in their little world of newfound magic and fun.

(End of chapter!)

Hikari: "I'm so glad to have such a good lemon writer and editor at hand..."

Reiki: "Yeah... A surprising skill on my part."

Hikari: "Haha, yeah. Since you haven't even had your first kiss yet, you daydreaming hentai."

Reiki: -rocks slightly in seat- "Patience is a virtue."

Hikari: "It's a long suffering."

Reiki: "Yes... Just like you having to wait for the next chapter..."

Hikari: "Patience is NOT a part of my vocabulary! Write bitch, or I'll sell you for commissions!!"

Reiki: "NOOOO!!!"