Chapter 6: True Feelings for a Stranger
Aisha and Haomaru had soon met with Haomaru's 'friend' who in truth had been his cousin, this by action neglected to be mentioned by the Feline Samurai; whom hadn't thought much of the family bond since they were more as friends as they were relatives, it was something normal to him. His glance had turned to the entrance of the famous ship; it was the Armarandt, one of the more prestigious armored pleasure cruise ships; personally owned by a Tomoe Delilah of the Shoreline Blade. Aisha gave a light snort as she caught the scent of cherry blossoms under her nose; hear the voice of the extravagant female didn't help her mood either.
"Haomaru! Aiyah, it's been forever!" the jubilant female had leapt across the hall way and had been caught and lightly hugged by the Samurai; her face nuzzling along his shoulder tenderly as she had hugged him closely, she licked his cheek and had drawn back as she heard a growl. "Well now who do we have here? A girlfriend of yours Haomaru? I didn't know you had a girlfriend, you should have told me."
Aisha was utterly pissed at her rude attitude, she gave off another loud growl and had swished her tail in a manner that was calming; she took a breath before she spoke, "I little miss am the great Aisha Clan Clan, and you'd better know that without me having to tell you again." She gave a stern glare at the girl who gave a light grin at her words.
"Ooo Full of flare aren't we? Of course I know you Aisha, you're so famous who wouldn't? You are the C'tarl C'tarl that traveled with Gene Starwind and took out the top pirates that belong to the 108 Stars of the Kei Pirates." The feline was quite knowledgeable about the events that took place and this caught Aisha a little off guard since the girl was still hugging on Haomaru; Aisha couldn't help but feel ticked off by her clingy nature, Haomaru drew from her and the girl let him go.
As Aisha and Haomaru had bid the crew of the Outlaw Star good bye finally over the comm., Haomaru and Aisha were taken to separate rooms; much to Aisha's disappointment somewhere inside of her they were quite distant. She couldn't help but notice more and more irritated anger towards the feline hostess who'd been hanging around Haomaru and catching up with him; she noticed how well they got along and told each other anything that had happened without problems. "Well the dinner was most enjoyable thanks for eating with me, the two of you are great company." She smiled once more as Aisha grabbed Haomaru's arm and had led him towards the exit of the room. "Good night!" Tomoe gave a light shrug at the hasty retreat of Aisha and had went about finishing her meal.
"Haomaru, how do you know that girl?" the question came from Aisha's mouth without her thinking; by time she thought about what she said she had no longer cared about even being embarassed if at all. "Well she trained with me close during our upbringing, she's one of the fellow students of the Shoreline Blade Style; one of the few acceling students that brings high honor to our school.
"Oh, no wonder she was hanging around you so much; it must've been a long time since you two have seen each other." the news made Aisha smile a little bit mentally; she was suddenly feeling better and hadn't taken a moment to think why. "Well Good Night Haomaru, see you tomorrow." Aisha said before the feline could say anything at all and was gone down the hall and headed towards her room.
Later on as the hours passed idly the ship was in silence, the time was passing fairly slow in the mind of a certain C'tarl C'tarl and had her waking up several times throughout the evening. She grumbled and kicked the pillow from the bed, it was comfortable enough as was the pillow and the new feeling bed linen she was on; something was wrong but it wasn't what she had thought. She sat up on the bed now, her hair falling down over her shoulders as she gave off a soft yawn and stretched her arm and tail out behind her. "I wonder what the hell it is? I should be sleeping like a stone." She told herself to go back to sleep and curled back up, she succeeded for the time being and had fallen back to bed.
Her mind drifted away to other thoughts while she slept, she envisioned the end of the battle of the Pseudo King; the monster that had been planning to rape her and would have succeeded had her friend not come along. "Friend." the word whispered in her head and made her smile in her sleep as she curled onto her side, it made her smile that she had a friend; he was a strange and still mysterious person to her but he was a friend.
Finally the hours had passed into the early morning of the new day, Aisha woke up from her sleep without need of an alarm since she found her standing and stretching out her back and tail as her nightgown was brushed down by her hands. "I wonder if Haomaru's awake yet?" she figured that he was up doing some strange meditation or kata with his sword; well she'd put a stop to that she figured by the time she had headed towards his room with a mind set straight in thought. By the time she reached his door her ears perked to the sound of a female purring, her eyes burned furiously, "She wouldn't dare..! I'll rip her to pieces!" her fury built as she yanked the door open; her eyes widened and narrowed at the sleeping Tomoe.
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It took only a few minutes for her to leap onto the bed and tackle Tomoe from Haomaru, a flying and hissing ball of tussling females had Haomaru shoot to wake as he had tried to gather his barings, he caught sight of two tussling bodies and the familiar yowls of his cousin and his newest friend of all at this time. He more or less blinked as he heard Aisha's yelling distinctly in his room; what was she doing here exactly? Then it hit him that he was such a fool not to tell her, Tomoe's laughing confirmed his thoughts at moot point.
"Who the hell do you think you are! Sneaking into someone's bedroom to sleep so damn close to them! I'm gonna rip your God damned throat out you slut!" Aisha's growling and struggling with the near equally strong friend of Haomaru's wasn't in her morning plans but she was far too pissed to be stopped now, as she took into thought of what she had saw; she long justified her actions on pouncing the female and attacking her as she did right now. Tomoe had pushed herself from Aisha and had smiled at her wily, she knew why she pounced her and had almost savored the moment of her rage. Aisha's anger continued to flare until Haomaru; who was now dressed in his night robe had stepped between the two and held Aisha in his arms, having caught the hissing and angry C'tarl before she could try to rip his cousin apart.
"Haomaru, what the hell-" She was cut off as he had given a sigh; it seemed to silence her long enough for him to speak now as he had looked at her with a light gentle look. "I'm sorry Aisha, in my utter ignorance I forgot to explain just what Tomoe is to me; I can see that I didn't help the situation by not telling you." Aisha took in his words and pulled from his grasp now, still fleeting with her anger as she glared at him and the still smiling Tomoe afterwards.
"This is Tomoe Delilah of the Shoreline Blade, I had guessed that this would have caught your ear yes?" Aisha shrugged off the question as she answered it without hesitation or wait. "Yeah yeah, so she studied at your school what does that mean? She's a sister of yours in the school that's no excuse to be all over you!" she seemed ready to pounce on the now giggling Tomoe who looked at her and shook her head, "Wrong again kitten, we are fellow students but it's much more than that." Tomoe's teasing nearly broke Aisha's patience as she spat a retort, "Shut your mouth before I rip you apart stupid hussy." this only fed Tomoe the satisfaction she felt.
Haomaru rubbed behind his head and sighed again; man he wasn't very good at explaining so he got on with it quickly and fortified his determination, "Yes, this link with her is truly through familial link since we are close blood cousins. She, Tomoe Delilah is my first cousin by blood and daughter to my aunt." He finished with a little satisfaction the information planted in her Aisha's mind, he continued so as to clear up any confusion she had. "She and I are very close, I know what it appeared to be sexual in content wasn't really so; in that fact we are used to resting close when in need of comfort, I admit that Tomoe was teasing you with her not telling you and for that I am deeply sorry. But in all truths this isn't uncommon for my family to be used to cuddling or closeness in rest." he gave her a light look and watched her just blush before she had stormed out of the room, still angry but about other things.
Tomoe moved to his arm and hugged his side as she giggled uncontrollably, "You know Haomaru, she really is quite taken with you, did you see her anger at me curling against you? She couldn't stand it! Oooh, I'm so excited for you cuz; looks like you have a real keeper there." Haomaru more or less blushed and had looked at her while shaking his head, "You could really have gotten someone hurt with your ignorance Tomoe, she was really angry you should have told her you." he frowned at his cousin and she sighed lightly at him. "Yeah yeah, I'm sorry alright? Let's go get some breakfast, its going to be really fun." Haomaru's ears perked at her voice as she had looked over her shoulder and winked, he sighed knowing that his cousin was planning to toy with Aisha more; and he took notice of his own thoughts, he knew if he could help it he'd stop her.
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During the duration of the overly sized breakfast that the three of them were sharing, there was a cool silence there since the event in the bedroom before. He took note that Aisha was wrapped up in her eating and keeping her gaze only on the food; he noticed her embarassment was a little stronger from before and had taken the note into thought since she was digging through her food a little quicker than he'd noticed her to before. He gave off a light sigh as he had felt the breakfast was going pretty well and that things weren't going to be nearly as bad as he had thought. His mind was keeping focused on eating a fair share of the food at the table, his people the 'Nuxys' as they were joking called by others in the C'tarl Empire were known for their appetites being tremendous. He had felt things going well until he made one large error; this was the one that had made time seem to slow down... as his grasp slipped and the fork in his hand had dropped towards his lap, while normally he would have caught it again he felt himself seize up once it hit his lap and sat there.
Tomoe gave a soft fake look of shock before she had spoken words that Haomaru had dreaded hearing from her lips, "Oops, had an accident did you Haomaru let me get it for you." he could feel Aisha's gaze set on her as she strutted over to him; he could have sworn he felt Aisha's blood boiling and anger building as Tomoe's tail had shot up like a cat showing their significant greatness in an area. He watched as Tomoe almost teasingly bent over, making sure her rear had brushed her cousin's side as if she were hitting on him. But the worst had been yet to come and Haomaru knew it. It wasn't until he noticed her robe had shifted and purposely been left partly open at her cleavage; and while he wasn't affected it didn't help Aisha's rage building as he fet her sit in his lap and curl an arm around his shoulder before she'd spoken. "Here you are Hao-kun, let me fix it for you." he gave off a light growl as he felt her grinding into his lap; not at the feeling but at what she was doing, his instincts told him Aisha was already rising as Tomoe turned in his lap and had taken the fork to the French Toast and took a piece before placing it in Haomaru's mouth, "Eat up now dear cousin." her words mocked something sensual and he heard Aisha's growl, hell was going to break loose.
Aisha's body was a blur over the table, she'd naturally leapt over the table and had tackled Tomoe down, which in this case had her landing atop of Tomoe and Haomaru at once. the period leaving Haomaru closed off as he felt her struggling with his cousin, they were tussling above him; his body pinned by both struggling girls now as he heard Tomoe giggle and Aisha snarling. Haomaru had felt himself blushing deeply at this point, his body had naturally come to life with Aisha above him; in some overt way this was rather sexy of the C'tarl to be upon him in her nature, pure rage. However the ending was what had the both of them stunned while they passed glances at each other; Aisha hadn't been near Tomoe now since she slipped away, she was upon Haomaru now and indirectly at some point left straddling him.
The moment didn't really last more than a moment as they stared into each others eyes, as if bewildered and entrapped by the gaze of the infinity within each others eyes. Soon she had darted back from him and had been sitting on the ground, her back to him and her face now more than beat red; with a more strange odd silence between them. Only Tomoe's voice had spoken, she knew Aisha was utterly furious at her and was already by the door to retreat, "Well now you two have fun, it seems you needed help coming together. So glad that I could help you Cuz ." she mocked a full smile before she had disappeared behind the door.
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Some odd hours after the incident at breakfast, Aisha had made sure that she avoided Haomaru for some of the time while she sorted out her feelings, it took her some time to gather just what she was going to be doing, what she had been thinking about, however she had decided something by the evening, that it was time to tell him just what was up. "I won't let this go unsaid." She told herself a little unsurely, though she had been sure enough that she was going to tell him this. She left her room and had started down the hall no, her mind was focused on her quarry and her mission; she smirked a little finally feeling good about it now, the thought didn't seem to bother her now.
Haomaru sat in his room in meditation, even in the late hours he'd given off a light sigh while his tail as he had given off a frustrated sigh and bat his tail against the edge of the floor. "Curse Tomoe...she utterly ruined breakfast, and now I am stuck with this guilt that is to be mine by fate; how cruel can you be to one?" he asked the silence of his room in some need of a desperate answer. Though the silence was broken as his door was slid open and then slid closed afterwards, before he could say anything he found himself yelping in some surprise as Aisha yanked him to his feet. "Anything to say on your behalf Cat-boy?" her look spoke of some faux frustration, though it appeared real to him he fumbled some words in answer, "Yes, I'm sorry about my cousin's outburst, she was totally out of line." Aisha cut him off with a soft growl, "Anything else?" heblinked and then started to form words again; fumbling over his speech, "She was rude-" "And!" Aisha seemed to grow more impatient, and rolled her eyes at him,"Fine I'll do it." her last words spoken finality that Haomaru didn't understand.
However the next action wasn't his to do or understand, Aisha drew him closer to him and pressed her lips to his now; taking the confused Nyx into a kiss as she had nuzzled her face into his now as she held him to her. His fingers curled at her shoulders now, his tail curling at her side while he returned the gentle kiss and seemed to fall into the mood of the kiss. The two seemed to be at peace,while finally coming together the trial wasn't over yet; it now would only take time to see what would happen between the two next.