It was a first in a long time for the two of them, a peaceful day where they could relax and simply enjoy a good day. With such a large bounty on his head and his inability to let her go off alone, they were constantly on their toes with how they were always moving. Stretching her sore and stiff body, Kagome smiled as her muscles relaxed and she eased herself into a new comfortable position, though she let out a quiet whoosh of air when his form rolled over hers. His longer, leaner and slightly heavier body curled around her own, his arms wrapping around her waist as he snuggled to get comfy.
"You know, you're not the lightest." despite her words and slight complaint, her hands lowered to brush through his hair. It still marveled her how soft if was despite the harsh winds and sands they were forced to travel through daily.
His voice was muffled from it's buried position, which was currently between her breasts. "But you're so huggable, and comfy!" his whine had her chuckling.
Slowly peeking her eyes open, she stared up at the white gauzy fabric, that was currently tinted a golden yellow due to the borrowed shades, she had pitched to provide shade for the both of them. He had offered his jacket for them to rest upon to shield them from the sun baked sands.
"I'm not a teddy bear or a pillow!" she gave the back of his head a light slap, lips once again curling at the whimpering whine the action pulled from him.
"Kagome, why do you have to be so cruel?" his arms tightened her waist as he attempted to bury himself deeper in her hold.
Snorting quietly she closed her eyes once again. "You just need to be more mature. You were never this whiny when you were a younger." memories flooded forth at her words. The cold blackness of space, a small crew, her learning the truth of what had happened after waking up from a cryogenic sleep, meeting the boys, picnics in that one room that was filled with Earth's lasts living remnants of life.
As if he too was experiencing a trip down memory lane, his arms tightened around her possessively. When they first crashed on this planet, his brother had dragged him away leaving Kagome behind and as the years rolled by he mourned her death. Humans were so fragile and lived such short lives. It was sometime after July when he found her again, in some small little outpost helping out in anyway she could. He had a vague memory of who she was, she much more so. The instant he had approached her, she had dropped all she had been doing and threw herself at him with a cry of elation.
It had been confusing for him, having lost his memories, but she had helped him fill in the blanks. It had been heart wrenching when he regained the worst bits and if it hadn't been for her kind nature, open heart, he would have lost it long ago. He remembered Rem, the great fall, thinking he had lost Kagome, what had happened at July. On reflex, his hands tightly gripped the back of her shirt and tightly pressed his ear to her chest, the sound of her heartbeat soothing him in ways nothing else ever could.
After a few relaxing minutes, he pulled back and looked up at her and pushed himself up onto his elbows. Her one arms was curled to pillow her head causing her hair to fan out and look like spilled ink, her other dropped from his hair to land softly on her stomach. His eyes however were focused on her face, awe still overtook him every time he realized that she had never aged despite the times. How could a human live so long? Sure, there were a few signs, the barest faint laugh lines at the corner of her eyes which was a testament to her true nature.
His glasses rested loosely atop her soft button nose, it was adorable and comforting to see her wearing something of his comfortably. After a while her hand raised and she pushed the shades up and smiled up at him. "What's wrong?"
He simply continued to examine her, watching her brows furrow in concern, how her smiled dipped down in a slight pouting frown. She shifted to raise herself up onto her own elbows, her concern growing the longer he remained silent. Longer still he remained quiet to the point she raised a hand and pressed it to his brow, his worry and ever lingering fear of her disappearing from his life once again that he tried to block out the world. Eyes clenched shut, he simply basked in her touch and the light scent of her.
She was beginning to worry, when she said for him to be mature she didn't mean for him to retreat in the shell he had made for himself whenever his worst memories returned. His cheeks rested in the palm of her hand, her thumb unconsciously sweeping along his cheekbone. When she she was about to speak up in worry, she paused at the hard turquoise that were pinned on her. There was a concrete decisiveness to them that she rarely saw from him, a sureness that made her slightly... anxious.
"I want... can I keep you?" the question was asked with such seriousness that all her mental functions literally came to a screeching halt.
Blinking, Kagome attempted to jump start her brain. "Uh, what brought this on?"
His brows angled downwards, his lips thinning. "I don't, I can't lose you again."
Reading between the lines, her dumbstruck melted away into ease her tense and confused form relaxing. "I'm hardly going to disappear anytime soon. You're stuck with me." she even nudged him softly in an attempt to lighten the mood between them.
His expression hardened, became more tense. "No. I mean more than that."
Brows pinching once again, her eyes slid to the side as she tried to figure out what else he could possibly mean. When she turned to focus back on him, she reared back slightly in surprise, not having sensed or noticed that he brought himself closer to her. "Wha...!"
Eyes widened when he pressed his brow to her, his intense gaze bearing down on her allowing her to see the greens and blues that made up his eyes and the fact that there was even flecks of silvery gray that most likely made his eyes so bright. Swallowing thickly, she lowered her hand so it rested just beneath his shoulder. She wasn't sure if it was a precaution move should she feel uncomfortable, but she knew deep down that he would never do anything to make her truly uncomfortable or at unease.
"I want you. I want to keep you, all of you. Your never ending free kindness, those smiles that are so free, your caring heart, the sight you have on that ever bright future no matter how dark the present is." his eyes closed whereas hers widened the longer he spoke. "Your beauty, your grace, that adorable clumsy side, the wisdom you are willing to share with others and the eagerness to learn everything that's new. I want... need it all."
By now, Kagome was sure she was madly blushing, and could no longer blame it on the sun. She had grown used to living in the rather harsh desert like world that was a far cry from home. Her fingers curled into his shirt, the material bunching and stretching. When his eyes opened again, her lips pursed to hold back a squeak, feeling like a young girl for the first time in a millennium. Sensing his need for an answer, Kagome jumped to spit something out. At first there was nothing, until he shifted once more, this time to allow him to remain up as well as hold her.
Her voice stuttered and came out squeaky, she also berated herself that it came out more as a question than an actual answer but she would blame the heat and his rather uncharacteristic behavior should anyone ask in the future. "O-okay?"
His shoulders sagged as he allowed his head to drop, his face now buried in her neck. When a long and low sigh escaped him, she felt the goosebumps immediately follow and pursed her lips at the unfamiliar feeling. That changed however, an undignified squawk leaving her when his hand shifted to the buttons of her blouse, her body dropping as the attempted to swat his hands away. "What do you think you're doing?"
Yes, she may be the oldest human there ever lived, no thanks to the Shikon, and she had thought of taking a lover, but the thought of losing them to old age or never being able to have a family kept her away from all that. Never having tasted the fruit of carnal passions, she never felt a need to seek out that sort of companionship. Meaning, she was quite literally the oldest virgin alive. It was sad really, in some ways, but it was the card she had been dealt with. That also didn't mean she wasn't unfamiliar with sex, she did grow up in Tokyo were sex sold everything and was considered the hentai capital the world.
"Va-! Ah, no stop that!" her fists lightly beat against his back, her blush returning with a vengeance. She cried out when she felt the hot desert wind brushing against bared skin, her hands now attempting to close her shirt back up.
Her attempts were hindered though by his own hands, that and she really didn't want to tear her shirt in the struggle. Wandering the desert with the most wanted man on the planet meant you traveled light, spare clothing was kept to spare underwear. She winced at the idea of being forced to travel in the sun without a shirt with nothing but a bra under her poncho like jacket. Blinking when he stopped half way, she let out a sigh of relief when she figured he realized her embarrassment at his teasing, though her breath caught her through when he once again pressed his ear to her chest.
Nibbling on her lower lip, she felt the goosebumps spread at the foreign feeling of his hair brushing against her skin, or the sharp contrast of the rather cool sensation of his small gold earring. Letting her head drop back to the ground, her hands rose and held tightly to his shoulders as they shook. Her heart felt like it was ready to burst from her ribcage.
"It's beating so fast." the awed comment flew past her ears, well the awe part, she thought he was teasing her all over again.
Raising a hand to smack him on the back of his head, a whimper left her instead when he pressed a kiss just above her heart. Brows furrowing, her hand shook in the air as she was unsure of what to do with it. This was truly the first time she had been so intimate with anyone in her long life. Her body jerked at the slight nip from his teeth that was followed by a soft tugging?...pulling?... sucking? Eyes flew open with a gasp when she realized what he was doing, a hickey! He was giving her a hickey!
Her hand immediately dove into his hair and she shifted when strange sensations coursed through her body. She knew it most likely to be the beginnings of arousal, but to her untried body it still was foreign and new and it left her panting softly in whimpers. Her arms curled automatically around him, her face buried into his soft golden hair. When he pulled away slightly, she dropped back on the ground beneath her, her form shook with the slightest of tremors and her arms stretched as her fingers seemed unable to ease from the tight hold on his shoulders.
Watching him through hazy eyes, her lips pursed as he eyed the mark he had given her for a few moments before swooping down to plant a tender kiss. When he pulled back again, a switch must have been flipped, for Vash seemed to have returned. A goofy grin stretched across his face as he held himself above her. "Mah, you're blushing so brightly. How cute, Kagome-chan!"
And just like that, her own irritation, confusion and a small budding hope rose up at his words. "B-baka! What else am I supposed to do when you molest me like that! And in public too!"
"We're half a day away from the next out post, no one would have seen us." his laughter eased her, as well as made her blush all that much fiercer.
"We're still out in the open! Travelers could easily see us." she pouted when he leaned down and nuzzled her cheek, his nose brushing against her temple as his lips curled up in a bright smile.
"Oh? Are you saying that if we were in a room I can do whatever I want to my Kagome-chan?" he chuckled as she sputtered and choked on air.
"Baka! That's not what I said at all!" her fists began to pummel down against his shoulders and upper back. "I think all those clumsy spells of yours finally caused brain damage."
Vash simply held her closer to his body, relishing in her warmth and the way she seemed to fit perfectly against him. Her scent filled his lungs as that feeling he always got from Kagome alone eased over and throughout his entire being. "So cruel Kagome-chan, beating me all over again. You said I could have you, doesn't that mean I get to hold?"
A harsh sigh left her at the kicked puppy like whine. He had been so inquisitive when she helped raised him, now, now he was more like a child than before. "You're always whining... so not... manly." she dead panned at this fact.
A shocked gasp left Vash as he quickly pushed himself away from her, leaning over her with that kicked puppy expression of his. As she rolled her eyes, she was about to point out that what he was doing right now simply proved her point. So with w smug grin in place with her chosen plan of action, she halted at his own smug grin.
He raised a hand and tapped the dark mark that rested over her beating heart, almost snickering when her cheeks instantly took on a rosy hue that he simply found adorable on her. Grinning down at her, he laughed at her pout. His laughter grew at the weak swat to his shoulder, so he pulled their bodies closer together by hugging her tightly to himself and burying his face into her neck to deeply inhale her sweet scent. He easily ignored her soft complaint and request that she at least get to close her top, and after a while she let out a sigh and wrapped her arms around him in return.
Today was perfect, a nice and very much wanted break from their everyday life. He was planning to enjoy it to the fullest while dreaming of future days much like this one to come. For now, he will treasure Kagome's blushes as he continued to tease her.
AN: A little something that came to me after I watched Trigun. Ain't Vash just the cutest? Anyways, I hope this will tie everyone over as I am currently in the middle of writing the net chapter of Fairy Tale Syndrome. Halfway done, I swear! Should be up by next week. Anyways, I hope everyone enjoyed this little piece. Read, enjoy, and review! - BunnyWK