Duran-kun and Kiyo-chan's Omake Theater
(featuring the Kuga-Fujino family pets)
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A/N: This one flirts with lime content. Though I really doubt anyone who's gotten this far would have any particular objections to that, I figured that it's only fair to warn you.
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Natsuki enjoyed hot springs. Plunging herself into heated mineral water, leaning back, and letting herself melt into a puddle was definitely a great way to relax. The occasional cold drink tasted especially good by contrast, and she was even looking forward to the traditional Japanese inn they were staying at. Two years of being Shizuru Fujino's lover had helped give her a new appreciation for her country's cultural history, so that she'd been looking forward to this hot springs vacation trip ever since Mai (she of the endless supply of "friends hanging out together" projects) had suggested it.
It wasn't just Natsuki who was enjoying the hot springs: Kiyohime was laying on a rock in the middle of the pool, all six of her heads stretched out loose and floppy, heavy-lidded sleepy expressions on six individual faces. Clearly, Shizuru's hydra agreed with Natsuki about the best parts of a hot springs vacation.
Unfortunately, their opinion was not a unanimous one.
"S-Shizuru!" Natsuki exclaimed as her lips were momentarily freed.
"Yes, Natsuki?"
"What do you think you're doing?"
Shizuru blinked at Natsuki in apparent confusion.
"I...would think that would have been fairly self-evident?" she offered. "Has Natsuki not been paying close attention these past years?"
"Idiot! Anyone can tell that!" Indeed, it would have been very difficult to mistake Shizuru's intent. She had slipped into the pool where Natsuki reclined up against the rocky border of the hot spring, then quickly covered Natsuki's body with her own. Shizuru's firm thigh was pressed up between Natsuki's, one hand braced herself by holding Natsuki's shoulder, while the other cupped a bare breast (and was, Natsuki noted, not...stopping...its caresses even—ah!—while they talked). "I want to know why you're doing it here!"
"I've been dreaming of doing this ever since you told me about this trip," Shizuru purred in Natsuki's ear, before she dipped her head and sank her teeth lightly into the curve of muscle between neck and shoulder.
"This is a public—ah!—bath, Shizuru! Someone might...come in..."
It was extremely hard to properly protest against being pounced on by one's girlfriend while she was drawing involuntary gasps, moans, and shudders of pleasure from one's body. Natsuki knew, moreover, that she had only herself to blame. During their first few months as lovers, she'd been easily embarrassed about expressing her sexual feelings. Coming to terms with things like "trust" and "love" had been hard enough; she just didn't have a lot of life experience with intimacy and she'd been barely learning to accept it emotionally with Shizuru, let alone physically. A little maidenly shyness was only natural under the circumstances, she thought defensively.
As opposed to Shizuru, who'd been...avid? Wanton? A raging nymphomaniac? Though she'd tossed those phrases back at Shizuru more than once in annoyance, Natsuki knew they weren't really fair: Shizuru's sexual enthusiasm had always had a sort of joyful innocence about it. She was like a child who, after several years of being absolutely denied any treats by health-conscious parents, was suddenly turned loose in a candy factory and told she could have as much as she wanted without guilt. It wasn't only that she had passionate desires for Natsuki, but that she was told it was all right to have those desires that made her so eager to indulge them.
The net result of their respective feelings was several months solid of Shizuru being the much more active partner in bed before Natsuki finally became comfortable with her sexual self. Months in which Shizuru had learned exactly what spots to touch and in what way to reduce Natsuki to a state of being so aroused she'd cross over from "willingly let Shizuru do things to her" to "do them right back, thank you very much."
Which knowledge, now that it wasn't needed for its original purpose, Shizuru was more than willing to put to work in the seduction process.
"On the contrary; the others have gone down into the village to take a tour of the temple gardens, and our party was large enough that we're the only guests at the inn. So that means that we" Squeeze. "have this" Stroke. "spring all to" Nibble. "ourselves for the next hour."
Natsuki's legs came up and scissored around Shizuru's hips, one hand spread out flat against her back and the other plunged into her sandy hair, and she pulled the other girl tightly against her while crushing their lips together. Her tongue ruthlessly plundered Shizuru's mouth for nearly two minutes, before she pulled her girlfriend's head away.
"You make some really convincing arguments," she said, her voice husky with the need she abandoned herself over to.
Shizuru beamed with delight, but the smile didn't quite reach her eyes. They were alight with a very different kind of happy emotion, one much more well-suited to their crimson hue.
"Natsuki wants it quick and rough this morning, I see?" The promise in her voice made Natsuki's belly flutter and her thighs clench reflexively around Shizuru's, grinding down on her.
"Natsuki has better things for you to do with your mouth than talk," she growled, and pulled Shizuru back down for another searing kiss.
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Duran would have liked to play in the hot springs with the others, but as a boy, he'd been banished from the women's side. Even deep in a nap, though, his canine senses were on keen alert, and his his ears twitched as his "watchdog" mode activated. His eyes flicked open, and he gave two quick woofs.
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Kiyohime had been trying her best not to listen to what was going on around her, but Duran's voice cut through that right away. The hydra lifted her heads, concentrating, and as soon as she realized what it was that Duran was raising the alarm about, she took six deep breaths.
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"Okay, Mai," Nao said flatly as the six towel-clad girls walked outside from the changing room, "I'm all for a hot bath, but if an outdoor hot spring is putting out so much steam that I can't see two feet in front of my face then I'm not putting a foot in there. I want a bath, not to become Nao soup."
"Is it really that hot?" Akane asked softly. "Since the gardens were closed for repairs, I was really hoping to get to soak in the springs at least."
Chie grinned wickedly.
"I don't think it's the pool putting out the steam, girls. At least, if that bright red I can see peeking through the fog is Natsuki's face instead of a safety light, then I have a feeling we should all be thanking Kiyohime right about now for what we're not seeing."
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A/N: I hope that everyone remembered Kiyohime's steam breath (Shizuru's Wikipedia entry, incidentally, suggests that she's actually breathing venom in the show, like a spitting cobra...it certainly seems like a gaseous breath weapon while looking, though...) and Chie's knowledge of it from Chapter 25 ("A Misty Road to Stardom")! Incidentally, for anyone who's curious, the entire trip group consisted of Natsuki, Shizuru, Mai, Chie, Aoi, Nao, Akane, Mikoto, Reito, Tate, and Kazuya (and Duran, Kiyohime, Kagutsuchi, Miroku, Julia, and Hari, of course!).