A/N: Hello everyone! Thank you for the comments in the previous chapter. I've managed to churn this out before I sleep tonight in hopes you all don't have to wait that long for 'next level' *Wink.
I can only say, the best has yet to come.
Soon, I promise. Soon.
A.615
*Koi - Apart from yes, the fish, it also means Love, and a rather tiny bit aggressive form of Come Here.
66. Koi (Come here)
"We can talk now," Toge said to her, leaning in to nudge her nose with his.
Maguro blinked, surprised with her sudden situation. One minute she's in the hallway corridor in front of Inumaki's room, the next, she's in his room.
Wait. Had he been waiting for this?
With him trapping her in a corner, Maguro looked up at him leaning closer to her face and gulped audibly. The deep voice that he used about that 'talk' swiftly reminded her of all the colourful images she had conjured up while in the monitoring room earlier that day when the school exchange event is going on. Back when she didn't know he would be able to see what's in her mind if she thinks hard.
Of her pushing him down on the bed while they're watching movie.
Straddling him while he's sitting up, staring up tenderly into her eyes as she leaned down to kiss him, hearing him groan when he slips his tongue into her mouth as her hand lightly danced down his neck to his chest.
Then proceeds to pull him over her by gripped onto his arm tightly, the momentum causing his mouth to slide down to her neck and bite-
STOP! STOP! STOP! STOP! STOP! Maguro commanded her brain to do that.
But it was too late.
She lowered down her hands from her face and looked back up, only to find Inumaki smiling down at her and responded by pulling down the zipper to his collar, making sure to keep eye contact with her before he replies with a deep, tantalizing manly voice, "Yes, that."
She bites her lips and thought that she could feel herself getting hot and wet down there.
Inumaki raised his eyebrows, a dark look in his eyes when he heard that thought of hers, "Oho… really?"
Maguro wanted to scream in shame. Everything is all out. All her thoughts from here on out were heard and seen clearly by Inumaki. There was no filter at all if he continues to lean in closer like that. She couldn't pull back up the floodgate that stops her from reading his thoughts without him wanting her to, and the worst is that he could see hers too.
As if there were nothing stopping them from seeing each other's thoughts.
She shuts her eyes and looked everywhere else but him. She needs to think of some other things, slow down her breathing and heartrate, anything. No, nothing about the bedroom. Don't think nothing about the futon-
Nothing of Inumaki kissing her.
Nothing regarding him pushing her down onto his futon the other day.
Nothing of that night where he had her straddling him, their bodies so close to each other.
And nothing about her feeling something hot and hard pressing up her inner thigh and knowing what that is when she sees him clenching his jaws while staring up at her hungrily. That flush of his made her want to do things with hi-
Maguro gave a small scream and covered her hot face from him, embarrassment flaring up when she realizes that Inumaki could see everything she had imagined and remembered despite her desperately wanting to shut her thoughts out. She cursed her weak control over her Read abilities whenever Inumaki is so near her. He is her weakness, and damn, despite all the embarrassment, she wanted him.
She wanted him so much since that night.
"And yes," he started. "I wanted you too, but most of all, I wanted you to choose the time yourself. I don't want to force you to do anything you're not comfortable with-"
"I'm- I'm comfortable- with…you…Toge-kun…" Maguro blurted out, then realizes too late that she sounded a little desperate. She looked up at him shyly. God damn her eyes. Who could ever resist Inumaki Toge when he looks at you hungrily like this?
"If you want me to do that to you again, you can always let me know," Inumaki smiled fondly at her, brushing her baby hair away from her face and tilting her chin up with his finger. "Anything you want, I would do it for you."
He chuckled heartily when he sees her blushing madly in this little corner of his room. He hasn't even done anything yet. Wonder what she would become if he does more than this…
And that reminds him of one thing.
"I've been wanting to know this for a while now, Maguro," he started. "But would you be counting our underwater kiss as our first kiss or the infirmary one?" Toge said to her in his thoughts, one finger trailing lightly on her arm up to her hand covering her face, trying to elicit a response from her.
And Maguro snapped her head up, eyes widely staring at him and blinked like an owl.
"What?"
The Cursed Speech User smiled. Oh, that mesmerizing devilish smile. "I was just saying, our underwater kiss-"
"Underwater kiss?" Maguro repeated slowly, wondering why Toge brought this up. What underwater kiss?
He just nodded earnestly.
She blinked. "There's one?" Toge nodded slowly, as if in doubt, then frowned a little questioningly. "Oh, why didn't I know about that?"
Stunned, Toge blinked back.
"The day we met-" Toge started with one eyebrow lifted, hoping to jog her memory a little, but she looked every bit as confused as the first time when he told her he wasn't speaking out loud and that she had heard his thoughts instead.
Maguro nodded her head. "Okay, the day we met?"
"You fell into the water," he repeated the incident and watched her reaction.
Nothing. She still looked confused.
"You don't remember we had our first kiss underwater?" chucking all logic and patience out the window, Toge blurted it all out, thoughts and all.
Damn privacy. He'd show her everything if she can remember that. At this rate, he didn't even care if she saw him touching himself to her image in his mind in the shower.
Maguro had the balls to blush in shame for not remembering their first kiss.
"Oh, oh…" Maguro tried to say something that shows she remembers but truthfully, she really doesn't. She couldn't remember much what happened under the water. She was probably already so lightheaded she couldn't even think straight. Did that really happen? Oh, but, oh yes, was that how she manages to come back to the surface alive?
He gave her air? Through a kiss?
Maguro blushes even redder at her imagination, of her pulling his collar closer to her as she crushes her lips to his, slipping her tongue into his-
NONONONONO! Maguro screamed in her head and slapped both hands on her flaming cheeks. No! That's not what happened!
"Yes, that's what happened," Toge replied to her while nodding his head, slapping one of her hands on the side of his head, hoping that she would see what he's showing her now. "Without the tongue, yes, but that is really what happened. Can't you remember?"
Toge really wanted her to remember that. It was – and it remained a fact until today – that he is irrevocably drawn to her from that day onwards. Her cold lips underwater, the feel of her body pressed up to his as he draws her towards him by her waist, and her desperate attempt to breathe when she snapped awake upon him giving her air.
But in her panic, she had closed the Read connection and jammed it shut in her mind. She wouldn't be able to open it now until she calmed down.
Her wide eyes looked up at him apologetically. She knew there is a reason she's still alive after being so long underwater that day. She knew he saved her, pulled her out of the water. But for her to be able to survive that deep of a plunge with that stupid heavy dress she wore, something must have happened.
For him to give her breath through a kiss is plausible, and very much the only explanation why Tsukigami Maguro is still well alive right now.
Toge, on the other hand, lost his patience.
He dragged her to the small bathroom in his room and opened the shower, letting the water run and ignored her squeak of surprise when the shower sprays.
Turning back to her, he removed his high collar, throwing it nonchalantly aside and stepped back, letting himself stand directly underneath the spray of water from the shower.
If she needed him to show her again, then so be it.
"Koi," Inumaki said, one hand extends out to her. The command rings, and her mind and body comply obediently.
After all, no one can reject the Words of God.
