The Shadow Gallery
Childhood's End
Timing: After "Of Lust and Wrath"
Characters: Hikari and Misato
A/N: Lemon Warning, Yuri Warning
Misato laid upon the roof of the forest sanctuary facing to the east. She knew Hikari was in her room somewhere below; still resting, still recovering, still with her healing moss protruding where the monster that was Te'el injured her.
It's been two days since Misato completed her transformation into a Succubus, two days since Octavia was defeated… two long days of being awkward as all hell…
"Shinji…" she whispered to no one. The very name now created feelings in her both loving and lustful. She felt her womb twinge with anticipation, and that anticipation came with a feeling she hated…
Guilt…
"What the fuck am I thinking… he's my ward… I practically raised him for two years through the most traumatic time in his life…"
And yet… she couldn't push the feeling from her mind. To take the energy she needed to defeat Octavia, she had sex with her own ward… but not just one of them…
Her eyes closed… her breathing slowed…
Seemingly mesmerized, Asuka got up from her position, her own cunt still dripping with nectar, and knelt on the bed next to Shinji, facing Misato. The older woman pulled the red head into a kiss, holding her in place with her left hand while grabbing her by the apex with her right. She rubbed for a moment as Asuka moaned in her mouth before plunging her right middle finger into her body as far as it would go. Asuka broke the kiss and cried out, as Misato felt the girl's walls clamp over her finger. Forcing her ring finger into her now, Asuka leaned against Misato moaning and panting as she was being finger fucked. All the while, Misato never stopped bouncing…
"I helped raise Asuka too, during some of the darkest times in her life… that didn't stop me from finger fucking her until she screamed."
A tear slipped from her eye…
I should thank you for the gifts you gave me, but I know they will also be a curse to me…
"A curse indeed… I may have won my freedom… but what good is it if I can't control myself?"
Her eyes opened. Light now permeated the sky above the trees, filled with the orange glows of the coming dawn. For the second night in a row, she laid on the roof and brooded until daybreak. Now, she would sleep a few hours before sitting vigil with Hikari.
"At least I'm not trying to have sex with her… yet."
Hours later, Misato occupied the wooden chair. One knee pulled to her chest, her wings neutral behind her.
"I can tell you haven't been sleeping," Hikari noted. "At least not well."
"That obvious, is it?" Misato replied. "I'll be surprised if I ever have a normal night's sleep again."
Hikari looked at her seriously, shifted just a little. Misato's eyes locked her, she wasn't wearing anything in her vine bed, but kept herself mostly covered with leafy vines that were excreting a sweet-smelling healing nectar. What little of Hikari's body could be seen was glistening with the healing agent, and for the briefest of moments, Misato caught the very edge of the girl's outer folds. She tried to pull her eyes away and was only able to do so after it was no longer visible to her. If Hikari knew what she was looking at, she made no outward indication of such.
"Talk to me," she almost commanded.
"I'm having… control issues."
"Controlling yourself or controlling your thoughts?"
Misato thought about that for a moment before settling on, "Yes. Well… more thoughts than actions."
"But just now you caught sight of something the demon in you liked and you couldn't peel your eyes away."
"You noticed?!" Misato blushed profusely looking away. "I'm sorry Hikari, I didn't mean…"
"I did it on purpose," she replied, cutting Misato off. Misato looked at her surprised. "When I first became what I was, I saw myself as a freak of nature… a monster… In many ways I'm still not 100 percent 'okay' with the way I am, but Mari flirts with me. Asuka does too, though not sure if that's just to make me feel better or to try to actually get me in bed with her. But… I can't say I hate the attention."
"Surprising considering."
"It's nice to be desired," Hikari noted, relaxing a bit more. Her vines shifted again and Misato was able to see her pert breasts for a few lingering moments before they were covered again. She noted the freckles reached even this low on her body. "It's an affirmation that I'm not a monster to them."
"It's a relative term," Misato noted. "What does it say about me though when I can't control these feelings, even when it comes my own ward."
Hikari looked at Misato a little surprised. "Is that what this is about?" Several buds inside the vines opened, releasing purified water over Hikari to rinse away the healing agent. A large piece of healing moss was still growing inside the wound, hiding it. The vines cleared away revealing all of Hikari to Misato and the older woman struggled to keep her eyes off of her young body. Hikari, almost basking in the attention, calmly reached for a natural cotton towel and started to dry off as a chunk of the healing moss fell away revealing new skin. "Why would you feel guilty about that? It's not like you are related to him."
Misato tore her attention away from Hikari's pert rear and focused on the back of her head as she dried. "I was still like a mother to him. It just feels wrong now."
"Relationships change sometimes. We're all adults now, more or less, and we all have to make decisions, love who we want to love." She pulled on a light sundress with thin shoulder straps. Misato noted the fabric was extremely light and that she wore no underwear. She finished with a bracelet made of braided grass that had tiny flowers growing in it. Her bed was now dry and she sat on it in front of Misato. The light pinkish color of the dress really set off the pinks and greens in her skin, and Misato found the dress to be quite suiting to her. "Does it really matter what came before? Shinji loves you, just as he loves all of us. That love gives all of us strength. We're strong because our bond to him is strong. And though I haven't started taking part in the amorous activities around here…. ", she blushed as she said this, "it's only a matter of time before I do. And that will strengthen my bond with them as well."
"I guess becoming what you are has allowed you to see the links where others can't."
"Pretty much," Hikari agreed. "All of nature is connected. And those connections are where true strength lies."
Misato sighed. "I suppose I'll have to try to look past it. So… just out of curiosity…."
"Yes?"
"How long have you been going commando?"
Hikari blushed slightly. "Since I arrived here. I did finally get around to getting proper undergarments only to find that I… well… I don't seem to like wearing them anymore. They're uncomfortable and feel restricting."
"So, no bra either then."
"Actually, to be completely honest it's not just the binding feeling… the more clothing I wear the harder it seems for me to… well… breathe."
Misato blinked. "Huh?"
"I think, I do a bit of breathing though my skin, though I have no idea how much of my breathing relies on it. It's enough that too much more than what I have on now and I start to feel constantly winded."
"And I thought I had issues to work around," Misato noted.
"All a part of learning how to live again," Hikari noted, as a flower crawled onto her shoulder. She reached up and pulled the strap over her right shoulder down to clear a space for the flower. Misato noted the roots of the flower, which seemed to grow from the base of the flower itself sank into and fused with the flesh there.
"That has to feel weird," Misato noted.
"Not really," Hikari noted. "It's comforting. She helps me take in nutrients, especially from blood."
"You drink blood now?"
"Kind of," Hikari explained. "I can't drink it directly like a vampire, it makes me sick and I'd throw it up like any normal person would. But I can use my plants to absorb the blood then feed it into my body this way, avoiding my digestive system and getting the nutrients from it that way. It's all I can eat now… well that and sunlight."
"Hence why your room is basically a greenhouse."
"Exactly." Hikari stood up, straitening her dress. "Let's take a walk."
Moments later, they both began to walk in the forest near the house. Misato was amazed that Hikari could walk on such ground without need of any footwear.
"You have confused feelings for Shinji and Asuka," Hikari noted. "And that's only natural because you helped to bring them up. But now they have grown beyond your need to help them… and neither are related to you."
"I get it that logically I shouldn't have this confusion…"
"I know you do, but the reason you have this confusion is obvious… your Succubus side has no qualms about where she gets her energy from, but you do."
"And how do I reconcile this?"
Hikari sighed. "You do the same thing I did… Convince yourself that you aren't human anymore… because you aren't. No matter how much you look like you could be a human, you are a demon now, and your body has needs. If you can't accept yourself for what you are now, it's only going to get harder the longer you resist it."
It hurt a little to hear Hikari tell her that. "You make me out to be some kind of monster…" Misato didn't hear her footsteps anymore. She stopped and turned around in time to see Hikari drop her sundress to the forest floor.
Misato's breath caught in her throat. Hikari's smooth almost pinkish skin begged to be touched, her pink areolas were soft but her nipples had begun to harden. Hikari had her hands held behind her back almost innocently. She smiled, her breasts almost calling to Misato. She shifted her footing slightly, and Misato's eyes trailed down to Hikari's slit which now dripped a single drop of glistening nectar down her right inner thigh. Her thin body made her hip bones protrude a little through her skin and her stomach was nearly flat with only a slight hint of the muscles beneath Now in such a pose, her figure was perfectly pronounced, and her freckles which appeared all over were somehow only intensifying the innocent beauty she was. The small wound on her side was only slightly covered with healing moss now and did nothing to detract from her beauty. What Misato never noticed was the veil of vines reaching around the trees surrounding them, and giving them privacy.
Hikari gasped as she found herself held against a tree. Misato's eyes glowed red as her wings framed the smaller girl. Misato's face came closer to hers, the skin barely touching, electrifying in the undercurrent of feeling. Misato wanted to say something, but she couldn't… it was taking everything she had to stop herself from taking Hikari here and now.
She felt her corset fall from her body; Hikari was blushing now but managed to gently take hold of Misato's generous right breast with her left hand causing the larger girl to moan in appreciation. Hikari's right hand reached Misato's face forcing the woman to look at her.
"We cannot deny what we are," Hikari whispered. As if this was the consent she was looking for Misato kissed her deeply. Hikari, despite being a novice, attempted to follow her tongue dance, and although she was amateurish at it, she still managed to excite Misato into further action. As Misato's clothing was a result of her abilities, she allowed it all to fade away, increasing the skin contact between them and causing Hikari to gasp in astonishment at how such contact could feel. Still, she felt that Misato was not draining her, only playing with her which told her what she needed to know. Sex itself was just as important a food as the energy Misato could attain from it.
Hikari reached up and grabbed the lower branch as Misato gracefully fell to her knees before the nature goddess. She felt her right leg being lifted and placed over Misato's left shoulder. The larger woman's left wing also grasping the leg around the calf muscle to keep her steady as Misato began to lick the trail of nectar from her thigh straight to her bare slit. Hikari moaned aloud as the soft tongue of the succubus invaded her most sacred flower to capture more of the sweet nectar. To Misato, it was as if she were licking a honey pot, a sweet treat that also somehow energized her and kept her wanting more. If Hikari was truly a plant-like being, then her secretions were the ultimate super-food.
Hikari arched her back as she grasped the branch more tightly. Her nipples were now almost painfully erect, and began to excrete their own liquid. Misato continued to assault her nether lips as Hikari focused on the feelings, and felt the warm liquid trace under her breasts and down her stomach. She realized she wasn't just going to love what she had been denying herself, but that she was apparently quite messy when aroused. She felt her leg being gently let down as Misato's deft tongue reached the honeymilk that managed to reach her pelvis. She gave the liquid a taste before slowly tracing her tongue up Hikari's body, following the path the milk took down her body to her left breast causing her to quiver the entire time. Then Misato went back down and started on the right, doing the same. All the while Hikari could feel the nectar leaving her folds to drip down her legs.
Despite a little embarrassment at how juicy she apparently was, Misato seemed to want to take in as much as possible of her. She licked Hikari's right nipple to get more of the honeymilk before suckling the smaller girl. A stronger moan left, the girl, and Misato was able to feel the vibration of her body as she did so. It seemed that Hikari's smaller breasts couldn't keep the flow going for long though, and Misato switched sides to make Hikari squirm and moan more. Just this contact was enough to set Hikari off causing her to softly cry out as she experienced her first girl-on-girl orgasm.
Looking down as Hikari began to falter, Misato was surprised to see a huge rose has grown up around them. She pulled Hikari back from the tree, falling back into the rose with Hikari on top of her. Some of the individual peddles closed, around them as Misato positioned the girl. Another moan came from the weakened girl as both of their sacred places came into contact and began to rub, Hikari's nectar making for just as perfect a lubricant, as it was a treat for her mouth. Hikari tried to protest; her pussy was still far too sensitive for this but she was silenced by a breast in her mouth. Working purely off of instinct, Hikari suckled, and felt she was actually getting something out of it.
There within the rose, they ground each other, switching between kissing and breastplay for a time. Despite the feeling being too strong at first, Hikari adapted and then tribbed into Misato harder. Their fluids mixed within the rose-bed, they shared their body's heat and moisture, and became little more than a tangle of emotions. Finally, after nearly half an hour of this, Hikari could take no more and Misato allowed herself to release her hold on her own feelings for Hikari's sake. Their collective cry would have been quite the sound to be heard, if it were not for the vines blocking it from reaching the house.
They lay together, sweet sweat dripping from both of their bodies, fluids mixing between them, milk trailing from Hikari's mouth, and wings wrapped around them both.
"I can't believe you let me do that to you," Misato whispered, using a finger to clean her own milk from Hikari's mouth.
"You needed it," Hikari replied, equally softly. "Feeling better about yourself?"
Misato smile softly as she cradled Hikari in her arms. "Yeah… I do."
"I probably wasn't the best partner."
"You were fine! This was your first time, right?" Hikari nodded. "So why let me pop your lesbian cherry? I figured you would want Asuka to have that honor."
"I thought about that," she admitted. "But I figured this would serve a few purposes. You no longer feel like a monster, and you can take the next step with Shinji and Asuka. I on the other hand, get experience with girl-on-girl before Mari manages to jump me."
Misato laughed at that.
"Besides," Hikari continued. "When I do finally get with Asuka, I don't want to be fumbling like an amateur. I know she isn't."
"You don't sound as upset about that as I would expect," Misato pointed out.
"Asuka is happy. After taking care of her at the end of the Angel Wars, it's all I wanted to see from her."
Misato ran her hand though Hikari's hair, causing the smaller girl to cuddle into her more.
"You may not be as pure as you wanted to be, but as far as I'm concerned, you are as much of a 'Good Girl' as you need to be."
Hikari smiled softly. "I suppose it's official … I've reached childhood's end. I'm a woman now."
"I might have already been a woman… but I think I've just reached it too, in a way."