D2EN, ...of the Stars (So Very Closed)

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

After, Yuuwaku sighs contentedly, a faint sheen of sweat letting the air cool her ever so slightly.

She rolls onto her side, propping her head up, and says "Your features...one of your parents wasn't born Scorpion?"

[Bayushi Shitoru]

"An odd question, so sudden", said Shitoru, his breath had settled by then but he would be last to say he was prepared for battle just yet. "But no, my mother and father both are Scorpion, though in a long line of folk who have mixed their blood over the centuries, well...perhaps fate pulled a cord that made one of them stick out greatly." He laid an arm around her form. "My father has told me before I resemble his uncle, who had features borrowed from his Crane mother. Yet my mother always argued it was from her father, who was a Lion." He shrugged. "Does my face not suit me? I can hide it if it offends." And he did so, hiding it on her chest and in her arms.

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

Yuuwaku draws him in, revels in the feeling of his flesh against hers. Oh, this is nice, she thinks.

"There's nothing wrong with your face. Or your hands. Or the rest of you, for that matter."

She may be about to say more, but there is the distraction, after all.

[Bayushi Shitoru]

He looked up from her bosom to her face, curiously arching an eyebrow. "Very well then, you have them captive for now, do as you like." And he kissed her. "But do tell me of where one gains such beauty in manner and look, were both of your parents born Crane?"

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

She returns the kiss, threading her fingers into his hair and pulling ever so gently on it.

"They were, along with my siblings. I believe my father's mother was of a family now gone, though, and there are others, further back."

She puts her lips to the side of his neck, then breathes into his ear.

"It's lucky that we are both here for this."

[Bayushi Shitoru]

"If there any luck it's that you were on hand to answer when I came to call", he told her, hand stroking her cheek, then behind her ear. "I have no mind for how this night would be spent had it been another."

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

"I'm sure you would have found someone. Handsome man like you, skilled, attentive, you could hardly not." Her hands trace down his spine. "Makes you dangerous--and there's thrill in danger."

[Bayushi Shitoru]

"This Scorpion finds Kakita-san the dangerous one", and he enveloped the girl in his arms. "Engaging in such activities just after a fertility rite, has she come to Crab lands with a plan? I wonder." He smirked, teasing.

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

"If I'd had that plan," Yuuwaku replies, "we'd have done a few things differently. I don't know that you'd have had a better time, either." Her grin is salacious as she lets herself be held again.

It can't last, she thinks, but it's nice enough for now.

[Bayushi Shitoru]

"Ah, this is this and that is that", he said and nodded along. "A fine, proper dealing, and welcome." Not that he released the girl from the embrace, and in fact applied his lips to hers, then her neck and collar bones to show what he thought of it.

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

She lets him move freely, her fingertips stroking his scalp and ears and neck and shoulder, as much of his back as she can reach.

"This is this, yes, and good." So good.

"But I mean to set no snares tonight. There is time enough for hunting otherwise."

She moves with him.

[Bayushi Shitoru]

He stopped and smirked. "Kakita-san needs give no assurances to this one, who does nothing bit tease for reactions."

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

Yuuwaku returns the smirk. "You've done well on that score, you know." Her body writhes lithely. "But I'm going to have to go soon." Too soon.

[Bayushi Shitoru]

"Walking in a Crab village in the middle of the night alone? Even I lack such ungentlemanly conduct to allow such." Yet still, he sat up, a hand on laid on her body, the other took her hand. "I would not stop you, but to follow you out defeats other purposes."

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

She squeezes his hand in hers, then makes to rise, hiding nothing, but showing the splendor of her body.

"Will you help me with the wrappings? They are...difficult without an extra hand or two."

[Bayushi Shitoru]

"Kakita-san may not be able to leave if this one puts such hands on her", Shitoru answered and did dutifully aid her in settling her kimono and tying her obi. He did not mind taking his time, however.

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

"Think of it as a hope of more to come," she replies, guiding his hands at times, teasing him with hers at others.

"Because a performance run...it would not be unwelcome."

[Bayushi Shitoru]

"A residency shall be considered if this one can afford the price", and he tugged the now tied obi, just enough. Best not to start all over again, he though. Still, he leaned over her shoulder again, putt his cheek to hers. "For certain thouugh, Kakita-san would consider this one a favored audience, one would hope, and showcase their talents for the duration."

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

"For so appreciative an audience, a repeat performance could certainly be arranged."

She faces him, pulls him in, wraps her arms around him. "I have other duties, of course. But we will have to do this again."

[Bayushi Shitoru]

"Count on this one's attentiveness when you do."

Pulled in, the Scorpion returns the embrace and cranes his head down to meet her lips.

[Kakita Yuuwaku]

Yuuwaku lingers in the kiss, presses herself against him.

It is some time before she parts her lips from his.

And then the mask goes back on, loosely, as if a scarf, and, with a final look to him, she makes her /exit.