anonymousdowner: Okay, okay, how about this? I'll write another smut as soon as I get access to the perv forum. I don't have many more posts to go.
(I'd get another post closer if you'd update your fic so that I could comment on the awesomeness of the update since I'm really enjoying your fic as well.) And as for your response to Ch4 of Second to Last... Yes, you did miss it somehow even on Tumblr.
But I'm glad you eventually made it back to read!
miayaka: I'm glad you think the story is unique! I don't think it's that crazy.
Haruko: I knew you'd like the Kojiyuu part! I had to stick them in the story somehow. And I hate to tell you... but Mariko's not the one entering the room. ;-)
kahem: I'm thinking of playing it after I finish Valkyria Chronicles, so then I'll see how "WOW" it is!
As I mentioned at my last update, I'm posting the sequel to
Of Kisses, which was the first post in this thread. I'm really happy with how this turned out, so i hope you all enjoy it, too!
Of Kisses (and More)(AKA Of Kisses - Part 2)When Minami had originally offered to be Atsuko's kissing partner, she expected that it would end once the younger girl's curiosity had been satisfied that same afternoon.
But this expectation very quickly was shot down, as the next time she found herself giggling with Atsuko on her bed, her lips had been chastely claimed. With a blush on her cheeks, Atsuko had answered Minami's confused expression with a mischievous, "You said I could kiss you whenever I wanted to, right?"
It turned out that "whenever Atsuko wanted" was actually quite often, and that Atsuko's curiosity was seemingly endless. While Minami would never let it be known to anyone— certainly never to Atsuko herself— she secretly really liked kissing Atsuko, so she didn't make any effort to halt this new development within their friendship.
While this could also symbolize a relationship that would surpass the definitions of friendship, Minami didn't view it as such. Her offer originally came from her friendship, and certainly didn't mean l-l-l— ... anything other than that. She hadn't heard of a word from Atsuko implying anything otherwise, either. So even though it was a bit abnormal, they were really just best friends who kissed
every once in awhile occasionally a lot. But that was okay, since it was only in private, and she was pretty sure no one so much as suspected such a trend was going on.
Which honestly was a bit miraculous, seeing how this went on for three years. As days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months and months turned into years, Atsuko grew more and more bold with her surprise kisses. Her tongue began to sneak its way past Minami's lips and her hands began to wander, first over the material of Minami's clothes and eventually underneath. Minami often found herself in a quite odd mental state after such heavy make-out sessions, as even though she enjoyed the feeling of Atsuko's hands and mouth and body against her own, this situation she had unknowingly started was completely spiraling out of control.
But she put off taking control for a number of reasons. First of all, Atsuko seemed to be really happy when they spent their time together in such an intimate fashion. Her eyes would sparkle and grow aflame as she'd lean in for more and more, and Minami couldn't couldn't extinguish that fire. Second, and probably really the reason stopping her the most, was that she simply could not bring herself to talk about such an embarrassing topic. While most girls her age were fully fluent in the language of romance and sex, shouldn't couldn't even say the "s-word", much less talk about it or anything related to it. Even just asking Atsuko to please take her hand out of her shirt was going to send the short girl into a stuttering, blushing mess.
However, the third year brought on an event that rattled this balance in their friendship that was already slowly tipping to the side. This event featured a very giggly Atsuko chasing Minami around a dressing room with the intent to plant a big kiss on the other girl's lips. Of course, Minami was certainly not willing to entertain such a notion, no matter how happy and beautiful Atsuko looked at the moment, because they were
in public with a
camera filming them.
The setting was, of course, the filming for the Heavy Rotation music video. While admittedly, everyone was under this spell that caused all of the girls to kiss each other, to Minami's knowledge, the myriad of lip-locks were full of silly, innocent pecks, not under the danger of turning into something deep and passionate and entirely inappropriate for their location and audience. And therein lied the difference between Atsuko's chasing of her and everyone else's actions.
After an extremely short retreat, Atsuko managed to grab Minami's arm and pull her close enough to lean in and softly kiss her. Minami instantly pulled her head back out of fear, but Atsuko simply let go, giggling and bouncing off to her next target, leaving Minami frozen in place, absolutely bewildered. A few snickers came from the girls around her, and she quickly shook her head to recover and move on.
But she knew she'd have to force herself to come back to it.
The shooting ended at 1AM, but Minami knew that if she put off confronting Atsuko about the past three years leading up to today, she'd end up in the same position she always found herself in. So even though Atsuko was only a few metres away, Minami sent her friend a short text, asking her to meet at the theatre in an hour. It would take nearly that long simply to change into normal clothes and travel to Akihabara, but Atsuko caught Minami's gaze through he mirror in the dressing room and nodded.
An hour later, Minami dangled her legs off the end of the stage at the theatre, clutching her phone in both hands while waiting not-so-patiently. A ring of keys lay abandoned next to her on the stage, one key singled out, and she glanced at it nervously when she heard a door slam in the distance.
"Minami?" she heard a familiar voice whisper, breaking the silence of the empty venue. "Where are you?"
After letting out a relieved exhale, Minami yelled back, "I'm on the stage! Make sure you lock up behind you!"
Soon after, Atsuko stepped onto the side of the stage from a backstage entrance, and seeing Minami sitting on the edge, walked over to her. She covered her mouth with her hand to hide a yawn as she dropped her body to the ground to sit next to the shorter girl, leaning her head to rest on the familiar shoulder. Her hand subconsciously reached out, gently tossing Minami's cell phone aside and replacing it with her hand, which entwined with Minami's own.
"So you have something so important to talk about that we have to have this conversation in the middle of the night?" Atsuko softly whined.
Minami frowned, though her friend couldn't see the expression. "W-Well, it struck me, and I didn't want to forget..."
"If you would forget it tomorrow," Atsuko teased, "it must not be that important, hm~?"
"I-I didn't mean it like that!" Minami insisted, having been caught in Atsuko's trap of words. "It's more like... You know, I'm not good with serious conversations and stuff..."
"Says the Team A Captain who's always encouraging everyone..."
Minami closed her eyes and leaned her head to rest against Atsuko's. While she knew this conversation wasn't going to be easy, Atsuko was making it particularly hard on her. Her thumbs subconsciously traced circles on Atsuko's palm as she contemplated how to breach the conversation without Atsuko completely discouraging her along the way.
Luckily, Atsuko saved her from further humiliation by conceding. "Sorry. I'm just so exhausted, and even though you've had three years to bring it up, you had to choose right now— "
Minami's eyes shot open in surprise. "You already... H-How did you— "
"If it were anything else, you wouldn't drag me here at 2AM and stutter so much," Atsuko giggled, but her cheerful tone was soon covered by a yawn once again, which seemed to suck all of the energy out of her. When she continued after a moment in which Minami was still too surprised to speak, her voice was lacking the playfulness from before. "So what is it that you need to say?"
This finally gave Minami an opening, and although her heart was pounding, she managed to state, "You know, that offer three years ago... I-I didn't expect it to still..."
"I didn't, either," Atsuko agreed. "But I'm glad."
"'Glad'...?" Minami repeated.
Atsuko shifted her body slightly, causing Minami to lift her head. This freed Atsuko to look over at Minami's blushing face, which was apparent even with the dim lighting in the empty, unused theatre. She used her free hand to grip the back of the smaller girl's neck as leverage to pull their faces close enough to brush their lips together. A flush covered her own cheeks as she pulled back, and she responded to the question finally with, "Because I like kissing you."
They were so close to each other, and Minami found herself completely entranced by the woman in front of her, with the soft breathing caressing her cheeks and the dark gaze holding her own. It was hard to form a response, since her determination to hold the conversation she had hoped for was rapidly fading away.
"I like kissing you, too," Minami managed to blurt out, not really what she intended to say.
Atsuko tilted her head to the side as a wide smile spread across her features. "So what's the problem?"
"Well," Minami began tentatively, "we're friends, right?"
The smile on Atsuko's face faded at the question. "Of course."
"Friends don't... k-k..."
"They don't kiss?" Atsuko finished, gaining a wide-eyed nod from Minami. The pair both grew silent, but didn't pull away from each other. Sensing Minami was having a hard time deciding where to take the conversation from there, Atsuko opened her mouth to say, "Then we're not friends."
"What?" Minami asked, completely bewildered.
"Since friends don't normally kiss, then we're not friends," Atsuko summarized for the dense girl she was holding. "We're something else."
Again, Minami found herself repeating Atsuko's words slowly. "'Something else'...?"
She felt the hand that was tangled her hair behind her neck move to her shoulder and gently push her down to the stage floor. In her confusion, she didn't protest the movement, and instead looked up at the figure hovering over her. Her hands were freed, as Atsuko pulled her hand away from where it was previously grasped in order to support her weight. This allowed Minami to reach up and tuck Atsuko's long hair behind her ears, allowing her to see the the expression staring down at her.
Atsuko grinned widely. "Something
more."
Minami didn't have a chance to question the statement, as her lips were roughly claimed by her something-more-than-a-friend. Her eyes fluttered shut and her hands reached up to clutch at the material of Atsuko's shirt, pulling the girl atop her closer until instead of hovering above her, Atsuko's body rested against hers in a tight embrace. Atsuko took Minami's bottom lip between her teeth and tugged on it before attempting to lift her head away, but the smaller girl chased the retreating lips with her own, lengthening the kiss with her own passion, one of her hands trailing up to tangle in Atsuko's hair in an attempt to keep the other girl in place.
But Atsuko still managed to pull back after a moment, placing short kisses against the corner of Minami's mouth while gazing down at the girl below her, whose eyes were still closed, her cheeks flushed and her lips swollen. Her own lips trailed a path down Minami's neck and back up towards her ear, taking the sensitive earlobe between her lips and pulled on it gently before whispering, "Something that makes you mine."
And as dense as Minami may be, she certainly wasn't stupid. The words Atsuko spoke clicked together in her brain and she knew exactly what was being implied. Her eyes slowly opened and a strangled gasp left her mouth as she processed the emotions coursing through her from the possessive words spoken in her ear and the physical sensations burning her skin from the passionate kisses and touches caressing her body.
"S-So today..." Minami shakily attempted to route the conversation back to the reason behind their need to have such a private meeting.
Atsuko nestled her face in Minami's neck and let her lips linger on the soft skin there before she responded, her airy voice slightly muffled, "Everyone was all over each other, so had I had to show everyone that you're mine."
Minami couldn't help the cheesy grin that spread across her face at the confession. All of a sudden, this action that had caused such alarm earlier in the day no longer seemed to be a big deal. She felt her... well, her girlfriend, now, snuggle further into her side, and the late hour was brought to her attention.
"Mm, Atsuko," Minami slowly began, fatigue slurring her words a bit. "We should both go home and sleep."
A high-pitched groan of protest was stifled by Minami's neck before Atsuko responded with, "You're comfy. I'm gonna sleep here."
Minami blinked a few times in surprise, but didn't protest. Her own exhaustion was beginning to take over as well, and Atsuko's soft body provided a perfect blanket to snuggle with. She no longer even noticed the hardness of the cold stage floor beneath her as her eyes drifted shut and her breathing deepened into a sleepy rhythm.
When they were found early next morning by a punctual Togasaki, he simply draped a blanket over the pair and moved on with the day.
Edited to fix formatting issues that didn't carry over from Tumblr. :-(
Topic: Calyrica's Atsumina Offerings~ Update: 11/15/12 (Read 25660 times)