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Weeks went by and nothing came of their little meeting with Akito. As time went on she discovered that ‘stay’ meant for the year. At first she wasn’t sure that was a good thing. She had tried to get Shigure to tell her the condition he had agreed to on her behalf but he wouldn’t budge. She could see that it worried him but all he would say was ‘don’t worry about it’. Eventually she did stop worrying about it as Shigure became more and more obsessed with making sure that she was completely ‘distracted’ every moment she had alone. She couldn’t for the life of her describe their relationship but she loved every minute that they were alone together. She knew that neither one of their feelings were that deep but he was just insanely fun to be around.
Just like he promised, Hatsu taught her how to speak Japanese. It became a sort of ritual, he would come over for breakfast then she would take lessons for almost eight hours a day, five days a week. She had been right; her gift for languages sped up the process considerably. In about two weeks time she was able to hold quite a bit of conversation with Shigure and the others. At two and a half weeks the language ratio for the lessons had finally shifted to favor Japanese. The night before the beginning of the third week she got a call.
“Hello?” she said after taking the phone from Shigure.
“Hi Inora. Listen, I just twisted my ankle like an idiot, wo-” Hatsu started but Inora cut him off.
“Oh no! Are you ok? How bad is it? Do you have ice on it?” Inora blabbed. Over the past few weeks she had really began to like her teacher. His sweetness combined with his age made her feel like he was her grandpa, and she knew that he looked at her like she was his grandkid.
“Yes, yes it’s fine,” he laughed. “Hatori just came and looked at it, he wrapped it up nice, I just have to stay off of it for a few days is all. So if you would like you could come here for the lesson?”
“Huh? Oh yeah,” she said a little absentmindedly. As soon as he mentioned the doctor her thoughts drifted a bit, but she recovered. “Yes I’ll be there around nine?”
“That sounds great I’ll see you tomorrow. Bye” he said and hung up the phone.
The next day she was walking to the Sohma’s estate holding the breakfast Tohru had forced her to bring to Hatsu. She couldn’t help but think about the last time she had been walking this way. ‘Strange, now I’m actually excited to get there, well as long as I don’t run into Akito.’ She thought. She had just gotten out of the woods that surrounded Shigure’s house when she spotted an old man staring of into space. As she got closer she could hear him muttering to himself.
(A/N): Remember she now speaks a lot of Japanese. The - are for when she doesn’t know what the word is.
“No, no this isn’t the way.” He muttered. “Where the - am I?” he didn’t sound frustrated, he was very calm for someone that had no clue where they were. ‘Well I don’t know too much about the area but it won’t hurt to see if I can help.’ Inora thought to herself.
“Excuse me sir? Are you lost?” she asked approaching him, he turned to her.
“Yeah I am. You wouldn’t happen to know where the Sohma Estate is…” He Asked taking in her obvious foreign clothing. She was very surprised, he wasn’t an old man, he was just a boy about the same age as Tohru and the others. And now that she really looked at him she saw that he looked like he was dressed for a rave. What had thrown her off was that he had white hair, but when she looked closely he had black roots. ‘He must dye it’ she thought.
“I, uh… yes.” She stuttered. “I’m actually going there now, you, um, can come with me?” she posed the statement like a question.
“If you wouldn’t mind,” he laughed. “I’ve been lost for about three days now.”
“No I don’t mind, so are you a Sohma?” She asked, trying to figure out why he was going there.
“Yes,” he said as they started to walk. “Are you? I haven’t seen you around…”
“No. I’m just taking Japanese lessons from someone there,” she said. “By the way my name is Inora, what’s yours?”
“Ah so that’s why your speaking so formally. I was - why that was. My name is Haru,” He said spacing out a little again. They walked in silence for a while; she was trying to figure out how someone could be lost for three days without being found. The Sohma family was so big someone should have cared about him being gone. ‘But then again I have no idea what his home life is like. It might suck.’ She thought of her uncle and what he would do if she suddenly disappeared. She stopped in her tracks.
“Oh my god my Uncle!” she said in English, slapping her forehead. ‘How could I just forget to call him for three weeks!’ she thought franticly. She had called him at the airport to say that she had gotten there, but she hadn’t told him the situation. She was going to wait until she figured out what she was going to do before worrying him. Ever since the meeting with Akito she had meant to call him. Whenever she had a moment alone, however, Shigure had been there, ‘but I do like his distractions,’ she thought.
“Um, miss? Are you alright?” Haru asked watching her face tense up then turn spacey with a kind of smile playing at her lips.
“Huh? Oh yeah, sorry. I just realized I forgot to do something important.” She said still a little spacey. ‘Oh well I’ll just remember to call when I get back, there’s not a whole lot I can do now.’ She thought as she started walking again. They continued to walk in silence until they reached the Sohma front gate. She stood and looked at it again recalling the last time she had been here. ‘What do I do, just go in?’ she thought. Haru must have seen the dilemma on her face.
“Come on in,” he said pushing open the gate.
“Ah Haru. - to see you made it back,” a voice said making her jump slightly. She turned and saw a sort of guard post she didn’t notice the last time. “And who might this be?” he asked looking at her.
“Um, hi, I’m Inora I’m here to see Hatsu?” she said posing it as a question. ‘What’s the deal with this family and zapping all of my self confidence?’ she thought, annoyed.
“Hatsu?” Haru asked. “Oh well I - that kind of makes sense,” he muttered more to himself.
“Ah yes he is expecting you,” the guard said. “Do you need help finding it?”
“I’ll be fine if you just give me some directions,” she said.
“Oh well I hope you have a better sense of direction then Haru here,” he laughed and gave her pretty simple instructions. “Haru, Akito wants to see you right away.” He said with a more serious note in his voice.
“Ok,” he said simply and took a step but then stopped. “Um I've already been gone for three days maybe someone should take me.”
“I can” Inora said. “I remember the way,” she added in a quieter voice.
“If you’re sure,” the guard said. Haru and Inora took off without another word. They walked silently through the buildings, when she saw the big building that Akito was in she stopped, remembering Akito’s face as he ordered the doctor to mess with her brain.
“There you go,” Inora said quietly. He saw the look on her face and understood immediately that she must have already had a run in with Akito.
“Thank you,” he said as he started towards the building. She felt bad that he had to go alone; she didn’t think she could ever do that. “Say ‘hi’ to Hatsu for me will you?” she watched for another second still felling bad, then she turned and started towards Hatsu’s house. She walked looking at the ground as she often did when she was worried, only glancing up to make sure she was going the right way. She found the house easily enough but outside she got distracted by a bush that had beautiful flowers dotted all over it.
She bent to examine them closely, they had pink peddles that turned purple towards the outside. They were some of the most beautiful flowers she had ever seen. She heard a door close and someone walk up behind her; she was too into the flowers to look around, so she just assumed that it was Hatsu.
“Hey,” she said in English before she remembered his idea to use Japanese as much as possible, even with him, so she switched over. “These are beautiful, what are they called?”
“The Japanese Camellia,” the person said, it wasn’t Hatsu, she jumped slightly at the strange voice. She turned to see who it was and her brain turned to mush. “It’s also called The Rose of Winter,” he finished.
“Oh,” was all she seemed capable to say. She had thought about him quite a bit but she had obviously under romanticized him. Hatori was there, standing in front of her, completely unaware of what he was doing to her brain. His hair was waving slightly in the breeze and, unlike last time, he looked at ease and was even smiling slightly.
“I like them as well but they don’t have much /-/” He said looking at her warmly. She couldn’t help but beam at him and she could feel her cheeks turning red. ‘Come on!’ she thought franticly. ‘For the love of God, come up with something better then ‘oh’!’
“I, uh,” she stuttered, and then cleared her throat. “They might actually be my new favorite! Not that I really had one before. By the way what was the last word you said?” she decided to be honest and ask. He looked confused for a moment then it hit him.
“Oh! I’m sorry you’re doing so well, I completely forgot that you’re still learning Japanese,” he said smiling at her. “Uh, it’s smell?”
“Oh I see,” she said simply and turned to smell them. “They have a subtle smell, but it’s very sweet,” she said turning to look at him again. “You just have to have faith that it’s there.” They stared at each other for quite a while; someone cleared their throat making them both jump a little.
“Are you going to come in or stand out in the rain all day?” Hatsu asked with a laugh.
“Oh,” she said looking up at the sky; she hadn’t noticed that it had started to rain. ‘This guy really does turn my brain to mush,’ she thought. She laughed and beamed at Hatsu, “I hadn’t noticed it started to–oh! What are you doing? You shouldn’t be walking around!”
“I’m fine, I’m fine,” he said waving her off as she started towards him. “Hatori if you would like you can come back in for a cup of tea. Our ‘lessons’ aren’t really lessons anymore; we just kinda sit around and talk.”
“Thank you,” he said. “But I do have a lot of work I need to finish today.” He waved at them and started to walk off but Inora stopped him.
“Oh, um, Hatori?” she asked unsure if she should call him that or doctor. “First of all is it ok if I call you that?”
“Of course,” he said. His eyes were soft and a smile was pulling at his lips. She got completely distracted and forgot where she was going with this. “What’s the other thing?” he prompted.
“Oh, um-yeah” she said trying to recover. “Sorry about last time, I mean when I transformed you, I didn’t really get a chance to apologize then.”
“No need to apologize,” he said smiling at her again. “In fact that was the best anyone has ever reacted to my Zodiac form. I get thrown into a bath tub more often then not,” he said and he began to laugh. She couldn’t help but join in, his laugh was rich and deep, she also got the feeling that laughing was a rare thing for him. He waved and walked off, leaving her to stare after him.
“Come inside Inora, before you catch a cold.” Hatsu said with a smile. She walked into his house and settled herself on his couch. “You know I don’t think I have ever seen Hatori smile so much.”
She felt her face turn red, “Well it’s not like I had anything to do with it,” she said sounding a little defensive. ‘What’s up with me?’ she thought.
“Well if you insist,” he said with a smile. “But I, for sure, have never heard him laugh.”
“Whatever,” she said rolling her eyes. She didn’t want hope, the hope that he might like her. ‘Hope just leads to disappointment,’ she thought. “Anyway there are a few words I ran into today that I need help with.” They went on with their regular lesson and Hatsu took the hint not to bring up Hatori anymore. As she got up to leave she remembered something.
“Oh yeah, I ran into a boy that was lost this morning, he was around my age.” She said as she gathered her things. “His name was Haru and he said to say hi.”
“Oh, that’s my grandson.” He said simply. “Yes he gets lost quite a bit, thanks for bringing him back.”
“Your grandson?” she asked. “Sorry, but I didn’t know you had a family like that, I mean I know you’re a Sohma…”
“I don’t really. My wife died a few decades ago giving birth to Haru’s mother. His mother was going to be a single parent but then she took off when she saw his Zodiac form.” He said, she noticed that he didn’t sound all that sad. He even laughed and said, “Hatori had a hell of a time tracking her down to erase her memories.”
“I’ll bet,” she said lamely, she couldn’t think of anything to say to him.
“Yes, you see my name is Hatsuharu. Since the mother wasn’t around to give her son a name the family named him after me, so I go by Hatsu and he goes by Haru, not very creative huh?” he said with a smile.
“No I think those are awesome names,” she said smiling back. “Anyway I have to go I remembered on my way here that I haven’t called my uncle in three weeks.”
“That’s not good,” he said with a laugh. “I’ll see you later!”
“Bye,” she said as she walked out the door. She hurried out of the gates and made her way back to Shigure’s house. It was still raining really hard and she was completely soaked by the time she got there.
“I’m back!” she yelled into the house. She still didn’t feel comfortable calling it ‘home’. She looked down and noticed that her hair was dripping; she went back out to the porch and wrung it out. The whole walk back she couldn’t stop thinking about Hatori, his eyes and smile were so warm, and then something else had occurred to her. She walked back into the house searching for anyone that could answer her question. She went through the whole house before she found Shigure in his study.
“Hey,” she said. “I have a question for you, I actually should have asked a while ago…” she walked over to him.
“And what is th- why are you so wet?” He had finally looked up and became distracted.
“It’s raining, duh,” she said with a smile. “But never mind that, how old are you?”
“I’m not sure I can ‘never mind’ this sight,” he said, smiling, with his eyes running over her body. “But to answer your question I’m 27. Come to think of it how old are you?”
“You don’t seem that worried that you could have been committing a crime,” she said laughing at him. “I’m 20.”
“There, see? No problems,” he said with an evil grin. He grabbed her hips and pulled her down onto his lap, while making sure she didn’t collide with his chest. He placed his hand in her wet hair and pulled her lips to his. ‘God I love his distractions,’ she thought, but she needed to focus still.
“And how old is Tohru and the others?” she asked as he nibbled on her ear. She didn’t really care about how old they were, but she didn’t want to draw attention to the question she really wanted to know the answer to.
“There all 17,” he mumbled against her neck.
“Oh, cool. And, uh, how old is Hatori?” she asked hoping he would be distracted enough.
“He’s 27 as well. We went to school together along with aya.” He mumbled as he made his way back to her lips. She knew he was trying to silence her but she didn’t mind, she got the information she needed. ‘27 is not bad,’ she thought.
Just like he promised, Hatsu taught her how to speak Japanese. It became a sort of ritual, he would come over for breakfast then she would take lessons for almost eight hours a day, five days a week. She had been right; her gift for languages sped up the process considerably. In about two weeks time she was able to hold quite a bit of conversation with Shigure and the others. At two and a half weeks the language ratio for the lessons had finally shifted to favor Japanese. The night before the beginning of the third week she got a call.
“Hello?” she said after taking the phone from Shigure.
“Hi Inora. Listen, I just twisted my ankle like an idiot, wo-” Hatsu started but Inora cut him off.
“Oh no! Are you ok? How bad is it? Do you have ice on it?” Inora blabbed. Over the past few weeks she had really began to like her teacher. His sweetness combined with his age made her feel like he was her grandpa, and she knew that he looked at her like she was his grandkid.
“Yes, yes it’s fine,” he laughed. “Hatori just came and looked at it, he wrapped it up nice, I just have to stay off of it for a few days is all. So if you would like you could come here for the lesson?”
“Huh? Oh yeah,” she said a little absentmindedly. As soon as he mentioned the doctor her thoughts drifted a bit, but she recovered. “Yes I’ll be there around nine?”
“That sounds great I’ll see you tomorrow. Bye” he said and hung up the phone.
The next day she was walking to the Sohma’s estate holding the breakfast Tohru had forced her to bring to Hatsu. She couldn’t help but think about the last time she had been walking this way. ‘Strange, now I’m actually excited to get there, well as long as I don’t run into Akito.’ She thought. She had just gotten out of the woods that surrounded Shigure’s house when she spotted an old man staring of into space. As she got closer she could hear him muttering to himself.
(A/N): Remember she now speaks a lot of Japanese. The - are for when she doesn’t know what the word is.
“No, no this isn’t the way.” He muttered. “Where the - am I?” he didn’t sound frustrated, he was very calm for someone that had no clue where they were. ‘Well I don’t know too much about the area but it won’t hurt to see if I can help.’ Inora thought to herself.
“Excuse me sir? Are you lost?” she asked approaching him, he turned to her.
“Yeah I am. You wouldn’t happen to know where the Sohma Estate is…” He Asked taking in her obvious foreign clothing. She was very surprised, he wasn’t an old man, he was just a boy about the same age as Tohru and the others. And now that she really looked at him she saw that he looked like he was dressed for a rave. What had thrown her off was that he had white hair, but when she looked closely he had black roots. ‘He must dye it’ she thought.
“I, uh… yes.” She stuttered. “I’m actually going there now, you, um, can come with me?” she posed the statement like a question.
“If you wouldn’t mind,” he laughed. “I’ve been lost for about three days now.”
“No I don’t mind, so are you a Sohma?” She asked, trying to figure out why he was going there.
“Yes,” he said as they started to walk. “Are you? I haven’t seen you around…”
“No. I’m just taking Japanese lessons from someone there,” she said. “By the way my name is Inora, what’s yours?”
“Ah so that’s why your speaking so formally. I was - why that was. My name is Haru,” He said spacing out a little again. They walked in silence for a while; she was trying to figure out how someone could be lost for three days without being found. The Sohma family was so big someone should have cared about him being gone. ‘But then again I have no idea what his home life is like. It might suck.’ She thought of her uncle and what he would do if she suddenly disappeared. She stopped in her tracks.
“Oh my god my Uncle!” she said in English, slapping her forehead. ‘How could I just forget to call him for three weeks!’ she thought franticly. She had called him at the airport to say that she had gotten there, but she hadn’t told him the situation. She was going to wait until she figured out what she was going to do before worrying him. Ever since the meeting with Akito she had meant to call him. Whenever she had a moment alone, however, Shigure had been there, ‘but I do like his distractions,’ she thought.
“Um, miss? Are you alright?” Haru asked watching her face tense up then turn spacey with a kind of smile playing at her lips.
“Huh? Oh yeah, sorry. I just realized I forgot to do something important.” She said still a little spacey. ‘Oh well I’ll just remember to call when I get back, there’s not a whole lot I can do now.’ She thought as she started walking again. They continued to walk in silence until they reached the Sohma front gate. She stood and looked at it again recalling the last time she had been here. ‘What do I do, just go in?’ she thought. Haru must have seen the dilemma on her face.
“Come on in,” he said pushing open the gate.
“Ah Haru. - to see you made it back,” a voice said making her jump slightly. She turned and saw a sort of guard post she didn’t notice the last time. “And who might this be?” he asked looking at her.
“Um, hi, I’m Inora I’m here to see Hatsu?” she said posing it as a question. ‘What’s the deal with this family and zapping all of my self confidence?’ she thought, annoyed.
“Hatsu?” Haru asked. “Oh well I - that kind of makes sense,” he muttered more to himself.
“Ah yes he is expecting you,” the guard said. “Do you need help finding it?”
“I’ll be fine if you just give me some directions,” she said.
“Oh well I hope you have a better sense of direction then Haru here,” he laughed and gave her pretty simple instructions. “Haru, Akito wants to see you right away.” He said with a more serious note in his voice.
“Ok,” he said simply and took a step but then stopped. “Um I've already been gone for three days maybe someone should take me.”
“I can” Inora said. “I remember the way,” she added in a quieter voice.
“If you’re sure,” the guard said. Haru and Inora took off without another word. They walked silently through the buildings, when she saw the big building that Akito was in she stopped, remembering Akito’s face as he ordered the doctor to mess with her brain.
“There you go,” Inora said quietly. He saw the look on her face and understood immediately that she must have already had a run in with Akito.
“Thank you,” he said as he started towards the building. She felt bad that he had to go alone; she didn’t think she could ever do that. “Say ‘hi’ to Hatsu for me will you?” she watched for another second still felling bad, then she turned and started towards Hatsu’s house. She walked looking at the ground as she often did when she was worried, only glancing up to make sure she was going the right way. She found the house easily enough but outside she got distracted by a bush that had beautiful flowers dotted all over it.
She bent to examine them closely, they had pink peddles that turned purple towards the outside. They were some of the most beautiful flowers she had ever seen. She heard a door close and someone walk up behind her; she was too into the flowers to look around, so she just assumed that it was Hatsu.
“Hey,” she said in English before she remembered his idea to use Japanese as much as possible, even with him, so she switched over. “These are beautiful, what are they called?”
“The Japanese Camellia,” the person said, it wasn’t Hatsu, she jumped slightly at the strange voice. She turned to see who it was and her brain turned to mush. “It’s also called The Rose of Winter,” he finished.
“Oh,” was all she seemed capable to say. She had thought about him quite a bit but she had obviously under romanticized him. Hatori was there, standing in front of her, completely unaware of what he was doing to her brain. His hair was waving slightly in the breeze and, unlike last time, he looked at ease and was even smiling slightly.
“I like them as well but they don’t have much /-/” He said looking at her warmly. She couldn’t help but beam at him and she could feel her cheeks turning red. ‘Come on!’ she thought franticly. ‘For the love of God, come up with something better then ‘oh’!’
“I, uh,” she stuttered, and then cleared her throat. “They might actually be my new favorite! Not that I really had one before. By the way what was the last word you said?” she decided to be honest and ask. He looked confused for a moment then it hit him.
“Oh! I’m sorry you’re doing so well, I completely forgot that you’re still learning Japanese,” he said smiling at her. “Uh, it’s smell?”
“Oh I see,” she said simply and turned to smell them. “They have a subtle smell, but it’s very sweet,” she said turning to look at him again. “You just have to have faith that it’s there.” They stared at each other for quite a while; someone cleared their throat making them both jump a little.
“Are you going to come in or stand out in the rain all day?” Hatsu asked with a laugh.
“Oh,” she said looking up at the sky; she hadn’t noticed that it had started to rain. ‘This guy really does turn my brain to mush,’ she thought. She laughed and beamed at Hatsu, “I hadn’t noticed it started to–oh! What are you doing? You shouldn’t be walking around!”
“I’m fine, I’m fine,” he said waving her off as she started towards him. “Hatori if you would like you can come back in for a cup of tea. Our ‘lessons’ aren’t really lessons anymore; we just kinda sit around and talk.”
“Thank you,” he said. “But I do have a lot of work I need to finish today.” He waved at them and started to walk off but Inora stopped him.
“Oh, um, Hatori?” she asked unsure if she should call him that or doctor. “First of all is it ok if I call you that?”
“Of course,” he said. His eyes were soft and a smile was pulling at his lips. She got completely distracted and forgot where she was going with this. “What’s the other thing?” he prompted.
“Oh, um-yeah” she said trying to recover. “Sorry about last time, I mean when I transformed you, I didn’t really get a chance to apologize then.”
“No need to apologize,” he said smiling at her again. “In fact that was the best anyone has ever reacted to my Zodiac form. I get thrown into a bath tub more often then not,” he said and he began to laugh. She couldn’t help but join in, his laugh was rich and deep, she also got the feeling that laughing was a rare thing for him. He waved and walked off, leaving her to stare after him.
“Come inside Inora, before you catch a cold.” Hatsu said with a smile. She walked into his house and settled herself on his couch. “You know I don’t think I have ever seen Hatori smile so much.”
She felt her face turn red, “Well it’s not like I had anything to do with it,” she said sounding a little defensive. ‘What’s up with me?’ she thought.
“Well if you insist,” he said with a smile. “But I, for sure, have never heard him laugh.”
“Whatever,” she said rolling her eyes. She didn’t want hope, the hope that he might like her. ‘Hope just leads to disappointment,’ she thought. “Anyway there are a few words I ran into today that I need help with.” They went on with their regular lesson and Hatsu took the hint not to bring up Hatori anymore. As she got up to leave she remembered something.
“Oh yeah, I ran into a boy that was lost this morning, he was around my age.” She said as she gathered her things. “His name was Haru and he said to say hi.”
“Oh, that’s my grandson.” He said simply. “Yes he gets lost quite a bit, thanks for bringing him back.”
“Your grandson?” she asked. “Sorry, but I didn’t know you had a family like that, I mean I know you’re a Sohma…”
“I don’t really. My wife died a few decades ago giving birth to Haru’s mother. His mother was going to be a single parent but then she took off when she saw his Zodiac form.” He said, she noticed that he didn’t sound all that sad. He even laughed and said, “Hatori had a hell of a time tracking her down to erase her memories.”
“I’ll bet,” she said lamely, she couldn’t think of anything to say to him.
“Yes, you see my name is Hatsuharu. Since the mother wasn’t around to give her son a name the family named him after me, so I go by Hatsu and he goes by Haru, not very creative huh?” he said with a smile.
“No I think those are awesome names,” she said smiling back. “Anyway I have to go I remembered on my way here that I haven’t called my uncle in three weeks.”
“That’s not good,” he said with a laugh. “I’ll see you later!”
“Bye,” she said as she walked out the door. She hurried out of the gates and made her way back to Shigure’s house. It was still raining really hard and she was completely soaked by the time she got there.
“I’m back!” she yelled into the house. She still didn’t feel comfortable calling it ‘home’. She looked down and noticed that her hair was dripping; she went back out to the porch and wrung it out. The whole walk back she couldn’t stop thinking about Hatori, his eyes and smile were so warm, and then something else had occurred to her. She walked back into the house searching for anyone that could answer her question. She went through the whole house before she found Shigure in his study.
“Hey,” she said. “I have a question for you, I actually should have asked a while ago…” she walked over to him.
“And what is th- why are you so wet?” He had finally looked up and became distracted.
“It’s raining, duh,” she said with a smile. “But never mind that, how old are you?”
“I’m not sure I can ‘never mind’ this sight,” he said, smiling, with his eyes running over her body. “But to answer your question I’m 27. Come to think of it how old are you?”
“You don’t seem that worried that you could have been committing a crime,” she said laughing at him. “I’m 20.”
“There, see? No problems,” he said with an evil grin. He grabbed her hips and pulled her down onto his lap, while making sure she didn’t collide with his chest. He placed his hand in her wet hair and pulled her lips to his. ‘God I love his distractions,’ she thought, but she needed to focus still.
“And how old is Tohru and the others?” she asked as he nibbled on her ear. She didn’t really care about how old they were, but she didn’t want to draw attention to the question she really wanted to know the answer to.
“There all 17,” he mumbled against her neck.
“Oh, cool. And, uh, how old is Hatori?” she asked hoping he would be distracted enough.
“He’s 27 as well. We went to school together along with aya.” He mumbled as he made his way back to her lips. She knew he was trying to silence her but she didn’t mind, she got the information she needed. ‘27 is not bad,’ she thought.
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