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“Inora are you ok?” Shigure asked.
“Huh?” Inora asked completely out of it.
“I just asked if you’re alright,” he said with a smile pulling at his lips. “You seem a little… dazed. Ah, this wouldn’t have anything to do with your plans tonight would it?”
“No,” she said too quickly. “I-I just have a lot on my mind.”
“Uh huh,” he said unconvinced. She rolled her eyes at him and got up from her place at the table to escape to her room. Shigure hadn’t been the only one to notice that she was a bit preoccupied, and she guessed that they all knew why. Hatori had called the night before and asked her on a date. They had been dating for a few weeks now, ever since Christmas, but this was going to be their first real date. While he had come to Shigure’s every free moment he had, that still didn’t give them enough time to really get to know each other. He was an incredibly busy man so the most time they could have together was usually an hour at the most. And in that hour… their lips were too busy for talking.
Thinking back to their phone call he had said that dinner would be at seven, so she assumed that he would pick her up at six thirty or so. She looked at the clock, it was almost four.
“Only three hours left,” she said out loud.
“Three hours until what,” an amused voice said from the doorway. She spun around to find Hatori in one of his usual suits leaning against the doorway. She could feel her heart pick up speed as it always did when she saw him; she had given up hope of that ever going away.
“Nothing,” she said blushing. He smiled knowingly and walked up to her and wrapped his arms around her waist while still keeping a six inch gap between them. She was practically an expert now on how much contact could be made without him transforming. That still doesn’t mean that she hasn’t ended up with a seahorse in her lap a few times.
“How sweet,” he whispered as he brushed his lips against hers. “You were counting down the time until our date weren’t you?”
“Maybe,” she whispered back. He chuckled and stepped away from her, leaving her a bit wobbly.
“Well I thought we would go for a walk before dinner, what do you think?” he asked. ‘Does he seriously think I might say no?’ she wondered.
“I think that would be great,” she said beaming. “Oh, where are we going for dinner, I mean how should I dress?”
“You look perfect,” he said gently. She looked down at herself; she was wearing jeans and a t-shirt.
“Oh don’t give me that,” she said glaring playfully at him. “Do I need to dress up or not?”
“Well…” he said slowly, and that gave her all the information she needed. But what could she do? She didn’t have any dresses and all of Torhu’s would make her look like a slut.
“Ok while we are out on our walk we’ll just stop by a store,” she said simply. She didn’t have much money but she was sure that she could cover buying a dress. She grabbed his hand and walked downstairs. After they finished bundling up they walked outside and into the freezing air. Inora shivered slightly and pressed her shoulder up to Hatori’s side as the walked.
“So I don’t think I ever got the chance to ask you, how was new years?” she asked, she felt him stiffen beside her. It had been a big deal on December 31st, he kept apologizing the entire day, and even though the phone kept ringing for him he refused to leave her side until he had to go back to Sohma house that night. She had told him that she understood and that new years wasn’t that big of a deal for her. But that didn’t stop him from explaining, several times, that if he didn’t go Akito would be furious and would look into the situation. That and it was his turn to do some kind of dance, she was just sorry that she didn’t get to see that. According to Shigure, Hatori had just sat in a corner with Yuki the whole time… besides the dance thing of course.
“It was fine,” he muttered in a tone that sounded like it wasn’t fine at all. “How was yours?”
“Good, Tohru and Kyo were fun to hang out with. I did start feeling like a third wheel after a while though, seriously when are they going to admit their feelings for each other? I mean they’re the only ones that don’t know,” she said with a laugh, he chuckled beside her and stopped suddenly. She looked around and saw that he was staring down a coffee shop.
“Want to get something to warm us up?” he asked, and pulled her inside the warm store. “What do you want? A latte, a mocha?”
“Ew, are you serious? What is everyone’s obsession with coffee? It’s so bitter and gross! Ooooh, do they have hot chocolate?” She asked going from disgusted to excided in a heart beat, but then she froze. She realized that she had just sounded like a child, she blushed bright red.
“Hot…chocolate?” he asked then laughed one of his rare carefree laughs.
“Y-yeah, I don’t really like coffee but I love hot chocolate,” she mumbled still blushing, he was still laughing and she was starting to feel a little hurt. “Why is that so funny?”
“I’m sorry, it’s just so…” he trailed off looking for the right word. “Adorable. You are so adorable.” She didn’t know quite how to take that, parents called their children adorable. She didn’t have to think about it for too long because he leaned down and pressed his lips to hers briefly before walking over to the counter to order their drinks. Yeah, Adorable is a good thing.
“So why do you love hot chocolate so much, or is there even a reason?” he asked as they sat down at a table.
“My mom used to make the best hot chocolate, I could never figure out what she did but I have never tasted anything like it since,” she said. “She was a coffee drinker along with Dad and pretty much everyone else in the family, so she would make me hot chocolate when I was young so I wouldn’t feel left out when everyone else had coffee. As I got older I just kept begging her to make it because of how good it was.”
“And what happened…” he trailed off; she realized that she had never told him about the accident.
“Oh right, you don’t know. My parents died in a car crash when I was 17. I was in it too, but I was able to get out before the car… exploded. And no, I’m not exaggerating, full tank of gas,” she said with a sad smile. “Anyway the paramedics told me that they were unconscious when they burned to death.” She finished harshly. She saw Hatori’s eyes widen at her callousness. “I’m sorry it’s just- if I wasn’t so weak I could have been able to save them,” she said looking at the table.
“Everyone thinks that when someone they love is hurt. All you can do is accept that you did do all you could at the time, because when it happened you didn’t have years to think about your options like you do now,” he said quietly. She sat in a stunned silence; everyone had always told her that there was nothing that she could have done. Here Hatori was saying that there may have been something she could have done, but that she couldn’t have been expected to come up with it at the time. After all the time and effort everyone she knew had put into comforting her, Hatori just said two sentences and helped her more than any of those people combined.
“Thank you,” she whispered across the table. He smiled warmly and placed his hand on top of hers.
“So your uncle raised you after that?” he asked, she was grateful to move on.
“Well I was 17 so there wasn’t much raising left to do,” she said and chuckled. “You see my grandparents were pretty old when they had him so it was decided that he would live with us, that way it would be like he had parents to go to his games and a sibling. So he is pretty much my brother, in fact I call him that a lot.”
“And what does he do?” he asked
“He’s a teacher. He teaches math in high school, which is good because I really suck at math,” she laughed.
“That’s ok you more than make up for it in languages right?” he asked with a smile. “I mean it only took you about three weeks to become fluent in Japanese.”
“Well it helped that I already knew Spanish and German,” she said, then laughed at the surprised look on his face.
“Why those two?” he asked.
“Well next to English, Spanish is the most spoken in America, and then I wanted German because it sounded like a fun language. Everyone was expecting me to learn French, I wanted to be different,” she said with a grin.
“You certainly are,” he said with a kind of reverence, then looked at his watch. “If you want to go to a store we should probably get walking again.” They gathered up their drinks and headed outside again.
“Now can I ask you a question?” she asked not really sure how to phrase her question.
“Anything,” he said grabbing her hand again.
“Why does everyone in your family look…um…white?” she asked uncertainly. While every one of the Sohmas she met had some Japanese like features, for the Most part they looked like they were from Europe.
“White? Oh I see. We don’t really know, we just guessed that it has something to do with the curse. It might be our ancestry but marring outside of the family would have changed that by now,” he said lost in thought.
“Oh well I was just curious,” she said then she stopped much as Hatori had done earlier. “Whoa look at that,” she said pointing to an elaborate purple sign.
“Oh, no,” he whispered then tried to pull her away. “Come on.”
“Wait, it looks like a clothing store maybe I can find something there,” she said trying to pull him back.
“No, that’s not a good one, we should-” Hatori started but was cut off by a loud noise.
“HA’RI, INORA IT IS SO GOOD TO SEE YOU!” a loud voice came from inside the store. Inora looked and saw Ayame running out to them looking extremely excited.
“Aya, hi,” Inora waved at him. She felt Hatori stop struggling and step over to her side. Aya suddenly stopped and stared at something in between them; it took her a second to realize that it was their hands that were still wound together. She couldn’t hold back a giggle when she remembered that they hadn’t told Aya yet. She elbowed Hatori lightly and he got the message.
“Aya, Inora and I are dating,” he said sounding really formal. Aya stood there for another moment then ran forward with his obnoxious laugh. He flung himself at Hatori and gave him a bear hug; Hatori sighed and reluctantly patted his friend on the back. Aya let him go and planted a Kiss on Inora’s cheek.
“I am so happy for you! Come inside,” he said then pranced inside without waiting for an answer from them. They followed him inside and Inora saw all of the fabrics and couldn’t help but run her hand over them.
“Ayame,” Hatori said. “We don’t have much time; we have dinner reservations And Inora wants to get a dress first.” She noticed that he seemed to talk differently to Ayame then to her… or maybe he talked differently to her then to everyone else.
“A dress? Oh I have just the thing!” Aya cried dramatically.
“No,” Hatori said quickly. “She wants a dress not a slutty uniform.”
“Come now, that’s not all I have,” Aya said faking anger. “You should just be glad Mine isn’t here or else Inora would already be dressed up in, I’m guessing, a nurses uniform.” He pranced over and grabbed Inora’s hand out of Hatori’s and dragged her into the back room. He went to a closet and immediately pulled something flowing, red and purple out of it. He held it up to her before she could fully see it.
“What is it?” she asked trying to see.
“Is it that hard to figure out? It’s a dress of course,” she said, and she rolled her eyes at him. “Put it on!” He commanded.
“Aya I don’t think I have the money to cover-” she started but he cut her off.
“Don’t worry I’ve had this dress in mind for you ever since we met, it’s my treat,” he said softly. She just shrugged and went into a changing room and slipped it on. She turned to look in the mirror and gasped. The top fitted her perfectly, and then flowed perfectly out from her hips, it had thin straps going over the shoulders that made the whole thing look sexy and yet elegant. It was maroon with purple flowers embroidered all over it. She must have mentioned her favorite colors to him as well.
“Aya this is amazing,” she said in awe as she stepped out. It flowed all the way to the floor and swirled around her as she walked.
“Here,” he said and handed her some black high healed shoes.
“Thanks,” she said slipping them on, then she looked at the clock and gasped. It was a quarter till seven. She ran out to the shop just hoping that the restaurant wasn’t too far. She had forgotten for a moment what she was wearing until she saw his face.
“Inora,” he whispered. “You look…amazing.” And he broke into a grin; she smiled back at him before she remembered the time.
“Hatori it’s almost seven, we need to leave,” she said heading towards the door.
“Ah well as soon as he took you away I knew we wouldn’t make it if we walked, so I called a car for us,” he said simply. “It’s already waiting outside.” Inora walked outside but then froze.
“You said a car,” she said lamely.
“Oh well car, limo, what’s the difference,” he said with a smile. Inora couldn’t find her voice as she climbed in; it was just like what you see in movies. This was her first time in one though. She cuddled up to his side as the ‘car’ began to move, she felt him kiss the top of her head softly. Inside the restaurant was amazing, she had briefly worried that she would be overdressed in the dress Aya gave her, but she didn’t worry about that now. There were chandeliers and everything seemed to be gold.
“Mister Sohma, nice to see you again,” the hostess said kindly. “We have your table ready for you, right this way.” She led them to a small table away from everyone else. In fact as she sat down she glanced around and couldn’t see any of the other diners because of a low wall that separated them. The family must have more pull then she originally thought.
“This is amazing, I love it,” she said smiling.
“You haven’t even tried the food yet,” he teased. She didn’t get to respond because waiters began to attack the table with Champaign, candles and a ton of food. The left just as quickly as they came leaving the table completely altered. She thought things like that only happened in the movies.
“Um,” she said looking at her plate.
“I hope you don’t mind, I prefer to call ahead with my order, otherwise it takes forever,” he said sipping his Champaign.
“No that’s- I mean, I wouldn’t have known what to order anyway,” she said with a smile. They ate and talked for quite sometime; they laughed at the smallest things and barely registered when someone came to check on them. The only measurement of time was from how far down the candles had burned.
“Would you like to walk some more?” he asked, it was clear to Inora that he didn’t want this date to be over as much as she didn’t.
“Yeah, but lets go back to Aya’s first so I can change,” she said and got up; he had already paid so they walked out with a lot of waiters wishing them a good night. They got a cab to take them back to the shop, and thankfully Ayame was still there. She changed quickly then they went back outside before Ayame could ask too many questions. They made their way down the street to a lovely park, as they walked down the sidewalk they were quietly holding hands and looking at the stars. When they got to the middle of the park there was a fountain and as they gazed at it, it began to snow.
“It’s finally snowing,” she said beaming at him, her smile slid off of her face as she saw the sadness in his eyes. “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing is wrong,” he said trying to smile.
“Don’t give me that,” she said quietly. “Tell me what’s bothering you.”
“It’s… I’m worried,” he whispered. “I don’t want a repeat…”
“Of Kana?” She asked, and he nodded not meeting her eyes. “Ok since this is the first time I’ll let it slide, but don’t ever compare me to her.” his eyes widened, she thought for a second that she was being too harsh but then she knew that he needed to be told.
“Kana was weak and selfish. From what I heard she acted like she was the victim in the whole situation, when you were the real victim, she should have been strong, for you Hatori. She chose the easy path-to forget instead of helping you,” she said fiercely, Hatori wasn’t meeting her eye still so she gently took his face in her hands and forced him to look at her. “I’m sorry, I know you still have feelings for her but you need to know. I would never do that. I would never abandon you to suffer alone.”
“Your right, I shouldn’t have done that… and thank you,” he whispered. He leaned down and kissed her gently at first but then harder. Her breaths were already coming in sharp bursts from his passion. He pulled away for a moment the whispered in her ear, “Come back to my house.”
**
She wasn’t exactly sure how but they had gotten back to his place through the hole in the estate wall. She had been so spaced out that she didn’t even remember giving him an answer to his question, but she must have seeing as he was leading her down the hall to his bedroom. His bedroom. The thought of what might happen made her heart pound and her face burn. He pulled her into the room and she heard the door close with a snap, she didn’t see it because she couldn’t take her eyes off the bed. He came around and stood in front of her and followed her eye sight.
“Are you ok?” he asked quietly. She knew that what he was really asking was ‘is this ok?’ She nodded quickly and pulled his lips down to hers to prove that this was more than ok. He kissed her with the same passion that he had in the park, they broke apart only to get air then came together again even rougher than before. She felt his breath surround her face and felt his tongue trying to gain access to hers. Just as she flicked her tongue against his she felt something soft against the back of her legs. It took her a second to realize that they had made their way to the bed, but Hatori had frozen there, waiting for her to make the decision. She pulled her lips away from his and they locked eyes for a moment.
She grabbed his shoulders and fell backwards, pulling him roughly on top of her. He barely had enough sense to catch himself before he landed on her. She, on the other hand, was focused solely on trying to get back to his lips. When he had finished positioning himself over her just right he kissed her again. Their legs were intertwined and she could feel every inch of his lower half against her. Whenever he would move the leg that was in between hers she would shudder. She decided that he figured out what caused it after a while because he started to move that leg a lot more. She could feel his smooth tongue gliding over hers, it was driving her crazy. Her breaths were almost pants and she smiled into his lips as she heard that he was breathing much the same way.
“Hatori,” she moaned into his mouth. This seemed to encourage him; he grabbed on to her hair and pulled her deeper into the kiss. He ran his hand down and then up her side, as if he was trying to decide where to go with it. Finally he brought his hand down to the hem of her shirt slipped under it; she shuddered again as he felt his fingers brush along her stomach. She brought her hands up and undid the buttons on his shirt quickly and ran her hands across his hard chest. She reluctantly pulled her lips off of his; she needed to catch her breath. Hatori moved his lips down her jaw to her neck, he licked and sucked lightly at the sensitive flesh there making her breathe harder. He brought his other hand up and grabbed the bottom of her shirt and began to pull it upwards.
She helped him with it but then lost track of everything when he started undoing her pants. She flopped back on the bed and focused on her breathing so she wouldn’t pass out. After he slid the pants off of her she felt a little exposed as he looked at her. He seemed to notice her being uncomfortable because he crawled back over her and kissed her again. This time, however, it was brief; he kissed down her neck then across her chest. She was a little confused for a moment as he was kissing down her stomach, it wasn’t until he continued down and showed no signs of stopping that she finally realized what was happening. She gasped as she felt his tongue slide against her. It was gentle at first but then became rougher causing her to stop breathing altogether.
When she did remember to breathe it was labored with moans slipped in, and every time a moan or whimper escaped her lips…it was clear he enjoyed it. She actually cried out when she felt his tongue go inside her. She had never felt anything like this before.

(A/N): Sorry to all who wanted more, I decided to keep this T. So tell me what ya think!