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After that night your relationship with Kagero changed. You don’t know how to define it; you are not really lovers or partners but neither are you just friends. Your conversations now last longer than five minutes, and whenever you stop by at his shop he gives you a little trinket to go. Sometimes it is candy, sometimes it’s an herb you currently need. It’s adorable, but you don’t know how to deal with the change. You thought it would be a one time thing and you both would go back to your usual selves, but it seems Kagero has other plans. It is obvious that Kagero has some kind of affection for you, although you are not sure if it is romantic or just friendly. Since that night, nothing has happened, and now nearly two weeks have passed. At first you were sure he would initiate something, since he obviously was interested. But after waiting a week or so, nothing happened.
Whenever he visited you for work or even just for tea, nothing more than friendly chatter happened. Not that you hated that; quite the opposite. These meetings with him were your highlight of the day, but you wished he would initiate something. A kiss or even just a touch. Whenever he took his face cloth down to drink tea with you or to chat, you thought he would finally lean in and kiss you. Sadly, that never happened. Now it seems you’re the impatient one.
After a while you stopped hoping for something. If he doesn’t want to take that step then it’s fine. You’re content with your relationship as it is. Although it would be a lie if you said you never think back to that night. There would probably never be a partner that could compete with Kagero.
Okay, you’re lying. You’re not content with your current relationship with Kagero. But you have to be until you have a plan. Because just simple communication is not cutting it. Also, you have your pride. You made the first step, now it’s his turn.
So, may your mission “make-Kagero-take-the-second-step” begin.
As much as you would like to think, sadly you are not as much of a femme fatale as you would like to be. So you think it’s better to keep the plan simple. Clothes. Pretty clothes. Pretty revealing clothes. Is it cliché? Most definitely. But hey, it’s a cliché for a reason. It must work.
Your day to day clothes are more comfy than sexy, but that’s because of your work. You need to run around and collect herbs. So, it’s not for a lack of confidence. And sure you have sexy outfits, who hasn’t? But the problem is the timing.
When would it not be weird wearing a sexy gown, and how do you initiate a meeting with Kagero, preferably in private?
Well, why should you complicate matters more than they already are? You decide to invite him for dinner. An appropriate enough situation to glam up a bit. If he asks why you look so good, you can just come up with a lie.
So you get ready to go to Kagero’s little store to ask him if he wants to stop by. On the way there, you make some quick work-related stops. When you arrive, it starts to get darker already, and it seems that Kagero is already ready to close the shop.
“Ah, hello dear. How are you?” Kagero greets you before you have a chance to say hello first.
“Hey, I’m fine. Just made some stops for work. And you?”
“Certainly better, now that I’ve seen you.” You cannot see his face, but you bet there is a sly smirk under that cloth.
“Well if that’s so, I’m about to make your whole week with my invitation,” you say jokingly.
“Oh? What kind of invitation, my dear?”
“To dinner. How about tomorrow? Around 7 o’clock?”
“Hmm… sure. I will close the store a bit earlier then. Should I bring something?”
“Mmmh, your body maybe?”
“Haha, sure, I will bring something to drink with me as well.”
“That sounds nice. Well, guess we’ll see each other tomorrow then. I still have some errands to do. Bye-bye~.”
You say your goodbyes and turn around to finish your work for today. But before you can take a step, a hand lands on your shoulder. You turn back around and look at Kagero.
“Is something wrong?”
Kagero just hands you a tiny red flower. Despite your background in herbs and general flora, you cannot identify this flower. You furrow your brow trying to remember if you ever saw a flower like that in one of your books, but nothing comes to mind.
“It´s a flower from another region. A friend of mine came to visit me yesterday, and he brought some of these flowers with him for his medicine. He is a doctor, you see. When he showed me them, I thought of you and bargained my way to one flower. Haha.” He laughs quite heartily, but you think you hear a bit of nervous strain in it.
“Oh, thank you.” You smile at him while chuckling a bit, it seems you don’t have to work too hard tomorrow. You take a step towards Kagero and move his face cloth just enough to expose his cheek and give him a tiny peck on it.
It takes less than two seconds, and you turn around with a slight blush on your cheeks hoping he didn’t see it.
You take a few steps when you hear a “‘Til tomorrow, my love.” That makes your blush deepen, even if you don’t like it.
Time to get ready for tomorrow.
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By the next day, you’ve already made some simple dishes. To be honest, you are not the best cook. Hence the store-bought main dishes from the market. But the food is not the main event anyways; it’s your dress. More accurately, it’s a rather pretty top, with a matching long skirt with a long slit on the side. While standing, it is not that revealing. But sitting down exposes your whole right leg, making it a perfect fit for today. Additionally, the top pushes your boobs up really nicely, and a medium long necklace does nothing but accentuate your collarbones and cleavage.
The flower got its own little cup and stands in the middle of the table. You didn’t know you were this sentimental, but when you got home the day before, you quickly put it in a cup and admired it for a bit.
You hear a knocking on your door and rush to open it. Outside stands Kagero with a bouquet of flowers and a flask of wine.
“Good evening, my dear, I hope I arrived at a good time.”
“No, it´s perfect timing. I just finished setting the table. Come in.”
You both go inside as you take the flowers and wine from Kagero.
“Should I open it now?” you ask him. From the looks of it, it is a fine wine worth quite the zenny.
“However you like dear,” he answers from behind you.
You decide to just open the wine now; no need to let it rot somewhere in the basement.
You place the wine on your table and go to the kitchen to find suitable glasses for it. While searching for glasses you take a closer look at the flowers in your other hand. They are truly beautiful. All red and white, harmonizing perfectly. This time they are regional, and you know that he must have gathered them today since they are still perfectly fresh.
You feel a warmth blossoming in your stomach. It is really quite sweet of him to go to these lengths for you. But that makes you question why he hasn’t made a move yet if he clearly favours you. Well, you are definitely making sure that you get an answer to that question today.
Taking the glasses, and also a vase filled with water, you get back to your living room. There you see Kagero standing slightly awkward next to your table, apparently looking at it. Although, you are not sure exactly what he is staring at.
You put the glasses down and then turn around to look for a nice place for your flowers.
“Where do you think I should put the flowers?” you ask, and it takes Kagero a second to reply to you.
“Next to the window, so they can have enough sun to bloom and last longer, therefore making you smile longer at them.”
He says it so aloof that it takes you a second before you blush and put them there. You swear you usually don’t blush like that. It is just a tiny bit embarrassing.
You go back to the table and see how Kagero started pouring the wine in your glasses. You sit down next to him, conveniently to his left side so he has a nice view of your leg.
Both of you put some food on your plate, and Kagero soon removes his face cloth afterwards. You can’t help but stare. After all, the last time you saw his face was during the incident.
He turns to look at you and smiles.
“Do I have something on my face that makes you stare that much?” He smiles in a way that shows you that he knows what you are thinking about.
It would’ve embarrassed you, if you didn’t catch his eyes wandering to your thigh.
“Do I have something on my leg that makes you stare that much?” you repeat his sentiment back at him with a smile. Time to execute the plan. Or whatever this is.
“Haha, you got me there. The dishes are fantastic; did you make them?”
The change of topic throws you off and makes you slightly upset.
“I made most of the side dishes. The main course is bought from the market. I am not a particularly good cook.”
“It’s fine, I can be quite the fine cook myself.”
You turn to him and tilt your head inquisitively. He doesn’t follow up to that statement.
Both of you sit in relative silence for dinner. It should have been awkward, but it was a surprisingly pleasant dinner despite the silence.
When you both finish up, you get up to take the plates back to the kitchen and make tea. Kagero stands up as well to try and help with the plates.
“Oh no please stay seated. I am just going to make some tea.” He seems to hesitate for a second but sits back down.
In the kitchen you start making the tea while getting slowly agitated. You both weren’t supposed to get that far. In your genius plan he would have already jumped you. You sighed. Desperation is not a good look on you.
You go back with the tea on a tray and put it down on the table.
“Thank you my dear. So. Do I get an explanation for the sudden invitation?”
“Am I not allowed to invite you to dinner at my place?”
“Sure you are allowed to but what is the occasion?”
“I just told you, I wanted to invite you for dinner.” You get mildly irritated, especially because you think he caught on to your genius plan.
Your thought is only confirmed with his next sentence.
“Are you trying to seduce me?”
“You…You are getting overconfident aren’t you.” It would have been more convincing if you hadn't stammered through the first part. But hey, beggars can’t be choosers.
“Am I or am I just getting very good at reading you?” He gives you a small chuckle after he says that.
“So what if I am, it clearly isn’t working the way I want it to.” You snap at him feeling slightly ridiculed. If he planned to ignore your advances he should have just said nothing instead of pointing it out.
You start to get up to go to the kitchen and clear your head there but a large hand grabbing yours is stopping you from standing up completely. You don’t really want to look at his stupidly perfect face right now so decidedly look the other way.
“Come on darling, look at me.”
“....No.”
“Love, come on.”
“....urgh.”
“Deeeeeaaaar~.”
You can’t take it anymore and turn around.
“What?” You sound a bit harsher than you actually intended, courtesy of your broken ego. You have your pride.
Kagero takes a second to look you straight into your eyes and get a little closer to you.
“Why would you think it’s not working?” He sounds breathier than normal, which makes you all kinds of excited.
There is no witty comeback in your mind so you just stare at him with a frown.
“You know sweetheart, I wanted to do the whole thing with the courting, serenading and taking it slow. But it seems you are not a big fan of that.” He looks slightly embarrassed and you think you can see a blush on his cheeks.
“When exactly were you serenading or courting me Kagero?” You were genuinely curious if he thinks the little trinkets he gave you count as courting.
“Listen dear, nice and slow, remember? I was planning to slowly get you bigger gifts till you realize my intention then I would have asked you out on a few dates and so on.”
Now he clearly has a blush on his face that extends to his ears. It’s quite the view.
You raise an eyebrow at him.
“Since when did I care for stuff like that?”
“I know you don’t really care for it, but it was all I could think of to make my intentions clear to you and show you how much you mean to me.”
“….”
“….”
“I mean… your intentions are clear to me now.” You say barely louder than a whisper.
Kagero looks at you with a hopeful look on his face. ” Soooo, would you like us to be officially lovers now?”
“Gladly.”
It takes Kagero less than a second to bring you down with him on the floor in a tight embrace.
“Thank you.”
“Why are you thanking me?”
“I just… felt like it.”
“You are a strange man Kagero, you know that?”
He doesn’t answer but you hear a nasal laugh from above you and you feel a shaking of his chest. Both of you lie on the floor and before you know it you fall asleep in his embrace.
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A movement wakes you and slowly you open your eyes. You quickly realize that it’s not the next day by the darkness outside the window and that you are still in Kagero's embrace.
“I didn’t mean to wake you, love.”
“No, it's fine. Actually it’s probably better that I woke up now.”
You sit up straight and stretch your back a bit.
“Fuck, there is no way, that I can fall back asleep any time soon.” You say it innocently although your mind is everything but innocent.
“How about some tea?”
You give him a look and he catches on quickly.
“Oh love, being impatient?”
“I wouldn’t be if someone didn’t decide to try and serenade me badly for two weeks.”
“…It was not that bad, was it?”
“You were awfully inconspicuous, making it a bad serenading.”
He laughs and scoots closer to you so that his face is next to yours.
“Excuse me dear. I hope you find it in you to forgive me.” He whispers into your ear.
You forgot how raspy and good his voice can sound. It sends you shivers down the spine and makes you even more excited.
“Well my dear, I may find it in me to forgive you if you make up enough for it.” You hear, or rather feel, how Kagero exhales a bit of air. You are glad to know that you are not the only one excited and on edge.
“You don’t need to tell me that twice.”
Before you know it, you are on your back again and his lips are on your neck and his hand on your leg where your skirt slit is.
“You don’t know what you do to me love. That skirt does things to me that I didn’t know I could feel.”
You let out a small and breathy laugh. “Good to know, perhaps I should wear it more often then.”
“I won’t complain dear.” He mumbles while working on your neck. You are pretty sure the marks on your neck won’t be disappearing anytime soon.
You enjoy the touches. His hands and his lips. But you also want more.
So you start to let your hands wander as well ‘til they reach the knots of his clothing. Between the kisses and caressing of your thigh it is quite difficult to function. Who would have known.
Kagero luckily helps you out without commenting on it, whether he does it to spare you your embarrassment or because he doesn’t want to test your patience any further, you are not sure.
After a short struggle he takes off his last piece of clothing and your hands reach to do the same with your clothes but Kagero stops you.
“Don’t. You wore it for me didn’t you? So let me enjoy it for a bit longer my dear.”
If you weren’t already blushing you would definitely now.
“Just this once.”
“So generous my love.”
“I am known to be.”
You both chuckle and it takes you a second to realize that his hands are slowly but steady crawling up your legs.
It doesn’t take long for him to find out that you didn’t bother with underwear today. Before he can say something potentially teasing you take the reign.
“Why would I bother if the goal for today was clear.”
“No need to explain love.”
He says that but you hear a certain teasing tone that you don’t like and you are pretty sure you will hear from him in the future more about this.
Kagero leans down with his right hand next to your face and his left hand gently caressing your folds. A weak breath escapes your lips and your hands find his nicely defined chest. Kageros lips reach his apparently favourite spot on your neck and you don’t even care if he leaves too many marks again like last time. Although you plan to leave some marks of your own this night.
But before you can try something he opens your legs wider so he can scoot in between them.
“Let me make it up to you my love.” He whispers in your ear.
True to his word he starts opening you up while hitting all your nice spots. You take your chance and maneuver his face towards yours and after sneaking a kiss from Kagero you start to work on his neck. This gives you a few heavy breaths from Kagero which makes you just the tiniest bit proud.
“Love the foreplay Kagero, but I don’t want to wait too long. So would you please hurry up dear?”
A short laugh shows you that he takes no offense to your words. Following your plea he gets straight to the point and lines himself up to your wet core and thrusts into you. There he stills for a second before he takes on a rapid pace. Luckily for you he understood what you needed at this moment. Gentle Kagero is great and all but feral Kagero is a sight to behold.
But it’s still not enough, you grab his hair and tug. “Yes, ah, faster.”
Without a single complaint but a loud moan he picks up his pace. Despite it being a while since you two have lain together he still remembers your delicate points and makes quick work with you.
It takes you just a few more thrusts till you come and Kagero follows shortly after. A warm liquid heating your core tells you he came as well.
“I hope this is not it. I would be quite disappointed.” You say with a slight pout and a teasing voice.
“Now dear, when did I give you the impression that I can’t fulfill your desires? Last time? Then I have been nice to you that time. Don’t worry dear I won’t make that mistake twice in a row. I will make sure your lust will be sated.”
Kagero answers with his own teasing but you sense that he is serious and that you might have been too cocky this time.
Well, not like you are going to complain. Quite the opposite.
“Oh my, thank you Kagero.”