“I’m glad the two of you have grown so close…I’m not surprised in the least.”   His words were whispered against her neck before gently biting there, feeling the tautness of her skin which made her pulse that much more prominent.  It was gently done and he softly sucked at the skin before letting his lips press to hers when her face turned in to do so.  Even after she pulled back to continue speaking he kept his lips lingering at her bottom one.  One of his hands slide up her back from her hips, gripping at the towel draped around her to try and slowly pull it off of her.

Unfortunately he didn’t know the answer to her question and shook his head, letting his lips just barely brush hers as he did so, not willing to pull himself away from the warm closeness he was sharing with her.  His thoughts were blurred, his senses drunk from the quick onset of passion and lust and to be honest it was all he could do to continue with this slow pace.  “The only answer I can think of…Is that your action was done out of extreme emotion, emotion towards me, even if it was negative it’s strength was only so much so because of how extreme your feelings for me were at the moment of your breaking.”  

He gently bit her bottom lip, the fingers still at her hip gripping her tighter, pulling her hips against his own, “Yearning can do things to our bodies that we’d never have thought possible.  Perhaps part of you wanted to taste them before you fell into your slumber…And maybe that desperation is what brought back the memory of when you had, and it lingered.”   With that he pressed his lips to hers, gently parting her lips with his own to deepen the action.

"Your sister is very kind. Both of you have that in common." She attempted to get through speaking as he nipped her neck. Losing a bit of her composure she chuckled. Her words had come out high pitched towards the end as he teased her more. She let him take her towel and she seen it starting to fall to the bottom of the spring.

"Maybe it's also because they are some of my favorite memories of us." She spoke through him biting her lip. She smiled as he pulled her closer and she nodded. "What we avoided last time and what we could do now." She only had so much more time to answer him as she kissed him in return. The actions were slow like they had all the time in the world.

She kept his face cupped as she kissed him hard. Her body trembled with the excitement of the moment. His scent never had changed at least not for her. She remembered it well and even after all these years it was the same. "Whatever we want… we could have it here. What is it that you want Naota? Just take it." Like she even had to tell him.

His chest rose and fell slowly as his breathing deepened in anticipation.  When his eyes opened their green had shifted to a light lavender, a hue that only presented itself during times of lust.  Their glow intensified as he moved them down her body, taking in her form and feeling only slightly distracted by the fact that she would forever be in the boy of a sixteen year old.  Then again, he would always be in the body of a twenty three year old and he had surpassed that age thirty seven years prior.  What did he want now…?  The urges were there but the proper thought process was not.

He swallowed down, suppressing his urges for as long as he could as his eyes closed, “Right now…Right now I want our lustful yearnings fulfilled…but only physically.”   As blurred as his thoughts were, that still struck out: a light in the fog of his mind.  More than likely it was his need to make sure he wouldn’t hurt her emotionally…Passion is what he wanted, but for now it was limited to the physical only.  But even that in itself was out of character for him since it was regarding someone that held risk of being hurt. 

He shook his head, unable to keep his thoughts straight, “I can’t think…”   So instead he tipped his head, pressing his lips to hers again as his arm wrapped her closer to himself by her waist.  His other hand moved to the hemline of his boxers and he pulled them down, moving his legs carefully to do so.  The actions he took were slow but deliberate.  He didn’t want this to go by quickly and savored the taste of her lips and the way her bare skin felt against his after having been slicked by the water.  The heat was almost too much, and even without the bewitchment his head would have gone lighter.

Holly watched him look her up and down. She wondered if her appearance made him dislike her or if everything would be alright. She had stunted her growth and would be youthful though he looked youthful himself. "Then let's do that. Nothing else just that." She gave him a smile that was comfortable and made sure that he understood.

The Rosenite let a giggle escape her lips as she listened to him. She kissed him back and wrapped her arms around his neck. She could feel him pushing his undergarments away. It brought a blush to her cheeks as she realized he was going slow on purpose. Once he had them off she turned them and brought them to the swallow part of the water. Pulling him down with her she kissed his lips again but this time just lingered before biting them gently.

"Don't think just do whatever comes to your mind." She gave him a smile hoping to push him along. "We got all the time in the world." They did, as beings with long lives they could literally sit here for decades doing this but she doubted he would want to. He was always on the hunt. That's why he couldn't take care of her but she didn't fault him for that. Holly pulled him against her and ran her thumb across his cheek.

As before, he moved with her guide.  Though his hands never left her and when she was lowering to the shallow area he moved over her, being sure to keep a knee between her legs so that they’d remain parted.  It was a much more possessive stance than he had taken with her before, but back then he’d been nervous about even touching her arm, and even when he’d gotten past that he was too inexperienced to take his time.  That wouldn’t be this case now.  He nodded slowly, lowering his lips down to her collar and tracing slow kisses along the line there until he was at her shoulder. 

There were so many things –too many things that he wanted to do.  Even now he felt as if he were about to rip from his skin.  His hand held her fingers to his cheek and he turned his head, replacing his lips in her palm in a soft kiss before moving them back to her chest.  A hand moved along her knee, gently gripping as his fingers trailed up higher to her thigh, feeling a sense of déjà vu since they felt exactly as they had that night so many years ago.

He continued the brush of his lips along her skin, moving them down until he could gently kiss over her stomach, to her hip at the swell just before the dip of her waist.  His other hand moved up her side, her chest, keeping her held down gently yet still firmly as if she were about to try and run from him.  No amount of lust would have been able to keep her there should she try and leave though, but he couldn’t help his fingers in their slow and pressing traces for her to stay.  As his lips moved lower still, he lost all trace of thought.

Naota had almost taken her once before. She hadn't the heart to tell him that he was the only experienced one there but she was sure he would figure it out. Before they had let their hormones take over them and did what teenagers did best. Now they were making their own choices and this was where they wanted to be.

He was much slower this time. It set Holly even a panic but more so of the good kind as her body twitched at every kiss. He was lightly holding her there begging her to stay, not that she would leave him. She laid her head back in the swallow water and brushed her finger tips over his hair. Yeah this was a lot like that night in his room. Flashbacks of it were vivid in her mind. 

Almost through it all she had Naota take the lead. It was all the lust building up and up finally ready to explode but she couldn't let him have all the fun. She was giggly through the second half of it as she flipped them. She asked him not to laugh as she took her turn being the lead. Even if he had to teach her she was willing to learn.

After it as she settled down onto him like their first night together. She wrapped her arms around him looked up at him before kissing his jawline softly. "It felt like that night only with sex involved." She chuckled and propped herself up. "You have to visit me before I leave Hiromi's that or I'll hunt you down." She traced circles on his chest with her finger.

His breathing was still deep despite the pause in action.  With eyes closed he tried to calm his breathing as well as his heart, and it seemed that finally he was starting to feel content drowsiness.  Not yet to fall asleep of course, just relaxation.  The warm air and hot water did much to soothe his muscles and lull him even further.  Everything about this place seemed encompassing and with her resting against him the effects were that much more noticeable.  Her fingers moved along his skin and his eyes opened just enough to look down at them and watch the circles they made on his chest.  The gentle touch was just over his heart and as he watched the trace of her fingertips he felt his pulse steady back out.

He smiled, eyes closing once more as he slowly nodded, “I’ll be sure to come by, even if the time spent there is brief…”   Making the trip wouldn’t be difficult, the problem seemed to always be how best to find the time to do so.  He was always going from mission to mission it seemed, though he couldn’t deny that he was also to blame for being so busy: that’s how he wanted it to be.  It kept him moving forward and he couldn’t stray away from his life’s purpose.  Time spent at the tayuu house tended to distract him and it had nothing to do with the women there.  It was almost as if Hiromi were always trying to urge him towards another path.  It was something the two of them argued about regularly.

But now that Holly was getting better it seemed as safe a time as ever to go there.  That was if they ever got out of this place first to do so.  Right now that wasn’t what he was thinking about though.  His arm moved around her, pulling her to rest her head under his chin against his collar.  “I’m sure she’ll miss you when you start to travel again…I don’t always visit the tayuu house as much as I should, but I’ll be making more of an effort now, especially for how much she’s done to help you as well as me in all of this.”

There was a deepness in her heart that felt like it was being filled to the brim. Her eyes were filled with visions of him and it took her back to the last time they had been like this. "Our time together is always brief. One of us always running away." Holly let out a small chuckle as she nipped at his lips. "Seems to be our thing."

The brunette felt herself pulled down and she willingly went with him. "When you come to the tayuu house… Lets meet like this again. I do have my own spot. Hell the girls might even be a tad jealous." She teased him more as she nuzzled his neck softly.

"Though I don't know when she'll let me go. You should have seen me the first few months. She had to carry me around like a doll. Though she didn't fuss at all. She's a good person Naota. I'm glad you can finally see past race." She kissed his neck and snuggled close. "Even Rosenites have to give in to vampires, no matter how much we dislike them. Though I should say what they did to the very first of us."

She closed her eyes. "I wanted to tell you for so long who we are. See Willow, my great grandmother, was originally a witch. She was seen as the original Mother Gaia. She died very young and the witches were attempting to bring her back. Vampires came to see how humans could manage a resurrection from plants and offered their blood. When their spell started to go bad the vampires aided if only for no magic backlash. What was left… wasn't who they said good bye. My grandmother was born a new soul. She was scared and alone, the only one of her kind. Of course, that changed over the centuries."

"She is our Matron Mother. We are her children no matter if through blood or essence. We're not at all like vampires, well maybe a little bit we're not what you might think. We crave the sun and we dance in fields of flowers. Most of us are warriors but some of us would rather sing. We live off sunlight or food… though sunlight is weird for most of us who are raised with other races. We're flowers. Wild beautiful flowers."

He breathed out gently and slowly nodded, knowing there would be at least a small reaction from him coming to the house and spending the night with someone.  Hopefully it would make their teasing stop for a little while.  While there were some there that probably genuinely wanted to bed him, he knew that a lot of it was their way of joking and getting a reaction.  Sex was normal for them, something to easily be made fun of, but it still had him feeling awkward when so many of them played like that at the same time.  He decided it best not to breach the subject, though it did bring him some amusement to imagine their humored faces.

“Hiromi is my blood, a very rare exception for their kind…”   He paused, lips pulling in as he chose his next words carefully, “Though…if not for her, I wouldn’t be looking at vampires from any different angle than the fixed one I’d had for so long.  It’s still something I’m having to work through every day, and truth be told I don’t know if I’ll ever truly see them as any other person.  Only time will tell on that one, but in my eyes Hiromi has nothing to do with that race other than being forced to share the same curse as them.”   He wasn’t sure if Hiromi had told her how she had come to be, but he dared not speak a word of it: that was her story to tell.

Over the years he’d done as much research on Rosenites as he could without actually having gone to one for more clarification.  He didn’t trust them enough to do so, and even now it would still take some getting used to.  Unfortunately that’s what a lifetime’s worth of conditioning did to you.  Each tome always had a different origin story for them though.  Some said they called to the vampires for help, others said it was a deceit on both parties, but hearing the history from a true Rosenite made him lean towards believing her version.  One thing seemed to be for certain: it was an accident.  His first instinct was to think that the vampires had done this on purpose, but only time would tell on that one: it wasn’t as if he or anyone else could go back in time and see.

No matter what the reason, Rosenites hardly seemed to be as dangerous as vampires.  Not for lack of power seeing as they had so much themselves, but more there wasn’t a vein of maliciousness to them.  Holly wasn’t dangerous.  The actions she had taken with the poison were dangerous, but she had been a teenager when it happened, right after an attack from a group of people and a harsh rejection from her lover.  That could push anyone.  While he’d never agree with her decision, he knew that it had been an act of weakness from a child.  She was an adult now, even if she’d forever be frozen in her sixteen year old body.  “It’s good that your kind has been able to take something so dark and turn it into light…Most wouldn’t be able to come out the other end of an incident like that so well.”

Holly smiled a bit and nuzzled him more. She wanted to show him it was okay to open up to her. She took one of his hands gently and rubbed her thumb over his skin. "Vampires and Humans are the only two races that allow us to have pure bloods. In the beginning we found out by accident." She closed her eyes. "You see," she pulled his hand to her womb. "We're cursed. We have a very low rate of having male children. So low we have to go out into the world to find men. When they told you our lives were lonely its because we don't have enough men of our own kind. Those that are born are quickly courted or leave for adventure. I only have a few brothers and I think my mother did some god bullshit magic to get them. Even as a god she is cursed. We know the witches had something to do with it but that's all."

She moved his hand as she thought about it. "We haven't always done our best to look past the darkness that haunted us. The king of Adeluna, the one before the queen, he sent an army. His army did terrible things to us. Rape was among them. We vowed not to sit back and let anymore humans hurt us. So when the queen of Adeluna called on us to help her over throw him that's what we did. We got our revenge. All of that happened because he was scared of magic. Scared of us. People who had never done anything to him."

She snuggled into him. "Rule one of being a Rosenite: Children are our life blood to hurt them is death. Rule two honor your lover for there are not many. Rule three honor the matron mother for she protects us. Rule four never betray your people because they are all you have. Those are the rules all of us are brought up on. Rules that each generation from the time of the first birth and creation until now have been followed."

She felt warm against him as she opened her eyes slightly. "I never got time before to tell you about my home like I can now."