Title: present (not past or future)
Rating: T
Fandom: UsoNatsu
Relationship: Minagi Shiori/Tachibana Kaoru
Wordcount: 415
Short summary: Kaoru knows what she wants right now.
“Mmph… Ka… Kaoru… the… the bed…”
“Shi… ori… mmph…”
It’s 4 PM Thursday afternoon and the scene is rather typical, at least inside of this apartment. The door is closed and sneakers have been replaced with slippers, but otherwise the two girls have moved very little from the entrance. Not like this apartment is particularly big or the bed far away, but the intense kissing they are engaging in would be more comfortable on a bed.
It’s just, well… Kaoru isn’t allowed to stay the night, so she wants to make the most of their time after school before she needs to go home. And it’s not like they can make out at school; being scolded by Kayo once was too embarrassing for Shiori to let Kaoru try that again.
And outside of school, while they do go on dates, they can only hold hands briefly or sit close together on the train. Maybe a cheek kiss is okay. But also, if they go outside, then Kaoru wants to do something they can’t do inside. So when they are inside…
Kaoru can’t help it. She loves kissing Shiori.
They land on Shiori’s bed at some point, Shiori on top of Kaoru. Kaoru likes the way it feels to have Shiori’s body pressed over hers. It’s still early enough that they haven’t gone beyond kissing, and Kaoru is in no rush to push Shiori further. Kaoru isn’t sure if she wants more than this level of intimacy, anyway. Shiori may be her second love, and her previous love may also have been a woman, but Kaoru otherwise hasn’t thought too far. The reason Kaoru loves Shiori isn’t due to her physical beauty, even if Kaoru does appreciate it…
“Kaoru…”
Kaoru could throw a bunch of words together to paint a picture of her feelings for Shiori; things like “passion” and “stubbornness” and “cuteness” come to the forefront. But all that really matters is that Kaoru wants to keep moving forward because of Shiori. She actually cares about school and graduating so she can study to become a teacher. And that might be the main reason why her parents let her see Shiori so often unsupervised even after the three-day escapade they took last summer, but…
“I love you… Shiori...”
“…I love you too.”
Kaoru isn’t going to make a promise of forever. She has always been bad at lying. But she knows what she wants right now - to be with Shiori as much as possible.