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“Miko! I’m home!” sounds came from the front of the house, alerting the occupant of a presence that is wholeheartedly welcome to the woman.
“In the kitchen!” the newcomer hurriedly removes her coat and hangs it in the rack. Satisfied it won’t fall, she navigates to the kitchen where she proceeds to wrap her arms around the other woman.
“I’m home, Miko.” She says softly, pressing a kiss on Miko’s exposed shoulder.
Miko raised her unoccupied hand and runs her fingers to her beloved’s hair.
“Welcome home, Ei.” She receives another kiss, this time on her jaw.
Laughing lightly, she turns her head to give a proper kiss on her partner’s lips.
“I miss you.” Ei says after parting, a low hum emanates after their separation. She buries her nose on Miko’s hair, inhaling deeply, feeling her muscles relax fully with the familiar scent of her companion. “It’s just been 3 days and here I thought you’d be gone for 5 days.” She proceeds to finish preparing their food and lightly taps Ei’s hand to let her go. “I… I just miss you, is that so wrong?” she lets Miko prepare their food on the table while she looks off to the open window overlooking their land. Miko raises a skeptical brow and sashays her way to the skittish woman.
“Ei?”
“….”
“I’m waiting.”
“I-I was worried that you’ve attracted attention while I’m gone- not that I don’t believe you can take care of it but-but I just-” she grabs Miko by the hips and pulls her closer, bumping their foreheads together, “I just want you…” Miko wraps her arms on her shoulder and presses herself closer to Ei. “You have me, you’ll always have me, and nothing will change that.” She feels her caress her hair while the other hand strokes her lower back.
“Can you blame me? Since your ascendance I’ve been getting lots of competition. I miss the sakura pink hair that you used to possess- not that I don’t love the white color it just-” she got interrupted with a kiss on her lips, hands previously on her shoulders now holds her head down to meet with the shorter woman. Ei responds immediately, tugging the silky white hair to expose the woman’s neck, she receives a groan from Yae and proceeds to litter kisses and nips on her neck.
“Ei-!” a gasp escapes her lips when she feels a bite on her shoulders. She grips Ei’s hair in an attempt to pull her enthusiastic lover away but only manages to make her groan and switches to the other side of her neck.
“T-the food-!” she squeals after Ei delivers a fanged bite on a particularly sensitive spot.
“I am eating,” She hears more than see the smug expression of Ei’s face and shivers when she licked the spot she bit. “But…it would be a shame to let the food you prepared to go to waste.” She delivers an innocent peck to Yae’s lips and goes to the table and looks at Yae with a harmless smile.
Yae rolls her eyes and stalks closer to the perpetrator, “Oh Ei, it seems you’ve learned some tricks-” she pushes Ei to the back of the chair and holds her there, “-but you have a long way to go to dethrone me.”
“No need, my dearest.” She removes the hand on her chest and intertwines it with hers before placing a kiss on Yae’s knuckles.
“And why is that?” Miko says, feeling partly ticklish and flustered with Ei’s attention.
“Hhmmm…” Ei looks away from Yae’s face and looks down.
Where…?
“The tails never lie.”
Yae looks behind her to see 9 white fluffy tails wagging excitedly, betraying her inner feelings about the situation. She feels her cheeks heat up when she hears laughter from Ei. She throws a glare in her direction, but it only makes the woman laugh harder, she tugs her hand free only to feel a hand wrap around her wrist and pulls her to the woman’s lap.
“Unhand me you brute!” she pretends to struggle from the woman’s hold but they both know that if Yae really wants to, she can break free from the hold easily. “I can’t!” laughs Ei, as if to prove her point she lets go of her, “You just did-” she turns to scold the woman only to see Ei smothered by her tails, with a victorious smile on her face. She hurriedly stands up and goes on her side of the table, plopping down with a huff.
“Noooo! They’re so fluffy and smooth!” Ei motions with grabby hands towards her, or her tails, she rolls her eyes but feels her tails wag when Ei motions to them.
Damn it.
“They’re not stuff toys to be cuddled with!” she grabs her chopsticks forcefully, almost breaking it in half.
“They’re much more honest and affectionate with me than the owner…” mutters Ei, Yae raises her head to look at the ex-Archon only to find her already staring at her with a soft expression.
“I keep thinking how lucky I am to be married to you.” Ei chuckles and picks up her chopsticks to begin eating.
“Where is this coming from? Turning sentimental with old age?” She waits for Ei to take the first bite and is pleased to see her wife’s expression brighten up.
“Maybe, it’s been 10 centuries, right?”
“10 centuries and 9 years.” Yae states, looking at her wife demolishing the food like it’s her last meal. She laughs when a rice decided to place itself on her wife’s lower lip.
“Hold on,” she reaches out to remove the rice and plops it on her mouth. Ei blooms a pretty shade of pink and but reaches her hand out to hold her wife’s hand.
“I prefer the air here than the city.” Ei takes a deep breath and stretches her arms above her head, satisfying pops on her spine has her sighing in relief.
“Hmn…the view is incredibly nice.” Ei turns around to see Yae looking at her instead of the scenery in front of them. “Ehem! Anyway, have you seen the recently opened museum?” Ei says, fidgeting lightly when Yae draws closer and tilts her head knowingly at her.
“Ah, I haven’t. It’s hard to go out when…” she looks at the scenery before them, acres of land, full of different vegetations, a land they both tilled, ‘Majority of it is Ei though’. She feels Ei come closer to her and buries her face on her neck, she shivers.
Of course, she’ll know.
“Miko, you do know…I’m your mate, right?” Ei leads them to the couch and proceeds to wrap her arms around her wife, being mindful of the numerous tails that threaten to envelop her, but they retreat when Yae buries her nose on her neck and breaths deeply.
“I’m close to my cycle.” She murmurs on Ei’s shoulder. Ei similarly buries her nose on the junction of her neck and shoulder, running her hands up and down her wife’s back. “I’m here, I won’t leave you, Miko.” Yae grips her shirt tightly. “It’s been difficult, a-after the ascension I turn into something I can’t control, it scares me, Ei. I fear I’ll wake up to something I don’t even remember doing, especially since the urges are stronger-Ei-!” she feels her chin being tilted up, to stare at her wife, her partner, her mate, the press of her lips against hers-
Oh.
What have I been worrying about?
The kiss is sweet, a promise, of everything, filled with emotions built up through the ages.