Hey, guys. I updated another one of my stories! Yay! You all should be proud that I'm accomplishing so much in one day. This is starting to hurt my neck and shoulders and fingers. You're all lucky I like you! Anyway I hope you enjoy this next chapter of Genie Kagome.
Chapter 3
What To Wish For
"Wake up, master! It's time for you to make some new wishes!" Shrieked a happily hyper Kagome as she skipped around Kuronue's room throwing flower petals just for the hell of it. Kuronue groaned and flipped over, growling when he managed to pin one of his precious wings behind his back in a way it was not supposed to bend. Kagome took one look at her new master and jumped on his bed, scaring the wits out of him when she landed directly on his stomach and stared down at him.
Kuronue kept his eyes closed as she began bouncing around on his chest and poking him. Poke. Poke. Poke. Poke, poke. "Are you quite finished, wench?" he growled opening his eyes and suddenly realized just how close she was to him. She was bent low over his naked chest, black velvet hair strewn all over the place as she stared heavily into his amethyst eyes. And then she grinned. "Oh, good you're awake!"
"Yeah, no thanks to you," he grumbled which she blatantly ignored. "Anyway," he yawned tiredly stretching his arms up and out and smacking his lips together a few times. "What are you doing here? And why do early?"
"Because, today is a new day and you will make a wish after I explain the rules a little bit to you. I forgot to go over a few things with you yesterday," she chirped, scratching her head.
"Yesterday," Kuronue's thoughts trailed off and then snapped back to hers. Yesterday! Last night! It was just like she said. The spell protecting that cabin was complicated and even Yoko hadn't been able to figure out how to get around it. They had eventually trudged back, clearly disheartened just before dawn. His thoughts traveled back to the shadowed look in the young genie's eyes when Yoko had berated her so. "I'm sorry about yesterday, Kagome. Yoko didn't mean what he said, he was just-."
She waved him off. "Its okay," she smiled reassuringly. "He found me when he got back and apologized to me so everything's cool."
He found himself smiling back at her, eyes darting to the side when he felt the softest sensation on his shoulders. Her hair had become slightly disheveled and unbound from her braid and some of it streamed over his neck and shoulders. He couldn't help but reach up and touch the fallen locks that had escaped, marveling at how soft it felt. He gave a start when she lowered herself even more and began purring at the warm sensations. But still, it felt good to be holding her warm body so close to his.
His right arm came up to wrap around her waist and hold her still as he used his left hand to undo the braid and keep combing through the velvet tresses. "Kuronue," she whispered against his skin, eyes closed in pure bliss at the delicious sensations his hands caused from their slow, steady strokes.
"Hm," he murmured shifting her close and brushing his right hand softly across her waist and hip. He closed his eyes and enjoyed the gentle press of her body against his.
"Have you given any thought to what your next wish might be?" she asked sinking even more into his warm body. Kuronue groaned when she shifted again and laid a bit more to the side, wrapping a thin arm around his torso and burying her head against his neck.
Kuronue had to admit he hadn't thought about it. Most of the things he figured people wished for, he could already get himself. He didn't need a genie wishing him jewelry and riches when he could just as easily acquire it for himself. And as much as he teased Yoko about saving all the wishes for himself, Kuronue had already decided to give up some of the wishes to the kitsune. After all, the silver kitsune was his best friend and Kagome wouldn't be here now if he hadn't brought the bottle home.
"What do you think I should wish for?" he found himself asking. "What did your other…masters ask for?" He couldn't help but dislike the way it sounded, hearing him ask about her previous masters.
"Well," she lifted her head and laid it on his chest, gazing at him softly and tracing a hand along his rib cage, causing him to gasp at the pleasurable sensations. "Most people ask for your typical possessions; money, power, riches, love." Her eyes darkened when she spoke of love and Kuronue knew he would have to ask her about that later. "But you don't seem to need anything like that," she stated thoughtfully, licking her lips, not noticing the way Kuronue's eyes gleamed when he caught sight of her pink tongue. "You and Yoko already seem to have a lot of those things and anything you want, you take, am I right?" She waited until he nodded to finish her thought. "You two seem to have plenty of power, both in body and in spirit."
Kuronue cuddled her closer and thought about what she said. Kagome's head now lay squarely in the middle of Kuronue's chest rising and falling with his breathing pattern as she used her nails to scratch lightly over his slightly tanned skin. Her hair laid spread around her, mixing with his and cocooning their bodies as he draped his right arm over her middle, feeling the slight slickness of the leather top she usually wore. He was almost asleep again when he heard his doors being thrown open again, only this time the sound was much softer as Yoko crept into the room.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" he teased, although he was slightly jealous that his best friend was the one holding the ebony haired goddess and not him. "And you didn't invite me?"
Kagome lifted her head and twisted her face around to stare up at the sexy fox. She smirked and beckoned him closer. "You can join us if you want," she whispered, yawning slightly and sighing when Kuronue ran a hand through her hair again.
"Are you sure?" Yoko asked seriously, glancing at his partner. Kuronue simply sighed and pulled the covers back slightly.
"Just get in, Yoko, you heard the lady."
Yoko grinned and hopped onto Kuronue's large bed, climbing in behind Kagome and wrapping his arms around her body, spooning her to his front. Kagome sighed happily. "This is just like having a family again," she murmured against Kuronue's flesh.
"Don't you have a family?" Kuronue asked softly and both men were aware when she stiffened.
"I did," she replied relaxing again when Yoko reached a hand up to trace the side of her face soothingly. "At one point in my life. But that was a very long time ago. I don't even know where they are now or what became of them."
Both men were silent as they digested her sad words, feeling the depressed air form the night before flow through them. "Don't you get lonely?" Yoko found himself asking. "I mean it cannot be pleasant sitting around in a bottle all day until the next person comes along."
Kagome sighed and turned over to glance at the handsome male. "It does at times, but when I'm in the bottle for an extended period of sleep, I tend to fall into a meditative sleep until the next master comes along."
"Just how many of these masters have you had?" Kuronue asked, still disliking the sound of that word. Kagome looked thoughtful and sat up a bit.
"Hm that's a pretty good question. I think there were 5, maybe 6. It's been almost a hundred years since I was last released."
"You spent a hundred years lying dormant in a damn bottle?" Yoko growled out. "I'd go insane."
"Yeah, well after living in it for 500 years you get used to it."
"But you haven't always been a genie, have you?" Kuronue questioned, knowing that he was right on the dot.
He was right when Kagome stiffened even more between them. "You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to," Yoko said burying his nose in her soft neck and breathing in her delicious scent. He was thrilled when he felt the little tremor flood through her body.
"Thank you," Kagome murmured snaking a hand out from under her body and twisting it around enough so she could rub his ears. "I will tell you some day. It is simply something I find hard to talk about. I've never told anyone about my past, not even my other masters, not that any of them cared as much as you two seem to."
"If that's what you think of us, I hate to see what your old master's were like," Kuronue muttered.
Kagome couldn't help but giggle. "Some of them were okay…but most of them, they were just greedy. My last master was this funny old man who found my bottle six feet under water. He was trying to clean it to put out as an item in an old novelty shop and when I caused him such a start, he almost had a heart attack. And then I tried to tell him what I was. He didn't believe a word I said, kept insisting he was crazy. It was only after his store was about to be invaded by police for embezzlement that he realized I was speaking the truth. He wished that this would all go away and what a surprise it did!" Kagome laughed as she thought of the old man who had become like a grandfather. "I stayed with him for two years and he taught me a lot. I miss him now." Her eyes softened and her happiness dimmed a bit.
"What happened to him?"
"Oh nothing really. The time came for him to make his final wish, a wish which would have made me free again."
"He was going to free you?" Yoko asked.
"So what happened?" Kuronue asked gently. "Did he go back on his word?"
Kagome smiled sadly. "Yes and no, but it wasn't his fault. See he had a granddaughter. She was roughly the same age I was when I got pulled into the bottle for the first time and I had become great friends with her. Her name was Sango and for awhile she was like my best friend. She knew all about me and about the wishes and even urged her grandfather to let me go free. But one night, Sango woke up to hushed voices. Apparently some petty thieves had broken into her home." Kagome paused and she lost her smile altogether. "Sango was very high strung and because of that very foolish. She went to investigate and found the thieve rummaging through her drawers looking for food, money, anything they could get their hands on. She attacked them and managed to take one of the guys out, but…a third man ran into the room and stabbed her clear through the back."
"In the back?" Yoko looked upset that anyone would dare attack a target from the rear, especially a woman who was defending her home.
Kagome's eyes filled with tears and she tried to burry herself even more against Kuronue's soft skin. Yoko sensed her anguish and purred slightly to ease her pain while Kuronue simply held on tighter and let her continue.
"Sango's grandfather found her. She was already dead form blood loss and there was nothing he could do to stop her. So…he called me."
Kuronue and Yoko collectively gasped. "He asked me to give her, her life back and there was no way I would have said no. He apologized and I understood. He told me he was sorry that he couldn't free me, but that some day someone with a kind heart would set me free. And then he hugged me and the last thing I recall was seeing Sango sitting up and asking what happened and where I was. And now here I am."
"Yes, here you are," Yoko purred happily. "And I like you right where you are, too."
Kagome giggled and wiped the tear tracks off her face as she turned over to switch positions. Now it was Kuronue who was spooning her to his front while Yoko held her tightly in his arms, her head pillowed under his chin and arms snaked around his waist. "Thank you, Yoko," she whispered kissing his chin and nuzzling her head into the warm embrace. "Thank you both."
"For what?" Kuronue asked, mouth brushing against her ear again.
"For being here and for listening to me. I haven't felt so happy in a very long time."
"Neither have we, Kagome," he whispered back tucking her sweet face against his clavicle.
Kuronue hned and pulled himself as close to her as he could get and let sleep wash over them all.
So, how did it go? I thought you all deserved some fluffy moments from the trio I love the most. Hope everyone liked it.
Ja ne
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