A/N: Out of character or not, here it is.

Chapter 2

For some time, both Sachiko and Yumi sat side by side in silence at the sand and just stared at the moonlight reflecting in the water.

Yumi was wearing a sweater. However, its warmth was nothing compared to the warmth she was feeling from the fact that she and Sachiko's sides were almost touching as they sat there quietly. She shivered, which Sachiko noticed.

"Are you cold, Yumi?"

"Wha…no, I'm not, Onee-sama. But how about you?" Yumi gazed at Sachiko with worry. The robe the latter was wearing wouldn't shield her from the cold of the night.

"Oh. I forgot to bring a sweater."

That was odd, Yumi thought. Sachiko wasn't the one who forget things. It was so unlike her.

"Would you like me to keep you warm?" Yumi blurted, then immediately scolded herself for saying something like that. What would Sachiko think of her? She opened her mouth to rephrase her sentence when Sachiko beat her.

"I would like that if it's fine with you," Sachiko said, a slight blushed adorning her cheeks.

Yumi gasped softly.

"How shall we do it, then?"

Sachiko moved closer and put her arms around Yumi.

"Is this alright with you?"

"But you're the one who will be cold, Onee-sama, not me. I should be the one to do that," Yumi protested, blushing at the same time as she felt Sachiko's arms around her, as she thought of her arms around Sachiko.

"Don't be silly. I'm taller than you. If you'll be at my back, then you wouldn't be able to see around."

"But…"

Yumi didn't mind at all if she wouldn't be able to see the moon or the water. However, she didn't mind Sachiko's arms around her, too.

"No more buts, Yumi," Sachiko said with finality.

Once again, Sachiko and Yumi were quiet as they stared faraway. However, there thoughts then were not about the beauty of the sea or the moon anymore but of each other.

Yumi's heart was beating fast. She was feeling warm, alright, but not only because of Sachiko's warmth but of warmth also from within her, something that she couldn't quite put the words on but nevertheless understood it. She could always feel it whenever she was around Sachiko, whenever she was thinking about Sachiko. And the soft feel of Sachiko's front on her back was making it more vivid.

Sachiko's heart was racing. She could feel this whenever she was with Yumi. However, at their position, it was worse because it was almost making her feel dizzy. Yumi's small form seemed to fit her arms, and she couldn't deny the fact that she enjoyed the feel of Yumi in her arms. And Yumi smelt so good. Her sweet smell overcame the salty smell of the sea, of their surrounding. She tightened her arms around Yumi as she softly inhaled her scent.

"Onee-sama?"

'Is Sachiko feeling cold? Maybe I should really be the one who's hugging her,' Yumi thought. She glanced by her left shoulder to face Sachiko but she caught her breath when her face almost collided with Sachiko's.

Sachiko and Yumi stared at each other for what seemed an eternity, before Sachiko exhaled softly through her mouth, their lips almost touching in the process. Her breath made Yumi shiver not with cold but with the feel of it.

"Onee-sama…" Yumi whispered with wide eyes. What should she do? She was barely hanging on sanity, barely hanging on control not to move a tiny bit to press her lips against Sachiko's as the latter's breath fanned her face. It was taking all her energy to maintain that tiny distance between her and Sachiko.

Yumi's whisper sent a delighting pressure within Sachiko. She wanted to know how it would feel if she touched her lips on Yumi's. She badly wanted to. The thought had always been there, always in her mind, though she pushed it as far as she could. But now, it was back, back in her conscious mind, wanting release, wanting fulfillment. However, what if Yumi pulled away? What was she going to do? Could she take a rejection?

Both sat frozen, gazing at each other intently for what seemed an eternity, both not knowing what to do, both having internal battles.

'It's now or never,' Yumi thought to herself, because she couldn't take it anymore. And Sachiko's current action was giving her a bit of courage. Surely if Sachiko didn't like their current position, she would have pulled away. But what if she was wrong with her assumptions? What if Sachiko got mad at her in the process? Could she take it?

Probably a few minutes had gone by, and no one still reacted. However, a loud splashed of water as it hit the rock startled them, and in the process, their lips touched, just briefly. Nevertheless, it was enough for them to feel an electricity shot in their being.

"Yumi, would you…can I…" Sachiko stammered for the first time in her life. She didn't know how to say what she wanted to, didn't know how to put words to it.

"Onee-sama, would you be mad if I kiss you?"

Surprisingly, it was Yumi who had framed a coherent sentence. Sachiko gasped in surprise, and then crossed the distance between hers and Yumi's lips as a response.

At the touched of Sachiko's lips, Yumi lost it, lost all the things that were holding her back. She kissed Sachiko hungrily, though awkward at first because this was her first time, her first kiss. But as she learned the process, she got bolder and moved her lips from Sachiko's lips to her earlobe, then to her neck, and Sachiko's soft moans told her that her actions weren't unwanted.

Sachiko was delightedly surprised with Yumi. Yumi really was a passionate girl, she thought as Yumi kissed her neck passionately. And she didn't try to stop Yumi when the latter pushed her robe aside and her lips moved lower. In fact, she didn't even think about it. Instead, she arched her back in response and held Yumi close to her.

Even if an earthquake happened now, Yumi didn't think she would stop, didn't think she would be able to stop. She was beyond reason. The feel of Sachiko's bare skin had filled her head with desire, an overwhelming desire. Sachiko's skin felt soft and smooth just like the way it looked. It was driving her almost mad. She loved and played the skin that came into view as the thin pieces of clothing that cover Sachiko were taken off, loved and played with Sachiko's bare breasts with her lips and tongue, just as she touched and caressed Sachiko's soft skin. But when she moved lower down below Sachiko's navel, something stopped her. Or rather, Sachiko stopped her by pressing her legs together. She looked up at the flushed cheeks of the beautiful woman under her with questioning and at the same time dazed and pleading eyes.

"Don't, Yumi," Sachiko said breathlessly, embarrassed.

"But I want to kiss it, Sachiko," Yumi protested huskily that Sachiko shivered at the sound of it. And before she could respond, Yumi spread her legs a little and lowered herself.

"No! Don't, Yumi, stop! Please…" Sachiko said and started to free herself from Yumi's grasp. However, she was too late, because Yumi had grazed her tongue to the sensitive peak between her thighs before she managed to press her legs together.

Yumi heard Sachiko sucked in her breath even as she still tried to stop her. However, there was no way she was going to stop. She held Sachiko's legs and raised one to her shoulder. And then she took advantage of Sachiko's surprise and tentatively licked her. Sachiko hissed in response, forgetting about the attempt to pull her leg down.

Encouraged, Yumi licked and kissed Sachiko hungrily, passionately, enjoying the feel of it and Sachiko's smell, which was also making her arouse to the core.

Sachiko was frozen. She couldn't move. What Yumi was doing was wicked, and sweet, and delicious. And she couldn't stop herself from moaning aloud, from arching her back with each thrust, from writhing under Yumi's ministration.

"Yumi…"

Yumi didn't have any plan of stopping, especially now that she knew that both she and the person beneath her were enjoying what she was doing. Nonetheless, she still stopped. It was the way Sachiko had uttered her name. The sound of her husky and sexy voice sent chills to her, making her feel warm and breathless all the more. She raised her head a little to stare at the face of her love. She literally stopped breathing at the sight that greeted her. She was mesmerized at the sight of Sachiko's beautiful form drenched in sweat glistening in the moonlight, eyelids aflutter, lips parted in heavy breaths.

When Sachiko noticed that Yumi had stopped moving, she opened her dazed eyes and stared at the soft brown eyes of her frozen lover.

"Don't stop…don't stop please…" she breathed, and Yumi, waking from her frozen state, didn't disappoint her.

An hour later, both Sachiko and Yumi lay in the sand, arms around each other, breathing hard, spent.

"I'm glad no one is around," Yumi said as she caught her breathe. If someone saw them or heard them, it would be really embarrassing. They had completely forgotten where they were as they lost themselves in each other.

"Yes. And I'm glad we're far from the cottage. Otherwise, you would have woken everyone, Yumi my dear," Sachiko teased as she remembered Yumi's passionate cries.

Yumi colored at the remark.

"I could say the same thing to you, Sachiko my love," she shot back lovingly.

"But you know, I'd never thought nor imagined that when something like this happened, it would be in this hard sand. I think I've tasted some of them," Sachiko said with a laugh.

"Me, too. Not in my wildest dreams," Yumi agreed as she joined Sachiko's laughter.

They shared a happy, contented laugh. Sachiko lost her innocence with the hard sand supporting her back under the moonlight, just as Yumi lost hers. It was a night of wonder, a night of pleasure. It was a night that merged their lives fully. It was a night that forever changed their lives.

---Wakas---

A/N: I know it's really short, and probably too fast for the two, but hey, that's all I want to write (or should I say that's all I know what to write for this story? ;)

Next excapade is either Piece of Cake or My Love, My Heroine (I haven't decided yet which of the two to post. And I still need to double-check each to reduce errors ;)

Heh, last week was really busy with graduation preparation. Couldn't help feeling excited, remembering my own not too long ago. It was really a nice feeling, even if I was panicking that time coz a couple of days before the college-wide recognition/testimonials (there's one for each college in my school before the university-wide graduation), they told me I was the one who will do the valedictory speech for my college and I don't really like speaking in front of public and so I spent the next days doing and revising my speech over and over but when the actual time came, I didn't even read a single line in my prepared speech and rather just said whatever came into my mind at that time hahaha (that's what always happens to me when I'm too nervous). Luckily, my fellow graduates and faculties told me that I did fine so everything was alright.

Well, for those of you who graduated this 2008, congratulations!

Till next time! Have a nice day!

---Arvendell---

28 April 2008