Lightning Strikes

(Authors Note: SPOILER ALERT!This is OFFICIAL continuity, and as such is a spoiler since it takes place after the events occurring in the present book. However, given the events of last chapter, I needed to get this out of my head and on paper. (well, virtual paper at least.) This is where the entire story behind Kodachi and Makoto is fully revealed, resolved, and the "Happy Ending" required by Shan-Pu's wish is reached. It WILL eventually be moved into place as one of the final chapters of Book Five as it concludes the secondary love story in the Sarhia arc. I've had the notes for this section for a long time, but other than a glance at them before I started writing, this just poured out as a single piece. I'm releasing it in extras for possible feedback and because I felt I should. Some minor edits may occur in the final, fair warning. Oh, and SPOILER ALERT!)

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Makoto woke slowly, realizing with a sigh where she was. It wasn't that it was a surprise, really. After all, she'd more or less expected to wake up this way when she'd felt the cloth suddenly wrapped around her mouth as she'd been unlocking her apartment door, and had smelled the familiar scent of chloroform mixed with roses. In truth, she'd known in the back of her mind that it was probably coming given all that had happened recently. In a way, it was almost a relief… At least it would be over with and she wouldn't be living in dread for the next week or so.

Still, it did feel a little different this time. It was kind of odd. As expected, she was naked, suspended in a cradle with her arms tied above her head, and her legs raised and tied so she couldn't close them, but it didn't feel like the usual rope cradle. She opened her eyes and saw that she was bound in what looked to be hundreds of black strands. She followed them up from her legs to see that they appeared to connect to a web across her bedroom ceiling, and arranged in a manner that didn't look like it was going to swing much or let her turn to look behind her. She looked back down to the tangled brown curls between her legs and the open door to her living room. From the light levels coming in her windows, she'd guess it was late afternoon, so she hadn't been unconscious all that long.

She wanted to be mad. She really did, but all she could really feel right now was resignation. She sighed heavily again and closed her eyes. "Okay Kodachi. I know it's you. How many times are we going to do this? I keep telling you that you can't just kidnap me for sex when you're depressed! I'm not your playtoy anymore! And Akane said you had changed too! She said you felt sorry for what you've been doing! Was that just a lie you told her?"

She heard a rustle behind her, but the gymnast was silent. Makoto frowned. "Oh come on, usually you can't even wait till I wake up to bury your face between my legs, no matter how much I scream at you!"

She hung there for several minutes, hearing the other girl breathe, but Kodachi made no other noise, or made any motion to take advantage of Makoto's bound body. Makoto hung her head and sighed again.

"Look, Kodachi, I'll forgive you this time, okay? I'm not even going to be mad. But this has to be the last time! I've told you time and time again that I can't be just your playtoy. Can't you ever listen to something other than your own desires? You really hurt me and every time you do this, and it just makes me angrier with you! It doesn't matter how much you can make my body respond to your touch! It's just sex!"

There was still no response from the other girl, just that rustling noise again.

"Dammit Kodachi! You know how fucking much getting tied up in this position drives me crazy! Is that what you're after? Forcing me to admit that I'm a total pervert who enjoys being tied up and eaten out until I come so much I pass out? Do you want me to beg? To prove again how much of a slut you can make me act like? Wasn't making me act like that in front of Raijin enough for you?!"

She wriggled as she tried to make herself turn to face her tormentor but it was no use. The strands supporting her just absorbed her motions, preventing her from being able to turn. She screamed in frustration. "Just fuck me and get it over with already! It's all you want from me anyways! It's all you ever wanted!"

Something soft touched her back and very slowly traced its way down her ribs. Then it lifted to touch the same spot, and traced a diagonal line across her spine, before moving upwards. As it reached the same level as it had started, it lifted again and moved to the center of her spine and began to trace an oval. Once it finished, it withdrew. Makoto blinked as she realized they had been letters. A N and an O.

"No?" she whispered in shock. No to what? No to sex? Or no to that being all Kodachi wanted from her? God's what was Kodachi's game this time? Her pussy was already aching and she could feel herself practically dripping. As much as she hated herself for that fact, she couldn't exactly deny how much her body craved the gymnast's attentions. Why couldn't Kodachi just stop treating her like an object? She gritted her teeth in aggravation.

"This is why I hate you!" she screamed. "You always have to play games! You always just do what you want and toss me aside again! You twist my head around so badly I can't even think or do anything but let you have your way with me when you do this! I hate just being your toy! Why can't you just stop tormenting me! Why can't you ever just listen to me!"

That soft touch came again, and she caught her breath in shock at the letters. "I am."

Makoto closed her eyes and took several deep breaths. She didn't know what Kodachi's game was but it was true that she had yet to say a word or do anything but listen.

And of course tie her up and leave her hanging on display like a side of beef, which always made her so damned aroused that thinking was almost impossible. Gods… why did she have to have this weird and perverted fetish? And why had it been so easy for Kodachi to find it? And why had she forced Raijin to see this… animal… side of her? It had been a secret only Kodachi had known. One she had never wanted anyone but… her senpai… to know. She'd just wanted Raijin to see her as the innocent maiden he treated her like. She'd just wanted to be the nice girl who made him lunches and decorated his bentos with little sausage octopuses. That's who she was comfortable being, even if people thought she was a little scary because of her size, and her martial arts training. What would her friends think of her if they knew she really had wanted to make out with them that night in the other universe. If they had known she was trying to laugh it off when she realized all she had done was make them uncomfortable…

Why did she have to have such contrasting reactions to girls and boys? It wasn't that she didn't like boys. Raijin had been so damn sexy and cool that she'd fallen for him on first sight. She'd made him lunches, and they had talked about school, and things they liked, and all sorts of everyday things. It had all been so romantically ordinary. She'd even started thinking it could be fun to be a maid working alongside him, in a pretty English maid uniform to compliment his butler's tuxedo. They could have taken care of Kodachi's mansion and both of them could have served the mistress they both loved… She'd known he was Kodachi's childhood friend, and had a crush on her, and she didn't mind because she had one on her too…

No, it was just girls she felt this… this… lust… for. Only girls who made her want to be tied up and driven mercilessly to orgasm after orgasm. Not even to be whipped or anything else, just tied helplessly while she felt another girl go down on her. Just girls who made her lose control. Just girls who made her want to squirm in desire when she had these perverted thoughts. She'd loved Raijin because he made her feel normal, while Kodachi had answered a different need.

And Kodachi had been so different at first. Yes, she had been a demanding captain of the gymnastics team when Makoto had entered middle school, but she had also seemed so sad all the time too. When she thought no-one was looking, she'd always had this expression of loneliness and yearning that had touched Makoto's heart. Sure, she'd heard the rumors that Kodachi was a pervert who'd slept with a dozen girls and boys over the three years she had been in middle school, but she hadn't cared. Being such a large girl had gotten weird rumors started about her too, and made it hard for the other girls to want to approach her. And it hadn't made it easy for her in the gymnastics group either. She was almost a head taller than any of the other girls, and several cup sizes bigger than most. All she had felt from most of them had either been jealousy or contempt. Before Usagi, only Kodachi hadn't made her feel awkward about her size. Even though Kodachi was their leader, she'd been just as much of an outcast. Raijin had been almost her only real friend before Makoto.

Then, Makoto had accidentally walked in on Kodachi in the shower, and seen her puppy ears. Kodachi had freaked out in mortification, and by the time Makoto had gotten her to calm down, she'd learned about Kodachi's nightmarish home life and horribly abusive mother. And without quite knowing how or why, had found herself overwhelmed with desire. Kodachi's crying face and utter defenselessness as they sat naked in the shower had just been too much for her to resist, and her impassioned kisses had led to them having sex like a pair of wild animals…

And that had been the day she'd finally admitted to herself that she loved her Senpai…and why everything that had happened later had hurt so terribly much…

It had been a wonderful three months. Hanging out with Raijin and occasionally talking him into dates… Clandestine meetings with Kodachi for overwhelmingly passionate sex… Both of them flirting with the butler in training as they plotted to share him… It had been like a slightly twisted fairy tale romance from a Visual Novel, but she had been so happy…

And then, everything had changed the day Kodachi's mother had committed seppuku and forced Kodachi and her brother to watch.

That had been the first time she'd smelt chloroform and roses, and awoken to the new Kodachi desperately licking her clit while forcing Raijin to watch. The gymnast had driven her to orgasm after orgasm then left her hanging in agony as she watched her give Raijin blowjobs. She'd tormented them both for hours, then she had planted her hips firmly around Raijin's manhood and forced him to orgasm repeatedly inside her before she had finally released him, both from her body and from the chair she had bound him in.

Then she had simply walked away, leaving Makoto still bound into this same position in front of the exhausted boy. When he finally had the strength to stand, he'd simply released her from the sling without a single word, found her uniform for her, and left. And neither of them had been able to say a single word to each other for the week afterwards before Raijin had simply disappeared, transferring without warning to Kyoto.

And Kodachi… Kodachi had started turning the gymnastics team into her sex toys. The sad and lonely puppy eared girl Makoto had fallen in love with had descended into a depraved madwoman…

Her Senpai was simply gone… replaced by a laughing maniac who had become obsessed with dominance and sexual slavery.

That was the Kodachi she hated. That cruel and vicious demoness that called herself the Black Rose. That evil girl who kept kidnapping her and reminding her of how much her body still craved Kodachi's touch before dashing her hopes of ever seeing her beloved Senpai again… It wasn't that she didn't love Raijin too. She missed what might have been with the young butler, and she had fantasized about if things hadn't gone so terribly wrong, and she'd actually gotten to share him with Kodachi the way they had once planned. She had loved them both desperately but in entirely different ways… and she'd lost them both.

And it had been the same the last dozen times Kodachi had assaulted her like this. Hours of desperate sex until Kodachi had had her fill, before she'd simply release her and leave without a word. And Makoto would cry and rage and hate herself for once again thinking that maybe this time, the Kodachi she had loved… her sweet Senpai… had returned.

Every time she saw Kodachi with someone else, it was like a dagger shoving its way into her heart as she was assaulted with the memories of those happy days when she had been in love with her Lady and her Lord. Even all the happiness she had found with the Senshi and her discovering she was Sailor Jupiter couldn't erase that hole Kodachi and Raijin had left in her heart.

And still, even though Makoto was now crying… Kodachi hadn't moved or said a word as she sat on the bed behind her… listening.

"W—w—why won't you say anything? Why do you have to torment me with reminders of all I lost?"

Still, there was silence. Long minutes ticked past before finally she felt that soft touch trace out a question mark on her back.

Makoto laughed bitterly as the tears still flowed. "Are you seriously asking what I lost?"

Again, the feather-light softness…. "Yes."

"I lost you, dummy…" She sniffed. "Gods, Senpai. Can you really be that stupid? I lost YOU and I lost Raijin! And I lost all our dreams of a future together. You took away everything that day! I lost you when you went insane and became the Black Rose! I lost my Kodachi, the Kodachi I loved, and because of you, I lost my kind and wonderful Raijin too."

Finally, she heard the other girl move. The bed creaked as she stood, and she could feel her presence behind her. Delicate fingers gently pulled her hair back to expose her ear and neck and she felt a soft breath caress both.

Then angelic wings surrounded her as an unfamiliar voice whispered in her ear. "And that is where you are very much mistaken, my dear Miss Kino."

She stared in shock as the raven-tressed girl walked around in front of her. She recognized her as the tenshi from the "Monster Squad" they had met following the battle, but they hadn't talked to one another. It had taken everything she had merely to politely shake hands with Kodachi in acknowledgement during that damn photoshoot. The angel came to a stop in front of the bound girl, her feathery wings blocking the open door as she crossed her arms and stood naked in front of her, tilting her head as she gave Makoto a curious smile.

"Before you panic, I assure you I am the last person you would be in danger of being raped by. As an Amazon, I'd kill myself out of shame before I forced myself on you. This…" she indicated the sling Makoto was suspended in, "is simply to encourage you to be honest."

Makoto glared. "Honest about what? And how dare you!"

The angel smiled. "Your feelings of course. And to be blunt, Miss Kino, for Kodachi I will do just about anything I must to guarantee her happiness."

"So what? You kidnapped me in her place?"

The girl laughed. "Oh no, Miss Kino. I am afraid I have been rather more naughty than that." She stepped back through the door and off to the side. There was a dragging noise and she reappeared, sliding a chair with a bound and gagged Kodachi into view.

Kodachi eyes and drooping ears told her she had heard every word. And the tears were still streaming down her face as she looked so very ashamed.

The angel kissed Kodachi's forehead. "I am sorry for having to do things this way, Mistress, but you silly Japanese get so caught up in your noble suffering." She straightened and turned back to Makoto, giving her a polite bow. "We didn't get formally introduced earlier, but I am Mousse. You may call me anything you desire if it will appease your anger, but I prefer Mou-chan, as my Mistress calls me."

"I'll call you crispy fried as soon as I get free!" Makoto growled.

Mousse tsked. "Now now, I apologize if you find my methods a tad excessive, but I am neither a youma, nor a villain, and hardly worth your attention as a Sailor Senshi. I merely needed to verify that you still loved Kodachi and my rather silly new boyfriend." She motioned to the other side of the door as a chain appeared from behind her hand and shot out to connect with something, then tugged it. With a thud, another chair fell sideways, and Makoto stared.

"Raijin?"

He blinked at her, but like Kodachi, he had been bound and gagged, though with chains instead of the black threads that held Makoto and Kodachi. However, there was a thick bundle of them reaching up from behind his back to the web across the ceiling, and more descending down at an angle towards Kodachi. Mousse looked down at him then back at Makoto and rolled her eyes. "He's being punished for being a pain in the ass. But..." she gave a what-can-you-do shrug. "I suppose as boyfriends go, that's pretty typical. I'll forgive him in a bit." She gave Makoto a sheepish grin. "I've never had a boyfriend before, so to be perfectly honest, it's a learning experience, but still, I'm sure I'll figure out how to make him shape up eventually."

"What are you talking about? Raijin has always been a nice boy!"

Mousse sighed. "Oh my poor Miss Kino… there's so much you're about to learn." She gave another look down to the bound boy. "Rai-chan here has been somewhat less than honest about many things himself."

She used another chain to pull a third chair to between the others and turned it sit backwards in it, her arms and breasts propped on the back. "Now, let's begin."

"Begin what?" Makoto asked, trying again to unsuccessfully move.

"Why, fixing things, Miss Kino. I can hardly give my mistress a happy harem if all of you are still hung up over a tragedy that wasn't actually any one of yours fault."

Makoto blinked. "Huh?"

"None of you was wholly to blame for what happened, Miss Kino. But each of you feels just as guilty. Each of you has been suffering. And I… well… I am sick of it." She sighed. "You are all caught up in suffering in silence. You don't really hate Kodachi, you hate the Black Rose. And I can tell you quite plainly that the Black Rose is dead. She committed suicide by leaping from the top of the Tokyo Tower over a week ago. She and Mu-Si both died that day. Only Mousse and Kodachi survived."

Makoto's eyes grew wide as she turned to look at Kodachi. "You—you tried to kill yourself?"

Kodachi nodded. Then lowered her eyes, unable to meet her gaze.

Mousse sighed softly. "She would have died if I hadn't caught her. Like she saved my life, I saved hers. So now we each belong to the other. But the being you knew as the Black Rose died. The madness her mother infected Kodachi with was purged, and the girl you love was all that was left behind."

Mousse said it so matter of factly, but Makoto's heart hammered in her chest. She watched as Mousse reached out to scratch Kodachi's head lovingly. "But my darling mistress can also be very silly. She thought your 'Senpai' was Raijin, and she remembers how badly the Black Rose had mistreated you both, so she chose to simply accept your hatred as all she deserved. And, well, I didn't know enough at the time to do anything but suffer in silence with her."

She gestured down at Raijin. "Then this silly boy had to come back, hoping to fix things in his muddle headed fashion, and screwed things up when he found out Kodachi was with me. Like her, he arrogantly decided that he was the only one at fault, and that all he deserved was Kodachi's hatred. So, he's in the doghouse for being a real prick to her and trying to make her hate him, instead of just being honest and telling her he's still in love with both of you."

Makoto gasped as she turned to look at him, but he wouldn't meet her eyes, though his face was beet red.

"He rather pissed me off I'm afraid. Once I figured out the truth, I had to take steps to fix things. We were in a very dangerous situation at the time, so I was a bit forceful about it." She looked down at him and giggled. "However, I was quite serious about my promises, Raijin dear. My virginity is yours as soon as we finish this little talk, though I will wait until my future sister-wives have taken their due first. They deserve rather more of an apology than I do, after all."

Makoto turned to see that even as distraught as Kodachi was, she was still blushing and looking away from both of them.

"Which brings me to you, Miss Kino." Mousse said, folding her hands and tilting her head so that her glasses reflected the light and completely hid her eyes. With the illuminated room behind her, and her dark hair, it made her look a little sinister.

It also made Makoto blush as she realized it was making her still exposed and wet pussy tighten up. Gods, why do I have to be such a slut for hot girls?

Mousse observed her blush and smiled. "You are in that position precisely because it makes it impossible for you to hide behind a false front, Mako-chan. Given how dishonest my other mates are, I simply couldn't find the patience to put up with the same levels of dishonesty from you."

Makoto blushed even harder. "Mates?" she asked, not sure if she was really wanting a clarification.

"Yes, dear. I did promise Raijin a three-girl harem after all. And Dachi-chan needs all of us. If any one of the three of us fails to make this work, it could kill her."

"What?"

"Do you know what a succubus is, Miss Kino?"

"Huh?" She blinked at the weird question. "Why?"

Mousse pointed to Kodachi. The gymnast looked really embarrassed as a pair of small batwings and a heart spaded tail appeared from hiding behind her back, and she shook her head to reveal small horns in front of her puppy ears. Makoto blinked at her in amazement. She'd thought they were just part of the outfit she had been wearing earlier.

"I know she's told you she's an Inu, Mako-chan, but she only recently learned she's half Inu, half Succubus. And I am afraid that it is that little fact that underlies the entire problem you three have. Kodachi's mother was a full succubus, and a Chaosian. She was caught, and punished for turning Kodachi's father into a slave by stealing his heart. She was bound, and forced to subsist on the emotional energy of that single person and it drove them both insane. I've been doing some research since we found out about Kodachi's succubus heritage, so I've learned a few things Dachi-chan never learned because her mother wanted her to remain ignorant about youkai, and especially the Accord."

She sighed as she looked down at her hands. "The first thing I learned is that succubi are not meant to be monogamous. Trying to be her sole source of emotional energy will do to me what it did to her father and drive me insane or kill me, no matter how much she loves me or tries to limit herself. That's why she kept kidnapping you, Mako-chan. It's why even an entire team of sex slaves couldn't keep her from needing you, specifically, when the hunger became too much to bear."

Makoto blinked at the angelic girl. "She—she needed me?"

"Yes. I know she hurt you, but it wasn't out cruelty on her part. Even in the midst of her insanity, she was trying to sate herself on the other girls instead of eating you to death."

Makoto looked over to where Kodachi was sobbing, muffled behind her gag. She turned her eyes back up to Mousse, who's dead serious expression left her no doubt that she was telling the truth.

"She—she could have killed me?"

Mousse nodded. "Kodachi's mother wasn't an ordinary succubus. Most succubi reproduce only female offspring. Only a Queen can produce males. The very fact that Kodachi even has a brother means her mother could only have been a Succubus Queen. And that means Kodachi is one too. She can subsist on the lusts of those she's just having sex with for only so long. She needs a heart connection to multiple people to be able to feed properly. I read about it, but until last night, I didn't understand what that really meant. Not until I saw her get sick at Raijin's touch, and discovered she had both of your hearts in addition to mine."

"She—she has my heart?" She looked to where Kodachi was hiding her face as she sobbed, then looked over to Raijin's face to see the boy give her a resigned nod. She looked back up to see Mousse was waiting for her to give her attention back to her.

"In a simple sense, the 'heart' is a psychic connection directly to your souls. Kodachi unknowingly formed that connection with you both. She didn't know she was a succubus, or that she even had that ability. And in the state she was in after her mother fucked with her head by forcing her to watch as she killed herself, her unconscious succubus side drove her to do those unfortunate things to you both. And rather than face herself, the Black Rose was born. She split apart her own mind out of guilt and shame." Mousse sighed. "It's called Multiple Personality Disorder apparently, according to Ying-Ying. The Black Rose was literally a separate personality living in Kodachi's body." She gave Makoto a sad smile. "Your 'Senpai' was trapped behind a wall she couldn't penetrate, watching everything Black Rose did, but unable to control her. Until Akane Tendo broke Black Rose's iron grip, even Kodachi's uncle had almost given up hope of her returning to sanity. If he'd discovered that Kodachi had forged heart bonds without your permission before she took the Oath of the Accord, he'd have had her executed as a Chaosian herself."

Makoto looked in horror at Kodachi to see her wings and tail were drooping listlessly as she cried. Raijin wouldn't meet her gaze either as tears dripped sideways and smeared his glasses.

"When Kaede revealed that Kodachi had accidentally taken your hearts, she told Kodachi that she had to give them back the same way she had taken them. She had to let you two basically rape her to break the bonds. I was resigned to it, but it bothered me. I mean, who really wants to see the one they love get tormented? And there was also the research I had been doing that indicated how necessary it was for succubi to form heart bonds to feed properly, and even to reproduce. I kept thinking 'why would she have just your two bonds?' She'd had at least a hundred girls and twenty some boys as lovers as far as I was able to find out, why did she only have yours and Raijin's hearts? The Black Rose I knew craved adulation and attention. If she'd been able to take hearts as easily as Kaede had made it seem, why didn't she have a hundred?"

She took off her glasses to clean them as she continued. "Then, during the battle last night, we had a mission to Tokyo Tower. Kodachi can't yet control her powers, but they are immense. We were going to unleash her on the Blackmoon invasion. Kaede revealed that succubi can easily drain so much energy from people that the very molecules separate and turn to dust. Lo-Shen expected her to be able to eat a large portion of the invading forces given her strength. But she couldn't. Something kept her from being able to feed off any of that massive sea of emotional energy. Something that affected her just the same way Raijin had. Something unconscious and buried so deep even Kodachi was unaware of it."

She pushed her glasses back up her nose. "And then Rai-chan got himself trapped with me and Kodachi during that battle. And he was trying to act all composed and arrogant and putting on that butler act, and he ticked me off. But he'd gone out of his way to ensure Kodachi was okay and comfortable, even though he was acting like he hated her, and I realized he was being a boy." She huffed, blowing her bangs up briefly. "And I finally could sympathize with why Mu-Si made Shan-Pu hate him for being an idiot. He was still in love with her, and refusing to admit it. He was trying to be noble and self-sacrificing because he realized Kodachi really loved me, and that I wasn't one of Black Rose's playtoys. So I… took steps." She rolled her eyes. "If it had been much longer before we'd been found, I'd probably have gone past just kissing him." She giggled. "However, when we were rescued, I noticed Kodachi had recovered significantly from an injury she'd received and that even though Raijin had been touching her while we kissed, she hadn't suffered the same reaction she had during that earlier meeting."

Mousse stood and finally pulled Raijin upright to a sitting position before she kissed his cheek. "I had to wonder if I had actually gotten to give you that blowjob I was thinking about, would she have been fully healed?"

Raijin's eyes went wide as he blushed so hard his glasses steamed. Mousse laughed as she patted his crotch. Then she turned and stepped up to Makoto.

"And then there was you," she said gently as she reached out to cup Makoto's chin. "It might have been reluctantly, but you shook Kodachi's hand." Her fingers rose to touch Makoto's lips "And Kodachi didn't have a single sign of a negative reaction to you like she had with Raijin."

Makoto blinked.

"That's when I decided I needed to prove to both these silly idiots that everything you three believed to be the truth was in fact… wrong. That she didn't need to break her connection with you… she needed to fix it. She needed them retuned to supply love… and not hate." She turned away from Makoto and sighed. "Our Kodachi is simply incapable of being able to feed off of negative emotions. She lost that ability when Black Rose died."

"And that's why you chloroformed me and put me in this sling?" she said to the angels back.

"More or less. You see, after we parted ways this morning, I pulled Rei and Akane aside to ask them what they knew about this feud between you and Kodachi. I already knew Kodachi's side, and her confession that she'd raped you a dozen times or more, yet you had never once mentioned that to your friends. In fact, you'd even admitted to having willingly given Kodachi your virginity, but never once told anyone that she'd been regularly forcing you to have sex until shortly before Akane fought her. If you truly did hate her, why? You could have simply called the police and they would have investigated, and arrested her. Or, you could simply have killed her as Sailor Jupiter. Then I talked to Ying-Ying, for a professional medical opinion. That's where I got a lot of information about what the Black Rose was, and why she was likely doing what she was doing. After that, I cornered my dear Rai-chan and forced him to tell me his side of the story."

She stepped back behind Raijin as she put her hands on his shoulders. "According to this little spider, he knew Kodachi was half succubus all along. He also knew she was feeding off you, and was encouraging her to feed off him too. He was also trying to make you a threesome, but as he'd been forbidden to tell Kodachi that she was anything but an Inu by the Director, he was trying to do it covertly. He'd been in love with Kodachi for years before he met you, and when she fell for you, he was kind of desperate to wriggle his way alongside you. I'm afraid that when you first started dating, he was deliberately trying to seduce you. It wasn't until he was forced to watch Kodachi rape you before she raped him that he realized he actually had fallen for you too. The spider had gone and fallen for the pretty fly." She patted his head. "Poor widdle guy couldn't face you and admit his shame. So he ran away to Kyoto. Our big bad devil hunter was afraid of facing the girl he had never intended to love, but did anyway." She grabbed his cheeks and jiggled them. "Coward." Then she propped her elbow on his head and leaned on it. "Still, he does love you, and Kodachi, and she's got his heart to prove it, so for all his faults, I'll learn to love him eventually." She giggled as she moved to sit on his lap with her arms around him, rubbing her bare bottom against his pants. "And I have sworn to him that I'd do anything he ever desires, no matter how perverted. After all, he has such a complimentary kink to yours, my dear Mako-chan." She reached out to grab the black strands behind him. "You are wrapped up in his web, don't'cha know? Spider-boy is really into bondage and tying up girls for sex, even if he's not much of a dom."

Makoto blinked. "His web?"

"He's youkai too. He really is part spider. After I made him tie you and Kodachi up, I had to wrap him in chains. But he's been a good little boy and kept his promise so don't be angry with him." She pulled the chain keeping him gagged down to plant a long kiss on him, making sure Makoto could see their tongues entwining before pulling back, a line of saliva joining them for a second before it broke. "You can let them go now." Mousse told him softly.

Makoto descended to the floor gently as the webs slithered and retracted, leaving both her and Kodachi free. Kodachi slid forward out of her chair to fall heavily to her knees as she cried. "Mako-chan, I am so sorry."

Makoto felt her eyes tear up again as her senpai used the name she had not heard her say once since before that horrible day. Never once had the Black Rose ever spoken to her in a voice that expressed so much love or sorrow. She looked up to see Mousse looking at her, tears hovering at the edges of her eyes as she waved for Makoto to go to Kodachi. She blinked again as her own eyes overflowed and she swiveled onto her hands and knees to crawl over to Kodachi. Sitting on her heels, she pulled the smaller girl upright and pulled her face into her bosom.

"Senpai…" she whispered as she realized her forlorn hope had finally come true… it really was her beloved puppy eared girl in her arms again. Her long nightmare was over.

They cried for a long while as Mousse took her time unwrapping Raijin. When Makoto finally looked up from crying in Kodachi's hair, she saw he was still in the same torn and ruined tuxedo she'd seen him in that morning. The expression on his face was impossible to read it was such a jumble of mixed emotions, but he slowly sank to his knees and bowed prostrate before her.

"I am so very sorry, Makoto-sama. Everything Mou-chan said about me is true. I sought to deceive you both, and my actions contributed to this tragedy. I am a coward, and I did run away instead of facing the consequences I knew were likely to happen. I knew Kodachi had both our hearts, and rather than face my responsibilities as her partner, I fled and left you alone to endure the Black Rose's cruelty. I could not look at your beautiful face and not remember my awful intention to deceive you, nor bear to look at the madness in Lady Kodachi's eyes. If—if I had not been required to return to Tokyo to fulfill my families obligations to the Hibiki, I would have continued to run for the rest of my days."

Makoto blinked several times to clear away her tears. "Raijin… did—did you know she was going to rape me?"

Raijin shook. "No… not that she'd rape you. I only thought she'd pester you constantly. I never expected her to force herself on either of us like she did. I didn't know she would develop her powers so strongly, or that her need for sustenance would be so great." His hands clenched. "Makoto-sama, I cannot ask for your forgiveness. My actions proved to be far more horrible than I ever dreamed. I let both of you down, and made you both suffer!"

Makoto gave him a very small and very sad smile. "Yes. You did. You made a terrible mistake. And now, you have the responsibility of atoning for it," she said sadly.

"Yes, Makoto-sama. I will take my own life if you ask it of me."

She looked up to see Mousse sitting on the chair where Raijin had been, her legs and arms crossed as she watched them hopefully, tears trickling down from the corners of her eyes. She really wished she could be angry with the girl for tying her up that way, but in the end, she had to admit that she likely would have run away a dozen times herself if she hadn't been restrained.

Besides… it was her favorite position – even if admitting it made her wince internally. Philosophically, she had to admit she was probably going to be right back up there hanging inside an hour, deliriously happy.

As if reading her thoughts, Mousse gave her a smirk.

"You realize payback is going to be a bitch, right?" she told the smug girl.

Raijin said "Yes, Makoto-sama, anything you desire," as the angelic girl just gave her a nod and the smirk turned into a soft smile.

Her eyes said she didn't care. The prize was worth the cost.

She put her hand on Raijin's and gripped it gently. "I do want your life," she told him softly. "All of it. Every last day from now until you die, even if we live forever. All three of you. Please don't ever leave me again…"

Then she lifted him up and hugged him as well, as Mousse came up behind her to hug her back and she cried as the Amazon's feathery wings wrapped around them all.

Her Lord, and Her Lady, and the Angel who had returned them to her for the measly price of her heart.

Yeah… Mousse was right. It was a small price to pay