Kit's Sonic One-Shots

Tangaze: Hot Sleeper

Premise: Blaze is a hot sleeper, and Tangle likes to cuddle. Blaze constantly wakes up sweating in the middle of the night because Tangle is glued to them.

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Blaze the Cat's eyes open so fast that when her eyelashes drag against her fur, they produce sparks. Feeling the intense heat of her own body, the moisture on her skin, and the appendage wrapped around her, she shudders in fear. It was a dream. Right? It had to be! She's safe! It was just a dream...

Blaze exhales and relaxes. Air, not water, surrounds her, and she is constricted, but not by the cold, wet tentacles of a kraken or even the body of a sea serpent. Instead she is coiled in the warm, fluffy tail of her girlfriend, turned sticky by Blaze's own sweat.

Ever since they moved in together, Tangle the Lemur has developed the consistent habit of subconsciously wrapping her tail around Blaze in their bed. The princess was already sweating in her sleep, in no part thanks to the fire in her soul, so having what amounts to an extra blanket only made it worse. Every morning, when they wake up, Blaze essentially has to heat up her own body even further to make the lemur unstick from her. That, however, will come in the morning. For now, she'll relax and let Tangle's gentle snoring lull her back to-

Oh crap, she forgot to brush her teeth.

Blaze is downright religious when it comes to keeping them clean. She has to brush them once in the morning, and once at night, or she panics. She's never had a cavity, and she does NOT want to know what having one filled is like! Remembering to brush and floss, just like everything else Blaze does, is much harder when Tangle is constantly in her life, throwing herself into danger. But now she remembers.

She has to get up and do it.

But her arms and legs are restrained by Tangle's tail. If she moves to free herself, she'll wake her girlfriend up, and if you wake Tangle up in the middle of the night, she does NOT go back to sleep, and neither do you. Blaze will just end up trying to cover her head with her pillows while Tangle murmurs about the nutritional value of cardboard boxes or something equally ridiculous all night long.

But she has to get up and do it!

She'll wake Tangle up!

She might get tooth decay!

Wake!

TEETH!

Blaze digs her heels into the bed and bends her knees, inching forward just a slight bit. After a while, she manages to get her knees over the edge of the bed. She pauses; Tangle just moved a bit!-

"All aboard..."

She's talking in her dreams. Coast clear.

Blaze focuses on her paws, thankfully untouched by Tangle's tail, attempting the tiniest Burst Hover of all time. Little jets of flame ignite from her hands and feet. Sloooooowly, but surely, Blaze lifts herself from the bed, her room thankfully being fireproofed. She brings herself to a standing position on the floor, Tangle still stuck tight to her body and fast asleep. Sweat is still dripping from her fur. They're DEFINITELY going to have to shower in the morning.

Keeping focused on the task at hand, Blaze shuffles towards the bathroom, trying not to stress Tangle's tail. Little sparks flicker from her legs as she rapidly drags one foot on the ground after the other...

"Buckle your seatbelts, we've reached space!... zzz..."

Blaze jumps. Tangle said it softly, but in an exclamatory manner, which was enough to startle her. Channeling her innate cat reflexes, Blaze tightens her legs to keep Tangle from falling off her on impact, landing on the floor with no more than a soft thud. It hurts, just a little, but Tangle is still snoring...