The Phoenix's Clipped Wings | Kaedehara Kazuha

Chapter 30

A fluff chapter before the storm
T/W: uh, things get a bit spicy, (edited: nevermind, it gets a bit steamy so-)

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[Y/n] and Kazuha are currently getting ready to sleep just outside the ship, near the shoreline as the white haired male is chopping wood for the fire camp. The [H/C] woman is getting the tents ready for the night before Kazuha's voice rings out, stopping her attempts at putting up the second tent.

"Oh, just one tent will be enough. It's better to not bring too much attention to us in case the Shogan's army soldiers are near. She nods and begins to put it away just as Kazuha begins the fire.

Sitting beside her, Kazuha picks up Sora who is begging to be picked up and places him on his lap. Smiling while petting him, he hears [Y/n] sneeze to herself as she pulls the red haori to keep her warm.

He says nothing since he doesn't have anything to give to her to keep her warm.

"About earlier, before the soldiers interrupted our conversation." She mutters, he could hear how flustered she was and smiles as he thinks to himself. One second she is the confident figure she was and the next second, she's back to her normal self he remembers years ago.

"Did...did you meant it?"

He smiles, "of course, I meant every word."

"..." She says nothing as she avoids his gaze, her cheeks red as she grips the haori. "I....I feel the same way. But, I'm not sure how relationship work besides reading about them in books." She admits shyly as she buries her head, wanting the ground to swallow her up at hearing how weak she sounds at confessing.

"Especially with how things are and our situation, I didn't think things would work out with the possibility of us going to war with the Raiden Shogan and one of us might...." She trails at the end and he seems to understand what she's trying to say.

She picks up her head and looks directly at him, her eyes glinting from the fire's flame, "but, I want to be selfish for once. All this time, I thought about the people around me and how things would benefit them and not me. I want to have something for myself, not for anyone's else benefits but for me."

Kazuha's face heats up at this, not expecting her to be so blunt about she feels, she's usually keeps things to herself ever since they reunited but the woman in front of him, is whole different person, one without the facade of a important being.

Her face heats up as she soon realizes her words, "Ah, I apologize. I don't know where this came from."

Kazuha realizes that she's returning back to her usual self and he quickly brings a hand up to her face, making her stop her actions.

Looking up at him through her eye lashes, she says nothing as he brings his face to hers. Seeing that she wasn't stopping him, he brings his lips to hers and kisses her softly.

Opening his eyes slightly, he sees that her eyes were closed and he takes this a sign to continue. Feeling her hands grip onto his clothes, he deepens the kiss as he brings her close to him.

Both hear Sora meow before wondering off as Kazuha brings [Y/n] onto his lap, her hands found their way into his hair as she softly tugs on it and he lets out a quiet groan at this.

The night is a comforting silence as the couple is closest as they have ever been in their lifetime.

Her lips are soft as the he could ever imagine just like the last two times but he puts more love into this one. He wants to show that he really does love her, that he cherish her despite everything that has happened.

His tongue is her mouth and he lets out a small moan as she keeps tugging on his hair. Her fingers slowly unties the hairband holding his hair up and it falls down.

He pulls back just they both need to breathe and he sees her breathing heavily as her eyes are still closed.

Putting his forehead on her, she opens her eyes slightly as she looks at him.

Going in for another kiss, she places her lips on his first and he immediately deepens the kiss.

Just as he's going to take a step further, he pulls back much to her disappointment. "Do you...want to go further?" He asks for her consent. She just smiles, "I trust you."

He leans in as she closes her eyes.

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A moan escapes her lips as Kazuha's lips are on her neck, her fingers digging into his back as he hovers over her body. Her legs wrap over his waist as he bites down, leaving a mark as his hands wonder under her kimono.

Panting rapidly due to the pleasure, her head arches back at the touch of his fingers on her inner thigh. Her eyes widen as she flinches and he immediately stops.

"Do you want to stop?" His voice comes out hoarse as he looks up at her, his cheeks are red as he breathes heavily.

She looks at him, her mind blank due to what she was feeling but she shakes her head. Ignoring how something in her was feeling something wrong on Aether's side, she pushes it aside.

She being him to a kiss and he continues off from there.

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The next day, she wakes up in Kazuha's arms as a blanket covers both their bare selves and she snuggles up to him.

Her mind thinks back to what happened the previous night and her face burst into flames.

Her faces flushes even more red when she realizes that Sentience probably had to heard it all. Her movements seems to have waken up Kazuha who pulls her close, "you're awake early."

She hums as she hides her face in his chest, completely obvious to the fact that her bare chest is pressing against him.

"Captain Beidou is probably going to come get us, so we should get ready." She says as he unwraps his arms around her, letting her sit up as Sora is still sleeping in the corner.

Searching for her clothes that were scattered all over the tent, she doesn't notice how Kazuha was watching her with a tender look in his eyes as a smile was plastered on his lips.

"You're beautiful, you know that?" He says randomly in the middle of her dressing herself.

"Eh?" She looks at him confused before smiling.

"I love you too, Kazuha. Now get up so we can go look around."

"Alright."

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A/n: Never thought I would write a chapter like this but here we are, anyways, next chapter is where the reader finally comes face to face with the Raiden Shogan, even if it's for a split second.