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     1.4 +Author's Notes: This is a short Nadeshiko/Sonomi fic, because, in my humble
     1.5 +opinion, they make an absolutely beautiful couple.  ^_^ This is mostly a
     1.6 +Somoni sketch of sorts, but I hope you enjoy it. Please email me and tell me
     1.7 +what you thought!
     1.8 +
     1.9 +~Cali
    1.10 +
    1.11 +California Dumount
    1.12 +
    1.13 +Send all feedback, comments, or offerings (excluding firstborns ^_~) to:
    1.14 +stone0virgin@crosswinds.net.
    1.15 +
    1.16 +Legal Disclaimer: I am not plural, I am not CLAMP.
    1.17 +
    1.18 +Personal Disclaimer: I'm not straight, and I'm not sane. <sticks out
    1.19 +tongue>
    1.20 +^_~
    1.21 +
    1.22 +Gender Disclaimer: This fic involves two beautiful women. One of those women
    1.23 +is in love with the other woman. If you have a problem with this, please
    1.24 +evolve.
    1.25 +
    1.26 +Without further ado...
    1.27 +
    1.28 +=========================
    1.29 +Temporary One 1/1
    1.30 +by California Dumount
    1.31 +stone0virgin@crosswinds.net
    1.32 +=========================
    1.33 +
    1.34 + "Sonomi...."
    1.35 +
    1.36 + She saw Nadeshiko's lips moving, pale coral parting to reveal that small
    1.37 +pink tongue. Words reached her eyes, sung in the other girl's gentle, high
    1.38 +soprano; but Sonomi had been staring far too long at the whole of
    1.39 +Nadeshiko's china pale to register that her cousin was actually saying.
    1.40 +
    1.41 + "Sonomi..."
    1.42 +
    1.43 + Nadeshiko's pretty face fell to an expression of worry, her opal eyes
    1.44 +focused more closely on Sonomi. The older girl felt a light, tingling warmth
    1.45 +at the base of her spine, a typical symptom when she was the focus of
    1.46 +Nadeshiko's attention. The pale girl leaned forward, bright eyes still
    1.47 +worried; and in the swirling mix of her half-reality daydream, Sonomi leaned
    1.48 +in too.
    1.49 + "Are you feeling alright, Sonomi?"
    1.50 +
    1.51 + It was a rather rude awakening when she felt only Nadeshiko's cool hand
    1.52 +against her suddenly burning forehead.
    1.53 + "My, you ARE rather warm," Nadeshiko murmured, absently brushing away
    1.54 +a
    1.55 +stray lock of Sonomi's hair.
    1.56 + "I'm fine!" the older girl sputtered, a feeling off horror sliding
    1.57 +down her
    1.58 +back, curling through her ribs and around her heart. She looked at Nadeshiko
    1.59 +with wide, horrified eyes of sapphire, before her fear melted into a feeling
    1.60 +of annoyance. 'That's the third time this week,' she though, thin,
    1.61 +unartistic fingers coming up to massage her temple. 'Damn.'
    1.62 + "Are you sure?" opal eyes narrowed, framed with ebony and utterly
    1.63 +enchanting in their bland attempt at disbelief.
    1.64 + "Very sure," Sonomi nodded affirmatively, lips moving in a smile she
    1.65 +only
    1.66 +willed herself to feel.
    1.67 + "Oh, what if you *are* ill?" Nadeshiko wailed melodramatically.
    1.68 +Mischief
    1.69 +was written in her lithe form as she gasped in horror, "What if you have
    1.70 +some mysterious disease from Africa!? What if there isn't a cure... Sonomi
    1.71 +don't leave me!!" The smaller girl tossed herself into Sonomi's lap,
    1.72 +'weeping' onto her cousin's shoulder. There was a moment, stilled, when
    1.73 +Sonomi felt that her bones had melted into her flesh, so that she might
    1.74 +better focus on the feeling of Nadeshiko's breath on her neck, and
    1.75 +Nadeshiko's little heart fluttering inside her breast, and Nadeshiko's soft
    1.76 +hair and....
    1.77 + "Nadeshiko..." Sonomi gasped out, feeling that if she didn't say
    1.78 +*something*, didn't take the glory rising up inside her and shove it into a
    1.79 +word that it might travel through her blood and make her do something
    1.80 +(wonderful, wonderful) stupid. 'Nadeshiko' was the only word that could hold
    1.81 +such feelings and not turn in on itself. The younger girl giggled, but
    1.82 +Sonomi didn't hear it, instead feeling the delicate vibration against her
    1.83 +neck. Then it, and the all-consuming cloud of Nadeshiko and wide pink skirts
    1.84 +vanished, returning to the other end of the picnic blanket. Nadeshiko's face
    1.85 +still held a carefully made expression of vexation, but there was a naughty
    1.86 +light in her eyes that made Sonomi giggle despite herself.
    1.87 + "See, now you're all better!" Nadeshiko chirped happily, "No
    1.88 +strange
    1.89 +African diseases for my Sonomi-chan, nuh-uh!" The mock-gravity in her
    1.90 +cousin's words only made Sonomi laugh harder.
    1.91 + "Thank you," she said between giggles, "I needed that."
    1.92 + "You certainly did," Nadeshiko said seriously, "For a minute you
    1.93 +looked
    1.94 +like the world was going to end."
    1.95 + 'Iie,' Sonomi thought, feeling chilled in the shade of the tall elm,
    1.96 +'You're the end of the world.' The tenderness in her mind soothed the words,
    1.97 +but did nothing to combat the sudden bout of sadness that colored them.
    1.98 + "Well it's not," she replied with an air of authority, "At least
    1.99 +not today.
   1.100 +Let's finish up and get going. Don't you have a shoot this afternoon?"
   1.101 + "Probably," Nadeshiko said, reaching into the picnic basket for the
   1.102 +container of cherries. After struggling with the lid, she popped it open and
   1.103 +plucked out a cherry, holding it above her mouth and batting at it with her
   1.104 +tongue.
   1.105 + "You're so silly, Nadeshiko-chan," Sonomi grinned, giggling when the
   1.106 +other
   1.107 +girl paused in her game and crossed her eyes. She looked like a kitten
   1.108 +caught playing with string.
   1.109 + "That's why you love me!" Nadeshiko said, eyes candid.
   1.110 + "Though heaven knows how I manage it," Sonomi forced past the beating
   1.111 +of
   1.112 +her heart. She leaned over and picked out a cherry, eating it quickly.
   1.113 +Nadeshiko just rolled her eyes.
   1.114 +
   1.115 +
   1.116 + "I don't see why we can't just stay out here all day," Nadeshiko
   1.117 +pouted as
   1.118 +they folded up the blanket and placed the empty containers in the basket.
   1.119 + "You have a shoot later on," Sonomi reminded her politely. She
   1.120 +thought
   1.121 +perhaps her brain needed a few moments of Nadeshiko-less lucidity.
   1.122 + "I know," the other girl stretched her pale arms and yawned like a
   1.123 +cat,
   1.124 +"But I just... I don't know, I want to *do* something today." Unable
   1.125 +to
   1.126 +think of anything uncompromising to day, Sonomi simply shrugged.
   1.127 + "Oh, come on," Nadeshiko sang, spreading her arms as if to embrace
   1.128 +the
   1.129 +world and Sonomi in it, "Let's just stay a little while longer." Her
   1.130 +slim,
   1.131 +elegant hands captured Sonomi's, whirling her around in and endless circle
   1.132 +of color and shadow. The scenery blurred, Nadeshiko was the only clear
   1.133 +thing, smiling and laughing....
   1.134 +
   1.135 + Without warning (as, Sonomi reflected, most of Nadeshiko's accidents were),
   1.136 +the pale girl's foot slipped and sent the two cousins tumbling down the soft
   1.137 +slope, and blinding whirl of gray, brown, pink skirts and blue slacks.
   1.138 +Nadeshiko shrieked and shrieked, but to Sonomi's ears it sounded as if she
   1.139 +was enjoying it. They rolled to the bottom of the hill, the older girl
   1.140 +pressed against the softness of the younger, having landed on top.
   1.141 + "Are you alright?" the question burst from Sonomi. Nadeshiko lay
   1.142 +still
   1.143 +beneath her, eyes closed and face serene.
   1.144 + "Hai," the other girl murmured dreamily, eyes still closed,
   1.145 +"That was fun."
   1.146 +For a brief, paranoid moment, Sonomi considered that Nadeshiko was
   1.147 +deliberately plotting, trying to force her to act the sweet impulses
   1.148 +flooding through her veins.
   1.149 + "Nadeshiko..." Sonomi's tone was suddenly sharp. She braced her
   1.150 +weight on
   1.151 +her arms, afraid to crush the delicate china doll beneath even her slight
   1.152 +weight.
   1.153 + "You're really warm, Sonomi-chan," sweet coral lips moving again, so
   1.154 +close,
   1.155 +and Sonomi felt herself once again drawn into the spell. There was no
   1.156 +fighting it. All awareness suddenly flowed to her breasts, pressed against
   1.157 +Nadeshiko's own full ones. The other girl's pink sun dress had slipped off
   1.158 +her shoulders, revealing only soft ivory skin. Sonomi imagined it, the whole
   1.159 +of Nadeshiko's flesh, covering the other girl's body with delicious satin.
   1.160 +Her hands throbbed into protest from supporting all her weight, and against
   1.161 +her will, Sonomi let herself lay more fully against Nadeshiko. The pale
   1.162 +girl's face was calm and still, ebony lashes fanned against her cheeks,
   1.163 +breathing light and airy. And then those small, full lips, naturally pink,
   1.164 +and the warm cavern of Nadeshiko's mouth beyond their barrier. Sonomi
   1.165 +thought desperately, trying to evade the ideas flooding her.
   1.166 +
   1.167 + .... she could reach down and brush Nadeshiko's soft cheek.
   1.168 + .... or gather her up and cradle her, pretend that she though Nadeshiko was
   1.169 +hurt.
   1.170 + .... maybe she could cup Nadeshiko's pretty face, bring her lips down on
   1.171 +the other girl's. Those lips would be warm and clinging, and somehow Sonomi
   1.172 +might lift Nadeshiko into a sitting position, lean over her, thrust her own
   1.173 +tongue into the other girl's mouth, run it along those pearly teeth, melt or
   1.174 +shatter into a million tiny pieces reflecting only Nadeshiko, Nadeshiko....
   1.175 +
   1.176 + "You're really warm, Sonomi," the pale girl said quietly, opening
   1.177 +those
   1.178 +moon-opal eyes, her voice worried. Sonomi quickly removed her weight,
   1.179 +standing up and helping Nadeshiko to her feet. Once again, a slim pale hand
   1.180 +came up to touch the other girl's forehead, feeling for a temperature. "Are
   1.181 +you sure you're alright?" Sweet, innocent.
   1.182 + "I'll be fine," Sonomi's voice was strangled, "Someday."
   1.183 +
   1.184 + She really wasn't sure how much had happened.
   1.185 +
   1.186 +
   1.187 +