Once in a Lifetime [Day 8, LM, Closed]

[Kuni Koyuki]

Impossible as it was to contain a smile with that laugh, Koyuki watches from above with joy. Warmth in her cheeks noticeable enough. Finding two kiwis into her hand this time, jostling the plate a little more that it shifts against Yakumo's chest a bit and hangs much more precariously. Sparking up a sharper look from Koyuki with a teasing lead put onto her "Careful~."

Plopping one into her mouth she chews it slowly, and intentionally. Teasing with the whole process of it. "You know," she sparks up the thought, "if you aren't careful enough those may just fall over. And if they do? Well, neither of us would have any kiwis. Where would that leave us?" she asks, with a rather put-on type of seriousness that made the brow raise to perfectly hit that note. While she makes eye contact and places the second kiwi onto her tongue.

[Susumu Yakumo]

Koyuki then unlocked Petulant Yakumo, as she pouted unhappily, much like a kid who wouldn't mind ruining a ball instead of just taking it and going home.

"... You do know I could just upend it and order a new plate?" she said, now turning the tables somewhat as she did have that power. Even if she was pinned down. Though she did have a plan now formulating, but she'd wait a bit, see how Koyuki reacted first.

[Kuni Koyuki]

"Huh," she speaks around the kiwi yet in her mouth. Having that sound to her tone like Yakumo had revealed a truly novel concept. Grabbing another one of the kiwi so that she might tap it against her own chin. Not even chewing the first yet, and just letting it sit there in her mouth. Shrugging slightly she looks back down to her.

Shifting the kiwi in her mouth over into her cheek she leans back in down to Yakumo, getting close. Asking with a quirk to her brow, and that smokier voice returning a bit, "But where would be the fun in that?"

[Susumu Yakumo]

Her smile was smug. "I believe some military folks would call that scorched earth-tactics. Or simply just resource-denial." The Crane were fond of the latter, because they could just buy what they needed. Just like Yakumo could.

It was very if I can't win, no one will win.

Yakumo decided at that moment to try her plan, as her fingers wiggled teasingly against Koyuki's skin where they were trapped. A gamble on whether or not the Kuni was ticklish.

[Kuni Koyuki]

Almost immediately Koyuki jumps forward, knocking the plate of kiwi over and in the bit of surprise dropping the one in her hand. Screaming first, and then laughing second, both of of Koyuki's hands come flying forward over Yakumo's head and land quite a bit above her. Had she let go and fallen the plan almost certainly would have backfired with a flat Yakumo beneath her but she'd been fast enough to catch herself. Shock descending the laughing turns into breathing while she scrambles to collect herself.

"Okay okay! You win- just don't do that again," she says, half giggling herself with a deeper sort of resonance to them. Angling her head further down to look at Yakumo underneath her. Knee's resting closer to Yakumo's stomach than at her waist leaving enough room for her to wriggle them out if she so pleased.

[Susumu Yakumo]

There was a yelp of surprise as food and Kuni came tumbling over her, and Yakumo tensed to brace for impact. Which thankfully was minimal as Koyuki caught herself.

"Oh myyyy..." she laughed, head against Koyuki as she recovered from the small moment of dramatics that had just happened. "Did I discover a Kuni's weakness? Are they all secretly ticklish underneath these stoic and dour white masks?" Yakumo teased even as her fingers danced dangerously close to the same area as before, as a physical reminder that she was capable of turning the tables now.

[Kuni Koyuki]

"Certainly not al-" that tease of presence near her once more. That little electrical tickle feeling that precedes being tickled like her body was just primed and ready for it. Jolt of a tense of her whole body in it's wake she chuckle laughs. Holding herself still and steady as if she'd been caught under a hunters scope and any motion might trigger the shot, "Oh-hohoho don't you dare," she finds some more edge to her voice, makes it stern, "Yakumo. Don't."

[Susumu Yakumo]

Yakumo laughed delightfully. "Fiiiine, fine, alright, truce for now then?" she grinned, awaiting Koyuki's agreement for peace.

[Kuni Koyuki]

"Truce, truce!" she calls out with energy that was a little unlike her, far as Yakumo's seen before. Soft chuckles warming as she finally lets her body settle without threat of imminent attack. Letting her arms slowly lower, and relax, a portion of Koyuki's torso comes to rest over Yakumo's head. Not that she'd probably mind too much. However, only for a moment as she slides off to Yakumo's side laying along her. One of Yakumo's arms still trapped beneath Koyuki as she was able to be held close.

Letting her breathy sounds of breathing fill the space, catching up with herself, she cedes the initiative of the moment and their changing condition to Yakumo.

[Susumu Yakumo]

Yakumo began the difficult process of freeing her arm without tickling Koyuki in the process, and judging from her smirk she is willing to resort to such methods to fully regain her freedom.

Finally freed, she stretched the arm out, and then used it to prop herself up on the side to watch Koyuki with a smile. "I never would have thought a Crab, let alone a Kuni, would be ticklish... Hmmm now I wonder what sort of other weaknesses you are hiding behind those white-painted faces."

[Kuni Koyuki]

While they laid, and seeing as Yakumo too the advantage to move herself free and face her, Koyuki pushes herself up a little bit so that she's propped against a pillow and lays flat on her back. Reaching toward Yakumo's hand she'll take it into her own, and lay it before her while they laid together. Brow knitting at the suggestion while she gets herself, and Yakumo, in place.

"I am only human underneath. They do not tickle you till your nerves die when you become a Kuni," she says, with a somewhat muted expression resting on her lip. With careful insistence she starts to work at massaging Yakumo's hand as has become something of a standard part of their time together. "I have many weakness'. Trick is to not let others see them. Which is easy when others expect it from you, a Kuni is supposed to be hard and unfriendly. I have done a rather good job of maintaining that.." she lingers, there's a suggested other half of that sentence that never comes.

After all, Yakumo is particularly aware of one such person who breaks that streak of jobs well done.

[Susumu Yakumo]

"Really?" Yakumo sounded like she was both serious and only teasing. "I would have thought that the Kuni, as hunters of the dark and what-not, underwent gruelling training to be reformed into these masked beings who would not fall to any temptation or fear."

Her hand relaxed in Koyuki's, releasing a tension that had been imperceptible to her earlier. "So they teach you to be... what was the saying again, be like the mountain, yes?" she asked, thinking of this ancient saying of the Hida she had heard once. Eriko and Koyuki were both Kuni, trained and raised, and they both seemed so different from this picture of Kuni that she had been told of before.

[Kuni Koyuki]

"Be like the mountain," she intones the repetition of the words as Yakumo spoke them. Brief soft smile worn, a little brighter as her focus was laid on Yakumo's hand and little else. "No, of that you are quite well schooled on," she says with a teasing lead. "When it comes to those which dwell in the dark there is no better resistor of their temptations, and I am no exception," she says with that edge of confidence in her tone. A quick glimpse of Koyuki in those few syllables that held a pride.

"However," she says, smirking as she turns her focus to look to Yakumo. Eyes glancing down to the other womans lips and lingering there, "Luckily, I have found that there are no such dark things that would resort to tickling. Nor do they have such soft lips, expressive eyes, or beautiful voice."

[Susumu Yakumo]

"Oh I am pretty sure you could probably find some dark creatures who can do all of those things. Aren't there supposed to be really sneaky and insidious ones, yes? It wouldn't be challenging to hunt them down if they were all big slobbering monsters that were easy to spot!" Yakumo giggled and reached out to Koyuki with her free hand and brushing some stray hairs away from her face.

"Maybe I am actually a monster in disguise?" she said with a dramatic gasp.

[Kuni Koyuki]

Following the path of her hand with her eyes when it got close enough, Koyuki's gaze lingers along it for a moment. A soft pinkish blush to her cheeks in the warmth of that moment. A commitment to the hand she yet slowly works with. Laughing gently at the suggestion with dramatic gasp for affect, soft little mostly breathy sounds that came out a little rough.

"Maybe you are? In such a case it would be best for me to do a more thorough inspection, I think. Unless you have something you would like to confess? Have I fallen into this spiders web?" she asks, leaning a little more so that the space between them was just that extra bit more intimate.

[Susumu Yakumo]

"Maaaaaaybe~," Yakumo giggled again. "You know how these arachnids are - always spinning webs, always laying traps, always hunting." All for the sake of Keikaku*.

The fingers weaved through her hair, almost emphasising the word of spinning a web with its motions for a few moments before those fingers caressed the shape of her ear. "I don't know how much more thorough you can be in your inspections though. Feels like you found every nook and cranny." Her grin was playful and teasing, accompanied by a light color of pink in her face as well.


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* Translator's note: Keikaku means "plan".

[Kuni Koyuki]

Responding to compliment, "I am certain there is more I can find," Koyuki's grin becomes more daring and inviting. Like she was devising some plan behind those eyes when she grinned like that, always thinking. Perceptive to all the little details. Eyes lingering on that light color of pink which teases to embolden her further.

"I do not mind so much being caught in this particular spiders web. Find it kind of comfy," she says, and glances around the room. No presence to her sight as she doesn't really focus on anything. Just giving the effect for the tease with Yakumo. Attention coming back to her, "Entangled as I might be. You know there is still a lot I can think of that I haven't shown you yet."

[Susumu Yakumo]

"I think some spiders cocoon their prey within silk and webbing. I could cocoon you in these silk sheets and covers?" Yakumo suggested with a laugh. "And then come back to you when I want a snack."

With a soft chuckle, she leaned in a nd placed a kiss on Koyuki's pinkish cheek. "Oh? Now I am very curious... what did you have in mind?"

[Kuni Koyuki]

"I think I will have to pass- much as I do enjoy parts of that idea," she laughs, briefly and it doesn't have the energy of a full laugh. They were more her standard this way, and only Yakumo knew the difference between the two. Still, it was there and she eyes over the other woman in the moment following the kiss. That idea floating in the air.

"All sorts of things," she says with slightly smokey tones, teasing a little more as she follows Yakumo settling back from the kiss. Leaning in as if she was going for one but stopping just as Yakumo's ready to receive, "Do you want me to show you?"

[Susumu Yakumo]

Yakumo chuckled with some excitement. "Some other time then, I will make you into a little cocoon-snack." Maybe she'd get sleeping bags for that? It did seem easier to cocoon someone with that than with a blanket or bedsheet. Why did they call it sleeping-bags though... not like people used them for sleeping, right?

"Hmmm," the husky tones did draw her attention in even more, awaiting that kiss. "Yes... show me."