by Eve Kaan
I lifted my head toward the house, standing in the loss of words.
Rin held me as I gazed incredulously at the scene of her estate. I'm standing on tiny white stones that are neatly arranged in an avenue of approaching path. High bushes stood all around us, carefully designed in a high cone formation. Between them, the trees are rousing on both sides, but not in a typical ordinance of some usual trees. The crowns are tied in the middle, making a small ceiling above the wide passage. I'm not sure what type of tree these are since the flowers of white and violet colors have grown on it.
In the distance I saw the porch, it can be seen as the entrance of a high palace. Behind the rooftops are several glittering rocks. Then I saw the lake, stretching around the house, up to the small mountains. Rin took me through the passageway. I knew she was rich, but I wasn't able to imagine all this.
I walked, absorbing the beauty around me.
We stepped on the porch, which stretched across the lake from all sides of the house as I assumed. Green leaves in the form of curtains are lined from the roof of the porch. I'm not sure which part of the house belongs to nature, and which to human handwork. The construction is traditional. It seems to me that I can see several spiky roofs two levels above the ground floor. The lake is coloured by the golden and yellow fish, and on its surface, white lilies are floating. Next to it is a magical forest. It stretches out infinitely filled with bamboo, rocks, and waterfalls.
In the corners of the porch, some large and wide canvas swings are hanging, filled with pillows - I've never seen anything like that. Impelled by the shock, I firmly held her. She opened a sliding door engraved with cuprum ornaments, holding a sakura painting in red and white shades across the central part of it. The sight through them spreads toward several connected rooms. All the doors were parted, so I felt as if I was to enter the largest hall in this world.
Each room is divided into several levels.
Futons and low tables are everywhere. Cuprum colour mixed with luxurious gloss prevails in design. The side walls are in transparent panels, through which the porch and lily lake can be seen clearly. At the far end of the last room is a small garden surrounded by three exterior walls. I'm completely enchanted. In the middle is a marble surface from which the water slumps into a crystal-coloured lake.
We climbed up to the first floor above the lake in a long corridor with large windows. Rin opened the sliding door of the back room, actually, she opened the back part of the house. In it are several rooms and a high terrace overlooking the woods. Everything is filled with precious materials. Solid wood, transparent panels, marble and something like amber in which the terrace's floor, she led me to, is paved with. I enjoyed the scene more magical than the river with blue lanterns. I'm not sure how this is possible and who built her house, but what I'm looking at seems like some optical illusion.
There are two pools, one on each side of the large terrace, but they are connected in the horizon by a long line in the size of a large futon, and only nature could be seen behind the edge. In the middle of the space, a mahogany table is placed with white futons in low backed floor stools. Above me is the roof, from which iron pods are hanging above the pool and around the table with impending white flowers adorning the space. I haven't even heard about such luxury from the stories of wealthy clients.
I sat at the table while Rin went to bring some plates with fruit. I looked inside, in the direction she went to, but I couldn't find her, so I thoroughly observed everything instead.
Behind me stretched a large futon with silk bedding, and the room next door is filled with closed sliding doors, dressers, tables and stream in the middle like the one in the Great House. Both rooms are filled with flowers, it looks almost like a garden. The opposite wall is covered in white marble, and the ceiling is made of dark wood. Of course, large windows are acting as a wall that divides nature and the luxury I'm looking at.
'Have you settled comfortably? Do you like the house, you haven't said anything to me yet.' Rin asked while placing the last plate on the table. I lost the gift of speech from the magnificence of the scenery, so I just nodded. I think I'll need a few moments to get together from the excitement. 'The house has been in my family for generations, though now it's just Gina, Nori and me living in here. This is my room.' Room!!? Her room is the size of my house, it's not a room - it's a palace. 'Underneath us is actually an onsen, the lake is just a decorative part of the entrance. I'm not sure how they did it, but my terrace is part of a natural hot spring. See that it's leaned on a crag.' I went to see the lake, and the terrace really is set against the rock, now that she said it, I noticed the stones laying below it. 'Yuna.' With a smile, she called me. 'You'll fall into the water again, the edge is slippery. If you're curious about what's behind the pool, you'll have to go in.' I turned to her, going back to the table. She sat beside me. I felt a pleasant nervousness in the vicinity of her breath.
'The house is more than beautiful.' I commented politely, with my eyes directed to the front, focused on the fruit plate in the middle of the table.
'Thank you. Are you interested in some fruit or tea - I have coffee as well, if you want to I can prepare it for us?' With each word that comes from her mouth, my tension only grows. I can feel her eyes on my shoulders because of which my heart accelerates. We're all alone in this house.
'No, I'm fine.' I responded quickly, then flinched as if I had reacted the wrong way. 'I mean, no need - tea is enough.' I reached for the teaspoon.
Rin stretched her hand toward the kettle. 'Let me. It would be appropriate if I was to serve you - after all, you are my guest.' I flinched when she accidentally brushed me. 'I'm sorry.' she said quietly, and my hand was already gone. I feel my heart beating really hard – I started to shiver.
'I didn't mean to flinch.' I'm sure she noticed my nervousness. While she was pouring the tea, my eyes were still avoiding hers. I slowly leaned my hand on her knee. Her body shuddered. We both looked toward the cups of tea. She lowered her palm to my wrist, and I responded by squeezing her kimono. I couldn't calm the rhythm of my heart.
'If you're not ready...' She was trying to say the words but stopped for a moment. I'm ready for everything. 'Don't be afraid,' I opened my palm and turned to her. Our fingers intertwined - I didn't know which one was shivering more. 'We don't have to do anything.' She lives in a room, almost bigger than my whole house. I'm just beginning to understand the difference between us. 'I, mmm... I mean - I didn't invite you because of that Yuna.' I want her more than anything, but what would our future look like. I have nothing to give her – gold has already bought everything for her. Heat arouse to my eyes. 'Yuna.' She shivered, causing the pauses in her speech. 'You are for whom... - you gave the meaning to it all. I don't need anything, just you.'
'Me?' With an unusual hope in my tone, I quietly asked. She looked at my eyes filled with small tears, which gazed at the calm surface of the served tea.
'You are everything there is, to me - I love you, Yuna.' She gently placed her hand under my chin, turning my head slowly towards her. Rin's palm is holding my cheek while she speaks, 'I don't need the gold or this house, nor all the splendiferous radiance I'm surrounded by. You gave the meaning for my heart to beat. You are my future and my freedom Yuna.' She calmed the clenching in my chest. The freedom can't be bought with gold, only love can make it real. My sorrowful tears replaced the thrilling ones. She caressed my cheek, brushing every tear that ran down on it. 'Why are you crying my love?'
'Out of happiness.' My answer came quietly. I placed my cheek on her lips, waking an emotional thrill in both of us. She couldn't stop her body from trembling. 'I love you, Rin.' I whispered in her ear as I pulled my hand from her palm to embrace her. I snuggled my fragile body softly against hers. My soul is filled with love.
'I love you too, Yuna.' I feel like she is the whole world, like outside of her embrace just emptiness prevails. Every movement of touches impelled me to become one with her and stay forever in that form. I traced my lips along her neck, w
hich trembled under my kisses.
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Rin
'I just want to be yours.'
I'm drowning in Yuna's words. She carefully leaned me on my back over the futon, allowing me to feel her heat through the kimono which divides our bodies. Each kiss makes me more relaxed by awakening a pleasant sharpness at the bottom of my belly. I'm holding her head on my lips, enjoying passionate touches. She started to squirm slowly in waves of heat. Emotions pervading us both. Her hand traveled under my kimono, fingers sliding over excited breasts. I can't stop looking at her, I've never seen such a beautiful being. Her dark hair standing up clenched with flowers, painted in passion, highlighting the pearl looking skin along her tight neck. I'm in love. I'm in love with every detail I notice. Each movement, every gesture, her smile, and green eyes like a precious emerald. Tingling spread through every part of my blood like living butterflies. I'm becoming aware of the hot crotch sliding over my thigh from which the silk was lifted.
Excitement has completely consumed my thoughts. I squeezed her tightly on the bottom part, and she leaned with even greater intensity, engrossed in sighs - not controlling her powerful moans any longer. Yuna's fingers stopped at my tight. I can feel my own arousal climbing to its peak, but she only enjoys in it appositely, provoking the sensation by touching the bud every now and then. I lost every sense of time and space, just being aware of our existence. Her gentle smile was directed towards me, 'I want you.' she whispered with glow in her eyes.
'Ahh, Yuna.' I pronounced in a raspy voice, pulling a thin edge of her obi. She sat on me, allowing the silk to slide down her back. I looked at her with craving toward her quivering body. She leaned over my shoulder before she told me shamelessly, 'I adore it when you look at me like that.'
'And do you also adore it when I do this, hmm?' With the look below the eyebrows, she came closer to my cleavage. I pulled out a pin to let my hair fall. She deeply inhaled the scent of my long wisp, holding our crotches squeezed together. Due to the passion, we rose to the climax colliding the buds before our game moved to the pool. The hot spring warmed our mesmerized bodies until the last sunray could be seen.
She turned to me, and in an embrace, I left the sentence on her lips, 'Just how beautiful can you be.'
'You are beautiful, nooo - you're actually extraordinarily sensual.'
'Hmmm, sensual?' I repeated then turned her to the sky with fire flames. We cuddled in the water while the sun and the moon haven't exchanged places.
'You know what my love?' Yuna looked back at me with a cheerful look.
'No, I don't, but I would love to find out what your cute head is thinking about.'
'I'm thinking about how much I love you. I always think about that besides the other thoughts. But now, it's a wonderful sunset, that's ...' She's so irresistible, I just had to interrupt her with kisses. Gentle lips transformed into those of passion, and intense cuddling grew into subtle eager gestures following the intimate areas. We again moved in a fervour. Above us, the first star started to shine.
Yuna whispered in my ear, 'Love, I'm craving for some fruit.'
'Now!?'
'Weeell, I mean, no-no, it doesn't matter.' I gently let go of her.
'Sorry sweetheart, I'll be happy to fetch you the fruit.' From the edge of the pool, I stretched out to reach the plate from the table. 'Do you want any particular fruit or -'
I wriggled almost with my whole body when I felt her hands on my buttocks as she raised me slightly above the water, her fingers caressing my inner thigh slowly with a palm firmly supporting me up until my legs reached the edge of the pool making me kneel on the floor above. I heard her presence behind my back. 'Yes, I want something - specific, can I?' Of course she didn't wait for an answer, instead she came closer with her lips to my crotch. I didn't expect this, in a single moment I was insane by the thrill. I bit my lips when her mouth touched me. I'm supporting myself by holding firmly on the first futon I could reach. Her skin gave me shivers sliding over me. Last and passion consumed me, I'm not sure where our bodies are, I only know that I feel her inside of me.
Her tongue is sliding now over my back, with every stimulus, a pleasant chill runs through my spine. She leaned her pulsating bud on my thigh from behind. Her breath accelerating with each stroke. Every time she would press into me, I experienced the bliss close to the divine state of mind. Suddenly she caught my hips and turned me to herself. With rapture look beneath the lowered eyelids, she gazed at me, and said in a provocative tone without blushing, 'You are delicious Rin.' I shivered from the passion I saw in her. She leaned on me, pressing me with the weight of her body. I held her back firmly while kissing those pulpy lips as if I had never tasted them before. I want to remain joined with her soul forever. We squirmed over each other for so long that our skin has dried completely. I love her to the infinity. Our muscles are moving together, filling the room with female sounds at the peak of sensation. The kisses continued even after the blissful arches. We stayed quiet in an embrace absorbing the state in which we are breathing.
We fell asleep under the full moon, but the cold breeze awakened us shortly after the first scenes of a passionate dream. We covered in yukatas for descending into the kitchen to take a plate of food that was prepared for us.
Our dinner was spiced with gentleness, we didn't separate our fingers. I lit a cigarette, watching Yuna as she poured us some tea before bed. In comparison to her, I have never even fancied any lady before. She is really something special.
I held magic on my chest.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Our merged skin is bathed with the warm sun rays that awakened us. I opened my eyes to the sun that stands high in the sky, which means it must be lunchtime already. I feel the caress of Yuna's eyelashes on my shoulder as she is trying to open her sleepy lids. This is how I imagine I'm going to spend every morning until my last breath. We were cuddling in bed until hunger hasn't become loud in our stomachs.
'Rin I hear someone's steps. Didn't you say you released the servants?' She asked me in confusion. I laughed through her lips.
'That's Gina and Nori, you forgot they live here.'
'No, no... I didn't, it's just - I thought we would be alone all the time. Do they know?'
'Do they know what?' I intentionally wanted to hear what she didn't finish.
'Well, you know - about us, that I'm here, with you.' She became nervous as she searched for the words, so I helped her a little bit.
'You mean, did I tell them that my soul belongs only to you?' I feel her heart accelerating the rhythm of beating. 'They are Yuna, like sisters to me. There was no need to say anything to them, they've seen it on me since I first met you. And they were my greatest support. Forgive me if I had put you in an awkward position, but I couldn't deny it when they saw that I had fallen in love for the first time.'
'No, no, no... It's all right.' She looked away shyly. 'Actually, I'm happy because such a change is visible on you.'
'Then why are your cheeks blushing?'
'Well, you know, I wondered just now, in fact - I thought we were alone while we were, while I was, actually while - if I was loud?'
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Yuna
'I am the only one who listened to your gorgeous voice. Their room is in the other part of the house, far from us. And they came back just this morning, after a small break in the river cottage.' Rin looked at me with a significant gaze. 'You know which one - that... ours.' She got out of bed completely naked, looking for yukata to wear, although I made love to her, this naked body still strikes me with wild flickering. She is simply sensual. 'I'm going to check on how we're standing for lunch. Nori loves to cook, and I believe that coffee will please you.' She clutched the yukata around her body, leaned over to me for a kiss and added briefly from the door, 'I'll be back soon.' I stayed in bed for a few more moments. The air is filled with her scent of jasmine. She told them about us. I wonder if she spoke with enthusiasm about me. I can't believe I didn't notice that the
y knew everything that is happening between us all this time. My beliefs were that Rin would be hiding me in front of everyone to give herself some space if she's still reserved about my intentions.
I feel her with my whole heart that's full of beautiful memories. In front of my closed eyes, the flashes of us making love are riffling. She is all I need with a few bites of food here and there. I could spend the whole eternity with her in this room, not lacking anything else for happiness. My thoughts led me to the moments of our tenderness.
'You're sleeping?' Her hushed tone made me flinch. She stood above me with a big smile and a plate from which the scent of coffee is spreading. I didn't answer, just returned her a soft facial gesture while dressing a yukata she left for me on the edge of the futon. I enjoyed drinking the wooden tasted drink with Rin while exchanging gentleness with a view of beautiful nature in front of us.
I dressed in my kimono just before lunch, I didn't want to appear in front of Gina and Nori in the simple yukata, even though Rin stayed in it. We got down to the room I haven't seen so far. Actually, I'm not sure if we were in the garden or part of the house as we sat at the table on a stone floor with futons, the room had no doors, and the floor beneath us is leading to a small stone path towards the garden. Tiny rocks flourished from all sides, and around them are natural onsen baths placed.
'How do you like the house, Uta?' Nori asked me between tasty bites.
'It's beautiful. Especially onsen, so far, I have only seen the public ones.' My eyes fell on Rin, asking for comfort, to ease my nervousness. I have to make an impression, there's no one more close to my sweetheart then them.
Nori took an onigiri from the plate, 'Ah yes, onsen. It's magnificent. Aunt Etsu built this house because of it. Etsu said, a house without an onsen can't be a real home, so she owns more than half of Ryokans in the country. They are, besides her girls, the only other huge passion.' Rin laughed at the last sentence Nori had said. Looking at Rin beneath the eyebrows, Nori added, 'Of course, Gina and I immediately moved in, without questions.' She lowered her voice, even though Rin was seating just beside me, 'Rin doesn't like to live alone, but she would never admit that.' I put my hand on her tight under the table, and she gently responded to the gesture.