Not that Tenshi hadn't enjoyed every moment of it. For example: "This tenshi would," she answered Neko's rhetorical question as she pulled Neko even closer to her.
Neko felt her way down to the bottom of Tenshi's t-shirt and slowly pulled it off over her head.
Tenshi followed suit with Neko's blouse. "I lied. You're not kawaii." Her eyes grew softer as she looked at her love. "You're perfect."
Neko smiled sweetly at the compliment. She had just been thinking the same thing about Tenshi. This was the first time she'd seen Tenshi without a shirt on. She ran a finger lightly around the edge of Tenshi's lacy navy blue bra. "I didn't expect something so frilly from you," she teased.
Tenshi blushed. Neko loved it when she did that. It was so cute and always unexpected.
Neko bent down and kissed the bare skin over Tenshi's heart. Tenshi inhaled deeply. "Don't worry, my love," Neko whispered affectionately. "I love you in lace just like in everything else." She knew Tenshi's blush might have been just as much from Neko's sensual touch as the comment about her bra, but she only addressed the latter. In response, Tenshi lifted Neko's face to her own, and began to kiss her with even greater fervor than before.
As her hands ran along Neko's body, Neko sighed blissfully. She loved this part. The part where her emotions blended together with Tenshi's, and she felt closer to Tenshi than she even did with Mi-chan, her twin. She didn't know how to explain why it happened, but somehow it did. But only when the two of them were this close and this impassioned.
She had this romantic notion that someday she and Tenshi would find themselves actually merging as one, perhaps when they finally consummated their relationship. And each time it was harder and harder for them to keep from letting that happen. But they both wanted to wait a little longer. As in love as they were, neither was completely ready for that final step.
"We'll wait� until� tomorrow," Tenshi suggested in between kisses and heavy breaths.
It took a moment for Neko to realize that Tenshi had gone back to the subject of when to tell her parents. "Okay," she agreed, "tomorrow."
That left today free to do with as they pleased.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
If Neko mentioned to Mi-chan or her dad about what she felt when she was that intimate with Tenshi, one of them might suggest that Neko's psychic powers had just extended themselves to include Tenshi in moments of close personal contact. Afterall, Mi-chan had inadvertently developed her psychic powers to include a defense mechanism to block her nightmares automatically from her dad and Neko, as well as having the ability to forcefully obstruct her emotions from reaching them.
Neko, however, never mentioned it to them because it was something she wanted to keep just between her and Tenshi. She knew that that didn't mean Ryo didn't know how far she and Tenshi had gone. He was psychic afterall. Even so, she wasn't about to actually talk to him about it. Besides, if he knew what they were doing, then he certainly knew what they weren't doing, which was just as important in the long run.
However, Mizuno Michiru, better known as Mi-chan, only knew when Neko's passions were flowing for Tenshi. She had no way of telling who was initiating them (unless she wanted to concentrate and eavesdrop on her sister's thoughts, which she naturally would never do in such a situation), and as she got a slightly muted version of whatever emotions Neko was broadcasting, she didn't know how close Neko really felt to Tenshi.
But she did know that Neko and Tenshi were getting closer and closer to the point of no return.
"You know, I wouldn't mind a warning next time," she said irritably as Neko entered their room, her hair and clothes filled with sand.
"Warning?"
"Yeah. You and Tenshi-kun are kinda overwhelming. I'd like to not be in the presence of Jian-kun when you guys start fooling around." She could usually control it, but sometimes she found Neko's passions transferring over and intermingling with her own thoughts and emotions in such a way that she could hardly keep from seducing Jian-wa right then and there. And while she was not against the idea in theory, she and Jian-wa were taking things a lot slower than Neko and Tenshi were. Which was bizarre since, generally, Mi-chan was the twin who was more likely to get in trouble.
Neko turned bright red. She apparently hadn't considered how her feelings might leak over to Mi-chan. "Go- Gomen nasai," she said quietly. "I'll try to give you a warning next time."
Mi-chan gave her a concerned look. "Neko-chan, it's okay, right? You're fine with how far Tenshi-kun's pushing the relationship, aren't you?" Of course, she knew Neko enjoyed it when she was in the moment, but that didn't mean that she was comfortable with it all the time. As the self-proclaimed defender of her siblings, Mi-chan needed to know that Neko was not going to be hurt in any way by Tenshi before she was willing to freely entrust Neko's happiness to the blonde. That meant that Neko had to be comfortable with where their relationship was going. If Tenshi was pushing her too far, Mi-chan was going to have to let her know that that wasn't acceptable.
But Neko was insistent that things were fine between them. "Tenshi would never go further than I was ready for," she promised Mi-chan. "She won't hurt me, trust me."
