"It has been an hour now, can you let go now Ai?" I said to the girl holding me from behind. "I need to do the dishes."
"Never!" she said childishly and giggled.
Knowing that she won’t be letting go any time soon, I sighed and continued doing the dishes. It was only a day and Ai missed me so much that now that she hugged me while kissing and drinking my blood, she had not let go of me since then. Not like I don’t like being hugged by her, on the flip I love being hugged by her. It’s like hugging cold snow but she is not as cold as the snow.
Her coldness is a lot more pleasant for an extended period of time or maybe I had adapted to this coldness, I don’t know which one it is.
At that moment, my phone rang and I stopped doing the dishes and wiped my hands to quickly pick it up. Ai, was still hugging me and jumped onto my back peeping her head out from on top of my shoulder. Is she a koala?
It was a message from Natsumi-san that read, "Don’t come for training today since we have a mission. Meet us in front of the Tokyo tower at 7:00 PM."
Reading the message, I felt Ai’s hand tighten around my neck but she was not strangling me.
"Looks like we have the entire day to us," she said giggling happily.
"It seems so," I said and went back to washing the dishes, and Ai still did not get off my back. "How long are you planning on playing as a koala?"
"Until I can have my daily dose of Kazu-kun’s warmth for yesterday," she said and snuggled on my back and licked my nape which made me shiver. "Hehe, is Kazu-kun sensitive here?"
I can imagine her having a mischievous grin on her face while saying this. The next thing I know, I felt Ai biting my ear and nibbling the lobe. Her cold breath tingled on my skin and was making me distracted. I was holding the sponge and the plates harder than before and I worry I might break something.
"You like when I do this, don’t you Kazu-kun~," Ai said and bit my ear a little harder. "Not enough reaction I got there. Then how about…"
She started kissing my neck slowly going down. She slid the collar of my t-shirt aside and started sucking hardly there, I did know that the hickey she gave me was going away slowly but looks like she doesn’t want that.
"I marked Kazu-kun again~"
No matter how many times she had done things like this to me and no matter how familiar and used to am to these things, I just can’t help but react to this. Her soft breath, wet mouth, gentle hands, and alluring sweet voice just drives me crazy and I was really holding myself back from pinning her down.
I need to wash the dishes first.
Priorities.
Ai, on the other hand, has not stopped her advanced and increased her offense a lot. Her hands were slowly trailing down my chest and she licked my neck getting a little moan from me.
"Ahh~ that sound from Kazu-kun~," she said and licked my neck again. "It’s just euphoric, I want to hear it more~"
I was down to the last dishes and Ai was down to her last weapon. I really need to calm myself down, both of our breaths were uneven and heavy at the same time. My body temperature had risen to a rate that one can just say that I have a fever right now.
Ai held my face from behind and turned my neck making me face her and kissed me. My hands let go of the dishes and they dropped down and luckily did not break.
The dishes can wait.
Priorities.
I moved back and made Ai sit down on the dining table. I held her hands and made her let go of me and turned around pinning her down to the table. I was breathing heavily and both our faces were red.
"You love teasing me, don’t you?" I asked her and she giggled.
"I do it so Kazu-kun looks at only me~"
"We will see who is looking at whom when this ends," I said and bent down kissing her lips.
My hands went down to her legs and she wrapped them around me. I picked her up from the table not breaking the kiss and pin her against the wall deepening the kiss. She held my face in her hands and I was holding her by her thighs as I was caressing them while we kissed.
Our tongues were still fighting for dominance and both of us were not backing down. I bit her lower lip catching her off guard and won that fight. Ai went with the flow and kissed me back and I can say it was one of the most passionate kisses we did. The one which was similar to the one in the bathroom.
But I don’t think I will take that far today.
We finally separated since the both of us were out of breath and I looked at Ai and her eyes were fussy. Her face was as red as her left eye and I could almost see her breath right now. I was no different honestly.
"You seriously couldn’t wait much," I said to her and chuckled. "We kissed as soon as your friends left and you hugged for so long and you still want more. Aren’t you being a little too greedy~"
"If it’s Kazu-kun, I know I can be as greedy as I want," she said while breathing heavily. "It’s his fault for being so perfect. My Kazu-kun."
"Then don’t mind if I do~"
I moved forward and licked her neck as I started going down. My hand slid her collar and I could still see the bite mark on her neck. I really dug my teeth there.
I started kissing that place and my other hand was caressing Ai’s inner thigh which let a moan escape her mouth. I looked at her and her face was already red.
"Don’t tell me this is enough to make my cute little half-vampire feel good?" I said in a teasing voice and little nibbled her ear. "I will show you how much I missed you Ai~"
I kissed her cheek and started going down from there slowly, really slowly. So slowly in fact that Ai couldn’t help but kiss my neck too.
"You’re mine," I said and kissed her on her lips. "Only mine."
Ai held my face and buried it in her chest and I let her do it. I could hear her heart loud and clear and it was beating really fast and was showing no signs of slowing down at all. I closed my eyes and listened closely to the beating of her heart and felt as if I was being hypnotized by the beat.
I hugged her tighter and closer to me and Ai started cuddling me in the same position. It was really peaceful and nice, slowly, everything around me started fading away and Ai was the only one whose presence I could feel.
It was all I needed.
Right then, some thoughts crossed my mind.
Do I love Ai?
Yes, I do.
How much?
I love her with all my heart.
Is she that important to me?
I can’t even describe in words how important she has become to me.
Will I do anything for her?
Anything at all.
Will I kill for her?
…
…
Of course. If it means keeping her safe and with me always.
"I am starting to get obsessed with Ai," muttered under my breath but it seems like Ai heard it.
"Looks like we are on the same boat now, Kazu-kun can feel the same way I actually feel about him," she said and I snuggled in her chest.
"If I were to ever change…" I asked in a soft voice. "…Will Ai still love me?"
"Without a second thought," she said. "What about Kazu-kun? Will he love me if I were to ever change?"
"There is no way I won’t," I said and looked at her with a little smile on my face and I kissed her again. "That’s just how much I fell for you."
Yes, this was the first girl I ever fell for.
I still remember when I first saw her in high school at the entrance ceremony.
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With the best grades in the entrance exam, she gracefully walked up to the stage and her beauty was able to captivate the hearts of all the boys there. I was no exception. The soft smile on her face, mismatched yet beautiful eyes, and snow-white hair to go with her pale skin, if there would be a boy there who wasn’t entranced by it, he probably swung the other way or was blind.
Her mature yet slightly childish tone making her voice telling us that she was friendly, approachable, and dependable.
I remember just staring at her and as the time passed, I couldn’t hear any of the commotion happening in the hall and just her voice. The people around me started fading away and she was the only one I could see and I thought it was just my imagination back then but her eyes were staring at me too. All her words were directed to me, all her expressions and the soft smile, it was all directed towards me.
I did not know it back then and thought it was my imagination.
I mean, I was a person with nothing outstanding and I easily blend in with the crowd. Not to mention when it was a girl like Ai who was staring at me, any boy in my position would have similar thoughts.
I had been in the same class as her since the first year of high school and my first-ever conversation with her was when I saw her standing outside the convenience store staring at the clouds that were pouring down the rain. The rain started without a warning and there was no mention of it in the broadcast but Mother Nature is a lot more unpredictable than a gacha roll.
For this reason, neither I nor she was carrying an umbrella. All we could do was wait.
I looked beside me and she kept staring at the clouds with curiosity in her eyes. I could no longer stay quiet and broke the silence.
"Why are you staring at the clouds Tsubaki-san?" I called her out and then I realized just how stupid my question was. You will probably stare at the clouds in anticipation for them to go away soon.
I was about to look the other way but…
"I was wondering if it is really fun or not playing in the rain," she said in her usual sweet voice.
"You have never played in the rain?" I blurted out my thoughts.
"No, I usually have other things to do and don’t have time for that usually," she said.
Of course, she is at the top of our class in both academics and athletics. These things are not there by birth in a person but it takes practice and training to get that. There are no shortcuts in life but there might be head starts at some points. Nothing more than that.
"But I guess I have time now," she said and without a warning jumped out in the heavy rain with a big smile on her face.
I just stood there and stared at her as she was laughing and giggling as the cold water drops were falling down and wetting her clothes and body but she did not seem to really mind it at all. She, on the other hand, was really enjoying it, just like a little child. Her childish smile was clearly visible and she turned around to face me with and my eyes widened. Even in these situations and a little dark…
She looked so beautiful.
"Come join me Shiba-kun," she called me out and I was brought back to my senses.
"You will catch a cold Tsubaki-san!" I shouted from my place but she looked like she did not care.
"Maybe I will be a little less strict on myself and let a special someone take care of me during that time."
That was when my little admiration for her increased by ten folds.
That was when the stalking started.
Now, my feeling for her has evolved a lot more…
"I love you Ai," I muttered and hugged her tighter as she kissed my head.
"I love you too Kazu-kun," she said. "Just stay with me forever."
"You know forever is a long time," I said and chuckled.
"Then at least stay with me for as long as I am living," she said and I heard a hint of sadness in her voice.
"No," I said and she looked down at me with a surprised look on her face and I smiled. "I am going to make you suffer and live with me for as long as I am living. You are not dying before me idiot, I will never ever allow it."
My words towards her were heartfelt and came right from there. I am not going to lose anyone I care about anymore and so, I have to stop worrying about everyone and only those I actually care about. I was never living my life for everyone in this world.
But only for the ones who I care about and love.
My life was and will never be my own. It is also of these people, whenever one of them goes away, a part of my life has been stripped away from me. A part of my heart has been broken and a hole has been drilled into my chest.
I am finally starting to look at the bigger picture clearly and I now really know what I need and have to do no matter what. There was never a second option from the beginning.
My feelings towards Ai before were mere admiration.
Then it turned into liking.
Then it became love.
And finally…
…they have evolved to become an obsession.
A never-ending obsession of her entire existence.
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