{"sf1_id":109197,"sf2_id":"3egD04jm","title":"Chapter Sixteen: Bonding","author":"The Roseblack Dragon","words":6507,"posted_at":"2009-11-17T05:13:00.000Z","tags":["Character Development","F/Herm","Feudal Japan","Lizard","Oral","Other/Herm","Plot Development","Vaginal","Violence (Not In Yiff)","Vixen"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/109197-chapter-sixteen-bonding","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/3egD04jm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/48/ce/48ce1206-0d0c-425c-9279-cc0533991092","description":"#17 of Tales of Ippon","content":"  \n_Understanding comes in many forms..._  \n  \n  \n\"Kya!\" Kasumi yelped as she landed on her backside, wincing from the impact.  \nShe sat there a moment, grousing over her sore bottom. It was not the first time she had  \ngreeted the ground in such a way that day.  \n  \n\"Again,\" Shuji commanded softly, \"Remember; your asset is not power, but  \nspeed. Do not seek to defeat your opponent in a single blow, but rather attack their less-  \nguarded weak points.\"  \n  \nShe grumbled and stood slowly, picking up the wooden sword and shifting tiredly  \nback to a ready stance, \"Yes, Sire.\"  \n  \nHe nodded, \"Attack me.\"  \n  \nShe took a breath and then paused before starting her charge. Why should she  \nattack him if he's expecting to be attacked? If he knows she is coming he is prepared for  \nher, but she cannot figure what he will do to counter her. She shifts her weight back from the  \npreparation to charge and steadies herself solidly, watching him intently.  \n  \nShuji blinked at her hesitation and then smiled as she stood her ground. In the  \nweek since they had left Kyudo, she had been learning swordplay at an alarming rate. She  \nstill hat yet to land a solid blow on him, but she had been getting closer to that each  \nday. \"Better. You understand that facet. Defense will always be stronger than offense. You  \nexpend less energy, and it is far easier to throw off your foe's rhythm,\" he shifted his own  \nweight, turning his wooden blade to attack, \"however.\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; She flexed at just the right moment and snapped her sword in to parry the strike.  \nThe swath of oak nearly grazed her cheek even after parrying and she twisted under it,  \nbending backward as she loosed her lower hand from the grip and grabbed Shuji's belt  \nswinging herself down between his spread feet and up past his tail. With her legs around his  \nchest and her arm over his shoulder she pressed the ‘blade' against his neck and  \ngrinned, \"Do I win?\"  \n  \nHe laughed, impressed at her creativity and athletic prowess, not many could  \nhave managed such a stunt. He smirked and held still, caught, \"That depends...\"  \n  \n\"On what?\" she growled, pressing the wood tighter against his neck.  \n  \n\"Can you still feel your arms?\" As eh quipped, he snapped his hand up and  \ngripped the handle of her blade, wrenching it from her grip and twisting out of his dogi,  \nmaking her slide down to his feet, where she once again plopped onto her battered backside.  \n  \n\"Ow!\" She hissed, \"That's not fair.\"  \n  \nHe chuckled and crouched, checking her for any serious injuries on her wrists  \nand arms, \"Combat is rarely fair, Hikamori-san. How are your hands?\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Numb, you hit too hard.\" She pushed at him.  \n  \nHe held his ground a bit, \"it was an improper block. And that twist was  \ndangerous. Had I kept pressing through you would have been crushed.\"  \n  \nShe nodded, \"I thought of hitting your groin, but that wouldn't have been fair.\"  \n  \nHe blinked and laughed, \"True... but as I said, combat isn't always fair.\"  \n  \nShe perked up a bit, \"So I'm allowed to hit you there?\"  \n  \n\"I would prefer if you tried not to, you know.\"  \n  \nA light giggle and she stood up on tired legs, \"how do you do all this and not be  \nsore in the morning?\" she whined, trying to stretch the tightness out of her body.  \n  \n\"I've been doing it for a long time,\" he chuckled, \"but I do get sore.\"  \n  \n\"What do you do when you're sore?\" she queried, gathering her things and setting  \nthem near her tent.  \n  \n\"I bear with it until I get back home.\" He smirked.  \n  \nShe frowned, \"Mmm, I bet you have some kind of secret medicine there.\"  \n  \nHe laughed, \"Mmm... Matsui, Riina, Kaede, and Genryu...\"  \n  \n\"What?\" She blinked, blushing hotly and astonished as his brazen openness  \nabout his harem.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"My personal masseuses,\" he chuckled, noting her blush, \"What were you  \nthinking I was meaning?\"  \n  \nShe gasped and huffed, looking away, \"s-stop baiting me, sire... you know I don't  \nknow much of your lifestyle.\"  \n  \nHe nodded, \"my apologies... No, I haven't done that since the time when Eizu fell.\"  \n  \n\"Natsumi?\" she head tilted at him curiously as he pulled his dogi back on.  \n  \nShuji blinked at that, \"h-how do you know that name?\"  \n  \nShe hung her head, \"I... I'm sorry... at night... sometimes... you talk in your  \nsleep... I think... nightmares?\"  \n  \nHe sighed and slouched a bit, \"memories... she was... she was the closest I have  \never come to being truly in love. But, she was foreign and married.\"  \n  \nKasumi blinked, astounded as she listened. Shuji continued softly, \"Her husband  \nwas injured by a samurai who thought her hideous enough to kill her... I stopped him and  \nsaved her, and she... we became very close.\" He rubbed his eyes, \"while travelling, her  \nhusband was taken by the enemy, and then turned into... something monstrous. I think he  \nwanted revenge but... in his fury he killed her. I lost everything in that moment. I didn't want  \nto be Lord of Rokkotsu any more; I didn't even want to live. I dedicated myself to keeping  \nothers from having to suffer at the hands of this enemy... I swore I would see this evil brought  \nto ruin, even if it destroyed me to do it.\" He gripped the towel in his hand tight enough to  \nmake the cotton creak. But then he loosened his grip as two smaller hands touched his.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Sire... please do not say things like that,\" She looked at him intently, \"if you die  \nnow... everything you have given me means nothing. Everything you've set yourself to do is  \nlost. Who will fight for those who cannot do so, if not great samurai like yourself?\"  \n  \n\"Hikamori...\"  \n  \nShe took a slow breath and looked at him, \"I may not be as wondrous as your  \nlost love... but I can promise that there are feelings I have for you that I probably should not  \nhave.\" She blushed and bit her lip, hiding her face under her cropped hair.  \n  \nShuji felt as if someone had broken a temple bell against the back of his head. He  \ncould not believe that the girl before him was feeling in such a way for him. He muttered a  \npartial protest but she gave an odd sound of annoyance and cut him off by pressing her tiny  \nlips to his. He froze a bit at the contact, but he didn't fight it. He simply sat, stunned as she  \nkissed him and then backed off slightly, looking at him for his reaction...  \n  \n\"Is it so bad for someone like me to be attracted to someone like you?\" she  \nasked softly, leaning against him lightly.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"It can be,\" he returned quietly, \"it would be seen badly by some.\"  \n  \nShe sighed and leaned on him, \"what if I don't care?\"  \n  \nHe perked an eye ridge, \"you wouldn't care if those opposed sent assassins to  \nkill you, or me?\"  \n  \n\"If they send them after me, you would kill them,\" Kasumi stated matter-of-  \nfactly. \"And if they come after you, I'm sure you have guards and all who would stop them?\"  \n  \nShuji sighed and looked at her sternly, \"that isn't the point.\"  \n  \nShe looked right back, \"So I'm forbidden to love you?\"  \n  \nHe set his jaw and nodded, \"Yes, you are.\" He lied.  \n  \nShe watched him for a minute and then stood, \"I request a duel, sire. If I win, I  \nwish to be allowed to be affectionate with you.\"  \n  \n\"And if you lose?\" he head tilted, eyeing her.  \n  \nShe thought a minute and nodded, \"I will accept your decisions completely.\"  \n  \nHe nodded, \"Very well. A duel then.\" He stood and hefted his spear.  \n  \n\"Sire, should we not use swords?\"  \n  \n\"You did not specify the weapon,\" he chided her, taking a ready stance.  \n  \nShe gave herself a mental smack and nodded, \"Understood, sire... please... a  \nmoment?\" she quickly dashed to her belongings and sighed, pulling out a long swath of teal  \nsilk she had purchased before they left Kyudo.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Shuji perked again at that and wondered what she was planning with the sheet of  \nsilk. The fabric was unpatterend, simply dyed, but it was a rather abnormal length, even if it  \nwas to be an obi, it was far too long. She unrolled it and draped it loosely over her shoulders,  \nher stance changing to something that might be used for combat, but Shuji had never seen  \nits like. \"Are you prepared?\" he asked in honest curiosity, as her sword was still sheathed.  \n  \n\"Yes sire,\" she nodded, eyes on him as he shifted his feet, looking for an  \nopening... he didn't have to look far. The way she stood left her open to attack from all  \nangles, but that alone left him thinking of how many of those ‘openings' were false...  \n  \nShe watched him study her a moment and smirked slightly, \"is something wrong  \nsire?\"  \n  \nHe did not reply. He changed his weight to defensive, something was wrong with  \nher stance. Not just one thing, but everything. She was trying to goad him into attacking.  \n  \nKasumi nodded a little, \"Well, if the fish won't leap up into the falcon's talons...\"  \nher weight changed and she was in motion, her right arm coming up and across. Shuji saw  \nher reaching to draw her sword, so he lunged. A stab with the wrapped head of his spear that  \ncould still split lightning, but she was gone. She hadn't been that fast in sparring. She was  \ninside the spear's full reach, and her right arm was moving in an odd way when he saw the  \nsilk twirling from her hand like a dancer's ribbon. As her hand completed two full circles in  \nfront of her she then lashed forward with a palm strike into the swirled silk, and then next  \nthing Shuji felt was the force of getting sucker punched in the gut as he staggered back, teal  \nsilk trailing back from his struck midsection.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Kasumi did not stop there, another spin, this time with both arms spread out  \nbrought that silk cutting across his view, and when it smoothly connected with the side of his  \nface, it was as if someone had hidden a powerful roundhouse kick behind the silk. He shook  \nhis head to clear it and shuffled out of her range... both attacks had been blisteringly fast, so  \nhe decided to increase his aggressiveness. Without waiting for her he struck a rapid series of  \nspinning sweeps with the blade of his weapon leading. She swung her arms about, the silk  \nwaving from her hands like liquid fie from a torch that's been swung too fast. Each time silk  \nmet spear, the spear was deflected! Another lash of the fabric across his chest left him  \nstinging as he turned into the blow and jabbed with the back end of his weapon, aiming to  \nreturn the shot to the midsection he'd received. He felt the impact, but when his eyes flicked  \nto check the blow, all he had hit was the silk, spread between her hands and blocking the  \nreversal perfectly.  \n  \nShe let the silk go with one hand and executed an elaborate move that looked as  \nif it would have been on a dancing stage. The length of silk shot form her fingertips as a flag  \nflies in a typhoon, and as he went to step back, he found the silk had pierced the fabric of his  \nhakama, and actually pinned into the ground. Off-balanced, he could not avoid the second  \nstrike, a kick to his shoulder coupled with a jump that knocked him back onto the flat of his  \nback, with the smaller girl straddling his chest and she'd somehow wrapped his wrists in the  \nsilk and had him neatly tied and pinned.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Do I win?\" she smiled.  \n  \nHe frowned, \"that was rather backhanded, using magic tricks on me...\"  \n  \n\"It's not magic, sire... it's the art my teacher showed me,\" she smiled and leaned  \nover him, closer to his face, \"Do I win?\"  \n  \n\"If you tell me what that was,\" he nodded.  \n  \n\"She calls if Fuso-do,\" She nodded, \"it was designed as a way of self-defense for  \ngeisha and courtesans... they can carry a length of silk with them anywhere, and it can be  \ntheir sword, shield, spear, whatever is needed.\"  \n  \n\"A powerful art,\" he nodded, \"I am impressed. I have one order before you can  \nclaim victory.\"  \n  \nShe blinked and nodded curiously.  \n  \n\"Carry that silk with you at all times?\" he smiled and nodded, \"and... untie me?\"  \n  \nShe smirked and shook her head, \"Sire... that was two orders... not one.\"  \n  \n\"Hikamori...\" he growled a bit, struggling against the snugly tied silk on his wrists.  \n  \n\"you don't need your hands right now, sire... you have mine,\" she purred at him,  \nblushing hotly as she slid her smaller fingers under the front of his dogi, caressing his belly  \nscales as she explored within his clothes.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; He growled and squirmed, \"Hikamori... seriously...\" She paused and lifted her  \nhead. His eyes met hers and she gasped at the ferocity in them as he spoke calmly, \"you  \nneed to untie me before-\"  \n  \n\"RAAAA!!!\" The bandits burst from the bushes and surrounded them, spears, and  \npitchforks and various improvised and stolen weapons all pointed at the pair.  \n  \nShuji sighed, \"Before they surround us.\"  \n  \nKasumi held still, but she tugged the silk slowly, only to have a spear pressed  \nagainst her neck, \"Hold it missy, don't be untying him... We're gonna have some fun with  \nthis one first see?\" she shrieked as two grabbed her and pulled her off of Shuji holding her  \nback as the others gathered around him. One spoke, \"remember us?\"  \n  \n\"Of course,\" he hissed, \"I could smell you following since yesterday...\"  \n  \nOne of the bandits hissed, \"I â€\"told- you it was a bad idea!\"  \n  \n\"Shut up!\" the ‘leader' smacked his accomplice, \"this is revenge, damnit! For  \nhumiliating us!\" he snarled and kicked Shuji in the side, doing more damage to his toes than  \nhis target.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Shuji snarled a bit easing from the impact, \"you forgot what I warned you, though,  \ndidn't you?\"  \n  \n\"Hah! Yeah, so what? I don't see ‘many samurai' I see one little girl who can't  \neven defend herself...\"  \n  \n\"WHAT?!\" Kasumi roared, flailing in the grip of the two burly bandits.  \n  \nShuji sighed, \"So what are you planning to do then? Beat me up and rape the  \ngirl?\"  \n  \nThe bandits all looked at each other and nodded, muttering approval before one of  \nthem mused, \"That's a good idea.\" Shuji was in motion however, and with a wide sweep of  \nhis tail and legs, he was spinning on his shoulders, and the bandits around her were  \nknocked off their feet. His back tensed, legs kicked, and in a serpentine motion, he uprighted  \nhimself on his feet, hands wrapped in the silk in front of him. The burly bandits drew their  \nswords and held them to Kasumi's neck, who froze instantly. A hard blow to the back of  \nShuji's head made him stagger forward, hissing and snarling as the bandits got their feet  \nunder them again.  \n  \n\"You bastard... you're gonna pay for that.\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Not half as much as you're about to pay, wretch!\" a voice shouted from the trees.  \nThe bandits turned as a cloaked blur dropped from the nearest tree, a flash of steel and a  \nsolid impact on the ground as the leader's spear was cut in two.  \n  \n\"Who the hell?\" they all clamored, surrounding the new arrival as Shuji turned to  \nsee. The figure stood up, shorter than most of the bandits, with a blade easily as long as he  \nwas tall. The cloak came away and Rihatsu grinned to Shuji, winking.  \n  \n\"Miss me?\" he smarted.  \n  \n\"You little punk!\" The bandit on his left attacked in a wild overhand with his  \nhatchet. Rihatsu flicked his arm and the blade in his hand sang through the air, taking the  \nhead of the weapon off the handle effortlessly.  \n  \nThe others lunged, but Rihatsu leapt over them, stepping on one bandit's face as  \nhe did. Landing by Shuji he reached down and pulled the silk off his wrists, \"What happened  \nto beating on scum like this?\" the young samurai laughed as his tail lashed out smacking  \none of the bandits who was approaching.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Later,\" Shuji hissed. \"Deal with those five, I've got the girl.\"  \n  \n\"What? I was going to win her over so we could find an inn and-\"  \n  \n\"RIHATSU!\" Shuji boomed at him.  \n  \n\"Yeah, yeah...\" He sighed and set about thrashing the other five bandits while  \nShuji glared and stalked at the larger ones. \"I'm going to give you gentlemen to the count of  \nthree to let her go, and then I'm going to tear your eyes out and make you eat them.\"  \n  \nKasumi's eyes went wide, as did the bandits' at the sight of the Rokkotsu lord  \napproaching. Gone was the smiling, smooth, calm gentleman... only to be replaced by a  \nterrifying creature of teeth and scales that invoked images of the dragons of legendry. The  \nlarger guards gave a shudder, but then set themselves and pressed their blades against  \nKasumi's throat again.  \n  \n\"Three.\" Shuji hissed and struck with that reptilian speed she had seen. Two palm  \nstrikes, one with each hand to the tip of each kibajin bandit's snout. They both yelped in  \nunison and dropped her, staggering back with hands clutching their noses and bawling like  \nscalded babes. Shuji helped her to her feet and smiled, \"Are you alright?\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; She nodded, confused and a bit frightened by the change in his demeanor. She  \nlooked to the fight behind him and blinked, \"who is that?\"  \n  \n\"A friend,\" he laughed a bit, \"something of a student, but don't tell him I said that.\"  \nHe called out, \"Rihatsu! Time to go!\"  \n  \nRihatsu blinked and absently back fisted the last bandit standing, \"Eh? Already?  \nOkay!\" he dashed over and smiled, \"So, are you going to introduce me?\"  \n  \n\"No,\" Shuji replied flatly, grinning. \"I don't need you slobbering all over my retainer.\"  \n  \n\"What?! Why do you get all the cute ones?!\" The red jirajin whined and stamped  \nhis foot.  \n  \nKasumi blinked and blushed as she picked up her silk and they gathered their  \nthings. As she folded her pack, Shuji's hand came to rest on the small of her back. She  \njumped, but he kept her still and whispered, \"When we arrive at a proper inn, if you are still  \nthinking as you were, come speak to me. But leave the silk behind.\" He smirked and patted  \nher back, hefting his pack and turning to talk to Rihatsu.  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\"So what now, foreigner?\" Hikeno Gonji grinned, leaning back in his chair, \"first  \nyour beasts, then your traitor, and even you... three failures is three more than any of us  \nwould dare to remain alive for.\" The large Nezujin growled, his green-black armor glimmering  \nin the firelight of the assembly area.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Gul'brekh was bound, stripped to his underclothes and bruised in far more places  \nthan he could ever remember being in his life. His breath came in rasps, due to cracked ribs  \nand an injured windpipe. Half of the Gasaran army had been allowed to hit him. The other half  \nsimply spat curses... or some just spat.  \n  \n\"Oh? No fancy words? No silver tongue?\" Gonji sneered, \"In the end you are little  \nmore than a pompous bag of hot wind, capable of nothing but empty promises and threats. I  \nwill enjoy making an example of you to my men.\"  \n  \nThe feline hawked and worked up enough spit to get himself to talk, albeit very  \nhoarsely, \"L-lord Gonji...\"  \n  \n\"Oh, now you beg? Come then, let me hear your pleas of mercy, and maybe...  \nmaybe, I will use a sword instead of a saw to remove your head.\"  \n  \nTwo samurai lifted the feline to his feet and dragged him closer, but as they set  \nhim to his knees again, Gul'brekh hissed weakly, \"Согни‚е ноги в дˆ ко мне, и г€Ðµ‚ в  \nда€ ‚емно‚е дал вам.\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Gonji blinked as the two samurai grabbed their heads and hunched over  \nscreaming and roaring... armor and cloth ruptured under bulging and shifting cords of  \nmuscle, bones broke and reformed as the changes took hold, and the two once-samurai  \ntowered over their companions, eyes a balorous green as then snarled and looked around,  \ngaining their bearings.  \n  \nGul'brekh lifted his head, and glared through his eyes at Gonji, \"Kill them all.\"  \n  \nGonji was on his feet, but the first Nezujin-monster snatched him up by the neck  \nand squeezed, cutting off his life in an instant. As their lord's body hit the ground the other  \nsamurai broke and fled, but the monsters were among them, tearing limbs off and obliterating  \nthe terror-stricken army. Ran began to fall and the bound feline tilted his head back to drink.  \nWith a parched throat soothed, he began to laugh, roaring his amusement to the thundering  \nsky amid screams of death.  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nUsuyami gasped in fright as she sat up, waking from a nightmare of  \nmarching Rasagan feet, sudden ambush and bloody slaughter. She gripped the coverlet in a  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; crushing death-grip, panting and taking a moment to remember she was safe at home in her  \nown bed.  \n  \n\"Shidomori-sama?\" a voice queried from the right. She twitched and almost  \nstruck, but brilliant aqua-blue eyes cut the darkness with a soft expression of concern.  \n  \n\"Ah... Kanohime,\" She sighed, \"I'm alright, just a bad dream.\"  \n  \n\"The fourth in four nights, my lady. Please forgive me, but I'm not so sure you are  \nalright...\" The blue Kyujin trailed off apprehensively, scooting closer to take a seat at  \nUsuyami's bedside, the collar and hem of a hastily-tied sleeping robe barely clinging to her  \nshoulders.  \n  \n\"Perhaps,\" Usuyami sighed, turning her gaze thoughtfully to the heavily-shadowed  \nlatticework of the ceiling, staring off into space as her pounding heart slowed, taking a  \nmoment to collect her dream-addled thoughts before speaking again. \"These last few days  \nhave been a lot more trying than they were supposed to be. Since leaving Eizu behind, I'd  \nlooked forward to our return here as the one chance for a desperately needed rest...\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; The young maid returned to a sitting posture and followed Usuyami's gaze to the  \nceiling sympathetically. \"But just as you were finally returning from Ikito you encountered  \nthose Gasaran scouts that wounded Aoi-chan...\"  \n  \nThe Lady of Tetsumo nodded her head and heaved an unconcealed sigh, turning  \nto look again at Tsukiko. \"Yes, Aoi-chan. There's more going on with the Gasaran Clans than  \nI think anyone's realized... We need to find out what it is before it's too late.\"  \n  \n\"Shidomori-sama... I pledged myself to serve you in Aoi-chan's place in any way I  \ncan. I'll follow and support you wherever you go without fail.\" The cobalt-furred Kyujin bowed  \nobediently.  \n  \nUsuyami softened at that and smiled. \"Calm yourself Kanohime, I'm not going  \nanywhere tonight...\" She laughed a bit and sighed, \"The Gasaran will get what's coming to  \nthem, I refuse to let myself lose sleep on their account... I'm probably just having trouble  \nadjusting to sleeping alone again... Too used to having Aoi beside me.\"  \n  \nSilence pervaded a moment until Tsukiko broke it in hesitant tones: \"Shidomori-  \nsama if... if it is not too presumptuous of me... perhaps I can be of assistance to you?\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Huh?\" Usuyami blinked.  \n  \nThe Kyujin squirmed a bit avoiding Usuyami's gaze, \"I can... sleep at your side in  \nAoi-chan's place... if Shidomori-sama requires the comfort...\"  \n  \nUsuyami blushed and smiled, \"Kanohime... I appreciate what you're trying to do,  \nbut I think I should...?\" she blinked, pausing as the azure woman silently rose up to a kneel  \nand scooted back in retreat, ears revealing deep embarrassment by their sudden change of  \nangle.  \n  \n\"Of course... Please forgive my indiscretion lady, I have no right to... after  \neverything that has happened...\"  \n  \n\"Wait-wait-wait,\" Usuyami chirped, throwing back the blanket and reaching out to  \ngrasp her new maid's arm, \"I meant no insult...\"  \n  \n\"Shidomori-sama, you needn't make excuses... I know I am abnormal, it was  \nfoolish of me to think you might wish to bed with me...\" Tsukino rambled off in a wild rush,  \ndeep crimson rising up on the brightly hued Kyujin muzzle, a sheen of tears welling up in the  \nbright eyes.  \n  \n\"Abnormal?\" Usuyami blinked, \"because your fur isn't a common shade, you  \nare ‘abnormal'? Have you lost your senses Kanohime, or I am still dreaming?\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Tsukiko's head shook, \"No, lady I... I -am- abnormal... I am not like Aoi-chan... or  \nanyone...\"  \n  \nUsuyami blinked and perked en eyeridge, \"not like Aoi-chan how?\"  \n  \nTsukiko's head continued to shake fearfully as the Kyujin stood and began  \nbacking toward the open sliding panel, \"Oh, Shidomori-sama... it is more shame than I can  \nbear... please don't ask me to explain...\"  \n  \nUsuyami set her jaw and spoke firmly, \"Tsukino Kanohime, you -will- explain  \nyourself this instant. I will not have secrets kept between myself and my maids!\"  \n  \nTsukiko froze in place at the commanding tone of Usuyami's voice, sharp upper  \ncanine teeth biting into her dark lower lip. Raising bleary eyes to gaze at Usuyami, Tsukiko  \nshrugged lightly causing the loosened sleeping robe to slip to the floor with a softened rustle.  \nAs the garment fell away Usuyami's eyes fell upon bright blue patterned shoulders and hips,  \ndark nippled breasts, and a twisted undergarment of bleached white cotton. Blue paws  \nslowly untied the cotton wrappings and started to unravel them as a deep-hued flush of  \nhumiliation crept across Tsukiko's features. Several minutes and more than a few meters of  \nlinen later, Usuyami's breath caught in her throat in shock!  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Between Tsukiko's toned thighs, where Usuyami expected to see a neatly kempt  \nslice of young femininity typical of the house's maids, Usuyami instead found herself gazing  \nupon the fuzzy protrusion of sheath and teste-pouch normally reserved to Kyujin males.  \n  \n\"You see? I am a freak... I'm not suited to take her place...\" Tsukiko sighed and  \nlooked away, shamed. The lack of response from Usuyami cut deeper than any katana, and  \nTsukiko wished at that moment she could vanish into the depths of some cave for all  \neternity... until suddenly she felt the sensation of fingers wrapping gently around that part of  \nher body that no one else had ever touched, eliciting a whimper.  \n  \n\"You are... actually a boy? But how have you...\" Usuyami boggled, slipping out of  \nbed and creeping closer to touch and examine the strangely exciting oddity before her.  \n  \nTsukiko groaned, trying to pull away, \"No lady... errr... not exactly...\"  \n  \nUsuyami reached quickly, gripping the vixen's hip and pulling her back into reach,  \ncontinuing to examine the Kyujin's endowments carefully. \"You have the smell of a woman  \nabout you though, you...\" Usuyami lifted the organ in her palm gently and gasped again, \"you  \nhave... both!\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Tsukiko nodded low, sucking in a breath at the contact, \"Y-yes lady... ever since  \nbirth, I have always been...\" she trailed off suddenly as fingers grazed over her sensitive virgin  \nparts in a heavy caress. \"L-lady... if you do that I'm going to... ah!\"  \n  \nUsuyami grinned wickedly as the sheath before her eyes stirred and split and an  \ninky Kyujin male organ emerged proudly from its confines, dark as the purest Tetsumo  \ncharcoal and twitching in time with the maid's racing heart. Usuyami blushed hotly and  \nglanced up at Tsukiko, \"You are... enjoying the feel of my hands... are you?\"  \n  \n\"No lady! I mean... yes ma'am... a little... I just... I've never allowed anyone to  \nsee before... much less touch...\" she whispered back, blushing brilliantly and fidgeting.  \n  \n\"What about in the baths?\"  \n  \nTsukiko nodded, \"I... I always wait until, ah!\" she tensed, toes curling as a soft  \nscaled finger grazed the tender hood behind her hanging pouch, \"until everyone was gone...\"  \n  \nUsuyami nodded and took her hands away at long last, smoothing them across  \nthe folds of her sleeping robe. Even left alone, the kyujin's burgeoning erection continued to  \nexpand and lengthen. \"Kanohime... no... Tsukiko... do you know what I am going to do now?\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Tsukiko dropped weakly to her knees and lowered her head with a sigh of  \nmelancholy resignation, \"Please give me until morning, Lady? I have to thank Aoi-chan and  \nthe others for everything they've done for me, but then I will leave the city...\"  \n  \n\"Leave? I should hope not!\" Usuyami laughed, causing Tsukiko to raise her head  \nsuddenly in surprise! \"You've been here three years and in all that time, you've managed to  \nkeep a rather large secret in the midst of dozens of maids and samurai trained in the art of  \ngathering information... If anything, I will be giving you a commendation.\"  \n  \nTsukiko blinked and shivered in shock and confusion, \"Commendation...? You are  \nnot disgusted... by my physical condition?\"  \n  \nUsuyami laughed warmly, \"Not in the least!\" She smiled and caressed her unique  \nnew maid's trembling shoulder, \"If anything, I am curious,\" she purred heatedly and smiled,  \ntracing fingers up the side of her maid's cheek and touching behind her ear, \"As I'm sure you  \nalready know, the relationship I have with Aoi-chan isn't exactly traditional. It would be  \noutrageous for me to turn you out of this household for being different... Besides, being  \ndifferent can be... exciting.\" Pulling Tsukiko closer she started to caress the Kyujin's white  \nbelly soothingly, slowly finding her way to the maid's towering phallus, thick and straining  \npast the girl's bellybutton, a tiny pearl of moisture glistening at its twitching peak.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"B-b-b-but, this is not right... We can't!\" Tsukiko struggled weakly in the jirajin's  \ngrasp.  \n  \nUsuyami shifted back a bit, \"You don't want to with me? I sincerely hope that isn't  \nwhat you mean...\"  \n  \n\"N-no! No lady! It's just... I... it's hardly been three days since Aoi-chan... and  \nyou and she are... and I have never, not even once...\" Tsukiko rambled frantically as hand  \ngently caressed her inner thighs, avoiding direct contact with her charms.  \n  \nUsuyami lifted her hand from the maid's shoulder and cut her off gently with a soft  \nfinger across the lips. \"Aoi asked you to take up her duties did she not? She expects you to  \ndevelop a close bond with me, and to serve me in every manner? Then stay with me,  \nTsukiko, and think of tonight as the forging of an unbreakable bond between us.\"  \n  \nTsukiko clamped a hand to her mouth and froze, eyes wide and  \nglassy. \"Shidomori-sama...\"  \n  \nUsuyami smiled and took Tsukiko by the hand, drawing the trembling Kyujin  \nhermaphrodite down to the softness of her warm bed. \"Shush. You know very well I don't like  \nformalities among my maids...\" she whispered, leaning forward to kiss the maid's softly  \ntrembling cheek. \"And I do know that Aoi asked you to share my bed too.\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; The cobalt female gasped, \"y-you knew? How did you know?\"  \n  \n\"Once you are comfortable calling me by name, I'll share my secrets on that with  \nyou,\" the pearl Jirajin smiled softly, caressing Tsukiko's side.  \n  \nTsukiko blushed brightly and nodded, leaning against the larger woman's body,  \ngazing deep into her eyes with a look of virginal apprehension. \"Usuyami... san?\"  \n  \nScales clicked a bit as Usuyami shrugged, \"It's a start.\" She giggled and nudged  \nTsukiko to lie back, letting a hand graze down over the girl's lush curves, making her gasp  \nand shift on the bedding.  \n  \n\"Shido- Ah... Usuyami-san... I'm still not certain we should.\"  \n  \nUsuyami put her finger to the vixen's lips again with a warm smile. \"My father was  \nvery wise... he said: ‘Don't think. Feel.' What do you feel Tsukiko?\"  \n  \nTsukiko paused a moment to reflect taking a deep breath, her bare white breasts  \nwith their large chocolate-tinted nipples rising and falling gently. \"Nervous, a little afraid... a  \nlittle excited...\" she blushed as she openly confessed her arousal.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Mmm... Me too,\" Usuyami smiled and stretched out beside Tsukino, cupping a  \nperky breast in her palm and kneading its soft elasticity. She nuzzled close to the Kyujin's  \npointy blue ear as the hand stole down the maid's body. Usuyami's fingers wrapped around  \nthe fuzzy fold of male sheath, fingering its compressed softness before moving up to grip,  \nand slowly start stroking, the maid's twitching cock shaft, eliciting a moan and a roll of the  \nhips from the girl. \"You're so hard Tsukino... I've known enough males in my time to see how  \nbadly you want to. Will you give me the honor of being your first?\"  \n  \nTsukino lay back across Usuyami's pillow, panting softly and turning her glassy  \neyes to her mistress, swallowing hard before speaking: \"Yes, Usuyami-san... I would be...  \nahhh... honored... and very happy to share my first experience with you.\"  \n  \nUsuyami smiled with satisfaction and slid down against the body of the  \nwhimpering Kyujin, finding the maid's lips with her own and kissing the girl slowly and  \npassionately as she stroked the vixen's energetically throbbing member. \"Just lie back and  \nrelax for a few minutes, and let yourself feel it Tsukiko-chan. I'm right here with you, I'll show  \nyou the way...\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; She kissed her way down Tsukiko's trembling belly, teasing with her tongue and  \nnibbling at the white fur with her teeth, ever so slowly finding her way down between the  \nmuscular thighs, lashing out with her tongue to tickle the drooping ball sac, making the  \nKyujin squirm and sigh.  \n  \nUsuyami teased the straining shaft with her tongue, eliciting a symphony of sighs  \nand moans from Tsukiko as she fluttered her tongue against its surface, lovingly laved its  \ncontours, and wrapped her tongue around its throbbing girth, squeezing it gently. Pungent  \nhoney with the scent of heady male musk dripped from the tip of the trembling phallus,  \ncoating the surface of Usuyami's tongue with its flavor and texture. Tsukiko squirmed  \nbeneath the larger woman's ministrations, breathing irregularly and whimpering \"Usuyami-  \nsan...\" softly again and again in pleading tones.  \n  \n\"Mmm... so big Tsukiko-chan... you put certain samurai to shame...\" she giggled  \nknowingly, licking her lips as she raised her head to wrap them around the pointed tip of the  \nerect organ, wrapping a paw around its root for support as she gently sucked and began  \nbobbing lower and lower on the rigid stalk of flesh. The Kyujin beneath her cried out and dug  \nher fingers and toes into the bedding as Usuyami took the thick rod into her mouth, the solid  \ncore of love muscle at its center tensing powerfully against her fingers and tongue as a fat  \nknob of flesh started to expand at the base of the shaft as Tsukino groaned long and loud.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Reading the signs perfectly, Usuyami pulled away completely letting the swollen  \nspike tremble and throb in the air before her eyes. \"This close already...?\" she asked, to  \nwhich Tsukiko could only whine pitifully and whimper soft pleas of mercy, making her  \nchuckle.  \n  \n\"I guess it can't be helped... Mmm, and you make sure enticing little noises, don't you Tsukiko-chan? Mmm, so excited, I couldn't possibly let this end without feeling you  \ninside...\" Usuyami purred, tugging her sleeping robe off and throwing it in a heap as she  \nstraddled the maid's stomach, arching down against her so their breasts pressed tightly  \ntogether, and the cleft of Usuyami's sculpted buttocks pressed firmly back against the thick  \nfleshy spike of vixen cock.  \n  \nTsukiko growled unsteadily and ground her hips up against those pinning thighs,  \nreaching out with unsteady hands to explore the front of her mistress's body in a tentative  \ncaress. \"It won't stop twitching Usuyami-san... I feel like I'm going to explode,\" Tsukiko  \nwhispered blushingly.  \n  \nUsuyami chuckled softly at the Kyujin's lust and pressed tightly forward against  \nher body, reaching back confidently to position the squirming member against her moist  \nfolds. \"Let's explode together then, Tsukiko-chan... ahhn...\" she trailed off with a groan as  \nshe forced herself down on the maid's thickness, its tapered girth spreading the petals of her  \nsex as she took the throbbing spire in carefully. With a pause she raise dup a abit and sank  \ndown more, working the shaft farther in, making sure they would fit together.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Overwhelmed by mating instinct and unable to hold herself back any longer,  \nTsukiko dug her fingertips into Usuyami's thighs and began pistoning her hips upward into  \nher partner's surrounding heat, thrusting hard with short plowing strokes into her tightly  \nsqueezing channel. Each thrust caused both lovers to cry out as the deeply buried tip of  \nTsukiko's length massaged and stirred Usuyami's depths while the ball of knot-flesh at its  \nroot ground hard against her pleasure pearl and pubic bone with each deep thrust.  \n  \nUsuyami panted softly and purred as her maid's delicately shifting rhythm brought  \non that exquisite tightness in her chest much sooner than even she had expected. Raising  \nherself up, she tilted her head back in pleasure and let slip a long and pleasured moan, using  \nher own weight to help Tsukiko's drilling organ burrow deep, working all the sweet spots in  \none magnificent undulating motion.  \n  \n\"Usuyami... san... you're squeezing me so hard... it's about to happen... I'm  \ngoing to come...\" Tsukiko whimpered breathlessly, but Usuyami was too far gone to hear  \nher, engulfed in a roaring wave of climax that was just crashing over her that made her vision  \nflicker and torrents of fire and ice cascade up and down her back. Bucking violently with her  \nclimax, Usuyami accidentally slipped free of Tsukiko's flexing shaft just as the young maid  \nshrieked her own climax.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Juicy jets of thick Kyujin cream arced wetly through the air from the tip of Tsukiko's knotted  \nflesh, bathing the bellies and breasts of both lovers with sticky wetness that never seemed to  \nstop coming. Usuyami could only stare in awe as Tsukiko kept shooting and shooting,  \ndigging into the bedclothes madly with her hands and feet as she showered herself with  \nevery last drop of sticky, heated, male essence her body had stored up.  \n  \nAfter the passage of what seemed like minutes, the flow ceased and Tsukiko  \ndropped to the sheets like a stone, rolling her head back and sucking for air frantically,  \nmuscles trembling and twitching erratically. Usuyami sat stunned in the aftermath, twitching  \nand staring down at Tsukiko's glazed, half-dozing form. Her eyes passed down farther to  \nherself, nothing she was quite well covered in the panting maid's spend, stiocy strands  \ndripping from her still-perked nipples as she breathed hotly, calming from the wildness of the  \nact. After a few moments she nudged the creamed vixen, \"Tsukino... Tsukino...\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Mmmm??\" she replied dazedly, taking a moment to notice the mess, \"Oh no! I...  \nI'm sorry!\" she fumbled into a bow, hanging her head low.  \n  \n\"It's fine, it's fine. But we need to go to the baths and wash off, and we'll definitely  \nneed a different futon.\" Usuyami nodded, smiling as she lifted the apologetic Tsukino's chin.  \n  \n\"ah, y-yes ma'am.. I'll start on that now.\"  \n  \nUsuyami smiled, \"Allright. Meet me in the baths. I want to see what else you can  \ndo.\"  \n  \nTsukino gave a startled squeak at that statement, but Usuyami was already out  \nthe room...  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Tales of Ippon","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/109195-chapter-fifteen-additions.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/109836-chapter-seventeen-destruction.json"}}