InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ My Friend, My Lover ❯ Afterglow ( Chapter 5 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Ryuukotsusei rolled away to lay on his back and Touga curled up beside him, throwing a leg over him and laying a hand over his chest. He nuzzled into the dragon’s neck, burying his nose in a veil of silky black hair. He lost himself for a few moments in the afterglow, taking comfort in the steady heartbeat beneath his hand and his partner’s familiar scent.

A claw brushed against his cheek, and Touga opened his eyes only to be kissed, very gently, on the lips. For all the harshness in their coupling, the tenderness in the kiss was only made sweeter. Ryuukotsusei smiled at him in that handsomely crooked way of his, and they laughed together.

The dragon purred his contentment, and for the longest time afterward the only sound was that of the birds overhead. The happiness wore away very gradually, until Touga felt an awful bleakness that he could not quite explain. Perhaps it was the knowledge that it would be another five springs before they would be together like this again, or perhaps that he knew it could not last. His father had said he was a man, but he still had growing left to do. He would marry his betrothed and raise his heirs, and he already knew it would be empty coupling between them. He did not love his intended. In fact after a lifetime of knowing her, he barely knew her at all, and he hardly cared to. It was his duty to marry her, and that was all. Her fine silken kimono and ivory skin were hardly exciting. Dragon’s scales, dripping with blood, gliding across his skin, though---

Touga then took the dragon’s face in his hands, pressing his lips to the other man’s forehead.

“You will always be my friend, no matter where our lives take us,” he said.

The dragon growled in agreement, and captured his lips in another kiss.