Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ Friends and Lovers ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

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Oh my God! Kaoru's mind was shouting. Sano and Kenshin! I can't believe it! No wonder Kenshin never got the hint! And I thought it was Megumi in there! Struck by the thought of her female friend, she changed course to head for the clinic where Megumi stayed. She surely couldn't tell Tae - Tae was her dearest friend, to be sure, but Tae couldn't keep a secret to save her life.

Reaching the clinic, she threw open the door and ran in, desperately looking for Megumi. She found the doctor in her rooms in the back of the clinic.

Megumi looked up, surprised at the sudden intrusion, but was instantly alert thanks to her training as a doctor. What she saw shocked her. Kaoru's normally untidy hair was in wild disarray. Her face was pale with shock and her cheeks were stained with tear-tracks.

"Megumi-san!" Kaoru cried out, sinking to her knees. "K-Kenshin - and Sanosuke-"

Megumi's confusion cleared instantly. She'd known, of course that Sano had a thing for Kenshin - not that he'd told her, but she'd at least suspected. The rooster-head was always so patently transparent with his feelings, at least to her eye. The rurouni, however, was a little... okay, a lot harder to read. She'd honestly thought he'd end up married to the tanuki-chan. With an extreme effort, she stifled her trademark laugh and the fox-ears remained hidden.

"Kaoru-chan...it's okay," Megumi knelt, wrapping her arms around the shaking girl. "Here, this should help." She pulled at the ribbon anchoring Kaoru's ponytail, loosing the blue-black mass. She rubbed the girl's temples lightly.

"I was just having tea - why don't you join me?" She led the girl over to the table and quickly prepared a cup for her unexpected guest. She debated for a moment whether or not to add a mild sedative but decided against it - she needed to talk to Kaoru about what she'd seen, and besides, it would only delay the inevitable.

Returning to the table, she set the steaming mug in front of Kaoru. She'd stopped shaking and looked a bit calmer.

"Kaoru-chan, what did you see?" Megumi asked. There was no point in giving the girl a talk sexuality if she hadn't seen what Megumi suspected.

Kaoru took a deep breath. "Well, I'd been arguing with Yahiko. The little brat got away and I wanted to take a bath. I'd seen Kenshin and Sanosuke in the dojo yard so I went to ask Kenshin if he would please start a fire. I couldn't find them so I ran to the Akabeko but Tae said she hadn't seen them. I went back to the dojo to change out of my practice clothes and then I went to look for them at the bars." Kaoru paused to sip at her tea.

Megumi rolled her eyes at the girl's recklessness but nodded for her to continue.

"I finally found someone who told me he'd seen them. They'd left after drinking for a while, taking some sake with them, so I figured they had to have gone to Sano's, so that's where I headed."

"I could hear strange noises as I got closer. I thought - gomen! - I thought it might be you in there with Sano but something made me take a peek anyway."

Kaoru closed her eyes and Megumi was amused to see her friend's face flush.

"I opened the door and they were both naked! Kenshin was on his hands and knees and Sanosuke was behind them and they were..." she waved her hands in the air wordlessly. "...you know!"

Megumi smiled gently. "Other than your feelings for Ken-san, what are you upset about?"

Kaoru's eyes narrowed suspiciously. "Why is it that you don't seem surprised?"

Megumi grinned. "Well, I had my suspicions. I didn't think it would ever amount to anything, though."

"Why am I always the last to know?" wailed the younger girl.

Megumi patted Kaoru's hand comfortingly. "I don't think it was exactly common knowledge. Sano is as easy to read as you are - don't get offended! - so I suspected something of the sort."

"But Megumi-san, I'm confused. I have a basic idea of how it works with a man and a woman, but two men?"

"Well, you have two openings, do you not?"

Kaoru's eyes widened in shock. "People do that?"

"There can be all sorts of variet, Kaoru-chan. Different things work for different people. It's not uncommon for a man to be with another man. It's not unheard of for two women to be together. There are people who can only enjoy it if they are hurting someone or are being hurt. It's only wrong if you don't like it or aren't comfortable with it."

Kaoru's mind swirled with possibilitied. "So, two men always do it that way?" she asked, confused.

Megumi shook her head. "No, sometimes they can use their mouths, or hands. It's similar to what two women might do."

Kaoru's face flushed anew. "Two...women?"

Megumi grinned. "Our anatomy is different, so we have to make... adjustments. I have something like it in my room, would you like to see it?"

Kaoru had always been intensely curious and this was certainly no exception. She rose and followed Megumi down the short hallway.

Megumi reached her room and walked to a small storage chest against a wall. Kaoru took the time to look around - she had never seen Megumi's room before. It was simply decorated and furnished - in fact, the chest was the only piece of furniture other than the futon. Unlike most, Megumi kept her futon out - laying it on a simple wooden frame that sat off the tatami floor by several inches. The arrangement was intriguing and Kaoru began picturing what such an arrangement would look like in her own room when Megumi finally straightened, holding a small wrapped bundle in her hands.

Perching on the edge of the futon, Megumi patted the space next to her in an invitation to sit down. Curious, Kaoru eyed the bundle in Megumi's hands.

Megumi unwrapped the plain silk cloth to reveal a smooth, polished wooden cylinder with a ridge at one end. Kaoru reached out to touch it hesitantly with one finger.

"This is a wooden model of a man's organ," Megumi said. Kaoru drew her hand back immediately, as an embarrassed flush crept up her face. "No, don't be afraid of it. Here, you hold it." She tossed the object so that it landed in Kaoru's lap. Kaoru tucked her hands into the ends of her sleeves.

Megumi laughed and pulled the girl's hands out of her sleeves. Holding them in her own, she said, "Look, it won't bite." Guiding Kaoru's hands with her own, she picked up the wooden piece. Smoothing the girl's hands around it, she encouraged her to touch it. Kaoru wrapped her finders around its shaft shyly.

"If this were a man's organ you could give him pleasure with your hands, like this." Megumi moved Kaoru's hands in gently stroking motions up and down the shaft.

Kaoru's mouth formed a small "o". "This feels good for a man?"

Megumi smiled. "Not just this, but you can use your mouth also."

Kaoru flushed with embarrassment. "But Megumi-san...what does this have to do with two women together?"

"Kaoru-chan, you know how it works with a man and a woman, right? Well, just because a woman may prefer to be with a woman instead of a man, doesn't mean they may not enjoy the same feeling."

"Megumi-san! You mean they...?" Kaoru tried to drop the wooden phallus, but Megumi refused to allow it.

"Kaoru-chan, haven't you ever wondered...? Never mind, of course you haven't - " and did something that froze Kaoru in shock. She leaned in and kissed Kaoru softly on the lips. When Kaoru gasped, Megumi darted her tongue past her lips, tasting Kaoru. She released one of Kaoru's hands and slid her hand up the nape of Kaoru's neck. Feeeling the tension slowly drain out of the girl's body as she relaxed, she began stroking the smooth skin there with one finger.

"Oh," Kaoru breathed. "Megumi-san..."

"I think we can dispense with the honorifics, ne?" Megumi grinned and kissed Kaoru again, this time letting her fingers trail a path down the side of her neck, caressing the creamy skin and teasing the downy softness normally hidden by her kimono.