User blog:Redknight910/WWYD Hinezumi Ronchellster

(I'm assuming it's nightime.)

I carefully walk up to the hinezumi, who cowers at the sight of someone approaching. I ask her what happened to her and slowly offer my hand to help her up.

"Some men... Attacked me not long after the rain started... They were calling me a cheater. I recognised one of them as someone I fought a week ago." She takes my hand tries to stand up. Her ankle looks badly bruised, and she cries out as she tries to stand. I give her a warm smile and scoop her up into my arms.

I carry her in silence to a large tree that I was going to use to shelter beneath. I lay her against the tree and find some dry wood. As I light a fire for light and warmth I look back over at the hinezumi. She's very timid looking, far from what I have seen of any other of her kind I've met, and her flames are smouldering with a barely visible white flame. I ask her name as I start getting some medical supplies from my pack.

"I... I'm Miuki, what's your name?" I tell her mine and start to apply what basic treatments I can for her bruises and sprains. She winces and pulls away from me repeatedly, but I continue without stop until I've treated every wound I can find.

"Th... Thank you for helping me." She mutters as I lay against the tree next to her, most of our clothes are hanging in the tree above the fire to dry.

The next morning I wake to see Miuki curled up around my arm. She slowly opens her eyes, and noticing her position, quickly gets up and starts wandering around. We have a quick breakfast and she asks if we could have a sparing match. Knowing enough martial arts to defend myself I agree, provided she lets me check her wounds again.

Her ankle is still bruised and swollen, along with several heavy bruises on her forearms. I then decline, as she isn't in any condition to be fighting. She starts shouting until a misstep makes her cringe at the pain in her ankle. I offer to fight her when her wounds have healed, and she agrees, turning and leaving in the direction I had come from.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Two weeks later I hear a knock at my door. Opening it I'm greeted by Miuki, who then demands I make good on my promise. I clear a space in my backyard and we begin sparring. Her flames are so much more intense than our first meeting, but I give everything I have and eventually the battle ends in a draw.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Panting heavily, I offer her a cup of tea, she agrees and we both walk back into my house. As we're having tea I notice she's blushing, and I coyly ask what she's thinking about.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">"N-Nothing, I... I... I was just thinking about our fight, that's all." I nod, still smiling, and lean across the table, kissing her. Her blush deepens, but she doesn't pull away, indeed, she leans into the kiss, putting the cup down and putting both of her burning hands on the side of my head.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">I start to feel warm, then hot. As we pull apart I notice an odd flicker of red in my vision, along with her shocked look. I leap across the table at her, somehow completely reinvigorated, and ravage her.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Once I calm down I notice her flames are like they were when we first met, low and pale. I also notice the warm smile on her face. I smile back at her, asking if she would be my wife.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">"Of course I will, but first... There was another reason I came here..." She whispers into my ear and I smile, nodding.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Three weeks after the wedding we're standing outside a dojo in a village I was only somewhat familiar with. I call out to the instructor that some of his students ambushed a friend of mine just over a month ago. When I give the names of the students in question he brings them out into the street. The one who sparred with Miuki pales when he see's us.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">"Hello, remember me?" Miuki asks, a dangerous glint in her eyes.