You have been arrested for a crime he did not commit. Taking advantage of the carelessness of one of the security guards and escaped from your cell. The town marshal was a hinezumi called Akari (excuse the lack of creativity) who never left a bad guy out before and did not seem willing to change that, but you still escapes. The problem? Akari is still behind you and won't give up easy.
What do you do?
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While I'm running, thinking of a way out of this situation, I come up with a devilish plan. I start by putting some distance between us, it's not enough for me to lose her but still a good deal of distance, I then head in the direction of the nearest bath house/hot spring building. I enter the building and as quickly as possible, rent a private room and inform the receptionist that, should a hinezumi lady come through to tell her where I am.
Akari bursts into the building and is directed towards spring #3, the room I rented, and when she opens the door, is met by the sight of me sitting in the spring, leaning against a rock, naked except for a towel, waving at her. "What is this?" She asks.
"A hot spring." I say, smirking. "I can see that. I mean, what are you doing here?" she asks again.
"I just wanted to talk with you, y'know, and try to prove my innocence. The reason I'm here of all places is that it's hard to hold a conversation while running for your life, and I remember hearing that hinezumis dislike water, so I figured the best way to talk to you is to stay in the water so you can't take me in until I've at least said my piece." I explain, "But you're free to join me in here if you like, it would be easier to talk than to talk across the water." I say patting a spot next to me.
Strangely, she blushes at my offer, grabs a towel, walks behind a screen to change and emerges wearing only the towel. Even more surprisingly, she proceeds to the spot I motioned to next to me, it was then I realized maybe the steam in the air is affecting her, as her fire did seem dimmer than before. She sits down, blushing even more and only looking at me in glances, and I proceed to tell how all this is just a big misunderstanding and I never did anything and that I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I noticed that during my story she would look at me, but everytime our eyes met she would look away and her face would turn even redder. I then say "Thanks for listening to my side of the story miss...?"
"Akari." she says meekly, a complete switch from the voice she used before.
I then close my eyes and hold out my hands to be cuffed, "Well, Akari, since you listened to my story, a deal's a deal, you can take me back in if you want." I then feel something go in between my arms and then wrap around my waist, holding me tight. I open my eyes to find Akari pressing her body up against me, inadvertently giving me an eye full of cleavage when I look down at her. "What is this?" I ask.
"A hug." She says, a slight grin on her face. "You know what I mean." I say, the familiarity of this exchange not lost on me.
"Consider it an apology for wrongly imprisoning you, you see just before you broke out, we had found the real culprit and were ready to let you out. That's why I was chasing you down, to tell you that, and because..." she pauses, takes a deep breathe to calm herself down and continues, "I thought you were cute and wanted to challenge you to see if you had the right stuff, but since I walked into the room, my desire to fight you wanned, and when I got in the water itself, my will to fight had disappeared and replaced with another desire."
Before I could ask what she meant, she pulls me into a kiss, her towel now only being held up in between our two bodies and quickly drops when she releases me from the kiss. After pulling my eyes from her, surprisingly big for her size, bust, I notice she's looking at me with lust in her eyes.
"Listen, I think you're cute too, but are you sure you want to do this?" I ask.
"More than anything in my entire life." She says, desire and sincerety pervading her words.
"In that case only one more question, have you ever done it in a hot spring before?"
She looks down and says "I haven't even done it period." I think "Oh, that's right, hinezumis don't really have sex until they're beaten and that man usually becomes her husband."
With my hand I angle her head to look into my eyes and say "Don't be embarrassed, it's my first time as well." This seems to cheer her up a bit. She smiles and gives me another quick kiss and says "Promise to you'll be gentle."
"I promise." I say and we proceed to have steamy sex in the hot spring.
A few days later and we're married, with me now working as her partner/deputy and working together we have never had a criminal escape, us or the law.