Party for 2 (D3 EE closed - Hideos Yurt)

[Seppun Hideo]

He didn't move away as she moved slightly back. His eyes opened and looked into hers as he answered with complete honesty.

"Every single day."

[Ide Amaya]

She placed a hand over Hideo's heart, "then I hope that the future brings us many, many days."

[Seppun Hideo]

Hideo placed his hand on her heart, and nodded.

"If the Fortunes are kind to us, we shall have all of our lives to share this promise."

[Ide Amaya]

She held his gaze for as long as she could, but the twist of her spine quickly turned the ache of her back and neck to a burn, and that burn quickly became searing. She closed her eyes and made a pained noise as she straightened. There was no hiding the stiffness of the movement, and it brought to her mind some of the more difficult days of the Unicorn's journey.

[Seppun Hideo]

Hideo winced as he saw her reaction. She was clearly in pain.

"Allow me to look at this dear" he rose "lay down on your stomach."

[Ide Amaya]

Trusting, she arranged herself on her stomach, pillow beneath her cheek. Her hands were both tucked up near her shoulders. "Like this?"

[Seppun Hideo]

"That is perfect" Hideo nodded, kneeling down next to her and rubs his hands together to warm them up. Then he leans over, placing his hands at the bottom of her back, and firmly moves his hands up the back, to the shoulder and down the back again. Putting pressure on but not too much, and continuing in a fluid motion without removing his hands.

"Let me know if it too hard" he said quietly as his hands moved.

[Ide Amaya]

She interrupts him almost immediately, propping herself up on an elbow, "wait."

Sitting up, she loosens her bulky obi and unwraps it, expertly catching a few items that she had concealed in the folds and tucking them away. For something so unwieldy, she has it off and folded very efficiently. Underneath the obi, the light silk kimono has been folded back on itself so the hem doesn't brush on the ground, and a significant amount of fabric needing to be taken up to accommodate for her lack of height.

Putting the obi aside, she settles back on her stomach again.

[Seppun Hideo]

Hideo had moved his hands the moment she propped herself up, concerned. Then she started undoing her Obi, and he raised a brow, just watching silently as she removed the items and then the obi, before laying back down. He moved the extra folds down on the kimono so it sat more over her rear than over her back, allowing the kimono to be smoothed over her back.

Then he smiled, and places his hands on her back again, and unless interrupted he begins firmly moving his hands up the centre of her back, to the shoulder and down the back again stopping just before her rear. Putting pressure on but not too much, and continuing in a fluid motion without removing his hands. Moving in a circuit almost, up then round along the shoulders, and back down along the side of the back. Putting a little more pressure on as he began a second circuit up her back.

[Ide Amaya]

She does not interrupt him again, but lets her eyes slide closed as he works the knots from her aching muscles. As her body relaxes, she finds herself singing couplets from The Song of Ki-Rin and the Scorpion under her breath without realising it.

[Seppun Hideo]

Hideo managed not to chuckle. In fact he made no sounds at all, so as to not interrupt her singing. He truly loved hearing her singing voice after all.

His main focus was the massage though. The next circuit up, he stopped at her shoulders and held onto the shoulders, squeezing them before pressing and rolling with the hand, releasing and then beginning it again. One hand on each shoulder blade for the moment.

[Ide Amaya]

She was singing the lines at random, three or four couplets at a time, often repeating certain phrases. She seemed to favour two or three of the lines, absently returning to them more often than the others. Somehow she never seemed to reach the end, or start over from the beginning.

When he squeezed she paused and sighed softly before picking up with another line of the song. At some point, she was no longer singing about Ki-rin and Scorpions, but instead murmured the phrases of a different, unfamiliar song with a happier tone.

[Seppun Hideo]

"You seem to be enjoying this Amaya-chan" Hideo said quietly, not wanting to disturb her singing too much as he moved his hands, placing his fingers along Amaya's upper neck and rub in circles with his fingertips all the way down the shoulders and back to the neck.

[Ide Amaya]

"I am. You are good to do this for me, already I can tell that I won't feel anywhere near as stiff when I wake tomorrow." His comment only temporarily interrupted her flow and, after a murmur of pleasure, she was soon singing again.

[Seppun Hideo]

"It is my pleasure Amaya-chan" Hideo said with a smile as he places the palm of his left hand on the base of her neck, before sliding it up under her hair up to the base of the skull, rotating the hand outwards as he moved it. Once his hand was there, he did the same with his right hand, moving along the right side of her neck massaging outwards and moving his left hand back down to the base of her neck.