Wind: Day 3 This was the final day of the two girls' voyage. The boat was engulfed in complete silence until a soft high pitched beeping came from the cabin quarters. With a ruffling of sheets and a soft click, the beeping stopped. A grunt and a moan of displeasure sounded through the cabin. Movement was heard, and another grunt of displeasure from someone else's mouth. ------ With Natsuki in a sweater that read Fujino on the back, and Shizuru cooking up another great breakfast, the cabin was filled with laughter and happiness. Natsuki and Shizuru both finished breakfast and put their dishes away. Both heading up to the deck, they came out seeing the deck sparkling with water droplets covering the entire surface of everything. ------ Trying her best not to slip, Natsuki adventured out first with her thin converses. The first step was firm, but the second one caused her fall forward, grabbing onto a cable that lead to the mast. Shizuru waltzed out onto the deck and walked gracefully over to the mast. Natsuki's checks were a nice redder shade; she then glared at Shizuru with envy that she could just come out onto the deck in such conditions without slipping. Shrugging it off, Natsuki walked over to the wheel and turned on the engine. Feeling a glorious humming sound from underneath her feet, with that she remembered that today was the last day of their trip. Saddened because she had done so much in so little time and has yet fully let the older girl understand how much she appreciated it and loved her. Slightly dazed, Natsuki absentmindedly started to turn the boat into the wind, allowing Shizuru to pull up the sails. When the dark haired girl's ears didn't pick up something she knew was suppose to be there, she snapped out of her daze and looked up at Shizuru, who was just standing next to the mast, looking down at her. Natsuki looked up to her and kept eye contact and the silence for a moment before she deiced that Shizuru shouldn't know what she was thinking, "What are you doing?" Natsuki asked innocently. Shizuru just looked at her for a moment before turning to the mast and pulling up the main sail single-handedly. Natsuki couldn't really tell, but she swore there was a tint of worry in Shizuru's eyes. The dark-haired girl felt a pang in her chest, and she knew what it meant. She promised herself that she would never have Shizuru look at her with worry again. Natsuki planned to keep that promise until the very end. ------ The ride back to the harbor was going to be a shorter one compared to all of the others. It will be only an hour before they had to dock. Natsuki had to think of some way of showing her appreciation before her time runs up. ------ Shizuru was at the wheel, while Natsuki was down in the cabin getting something when the room suddenly got brighter from an idea that just went off in Natsuki's head. ------ She called to Shizuru to come and help her get something. With a simple call, Shizuru came down, letting the sails out all the way to decrease their speed. Natsuki pointed to the microwave, "It doesn't seem to be working..." Natsuki trailed off. Shizuru looked at her, but deiced against asking and started to examine the microwave. At this point, Natsuki was hesitating in her plan. When Shizuru leaned back behind it, she saw that the plug was unplugged. She plugged in, "Ara, Natsuki is so silly to not look to see if the microwave was plugged in," then she felt two sturdy arms wrap themselves around her waist. This was something a little bit new. Shizuru was use to Natsuki pulling all of her moves similar to this in the bed, but she rarely felt it in the daytime. Natsuki's heart was pumping from the rash actions that she just buried her face in the brunette's long hair. Breathing in the relaxing scent of Shizuru. The older girl felt warm breath on her back after Natsuki put her face on her back. Not really understanding what is going on, Shizuru just relaxed into the hug and allowed whatever was going to happen-- happen. Natsuki took one more breath in and got her mouth close to Shizuru's ear, "I enjoyed this trip so much. I wish we could spend more time with each other like this," Natsuki felt a soft nod, then continued, "I loved being with you, and I loved where you took me. And most importantly--- I love you," Natsuki breathed into Shizuru's ear and received a shudder from the girl in her arms. Natsuki waited a moment for it all to sink in. Then she loosened her grip to allow the other girl to turn towards her. When she got the chance, Shizuru wanted to face this wonderful girl face to face. And she did when she felt looseness around her. As she turned towards Natsuki, Shizuru just wanted to kiss her and just give Natsuki the whole world, and she was about to say something until she remembered that the boat's wheel was still unattended too. Gasping in realization, she rushed up the stairs to see that the boat was heading towards the harbor, but the only problem was that there was a notorious sand barge, known for wrecking many ships, in their way. Shizuru gasped as she ran to pull in the main sheet and turn the wheel so the boat would go up wind. ------ Natsuki was standing there with turmoil going through her eyes. She was hurt, shocked, heartbroken, confused, depressed and about to cry. At first she thought that Shizuru would hug her or kiss her or something along the sorts, not run out of the cabin to get away from her. She turned to sit on the seat next to her. With a soft thud, Natsuki clenched her head in her hands. Weak from the sudden rejection, she didn't understand why. So sunk from the sudden depression, Natsuki just drowned out all the sound from the deck and the loud clanking from the main sail. ------ Shizuru finally breathed a sign of relief as she had successfully pulled the boat out of a dangerous course that could have lead to server injuries, and she would never let anything hurt her Natsuki. She was hit with a sack of bricks when she remembered that she ran up right after Natsuki had said all that. Shizuru wanted to go down there right now and hug her, tell her it's okay and it wasn't what she thinks, but she knew she had to dock first. Thinking ahead was what Shizuru did best. And this time wasn't an exception. She turned the motor on and steered towards the wind, letting out the main sheets, the sail started to luff and she ran up to drop the sail, folded it perfectly and then ran to the wheel all under 10 minutes. ------ As soon a soft thud was heard, Natsuki convinced herself that there was another meaning behind it all. There had to be another reason, Natsuki tried to make herself believe what she thought was untrue. After a second's notice, Natsuki was packing up her things and heard quick taping sounds coming from behind her. She knew it was Shizuru and she felt her heart rise in hope. And then she heard her name called and then she found herself being tackled onto the bed. She looked at Shizuru who had the worst looking expression on her face Natsuki had seen. Natsuki was opening her mouth and was about to ask her why she did that, but she was sufficiently stopped, as her mouth was busy being kissed by the girl on top of her. Once they broke from their kiss, Shizuru looked deeply into Natsuki's eyes, "I'm so sorry! IlefttheboataloneandwewereabouttocrashintothesandbarandIwasn'tthinkingandI... I... Never meant to hurt you," Shizuru was about to start crying, but then she felt pressure against her lips and this time, Natsuki was kissing her. Shocked at the new action, because it was usually her that initiated the kiss and Natsuki to follow up by kissing back or just letting Shizuru kiss her, never has Natsuki kissed Shizuru except a few times. When they broke, it was Natsuki's time to talk, "I knew there was a reason you had to do what you did. I'm not sad or hurt, I'm just happy you came back," Natsuki looked at her eyes and saw the sadness slowly retreat from her eyes. After a long silence, "let's go home," Natsuki said and was replied with a weak nod. Shizuru got off of Natsuki, and stood to the side, watching Natsuki get up. Her bag still in her hand, Natsuki looked at Shizuru, "You should pack up, I'll be on the deck getting everything cleaned up," Natsuki smiled at her while she walked up to the deck. ------ After a moments time, Shizuru came up with her luggage in hand and looked at Natsuki, who was sitting on the side of the dock waiting. Shizuru quickly went over things and then approved of Natsuki's work then closed off the cabin and jumped onto the dock in a single leap. Natsuki stood up and walked next to Shizuru as they walked towards the car. "I'm driving this time," Natsuki's voice cracked the silence.
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