Destined to Collide - Inumaki Toge

74. Lonely Inumaki Toge

A/N: Hello everyone. I'm back. 

Thank you for waiting. It's been so long since I've updated. The past few months have been really hectic, and I couldn't think of anything good to come up for the next few chapter's fillers. 

So, I've been watching some anime and shows to get a bit of idea. 

Hope this chapter is alright. 

Enjoy~

Recap a little from last chapter.

Always. Always so mesmerizing whenever he smiled, Maguro had thought to herself, her finger reaching up to touch his Snake and Fang mark. And there it is again, pulsating with the power of the Curse he is carrying, as if calling out to her to claim it.

She smiled. It was as if the Snake and Fang mark is vying for her attention too.

Removing her hand from the mark on his skin, Inumaki lifted her hand to his lips and kisses the back of her fingers softly, warming the cold digits with his breath. Looking up at her through his long lashes, he answered her in his thoughts.

Knowing, as always, that she would be able to hear them whenever he voices out his thoughts to her.

"Anything my princess desires," he said to her, with eyes glittering and a beckoning smile.

xxxDestined to Collidexxx

"Could you tell me about your family, Toge-kun?" Maguro asks, settling down comfortably in Inumaki's bed as he turns off the light for the night. She saw him turn to her, and just before the light switches off, she saw his twinkling violet eyes and lips turning up into a wide smile.

The room slips into a temporary pitch blackness as her eyes slowly adjusts to the pale light from the night lamps in the garden just a short distance away from Inumaki's garden right outside his window. Only the light padding of his foot on the tatami lets her know that he is getting closer to her.

And she couldn't help that her heartbeat speeds up at that thought.

He lowered his body and sat down with a sigh, patting her legs gently for her to move.

"I'll tell you more if you scoot over," Inumaki said, nudging her over to the inner part of his bed. Maguro protested with a twist of her body to lie flat on the bed, marking the territory with her body.

"But I want to sleep on the outer side," Maguro whined cutely to Inumaki, who smiled and shakes his head. Though he dotes on her and wanted to submit to her every request, this will not be one of it.

Giving her nose a playful pinch, Inumaki brushed aside her baby hairs and pinched her soft cheeks. "No. You'll fall over the bed. Sleep inside."

"But-"

"Be good, Maguro," he started, still patting her legs and nudging for her to move in.

But she refused still with a kick of her legs on the bed.

"I don't wanna," Maguro pouted cutely, miffed that he doesn't allow her this. It's easier to get out of bed if she wants to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and she had a habit of hanging her arm over the bed and let her arm dangle down to the floor.

Shaking his head at her, he smiled defeatedly and sighed. What had she done to him to have him wrapped so tightly around her little fingers? Well. There's no one to blame but him. He loves her too much to deny her anything. He will just have to accept this if she could kick up such a fuss over which side to sleep on in the bed.