Title: Pass the Forest By
Fandom: Kamen Rider Gaim
Rating: T
Length: 502 words
Content notes: A sixteen year old and a twenty year old are on the verge of having sex.
Author notes: AU featuring a genderbent Mitsuzane (named Michi), pairing Michi/Kouta.
Summary: Michi will do anything to keep Kouta knowing the full truth behind the Forest.


"Michi? Are you sure you want to be doing this?" Kouta hovered over her, and she had to smile at his innocent concern. It hadn't been so long since Kouta asked her out, and even less so since her brother showed her the truth behind Helheim Forest, how it would invade Earth just as it had invaded some other world and there was no way to stop it.

However, there was no way she could share that with Kouta. No way to let him know that an alien forest was going to evade Earth through the gateways that they called cracks. Couldn't know that the Inves were just a way to get people used to the fact. Of course, he knew some of it already from their little game in the Forest and also from what he'd been told when he'd been captive at Yggdrasill. But she didn't want him to know what happened to people who wandered into the Forest and ate of its fruit.

She didn't want him to know what happened to Yuuya and how he'd inadvertently killed his best friend.

"Yes," she said. "We have condoms around here, and I'm on birth control." It was one of those things that had happened because she was a Kureshima heir and a genius besides. Given the situation, it was extremely unwise for her to become pregnant, and she agreed. Besides, the last thing she needed was for either Kouta to decide he needed to marry her, or for her brother to kill him for getting her pregnant.

"Right. Um..."

"Taped under the counter," she said, calling to him. She knew where they were because she'd put them there herself and checked to make sure that they didn't disappear before being restocked.

"Okay." He retrieved the package and came back, settling down beside her. "Are you sure you don't want to talk about it instead?"

"I'd rather forget about it and not talk about it." She couldn't, of course. She tried to avoid bringing her teammates into her world, and especially Kouta. She was trying to make the Christmas Game his last exposure to that damnable Forest, even if she hadn't figured out how to keep him from running into danger the first chance he got. It was one of his most irritating traits, this tendency to want to save everyone. He couldn't, he should stick to making sure the team was okay like she did. She only became Ryugen to keep the others safe, and she expected the same of Kouta, only to be disappointed every single time.

At least here, she could have him and nobody else could. Even her teammates couldn't have him at the moment. He was there for her when she needed it, and that was all she could ask for.

"Okay," he said haltingly, breaking over the package. In response, she leaned back, willing him to forget about everything but this precious time together before the Forest could crash down on everything in her world.