Another long pause, then Miko sighed and stood up. "You're an indecisive idiot, actually. Had you a little more strength in your convictions and intentions, we'd both be on the tatami where you are, in each other's arms, and looking forward to the first tentative steps to a new life with new relationship boundaries, and an eternity never without each other's love."

She began to walk to the door. "But you clearly can't handle that. And you clearly don't want to. Oh you may want to, but your actions do not support it."

The door slid open. "Though I suppose I could expect nothing more from you. Now, you've finally ruined the last of the Mononobe, as it has been all you've been capable of from the beginning."

She stuck her head out into the hallway. "Tojiko, there is an uninvited guest here who is refusing my asking them nicely to leave. Come along and let us get rid of them, now, so we may live our lives uninterrupted."