albedosmine

[albedosmine]

karmic debt

xiaoxreader fanfic

word count: 1.2k

genre: angst

warnings: blood and wounds, mentions of torture, swearing, kissing (sfw)

notes: this is my first time writing a fanfic !! do not expect much because this is purely based on stories ive written in school.

the fresh air flowing in wangshu inn as the plants by the stairs swayed, you reached for your phone on a shelf. you were looking at your phone while you notice a certain someone taking a seat right beside you. it was the vigilant yaksha, xiao. he sat in silence as you were scrolling in your phone. you hadn't noticed him at first but once he tapped your shoulder, you looked at him as if your whole world got brightened up. xiao gazed at your eyes while you start the conversation. you are very introverted but when it comes to xiao, you're always up to talk to him. xiao may zone out during your conversations yet he's still listening to your calm voice. you were talking about how much you were joyed by this one book and he kept listening silently. you heard a ringing coming from your phone "this is gonna take a minute, is it fine if i take it?". xiao nodded yes and you took the call. as you were talking, you heard this swift disappearance behind you. xiao was not to be found. you got worried and ran in fear outside of wangshu inn. you realized it was getting to late for you to find him so you just stayed inside and grabbed a cup of coffee and continued using your phone. it was 3am and xiao came to you in your room. "sorry for leaving without any warning, are you doing okay?" he said, drenched in the bleeding of his own wounds. "xiao, you are drenched in blood yet you ask me IF IM OKAY?" you responded in panic. you grabbed the closest towel and got to the work. xiao looked like he just saw a demon behind you. you asked him if he was fine yet he gave no verbal responses and was shaking nervously. you cleaned up all of his wounds yet he still seemed like he's in a panic. "i have to go, just stay right here. don't do anything silly while im gone." he told you. "xiao you're acting like i'd kill myself with a hammer or something" you said to him with a slight smile. that smile reassured him that you'd be fine. "you stupid mortal."

"fucking, you're gonna leave me thinking i'd do something that bad"

"just don't try to kill yourself or anyone else."

"the fuck xiao"

he gave a slight smile whilst he left. he seemed fine so you had nothing to worry about throughout the night. you cleaned up the towel and the water you used to clean up his wounds. you stared at the moonlight going inside of your room from the window until you fell in a deep slumber. 8am and the wind gave you a goodmorning and freshened you up. you came up to the top floor waiting for xiao yet you saw verr goldet in a rush to go to mondstadt. you asked her on her way out yet she decided to keep quiet and ran outside of wangshu inn. you were rushing all around wangshu inn and saw that no one was there with you. no soul was there. wangshu inn has never been quieter. you looked out the window to find that your favorite adeptus hasn't been waiting for you to wake up. "today seemed so strange" you said to yourself. you found a way to liyue harbor and it seems like everyone shut their houses and no child was out to play, no traders out to trade, no workers out to work. you went to the only reliable place you could think of and that's to the liyue qixing. you walked on them while they were planning. you looked so muddled and confused. ganyu grabbed you and started to reassure that it would be fine and it would be over soon. you looked at her in confusion and said "what would be over soon?". all of the liyue qixing glanced at you. keqing whispered "you don't know?"

"know what?"

"that the adepti are having some fight that can harm the mortals and it isn't in a civil area"

ganyu swooped in and said

"this can even risk the fatui being involved"

all you did was sit in shock and nit say a word while ningguang kept talking and chatting yet you couldn't keep track of any of her words still in a moment of shock. you escaped from the liyue qixing's discussion and ran to the only person who can explain this clearly to you, zhongli.

"i had heard about this but i hadn't known that they've actually been preparing for it." he spoke. he offered you tea and told you to calm down and relax. you were still very alarmed by everything by your surroundings. you escaped from zhongli as well and ran to guili plains where you bumped into keqing and the mililieth. "you know it's quite dangerous to travel alone" keqing uttered. you just kept staring without any words coming out of your mouth. keqing knew you were troubled by this news because you were such a close person to xiao. keqing even thought you were more. keqing grabbed you by your hand and you both sprinted seeing a person sitting from afar. you got closer and the person looked at your direction. it was xiao, his eyes filled with dread. blood on his hands and his hair, all messed up and soaked with water. you slowly walked to him while keqing stays in her place while looking at you both with misery. you sat beside him while he sat in the same position as he was stressed and silenced. you looked at him and wondered why he's like this, why he seemed so blue. he glanced at you and explained "why am i like this? i don't know. ive never felt this much amount of sorrow". you looked at him and gazed into his amber eyes knowing inside that he's feeling the terror of his karmic debt and torture he brought amongst the people. he stared, knowing you knew about it. he grabbed you and gave you a warm embrace whilst he teared up. you felt as if you never wanted to grip off of him. keqing ran to grab the rest of the liyue qixing. xiao, still holding you close and tight to him, felt happiness that he would never want to get rid of. "and you still haven't healed the wound on your arm" he chuckled. "xiao, honestly you

should be thinking about yourse-" he stopped you and grabbed you by your face and put his lips close to yours. all of a sudden it felt like butterflies were all around you. it felt like a good ending to a depressing story. it felt like love. all of these thoughts as both of your lips got close. you both let go and you looked at him, alarmed and shocked, he would even dare to do anything like that. xiao looked flustered yet calm. "so, do you want to eat anything?"

"you say that after whatever we just did?"

"well you're the only one who can really cure my karmic debt aren't i right"

"that's just cheesy"

xiao laughed and walked you to wangshu inn. you cleaned him up and then you both grabbed a dish to eat. after eating, the wind gushed into your hair and gave you and xiao a leaf falling into both of your laps.