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spookykestrel · 1 year
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Every shower should come with a water pressure fast enough and a temperature hot enough to kill a man
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7ndipity · 5 months
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“Exactly What I Wanted”
Hobi x Reader
Summary: Your plans with Hobi take a slight turn when you wake up sore after a night together.
Word Count: 1k
Warnings: implied smut, slightly suggestive, reader is mentioned being shorter than Hobi, not proofread
A/N: Thanks to @princesspalaka for requesting this! And thank you all for your patience with the slower posting schedule lately.
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“Y/n, c’mon, you have to get up if we’re going to go get breakfast before shopping!” Hobi called to you brightly, pulling open the curtains as he quickly gathered his things to get dressed, letting the bright morning light flood into the room.
You however, refused to move from where you were curled in the bed, burrowing further into the covers with a groan, making him chuckle.
You were always much slower to wake up in the mornings than he was, usually requiring some coaxing to leave the sweet sanctuary of your bed.
“What if we just stayed here?” You asked, voice muffled by the duvet.
“But I thought you wanted those special waffles at that cafe we found?” He asked, his lips tipping into a smirk as he glanced over at you.
“They weren't that special.” You grumbled, scrunching further under the covers.
He came over, crouching by your side of the bed and lifting the cover enough to find your face.
“Please, Baby.” He cooed. “We can go to that bookstore you’ve been wanting to check out.”
You perked up at that. “Really?”
“Really.” He grinned, kissing your cheek. “But you have to get up.”
You groaned. “Fine.”
“Thank you!” Hobi pressed another quick kiss to your lips before making his way back over to the closet, trying to decide on which pair of shoes to wear.
Reluctantly, you climbed out of the bed, wobbling slightly as you tried to straighten up, feeling faint pangs of tenderness in your lower half and hips, causing you to let out a small whine as you began to shuffle slowly towards the bathroom.
At your quiet pained sound, Hobi glanced up, immediately noting your awkward stance and gait.
“Are you okay?” He asked, eyeing you cautiously.
“ ‘m fine.” You winced. “Just a lil sore.”
“You’re hurt?!” His eyes widened in concern as he quickly made his way back to your side, scanning your face worriedly. “Why didn’t you say something?”
“Because I thought it wouldn’t be so bad once I got up, and I know how you get about stuff like this.”
“Stuff like this?!” He raised his brows at you. “You mean your health and wellbeing?!”
“You know what I meant.” You sighed. Hobi had a history of being somewhat over protective of you, especially whenever you were hurt or not feeling well. And while you loved and appreciated his concern, sometimes he went a little overboard.
The first time you had woken up sore from a night together, he had all but refused to do anything beyond making out with you for almost a month. He absolutely loathed the idea of being the cause of any sort of pain or discomfort to you.
“C’mon.” He said, gently wrapping an arm around your waist and helping lead you towards the bathroom.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m taking care of my baby,” He replied, starting the shower. “And then, I’m putting you back to bed.”
“But I thought you wanted to go shopping?” You said.
“There’s no way I’m making you walk around all day when you’re in pain.” He said seriously, turning to help you undress.
“I’m not in pain,” You argued, trying halfheartedly to fight off his hands, but failing. “I’m just a little sore.”
“Call it what you want, I’m still going to look after you.” He responded, quickly removing his own clothing and stepping under the stream of running water, helping you in after him.
The warm water did help a bit, causing your muscles to slowly relax, your eyes drifting shut as Hobi washed your hair, careful not to let any soap drip into your face. He always handled you with such care and gentleness, like you were some secret treasure that required the utmost care so as not to break.
Your heart swelled almost painfully in your chest. He made you feel so loved and cherished, you didn’t know what you’d done to deserve him.
As he finished rinsing your hair, you surprised him by turning around and grabbing the shampoo bottle, wanting to return the favor and care for him the same as he did for you. It was a slight stretch for you to reach, but neither of you minded, Hobi slouching slightly to make it easier for you, his eyes never leaving your face as you carefully massaged his scalp.
Once you were both clean, he pulled you close to his chest, letting the water cascade over the two of you. The sound of the running water drowned out everything but the steady thrum of his heartbeat beneath where your head rested.
“Thank you.” You said quietly.
His arms tightened faintly around you. “I’ve always got you.” He promised, kissing your temple.
After a few more minutes, when the water began to run cold, he helped you out, toweled you dry, dressed you in some pajama bottoms and one of your favorite shirts of his, and tucked you back into bed.
“Hobi?” You mumbled, already feeling drowsiness threatening to overtake you.
“Hmm? What is it, Angel?” He asked softly.
“Just… I love you.”
He beamed.
“I love you too.” He leaned down, pressing his lips to your forehead. “Get some rest, Baby.”
You don’t know how long you slept, but when you woke again, the light that was creeping through the open windows now held the yellowish glow of afternoon, painting Hobi in a golden hue as he rested next to you, his fingers softly tracing patterns over your skin.
“Hey sleepy.” He grinned. “How’re you feeling?”
“Better.” You said sleepily. “I’m sorry I spoiled our plans today.”
“You didn’t spoil anything.” He looked at you. “My plan was to spend the day with you, I did exactly what I wanted.” He smiled, bringing your hand up to his lips.
You smiled.
“I ordered food from your favorite place.” He added. “Thought we could catch up on that show you’ve been watching?”
“Remind me to marry you when I’m feeling better.” You grinned, pulling him in for a kiss.
“Will do.”
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sugxrslushy · 3 years
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Bubble Bath
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➪ a/n: it’s soft hours baby!! that time of the night I just write dumb soft things that are on my mind before I go to bed. anyways Robin deserves more love and cute little fics written for her. this one can be reader as platonic or not, it works either way. I just like the idea of someone helping you take a bath and it being super cute and soft
➪ includes: Robin (w/ a gn!reader)
➪ warnings: bruises, also very poorly proofread
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“Ow.” You mumble as you rub at your achy muscles, you should've known better than to push yourself today. Yet you couldn't help it, the competitiveness rooted deep inside you made it hard to hold back in front of your crewmates. Now you were covered with dark black and blue bruises and felt like you'd fallen down a flight of stairs. Dragging yourself off to the bath was a task on its own, but actually washing yourself up seemed impossible at this point.
You groaned in pain, giving the second attempt to pull your shirt over your head with little to no avail. Your arms felt like they weighed a thousand pounds, and your shoulders cried out in exhausted pain each time you moved them. You slumped onto the edge of the bath and buried your head in your hands, giving yourself a second to rest before your umpteenth attempt. This sucked.
“Y/n? Is everything alright?” Someone chimes in from the door, the voice soft and velvety smooth. You almost slip off the porcelain edge of the tub. Your eyes snapped up to see who it was yet they still stood behind the door, allowing you to keep your privacy. But you knew who it was, the beautiful archaeologist of your crew: Nico Robin. Always so observant, she must've heard you acting like you were at death's door dealing with your body crying out in pain and decided to come make sure you were okay. This was rather embarrassing.
“I just can't do anything, my body hurts from today ugh. I can barely get my shirt off.” You complain, not expecting much from it but she asked what was wrong and you needed a reason to complain about it. She remained behind the door, her tan hand just carefully holding the door as she stayed quiet.
“If you'd like, I can help you. Only if you're comfortable.” She hums after a drawn out silence. Your whole body seemed to heat up in embarrassment upon hearing her offer, god you were barely any better than Sanji. You were completely flustered just over her offer and although your brain told you to decline, your tired body was too busy crying about how you can't do anything but sit here.
“That'd be helpful if you don't mind.”
The door creaks open and she steps in, she smiles comfortingly at you and you feel a bit more at ease. “Of course.” She hums and walks over to the bathtub, turning the handle so that water would spill from the spout then turns towards you. There's a slight hesitation, she moves a bit slower as she steps closer into your boundaries. Taking the hem of your shirt into her hand, she pauses quickly. “May I?” You nod and she helps pull the shirt over your head, careful not to accidentally bump any of the angry bruises on your body then neatly folding your shirt once it's off, placing it in a chair by the tub. You manage to kick off your own pants and slip into the tub before she comes back over.
The water is perfectly warm, and she had added some of Nami’s special bubble bath soap when you weren't looking. Your eyes widen, this was Nami’s, and you shout her a panicked glance. Robin just presses her index finger against her lips in a signal to stay quiet about it. Kneeling besides the tub, she rolls up her sleeves and takes one of the hair shampoos left off to the side. “Those bruises look awful, no wonder why you couldn't do anything. You should ask Chopper if he has anything that can help.”
“I don't think they'll kill me so it's okay, just might have to suffer with them for a few days.” You laugh and melt into the warm water. Her soapy hands hold onto your arm, brushing her fingers over one of the large bruises along your arm, careful enough to not hurt you. It's such a soft moment, just her checking over your injuries. You can see it in her face that she’ll have no problem sending you to the reindeer doctor if she thinks it's bad. But she disregards it, beckoning you closer to begin washing your hair.
She lathers the soap up, massaging it in and creating more sudsy bubbles that fall into the clear water of the bath. Little splashes of water wet her clothes but she doesn't seem to mind, already used to it from the times she's spent washing up Chopper. She's careful to prevent soap from getting in your eyes, her hand pressed against your forehead and shielding your eyes as she rubs in the shampoo.
Brushing away the suds that got on your face, she turns to gather some water up in her cupped hands and pour it over your head, once again careful to not get it in your eyes. Your eyes flutter closed, it just felt so nice to have someone else taking care of you. Especially being so gentle with you, every touch is loving as she combs your hair out with her fingers or wipes water from your eyes with a soft and fluffy towel. The shampoo she's using smells so good, the same type she uses as you recognize it from the smell of lavender when you'd hug her close to yourself.
More soap is applied and she washes up your upper body, small asks before she touched anywhere you might be uncomfortable with. You crack an eye open and lean against the wall of the tub, the material cold against your skin and making goosebumps pop up on your arms. “Couldn't you have used your devil fruit to get this done faster?” You ask as you watched little water droplets fall from your fingers onto the tile floor, gathering up in a small puddle you'll have to clean up afterwards. “Not that I don't like this.” You chuckle and look over at her with a dopey grin.
“I could but I'd rather this, it's much nicer. We’re in no rush to get anything done. Unless you're hungry?” You shake your head no and she laughs lightly. “Then we’re in no rush.” You slip back under the water and she follows, her hands dipping under the water to test the temperature then going back to helping you finish cleaning up. There's no rush as the two of you take your time, chatting and laughing with each other till the water runs cold and she pulls out the plug. It all seeps down the drain, a little underwater tornado appearing till the rest of the water drains. She places the fluffy towel over your shoulder and helps you step out onto the cool tiled floor.
“I have some pajamas you can wear, they're soft and won't bother your bruises.” She offers and you nod, leaning against her chest as she dries your hair with a spare towel.
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littlestarofthewest · 4 years
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I'm glad you opened requests again! Your writing is 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻I've been thirsty af for a fic where M!Reader and Arthur are fucking and Arthur manages to make the reader cum without even touching his dick, just pure prostate stimulation (preferably with his dick but fingers are good too). Obviously no pressure to actually write it tho!
Thank you for turning this into a tip request. It was a pleasure to write 😄
In The Deep
Pairing: Arthur x m!reader | Words: 2630 | Rating: Explicit (18+)
You sink deeper into the water, feeling like you're floating on clouds. Since you're used to washing in cold streams or lakes, a hot bath is easily the highlight of your month. That, and your company.
Arthur comes over and puts a towel down on the chair next to the tub. "Let me guess, you'll never come out of there."
"If you keep bringing me hot water when it runs cold."
"Oh no," Arthur says, laughing, "that was a one time deal because you looked miserable. I ain't your maid."
Arthur says so, but you're still wondering why he drew you a bath in the first place. You came here to rob a stagecoach or a train, but Arthur found this homestead instead. It belongs to a wealthy family that likes to stay in the city over the winter.
You could have just robbed it and moved on, but it's well off the grid, and you've been on the road for days. Arthur said you should take the opportunity to relax a little, and now that you're soaking in the water, you have to thank him.
"Sure you don't want in on this?" you say, feeling a little guilty that Arthur went to all this trouble for you.
"Maybe tomorrow; I'm good for now."
Arthur's leaning back on the chair, lighting a cigarette, and you can't help but watch him. You've been doing that ever since you joined the gang. There's just something about Arthur that draws you in.
You've seen him beat and kill people, knowing full well that he's by definition not a good man, and although you're usually suspicious about pretty much everybody, you trusted him from the start. Not that he ever tried to get you there. In fact, you've rarely seen someone who tried so hard not to be loved. You fell for him anyway. 
It all started with little things like a lingering touch while passing a gun or Arthur always picking you to bring along on hunts and jobs. That led to whispered conversations while stalking your prey and sharing a tent during cold nights.
You remember the day at the lake like it was yesterday. Arthur helped you bring in this ridiculously big fish, both of you overjoyed. You've rarely seen Arthur this light-hearted before and couldn't help but kiss him. You sat with him by the fire deep into the night before you cuddled up for warmth. And then…
"What are you thinking about?" Arthur asks, leaning over to look into the tub.
The mere memory of being with Arthur gave you a sizable boner, and you take a deep breath. "You told me to relax, remember?"
"That I did," Arthur says, putting out his cigarette.
He comes over and puts his hands on your shoulders, running them up and in your hair. Then he gets some soap and takes his time to wash you from head to toe. You wish you could tell him to stop, but you've never been pampered like this before. You only get out of the tub when the water finally runs cold, and Arthur helps to get you dry.
"Sure you're not my maid?" you tease.
Arthur only rolls his eyes before putting a quick kiss on your lips. "Come on, you haven't seen the best part."
He leads you into the next room, and you can't quite believe your eyes. The bed is enormous compared to what you're used to, with more pillows and blankets than anybody could ever need.
"Some people live like this all the time," you say with wonder.
"And today, we do as well," Arthur says with a shrug. "Help me out of these clothes."
You're all too happy about that command and open the buttons on Arthur's shirt. He peels himself out of it while you move on to his pants and then the union suit. There aren't many things that you like as much as undressing Arthur. 
Somehow you feel closer then, being the one trusted enough to see Arthur vulnerable. As much as you love him with hat, spurs, and guns, just Arthur is everything to you. 
He's still very much in control, but out of choice rather than appearing so in front of others. You learned early on that Arthur is anything but a dumb brute who only knows force.
The second Arthur's naked, he draws you in for a kiss, but before you can cling to him like a second skin, he leads you to the bed.
"Let's get you in there," he says, and you crawl on top of the sheets.
"Jesus, that's soft," you say, making Arthur chuckle.
He comes after you and moves you around, so you lie flat on the bed. You stretch out your arms and legs, enjoying the space and how you sink a little into the fresh bedding under you.
Arthur crawls over you, kissing you. All of this seems too good to be true, making you think about the alternative. You could be fleeing from the law right now or sit in jail after a robbery gone wrong. 
"Arthur?" you ask, a sudden thought creeping up on you.
"Hm?" Arthur hums while he nibbles on your neck.
"There was no train or stagecoach, was there?"
Arthur answers by kissing along your collarbone and down to your chest. It gets harder to concentrate, but you want to get to the bottom of this.
Did you know about this place before we got here?"
"Maybe," Arthur says, peppering your stomach with kisses.
"Why did you bring me here?" you ask, and finally Arthur looks at you, a grin on his face.
"Pretty sure you know."
Heat rushes to your ears before a shiver runs down your spine. You always enjoy being with Arthur, but it means so much more that he planned this.
"What's Dutch going to do to us when he finds out that we didn't rob anything?" you ask.
"Don't worry about that," Arthur says. He moves back up along your body, placing soft kisses here and there until his face is hovering over yours. "Worry about what I'm going to do to you."
Arthur looks serious, and although you know that he'll never push you farther than you can handle, your heart pumps faster. You lift your head, coaxing Arthur into kissing you. It's soft and slow at first, but you can feel Arthur between your legs, so you roll your hips, rutting against him.
"Something you want?" Arthur asks, and you answer by pressing yourself against him.
"Pretty sure you know," you say, making Arthur grin.
He gives you a quick kiss before diving to the end of the bed, and when he comes back, he's holding a small bottle. "Let's get you nice and ready for me."
A tingling feeling takes hold of your whole body, and you wonder if you'll ever be with Arthur without it happening. For now, you let it wash over you and spread your legs, showing Arthur that you're more than willing to get ready.
Arthur takes his time, using a lot of oil that he rubs around your hole before carefully pushing his finger in. You'd be okay with him being more forward, but Arthur seems to be in a certain mood today. 
After taking care of you in the bath, he goes deliberately slow now, pushing his finger in in slow motion, always giving you time to adjust. By the time he actually moves his finger in and out, you're ready to beg for more.
"How does this feel?" Arthur asks, and you sigh.
"Great."
"Good," Arthur says, moving his finger again, and for a moment, it feels weird, like he's looking for something.
A jolt runs through your body when Arthur hits a particular spot, and you suck in the air through your teeth. Arthur puts his other hand on your stomach, rubbing in a circle. "Just relax."
"I'm trying," you say, but the sensation is strange. "It feels like I have to pee."
"That's normal, don't worry about it."
"Normal?" you ask, realizing that Arthur planned this as well. "What are you up to?"
"You trust me, right?" Arthur asks, his voice serious.
"Of course."
"Then let me take care of you. Just breathe and relax. I promise you'll enjoy it," Arthur says, before adding with a chuckle, "you're not going to pee. Don't worry about that."
You take a few shaky breaths before there's a regular rhythm to it again, and like Arthur said, you try your best to unclench your muscles.
The way Arthur strokes this one spot inside of you still feels weird, but when you breathe deeper and begin to trust that you won't pee yourself, the touch becomes more and more pleasurable. 
It's similar to having your dick pumped but also so different. The arousal seems to pool deeper inside of you but still has you standing rock hard. 
"See? You're doing just fine," Arthur says, and his voice makes it even easier for you to just let it happen. 
Arthur moves his other hand now, running it up to your chest and neck, caressing your thighs and teasing your nipples with soft touches that rile you up just enough, so you roll your hips. 
Meanwhile, Arthur doesn't stop stroking you, and you can't help looking down. Your cock is leaking way more than your usual precome, and a jolt of anxiety rushes through you.
Arthur must notice since he catches your eye and stops his movements for a moment. "Hey, look at me. It's alright, that's normal, too."
"Sorry," you say, reminding yourself that Arthur would never hurt you.
"Don't worry," Arthur says, going back to teasing you, "you're alright."
He leans in to pepper you with soft kisses wherever he can reach but leaving out your dick. Instead, he keeps up the pressure inside of you.
Once you stop thinking so much about it and focus on Arthur's touches instead, your whole body seems to grow warm from the inside, with your cock twitching in excitement. You roll your hips, your body sinking in the bedding as if you want to melt, and your breathing grows even slower. 
"Now, that's a good boy," Arthur says, his voice like a gentle caress. "You're doing so good."
Just listening to him always adds to your pleasure, and as you welcome the way he teases you more and more, your arousal grows. You're warm and relaxed, but your dick begs to be touched, and you can't hold in quiet moans when Arthur's finger hits you just right. 
"I need more," you say while Arthur touches every inch of your body except your dick.
"More?" Arthur asks, and you know that he wants you to actually spell it out.
"I want you inside of me."
Arthur gets the oil again, using more on you and his cock before crawling over you. You can't hide your excitement, but again, Arthur doesn't quite give you what you want.
He teases you with the tip of his cock, rubbing with enough pressure to drive you crazy but never pushing in. 
"Please, Arthur," you whine, "I need it so bad."
"Tell me," Arthur says, his voice deep and unyielding. 
"I want you to fill me up and make me lose my mind. I'll do anything. Please."
Finally, Arthur pushes into you, but just like he did with his finger, he stretches you open with his cock as slowly as he possibly can, even holding still once in a while.
The treatment makes you grab the sheets under you, and you buck your hips. "God, I beg you, Arthur. Please, please more."
"Someone's needy," Arthur chuckles, and you run your fingers over his chest, your nails digging into the skin.
"Please," you say again, the word coming from deep within, and Arthur must hear it in your voice.
He pushes as deep as he can go, filling you up. You sigh, a little bit of the build-up pressure leaving your body. Then Arthur kisses you again, his body lined up so perfectly with yours that you feel completely at ease. Arthur's weight on you, his scent, his lips on yours, it's home for you now.
Arthur rolls his hips, hot and heavy inside of you, and with his body trapping your dick between the two of you, you're right back to being on edge. You'd be happy to keep going like this, now that you're on familiar ground, but Arthur has other plans.
After a long kiss, he gets in a kneeling position, lifting your legs up over his shoulders. You're about to ask why but Arthur pushes into you, hitting that spot again.
"Jesus Christ," you moan, your body tensing up for a moment from the surprise.
"Relax," Arthur says, running his warm hand over your stomach. "That's all you have to do. I'll do the rest."
You take a deep breath, and like you did before, you lean into the feeling. Arthur's movements are slow and deliberate, quickly building up that hot sensation you noticed before.
When you close your eyes, Arthur pets your thigh. "That's good. Open up for me."
You're torn between looking at him and just focusing on yourself, but soon it becomes quite hard to miss what's going on. It's like Arthur is setting fire to your lower body. 
Looking at him as he holds on to your hips to thrust into you makes matters even worse. Your dick twitches like crazy, still untouched, and you're not sure how much longer you can take this.
"Arthur, please," you groan, having a hard time even catching your breath, "I need more."
"You're doing so good; just give it time."
You don't have a chance to argue, not with the way Arthur changes his rhythm. You can feel him deep inside of you, adding to the heat, and his voice becomes constant torture.
"God, I love watching you like this," Arthur says. "You're doing so good for me."
Listening to him makes you melt, and when Arthur thrusts into you with shorter bursts, something inside of you suddenly gives. It feels like a volcano erupts behind your cock, hot lava making its way up and down your body, sending heatwaves to the tips of your hair. 
"Arthur," you gasp, and he smiles.
"You're such a good boy. Let it happen. Come for me."
Every push of him drives you almost insane, your thighs shaking, and every muscle cramping in your body. Your cock pulses between your legs, and you stare in surprise at your own dick as you shoot your come onto your belly.
The relief that follows lingers just like your orgasm did, in a way that you've never experienced before. You close your eyes and just breathe, trying to burn that feeling into your memory.
Arthur slips out and lies down next to you, kissing your cheek. "You alright?"
You sigh before you turn to him to steal another kiss. "What the hell have you done to me?"
Arthur chuckles. "Why?"
"It never felt like this before," you say, caressing his chest with your fingertips. "You have to do that again."
"I think you're better off with a break," Arthur says with a smile.
You run your hand further down before you follow the same line with your lips. "You're right; let's take care of you first."
Unlike Arthur, you don't play it slowly but suck his cock into your mouth, eager to pay him back.
"Jesus Christ," Arthur curses, holding on to the sheets like you did. "Fine, you're a good boy. I'll do it again, I promise."
You hum around his cock, happy to apply what you already know, and you can't wait for Arthur to teach you more.
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luv-eddiediaz · 3 years
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Oh god. No. Not here. Not now. Not with these people. Eddie can't breathe, but he can't let them know he can't breathe. He loosens his tie just a little bit - the one Ana went back for after Eddie was discharged from the hospital.  His nervous laughter is really a way to suck some oxygen back into his lungs, and when a heavy hand touches his elbow, and the smile on its owner’s face distorts. He's going to pass out if he doesn't move, doesn't flee from this spiraling, spinning disaster.
"Could you, uh, could you excuse me?" He asks and plasters on his best charming smile, hoping his voice isn't as high and squeaky as he thinks it is. 
He catches Ana's eye from across the room as he moves through what feels like a sea of strangers. She's worried, but Eddie doesn't stop to explain anything and continues his way to the bathroom, where he locks himself inside and lets himself fall apart the way his body was begging to. 
His fingers curl tight the porcelain of the sink, and he tries, tries to slow his breathing. Finally, he tells himself to stop it in the mirror, even smacks himself across the cheek, but nothing changes. 
There's a soft knock on the door, and Ana's gentle voice comes through the cracks, "Eddie? Are you okay?"
"Fine," he grits out.
"Are you having another attack?"
"I said I'm fine!" his anger and frustration echo too loud against the tile of the bathroom. , get a grip, Diaz. "Can you just get Chris some cake? I'll be right out." 
Ana's fading footsteps are the only answer he gets, and Eddie focuses back on himself. He tries to remember what the pamphlet from the hospital said, or rather, what Buck said it says the night he found it buried on Eddie's counter and read it to him, but his brain is just a white-hot sear of nothing. Eddie pulls out his phone and dials Buck - no time to look for his name in the phone book. He doesn't answer, and Eddie nearly throws the phone into the sink.
"Damn!"
But it's Sunday, and Buck said something about Taylor coming over on Sunday, so, of course, he isn't answering. Eddie thinks for a second, in desperation, he'll call Bobby, but then his phone vibrates, and he sees Buck's smile fill the screen. He rubs his thumb over it before swiping to answer. 
"Buck?" He answers.
"Hey, you called?" Buck asks on the other end of the line, slightly fuzzy, but Eddie can hear the smile in his voice, and the vice around his heart loosens just a little bit.
"Buck?" He asks again as if he can't process anything else. 
"Uh, yea. Are you okay?" 
"No. Panic attack."
"But aren't you at that christening?"
"Yes."
"Shit."
"Buck, help.” He hates how desperate he must sound, but Buck’s already seen him at his most desperate, trying to hold onto his life and knowing, instinctively, that Buck would help him. He would save him.
Buck always saves him. 
" What have you tried?" Buck asks.
"Not much. Nothing. I just, I called you.”
"That’s good. Where are you?"
"Bathroom."
"You need to focus on something besides the panic. So, find me four things you see, Eddie. Try to be specific."
"Okay,” Eddie looks around the bathroom. He sees a million times too many things, and it takes him a second to focus in on something, “Uh, a pink shower curtain,” like your pink sweater that you say is salmon, but Buck, it’s pink. “white rugs,” dazzling white like your teeth when you smile, and that patch of skin that sometimes peeks through under your waistband. “a bristly hairbrush,” god, you’re hair is always so perfect, “and, and curtains on the window. They’re sheer; pink too,” just like that sweater.
"Good,” Buck soothes, “now, three things you can smell."
"Umm, vanilla soap,” sometimes you smell like vanilla, and sugar - like an ice cream cone on a hot summer day, “cinnamon toothpaste,” like in your bathroom, crumpled up in the corner, “my cologne,” you bought me this bottle for Christmas.
"That’s good, Eddie. Two things you can hear." 
"I hear people - outside the door."
"Not them,” Buck tells him, “Two other things. Ignore that sound."
"I hear - I hear crickets outside the open window, and I hear...you. Your voice in my ear, your breath,” I always hear you, even when I don’t want to.
"One thing you can touch," Buck says quietly, and Eddie takes a shaking breath, presses his hand over his chest.
"My heartbeat."
"Is it slower than before?"
"Yes."
"Good. Do you think you're okay?"
“Yea. I um, I’m probably just going to go home, sleep it off.”
“Good idea.”
“Thank you, Buck.”
“Of course.” 
Eddie hangs up and slips his phone back into his pocket. He isn’t panicking anymore, but he doesn’t feel great. He splashes his face with water and tries to smooth down all the places he’s rumpled before he opens the bathroom door and finds Ana on the other side, Christopher sitting next to her on the floor with a plate of cake in his lap.
“Are you okay?” she asks, putting a hand to his cheek, and it burns where there was just cold air against the drying water.
Eddie nods, “I’m okay. But I think I’m probably gonna go. In case it happens again.”
“Let me get my purse.”
“No, you stay. It’s your family. Just tell them I got sick.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yea,” he leans down and kisses her cheek before helping Chris up. 
Neither says much to the other in the car, but Eddie chuckles when Chris rips his suit jacket off the moment the door is closed. He sees the silhouette on the front steps against the fading sun before he gets the truck parked and shakes his head at the realization it’s Buck. 
"What are you doing here?" he asks when Buck jogs up to him.
"I didn't want you to be alone when you got home,” Buck answers quietly and then turns his attention to Christopher once the back door is open, and he’s climbing out, “Hey, buddy, did you have a good time? You look pretty handsome in that suit."
Chris rolls his eyes, "that's what everyone kept telling me. But then they said I would have looked better if I cut my hair.
“Well, you know what? I like this long, floppy look,” Buck ruffles his hand through Chris’s hair. It had definitely gotten long, and maybe a little out of control, but he didn’t want to cut it, and Eddie only remembered being dragged to the barbershop every five weeks to have his hair clipped, no matter how much he begged to keep it just a little bit longer. 
Chris smiles, “thanks, Buck.”
“Do you think you could give me a minute with your dad?” Buck asks when they all get inside the house. Eddie flips on the lamp by the door, and Christopher nods and leaves for his room, closing the door behind him.
“I’m fine, Buck,” Eddie says, walking further into the house, turning on lights as he goes. 
“Okay, but do you wanna talk about what happened?”
“No.”
“Was it too many people?” 
Eddie huffs out a laugh, “I’m half Mexican, Buck; I grew up going to huge parties, family and friends always over on the weekend. That wasn’t it.”
“What was it, then?”
“Why does it matter?” he doesn’t mean to sound as exasperated as he does, but sometimes Buck just brings it out of him. 
“Because if you can figure out what’s triggering you, you can figure out how to control the panic better.”
“I don’t panic.”
“You didn’t, but now you are. So let’s try and figure out why.”
Eddie sighs, “can I have a beer while we do it, at least?”
“If I get one too.”
They go into the kitchen, and Eddie takes two beers from the fridge and cracks one open before handing it to Buck. He watches him take a long, slow sip. Eddie’s hands start to shake around the glass, and he forces himself to look away, down at the shine of his shoes to keep whatever is trying to rise pushed down.
“Was there like some kind of a loud noise?” Buck asks. 
“No. It isn’t - loud noises have never bothered me.”
“Things have changed a little bit, though.”
“I don’t think they have anything to do with being shot. I know no one wants to believe me, but I’m fine about that.”
“Maybe no one wants to believe you because you were shot. That doesn’t happen to most people even once, and it’s happened to you twice.”
“I know, but I swear to you, I’m okay. I don’t think that’ what this about.”
“If you say so. Let’s recount the night then. What happened right before it started?”
“Ana’s great aunt, she - she said I was perfect for Ana -  a good addition to their family.”
Buck takes another swig from the bottle; his eyebrows are knitted in thought. If Chim or Hen were there, they’d make a joke about him not straining himself, and they’d only be kidding, but Eddie knows Buck has a lot of thoughts, a lot of good, deep ones, that maybe Eddie is the only one to have ever heard, “And didn’t you say the first time was after the salesman referred to Ana as Chris’s mom?”
“Yea,” Eddie says quietly.
“Do you think maybe you’re just having a hard time with how serious your relationship is getting?”
“It’s not getting that serious.”
“Eddie, she introduced you to like all her family, you went to an important family event, her great-aunt thinks your excellent husband material.”
Eddie’s breath catches in his throat, and he coughs, trying to force it out, but it sits there like a bubble trying to choke him, and the kitchen starts to spin, turquoise spiraling into stainless steel, spiraling into Buck. 
“Stop, stop saying things like that,” he sputters out.
“You’re starting to panic again, aren’t you?” Buck asks.
“When the hell did it get so serious? I was just - I don’t know what I was doing. I liked her, but I didn’t mean-”
Eddie backs against the counter next to the sink, he tries to loosen his tie, but he can’t make his fingers work. Then Buck crosses the space between them and replaces Eddie’s hand with his own, pulling down on the knot and unbuttoning Eddie’s collar. “Breathe; breathe,” he whispers to him and puts his hands on Eddie’s shoulders, and he’s so close Eddie has no choice but to look at him. He feels his hand in Buck’s, slowly pressing against the other man’s chest.
“Breathe with it,” Buck says of his heartbeat, and Eddie closes his eyes. It takes a few moments, but soon his breath is in sync with Buck’s heartbeat, and he’s not sure he’s ever felt this kind of calm before.
“Okay?” Buck asks. 
“No, but yes.”
“I’m gonna ask you something, and I need you to be honest - not for me, but for yourself.”
“O-okay.”
“Do you want Ana to be in your future? Your far future?”
“No,” he answers quickly, but it’s a question he’s asked himself before and was just too afraid to say out loud,  “but -”
“But what? Chris likes her?”
“Yes!” Eddie shouts.
“Maybe he does, maybe he even loves her a little, but he loves you more, and he wants you to be happy, and he knows you aren’t happy, and he probably knows it’s because of her.”
“He does?”
“Yes,” Buck takes Eddie’s hand away from his heart, but he doesn’t let go of it,  “your heart knows it too, and it’s screaming at you, Eddie, but you aren’t listening.”
“I wanted to be ready, to move on from Shannon, not just after she died, but long before that too.”
“I know.”
“Am I never going to be ready?” He can feel the wet of his eyes as he blinks up at Buck, vulnerable once again in front of him.
“I think you are, but not with Ana, and that’s okay. I mean, she’s the first person you seriously dated besides your wife, Eds. So it’s okay that she isn’t the right fit, and it’s okay if it takes you a little while longer to find who is.”
“Is Taylor your right fit?” Eddie blurts out, and it makes Buck let go of his hand.
“Whoah, we’re talking about you here.”
“Is she? It’s been four months, and you’re still together; she’s still actually here.”
“Yea, she hasn’t run away from me yet, and ya know, we have a good time.”
“She makes you happy?”
“Y-yea. I mean, am I ready to ask her to marry me? No, but I gave her a drawer last week.”
“A drawer?”
“Yea. She’s only got a few things in it; honestly, she lives more in the news van than anything.”
“You gave Taylor a drawer. In your loft?”
“Am I mumbling or something? A drawer, yes. In my loft.”
“That’s uh - that’s cool.” But, damnit, Eddie can’t do this for the third time. He doesn’t have the strength left. He grips the dishtowel hanging from the knife drawer just to ground himself to something.
“You okay?”
“Yep, yep.”
“You’re looking a little panicky. Maybe it’s not just Ana. Maybe you’ve just got a real fear of commitment thing going on. Even if it’s mine.”
“Shit,” his chest hurts this time, and his whole body is hot, but he’s shivering.
“Put your hand back on my heart.”
“No, no! God, that’s going to make this worse.”
“What? Why? It worked last time.”
“Exactly. And in the bathroom, it was you, so much you,” Eddie’s knees are weak now. He isn’t sure how much longer he can stay upright, and suddenly everything, fucking everything, smells like Buck.
“Eddie, you’re not making any sense.”
“I need you to go. Can you go, please?”
“I’m not going to leave you like this.”
And, of course, Eddie knows Buck won’t leave him. Buck will do just about anything Eddie asks, but he won’t do this. He won’t leave Eddie when Eddie needs him so badly. 
“Buck, please, you’re making things worse.”
“How am I making things worse?”
“Because you’re the only one who can make them better!”
“Eddie, Eddie.” Buck wraps Eddie up in his arms before he can fall to the floor, probably hitting his head on the way down. The instant calm he feels with Buck’s body pressed hard against his, his soft breath hitting the curve of Eddie’s neck terrifies him. It isn’t a new fear, but it’s one he’s been feeling so much more lately, one he can’t seem to ignore. He’s so tired from his body trying to run away from everything; his bones ache, his chest is sore. Finally, he closes his eyes and gives in to the fear, stops trying to fight or flee, and just lets Buck hold onto him. His fingers rake through Eddie’s sweat-slicked hair as Eddie’s breathing starts to slow.
“Shh, it’s okay,” Buck whispers into Eddie’s throbbing temple.
“It’s not okay at all.”
“Why not?”
“Because I’m in love with you,” he rushes out in one broken breath, “it isn’t just that Ana feels wrong; it’s that you feel right. You’ve always felt right.”
Buck is quiet for what feels like a hundred moments before he finally seems to have something to say.
“Huh,” he breathes out from the back of his throat.
“That’s all you have to say?”
“What would you like me to say?”
“I don’t know. You could say that I’m insane, that you love Taylor, that you’re not into men, not into me.”
“I could say any of that, but then I’d be lying to you.”
“What?”
“Look, Eddie, I-I don’t know if I’m in love with you, but I feel something. Something more than I’ve ever felt with anyone, and I kinda keep thinking it’s going to go away, but it never goes away.”
“Huh.”
Buck laughs and gently sits Eddie up, tangled across Buck’s long legs, still safe in his arms, “are you okay?” he asks.
“I think I am.”
“Good.”
Buck presses a kiss to the tip of Eddie’s nose, and Eddie smiles before he tilts his chin, so Buck’s lips fall against his. It’s a slow, quiet kiss that lasts only a few seconds before they both pull away. 
Eddie is so tired he can barely keep his eyes open, so he lets them slip closed, lets Buck hold him closer in the middle of the kitchen floor until he falls asleep. 
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ethanesimp · 3 years
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SWEETHEART // D.D. - INTERACTIVE (OPTION B)
Pairing: Damiano David x Fem! Reader
Word Count (Option B): 1k
Summary: What started as an afternoot out shopping turns chaotic after it starts raining.
Warnings: Fluff, smut written by a minor, swearing, unprotected sex (pls use protection <3) In case you randomly found this and are like “wtf? this makes no sense, click HERE to go and read from the beginning so it actually makes sense.
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You stayed in a comfortable silence as you both undressed and got into the warm water. Your back was against Damiano’s chest as he washed your hair with that vanilla scented shampoo he was obsessed with. He'd take water with his hands and rinse your hair as he hummed softly.
After you handed him the soap, he began to rub it up and down your arms slowly as goosebumps involuntarily formed on your skin at the feeling. Damiano moved your hair out of the way and started kissing your neck.
Your hand grasped his hair softly as he started nipping and sucking on your sweet spot. You let out a breathy moan and closed your eyes, moving to give him more access to your neck. Damiano dropped the soap as his hand slowly trailed down your thigh. He parted your legs open while you turned around and crashed your lips to his in a passionate and needy kiss. All you felt was lust and a desperate need for more as his hand kept evading the place where you needed him the most.
You pulled away, "Please touch me, Damià. I need more," You whispered. He chuckled and gave you nothing more than a teasing smile as his hands moved up and down your inner thighs. You couldn’t help but whine as he completely ignored your request and kept on teasing you while nipping at the exposed skin of your neck. Then, out of nowhere, his hand started to gently massage your clit as his other hand cupped your breast and he teased your nipple with his fingers. Your head fell on his shoulder as more sounds of pure pleasure fell from your lips.
It all felt so comforting, with the hot water warming up your body and the soft bubbles that had formed at the top from the soap and shampoo. Not to mention the soft scent of the candles he’d lit while he waited for the water to heat up. The feeling of his calloused hands massaging your breasts and clit only helped to make you feel more relaxed.
He inserted two of his fingers into your heat and moved them slowly in and out of you as he got back to sucking and biting your neck, leaving a few hickeys behind.
You could feel his hard-on pressed against you as he kept fingering you, eliciting even more sounds from you, "This okay?"
"More than okay, please don't stop," you begged as he sped up his pace and added a third finger. With his other hand, he circled your clit with his thumb when he felt you clench around his fingers, "I'm gonna cum," You whimpered and he sped up his actions.
You were slipping into an absolute feeling of bliss at his touch. The mere ease with which he slowly moved his fingers in and out of you… It made you want to curse from all the pleasure in more languages than you even knew how to speak. You wished he would never halt his actions because you had no clue what you’d do if he did. Especially now that you were so close to coming undone all over his fingers.
"Fu-fuck," You pantedas you came. He kept  massaging your clit softly for a few seconds before you turned around so you were straddling him.
You pumped his length with your hand a few times before sinking down on him completely. It took you a few seconds to get used to his sides and he moaned at the feeling of your walls  clenching around him as you moved slowly, "Feels so good babygirl," Damiano mumbled as he placed a kiss on your shoulder.
You cupped his face with your hands and leaned in to kiss his inviting lips. Damiano could taste the cherry lip balm you had been wearing when he swiped his tongue through your bottom lip, asking for access. He grabbed you by the hips as you started moving up and down his length. You moaned and he took it as his chance to slide his tongue into your mouth. Oh, if only you could freeze time right then and there to always feel the satisfaction his lips brought you.
The kiss was desperate and heated, with teeth clashing and noses bumping constantly. He moaned into your mouth when your walls clenched around him, "I love you," he mumbled against your lips.
"Fuck, I love you too," Your movement became slower and sloppier as you got closer to coming for the second time that afternoon. As you softly rocked back and forth on his lap, you heard even more water splash out of the tub. It sent you into a fit of giggles, "We're making a huge mess... and you bet your ass I'm not cleaning," You said out of breath. 
Damiano rolled his eyes and shook his head, "Don't ruin the moment by making me think of cleaning, that’s literally the last thing in my mind right now.” 
He left a few more kisses on your neck and one on your temple before whispering, “Now, why don’t you stop worrying about cleaning and keep going, amore?”
You nodded and kept on lazily rocking your hips back and forth. You clenched around him as you came and that was enough to make him come along with you, "Oh my God," Damiano let his head fall back as he sighed in pleasure.
You got off him after you both came down from your high. His brown eyes looked at you in adoration as you spoke, "So much for taking a bath, huh?"
He stepped out of the bath after the water became too cold. Even when the water had cooled down considerably, there were still a few beads of sweat falling down his forehead, which he wiped with his towel. 
With a large smile on your face you said, “Even the cold water can’t seem to make you any less hot,” Damiano threw his head back as a loud laugh fell from his lips. He helped you out of the bathtub then wrapped a towel around his waist and another one around your body, "I love you."
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dabiboy · 4 years
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Hawks taking a shower and reader enters to "help" him... 😏 you get the idea ~
Just finish this one! Hope you like it 😳😳
[Warnings: NSFW, minors please keep scrolling.] 
Author’s note: I recommend listen to Bones by PSM
Shower Time
The day had been long, stressful and getting home was the best relief Hawks could ask for. The only sad thing, was that the apartment was empty and you were not around to be seen. After charging his phone, he saw the six messages you had sent earlier. A mission got in your way, and as a hero you couldn't let that one pass. He could breathe just when you texted back, saying that everything went well and that you were heading home after finishing some paperwork with the police. Keigo smiled at the phone, and left it on the nightstand before stripping off his clothes.
Warm water was now running down his naked body, releasing the tension that his muscles gathered during the day, getting rid of the mud and the sweat, of the dry blood and the stress. He threw his head back, letting the water wash away the entire day, even the way he cracked his neck felt extremely good at that point. He ran his hands through his hair, slowly down to his neck, continuing to his chest and abdomen. Keigo's eyes were closed, and the sound of water filling his ears kept him away from the outside world. He was always paying attention to his surroundings, always feeling what his wings had to say, and it was good to forget about all of that at least for a while. He was so immersed in himself he didn't even hear the door opening.
You walked in, not even calling his name because the sound of the shower replied for him. You made your way to your shared room, and despite being tired as hell when you saw his hero suit laying on the bed a million thoughts ran inside your head. You've been with Keigo long enough, but it was always exciting thinking about him, the image of his naked body covered in water made your body shiver, and you could even feel the heat taking over. Your hero suit joined him on the bed, and you walked towards the bathroom completely naked, not an ounce of shame.
The door was opened slowly, not wanting him to notice you were already there. The big glass was covered in steam, and even in that way it was possible to admire his naked frame, beautiful as always. You watched him for brief seconds, loving the way he ran his hands through his hair, or how he applied some pressure on the sides of his neck to relieve tension.
Your lower lip was trapped between your teeth, and without wasting any more seconds you slowly slipped into the shower. His wings looked majestic, shining thanks to the water, relaxed and it seemed they were not paying attention to what was happening.
You got in between his wings, arms getting under his armpits so your hands could rest on Hawks' chest, it was warm, firm, always welcoming. Keigo smiled, his head turning slightly so he could take a look at you.
''If I were a villain you'd be dead by now'' You teased, kissing the center of his back.
''I had a feeling it was you'' He stated, his hand getting over you so he could held it and press a kiss on it ''Missed you today''
''You never lose huh'' A laugh left your lips ''Same, I couldn't wait to get back to you''
Your voice came out in a whisper as you started kissing his back, electricity was taking over him, since the subtle way your body was touching his wings felt amazing. Slowly and even teasingly, your hands traveled down his body, feeling his abs under your palms, the light hairs that adorned his happy trail, his v-line and his thighs. Honestly it felt way too surreal to be the only one who could have him that way, all for you.
Keigo's chest rose when he got a deep breath, feeling his blood running fast through his body at every single one of your touches. Usually, he was the one in control, he enjoyed being the one in charge, but he also loved to be pampered and covered in affection, just like you were doing now.
He bit his lips when your hands barely touched his semi hard cock, and a drowned moan left his lips. You decided to repeat those actions, just wanting to tease him a bit.
''Looks you're lacking some soap here'' You used the foam that was already on his torso to keep spreading it, even playing with his nipples for brief seconds before keeping your tour on his body.
After a while you moved your hands away, and daringly your fingers were now playing with his wings, preening them, kissing them, anything. And Hawks was moaning lowly at such actions, his wings were one of the most sensitive parts of his body, and right now he was allowing you the permission of playing with them, feel them. You kiss the spot where his skin met his wings, a delicate place that you knew was dainty. The blonde threw his head back for short seconds, loving every single touch.
Keigo turned around, and a huge and sided smile was coated on his face.
''Baby bird's getting cocky?'' He asked, hands on your waist as he looked down your body. Keigo licked his lips and dug his fingers on your skin.
''Fuck, you're so damn gorgeous'' His lips went to your neck, sucking and kissing the area affectionately.
With ease and expertise, he pulled you closer to him his wet body making you feel a cocktail of emotions in less than one second. His large hands wandered all the way of your back to  your ass, grabbing it with the exact amount of strength as he pulled you closer again, making you feel his now hard cock against your thighs.
''See what you do?'' Keigo whispered in your ear, nibbling the earlobe teasingly at the same time he squeezed your asscheek firmly ''Making me so fucking hard, is that what you wanted huh?'' The way he purred in your ear made you weak to your knees.
''Keigo...'' You almost pleaded. But pleaded for what? To be kissed? Fucked? For him to stop his teasing game? You had no clue.
''Shh, I've got you'' He whispered again ''Hands on the wall, my angel'' His hand held your face so he could rustle over your lips before kissing you shortly.
Obediently, you did as he said. You turned around over your axis, slowly, letting him have a complete view of your naked body. Keigo's eyes were now darker golden, tantalizing your body and everything you caused on him. How the hell on earth could you be so perfect? A hissing sound left his parted lips when your hands were on the wall, and he could feel his heart pounding against his chest at the time you looked at him over your shoulder, sensually, inviting.
''Stick your ass out for me'' You heard him say as he stood right behind you, looking at your actions ''That's it, angel, just like that'' The way he praised you was always embracing.
Truth was, he was not in a teasing mood. At least, not in that very same second. He used his hands to spare your asscheeks a bit, hissing at the perfect view, the view that made him go feral and loving every time. With one free hand he grabbed his cock, and after pumping it a few times he aligned himself with your slick folds, pushing it in slowly.
The way you moaned echoed in the bathroom, and he joined you shortly after. Keigo cursed under his breath as he pulled out and push in again, the slow motions being almost painful. He rested a hand on your hip, while used the other to lift your thigh, wanting to get even deeper.
His movements were not rough and fast as usual, they were slow, tempting, agonizingly delicious. The way he was stretching you out felt heavenly, and you could never get enough of it.
Seconds seemed to be slower, longer. The time moved completely different whenever you and Keigo were together, it was the perfect synchrony, the perfect addiction, the perfect moment.
Large hands were now holding you by the waist as he kept thrusting in and out, his mouth biting your shoulder and moaning right in your ear. Sweet nothings, praises, dirty words. A carnival of sentences that were sending you to the edge faster by the second. Your hands were holding his, as if it was a way of support, but at the same time it was a way of screaming 'don't let me go, never' and he knew it, he was aware of it and he was showing it to you with the most steaming affection.
Just when you were about to feel heaven with your own senses, Keigo stop his motions and pulled out slowly. 'Turn around' you heard him say, and of course you did.
He didn't even give you time to think when his mouth was attached to your right breast, kissing the sensitive bud with no shame. He repeated his actions with the neglected one, and once he had enough his mouth was all over your belly, making its way down to the place where you needing him the most. Keigo grabbed your leg and put it over his shoulder, and his eyes were locked on you. He was dying to see your reactions, every one of them.
He licked your clit one time, then two, and then three. His mouth fell on your wetness in a mouth opened kiss, eating you out as if you were his last and most delightful meal. Your head hit the wall softly, not being caple of keeping your eyes open and look at him, but that's what he wanted. He wanted you to squirm under his touch, under his actions.
But then he did it again. Keigo was sucking on your clit with ease, lapping and sucking it with all the time in the world, and when you were close to reach your high one more time he stopped. And you cursed.
''Keigo, what the-'' He cut you off with a kiss, making you taste yourself on his mouth.
''I want you to look in my eyes when I cum deep,'' He moved to your ear leaving sloppy kisses in your jaw, voice raspy and sensual ''Deep inside you, baby bird'' You could tell he was smiling. ''I want to see the pretty face you make when you cum all over my cock, yeah?'' He sentenced.
He held you by the underside of your thigh once more, sliding inside you so easily you cried out his name as you held tight on his shoulders, fingers slowly playing with the areas of his wings you could reach.
Keigo moaned when you did so, and you felt a fire building up inside you when his starving eyes were locked on yours, so many emotions that you couldn't even describe them.
His thrusts started again, at first slow and painful in a teasing way, but thanks to the way you were looking at him he started to move faster, the lewd sounds of skin against skin, water splashing on your bodies and the bathroom filling the place. Again, time seemed to slow down whenever the intimacy between the two of you was bigger than usual, but you among all of that pleasure you could tell time was moving forwards because his cock twitched inside of you, telling you he was getting close. Same for him, though. Your walls were clamping down on him so deliciously he couldn't feel to get closer and closer every time. Keigo's thrusts became messier, a little bit rough.
The whole time his honey like eyes were on you, and when he frowned his expression you knew he was there. Your nails dug in his skin for brief seconds before moving to his wings, fingers tangled on his feathers. That action made him moan right over your mouth, and thanks to the way you clenched on him, Keigo let go. His expression was so pretty, eyebrows frowned, mouth open and the sweetest souds leaving his mouth as his hot cum was filling you up. He was mesmerized too, all of your facial features sending him to the edge, making his cock twitch inside of you and his heart beating so fast against his chest he thought it could escape at any time.
Keigo's face landed on the crook of your neck as he delicately put your leg on the floor again, you held him close to you, warm water running down the two bodies as he left sloppy kisses on your neck. Both breathings were erratic, but the smiles weren't going to be erased easily.
After some minutes, he gained some distance so he could look at you with a wide and lazy smile.
''Hi'' He laughed
''Hi'' You imitated his actions as your hands were now taking the golden locks away from his forehead ''You look so pretty with wet hair'' You smile, an enamored smile.
''You look pretty all the time'' His smile was enchanted too, and he pressed a kiss on your forehead ''How was your day? I couldn't ask you earlier, since you lady put your hands all over me with no hesitation'' He laughed again.  
''Is not like you didn't like it'' You replied with a lifted eyebrow, leaving a kiss on his chin ''Fine, took down some bad guys and did some paperwork, the usual'' You shrugged your shoulders.
''That's my girl'' Keigo said with a smile, pressing his forehead on yours. ''What if,'' This time he pulled away, hands rubbing your shoulders tenderly ''I wash your hair, and then we make some dinner so then we can cuddle the night away?'' His eyes lighted up, just like his smile
''Best plan ever'' You kissed him one more time before hugging him tightly.  
Could that man be any more perfect? And when his hands started to wash your hair so skillfully, you knew the answer.
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forcefulkitten · 4 years
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the cure
[pakunoda x fem! reader] 
summary: after waking up with a hangover, Pakunoda helps to relieve your suffering.
warnings: 18+, nsfw, oral sex, tribbing
word count: 1,911
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Every time you wake up hungover with a splitting headache, you promise to never drink beyond your limit again. The nausea and stomach pains always linger behind, and all you can do is swallow an aspirin to quell the swollen brain pounding against your skull. Perhaps you deserve this since Pakunoda reminds you to drink plenty fluids and pace yourself but you never listen.
That brings you to this moment, wondering how your body managed to survive the amount of alcohol you consumed last night. You stumble around the house looking for your girlfriend but she’s nowhere to be found. As you approach the fridge and pour yourself a glass of water, you find a note on the counter. “Going to buy necessities. Be back soon.” Bringing the cup to your dry lips, you chug all of the water in one swig. You decide to go take a shower and freshen up. The least you can do is look alive when Paku gets back. Knowing her, she definitely went to grab stuff to ease your hangover. You’d think she’s tired of playing nurse whenever you cause your own downfall, but she’s always too worried about your well-being to complain.
You make your way over to the bathroom, turning the shower water on hotter than you probably should. Before you get in, an urge to vomit hits you. The water you drank in the kitchen must’ve upset your stomach because it came right back up. After puking out all of contents in your stomach, the feeling of nausea dissipates almost immediately after. This leaves you with a headache, foggy mind and an aching body. After brushing your teeth, you step into the shower. Sitting on the floor with your knees to your chest, you let the hot water fall over you. Before long you get up and begin to lather yourself with soap, rinsing off afterwards and getting out. You can’t even be bothered to put on clothes, instead going straight to your bed after drying yourself off.
The second you lay down you begin to feel dizzy. Looking for Paku, inevitably throwing up, taking a scorching shower and now laying down was too many changes of environment for your brain to handle. The purpose of showering was to relieve your headache and cleanse your body, yet you only achieved the latter. You manage to drift off to sleep while laying on your stomach, waiting for your girlfriend to come back and keep you company. Only her presence can distract you from how shitty you feel right now.
When Pakunoda arrives back home, she takes out everything she purchased and sets it on the kitchen counter. A box of tea, more aspirin, your favorite soup from a nearby restaurant, crackers, and 2 movies from the rental box. This should be enough to get you through the remainder of the day. The house is quiet as she tip toes to your shared bedroom. When she opens the door, she’s caught off guard by your naked body asleep on the bed. You’re still on your stomach, spread out on the bed with your head resting on one of your arms. Stepping forward to take a closer look at you, she notices that your face is scrunched as if you’re in pain or discomfort. Paku sits on the bed next to you, bringing her hand to massage your scalp and wake you up cautiously.
“You’re back” You give her a small smile while blinking the sleep away. “How are you feeling?” She asks. You love how soothing her voice is, serene at all times. “I have a headache and I don’t feel well.” You whine while tears start falling. Embarrassed that you're breaking down over a hangover, you cover your face with both of your hands. “You have to get up and walk around at least. I picked up some stuff for you, let’s go.” You shake your head no, reminding her of how stubborn you are.
Pakunoda starts to caress you slowly. Starting at the back of your neck, down your back and then back up. Her touch takes your mind off of the headache that’s still tormenting you. Soon, you find yourself perking your ass up each time she rubs over your lower back. She smirks to herself. The way you’re needy even in this state is amusing to her. She gets up from the bed and you huff at the loss of touch. You can hear clothes drop to the floor and when you look over, Paku is fully stripped. “How about this? I'll cater to you here and then you'll get up and let me take proper care of you.” Her arms are folded underneath her breast and you can’t decline anything she offers you like this. “I’ll take that as a yes.” You hadn’t even answered her back, too busy in awe at how stunning she looks.
You sit up and watch as Pakunoda makes her way towards you. Her beauty is like no other being you’ve ever laid your eyes on, and she would easily say the same thing about you. She gets on the bed, making her way to sit between your legs. Her eyes scan over your body, taking in your perfect features. She leans forward and cages you between her arms, peppering kisses on your face. Looking at you tenderly, she whispers, “Just lay back and enjoy.”
Paku pushes you down by your shoulders gently. Bringing one of her hands between your legs, she swirls your clit a few times before swiping over your heat. You’re already wet, and she begins to pump into you with two digits. You wrap your arms around her neck, pulling her closer to you and placing open mouth kisses on her lips. She parts them for you, letting her tongue intertwine with yours passionately. Her two fingers are still exploring you when she begins to circle her thumb around your swollen bud. She’s pressed so closely to you that her breast are rubbing against yours. The sensation of both your nipples touching makes you both mewl.
Pakunoda breaks off the kiss and positions her face between your legs. She pulls you as close to her as she can and wraps her arms around your thighs so you can’t move. Her mouth goes straight for your heat, lapping up your juices and bringing her tongue to suck on your clit. Her pace is slow, making sure that she doesn't overstimulate you so soon. Your hands find their way to tangle in her hair, pulling her even closer whenever you want her to apply more pressure. Hangover long forgotten at the moment, you buck your hips up against her, addicted to how well she knows your body. Paku moans against your wet folds, making vibrations course up your spine. She sticks her tongue in and out of your core and you roll your hips for her to reach deeper. Your moans are turning more high pitched, orgasm threatening to hit any second now. Paku’s hands find their way to your nipples, twirling them between her fingers. Bringing her mouth back up to your clit, your hands grip the sheets tightly when her tongue applies more force. You can hear the wet noises of your cunt soaking her face, and seeing her between your legs is a sight you won't ever forget. You unhook your legs from around her shoulders, using your feet to lift your hips up away from her mouth because the stimulation is too much. She gets up from laying on her stomach, hands holding your pussy up in the air by your thighs. Wrapping your legs around her shoulders once again, she locks you in place before sliding her tongue up and down your sex. You're silly to think you were getting away from her by lifting your bottom half up, only for her to follow you and keep you exactly where you inched up to. She’s licking your juices as if it’s her salvation. Her grip on you is like iron, and being pressed so tight to her makes the coil in your stomach snap, orgasm hitting you all at once. Paku stops lapping at your cunt, giving you time to come down from your high. Placing kisses to your slick folds, she untangles your legs from around her.
You should’ve known your girlfriend wouldn’t let you off easy. Sure, she’s going to take care of you after this. She knows a cure for each of your problems and nobody else can compare to how nurturing she is. With a smirk on her face she says, “I’m sorry sweetie, but this time the irresponsible decisions you made will cost you another orgasm.” Paku folds your legs back against your shoulders. Your pretty pussy glistening, she lines her sex up with yours and begins to grind against you. You stay perfectly still, resting your hands above hers where she’s holding you by back of your knees to keep you in place. Your delicate clit rubbing against hers is intoxicating. Paku moans while sliding from the top of your slit all the way down. You can feel your stomach beginning to tighten again and reach for her breasts. Kneading her soft skin, you pinch her perky nipples between your fingers. Her breasts are so sensitive that this always drives her crazy. She starts to roll her hips slower, trying to savor the feeling of your folds brushing against hers. You see strands her hair sticking to her forehead, your essence coating her chin and the way she comes undone with each grind of her hips. Her determination to make you cum a second time is endearing. A few more ruts against you and your orgasm washes over in waves of ecstasy. Pakunoda feels you clenching beneath her, the added slick coating her sex. You rock your hips upwards, desperate to send her over the edge. She lifts herself up, bobbing her clit against yours gently. Hearing your soaking folds intermingle together and the way you're playing with her nipples sends her over the moon. Suddenly all of the sensations become too much and her orgasm reaches its pinnacle. She continues to sway against you, legs shaking and cunt twitching. Within a few moments she releases you from her grasp afterwards and lays down beside you.
Both of your chests rise and fall while trying to regain composure. You reach your hand out to find hers, giving it a gentle squeeze. “Paku, can I ask you something?” You whisper between breaths, exhaustion evident in your tone. “Of course.” She responds, turning over to face you and placing a hand on your stomach. “Did you bring my favorite soup? You know.. the one you always get me when I’m hungover?” She giggles at your question before answering. “Yes I did. I’m going to go put it to warm it up on the stove. Can you get the shower started for us? When we get out you can have your soup.”
After putting your food to heat up, Pakunoda joins you in the shower. She washes you off and you make sure to return the favor. Bringing you into a hug, she lets the shower water run over your body while you bury your face in her neck. After the shower, Paku serves you a bowl of soup with crackers and the rest of your night is spent watching movies and drinking tea.
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shoutaaizawas · 4 years
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↳ fluffvember → day seven ❝care❞
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shinsou x reader
summary: shinsou has insomnia and you want to help word count: 1.3k
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It all started with one comment. You had been cuddling with your boyfriend on the couch, curled up on his lap with your head resting on his chest as you watched TV.
“Sometimes I resent you for how easily you fall asleep,” Shinsou said. You lifted your head off his chest to look at him. You knew he wasn’t serious but it still made you feel bad. You knew how hard of a time he had when it came to sleeping.
“Baby-” You started but he cut you off.
“I’m just kidding, I don’t resent you.” He said, brushing your hair behind your ear. “But I do wish I could fall asleep like you, I think I’ve only gotten a few hours of sleep in the past couple of days.”
“’Toshi.” You scolded. “Why didn’t you tell me anything?”
You tended to be a heavy sleeper and you fell asleep quickly so it wasn’t surprising that you had not realized that your boyfriend had not been sleeping.
“Don’t worry about it, it’s not your problem.” He said.
“If it has to do with you, it is my problem. You’re my problem.” You said before pausing. “Okay, well that didn’t sound right but you’re always here for me when I need it, I want to be there for you.”
“Thank you, it does mean a lot.” He said, patting your head.
This is how you ended up on a mission to help your boyfriend get the best sleep he’s ever had. Or in the very least a solid amount of sleep. This required a shopping trip.
Chamomile tea, lavender essential oil, and bath salts were the basis of your plan but you had some ideas for extra help.
Once you were home you were just in time for dinner, which Shinsou had made. He was quite the cook and you preferred his cooking over most options.
“Hey, what did you get?” He asked. You had only told him that you were going shopping, no other details.
“It’s a surprise.” You told him helping him plate dinner.
“Okay…” He said. You knew he was curious but he wouldn’t push it.
Dinner went like normal, talking about whatever came to mind while they ate. Once they were done you stopped Shinsou before he could grab the dishes.
“Wait here a second.” You said.
You ran to the bathroom drawing a bath, you poured in some of the lavender body wash you got along with the bath salts. You returned to Shinsou.
“Okay, I started a bath for you.” You told him.
“A bath?” He questioned.
“Yeah, for you.” You told him. “Go.”
“What is this?” He asked.
“You’re going to sleep not just good but your gonna have amazing sleep. So get in that tub.” You told him.
“Whatever you say.” He said still looking a bit confused.
Once he was gone you were quick to throw the blanket you got today into the dryer, you had thrown it in the wash before you sat down for dinner, along with his bedclothes. After that, you washed the dishes and tidied up the kitchen. Then you went to the bedroom turning on the new light you got. It was one of those night lights that projected stars on the ceiling. You set up your speaker to play some relaxing quiet music before making the best in the most inviting way possible.
Before you went to the bathroom you turned the kettle on to boil some water for the tea. Once that was done you found Shinsou in the bath sitting there surrounded by bubbles.
“Enjoying yourself?” You asked.
“I think so. I’m not really a bath person but this is nice.” He said.
You sat down on the ground beside the tub.
“Let me wash your hair for you.” You said.
“Okay.” He said.
It was relaxing for you to wash his hair so you could only assume it was nice for him too. Lathering the soap you worked it into his purple locks of hair. His eyes drifted shut and his neck relaxed in your hands. Once you had rinsed out the conditioner he was so relaxed you felt bad stopping.
“I take it you enjoyed that?” You teased.
“Maybe a little bit.” He replied.
“Well, when your ready dry off, and I’ll grab you bedclothes for you.” You said patting him on the head before standing.
Grabbing the stuff out of the dryer you put the warm blanket on the bed and went to the bathroom to give him his bedclothes. After that, you went to the kitchen to finish making the chamomile tea. By the time you returned to your bedroom Shinsou was standing there looking around at everything you had ready.
“You really did all this?” He asked looking at the stars projected on the ceiling and the bed that currently had the covers pulled back with all of the pillows fluffed and the new fuzzy blanket laid across.
“Of course, I told you your gonna have an amazing night of sleep and I don’t do half-measures.” You said.
Shinsou looked at you, his eyes soft as he stepped towards you. He grabbed you by the hips pulling you close to him.
“I love you so much.” He said pressing a slow kiss against your lips.
“I love you too.” You returned. “Now, take this tea and get in bed.”
Shinsou laughed taking the warm mug of tea and doing as you said. Once you turned off all the lights and made sure the door was locked you joined him, climbing into bed.
You snuggled up next to Shinsou watching as he drank the tea. You hoped he would be able to fall asleep. You were determined to stay up until he was sound asleep. You promised yourself you wouldn’t pass out the second you cuddled together like you normally did.
Once he was done with the tea he put it aside before pulling the covers up.
“Here,” You said pulling him into your arms. “Put your head on my chest.”
Hopefully switching up from how you normally fell asleep would help you to keep from falling asleep quickly. Shinsou places his head on your chest, wrapping his arms around you. Your hands easily found his hair and you gently ran your fingers through it in hopes to get him to fall asleep.
“Good night, baby.” You said in hushed words. “Sleep well.”
“Thank you for this.” He said looking up at you. “Good night.”
Time passed and you were sure with his slow breaths that he was asleep.
“Hitoshi?” You whispered.
“Hmm?” He said opening his eyes to look at you.
“Oh, I thought you were asleep.” You said.
“It’s okay, you can go to sleep.” He said.
“No, not until you’re asleep.” You said.
Shinsou looked at you but knew better than to protest. You would do what you thought you needed to and he wouldn’t stop you. That didn’t mean he wouldn’t do what he could to make things work.
Silence took over the room again and his breathing slowed. You waited a little longer before calling his name out again. This time you received no reply. A big smile covered your face and you closed your eyes, ready to sleep now that your goal had been achieved.
Once your breathing slower Shinsou opened his eyes to make sure you were really asleep. You were so good to him, everything you did was so thoughtful. A part of him felt guilty for teasing you about falling asleep east. He didn’t resent you. Okay, maybe he was a little jealous.
Carefully he rolled over, pulling you onto his chest and wrapping his arms around you. His hand ran up and down your back as you moved a bit, nuzzling into his chest making small noises.
“I love you, you’re too good for me.” He said quietly.
At the end of the day even if he couldn’t fall asleep having you asleep on his chest was the next best thing. He appreciated your efforts and while he felt relaxed the best thing that helped him fall asleep was having your asleep on his chest.
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spaceskam · 4 years
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ao3
Joe never understood how he still felt sore.
After long fights, missions that tired him to the bone, events that caused his body to heal itself, he was always so sore. It was unfair, honestly, with the way he healed, he shouldn't have to live with the side effects. Nicky suggested that it might be a psychological effect, but it still seemed unfair.
Tonight, however, Copley had managed to have them put up in a nice hotel, one with nice sheets and a stack of clean towels and two separate bedrooms. It seemed to be an apology for the shitshow of a rescue mission the day has spiralled into. It, sadly, didn't sooth the tension in his shoulders.
Joe went to fall into the bed in one of the rooms, but Nicky caught him by the arm.
"Can we enjoy truly clean sheets for one night?" he asked, an enticing smile on his face. Joe considered just pulling him into bed and distracting him from his question, but it was hard to deny him of such an easy request. It was hard to deny him of any request.
"And then we sleep?" Joe clarified.
"Of course," Nicky confirmed, tugging him out of the room and to the bathroom.
Nicky locked the door, turned the water on, and then double checked the lock. Joe checked it a third time for good measure. One could never be too sure.
The room slowly filled with steam as they stripped even slower, their bodies aching with each movement. The effort it took to pull his shirt over his head was almost too much. A quick look in the mirror showed their efforts, though, every inch of them covered in a later of sweat or dirt or dried blood or some mixture of them all. He understood the desire for a shower even if he would've loved to just sleep.
"The water heater might be my favorite invention," Nicky said as he stuck his hand beneath the stream. Joe smiled at the sight of him climbing into the shower, naked and pleasured simply by the feeling of hot water on his skin.
"Yes, and you are mine," he responded easily, stepping in after him. Nicky smiled just a little as he turned his face up into the stream. Dirt and dried blood slowly dripping off with the water.
Years, decades, centuries of touching not matter how much grime they had on them had desensitized him to it entirely even as hygiene evolved, so there was nothing stopping him as he stepped up to him to share the water. It was hot and high pressured, washing the top layer of grime off them with ease and letting it go down the drain. Nicky drapes his arms over his shoulders, pulling him in even closer.
"You have that knot again," Nicky said, fingers gently digging between his shoulder blades as he looked into his eyes with unmatched ease. Joe sucked in a slow, deep breath and leaned forward for a kiss. Nicky let him for a few seconds before pulling away. "Let me take care of that."
"Not tonight."
Nicky nodded, still staring at him for a moment. His eyes were intense as always in the most comforting way His fingers dragged up and over his shoulder, leading up until he got to his chin and he held him in place as he moved in for a kiss. Again, it didn't last as long as it could've, but he didn't argue.
Nicky reached out of the curtain for a moment to grab a rag from the rack, pulling it back in and taking his time to lather it in the travel sized soap the hotel had laid out. The process of scrubbing each other and themselves clean took longer than Joe signed up for, but Nicky kept him going with gentle touches every time his head bobbed with fatigue.
By the time they were finished, Nicky's skin was stained a bright red from the heat of the water. Joe couldn't help but press his fingers into his side, watching it turn white and slowly fade back into red. Nicky responded by pushing a towel into his chest and giving him a look that wasn't quite playful, but it wasn't quite stern. So Joe pressed his entire hand to the back of his thigh, pulling him in closer. He couldn't really watch the redness return as he let go, but he could slowly drag his hand up and smile when Nicky tilted his head in bridled amusement.
"What happened to being tired?"
"I am always tired and life is too short to waste time," he said. Nicky huffed a small laugh, grabbing Joe's towel and bringing it to his head to start drying his hair for him.
"Life is too short," Nicky repeated, amusement laced in his tone.
"My time with you will never be enough," Joe promised, grabbing Nicky's towel and wrapping it around his waist for him.
Drying off took even longer, it seemed, more kisses and touches being shared than had been allowed in the shower. Nicky had grabbed ahold of his jaw again and backed him into the door, a chill striking through him at the coldness of it. But Nicky was warm to the touch, his skin hot and his tongue hotter. The idea of his obsession with this man being reborn again after so long was almost hysterical, but it felt more than true.
It seemed to last until they'd dried without much of a need for those fresh towels.
"Yusuf," Nicky said as he brought things to a stop, his body still pressed close as he slipped into Italian, "You deserve a good night's sleep."
"So do you," Joe insisted right back. Nicky smiled that sweet, rare smile of his.
"Then let's go to sleep."
One day, maybe, they'd get the option to have a nice nights sleep every night without worry. One day, they might have a permanent home, far from where someone might notice they hadn't aged. One day, they might have more possessions than what they could fit in a backpack. One day, one day, one day.
Tonight, however, they wore the same boxers and t-shirts they always had and climbed into a temporary bed. Nicky's hair was still wet as Joe laid behind him, a gun tucked beneath the pillow for easy access. But Joe put his arms around him and tugged him close, remembering how to breathe again when he could feel his heart beating in his chest.
"Sleep," Nicky said softly, "I'll see you when you wake up."
"I'll see you in my dreams first," Joe corrected, kissing his neck just once and feeling him relax at the promise.
"You're incorrigible."
Joe fell asleep easily to the sound of fondness in Nicky's voice.
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youngbloodlisk · 4 years
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Candy // Choi Chanhee
- not proofread just because i'm lazy i'm sorry
- sub chanhee + dom female
- mommy kink
- edging
- manhandling
- aggressive
- handjob
- riding
- pegging
- degradation
- a little praise
- a little embarrassment kink
- slight possessiveness
- stoplight color system
- orgasm denial
- fake sympathy
- dacryphilia (crying kink)
- oral (male rec)
- fingering
i threatened to tag @denehbola in this and i am a woman of my word 😎
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He arrived home exhausted.
He didn't even remember to take off his shoes before he practically fell over onto the couch.
I asked him about the concert while I took his shoes off for him and put them by the door.
Three encore stages, he said.
Then a party backstage for some of the staffs' birthdays.
Then Changmin wanted to go over choreography for a special gift they've been preparing for deobis' anniversary.
He said he's never been so tired in his life.
I told him to sit back and relax: let me take care of him.
I brought him a bottle of ice cold water and a satisfying plate of food.
We turned on a movie and I massaged him in every place where he groaned that it was sore.
He took his time with his food, but drank three bottles of water before the movie was over.
I told him to follow me to the bathroom so I could give him a bath. As shy as he was, he was also too sore and tired to take his clothes off efficiently, so he let me undress him with a gentle, warm touch.
He sat in the white tub, water surrounding him and soapy bubbles floating around the edges.
I told him when to close his eyes and brace for water or soap, just like an adult might bathe a small child.
He smiled the whole time I washed his pink hair, clearly enjoying the scalp massage that came along with lathering his shampoo.
Once he was clean, he wrapped up in a navy blue robe and sat on the bed, telling me what clothes to take out of his pajama drawer and which brand of underwear he wanted (considering differences in style and texture).
He decided to take it on himself to get dressed for bed and brush his teeth.
I continued a soft, but firm, massage while he brushed his teeth.
When he finished, we laid down in the bed and he snuggled into me.
He didn't know if he could sleep yet, he said.
He was exhausted, yet deep down he was still on a bit of a performance high. He hadn't fully relaxed yet.
That's how we ended up here.
Chanhee's clothes pooled on the floor by the bed, myself still fully clothed.
One of my hands lightly wrapped around his cock, moving at a perfect pace, the other hand rubbing his torso.
What better to calm him down than a slow, gentle handjob? Or so I thought.
I notice his face scrunching, and the way he's pressing his lips together.
"Are you okay? Did I do something wrong, baby?"
"N-No, no... not at all... I just... I-I really want-..."
He gets embarrassed and covers his face with his hands, pushing his legs together (which, in turn, makes me lose my grip on him) and bringing his knees up.
"Look at me." I say in a gentle voice.
"I can't." His voice is muffled through his hands, until I grab his wrists and pull his hands away.
"Look at me, Chanhee. Talk to me. What do you want?"
"I want... I want mom- mommy-... I-" His eyes begin to well up with tears, which often happens when he's embarrassed or feels guilty.
"Hey..." I use the hem of my shirt to wipe the salty tears away from his face. "There's no need to cry, darling. Do you want mommy to make you feel good? Be rougher with her babyboy?"
"Yes, yes, yes! Please, mommy." He says quickly, relieved that he doesn't have to say it himself, yet still embarrassed to be asking for it. "I'm so s-sorry. Your... your hand just f-felt so good. I want mommy to... to do m-more to me." His voice is shaky and barely audible. Unless he's already really in the moment, he hates asking me to do anything. He feels as if he's being selfish and greedy.
Yet, his dick begins to turn red and the tip gets shinier by the second from the embarrassment.
"You know your body better than I do, and I know you're still a bit sore. So, do you remember the safe words?"
"Yellow to slow down, red to stop."
"What about the safe actions?"
"Either snap repeatedly or tap on you repeatedly."
"That's my good boy." His cheeks flush red at the comment as I move to sit up against the headboard. "Lay across my lap, ass up."
"Wait, what?" He's clearly surprised with the way I'm choosing to start this.
"Do you wanna be a good boy tonight?"
"Oh- I do- I- Yes."
"Yes, who?"
"Y-Yes, mommy."
"Then lay across my lap. Ass up. Don't make me ask a third time."
"Yes, mommy." He mumbles in a slurry mess and crawls to me, positioning himself perfectly across my lap.
I run my hand across his pretty ass and grab at it, surely making him think I'm about to spank him, before pulling his legs apart and running a finger slowly across his hole.
Chanhee squirms just a bit at the touch.
I reach down between his legs and wrap my hand around his hard dick. My grip is much firmer and stronger than before and my pace is much slower.
He tries to hold back his reactions as much as possible, which only makes it more satisfying when he blurts out a sweet, desperate...
"More. M-more, please."
I take my hand off entirely, except for the fingers tracing his dripping tip.
Chanhee let's out a desperate whine and pushes his hips back. I wrap my hand entirely around his tip. I use my other hand to roughly grab his hair and tug on it, pulling his head back just enough so I can lean over and look him in the eyes.
"The whines we like, but you know that right now your body is mine to control. Yes?"
"Yes, m-mmmommy. I'm ssso sorry, I'll be a g...good boy. I promise..." He chokes out between pretty moans as I begin progressively stroking his cock faster. "I'm... I'm getting clo-close."
"I can tell, baby. Your cock talks." My comment about the twitching taking place in my hand was delivered with a smirk, knowing that it would embarrass him.
His breath begins to hitch and I know he's so close. He's right on the edge. Just a couple more strokes will cover the sheets in white.
I pull my hand away, eliciting the cutest whining and begging I've ever heard from my precious boy... as well as the most disobedient reaction he's ever given.
A soft, desperate mumbling of "no" and "please" rolls off Chanhee's pink little tongue, and he tries to turn around and sit up while reaching back to grab my hand. It happens so fast that he's already grabbed my wrist before I can react.
It takes more strength than you'd imagine to control him and hold him down, but I've gotten good at finding his weak spots in many different ways.
I hold him down in a position which has his face pressed against the bed and his ass sticking up in the air.
I lightly brush my fingertips down his shaft.
"Please, p-please let me cum-"
"Even when you just misbehaved and I had to pin you back down, you run your slutty mouth. Do you think you deserve to cum already? After that?"
"Please, mommy..." He sounds as if he's crying, but there are no tears yet.
He's probably alright, knowing him, but better safe than sorry. I quickly ask him for a color check.
"Green."
I continue to lightly brush my fingers against him, waiting until he comes down from his denied orgasm. As soon as Chanhee's body has calmed, obvious by the way he relaxes and the way his sounds change, I stop touching him and carefully move him off of my lap.
As I move from my previous spot, I instruct him to sit where I was.
He does so, curled up and pouting at me.
"Aw, did baby not get to cum?" I mirror his pout and nod, crawling towards him.
I harshly pull his legs apart and position my body between them so he can't close them back. I grab his chin, squishing his cheeks up and parting his pouty little lips.
"Did my bad babyboy not get to cum?" I keep up the fake sympathy.
"Please, please, I'll be so good. I-"
"Good? You don't seem like a very good boy today. That's okay." I trail my way down his body until he can probably feel my hot breath on his slit. "If you don't wanna act like a good boy, I'm not gonna treat you like one."
I wrap my lips around his tip and pull off with a pop. I watch his weak eyes as I lick long and slow up his shaft before taking him in my mouth, going further and further until I almost gag.
It doesn't take long, not a whole lot of bobbing and sucking, for him to get close again.
He's already been denied or delayed twice.
He starts twitching in my mouth and his hips buck up involuntarily.
I look up to meet his eyes, but instead I see them staring at the wall with water welling up.
That's my cue to pull off of him with another sweet pop.
I watch as the tears begin to roll down his cheeks and he squirms and jerks around, his breathing heavy.
"Please, n-no more teasing... I need to cum, I need- I'm begging you, baby-"
"Excuse me? Begging who?"
"Please, mommy-" It comes out like a whisper.
"Louder."
"Please, m-mommy-"
I wrap my hand around his neck and press on the sides.
"You little slut." I whisper in his ear. "You're begging to cum but you can't even beg properly. Louder." I press the end of louder into his neck with a kiss.
"Please! Please, please, please... I need mommy to make me cum, please!" His precious voice cries out, loud enough that anyone else in the house would hear.
He shakes and whines, desperately tugging at my clothes and groping my body as I kiss his neck.
When I pull away and try to get off the bed, Chanhee grabs my shirt and pulls me back. He places a hand on the back of my neck, caressing softly, and he presses a loving kiss to my lips.
He does this sometimes in moments like this. It's a nonverbal green indicator.
We have a "red" equivalent safe action, two in fact, but this kiss is how Chanhee reassures me that he's okay. He's enjoying himself, and enjoying his time with me. He isn't hurt or upset in any way whatsoever.
Green light.
I really appreciate it.
I linger in front of his face for a moment after the kiss, looking deep into his eyes with sincerity and love.
"You're doing so well, sweetheart. You're taking everything I give you perfectly. You'll tell me if it gets too much, right?"
"Of course."
I place one more quick kiss on his lips before getting up off the bed.
"Lay on your back, baby. Right on the edge of the bed." I tell him.
He starts doing as I say, but freezes when he sees me pulling my shirt off. I pretend not to notice the way he stares me down as I undress, practically drooling. By the sound of the bed, I assume he finally lays down when I disappear into the closet.
Chanhee's eyes widen at the sight of me walking out of the closet, finishing securing my black strap-on.
"I th-thought-"
"You'll cum. Be it untouched now or later when I ride you... you'll cum. Legs up, babyboy."
He lifts his legs and holds them up, and I grab the bottle of lube from the bedside drawer.
After proper application, a green light check, and making sure he's relaxed, I slowly push into him.
A soft moaning/gasping jumble leaves his mouth at the feeling of the familiar strap. I begin rocking my hips, slowly and carefully speeding up. I can't help but smile watching him as I fuck him.
His jaw lax.
His eyes leaking tears, which stream down the sides of his face.
His beautiful skin glistening with sweat.
His pink hair messy and sticking to his forehead.
His hard dick hitting his stomach.
His pretty fingers digging into his thighs as he holds his legs up.
His body lightly bouncing back and forth from the impact of my thrusts.
And my favorite part, the sweet sounds coming from his mouth.
"You look so beautiful... my pretty babyboy. So perfect. Give me your hands, angel." I slow down and he takes a moment to breathe before letting his legs rest on my shoulders and grabbing my hands.
I hold tight to him and increase speed immediately, pounding into Chanhee.
His back arches, his body starts shaking.
He's being so loud that even the neighbors probably know how good he's getting fucked.
"Listen to yourself, babyboy. You're my little toy, aren't you? Such a pretty slut for mommy. Say it."
"I'm a s-s...slut f...for... mommy. You ma...make me feel so g-good, mom...my..."
"Do you wanna cum?"
Chanhee nods, only making me slam into him harder.
"Use your words, slut."
"Please! Please let... me... c-cum..."
"Where are you gonna cum? Are you gonna cum inside mommy?"
"Can-... Can I?"
I drop his hands and pull out of him, quickly working to take off the strap.
Chanhee lays in place, exhausted, but watching me with expectation.
"Move back on the bed a bit." I instruct him, to which he shakily obeys.
Once I place the strap to the side to wash later, I crawl on top of Chanhee and hover over him.
I press my forehead against his before placing a kiss on his cheek.
I sit up, straddling the boy. Taking his red, dripping cock, and lining it up to my entrance before lowering slowly.
We both let out sighs of relief when he's finally fully inside me.
For him, he's been denied so much pleasure already that knowing he's actually gonna cum this time is relief.
For me, I've been throbbing and dripping this entire time. That's my relief.
I know I can't take my time while riding him, that would be truly cruel. He's already taken so much, he deserves this.
Not to mention, it surely won't take long at all for either of us to cum.
I do my best to keep my balance as I start to bounce.
"You feel so good, babyboy..." I moan out, my voice breathy and slow. "You fill me up so well, you're so good for me."
I rock as I move up and down on him to intensify it.
His cock hits deep inside me, grazing my g-spot perfectly.
Chanhee digs his fingers into my hips.
"F-Feels... so good... I'm... cl-close..." His strained voice comes out in a moan. His chest rises and falls in a mix of shallow and deep breaths.
"Cum in me like the good... good little slut you are."
I keep my pace steady, as difficult as it may be, and it doesn't take much longer before a loud moan rips through the air like an orchestra in perfect tune and unison.
Music to my ears.
Chanhee's body jerks and his head is pressing hard against the bed, his back arching and his breath hitching. I feel a rush of warmth inside me.
I slow down until it comes to a natural stop as I lift myself off of him and lay next to him, my head on his chest. I can feel his breathing become more consistently deep.
My fingers trace along his skin.
"Thank you... but... you didn't-"
I quickly cut him off with a genuine tone, so he knows I'm not upset.
"I know. It's okay. I edged you so much, it doesn't matter. You deserve it, angel."
My confusion keeps me from reacting to what happens next.
He readjusts so his fingers can reach my pussy.
"I wanna take care of my mommy... because she always takes care of me."
He sinks two long fingers into me and presses his thumb on my clit.
I gasp, already being so close from riding him.
Chanhee curls his fingers in a rhythm to match his thumb massaging my clit.
I press my face into his chest as he fingers me to an orgasm. He kisses my head softly when I clench around his fingers and cover them in a new wetness.
"Can I lick them?" He asks after letting me come down from my high and catch my breath.
"Of course you can, angel."
He pulls his hand back up to his mouth and sucks on his fingers, covered in a blend of both of us, like he's sucking on candy.
"Chanhee, you always treat me so well. You're so good every time. Taking everything I give you, begging for mommy. I appreciate you so much, babyboy."
He finishes licking his fingers clean with a pop that mirrors the way I sucked him off earlier.
"It's not just me. You're the best I could ask for. You always leave me fully satisfied and beyond."
I smile and press my lips to his, quickly deepening the kiss, but keeping it brief.
"I'll get us cleaned up."
We end up working together to use a couple of towels to clean ourselves off, deciding we can handle the sheets tomorrow morning (along with the strap).
We cuddle up together, Chanhee's head resting on my chest and our arms around each other. I play with his hair and lay in the calm of his steady breathing.
It may be irrational, but I usually stay awake until he's asleep. I like knowing he's safe and sound before I close my eyes.
When I think he's finally out, I take my hand away from his hair and rest it on his body.
I feel myself drifting fast, but I hear one last thing before falling asleep.
Something that I've heard before, but not very often. Something that I only hear on occasion, which makes it all the more satisfying each time.
"I love you."
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Alrighty. I will take you up on your offer. Lol. One of my head canons is that during the shower scene, the only reason Billy retreated so quickly after coming on to Steve so obviously is because he got a boner during this one sided conversation. That’s why he fiddles weirdly around with that towel in front of his dick. And Steve saw it out of his peripheral view and that’s why he looks at Billy’s retreating form. Pure head canon but it fits. And canon Steve must have gotten an inkling that Billy has the hots for him in S2 as his dating advice to Dustin is a behavioral description of how Billy treats Steve. All this “hot and heavy like a lion business” 😂. To make a long story short. I want some shower smut with Steve asking Billy why he’s hard all cheekily. Billy pounces 😝
HOLD UP! wait so you’re telling me that Steve is giving dustin relationship advice based entirely off of Billy’s actions toward Steve?? Do you know what this MEANS!? that means Steve thought that shit was WORKING. He recognized Billy was flirting and he LIKED IT.
I could talk about the fucking shower scene for hours.
n s f w
God Billy getting a boner next to Steve is just hnggggg. I can see Billy getting all frustrated and locking himself in a stall begging for that shit to go down because he will not jerk it to the thought of steve while he’s only twenty feet away and naked!
little does billy know that steve saw. and steve is fresh off the nancy drama and billy is just doing all the right things that turn him the fuck on.
“sure, okay, some girls, yeah, they want you to be aggressive. you know, strong, hot and heavy, like a... I don’t know like a lion.”
some guys (*cough* steve) like that too.
steve, despite his better judgment, follows billy to the stall. the locker room is empty save for the two of them. he knocks. risky.
“the key with girls is just... just acting like you don’t care.”
steve acts like he doesn’t care. the guy who pushes all the right buttons getting a hard on for him and locking himself in the bathroom? no big deal at all.
billy opens the door with eyes wide. he’s still only wrapped in the towel, the tent below his waist painfully obvious.
“even if you do?”
“yeah, exactly. it drives them nuts.”
It absolutely drives billy nuts. steve just standing there, glancing down and back up again. seemingly unphased.
“so what’s that all about hargrove?” he gestures downward. the tone is less accusatory, more curious. but still a hint of disinterest. almost like he’s simply humoring him.
billy scoffs and goes to slam the stall door in steve’s face, but the motion is blocked.
“then what?”
then what?
they’re both just standing there and steve’s dick is slowly mimicking billy’s, rising beneath the towel.
“you just wait until... until you feel it.”
“feel what?”
he feels it. deep in the pit of his stomach.
“it’s like before it’s gonna storm, you know?”
dick twitching. chest heaving.
“you can’t see it, but you can feel it, like this, uh...”
electricity.
“you feel that...”
they’re inching closer.
“... and then you make your move.”
seems billy was receiving that same advice. pulling him into the stall by the back of his neck. billy’s back is slammed against the wall, steve’s bare chest up against his. kissing. open mouthed. lip bruising. kissing.
steve yanks billy’s towel from his waist in one quick motion and drops it to the floor. billy’s absolutely throbbing. precome leaking from the tip. both boys hands are traveling frantically across the other’s. mapping out the curves and bulges. gripping roughly leaving imprints on the other’s skin.
steve moves to his neck, sucking and biting. leaving his mark.
“you’ve still got some soap in your hair pretty boy,” billy’s out of breath. voice higher than normal. not the same deep low register he’s used to hearing. billy tugs at steve’s towel. “how about we move this party to the shower?”
they do. blocking the entrance to the locker room with a garbage can. they turn one of the showers on, letting the cold water slowly grow hot and burn their skin. billy is quickly pulling steve back in, stroking himself with the water as lube. steve slaps his hand away and takes over for him. going at a slower and more agonizing pace.
billy likes things slow.
billy takes steve in his own hand and matches his rhythm. kissing halts and they’re just breathing into each other’s mouths. water falling over them, hair sticking to their faces and hindering their view. the heat of the water just adding to the arousal leading to nearly simultaneous and toe curling orgasms for both of them.
they stand there for a while, letting the shower wash away the mess as they both catch their breaths and come down.
“you get all hot and bothered for all the guys on the team, or at I just special?”
“oh you’re definitely special harrington, that’s for sure.”
“you’re not falling in love with this girl, are you?”
“uh, no. no.”
“okay good. don’t.”
“she’s only gonna break your heart.”
send more headcanons!!
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The moment he entered the street his home laid in, in an area that is considered to be Konoha’s “Inuzuka neighbourhood”, the smell of spices and fresh meat took over the other scents around him, almost making him salivate slightly as he pulled open the front gate. It was early evening - almost time for dinner, he assumed, and man, was he starving.
Kiba nearly tripped over his own feet as he rushed through the front door and sat on the ledge of the entryway of his home, unzipping the back of his sandals and kicking off his shoes. He was about to leave his sandals in their spot, one having flipped over and laying on its side, however, the memories his mom scolding him harshly from the last time he left his shoes in the entryway, and today was the day he did not want hear any type of scolding from Tsume.
Before Kiba could give a command, Akamaru bounced up from the ledge leading into the house, barking and bouncing through the hallway into the living room.
“Chicken! Chicken!” Akamaru barks echoed through the hallways.
"Hey, Akamaru! Sit! Sit!!" A voice came from within, making Kiba jump up from the ledge and briskly walk towards the doorway.
He found Hana standing in the kitchen, near the counter with chicken legs lined up on a glass platter, hands covered in plastic gloves in the air away from her, extending the leg that Akamaru had decided to attach himself onto away from the counter. Akamaru almost immediately backed off of Hana when Kiba stepped into the space, sitting down, but he never left Hana’s side.
“I wasn’t expecting you guys to be back home this early,” Hana commented, looking up to Kiba. She tilted her head to the side, the side of her mouth lifting into a grin, an eyebrow raised. “So? Pass or fail?”
“You knew?” Kiba asked, his eyebrows pulling in automatically at her question, a realization dawning on him. “Why didn’t you tell me that I would have to take another test to become a Genin!”
“You sign a NDA along with your contract to ensure that you don’t tell Academy students about the test,” Hana answered with a slight shrug, taking off the plastic gloves, quickly turning on the sink and running her hands with soap.
Kiba desperately wanted to ask, “What the hell is a NDA?”, but Hana chuckled a bit, continuing, “I’m kidding, it’s not that serious. But they do tell us not to mention it to upcoming Academy graduates, just in case. Even the ones who failed can’t mention it either. So? Did you fail?”
Kiba quickly shoved his hand into his hoodie pocket, pulling out the headband he took off on the way back home, the mixture of sweat and dirt from all those hours running around, fighting Kurenai, and rolling across the ground making the fabric stick to his forehead in a way that even he found to be uncomfortable and mildly gross. The smell of it...well...he didn’t want to begin to describe it. He showed her the handband in the palm of his hand, and he could see Hana’s face brighten up, a big smile.
“Hey, I knew you could do it!” Hana said, walking up towards him, a hand reaching out to rub his head roughly, the strength of it making Kiba’s move around a bit too much, he swore his skull was going to snap off his neck.
“Hey! Ow! Stop it!” Kiba exclaimed, his voice cracking throughout the inflections, and Hana pulled her hand away (but not without giving him a few more ruffles). “You’re ruining my hair!”
“It’s already ruined,” Hana replied, putting a hand on her hip. “Go wash up and come back downstairs. And actually, wash up properly.”
“I’m not a kid! I know how to clean myself,” Kiba continued as Hana silently ushered him out of the kitchen, out into the hallway to the staircases leading up to the top floor.
“Do you? Do you really?” Hana asked, and Kiba squinted his eyes, throwing her his best annoyed look to get her to stop bugging him. He walked up the stairs with Akamaru a step below him, slower than he would, all the movement he did that day catching up to him and making his legs ache in a way that he never felt from anything he had to endure throughout the years at the Academy. Actual battles are different from those training spars they had to do, for sure. When they emphasized endurance and resistance training, Kiba didn't think much of it- but now, he has to come up with some new regimen to follow.
Suddenly, he heard Hana call out from the bottom of the staircase, “Wear your cleanest clothes! We’re going to have guests!”
“What!?” Kiba called back immediately, whipping his head back to look down at her, but all he saw was Hana walking away into the hallways, likely to go back to the kitchen. He yelled, louder now, “Hana! What?! What d’you mean we’re having guests?!”
“You heard me!” He heard Hana’s voice, muffled through the walls, call back, and he could hear the sound of water running again quickly before he could yell back again. He didn’t want to go back downstairs, already at the top of the staircase to begin with, and he knew Hana was going to tell him to leave her alone so she could do what she was doing in peace.
What the hell! Kiba thought as he went through the top drawer that was underneath the bathroom sink, taking out his green visor-like shower cap, after grabbing his towel from his room and throwing all his clothes in the laundry basket in the corner of his room. He nearly stomped into the bathtub, putting the visor around his forehead, around above his ears, before turning the knob maybe a bit too aggressively. He quickly set up the water temperature with the knobs, the cold water from the showerhead turning warm as the water hit his hair, traveling down over his body.
I was going to meet up with Akane after the test! Kiba furiously grabbed the nearest shampoo bottle in the tub - the only one there, a lavender scented one, just lovely, he really needs to buy his own shampoo from now on unless he wanted to smell like a flower shop - and he lathered and massaged it into his brown strands. He was careful not to let the shampoo get anywhere near his ears, he knew that it would annoy him if water got into his ears. I wanted to...oh fuck, my eyes!
He had somehow got soap in his eyes, and Kiba quickly cupped his hands to catch the water and wash his face. After that, he quickly cleaned the rest of his body, not wanting to stand in there longer than he had to.
Kiba had met up with his friends the evening before at the park near the Academy, after he met Kurenai for the first time and he had stayed behind at the tea house with Hinata and Shino. The moment they finished the tea and mochi that Kurenai had (thankfully) paid for, he ran off, not wanting to be held back with them anymore. They were more than excited about their sensei - he was so cool, Akane had swooned, with a bandana and a toothpick in his mouth without a care in the world- and they were definitely much more optimistic about their team than Kiba could have ever dreamed of being.
Hinata and Shino… he won’t lie and say that he thought of them differently before this test they had to take together. Other than what he thought of them before - one being shy and passive and the other being cold, rude, and, well, creepy- he also had thought they would be much more...stuck up.
Well, Shino was kind of stuck up, in a way, however...he did recognize Kiba’s abilities as a shinobi, entrusting him with a pretty big role in their strategy to get Kurenai’s headband. But...the way he speaks to him, with all those big words and explaining every little detail, asking him questions all uppity, like he was looking down on him when he asked a question…
Kiba knew they were from noble clans - the Hyuuga and the Aburame, two of the four other clans to help found the Village, along with the Uchiha and the Akimichi clan. And the only reason Kiba even cared to remember this is because his year had a student from these clans. Sasuke Uchiha and Choji Akimichi, specifically. The latter one, he was acquainted to as well, but he had a hard time believing that Choji came from such an esteemed clan - he always hung out with Shikamaru and asked him for his allowance to buy snacks from the convenient store near the Academy, always snacking during class, and he was not a better student than...any of them, really.
Choji was very different from the other three students. He was definitely friendlier and more outgoing. And he was actually approachable.
Hinata was definitely different from how he thought she would act. Well, yes, she was shy, and was very much a peacekeeper between himself and Shino, and was passive about what to do when they first started the test together. He expected her to be snobbish as well; between all of them, the Hyuuga, from what he remembers from seeing in passing when Hinata was accompanied by a member of the clan to school and on parent-teacher conference night, had a sense of...importance that they carried. They also smelled like, what Kiba would describe as, freaking loaded.
And he expected Hinata to react differently when he teased her - he thought she would have told him off, in a more ladylike way with less cursing obviously (imagine Hinata cursing...that would be funny), like how most of the girls in the class do whenever a guy tries to get on their nerve and make a dumb joke.
Hinata genuinely thought he was serious, and she...just looked very naive. Sheltered, if he had to go there. And she didn’t try to demean him in any way. And...she just accepted his apology, because really, he thought she wouldn’t react that taken aback, and she was just...generally very easy going.
Not saying that he felt some deep and profound connection with them after this test, no. But maybe having to smell them, getting all in their personal space, might have done something? Kiba felt his face start to heat up as he thought about how close he was to them, close to their clothes, their hair, their skin. He never had to do that before; it was his first time. Usually, he would be adjusted to people’s scent through time, and while it did take a very long time that way, it is the least intimate way to get to know someone.
Stop thinking about it, Kiba commanded himself, feeling his heart beating fast, and he turned off the water faucet, taking a deep breath. Now’s not the time...we got other shit to deal with.
“Akamaru!” Kiba opened the bathroom curtains slightly open, grabbing the towel he hung nearby and wrapped it around his chest - no, he meant his waist. He found Akamaru laying down on the mat on the floor, eyes closed as the steam from the hot water created a foggy blanket in the room.
Akamaru immediately pulled himself up on his feet to the sound of Kiba's voice, looking straight at him, barking, “Yes Master!”
“Come here,” Kiba gestured. Akamaru didn’t budge, his tail momentarily stopped moving, and he stared at Kiba, frozen in place. Kiba stared at him for a moment, waiting. But when he noticed Akamaru starting to back away towards the bathroom door, Kiba immediately stepped out of the tub, taking a few steps. Akamaru quickly turned around and started to scrape at the door, whining.
“No! Please don’t!” Akamaru whined, and Kiba swiftly picked him up, holding him with both hands.
“Would you rather Hana wash you?” Kiba replied as he quickly plugged the beige bathtub stopper in the drain, turning on the faucet and letting the water run until it was shallow enough for Akamaru to stand, but deep enough to easily throw water on him.
“Yes-!” Akamaru replied, and without any hesitation, Kiba sat on his knees and let go of Akamaru into the bathtub, where the pup let out a yelp as he landed on his feet.
“It’ll be fast, I promise!” Kiba grumbled as he held Akamaru with a hand around Akamaru’s narrow waist. “And don’t bite, or else!”
“Help! Hana, help me!” Akamaru called out.
“Stay still!”
After what felt like too long for a quick bath for a pup that size, Akamaru was sitting on his bed wrapped in a towel, while Kiba put on, as his sister said, his “cleanest clothes”. Other than what he would wear for training, he didn’t have many options - but a plain black t-shirt and brown cargo pants should be enough to please Hana. The smell of cooked chicken, along with other foods wafted through his slightly opened bedroom door.
What guests are they even going to have?
“You want me to get the hairdryer?” Kiba asked Akamaru while aggressively rubbing a towel in his hair, trying to dry it to the best of his abilities. Akamaru shook his head, and Kiba sat down beside him, patting his fur gently after Akamaru shaked his body quickly.
“Kiba!” He heard Hana’s voice call from the first floor through. “Are you done? Come down!”
“Yeah!” Kiba hollered back.
“Huh? I can’t hear you!” Hana called back.
“I SAID ‘YEAH’!” He got up on his feet, quickly making his way down the stairs, through the hallways, and…
“Well, if isn’t the man of the hour! Congrats, Kiba!”
“What the-” Kiba muttered when he saw the living space was filled with...well...members of the Inuzuka clan.
There were members of his clan sitting on the three couches surrounding the coffee table, spaced out between themselves. He saw the space in between occupied with a few dogs, all of varying fur length and colour but they were all larger, older than the other dogs in the clan, laying on their stomachs, taking a nap. The screen door was slightly open, and he could hear even more dogs, playfully barking while the sound of children yelling in glee.
Young and old...Immediate family or extended members that he does not share blood with...it didn’t matter how they were all related to each other or whether they were related at all. What mattered was that they carried the Inuzuka name, they were loyal to one another in the clan and...they were here.
To celebrate him becoming a Genin.
It was only a fraction of the clan, though - regardless, Kiba felt warm seeing them there. The one who congratulated him first, before everyone else also started to throw whoops and cheers of congratulations, was a man in the Konoha green flak jacket, around middle aged, slightly sturdier in size sitting on the corner seat of one of the couches, with tan skin and brown hair, paler with a few grey strands from age, that fell just below just above his shoulder. He wasn’t one of the most senior members of the clan, but he was getting there, though the man tends to say that he was still agile despite being in his 50s.
“Man of the hour, huh?” Kiba asked, grinning at his words as he approached the couches, and the man stood up, much taller than Kiba and wider than Kiba’s small statue. The man reached over to grab his shoulder, nearly toppling Kiba forward from the strength of his affectionate shake. “So, can I call you Gaku instead of old man?”
“Hey, hey, don’t get too comfortable,” Gaku cautioned, though he laughed while saying it, while the others around him chuckled and laughed at Kiba’s cheeky request. “You’re still a little brat!”
“He’s not so little anymore; you've gotten taller since the last time I saw you,” another man chimed in, and Kiba glanced beyond Gaku, where another middle aged man sat at the end of the couch. His hair was much shorter than Gaku’s, much more grey and split from the side, but just as choppy, not wearing his flak jacket, rather wearing a casual shirt and pants. He had similar red markings on his cheeks. “At this rate, you’ll be taller than Tosa!”
“Well, aren’t you a comedian, Isamu,” Tosa, sitting on the couch opposite from them, scoffed, his voice deeper and lower than the other two men’s. Kiba had to hold back his laugh while the others around them let out laughter at the man’s deeping frown, making the lines on his face deepen, his red marks moving down. “You should consider joining a circus.”
“I’ll do it when I retire,” Isamu replied lightheartedly. “Maybe after Hitomi finishes school, I’ll run away.”
“Please do,” a woman, probably about a few years younger than them but still with evident aging on her tan skin, who sat on the opposite end of the couch Tosa sat on, replied. She grinned, her red marks perking upwards, as she spoke, “Then maybe I will know peace, for once.”
“Well, I did tell you not to settle with him,” He heard another voice from the dining table, and he glanced over at another middle aged woman, her black hair, speckled with grey strands, tied back into a bun, her hands busy skinning an apple. Unlike the others, she didn’t have the red fangs on her cheek. A large plate sat in front of her, already with some apple slices and tangerines.
“Well someone has to be with him, Fuuko,” the woman beside Tosa replied, gesturing towards him as Isamu smiled along. “Look at him. Nobody else in the Village wanted him.”
“Haya, what have I done to deserve this kind of treatment,” Isamua pleaded to his wife, who rolled her eyes in response.
“Aunt Fuuko, you can let Kiba handle the rest,” they heard Hana calling from the kitchen, and Kiba glanced back towards the entryway, finding her holding a tray with fried rice. The smell immediately filled the air, and from the scent Kiba could tell it was fresh from the pan. Hana looked at Kiba, and held the tray out towards him, not moving to him. “Kiba, put this on the table, please.”
“C’mon Hana, it’s the boy’s special day!” Gaku replied before Kiba could even scowl back at her, his body instinctively ready to walk towards her. “Let him rest for a bit.”
“The more hands I have in the kitchen, the faster the food comes out,” Hana replied, glancing down at Kiba, looking at him expectedly. He knew supporting Gaku would not deter her - besides, even if Kiba didn’t want to do it, it wasn’t like he was doing much of the work. Hana must have been preparing all of this food for a while...and Tsume left this morning to go on a mission, and was nowhere in sight, so he could only assume she hadn’t come home yet. Besides...If Tsume comes home to find him not caring for their guest... that’s another fear he does not need.
“Alright, alright,” Kiba replied, walking out of Gaku’s grasp towards Hana. “I’m coming.”
“Good,” Hana said with a wide smile, placing the tray on his arms. “Put this on the table, and then cut the fruits that are there.”
“Sure,” Kiba drawled. “Would you like me to do anything else, my dear sister?”
“Yes,” Hana said brightly, playing along with his tone. “You can make everyone here tea.”
“Hey, Hana! Bring out the sake!” Gaku called out from his seat from the couch. “We can’t celebrate without alcohol!”
“You guys want to drink now?” Hana replied, raising an eyebrow, looking straight at him above Kiba. “You don’t want to wait for everyone else to come?”
“Everyone else?” Kiba repeated, and as if on cue, the ding dong of the doorbell rang through the air. Hana immediately stepped past Kiba, and he quickly went to the dining table, placing the tray in the middle.
“Hey, Aunt Hachi! Thank you for coming! And Mimi, I love your dress, you look so pretty,” Hana kindly greeted their clansmen under the sounds of his aunts and uncles talking in the living room as he entered the kitchen. He begrudgingly filled the kettle on the counter with water from the sink, glancing around the kitchen space. He saw the oven was on, a timer ticking away near it, a mixture of cooked meats and spices emitting from it. Kiba inhaled sharply. There was chicken...more chicken...and meatballs, maybe? The more he sniffed, the more he smelled - tones of teriyaki, miso, the lemon and paprika… he could feel his mouth salivating again, his stomach letting out a low rumble.
He needed to distract himself.
“Who wants tea?” Kiba asked, and he heard a few ‘yeah’, ‘sure’ and ‘here’.
“Let me check if Hige wants one,” Haya said from her seat, gesturing to the sliding door leading outside. “He is sitting outside with Ken and Kegawa. Hige!”
She bellowed his name as she stood up, walking to the sliding door, "Oji-san! You want some tea?”
"Depends- who's making it?" He heard a voice distantly speaking from outside, elderly in quality, low and croaky, slow and steady in the tone.
"Kiba."
"He's here?!” The voice perked up, and Kiba could hear it clearer as it approached the sliding door. “Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
A face peered through the sliding door, aged through years of fighting through many wars before Kiba, or even Tsume, existed on this Earth. What was left of his hair was pure white, his hairline receding to reveal the top of his scalp, shiny under the light. His tan skin was etched with lines - wrinkles and scars, Kiba knew - and his sharp eyes looked around the room, just as they were since he was an active shinobi (or so they say). The Inuzuka genes were strong, even into their old age.
Even the balding.
Kiba considered himself lucky that he probably didn’t have that gene.
“Kiba!” Hige spoke in a booming voice, nearly making Akamaru jump beside him at the sound, much louder than Gaku. “You didn’t come to say hello?”
“I didn’t know you were here, Oji-san,” Kiba replied, giving a slight bow of his head. “You know you would have been the first one I said hello to.”
To this, Hige let out a loud laugh that Kiba swore made the room rumble a bit, grabbing the attention of even the elderly dogs in the room, as he said just as loudly, “You’re just like Tsume!”
“Hey, Oji-san!” Gaku called out. “Quiet down a bit, you’re yelling again! And don’t laugh so loud, you’re gonna raise your blood pressure!”
“What?” Hige replied, glancing around the room for moment. He lifted up a hand behind his ear, and yelled, “Did someone say something?”
“I SAID QUIET DOWN, YOU’RE YELLING AGAIN!” Gaku hollered back, making Isamu cringe beside him, covering his ears with both hands.
“Take your own advice!” Isamu pointed out, before another layer of loud discussion occurred.
"Kiba-niisan's here?!"
A different voice hollered from outside, a lighter voice.
Ken’s here?! Kiba thought, nearly straining his neck from whipping his head towards the door. A small head peered behind Hige, short tufts of brown hair poking in every direction, a boy that was a few years younger than Kiba. The moment the boy’s piercing brown eyes met Kiba’s, his face broke into a big, wide smile, puffing up his markless cheeks and he started to run towards the kitchen, every step light and fast.
“Ken!” Hige exclaimed as the boy ran past him, an order for him to stop running, but he didn’t listen to a word the old man said.
“Kiba-niisan! Kiba-niisan!!” The boy exclaimed as he ran into the kitchen. “Mom said you’re a real ninja now!”
“Yes I am,” Kiba replied, keeping his voice as even as he could. He could never try to make his voice all soft towards kids younger than him- his voice did not allow for that.
“Where’s your headband? Can I see it?” Ken continued to probe, stepping around to look up at Kiba, hovering.
“Uh, yeah, sure,” Kiba said, going into his pocket and fishing out his headband. The light of the kitchen caught the metal, giving it a gleam as Ken got on his tiptoes to peer at it with wide eyes.
“Whoaaaa,” Ken gasped as he blinked a few times. “Can I wear it?”
“No, you have to graduate from the Academy before you even think about wearing it,” Kiba said, quickly stuffing back in his pocket before Ken’s little hands could even go near it.
“Why is it blue?” Ken asked quickly, walking around Kiba to look up to him.
“I don’t know. You should ask your old man - he was around when they started making these things,” Kiba replied swiftly.
“I’ve seen headbands that are black, and, and, red, and-” Ken started to rattle off about headbands he’s seen, continuing to hover around Kiba. Kiba could feel his tolerance slowly grating away as he reached up to get a bunch of mugs, laying them out as he poured the boiling hot water into a teapot, the tea bag steeping the water a deep amber.
Hana told him that it was out of admiration, that he should be flattered that Ken looked up to Kiba since Kiba was the only male cousin he had, everyone else in the family being around Hana's age and older. Which, when Kiba thinks about it, yeah he did find it flattering, stroking his ego a bit as well. But that didn't stop Ken's constantly following him around like a tail annoying.
He had Akamaru for that.
“Ken!” another child’s voice, smaller and quieter than Ken’s voice, came from further away. Kiba glanced up to see another child, even younger than Ken, with a similar spiky brown hair that is apparently a common trait amongst the Inuzukas. “Where are you?”
“Kega! I’m in the kitchen,” Ken called out to the child, peering around through the open kitchen doorway. “With Kiba-niisan!”
Please, no more, Kiba looked up, the child’s feet pit-pat across the floor, the legs of his blue overalls snagging along behind.
“Kiba!” the small child exclaimed with a big smile, and he waddled over to where he stood, besides Ken, a good few inches smaller than the boy.
“Hello, Kegawa,” Kiba forced out, making his voice a bit less gruff for the kids, but dammit, his voice wasn’t built to be soft! Now, it’s not that he hates kids, and between the two brothers, Kiba really liked Kegawa because, well...he doesn’t talk as much as Ken, and was much more reserved, a stark contrast.
“Kiba-niisan! Come play with us,” Kegawa asked in a soft tone.
“Yeah!” Ken said in a much louder voice, suddenly tugging on Kiba’s shirt, pulling him as much as his seven year old strength could muster. “Come play with us! Come! COME!”
“Ken, my shirt!” Kiba protested, bordering on whining. Now his shirt’s gonna be stretched out! Kiba let a slight sigh as Ken let go, but the kid did not back off. “I can’t, I make food and everything. Don’t you want to eat chicken nuggets?”
“CHICKEN NUGGETS?!” Ken exclaimed, now enticed by the thought of food. Kids are so easy to distract...
“Yeah, I have to make it though,” Kiba said lightly, bending slightly with his hands on his knees. “I can make it with cheese inside and everything.”
“CHEESE?”
“Yeah, so if you and Kega play for a bit, I’ll make it and give it to you right away,” Kiba continued.
“Thank you…” Kiba could hear a tiny voice coming from the doorway into the living room. A little girl with two brown pigtails in a dress - Mimi, another cousin of theirs- came through the door, Hana right behind her.
“See, Mimi’s here too,” Kiba pointed out, and the brothers whipped their heads around at the same time towards the door. “Why don’t you ask her to play too!”
"Hey, Mimi!” Ken hollered immediately, running up towards the young girl, who stood idly as he grabbed her hand, tugging. “Finally! You’re here! C’mon, let’s go play outside!”
“Oh...okay,” Mimi said, following him closely, as Kega tailed behind her.
“Noka!” Ken called, looking at the portion of the living room where a few dogs laid around, and a black dog glanced up, looking at Ken. “Come play with us!”
“I’ll come out in a bit,” the dog, Noka, barked back lightly, returning to licking the fur on her paw. The dog wasn’t Ken’s dog, no, she was his mother’s ninken; ninkens tend not to leave their master’s side, however, when it comes to their master’s kids, on their master’s orders, they often are found to be a sort of caretaker for their child. Kiba doesn’t know how this specific dog can do it though; Noka was much older, equivalent to a human nearing their middle-age. And yet, she still manages to have the energy to keep up with both Ken and Kegawa.
Kiba let out a little sigh of relief as the three children ran across the room, slipping outside of the sliding door, leaving it slightly open as they were laughing in a childish glee. Finally, he can breathe a little more now.
A woman with red markings and a brown bob entered the living room behind Hana, interestingly wearing the flak jacket - she must've come here right after her shift. She immediately noticed Kiba through the open panel of the kitchen, and walked up to him.
Ah shit, here we go, Kiba thought as the woman affectionately pinched his cheek.
"Kiba-chan! Good job on passing!" The woman, Hachi, another aunt that was related to him somehow, or she wasn't actually related to him by blood, he doesn't remember, sang. He knew that she was Mimi’s mother, so likely she was blood-related. "I knew you could do it!"
"Thank you," Kiba managed to say, and she let go of him.
"Here's a lil’ something something," Hachi continued, and she produced a small envelope from her pocket,
"I can't accept this-" he started, actually wanting the money, but he knew he couldn't readily accept it.
Hachi immediately interrupted, pushing the envelope back to him, tatting, "Nuh uh. Keep it- buy yourself some new clothes for work or whatever you want to get."
Hachi was one of the younger aunts he had in the Inuzuka clan, though he wasn't sure how exactly they were related, she was one of the closer ones to him, he knew. She lived up to the young aunt role to anyone who called her Aunt Hachi - she was much more up to date with what was happening around the village, unlike the other aunts.
And she was the only one who gave out money as a gift when it wasn't New Year. It had helped Kiba out when he wanted to get something, but he didn't have the allowance for it or he knew Tsume would've said no.
“How many people are coming today?” Kiba asked when Hana entered the kitchen after Hachi left, who looked into the oven immediately.
"Everyone who can make it," Hana replied simply, as she took a pair of oven mitts that sat over the oven handle, putting them on as she opened the door. Immediately his senses were taken by the smell of food filling the space. He can't escape it- he could feel his mouth salivating. "That's why...you gotta give me a hand."
"What happened to Ma?" Kiba continued, waiting for the kettle to whistle while he watched Hana carefully place the large trays from within onto laid out towels on the counter.
"She should be here soon," Hana said, without much concern, her focus on the task at hand. "Tosa was out on a mission with her. He said she had to file a report with Uncle Tadao. Those things take a long while sometimes- you're gonna find out soon enough."
The doorbell rang, and Hana took off the oven mitts, heading out once again.
"Put the other trays inside the oven and set the timer to 20!" Hana said as she pointed out trays of meat on a different side of the kitchen counter.
"Please," Kiba emphasized to no one, taking the mitts and putting the trays into the oven.
It continued as such - more clans people entered the house as Hana greeted them, and Kiba was in and out of the kitchen to the dinner table, serving tea as more guests arrived and helping Hana with preparing the food. Eventually, the main courses were finished, and now Kiba simply stood by, waiting for Hana to signal that they could eat.
“Hey Ashi!” He heard his sister’s voice grow much chipper. “You decided to come! And who’s this little baby?”
"A baby?!" Akamaru barked beside Kiba, and started to bound excitedly away from Kiba towards the front.
“Hey, Akamaru!” Kiba replied, quickly following him, trying to catch him.
“Aw, what a cutie! Is this Kiba’s ninken? Sit!” A voice exclaimed delightfully, while Akamaru gave a cute ‘arf’ in response. Kiba peered around the corner, a young woman kneeling to the ground, as she petted Akamaru’s head, who had a tongue sticking out, panting. She continued, "Sorry, Ashimaru wasn’t feeling well!"
Kiba saw the young woman with long, dark brown hair and light brown skin, shorter than Hana in height, taking off her shoes. An equally young man stood beside her holding an infant in his arms, a bit paler than she was, and definitely taller than her, with ashy grey hair did the same. The woman had the red Inuzuka marks on her cheeks; the man, on the other hand, did not.
“Kiba!” the young woman exclaimed upon noticing Kiba, looking past Hana at him, and immediately entered the house. “Congratulations on becoming a Genin!”
“Thank you, thank you,” Kiba replied with a grin as he approached her, expecting her to give him a pat on the head, but rather, she reached over to pinch his cheek like a child. Because of course she would- every single one of them does this with him. “H-Hey! Ashi, leggo!”
“You might be considered a man now, but you’re still my little brother!” Ashi replied happily, letting go. “Aw, Hana, how’re they gonna let him go out on the field when he looks like this, huh?”
“Please, I’m not a kid anymore!” Kiba mumbled, rubbing the cheek she pulled, stinging. At this rate, he was getting worried about the state of his cheek at the end of the night.
Ashi was his cousin, not an immediate cousin, but she was one of Tsume’s nieces...from the many that she called a niece.
Growing up, Hana and her were close friends, always hanging out together. She treated Kiba nearly identical to how Hana would treat him, teasing him and treating him like an annoying little kid, but was much more obnoxious with it, unlike Hana who Kiba thought was at least, less loud and brash. It wasn’t until she started dating her now husband, that he hadn't seen her around the house. They got married two years ago, and immediately had, well...what her husband was holding in arms.
The baby looked blankly at Kiba, big round eyes staring as they watched him carefully, tiny fingers holding on to her father’s shirt, tufts of deep brown hair in pigtails with a bow on one side. Most of their limbs and body, rounded and curved, was covered in a long sleeved black dress, and some white bottoms and little socks with cute dog patterns around it. The baby, a girl named Akita, looked very much like an Inuzuka, despite her father having a starkly contrasting look from Ashi.
“You’ll always be that little kid,” Ashi mused, before turning around and heading back to the entryway. “Oh! And we got you something too!”
She rummaged through the basket that was under the red stroller, pulling out a purple gift bag, and held it up to him. “Here you go!”
“Ashi, you didn’t have to get him anything,” Hana replied. “He just became a Genin.”
“A Genin is still part of the force,” Ashi replied. “And Sanae thought you might need these! Your team is going to be a tracking team, right? You might want to start using these from now on.”
“How did you know?” Kiba asked as he accepted the gift, carefully peering through. Inside was a bag, sealed, with a few round purple balls inside, the size of a tennis ball. He knew immediately what it was, something that he has seen Hana and his mom packed when they were going to head out to a mission - smoke bombs. He hasn’t been able to practice with it, even at the Academy, the budget didn’t allow them to use every weapon, rather just look at it so they knew what it was.
“Everyone’s heard of the new Genin teams that passed by now,” the man, Sanae, behind them spoke up, his voice much softer than Ashi’s, and he took a step up the ledge. Everyone, Kiba assumed, was the shinobi forces. "Only three teams passed this year."
"Really?" Hana asked. "Last year, they only passed one."
“That one was an anomaly,” Ashi said. “Depending on how many teams they make, they put a limit; it’s always been typically 2-4 teams for about 8 years now? But, we are having a shortage of students becoming shinobis too, so that might be affecting our numbers.”
“They’re just not pumping out shinobis like they used to,” Hana replied with a shrug. “There were, like what, 60 students in my year? And we had about 6 teams that made it.”
“Yeah, it was something along those lines for me,” Ashi nodded, before glancing over to her husband. “What about your class?”
“Around that number as well,” Sanae agreed. “It was after the war, after all, so they really needed new shinobi. We had a lot more groups actually...about 10 teams?"
“Ah, that’s right,” Ashi sighed. “I forgot that you’re really old.”
Ashi quickly followed it with a loud laugh, while Sanae just smiled, not saying anything at Ashi’s joke at his expense.
Ashi continued, as they stepped inside, “I don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing that they have a limit with the number of students though. They should be lenient with it.”
“Nah, they’re like that so they can weed out the students that aren’t taking it seriously,” Hana added with a shrug. “Anyways, come inside, please. Kiba, please go make tea for both of them.”
“Alright,” Kiba said, refraining from groaning because, well, at least Hana said please this time. He was about to turn around, but not without bowing his head slightly. “I appreciate the gift. I’ll do my best.”
“Of course you will,” Ashi said, following behind Hana as they led them back down the hall, towards the living room. “You are Tsume’s kid after all.”
Right. He has and will always be known as Tsume’s kid...Hana’s brother… Kiba knew he had a lot more to live up to than most of his classmates had. He’s just going to have to work really hard to prove himself useful for his village.
They walked through the hallway, into the living room. The moment Sanae walked through with their child in hand, however, was when all attention from the rest of the clansmen turned towards them.
“Ashi brought the baby?” Isamu said, sitting up immediately to look over at Akita in Sanae’s arms.
“Hey, hey, where’s my hi, Uncle Isamu?” Ashi asked as she went around to the couches, leaning to give a side hug, to the people on the couches, receiving a nose kiss here and there, an unusual practice for those outside of the Inuzuka clan, but the constant norm they grew up with in the families.
“Yeah, hi,” Isamu said, distracted as Sanae brought the baby towards the center of the couches as he greeted his in-laws, letting Akita look around a bit, now looking a bit more happier at the multiple faces before her. “Sit here, Sanae.”
A demand, not a request, and Sanae looked at Isamu’s gesture towards the empty seat between himself and Gaku. Kiba could tell Sanae was thinking of something as he stared at the seat, and it took him a moment to finally respond with a hesitant smile, “A-ah, alright.”
Kiba watched from the kitchen as Sanae shuffled between the coffee table and the couch, his lean figure wedging itself between the two older men, their wide and muscular bodies taking up most of the space. He gave Akita to Isamu, who immediately swept the baby from his arms, lifting her up in the air before Sanae could protest. Akita, on the other hand, was making some happy sounds, and Isamu continued to gently lift her up and down, while cooing at her. Once Kiba finished making their tea, he placed it on the coffee table.
“Where’s your old man?” Haya asked as Ashi finally set herself down beside her after her greetings.
“He's still on a mission - he won’t be back until tomorrow,” Ashi said with a sigh.
“Already?” Haya asked, a quirk of an eyebrow. “I thought the doctor told him to take it easy with his injury.”
“Yeah, well, what can you do,” Ashi shrugged. “He sees it as a pride thing.”
“Nothing prideful about working with a busted kneecap,” Haya shook her head. Meanwhile, on the other couch, Isamu continued to play with Akita, now playing peek-a-boo while balancing her on his legs.
"Akita,” Gaku cooed from beside Sanae, quietly drinking his tea. “Come to Uncle Gaku."
"Uncle? You could be her grandpa," Tosa commented. Gaku immediately threw him a scowl.
"Don't mess it up for me- Tsume already made these kids call me old man, even when I told her not to," Gaku said while Isamu gently gave him the baby, holding the infant up in the air, before bringing her down to his face. “Who’s a cute little baby? Who’s a cute little baby? You are! You are!”
"Should've had your own, then," Haya commented, to which Isamu laughed.
"Gaku swore to never settle down," Isamu added as he leaned over towards the table, picking up the coffee mug that sat there.
"He made the right choice, then," Hachi replied from one part of the room, with a slight chuckle. "I can't imagine whoever he finds would stay for long."
"What is this slander?" Gaku scolded as he smiled towards Akita, who touched his beard curiously. Akita then reached out and tugged quickly on the tips of his beard and Gaku yelped. “OUCH!”
“H-hey, old man, you scared her!” Hana said when she saw Akita hesitate at Gaku’s yell, her face pausing momentarily as she began to frown. She quickly swooped Akita out of his hands when she let out a little cry. “Okay, okay, sh, sh, okay…”
“M-my bad,” Gaku hesitated, patting Akita on her back while she cried into Hana’s shoulder for a moment. Ashi simply let out a sigh.
“See, that's why Uncle Gaku can’t have his own, he doesn’t know how to reel in his own voice,” Ashi said, while she watched as Hana managed to calm her daughter down, taking a sip from her own tea. “He’ll just scare his own kid.”
“Sheesh…” Gaku mumbled as he took another sip from his cup, disappointed at Akita being quickly taken away from him. “I’m not even that loud- she’s just not used to loud noises, what, with Sanae-boy over here. And you managed to dial it back too, runt.”
“What’s that supposed to mean!" Ashi said deadpanned, but Gaku ignored her to reach a hand on Sanae’s shoulder.
Sanae nearly flinched at the sudden touch, his back much straighter now, and Kiba could tell that there was a rigidity to his form. Gaku then said, a bit of a smirk on his face, “How many more are you planning on having?”
“Oh we-!” Ashi started, but Gaku quickly interjected.
“Hold up, I’m asking Sanae over here,” Gaku said. “I haven’t heard the man talk in ages!”
Isamu decided to join in on badgering the young man, “That’s right! You’re not getting any younger you know! So how many are you two trying for?”
“Hm…” Sanae said, glancing over to Ashi, who watched him carefully. He then glanced around to the two men that surrounded him, expectantly waiting for him to respond. Kiba watched to see what he would say, knowing that this was their way of teasing Sanae, exclusively, and he could see his Adam's apple on his throat rise and fall as he swallowed.
It's not because he wasn't born into the Inuzuka clan, no, not at all. His Aunt Fuuko married into the clan.
It’s just because Sanae was an easier target than the other’s, with his quiet nature and his tendency to get nervous easily. Like he was at that moment.
“Maybe 3 more?” Sanae replied softly, earning a loud laugh from Gaku and Isamu. Ashi’s eyes opened slightly at his response.
“Atta boy,” Gaku laughed, smacking his back affectionately, and Kiba could see the embarrassment on Sanae’s face, the nature of the Inuzuka still making him flush, something that he was likely not comfortable with, only having married into the family 2 years ago.
“Get to it, then,” Isamu added, and they both let out a howl of laughter, while Sanae just stared into his cup, a sheepish smile on his face.
“Who the fuck-Oh shit, my bad,” Ashi started in a louder voice, before catching herself, glancing over at Kiba, alarmed.
"I already know those words," Kiba chimed in. "I'm not a kid anymore, please."
"Your mom better not catch you swearing," Ashi said quickly. She cleared her throat, continued evenly. “And besides, who's going to have more kids? Not me.”
“It’s not worth it, trust me. " Another voice, rougher and higher spoke from the entrance, drawing Kiba's attention. There stood his mother, with her green chunin vest open revealing the black shirt she wore underneath, the red swirl patch on the side. She had a square, white gauze along the side of her jaw, the lipstick she left with this morning wiped off and leaving a wine coloured stain on her lips. “Stick to a max of two kids, if you can.”
“Took you long enough, Tsume!” Gaku exclaimed as Tsume approached him, gripping her arm affectionately. “We can finally crack open the sake!”
“What, you guys didn’t give it to them, yet?” Tsume glanced over to Hana, noticing Akita in her arms and giving her a quick pat on the head. “What, do we not have any?”
“It’s not even that, we were waiting for more people to arrive,” Hana said, glancing over to Kiba. “Kiba! Can you go to the basement and pull out the cases?”
“Hana, let the boy rest, he’s been running around, serving everyone tea,” Fuuko said.
“Is that right,” Tsume said curiously, glancing over at Kiba, seeming a bit proud. “Well, you can do this last thing, and then you’re off the hook.”
“Seriously?” Kiba asked, and Tsume nodded, crossing her arms.
“Well, yeah, maybe this once,” Tsume said with a smirk. “You passed your test, and you helped Hana out. It’s fine- I’ll go get the alcohol. What do you all want?”
 Tsume’s voice yelled into the room, and the clansmen yelled out their requests; sake, beers, umeshu, you name it. They likely had it in their basement, tucked away behind a closet, waiting to be opened whenever they had family over or whenever Tsume was in a good mood. The door was always locked, the key always staying in a specific place in the cupboard, and while the key was accessible, Kiba never dared to touch it.
Kiba had tried to sneak into this closet once, when Tsume was sleeping on the couch, drunk and sound asleep from what Kiba could see, and Hana was nowhere to be seen in the house. He saw the key, gleaming on the coffee table, beckoning to come and pick it up, and he put his skills to the test - he was able to get the key soundlessly, and made his way down the stairs, the closet glowing at the end of the basement. He was so close, so close to opening the door, but the click from the lock unlocking made him hear footsteps on the floor above, and in a panic, Kiba escaped through the basement window, making his way back into the living room through the backyard. He quickly put the key back in place, Tsume disappearing from the couch and, he assumed, making her way to the basement, sniffing him out, and left it back where she had left it.
Finally! Kiba held back his sigh of relief as he went towards the table. I can eat!!!
“By the way, look what I brought with me,” Tsume pointed a thumb back behind her, and there was a man, younger than Tsume with less white hair running through his black hair, the red Inuzuka marks on his cheeks, and visible eyebags on his tanned face, leaning against the door frame. “Where’s Ken and Kega? Tell ‘em daddy’s home.”
“Please, wherever they are, leave them alone,” the man sighed, his voice low and tired, as he stood back up, walking towards an empty chair that sat nearby the couches, having been moved from the dining table. Tsume laughed as she made her way to the basement to retrieve the alcohol, Kuromaru following her quickly behind. The man groaned as he took a seat, leaning back into the cushion.
“Tadao, here,” Tosa said, gesturing towards himself as he stood up from his seat beside Ashi. “Sit here.”
“Nah, I’m good, thanks,” Tadao said, but even Kiba could tell from the way he shuffled side to side, he was trying to get comfortable on the chair.
“Now,” Tosa pressed, his voice, always grave, more demanding. “After all you did to track the payload, you need more support than me.”
After a moment, Tadao used an arm - his left arm - to push off the chair, the sleeve from his other arm swinging and swaying with each step, empty. Tosa took himself towards the side where Haya sat, leaning on the arm rest.
“Where’s the wife?” Hachi asked Tadao as he sat down, and he shook his head.
“Ah, you know. The Third is always working the Intelligence Unit to the ground nowadays,” Tadao said, flicking his left hand slightly, as he stretched his neck side to side, grunting slightly. “Kimi said she’ll come by as soon as she can, don’t you worry.”
“You should really see a massage therapist,” Ashi said, shuffling to give him more room. “You know it’s covered, right?”
“I don’t need that,” Tadao said. “Just get one of my kids to stand on my back for a bit and I’ll be fine.”
“Nice exploitation of their tiny feet,” Ashi said, shaking her head.
Tsume returned with a few long, white bottles in her hand, Kuromaru carrying a case of beers by it’s handle with his mouth. “Kiba, one more thing you gotta do- fetch the cups.”
“No problem,” Kiba replied, quickly going into the kitchen, getting all the sake cups, small white cups the size of a palm, and the longer beer glasses he could carry in his hands.
This was it. As always, when it comes to drinking Tsume is the first one to start the drinks and the last one finishing all of them. With his luck, since this was a bigger than usual celebration for their clan, hopefully his mom will get piss drunk within the next hour.
Kiba caught a glimpse of the sky through the sliding door, the blue of the daylight swapped with a deep pink and purple blend. The moon and stars should start showing any moment now- and he wanted to do what he wanted to do before it got too deep into the night.
That’d be more romantic, maybe, Kiba thought mindlessly as he placed the cups on the coffee table, the Inuzukas who wanted to drink - most of them, except for Tadao - gathered around, as Tsume poured the first bottle of sake, the clear liquid filling up the cup cleanly.
“Hey, Kiba!” Gaku said, gesturing for him to come closer. Kiba obeyed, and Gaku raised his cup towards him. “Here! Drink!”
“Uh-” Kiba hesitated immediately, and from the corner of his eyes, he watched closely as Tsume and Hana turned their attention to him.
“Uncle Gaku!” Hana exclaimed. “He’s underage!”
“Ah, c’mon Hana! I’m not offering him the whole drink,” Gaku said. “The boy’s a man now! A full fledged ninja, serving the good ol’ Leaf! You had a bit too, when you graduated!”
“Yeah, champagne, not sake!” Hana replied, and Gaku glanced over to Tsume.
“Well, Tsume? You gonna stop the boy?” Tsume looked at Kiba, who quickly glanced away, not wanting to move unless he got his mother’s okay. Gods knows what her mood was like today, but Kiba wanted to play it safe without getting an earful.
“Let the pup try,” Tsume said, curiously. “He’s not gonna take more than a sip anyways.”
“Alright!” Gaku put the cup in Kiba’s hands, Kiba stumbling to keep the cup steady in his hand, the liquid sloshing out slightly. “A toast to Kiba - the newest Inuzuka to join the Leaf forces and serve the Village! From here on out, you’re no longer a boy, but a full-fledged man! Kanpai!”
“Kanpai!”
“Kanpai,” Kiba mumbled, lifting his cup up towards them as they cheered and whooped, watching as Kiba put the cup to his lip. He hesitated slightly, the smell much stronger in his nostrils, and he could make out every element in this liquid, every fermented grain of rice that went into it. He quickly pursed his lips and sipped… before quickly coughing, the liquid burning as it went down his throat into his stomach. His chest immediately felt warm, a weird warmth he hasn’t felt before, but the taste was both sweet and bitter, if that was even possible.
“Well, now we know he hasn’t been drinking,” Tsume laughed as Kiba quickly gave the drink back to Gaku, who gave his back some hard taps.
“Of course, he knows you’ll give him a run for his life,” Haya cackled after downing her drink.
“You bet I would,” Tsume stated proudly, as she picked up the same bottle again. “C’mon, c’mon, let’s drink some more!”
“Uh, Mom, you should slow down,” Hana said cautiously, and Tsume gave a wave of her hand.
“It’s time to celebrate, Hana! Come here, grab something to drink,” Tsume said, as she filled up the cups once again, while chatter took over, as it always does in an Inuzuka household.
Hana just sighed in response, and came towards the side of the living room, where at this point, Kuromaru had brought more drinks by himself. She squatted down beside him, and asked, “You got anything light?”
“No ma’am, you would have to go out and buy it yourself,” Kuromaru spoke, his lips forming the words in their human language.
“Figures,” Hana said, as she stood up. “And we don’t have any chasers...Kiba. You want to go to get me some soda.”
“Are you asking me or telling me?” Kiba said as he watched Hana go to the front, pulling open the closet and rummaging through the coats that hung.
“Both,” Hana said plainly. “Just get me one of those 1 litre sodas. Here.”
Hana lifted her hand, producing a paper rectangle, a 500 ryo. Kiba grimaced.
“Don’t you have a 200? It doesn’t cost that much for sodas,” Kiba replied, and Hana just smiled.
“Use the rest of the money for whatever you want,” Hana replied. She then placed both hands on her hips, giving a quirk of her eyebrow. “Don’t stay out too late, alright? And no funny business either.”
“Wha- What’s that supposed to mean?!” Kiba exclaimed, feeling sweat starting to form on the nape of his neck, the tips of his ears heating up, watching carefully as Hana passed him.
“I said what I said,” Hana said with a shrug, and gave him a slight wave of a ‘see ya’, before returning back to the living room, the noise from the chattering and yelling never diminishing despite the wall that separated the room and the hallway.
“Alright, Akamaru,” Kiba whispered, despite knowing that there was no way his mother or anyone could even hear him from the amount of noise they were making. “Let’s hurry up.”
“Master! Where are we going?” Akamaru barked as Kiba slipped into his sandals, zipping up and strapping them in. Kiba didn’t reply, grabbing a beige hoodie from inside the closet, instead opening the door, running outside, Akamaru hot on his heels.
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Kiba walked briskly through the main streets of Konoha, the winter night darkening the sky immediately, the streetlights along the sides illuminating the roads in a yellow hue. The streets were still bustling with folks making their way home from a long day’s work, shinobi and civilians alike on walking along the path with coworkers, friends, and families, some on their way home from work, other on their way to work, some on their way to their shifts,
The night was cool. Or, as cool as it could be for a January in Konoha. The wind provided most of the chills, and Kiba was happy he had the forethought to grab a hoodie on the way on. There was the scent of warm foods, mostly soup based items, he noted; ramen, oden, sukiyaki, nabe… All foods that you would enjoy on a cold winter night such as this. He inhaled sharply, the coolness of the air, filling his lungs, cooling his warm body, easing his heart that was beating loudly.
He glanced down to Akamaru, trotting alongside him, admiring the stores that lined up along the street. The lights from the stores casted shadows on the road, shaped in the window panel that were there.
The stores didn’t close for a few more hours, he knew, and this gave him the opportunity to take a quick trip towards the northern part of the village, tucked away near the land where the forestry laid outside of the training ground boundaries.
His hands were stuffed into the pocket in the front of his hoodie, fiddling with the headband and wallet inside.
Should he wear the headband? Well, there were no regulations about wearing it off-duty, clearly, since his mother would come home in the middle of the night still wearing it around her arm while drunk with her colleagues. But would he seem like a douche if he did? But he worked hard to pass that test, so maybe he does deserve to wear it...but no, he didn’t want to seem like a show-off just yet.
Hmm...Should he buy something before seeing her?
Nah, that'd be too much. But, then again, if he was going to tell her...how he felt...wouldn't it be better to woo her beforehand?
Should he buy a flower or something? Chocolates? Girls like that type of stuff, right? Akane might try to say she’s different from the other girls in their class, but Kiba knew that she enjoyed those types of things. What do guys his age typically do when they confess to a girl?
Maybe he should’ve asked Hana about this? He didn’t tell anyone about him meeting up with Akane to confess...he didn’t tell Itsuki, nor Natsuo...he didn’t even tell Akamaru, and right now the pup probably thought they were just going on a little stroll around town. Hana might have provided some information about what girls like and whatever...but no, he can’t tell Hana, because he knew for a fact that when it came to matters like this, Hana would tell Tsume.
And Tsume was adamant about Kiba staying focused on being a shinobi, telling him not to waste time on stupid things that would just waste his time in the long run.
But what does Tsume know about love anyways?
He’s not the one who chased his dad away.
Nah, I don’t think she cares that much, Kiba thought as he continued to make his way up the street, the road now sloping upwards in a hill. Konoha was unique in its layout- built near a tall mount, the streets are sloped and slanted in different ways, leftovers of the land before the Village had even installed the roads and buildings they had today. It made for one hell of a trip, though, and oftentimes the villagers would have to determine a route around the village that would enable more flat roads, especially for merchants that travel into the village on a delivery.
There were no shortcuts where Kiba was heading, though. He headed to the forest that was not used for training, a forest reserved for those who work in woodwork, to the Moritaka residence, a civilian family that had a history of producing the top master carpenters for the village.
The Moritaka handled a portion of wood production for Konoha to use and export, chopping down wood, processing them into lumber, and creating structures with it. The Konoha cemetery recently had to rebuild the torii of the entrance, rainfall from previous years having rotted through into the wood, and the Moritaka were responsible, from what Akane had told him with pride.
Akane kind of had her future already made for her, kind of like how Kiba already had one as a shinobi. She didn’t have to become a shinobi, and it’s not like being a shinobi was any less hard, especially physically. At least, as a carpenter, you don’t need to use chakra either, something else that made being a shinobi incredibly exhausting. And it wasn’t like Akane would have to pick up carpentry herself- she could just handle the business aspect of their company, and Kiba knew that she preferred sitting at a desk working on numbers more than using her hands.
Doesn’t matter, though, Kiba thought as he ventured deeper down a street, away from the main streets and into a path, the streetlights much further apart from one another, leaving spots that were darker. The path started to merge into a heavily forested area, lines of trees on both sides, segmented from the path with stone. The night sky could be seen better without the yellow of the lights, and he can see the moon starting to rise, a crescent. I’m a Genin and she’s…
Kiba hoped that Akane’s team passed for more reasons than just seeing Akane at work. Itsuki, Natsuo...they were his friends too, and while he was closer to the first than the latter, he had to have something familiar around him, people that he actually liked and grew up with in the same field, to keep him grounded and...well…
Comfortable.
Kiba soon noticed the path diverging, and he took the path that led deeper, where most of the trees stood haphazardly, thicker and taller in size compared to the trees he had just passed by. The scent differed as well - there were more evergreens here, a new variety of forestry that was always further away from the village. Further down, he could see a wooden house that stood, wide and tall, a singular floor, classical and traditional in nature, minka-esque but modern. The roof, rather than being tiled, was thatched. The lights were on, lighting up the surrounding area, and the front light was on as well, the front door opened wide. As he got closer, he saw a figure coming out, their long hair swaying as they held a tiny brush with an inkpot cradled in their palm, and a scroll on the other hand along with a lantern.
Kiba stopped in his tracks, and his once steady heart started to beat frantically. He was further away from any light source, enveloped in the darkness in between, and he knew that the person couldn’t see him from where he stood. The person started to make their way to the side of the house, towards the back, deeper into the forest.
Maybe he should wait before confessing. No! He told himself that when he graduated from the Academy, he would ask her out! He can’t be a wuss and back off right now! What kind of man does that?
“Akane!”
He called out to her without putting much thought, his voice cracking in between, and now he could feel a wave of embarrassment wash over him. Gods, when will his voice stop cracking?!
Akane stopped in her tracks, turning around to look directly at Kiba. Kiba gulped, clenching his hands into fists, taking a sharp breath to calm his nerves. He walked up to Akane, and Kiba was taken aback by what he saw - Akane had square gauze taped on the side of her cheek, scratches and redness evidence along her nose and her jaws. She still wore the outfit that she had worn the other day, but Kiba could see how the edges frayed, and she was no longer wearing her sandals with the heels, but her home loafers. She didn’t look bad, but she definitely looked like she'd been in a fight; clearly, from the test they had to take in order to become Genins.
“Kiba,” Akane said, her voice a bit lower than normal, a bit more isolated and distant. She must have noticed how Kiba was staring at the gauze on her cheek, and she quickly raised a hand towards it, attempting to cover it with her hand. Akamaru gave a light bark in greeting, drawing her attention towards the small dog. “And Akamaru...What...are you guys doing here?”
“Uh,” Kiba started, returning his glance back at her eyes, clearing his throat. “Uh, well..you said you wanted to meet up, remember? After our first day…”
“Oh,” Akane said slowly, hesitantly, twirling a strand of her purple hair, before she nodded. “Yeah, I forgot about that. My bad. I got home a few hours ago and...My mom wanted me to check the warehouse for a last inventory check.”
“It’s okay,” Kiba said evenly. “You weren’t expecting it either, right? You know...the test.”
He could see Akane’s eyebrows twitching inwards when he said ‘test’, the edge of her lips pulling downwards, into a slight grimace. She stopped herself before she could frown further, instead shaking her head. “Yeah. Took us all by surprise. Did you...see the guys before coming here?”
“Nah, I couldn’t, I was stuck at home with my family,” Kiba sighed. “I wanted to come see you as soon as I can.”
To this, Akane glanced away, but her grimace never left her face. “I see…”
“Do you want me to walk you to the warehouse,” Kiba suddenly said, gesturing towards the lantern in her hand. “I can take that. You’re carrying a lot already.”
Akane stared at him for a moment, looking like she was thinking. She then let out a slight breath, and held up the lantern towards him, before continuing in a much softer tone, “Sure. Don’t hog it. I know how scared you are of the dark.”
“Pft, me? Scared? I ain’t scared of anything,” Kiba chuckled as he took the lantern. Their hands brushed against each other. “Akamaru can protect us, isn’t that right, boy?”
“Yessir! Just leave it to me,” Akamaru barked, as he bounced his way in front of them, ready to walk once they started. Kiba glanced over at Akane, who now had a small smile on her face as she watched Akamaru.
They walked the rest of the way to the warehouse in silence, neither of them starting the conversation. Kiba was too preoccupied about what to say next...when should he confess? Now or later? Should he ask her about her day? Or maybe he should ask about the test...no, no, that’d be too straightforward. But he had another concern too that threw a wrench in what he thought was supposed to be happening...Akane was being unusually quiet and low, and very distant. He didn’t even need to hear her say it - she had an atmosphere around her that was unwelcoming, almost shut off. What should he say? What can he say-
“Let’s sit for a bit,” Akane suddenly spoke, gesturing towards the log that laid in front of the warehouse entrance, the top part cut through to create a flat surface. Kiba immediately sat down, thankful she said something first. Akane sat beside him, a little distance between them. Akamaru hopped on the bench, beside Akane, and Akane picked him up, putting him on her lap, as she patted his soft fur gently.
“How was the test for your team?” Akane asked, never looking at Kiba, keeping her eyes on Akamaru, who now laid on her lap, his eyes closed as her fingers ran through his fur.
“Terrible,” Kiba groaned, using his hands to lean back a bit on the surface. “Our sensei had the brilliant idea of capturing the flag thing with her headband, but the only thing is, she knows how to use genjutsu!”
“Yeah…”
“And we spent hours and hours just trying to find her by ourselves! She put me in a genjutsu and everything, it was so bad,” Kiba laughed. “The Academy didn’t teach us shit, but luckily I remembered what Iruka-sensei taught us with Kai, and I was able to get out...but we ended up with an hour left! So we had to team up and we managed together.”
To this, Akane looked up towards Kiba.
“We?”
“Well, yeah...Hinata and Shino,” Kiba continued, his voice a bit lower, reflecting on what had happened. “Shino made this whole plan for all of us to get the headband and we all had to...basically work together to get it.”
“For real?” Akane asked, quirking her head to the side, her bangs falling to frame her face. The moonlight looked nice against her face. She continued with a bit of a laugh, “Even with that creepy bug fanatic?”
“You know, I didn’t think I would ever get along with them,” Kiba shook his head. “But we did and...well...we got the headband in the end…”
Without each other, I don’t think we would have got it.
“So that means…” Akane mumbled, and Kiba knew this was the perfect time to tell her. He brought out his headband from his hoodie pocket, the Konoha leaf gleaming underneath the white moonlight, and he held it between them.
“Yeah,” Kiba said. “I’m officially a shinobi now.”
Kiba expected Akane to smile. He expected her to be her cheerful self immediately, grabbing him by the arm like she usually did, and congratulate him on becoming a shinobi. But instead, between the whiteness of the moon and orange of the lantern, he could see Akane’s eyes widening, her smirk dropping quickly as she stared at the headband. Her hand froze on Akamaru, no longer moving.
There was a silence that fell between them. Kiba didn’t know what to say. He didn’t know what else to say. He was expecting her to have a better reaction- he did just pass a very gruelling test, the hardest one they ever had to take in their many years of training.
And yet...there wasn’t a sign of anything from Akane.
“So what about you,” Kiba broke the silence, his voice slightly hoarse.
“...” Akane looked away, staring straight at the ground, not saying anything.
“...Akane?”
“...We…” She paused quickly, hesitantly, her voice cracking. She gave Kiba a side glance, not being able to face him. “We...we failed…”
The air froze around them, the silence filled with the wind whipping past them, howling. Kiba stared at her, waiting for her to say “joking!” or “sike!”, but Akane just went back to staring at the ground, saying nothing more.
“Wha-” Kiba started, processing what he just heard. They...failed? How was that possible?
“Our sensei thought that...since we didn’t work together during our test...he failed all of us…” Akane explained. “He said that if we wanted to even think about becoming shinobi that we should...take it more seriously and go back to the Academy or just quit while we’re at it. Can you believe it?”
Harsh, Kiba thought, not knowing what to say. Console her? Say everything is going to be alright? She might get mad at him for saying that, she doesn’t like it whenever he is like that with her...
"Well...I guess there's always next year," Kiba replied, though he wasn’t even sure. Akane didn't look his way. "Right? You're gonna take the test again next year?"
Another uncomfortable silence fell between them, and Kiba could feel his throat running dry. The blood in his veins had been pumping non-stop, and it was making his heart beat louder, audible to his own ears, and the silence did not help the situation at all.
“Seriously? That’s all you have to say?” Akane asked, her voice sharper than before.
“W-what?” Kiba asked, and Akane scoffed.
"Forget about it. I'm gonna take the year off," Akane finally said. "Just gonna work for the family business as I figure some stuff out."
Kiba couldn’t stop himself from frowning.
"What? You can't give up now,” Kiba said, his voice a bit steadier, a bit more passionate in his tone. “We studied and trained super hard all these years just to get here! If you miss out on a year, you’ll have to catch up for another year! And you guys know better now...you can retake the test and pass-"
"Yeah, well, easy for you to say all that," Akane scoffed. "You're the one with the headband."
He was immediately taken aback. What was her problem? He was only trying to help; she was the one who wanted to be a ninja too...right?
And what’s going to happen to them if Kiba and Akane’s paths diverge here? Kiba would be a shinobi, while Akane stayed behind...what would happen between them...
"Well-"
"Is that all you wanted to talk about?" Akane asked suddenly as she got up. Akamaru quickly hopped off her lap, onto the ground, looking at her confused. "I have to finish logging in the inventory."
"Oh," Kiba said slowly, standing up immediately. "Uh...yeah… I guess I'll see you later, Akane?"
"Yeah...see you around."
Akane walked into the warehouse without another word, lantern in hand, never looking back as she closed the door behind her, leaving it slightly open. Kiba stood there, staring at the door, not knowing what to do, a vortex of emotions swirling deep in his chest. He was finding it hard to breathe.
He never got to confess but...he felt like he was basically being rejected, but not romantically.
He was now a shinobi. And she is, well... a civilian. And would likely continue to be so.
He was now shut out from her life.
And he felt his chest squeeze slightly, his breath increasing as he slowly walked away from the door Akane had closed. Is this what rejection feels like? Or is this what it feels like when a bond you held dear to you is severed…
I guess… I’ll never know, Kiba thought, continuing down the path he had walked on, without a second glance back.
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Unus Annus goes Dark
Story contains: foodplay, soft fearplay, safe vore and soft vore
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“Ssh, shh…. Don’t struggle. You knew this was coming.” These words came at a loud rumble that shook the pulsing grey flesh around you more than the groans and other gastric noises that had greeted you when you had first entered their embrace. The flesh continued to hold you firmly in place as you tried to push them away, easily pushing back your flailing limbs and continued to have its way with exploring you, the walls squeezing and rolling up and down your body in periodic waves. There was another pressure that found itself moving across your body in a circular motion, it was the hand of the monster of the man that had turned you into a mere snack.
You struggled harder against the flesh and ignored the words and feeling of his hand pressing in against you, screaming expletives that would easily lead you to need a good mouth scrubbing of soap to clean your mouth, though the mouth you were shoved into could also have gone with a good cleaning. It was a horrid cavern of the same grey flesh of the stomach with hints of red and blue found in the old 3-D glasses and reeked of the unnamed wine that he drank before he swallowed you, and judging from the splash of liquid that rained down on your head, was still enjoying.
“Your flavor really plays well with this Pinot noir, surprising that an imbecile like Mark would own a bottle of wine like this. Your struggles are really just going to cause you to wear yourself out at your size, just relax and it will be over soon.” This was followed by a deep rumbling chuckle as another wave of wine joined the ever-growing pool of liquid that surrounded your body, the strange glow from the walls showing that the pool was now to your stomach as you sat in your curled position, and you were hoping that the level wouldn’t rise any higher. The stomach gave a deep sounding gurgle as it tightly gripped your form and rubbed more slim into your already soaked hair, clothing, and skin. It was incredibly disgusting and you really wished that it would stop and you could go back to before this even happened.
How did you get into this situation? Why it was all Mark and Ethan's fault without the supervision of Amy of course.
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It was supposed to be a normal, well as normal as an Unus Annus video could get, but it was supposed to be normal for their standards. You were invited along for the experience since you were old schoolmates with Ethan and happened to be visiting the area since travel restrictions had been lifted and you were so happy to see your old friend again. It was a surprise that Mark would allow you to join in on their newest video idea, potion-making as he called it, but it was the best thing that they could come up with since Amy wasn’t there to help or be an adult and supervise. It led to you taking her spot and watching carefully as the boys went around the internet making these supposed ‘potions’ and testing them on various things as you tried to prevent them from poisoning themselves. A color-changing potion led to Mark turning into a pale shade green as he ran to the closest bathroom while the skin on Ethan's hand was quickly starting to dry and peel as his ‘Skin armoring’ potion was causing the top layer of his skin to act like he had been sunburned. It almost caused you to have a heart attack as you rushed him to the sink to get the gunk off of him before it caused some serious damage, especially since the big goof was starting to say, “Is this supposed to start getting warm?”
You sat down roughly on the couch after this last stunt, clearly tired from running about and keeping the two man-children alive, you were so tired that you gladly accepted the glass held out to you by Mark. You took a quick drink of it and violently gagged as the taste hit your tongue and the mix slid down your throat, looking down in the glass you didn’t find what you hand thought to be water, but instead, it was a strange blue liquid that seemed to have red streaks running through it. You glared up at both of the boys as they held the camera up to gage your reaction at drinking the ‘shrinking potion’ recipe that they had found online. You were quick to yell at the boys for tricking you into drinking the strange liquid after they had been testing the last few on their skin, and as you were yelling at them you felt yourself slowly start to get light-headed, and the feeling got so overpowering that your vision went dark and your body collapsed on itself. The last thing you heard was the two boys yelling your name before you fully lost consciousness.
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Your head gave a low throb that slowly roused you from your impromptu sleep and the worried tones of Mark and Ethan were the first thing that you recognized from the other muffled sounds of the room. Your attempt to open your eyes caused you to flinch due to the brightness of the lights, but you pushed through the pain to try and see the space around you and was really shocked to realize what had happened. The faces of the boys were very concerned, but they were supersized to the point of something out of a telling of Jack and the beanstalk. You looked down at yourself to see that while you were physically fine for the most part, but you had been visibly shrunken to a smaller size, not sure the exact size but that's beside the point.
Mark was the first to move, gently reaching out a hand to press a finger to touch your shoulder, flinching just as bad as you do when said finger is the same size as you are. “Oh, I didn’t think that this would happen, none of those were supposed to work.” Ethan was the next to reach for you, moving way slower and gently laying his hand onto the couch palm up to invite you to clamber onto it, to which you did, and he lifted you to be held gently against his chest in a protective hold.
“Is there any way that we can fix this, do you think that we need to give Jack a call and see if he can help, she can't stay like this.” He held you tighter to his chest in a protective hold as he looked around the house in worry, “he isn't around is he?” 
Mark shook his head as he glanced about the house as well,” none of them should be, I had them leave so we could film today and they shouldn't be back for a good while, so no risk of the egos taking advantage of this.” He looked down at you and gave a slightly strained smile,” everything is going to be fine, we're going to get hold of Jack and Marvin so we can fix you ok.” He gently took you from a slightly unwilling Ethan and held you up so he can look you in the eye,” I'm going to put you in my room and lock the door until we can get in contact with Jack so you'll be safe in case any of my egos come home early and turn this into a game or something ok.”
You asked why you couldn’t just stay with them when they made the call, because wouldn’t it just be safer that way? But this just caused Mark to shake his head as the three of you made your way into Mark's room, with Ethan grabbing you a few small candies that would be easy for you to open if you got hungry while I waited. Mark opened his door and ushered Chica to stay out as they went inside, she was very interested in you and it made Ethan very nervous as you were now treat sized for the excitable pup.
Mark gently placed you onto the middle of his bed with Ethan placing the candies to your left as the two backed away as not to crowd you or make you feel any smaller than you already felt, Ethan was the first to speak after a short moment of silence,” We’re going to fix you, I can’t have one of my best friends the size of my fingers, though you might make a great parrot to sit on my shoulder.” His and Mark's laughter made you relax greatly and you moved to wedge yourself between the few pillows on the bed to give yourself some cover and waved at the boys from your ‘ real pillow fort’. 
The boys quickly went out of the room and it was easy to hear the loud click of the lock and the voices and loud footsteps of the two as they trailed away to go call Jack and Marvin to see if magic could combat the surprisingly effective shrinking potion. You were actually making some light of the situation, your new size allowed you to enjoy candy that would normally be finished in a few seconds to holding a piece the size of your own head.
You were so engrossed with the more intense flavoring of the candy that Ethan left that you didn’t even notice that a corner of the bedroom grew darker and darker until a very low voice echoed across the room and broke you from your trance.
“So I see that the ‘potion’ that I gave those two worked perfectly, you're just the size I expected you to be.” 
You whirled around to see the one ego of Mark’s that you didn’t want to see, Darkiplier, you had met him a few times when you had hung out with the boys before and he always put you on edge before with his strange ‘flirting’ as he put it. You had always done your best to avoid him to hang out with the other egos or doing your best to not be alone with him if you could help it. It now seemed like you couldn’t help it. 
You went to scream for either Mark or Ethan to help you, but you found that you couldn’t for some reason, and still couldn’t no matter how hard you tried. You glared at the monochrome man to get some form of explanation from him, but jumped when you saw that he was now leaning over you with a small smile that was anything but innocent.
”You realize that you can't say anything now, those candies were just perfect sized for you weren't they, Ethan thought that you would enjoy them so much that he didn't notice that they were on the table only after he went to find you something to eat.” He shook his head as if he was disappointed but kept on his smile as he looked down on your form, ” such a simple fool.”
You felt yourself flush with rage as he insulted your friend, taking one of his ’candies’ and throwing it as hard as you could at his face, and only got angrier as he caught the candy before it would hit him in the face.
He tisked lightly and shook his head, ” Now that's no way for you to act, you're just going to tire yourself out before the main event.” He was quicker than you thought and you found yourself gripped in his eerily cold hands in a tight grip, he smiled down at you, showing a full row of teeth this time. “Let’s take this somewhere a little more private,” and your vision went dark once more.
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You awoke again to find yourself in a dimly lit room that reeked of heavy cologne and looked like it came from an old-time black and white film. The only color in the room was the large burgundy bed that sat in the middle of the room, and the same one that Dark was sitting on and he held you in one hand and a half-filled wine glass in the other.
“Glad to see that you're up now, it wouldn’t be fun if you were asleep for the whole thing, here I was trying to help act out your little fantasy.” He took a light swig of his wine, seemingly taking his time to taste it before he swallowed it, his Adam’s apple moving slowly as the liquid past down his throat. He laughed at your confused expression,” don’t act so confused, it’s not like you haven’t wished to be like this wine, or haven’t you~.”
Those purred out words caused you to flush once again but in embarrassment this time. You thought you hid your feelings on the subject very well, barely anyone knew about them except for the few online friends you had, how could he have found out. You yelped when you were pressed against the grey flesh of his throat as he took another drink from his glass, feeling and hearing how the muscles of his throat opened and closed to usher down the wine with a wet gurgling sound.
”Ah, nothing goes down easier than a nice glass of red, ” he pulled you away from his throat to hold you before his face with a scary smile on his face, ” I don't imagine you will be the same, but that's what I'm looking forward too.”
He moved to hold you above his head and tilted his back, giving you another grin before he opened his mouth below your dangling feet, causing you to jerk them upwards as you looked down as the grey flesh of his mouth and tongue; and the caszam of a throat. You gave a countless yelp as he worked his fingers to hold you in place and he lowered you low enough for his tongue to snake out and work its way around your legs, forcing them to straighten as he pulled them inside to taste them despite your struggling. He gave a low hum as he took in the apparent flavor of your bare legs as you cursed your past self for deciding to wear shorts, the slimy appendage doing it's best to not leave a single patch of skin untouched. Your thrashing didn’t seem to bother him as he lowered your body further inside, your legs being forced into the tightness of his throat and your torso now being subjected to the rough treatment of the tongue with your arms being held out as you were being supported by the lips of your current devourer.
You continued to try and yell all of the angry words coursing through your mind at him, but nothing but a whispery whine came from your throat. You glared up at the massive face and the one eye the was halfway open to watch your reaction, and you felt the lips holding your chest mold into a smirk as you felt the tongue slide up your back as everything tilted even higher up your weight being only held by both the fingers holding your arms and the tongue pressing your body into the rough pallet. This changed as the mouth opened wider and you could only look down to see your legs already gripped tightly in the esophagus, the muscles jerking your legs down lightly as Dark took a light swallow. You looked up to see both of his eyes wide open watching your reaction, they held your stare for a few moments before he gave you a quick wink before the fingers released their grip and you felt yourself fall farther into the mouth until you were stopped by your hips getting caught by the back of the tongue and the mouth closing on your upper body.
You tried to use your hands to press at the palate and tongue to get as much space as you could from the slimy flesh and keep as much of the saliva off of your face as you could, but it was useless. You yelped in a stronger voice as the tongue pressed you roughly to the roof of the mouth, your voice was coming back. This only brought a single moment of joy before a loud gulp yanked your body further into the throat, your face being pressed into the rubbery flash and being moved downwards in a confusing sensation of being both pushed and pulled deeper into Dark’s body. You felt yourself nearly get sick over hardly being able to breathe, the deafening sound of whooshing lungs, and the pounding of a heart you didn’t know that he had, you couldn’t even focus on your own thoughts through the catastrophe of sounds. The journey felt so long until you felt yourself get bunched up painfully when your feet hit an apparent wall and you were forced into a stop while the throat continued to press at you in rhythmic waves, you thrashed as best as you could and froze when you heard low chuckle rumble the throat around you before you heard another loud swallow and you were unceremoniously shoved into the already gurgling stomach, the organ happy to greet you.
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You curled tighter into yourself as you tried to get away from the intruding fingers that tried to feel your form through the flesh, not wanting to give him any more enjoyment through struggling against him, getting annoyed at the rumbling laugh that shook your chamber.
“Don’t act so upset, you should be enjoying yourself, isn't this what you always wanted, to be swallowed up by someone and held closer than normally possible.” The voice went softer and the hand-pressed further into you with softer circles and the stomach clenched you tighter,” You're going to be fine, just relax and enjoy yourself, I'll let you out later before the boys lose their heads too much.”  
The words came as a big surprise to you, you were positive that you weren't going to see the outside world again, so you decided to go against your better judgment and take his word. You let your body relax from its tight curl and let the stomach walls fully support your body weight, and found that the walls could easily do it without the noticeably smaller amount of liquid going any higher, and it seemed the stomach decide to churn around you more gently now that you weren't fighting it, moving in slower waves than it had before. The low humming that came from the man also added to the new sereneness of his stomach, and you were finding it very hard not to fall asleep after fighting so much before. 
The monochrome bastard was right, you really were living out your fantasy of being held so closely by someone that they were practically everything around you, and the new feeling of safeness was astounding. You found yourself snuggling closer to the gentle stroking that was coming from the massive hand outside, and couldn't help but fall asleep rather quickly once you closed your eyes.
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Catch You
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The fourth oneshot in my Kinktober series
Summary: Mingi is a guardian angel who loves his assignment. Sure he spends all his time protecting her from a series of unlikely events thanks to a curse that has been on her family since her great grandmother, but hey she’s cute, funny, and smart. It’s not a bad deal really.
Wordcount: 2.7k
Content warnings: Really, nothing...maybe an unrequited crush? This is mostly a pure fluff humor piece and a little bit of how I imagine Mingi would be as a guardian angel out there living his best life.
Suggested music I’m Gonna Be by The Proclaimers and Just the Way You Are by Bruno Mars
Mingi sat at the end of her bed. She was so precious when she was sleeping. So much less trouble, too. Not that he would change charges for anything in the world. She was just a little more work than he had anticipated. Not everyone had a guardian angel because, well, not everyone actually needed one. Most people had ordinary luck, lived ordinary lives, and didn’t have a generational curse.
She was different. Her great grandmother had pissed someone off enough to have gotten a curse that had lasted for four generations. He hadn’t been told what had been done and he hadn’t even thought to ask when he was assigned to her. Maybe he should have, then he would have been better prepared.
Soon she would be getting up and starting her day, and his, but for now she was tucked in and sleeping peacefully. He wished a little that she knew he was there. Maybe it would make things just a little bit easier. She would look a third time before crossing the street or just go a little slower in life that would give him a little more time to react.
Alas, she didn’t know he was there, didn’t know how hard he worked to keep her alive and well, didn’t know that she had worked her way into a little corner of his heart. She lived her life, ignorant of him, as she was supposed to.
The alarm on her bedside buzzed, starting both of their days. While she groped for the ‘damned machine’ as she often called it, Mingi deftly pulled the glass of water out of the way, letting her turn off the alarm before setting the cup down on the bedside table again so it would be where she left it when she got a drink before getting out of bed. She was at least pretty predictable, he consoled himself.
She stretched, took a drink, and threw back the covers with a smile, ready to start the day. First thing was first, he narrated in his head, shower. Together they headed down the hallway to her bathroom. Stripping off the shirt she had slept in, she tossed it into the laundry basket, barely making it in and, somehow, unbalancing it until Mingi hopped forward, catching it and setting it right. Would it have killed her to have the laundry on the floor? By itself no, but the curse sort of worked like a Rube Goldberg machine, relying on a series of highly unlikely events that alone were inconsequential, but cumulatively could lead to her death.
How did a basket of laundry play a part? Well, the laundry falls, covers up the bar of soap that had dropped (something he had picked up yesterday), she steps out of the shower to find that her towel had dropped into the toilet (thanks to a loose screw he had instead tightened three days ago) so she steps out dripping wet instead, leaving a puddle on the floor that, in combination with the soap, makes for the perfect bathroom slip and slide that ends with her smacking her head against the edge of the tub and… well that would be the end of his assignment.
So that was most of his day, spotting those odd, unlikely events in her life that could lead to her untimely end. She turned on the water and undid her hair before stepping in under the water. Mingi checked inside the tub, having a niggling suspicion that something was slightly amiss. Nothing in the tub… the curtain rod was fine… ah-ha! Somehow the hot water faucet was loose and… slowly turning itself on more? Ugh, why? With a sigh, Mingi sat down on the edge of the tub holding the faucet in place. When she was done he would mess with it, make sure it was tight and do a little something to clear the curse that was animating it. But now, he would just hold it and let her take her shower in peace.
“I don't care if Monday's blue, Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too,” she sang as she soaped herself up behind the curtain. “Thursday, I don't care about you, It's Friday, I'm in love…”
Was it Friday again already, Mingi wondered to himself. I guess it is, he recalled, singing along with her as she belted out her favorite start-the-day song for Fridays. She was cute when she sang in the shower, so uninhibited. No one was listening, well no one but him and he didn’t really count.
He felt her hand go through his as she turned off the water, signaling the end of her shower. Letting go of the faucet, Mingi moved over to the other side of the bathroom, deliberately giving her his back while she put on her towel and dried off. She was still singing and he hummed along with her, listening for where she was in the bathroom. Teeth were brushed, a bit of makeup put on, and hair was fixed up for the day.
“You’re having a good hair day,” Mingi commented with a grin.
“Man, if only I knew what I did some days to get this look,” she muttered to herself, almost as if she had heard his compliment. “Not that I am going to complain on the good days.”
“You always look lovely, though,” he sighed, following her as she headed back to the bedroom to get dressed. Putting on her underthings first, she went to her closet to decide what exactly she was going to wear today.
“Hmmm, is it a lacy sort of day or badass business woman sort of day,” she wondered aloud, flipping through her wardrobe.
“You’re badass even in lace,” he said, sitting on the end of the bed, chin resting on the heel of his hand.
“Maybe something that is both?” She pondered, pulling out a vintage styled button up and a dark grey pantsuit.
“Good choice,” Mingi agreed, giving an approving thumbs up. She pulled on her clothes and checked everything in the mirror before deciding she was ready to take on the day. Mingi caught the empty hanger that dropped itself off the rail, putting it back up before she noticed or it could cause any havoc. Giving it a tap and a stern look that said, I’ve got my eye on you, he turned to follow her as she headed down the hall to the kitchen. 
Her steps were confident as she headed to the kitchen to make a quick breakfast. Mingi was always on his toes here. Here he had to be nimble and eagle eyed. Really, why did they have to concentrate so many potentially deadly things all in one place. He had a distinct sense of relief when she picked out granola and some yogurt for breakfast. Thank you, he said to the universe, as she took a seat at the counter and opened the magazine she had left half read there the day before. No stove to watch for things that mysteriously ended up sitting on the element. No knives that seem to leap off the cutting board. No toast that got stuck with the strength of a magnet on the inside of the toaster. No burns from shockingly hot coffee or tea.
“You know,” he told her, taking the seat in the chair closest to her. “I love these days where you make my job so much easier.” She flipped through a couple of pages as she took bites. “Anything interesting?” He peeked over at the magazine to see what she was reading about. Diversity and Dynamics: the wonders of the Amazon Rainforest. “Really? It has 10% of the total global diversity? Neat.” Reading over her shoulder was always fun. She was curious and really enjoyed reading about a little bit of everything. Since she graduated college a couple of years ago, she had kept that curiosity for new information and for all kinds of topics. Without a doubt, he was never bored with her.
Rinsing the dishes, she put them in the dishwasher, which Mingi re-closed behind her when it decided to just fall open again when she turned to rinse her hands. Pursing his lips, he shook a finger at it, sending a warning to the device with his mind. 
“You can be replaced,” he reminded it, sternly. The machine, properly chastised, stayed closed this time.
Well fed and ready to start the day, she headed for the front door, gathering her bag and her shoes along the way. Mingi followed, staying close as she entered the wider world, yet another space where he felt like he had to be on guard. He took a playful karate pose as he stood near her at the bus stop, eyeing the passing people and cars as he hovered near her. With her headphones on, she might not notice something that came up behind her.
“Don’t worry,” he assured her. “I’m watching your back.” Together they boarded the bus and he stood guard by her seat as she looked out the window as the city passed by. This was one of her favorite parts of the day, he could tell by the way her shoulders relaxed and her lips quirked into a little smile as she day dreamed, looking out at the buildings and the people passing by.
When her stop drew near, he lightly brushed her shoulder to make sure that she noticed and pressed the button to call for the bus to stop. He caught the door as it tried to close early on her giving it a parting slap and a disapproving look as the bus pulled away, forcing him to jog to catch up with her. At least it wasn’t far to her office. The modern, tall business block looked largely the same as the other half dozen multi-storey office buildings in the surrounding neighborhood. There was nothing terribly dangerous about the space...except for the hours of tedium...and maybe the long stairwells. Luckily she worked on the seventh floor and preferred to get her cardio going the long way to the bus so that she could pick up a cup of her favorite coffee some mornings.
In her cubicle she put her things down and switched on her computer, taking a moment to spin in her chair while she waited for it to boot up. Mingi gave it a little extra push to keep its momentum, smiling as he did so. With a sigh, she straightened up and scooted her chair in to actually start her work day. If Mingi slept, he might have done it during this part of the day. Spread sheets were just...mind numbing. But at least, when she was in her cubicle, a paper cut was the biggest threat to her for the most part.
Mingi took a seat on the open part of her desk and entertained himself making the leaf of the fern on her desk ripple in the non-existent draft. Nothing anyone would find out of place but at least it was something for him to do.
“Coffee,” she said, pushing herself back.
“Oh are we having actual coffee today or are you going to decide to get a hot chocolate again instead?” He asked as he trailed behind her. Shuffling down the hall, she waved at a couple of co-workers as she passed on the way to the breakroom. In the little kitchen like breakroom she pulled a mug out of the cabinet then shimmied over to the fancy coffee machine. Putting the cup on the little shelf under the spigot, she started going through her options on the screen.
“Mocha, I think, today,” she decided after a lip biting moment of deep consideration.
“Both,” he nodded approvingly. “I like it.” 
“Ahhhh,” she gave a satisfied sigh after taking a sip. “Caffeine.” They headed out of the kitchen and Mingi caught the handle of the cleaner’s mop that decided it wanted to fall into her path just before she turned the corner. He hurried ahead and caught it before she could even see it, giving her a little bow as she passed, blissfully ignorant as she enjoyed the drink in her hands.
The morning was unremarkable and largely uneventful, though he did have to keep her mocha from spilling itself… twice. When lunch came, she decided to go to the little cafe at the end of the block, which meant at least their trip into the wider scarier world was short. Mingi walked ahead of her, using his wings to part the crowds of people to make her walk easier. It wasn’t that people could see him or could even really feel him, but they just sort of instinctively avoided him. Brushing into him felt...odd, perhaps even uncomfortable, like a chill or a static shock so people just naturally avoided it.
They looked into the bakery case as they stood in line at the cafe. Mingi thought the croissant sandwich looked especially tasty today along with the raspberry swirl cheesecake. He gave the case over them a little tap, hoping to bring her attention to them. She looked at both, considering them and did take the croissant but skipped the cheesecake today.
“I hope you aren’t skipping it because you think you need to diet again,” he sighed, watching her eat from the other side of the table. “You’re pretty you know. Not only that, you’re smart and funny, which is what someone should really like about you anyway.” He pointed out, kicking a napkin out of the way just before a passerby would have slipped on it, taking her table with them as they fell. Instead they just passed by without incident.
“You sure you don’t want the cheesecake?” He asked as they got up to go. “You can always snack on it later.” She didn’t get it but she did give it a somewhat longing look as she passed it by on her way out. 
The afternoon passed with only a few minor incidents and it was finally time to head home again. And, hey, it was even Friday! Mingi watched as she packed up her things and shut everything down, ready to head home.
“Do we have any plans this weekend?” He asked as they headed to the elevator. She sighed and looked at her phone, scrolling through something as she paired and pulled on her headphones. “I guess that is a no.” He shrugged and gave her a little chuckle. I mean, who was he to complain about another Friday evening of Netflix and nosh?
The bus ride home was thankfully uneventful and home was almost exactly how they left it. He had to close a few cabinet doors, pick up a pen that had rolled itself onto the floor, and tighten the shower tap he hadn’t gotten to this morning. Still, it was overall nothing big and soon they had both settled in for a relaxing start to the weekend.
“So, what about ordering something in?” He sent the idea to her, hoping she would skip cooking, just to give him that little extra time off.
“Ooo, pizza sounds really good,” she said aloud, now that there was no one around to think she was odd for talking to herself. Getting out her app, she put in an order as Mingi looked at her adoringly. Sometimes he suspected she knew he was there. Sometimes he thought she did things just to make his job just a little easier and he really loved her for it.
They watched a few hours of a newer drama on Netflix, both talking to the characters as if they could hear them. Complaining when they made stupid decisions and cheering for them when they did something great. It was really his favorite kind of night. Just the two of them and something that made her laugh. He would swear her smile could have lit up the whole world.
Soon it was time for bed and she headed to the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face. She changed into her nightshirt and pulled out the book she had been reading and climbed into bed. Mingi sat on the other side of the bed, laying back to read the book over her shoulder until she started yawning and shut off the light. She pulled the covers up over her shoulder and turned on her side. Before he knew it, she was asleep, happily making little puffy breath sounds as she breathed.
“Sleep well,” he whispered softly. “I’ll be here keeping watch, don’t worry.”
He really had the best job.
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Mankai with a cat
a few months ago, our cat scratched me right on my cheek and my first thought out of all things was "what if mankai had a cat" pls get me out of this brainrot 😣
on a side note, this got way TOO LONG so i'm putting it under the cut!! this also works as an apology since i was gone for too long without notice 🙇‍♀️ as always, thank you for reading!
🐾 having a pet for the dorm was a subject mankai always brought up. it definitely sounds like a good idea for a domestic setting, but actually getting a pet is out of the question. sakyo didn't allow it due to obvious reasons, and of course it involved the company's budget.
🐾 there was one time however when muku and yuki went back to the dorms with a white stray cat that had a sprain. that time, sakyo would've given them a lecture like usual, but he gave in anyways and told them that they can foster the cat and they'll let it go after its leg gets better.
🐾 unfortunately for sakyo, everyone got way too attached to the cat before its sprain healed, and sakyo also adored the cat but of course he wouldn't openly admit that. after a week, when the cat got better, it only took a few buttons to push before sakyo agreed to finally keeping the cat, under the condition that they are not getting another pet again.
🐾 no one knew who started calling the cat koko, though it just seemed so natural that everybody else started to follow suit, which was pretty convenient because they didn't have to fight over the cat's name when mankai will finally keep her as a pet. (fun fact coco is the name of our cat)
🐾 that week, tenma deadass acted like an expecting father having his very first child, it was really unnerving to see. taichi and juza would often join tenma in shopping for random cat toys after school, which usually lasts longer than girls shopping for a singular pair of heels and that already says a lot
🐾 the conversation usually goes like this
tenma: "what's the best color for this toy mouse?"
taichi: "i like the red one!"
juza: "that's fine too."
tenma, after 10 minutes: "i see, i'll just buy all 7 colors"
🐾 tenma spoiled koko a LOT. teasers? balls? lasers? plushies? you name it, and tenma literally had them in ALL available colors. he did not really care if some of the toys remained untouched, as long as koko had something to be busy with. tenma had a huge ass box of cat toys that he could open up his own damn store and he'd get a lot of profit
🐾 tasuku literally had no idea why, but koko never scratched anywhere but his legs. is there some sort of magic on his legs?? if there was, it wasn't something tasuku is aware of, and he isn't sure if he wants to know what it is either.
🐾 it actually didn't hurt or anything, it just annoyed him when he needs to go somewhere else and the cat would just pounce to his direction to scratch his legs. tasuku feels bad on walking away, so all he does is stand up and wait until koko is done scratching his leg so he can finally move on.
🐾 when a scratching post was delivered to the dorm, koko has been all over it ever since. when tasuku noticed that koko never scratched on his legs anymore, it then just occurred to him that koko used his legs as a temporary scratching post. if he was being conpletely honest, he doesn't know how to feel about this.
🐾 know the meme of people making their babies choose their pokemon starter? that's what itaru did to koko, except he used the figurines of his waifus instead of pokemon plushies. he'd carry koko to the table, and the figurine koko will knock over would determine who her best girl supposedly is.
🐾 what he didn't know was that koko wouldn't knock one figurine over, but ALL FIVE OF THEM, and they all went rolling from the table and fell down to the floor. he swore that one of the figurines easily gets broken since its glasses came off at some point, and until that moment his trust towards animals has never been tested so bad. gladly, none of the figurines broke so koko is not yet in itaru's hit list.
🐾 even with all the toys tenma showered her with, koko finds itaru's hair on a ponytail very entertaining. itaru doesn't really mind koko messing with his hair as long as his gaming stays uninterrupted, though he gets annoyed when koko pulls a part of his hair too hard. he also somehow gets pissed whenever his hairtie falls off during a crucial moment, but he doesn't have the heart to get mad at koko so he lets her off the hook for so many times.
🐾 if omi is already such a mom to mankai, he is even more of a mom to koko. there is a sack of cat kibbles stored away for weeks, but it still remains untouched up to this day because omi always whip up homemade meals for her.
🐾 there was a time when omi cooked up turkey, mashed potatoes and corn for koko's dinner, but he didn't prepare anything for the actual human beings in mankai. omi was just like, "oh haha, there is leftover curry in the fridge. we probably should finish that first"
🐾 in other words, koko isn't subjected to curry hell. never. cats actually aren't supposed to eat curry or else something would happen. even if cats were allowed to eat curry though, it is highly doubtful that omi will make koko eat curry on a daily basis. if omi is an actual mom, everyone would collectively agree that the favorite child is koko. no buts, no questions asked, that's it.
🐾 it was a given that cats don't like water, so everyone was really surprised when they learned that koko LOVES water. the first time they learned it was when sakuya went to wash the dishes like usual, only for koko to literally pounce by the sink. she waits for sakuya to turn on the faucet and everytime sakuya does, she just sticks her paw out to the water until he turns it off. it was an adorable sight.
🐾 it definitely made sakuya slower on washing the dishes, but he does not really mind one bit, he actually enjoys the company. he opted to use a bit more dishwashing soap after he noticed that koko also liked to play with the excessive foam and bubbles on the sink whenever he finishes doing the dishes.
🐾 everyone in mankai, especially sakuya, already made it a habit to call out to koko whenever they're about to do the dishes so koko wouldn't have to wait for the sound of the faucet before running to the sink. it already is a routine every after mealtime.
🐾 was it already mentioned that koko likes water? yes. whenever the boys get in the bath, koko also joins in the damn tub and REFUSES to leave. after some time, the boys already accepted it and just let the cat stay in the tub, losing their sense of privacy in the process. they also bought little rubber duckies and those bubble bath products so koko can play around with the excessive amount of bubbles and the rubber duckies in the tub.
🐾 there was one time when omi woke up super early to prepare breakfast, though he went to the bathroom first and nearly shit on his pants when he saw koko in the empty tub. no koko, he isn't going to fill the tub with water if you just stay there. get out of there and sleep in your own damn bed.
🐾 koko also follows anyone who is on their way to the bathroom, ALWAYS assuming that they'll fill up the tub every time they do get in the bathroom. sorry to break this to you koko, but taichi wouldn't get in the bathroom 8 times a day to take a bath every single time, he just really wants to pee... please give him a break
🐾 koko always joins tsumugi when he is in the garden, though it was only because she wants to drink on the water coming out of tsumugi's watering can. when there are water droplets on the leaves, she climbs up and licks them off. unfortunately, it is one of the reasons why tsumugi started to yell on a daily basis, "KOKO NO THAT PLANT IS POISONOUS DON'T LICK THAT—"
🐾 tsumugi wouldn't have to warn koko forever though, since she'd eventually memorize what plants are poisonous and what are not. sometimes, after tsumugi is done watering the plants, he'd fill the watering can with water again just so koko would get in the can and chill for who knows how long.
🐾 koko is attached to muku for obvious reasons (he picked her up when she was injured!!) so koko is often in their shared room with kazunari. sadly, there was a time when muku took a break from reading the shoujo manga to grab some water, and when he got back, koko was already tearing it into pieces.
🐾 muku did not get angry at koko, but the cat knew something was wrong when muku was trying to stop himself from crying that koko already knew not to tear any of muku's books in the future. koko still felt really bad about it even after muku bought a new copy of that specific volume.
🐾 whenever kazunari is rushing an art project that is to be passed the next day, muku holds koko close to him so koko wouldn't be able to somehow ruin the painting. there has already been an instance wherein koko stepped all over the painting when muku and kazunari wasn't in the room, and that better not happen ever again.
🐾 gladly, kazunari was calm about it and found a way to fix the blue pawprints all over the white paint, but only god knows what will happen once koko messes up the painting again when kazunari is getting SO close to breaking down because of the deadline.
🐾 there are times when kazunari prefers to eat bread with charcoal and drink his paint water than having koko step all over his artwork, and muku better make sure kazunari does none of that
🐾 banri is unfortunately one of those people who pretends to be a dick around their pets. more often than he would admit, he'd act like he is about to throw a punch to koko, only to actually give it gentle pats on the head. banri throwing the cat mid-air and catching her is already a common sight, too.
🐾 he finds it funny scaring koko in all sorts of ways, especially when it comes to heights. banri would carry koko up high, and pretend to drop her just to catch the cat again. sakyo has reprimanded him a lot of times regarding this situation, but he brushes it off.
🐾 there was one time however when banri just carries koko up high and stays that way. the cat was literally scared shitless of being high up on mid-air unmoving, she literally had no choice but to piss right on banri's face. ever since that time, banri toned down his tendencies of teasing the cat
🐾 koko ALWAYS sleeps with hisoka. it doesn't matter where, will it on top of the sink? on the tree? below the table of the living room? you name it, and you see koko and hisoka stuck to each other like glue. somehow it feels like koko became a replacement of penpen. the poor stuffed toy probably got messed up by the cat, waiting to finally get fixed in yuki's room
🐾 koko got hisoka's habit of sleeping literally everywhere that it became really concerning. there was a time when tsuzuru noticed that koko was nowhere to be found, and everyone went batshit looking at her all over the city. even sakyo got mad at everyone because they weren't keeping an eye out of the cat while everybody else is gone. after how many hours of searching, turns out the cat was just sleeping inside the fucking washing machine
🐾 funny enough, taichi and koko have the SAME eyes. like, actual striking blue. taichi usually carries her and parades around the dorm, announcing the news to everyone even though he has said it for like the 83rd time that day. nobody really minds though, the coincidence is still too unreal. the quote "like pet, like owner" doesn't really apply to koko and taichi though, because if anything, it feels more like comparing a cat to a puppy
🐾 taichi is also the one who plays with koko the most, which solely meant that he also used the cat toys tenma bought as much as the cat herself did. at this point, it wouldn't be wrong if they said that the toys were bought for BOTH koko and taichi because even taichi sometimes finds entertainment in using the teaser by himself whenever the cat is being held by somebody else.
🐾 as much as yuki refuses to admit it, he actually gets concerned when koko climbs up in all sorts of countertops, because that would mean koko would also NOT hesitate to climb up to his sewing machine. he is already meticulous when it comes to his materials for sewing, but even moreso now.
🐾 every after yuki finishes sewing, he tightly encloses the sewing machine with a case so that the cat wouldn't get to touch it and potentially get hurt. yuki also used to just leave his sewing materials on the desk, but nowadays he actually keeps them into somewhere secure so as to not harm anybody. he can't have koko's paws bleeding just because of some damn pin that rolled on the floor
🐾 yuki also somehow feels bad when he drives the cat away from him by force every time he is working on the costumes for the next play. he doesn't know what the cat is thinking, but he hopes that koko knows he is just trying not to actually make her bleed over some needles. as a repayment, yuki lets koko bother him all she wants whenever he does his homework with muku.
🐾 since masumi always used to be alone at home, he always thought of the possibility of adopting a pet cat that would keep him company. that constant thought he had already dissipated when he started living in the mankai dorm, so when they decided to take koko in, he remembered the specific reasons why he wanted to own a cat.
🐾 he never let anyone willingly in his personal bubble except for the cat, which he accepted pretty easily. masumi also found it kind of amusing to blast songs on shuffle from his phone because koko had her own way of showing if she likes the song or not. if she likes it, she doesn't do anything. if koko doesn't, she taps her paw on his phone a lot of times as if telling him to change the song. most of the time, masumi obliges.
🐾 every time tsuzuru opens the fridge really late at night, he has to double check if koko is inside the fridge or not before he closes it. there was one time when he didn't notice koko get in the fridge while getting energy drinks. the cat pretty much stayed in there for hours and hours until omi opened the fridge to make breakfast. tsuzuru was lectured by sakyo that morning because he would be ultimately responsible if the cat died in the fridge from freezing her ass off
🐾 whenever tsuzuru gets in a writing frenzy, koko keeps him company late at night. unfortunately for tsuzuru, if he stops typing for at least 10 seconds, koko takes that as a sign to pounce on his keyboard and just lay down there. tsuzuru already knew better than to carry her away from his keyboard since the cat will be insistent enough to return to his keyboard, so he usually gives up and goes to bed, saving the ideas in his head for the next time he wakes up.
🐾 because of that, every time tsuzuru finishes a script for the next play, his tendencies of passing out right after handing the script to somebody else significantly lessens. tsuzuru doesn't know if the cat is just trying to be annoying or if she just wants him to get some sleep, but either way he doesn't really mind because he gets to stop himself from overworking. well sorta
🐾 juza almost never approaches koko. like never. it feels like he is openly avoiding the cat for some apparent reason, and nobody knows why, but in reality he is just scared as shit of the damn cat. what if koko gets mad at him? what if she suddenly gets aggressive and scratches him? honey you're way bigger than her, and koko wouldn't hurt you... really it's okay
🐾 juza's way of offering affection to the cat is to give her some portions of his meal during dinner, sometimes breakfast. he tries to be sneaky about it, but he legitimately has no idea that everyone knows. it becomes more obvious when koko already made it a habit to sit on the chair behind juza every meal time to get more food. that still happens even after omi just filled up her fucking bowl. nobody comments about it though, they find it hilarious
🐾 koko always tries to test homare's patience, but for some reason homare literally doesn't give a single fuck. every time he is writing something down, high chances are koko would spread the ink all over his paper. sometimes she'd try to crawl her way in his coat sleeve, and homare, he just....... doesn't mind.
🐾 if homare is actually busy however, he'd take out his necktie from his vest if koko doesn't want to leave his lap. most of the time, she actually plays with it like it's a teaser. homare is fine if the necktie gets destroyed, he has a lot of neckties in his closet and some of them are specifically for the purpose of koko messing with them
🐾 not to mention that he also finds it really amusing that koko gets overly excited when it comes to lasers. homare is curious why this would be the case, so he usually uses the laser to play with koko when he has free time. he doesn't think of where he points the laser though, so his wooden desk ends up having a lot of scratches. again, he knows and he doesn't care in the slightest.
🐾 misumi adores koko so much. her ears are triangles, her paws are triangle, her nose is triangle. she is a fucking triangle. with the help of kazunari, he already has a whole album of koko's best pictures in polaroid films. most of them are in a photo book so that everyone has a physical copy to look at, while some of them are taped on misumi's wall. the ones on misumi's room are particularly the ones where her ears are especially prominent.
🐾 at least twice or thrice a week, misumi brings koko out of the dorm and brings her to other groups of stray cats that misumi deems trustworthy. nothing bad happens to koko gladly, because only god knows what would happen once misumi's instincts tell him something horrible is about to happen to their pet cat, and they're always spot on
🐾 citron has ZERO sense of personal space when it comes to koko. citron would literally touch koko anywhere, thinking she is fine with it. unfortunately, there are times when citron pets koko on parts she doesn't want to be touched, particularly the tail and the area around it. citron's hands always end up covered in scratches. over time, he memorized where he should and shouldn't touch like the back of his hand
🐾 citron made a koko jr. which was completely intended to be for display purposes. the cat saw it as a new mouse toy however, so it didn't take a whole day for koko jr. to look like a ball of messed up wool. it doesn't look like a damn cat anymore, though it passes as an extremely fluffy and distorted alpaca
🐾 sakyo never shows affection to the cat. no pets, no strokes, nothing. the most he does to koko is spare her a glance, and sometimes he even glares at her from a distance when sakyo gets too absorbed in his thoughts... despite that, everyone wonders why every time sakyo comes home, she gets more energetic greeting him compared to how she'd greet the rest of the boys when they come back to the dorm
🐾 azuma knows. he would sometimes stay up for late night talks with sakyo, and through their conversations that's when azuma learns how much sakyo cares. azuma often helps sakyo out on trimming koko's nails when they're getting kind of long, trying to be as careful as possible so as to not hurt her.
🐾 azuma is also amused at the fact that sakyo tries to ignore koko resting on his lap, or when he pretends not to notice the cat trying to slip in the pockets of his coat. knowing sakyo, he'll definitely complain about the white fur on his black coat later on. as funny as it is, azuma knows better than to say a word about it.
🐾 before kazunari realized it, his camera roll is pretty much filled with random pictures of koko. most of them are just derp pictures, though... kazunari captures her weird quirks, like how she likes to fall asleep with all fours spread out like a starfish, or how she constantly make noises on the door stopper if she wants to get in the room. the picture with koko's most horrified face on it was when banri threw her high up mid-air, and that is never going to get deleted.
🐾 they find everything the cat does very adorable, even though she is just drinking water from her bowl. or when her tongue gets stuck on the ice tray omi brought out from the fridge. or when she yawns and taichi sticks a finger in her mouth and she doesn't know what to do next. or when she squints her eyes at homare when he gets in a blabbering rampage. literally everything.
🐾 at some point, kazunari thought it'd be a good idea to have those cat tunnels mounted on walls so there will be more room for koko to play. he just said it out of nowhere, but everyone agreed on that idea. after a week or two, the whole dorm is basically a cat playground with a crapton of shelves, slides, and tunnels on the walls, save for the practice room, bathroom, and the bedrooms.
🐾 did sakyo said that they are never, ever getting another pet after koko? yeah right, there's no way that's actually happening. high chances are they got more cats so that the cat playground they all built together will get utilized. the more, the merrier!! even though sakyo complains a lot about the expenses, they all know he isn't against the idea, though they better not tease him for it or sakyo will definitely take it back
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