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Intoxicating.
Aether was fucking intoxicating.
Arched like the whore he was in Kuni’s bed, pampered and spoiled. Kuni’s eyes traveled all over his body. Pretty tan skin with pretty dark freckles everywhere. He was everything that made Kuni love drunk.
Even now as Aether laid on his stomach, flipping through an old book Xiao had gifted him the last time they spoke, he made Kuni’s soul rise to his throat. His armored pieces were thrown on the floor and his boots neatly stood by the bed while Aether’s bare feet and ankles kicked and swung freely. His hair was out of its loose braid and strewn about on the sheets.
A sin.
Aether was sinful, and Kuni hated him. Hated his fake personality that he spat at almost everyone he met. Hated how he would help anyone who asked without considering the possibility of being scammed. Hated the fact that he would leave for weeks at a time to visit his friends. Hated how he wouldn’t even ask if Kuni would like to join. Hated how if there was a point in Aether’s life to choose who to spend the rest of his existence with, his name wouldn’t be uttered. Hated how he would always be the second choice.
Kuni’s posture sagged. He always did this.
He would make up scenarios to be pissed about and blame Aether.
But this was his fault.
Aether was in his room, propped up like a slut in his bed reading a book another man gave him.
He sighed deep in the back of his throat and Aether’s ears perked up as he realized he wasn’t alone. He closed this book and rose to his knees to turn around in one fluid motion. He smiled at Kuni warmly and placed the book on the bedside table.
Kuni saw a small Liyue styled bookmark peeking from the book and crumbled. “Do you keep me around when you know you won’t be back in Liyue for a prolonged time?” Aether’s smile faltered and he looked confused. “It’s just that… I know that Adepti can’t exactly leave Liyue, at least he doesn’t want to, and I could imagine that gets pretty annoying for you.”
“I’m sorry, I don’t-”
“Would you rather be with him at all hours of the day?” Kunikuzushi deadpanned.
Aether opened his mouth to answer, but hesitated, a choked feeling running up the back of Kuni’s throat. He couldn't lie. Kuni would see right through him and it wouldn’t benefit anyone to be deceitful. “I’d like to be with you both at all times… but that’s selfish of me.”
“Am I just…” Kuni pressed his lips together. It made sense to him immediately. His mother had done the same thing, as well as the Fatui. He was too boring as is. He always needed a counterpart. Within the Electro Archon’s court was him and the Raiden Shogun, and within the Fatui Kuni was the Balladeer, but it wasn't enough until he was hooked up to a machine one hundred times his size. Being inadequate was just… predictable by this point, Kuni just thought that it was humorous to some degree that he was comparable to an ancient all powerful Adeptus this time. Although thinking about it made him realize that if Aether did see them both on equal ground he had to be stupid to some degree. He knew the ugly truth well enough but still needed to know Aether’s stance on the subject. “Am I not enough for you?”
The pain that stretched across Aether’s face made white hot regret burn in the pit of his stomach and he almost backpedaled. He knew before this arrangement had even begun that Aether was spoken for. That he enjoyed having more than one person for company. Aether had been transparent with him for their first conversation when Kuni had let it slip that he wanted him. Him and the Adeptus were a package deal. Him and the chalk prince atop the mountain were a package deal. That if Aether were able to get exactly what he wanted, it would be the four of them in their shared Adeptal realm alone forever, with no disturbances. Aether had been so love drunk on the other two men that he had almost begged Alice, Albedo’s mother in theory, and Cloud Retainer, the “pretty bird ”as Paimon likes to call her, for permission to have them to himself.
Now that he had voiced his insecurity, rage flooded his chest and he pressed his lips together in a tight line. Aether’s eyes swam with uncertainty and he slouched back onto his feet, “I shouldn’t have assumed you’d easily adapt the way Albedo did… I'm so sorry.” He looked up to Kuni with blurry eyes. “I can’t explain it well, I never have, but I want you all equally all the time.” He slid off the bed to stand in front of Kuni. Aether was slightly shorter than himself and he had a slight tilt in his head as he invaded Kuni’s space. “I figured that with how possessive you seemed to be that you wouldn’t want to know ‘Bedo and Xiao, but now I realize that would make it harder for you to understand.”
The anger faded as quickly as it came and Kuni shook his head and pulled a hand up to cup Aether’s cheek. He didn’t dare say anything, but he wanted Aether to know he was serious. That he wanted this to work. For them to work.
“It isn’t just me at the center of the three of you.” He laughed, but there was no humor behind it. Kuni bit back a mean laugh because how was it not exactly that. At the center of all of their infatuation was Aether. The sun in their solar system. “Xiao and Albedo get along and have a relationship outside of me. Sure they bicker, but they care for each other as I care for them, as I care for you.”
Kuni smiled at the thought of the two of them walking around the mountain. Xiao’s obsession with the consistency of snow and Albedo stretching him quickly to show Aether later. Kuni also thought about the more sinful side of the two of them without Aether. Albedo running his hands over Xiao’s toned tan skin, and pushing Xiao’s legs up to find purchase in the haven between them. Sweaty and loud while Albedo pushed him closer and closer to pure ecstasy.
Kuni’s thumb ran over the apple of Aether’s cheek while his dazed attention focused back onto him. “The point is to allow yourself to open up to the idea of loving more than one. To allow more than one person to see a side of you that you wouldn't show anyone. “ Aether leaned into the touch as he spoke.''They aren’t opponents you have to beat or one up for my attention. They’re yours the same way I’m yours.”
Another awful wave of jealousy coursed through his body and he shuddered against Aether. “But I still need you to myself at times.” He murmured, coming closer to Aether’s face to enforce his demand.
Aether snorted, ugly and loud. “Between you and Albedo, I’m gonna go mad.” he shook his head. “My poor sweet Xiao loves any form of contact he can get from me or Albedo and doesn’t even care if he’s not the one that's getting attention, but my Archon’s you and ‘Bedo are so possessive.”
Kuni blushed high on his cheeks and furrowed his brows at the way Aether sighed at the mention of Xiao. “You’re doing it again…” he dropped his hand. “I know that you and Xiao are the duo, soulmates. You both just get bored.”
Aether laughed, like actually fucking laughed. Kuni frowned and crossed his arms over his chest. “Kuni…” He trailed, and then leaned forward to put his lips next to Kuni’s ear. Kuni flushed all the way down his body when Aether whispered his name into his ear. Not Kuni, not Scaramouche, his name Aether had given him. The name only they knew. The name that Aether moaned sweetly into his ear as he came around his cock. The name Aether used to make Kuni melt in his arms. The name that gave Kuni a reason to continue trying everyday.
Aether pulled away to look at Kuni with gentle eyes. “Xiao and I are very similar to you and I. I’ve told you about my trip before I left for Sumeru.” Kuni nodded, he knew that himself and Xiao took a trip with a few friends to look into something but that was it. “To spare you the details, Xiao almost died. He tried sacrificing himself for our group and it was a miracle he survived. In the few moments I had thinking he was dead, it had felt like I died. My drive, my will to continue, was ripped away from me and I didn’t want to continue. When he appeared next to me and we wished everyone that had been with us goodbye, he took me somewhere to discuss something where he disclosed his real name. A name used against him to be a pawn, a weapon, and he trusted me with it.”
Kuni felt shame cloud his head and he reached out for Aether’s waist to pull him in. “I didn’t know that had happened so recently.”
Aether laughed. “Well it’s happened with all three of you.” He looked scared and happy all at the same time and Kuni pushed him back to sit on the edge of the bed. “Albedo was caught in a landslide and he disappeared and was replaced with something else, something dark. And then you tried to wipe yourself from history.”
Kuni smiled down at him. “You didn’t like me then. No one did.”
“You’re right, I despised you. I hated you to the point that I wanted you dead by my own hands. Every piece, every word, every action drove a force throughout my body that led to this circle of rage and hate that I couldn’t shake…” he looked up at Kuni with wide eyes, and Kuni waited for him to come to his senses and kick him out or kill him. “But being in love with someone you’ve sworn to hate can be problematic at times.”
Kuni furrowed his brows, puzzled at the confession, “When did you-“
“After the war ended.” Aether interrupted, “I had gone to Miko to discuss the easiest route to Sumeru, and she disclosed some information about you.”
Kuni pursed his lips, still confused, but dropped the subject of himself. “Would it make you happy if I properly met Albedo and Xiao?”
Aether’s face lit up and he immediately grabbed Kuni’s waist to pull him onto the bed. “Yes! We would have so much fun and you guys would get along so well.” Kuni screeched as he was pulled on top of his lover. Aether’s legs immediately wrapped around his middle and he pressed soft pecks all over Kuni’s face. Kuni sighed and relaxed into the embrace. They fit together so snug and comfortable that Kuni was kind of worried he’d never be able to sleep well without Aether pressed up against him.
Kuni put his hands around Aether’s thighs to fully situate their bodies onto the squishy mattress and pressed a kiss to the hollow part of his throat. Aether smelled so fucking good, all honeysuckle and pine, Kuni wanted to swallow him whole. The possessive streak he had wasn’t enjoying the fact that he’d have to share outwardly. He hated the fact that Aether tended to two other people in such a loving manner, and even though the nagging voice in the back of his head screamed that he would enjoy Xiao’s company, maybe even Albedo’s, it still didn’t calm the anxiety he felt. A swirling dose of confusion settled into his stomach and he pressed another kiss to Aether’s neck for good luck.
They would be okay.
They had to be.
*
Liyue was beautiful. The Harbor hailed all sorts of people and all types of food and lights and music. It was overwhelming, but also so easy to blend into. As Aether and Kuni walked across the bridge to the heart of Liyue his nerves caught up to him. Kuni didn’t even know puppets could be nervous like this. To be nervous over an interaction that he himself had agreed to was also painfully embarrassing to ever admit out loud.
“And that’s the Feiyun Commerce Guild. If you’re interested in seeing what it looks like in full I have a friend that could get us inside.” Aether was rambling about all of the shops and buildings, throwing his hands up when he got too immersed in a topic of discussion. Kuni wasn’t one to be domestic or loving on Aether in public but this would be a time he wished he was. “And next we’ll start making the walk to the inn because it's beginning to get dark, but don’t worry we can take our time.” Aether smiled and glanced over to Kuni. “Don’t want you to get tired or anything.”
Kuni scoffed, “I don’t get tired.”
Aether laughed, “Well I do so…” He trailed off, like he was trying to figure out what to say. “Let's just take our time.”
If Kuni was domestic he’d sweep Aether up in a wind current to keep him off his sore feet, but instead he managed a small nod. “Anything you want.”
After the hellscape that was The Chasm, Kuni couldn’t imagine the walk from the harbor to the inn being something insufferable, and for the most part it wasn’t, but with every run down ruin and landscape came a story. A story that Aether had been told by his friends or the adepti. Stories of old gods and familiars that ruled certain parts of Liyue. It made Kuni painfully aware of how disconnected he was from the world. How young he was in comparison to other parts of Teyvat. He had reason to believe that Xiao himself was thousands of years old, and while he was never able to get a clear answer from Aether he knew that he himself was well over Kuni’s lowly five hundred. The only one comparable was Albedo but even then, Albedo was brilliant. It was a shock that he hadn’t enrolled in the Ackademia.
The pit in Kuni’s stomach only gnawed harder once Wangshu came into view fully. It was equally as beautiful as the time he saw it on his trip to Mondstadt. He had stopped for a quick break to map the sky. It seemed so distant. His obsession with the stars. He glanced over to Aether.
Maybe the obsession never really faded.
Funnily enough, Xiao wasn’t home by the time they had arrived at reception, but Aether didn’t seem surprised and told the women at the counter that he was just going to let himself into Xiao’s room to wait. Another hot rod of jealousy burned in Kuni’s throat as he followed Aether up the stairs. The room was simple. Not as pretty and open as his room in Aether’s adeptal realm, but overall comfortable looking. Aether motioned for Kuni to sit at the small table in the corner while he straightened some things up for Xiao.
“I think he can clean his own room Aether.” Kuni grunted.
Aether frowned in his direction. “He works more in one day than you and I combined for a whole year.” He tossed some books Xiao had been reading onto the nightstand by his bed to fix the bedspread. “Also you do nice things for the people you love.”
That shut Kuni up.
He slouched back into the chair he had been sitting in and picked at his perfect nails. “When will he be back?”
Aether looked at him, before sitting on the now made up bed. “Before nightfall. He knew we were coming today.”
“Well I’m bored.” He stood up to kick his shoes off, before walking up to where Aether was sitting. Aether looked up at him with a smile. “You should take your shoes off. We’re gonna be here for a while.”
Aether smiled and laid back slowly before hooking his legs on Kuni’s waist. “Help me?”
Kuni bit his lip, before grabbing his left calf to gently pull the boot from his foot before doing the other. He set them up neatly at the end of the bed before looking back at Aether.
“Good boy.” Aether whispered.
Kuni’s mouth went dry and want filled his soul quickly. Something in the back of his head knew that it would be a bad impression for Xiao to walk in and see his lover getting fucked by something as abominable as Kuni, but that possessive streak in his head also sung. Proving to Aether that he was worth the time and effort was something Kuni couldn’t shake and even as he looked down to Aether, who was blushing high on his cheeks, he pressed himself down on top of him to kiss the hollow of his throat. “Say it again.”
He was never vulnerable, not like this, not in a foreign area, but for the first time it felt like Aether could see him.
“Oh Kuni,” He ran a hand down the puppets back before pushing his mouth right against his ear. “Are you gonna be a good boy for me?”
Kuni trembled.
“Yes.” he hissed.
He pushed Aether’s hips into the bed to keep them in place and rolled down onto him. Fire sparked in his stomach and Aether came alive under him. The first roll of a moan slipped off of his honey lips and into the air and Kuni could finally breathe again.
Being intimate with Aether was how he showed himself. In everywhere he lacked he could make up for in this. Stripping Aether of his pants and flipping him over quickly, Kuni kissed the back of his neck, before running a hand between Aether's legs. “Open me up slowly, Kuni.” Aether gasped into Xiao’s bedspread.
“Anything you want, doll.” He rubbed his thumb along Aether’s dry rim before moving down to his smooth perineum. “Tight little thing.” He mumbled.
Kuni couldn’t bring himself to ask where Xiao kept his lube, not wanting to take his hands off Aether, and spread his cheeks to let a glob of spit fall and hit Aether’s rim. The sticky fluid ran down to Aethers balls, before Kuni caught it and rubbed it into Aethers hole with his index finger. Aether gasped into his arm and pushed back on the finger impatiently. “You wanted it slow, brat.”
Aether sighed and relaxed back down. “So good, Kuni. Always treat me so well even when I don’t deserve it.”
A lie. That was a lie.
“You always deserve it.” He whispered, and pushed his index finger in slowly, feeling Aether’s hole clench and flutter around him. “You’re driving me fucking crazy.”
At that Aether arches like a fucking cat, sighing as Kuni hooks his finger up to rub again the spongey nerve that made him melt. “Give me ‘nother.” Aether slurred.
Kuni quickly spit onto his middle finger before pushing it in slowly beside the other. His long digits scissored Aether open slowly, watching the blonde boy fall apart under him. “Such a..” Aether moaned, “good boy.”
Kuni quickly leaned up to grab Aether’s jaw while continuously rubbing his prostate. “More.” he half begged. “Aether I need more.”
Aether moaned wantingly, and looked at Kuni with lidded eyes. “You have to earn my praise, doll.” Kuni’s ears felt hot, and he quickly slid down Aether’s body to get a full view of his hole. It was barely stretched at all even with Kuni’s two fingers scissoring it open and his mouth watered. He pressed a soft kiss to Aether’s taint before blowing cool air on the slick skin. Aether shivered above him and spread his legs wider. “Want a taste, love?” He asked, craning his neck to look back at Kuni.
Kuni nodded quickly and pulled his digits from the tight heat. “So messy, Aether.” He half scolded, and Aethers hole clenched around nothing. He spread him wide and leaned down to bite into his asscheek as a warning. “I’m still in charge you brat.”
Aether hissed into the bedspread and shook his ass a little. “If you say so.”
Kuni leaned down and licked a stripe up from Aether’s balls to the top of his rim. The heady taste nearly sent Kuni toppling along with the sweet moan Aether let out. He always tasted like heaven. His body was the perfect treat for anyone that had the privilege to touch him. Pretty plush tanned skin that was littered with soft freckles and moles, the dimples in his back hollowed and the globes of his ass tensed anytime Kuni touched him. His hair was cascading along his back, and even though Kuni couldn’t see him fully, he knew that he was gorgeous. His lips were probably pouted out right now and his brows were furrowed. His nose crinkled up and his cheeks were dusted with a pretty pink color. Kuni didn’t tell him enough how pretty he was. As he leaned down to suck on Aether’s hole he vaguely thought about how he could be appreciative for Xiao in that regard.
Tongue fucking Aether’s hole open was a favorite of both of theirs. It took a while and it simultaneously tore down all of Aether’s walls. Kuni sucked and licked and fucked his fingers into Aether’s hole and with every touch or vibration against his prostate Aether fell a little harder. The way Aether began pushing back on Kuni’s face and pushing himself up on his knees to try to sit back on his tongue was telling that he was getting impatient.
“Please, oh please.” He whispered. Aether tore his cropped shirt over his head, and sat nearly fully up, forcing Kuni to pull away from his hole, but keeping his fingers knuckle deep inside. Aether looked back at him with teary eyes, his hands were obediently resting on his thighs and his untouched cock was leaking and swollen against the bedspread. “Need you so bad, doll.” He shuddered.
Kuni pressed a kiss to his temple, “Don’t touch.” he whispered and dropped a hand to grab the base of Aether’s cock. A sob wracked through Aether’s sensitive body and he flinched away from the contact.
“No, don't touch either.” He half begged, tears beginning to fall down his red cheeks. “Don’t wanna cum yet.”
Kuni smiled and glanced out the window of the inn to see the sun setting. That possessive sting went off again and he positioned himself behind Aether and manhandled Aether to face the door on his hands and knees. “You’re gonna look so pretty for him when he gets home.” he whispered and Aether shook. Kuni pulled his fingers away from Aether’s hole and landed a hard spank to the backs of his thighs. “What’s he gonna do Aether? What's he gonna do when he comes home from a long day of protecting Liyue to find his pretty little whore getting fucked by someone else in his bed?” Aether cried and looked down at the bed in shame. “Nuh-uh.” Kuni grabbed him by the scalp and pulled his head back up to look at the door. “You don’t take your eyes off that door.”
Aether trembled but followed Kuni’s orders without complaint. Kuni pushed his pants down to free his cock, spitting in his hand and slicking it up as best he could. He pulled one of Aether’s ass cheeks to the side to see his hole and knocked Aether’s legs further apart, deeping the arch of his back. “Say it again.” He demanded.
Aether moaned high in his throat, but didn’t say anything, too far gone to get the words off his tongue. Kuni gripped his hair again and leaned fully over his body, cock rubbing along Aether’s crack.
“Say it again, Aether.” he smiled.
“Such a…” Aether whined, “Good boy, Kuni. Doing so good for me.”
Kuni sighed and pushed his cock to the hilt immediately. Aether tensed up at the stretch, choking around his words and letting out a string of broken heady whines. “That’s it.” Kuni hissed. “Take that fucking cock.”
“So good. Don’t stop, please,” Aether cried. “Making me feel so good…fuck.”
Kuni’s cock head rubbed right against Aether’s prostate in an almost sick way as he waited for Aether to adjust. He pushed forward to grind his hips against Aether’s and let go of his hair to rub along his ass. Once Aether’s body finally relaxed a small amount, Kuni took the green light to pull back and give a hard thrust. Aether whined high in his throat and at that point Kuni realized how bad he needed this. Precum was staining the bedspread below and the gross smell of sweat and spit was hitting his nose. He set a steady rhythm for Aether, always pushing him right to the edge of his climax and then pulling him away before it got too far. Aethers arms were shaking in their position, refusing to give out. Kuni almost felt bad.
He once again pulled Aether by the hair, not stopping his hips, and brought his back to his chest. He pressed a sweet kiss to Aether’s neck to contrast the rough blows his body was taking and wrapped an arm around his chest to keep him upright. “Feel good, baby?” he whispered. “Wanna cum?”
Aether babbled incoherently, coming back alive out of his brain dead state. “Yes yes yes yes. Need to so bad.” He cried.
“Not until Xiao comes home.” Kuni whispered.
Aether sobbed out, glancing away from the door to the window. The sun was almost fully gone now, and night was spreading across Liyue quickly. Embarrassment wracked through Aether’s body, and Kuni let an evil laugh echo through his ear.
Suddenly the door knob moved and Aether fell back forward onto his aching arms. Kuni clapped his hips forward, causing Aether to tumble onto his elbows. The first thing Kuni noticed was Xiao’s expression shoot straight towards him, visibly confused, like he was about to say something, but then Aether, Kuni’s sweet sweet Aether, spoke up.
“Need you both so bad, please.” Tears fell onto the bedspread and he finally fully fell onto his chest, head hitting the bed tiredly.
Xiao shut the door immediately, throwing his weapon against a chair, and walked up to Aether quickly to hold his face up to look at him properly. He glanced at Kuni quickly, before whispering to Aether.
“Has he given you permission?”
Kuni paused for a second, and then looked down at Aether. Even though he couldn’t see his expression, he could tell what it was by the pained cry that escaped him. “He said to wait for you, but I can’t-”
“Aether you’re not allowed until he says so.” Xiao says firmly.
Kuni was starstruck, and snapped his hips forward again to gauge Xiao’s reaction. Aether sobbed under him, but he wasn’t paying attention anymore. Xiao looked at Aether with want and rubbed a thumb over his cheek, but didn’t tell Kuni to move or for Aether to cum.
He wasn’t bothered at all.
Kuni knew that out of Aether’s two other lovers, Xiao was the tamer of the two, but he hadn’t expected the immediate fire his presence gave him. He knew Xiao was gorgeous. He was shorter than Aether and leaner. He had tattoos on his body and claws under his gloves. His ears were pointed in an elvish way and his blackish green hair was soft and short, like Xiao had taken a knife and cut it haphazardly himself. He had a pretty buttoned nose and his lips were plush. He was soft in the face, almost innocent looking, but was intimidating everywhere else. He also knew that as an adepti he was able to shift aspects of his form, which is why he was so easily able to adapt to Albedo and Aether’s different needs. Kuni’s fingers twitched on Aether’s hips in wonder to what was currently between Xiao’s legs. If he’d let him see his cunt or if that was only for Albedo.
Almost as if Xiao had read his mind, he looked at Kuni with dark eyes. “You and I will get better acquainted in what you want, after we’re done here. Don’t worry.” He leaned forward and pressed a kiss to Kuni’s cheek before leaning back to look at Aether again. “First I want you to make a mess of Aether.”
Aether practically purred at the attention. “Kuni can I cum?” He slurred, kissing into Xiao’s palm.
Kuni blinked, focusing back on the task at hand. He rubbed a hand up between Aethers shoulder blades and leaned down to whisper into Aether’s ear. “Make a mess for Xiao.” was all he said before chanting his hips forward and grabbing Aether’s cock to stroke it in rhythm.
Aether all but screamed into Xiao’s hand and twitched all over, like he wasn't sure if he should push back on Kuni’s cock or thrust forward into his hand. “Such a good boy, Kuni.” He mewled. “So fucking…,” He trailed.
Kuni gasped and clawed up Aether’s thighs as he fucked into him. His rhythm became sloppy quickly and he could feel the edge coming closer and closer. Aether turned his head away from Xiao to press his nose into Kuni’s cheek and moaned the name he gave him sweetly into Kuni’s ear. The puppet shook and filled the boy up quickly, pressing a kiss to Aether’s head as he fell over top of him.
Aether let a tired laugh escape him and he reached back to pinch at Kuni’s thigh. “You’re gonna crush me.” He murmured. Kuni could hear the sleep dripping off of his tongue and rose up quickly to pull out to start cleaning him up.
“You can’t sleep, Aether. Sit up.”
Aether groaned and rose his chest off of the bed to face Xiao who was sitting at the edge like he was waiting for him. “Oh my love,” Aether pulled him forward to press a kiss to his lips and then both cheeks. “How have you been?
Xiao mumbled about how he was fine and that today's patrol had been like any other. The serious dominant tone from earlier was gone and Kuni shelved that knowledge in the back of his head as he wet a washcloth in the bathroom connected to the room.
“I’m sorry we didn’t wait for you,” Aether pouted, and Xiao laughed, pushing him on his back to litter kisses all along Aether’s shoulders and neck.
“It’s perfectly fine. This is exactly what Albedo did when I met him.” He giggled, before looking over to Kuni, “I’ll be right back. I’m gonna go tell the chef to make you both something. You’ve traveled far.” With that Kuni nodded with a slight smile and waited until he was gone before joining Aether again on the bed.
“Turn around.” He gestured with the washcloth.
Aether groaned and got back on his knees so Kuni could clean him up, “Shouldn’t have came in me.”
Kuni scoffed, “You prefer it that way, brat.”
Once he was done he threw the washcloth in a bin and tossed Aether his pants. “So… What do you think?” Aether asked as he slipped his shirt back on.
“About what?”
Now it was Aether’s turn to scoff. “You know what I mean.”
Kuni didn’t really know. Xiao wasn’t anything he was really expecting. “He seemed nice.”
“Nice?”
“Yeah Aether, nice.”
“Oh.”
Kuni looked over to see Aether looking at his hands in his lap, and a flash of disappointment fell over his features. “Why, were you expecting something else?”
“Well, do you like him?” Aether asked, looking at Kuni seriously.
The question was one he had been worried about all day, because what if he didn’t. Would Aether leave him? Kick him out? Would that be it? Now having met him, Kuni couldn’t really say there was anything about Xiao he disliked. Maybe at how domestic he and Aether were while he was wetting the rag, but Kuni knew to expect that. They had been together for a little over a year at this point. He hadn’t taken Aether from him, and didn’t mind the sexual aspect of their relationship. He said he wanted to discuss their relationship. He had fallen into the switch role immediately, and from everything Aether has gushed about, he couldn’t say Xiao was an unlikable person. In fact Kuni found him quite fascinating. So yeah. Kuni could say he liked him, maybe even grow into something more than liking him.
“Well, I-”
The door opened and Xiao entered quietly, “Food will be done soon.” He smiled, but something about it didn’t meet his eyes.
“Okay thank you, dove.” Aether beamed, and Xiao blushed high on his cheeks. “Now I have to pee and wash up, so give me a couple minutes and then we can head down.” Aether pressed a kiss to Kuni’s cheek and then pecked Xiao on the lips as he walked past towards the bathroom.
Silence fell over the room.
“So you don’t like me.” Xiao mumbled.
“What?” Kuni’s head snapped over to him.
“It’s okay, you don’t have to.” he smiled, “I just hope we can get along as friends.”
Kuni shook his head, “No, it’s not that I don't like you.” He shook his head, trying to find the words. “Well… It’s just that. I don’t know you. Everything I’ve heard has been through Aether, and I don't have a lot to go off right now, but I do. Like you, I mean.”
“You remind me a lot of Albedo.” Xiao laughed, before sitting down next to Kuni on the bed. “He had this idea that if he could over perform, Aether would be swooned into leaving me entirely. “
Kuni snorted. “Then he’s not as smart as I thought he was.” Xiao looked at him with a confused laugh. “Aether’s fucking insane about you. I mean, holy shit, I’ve been worried about underperforming all day.”
“You couldn’t underperform. He talks about you just as much as he talks about me.” He laughed. Kuni found it hard to believe but decided not to argue. “I was serious though. About earlier. I want us to work the way Albedo and I work, and I trust Aether enough to know that I could love you the way I love him.”
“I do too.” Kuni agreed, and, even surprising to himself, he was telling the truth. “Then how do we start?”
“Ask me anything you want.” Xiao humored, turning to fully face Kuni.
Kuni pursed his lips and looked Xiao up and down. “Do you have a pussy?”
“Oh my god!” Aether screamed from the bathroom, before flinging the door open. “Are you fucking serious?”
Xiao let out the loudest snort Kuni had ever heard and looked at Aether with a cocky laugh. “What?! It’s a genuine question.”
“You could have asked him anything.”
“It’s pivotal information, Aether.”
Xiao shook his head towards Aether, but then looked at Kuni with a smile leaning towards his ear. “Not for Aether, but if you want me to have one I can do that for you.” He whispered, before kissing Kuni’s temple and walking towards the table in the corner to slide his shoes on, leaving Kuni high and dry. “C’mon before both of your meals get cold.”
Aether giggled and pulled Kuni from the bed to follow him and Kuni leaned down to mumble something in his ear.
“This is nice.”
Aether smiled up at him before replying.
“I’m glad.”