TickleTober2023/Day 16 - Sweets
Genshin Impact - Ningguang x Beidou
“So… how is it?” Ningguang asked nervously, fiddling with her apron as she watched the captain take a bite. This wasn’t usual at all - neither the place where she was, nor the idea of her serving someone else instead of being served. Yet, Ningguang was eager to hear the answer to her question.
“Hmm,” Beidou hummed, leaning her head back slightly as she swallowed the small bite took seconds ago. “For a beginner, not bad.”
Ningguang’s eyebrow twitched, making the woman sigh. “Couldn’t you be a bit more polite? Maybe a bit of encouragement?”
Beidou laughed, grinning as she looked to the other. “I would never lie to you,” she said, making Ningguang roll her eyes.
It was a bit too sweet, but Beidou knew how much effort Ningguang put in baking that cake for her. Besides, getting to see the Ningguang herself dressed so casually and actually trying to make something instead of ordering someone or simply buying it?
Ningguang huffed, reaching out for the plate in front of Beidou, but before she could take it, the captain took it away. “Huh? If you didn’t like it, you don’t have to finish it, captain.” She said in a stern voice tone, but Beidou only smiled, even taking another bite from the cake.
“I said it’s not bad for a beginner, not that I didn’t like it,” Beidou added before continuing to chew another bite. “It’s just a bit too sweet, but I like it. It reminds me of you,” she teased, winking to the lady in front of her.
“Agh, you-” Ningguang groaned, almost losing her cool - the only thing she had left after messing up in the kitchen for so long. “Give it back!”
“Make me, Ningguang,” Beidou continued with her challenging tone, the same she used to taunt her crewmates into sparring sessions. What the captain didn’t take in account, however, was the fact that her woman wasn’t part of her crew.
Leaving all her dignified acting behind, Ningguang quickly moved around the table that kept them apart. Before Beidou could realize, she was already cornered, holding the plate above her head and out of Ningguang’s reach.
And, then, like a lightning striking a boat in the middle of the sea, an electric sensation ran up her body. Sparkling from her side and going all the way to her head, forcing a helpless smile out of her smug facade.
“Hand it over, captain,” Ningguang insisted, using one hand to scribble over Beidou’s side and ribs, while trying to snatch the plate from her with her free hand.
That wasn’t fair, Beidou thought, but she couldn’t just back up after all she said. “H-hehey, whahat a-are yohou up toohoho?” She gritted her teeth, putting up her best efforts to not smile any further.
“Sparring you from eating a half-bad cake, captain, what if your crew thinks I poisoned you?” Ningguang groaned, adding a bit of drama in her lines while she dug a little harder on Beidou’s side.
“O-ohoh plehease,” Beidou giggled, not sure if she should use her free hand to push Ningguang’s hand away from her side or away from the plate in her hands. “It tahahakes more than a sweehehet cahake to pohohoison me!”
Feeling another hit landed on her ego, Ningguang decided to step up her game. Using her nails, she scribbled freely against Beidou’s stretched torso, putting into test the captain’s will into keeping the cake to herself. “Stop acting like a child! Hand it already”
“Who ihihis beheheing c-childish, Ningguahahng?!”
“You, of cour-”
“Ahm, captain?” A voice broke through the room, making both of them stop in the middle of their banter. Quickly recovering her collected posture, Ningguang stood aside, looking over her shoulder to see Kazuha standing in the door. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to interr-”
“You are not, ahem, you are not interrupting anything, Kazuha,” Ningguang said, looking to the captain next to her, already spotting the blush on her face. Such a terrible actress, she thought, “right, captain?”
“Y-Yes, Lady Ningguang and I were just… trying out some sweets.”
“I see,” Kazuha smiled, assuming it would be better to not quest any further, “it’s just that ms. Keqing is looking for you, Lady Ningguang. She claims to have important matters to discuss with you.”
“I’ll be upstairs in a moment, Kazuha, thank you,” she smiled, watching him leave the two of them back by themselves. “So, where were we?”
“W-what?” Beidou choked, placing the plate down, “don’t you have… work to do?” She giggled nervously, watching as Ningguang leaned on her.
“Don’t worry,” she smirked, gently wiping a bit of cream left on the corner of Beidou’s lips with her thumb, finally tasting some of her own cooking. “I’ll make it quick.”
The cake was, indeed, too sweet.
A/N: I never said I know how to write proper GL, but I never said I'd stop doing it, ehe
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