Yes, that's my ideal foreplay
Nu: Carnival - Rei x Kuya
A/N: Happy birthday @vqler!!!! It's a little early for me, but I double checked and this should be arriving right on time for you! ~
This time I didn't make the same mistake, so I hope this surprises you at least a bit. Make sure you stay healthy and prosper, but today you can commit against your own well being and be reckless as a treat. Love you lots, enjoy it! mwah!
Summary: How to solve an essence-related problem? With essence-related solutions! And how do you get one's essence? You already know the answer!
Word count: 1856 words
Warnings: Midly suggestive content
[Also on Ao3]
Infuriating. Utterly infuriating. Who does he think he is?! Did he forget his place? The manners he was supposedly taught as a kid?! Or did he simply had a death wish? Kuya really felt like granting one right now.
"Hahahah," Rei laughed carelessly, his head lolling back as Kuya tugged at his clothes, pulling him by the collar, "is it this frustrating, old fox? You look like you're about to pop a vein."
"Undo it. Now," Kuya hissed through gritted teeth, trying to keep himself composed even when his eyes were dark with anger, enough to burn someone into a pile of ashes. That, of course, if he could. "Revoke this filthy binding at this instant and I may consider giving you a quick death."
The youkai's rage didn't move Rei. At least, not in the slightest in the direction Kuya wanted. Rei looked amused, even more confident than before, and didn't stop grinning for a single second. The excitement of seeing success in his experiment after just a few attempts was too strong for him to control. On top of that, Rei managed to pull this trick on Kuya of all people. He laughed again, smacking Kuya's hands off his clothes before smothering any wrinkle left by the other's grip.
"The binding is not mine to control. It's Huey's," Rei explained, his tone uninterested. He already had the results he wanted, anyway. "I only disturbed it a little with my own essence. The result is, honestly, beyond my expectations."
Kuya took a deep breath, knowing better than to insist on cursing at Rei. "I think you didn't understand, master Rei, when I said I do not much care for whatever experiments you ran in this damned lab or what is the work behind them. Just undo it. Fast, for your own sake."
Rei scoffed, letting out another loud chuckle at Kuya's words only to get deeper into the fox's nerves. "My sake? Do you seriously think you can pose any threat to me as you are right now, old fox? You are too dependent on your essence to do anything without it."
"Tch."
As much as he hated it and it hurt his pride to admit, there was some truth in Rei's words, as harsh as they were. Centuries dedicated to enhance his control and power were suddenly taken away from him. Humiliating as it sounded, his best threat would be request that fraud's help in convincing Rei — or, maybe, use him as an hostage to negotiate, one of the two.
While thought after thought spiraled inside Kuya's mind, Rei let out a bored sigh that made Kuya snap out of the trance. "Pitiful," Rei crossed one arm in front of his chest and started gesturing with his free hand as he spoke. "I hate how pathetic you look right now."
"Oh?" Kuya huffed, his eyebrow twitching, trying to brush off the insults. "Does master Rei have a caring heart after all? Did I manage to appeal to his kind side?"
"Shut it," Rei rolled his eyes. He needed to think rationally, even when part of him wanted to keep messing around the older youkai. The experiment wasn't over — if the seal couldn't be removed, then he only managed to succeed at half of it. "It's not like I did any permanent damage. My essence is still etched in the binding. In theory, all we need to do is an exchange to make it flow out of you", he continued with the explanation, giving Kuya probably the intel he craved the most at that moment. "That should stop the constriction around your essence and allow you to manipulate it again."
Kuya arched an eyebrow, still showing some defiance despite his current predicament. Like everything in Klein, this, too, was tied to essence and its particular properties. The youkai grinned slightly, almost teasing. "Master Rei," he purred, "you didn't have to go such lengths just for some intercourse. You always struck me as the kind that liked to play hard, but—"
"Now, aren't you a little too confident?" Rei snapped back, the mockery poising his words as he harshly stopped Kuya's hand from getting any closer to him. "Like I said, its only a theory with no confirmation. And I'm not in the mood to fuck. Even less with you, old fox."
"So demanding," Kuya sighed and shook his head, slowly starting to act as if he wasn't the one depending on Rei's will. "Am I supposed to start asking what puts you in a mood and what sort of dirty fantasies your young heart craves? Or are you going to leave this testing unfinished like the rest of your business, master Rei?"
Rei furrowed his brows. He should have thought of a way to bind that forked tongue as well. "That's up to me to decide, no? If I decide to see if the binding comes off on its own, then you can make your leave or I can kick you out myself."
"Unless you want an earful of the grand sorcerer himself, I advise you to reconsider your schedule."
"Pfft, are you really going to resort to him? You must be truly desperate," Rei couldn't help the laugh, but that did sound like an actual threat — unlike the violent ones from a moment ago. "So your idea of a foreplay is just be a pain until you get laid? Fitting."
"Well, I didn't hear any of master Rei's requests, so I might as well start to throw guesses," Kuya hummed gently, making another attempt of approaching Rei and, this time, managing to corner him against one of the lab tables.
For the first time in a long while, they were close. Not at each others' throats but looking into each others' eyes. Even when there was only interests between them, those were enough for Kuya and Rei to settle a silent agreement.
"You're staring too much," Rei muttered annoyed, turning Kuya's face away. "Did you fall in love or something?"
"Huhuh, I thought you'd want to make the most out of it, but seems I overestimated it." Kuya chuckled, his fingers closing around Rei's wrist before pulling Rei's hand away from his face. "So, any requests, master Rei? Consider it an acknowledgement of your little triumph."
Disgusting, Rei thought.
He didn't manage to answer the question — or, rather, issue the order — on time and Kuya's lips were already pressing against his. He could feel the youkai's warm breathing against his face, the taste of his tongue and the strength of Kuya's body. The kiss was good and, to Rei, the fact that this specific thought crossed his mind disgusted him the most.
Rei's free hand held onto the lab table, anchoring himself and his mind to it. Kuya's hands were already closing around his waist, taking more and more control over the act. He didn't like it. He didn't want to even think of what he would have to hear later if things continued down this path.
He sighed, firmly planting his palm against Kuya's chest and forcing the kiss into a halt. "E-enough," he gasped, catching up his breath before throwing daggers with his eyes at Kuya. "Who even put you in charge here?"
"Sigh," Kuya shook his head, his hands resting against Rei's sides, "unless you start showing some initiative, master Rei, I'll continue from here."
This bastard, Rei thought and frowned. He looked down at the space between them and then back at Kuya's face, resting merely inches away from his own. "No, you won't," Rei spoke softly as a new idea took form inside his head. His eyes met Kuya's while he lifted the youkai's hands, letting them rest on top of his shoulders. "Don't move until I say so. Can you do that? Or is it too complicated for your senile brain?"
Kuya concealed the annoyance behind a smirk, playfully crossing his wrists behind Rei's neck and leaning a little further, the tip of his nose almost nuzzling Rei's face. "Are you into this kind of play, master Rei? Are you going to command me around like a p—"
"Like a what, fox?" Rei smiled at Kuya's surprised, caught-off-guard-face. He wiggled his fingers against the covered skin, both hands tickling the very spot between Kuya's arms and highest ribs. He prodded with just enough strength to make Kuya flinch, his fingers stroking down the sides of Kuya's chest and then squeezing between the bones. "Guess I just made a second disovery today, hm?"
"You're insufferable, master Rei," Kuya groaned, the corner of his lips twitching with both the urge to laugh and to strangle Rei on spot. "Are you a kid? Stop playing aharou— hngh!"
"And you're quite the sensitive one as well," Rei noted again, his fingers kneading and pressing into Kuya's sides. From the close distance, Rei could see every little twitch and falter in Kuya's expression: how his lips curled and trembled; the way his brows furrowed and his eyes closed shut; and how quickly his breathing became uneven, erratic. "Who would've thought you're so ticklish?"
"S-shuhut your mohouth, you brahahat!" Kuya complained through laughter as Rei's hands climbed back to under his arms. Kuya wanted to sink his nails into Rei's skin and thorn the damned man open, but all he did was to hold his hands together and weight down on Rei's shoulders, giving his best to stick to that stupid order. "W-whahat sohohort of freheak gets ohohoff with thihis?!"
"I don't know," Rei chuckled, amused at Kuya's struggle. "But seeing you humiliate yourself like this surely gets me going."
Rei continued to try one spot after the other, making little mental notes about each. Where Kuya was most ticklish, and which part would get him to crack and laugh like an idiot. Ribs, waist, armpits, stomach, hips, repeat. Rei wasn't sure which button he ended up pressing by accident, but, at some point, Kuya stopped fighting so desperately against the sensation and against his touches.
Was the feeling getting dull? Did Kuya managed to adapt to it? Or was he simply growing tired of resisting? Rei hummed, sounding pleased regardless of the answer. "You look like you're starting to enjoy yourself. Is that why you haven't let go of me?"
"I-I'll fuhuhuck you sehehenseless, mahaster Rehei!" Kuya threatened, his lips forced into a powerless smile and his eyes a little lost, but still gleaming with that anger Rei knew oh-so-well. "A-ahahand when I geheht my essehence bahack, I'll buh-AHah— agh, I wihihill buhurn you and yohohour damned lab together!"
"Right," Rei chuckled. He grabbed Kuya's face by his chin and pulled him into another kiss while his other hand was still latched into the youkai's side, squeezing and tickling it restlessly. Rei kissed him almost sadistically, refusing to let Kuya have an inch of control or room to properly breathe or laugh.
"I don't know about tickling, but I certainly can get off at this, heh," he mocked, seeing Kuya's face contort with seething rage and, surprisingly, some bits of lust. "Now show me how much you want that binding off you, fox."
