Series: Sky Stories||Title: Issues With Molting
Characters: Yubel, Juudai, Johan||Ship: Yubel x Juudai x Johan
Chapter: 5-5||Words: 1,274||Total: 6,000
Genre: Romance||Rated: R
Challenges: Diversity Writing, YGO Yubel x Juudai, H9, 5 chapters
Notes: This takes place in the same world as I Will Be Your Wings, but post-canon.
Summary: Fusing souls with Yubel didn't just give Juudai their powers - it also gave him their wings. But he's never had wings before and now, half a year after graduation, he's learning one thing. Molting season is not fun.

Johan worried at his lip for a second. It hadn't taken nearly as long as he would have thought to get used to being in the bed with both Juudai and Yubel. He'd taken trips to hot springs with them before, so the lack of clothes wasn't really a problem.

Like most people, he had at least some awareness of what Juudai meant. He could use the internet as well as anyone else and he'd had more than a few amusing fantasies – though if he were honest with himself, he far preferred the realities to what images he conjured up on his own.

But he squared up his shoulders and looked Juudai in the eyes. "Why don't you show me what you've got in mind?"

Juudai's gaze shifted to Yubel and then back to him. "If there's anything that you don't like, let us know at once. Or when you want to stop."

Johan nodded. Truth to tell, he couldn't think of anything they could do that he would want them to stop, let alone something he might not like. But he wanted to know what he would like. His wings shivered as he spread them; he could feel the awareness of the Gem Beasts, not so much spying as guarding. They trusted Juudai. Yubel – not so much.

But they also trusted Johan and so they would not protest and would not interfere.

Juudai's hands, firm with calluses and warm, moved across his stomach and chest and to his hips and thighs. Yubel moved around behind him again, supporting his wings and shoulders with their own hands.

"Let us take care of you," Yubel murmured. Johan swallowed as Juudai's fingers traced a long line down him, leaving a trail of arousal in its wake.

Juudai didn't stop there. He picked up the lube and soon got to work, carefully getting Johan and himself ready. The way that he touched, and the way that Yubel touched, combined so that Johan's hips bucked and his eyes rounded as he moaned, rising tides of pleasure washing over him. It wasn't as sharp and fierce as the last time, but certainly worth everything.

"Ready?" Juudai whispered and Johan found that he couldn't form words. He wasn't sure of why and he didn't care. But he nodded quickly and decisively, fingers clenching at the sheets, and as Juudai filled him, a moan unlike any that had ever fallen from him before sounded all around the room.

Yubel stroked his forehead and Johan wanted to focus on that to keep his thoughts together. It didn't work. Every time he tried, Juudai moved a little more, and all of his thoughts scattered to the winds. Finally he stopped trying and gave himself completely over to the pleasures of the moment.

Truth to tell, Juudai hadn't done this before. He and Yubel did certain things together but Yubel's hybrid body had some parts and didn't have others. So he had experience but not exactly what he and Johan gained together. It wasn't hard to do this – or maybe it was, and that was the whole best part of it.

He could feel Yubel's amusement as if it were his own, and how much they enjoyed seeing him enjoy himself, and how Johan reacted as well. He didn't try to think about it. He'd learned very early after the fusion that he didn't need to think to feel Yubel's heart and soul in his. They were one at all times, whether he could see them with his eyes or not.

He moved within Johan, the noises that both of them made twining around one another, growing in volume with each moment, until Johan couldn't hold back for another second. Juudai's breath came in quick and short pants after that, reaching his own peak within a few moments.

Slowly the two of them unwound, at least mentally. Juudai didn't feel a need to move very much at first and Johan didn't complain. He lazily watched Johan until the other cracked one eye at him, a dreamy smile on his lips.

"Could we do that again?" Johan whispered, voice tinged with hope. Juudai didn't bother to smother a laugh.

"Trying to be an achiever? Or an over-achiever?" Juudai teased, and Johan swatted at him.

"I'm serious!"

Juudai leaned over to press his lips against Johan's. They'd kissed before – not very often, but it had happened – and he liked the taste of Johan's lips almost as much as he did Yubel's. "Of course." He couldn't stay forever. He and Yubel would eventually start traveling again. But that wasn't right now.

You'll have to go pick up Pharaoh before we get started again, Yubel reminded him, flicking their wings at him. Remember?

He mentally groaned at that. Pharaoh and Professor Daitokuji were probably still at the inn he'd witnessed that bartering between the two settlements at. He'd not even left a note!

But right now he couldn't fully bring himself to care, not when Johan's fingers teased across his skin, sparking tiny flickers of heat all through him. He needed time to rest – they all did – but it wouldn't be much longer.

Yubel nuzzled first against Juudai, then Johan. Their heart belonged to Juudai, now and forever, but there was a tiny scrap of emotion that found Johan not exactly repulsive. They accepted him because Juudai did, of course.

By now the sun slipped close to the horizon, turning the clouds crimson and gold, and all three of them had enjoyed themselves to the point they'd even fallen asleep for half an hour or so.

Yubel nudged against Juudai. "Go take a shower," they murmured. "You could use one." Anyone with a functioning sense of smell would know what they'd been doing.

Juudai started to glance at them and then Johan. Yubel nudged him again. "No. One at a time. Otherwise we'll never get anything else done."

He wanted to pout; Yubel could read it in every line of his body. But he moved along to get cleaned up, while Yubel rearranged themselves to look into Johan's eyes. He glanced at them, then away quickly.

"You're only here for him," he murmured. "I know. It's all right."

Yubel reached out to tilt his head back with one clawed finger. "You're right. I'm here because this is what Juudai wanted – and needed. If I could have done it all alone, we wouldn't be here. He swore to me and I love him – and so do you."

Johan blinked, but didn't move away. Nor did he answer. Yubel didn't need him to. They couldn't read his thoughts as they did Juudai's, but they'd shared a body once upon a time. If anyone knew his heart, it was Yubel.

"For his sake – we will work on this," Yubel told him. "He can love us both. I know that now. Could you?"

Johan hadn't expected a question like that. He struggled for a few moments before he managed to answer. "I don't know. But – I think I want to try."

He glanced back at them, visibly gathering courage, then leaned forward to brush his lips across theirs. Yubel fit one hand behind his head and demonstrated exactly what a real kiss was like. They could feel him melting against them, their wings rubbing together, and it might have led to more, if Juudai hadn't coughed from the doorway.

"You didn't want me to take a shower, you just wanted me out of the way," he teased. Yubel smirked at him.

"And what if we did? Johan, it's your turn."

"For the shower or for more sex?"

"Go. We'll show you later."

The End

Notes: And done! I have other Johan x Yubel and Juudai x Johan x Yubel prompts in my list. Anyone curious to see them set in this same AU? I could do that.