Chapter Three

Wax and Toys

The next weekend, Jotaro and Kakyoin returned to the Gold Experience to find another display demonstration was going on. This time it was Narancia who was doing a wax play demonstration on Fugo.

The last week had been adjusting to their new dynamic. Jotaro had started to arrange the tasks that Kakyoin would have to do during the week when they were apart. He very quickly became adept at what tasks were appropriate and what tasks were not. Jotaro would send Kakyoin a message each morning when he woke up, giving him time to answer him. He would tell him to do his morning chores and routine and receive a picture when he was dressed and ready for his day. Jotaro thought at first it would be weird sending these messages but he soon found himself enjoying the process. He wondered if that was the "topspace" that Bruno had spoken of.

"Do you like wax play?" Jotaro asked as they came in and sat down at a chair near the stage. Jotaro sat in the large, armed chair and Kakyoin knelt beside him without a hesitation or second thought. The positions were seemingly natural.

"I don't know, I've yet to try it. Master Dio was not into sensation stuff like that. More the flogger and crop." He paused and glanced up at Jotaro. "But I'd be willing to try it if you like, Master."

Being called Master had taken some getting used to, and Jotaro only allowed it in the club and private, so that in public he would use Jotaro's name. Of course, during the week they saw each other and had lunch together at work. Unlike with Dio, Kakyoin saw Jotaro outside of the club. They settled into their spaces and watched as Narancia came up on the stage.

"Tonight, we'll have some wax play. Those of you who engage in the activity can see I've taken the precautions necessary and lined the chair for drips." Narancia was wearing a corset top and a set of leather pants.

Fugo was settled in to the chair with his chest and legs bare. The area had been prepared ahead of time, with a plastic sheet and fabric one over it, lining the chair. Fugo wore a pair of spandex shorts and nothing else with a silken blindfold. Narancia had the candles ready and all the necessary items at hand. He carefully lit one of the candles and began drizzling the wax over Fugo's chest, concentrating on the nipples and letting the wax run in rivulets down the plane of his stomach. Unable to see the splats and drips of wax coming, Fugo let out a little gasp now and then when the wax contacted his skin.

"Wax play can be fun, but you have to be careful what kind of candles you use. The smaller the candle, the hotter the wax. Also, different colors of wax in the same candle have different melting points, so those aren't good to play with. This is about sensation, not really pain."

Narancia began running it over the tops and inside of his thighs, and if they had been in private, he would have continued with the more intimate areas. Fugo wasn't interested in displaying his goods for everyone to see. After a long while of drips and runs, Narancia finished with the dripping and began to slowly begin peeling the wax off his skin sensually, taking time to run his fingers over areas as the wax was removed. As he finished, he placed a kiss on Fugo's forehead before sliding off the blindfold. Fugo smiled and stood up, brushing remaining bits of wax of his legs and belly as they retired to a sofa nearby.

Jotaro and Kakyoin had been watching the scene with interest. The different ways to play fascinated Jotaro because it was about more than just flogging someone. Pain was only a single aspect of the world, and really, even the pain was about sensation. They were all after something similar, a way to feel the world more than regular life allowed them to do so. All in all, no matter what side of the tool, everyone just wanted to feel something. The Dominants needed to feel power and to be needed, and the submissives wanted to let go of control. Jotaro wasn't sure which took more strength. As he saw it, submissive didn't mean weak at all.

"Giorno is working at the bar tonight, Sir," Kakyoin noted, seeing that rather than club gear, the other man was in slacks and a white button down shirt. "Perhaps we will see their other partner, Mistress Trish."

Just as he said it, the noticed a woman approach the bar with vivid pink hair cut short. She was leading a figure on hands and knees by a leash. He wore a hood that made his silhouette resemble that of a large dog with floppy ears. Otherwise he wore a jumpsuit that covered him from shoulder to toe. The woman wore a short skirt and heeled boots that came up to mid thigh with a sheer top that revealed a black bra under it.

"He's a pup," Bruno spoke up beside them, surprising Jotaro who was watching the woman at the bar.

"A pup?" Jotaro asked.

"Puppy play, another type of relationship. Trish is his Handler and Mista, or Pistolero, is a pup. They say that it is the opposite end of the spectrum from the Master/slave relationship," Bruno explained, crossing his arms over his chest and smiling as Trish reached down and gave skritches to the back of Mista's head. "Puppy play is low-key and a good way for some people to get into the Lifestyle, but some stay with it. It is often not sexual but it can integrate sex into it. Trish often does pegging on him when he's submissive to her."

"He's not a pup to Giorno?" Jotaro asked with curiosity.

"No, they have a Master/pet relationship without the actual pet play. Giorno is in turn a bratty little to Mista. Since they're both switches, it makes for interesting dynamics," Bruno said with a shrug of his thin shoulders. He was wearing a corset style top tonight with sleeves that flowed down to his wrists and a set of chaps with a pair of short leather shorts.

Trish walked toward them, leading Mista on the leash and they realized he had mitts on his hands that made them look more like paws.

"Good evening. I hear you're new around here and to this Lifestyle, Jotaro, was it?" she asked him. Mista knelt down near Kakyoin and began sniffing around him. Kakyoin wasn't sure how to react to this type of interaction so he froze and did nothing.

"Yes, I'm just learning, but quickly," Jotaro said as he looked at Mista as he acted like one would expect an actual dog to act. "It seems there are lots of different ways in which to experience this world."

"Pistolero, you're scaring Emerald," Trish said sternly, giving a tug on the leash lightly. Mista stopped sniffing and investigating and sat back at her feet. "Good boy," she said and reached down to skritch the back of his head again.

Even with the hood covering his face, it was easy to see how much he enjoyed the attention. This dynamic was very different from the others, and Jotaro could see the allure to it. It was much less structured than some of the other pairings he'd seen so far.

"I still am getting used to things around here," Jotaro said to her.

"I'm sure the switches are a bit confusing around here," she said as she scruffled Mista's head thoughtfully. "They get into their bottomspace and you'd never know they're Dominant some of the time."

"Yeah, Kakyoin, er Emerald seems to be a sub all the time."

"Yeah, I'm just a Domme," she said with a smirk. "I don't switch."

"I don't see myself switching either," Jotaro said with a nod of his head.

Trish smiled. "I'm going to make the rounds and let Pistolero show off a little and get some attention from the others," she said and led him away.

"Interesting," Jotaro muttered.

-oooooo-OOOOOO-oooooo-

Avdol sat across the desk from a prospective client. "So you say you were let go unfairly?"

"I didn't do anything wrong except walk in on a meeting. I don't know who was in that meeting but I think it was someone I wasn't supposed to see."

"I don't normally take on new clients while I'm working on a case, but I'll look into this Dio a little bit and see if I can unearth anything helpful." Avdol showed him out and then sat down at the desk.

"Busy?" asked Polnareff as he sat down.

Avdol hadn't even noticed his partner come in as he was musing about his last client. "Just another person with something against Dio Brando. I think there's more to that man than just running his club."

"My friend's dating his ex, well, one of them. He's got a string of ex lovers a mile long. He doesn't keep them very long, male, female, other, doesn't seem to matter who they are," Polnareff commented, pushing around the pen cup on the desk idly.

"This was a wrongful firing perhaps, but those are nearly impossible to prove. Still he seemed to think the reason he was fired was seeing someone he shouldn't have, so who knows what goes on in that place. My investigation into Alessi led me there…" he muttered, shuffling the files on his desk and looking at a rather thick one.

"Anything new on that case?" Polnareff said and pulled the file toward him, showing the man in question on the top. "I'd think a child killer would be harder to find."

"Someone out there is helping him," Avdol spoke and tapped the file. "Neither I nor the police can seem to locate anything. Infuriating since you would think someone that is that much of a scumbag would be easier to find."

"How goes the identity fraud case?" Polnareff asked and closed the file on the child killer.

"'Rubber Soul' they're calling him at the station. Still nothing concrete, only a string of victims," Avdol said a he ran a hand over his tightly braided hair.

Polnareff nodded. "I'm sure you'll turn up something for them both. And now investigating Dio Brando. I better watch my back with such a high profile private investigator as my other half."

"I wouldn't call me high profile, just the people I'm after," Avdol chuckled and straightened the files on his desk. "How is your friend you introduced to the club?"

"Jotaro?" Polnareff asked with a shrug. "His boyfriend has him going full Dom and everything. I think it suits him, though. The right mix of caring and authority. Are we still having dinner with Joseph, Suzy, and Ceasar this weekend?"

"Yeah, they'll be over Saturday night." Avdol put away the files. "I think I'm ready for lunch," he said and put his hand on Polnareff's hand.

"Good, I rarely get to have lunch with you."

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Jotaro and Kakyoin stood outside the store called the High Priestess. It was an adult toy store and Kakyoin was excited because Jotaro had never been to one before.

"It is run by a woman I met at the Vampire's Nest named Midler and her girlfriend Mariah," Kakyoin explained. "Well, Midler used to be in the Lifestyle but she left after Master Dio was her Dom for a while. I think she didn't take well to being treated like Master Dio trained us because she left after Master Dio released her."

"Released her?" Jotaro asked.

"Like he did with me, but she was in a car accident where she lost her teeth and broke her jaw pretty badly. Can't tell now, but at the time she was going to be out of commission for quite a while, and Master Dio doesn't have time for subs that make him wait."

"Good grief," Jotaro murmured, shaking his head a little.

They walked into the place and found themselves in the front where the joke goods were displayed as they came in past the counter. There was a wall toward the back with videos displayed for sale. There were exotic clothes and lingerie in the space to the right of the door. Against the back wall, they could see the displays for the high-end toys and expensive electronic devices. As they came into the main part of the store, Jotaro saw his cousin standing in an aisle with his partner examining something. They went over toward them.

"Josuke, hey," Jotaro said with a smirk. The younger man looked up and blushed a little.

"Jotaro. Hi. Um, we were just looking…at…um…" He looked at the box in his hand which was a set of various beginner bondage toys.

"We were just wondering how you used all this stuff," Okuyasu said from beside him with a blank look. He apparently wasn't embarrassed by their location in a sex shop.

"Ah," Jotaro said, smirking at the pair. He knew the two of them weren't into anything weird or kinky but it was still amusing to see them trying to figure out what the toys were used for.

"Hi boys," came a voice from behind them.

"Hi Mariah," Kakyoin said with a gentle smile to the thin woman with dark hair.

She wore a short skirt that showed off her shapely legs and a short sleeved hoodie with the hood part down.

Josuke and Okuyasu waved at her from their position. "What are you doing around here today?" she commented.

"This is Jotaro, my boyfriend," Kakyoin said with a shy grin.

"Oh, I see," she said and held out a hand to shake with him. "Good to meet you. When did this happen? Last I heard you were still with Dio."

"Couple months ago, he got bored with me," Kakyoin explained, still looking a little sad at the thought.

Mariah snorted derisively. "Just as well; the man is trash."

"Now, now, don't be putting down people who aren't here," Midler said as she approached, carrying a box of stock to put out.

"I'll put down Dio any chance I get. Wannabe Dom with a power trip is all he is. If he didn't own that club he practically stole from Jonathan Joestar…" she began.

"Jotaro is in their family, so is Josuke," Kakyoin explained.

"There are a lot of you Joestar boys around," Mariah said with a grin toward Jotaro.

Jonathan Joestar, who was in his late fifties, was the head of the family, and the same age as Dio Brando who had been his childhood friend. They had grown up together and when they started the club together, things had been even between them. Dio eventually got the upper hand and ended up taking over the club completely, pushing out his once friend and becoming the sole owner. Jonathan had a grandson named Joseph who was in his late twenties. Jotaro and Josuke were both cousins to the family.

"We run in some of the same circles," Jotaro said with a smile to the two ladies. Midler was also dark haired with lighter skin than Mariah.

"I haven't seen Joseph or Ceasar in lately," Midler observed, putting out the plugs from the box she was holding. "They usually come in to buy their stuff once a month or so."

"Well, we do have the best stock in town," Mariah said with pride.

"Jotaro, look, it's a flogger," Kakyoin said as he looked at the box Josuke was holding. "Tiny one."

"Well, that is the beginner basics set," Mariah said as she saw the red tint to Josuke's face.

Josuke put the set back down and smiled at them. "We should be going," he said softly.

"Wait, we didn't get what we came for," Okuyasu complained and let himself be drug toward the display of the lubes.

Jotaro shook his head. He wasn't that much older than the pair but he had always been mature for his age. Mariah went to check out Josuke and left them with Midler. Midler looked at them. "So you got cut loose too."

"Yeah, but Jotaro is learning the Lifestyle to take care of me," Kakyoin said with a grin at Jotaro.

"I never got back into things after I got out, but that's okay. I never was big on the humiliation that Dio used. I'm surprised you stayed as long as you did since at first you were so reluctant," Midler commented as she finished filling the fixture with the plugs.

"I just got used to it," Kakyoin sighed. "You can get used to anything if you try, and I wanted to see Mast—er Dio happy. Not that he ever showed it that much," he said.

"At all…" Midler trailed off and smiled. "So what are you here for or just browsing?"

"Well, Jotaro hadn't been in a shop before and we were shopping for some new things for us since we're newly together…" Kakyoin said, flushing a bit. "We still have to visit the leather store, but I already ordered a pair of floggers for him to use…"

"Pair? Hoping he picks up two handed?" Midler asked.

"I think he can," Kakyoin said with a smirk.

Jotaro and Kakyoin continued to look through the items for sale, with Kakyoin showing Jotaro things that he particularly liked. They bought lube and a couple toys that Kakyoin thought looked like fun. It felt like they would finally get together soon to Kakyoin.