Rubato
Author's Note: Enjoy the story and R&R.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of Shadowverse.
Pairing: Established Itsuki x Ryoga.
Summary:
It's a bad love, but love nonetheless.
"I'm…not a spoiled brat! Nor am I a wimp!"
"My sense is never wrong! You're interesting! You're entertaining, even though you're just noise! Rubato!"
Itsuki gets the wind knocked out of him with each attack, but it's empty posturing unless he's unleashing genuine full-throated, bloodcurdling screams!
"And I thought you could keep up with my rhythm! If this is all you got, it is not enough!"
"Ryoga-kun, do you really want to hear me scream that much?"
"Oh yes! The sound of your unmuted desperation! The melody that bursts your own eardrums! I want to hear your pain sing!"
"It won't be so easy, Ryoga-kun! Ad libitum!"
"Ho? You been studying up?"
"Up till now, you've been setting the tempo. Well, now I determine the speed!"
Ryoga howled with a demon's laughter. He went along with Seventh's Flame's Club President's segue, ceding him temporary control of the music.
Itsuki put his hands on Ryoga's exposed stomach. His muscles were rock solid, like Windflower Tiger's.
This teddy bear. This little fairy. This baby elf. He had some bite after all.
This was his out-of-game Cosmos Fang?
But the bite was still not enough! Not by a long shot!
Ryoga ambushed Itsuki's arms and bit seven times as hard into his bare shoulder, his teeth puncturing Itsuki's skin and making him bleed out.
That did it. That made Itsuki give Ryoga the screams his ears had been stoked to hear.
The music and Itsuki were in the conductor's clutches again.
Itsuki's screams died down, and he fell face forward into Ryoga's devilish lips. Lucky for him, kissing and biting, that was all this was.
Why was Ryoga so into wrath?
Why was the sound of Ryoga laughing such a bestial awakening?