On a Private Corner of Watatsumi Island

Aether shot out of the statue of Baal in a flash of bright light. Empowered with electro, every move he took was lightning-fast. He raced down a hill, leaving scorched footprints on the ground as he ran. There couldn't have been much time left. Even with how he rushed away before Paimon could join him, time was of the essence.

Moments Ago

"Thank you for responding so quickly to my urgent message, Traveler," Lady Yae drawled. "It's quite fortunate that I now have proof that you're alive. You come to visit me at this shrine so rarely. These days, I'm only used to seeing you in my mind's eye when I pray for your safet-"

"Miko," Aether interrupted, electro still crackling off of him after he'd sped across the rooftops in flashes of lightning to get here, "you said someone was in danger."

"Oh, right," Yae Miko said softly. "I suppose the achings of my heart aren't very important to you. So..." She sighed. "You have quite the intimate relationship with the Watatsumi general, correct? Gorou...with the fluffy ears?"

"You know that, Miko," the traveler said, "what's wrong."

"A priestess hears all sorts of things." She looked wistfully around the shrine. "So often do words meant for the gods find my ears during their journey to the heavens. It's quite-"

"Miko!"

"Oh, yes." She hmphed. "General Gorou takes a week-long break every year for..." She grinned for a moment before suppressing it. "I don't know why. But some scoundrels came in today. Apparently, they've found the cabin the general will be residing in for this short while and they plan to assassinate him." She shrugged. "A pity. Would you like to join me for fried tofu?"

"They..." Aether began. "I have to stop this. Where is he?"

"A cabin on one of the southeastern islets of Watatsumi...I believe that's what they said," she said. "I beg you please reconsider...the tofu is quite lovely, there's an assortment of-"

"Food later, Miko," Aether said, worriedly. "Can you help me stop them?"

"Oh," Yae Miko began. "It would be most unbecoming for a defenseless priestess to come to blows with a group of wretched thugs. Best to leave it in your capable hands."

In the Present

Aether found the cabin, zipping up to the top of a nearby hill to inspect it. He watched for a few minutes, eyes scanning the area for any flicker of movement. But there were none. He worried slightly that there may be someone watching, but his sword appeared in his hand. Surging forward surrounded by electro, Aether ran straight to the cabin and kicked the door. When it flew open, he entered to find...by all seven archons.

Gorou was completely naked, stroking at his dick with both hands desperately. He yelped in surprise when he noticed the intruder. Using his hands to cover himself, he sat up on the bed he was sprawled across. "Traveler!" Gorou whined.

"Gorou, you..." The blonde didn't know where to take that sentence, so he abandoned it.

"What are you doing here?" Gorou asked. "Nobody comes here. I don't even think anyone other than Her Excellency knows it exists."

"That explains a lot," Aether said, scratching his chin. Of course Lady Yae would do something like this. It was foolish not to even consider it was a possibility. What priestess has ever heard of an assassination plot? "I'm sorry, I'll go," Aether reached for the door.

"Stop, wait!" Gorou yelled. Aether let go of the door in surprise, turning to the general. "I...I'm not just doing this because I want to." His hands began to rub at his dick again absent-mindedly. When they parted to both grab at it, Aether saw it leaking a veritable ton of precum. There was literally so much of it dripping down and pooling onto the sheets of the bed. "It's...it's...the time of year that I go through my heat." Aether noticed the smell in the room. Like musk, sweat, cum, precum, spit, and something strangely herbal. "I need to be kept away from people until it passes so I don't do anything I regret."

Aether felt a bit strange at that. He was naturally empathetic and...what Gorou had just said. "Gorou," he began. Gorou looked up at him hesitantly. "If this...heat is just what comes with who you are, I don't think you should be so ashamed."

"No-" Gorou began, only to be interrupted.

"It sounds lonely...feeling like you need to be kept away from people. Like you're some sort of Ruin Guard that'll attack them suddenly." Aether shivered. "I...it doesn't make me happy to know that you feel that way."

Gorou clenched his fists tight, his nails digging in until they drew blood. He bit his lip, too, tightly. "I...I don't." He growled, shaking his head. "You shouldn't be here. I'm...I'm not in control of myself and you..." He looked away, covering his dick with his hands...only to start running his fingers along it unconsciously. "I won't ruin our friendship by doing something crazy. Please leave."

"But..." The traveler shook his head. "Gorou, I'm not going to stop being your friend. I've fought off hundreds of beasts in domains, I can handle whatever your heat makes you do, it's not like you can hurt me easily." Gorou whimpered. "You don't have to go through this alone if you don't want to-"

Gorou shot up, growling viciously. He crossed the room in a moment, closing the door and pinning Aether against it by his neck. The blonde was too surprised to react, his sword falling to the ground. "You're so loyal," Gorou whispered in Aether's ear. "You really want to protect me?" Gorou's eyes were shining so hopefully that the traveler couldn't let him down. He nodded affirmatively. "That's so fucking hot."

"Wha-" Gorou's lips crashed against his, his tongue taking control of Aether's mouth as he deepened the kiss. It even got to a point where he repeatedly stuck his tongue down Aether's throat to tonguefuck him. Aether moaned at the action and Gorou drew back to wrestle their tongues against one another.

When the general pulled away, a string of spit connected their lips. "I need you to fuck me, Captain," Gorou begged. He brought Aether's hands around to grab his ass. Aether rubbed the soft globes, surprised at the sudden turn of events. He didn't expect heat to be sexual. He'd assumed Gorou would become uncharacteristically violent when he signed up for this. But, now that Gorou was calling him captain, the traveler wondered what Kaeya would do.

He gave Gorou a quick peck on the lips. "On the bed," Aether said gently, "show me that pretty little ass." Gorou quickly went to the bed, positioning himself on his hands and knees. Aether approached, rubbing Gorou's ass appreciatively. He spread the general's cheeks apart, noticing Gorou's tail was wagging wildly. Chuckling, Aether used two of his fingers to pet Gorou's tail gently. It had a tense section inside under the fur that he had to be careful not to squeeze in a way that could turn painful.

"Yes, yes, yes, Captain." Gorou screamed. "Please keep rubbing my tail." Aether couldn't exactly deny him that. So he kept rubbing the brown and white tail softly, gently rubbing the fur until it was even smoother than it already was. It was difficult to continue doing it, though, due to the way it was flailing around in every possible direction. Gorou kept moaning and gasping. He exhaled sharply when Aether teased the area where the skin of his lower back branched into the fur of his tail. "Yes!" Gorou cried. "Captain, please, pleasepleaseplease keep doing that." Using both his hands, the blonde kept rubbing from skin to tail. He trailed his fingers around the area, then gently rubbed up the general's tail. Gorou was panting like...well, like a dog in heat. As he ran his hand along Gorou's tail, Aether gave two tight squeezes. Not enough to upset the bones and muscles, but enough to provoke a, "OHHHHHH YESS FUCK THAT'S PERFECT!"

Chuckling, Aether noticed that Gorou was lying face-first on the bed. And he had both hands wrapped around his dick, pleasuring himself while Aether worked on his tail. There was even a little puddle of precum on the blankets. Leaning down, Aether gave the skin around the area where Gorou's tail began a little lick. Judging by the way Gorou screamed and shuddered, it was an excellent idea. Aether kept up the licking, circling the area around the general's tail.

That same tail was wagging so enthusiastically that it kept whacking Aether's face. Every time he trailed his tongue around in another circle, a different area of his face was smacked with it. "I'm sorry, Captain," Gorou whined. "I should be able to stop hitting you with it, but...I'm failing."

"Don't worry about it, it's sexy," Aether beamed. He was most certainly positive that he'd used the word correctly in this context. The next time he flicked his tongue around the tail, he heard Gorou cry out.

"I'M CUMMING, CAPTAIN!" The general said. Aether kept rubbing his tail as he looked underneath Gorou's ass to see the cum that rained down onto the blanket. It was an impossibly large amount. There couldn't have been a way all of that was inside of the brunette. Leaning down, Aether licked a bit of it up before retreating. "I..." Gorou began, dick still hard. He swayed his hips, wiggling his ass around enticingly. "I want more. I want you to fuck me, Captain."

Aether's heart was pounding as he prepared to actually fuck someone for the first time ever. At least the first time that he could remember. "Do you have anything to make it smoother or are we using spit?"

"Spit would be so fucking hot," Gorou groaned meekly. But he crawled across the bed, grabbing a vial from a sidetable. He passed it over to Aether. Aether opened it, a heavily pungent and herbaceous scent hitting his nose. "I've had my fingers in my ass all day," Gorou whined. "Please just fuck me, Captain. I need it."

The traveler coated his dick in the fluid, grabbing Gorou's hip with one hand to steady him and grabbing his dick with the other. When he brought the tip of his dick to his friend's hole, Gorou whined desperately. What would Kaeya do? Aether thought for a moment. Smirking, he asked "Do you want it?"

"Yes, I want it," Gorou moaned.

"I'm not sure you really do," Aether said. "Convince me."

"Please, Captain," Gorou begged. "All I can think about is getting your cum inside me. Everything you said earlier about how you want to protect my emotions and you don't want me to feel like a monster. It's...I want to mate with you. I need to. I need you to breed me. Rubbing my tail isn't enough, I need you to fuck me."

Aether laughed. "Okay," He thrust his hips forward and Gorou howled. He literally howled out loud at the top of his lungs. "I believe you." Aether began to move his hips. This was a new feeling. An amazing one. Gorou's hole squeezed tight around his dick wherever it touched him. And, beyond it, there was a small space within. His dick wasn't thick enough that it wrapped around him completely, but he felt the walls of it every time he thrust in. They brushed against his dick and they were soooooooooooo soft and warm. It was like nothing he would've ever imagined.

"Oh, Traveler," Gorou moaned, still pumping his dick. "Ah, I'm gonna cum again." And he did. Aether knew when his orgasm shook him by the way Gorou's ass began to clench as the muscles in his cock tensed and shot cum across the blanket. The squeezing was intense. But, for some reason, Aether didn't feel like he was on the verge of joining his friend. Something was strange, but he didn't feel the desire to cum at all despite his dick being harder than it had been in a while. And he was so horny. All he could think about was how much he wanted to fuck Gorou. And how sexy the general was.

"Keep cumming for me," Aether said. He looped an arm around Gorou's neck, pulling him up so that his back met the traveler's chest. The blonde loved the way it tickled when Gorou's tail-still wagging wildly-would brush against his nipples. Both boys were absolutely drenched in sweat by now, but Aether didn't stop pounding his friend...nor did Gorou stop grinding desperately back onto the dick inside him. Using a hand on the side of the general's head, the blonde turned him so that he could kiss Gorou's lips quickly.

"FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!" Gorou wailed. His eyes were screwed shut and his tail was thrashing wildly against Aether's torso. The traveler looked around, wondering what was causing this. Then he noticed it. The hand he had buried in the hair on the left side of Gorou's head was brushing against one of his soft ears. "They're extra-sensitive when I'm in-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Aether scratched behind the general's ears as he continued thrusting inside his hole. "Trav-t-t-traveler!"

"I thought I was Captain," Aether teased.

"Yes," Gorou breathed. "Yes, Captain."

Aether got a wicked idea and gently bit down on Gorou's right ear while he continued rubbing and scratching the one on the left. That did it. Gorou's hole clenched around him again as he came for the third time. Aether kept biting and scratching at the general's ears as he fucked him. He even licked the inside of one where the fuzz was a lot less pronounced and the texture was like regular skin. Gorou moaned needily. "What do you need me to do, Gorou?"

"I..." Gorou began. "I w-aaaaaah fuck fuck yes!" He took his time to catch his breath, releasing another moan when Aether scratched behind his ear. "I...I need you to mark me!" He screamed. "I want to be yours. Please! Pleas-eeeyeeyahauaah!" He trailed off when Aether kept brushing against his prostate while gently biting his ear. "Please I...I need you to bite my neck."

"Whatever you need," Aether said softly. He pulled Gorou's head back by the hair, brushing his thumb against his ear. With his hips still in motion, he couldn't believe he was really fucking Gorou right now. He looked down, assessing where he should bite. The skin was so pearly and smooth. But he decided on a rather desirable place. He licked a stripe down the general's neck, landing at the point where his neck and shoulder met.

Gorou moaned, rolling his hips back. He even shook his head slightly to get the traveler to rub his ear a bit more, his tail flapping wildly against the blonde. "Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease..."

Aether bit down on that section of the general's neck and it was immediate. As soon as he bit down hard enough to leave a mark that would take a while to disappear, his orgasm rocked through him. He grunted, his dick twitching as it fired into Gorou's hole. He felt a mild shock as a burst of electro fired through his dick into Gorou, the general howling when he felt the minute pain. The general whimpered, rocking his hips and clenching his hole to milk the other man. No, he wasn't clenching intentionally. He was cumming again. Aether panted as he sat still, rubbing Gorou's ear while the other man continued to fuck himself. Gorou moaned loudly, collapsing down on the bed.

The traveler followed him, lying down next to the brunette. And...right into the huge pool of cum and precum that Gorou had painted all over it. He caught his breath, still in disbelief that this even happened. He turned to face Gorou when the general cleared his throat. "I..." Gorou began. "I can't thank you enough for helping me. I...I finally feel like I can thing-I mean think. That was incredible."

"I agree," Aether said.

"I...I'll..." Gorou tried to go on. "That is to say that...for another four or six days, I'll still be in heat. And..."

Aether reached over, pulling Gorou's head to the side so they could meet eyes. "I'll stay here and fuck you however you want me to." He smirked. "Or get fucked however you want."

Gorou gasped, blushing. He looked away for a moment before his blue eyes found Aether's again. "Could...could you wrap my tail around your dick and...and fuck it?"

A long stretch of silence passed before Aether said, "Turn around."

AN: I had written a mini-rant about how I hate the Fatui and the game's attempt to make some of them "not so bad" so much that I banned Tartaglia and Lyney, and didn't like writing Gorou the Pathological Liar. Then I realized I was writing about a video game character fucking a dog-human character and scratching his ears/petting his tail for sexual gratification. I know I'm complex, but that's just messed up priorities.