At Wangshu Inn

Aether carried a platter, bowl, napkin, and set of chopsticks up the stairs. It wasn't easy carrying it up three flights of stairs, but it wasn't difficult either. When he got to the top level, he looked around. Unfortunately, he didn't find the person he came to see. Setting down the food and utensils in front of one chair, Aether sat in the one across from it.

"Xiao?" He called. "Are you busy conquering demons or do you have time?"

The adeptus appeared in the chair in a swirl of shadows. "Yes?" He rasped.

"Were you busy?" Aether asked hesitantly.

"Not particularly," Xiao replied. He looked down at the plate before him. "I presume this is for me."

"Yes," Aether beamed, "I have a friend who likes fried tofu with all the frills. So, I wondered if you'd like to try something like it. Cubes of fried tofu with a sweet almond sauce..." There was a stretch of silence where Xiao just looked down at the plate wordlessly. "It's not too sweet, I know you prefer milder flavors." Another stretch of silence, then...

"You didn't have to go through all this trouble..."

It took a moment, Aether unsure if the adeptus was going to continue. Maybe getting two people who weren't talkative wasn't a good plan. "I wanted to, Xiao." There was a moment of silence on his end as he worked up the courage to continue. "You're an important person to me, so I hoped you'd enjoy it. Especially before the tofu gets cold." When Xiao was silent for a moment, he joked, "or, at least, lie if you don't like it."

"I won't lie to you, Traveler," Xiao said. He hesitantly picked up the chopsticks. "But I am grateful for your kindness." Dipping a cube of tofu into the sauce, he brought it to his mouth. The blonde was on pins and needles as he noticed how expressionless Xiao's face was. Then he got another piece that he ate quickly. He made an appreciative hmph sound.

"Is it good?" Aether asked nervously.

"Yes," Xiao said when he finished chewing. And he didn't say anything else.

"Is there anything you'd prefer I changed?" The traveler asked. "I couldn't taste it since Smiley said the apricot kernels and bitter almonds are poisonous. Is everything fine?"

"Not to an adeptus," Xiao said, looking at the sauce longingly. He grabbed another piece of tofu and dunked it in the sauce before he ate it. "I'm impressed by your abilities."

"Anything for my favorite yaksha," Aether said with a smile.

Xiao looked down at the sauce, all of the cubes of tofu gone now. "I am the only yaksha now." He picked up the bowl, downing all of the sauce in it quickly. When he set it down, there was a white moustache on his upper lip that brought extremely dirty thoughts straight to Aether's mind. "Thank you, traveler." He looked away. "I should leave. You've been exposed to my-"

"Karma," Aether said, standing up from his chair. "You always mention your karma and disappear. But I'm not technically human. Are you sure you still need to go to these lengths to protect me?" He approached the adeptus, moving the dishes so he could take a seat on the table in front of him.

"I cannot risk-"

"Xiao," Aether leaned down until his face was close enough to smell the sugary sauce on Xiao's upper lip. He even noticed the tired and worried look in the man's eyes. "Smiley said the sauce would poison me. But most humans can't nap for five centuries, can they?" He reached up with a hand, touching the side of Xiao's face. He felt the yaksha stiffen, but he didn't pull away...or vanish into shadow. "I think I should at least taste the sauce once. Just to make sure it was up to the standards you deserve."

"Tra..." Xiao trailed off when Aether's tongue darted out. He slowly dragged it across the adeptus's upper lip, tasting the drops of the sauce that marked it.

"Delicious," Aether purred seductively.

"You..." Xiao began. "You can't do that. I...I won't let you die trying to get close to me like some sort of fool."

"Shouldn't I get a say in that choice?" Aether asked. His tongue left his mouth again, licking sauce from the corners of the man's lips. "Right now I really want another taste. Maybe your tongue, Xiao."

"Are you deaf or dumb?" Xiao complained weakly.

"What if..." The blonde began, leaning away. "What if we were able to start slow. And, if you get uncomfortable, you can disappear." He met Xiao's suspicious golden eyes. "I really want to get closer to you."

"Why?" The adeptus demanded.

"Because I want to," Aether kissed Xiao on the lips. "Because I like you." He kissed him again. "Because I want to wear a shirt that says I Conquered the Almighty Adeptus Alatus." When he went to kiss Xiao again, the man put a hand on his chest to stop him.

"Very funny," he said sarcastically.

"I'm noticing that's not a no." Aether noticed that he rolled his eyes, but didn't refute that.

"We can..." Xiao began. "Try." Xiao brought a hand up to Aether's shoulder and the world spun. By the time Aether's vision stopped seeing black, he looked around and noticed a bed with birds engraved all over it.

"Where?" He began.

"My domain," the adeptus said. "What was it you wanted to try, exactly."

Aether took a step back, bringing a hand up to pull off his gloves. "We'll need a few less clothes for what I was thinking." He soaked up Xiao's attention as he unclasped his cloak, allowing it to fall to the floor. He brought a leg up, unclasping and pulling off his boot. Doing the same to the other one, he shot Xiao a wink. The adeptus stared at him in disbelief as he unclasped the belts that held his top together. It fell to the floor, Xiao's eyes roving all over his torso. Undoing his belt, Aether turned around. He bent over as he pulled down his pants, exposing his ass to the yaksha. He looked back, meeting Xiao's golden eyes as he stood up straight again.

"Traveler," Xiao gasped. His eyes followed Aether as he laid across the bed. "I can't do-"

"You don't have to touch me, Xiao," Aether said. "That would defeat the purpose of starting slow, right?"

"Then what did you want to do?" His tone turned frustrated.

"I want you to take off your clothes, Xiao," Aether breathed. "I want to see your body."

The adeptus let out a tense breath. But his clothes fell away into shadow, exposing his body. The sculpted muscles of his torso, arms, and legs. The black hair leading down to his dick with a bright blue stripe running through the hairs. The bird-like tattoo on both his right arm and right leg. And his cock, which...

"Huge," Aether blurted.

Xiao looked down, only just now noticing that he was carrying a lethal weapon between his legs. "Will it be a problem?" Xiao asked. "What size would you be more comfortable with?"

"Huh?" The blonde asked, still looking below Xiao's waist.

"Do you want me to change the size of it?" He asked.

"What?" Aether asked.

"I know you understand me," Xiao sighed. "Would you like a different size, shape, color, a different face-"

"No," the traveler said. "No, I think you're perfect."

"Then I'd say your taste is quite questionable," Xiao muttered.

"Xiao," Aether began. When the adeptus looked at him, the traveler smiled. "Because of the tragic burden of your karma," he adopted a deep, raspy tone that mocked Xiao's before continuing, "I know you probably won't be comfortable doing too much...so, I want you to wrap your hands around your dick. Hmm," he considered it. "You'll probably need both hands. And I want us to tell each other what we want to do. In a world where you're not worried I'd go insane."

Xiao's gaze turned lusty, his eyes trailing all over Aether's body. When the traveler patted a spot on the other side of the bed, Xiao sat there. He stayed practically as far away from the blonde as he possibly could. But he spread his legs to give himself room to stroke himself with both hands. Aether leaned back, bringing a hand to his dick.

"Xiao," Aether moaned. "You're so fucking big. I don't even know if I could get my mouth around it. If my lips would even stretch that far."

"I can be any size you want," Xiao said, his breath hitching. "I could make myself the exact same size as your mouth. Even stretch myself all the way down your throat."

"That's so hot," Aether whined. His left hand still flew up and down his cock while his right hand trailed along his abs. "I'd love you to make yourself the perfect size to open up my throat. I could get on my knees between your thighs and choke on your dick. It would be so sexy to have you go as deep inside me as you physically could."

"As deep as you want," Xiao groaned. "Any time you want. Seeing those pretty, pink lips wrapped around my cock..." He grunted, spitting in his hands and bringing them back to his monster cock. He twisted them to create extra friction. "I'd do anything for it."

"Anything?" Aether teased. When the adeptus moaned, he asked, "what if I wanted you to grab me by my hair and pull me down your dick until I couldn't take another inch?"

The Conqueror of Demons' eyes rolled back for a moment as he brought his head to rest against the headboard. "I'd pull your hair as hard as you want."

"I'd want it to hurt, Xiao," The blonde moaned.

"I love it when you moan my name," Xiao grunted, his hands speeding up and down his shaft.

"How would you make me moan it again?" Aether asked, trailing a hand up to his nipples. When it found them, he pinched one, drawing a gasp from himself.

"You like your nipples played with?" Xiao asked. When the traveler nodded, Xiao smirked. "I could lick those...but I wouldn't."

"Why?" The traveler removed a hand from his nipples. He blew into the other hand, dendro solidifying into a sticky substance like sap or oil. He brought it back to his dick, the lubrication allowing his hand to stroke it with ease. He did the same for Xiao's hands, the adeptus moaning at the new sensation.

"Because I want to taste your ass," Xiao said. "And if you like the way I could change my dick for you, you'd love what my tongue can do."

"What can it do?" Aether whined.

Xiao didn't respond. Instead, he stuck out his tongue. The muscle thinned and lengthened, reaching across the bed to meet Aether's nipple. The traveler moaned, back arching heavily as he felt the warm, wet sensation against him.

"XIAO," Aether cried, leaning into the sensation. Xiao had made his tongue so thin that it curled around in on itself like a snake, rubbing against the blonde's nipple over and over. "Oh, oh, oho yes." Xiao's tongue rose, flicking down like a whip against Aether's chest in a way that made him scream in pleasure. "OH XIAO!"

Xiao's tongue retreated to his mouth, returning to normal as he grinned at the traveler. "Did you like that?"

"What do you think?" Aether asked, collecting a drop of precum from his own dick so he could taste it. Xiao's tongue darted out again, this time shaped like a snake's. It collected another bead of precum before returning to the yaksha's mouth. "Xiao, you're so sexy," Aether breathed. He looked at Xiao's body again, especially the way he stroked his dick. It was almost as long as his forearm. "I want to lick your tattoos."

"I want to let you lick them," Xiao groaned. "But I still haven't told you what I'd do to your ass."

"Please," Aether grunted, feeling himself getting closer.

"I could explore every part of your body," Xiao said seductively. "I could probably stretch my tongue all the way up to your throat." Aether moaned, stroking himself faster. "But I just want to taste your ass. I could spread my tongue wide enough to feel the walls of it. I could taste your spot. I could make my tongue flicker against it like a hummingbird's wings. I could-"

"XIAO, XIAO, XIAO, I'M-" Aether grunted as cum flew from his dick. Well, it should've been cum. But what came from his dick were ropes of dendro that slowly solidified into vines covered in flowers. There was even a good amount of dandelion fluff that appeared in the air all throughout the room. The traveler panted, his hand leaving his dick as he looked up to see Xiao stroking himself.

"I wasn't done yet. Keep going," Xiao ordered. Aether looked at him questioningly. When he saw the look in Xiao's eyes, he brought both his hands to his dick. They began pumping at his length as Xiao continued, "I could put my tongue as far down your hole as you want. If you think I can see far just because I can tell what's going on at the top of a mountain, you'd be amazed at what I can taste on your hole." Aether groaned at the idea. "I'd make you eat apples and sunsettias every day for weeks. You'd have the sweetest ass in all of Teyvat."

"I already do," Aether moaned. Xiao laughed.

"I'm sure." He grunted when he twisted his hands in a way that squeezed is balls in a way he went wild for. "I wish I could taste it right now and find out."

"All in good time," the blonde gasped.

"Traveler," Xiao demanded, "who's getting fucked?"

"Me," Aether said desperately.

"Yes!" The yaksha yelled. "I want you to ride me. Your cock could flop around while you bounce on my dick. That's so hot."

"Why is it so hot?" Aether whispered.

"Because it shows how much you like it," Xiao declared. "How much you love to have my cock inside you. How desperate you are for it."

"Xiao, I-" Aether began.

"Me too."

"Where would we cum?" Aether whined.

"I'd cum inside you until you were full," Xiao gasped. "And you...I'd get to taste you."

"Xiao!" Aether cried, cum flying from his dick again. It was a normal texture now and Xiao's tongue darted across the bed to catch it, the adeptus moaning at the taste. It was sweet like sap and his tongue kept flailing around to catch more.

Meanwhile, Xiao came. Blue feathers phased in and out across his tattoos as he squeezed at his dick tight enough to hurt just the amount he loved. His cum flew around the room as anemo swirled around the two boys. He didn't stop firing for at least a few consecutive minutes, groaning, moaning, and grunting as he thrusted in and out of his hands. By the time he finally came down from his orgasm, Aether looked at him hungrily. All he wanted to do was lick up the cum sitting on Xiao's abs and trailing into his navel.

"By every archon, Xiao," Aether moaned. "You look so...so sexy."

Xiao shot up, standing as his clothes appeared on him again in a swirl of shadows. He approached the door, but Aether called to him.

"Where are you going?"

The yaksha looked back at him, sending the traveler a hungry look. "We have to make all of that a reality." He was visibly fighting himself, it seemed, so he didn't bolt toward the bed. "I have a library here. There must be something that could let us continue this. Some..." He sighed, turning back toward the door.

"Please find it," Aether called. "I still haven't gotten a chance to taste you."

"You will," Xiao called back.