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Minoru and Sana use his injury to practice some crucial parts of the skillset Minoru is going to need in the future. In doing so, the boy-god learns something very crucial about himself.

Besides that, Ryuko arrives to stay for the long weekend.

Chapter 8 - Convalescence

Minoru felt his whole body throb.

His lungs felt too large for his chest, blood burned in his veins while his heart thundered. But inside the container of his flesh he could feel it. Power. Fire and starlight pulsing outwards from his soul and filling his body.

"That's it…" Sana cooed into his ear, the sound of her voice and the warmth of her breath reassuring him as her bare body surrounded his own. Minoru's head laid against the dip of her collar while her arms ran up and down his naked form. "Feel it course through you."

Minoru could feel it, as clearly as every one of his caretaker's fingers brushing over his thigh. Cracked ribs that ached every time he drew breath. Every line of it, every bit of mending bone matter.

He directed the starlight there. Willed his power into it every crevice of it, filling it with a singular intent:

Be whole again.

The boy-god was hyper-aware, could identify every little thing happening as he centered all of his concentration on his own flesh and blood body. Every crevice and crack, where torn flesh healed around his mending bones.

It warmed within him even as he felt the gentle fingers of Sana's hand massage his thighs, coaxing him, encouraging him.

He'd have been more excited at the pretty woman touching him if his mind wasn't so engrossed. Minoru's mind was running a mile a minute, his focus captivated as he drove his godly power into his own body.

Minoru's body drank his power. Arms and legs spasmed as electricity ran up his spine. His body felt alive. More alive than the waking world of everyday, like he existed more.

More.

The bones knit whole. He couldn't even sense the remnants of the cracks. Flesh was remade anew. Pain fell away to be replaced with a high he could only compare to that of an intense workout. Except it was a high he felt in his soul instead of just his body and mind.

More.

Senses spread outwards, looking beyond the meat and bones of his body to feel Sana's warm softness cradled around him, the wet warmth of the sheets and the memories of fun they had the night before. The noontime sun lightning his bedroom and the beauty of the trees outside and the sea beyond that.

Minoru could feel the wind of the sea breeze from beyond the treeline. Smell the salt in the air, the leaves in from the boughs.

More.

He wanted to reach out. To touch, to embrace, to encompass. His body wasn't big enough. There wasn't enough of him.

More.

Bones warped, flesh writhed. Minoru swelled.

And then it stopped. Cold water dropped into his soul like he'd been thrown into the open ocean. Orange-gold eyes opened to see them mirrored in the eyes looking down on him as the thrum of his power fell away to return him to the realities of the waking world.

"You went a little too far there, Master Minoru."

There was a twinkle in her eye, even as inhuman as it was now with her own powers pulling him back from the depths of his own. He could feel the grip of her dampening his soul's influence, drawing him back.

She looked up, looked around. Took in the sight of what he'd done, and grinned.

"You're getting better, though."

Minoru couldn't be sure if Sana was being sarcastic, but he also supposed she might have been genuine with the praise.

Flesh covered the room. His flesh. Shadowed and almost glistening with the half-hidden starlight of an obscured night sky when it wasn't shining with splotches of golden scales, catching the light and reflecting it back at him.

Tentacles, tendrils, branches. Minoru wasn't sure how he'd have described it, but he was sure it would have terrified anyone else.

He'd spread all throughout the room, falling off the bed and crawling outwards to climb up the walls and some of the ceiling in his attempt to reach the world outside.

Even his bones had grown, flooded with his power and more than healed, they had pierced past his skin and towered over the mass that had been his torso like spires. Thicker than his arms had been and surrounding Sana's form like a cage. Possessive and protective at the same time.

"Oh power is definitely not going to be an issue, master Minoru," She said, looking back at him and leaning down. Minoru shivered as she planted a kiss on the side of his neck - he could still feel his neck. Soft curves of flesh pressed against his body and sent electric shocks up his spine.

The wood of the room creaked as his body shuddered.

Somehow, somehow, he could feel his cock harden as Sana pressed herself to him.

And she could tell, too. A hungry glint in her slitted, starlit eyes as her blonde hair framed her face and she bit down on her lips. The purr rumbling in her chest was strong enough he could feel it through Sana's not-inconsiderable tits. Her stiff nipples poked at his flesh.

"I'd be tempted to let you take me right now, master Minoru," She whispered now, voice making the room shiver as his body quaked at her temptation, "But you might bring the house down on us." She giggled, "How about we get you back to rights before we have our fun, hmm?"

Then he felt her once more, her consciousness joining his as her soul reached into his own.

Where earlier she had pushed him back into the boundaries of his Den, this time Sana coaxed him out. The harbinger's touch was warm and inviting as she dragged him out and towards his warped body.

But this, too, was different. Earlier Minoru had lost himself in exploration, in the impulses that came to the fore as the world and his own senses overwhelmed his young and growing powers.

Now, Sana directed everything. She pulled at him like one would a delicate cloth, stretching him wider and wider, making sure nothing was out of place.

Until all of Minoru's power was reunited with the rest of his warped body.

And then Sana began to guide him. Whispering into his very essence as she directed his power back towards him.

It was a slow and arduous process, and even as his caretaker made sure to spiritually keep hold of him the whole way through, Minoru could still feel the temptation to reach out into the world outside. To embrace it, to consume it.

He wasn't sure how much longer they'd taken after that, but by the time Minoru had been back to… well for lack of a better term normal, the sunlight coming through the windows made it look like it was about to be twilight.

Of course, he didn't miss how Sana practically squirmed above him while her plump thighs squeezed down on his sides and her belly teased at the bottom of his still-turgid cock.

"You're all better now!" She practically squealed, hands passing over Minoru's chest. And his eyes blinked back to onyx as his powers returned into the shadows of his soul. He could breathe. No pain, no discomfort.

They'd been practicing on using his powers to heal himself for the past few days. It had been the perfect opportunity Sana had told him, and it was as good at time as any if he was going to be getting hurt now that he's preparing to attend hero school.

It had started with something small. With trying to get some of the bruising to go away, though it ended up being surprisingly difficult considering the bruising had been inside him. Not that it seemed to discourage Sana at all.

Besides, there had been no shortage of motivation for him considering she'd made sure to keep him… entertained between tries, promising to spend the remainder of his break in bed with him provided he had any break left before he'd fully healed himself.

And now that he had, he couldn't ignore the look that Sana was giving him. Proud and affectionate and hungry all at the same time, and Minoru could feel his cock throb as Sana pressed her hips forward and brushed the bottom of his length with her too-hot skin.

Still, there was something that was bothering him.

"What-" His mouth was dry. Whether from the growing arousal or the use of his powers he wasn't sure. Maybe both. Probably both. "What was that?"

Sana leaned down, trapped his cock between her belly and his, and Minoru barely suppressed a groan before his legs flexed and he was pressing his length against her softness. He could feel Sana's muscles beneath the layer of fat she'd given her human form, the promise of molten heat squeezing around him once he was inside her.

Blonde hair overshadowed him, orange-gold eyes - human eyes - locked with his.

"You're a hungry boy, master Minoru," her breath brushed over his face, "And you're still young, still growing. And your kind needs food."

He blinked, then thought about it. "But I wasn't feeling hungry."

Lips dove in to kiss his own. Sana's tongue immediately pushed its way into his mouth as she worshipped him. Sucking on his tongue while her body rubbed itself against his own and drawing groans from him whenever he'd feel her smooth skin rubbing against his dick.

It would almost have been painful if she wasn't starting to work up a sweat, too. Mixing it with his oozing precum to keep everything nice and slippery. Her flesh wrapped around him, surrounding the sides and bottom of his cock in her.

Minoru's vision blurred, blood thrummed in his veins and something deep inside him roared in triumph as Sana's excitement flowed into him. Into his soul.

When Sana pulled away, both of them were breathing heavily. Minoru couldn't take his eyes away from her. How her hair stuck to her skin or the way her tits heaved with every breath.

And beneath the electric shocks being sent up his spine from Sana still pleasuring his cock with her tummy, he could feel it:

Satisfaction.

Wide eyes looked up at her and she smiled before leaning down once more to place kisses against the side of his neck.

"You felt it, didn't you? Like you'd been fed?" Minoru shivered as she pressed harder against him, her tits squished between them. "You can feed off that. Sensation. Emotion. Thoughts. Yours and someone else's. It was something your mother could do, while your father could feed on the essence of creation itself."

Horror and excitement lanced through him as he realized.

"It's food." Minoru gasped, hips thrusting up against her and enjoying the way she shook at the promise of his cock piercing her, "Everything. The whole world."

Minds and souls and flesh. Earth and fire and water. All of it.

"Yes,~" She hissed back, eyes clenching shut as he felt a spurt of hot wetness spill unto his balls. Arousal or girlcum, Minoru wasn't sure which. Not that it mattered, "And… Hmmm… your baser instincts will want to consume it all. Feed. Grow."

To engulf the world.

But for now, he wanted to consume this lovely woman before him.

Then the doorbell rang.

~TtT~

Ryuko was getting too used to flying everywhere.

She wasn't sure when it had happened. Between her settling into running her own agency and finally working her way into the top one hundred and then the top fifty, she'd basically stopped going anywhere without flying.

There were the times where she'd go around with others - like that time she'd had dinner with Ryuko, but those weren't too far away. Other times she'd be ferried around in a private car.

It had only dawned on her when she'd had to travel to Mineta Minoru's house after taking a long weekend and she wanted to do so incognito. Firstly because she didn't think she'd taken a long weekend since she'd started her own agency, and secondly because she'd almost forgotten how the trains worked.

Her staff had been more than a little bit surprised, giving her looks that almost made Ryuko call the whole thing off until her secretary had quietly approached her before she left for the day to tell her that it probably was a good idea to take more breaks.

As for having to relearn how the train routes worked… Well, Ryuko decided she'd be doing this more often if only to avoid the personal embarrassment of not knowing if she ever needed to do this again.

Because she was going to be doing this again, she was sure. Whether to mollify this… boy or for work, it was likely going to be happening again.

Ryuko's mind went back to the dream in the hospital room, where the dream had met the waking world for the first time since all of this had started, and everything she'd experienced then.

They hadn't been able to do anything in the hospital proper that day. Not without putting all of them at risk when the room was cleaned and Ryuko was thankful that both the boy and his guardian seemed keen enough to protect Ryuko from any fallout from having… relations with a middle school student.

But it still felt so very real. And while no other dreams had come since, Ryuko had dreamed of what she'd experienced every night since. For once, she'd been relatively sure the boy hadn't been responsible for it.

Her thighs clenched together and a jolt of electricity shot up her spine at the thought of that happening again. And the acidic bile of shame burned in her chest even as she crossed the threshold of the property.

Mineta Acquisitions.

It wasn't a well-known company from what Ryuko had managed to find. Certainly not in the way Yaoyorozu Industries - and wasn't that a funny coincidence that he'd been with the owner at the time - and Yotsubashi Rikiya's Detnerat, but she wouldn't be surprised if Yotsubashi didn't know who Mineta Acquisitions were.

After all, Detnerat was listed among Mineta's larger clients, purchasing raw materials to produce their famed support equipment.

There wasn't a lot of information on the owners. The Mineta couple that purportedly owned the company had opted to keep out of the public eye while the more active President Motoaki managed the company in their stead.

Ryuko couldn't even get the name of the husband, instead only finding the name of Mineta Minoru's mother: Mineta Kaguya.

Which hadn't really been helpful since she couldn't find any information on her beyond that, either.

If not for the fact she'd had a very personal encounter with their son, Ryuko would have concluded that they were fictional names and just fronts for the business.

Instead, the heroine had been left wondering if the parents were aware of what their son was up to, and if that alluded to something much more worrying. Ryuko wasn't even sure if she was more concerned about it being worrying for her personally or if there was something much more sinister at work. There just wasn't enough information.

Still, she supposed she could have expected that the heir to the family fortune would be living in the Yamate district. Bar living in some far-off prefecture or being completely based overseas, it was about as classic reclusive billionaire as it could get as far as she was concerned. Not that Ryuko knew that many reclusive billionaires to begin with.

All the same, there was something different about entering the property.

Ryuko had tried to scope out the neighborhood beforehand, walking up and down the relatively sparse streets to see if there was anything suspicious. Unfortunately, she'd ended up being the one getting looked at by the odd resident eyeballing her through the window.

That told her how frequently people loitered about this part of Yokohama, she supposed. She could only hope that no one recognized her dressed as she was in her hoodie, shirt, and joggers. Even with her overnight bag, she must not have looked too different from the local residents going on runs.

But the place certainly did. Where most of urban Japan was overbuilt and dense as hell, this place was the opposite. Somehow rich and suburban at the same time with the amount of land devoted to each lot. They had whole yards and gardens here! The kind that'd be a communal space everywhere else in the country devoted to one household.

Ryuko wasn't used to seeing the like of it.

It also told her just how big Mineta's property was, spanning maybe three lots of the other houses and comprised almost entirely of woodland surrounded by wrought iron fencing. A proverbial luxury considering where he lived, and eyebrow-raising considering how the boy's guardian - Hochikusho Sana - seemed to imply it was only the two of them living in the house.

And then there was the odd feeling as she crossed the gate posts into the property. Ryuko couldn't put her finger on it, but there was a… a shift somewhere as her foot landed on the first of the stone slabs that made the walkway towards the house.

This was it. If she still had any doubts about doing this this was going to be her time to back out.

But she was trapped. Unable to do anything about the situation she'd been put in - at least in any way that she'd been able to find in all the time since she'd actively tried to do so.

The boy and his guardian had offered her answers. And spending a long weekend with them was the asking price.

She had no illusions of what the long weekend was going to be used for. She'd been given a taste of it and once again shivered as she remembered what had been done to her.

Idly, the dragon heroine licked her pointed teeth as she rang the doorbell.

"Hello, Ryuko-chan." Orange-gold eyes greeted her as a very naked Hochikusho Sana opened the door, not at all bothered that she could be seen from the gate. It was still strange for Ryuko to see those eyes - The Eye - in the waking world. Much less on someone that wasn't Mineta Minoru.

"I'm glad you came." Her grin was smug, but her gaze was hungry. A hunger that excited Ryuko as much as it made her feel uncomfortable.

"Come in. And take off your clothes. You won't be needing them."

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