“Rose…?”
“……”
“Did something happen?”
Rose deliberately took his time, locking eyes with him for a long while. If he didn’t answer right away, the life would quickly drain from Elijah’s face. The slightly sullen expression as he obediently waited for an answer was more adorable than anything he’d seen in his entire life.
“No. I’m not hurt and nothing happened.”
Rose smiled as he brushed through his brown hair. When he tucked the disheveled strands behind his ear and lightly touched the shell of it, Elijah immediately flushed red.
“Thank goodness.”
The small body nestled into Rose’s embrace. He’d never once thought a person’s scent could be pleasant, but Elijah’s body gave off a smell that was uniquely his.
Elijah pulled at Rose’s collar and tilted his head up, rising on his tiptoes. A soft, billowing fragrance drifted to his nose.
An unbearable hunger set in. It was a scent that made him want to bite down with his whole mouth, to suck it in deeply. Warm breath touched Rose’s ear as he habitually bent down toward him.
“Let’s go to the room, Rose.”
“……”
Rose knew full well what those words meant. Lately, Elijah had been excessively absorbed in new forms of skinship.
For Rose, it was extremely difficult. When that body—which would crumble from even the slightest misjudgment of strength—clung to him whimpering, it truly drove him mad.
Elijah rarely said when something hurt. So there was nothing to do but check every time. How much grip strength to use, how hard to suck, how hard to bite.
Sometimes the force seemed excessive enough to make him wonder if this was okay, but even then Elijah never complained. It was only later, when Rose saw the bruises on his shoulders, that he’d realize he’d gone too far.
……At this rate, he’d really break him one day.
Elijah smiled innocently and pressed a quick kiss to the corner of his mouth.
“Time passes quickly when I’m holding you.”
“……”
Whenever he acted like this, Rose truly, truly didn’t know what to do.
* * *
“Time always passed quickly anyway, Elijah.”
“No. When I’m holding you, it feels like it goes ten times faster.”
Outside, rain was still falling. The rainy season showed no signs of stopping and made people listless. Even those who had been diligently training for a while had started spending their time gathered in small groups playing chess or taking naps.
Elijah came into the room and wrapped his arms around Rose’s neck. Even in the muggy, humid summer, Rose—unlike the other trainees—gave off only a pleasant smell.
“Are you done with training?”
“Yeah. No… I don’t know.”
“How can you not know, Elijah?”
A small laugh broke above his head and settled on the nape of his neck. At the sensation of a cold nose tip trailing behind his earlobe, Elijah hunched his shoulders. The lips that touched his skin moved slightly as a low voice murmured indistinctly.
“Today you…”
His chest swelled as he took a deep breath.
“……smell really good.”
From their touching chests, a slightly quickened heartbeat transmitted pleasantly.
“Why does it smell so good? What did you do this afternoon?”
Rose lifted his head. Through his disheveled hair, languid eyes could be seen.
“It’s just the same. I trained with Iris and…, ah, that tickles. Don’t lick there, I sweated a lot.”
“In the whole world, you’re probably the only one whose sweat smells like this, Elijah.”
The lips pressed to the nape of his neck mumbled, creating a ticklish vibration. Just as Elijah liked Rose’s scent, he was happy that Rose also liked his.
At the same time strong arms wrapped around his waist, his body was lifted up. Elijah naturally wrapped his legs around him and pressed their lips together. Rose, sitting on the bed while holding him, tilted his head to overlap their lips more deeply.
A soft tongue pushed between his lips, entangling with Elijah’s tongue and sucking it in. The tongue that had been licking the tender mucous membrane was slightly crushed against the edge of Rose’s teeth. At the sensation of the arms that had momentarily tensed, squeezing his body, a moan leaked from deep in his throat.
“Mmph…, haah.”
The arms that had been crushing his whole body instantly loosened. Between their parted lips, a flustered whisper escaped.
“Was that too hard…? I’m sorry.”
“No, I like it. Do it more.”
Elijah pressed his body against him. Along with the long sigh that poured over the nape of his neck, his vision flipped in an instant. Elijah lay with his back against the bed sheets, willingly embracing the weight covering his body.
Rose, bracing his knee between his spread legs, busily unfastened the buttons of his shirt.
“……Elijah.”
Suddenly, the red gaze scanning his body stopped somewhere.
“What’s wrong here?”
A cold fingertip touched near Elijah’s shoulder.
“Ah.”
A stinging sensation rose between his collarbone and shoulder.
“I must have scraped it a bit during training. I didn’t know, but it hurts when you touch it.”
“……It’s bleeding.”
“Bleeding?”
Surprised by those words, Elijah touched his own shoulder. But it didn’t really seem to be bleeding. Rose must have exaggerated a slightly scraped patch of skin.
“You really are such a worrywart.”
“You’d be surprised too if I had a wound like this.”
“Of course. You’re different from me.”
Elijah retorted as he unbuttoned Rose’s shirt. But Rose couldn’t quite take his eyes off his shoulder. Below his lowered eyelids, his dark red pupils slowly dilated.
“Come here, Rose.”
Elijah, having completely removed his opened shirt, pulled Rose’s neck toward him. The body that came along without resistance collapsed heavily over Elijah’s body.
“Ah… That’s cool. What exactly do you do with Master to make your body this cold?”
“Just, ……it’s cold weather.”
“Hm?”
In this summer? The momentary question scattered between their locked lips. Elijah held Rose’s lips and swept the tender inner flesh with the tip of his tongue. Their tongues clashed and crossed, pushing deeper into each other.
Their breaths mixed repeatedly and saliva of indeterminate ownership wetly soaked between their touching lips. Heated breath grazed Elijah’s lips and flowed down to his chin and cheeks.
Rose tilted his head and gently sucked on the nape of his neck. Elijah tilted his head back and panted softly. Below, where they pressed together, they rubbed slowly through their clothes. Ah, this is frustrating… I want to touch quickly. Just as Elijah was about to urge him—
“Ngh.”
Rose’s tongue swept long over the scraped wound on his skin. It wasn’t unbearably painful, but having him continuously lick the stinging wound was a bit uncomfortable. At the gentle biting and sucking force, Elijah moaned softly and slightly gripped his hair, hunching his shoulders.
“Rose…, Rose.”
His eyes met Rose’s as he lifted his head.
“Yes, Elijah.”
The dilated pupils looked darker and more sinister than usual. Just seeing those eyes sent a chilling thrill through Elijah. They were eyes he knew all too well now—eyes that clearly desired him.
“……No, it just feels too good.”
“Haah… You have to tell me if it hurts, Elijah. If you don’t tell me, I won’t know. So don’t hold back……”
Please tell me. Rose, pressing his lips to his shoulder again, whispered continuously.
“Mmnh…, ngh.”
The tender flesh was gently grazed by the edge of teeth. Elijah shuddered at the ticklish sensation and twisted his waist.
“I like it, Rose… It feels good.”
Worried that Rose might stop again at the sounds he made, Elijah kept repeating that it felt good. Since Rose was so timid, it seemed he had to add words of pleasure after every moan to avoid misunderstanding.
At some point while the trembling breath was tickling the nape of his neck, a sharp pain arose. He couldn’t tell if it was because Rose had bitten too hard or because of the wound.
“Ahh…, Elijah.”
But because Rose’s moan of lust for him sounded so good, Elijah didn’t want to break this moment. He could feel the body pressed against him tense up and stiffen completely.
Today Rose seemed to be feeling better than usual. Because he was enjoying it, Elijah also became more excited. The lips that had been teasing down his chest took his areola in. Inside the soft mucous membrane, the erect protrusion was pressed here and there by the soft tongue.
“Ahh, mm……”
Elijah tormented himself by playing with the other nipple on his own. What a shame that people only have one mouth and can’t suck both at once. As if sensing that thought, the lips soon moved to the side and took both Elijah’s finger and nipple at the same time.
The tip of the tongue that pushed between his fingers circled and sucked on his nipple. Between his legs was already wetly soaked as if he’d leaked. Without realizing it, Elijah thrust his hips, trying to press himself against Rose.
“Rose, hurry…, touch me here too.”
With a pop, his pants button came undone as Rose straightened his upper body. The pants pulled down below his hips slipped cleanly off his ankles. His fully erect member was gushing copious amounts of fluid.
Without any shame, Elijah lay exposed beneath Rose’s eyes and looked up at him panting. Rose’s eyes, pupils wide open, gleamed with quiet desire.
The gaze that had met for a moment soon shifted. Elijah looked down blankly at Rose’s head burrowing between his legs, then jolted, his waist trembling.
“Ha, ngh…!”
His sensitive member was sucked into the soft mucous membrane. His hand gripping the hair tensed, not knowing what to do. Elijah, who had slightly raised his upper body, received a mild shock seeing Rose holding him in his mouth.
It was a method he’d never imagined, but it wasn’t completely unfamiliar either. He himself had thought about wanting to put every part of Rose’s body in his mouth and taste it.
