This Time Around, Part Four
Title: This Time Around, Part Four Author: Shirahime Pairing: Adelbert/Yuuri Rating: NC-17 overall Summary: Spoilers for early Season Two. After the revelations exposed by his rival, Adelbert decides what he is willing to do for the sake of what he once thought was lost.
Part Four
The ship sped onward toward land, Conrad waiting anxiously on deck. The sun was climbing in the sky in the early morning hours, and landfall was visible, but distant. Conrad sighed, a worried expression on his face. He wondered if Yuuri was alright, wherever he might be. He soon heard a pair of familiar footsteps approaching.
“No matter how long you stand there, the ship will only go so fast,” the deep voice of his older brother soon said from beside him. “You should come down to get something to eat. We’ll all need our strength for what’s ahead.”
Smiling at Gwendal, who watched over him in his own way as always, Conrad turned away to look at the sea. “I know, Gwendal. I don’t have much of an appetite this morning, though.”
Gwendal placed a hand on the railing in front of him, following his brother’s gaze out to the distant port city. “His Highness seems confident that Adelbert won’t hurt the Maou,” he started, hoping the words of the boy who was usually right in his suppositions would comfort his younger brother somewhat.
“Yes, he does,” Conrad agreed. However, the definition of ‘hurt’ that Murata was thinking of was likely different than Conrad’s. He tried to conceal his concern behind a façade of pleasantness, but his mind was troubled. Conrad had no doubts actually that Adelbert would rather give up his own life before he allowed any harm to come to the boy at this point. Apparently, Adelbert had decided to accept the fate that Julia had been dealt after all, but this had ended up very different than what Conrad had in mind when he’d spoken to the blonde about it. He frowned. No, Adelbert wouldn’t hurt Yuuri in the usual sense of the word, but it would be tempting for the blonde to have the thing that he’d obsessed over for two decades beside him again. That was likely the purpose of the kidnapping to begin with. And Yuuri was such a kind person. He was young and gentle. Easily manipulated into something he thought would help another. Conrad felt Gwendal’s eyes on him as he dropped his own to the deck, absently staring at the area near his boots. He balled a hand up into a trembling fist at his side. He’d never forgive Adelbert if he…
A hand, firm and reassuring, laid itself onto his shoulder. Conrad looked up at his brother, the wind tossing the locks of hair that framed his face, his expression stern as always. But the deep blue eyes that gazed into his spoke of gentler emotions.
“We will find the Maou,” Gwendal told him with a certainty that Conrad wasn’t sure he could have. “It’s only a matter of time. The boy has been in worse situations before and come out unscathed.”
Conrad smiled at him thinly, not trusting himself to speak, but the strength of what he saw held in Gwendal’s eyes made him believe his brother’s words.
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Still blushing faintly in the early morning light, Adelbert poured water onto the fire, steam and smoke rising up from the embers. He glanced over at Yuuri, who lay curled up on the ground beneath the tree, the blonde’s cloak draped over him. The vial that Keenan had given Adelbert earlier seemed to burn the pocket he’d placed it into.
He hazarded a glance at Keenan who was packing items into the saddlebag on his horse. Adelbert sighed. He hadn’t known that the man’s tastes sometimes ran that way, but it was likely part of the reason that Keenan wasn’t bothered by the current scenario they were in. The blush deepened as the blonde remembered some of the pointers that the other man had given him on… intimate relations between men. Adelbert was glad of the information. He wouldn’t want to hurt the boy out of ignorance whenever they did end up consummating, but he found it embarrassing to talk about such things.
Yuuri stirred, sitting up to rub at his eyes. Adelbert had just opened his mouth to bid the boy good morning when the sound of approaching hooves off the trail had him drawing his sword, standing at the ready. There was no way that the Mazoku soldiers could have caught up with them this soon.
Several darkly clad figures soon emerged from the trees on horseback, a few others on foot. Not Mazoku, but human bandits who roamed this particular trail, looking for unsuspecting travelers to rob. Spurred into motion, Yuuri leapt up, trying and failing to dodge as a bandit on foot made a move to grab him. They could fetch a nice price for human spoils as well, especially an attractive boy his age. Yuuri twisted in the man’s grasp, kicking at him, angering the man. Yuuri found himself shoved backward against a tree, wincing at the pain in his shoulder. This was of course a mistake for the bandit as he soon found himself impaled on an angry Adelbert’s sword.
Yuuri watched the thief slump to the side, the sword sliding out of him with a moist sound as he fell. “Stay down,” Adelbert told him.
Keenan was holding his own against a small group of men. Adelbert made short work of most of his opponents, the last however being especially tenacious. The man managed to deal a glancing blow to the blonde’s side. Faltering momentarily, Adelbert struck the other man as he closed in, felling his opponent. The blonde sunk to his knees, grasping his side with his free hand as he grimaced.
Yuuri was at his side as quick as his feet could carry him. “Are you alright?” he asked the man, laying a hand on his shoulder. His eyes widened as he saw the wetness rising to darken the area of the tunic the blonde clutched at.
“It’s not deep,” Adelbert told him, trying to rise. Keenan came to his other side after the last two of the men he was fighting, realizing that they were outclassed, fled.
Yuuri bid him to sit, which he did aided by Keenan. Adelbert inhaled deeply as Yuuri’s hands moved to replace his over the wound. He felt the warmth of the teen’s healing majutsu as his hands faintly glowed. Adelbert gazed at the concentrated expression on the boy’s face as he worked. He’d forgotten how powerful Yuuri was, able to use his demon powers even in human territory. The healing warmth seemed to spread through Adelbert’s core, making the blonde shiver slightly as he gasped. Yuuri thought that the man’s actions were due to pain, so he intensified his efforts.
After a few moments, Yuuri took his hands away, Adelbert already missing the heat of his touch. “There,” the teen told him. “It should be fine now. I’d still try to rest a bit though.”
“Thank you, Yuuri,” the blonde told him, blue eyes glittering. Yuuri wasn’t sure if it was only gratefulness that laced his voice.
“It’s nothing,” Yuuri insisted. “It’s only a weak healing spell. I’m not even that good at it.” He rubbed the back of his neck nervously, aware that he was probably blushing faintly under the man’s gaze. He couldn’t remember the last time that Adelbert had called him by name, but he liked the way it had sounded on his lips.
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It wasn’t long before the trio made it to their destination, securing a room in one of the inns near the town square. Keenan left to replenish a few of their supplies, leaving his other two companions alone together. Yuuri flopped down onto the bed, reaching up with one hand to pull the wig free. He winced as the movement aggravated his sore shoulder. Noticing the boy rubbing at the area from his seat in a chair nearby, Adelbert asked him what was wrong.
“My shoulder is just a little sore,” Yuuri explained. “It must have been from earlier when I got knocked down.”
His eyes widened as Adelbert walked over to the bed, moving to sit beside him. “I can help you with that,” the man offered, turning him so that Yuuri’s back faced him. He reached around to unfasten the buttons on his uniform jacket by feel. “I can rub your shoulders a bit,” he explained.
“You don’t have to,” Yuuri told him, nervous at feeling the heat of the man’s body warming him from behind.
“Don’t be silly,” Adelbert insisted. “This is the least I can do after you helped me.”
Yuuri relented, allowing the man to remove the item of clothing. For a moment, the blonde massaged him through the white shirt beneath, but soon bid him to remove it, assisting him. Blushing faintly, Yuuri started to relax under the man’s kneading hands, the stiffness leaving his muscles. He moaned softly as the man continued to work. He didn’t realize that his vocalizations caused Adelbert’s breath to hitch and his heart to pound within his chest.
It wasn’t long before massaging hands became caressing ones. Looming close to him, Adelbert slipped his hands around to the teen’s front, fingers caressing his chest.
Yuuri shivered, his breathing becoming deeper. He could feel the heat of the man’s breath on his skin. “What are you-?” he started to ask, words failing him as Adelbert planted sucking kisses on his shoulder and the side of his neck.
“It feels nice, doesn’t it?” the blonde asked, his voice slightly roughened.
“But we shouldn’t really…” Yuuri trailed off, hands rising with the intention of displacing Adelbert’s. When they reached their destination, his hands ended up lying atop the man’s larger ones, his body not willing to obey what his mind told him.
“There’s nothing wrong with craving the touch of another,” Adelbert told him, the fingers of one hand plucking at a hardening nipple while the other snuck down to stroke the skin of his belly. “Especially the touch of someone who cares for you.”
Yuuri couldn’t help but lean into the man’s caresses. Adelbert laved the lobe of one ear before nibbling on it, the teen moaning softly. The blonde’s hand was drawn down to cup the teen’s groin, massaging the growing bulge found there as Yuuri sighed and shivered. Adelbert unfastened the boy’s trousers, slipping a hand inside to pull the teen’s erection free. He stroked it in a loose fist. He smirked as Yuuri’s hips jerked upward, trying to get more friction for his ache.
Adelbert chuckled. “You’re so impatient. Do you like it that much?”
Yuuri groaned, frustrated at the sensation that was enough to inflame him, but not to quench the heat in his gut. “I can’t help it,” he explained as his hips repeated the same motion.
“Then I’ll take care of it for you,” the blonde answered before removing his hand. He moved from his position behind Yuuri to one kneeling in front of him.
Inexperienced though he was, Yuuri wasn’t so naïve that he didn’t suspect what a person would do from this position. He just had a hard time believing that Adelbert would be willing to do it. So it was with wide eyes that he watched the blonde fist his erection for a few moments before leaning in to lap at the crown of it. Yuuri cried out, his head rolling back onto his shoulders. Encouraged by the teen’s response, Adelbert took the organ into his mouth, suckling. Moaning, Yuuri’s hands moved to grasp Adelbert’s shoulders, kneading them. The blonde’s tentative motions became more sure, spurred on by the sounds that the teen made. It wasn’t long before his head bobbed gently in Yuuri’s lap, his tongue laving the underside of the teen’s shaft as he tried to take him progressively deeper into his throat. He massaged the base of it with his fingers as his mouth worked. The incoherent vocalizations that Yuuri was making had Adelbert’s erection tenting his trousers almost painfully. He’d get some relief soon enough.
As the blonde’s mouth descended on a downward stroke, Yuuri’s hips jerked upwards, the teen groaning gutturally as blunt fingernails bit into the man’s shoulders. Adelbert’s eyes widened as warm fluid jetted at the back of his throat, filling his mouth as he pulled backward. He swallowed involuntarily, subsequently coughing briefly. Blushing, Yuuri watched him wipe traces of pearly fluid away from his mouth and cheek.
“S-Sorry,” he told the man, slightly ashamed that seeing his essence paint the blonde’s face had aroused him. “I didn’t know that I was going to…”
“It’s alright,” Adelbert told him. “I forgot that when you’re young, you have a hard time telling when you’ve reached your peak.” He looked down at the flaccid organ that was starting to perk up again. “And how soon you’re ready again.”
The blonde divested Yuuri of the rest of his clothing before pulling away to disrobe himself. He smiled faintly at the way the boy watched him undress with nervous excitement. The heat he felt from Yuuri’s gaze made Adelbert ache. He hastened his movements, retrieving the vial he’d been given earlier before joining the teen on the bed. The blonde claimed Yuuri’s lips in a searching kiss, moaning softly into the boy’s lips before pulling away somewhat. He brought Yuuri’s hands to his chest, encouraging him to explore his body. Wide eyed, Yuuri did just that, serving to inflame the man even more with the roving touch of his innocent hands.
His skin flushed, Yuuri encircled the man’s erection with his fingers, stroking the thick organ. He bit his lip when he saw his actions causing Adelbert’s eyes to flutter shut, his chest heaving. Yuuri wondered if the man wanted him to perform the same act that he had earlier. While he was debating whether or not he should attempt it, Adelbert opened his eyes, gathering him in his arms to kiss him deeply. The blonde pressed him down gently to the bed, looming over him.
“I love you, Yuuri,” he told the boy, meaning it. Yuuri stared up at him, unsure of what he felt himself. He wasn’t sure if he should tell the man about his conflicted feelings, but after a moment of the teen staring up into blue eyes awkwardly, Adelbert leaned down to kiss him, silencing the response that the teen was about to give. He didn’t need the boy to answer him now. He knew that there would be a time not long from now when similar words would spill from Yuuri’s lips.
Adelbert was tempted to take the boy like this, dark eyes staring up into his, but urged Yuuri to turn over onto his belly, a position that was supposed to be easier for the boy’s first time. He took a pillow at the head of the bed to place under the teen’s hips to raise them for a better angle. Yuuri bit his lip, anxious yet excited at what would soon occur.
“This… isn’t going to be painful, is it?” Yuuri asked, fully expecting it to be at first but somehow wanting to do it anyway. His erection throbbed pressed beneath him.
“I won’t hurt you, I promise,” the blonde told him with a confidence that belied how he actually felt. Supposedly, it wouldn’t be painful if done correctly, but it was his first time doing this as well, not that he’d share this piece of information with the boy, at least not yet.
Adelbert took the vial of oil, rubbing it between his hands to warm it. He spread some of the substance onto the fingers of one hand. Yuuri soon felt a slick digit caressing the puckered entrance to his body, deciding that the sensation was oddly pleasing. Some pressure against his backside, and the digit slipped slowly inside. He shuddered as it was pumped leisurely into and out of his body, moaning slightly.
A second finger added to the first had Yuuri tensing up, wincing. Adelbert rubbed his lower back and the boy began to relax, allowing him to press his fingers deeply within him. Yuuri gasped as the digits began to slide past each other, scissoring.
“How is it?” Adelbert asked, fingers moving inside of the teen.
“Strange,” Yuuri answered breathlessly, a heat building in his gut, “but good.”
Adelbert smiled, continuing to stretch the teen. After a few moments, he pulled his fingers free, pouring a generous amount of oil onto one hand to stroke onto his erection. He moved to hover over Yuuri, planting kisses on his shoulder blades as he positioned himself at the teen’s entrance.
“Just relax, Yuuri,” Adelbert murmured close to his ear, hips pressing forward and a hand sliding under the boy. “You’ll like this, I promise.”
Yuuri tried to relax as he felt pressure against his backside. Soon, he gasped as Adelbert began to slip inside. The man froze, the tightness as Yuuri tensed up almost undoing him.
“Just relax,” Adelbert murmured breathlessly against the side of Yuuri’s neck as he loomed over him. The boy panted audibly as his chest heaved. Slipping a hand down from the teen’s belly, he encircled Yuuri’s hardened length, stroking it and earning a moan from the teen.
“That’s it,” Adelbert cooed as the muscles that gripped him loosened, enabling him to slip deeper inside. “Such a good boy…”
Yuuri moaned aloud as he was slowly penetrated, his body accommodating Adelbert’s girth. It wasn’t long before his backside was flush against the man’s loins. Yuuri shuddered, feeling almost out of breath at being impaled by the blonde. It took almost all of the self-control that Adelbert possessed to wait for the teen to loosen around him as he tensed up again. After a moment’s respite, he began a series of shallow thrusts that left Yuuri whimpering.
“How does it feel?” Adelbert asked with a roughened voice. “Do you like it?”
Yuuri wasn’t able to do more than moan softly at first, before finally answering, “It’s good,” in an airy voice. “So full.”
Adelbert panted against Yuuri’s neck as he struggled to keep his passions in check, maintaining a gentle rhythm that pulled the sweetest sounds from the boy’s lips. Adelbert never dreamed that it would feel this good, the smaller frame beneath him cradling him within his warmth.
Restlessly pushing up onto all fours, Yuuri pressed back against his new lover as he groaned, seeking out more intense sensations, surprised at his own awakening desires. He murmured aloud a plea for just this, and Adelbert was all too happy to oblige him. He picked up his pace, thrusting deeper into the boy who cried out softly with each stroke.
It wasn’t long before Yuuri stiffened, keening through gritted teeth. Adelbert felt pearly fluid spill over the fist that pumped the boy’s erection onto the sheets. The passage around him tightening, Adelbert thrust into the shivering teen a few more times before the sensations drove him over the edge. He groaned the boy’s name as he thrust deep, holding Yuuri close as he poured into him. The teen collapsed against soiled sheets, spent and chest heaving. Following him down, Adelbert braced himself so as not to put his full weight onto the boy. After a moment, he pulled free, rolling over onto his back next to Yuuri. Exhausted, Yuuri cast a satisfied gaze over at the blonde before his eyelids fluttered shut. He allowed Adelbert to pull him close, drawing the covers over them both.
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Returning in the early afternoon, Keenan walked into the room carrying lunch among other things. Seeing the slumbering pair curled up together under the covers of one of the beds made Keenan smirk. He supposed they’d be eating a little later after they recovered. He shook his head. Adelbert didn’t waist any time, did he? Keenan supposed it would be hard for anyone to resist, with someone like the boy tempting him. He put the items onto a table, taking out a sandwich after seating himself in one of the chairs, sunlight streaming in through the window as Yuuri softly snored.