unknownrival | [RL with Tyki]

"Why not?" Tyki ruffled his damp hair, grinning. "What's wrong with thinking yourself attractive?"

"Hmm..." He bobbed in the water, leaning back a little and looking up at the blue sky in thought. "I do see the issue, believe me. But if I suggest it, isn't he likely to just say no? I haven't really spoken to him that much, and it'd be a strange thing for a stranger to ask out of the blue."

He shrugged. "I guess I'll just have to get to know him."

"I'll get a swollen head, and then I really won't be attractive any longer."

Issei raised an eyebrow. "Don't make it sound like such a chore. He's a very nice person, and cuter than me. You'll like each other, I'm certain."

Tyki laughed. "I know I'm attractive, but I still am, right? I can't imagine you getting too arrogant to be pretty, Issei."

He sobered a little and shook his head. "I didn't mean it like that. I'm sure I will like him... I just haven't really had the opportunity to speak to him, I guess. He's not as vocal on the community as you are, I think."

"That's different," Issei complained, splashing Tyki with a little water. "Knowing you're attractive suits you."

"No, he isn't. I wish he had more friends, truly." Issei perked up a little. "If you get to be friends with him, I'm sure we could work something out as your reward from me to you."

Tyki rolled his eyes, wiping the salty water from his face. "While it is endearing how modest you are, you could stand to be a little more realistic," he told him.

He perked up at this. "What kind of reward?"

"Whatever you say," Issei answered, clearly not listening to him.

"Whatever reward you like. I'm a good boyfriend, so Haruto's happiness is paramount." Issei smiled. "What is your desire?"

Blink. Blinkblink. "Mmmm..." he purred, drawing Issei a little closer. "If I didn't already know you wanted to keep things platonic, you know what I'd say in response to an offer like that."

Issei swallowed. "If that was what I needed to do to make him happy, I would agree. I just... I only want him to be happy, and he does need friends."

Tyki sighed, then gave Issei a kiss on the forehead. "You're very sweet," he said. "I'm not going to take a reward like that in exchange for doing something I'd do anyway. But I can't promise anything. All I can promise is to say hello - I can't promise to like him."

Issei breathed out a sigh of relief. "I was hoping you would say that. Don't worry, I understand your limitations. So, what do you want as your reward? Name it, and I'll do everything in my power to give it to you."

Tyki thought about that for a long while. "I want you to do a strip show for me," he said finally, his lips spreading in a smirk. "Just you and me, tonight at the beach house. No one has to know, and I won't touch. Just look."

Issei's face turned a bright shade of red. "I... I'm not certain I know how to do one, but I'll try," he answered with a quavering voice. "Just don't expect anything much."

Tyki beamed and cupped Issei's cheek with one dark hand. "That's exactly what I'm expecting," he said, brushing his thumb over that bright red blush. "And trust me, you will be fine. Just take off your clothes. You do it every night before bed."

Issei squirmed under the physical contact. "Is that all there is to a strip show? I thought it was supposed to be... well, sexy?"

Tyki grinned. "I'll put some music on, and maybe tell you to do a few things."

He let his feet touch the ocean floor and held Issei's hands, then drew them together again, slipping a hand around his waist and doing a waltz step. "Maybe I'll ask you to do a little twirl." He spun them around. "Or show me a little leg."

Issei stuck out his leg when asked, smiling at the dance moves. Tyki had a way of being charming, even when he was embarrassing as well.

Tyki grinned. "Can you handle it?" he asked, their bodies pressed almost completely together. Their bare chests were slippery from the water.

"Of course I can," Issei answered proudly, grinning back at him (though still with a blush on his face). "Just you wait. I'll do you proud."

Tyki beamed. "I'm so glad to hear it. Now shall we do a little sun bathing before we lose the light?"

"If you like." Issei left the water, a smile on his face.

Tyki was more than happy to follow, amazed at his good fortune. How often did one get a monk to agree to strip dance for you for pretty much no reason at all?

The community really was an amazing place.

He grabbed some towels and stretched out on his stomach on one of them with a contented sigh. "Don't burn," he said. "You're so pale."

"Yes, I know. I don't get out much." Issei lied down on his back. "Mmm, I think I'll just fall asleep like this, wake me up later..."

Tyki chuckled and reached for the bottle of sun screen he'd brought. The stuff didn't exist in his time, but Zechs had taught him that humans needed to use it in spectacular fashion by turning into a lobster one hot afternoon.

He poured some into his palm and shifted over to the boy to rub the lotion into his chest. "Just go to sleep," he murmured. "I'll make sure you don't burn."

Issei purred, curling trustingly toward the hand. "You'll take care of me..." he mumbled, and then was out like a light on the island beach.

Tyki smiled and took his time, drying the boy off with gentle buffs with the towel, then rubbing the lotion into his skin from head to toe.

"So trusting," he murmured thoughtfully, brushing a lock of blue hair out of Issei's face, then removing his glasses and setting them on a nearby rock.

With a sigh he stretched out on the beach, content to feel the sun's rays while letting the UV rays warm the sand and the towel under him so it wouldn't burn him.

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