Ultimate Note: You Are Worthy

A Bug Problem

Hei Xiazi

The place had proven to be more dangerous than anticipated, so they took a lot longer to explore it, to a point they needed to rest and sleep for at least a few hours to keep ongoing. They choose a room that they had cleared of traps and lie down by each other side. Xiazi had waited for Xiao Hua to fall asleep to stand vigil for a few more hours, before exhaustion had sink in and closed his eyes to have his deserved rest.

He try to stay still by his companion side, knowing full well that Xiao Hua disliked unwanted touches on him, specially his, but when he wake up several hours later, he found that his Master Hua was not as unwilling to get a hold on him instead. He smiled as he felt Xiao Hua's arm across his chest, while his head rested over his shoulder. He was probably unconsciously looking for comfort while he slept, but even if that was the case, it showed that Xiao Hua trusted and cared for him more than he let know.

It was a shame he didn't have a camera on him to immortalize the moment, because he was sure if he moved to grab his phone in his jacket pocket, he will wake up the man and ruin the moment while making him moody for the rest of the day. So he closed his eyes and waited for Xiao Hua to wake up on his own and realize he had let himself open in a moment of tiredness, which was unfortunately too soon to his taste.

Shortly after, Xiao Hua stirred over Xiazi and after noticing he had seek the other man warmth while he was sleeping, he moved away from him without a word. He looked down to his watch to see he had sleep for longer than he had intended, perhaps because of Hei Xiazi presence has make him take his guard down for long enough to feel safe to completely give in to exhaustion. Yet... it was time to keep moving.

"Get up, we had lose a lot of time already." Xiao Hua said, knowing that Xiazi was fully awake.

"You are so heartless, I watched over you for most of those hours." Xiazi protested.

"Then stay there and rest all you want. I'm moving ahead with or without you anyways." Hua said as he took his backpack.

"Alright, alright... don't be so impatient, Master Hua. This is dangerous place after all." Xiazi said as he stood.

"No need to tell me, still I'm still in the lead of our little contest. Five to four so far, right?" Hua asked turning to look at Xiazi briefly before he led the way of their resting place. Behind him, Xiazi smiled. Yes, they had encounter that numbers of traps so far, which was the reason they had advanced so slowly, but what Xiao Hua didn't know was that he had carefully lead him away from a few others traps that were far more dangerous to them than arrows, spikes or boomerangs.

Those ones he has avoided to trigger could cause the ground to give in or the hall to be destroyed, which only meant, he had let Xiao Hua win for his own sake. That too was the reason he keep watch for a few hours after Xiao Hua had fall asleep. Only after he was one hundred percent sure there was nothing dangerous around, he let himself rest.

"Damn, I'm too soft with him." Xiazi whisper to himself, as he followed his Master Hua closely.

Zhang Qiling

They had walked far enough from that doomed road and Pangzi had asked for some rest, they take under the shade of a tree. Xiaoge sat by Wu Xie, opening his canteen to offer it to him, which Wu Xie took gladly giving Xiaoge a devastating smile. Qiling loved when Wu Xie smiled at him like that, it was a pure smile that seems to shine as brightly as the sun and dispel his own darkness.

He had been attracted to that side of him for a long time now, watching him grow even more appealing to a point he could no longer hold back his feelings. When they had kissed, he had felt more alive than probably in his entire life. Thus during their trip, he had make sure to clean the path for Wu Xie to walk more easier, help him steady when there was a more rocky terrain and keep his senses into full capacity to be alerted of any kind of new threat they could encounter, specially involving snakes, he knew were out there.