His one and only

Ch 5 - Comfort

The sound of soft muttering could be heard throughout the room, his eyes slowly open with his vision slightly blurry.

 He slowly sits up and looks around the room, his head is throbbing badly and his head is getting dizzy, he ignores it and chooses to stand up and try's to walk around, not even a second later he loses balance.

"AHHH!" - Aether

Suddenly a gust of wind appears before him and he lands on something... soft? He opens his eyes to see someones glowing yellow eyes underneath the moonlight, the more he looks at it the more familiar the face appears to be.

"Xiao!?" - Aether

He quickly gets up only to trip on himself again, this time the yaksha grabs him by the waist and lifts him up like a bride.

"What are you doing here- where am I!?" - Aether

Yaksha ignores his question and lays him down on the bed, at this point his face his beet red.

"Your at Wangshu Inn, in my room. The others are downstairs waiting for you, I brought you here after Paimon came running up to me crying about how you had passed out." - Xiao

"Oh... sorry for the trouble I've caused, I didn't really want to bothe-" - Aether

Right before he could end his sentence the yaksha pulled him up by his collar and looked at him in an expression that even Aether couldn't tell if he was mad or sad.

"Are you dumb or what!? Going in an unknown place with dangers lurking all around and you didn't even think to call for my name once!!??" - Xiao

Slowly his eyes started getting steamy and a tear slid down his face, he looked like he had almost lost something precious to him. 

"Didn't you think how I would have felt like after losing someone...again, your just a mortal when it comes t-!!" - Xiao

He pulled Xiao into an embrace and put one hand on his hand and back.

"I feel like I should call you crybaby Xiao cause you cry everytime I see you" - Aether

He chuckled finally lesening the tension in the room, the yaksha had seemed to quite down.

"You know... I've also lost someone important to me, my sister. Thats the reason why I went there, after seeing her I felt relieved, confused, angry, sad, and a lot of emotions" - Aether

The yaksha looked up to see Aethers golden eyes which seemed to be like holding the burdens of the whole world, he wondered just how much hes gone through to look so... mature.

"But now that I think about, she probably had a really good reason which forced her to do so. Even though I still feel sad about losing her I don't think about that incident, instead I think about all of the happy memories I've made with her and that just makes me feel more motivated to get her back and not feel so down about losing her." - Aether

"Personally I think that it's better to let all of your bottled up emotions out, it lets you think more about the positive things in your life and teaches you how to cherish what you have now." - Aether

The yaksha had now released why he seemed to never get free from that state of regret, it seemed as if he had never learnt to really accept things and just buried his emotions deep inside a box which no one really tried to opened.

 Never had he ever thought about letting out all of those emotions which slowly made him feel as if he was just in a loop repeating the same duties everyday with no rest, it wasn't as if he physically needed rest but it was as if his mental health really need to take a break rather then doing the same things everyday.

It seemed that his karmic debt was also lesened everytime he was near the traveler which made him feel so light in front of the traveler always causing him to let out his boxed up emotions.

"Do you want to go to the latern rite festivel with me?" - Xiao 

"Su- huh, HUH, HAHH!?" - Aether

"Where did that come from!? I mean sure I would love to go with you although- I mean like when- where?" - Aether

He seemed pretty flustered as if he hadn't just been called mature, he regained his composure and waited for the Yaksha to continue.

"Ahem, I meant to say if you would maybe want to come along with me to stroll around Liyue-! to make sure everythings okay. Don't get the wrong idea" - Xiao

It seemed like the Yaksha was more flustered than the Traveler at this point causing Traveler to think deep down at how cute he looked like at moments like these, after all he rarely got any chances to see such a side of the Yaksha.

The moon seemed to be glowing more than usual today, was it just him or was something that he hoped for going to happen soon... (find out in the future chapters :D)

✨~Meanwhile~✨

"The device is almost ready. We await your command." - Abbys Herald

"What are the chances of succeeding?" - Lumine

"Theoretically speaking... approximately-" - Abbys Herald

"Forget it. Even a one-percent chance is enough" - Lumine

✨~Author notes~✨

-Hiya I completed this chapter as I didn't wanna leave it as it was, it was bugging me a lot tbh

-I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter :D

-As always have a nice day/night~! <3