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Mystic Heart Odyssey

Part 7: Downtime

Deleted NSFW Scene from Chapter 4

So yeah, I've decided to start partitioning off these more explicit scenes so that people that aren't interested in the details or want to leave it up to their imagination can skip them more easily. (Plus, some places don't allow such straight-up smut, unfortunately.) I left in a bit from the main chapter at the beginning for context, in case it wasn't obvious where it starts!

Also yeah, I decided that extended scene with Hoku is canon, since I didn't see any objections.

-Llox

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Lykou glanced over at the sereva and grinned, then wrapped an arm around him, pulling him in close. "Well c'mere, I'll help keep you warm."

I bet you will, Kuna thought, blushing a bit as certain thoughts raced through his mind. I can think of some ways we can warm up and relax...

"You alright?" Lykou asked in an amused tone, noticing the sereva's adorably flustered, hungry look.

Kuna's blush intensified and he shook his head to snap himself out of his reverie, then shot the konuul a sheepish smile. "S-sorry. Mind's uh... wandering."

"So I can tell," the konuul said, arching a brow and grinning at him. "And just where was it wandering to, I wonder?"

The sereva let out a squeak-like sound and looked away bashfully. "N-not important, just... just random thoughts. Don't worry about it."

Lykou glanced down, then prodded his companion in the side. "Well it's pretty obvious what kinds of thoughts they are, anyway."

Kuna's blush intensified tenfold and he yelped as he quickly covered himself up. "Gah! I- uh-... f-fuck."

The canid chuckled. "Guess it has been a while for you, huh?"

"Uh, y-yeah, I guess it has," the sereva replied with a sheepish grin. His eyes eventually drifted down, then narrowed. "Looks like I'm n-not the only one though."

Lykou quickly covered his lap with his tail. "I don't know what you mean," he said with mock-innocence, even as his own face flushed.

"...did I mention I liked having one of those?" Kuna snarked, trying to add some levity to the situation in hopes of diverting attention away from the subject a bit.

The konuul snickered. "Well, all joking aside, maybe we should go... y'know, handle things. We can meet back at the fire after-"

"W-wait," Kuna interrupted nervously, his mind racing. A thought had crossed his mind. More specifically, a little fantasy that'd been running through his head ever since Hoku introduced him to a certain concept back in the Isles. He was surprised he managed to force himself to even start to vocalize it, but he decided that if he couldn't bring himself to confess everything he wanted to, he had to at least try something to test the waters. "Um. H-hang on. Kou, I uh..."

"Hmm? What is it?" Lykou asked, somewhat surprised.

"I... uh... w-well..." Kuna stammered, trying to build himself up to the idea. "S-s-so, back in the islands, the um. The n-night before we left, Hoku told m-me about something that I w-wanted t... to um. Uh..."

Lykou arched a brow, growing increasingly curious with where the conversation was going. "Oh?"

"Y-yeah... um..." Kuna was trembling by that point, terrified that he might be making a big mistake. He couldn't believe he was saying the words coming out of his mouth. But he knew he'd go mad from regret if he didn't at least make an attempt. He took a deep breath and stared down into the water, trying to center himself a bit. "...s-s-so she uh. S-said there's this... thing... a-apparently people... n-not just mates, c-can... y'know, do stuff with each other?"

Lykou stared at him quietly, then his eyes slowly widened as he started to get an idea where the conversation was going. "Ku...?"

"Sh-she s-said even just f-friends can... well, s-something about benefits?" the sereva said, looking up at him very timidly, with the most nervous, bashful smile Lykou had ever seen on him.

The canid stared at him in speechless silence for a moment. Kuna immediately lost his nerve and started to get up, laughing nervously. "Hehejustkidding, I'llgoawaynow, s-seeyoubackat-"

Lykou reached over and gently grabbed his arm before he could get away as a grin slowly crept back across his face. "Kuna. Sit your cute butt back down."

As if his body were acting on impulse, the sereva immediately plopped back down. He looked over at the konuul anxiously, trembling even more than before. "...f-fuck, please... please tell me I didn't f-fuck up. I-I'm sorry f-for making this awk-"

"Ku, you're fine. Relax," the canid assured him, rubbing his shoulder softly. "Come on, no need to be so scared."

Kuna' shaking subsided a little as he hazarded another timid smile. "...e-easy for you to say."

Lykou chuckled a bit. "So. Friends with benefits, huh? Yeah, I'm familiar with the idea."

"Y-yeah?" the sereva asked nervously.

"Uh-huh. More than a little, in fact," the konuul continued. His ears folded down as his own blush came back. "I've... actually wanted to bring it up for a long time now, but was too nervous about making you uncomfortable."

Kuna's trembling stopped completely and he perked up slightly. "W-wait, really?"

Lykou nodded. "Uh-huh. Congrats on officially being braver than me about something."

"...w-wow. I... huh," Kuna said, looking down for a moment as he processed it. He grinned. "First time for everything, I guess." He turned back to his friend and arched a brow. "S-so you're... have you ever... um...?"

"I mean you already know I'm open to casual sex, Ku," Lykou teased. "Remember Sulyr?"

"Y-yeah but he was... kind of a s-stranger," Kuna said. "F-friends, though... have you... I m-mean, would that make things..."

"Depends," Lykou answered the unspoken question. "Everyone's different about that. But I've done it. You uh... you remember a while back when we were telling stories and chatting around the campfire, back before the ursarans and stuff?"

Kuna looked confused for a moment, then something slowly crept up out of his memory. "Ohhh yeah... you were being kind of dodgy about something with Naira," he said, then his eyes widened and he grinned. "W-wait. You and she...?"

"Yeahhh we... do stuff," Lykou said with a bashful grin of his own, rubbing his neck a bit. "Not, you know... the kind of thing that makes puppies, mind you. She's terrified of that, so it's pretty much all, y'know... hand and mouth stuff."

"W-wow..." Kuna said, then bit his lip for a moment. "...luckygirl," he mumbled.

"...aaand yes, Ku. I'd love to try it with you too," Lykou declared, smiling somewhat shyly at the sereva. "If you're really sure you want to, that is."

Kuna lit up and his heart began racing more than ever. "W-w-wait... r-really?"

"Well yeah. I literally just said I kept wanting to bring it up myself but was too skittish," Lykou pointed out. "Although I also gotta ask..." He narrowed his eyes and grinned, then leaned in, so that their noses were just barely touching. "How exactly did that come up with Hoku, hmm?"

Kuna yelped and folded his ears back, his blush once again intensifying. He quickly covered his face and giggled. "Ah, r-right... fuck."

"...Ku. Diiiid you two have a little fun?" Lykou asked, beaming at the flustered sereva. Part of him was jealous, but otherwise he couldn't pass up such a golden opportunity to frazzle his friend. Plus he was actually proud of him, in a way. "You finally lose your virginity? To a girl no less?"

Kuna wrapped his arms around himself, rolled his eyes up and let out a little squeal of a groan. "...m-maybe."

"Well how about that," Lykou said, then giggled. "Kani owes Kalei haze nectar for a week."

"W-what??" Kuna blurted out. "Y-you mean they... but why??"

"There was an obvious connection between you two," Lykou pointed out, totally oblivious to the irony of the statement. "We all kind of had a feeling she was being more than just regular-friendly towards you. Kani said she was probably in heat that night, too. She suggested she might be secretly trying to seduce you into some fun, but Kalei didn't believe her. Good thing sereva can't get raptuva girls pregnant, hmm?"

"W-well we didn't... do that a-anyway," Kuna bashfully replied, covering his muzzle with his hands. "Just... l-like you said with you an Naira. M-mouth stuff..."

"Ohh, I see. Seduced ya with a bit of head, hmm?" the canid teased.

"Mmf... th-that was last, actually," the sereva said, his face practically on fire. "Oh gosh..."

"Oh really? Well c'mon, tell me about it" Lykou pressed, nudging him slightly. "Got me all curious now."

Kuna rolled his eyes a bit. "W-well... we were just... chatting... a-and she started leading the conversation that way. N-next thing I know, we're on the ground and she's on top of me, asking if she can be my first time," he said, then giggled nervously. "Since it might be our l-last time seeing each other, at least for a long time... and w-well. She convinced me. A-and we started... exploring each other a little." He flushed brightly and fidgeted a bit. "I-it was nice... but pretty, um. N-new to me, obviously. A girl's bits, I mean. S-so she had me... eheh... take care of her, first, then... w-well you know."

"Ohoho, so she was on top, hmm?" Lykou said, poking the sereva playfully in the side. "Somehow that doesn't surprise me."

"W-what's that supposed to mean?" Kuna asked, mock-defensively.

"Really?" Lykou replied with a dubious look. "You ooze bottom energy, Ku."

They stared at each other for a moment, then Kuna averted his gaze with a sheepish grin. "Y-yeah okay, fine. That's... that's probably part of what won me over," he admitted. "I still mostly prefer guys, by the way. But I guess she just... knew how to, mmm....mnf."

Lykou grinned and rolled over on top of Kuna, pinning him gently against the rock. "Seduce you?"

Kuna stared up at Lykou with wide eyes and a slightly dopey grin for a moment, then glanced down. "W-well hello again."

"Hmm?" Lykou asked with an amused look.

"Conversation kind of killed things a little... b-but, well," Kuna explained, glancing between Lykou's face and their crotches. "Th-that fixes that."

Lykou glanced down as well, then grinned and pressed their erections together, causing the sereva to gasp and tense up as his hand wrapped around both of them. "Feels like the mood's back to me."

"F-fuck, we'redoingthis, we'reactuallydoingthis," Kuna squeaked.

Lykou's expression shifted from mischievous and lustful to a reassuring smile. "Only if you're sure you're comfortable with it. No more trying to fluster you just for fun here- you really want to try the whole friends with benefits thing with me?"

Kuna stared up at him with a flat, yet still flushed look. "Lykou." He suddenly bucked his hips up slightly, then grinned a little, his shyness starting to be overridden by his desires. "Does this feel uncertain to you?"

"Definitely not," Lykou replied, beaming down at him. "Alright then." Suddenly, he sat up and started stroking their cocks together steadily, while his other hand gently kept the sereva's shoulder pinned back against the rock. "Whatcha wanna do? Or should I say, want me to do to you?"

Kuna let out a little moan, watching the konuul's hand work them both over, then turned his attention back to his face. After a moment, he nervously reached down to grab the canid's hand. "...M-mind if I...?"

Lykou released their cocks and let the sereva take over. "Sure..."

Kuna hesitated, then specifically grabbed the konuul's prick and started feeling it up. "D-damn... p-pretty warm," he said, grinning bashfully up at the canid. "A-and big..."

"Not much bigger than yours," Lykou pointed out, then ground himself against him lightly. "Don't forget yourself, now."

The sereva reached down and started stroking himself while his other hand continued working on his friend. After a moment, he wrapped both hands around both of them and started doing what Lykou had been doing before. "Hehe... w-wow... f-feels nice..." he said, then smirked. "L-love feeling yours a-against mine..."

Lykou smiled, then bit his lip and thrust into the sereva's grip a little. "Same here..." They both enjoyed the moment in silence for a minute, their eyes flicking between each other's faces and where the action was. Finally, the canid took a slow breath and rested his hand on Kuna's. "This is nice, but we should do something... well, more. Any ideas?"

Kuna glanced back and forth again, then bit his lip and pulled his legs back, spreading them suggestively with flustered grin, though doing so made him slip down a little further into the water. He stubby little tail wiggled a little underneath him.

Lykou chuckled and leaned down again so their noses were almost touching again. "You're an adorable hornball. As tempting as that is, let's not rush into that for the first time."

Kuna pouted slightly, then dropped his legs and smirked. "F-fair..." After a moment, he perked back up and grabbed the konuul's hips, urging him upward. "C'mere, s-scoot up."

"Hmm?" Lykou arched a brow and did what was suggested, carefully getting up part-way so that he could re-position himself with the sereva's nervous guidance. He then blushed some more as his cock aligned with the sereva's mouth and he realized the implication. "Y... you sure? What about you?"

"Don't worry," Kuna replied with a wink, then licked his lips and began fondling the canid's testicles a bit with one hand. The other slipped down between his legs. "I'll be f-fine. You know how much I like... hard salty things."

Lykou snickered a bit. "Well don't let me stop you, then."

Kuna looked over the member right in front of him, then nuzzled it a bit. His hot breath made Lykou shiver slightly. He'd fantasized about being intimate with another guy for years, so finally having the chance was already like a dream come true. The fact that it was his best friend and secret crush made it almost overwhelming. He gave it a few experimental licks, causing Lykou to close his eyes for a moment and let out the faintest of moans. After a few long slurps along the length, he brought his hand forward to stroke it while he started focusing his tongue more around the head, making his friend immediately tense up and shiver as his cock throbbed in the sereva's face.

"Oh, fuck, Ku," Lykou moaned softly. "You... sure you haven't -mmn- done this before?"

"Mhmm," Kuna replied, glancing up with a faint smirk. "Just... th-thinking about what would feel good to me..."

"I'll... have to keep that in mind," the konuul replied, looking back down with a grin of his own.

Kuna continued teasing the cock in his hand for a couple minutes, eliciting more soft moans and occasionally needy whimpers from the konuul in the process. Eventually, once he'd built up the courage, he opened his mouth up and swallowed the thing up, prompting a slight gasp in response. He tried to take as much as he could, but he found getting much beyond halfway to be a bit of a challenge, so he just started slowly bobbing his head along what he could, while his hand continued stroking along the length that didn't make it in. His other hand left his own bits in order to resume fondling the canid's balls.

Lykou was in heaven. It took significant willpower for him to control himself. Even at such a slow pace, he could feel the pressure rapidly building up. He could have easily started wildly thrusting into the warm mouth enveloping his dick, but he didn't want to risk hurting or upsetting his friend. Still, he could hardly remember the last time he'd been so turned on. He was rock hard and precum was steadily flowing into the sereva's mouth.

And Kuna could definitely tell. The shaft in his mouth had been firm when he started, but it only got moreso as he worked it over. The way it throbbed in his maw excited him. While he tried to stay focused on pleasing the konuul, his hand occasionally slipped back down to his own erection for a minute or so before returning to focus on the canid. Eventually, he sensed his friend's growing neediness when his soft whimpers grew a bit more urgent and he started bucking his hips despite his best efforts to resist the urge. In response, he started picking up the speed. Being completely inexperienced, he simply tried to continue doing things that he thought he himself would enjoy, and otherwise tried to make up for it with enthusiasm.

Lykou began panting and dug his fingers into the soft soil at the edge of the stream, just beyond the rocks. He tried his best to resist the urge to start fully humping into Kuna's mouth, especially when he thankfully sped up, but he still couldn't help but rock his hips a little on occasion. He could feel his legs starting to get shaky as his climax was approaching. Finally, he couldn't resist any more and started bucking his hips enthusiastically, taking over the action and basically face-fucking his friend. Fortunately, the sereva didn't seem to mind.

In fact, although he had to strain not to gag occasionally, Kuna was slightly turned on by the change in the situation. With one hand, he carefully tried to keep a modest grip on the base of the canid's shaft in order to discourage him from going too deep at once. His other happily went back to work on his own needs. He let out soft little moans of his own, further coaxing the konuul to the edge.

The closer he got, the more frantic Lykou's thrusts got. Finally, he tensed up and started unloading into the warm mouth and throat enveloping his cock. Right about that time, he still had just enough awareness to notice a slightly urgent tap on his hip and a slightly strained gagging sound underneath him. He quickly pulled back and stroked himself off, as the rest of his load splattered all over the sereva's face.

Kuna coughed a bit and squinted as he was pelted with a few last shots of the konuul's cum. Even as it was happening, he continued stroking himself. Truth be told, once he'd caught his breath, the unanticipated face-shot kind of turned him on. The smell and the taste definitely appealed to him.

When Lykou started coming back to his senses, he smiled sheepishly down at the slightly dazed, yet still lustful sereva. "Whoops... S-sorry about that... Ku," he said, still panting. "I... guess I... got a little... carried away."

Panting slightly as well, Kuna grinned up at him even as his hand continued pumping between his legs. "S'fine... not the first time you've... painted my face..."

Lykou chuckled a little and sighed blissfully as he slid back down to the side and rested for a moment. When he noticed the sereva still stroking himself and getting more and more worked up, he suddenly realized he wasn't quite done with their little session. With a playful grin, he slipped down, then grabbed Kuna's thighs and slid him up to the edge of the water, startling him.

Kuna yelped slightly as he was manhandled out of the water, letting his hand leave his twitching cock so that he could stabilize himself. "W-woah, Kou-!"

"Just relax. Your turn now, obviously," Lykou assured him. Before the sereva could object, he dipped his head down and engulfed Kuna's penis in his muzzle, then began aggressively sucking him off.

Kuna gasped and stiffened up briefly in response, then shuddered and rolled his eyes back. "O-oh fuck!" he moaned. Being as hard and worked up as he already was, he immediately began throbbing in the canid's maw. He let out a few soft whimpers and instinctively rocked his hips to meet the konuul's snout as he felt his own orgasm rapidly approaching. "Nnngh... Kooouuu, I-I'm gonna...!"

Before the sereva could say another word, Lykou sped up a bit and looked up at him, smirking a little around the cock in his mouth. He grunted and moaned something around it, intentionally adding a little vibration to the sensation. That finally sent Kuna over the edge, and the konuul eagerly gulped down his load as it sprayed down his throat, even as the thighs squeezed down and shook around his face. Kuna's hands clawed at the rocks and dirt at the edge of the stream as he let out a shaky moan and arched his head and back as far as they could go.

The konuul gradually slowed down as he milked every lost drop, doing his best to drain the sereva's balls. Finally, when it seemed that there was no more forthcoming, he withdrew the twitching cock from his muzzle and looked up at the well-spent, shaky sereva, who had a sloppy, silly, blissed-out look on his face. Lykou licked his maw and grinned as he slid up, then flopped down next to him at the water's edge, lounging on one arm so he could look the sereva in the face. "You know," he said after he caught his breath. "I think it's all that fruit you've been eating, but you actually taste pretty good."

Panting, Kuna looked side-long at him with a slightly dazed smile. "S... so do you..."

Lykou giggled and stroked the sereva's chest softly. "So I guess the answer's obvious, but did you have a good time?"

"Fffuck yes," Kuna replied, still heavily flushed from the experience. "Kou... that was... amazing..."

"It was," the konuul agreed. They both stared into each other's eyes for a few minutes, panting and grinning as they came down from their hazy highs. Eventually, they both became self-conscious about it and quickly looked away, blushing again. Their hearts both raced as light, fuzzy feelings flowed through them. Fuck, they both thought at the same time. Now I'm even more obsessed with him!

Lykou was the first to shake himself out of his thoughts. "W-we should get cleaned up before things get all... sticky," he said as he got up, then offered Kuna a hand up as well, gesturing to his face.

"R-right," Kuna said, quickly sitting up. He paused for a moment, then wiped some of the mess off his face and licked it up before taking Lykou's hand and joining him in returning to the water. He grinned. "Mm... salty."

"...figures you'd like that," Lykou teased as he started wading through the water some. The flow was fortunately slow enough in the natural pool that most of the flowers that he'd distributed were still there. And, having being thoroughly re-hydrated, there was a distinctly pleasant smell wafting up around them.

Kuna hesitated for a moment, then dunked his head underwater for a moment do wash his face and hair off, then let out a content sigh as he popped back up. Though they both initially focused on cleaning themselves off, they eventually couldn't keep from shooting each other little bashful smiles and giggling a little. Finally, they embraced and basked in one another's warmth. "S-so... no awkwardness, right?" Lykou asked hopefully.

"N-nope," Kuna said, half fibbing. The truth was, the change in their friendship definitely made him all the more keenly aware of how hard he'd fallen for the konuul, and hiding it might become increasingly difficult if they were going to be doing those kinds of things. But, for the moment at least, he didn't care. In fact, he was happier than he'd been in a long time. "Far from it."

"Good... a-and same," Lykou agreed, as the exact same thoughts raced through his mind.

Kuna grinned impishly and grabbed the konuul's hands. "Next time, though," he said, then leaned back and playfully slid the canid's hands down to his rear.

"Hmm, careful now," Lykou retorted with a grin of his own as he gave the sereva's rump a little squeeze. "Don't want to get us worked back up again."

"Maybe I do," Kuna retorted playfully as he pressed back up against the konuul.

Lykou chuckled, then glanced up at the sky and sighed. "As fun as that'd be, we're running out of daylight," he said, then glanced back towards their camp, not far away. "Aaannd it looks like the fire's starting to go out."

"Shit, good point," Kuna said, then pulled away with a sheepish smile. "Guess we lost track of time."

"Easy to do when you're having fun," Lykou pointed out, winking at him.

Kuna giggled and blushed. "True."

They both hesitated as they got lost in one another's eyes for a moment. On top of the lingering effects of their afterglow, there were both definitely experiencing some other warm feelings, despite the cool water around them. But soon they both became self-conscious and quickly looked away with nervous grins.

With the sky already starting to darken, they quickly cleaned themselves off before heading back to the fading fire at their campsite. Lykou's tail swished behind him as they walked, flicking water around as it did so, while Kuna's step was notably a bit bouncier than usual. They knew were now closer friends than ever before, even if their hearts still yearned for more.