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Venti looked over hi shoulder to see the nameless bard staring back at him "what should I do, my dear friend? " silence
"Why can't you just leave my head Why! WHY! WHY!! venti yelled clawing at his hair tears running down his face, swollen red eyes clenched shut from crying
"Hu-hic-hic.." venti sobbed into his hands looking around for some one any one that could help him in his moment of despair.
In the shadow of the tree Zhongli is standing there wanting to help but not knowing what to do so he slowly walked out from the shade
"Who's there?" Venti shivered out
"It's just me Bar-Venti I apologize if I have startled you my dear friend" Zhongli shifted uncomfortably
"No no it 'sniff' it's not your fault I'm sorry I'm so sorry." venti bust into tears once more and broke beneath his own pain.
Zhongli rushed over to him and gathered the small and fragile god in his arms
"Shhh your ok now Venti I-I'm here now your going to be okay I can't promise anything to you right now but I can make a contract with you okay?"
"hic-hic o-ok-k what-s t-the con-tract?" venti sniffed as he said as he wiped his eyes
"When ever you feel like you can't go on or your going to break come see me and I will always comfort you but only if you come to me okay?"
"Okay thank you Zhongli." Venti hummed as he shifted his position to hug the older making his face fill with blood not knowing what it meant he just slowly raped his arms back around the little man and with that venti seamed to calm down so they stayed like that until the morning when they had to let go of each other to go back to there own nations
[[ time skip ♡□♤□◇years]]
Zhongli
"I want to go and see that bard, I want to hear his gentile voice on the wind, I want to see his soft and kind eyes looking in to mine, I want to be in his perfect presence to be near the only thing I want right now I want HIM, his slender hands strumming his lyer and singing his songs with that beautiful voice."
Zhongli exhaled rubbing his hands into his face what was he thinking that drunkard was crazy why was thinking about the softness of him maybe it was he hadn't seen him in ♡□♤○◇ years
Venti
Thinking of the contract he and Zhongli had made together years ago venti decided to go and find the older god for comfort seeing as he really needed that right now because behind him je could see not only his dear friend but also all the poor souls who were murdered in the rebellion of Decaraban
Slowly dragging his feet to find Zhongli he stated thinking why Zhongli was the first person he wanted to talk to and be held by wait held why would he want to be held by that old block-head?
I mean his strong build and soft eyes when he looked over at the older and the gentil voice when ever venti needs help with his past and all the time that the block-head had held him when he was breaking down and all the times that Zhongli had looked for venti for some help as well because under there tree anything was possible even when the other wasn't there they could somehow feel the others presence it wasn't heavy or overwhelming but soft and kind just like the man he had come to know as Zhongli, now he really wanted to be held like he used to be by Morax, no Zhongl, Morax would never have never let venti spend nights with him when venti was sick or when he was too drunk to walk or when he started dying on the inside when the world got to heavy or when-when!..
Argh he just NEEDED that man right now it didn't matter why he just did and I was just because he wanted to talk with his old friend right? Right!
When he finally got to there tree he found Zhongli sitting there and was he crying what happened to the strong block-head he knew
"Zhongli? What's wrong are you okay..."
"Mmm! oh, umm, Venti nice to see you hear what do I own the pleasure of seeing you Venti, sorry you had to see me in such a vulnerable situation my dear friend "
At that moment venti forgot all his exhaustion and ran as fast as he could tripping over his own feet and jumped onto the old man hugging him and crying into him apologizing over and over again not sure what too do he just held the younger refusing to let go until he calmed down holding onto his head so there foreheads where touching he whispered in to the other.
"Venti what did you come here it wasn't just to see me was it you drunkard."
"Shut up you block-head of course I came to see you I missed you so very much that I started to want to be with you just to not go crazy you idiot"
"Mmmm well I can solve some of the want you understand correct?"
"I do" he whispered back to the older as there lips met the softness that Zhongli wanted and the safety of being with someone that venti wanted as the pressed there lips together with more power than needed make them fall over onto the grass that ended up with venti on top of the older god only breaking apart so Zhongli can breath
"Mm you like that hun bard but you still have to let me breath okay you silly little god"
"Well what if I don't want to mm ehe?"
"If you want this to continue you'll have to let me live and I need air ok."
"What ever you say my love. Ehe "
"Wha-what did you just call me?!" Zhongli asked
"I don't know what did I call you my love? Ehe " venti said with a glint in his eyes
"What ever you say I no longer care, understand now Venti your the person I want to be with so I don't mind what you call me okay so how about a new contract mm.