Tails and Teapots (4 page)

Frankie turned and gave Aki a grin. He couldn't help it. "You don't beat around the bush, do you?"

"Should I? I can be coy if you want me to."

"No, I like you just the way you are." Frankie turned and pulled Aki against his chest. He nuzzled that soft mess of hair. "I—sorry..."

"For what?" Aki touched Frankie's cheek and eyed him worriedly.

"For getting too involved, I guess. I—never mind ... I'm just being stupid, that's all." Frankie patted Aki's shoulder and tapped the digital panel by the tub. "Don't worry about it, I'm fine."

"Are you sure?"

"Totally." Frankie forced a smile. "How do you like your showers?"

Aki shrugged. "I usually take baths ... but I like those hot and steamy, like my men."

"Got it." Frankie set the water temp and pulled Aki into the shower. It was a tight fit but that made it all the more fun. "I'm surprised I haven't seen you in the club before."

"I'm new here, just got to town today, in fact. I'm definitely going to be there more often, though."

"You're always welcome, but don't be surprised if Kale asks if you need a job. You're definitely hot enough to work at The Body Shop."

"I don't know ... I'd be too distracted by a certain silver-haired bartender to get anything done." Aki rubbed that wet and sexy body against Frankie. Aki was hard again already.

"Wow, you bounce back fast." Frankie trailed his fingers over Aki's hard cock. Damn, he wished that he could recover so quickly. He still needed a little more time.

"I can't help it." Aki turned into the pelting water and wiggled his pert little ass teasingly. "You make me so horny."

"I know the feeling." That did it for him. Frankie pushed his hips forward, rubbing his stiff length against Aki's wet skin. "How about we head back to the bedroom so can I ride that sweet ass of yours?"

Aki leaned back against Frankie's chest and glanced over his shoulder at him. "Couldn't we do it in here? The water feels so good..."

Frankie's brain turned to mush beneath that hot, hungry look Aki gave him. He couldn't say no to Aki, even if he wanted to. The only tricky part would be condoms and lube.

Aki ducked out of the shower briefly only to return with a small plastic packet in his hand. "I grabbed one of these, just in case. We need to be safe right?"

"Good thinking, baby." Frankie took the condom from Aki's fingers and nuzzled Aki's cheek. "I could kiss you."

"As long you do it while you fuck me." Aki gave him another hungry look. "I don't think I can wait any longer."

"You are definitely a boy after my own heart." Frankie rolled the rubber over his prick and grabbed the bottle of hair conditioner from the tiny shelf on the shower wall. Alan must have left it behind. Frankie never bothered the fancy stuff. It was all natural, according to the bottle, and there was no harsh, soapy stuff, which meant it wouldn't mess with Aki's insides.

"Frankie..."

"Sorry, I—" Frankie turned back to see Aki sliding two fingers in and out of that perfect, little ass of his. He almost dropped his make-shift lube. Frankie licked his lips. Damn, that boy knew how to make him needy. "Wow!"

Aki glanced over his shoulder at Frankie. Those amazing chocolate-colored eyes were half-lidded and soft, breathy moans slipped from Aki's lips. He pulled his fingers out and pressed his hands against the slick tile. "Mmm, fuck me, please..."

Aki didn't have to ask him twice. Frankie squirted some of the conditioner into his palm and rubbed it into his sheathed cock. Slowly, Frankie guided himself into tight, gripping heat. Aki moaned, his entire body rippling around Frankie's length.

"You feel so good," Frankie murmured. He pushed in the rest of the way and leaned in to kiss Aki's neck and shoulders. "I can feel you squeezing me."

"Can't help it, you're so big." Aki rocked back a little. "Mmm, ride me, please, Frankie? Fuck my ass."

Frankie rumbled something in agreement. It wasn't really English. His brain was too occupied for that. Frankie wrapped both hands around Aki's slender waist and fucked him with long, deep strokes.

"Oh, fuck! Frankie!" Aki leaned against the tile wall and pushed his ass out, taking Frankie a little deeper. "T-touch me some more, please!"

Frankie brushed one hand over Aki's dusky nipples. He loved the feel of Aki's body against him. Aki's skin was so warm and was just begging to be touched.

"Lower..."

Frankie slid his hand lower petting Aki's flat stomach. He knew where Aki wanted his hand, but he was also so much fun to tease.

"Frankie!"

"Impatient boy..." Frankie wrapped his hand around Aki's cock and stroked him.

Aki moaned again, his hands clenching against the shower wall. He kept moving, rocking back to grind his ass against Frankie's groin and forward to fuck Frankie's hand. Aki tossed his head back and squirted Frankie's fingers with come. "Oooh!"

Frankie slammed his hips forward as Aki clenched around him, milking his cock. He buried his face in Aki's neck as he came. "Fuck!"

They stood together for a few minutes, catching their breaths. Frankie held Aki against his chest feeling better than he had in a long time. It sucked that he and Aki would go their separate ways so soon. Frankie ran his fingers through

Aki's wet hair and sighed. He definitely wouldn't mind if Aki wanted to stay the night or longer. Frankie just didn't know how to ask.

"Frankie..." Aki wiggled in his arms. "The water's starting to get cold."

"Oh, damn, sorry."

They cleaned up and stumbled out of the shower before the water got too chilly. Frankie grabbed a towel and wrapped Aki up in it before grabbing his own.

"Thank you."

"No problem. I just hope you didn't get too cold in there." Frankie tucked his towel around his hips.

"I'm fine." Aki rubbed the towel over his hair and smiled innocently. "Besides, I'm sure you could warm me up again."

"Aki ... I don't know if I can get it up again, even as sexy as you are." Frankie raked his fingers through his hair and glanced at the tile floor. He didn't want Aki to go, but he didn't have another round of sex in him either, not for a while at least.

"I was thinking I could curl up with you and catch a nap." Aki stood on his tip-toes and kissed Frankie on the cheek. "You kind of wore me out."

"You want to stay?"

"I'd like to. Do you mind?"

Frankie scooped Aki up and carried him back to the bedroom. He tried not to look too excited. It was hard though. "Why would I mind? I'd love the company, actually."

"Yay!" Aki grinned and hugged Frankie tightly. "Thank you!"

Frankie set Aki down and dropped his towel before climbing into bed. He held the blankets up so Aki could crawl in beside him.

Aki snuggled against Frankie's chest and let out a deep, contented sigh. "Mmm, toasty warm."

Frankie dropped a kiss on Aki's forehead. "I do make a pretty good heater, or so I've been told."

"That you do." Aki shifted and rested his head on Frankie's shoulder. "I have a feeling you'd spoil me if we were lovers."

"You could always stay and find out..." Frankie mumbled that into his pillow. He meant it, but he also hoped that Aki didn't really hear him. It would've been fine if Aki felt the same way he did. But, if he didn't, the rest of their time together would just be awkward and that was the last thing Frankie wanted.

"What?"

"Nothing ... Night, Aki." "G'night."

Frankie sprawled on his back and blinked sleepily. It usually took him a little while to wake up, but not this morning. There was someone in bed with him, curled up against his chest, actually, and it wasn't Alan. It was Aki, the pretty, sweet boy who came home with him last night. Aki had been amazing in bed as well as the shower and was currently purring like a contented cat. Aki shifted and murmured something in his sleep. His tail brushed lazily against Frankie's thigh, tickling him.
Wait a minute...

That couldn't be right. Frankie was seeing things—okay, and feeling things too. He must have popped a brain cell or something. Aki didn't have a tail, did he? Frankie glanced down at Aki's back side. There it was. A tail. A thick, furry stripped one like a raccoon's sprouted from Aki's backside, just above that sweet ass of his.

Aki yawned and glanced at up him. A pair of fuzzy and rounded ears peeked through Aki's hair and twitched. "What's wrong?"

Frankie fell out of bed and stumbled backwards. What the hell did he end up in bed with? "Y-you have furry bits, and I know they weren't there earlier."

Aki glanced up and tugged at one of his ears. "I do, don't

I?"

"What the hell is going on?" Frankie stood with his hands

clenched at his sides. Now that the shock was gone, he was kind of pissed. Somebody owed him a fucking explanation.

Okay, maybe he was overreacting. Aki was still gorgeous, even with the ears and tail. Hell, they made him even cuter. Frankie shook that last thought from his head. It didn't matter. Aki was hiding things from him and he hated that.

Frankie took a deep breath and counted to ten. Yeah, he was overreacting. He wanted a distraction, a one night stand. It shouldn't matter that Aki didn't tell him everything. Hell, he didn't really give Aki a chance did he?

"You don't recognize me, do you?" Aki's ears drooped unhappily. "I guess you wouldn't..." Aki looked down at his hands. "Not like this."

Frankie looked at Aki again. There was something familiar about Aki's eyes and that tail of his. Then it dawned on him. "You're that tanuki, aren't you?"

Aki nodded. "I wanted to repay you for freeing me.

Remember?" "What?"

"I wanted to repay you and I thought that distracting you from your ex-boyfriend would be a good way." Aki clutched his tail to his chest, his ears drooping a little. "From what your friends said, you needed it."

"When did you talk to my friends?" If this was somehow Dante's fault, Frankie was going to kill him.

"I didn't, I over heard you talking to them. I was a tea kettle at the time but I still heard most of what happened." Aki touched Frankie's arm timidly. "Are you angry with me?"

"I don't know. I—" Frankie didn't know what he was feeling anymore. Even if he didn't expect a life story out of a one night stand, something like "I'm a tanuki" should have come up at some point. What bothered Frankie even more, though, was the idea that Aki only slept with him because Aki— tanuki—whatever, thought that there was a debt to pay.

"Please don't be mad..." Aki took a step back and started to shift. His hair went from brown to blond and his skin and eyes lightened. Frankie blinked in disbelief as his ex, Alan, stood in front of him instead of Aki. "Would this have been better?"

"That's not funny."

"I thought you wanted him back." Aki trailed his slim hands over Frankie's chest. "I can't make him love you again, but you can always pretend."

"Aki..."

"It's better than nothing, right?"

"No, it's not! It's weird. I—you can't go around pretending to be my ex!"

Aki stood on his tip-toes and leaned in to kiss Frankie. "Why? I'm sure you'd be happier with me."

"It'll be a big lie, that's why!" Frankie pushed Aki off him. Even if Alan left him in a really shitty way, it still felt wrong to have Aki pretending to be him.

Aki stumbled back and fell, landing on his ass. There was a puff of smoke and Aki sat there in tanuki form. He cringed and rubbed his backside with his paw. "Oww!"

"Aki, I—"

Before Frankie could finish, Aki turned and ducked under the bed. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

Frankie knelt down and peeked under the bed. Of course, it was dark, and Frankie couldn't see a damned thing. He grabbed a flashlight off the dresser and shone it under the bed. Aki was pressed in the farthest corner among the shadows and dust bunnies. The tanuki had his tear streaked face buried in those dark paws. He looked so sad and scared.
Great, just great ...
Frankie was scaring cute little animals and making them cry, too. No wonder he was single.

"Aki ... come out, please." He tried to find a comfortable position but it wasn't happening so he ended up on his side,

his arm stretched out awkwardly in front of him. Frankie held a hand out to his furry friend.

"No! Y-you're mad at me and I don't know why." Aki pressed himself further in the corner. "I thought you had fun last night."

"I did and I'm not mad ... not really." Frankie sighed. He did have fun but that was when he thought that Aki was just a pretty boy looking for a little fun instead of the tanuki he accidentally got for Christmas. Damn it, he was not into animals, even if they could talk and shapeshift. "I just don't like being lied to, that's all."

"I didn't lie!" Aki peeked out from under the bed. "My name is Aki and what you saw last night is my natural form. Well, one of them ... just minus the ears and tail."

"How many forms do you have, anyway?" Frankie sat down and leaned against the bed.

Aki crawled back out and sat beside him. He was still cute and very furry but at least Aki had stopped crying. "I can change into anything, but this one and the human form I used last night are my natural forms."

"Just with the ears and the tail, right?"

"Yes ... I wasn't sure if you would like them, so I hid those."

Frankie rubbed those fuzzy dark ears. "They're very cute." "But this form bothers you, doesn't it?" Aki stood on his

hind legs and gave Frankie a pleading look. "I don't understand you. Most people like cute, furry things."

"I do too ... but I don't sleep with them."

"I don't either!" Aki shifted to his more human form with another puff of greenish smoke. The furry ears peaking through his hair flicked back in irritation. "This is my preferred form for mating, even with another tanuki. Besides, it's not like I'd shift in the middle of sex or anything."

"Aki..."

"You liked me last night. Did that change simply because of what I am?"

"I still like you. It's just—this is just a lot to take in, I guess." Frankie raked a handful of silver hair out of his eyes. "Can I ask you something, though?"

"Go ahead."