Sho Isn’t Stealing My Heart

"Hey wake up."

Arlo blinked a few times taking in his surroundings. Kai was on the ground holding Sho and Blacky was shrinking. Arlo slipped off him then picked up the tiny pup and put him into his hoddie.

"Where are we?" Asked Arlo.

"Town of Nyler." Kai replied, "we should be able to stay in the inn tonight and visit a traveling doctor tomorrow who is coming to the town."

"Will he be okay until then?" Arlo looked over at Sho who was quite pale. He also felt the urge to hold him but the role was currently occupied by his brother. Was this jealousy? What the heck, why was he low key jealous of Sho's brother that was complete nonsense. He glanced back at Sho.

[Sho Whitewolf level 52 Manager(B]]

[Energy 4/55]

Of the few stats he could see all seemed fine except his energy which had been slowly going down. Four left, that was nowhere near enough. Arlo grimaced he currently only knew one way to boost energy and that way was less than pleasant. He couldn't use it given the claim factor, unless….

"Kai is there a way to temporarily raise your level?"

"Yeah but I wouldn't recommend it. It can have some side effects."

"How much? Will it make you grow another arm?"

"Haha no, just usually a fever and it can sometimes make your energy unstable." Kai replied. "They probably sell them in town they are pretty common"

"Here" Arlo passed Kai the money sack, "Go grab one of them, assuming we can afford it."

Kai disappeared and Arlo quietly hugged Sho while he was away. Nope still not jealous. He ran his hands through his silvery hair, he was even more beautiful then he remembered.

All too soon Kai returned. "Here" he passed Arlo the bottle. Arlo studied it's blue and white liquid, interesting.

"You can take care of it since I cannot." Kai said, Arlo was lightly stunned.

"I'm only level 31" he said.

"Yep and this one boosts by 20 levels so you'd be 51 for 30 minutes."

"That's a terrifying effect, why don't people use it all the time?"

"Side effects." Kai replied

"Why do I feel like you aren't telling me all the side effects."

"Oh I did they just can last 10-20 days."

"Days!" Arlo gasped, that was quite a while to have a fever. He winced slightly and looked at Sho "You'd better appreciate this." He muttered and downed the bottle in one gulp.

The effect was instant and Arlo's body started glowing on the edges. He stared at his arm for a second, so weird.

"I'll leave you to it" Kai had a smirk for a grin as he headed for the door.

"Okay seriously what's with that face." Arlo grumbled.

"I guess I could tell you….."

"About?"

"About the letter I got from my brother awhile ago about his crush, about how he wanted to forever a certain demon from the human world. I just never thought I'd actually run into that demon." Kai giggled and Arlo shot him a look.

"I am not Sho's lover, I simply owed him a favor."

"Right cause that will bring a demon clear across the demon realm to the most hideous place around."

"Just shut up and leave."

"Laters!" Kai shut the door.

Arlo turned back to Sho, "Okay then, you soooo owe me when you're feeling better again." He removed Sho's shirt then paused. What had he said when he had first done it to Arlo... oh right Sho had said "You know claiming in that special area recovers energy much faster."

Arlo gulped he had 30 minutes, now probably a bit less and Sho needed all the help he could get. Curses I will destroy this demon world's sense of logic one day. Arlo hissed to himself as he slowly removed Sho's pants.

This felt wrong to do to someone while they were unconscious. Although Sho had also said demons didn't consider this sacred only as a thing friends did. What messed up logic.

Arlo closed his eyes, "Sorry" he whispered and gently began to lick. It felt wrong? It actually didn't feel as wrong as Arlo thought it would. Would he be a terrible person or rather demon if he was actually enjoying the taste of Sho?

A few minutes later the system message appeared

[You have given a friendship claim to Sho Whitewolf, claim 1/5, please select a last name.]

A Last name? what? In the past world his last name was Watashe but it wasn't like that was a thing now. Let see demon last names. Weird a lot of the demons he met didn't have last names the ones who did seemed to have compounds of two words.

He thought of Black Opal nah that was to weird and it already belonged to the wolf...wolf that'd work probably. Same as his necklace blackwolf. No wait the whole point of the necklace was to not be tracked. Darn did he have to come up with something before he could give Sho energy?

Whatever something simi random should work fine. Let's see "Shadowwolf" he said.

[Name: Arlo Shadowwolf]

[Race: Demon]

[Last name set, you can now claim]

A crest symbol appeared on Sho. As opposed to the head of a howling white wolf on a mountain that had been Sho's symbol Arlo's appeared as a black wolf with shades of grey that was hiding among the pine trees.

Weird the system must auto generate them or something. Oh well wasn't important. Arlo continued licking Sho and watching his energy stat.

[Energy 4/55]

This wasn't that bad.

[Energy 14/55]

Sho had gotten a bit hard. His little man starting to poke up a little.

[Energy 23/55]

Sho's little twins were also a thing. Arlo wanted to sample every part of him while he had the chance. He gently massaged the area feeling him grow stiffer and stiffer.

[Energy 37/55]

Sho's whole body released and Arlo for some weird reason felt himself quivering. Why in the demon realm was this a thing?

[Energy 42/55]

[Error your level is too low to claim]

And his time ran out. Arlo pulled away and pulled Sho's pants back on. For 30 minutes he had gotten more than he thought. When Sho first claimed him it had taken forever, or maybe that was just his view point....or..... suddenly Arlo felt very light headed.

He groaned reaching up and holding his head. So this was the side effect, no wonder no one used the stuff. Arlo felt like his head wanted to explode. He stood up lost sight of the door as his whole head spun and ended up falling to the floor..... maybe he'd just spend the night here instead. He half curled into a ball, I'm going to murder Kai later for underestimating this. He hissed.

He paused for a second realizing that even if he told him it'd be this bad he still would have done it in a heartbeat. Because he owed Sho, it had nothing to do with love.

A few minutes later Kai reentered the room. He checked Sho quickly for a second then dragged Arlo over to a bed. He gently helped him lay down on it.

"You doing okay?" he asked. He did look a little worried or something.

Okay? Thought Arlo, oh that's fantastic, sure let's call this state okay, if that's the case what would classify as bad? Would I have to be dead? Hahhaha Arlo laughed mentally to himself but managed to send a slight nod to Kai. Okay might have been a little bit of an understatement. Ten days of this would be a little rough. He probably would have classified it as painful or horrible but the demon realm calling it okay...hahhah….. Arlo was having a bit of trouble connecting his thoughts through the pain.

When Sho woke up Arlo was totally going to make him hug him a million times to make up for it. A million might not even be enough maybe he'd demand a billion instead. Cause hugging was a normal thing friends did. He rolled over slightly so he was facing the wall and didn't have to look at Kai. His whole body felt hot, was this the fever, or something else...

Arlo gulped lightly to himself, what friends did, what demon friends did, Eeeeackkk nope brain just don't go there. What demon friends do to each other in the middle of the night when no one is watching.

Arlo felt himself growing a little harder, shoot no! What the heck was wrong with his body Kai hadn't mentioned this side effect. He felt too sick to comprehend or even try to understand much else. I really hate the demon realm. He thought closing his eyes.