CH 18: Teasing Ezio

She wanted to get back at Ali for teasing her by ignoring him, but her actions just seemed adorable to Ali. So not being able to contain himself, he silently closed the distance between them which wasn't much and kissed her cheek.

The action caused the poor, blushing girl to blush even more as she kept her hand on where Ali just kissed before pouring cutely at him. Ali smiled with a heart full of warmth as he picked up the box and got ready to move.

Leonardo :"so, Ali, what do you do?"

Maria :"Ali, has only recently reached Florence, so he's been working for my husband along with Ezio. The two are basically inseparable."

Leonardo :"ah! You're to be a banker? And are you perhaps a foreigner? Your name does seem… unique for these places. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean it's a bad or anything!"

Ali :" Haha don't worry, Leonardo. I get how someone can be interested in an unfamiliar thing or person. I am the same. Have been curious about everything since I came here. Thankfully, though, Ezio has been dealing with it by showing me around when we have nothing else to do.

And I'm not sure, maybe. But if I'm not be working as a banker, I'll probably do something that involves fighting. A guard or something. I've always had a talent for fighting since I was a child. So I will work hard on climbing the ranks if I do become a guard. And you? Art, was it?"

Leonardo :"truth be told, it's been difficult for me to settle. Painting is nice, but I often feel like my work lacks… I don't know… purpose. Does that make sense? I'd rather contribute more practically. more directly. Architecture, perhaps. Or anatomy. I'm not content to merely capture the world. I want to change it."

Maria :"oh, Leonardo! I have no doubt you'll go on to do great things! In fact, I was thinking of getting you and Ezio engaged since you are really talented and worthy, but then Ali came and the place is already taken. And I couldn't be happier."

When she said that, Ali tightened his lips as he pursed them a little, trying his hardest to not just laugh out loud :'aunt Maria, this guy is gay! He would have refused cause he wasn't attracted to her to begin with!"

«no hard feelings against gay people. I'm bi myself in case you didn't know.»

Leonardo :"vi ringrazio, Madonna (I thank you, madam). That's kind of you."

As the conversation came to an end, so did their small journey after Ali put down the box of painting and smiled at them politely just like Maria did to him gratefully :"thank you for the help, dear Ali, daughter. Don't let me keep you from your other duties."

Leonardo also nodded with a smile :"it was nice to meet you, Ali, Ezio. I hope our paths cross again." The two nodded back with smiles as well :"speriamo anche noi (we hope as well)." They said before they parted ways.

After they walked out of the yard or what the fuck ever that is, Ali stretched a bit as he rolled his neck :"and that is all of that. We are finished and I think we have a bit before we should go and see your father. What do you think we should do?"

But when he didn't get an answer, he opened his eyes and looked at Ezio only to see her looking away from him :"hm? Ezio? Eziooo?" but all he got was the silent treatment as Ezio hmphed with a pout and didn't look at him.

Ali smiled warmly and chuckled when he poked her puffed cheeks :"aww~, are you ignoring me because I teased you?" but the only answer he got was even more silence as Ezio softly glared at him while looking at him from the corner of her eye.

Ali chuckled once again before pinching her cheek gently and kissing her lips with a warm and comfortable smile while looking directly at her eyes through his slightly closed and long eyelashes :"I'm sorry, Ashkim (my love), but you are just so darn adorable that I couldn't stop myself.

But hey! At least it was a huge boost in my confidence. I mean, I'm way too absent minded when I enter my own little world. So how would I know that my beloved was looking and checking me out even before we became lovers? I mean… it's not like I wasn't checking out your… cough assets… so no need to feel guilty."

Ezio tried to cover where he was looking at with her arms while blushing and softly glaring at her smirking lover, but her "girls" were too big to hide even with both hands :"you… pervert! I'm telling you, if you don't stop teasing me, I will ignore you!"

Ali chuckled with a smile and held up his hands in surrender when Ezio pointed at his face :"Ok! Ok! I will lay off ya! I will stop teasing you and won't do it again… for now at least hehehe." She blushed at him while glaring.

But she finally sighed in defeat as her shoulders slumped :"seriously, just how are my days going to be with a lover like you if we get married?" her defeated tone only made Ali laugh more as he hugged her.

He then lowered himself to her ear with an evil and malicious smile :"I'm not a fortune teller, but I can assure of one thing. They will be very, VERY, EXTREMELY kinky and filled with pleasure all day long , Ashkim (my love)."

Ezio gasped and covered her mouth when a small moan threatened to escape her mouth when Ali gently bit down on her ear. She looked up at him with pursed lips and slightly furrowed eyebrows :"I thought you said that you wouldn't tease me anymore. Sigh, even if it's for now."

Ali flashed her a toothy smile of hunger and looked at her though half hooded eyes after he licked his lip :"oh, ashkim (my love), you have no idea, do you? I'm not teasing you. I'm just stating facts. *chuckling deeply and darkly* future facts that you should be ready for."

Ezio blushed deeply at his predatory tone and hid her face in his neck to cover herself. They both enjoyed embracing each other for a little longer before Ezio got away from Ali's neck and revealed herself once again.

Ali's warm smile and mood returned once again as he fixed her hair that had gotten slightly messed up when they were hugging each other :"let's take a walk and see what we should do, huh? How about that, ashkim (my love)?"

The warm smile brought a smile to Ezio's own beautiful face as she nodded while enjoying the calm and comfortable mood between her and her lover :"alright then, let's walk for a bit before we retune and see what father has in store for us."

They walked for a bit while looking around and at some stores before they saw a sad lady by herself beside the wall. The two looked at each other before Ezio nodded towards her while looking at Ali :"let's go and see what's going on. Maybe we can help her out and get some money like how we do things."

Ali was honestly not much of a talker when it came to anyone else but Ezio, that's why he never interrupted the conversation that much. And Ezio had already gotten used to this fact. So when he shrugged with a nonchalant face, she knew that he agreed.

So they both walked towards her and Ezio started the conversation :"excuse me, madam. But is something the matter? You look quite sad and angry. I don't know if you have heard of us two, but we help around for just a small sum of money."

The lady sighed and looked at the two with anger. But not anger towards them, but to someone else :"yes, I have heard of you two. You have gotten quite famous in fact recently. Even more than you were already, Ezio Auditore.

And this must be the man that the rumors say you have accepted as your lover, I assume? Fine, yes, I do have something you can help me with. That faithless husband of mine is cheating! I know it! As do all the neighbors… please, teach him a lesson for me."

Ezio and Ali looked at each other with a weird expression before they nodded and Ali breathed out through his nose :"alright then. Consider it done, madam. Let's go, Ezio. Oh, and I assume we should take the money from him as well?"

She just nodded back :"yes, that will further teach him a lesson to not do things that he will regret later on. The two nodded with a professional look and serious faces before Ezio looked at Ali with a smirk :"alright then, Mr. talented, use your gifts so we can get him easily."

Ali just nodded with a confident smile as he led the way while they ran. The two had incredible staminas, so they didn't have any problem in running for very, VERY long periods of times. So they were hardly not running when they had something to do or somewhere to go.

And after not even a few minutes, they reached their destination where Ali stopped her :"hold on. He is somewhere nearby. And there is a group of enemies nearby too, so be carefully to not get sneak attacked."

Ezio raised an eyebrow at him :"what? First of all, I thought that your "map" ability showed the exact place. So what is it now? And second of all, you hadn't told me that your mapping ability also showed the location of enemies."

And in response, she just received a shrug :"for your first question, it's not always like that. It sometimes shows a location where my target is in. but I have to find my target by myself who is, as you already know since you also have it, will be glowing yellow.

And for your second question, you never asked for me to tell you about it. It doesn't show their number, but it does show that there is a group of more than one when there is a red dot on my map. But it's a fancy red circle of a sort if my enemy is only one person."

Ezio took a deep breath and sighed though her nose with an unimpressed look at how he didn't tell her about such a useful information before all of this :"sigh, fine, I won't argue. Let's find this bastard then. So he's somewhere around here?"

Ali nodded as he looked around :"yup, he's nearby. In fact, with how my "mind map" works he should be… there he is. In that yard where it shows such a big, empty space in my map. And would ya look at that. There is a couple there. And the man is also glowing yellow when I use my majesty's sense. He should be our target."

As they entered through the door to the yard and interrupted the cheating couple, the man looked at Ali with an angry look :"che diavolo vuoi, stronzo (what the hell do you want, asshole)-ugh?!" but he was interrupted by a punch to his face from dear Ali!

As he took a step back from surprise, he then tried to attack Ali with an enraged look. But that obviously didn't work out for him as Ali locked his arm under his own arm to make him stick his chest out more as he then started punching him till he was satisfied and the guy was begging him to stop.

The man fell to the ground after Ali punched him in the face and got up because of Ali having mercy on him and not hitting him too hard or even hard at all :"alright! Are you sent by my wife?! She wins! That bitch-ahaha I-I mean wonderful wife of mine! I-I'll go home!