#lee!raiden

Today, Raiden Ei had a meeting with some important Inazumans, and as her loyal servant and wife, Yae Miko joins her at every meeting. Although, Ei feel reluctant to let her come. It’s a wall Yae has to beat down every time.

“You really don’t have to come,” Ei states as she gets dressed for the meeting.

“I enjoy being your company,” Yae Miko helps her to straighten the fabric of her Kimono.

“But you do so much for me already, I just hate dragging you to these boring things,” Ei sighs, resting her head on the fox’s shoulder.

“Nothing is boring as long as I’m with you,” Yae Miko kisses her forehead and smiles at the Raiden’s blush.

“Then let’s go, we’ll be late if we wait any longer.”

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“Hm. And the trees could use some replanting. They just look so old. Also when are you going to fix the cracked pravements? I almost tripped on those on my way here. We must fix everything!”

Ei and Miko stand there, waiting for the inspector to finish his rant, his enployees nodding along at every sentence and complaint.

Yae shifts closer to Ei, raising her chin to the woman’s cheek and whispering into her ear, “It might take a while to please this guy.”

“Yeep!”

The inspector stops for a moment to see Raiden Ei stand with scrunched shoulders and her hands covering her left ear. She has a faint blush on her cheeks.

“A bug… Flew on me… Proceed, inspector.”

Yae Miko giggles quietly and Ei glares at her wife teasingly. In response, Yae whispers in her ear more, soaking in the small and quiet squeals that emit from the Archon.

“Y-Yae! S-Shhshshh…” Ei scrunches her shoulders to block her neck and ear, squirming to back away. But Yae holds her waist to pull her back in.

“Thihis is embarrassing! We’re ihin public, eeee!”

The conference team was now staring at the two with fish eyes and jaws open. Raiden blushes more and manages to escape Yae’s grasp.

“I-I assure you we will be taking care of your concerns immediately.”

“Hmph. Good.”

~Later~

“Ei, darling~ You never told me you were ticklish!” Yae Miko approaches her wife from behind and gently tickles her neck.

“YEEhe! Yahae! Plehehease!” Ei jumps away from the fox, but the sly Yae Miko grabs her waist and pulls her to the couch.

“My cute and adorable wife is ticklish! Can you believe it?” she nibbles on her neck, “she tastes delicious~ and she is ALL MINE!”

“YAHahae! Nooohohoho!! Nohohot the nibbling! Plehehase!”

“I’m sorry, dear, I just can’t help it~ You’re too squishy,” Yae squishes her sides and Ei jumps even more, squealing louder and falling back into her lover’s touch.

“YEEEHEHEHheheheh!! YAhahahaeee! Ihit’s sooohoho tihicklish!”

“But you’re leaning into the tickles~ I think you might like this,” Yae kisses the back of her neck while skittering her fingers against Ei’s sides and ribs.

Ei screeches with laughter, arching her back at each prod and with each poke reveals a brand new string of laughter.

“YAHAHAahahaeee!! WAHAahaittt!! Yohohou’re rihihight!! You are right!”

“Huh?” Yae stops the tickling for a moment.

“You’re right, dear. I love it,” Raiden’s blush returns and she burries her face into her wife’s pink hair, which tickles her face and causes her to continue giggling.

“Aawww~ Eiiii!!” Yae spiders her stomach and goes back to nibbling on her neck.

“YAHAHAHA!! WAHAahhaahHIHITT! NOOHOHOhohohohoo!”

“No?? But you said you like it!”

“EEeeehehehehe!! Yohohou kihihill me!”

“What?? That is nothing. Now THIS might!” Yae miko blows a raspberry on the back of Raiden’s sensitive neck, tracing her fingers on her collar bones.

Raiden’s laughter goes up a pitch and Yae has to lower her ears, but she loves every second of her lover’s bright and quite rare laughter.

“EEEHEHEHEHE!! YAHAHAHAHAHAEE! AHAHAHAHA! OHOHOHOKAYY!! AHALRIGHT! AHAHAHA PLEHEHEASE! IVE HAHAD ENOUGH!”

Yae stops after that, going to kiss the ghost tickles away.

“Yae… Thahat was… Fuhun…”

“It makes me happy to see you so happy,” Yae smiles.

Ei smiles back, but not for long when she sits up already on the fox’s lap, and goes straight for her sides, a spot that Ei had already discovered so long ago.

“EEK! EHEHEI! EI WAHAHAHAIT!”

“My wife is also ticklish, and she is also very tasty,” Ei smirks. She slightly lifts the t-shirt that Yae is wearing and blows a raspberry on her stomach the same way that Yae had done on her neck earlier.

“YAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!! EHEHEHEEIII!! EEEEHEHEHEHEHEH!! THAHAHAT’s MY DEATH SPOHOHOT! YOU KNOHOHOWW THISS!!”

“Heheh, of course I know~”

“NYAAAAHAHAHAHA!!” Yae Miko’s fluffy pink tail appears and wags with delight. Her laugh resembles the way foxes giggle.

“You enjoy this too, don’t you?”

“IhihihI wihihil neheheever tell!” she blushes.

“Oh really?” Raiden squeezes her hips, another bad spot.

“BAHAHAHA!! OHOHOKAY! YEHEESSS I LIHIHIKE THIS!!”

“Hm,” Raiden smiles, slowing her attack to a stop.

“Y-Yohohu… are so dehevious!”

“I just like teasing you,” Raiden wiggles her fingers.

“Ahaha! You.. Don’t have to stop…?”

“Oh?” Raiden’s eyes widen. Yae blushes.

“Only if you want to- EHEHEHEE!”

“I will gladly take you up on that offer.”

One would expect the Almighty Shogun, if anyone, to be a masterful calligrapher.

And one would be wrong.

You see, although the Shogun has many skills, something so mundane as calligraphy never crossed her mind as something to practice. Who has time for that when one could be practicing swordsmanship instead?

“My goodness, Ei. Of all people, I never would have expected your penmanship to be this unsightly. This is unfitting for an archon.”

“It’s not that bad, Miko.”

“It is indeed! You’re as bad as Xingqiu. How can I possibly have someone whose signature looks like that cosign books to be sold by Yae Publishing House? It would be ludicrous. I will not stand for it.”

“As bad as… who?”

“Ah, forget it. We don’t have the time to carve out a stamp for you, either. We’ll just have to do things the old fashioned way. You’d prefer that anyway, wouldn’t you, Ei?”

“I suppose.”

“Good. Don’t fret, I can teach you. It may take some time, but I will make you into the second best calligrapher in all of Inazuma. No, in all of Teyvat! Me being the first, of course.”

Yae layed out yet another practice scroll. Raiden was slowly getting the hang of it, but there is a more tactile approach that Yae wanted to try. This method may help Raiden better understand how to write each character more fluently.

Raiden sighed. She didn’t have time for this.

“Oh, don’t be like that. Here, give me your hand.”

Raiden gracefully placed her hand into Yae’s palm. Yae gently turned Raiden’s hand over so that Raiden’s palm was now facing upwards. She grabbed a red handled calligraphy brush off the table with her free hand.

“Lay your hand out flat. Yes, just like that.” Yae began gently tracing the first character of Raiden’s name in the palm of her hand. Slowly articulating each stroke.

Raiden’s fingers twitched. She smiled, faintly.

“Something the matter?”

“No, no. Please, continue.”

“Hm, you know what, if I use your whole forearm as a canvas I will be able to fit the whole thing. May I remove your sleeve?”

Raiden hesitated for a moment. “Um, sure.”

“Thank you,” Yae removed Raiden’s black sleeve and placed it on the table. “I’ll restart.”

Yae repeated what she had done previously, now continuing onto Raiden’s wrist and up her arm. Raiden tried to focus, but it turned out to be quite difficult with that soft brush gliding over her skin. Once Yae had almost reached her elbow, Raiden jerked her arm.

“What’s wrong? Oh, wait, don’t tell me. Is someone a little ticklish?”

Raiden paused, dumbfounded. “I—! No, of course not. Don’t be ridiculous.”

“Hm, if you say so. You won’t mind if I continue?”

“Go right ahead.”

Yae smiled. She started over from the beginning, once again. Yae appeared to be lingering on certain spots now, going over them a few times. Raiden tried her best to remain stone-faced.

Feeling mischievous, as always, Yae snuck the bristles up onto Raiden’s upper arm underneath her kimono sleeve. Raiden practically squeaked.

“My my, what do we have here? You weren’t lying to me now, were you, Ei?”

“No, I— Wahait! Nohoho, s-stohop it!”

Yae held Raiden’s right wrist with her left hand as she more rapidly brushed random squiggles all over Raiden’s upper arm.

“Thihihihis isn’t t-teaching me anything, you knohohow!”

“Sure it is! It’s teaching you not to lie to me.”

A sakura pink blush spread across Raiden’s cheeks. She tried her best to squirm away, but Yae had quite a strong hold on her. Suddenly, Yae decided to drop the brush entirely and skitter her long nails along Raiden's neck instead.

“eEEhehehe Mihihikoho!!”

“Hehe, I think you secretly like this.”

Raiden flushed a deeper shade. “I do nohohohot!”

“Really? Then how about… this! Tickle tickle tickle~!”

Yae quickly reached up into Raiden’s underarms and rubbed her thumbs into the hollows as best she could.

“AAH! AhaHAhaha nohohot thahahahat! PlehehEHEHEASE, MIHIHIKO!!”

Yae continued a little while longer, until she thought Raiden had really had enough.

“Th-thahahank you hehe…” Raiden huffed. “I promise I’ll be more focused this time.”