Fulltime Partner's

Wei Ying

Several hours later, Wei Wuxian finally wake up, feeling tired and dizzy, for which the events taken place in the core testing, were nothing but blurry memories for a few seconds, before they became clear again. He looked around the place where he was lay down and find it different from where they had been guided before for a short rest before the initiation ceremony.

Their room was simpler, just having the basics and the decoration was done with bamboo and earth colors. The room he was in now, however, was more elegant, scented with sandalwood incense. The bed had cloud patterns and had a set of light blues and whites silk curtains with beautiful tassels hanging from the ceiling. There was an exquisite table with an equally magnificent sapphire zither over it. Not too many personal things, but it was obvious that the room belonged to Lan Zhan if he had to judge by the zither resting on the table

It was not surprising really, it was a well-kept and clean room after all, made for someone who liked order. It was quiet and with just a single candle lighted to illuminate the surrounding darkness.

Wei Ying sat over the warm bed, still feeling drained and weak, so he closed his eyes for a few seconds to let the dizziness pass. When he felt better, he removed the covers and try to stand, but his legs felt like jelly and he was about to fall down, if someone had not get a hold on him before his legs could fully give in.

"Wow, idiot... what you did was definitely stupid." A familiar voice protested and Wei Ying looked at the man holding him with a smirk. Suibian was tall and slender, with a dark brown long hair tied at the crown of his head in a ponytail, dressed in black and silver. His features were of that of a very handsome young man, with a white flawless skin that women's would envy, yet his presence felt powerful and manly, as there was an air of a warrior around him.

"I reached level ten, didn't I?" Wei Ying asked, as Suibian put him back over the bed.

"If you can call that reach it, just five steps in is not enough to retain the level and you fainted like a girl, right after. Your so called Lan Zhan even carry you like you were a precious delicate thing." Wei Ying smiled.

"He did? Ah, damn it! Did I lose this round?" Wei asked having a better look around. The room really suit him, such elegant, yet simple room, all tidy and with a sense of peace, with that magnificent zither over the maroon table, a small bonsai in another table, a few books in another, a big beige carpet under the zither table and a light blue folding dressing screen with a beautiful painting of a lotus pound with a Yin/Yang symbol in the center.

"Don't get too caught up by this Wei Ying, I must warn you, your Lan Zhan knows about Xuanyu now. Somehow, you pull his spiritual consciousness inside you, right in his sealed island." At that Wei Ying became paler.

"That's impossible... Xuanyu's seal is the strongest known in the east. No one else, aside for you and me could reach him, unless released." Wei Yin refuted intermediately, finding hard to believe what his spirit sword had just warned him.

"And yet, you brought him there and not only that, his sword spirit called Bichen was there too, not to mention that Xuanyu was bold enough to even told him your story about your fear of dogs and who he is." Suibian told him all.

"Ah, damn it! Xuanyu, you wicked blabbermouth! Do you want for these high up cultivators to kill me?!" Wei Ying internally asked.

"You have such good taste, Wei Ying. This Lan Zhan of yours, will not do anything against you, I assure you that. I gain nothing in telling strangers that could represent a threat to us about me. I am a part of you after all and if you are killed, so will I. Worry not, things happens for a reason, because I don't think is a coincidence you bring him to me while unconscious. There is a greater force acting up in these islands too and it had involve you for a reason. The Lan's will be more cautious around you from now on, but they will not act against their principles." Xuanyu assured him.

"Since when you are such an expert in the unknown?" Suibian asked.

"You will see for yourself soon enough, my handsome Suibian. Now, let me have my beauty rest if you don't mind." Xuanyu said, cutting their link.

"Idiot." Both Wei Ying and Suibian whisper at the same time.

"Where is Lan Zhan?" Wei Ying asked, as he attempted to stand for the second time.

"Outside, talking with his brother." Suibian responded, helping his reckless Master to move close to the door.

"Did you try to eavesdrop to find out if we are in troubles?" Wei Ying asked in a whisper. The Lan's were good at hearing.

"I... I can't... she... she is very protective of her Master. She kind of glow when I come too close." Suibian said nervously.

"She? She who?" Wei Ying asked a bit confused, as he glanced outside.

"Bichen... she is his sword spirit." Suibian said, behind his Master.

"Wait... why are you blushing?" Wei Ying asked looking back at the flushed Suibian, which avoided his gaze and that alone make Wei Ying repress a coming laugh.

"You like her already? Was she that stunning?" Wei Ying asked, smirking widely.

"Look who is talking, aren't you fascinated with your Lan Zhan?" Suibian fought back.

"Hey, it's not like that!" Wei Ying refused.

"Yeah, right, even the pervert is aware of it and he is sealed away." Suibian continue.

"Nonsense. He is someone I need to surpass, nothing else." Wei Ying whisper, looking at Lan Zhan's wide back. The white robes highlighted the black of his long hair cascading delicately over his back. Actually, both brothers seems to shine under the full moon, almost absorbing it.

Still, Wei Ying focus more on the young Jade and could easily distinguish some white plum petals, from when they passed the garden, but seen them make him remember that Lan Zhan had actually called him shameless when he took one out his bangs, so what will he think if he saw him admiring his back?

"I see... nothing, huh? You are almost drooling." Suibian added, seen his Master in a daze.

"Ah, shut up and go back to your sword. You know you can't remain out for long periods, we need far more cultivation for you to remain in the physical world for more than a few hours." Wei Ying remained him, although Suibian had go out for less than half an hour.

"Which is why you should focus on your coming studies instead of admiring your new partner." Suibian complained and Wei Ying turned.

"We are not partners." However, in that instant Lan Zhan walked back to his room and Suibian suddenly disappeared in a cloud of golden smoke, that make him caught.

"Wei Ying, are you alright?" Lan Zhan asked him, coming closer.

"Ah... yeah, just a bit of..." But ignoring his words, Lan Wangji grabbed Wei Ying's hand to check his pulse and find him weak.

"Still weak. Go back to bed." Wangji said and Wei Ying arched an eyebrow, seen the perfect opportunity to tease him.

"Isn't it too early to invite me to bed Master Lan?" Wei Ying asked mischievously, making Wangji go red in the ears.

"Nonsense, go rest." Wangji insisted, moving away.

"Wait, Lan Zhan... I know you know my little secret now. What had your brother decided? Are you going to send us back to our Clans? Are you going to tell the others about me?" Wei Ying asked and Wangji turned to face him.

"You will not be sent back." Lan Zhan simply answer, moving to sit in front of the table with his zither.

"Can you explain more? Why you talk so little?" Wei Ying asked, as he sit at the other side of Wangji's table.

"You talk too much." He answer.

"Ah, come on... I just want to know what is going to happen to me while in here." It was a valid point. He was aware that the dark energy he had unconsciously give a spiritual conscience, would be threatening for outsiders that knew nothing of his circumstances and how it came to happen.

Since Wen Qing discovered the anomaly of his two cores by accident, when he was twelve, his father had warned him to never tell anyone about Xuanyu, mostly to safeguard him from the bigger Clans, than for anything else. Xuanyu was tightly sealed, by the eldest cultivator of the east, which was a legend of her own right.

"Nothing. You had done nothing wrong." Wangji said casually, ignoring the curious young man in front of him.

"But Lan Zhan...." Wei Ying insisted.

"Wei Ying, rest. Tomorrow our training will begin early in the morning." Wangji said and Wei Ying pouted so unexpectedly that Wangji lose another heartbeat in a flash.

"That's all? Really? No interrogation or..." Wei Ying keep it up, yet...

"The symbol reacted to you for a reason. We can't intervene with that." Wangji said, beginning to play a soft melody with his zither. It was more to calm himself than to shut up Wei Ying.

"Alright... then, off I go... sorry to disturb you." Wei Ying said and stood up, directing his steps to the closed door.

"Wei Ying, don't go out, you will stay here." Wangji said, stopping Wei Ying's advance forward and looked back to the serious young man that was still playing a calming tune.

"What do you mean by that? Am I in house arrest or something among those lines?" Wei Ying asked suspiciously.

"No, you are free to go whatever you like, but there had been a change of rooms." Wangji responded.

"So, you are babysitting me from here on?" Wei Ying suddenly asked, making Lan Zhan lose his concentration and stop the music playing midway.

Actually, his brother had not instructed him to watch over every step Wei Wuxian gave, just ask him to help him relax after their training, which could drain him more than the others, giving the unknown nature of his dual cores. He had willingly accepted to share his room with Wuxian, playing a calming tune at night, just to make sure his darkness stay sealed and repressed. Babysitting him was... not really what he liked to call their new companionship.

"I'm not babysitting you, rest assured." Wangji said and Wei Ying sat down again where he had been previously.

"But you are to keep an eye on me, right?" He insisted.

"Not, really." He told him honestly.

"Ah, come on Lan Zhan... we are going to become full-time partners, right? Then why not having a nice long chat, to know each other better?" Lan Wangji sighed.

"Wei Ying, you have less than nine hours of rest left. Go sleep, I will wake you at five in the morning." Wangji advised him.

"Wait, what? At five? You have to be kidding right? So early? Why so?" Wei asked in disarray. He was used to wake up after nine in the morning after all.

"It was stated in the rules of Gusu we sent to all Clans along with the invitations." Wangji responded looking at Ying, wondering if he even bother to read the send book.

"You mean the more than three thousand rules of the book? Couldn't pass the third page." Wei Ying confessed and Suibian was tempted to go out of his blade and slap the back of his Master head. However, Wangji smirked slightly.

"Then, I will recite them to you. We still have half an hour before nine, which is our time to rest. Rule one..." Wangji begin reciting to his new mischievous partner of the rules of his Clan and barely by the page twelve, Wei Wuxian was already fast asleep over the table.

Seen that tiredness was taking a toll on him, Wangji took the opportunity to take him back on his arms and carry him to his spare bed at the opposite side of his own. Then he checked his pulse once more to make sure he was doing better than when he first carry him there and after he watch him sleep peacefully under the warm covers for a few minutes, he stood and blow off the single candle of the room, to surrender himself to tiredness and oblivion.

AN: Hope you like Lan Zhan and Wangji's interactions. They will share more than a training now. LOL. Bellow, are the picture of how I imagine Bichen and Suibian, all credits to the wonderful creators of this arts. Thanks for reading, until next time, take care. 😍😁😄❤❤❤