[Mature]

Zekaj didn’t sleep at all.

Zekaj sat there all night holding his soulmate in his lap as he slept, examining every bit of the marks on his skin. The golden marks that no human should have.

Golden Marks were only ever on demons, not humans, demons. Humans always had the black marks on them with human runes. So why did Hunter have gold markings as well as demon runes? Not to mention the fact that he had all the major human and demon runes and then some.

Deep down, Zekaj was scared this was somehow his fault. What if being inside Hunter’s body for 2 years was causing something within him. Was he accidentally turning Hunter’s body into a vessel for himself?

Zekaj shook his head as the thoughts invaded his mind. He wasn’t turning Hunter into a vessel for himself. This wasn’t a scary movie where the demon takes over a human and uses them as a vessel. Zekaj didn’t even want to take over Hunter’s body cause that would mean Hunter’s soul would be lost.

It wasn’t even possible for both a human and a demon to share a body like that. So there was no way in Hell Zekaj was going to turn Hunter into a vessel.

Zekaj just wanted Hunter to wake up soon. He had an hour till his alarm went off and they’d have to go to school.

Gods the idea of Hunter walking around with these marks were not good. Hunter wasn’t normal. Zekaj knew that once his parents saw those marks they’d take him to be studied or flat out remove them.

Removing a mage’s marks was possible but it was extremely dangerous and left the user with no magic. It was extremely inhumane and always left the mage with trauma. Zekaj would know as he’s watched it happen before himself.

He wouldn’t let that happen to Hunter though. He wouldn’t hesitate to end anyone who tried to hurt his soulmate.

God his soulmate. Zekaj still couldn’t believe that Hunter was his. Hunter was his soulmate. Just thinking that made Zekaj smile bright at his soulmate who was still out cold in his arms.

Zekaj wasn’t going to lie. Having a mate that was as powerful as Hunter turned him on a lot. Demon’s always wanted a strong mate that they could show off to others. And with Hunter’s marks, he was very powerful.

Zekaj tried his hardest to fight the excitement in his pants.

But why does he have all of these marks? Why did he have identical marks to him?

He had so many questions and not a single answer. All he had was his powerful soulmate unconscious in his arms and a continuously growing ere-

Hunter started stirring and Zekaj’s eyes darted to him. He watched as Hunter’s head started to move around and his hand gripped Zekaj’s arm.

Hunter’s brown eyes met Zekaj as they both stared deep into each other. Simultaneously a smile formed on both their lips.

“Good morning baby.” Zekaj whispered, his worries completely vanished as Hunter groggily whispered back.

“Good morning.” His voice was still hoarse from waking up.

Zekaj watched as Hunter started rubbing his arms. His body tensed, waiting for the reaction from Hunter. Hunter just sat staring into his eyes before sitting up on his lap 0and abruptly stopping.

Worry flooded through Zekaj’s system. He watched Hunter’s face turn a bright shade of red, he was blushing but about wh- Oh. Hunter’s butt was right on top of his cock. If Zekaj was in his human form he would’ve been blushing as well.

Hunter quickly moved off him, his blush continuing to darken. Zekaj grabbed a pillow and threw it over top of him. He watched as Hunter himself started to hold his hands over himself before laughing at the awkwardness that filled the air.

Zekaj laughed, “Sorry for making it awkward.”

“I-It’s fine.” Hunter stuttered. “How much longer until school starts?”

“Like 50 minutes till your alarm goes off. So like an hour and 20 minutes?” Zekaj answered.

Hunter just murmured out an ok and went to go grab a change of clothes.

He still hasn’t noticed. Should I say something? Zekaj thought.

Hunter came back into the room and Zekaj completely lost thought as he watched Hunter’s shirtless body move around. He watched as every bit of muscle stretched with his movement. Zekaj failed to notice when Hunter started staring at him.

“Can you last 5 minutes without being obnoxiously horny?” Hunter chuckled.

“I mean I could but I’m pretty sure you’re kinda into it.” Zekaj said before quickly removing the pillow and jumping out of the bed and being on full show for Hunter.

The blush returned quickly and Hunter started to awkwardly cough. Zekaj watched as Hunter took glances towards his approaching body before he was right next to him.

Zekaj quickly stole a kiss.

“I love kissing you.” Zekaj whispered against Hunter’s lips before slowly reconnecting them.

Hunter parted his lips allowing Zekaj to enter who quickly took notice and entered. Zekaj slowly slipped his hands down towards Hunter’s butt and pulled Hunter against his body. Causing Hunter to gasp. Hunter quickly collected himself and in return wrapped his arms around Zekaj’s neck.

It was a nice moment that all worry could just leave Zekaj’s mind. The lovely feeling of the bond filling his body and pushing out all stress.

Simultaneously they both pulled back and smiled at each other. Hunter slowly cupped Zekaj’s cheek and rubbed his hands in his beard. Zekaj closed his eyes and leaned into the touch. Loving the feeling of Hunter pushing his hand through his short beard.

Until he stopped.

Zekaj opened his eyes expecting a smiling Hunter but was met with a wide-eyed one looking at his arms up and down. He looked around his upper body examining the gold marks all around his body.

“W-what?” Hunter gasped.

“Look, I know how it looks-” Zekaj started but was abruptly interrupted by Hunter.

“This is a joke, right? You just made an illusion to make them gold. This is very very funny Zekaj. Now undo it.” Hunter watched Zekaj’s face not change at all. He wasn’t laughing at all. Zekaj was worried.

“Hunter…” Zekaj whispered. “It’s not an illusion.”

“B... But this isn’t possible.” Hunter rubbed the gold runes on his arms. “We aren’t possible either…” He whispered.

Hunter sat on the edge of his bed and examined all the runes on him.

“There's” Hunter saw all of the demonic runes and human ones on his body. “All of them?”

“Yeeeah. All the main ones.” Zekaj dragged out. Zekaj sat down right next to Hunter and held his hands.

“We’ll figure it out, baby. I don’t know why this has happened, but I promise you we’ll figure it out.” Zekaj did his best to reassure Hunter. Hunter just sat staring at the identical marks they shared.

“It’s not normal for our marks to be identical too. The demon ones are in the same spots as yours.” That's when Hunter noticed it. “You’re demon marks changed too! You used to only have shadow and hellfire and other shit but now there's a bunch of different ones.”

Zekaj looked down at his body and noticed what Hunter was talking about. He too had all the main demonic runes. He was a lot more powerful now too.

“This is fucking dope!” Zekaj said standing up examining the new marks on him. He hadn’t even thought about checking his own. “Come on!”

Zekaj grabbed Hunter’s arm and pulled him to his bathroom quickly to examine themselves. Luckily Zekaj detected the house for anyone and no one was home. Zekaj placed Hunter in front of the mirror and stood right behind him. His big muscled bulky body was vastly different from Hunter's lean body.

“And I’m not going to lie. Seeing you shirtless with all these marks is making me really horny. And I’m still in my underwear so a good chance these will rip so just don’t be really sexy.” Zekaj said. Zekaj's eyes took in all of Hunter. “I said stop it!”

“I’m not doing anything!” Hunter laughed.

“Ugh,” Zekaj said, adjusting himself before laughing a little bit.

Zekaj finally looked up into the mirror and their eyes met again in the mirror. Small smiles appeared on both of their faces.

It was true though, Zekaj and Hunter shared completely identical demonic runes. The only difference was the human runes that were on Hunter, weren’t on Zekaj.

“Wait, your personal mark.” Hunter noted. “It’s different.”

Zekaj turned to his left to show off his right bicep in the mirror. There, where his mark was, the one on also on Hunter’s palm from their contract, the one Hunter used to summon him two years ago, was different. It still had many similarities to his old one though.

“Do you think?” Zekaj didn’t finish. He quickly picked up Hunter by the sides and placed him right in front of him. There on the bicep was the same mark.

“Uhhh,” Hunter said, eyeing the similar marks.

“Ok yes, it might look like you’re being turned into a vessel for me or something like that but-”

“Zekaj I don’t think you’re turning me into a vessel,” Hunter said.

“That’s good.”

“You like your muscles too much so of course you wouldn’t be turning me into a vessel.” Hunter smiled cheekily.

Zekaj frowned and his eyebrows furrowed. He quickly grabbed Hunter and pushed him into the wall.

“And I seem to think you like them just as much as I do.” Zekaj growled seductively.

Zekaj tucked his head into Hunter’s shoulder and began kissing deeply. Hunter stifled a moan, holding it back as much as he could.

“I want to hear it, Hunter.” Zekaj whispered, kissing all along his neck.

Zekaj finally found what he was looking for when he kissed a spot and Hunter’s whole body shuddered. Hunter held back the moan, not wanting the extremely-horny Zekaj to come out.

Zekaj sucked down on the sensitive spot. He wanted, no, needed to hear Hunter.

“I said I wanted to hear it, Hunter.” He whispered, slipping a hand under Hunter’s underwear, his hand resting along one of Hunter's ass cheeks.

When he didn’t get the reaction he wanted he started to squeeze.

“Fuck.” Hunter moaned out, not being able to hold it back. The pleasure from his neck and Zekaj's gripping his butt was too much.

Zekaj looked at his work, the hickey that had appeared on Hunter’s shoulder. It would satisfy him long enough that he wouldn’t want to bend Hunter over every chance he got.

Zekaj quickly pecked Hunter’s lips again and left to turn on the shower.

Hunter watched as he leaned down to turn it on. Hunter was still flustered from their little moment. He knew being mated to Zekaj was going to be an uncontrollable ride. Yet, that excited him.

Zekaj slowly turned around, giving his best puppy dog eyes.

“You know, showering together would waste less water.”

Hunter's eyes widened at the thought. Seeing the water dripping down both of their bodies invaded his mind and he quickly shook away the invasive thoughts.

“I’m sorry, I- I’m not ready for that.” Hunter whispered, looking down at his bare feet. “I feel barely ready for this kissing and stuff.”

Zekaj frowned, upset that he might have pushed Hunter to far.

“If I pressure you too much, please say something. I didn’t go too far did I?” Zekaj whispered, pulling Hunter into a hug.

“No, you didn’t Zekaj.” Hunter quietly laughed. “It was nice. I’m just.”

Hunter didn’t know how to explain how he felt. He wanted Zekaj in every way possible right now but was terrified to take the first steps. He was standing on a cliff and wanted to take the leap but was too scared.

“I get it.” Zekaj kissed his neck. “Slow.”

“Slow.” Hunter whispered.

Zekaj pulled back and stared into his love’s eyes but before he could steal himself a kiss, Hunter stole one himself. Hunter’s lips quickly met Zekaj before pulling away. Leaving behind a pouty Zekaj.

The worry was gone for just a moment, but he knew soon they’d have to make a game plan on what they were going to do about Hunter’s new marks. Hunter knew they’d have to decide what to do before they went to school.

Life for them just got harder.

In more ways than one.

Zekaj was getting excited again.

“Are you ever not Horny?” Hunter giggle-coughed, feeling the growing bulge against him.

“I told you to stop being so sexy.” Zekaj smirked.

Hunter rolled his eyes, shooing the demon out of the bathroom. Zekaj listened to his mate, not before sneaking a quick kiss from Hunter.

“Mine.” Zekaj whispered to him, before quickly leaving the bathroom.