Yours Only

"Hey! Wait for me, Lief!"

Lief stopped flying to take a look at his 1-month girlfriend. How a fae like her fell in love with someone like him, he doesn't know.

"What? Can't keep up with me princess?" Lief snarked.

Akko fluttered over and hit him in the head, pouting. "If I say wait, wait idiot!"

The dryad just grinned back. He could never take his sunshine's pouting face seriously. He looked around at the forest he knew his entire life. Thick, dark oak trees pillaring up to the sky, mushrooms that glowed the brightest colors in the dark, the way every animal danced around the foliage so gracefully, he never wanted to know the world beyond.

Until her.

"Okay, okay! I'll slow down for you." Lief promised. He put his hands up in a, "slow down" gesture. Akko seemed pleased with that as let her slender feet touch the earth below. Her crystalline wings drooped down to relax, but her face betrayed her body, showing an emotion of worry. Sensing his girlfriend's distress, Lief held out his hand for her to take, which she did. He brought her close, enveloped her in a hug. The dryad rubbed the fae's back reassuringly, whispering sweet nothings in her pointed hers. This continued for a while until Akko pressed a finger to his lips. Ruby eyes stared into his emerald ones.

"Lief?" she said in a quiet tone, removing her finger to allow the dryad to speak.

"Yes?"

"Can we...make a promise?"

"What kind?"

"Just, to stay together forever, please. I just want to know again that you'll be here no matter what."

Lief chuckled. "Alright. I, Lief Perennial Yang, will still stay with my beloved sunshine Akko Nisse until I die."

The fae smiled. Lief didn't need any of her words to know she felt the same.

A kiss sealed their promise that faithful night.

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-Twenty years later-

The fae was minding her own business watching her favorite show on tv when two strong arms wrapped around her neck softly. She smiled, for she knew who this creature was.

"Hi, Sunshine." Lief purred in a tired stupor.

"Hello, my charming Meliae." Akko greeted back. The dryad pressed a kiss to her forehead. "What's with the sudden attention bomb? You rarely give those out unless you turned into Sappy Lief." she inquired. He swung over the couch to hug his girlfriend, nuzzling his head into her neck.

"Just reminiscing about our promise. And how short-tempered you were," he replied. Akko snorted. "I was not that short-tempered."

"Was too."

"Was not.

"Was too."

"Was not."

"Was too."

The fae, sensing that this conversation would have no end, decided to change the subject. "So what was that about our promise?"

"Just thinking about how amazing I am that I've kept it for 20 years."

"Well, you nearly broke that promise 5 years ago."

"Hey! In my defense, I was drunk!"

Akko giggled slightly. She wrapped her limbs around his body and laid sideways on the couch, taking Lief down with her. The dryad gave a small chuckle in response to this and started peppering his girlfriend with butterfly kisses, smiling every time she tried to protest against them. The world left them for a moment of peace until his, "evil" wife brought him back by saying, "You need to go to work soon."

"Nnn, don't wanna," he said, squeezing her left thigh. "Wanna stay here."

"My love, you have to. We need to make a living. As much as I would love to stay here and snuggle with you, I have to get to work as well."

"Nooo, stay here. We can just call in sick."

"I don't think we will."

"You're mean."

"Am I?"

"Yes."

"Well then, maybe you should divorce me and find somebody who will let you call in sick as you please."

The dryad shook his head. "But then who would bring me back to reality by hitting me on the head and calling me an idiot?"

Akko rolled her eyes, but she couldn't help but fondly remember all the times they were like this.

From when they first met.

From when they became official.

From when they stopped being boyfriend and girlfriend and became husband and wife.

Even when they almost fell apart due to a jealous witch.

No matter what, fate seemingly decided to keep them together whether they wanted to be or not.

Even when they wanted to break up, to agree to never see each other again, some external force decided to keep them together for their happily ever after.

Before this, Akko never knew love, her parents never really showed it, and all of her previous boyfriends just wanted status, something they could adhere to their family lines to.

That was until she met Lief.

Until she felt what love was.

 A happy, extreme feeling that could send her to the heavens. It could also bring her down to never believe again, but what was life without risk?

"You're dazing again, Sunshine."

Akko's eyes widened as she came back to reality. Somehow, during her sentimental moment, her husband managed to get out of her grasp and laid on top of her on the couch, his firm chest from working out at the gym pressing into her much softer one. Red seeped into her face, and her throat decided no sound would come from her vocal cords as she let out a bunch of stuttering realizing what position they were in. Lief gave a big grin in response to her failing protests, giving another kiss to her cheek.

“There’s the lovely girl I fell in love with,” he chided.

Akko tried to squirm out of her position, failing miserably. She sighed in defeat and wrapped her arms around his body. “I give. We can call in sick.”

Lief grinned at that, lifting his body from the couch to get his phone to call their workplaces about their, “illness.” Akko got up from the couch to go and hug him from behind the minute he finished both phone calls.

“You gonna see if you can keep our promise without throwing a bomb in it?”

The dryad smiled. “Of course. After all, I’m only yours.”