Title: Obstacle
Fandom: Trinity Seven
Rating: NC-17 (NSFW)
Length: 1,970 Words
Content Notes: Smut. This is a fill for the Minister of Eros badge.
Author Notes: Set shortly after the events of the anime. Rather tongue-in-cheek, like the show.
Summary: Arata has a wish that Levi is prepared to fulfill.

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Kinks: Exhibitionism and teasing.

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Arata had ceased to be surprised by Levi materializing in his bedroom at all hours, never making a single sound, only smiling her small smile as she appeared before him as if she had always been there. She seemed to enjoy visiting him, and the fact that she also enjoyed bypassing all the wards that the others had placed upon his chambers made no difference to him. She made it look easy, made it look effortless. He respected that about her. He also respected the fact that she beat him to pieces at cards every time she offered to play against him, regardless of the house rules he set for them.

But she had not come to his bedroom on the night of his birthday – after the small party that the Trinity Seven had set up for him as a group during the day – to play cards. She had a smirk on her face that he had learned to recognize as a sign that she had a plan for mischief, and he asked, setting down his dirty magazine as she sat on one side of his bed, "All right, Levi, out with it: What've you got going in that head of yours tonight?"

"Well, I didn't give you a gift," she replied, shrugging as he raised himself up to sit next to her, "not because I don't have one. I just didn't want to give it to you in front of the others. I do know a thing or two about discretion, believe it or not." He was 100% aware of that. She was a ninja, after all. "So, tell me, Arata, do you remember what you told me about having only one obstacle left to overcome?" Again, the smirk. Teasing him. Of course, he had no chance of forgetting that particular promise he made to himself.

"I do," he said, returning her smirk in kind, "because I still haven't overcome it. You're still the only one of the Trinity Seven I haven't seen naked." He furrowed his brow. "Let's be fair, though. Most of the other six happened completely by accident. Or because I didn't know what I was doing. It's not like I've been deliberate about it."

Levi replied, studying him through the one green eye she left uncovered by her bangs, "C'mon, you know me well enough by now to know that I'm not offended by that. I think it's cute." She tilted her head. "Besides, I'll never get tired of seeing Lilith completely lose her composure every time you mess up a spell and blow her clothes off. I may only be laughing on the inside, but you can bet that I'm still laughing every time it happens."

"Did you notice that her boobs take a second to settle after that happens? It's like they forget that there's gravity." Arata snickered to himself, but Levi had a chuckle, too. "Well, maybe it's more like nine-tenths of a second. I've seen it happen often enough that I think I've almost got it down. I'll try and bring a stopwatch next time, okay?"

"Okay, I'll hold you to that," Levi said, "but that doesn't change what you said before. I'm still the only one." She shrugged again. "It's not my fault I'm good at dodging, I guess. You know, ninja and all that. I do it without even really thinking about it, most of the time." She teased him again. "Not that there haven't been near-misses. Or a swimsuit here and there. I think I've been pretty good about feeding your imagination."

"Yes, and I thank you for that from both the bottom of my heart and the inside of my pants," Arata said, sounding almost serious, "but you said you're here for a gift, so, like I asked before, what've you got in mind? Because now I really want to know."

"Well –" And there was a sound, almost a poof, and she was sitting on the other side of him ... in her underwear, since her outfit had not been teleported. "– here's a clue. But –" Another poof, and Arata found himself sitting next to her in his boxer shorts. "– ninja or not, this is one time I'm all about fair play." She looked down at the tent he had already pitched for her. "Good to see I haven't lost my touch. So to speak. You go, you." A good-natured chuckle. "Figured I'd show you mine if you show me yours."

"That's ... actually a lot farther than any of the others have gone," Arata reasoned, "because, I mean, there's a big difference between accidentally falling on somebody –" He started ticking things off on his fingers. "– or blowing their clothes off with a spell –" Another finger. "– or walking in on them in some dumb room or other –" Yet another finger. "– and purposely letting me look at you. That's not a glimpse, that's a stare. Hell, that's an ogle. Pretty high stakes, Levi." She nodded, her face neutral. "But that's the kind of game you came here to play, huh?" He grinned. "You're the best, you know."

"Oh, I know," said Levi as she leaned back, smiling as his eyes ran up and down the familiar lines of her lean, muscled body, "and I'll let you look as long you want. But you've got to give if you want to get. So. Out with it." The smirk returned. "Looks like he wants to come out, anyway. Just don't start going to town on him while I'm here."

"Noted. With regrets." And Arata quickly wiggled off his boxers, putting his fists on his hips like a seated superhero. "Here. I don't think you're the first to see this, just because a bunch of stupid stuff has happened that I don't always remember, but we'll just pretend and say you are, so you can try and act surprised if you really want to."

"Oh, my, it's a penis," Levi deadpanned. "What ever shall I do?" Then her face returned to normal, and she said, shrugging as if resigned, "Good for you, Arata. You held up your end of the deal, so –" Poof. "– here's your last obstacle." She stood up, turning to either side to let him feast his eyes. "Last one on your checklist. Do you get a trophy, or do you just get stuck with a raging hard-on? Because I'm pretty sure you've got that."

"I was right," Arata said, stroking his chin, "you really do have the best ass of all seven." She stuck her tongue out at him. "Not that I don't like the total package. I do. I really, really do. There's not a single thing on you I don't like." A note of sincerity – rare, but not unfamiliar – flashed through his eyes. "You're not like Lilith, though. I don't hang out with you just because you've got a great body. You're one of the ones who actually gets along with me and wants to hang out." He seemed thoughtful. "In fact, I'm pretty sure I hang out with you more than I do any of the others. Ever think about why that is?"

Levi sat next to him again, saying, "Like I told you in the beginning, you know what kind of mage I am. I have no expectations. Wherever I go, things just happen, and I adapt. This isn't any different." A long pause as he digested that. "So, Arata, there's a naked girl here on your bed with you who might actually like you, and you're just sitting there with a boner. Shouldn't you at least, oh, I don't know, wrap your arms around her so she doesn't get away?" Teasing, perhaps, but her words had a request behind them.

"Good idea," he admitted, holding her around her middle as she more or less snuggled up to him. The feel of her bare skin against his made his head buzz. "This is – I like this." She had her head on his shoulder, and he caught the scent of her hair. "So ... what happens now, Levi? I mean, I'm trying to be a gentleman here, but you're naked. Like, very naked. My hands are in safe places right now, but they really, really want to wander, and I don't want you doing anything you don't want to do." His voice softened. "Y'know? I joke about stuff like this all the time, but this is actually pretty important."

"I know it's important," she said, looking at him, resting one hand on his thigh, very close to a potential distraction. "And I do kind of like you, in my own way. I was one of the first friends you made here, remember? So you've had a little extra time to grow on me." And she moved her hand to his cock. "No pun intended." One good stroke, and he shivered. It was like she knew exactly how to touch him. "Ninja, before you ask." She let him go, adding, "I'm letting you see all of me because I'm letting you know that I'm open to more. I'd actually ... really like to be your first." A broad grin. "But not tonight."

"Not tonight?" His voice became uncharacteristically high-pitched, and she chuckled as he caught himself. "I mean, not to get ahead of myself, but a couple of more strokes like that, and I'll end up being your first mess. You damn tease!" He said it playfully. Levi had always enjoyed teasing him, after all. She had merely turned it up a notch.

"Here's why," she said, putting both hands on his face to keep his attention focused on her words. "When I go back to my room, you're going to be alone in here the rest of the night, and my naked body is going to be fresh in your mind. Right?" He nodded. "So keep it there. I want you to think of me. I don't think there's a way for you not to rub one out after that, so do it. And, while you're doing it, you just remember that the next time we meet up in private, if you ask really nicely, I'll do things to you that'll ruin you for anybody else in the Trinity Seven. Do you understand what I'm telling you, Arata?"

"Clear as crystal," he said, his face squished by her hands, "and hard as diamond. Good God." She let him go, and he looked rather flushed. "You'd ... better get going, then, if that's the case. I'm about ready to climb the walls here." And she rose to her feet, looking down at him with a face full of quiet, almost smug triumph. "And, yeah, if you wanted to burn that into my head, I'd say you've done a pretty fucking good job."

"That's the only kind of job a ninja can do," Levi replied, winking as she deftly gathered up her clothes and folded them over one arm, "so I'll see you in the morning, same as usual. And you'd better look like you haven't gotten a whole lot of sleep."

"Roger that," Arata said. She paused before him. Levi might have no expectations, per the magic that she used, but she did have a sense of formality. "And ... thank you. I mean it. Really. This is the best birthday present I think I'm ever going to get."

"It's the gift that keeps on giving," she mused, tapping her chin. "Good night, Arata." And poof, she disappeared, leaving Arata and his raging hard-on to their own devices.

"Well, it's going to start giving right now," he said to himself as he cracked his knuckles and started stroking furiously, the memory of Levi in his arms still fresh in his mind ....

END.