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As the night got darker, the two stayed close to each other on their journey to the green one's house. With caution, Koujaku decided to hold onto Noiz's hand tighter so that he couldn't let go until they reached the destination. At least he hoped the other wouldn't want to. While doing so, he looked at the strawberry blond and murmured: “So...um...about tonight...”
“What about it?” the teen replied easily, not even looking over to the older.
“Well...” he lightly rubbed the back of his neck with his free hand, “You never actually told me where you lived... Mind telling me now?” Green eyes finally slid over in his direction, slightly narrowed. There seemed to be a few things present in them but the easiest to read was annoyance.“Noiz...?”
“...no.”
“Eh?!” He looked almost as disappointed as his tone sounded offended.
“What?”
“Why not?” the raven hairdresser nearly whines as he begins to slow down a bit, gripping the nerd's hand tightly but not as tight as before. “I mean... I would like to take responsibility for what happened but first I want to make sure you get home safe and-”
“I don't really have a 'home' here.”
“Huh...?” Koujaku's eyebrows were knit in confusion and Noiz just sighed.
“I'm saying there's no place for me to go to. It doesn't matter where I end up really.” that just seemed to make the other frown harder. “While I was here in Midorijima, I was staying near Platinum Jail. After it collapsed, I decided to go back home to Germany...or some place far away. I've never had an actual place to stay here to begin with.”
“W-wait, you don't have to do that though! You can stay with me and-” the look he got from Noiz cut him off mid-sentence. It was a blank stare, as per usual as he clenched his gift with his free arm. It took him a second, as if he was regarding the other a bit differently.
“...really?” the tone he used was lighter than he was expecting, the blonde almost sounded curious.
“Umm...y-yeah! Being the age you are and the type of place we live in, I think it's better to have a guardian near you! ...Plus someone needs to watch your dumbass so you don't get into trouble.” With that response, Koujaku turned to look at the boy and noticed a harsh frown on his face, as if someone stepped on something precious of his.
“Guardian? Why the fuck do I need one? Especially if it's going to be you, fuck no...” Noiz retorted with a click of his tongue, facing the opposite direction. “I don't need to be 'watched over', I can damn well take care of myself.” And with that, Noiz vigorously snatched his hand away from Koujaku and began to walk off in the other direction. “See ya...”
“H-Hey! Wait! Noiz!” he yelled when all of a sudden he heard a rattling from the bushes. A large silver furred being jumped out suddenly, running towards Noiz. “Noiz! Look out!”
“What?” turning around just in time to see the animal pouncing at him, but even so he wasn't quick enough. The creature began barking and snarling at him, glaring at the boy with its glossy red eyes, almost like glass. Trying to fend off the being, Noiz ended up getting scratched a bit as he pushed back, gaining enough leverage to kick it off of him. The animal skidded across the ground, recovering and soon growled, ready to charge again teeth bared ready to bite. Thinking quickly, Koujaku pulled his sword from its sheath and ran as fast as he could, slashing the animal's body apart. Sadly not in time to prevent the animal's maw from digging into Noiz's right arm. He flung the dead beast off his arm and threw it on the other side of the sidewalk. After things calmed down a bit, Koujaku turned to and rushed to the other.
“Are you okay?!” He looked absolutely worried, placing a hand on the other's shoulder and stopping himself from actually shaking the teen while wondering what was taking the other so long to respond. “We have to treat your wounds and-”
“You don't need to...”
“Huh?! But-”
“It'll heal on its own. Don't worry about it.” with that response, Noiz immediately gained a hug from Koujaku. As their body pressed closer, he could somehow feel a bit of trembling in Koujaku's embraces. He chose to ignore it, he didn't understand it because he couldn't feel any pain from anything that had happened just now. “Why are you shaking? I told you it would heal on its own...”
“I...it's not the fact that it'll heal on its own...it's the fact that I almost lost you...” the hairdresser clenched the blondie even closer than before, so much that he could feel his heart pounding hard through the both of them. “I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't care for you...I'm sorry if I made you angry...” Noiz found himself blushing. Not really at the confession but moreso at how tightly the other was hugging him.
“F-fine...but can you let go of me? You're going to break my ribcage.” He gave a little show of struggling, trying to squirm away from the dork holding onto him. “Also, I need to find the plush...” Koujaku stepped back, suddenly realizing and looking a bit worried about something other than the teen for once.
“H-hey, that's right! Where is it?!”
“Well...before I got pounced on, I flung it towards the bushes.” following the directions, he looked around and spotted a flue fuzzy ear popping out of the shrubbery. “There it is.” Reaching out for it he noticed on the side, one of its arms had gotten ripped a bit, a smidge of stuffing making its way out. “Shit... Looks like he got a bit damaged.”
“Hmm...” he turned it back and forth in his hands, “Well we can just sew it.”
“Heh, yeah...” He looked back towards the wreckage. “But what the hell was with that dog thing anyways?” Koujaku asked after clicking his tongue.
“It's obvious that allmate was malfunctional...” the blonde shrugged as if it was the most obvious thing.
“Huh?”
“Yeah.” says the blonde as he walks to the dead carcass and began to rummage through it as it makes metal and scraping noises. “It wasn't real, it was a wolf allmate. A semi-new model it seems but it looks like its been nonfunctional for a while... Guess something woke it up or some shit and it went berserk...” He shrugged it off, looking to his arm again, eyes widening a bit. The bleeding had gotten worse.
“I guess I have no choice then...” Noiz watched as Koujaku slid off one of his gauntlets and began undoing the wrap he had going from his forearm to his wrist. He then rolled up the other's long sleeve and applied it to the still bleeding bite marks with enough pressure that it should begin to stop or at the very least lessen. Of course, Noiz frowned and the hair dresser chuckled, pulling the boy closer to him but was careful to mind his injured arm. “Looks like I'm going to have to care for these precious bunnies.” Noiz lowered his eyes and looked away blushing a bit and gripping the bunny against his chest tighter.
“You're such a fucking pain...but whatever, I don't care anymore.” the blonde still refused to meet the other's gaze, huffing at the other's antics. Koujaku just ended up smiling at his grumpy green rabbit and planted a kiss on his cheek, making him huff even more and he pulled his hat over his face for good measure. It's bad enough he actually let himself get flustered, letting the other enjoy it is something else entirely.
The hairdresser blinked, tilting his head slightly but then a grin was soon finding it's way onto his face. “Oh...?” He attempted to lean closer while tucking one of his arms into the opening of his kimono. Of course, Noiz continued to turn away. “Oh-ho-ho. Is someone actually embarrassed?” the blonde heavily groaned, done enough with this shit and began walking. “Noiz.” Koujaku called at first singsong. When he got no answer he called him normally. Still no answer. Maybe he pushed it a bit too far? He started to trot to catch up to the teen. “Noiz, where exactly are you going now?”
“Aren't we supposed to be going home? You know? Like you said?” he waved his hand around while talking, hearing the other catch up to him anyway.
“Oh, so we're going back to my place?”
“No.” he finally stopped and Koujaku nearly ran right into him. Turning on his heel, he pointed a finger to the intricate neck piece and then slowly higher until he reached his chin. “I believe it's 'our' place now.” Having flipped Koujaku from teasing to tomato red in seconds left him satisfied enough and he turned to keep walking again. Koujaku dazedly starred before finally registering the sentence and smiling. Our place...I could get used to that.