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Obanai liked sitting in the tree in Oyakata-Sama’s estate before their meetings. Kaburamaru could always find him and get to him without getting stepped on or lost. It was a reliable spot. The pale snake was sitting contentedly on Obanai’s Head at the moment. If he could he’d probably be purring. Both he and Kaburamaru perked up at Kyojuro and Kanroji’s voices as they entered the gate.
What he didn’t expect was for Kaburamaru to essentially jump from his head to the ground. He scrambled to catch the snake before he hurt himself.
"Excuse me sir that is not how this works!” He’d definitely been louder than he’d meant to be. He felt everyone’s eyes whip to him and he honestly didn’t care as he held onto the branch and his snake. He dropped himself down, landing nicely without injury because he had joints.
Kyojuro laughed loudly, “What did he do now?”
He saw Uzui mouth the word now out of the corner of his eye, but glared down at his small friend. He was hissed at indignantly. He could almost hear the word hypocrite. Coming out of the snake’s Non-verbal form.
“He tried to jump out of the tree.” He stated bluntly.
Uzui questioned him, “Don’t you do that all the time? What’s the problem if he does it?”
So he had to give in and elaborate, “The problem is that I’m fairly sure he’s a garden snake, which I’m already being nice letting him climb what he does since it’s dangerous, but he goes demon hunting with me so why not. But jumping from those places might kill him. I have joints, he does not.” He held Kaburamaru in a tight hold to make sure he couldn’t run away from the lecture Obanai was giving. Eventually the snake relaxed in his hand with a soft hiss. Good.
He held Kaburamaru up to Kanroji. Kaburamaru didn’t do anything other than lift his head and nuzzle against her two fingers for a second and curl back around Obanai’s neck. He sighed, now he was upset, great.
Kyojuro his a snort behind his hand. A few seconds later Oyakata-Sama arrived and they all moved to their spots for the meeting.