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Morro wasn’t sure what was more annoying, the loud sneezing or the constant sniffling. The specter was always known to have a bit of a shorter fuse than most. He was just so easily irritated by even the smallest of things. Especially things that broke his concentration. Things like his boyfriend’s obnoxious sniffling.
Morro gave a hard round kick to the training dummy, its head flying clean off and ramming into the other wall. He then snapped his head towards Kai with a glare.
“Dude!” the master of fire hissed out between sniffles. “What the fuck, those aren’t cheap.” His comment lacked any actual venom. Instead, filled too much with snot.
“You are the most frustrating creature in all the sixteen realms,” Morro hissed out at him.
“What the hell did I do?” Kai asked, confused. He gave another harsh sneeze and groaned.
Morro felt his eye twitch at the sound. The same disgusting sound that had been plaguing him for the last hour of training. He ran a hand down his face with a groan. “One day you’re going to be the reason I fall to corruption again.” He put up his raining bow and grabbed Kai’s wrist, near violently shoving him through the doors.
“Woah, where are we going?”
“I’m throwing your ass to bed and suffocating you with tissues,” Morro gritted out as they walked.
Kai gave another loud sneeze as they walked down the halls and Morro shoved the other into his room.
“Lay down-“
“I’m not a dog.”
Morro gave the other a glare that clearly didn’t leave room for argument. “I’ll be right back,” he mumbled before leaving through the wall.
Kai watched him go and sighed. He wasn’t really sure how he felt to have the ghost care for him while he was sick. They’d only just started dating less than a month ago and Morro himself had only been back in Ninjago’s realm for a little over a year. Things were better than they had been but sometimes it still felt odd.
Morro wasn’t as horrible a person as everyone thought initially. At least, he wasn’t when he stopped acting like a jackass for two minutes. And Kai wasn’t that stupid. He knew he could also be a jerk sometimes. Maybe that was why they got along so well. They were similar but just different enough that it didn’t always feel like looking in a mirror ready to rip him bare to the world.
And maybe Kai did kinda like him. After they’d beat the shit out of each other a couple times at least. To be fair, that was forever ago. And warranted. On both sides actually but Kai wouldn’t admit that out loud.
Either way, he still did as he was told. Well, mostly. He sat on his bed not really feeling the need to completely lay down. When Morro came back it was through the door, probably not wanting to bother with the annoyance of phasing physical objects through walls. He’d complained of the ordeal the other week, the thought still bringing Kai a chuckle.
Morro looked up at the sound. “The hell are you laughing about?”
“You.”
The comment only earned him a glare. Morro dropped a freshly opened box of tissues onto Kai’s lap and began ripping open a box of DayQuil.
“Where did you get this stuff?” Kai asked with another sniffle, not remembering it ever being bought.
“Despite the rest of you clowns being useless at anything that isn’t waving around your elements like circus animals, Zane and Nya do actually keep this place stocked with necessities.” He finally was able to pull the pills out of their cardboard prison before throwing down one next to Kai on the bed. “Now blow your damn nose before I lose my shit.”
“Why? Don’t think the sound of snot is sexy? Shouldn’t you be cooing over me and fluffing my pillows?”
“I will throw you into the ocean.”
Kai only let out a loud laugh at that. The sound making Morro visibly relax. The specter spun on his heel and let himself fall back onto the bed next to the ninja.
Kai took up the tissues and started to try and blow the sick from his nostrils as best he could before popping out the medication and throwing that back.
“You should take off training for a day or so and rest,” Morro said as he stared up at Kai’s ceiling from where he laid.
“It’s just the sniffles,” Kai replied before looking down at the other with a knowing smirk. “Why? You care about me or somethin’?”
“Yes,” was Morro’s only reply.
The bluntness of it caught Kai off guard. It really shouldn’t have. Morro was like this. One second it was all snapping hisses like an angry ally cat and the next it was blunt declarations of whatever was on his mind, affectionate or otherwise. Morro was weird, Kai decided. The ninja laid back on his arm as he stared at the other.
Morro must have felt the gaze after a moment, finally turning from the ceiling to look at him.
Kai moved to run a hand into Moro’s scattered hair. The first touch felt empty. Like touching mist or a cloud. When Morro realized what he was doing, he fully solidified his form, allowing Kai to feel the coarse strands of black that spread over his comforter like waves. It still felt off. Like not completely real. Like those dreams that feel too real to be dreams but too fake to be real.
Maybe that’s just what Morro was. A dream, a memory of a life. Kai tried not to think about it too often. After all, he was dating a dead guy. Not that his life wasn’t already really fucking weird. Kissing ghosts was just par for the course, it seemed.
Speaking of, Kai thought to himself before lowering his head to steal a kiss from the other.
Morro didn’t move away from it, but he did comment, “Gross. Don’t give me your germs.”
Only making Kai give out another laugh.