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Bad habits. Everyone has them. Some demons like to deny having bad habits and instead insisted they were perfect, but they were lying. Anyways, everyone has bad habits, and Shuriken is no exception.
He has several bad habits, a lot of which he wasn’t proud of. But one of his most notably bad ones was scratching himself. He has a bad habit of whenever he’s bored, zoned out, or stressed, he’ll just start repeatedly scratching himself in one spot on his arm, only noticing he was doing so once the sharp sting of blood appeared.
He disliked when this happened but never made any real efforts to stop because he didn’t think it was that bad. Like, the worst that happened was the wounds scarring and then he had to make up excuses as to why he had scars to Vine and Sling. “Oh, I got hurt in a phight.” “Oh, Hyperlaser’s cat scratched me.” Were both excuses he used quite often.
Unfortunately, others didn’t seem to agree with him thinking that the scratching was mostly harmless. On several occasions he had caught Medkit staring at the scars on his arm. Arm, singular, because for some reason his body refused to ruin his left arm which had the tattoo he made to match with his sister’s cursed arm.
Anyways, Shuriken had just been chilling by himself on the couch, his head in the clouds, and he was actively doing his aforementioned bad habit until he felt someone grab his left hand and pull it away. “Huh?” He said, confused as he looked up and found his sister looking down at him with a worried expression.
“Shuri, are you okay?” She asked, still holding his hand. “Yeah, why?” He answered, following up with a question of his own. Her eyes flickered over to the spot he had been scratching without realising and so he followed her gaze and saw the wound. “Oh.” He said. “I didn’t realise.” He truthfully answered.
Vine Staff let out a worried noise from the back of her throat and she leaned towards him, pulling him up into an uncomfortable hug on his part. He was confused, to be honest. But he hugged her back nonetheless. He wasn’t about to say no to a hug from his sister, after all!
“If you ever want to talk to someone, Sling and I are here for you.” She told him, which just led to him being even more confused. Why would he need to talk to anyone? “Uh, thanks. I will.” He decided to say, accepting the offer though not quite understanding what it was for.
And the two siblings stayed like that for a while, hugging each other, until Shuriken commented on how his wound stung and so Vine Staff immediately went to patch it up. And even though Shuriken had no clue what his sister meant earlier, he was thankful for her and her efforts.