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It was an average day for the hunting dogs.
no mission, just your completely normal everyday tasks (totally)
Jouno was hunched over his desk, set on trying to seperate crayons by colour, only by smell, Tachihara and Teruko giving encouraging nudges and words. Despite the noise, Tecchou paid no mind to the growing noise on the other side of the room, instead he became intent on spinning as fast has he could on his chair, seeing how far he could push this fragile, yet sturdy machinery.
"Fuck this!" Jouno exclaimed angrily flipping the desk over, grabbing Tecchou's attention as a blue raspberry flavoured crayon flew just millimetres away from his face. The crayon flew at such speed, it was practically absorbed by the wall. "I'm leaving-this is bullshit." Jouno, one of the strongest hunting dogs, is beaten by a simple pack of crayons.
Clearly embarassed, jouno storms out of the room, all while tecchou is having an internal arguement on wether to call out to him or not.
Suddenly, a voice whisper-shouted his name. "Tecchou?"
Tecchou ceased his spinning and turned towards the speaker. "yes?"
Teruko cleared her throat. Tecchou swallowed nervously. had he done something wrong? was he being punished? the suspense was killing him "do you like jouno?" She asked as if she already knew the answer.
What. the hell. the confusion in his brain must have leaked onto his face, beacause Tachihara giggled into his fist then spoke, a little louder than the first person. "You heard the woman. do you like Tecchou? Come on, he's not even here! you can be honest with us!"
He couldn't speak. his mouth was open, like he was ready to answer, but his mind could'nt form the scramble of words in an ilegible order.
Teruko seemed to notice this, and the pair dropped their shit-eating grins. "Tecchou, are you okay?"
" I DON'T LIKE JOUNO!" he yelled, as he finally grasped gold of his thoughts and tore them to fit into his unmistakeable denial. Clutching his cape and draping it around his now scrunched up body. "I don't like jouno..?" He sounded as if he was trying to convince himself, rather than his coworkers who had gotten up from their seats and had bugan making their way towards him.
With Tachihara on his left, and Teruko on his right, the two patted his back and spoke soft comforts to him.
his personal favorite was "that asshole doesn't deserve your looks anyways."
which was swiftly followed by a "I mean it's not like he can see them anyways..."
"PFFT-my bad..."
When Tecchou had regained his composure, the insistent pair continued to press on with the question, but in a lighter manner.
Teruko slid her boots across the carpeted floor opposite of the others. "Let's rephrase that! How do you feel about jouno?"
"Well..." Tachihara's gloved hand still rested on his head, every few seconds shifting back and fourth. He leant into the touch. "I feel like he is someone that i can trust."
"Mhmm..." Teruko bit her tounge in thought. "Be more specific, what do you trust him with and why?"
Tecchou gave a whole-hearted laugh, a grin forming on his rosy face as he spoke. " For starters, i trust him with my life...and why? I don't know...i guess he's just always been there for me. not only during missions, but when i start to doubt myself he makes sure to reassure me. even if it is in his own way..."
proof of this glinted in his eyes.
Tachihara swore he could see the memories with him.
Teruko clasped her hands together, a warm smile spread across her face." Great start!"
This brought joy to tecchou. "and now ,for the difficult part!"
This worried the boy." and what's that?"
Tachihara seemed to read the pinkette's mind. "to put a label on your relationship..."
"Huh?" Really? the hardest part was declaring their relationship? Welp, this should be easy enough! oh how wrong he was...
"Well...i'd say we're somewhat friends"
"Yeah, but you do alot of things friends don't do!" Teruko pointed out.
"Really?"
"Yeah! like how in one meeting there weren't enough chairs because management can afford a salad bar but not enough chairs, so you practically sat him down on your lap!" (yes this is taken from another fic but i forgot which one srry!!! ):
"Oh...i didn't notice."
All but tecchou sighed, "Well, now that you have noticed, ask jouno about it! maybe he knows?"
"Okay..." Tecchou stood up slowly, and began to make his way to the door "I'll ask him about it!".