Characters: Libra Dohko, Peacock Shiva
Ships: Dohko/Shiva
Theme: Fluff/Humour
Prompt: None
Notes: A gift for a friend. Genderfluid Shiva.
Low grey clouds hung over the cliffs which housed the Twelve Zodiac Temples. Sitting inside the Virgo House, Shiva watched as rain fell down in sheets outside the columns of the temple. She hated the rain, it always damped her mood as much as it did the air around her. Wrapping her arms around herself for comfort, Shiva turned her back to the rain pouring outside the temple. She tried her best to rid her mind of the depressing thoughts of her lost family that always accompanied the rain.
A small beep echoed through the halls of the temple, followed by a faint vibrating noise. Hearing the sound, Shiva walked over to where she had discarded her phone earlier that day. She smiled to see the name on the screen, and flipped it open to read the text message she'd received.
Fluffy Tiger: Did you hear the rumour going around about butter?
Shiva's brows pressed together, before she clicked away on the keypad.
Princess: No…?
Fluffy Tiger: Never mind, I shouldn't spread it.
Shiva rolled her eyes at the words flashing on her phone. The man had the worst sense of humour. Thoughts of the rain all but pushed aside, Shiva's red painted fingernails typed a quick reply.
Princess: …-_-
Fluffy Tiger: I have the heart of tiger and a lifelong ban from the zoo.
Princess: Dohko ur jokes r awful.
Fluffy Tiger: A wise Chinese man once said that a bad sense of humour is better than none at all.
Princess: Was that man u?
Fluffy Tiger: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
There were times when Shiva regretted insisting that Dohko get a cellphone. The old warrior had taken to the modern technology with a zeal that was almost frightening, sending a good hundred texts on just the first day he had it, and it had only gotten worse from there. On a daily basis she would receive corny jokes, abundant text emoticons and even memes from Dohko. The messages were always written with precise and proper grammar, the only thing that set him aside from your average teenager with a cell phone.
Shiva's phone buzzed again.
Fluffy Tiger: What's green and cold and wet all over?
Princess: Is this another 1 of ur terrible jokes?
Fluffy Tiger: What's green and cold and wet all over? ^o^
Shiva sighed and decided to humour him.
Princess: …a frog?
Fluffy Tiger: No.
Fluffy Tiger: My Princess when she shows up at the Libra Temple because I know she hates being alone when it rains.
Despite herself, Shiva found herself smiling. Corny jokes and trolling aside, Dohko was one of the kindest men she'd ever met; he'd had to have been for her to fall for him the way she had. As annoying as he could be sometimes, at times like these Shiva loved that she had insisted Dohko get a cellphone. Setting the phone aside Shiva wrapped a shawl around her shoulders in preparation of heading out in the rain.