I get under your skin, babe, just because.
The weather never changed much wherever you lived. First it was Damascus, then Jericho, then DWMA, now Arizona.
Asura hadn't given many restrictions on where to settle down, only, "Hot and dry." But you knew he wouldn't want to stay too close to DWMA. He was still pretty pissed that he had to give up the souls he'd taken through the years, which caused a number of arguments between the two of you over the past few months.
You got together with your DWMA friends pretty frequently, but for the most part it was just you and Asura trying to force things back to the way they were before to no abide. It helped that you received a stipend for your 'work'; it was the only reason you were able to stay at this hotel for so long. It didn't really feel like work since you just got to have sleep overs with your best friend. Kid thought you were crazy for referring to your living situation as such. To your credit you had not been around when Asura went awol the first or second time so you had zero frame of reference. Some people were completely amazed by your ability to keep him relatively calm, especially since you had yet to meet up with Kid to have his stolen souls taken away. To you he was incredibly erratic, he'd only ever been gentle and calm around you so now to see him rebelling against your calming aura, well, it left weird taste in your mouth.
"Want pizza?"
Asura lifted his invisible brow, he'd never heard of such a thing.
"It's awesome, dough baked on brick with tomato sauce and cheese. Mm." You were drooling just thinking about it. "I'm calling. You'll like it. If you don't I'll disown you."
He smiled but didn't laugh. He was only a little scared that you might be serious. "The new Shinigami wouldn't be very pleased if you abandoned me."
You knew he was joking but the nugget of fear made you a little sad. You were still getting used to this, you really loved Asura but sometimes you needed to go to DWMA without him just to be around other people with real emotions, like Maka and Marie.
But he didn't need know about that.
After ordering you started throwing everything scattered about the hotel room back into your suitcase.
"Anyway," you watched Asura eyeballing the furnishings like they might bite him as he examined every inch of the place. "Maybe I should do all the talking tomorrow. I'm not sure how happy they'll be about renting their house to a Kishin."
He didn't turn his attention away from the AC panel on the wall. "Doesn't the ACLU protect against that sort of bigotry?"
You were proud that he'd actually been looking some of these modern agencies up on the laptop you'd given him. You flicked his ear with a proud, teasing grin as you passed to sit on the corner of your hotel bed. "I don't think 'Kishin' is recognized as a marginalized group."
That iconically broad grin showed his teeth in total agreement.
"But really, here's a hat to cover that," you threw a black beanie at him, it stuck to the back of his shoulder. That third eye still gave you the heebie-jeebies. You flopped back onto the bed and looked at him framed between your feet. "We shouldn't scare away the new landlords on our first day."
He made his way around the other side of the room and continued his grumbling about modern living. "I don't understand why we don't just build a new place..."
"That's not the way things work anymore. We'd need building permits then purchase land from the government before we could develop the property." You sighed, wishing thing were simple again. "Things got pretty complex while we were locked away."
He thumbed back toward the AC panel. "Air conditioning is nice."
You gave an exaggerated orgasmic face and moaned, "Oh yes!"
His body went rigid before deciding to ignore your tantalizing position on the bed in favor of other modern advances. "So are refrigerators." His eyes found the black mini fridge and you narrowed your eyes, the very corners of your lips tugged teasingly.
"Blame humans, they're smart little buggers."
He looked at you, unimpressed, as he crushed the digital screen on the AC panel with his pointer finger as if that proved humans really were the insignificant insects he viewed them as. Your amusement contorted to frustration. Damn it, you'd have to pay for that.
He didn't like when you turned things around to compliment humans. They had created so many important technological advances that he was sometimes forced to be impressed by their ingenuity.
It had been three months since he escaped the moon, and one month since Crona came back to earth badly hurt. You'd done your best to keep them apart when you went to Death City. The last thing you needed was two wild crazy people fighting each other. It was important to get his excess souls removed before they could be anywhere near one another.
It would take a long time to rebuild what had been broken. But time was something the both of you certainly had. No shortage, in fact.
He was trying. Hard. You could see it in his drooped face when you'd slide away from him at night and sleep on the couch or whatever else was available at the time. It hurt that you were so frightened of him, but he understood. He was far more shocked when you'd test his limits the way you did with no regard for your own fear. He could feel it prickling through your soul's link but he didn't call too much attention to it. He just wanted to go along with whatever you planned with his younger brother so you'd learn to find comfort and protection with him again.
You hadn't expected to be the difficult one. You'd always done your best to be calm and easy to deal with, even bending to others whims a bit too far at times. But around Asura you were flinchy and nervous. He told you it was likely because of the broken contract, you weren't physically bound to him anymore. But you didn't believe that, you felt that this was something you could overcome with time and patience. You put a lot of stock in Kid's ability to fix him.
Tomorrow you were going to sign your new lease. You'd kind of sprung it on Asura, which was one of the reasons he came up with those rules. You'd been adding new ones here and there, but mostly they were funny. Like, No intruding on showers!(!) written with about twelve exclamation points in Asura's erratic writing in black permanent marker. So far they were all written on a white board. Sometimes you'd wipe a few away so you could surprise him with something without recourse. It wasn't fair at all, but not all was fair in love and war.
It was honestly impressive how good he was at walking away when you were trying to make him want you. He obviously did, but he wasn't acting on it. It was driving you crazy! Hopefully the next week when Asura was finally dragged to the Death Room to meet with Kid this would all be solved and you could jump his bones again. But, from what Maka had explained, this would be incredibly painful for your lover both physically and mentally. He'd come to rely on the life force of those souls so it would be difficult to let go. You'd have to be there the whole time to prevent any mishaps.
For now you chewed your slice of pizza and watched Asura glare at you over the dripping, soggy cheese, thinking you were tricking him into eating something disgusting. Then, after a few investigative sniffs and a small nibble his pupils dilated and you knew he was hooked.
"If you eat too much you'll get fat." You sniffed dramatically when he swiped the last slice before you could scarf it down.
A bare brow raised high before laughing, holding out one boney hand with an apprising expression. "You're right, I'm utterly gelatinous."
A/N: Thank you for the favorites and follows! You have no idea how much I appreciate they're what give me the confidence to post new material. This has a very light plot (though there will be one, I promise) just a few domesticated Kishin, slice of life sorts of things to get things started. I'm posting this a little early this week because I'm going away for a little while. Please drop a review if you have the time, I would love to hear what you guys have to say!
