ic; you can move me if you want to

[jinxings]

( let's say it's regular canon so before eiri shootings... please.. )

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[jinxings]

[ This is a lot better, lying in bed again. So much that he even shifts comfortably until he's fully crawled back under the covers.

(It's why covers are so good and nice - if you want to hide something, it's so much easier to do it from the position of being half-buried under them.)

Besides, he really does not mind sleeping a little more. Haku has a more keen sense of responsibility than most people would guess, so it's not like he's really going to sleep here all day and miss everything, but just a little bit won't hurt anyone.

Anyone other than Eiri's need for everything to go his way though, apparently. How often has he already tried this? No matter what, he never gives up - mission after mission, and every single time inbetween Eiri whines at him every morning to get out of bed. Or to clean his messes. Or to eat better. Or whatever is on his mind.

Day after day. If there's ever been a stubborn person in this world, his name truly must be Eiri Kaidou. The one person who hasn't given up on him no matter what, no matter how hard he tries to accomplish just exactly that.

Eiri's words hardly matter, he hardly listens (he knows it's just some more whining asking him to get up already, anyway) and instead he just waits until Eiri's right next to his bed, reaching out towards it.

Never say Haku's reflexes aren't good. Not that Eiri's suck, quite the opposite, but he knows the other guy's a little more off guard outside of missions. Just enough for him to be able to do this.

Because the moment Eiri reaches out, a hand shoots out from the blanket pile, latching onto Eiri's wrist and pulling him forward, onto the bed. ]

Calm down, Eiri. Getting so worked up over small things is going to make your blood pressure soar.

[ Why he's doing this? To annoy Eiri further? Because a part of him might actually feel bad that his yelling was enough to actually make Eiri (of all people) get a little more quiet? Because the more he shoves the other away, the more he actually doesn't want to let go of him?

.. Who knows, huh. ]

Let's just lie here for a little bit more, nice and cozy.. [ Don't mind him tucking the other in under the blankets as he mumbles that, okay, this is totally normal. ]

[fauxtality]

[WHAT......

At first, Eiri doesn't even know how to react. Because this is such an absurd situation in which to find oneself, so it takes a second for his mind to catch up.

But when it does...

He's made a terrible mistake. THIS IS WAY TOO HOMO, DUDE.]

Haku-!

[He fights against Haku's hold and twists and turns, his arms flailing as they struggle against the blanket wrapping him in an early grave. Even if he knows, logically, this won't kill him - he has a bad habit of living, you see - but it's too much and it's too close and why did he draw the shortest straw when it comes to Messiahs?!

And yet, somehow, Haku is successful in his tucking in and Eiri has no choice but to accept his fate as a grumpy burrito.

Okay, not completely, because he does kick his feet a few more times and stick out his lower lip in a pout. This isn't fair!]

Hakuuu...

I don't want to lie here, I'm already awake! I just want to get breakfast.

[jinxings]

[ At least he was prepared for the fact that Eiri can't lie still whatsoever. There's been a few times where they went to bed and Haku didn't pass out right away - nights where he felt too homesick for a past that felt too far away, where he couldn't help but think about just how many different faces he had seen in this room already. And whenever he looked over to the other bed from where he was lying.. well, it always looked like a mess. Even if Eiri wasn't kicking for a moment or rolling over or doing whatever, the blanket was half thrown off the bed already in Eiri's nighttime struggles. Haku really can't understand how that guy ever feels rested after sleeping, honestly..

But it means he knew it was going to happen now, and it's why he just accepts it, managing to tuck in Eiri even with the struggle going on here. And he can notice Eiri is accepting it - not all the way, but just a little bit - with the way he goes a little more still under the blankets. Perfect. ]

We can grab it later. Or grab it from here, take your pick.

[ His bed is absolutely covered in juice boxes and candy, after all.. there's probably something left somewhere. As if Haku is going to sleep in a bed where he can't reach to put something sweet into his mouth first thing in the morning, gosh.

But for now he doesn't seem to bother with the candy himself despite telling Eiri to go ahead if he feels like it. No, instead Haku rolls over until he's lying flat on his stomach and scooted much closer to the other guy. Hell, a little bit further and he'd be lying on top of the other. But for now he seems content enough with just stretching out his arm so it's lying across the other guy's chest.

It's a lot less hard to get upset by the homo if you're as shameless as Haku, honestly.

Besides, it'd be a lot of fun to see Eiri flail over it, gaining back a little bit of his usual loud and flaily self rather than looking like a scared animal for a moment like he had just now, and--

Haku scoots over even a little more, burying his face practically in the crook of Eiri's neck.

-- and it's nice, and warm, and despite how he wishes it wasn't so, Eiri smells like familiarity. It's hardly different from needing a plushie or a security blanket in bed with you to be able to properly calm down rather than just on the outside superficially - in that sense, Haku's maybe never really properly grown up. Even now he needs something to cling to like that, even if he doesn't mention a word of it out loud. ]

Besides, it's comfortable. [ He continues, almost mumbled-- ] Naisu da..

[fauxtality]

[There's a part of Eiri that contemplates letting Haku get his way because, even if he won't admit it out loud, having to constantly butt heads and act as Haku's moral compass - which is a strange thing, considering where Eiri's come from - is exhausting. Even for Eiri, whose energy seems to be never-ending. And though the bed is pretty small for two people, it's oddly comfortable at the same time.

Probably because Eiri doesn't get nearly enough sleep. He's learned since becoming Haku's partner to wait for those damned alarms to go off at any minute (even if they sound at the same time every day) and so the anxiety builds up and his ability to actually relax has become very slight.

He is kind of sleepy. And it's not like they have to actually be anywhere today, so...just a quick nap...

...Or Haku could make things worse and start cuddling.

Cuddling.]

No!

[That's unacceptable. Eiri resumes his attempts to break free of the blanket burrito, his arms scrambling to find the opening before he finally untucks himself and throws the blanket off of him so he can sit up.]

No, no, no! I'm not going to do it! I'm not going to become you, eating leftover candy that's been living here for...for...God knows how long!

[He needs to escape. He can't let that one moment of weakness get any worse.

So Eiri ends up falling off the bed - this is becoming a habit, this morning - and finds a box of candy that is someone only half-eaten. Which is disgusting, but can serve a purpose. He picks it up and turns back to the bed, pointing to Haku with the box.]

This isn't food. This is candy. If you keep eating nothing but this and drinking those juice boxes, you're going to rot out your teeth and clog up your arteries and die.

[Okay, so maybe that's a little drastic, but the point is, Haku's eating habits are just downright atrocious and if Eiri is going to be stuck with him, he might as well try and do a good deed.

Or something.]

[jinxings]

[ One moment he's lying there, and it's warm and soft and perfect. You know that moment when you move slightly in bed and just end up in the perfect spot and all the planets are aligned? That's where Haku is at right about now, he could lie here for the rest of the day given the chance--

Except instead of his bladder giving him a rude awakening as usually happens in that situation, it's instead Eiri slipping away, leaving him lying there a lot less soft and more cold. And just generally less comfortable. Rude, Eiri.

Then again, it's not like he really could have explained - either to himself or to Eiri - just why it was so comfortable for him to lie there like that with Eiri, so he doesn't mention anything. Instead he just keeps lying there, rolling over onto his side so he can look at the way Eiri is sitting there with the box.

.. and starts scolding him. On top of everything. It's a good thing that Haku can react so calmly to anything ever (or most things, anyway), really. ]

Is that really the biggest thing I should worry about?

[ Seriously. If there's anyone who knows just how bad the mortality rate is for members of Sakura, then it's Haku Mitsuni. He's seen how many people die, because he's seen them die over and over and over again. If he might as well die during a mission tomorrow, should he really then have to worry about the state of his teeth or body in the future?

It's not that he actively wants to die, not at all, but.. well, when you're sort of broken to begin with and you keep losing the people important to you every single time? You just start to get a little less worried about self-preservation than most people, that's all.

He even manages to say it in a casual way with a fitting expression as he looks at the other. ]

We spend all day dodging bullets, I think those are a little more dangerous than a few pieces of candy.

[ And demonstratively he's taking a piece out of the half-consumed box that Eiri's holding out to him, plopping it straight into his own mouth. ]