Cleaning and the spindly monster,
The young girl hushes his whimpers,
“Don’t cry out loud, Kashi.. You’ll…They shouldn’t hear you…Please be silent..”
He bites his palm to remain calm as he hears her gentle commands,
Inhale..
Exhale..
The pain will be gone soon..The pain didn’t go-
Rin….
Thank you, Kakashi….Aren’t you-
Don’t go..
Obito…Rin…
Leave now.
Rin
Obito
Run.
You’re not safe here.
They run.
Will I ever see you again?
After everything that I did happened?
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Kakashi groans and squints at the bright light directly pointed at his face. It was the alpha, he was holding a torch to his face. He bats away the torch and rolls on to his back to sit up,
“Nice to see you in the land of the living again!!!”The Alpha chirps,
“W- How long was I out?”
“All night and morning. It’s evening, so what do you want to eat for tea time? I have been craving chocolate lately-“
Kakashi yawns and notices the absence of his mask,
“Where’s my mask?”
“It’s full of vomit. Why’d you need a mask anyway? You’re beautiful. Anyway, about that chocolate -“
Kakashi will let this slide for now, he has spares anyway,
“Where are we right now”Kakashi asks looking around at the dust filled room,
“Ah, Welcome to my humble abode! It’s tiny but it works cause there’s just us and well, we don’t -“
“You mean to tell me you live here?”
“Now and then, why do you ask?”Gojo asks with a frown,
Kakashi chuckles, hollow and raw,
“This much dust- dammit..”
Kakashi was a certified neat freak. He cannot stand dust.
“I- do you have a broom?”
“I do ? I have a vacuum as well.”
“Good, then grab it for me,” Kakashi stands,
“What are you gonna do?” The Alpha asks still seated,
“Clean.”Kakashi leaves the room to inspect the rest of the house. As expected, the house was filthy.
How did this guy live here?
Takeout boxes and other cardboard boxes strewn on the table with a bunch of coffee mugs as well. Chips on the sofa with the packet on the floor. Cake on the sofa, fork on the floor. Dirty socks, dirty jackets, vomit (that was his fault), dirty pants, dirty dishes, knives, old bread, meat..the list went on and on..
Oh boy, this place needs some thorough cleaning,
He hands the broom back to Gojo,
“You’re helping me. “He says with a smile, curving his eyes up into crescents,
“but -“
“Clean the top shelves and the spider webs would you?”
Kakashi turns away to start working on the rubbish on the table,
“Now, aren’t you going a bit too far, Omega?”
Kakashi hums,
“What do you mean?”
“Ordering an Alpha, ordering me around. I’m not your servant-“
And that triggers the neat freak in him,
“I ain’t either. This is your living space. I can’t believe you actually lived here. All this muck lying about. Hell, there’s probably a rat or cockroach infestation in here. The cake has dust on it- dust. And the fork , someone could stab themselves-“
“Okay! Okay! Fine! Stop judging my house,”
Kakashi glowers at him,
“Geez. Were you the owner of that service house or something? You’re from a service house. Aren’t those Omegas more docile? “
Kakashi raises a brow at how rude the man opposite to him was, was he drunk on the day he had come to see Kakashi? Usually, such a huge contrast in character is only seen when- Kakashi pauses his mental debate when he notices that the man was expecting an answer,
“Well, you could say that I am a defective piece and there is the fact that I have never exactly behaved docile.I suppose after I - ” killed my first owner “ met Yugao, I sort of became more bold” Kakashi shrugs,
“No wonder the lady at the house warned me about you…And what’s with cleaning?”
“I clean when I’m anxious, it sort of developed into me becoming a neat freak.”
“Interesting, you developed it , then..”
Kakashi frowned- what was interesting about that? Weirdo.
"Quick question. Why were you uncomfortable that day if you're this bossy?"
"I'm jittery before such activities. bad memories," He pauses before clearing his throat and redirecting the conversation, “Anyway, go and clean the spider webs.”
“No.”Gojo grimaced.
Kakashi glowered at him and Gojo relented,
“Insolent creature..bossing me around …ike he…nife..”
Knife? Kakashi’s brain puts together that Gojo thought that he had a knife on him..But he didn’t have one..Perhaps Gojo thought he did and felt threatened?..
“I don’t have one, don’t worry.”Kakashi reassures absent-mindedly as he throws the takeout boxes into a cover,
Gojo’s cheeks flush. How odd, do Alphas blush that easily? Or perhaps Gojo was a special case? What’s there to blush about a knife? Weirdo.
“Have- Have what?”
“A knife. That’s what you said right? I don’t have one.” Kakashi says, walking away with the bag to dump it in a waste bin.
“So..that’s what…”Gojo goes on mumbling,
The waste bin was empty, not for long though, he mused silently. He places the cover next to it and returns back to the room when he hears a high pitched shriek,
Kakashi's eyes darted to Satoru to find the man pointing his index and middle finger at something on top of the cupboard. A red ball forms at the tip of his fingers and he shrieks yet again.
“Aka! Get away from me you spindly- Aka! Aka !” Three red balls shoot towards the cupboard in quick succession causing the cupboard blasts into pieces. Kakashi ducks out of instinct, covering his head with his hands. He peeks open his eyes to check the present situation after a few seconds.
He sees Gojo dusting himself off, shoulders now quite relaxed,
“What was that for? Was there a snake or something?”
“Snake? “ Gojo scoffs, “As if something like that would scare me.”
“What did scare you then?”
Gojo glances at him before answering,
“It was a monster. With long spindly legs, hairy spindly legs. It could kill -“
Karachi’s eyes latch onto something black - or perhaps dark brown - in colour,
“ well it can’t kill me - but it could kill common people like you-“
The thing turned out to be a,- Kakashi nearly snorted out loud- this man…
“So, I just saved your life. You can thank me now-“
“Say,Alpha..”Kakashi glances at him, “Does this creature have a colour?”
“Yes..?Why do you ask?”
“Does it perhaps have..more than four legs and many many eyes?”Kakashi asks, glancing down to check if the thing was still there..
“I.. Perhaps? Why -“
“Does it live on, I dunno , a web?”
The Alpha doesn’t answer,
“Does this have a name? The name starts with S..perhaps?”
Kakashi points at the broken cupboard,
“You broke the whole ass cupboard and yet that spider escaped. Shame-“
Gojo goes pale, staring at the spider, he mutters,
“I guess it cannot be helped..This..one is strong..”
If Kakashi didn’t have as much control on his poker face as he did, his eyebrows would have shot up to his hairline by now. He simply stares as Satoru goes on muttering and raises his two fingers again, the ball now purple with swirls around it. The ball screamed danger and Kakashi definitely want a roof above his head.
He swiftly grabs a piece of the wooden cupboard and smacks the Alpha on the back of his head,
“How- infinity- what?!” The Alpha clutches the back of his head, eyes wide , staring at him like he now had a second head,
Kakashi sighed, why couldn’t this man have gone down with a single hit,
Kakashi glances to the wall behind Gojo and points at it,
“Spider. “He says,
As expected, Gojo jumps and twists to face the wall, hands in front of him, wildly looking around for the named insect,
Kakashi swings the log again and this time, Gojo collapses like a rag doll, falling backward towards Kakashi. Kakashi catches the man to prevent him from falling into a pile of dust and drags him towards the sofa, where he dumps him next to dusty cake. Kakashi checks whether the man was bleeding and then proceeds to dump the cake in a bag he had found and places the fork and plate onto the table, continuing his cleaning.
He then moves to the broken cupboard and spots the spider. He coaxes it to walk onto a paper and places the paper outside the house, closing the door right after.
He piles up the broken pieces of wood and dumps them in a corner of the room.
He then grabs the abandoned broom and starts cleaning. Vacuuming and mopping the apartment took him a whole hour. After which he started to do the dishes, he cleans the dishes mechanically, letting his thoughts drift to his childhood days when…they…would fight over who does the dishes after eating food. He smiles wistfully, they may be long gone but..their memories will forever remain, they’ll live on..
He’ll live on..for them..
The dishes are washed and dried in forty minutes. He decides to take a ten minute break after that. During the break he starts chapter two,
The first chapter was a bit of who the protagonist is and her life and it ends with her falling of a cliff,
Well, she’s the protagonist, so she won’t die- Oh she did- she died. Wait, she isn’t the protagonist- no she is - she has to be… There’s a blonde dude, is he the male protagonist or the guy she’ll fall for. Judging by the hair colour he could be either..They’re arguing…is this a flashback..? What exactly- why is she doing - wait - wait - shit - what- is this even a romance? - what - lab? The blonde dude’s danger, stay away, stay away- of course she trusts that weird man- of course- a blind dumb main character- where is the romance? Of course you would choke, dumbo. Who asked you to drink stuff your weird roommate made- she was a sacrifice - that’s how you end the chapter ?!
Kakashi wanted to yeet the book out of the window but he refrains, he can push through. It was a gift from Yugao after all, it is meant to be cherished.
He places the book aside and starts vacuuming the cushions, manhandling the Alpha to the floor had been a tough ordeal but he managed. He pushes that Alpha onto the sofa again after he’s done and cleans the floor where the Alpha had previously been.
He then throws all the sheets and dirty laundry into the washing machine and puts it to work. The machine makes an odd beeping sound but it starts working when it receives two hard kicks. That had been something Yugao had shown him when they had been assigned to do the laundry. She had told him that any machine being weird would work normally when it receives a kick or two, just like most humans,
Once that was done, Kakashi decided to check on the Alpha who was yet to wake up. He wondered if he had caused any internal- Oh crap.
He had completely forgotten that bleeding could be internal. Dammit. He spots the Alpha’s phone on his pocket and opens it and then second he does it starts ringing,
Shoko. It said,
Kakashi throws the cell phone out of the window as a reflex, realising only a few minutes later that it wasn’t even his phone.
“Darn, I really liked that model.”The Alpha stretches, “That was the best sleep I have had in ages, “He groans,
Kakashi stares at him eyes wide.
“You really have a thing for knocking out Alphas don’t you? Oh, you’re done cleaning as well, the spindly monster’s gone then, that’s a relief. Anyway,” He digs into his back pocket and pulls out another phone,
“I’m in the mood for some chocolate cake, you?”
Kakashi snorts aloud at that,
“You are not normal at all.”
“Many people say that, I wonder why. But yes, more importantly , chocolate or strawberry?”
“Strawberry.”
“Both then.”The Alpha nods with a grin as he clicks away on his phone and calls a man named Ijichi demanding that the cake be delivered right away.