Fried Chicken| Xiao x Male Reader

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Lowering his head and pouring the liquid, (Y/N) was met with a sharp sting. That fluid definitely was doing its job. Disinfecting. It just kept burning. Like sharp lava needles. When was it going to end!??! Tears were threatening to fall. 

Just moments later the pain just stopped. It left as fast as it came.

 (Y/N) let out a breath that he didn't know he was holding in. Now it was time for the truly scary part. Unwrapping the gauze, he stared at it blankly. How the hell is he supposed to put that on his head without looking like a total dumbass. An idea popped into his head. What if he uses his reflection to better help himself. Scanning his surroundings he saw no ponds. (Y/N) sighed, he's going to have to look around for a pond. The sun was starting to set which meant that he needed to find a pond asap. 

Picking up all of his stuff, (Y/N) huffed in annoyance. He might as well just not bandage his head, but he'll need to be careful. He also decided that he wouldn't return the bandages because he might need them in the future. Pocketing the bandages, he set off on another adventure. Adventure? 

Eh, he wouldn't really call it an adventure more like a 'i've got nothing to do and will make it everyone's problem'. Hmm, what should he do next? Oh! He should find the fruity traveler kid and ask if he needs help with murdering anything. The only problem is that he doesn't know where Aether is. Looking back at the harbor he remembers that he has to witness the rite of dissension. 

It totally slipped his mind. He quickly raised to the city, He tried to find somebody who was awake and walking the streets. Luckily he found a stall owner who was packing up his products getting ready to leave for the night. "Hey! Excuse me sir, do you know when the dissension is happening?", (Y/N) shouted. The man turned around and looked at (Y/N) funny. "Well son, it's tomorrow afternoon.", stated the man. He smiled at (Y/N) and they parted ways. Shoot, it's tomorrow. 

He dashed away. He didn't know where he was running. You could say that he was running with no purpose. (Y/N) didn't know what to do. He has like 20 hours to spare. So what should he do? There were literally only 2 options. Option 1, Sleep and option 2, kill nearby monsters. Wait! There's a third option, fix his polearm. He fished out the blacksmith's map from his pocket. It was still intact, good. 

He stared at the map trying to decipher the chicken scratch on it. Only to find out that it was color coded. Ahh good ol' stupidity. Very swagger as the kids in tyvate would say. The map was full of color. Red dots here, blue dots there. Once again it was time for (Y/N)'s shitty assumptions. So logicly the yellow must've ment gold and the grey dots must've ment silver. Oh and let's not forget about the iron. Well he actually did not have a single clue what color the iron markers would be. Maybe brown because that's what natural iron chunks looked like. 

Ehhhhh, sure the brown dots were iron. There were some other dots but he didn't even want to think of decoding that. So he headed to the locations. Most of the iron was located in Guili plains which definitely made his search a bit easier. (Y/N) gasped as he knew how to make this search fun. He should make it a challenge to collect all of the materials before Rex Lapises dissension. 

He wasn't going to lie, he wasn't excited. Reason being was that he has to do some physical work and he'll have to walk all the way there and that's going to take some time. (Y/N) turned around and started his trek to Guili plains. On his way there were random thoughts like 'why does Guili plains have so much iron? Is it from all of those dang ruin guards?' to 'when will I find Aether?' to 'Xiao's cute :)' crossed his mind.

 Wait what? There's no way in hell he's putting up with his dumbass brain or should he say heart. He tried to shake his head to clear the little argument out of his head but he wasn't successful. (Y/N) huffed and picked up his pace hoping that that would help him focus on the task at hand. Shoot! How the hell would he mine without a pickaxe. Welllllllll, he could just mine with his destroyed polearm. But it'll take a while. 

This is what he gets for being stupid. Looking back up from his map (Y/N) saw an ore deposit. Sighing, he picked up his polearm and walked up to the ore deposit. (Y/N) smiled, the iron chunks were relatively big and it might be enough. Suddenly (Y/N) felt like he was being watched. The oh so familiar feeling. He also heard footsteps. 'Why the fuck is xiao here? At least I think it's xiao?' (Y/N) turned his head and looked to his left and was met with the familiar frame of the taller male.

A pickaxe was shoved into (Y/N)'s chest. He looked up at Xiao and thanked him. Xiao only responded with a quiet "you're welcome" and looked away from (Y/N). A small blush coating his cheeks. (Y/N) looked away for a minute only to look back and see Xiao gone. What a shame, for once Xiao's presence was bearable and he just leaves. How rude. (Y/N) pouted, he didn't even say goodbye. 

The pickaxe against his chest made him remember his job. That's right he's here to mine this shitty iron. He stated to mine the ore. Already bored he huffed, how many materials does he need anyways. Why did he think it was a good idea to mine? He could've just bought the iron from a shop. Well he might buy some of the materials. Like Bronze because Rain thinks its cheap. He definitely wont buy gold or silver because that stuff is stupid expesive. 

Though inorder to buy stuff he'll need to make money. Personally he dont like working because it consumes time really quickly but now he's got all the time in Tyvat. Today his mind was slow and boring. Rain sighed, his dumb brain isnt thinking of anything entertaining. Not a single thought. Head empty. Not in a good way though. Rain remembers that he has a time limit for this mining session of his and quickly starts mining away. He started to space out, his mind going extra blank. 

Blank to the point that he tuned out everything around him. Though he definitely shouldn't have because he was given quite the scare. All of a sudden, he saw another pickaxe hitting that same rock as him.

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ahhhhh sorry for not posting I was having uhhh issues lol