𝘙𝘰𝘢𝘥 𝘛𝘰 𝘙𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 {𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘹 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳}

1: The Shadow Trickster

A/N: What da Macaque doin'?

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You let out a content sigh as you walked around the streets with your favorite food in hand. It was a bit strange to be eating like this at 11:25 at night, but it was even stranger for stores to be open. You continued to your beloved home, grinning as always. Once you finally made it you didn't go inside, instead, you started scaling the house. It looked a bit weird from far away, but you didn't mind. Once you reached the top you plopped down onto the roof, ignoring the burning coming from your muscles. 

You put your food in your lap and leaned back, using your hands for support. You always came up here for stargazing. It was a little cliche, but you didn't really care. Now that you thought about it, you didn't care about a lot of things involving other people's image of you. You liked that about yourself. You were confident.

"Stars are pretty amirite?"

You yelped at the new voice and snapped your head in the direction of the said voice. A black-haired monkey sat on the roof of a house right next to you. You'd be lying if you said he wasn't at least a little bit intimidating. But, you didn't want to be rude so you spoke up,

"Uhm, y-yeah! Very pretty!"

The monkey let out a breathy laugh and turned to face you.

"The names Macaque, well Six Eared Macaque is my full name but, y'know."

"Ah! My name is Y/N. Nice to meet you Macaque."

He winked at you mischievously.

"Feelings mutual."

You grinned at him.

"Good to know."

That went right over your head-. Macaque jumped over to where you were sitting and gestured to the spot next to you.

"Oh! No, I don't mind."

He plopped down next to you, mimicking your position.

"You come up here often?"

"Yes actually! I come up here every night after I get some food from a nearby store."

"Sounds fun."

"It kind of is! It gets kind of repetitive sometimes, but I wouldn't have it any other way."

"That's nice."

You guys both talked about random things for a while. Macaque, despite his intimidating appearance, was super goofy. He made really bad jokes and pointed out random civilians from below guessing why they were still awake. You really enjoyed it. 

He stood up and sighed as he stretched.

"Welp, I need to get going."

He looked at you with one of his eyes closed and smiled.

"Same time tomorrow?"

"Yes! Of course!"

You grinned at him, and he gave you his iconic smirk before jumping away.

You stared in the direction he jumped in before shaking your head. You pulled out your phone. It was 12:51. Huh.

"I guess I should get to bed."

Later, when you had snuggled under your blankets, you couldn't help but smile.

That Macaque dude was really nice.

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