The Darling, who controlled the Franxx

Darling, Time to tell you the News

Quote of the chapter :

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"Difference is good, and being different is what makes us stand out in the world."

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First Person POV -
Ichi's POV :

"Darling..."

"Darling!"

"Wake up, Darling!"

Bright... Too bright...

"Darling~!"

"Ehhhh nooo?"

"How about yes?"

"No?"

I open my eyes to the figure on top of me. Their lavender hair tickled my forehead.

"Get up darling~!" The figure moves to sit on the end of the bed.

"Umm... Zero Four? Why are you here?" I got up from the bed, still in my pajamas. My hair stood in the air while I gathered my clothes for the day.

"It's to boring everywhere else. Everyone is to much of a snooze fest." Zero four swung his legs back and forth. His eyes never strayed from watching what I was doing.

"Go find something else to do.... please?"

"No"

My one attempt was immediately shut down. To avoid anything else happening, I locked the bathroom door behind me. Effectively breaking our line of sight, and creating a solid barrier between the two of us.

"Let me innnn" Knocking appeared all over the door in different tempos from Zero Four's boredom.

"Uh... This is a bathroom... so no..."

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I straightened the last of my hair, pushing it out of my eyes. I slowly waltzed down the stairs. Immediately screams of anger and sarcasm can be heard.

"YOU CAN'T JUST PUT POWERED SUGAR ON PIZZA!!" A boy, given the name Kininaru by Hokori, yelled.

"Kini, calm down. At least it isn't something worse." Suimin seems to be in the room as well from the direction of her voice.

"Mhm! Take notes from that one." I enter the room to Zero Four's commentary.

The scene was chaotic. Kini was leaning over Zero Four, Suimin was laying on one of the benches for the tables, and Zero Four was sitting happily while eating a slice of breakfast pizza and holding a shaker of powered sugar besides them.

"It's to early for that though!" Kini flailed his arms around. "Sugar is meant for dessert! Not the first meal of the day!"

A pair of arms wrapped around Kini. "Heh! Just ignore them. To each their own! Or whatever Hokori would say!" Kini's partner, Yoki, restrained the former's flopping arms.

"I refuse to let this happen! Sugar on pizza is always a bad idea!" Yoki stuggled to keep still as Kini tossed about the area.

Yoki stomped their feet to add friction to their strength. "Kini, let that be his bad decision." She paused to push the hair out of her face from the extra movement. "Let him regret it! We can always go somewhere else to eat!"

"Yoki! He doesn't belong here!" Throwing his fingers to Zero Four, Kini turned around to face the intruder. "Who even let you in here?"

"I am only here for my darling. So don't worry for any of that extra stuff nor getting hurt. I don't really care about anyone of you boring people here except for my darling!" The last piece of pizza disappeared from Zero Four's plate.

"And who exactly is your Darling?"

The sound of footsteps ended in the doorway of the room. "Codes 004, 283, 017, 034, and 479. What is the meaning of this?"

If on cue, all of the voices in the room began trying to explain over each other.

"Quiet! Code 283, what happened?"

"Okay Hito! This person here," she points to Zero Four, "was eating powered sugar on pizza, My partner, Code 479, was questioning where the other person came from and was mad that they were eating sugar on pizza. Lastly, codes 034 and 017 were just standing there watching." Yoki was out of breath at the end of her monologue. Her quick and fast chatting stood apparent in her lack of breath.

"Is this true, code 479?" Hito, one of the plantation squad staff, asked Kini.

Kini held his head down, plotting out his next course of action. "It is... It still isn't right! Where did he even come from?!"

"Code 004 is from headquarters. He currently will stay here until Doctor Franxx or Papa reassign him."

"See, I am perfectly fine staying here." Zero Four stored a smile on his face full of humor.

Hito placed their hand on Kini's shoulder. "Just ignore him if he is bothering you too much. Code 004 has enough influence that you would not want to be on their bad side."

"Hah take that!"

"I will still not forgive you for that monstrosity pizza creation!" Kini pounded his fist in the air. During this, Yoki was pulling him out of the room. "You may have won today! But I will not let you win the next time we meet!"

"Oh shush! You two toddlers are making too much commotion this morning for me and Ichi." Suimin stayed upon their seemingly comfortable table bench.

"Darling!" I was taken down by the demon that had just been arguing with another part of the platoon.

"That's my clue to leave!" Suimin ran out of the room, leaving me with the thing currently stuck to me.

My words wimpered out. "Why did you leave me?" My hand stood outstretched for Suimin.

"Darling! You're out of there again!"

"I don't like this..."

"Do you want some breakfast?"

"Not right now."

"That's fine! More time for us to hand out here!"

Zero Four held me on the ground in a cuddle for a while. No one disturbed us nor did they try to help if they saw.

"Can I get up yet?"

"No!" Zero Four adjusted themselves upon my stomach to prevent myself from getting up.

"But-"

"No!"

"Haaaa... I guess I'll just stay here then."

"You better stay here with me."

Thus began our day of being the floor crew.

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A/N

I AM BACK SOME!! Apologies for my month of absence. I don't exactly have an updating schedule. I started this series of mine during the month I was out from school for COVID and its aftermath for me. I have new tasks to try to fit into as well so I have not had as much time as I usually do. I have started trying to learn to ice skate from the very beginning along with getting higher positions in my clubs. I have caught myself up with my work so I am back to normal for that. Since it has started spring break for me, I will work on stories and such. Until next time- Bye!