Deep Blue Sea

ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ-ꜱᴇᴠᴇɴ

Note: haha kinda back again, bet no one misses me lmao- Anyway, I'm not exactly back honestly, I'll probably update wayyy slower than before so yeah- Thank you all for the support though! I was expecting some hate comments ngl, but everyone is really positive about it and I really appreciate it. Thank you once again, and yeah, enjoy I guess :))

ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ-ꜱᴇᴠᴇɴ: ꜱᴜɴʟɪɢʜᴛ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴇᴀᴠᴇꜱ

ˏ 𓏧 𓏲 𓏲 𓏲 𓏲 𓋒 𓏲 𓏲 𓏲 𓏲 𓏧 ˎ

A blade sliced through the air, stabbing into the throat of a cursed spirit before it could even let out a noise. As the figure slowly dissolved, you wiped the sweat on your forehead with your sleeves. It was the third cursed spirit that you had exorcised today, though you were lucky that they were not too hard to deal with.

You were starting to adjust back to the days when you had to run around to exorcise everything without a break. No one would be here to help you do your missions this time, not that you really want anyone else to deal with your mess.

Letting out a sigh, you walked out of the area and check for messages, only to let out another loud sigh when you got a few new messages urging you to finish your missions quickly. However, you bumped into a figure before you lifted your head fully.

"I'm so sorry," your shoulders visibly tensed up, only to relax again when you spotted a pair of violet eyes.

"Konbu," the boy spoke and raised a hand to greet you.

As you thought his hand was going to fall back to his side, they reached up and poked your face, then moved down to wipe some dirt off of your face.

"Thank you, Inumaki-kun," you offered him a smile and tried to pat his head, but he moved away and gave you a disapproving look as usual.

Inumaki's actions only made it more tempting for you, so you stretched your hand out more to his dismay. Right before you could ruffle his hair, he grabbed your wrist and pouted. You forgot that you have two hands at that moment, so you wrestled with him as he continued to taunt you by sticking his tongue out at you.

Eventually, you gave up and let your hand hang there loosely, "what are you doing here?" You asked with a sigh.

"Shake tsuna takana," he responded with a nod.

"That's good, I suppose," you let out a laugh as if you understood anything at all.

He deadpanned and let out a huff, using his other hand to pinch your nose, "Okaka."

The ringing of your phone interrupted the nonsensical exchange between the two of you, so you picked it up hurriedly, "hello?"

"Is this (name)?" The familiar voice spoke through the phone.

"Yes-" Inumaki snatched your phone away, not allowing you to finish your sentence.

"Sleep," he said one simple word before hanging up while giving you an innocent look.

"Inumaki!" You yanked the phone out of his hand and frantically tried to call the person back.

No one picked up the call obviously, you didn't know what you were expecting when you nervously waited for the beeping noise to end. You then turned to Inumaki to glare at him, which he only blinked, acting like he didn't know what he did wrong.

"You shouldn't have done that," you scolded him sternly, "I really need to do my job so that I can get paid."

Somehow a small hint of guilt could be found in his eyes, it made you pause. Maybe you were being too harsh on him, he probably just want to spend some time with you but had no way of expressing it. After all, he was too harmless to do that on purpose, right?