Ninja x Male Reader

The Comfort You Give

tw: sw3@ring

Word Count: 1,171

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Reader wakes up with a sigh. I really don't want to be awake right now.

Too bad

Ugh

You were gonna have to be awake anyways, so....

Yeah whatever Reader thinks as he rolls his eyes. He sits up and looks around the room. Hey wait, why is it dark? Reader's eyes drift around the dark room before landing on a small red light. 2:47 am. What?! Why am I awake at 2:47 in the fucking morning?!

I don't know, maybe there's something watching you right now. Look in the corners. Reader turns suddenly fearful eyes towards all four of the corners of the somewhat quiet bedroom. Nothing. He lets out a small sigh of relief, glad to not be seeing a figure in the dark corners of the room. There's nothing there

Check behind you Reader whips around to see nothing but darkness. Nothing there either. Why are you making me think there's something there when there isn't?

Because you woke up for a reason, didn't you? And since we're not thirsty, have to pee, or something, the only logical reasoning is that there's something watching us.

Well, why don't we try drinking some water anyway. Could be helpful

Doubt it, but okay Reader takes his legs out from under his sheets and turns to the ladder. He exhales as quiet as he can. This might be a bad idea

Why don't you keep a water bottle at the foot of your bed?

Because, for some reason, we don't have water bottles here

That's stupid

I know! Reader slowly lowers himself down the wooden ladder and cringes when the floor creaks loudly under his sudden weight. Shut the fuck up before you wake up the entire world

I'm trying! Reader limps as quietly as he can across the bedroom, he doesn't really fancy waking up the entire universe by using his crutches. He grabs the handle of the door, turns it, and pulls. The old wooden door makes a loud groaning sound, as if protesting to being used this early in the morning. Reader contorts his face into an expression of pain, as if the mere sound hurts. Which it kinda does.

Once the door is open enough for him to get through, Reader pauses, waiting for the sound of his friends stirring. All he got was Cole's rhythmic snoring and Kai rolling over. Strange, I thought he was a light sleeper, oh well Reader shrugs as he walks out of the bedroom and into the hallway.

What he didn't know, was that Jay was lying awake, watching Reader, covering his mouth with silent tears rolling down his scaley face.

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Reader quietly limped back into the shared bedroom, finally feeling tired again. Turns out, we did actually need water

Oop- my bad

Yes, it is your bad Reader quietly makes his way back to his bunk and prepares to start climbing the ladder when he hears someone whisper, "Hey." He whips around, suddenly very scared.

"Reader! Get over here!" The voice whisper-yells. Reader looks at Jay's bunk, seeing the smallest ray of light coming from the window in his peripherals. It seems the moon is shy tonight. Reader looked into Jay's shining yellow eyes for a moment before limping over to his bunk. (you know animals? yeah)

"What's up?" Reader whisper-asks once he's right in front of Jay, looking up at him from where he lays.

"C-Could you-um......could you come sssssssit up here with me, please? I'm-uh...having trouble sssssssleeping." Jay whisper-asks back at his friend. (aight, Imma just write "ask" and "said" or whatever normally bc this is getting annoying)

"Sure!" Reader says happily, as if he can't see the pain in Jay's eyes. Which he can't. It's really dark. And yes, I did say that Jay's eyes shine in the dark, but that doesn't mean you can see the emotion in them though.

Anyway-

Jay scoots over to make room for Reader to sit on his bed, Reader's legs dangling from the opening for the ladder. He looks over to his friend and says softly, "Is there a particular reason why you can't sleep? Did you have a bad dream or something? You don't have to tell me if you don't want to. I can just sit here with you if that's what you need." Jay nods and thinks for a minute before saying, "It'sssss a sssssstupid reasssson, but it'sssss becaussssse of the whole sssssnake thing, ya know? I jusssst- I don't know, it jusssst doessssssn't feel right."

Reader places a gentle hand on Jay's knee and says, "It's not a stupid reason. Your body has changed in a very drastic way, your entire appearance has changed in less than a day. It's totally normal and perfectly okay for you to feel like this. However, it's not gonna last forever. You'll get used to it or -somehow- we find some way to change your body into the way it was before. But either way, this feeling isn't gonna last forever. Or at least, not to the same extent. Okay?" Jay nods his head and thinks for a second.

"But what if it doessssss? What if it doesssss lassssst forever? What then?"

Reader moves his hand from Jay's knee to his shoulder. "It won't last forever, that's the thing, it's pretty much impossible for you to be feeling this shitty about your snake situation for the rest of your life. At some point, you're gonna get tired of it. Trust me, you will."

"How can you be sssssso ssssssure?"

"Because, a few years ago, I was completely broken. I was crying myself to sleep almost every night, but guess what? It didn't stay that way. I got better. And that's not to say I don't feel sad about what happened. I do. Pretty often actually, but it's not as bad as it was. And sure, what happened to me is nothing like what has happened to you, but I'm telling you this so that you'll understand. This. Won't. Last. Forever. Capeesh?" Jay nods his head and wipes a stray tear from his face. Reader takes his hand off of Jay's shoulder and places it in his lap. He turns his head toward the glowing red lights in the small alarm clock: 2:55 am. Reader turns his head and opens his mouth to say something but is cut off by Jay quietly asking, "Reader, can I have a hug?"

"Of course!" Reader exclaims, opening his arms wide. Jay smiles slightly and leans into Reader's arms. A few seconds pass and Jay shifts to where he's practically sitting in Reader's lap. He smiles and begin to stroke Jay's soft hair.

After a few minutes Reader hears some soft snores coming from his friend. He smiles again and tries to lay him down and get back to his bed without waking him up. However, considering the fact that Jay keeps tightening his grip on him whenever he tries to get away, that might not happen. Reader sighs and lays down. Welp, guess I'm cuddling my friend now. I'll definitely have some explaining to do tomorrow, but that's okay. As long as Jay feels better, I don't mind explaining.

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sum nice comfort for y'all <3