[Discontinued] Mao Mao x Spy! Reader: Spying for the Enemy, Flying with my Crush

Chapter 5: Your Shadow

You vaguely felt a hand on your shoulder, shaking you awake. You let out a confused groan and opened your eyes a sliver. "Ugh...? Who...?" You managed to pull your arms free of your cocoon and prop yourself on them. You lifted your head and look left and right, and saw no one. "Wait...what the—"

"[Y/N]!" an excited voice quietly called. "[Y/N], wake up! It's training time!"

"Mao Mao, give me...give me a minute...or two...or sixty." You flopped back down.

You immediately regretted this decision, because the shaking started up again, more forceful than before. "[Y/N], come on! The quicker you get up, the more time we have together!"

You pushed yourself back up once more and sighed. "Alright. Give me like...five minutes to get ready, though. I need to find a spare set of clothes, a shower, toothbrush and toothpaste among other things."

"I'll give you ten minutes. The bathroom is downstairs; it's the second door on the left. There is a spare toothbrush in the middle drawer, and you can use my toothpaste—I labeled it with my name. As for the clothes...I'll be back in a little while with some." You both went downstairs and then parted your separate ways.

After closing the bathroom door behind you, the sound of an aerocycle could be heard. "Ah, jeez. He's going to wake everyone up." Seven minutes later, you had wrapped yourself up in your multipurpose fabric to dry yourself off. You found the spare toothbrush and Mao Mao's toothpaste and started brushing your teeth. 'Dang,' you thought. 'If I had known that there was a bathroom here, I would've used it days ago.'

'Big Maoc pulled through for us, huh?'

'Stop calling him that.'

'Hey, it's my way of showing affection towards him!'

'Well, find a different way.'

'No! It's my way of being bad!'

You spat out the toothpaste in your mouth into the sink and rinsed it down the drain. Then you cleaned off your toothbrush and put it in the toothbrush holder. 'What am I going to do with you?'

'Keep me with you and take care of me?'

'I guess.' You jumped at the sound of someone knocking on your door. 'Oh, jeez, that scared me. I didn't hear the aerocycle, though. So who was that?'

'Arm yourself now!'

You quickly scanned the room you were in and decided to grab the bottle of shampoo from the shower. 'Here goes nothing!' You threw open the door and slashed at the knocker with the bottle. You had to stop your attack, however, because your momentum almost threw you into the golden blade of a katana. After blinking twice, you quickly hid the shampoo behind your back and nervously chuckled. "Mao Mao! Hi!"

"Why were you trying to attack me?" He tried to sound angry, but you could hear a small bit of hurt in his voice.

"Sorry, I just got...scared. I never heard the aerocycle roll back in, so I assumed that someone was trying to hurt me."

"That's impossible! No one would be able to hurt you! You have two deputies here to protect you!"

'Technically, you have one.'

"Also, while we're out training, could you please tell me why you keep having random outbursts?" The concern in his voice made you feel really happy. "Speaking of training, I got you clothes." The sheriff handed you a paper bag, a hand rubbing his head nervously. "I wasn't sure what you would prefer, so I decided that these would do." He smiled and closed the door to give you privacy to change.