Rivals Are My Friends (YanSim Male Rivals)

Midnight Cookies (2/2)

Hanako did manage to catch up to Oko and calls out to him, but he doesn't answer. Was he ignoring him because he was possibly a demon? No, Oko kept his full attention on Hanako with that. Maybe, "Oh! He probably has his pods in and can't hear me." If that was the case, Hanako could just walk up, tap his shoulder, and hand the watch back. But seeing how overly paranoid Oko can be, Hanako didn't want to get pimp slapped on a Wednesday. So, how does Hanako decide to do?

Follow Oko all the way home like a normal sane person. Totally not a stalker.

Once Hanako saw Oko turn and walk up to a house he assumed was his, Hanako rushed up to him and tapped his shoulder. "Hey Ok--It's me! It's me! Not the face!" Hanako quickly backs away as Oko turns around, hand up and pulled back to backhand him. "O-oh, H-Hanako," Oko puts his hand down and shyly removes the white pods from his ears, "I-I'm sorry about that."

"I-It's alright, I shouldn't have done that." Hanako forgets about his main mission for a moment and looks at the house painted a dark grey, "Is this where you live?"

Oko looks back at the house "Y-yeah, for half my life. D-did you follow me ho--?" Oko had turned back to look at Hanako, but the boy was gone and had moved himself up to the porch instead. Hanako gently touches the wind chime made of blue and white glass circles, painted to look like cartoon eyes. "What's this?" "T-those are evil eyes. T-they ward off bad vibes spirits." Oko moves up the rest of the way and lets himself into his house, standing to the side. "Y-you might as well come inside."

"Really?!" Hanako didn't wait for any further confirmation and walked into the house, finding it to be surprisingly normal, almost like Osano's house. Well, minus the exception of the curio case filled with a bunch of dried herbs and skulls, but the house was still homey.

Oko looked around for someone and once he didn't find them he simply grabbed Hanako's wrist and dragged him up to his room. If Hanako thought it was bad that he was under pressure for suspicion of being a demon by Oko, then he surely didn't want to meet his grandma. At Least not until his name is cleared, or Oko doesn't mention anything."T-this is my room."

"Wow! Your room is so dark, both literally and figuratively, and pretty~!" Hanako looked around the bedroom that looked as if it drew heavy inspiration from the occult room. "You even have aesthetically placed cobwebs on books." Hanako reaches and gently plucks the thin lines of the web.

"O-oh those aren't fake, those are real."

Hanako freezes as he looks at the once beautiful web that was now destroyed. He just made a spider homeless. "That makes more seneeeeAhhh." Hanako gasps as he notices the illuminated glass case on the desk, a small terrain was built inside for the two long and noodley creatures inside. "You have snakes?!"

"M-mhm." Oko walks over and removes the mesh top cover, "I-I had them since forever." Hanako kneels down to get a better look at the snakes, one was orange and white while the other was black and white. "What are their names and how can you tell them apart?"

"H-Hoax and Ouija. Hoax," He reaches into the case and holds his hand out, letting the orange white snake wrap around his hand. "I-is the one that looks like an orange creamsicle."

Hanako watches in awe as the snake moves himself around and under Oko's fingers and the boy just lets him, not bothered by it at all. "He does look like an orange creamsicle." "I-I know, but despite his innocent appearance, he's--" Oko stops and looks down at the tiny milk snake, who had his little mouth latched onto his thumb. The first few times of getting bitten, Oko jumped out his skin and even cried, but after a while he just learned to deal with it. The beady eyes almost look at him like a child, "R-Really Hoax? You're going to bite me in front of a guest?" Hoax hisses at him, "O-okay then." Oko sets his hand back into the case, "Back into the warm terrain you go."