“A truly 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 sight.” Part: 2
Jabber spun around in zanka’s chair. Giggling when he got a little too dizzy, but he wasn’t bugging zanka like he usually was. infact he was doing everything other then what he usually did. He was somewhat behaved. not even his usual flirting.
Zanka’s fingers tapped against Lovely assistaff, a sign of irritation. his thoughts drifted to the fight from before. exactly what went wrong during the fight, breaking down in his mind what he should’ve done vs what he shouldn’t have done. his eyebrows furrowed at the reminder of him losing. when his shoulder was struck by the enemy. Nearly sliced completely..would’ve probably killed him if it weren’t for Eishia, but that didn’t help.
“-ka? Zankaa!!” he was snapped out of his train of thought when jabber snapped his fingers in his face. “My man, what’s got you so quiet? It’s so weird seein’ you without yer bad attitude!” Jabber commented, half whine half question. his eyes staying locked on zanka’s shoulder for a moment. “And yer tense.”
“I’m just tired, yer ass arrived at midnight what’d you expect?” Zanka snapped back, his hand pushing jabber away by the face. He expected the man to laugh, tease him. Maybe a “there’s the Mr. Bad attitude!”
But he got silence instead.
“…s’it gotta do with yer shoulder? Ms, reception baddie told me not to fuck with you ‘cause you injured yourself or sumthin.” jabber jabbed at zanka’s shoulder. Noting the flinch.
“Her name is semiu, don’t call her that.” Zanka snarled. pushing jabber’s hand away from his shoulder.
“Your deflectinggg~” jabber commented, getting closer as if inspecting him. “you look like you haven’t eaten, your quiet and when you aren’t you just yell at me. Also your eyes are a lil’ puffy.” Zanka tensed, biting the inside of his cheek and looking away.
“Wanna talk abouttt ittt?” jabber grabbed the spinny chair and sitting in front of zanka, zanka’s eyebrow raised at that. Jabber always sat on zanka’s bed. Even when he yelled at him for it.
“Yer being weird..is this a trap or sumthin’..?” Zanka narrowed his eyes in suspicion, jabber blinked. Before grinning.
“Aww, you miss clingy me?” Jabber teased, leaning a little to far off the chair to pinch zanka’s cheek. Zanka’s annoyance grew and he chomped on jabber’s finger hard. “Owchie—!” Jabber whined, instinctively snapping his hand back, “do that again.” Jabber asked, putting his finger up infront of zanka’s mouth.
“Freak..” zanka smacked jabber’s hand away, despite his sharp words he’s more calm then before.
“Only for you babygirl” jabber raised his eyebrows.
Zanka snorted— clamping a hand over his face, he held in the laugh, trying to regain his posture. “Dude don’t fucking call me that—“
“But you laughed! See? I’m funny.” Jabber announced. Getting closer.
“Shut yer trap I didn’t laugh.” Zanka replied, stubbornly crossing his arms. “Even if I did it’s ’cause I laughed AT you not wit’you—“
“Ima touch ya.” Jabber interrupted with a way-too innocent look.
“I beg your finest flying fucking pardon?” Zanka replied.
Jabber snickered and purposefully leaned too far off the chair, making the chair tip over and fall. Jabber fell right ontop of zanka. “Hey seggsy.” Jabber teased.
“DUDE GET THE FUCK OFF M—“ zanka froze when he saw a figure peering through the cracked open door. He pushed jabber off “Hey—!“ zanka got up and scurried towards the door and peered out.
“See the weird guy watching us two seconds ago? Yep.” Jabber replied, zanka panicked.
“Did you see who it was!? What if it was enjin!” Zanka rapidly approached jabber and shook his shoulders furiously. “Was it enjin!?”
“Uhh..nah I don’t think so..enjin’s got short hair right? That guy had longer hair than em.” Jabber shrugged, zanka sighed, slightly relieved.
“That doesn’t help entirely.. multiple people here have long hair.” Zanka let jabber go, running his hand through his hair. “But semiu, Corvus, and shikage don’t have long hair.. it was another cleaner. What if they tell everyone else!? they’ll think I’m a traitor— enjin would be so disgusted with me..” Zanka stressed. jabber blinked. “Why’you so afraid of enjin knowing? If he’s that great of a person like you keep sayin’ then he’ll probably still support you right?” Jabber questioned.
“He is a great person! But it’s just..” zanka trailed off. Before finishing. “He was the one who saved me..he’s the closest I have to a father figure and he doesn’t like you..all he’s seen from you is hurting the people he cares about and me.” Zanka continued his yappin.
“Zan..—“ jabber tried, only to be interrupted by the still-panicking zanka.
“What if they tell everyone..what would Riyo think? She HATES you..she literally shot you! They’d be so disappointed in me— oh my god what if enjin tells Kyouka..” zanka’s eyes widened at that thought.
“Wait who’s that?” Jabber questioned, sitting down beside zanka to remind him of his presence there.
“..my sister. She’s my sister.” Zanka answered, suddenly even more panicked. “You..you need to leave right now..that cleaner probably got the other cleaners to come over here— if Kyouka knows about you..she’ll..” zanka trailed off and stood up trying to shoo jabber out through the window—
“Zanka yer keepin’ things from me.” Zanka froze, Jabber’s voice sounded more calm then zanka had ever heard it. He wasn’t smiling. He was tenser than a wall.
“Why do you seem so scared of this Kyouka woman? Why won’t you tell me your last name? Why have you never mentioned them in the past?” Jabber questioned, approaching zanka and cornering him against the wall.
“Why are you keeping things from me?” Jabber finished the questions with that. Zanka’s expression of distress deepened, he pursed his lips. His gaze dropped as he remembered what Kyouka said.
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“Raiders are incompetent, goka. do not hold back and gather as much information as you can, do you understand me?” Kyouka’s voice echoed through the halls of the nijiku estate, zanka sat eating at the table. Silently listening to the conversation. They had captured a raider to get information on the crimes of the organization. Of course..via torture.
“Understood.” Goka responded, his pupiless eyes locked onto the room the raider was kept in. He turned the doorknob—
“Break his vital instrument if need be.” Kyouka spoke with a detached voice that never failed to scare zanka.
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Zanka suddenly felt his breathing stop, his gaze dropped to mankira’s stunning, beautifully cared for rings.
“Jabber listen to me..” zanka tried, suddenly feeling his heart beat faster then before.
“Not until you tell me everythin’ you’ve been keeping from me.” zanka pursed his lips at that. “You don’t get it..” zanka murmured. “I-I’ll tell you just..” zanka trailed off, everything was suddenly too much. His failure. The pain in his shoulder. Jabber’s presence. The fact someone saw. The thought of the hell guard taking jabber away. His own heart beat. He brought his hand up to his face and covered it. He felt his eyes water. and his breathing turn heavy, like something was jammed in his throat. he bit his tongue, trying to keep himself from crying.
“…zan-zan?” Jabber peeled zanka’s hands away from his face. “Why you cryin? Crying is weird.” Jabber got really close and straight up just licked zanka’s face.
Zanka pushed jabber away from him. “Just get out already..” zanka damanded, Jabber’s smile faded slightly. But he stepped back.
Zanka felt a pang of guilt. But he shoved it down, sitting back down on the bed expecting jabber to leave, he was unfortunately, very wrong. (fortunately)
Jabber pounced on zanka, ignored the startled shaky gasp that escaped him and slid his hands around zanka’s toothpick tiny wai— sorry. around zanka’s waist, his hands squeezing slightly before relaxing in the grip, jabber was grinning again.
“..lemme go.” Zanka whispered. His voice coming out shakier than he intended.
“Mm..Nuh uh.” Jabber replied. “Not til’ you tell me why yer so upset r’now.” Jabber finished off.
Zanka pursed his lips, biting the inside of his cheek again, “stop it..” zanka whispered.
“Making me wanna cry.” Zanka’s head fell onto Jabber’s shoulder. Little hiccuped sobs crawling through his throat and out his mouth. Jabber held tighter. Zanka cried harder.
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The morning after that night was the same as serveral others, despite the fact it should’ve been strange to zanka when jabber snuck in..it was a regular occurrence. so it simply didn’t seem out of the ordinary, unfortunately for him..that night would start the beginning of him losing his ever-loving mind.
Because someone saw what happened,
And the worse part was that zanka didn’t know who.
Zanka blinked his eyes open slowly, grimacing at the bright light of the sun through the window. his body slowly registering the warmth behind him as his hand tightened around something hard and familiar— (get your mind out of the gutter.) Lovely assistaff.
He smiled for a moment, before the events of the night before crashed through his mind. The person, the crying, the comforting, all of it.
He felt the hand around his waist shift slightly. Pulling him closer. Zanka peered an eye at the sleeping form next to him, his eyes softened at how warm Jabber’s expression was when he was sleeping. he shifted to look at the time— 6: AM, good..no one was usually awake until 9. Or 10. zanka relaxed, rolling over as quietly as he could to not wake jabber, he curled himself into Jabber’s figure, his head resting under Jabber’s chin, his hand hesitating before coming up to pull jabber closer.
Zanka snapped his head back to see a fully awake jabber staring back at him. “How long have you been awake!?”
“Long enough to witness all that cutie patootie stuff you just pulled!” Jabber pulled the snarling man closer to him again, “go back to sleep though. Still early.” Jabber murmured.
“Hell no. Go fuck yerself.” Zanka replied, despite the fact he was already relaxing in Jabber’s grip, his eyes growing heavy once more. “Jabber.”
Zanka hesitated for a moment, before giving in to his words. “..thank you.” The words were quiet, very. Jabber almost didn’t catch them.
“Aww Mr. Bad attitude..cmere ima touch ya—“
“AND YOU RUINED IT.” Zanka pushed jabber away with his hand. Only causing the man to snicker and pull him back. “sowwy.” Zanka clicked his tongue at that. But he didn’t make a move to escape, instead he relaxed. Letting himself fall back into sleep slowly.
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“How adorably gross.” The man outside the door snickered, his eyes narrowing. “Good to know I have information to blackmail him with.” His grin grew.
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