Hey y’all, sorry for not posting much. Life is being shit lately and I’m at a 24/7 burnout crisis rn. I didn’t forget y’alls fics, js be really patient w me. Thank you for your understanding 🫶 (I posted the same fic on ao3, feel free to show some love there too if you’d like.)
It was just another normal day in splatsville, the chaotic city of the splatlands.
The sun was shining onto the center, where many cephalopods had taken their stance, interacting with eachother as their hots for the “freshest” things never deceased. Really, it didn’t matter on what the “freshness” was about, literally anything labeled as “fresh” had worked to keep those ink-fishes to motivated to keep battling their lives out in the battle tower.
If you were not buzzed up in the lobby though, you’d be able to listen to all the various noises coming from the inhabitants of the splatlands. Really, no matter where you were, you’d always hear some sort of noise, that’s how busy the city of chaos was.
Of course, it wasn’t just the city itself which was chaotic, it were the inhabitants. Tons of cephalopods, who had came from cities which were outside the splantlands, had adapted to the reckless behavior of those, who had grown up here. It was a both scary and interesting growth of the population of this city.
The battle tower itself though, was the cause of this new swarm of foreigners making their ways to the splatlands. Everything was changing, the population of the city started to increase rapidly!
So rapidly that..a certain urchin, who participates in doing shady-businesses, had laid his eye on this newly found hot-spot….
“You little imbecile!”, the old shop-owner, who runs some random jewelry store, yelled at the inkling girl, whom he had thrown out of the shop moments ago. The female inkling fell backwards onto some empty boxes, due to the impact of him kicking her out of his shop, but his yelling didn’t stop, not even after that.
“Don’t you ever dare to show your face in here ever again, you dirty thief!”, was the last thing the squid girl heard, before she saw the old-shop owner retreat back into his shop and bang the door shut.
It takes a few seconds for the inkling girl to let the situation sink in, until she eventually stood up from those boxes with a groan.
“Ugh, what a dramatic old geezer.”, she whispered to herself, as she wiped her arms clean from the dust of those boxes.
After successfully cleaning herself up from the dust, her hands instantly landed onto her right-three-tentacle-hair-strands, which were braided together and held together by a rubber band.
She instantly took the rubber band off and undid her her braids, which then resulted into something golden, tiny and shiny to fall down onto the cement floor beneath her.
The female inkling quickly ducked down, in order to pick the mysterious little object up.
She held that little golden ball between her palms and smirked triumphantly to herself.
“Funny how that fucker didn’t see you between my tentacles.”, she spoke out as she examined the mysterious object on her palms, which turned out to be an actual golden earring.
“I’m sure murch will have a field day with you, huh?”, she thought out-loud again, as she quickly put the golden earring into the pocket of her jacket and made her way to the battle tower, where the sea urchin Murch was usually chilling at.
The tall sea urchin was silently sitting near the entrance of the battle tower, while he was silently scrolling through this squid-phone, waiting for a customer to approach him.
A lot of thoughts were on in his mind right now, wondering on what he’d do later today. There was also other certain thoughts located in the back of his mind, but he did not wanna bother himself with those right now.
He was snapped out of his daze, after he heard a familiar voice call out to him.
“Muuurch! Hey murch!!!” Kihon exclaimed, waving her hand around his face, as if to try and snap him out of whatever daze he was in right now. Needless to say, it had worked.
The urchin immediately snapped out of his daze. He quickly put his phone away and looked into the eyes of the inkling whom he known since a long time.
“Sorry, I must’ve dozed off a few seconds ago.”, He had calmly said to her, as he continued to look into her eyes. He noticed the proud smile on her face, which automatically led him know that she did something which she shouldn’t have.
“…what did you do?”, he simply asked her. This was a question he would ask her every single time when he knew that she’d done something again.
Kihon proudly crossed her arms, while having a toothy-smile plastered on her face. “Well, remember the time when you said that you had problems with your rent? I thought that I could help you out a little so….I got you this!”
Before he could react, she stretched her hand out to him and revealed the golden earring-piece which was on the middle of her palms.
Judging by the looks of the tiny little piece of gold, it must’ve costed a fortune, but he already knew that Kihon stole it instead of buying it.
He stared onto the tiny little piece of gold for a couple of seconds. “Impressive, aren’t I riiighhht~? I’m sure it’ll pay off your rent for the next couple of months!”, Kihon proudly said out aloud.
He knew she was right. This tiny little piece of Gold could atleast cover up his rent for the next sixth months, but he knew better. He knew how Kihon laid her hands on this item and he hated it, he didn’t want her to continue being a thief.
He himself was already working in shady business and hated it, he didn’t want someone close to him make similar mistakes. He didn’t want her to steal for anything or anyone, especially not for him.
Though, the fact that she did something as dangerous as stealing directly from a jewelry store in broad daylight just to she could somehow support him, made him feel something he couldn’t really name.
The urchin kept staring at the Golden earpiece which was laying on Kihons palms. His chin was on his hand as he was obviously deep in thought.
The female inkling, who was still standing infront of him, was slowly starting to get nervous, as she wondered what was going through his head. After another pair of seconds had passed, her patience had ran out.
“Ay, dude, you still there..?”, Kihons voice instantly busted the thought bubble murch was in and he flinched, the spines of his head stretched for one second and immediately went back to their original length after.
The sea urchin shook his head slightly and immediately grabbed the tiny goldpiece from Kihons hand, deciding that he won’t let her efforts go to waste.
Once he saw that Kihon had noticed him accept her help, a smile had formed on the inklings face which made his heart melt.
Surely, that very same smile could have not been another reason for him to accept her help too, no?
The inkling immediately jumped onto him, hugging him tightly, with her arms wrapped around his shoulders and legs wrapped around his stomach. “I knew you would accept it! Hooray!”, she laughed out. Her grip on him didn’t falter at all, as she kept smiling like an idiot while holding him close.
Her sudden action caught him off-guard, he didn’t react for the first few seconds until realization dawned upon him and he immediately tried to push her off with a slightly embarrassed blush on his face.
He wiggled around with his upper body, trying to shake the inkling off of him, as she laughed at his poor attempts.
“You won’t get me off of you like that, you know!”, “Arghh…shut it, chum!”, “Oooooo, calling me a chum again now, I see how it is now!! Pfft!” “…you little..!!”
Their whole ordeal kept going for multiple minutes, eventually getting a few glances of other inklings/octolings around those two. Yet, that wasn’t something that bothered the pair a lot. Nonetheless, what else could you have expected from such a lousy city like splatsville?
