Would you be ok with writing some shadowpeach from Winter au where Wukong is a kid (I think it's the mentor swap au?) With general 2 and 6
Credit to @winterpower98 for making the Mentorswap AU and hopefully I wrote them both correctly!! Enjoy!
“It’s pouring rain why are you here?” / “Have you been taking care of yourself?”
Wukong was bored. So unbelievably bored.
As much as he refused to admit it, he understood why the Monkey King had him take a break from training for the next week. After… well everything. He had stopped avoiding Bajie, Tang, Sandy, and Bai Long due to intervention more from their side than his but anything else right now was… too much for him. His life would never go back to how it was before.
He had convinced himself that he had accepted that. But somedays he doubted the truth in that.
Wukong had been crashing at Mei’s home above her workshop for the past day, needing a place to stay as a sudden rainstorm had hit the city. He could have dashed back to Flower Fruit Mountain but… well Wukong didn’t quite want to leave just yet. Plus the idea of going out in the rain is the last thing he wanted to do right now. So he would weather it out on Mei’s couch and try not to die of boredom.
He could get up and do something but… he just didn’t have the energy to do it.
Lately Wukong hasn’t had the energy for much besides training and fighting any demons that attacked the city. Being in the city only sapped his energy more, being forced to remember better times before it all came crashing down.
Lost in his thoughts, he didn’t catch the sound of the window to Mei’s apartment opening behind him. The sound of footsteps finally caught his attention and Wukong pulled himself off the couch to see Macaque, fur soaked from the rain and frozen as he caught eyes with the other.
“What are you doing here?!”
“I could ask you the same thing!”
They silently glared at each other before Wukong gave a sigh, not feeling up for this today.
“Mei let me crash here while it’s pouring rain outside. Don’t exactly have a lot of options of places to stay in the city right now. I’m guessing it’s… the same with you?” He asked, sagging against the couch. Evidently his lack of fight was surprising as Macaque looked thrown entirely off his rhythm, his weapon disappearing in a puff of purple smoke.
“Yeah. She let’s me stay here sometimes. Are you… are you-” He was cut off by Wukong throwing a towel at his face.
“Dry off before you stink up the place with your wet fur,” Wukong grumbled, refusing to look at him. Macaque merely sighed but did what he was told, also far too tired to argue considering he’d been on the run for the past few days from demons who apparently decided now was a good time to enact vengeance on him now that he had broken away from Spider Queen. He had barely slept or eaten, it was constant movement until he finally lost them. And even then, Macaque had to be sure because he refused to risk leading them back to Mei.
He told himself it was because he didn’t want to lose the only hideout he had.
But Macaque would be lying.
Just as he finished drying himself, Macaque barely managed to catch the peach which Wukong had tossed at him.
“Now eat something. Have you even been taking care of yourself? Cause you look worse than usual,” Wukong commented with a weak attempt of a smirk.
“Yeah, well you’re not looking so pretty yourself.” Macaque paused, his scowl softening to a look of concern, “Are you okay?” Wukong stayed silent. That was answer enough to him and Macaque silently sat down next to him on the couch.
And if Wukong leaned against him for comfort and Macaque wrapped his arm around the others shoulders to give it well… nobody needed to know that.
Except Mei, who walked into her apartment hours later in the evening to see the two unconscious and wrapped around each other.