"Yoohoo!" MK whooped with a big smile, arms raised to meet the sky. "This is fun!"
Monkey King laughed, grin splitting wider across his face, letting the wind lap at his furred skin. The soft and malleable texture of the magic cloud they were riding on yielded to their weight and shape, fitting around them, limbs slightly sinking into the cushion-like cloud.
A small trip amongst the clouds in the sky that Monkey King had suggested with not much thought. Just flying on his magic cloud. He was a bit surprised when MK immediately jumped to the idea, running up to him with those big and pretty eyes, pleading like a spoiled puppy. Weaponized cuteness, really. 100% chance of working. And boy, it worked indeed.
No destination set in mind. Only flying through the sky above the islands and the sea. Feeling the wind and its cool breeze. Moderate speed. Unlike usually where they would speed past everything, no time to lose as it was crucial in battle or rescue.
Here, they were together.
Here, they were just like two carefree monkeys.
Laughing when the current of the wind messed with their hair. Laughing as their voice seemed to echo and fade. Laughing as the adrenaline of being high up above everything else ran through their pulse. Laughing from the sense of exhilaration.
Freedom.
A pause in their heroic story.
Monkey King wheezed when he saw MK choking from hair getting in his mouth after opening his mouth wide to feel the breeze better. "Ahaha!"
"Bleh. Oh c'mon!"
"Guess i'm not the only one eating hair, huh?" Monkey King snickered, plucking one and transforming them into his favorite peach chips.
MK made a face at him, nose scrunching in disgust. "Eugh. Do you have to?"
Monkey King chewed noisily in response and MK sighed at his bratty attitude. "Just don't disperse your cloud suddenly, okay?"
"Hey! That one time happened because i was out of power!" Monkey King pointed a dirty finger at MK accusingly.
"How about that time you just threw me off?" MK teased, toothy grin on display.
Monkey King froze, remembering that one instance. While he knew that the kid didn't necessarily blamed him for it, he did treat him roughly at that time. When MK clung and climbed over him while on the cloud because of his fear of spiders, he had been quick to get rid of the other. Too quick. Of course MK not being much use when facing with a spider was a valid reasoning there but...
When MK had wrapped himself around his head, for a second he thought it was the circlet once again. Dragged into the past for a split second. Phantom pain ever so clear, snaking its way for his acknowledgement of the punishment that never truly left him. And the sudden weight on his back that brought him back to the memory of being under that mountain... It was just a whole mess.
He was a mess. Just from a simple thing.
MK didn't mean it. He knew that well.
He should have gotten over it hundreds of years ago.
Monkey King chuckled lowly, almost self-deprecating if he had let it. "Sorry about that one, bud. I was surprised."
MK stared, not expecting an apology, before easily falling into the shift. "Meh, it's fine."
"You sure?"
"Yeah!" MK grinned before an idea came up to him. "Oh, if you want to make up for it tho..." he trailed off with a mischievous one, dragging out the pause where Monkey King raised a brow at him, "You can let me cuddle you right now! How about it?" he spread both arms with a blinding smile.
Monkey King bursted in laughter, holding his stomach. "Hah, that's it?"
"That's it!" MK proudly huffed.
"Well, who am i to refuse... " Monkey King drawled out with a breathy exhale that tapered off into slight chuckles. "C'mere," he pulled MK by the waist, making the young man fall on top of him, sitting on his lap. "There you go."
"Monkey King, this is a bit..." MK blushed profusely, not expecting their body melding against each other, stuck in the embarrassing position now all from his random request.
Monkey King buried his face on MK's collarbone, smirking against his skin, awfully enjoying the cute reaction. "You asked for it, bud."
MK whined against him but still sank into his embrace atop the fluffy cloud, wrapping his arms around Monkey King.
This time, carefully. Gentle.
Monkey King sighed in bliss, shutting his eyes, only focusing on the warmth and affection around him.
often mac is the one potrayed as the creep when it comes to plumsynoodles but i think he is larping being a toucher. the groping sage equal to offenses is who i am more worried about
MK used to have a crush on Wukong before they met, like a celebrity crush thing, but then when they actually met it faded because “wow, this guy isn’t all that :/” but then it started to come back slowly and then hit him like a car in season 3
