Devil Despair

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             It is easy to say that everyone in their life has a few moments in which they’d love to never have experienced for their own personal benefit. Some would have loved to retake a test they didn’t study for, or maybe not have been in a bad car accident. Gundam? At that very moment he was only wishing he had been deaf to Hagakure’s pitiful attempt at a joke that only someone as big of a peasant as him would find funny. His very ears were bleeding after being subjected to it. Worse: Hooty, The Great Lord of the Night had been humiliated, reputation tarnished and soiled.

            As if that wasn’t enough, Hagakure had continued to ignore Gundam’s wishes for personal space, overstepping his boundaries yet again. This time both hands were on his body, holding, back being pulled into the older man’s frontal. His stinky, heated breath made contact against his neck and ear, creating condensation to form on his skin. The short hairs on Gundam’s shoulders were standing up to a fine point, no doubt. The pun had only been the final straw.

            The very pits of hell opened and all of darkness spilled unto the world as Gundam let out a dimensional fabric tearing scream and then-

                                                                     He woke up.

               Gundam was a sweating messy as his eyes darted around the room, slowly coming into focus and replaying everything he remembered to try and dispel his confusion and fears. With a sudden glance next him and...damnit, that was right. Hagakure had invited him back to his room for a nap, given that they were both tired after exams. No doubt it was early evening, or even past dinner time by now.

   “G-gosh… >w< I didn’t knyow you fewt that way about me. I wuv you too, Tanyakacchi. Youw vewy existence fiwws me with detewminyation. And a vewy mighty gay impuwse to smothew you in kissie-wissies >w< I nyevew pwan on weaving you, my wuv >w< Without youw fuwwy ass, I am nyothing. So… togethew 5evew fo’ sho, I pwomise >w< Mwah >w< ”

“Uuu.. we’re gonna get totally soaked!” She groaned, standing up reluctantly. “Stupid Poseidon! Keep your crummy water off the shore!” Mioda shouted at the sea, crossing her arms. “Booo, alright. Let’s go run to the dining hall!” She furrowed her brow, determined now.

Gundam nodded at Ibuki and stood up, ready to charge out. “Please...use my jacket to shield yourself from the rain.” For the time being, he would have to make do with his scarf...or what little extra length he had on it. The majority of it was still being used to shield his hamsters from the storm, wrapped tightly in it around his neck. He really only had about enough to wrap up his hair so it wouldn’t get completely damaged.

“Are you ready?” he asked once he had fastened his little companions in tightly.

  “Why don’t we HIT THE HAY for a bit, yeah?” An overexaggerated fake yawn escapes from him; his arms stretched high above his head before one is slung around the breeder’s shoulders. The corners of his lips tug up into what he believes is an AWARD-WINNING smile - in reality, it can be considered STUPIDmore than anything else. “Like, I totally need to catch some Z’s too! Might as well do it together, yeah? Me and you! Us! Alone!”

  Mhm. VERY SUBTLE.

Hagakure was...touching him, AGAIN!

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Gundam didn’t react this time like he had the dozens of times in the past. Truth be told, he still felt mildly uncomfortable with such close contact, but coming from someone he had grown so familiar with, and with no skin contact, he could tolerate it. As he looked up at Hagakure’s face and couldn’t help but feel a sense of calm and comfort come over him, seeing him show all his teeth in his smile. It was cute.

 He nodded and then yawned.

“Earthly life is indeed troublesome, isn’t it? Let us escape for a moment’s peace.”

Sleepy Starters || ACCEPTING || @ahogedetective

His eyes spiked over to Shuichi beside him and brows furrowed, confused and slightly annoyed. Why was he asking such a stupid question. Gundam had gotten sleep the previous evening, more than usual as a matter of fact. Gundam had been able to sleep for a grand total of six hours! For what reason to Shuichi have to suspect he had gotten none at all? The dark lord almost felt insulted by this accusation (that he was all but fabricating in his own head). He grumbled at the detective before turning his attention back to the task before him on his desk.

“Plenty,” he spat out bitterly. “I just have dark circles under my eyes.”

Sleepy Starters || ACCEPTING || @hasukuro

He had placed a pillow under Hagakure’s head and a blanket over his body on the floor. There wasn’t much other option. Gundam had tried to lift the larger male, only to nearly fall over himself. It would seem that the fortune teller was much heavier than he looked. All he could do was wait for him to wake up and then help him get to his dorm room...and so he waited patiently while feeding seeds and nuts to his hamsters on the kitchen counter, a book in hand.

“You were cooking instant ramen...and passed out on the floor....The ramen was tastey.”

Gundam licked his lips as he looked down at his dark skinned friend who had finally woken up and shut his book. At least one of them had eaten that evening, he thought to himself with a smirk.

“I’ll pay you back for it later. How about for now we just take some chips or something easy and get you to your room. There are better places to take a nap than on the ground, you know?”

Hearing his command, she groggily awoke, and let out a yawn. “Mmm.. onward.. wh..” She rubbed her eyes and sat up, giving herself a moment to fully awake. “Why can’t we stay here-”

She was answered by a loud clap of thunder, causing her to jump and cover her ears. “Gah! It sounds so cloooose! Are we gonna get struck by lightning?!” Mioda shook her head wildly, hugging his coat close.

Gundam jumped slightly, but remained calm, otherwise. He hardly even yelped over how loud the storm could be. So long as they kept their focus and didn’t panic they would make it back home safely. He shook his head at Ibuki. “Poseidon makes way to devour Land’s Edge. It would be foolish of us to stay here and risk being carried out to sea. We must make haste to higher shelt with the others in the dining hall.”

“Right, right…” Leon doesn’t exactly know what he’s going on about with ‘him’, but this was getting a little absurd.  And then he entered the library… A place that Leon swore himself to never venture unless he was absolutely needed in such a place… He felt uneasy entering a place that normally held the nerds and intellectual types that Leon himself was not.

“Okay, I’m really not sure what we’re supposed to be looking for, but I don’t see it anywhere. And this’s already annoyin’ as it is. I mean, your little bud’s been starin’ at me the entire time. So… Can he maybe not?”

He didn’t understand...He should have been here. All this evening Gundam had sensed His presence about him, almost as if He had been stalking him.

Stalking him....

Then it finally hit him. Gundam’s worst fear had come to pass. He had been behind him the whole time...as Leon!

Immediately Gundam spun around, twirling his coat as he did so and swatting them at at the All-Stars face. “So...you thought you could fool me all along, did you?” he snapped at his sleepy red-headed classmate. “It’ll be another 3000 years before you can fool with a disguise such as this one! What have you done with Leon?!”

Gundam was ready to fight!

   He’s watching Gundam expectantly, hoping he’ll take him up on his offer, and then– he beams. ‘A little bit’ is good enough for him!

“Really? Okay! Gonta meant he’d start bringing more bugs for you to see, but maybe we can take this opportunity to go find some together.” 

With that, he’s already ready to go. He turns with his tiny army of beetles (and Gundam) in tow and starts to walk across the school grounds. “Even if you find something you see every day, there’s always something to appreciate about a bug that you might not’ve realized before. Gonta will prove that to you!”

This person was...persistent, to say the least. Yet there was a innocence to his attitude that in which Gundam couldn’t bring himself to hate and counteract with backlash or refusal. Only a sigh was given...and then nod. “Very well. But not too long.”