Tsundere or nail to the head

"What do you think?" Ryu showed his roommate some mummified beetles. He hunted from the wild.

"That's an artifact of some civilization. Don't break them or their effect will activate."

"Hmm, I wonder what would happen..." He played with one in his hand.

After finishing her morning swim Karaza climbed up from the ocean, awake and refreshed.

'It's gonna be a nice day.' She squeezed her hair.

"Woah-" She saw certain someone in green jersey and her roommate, a nail under over head.

'It was a nice day.'

They bought ice cream from a stand near her.

"Yello!"

"It's not like I wanna say good morning or anything. Baka." He said flatly, unenthusiastic to no end.

"...Hi?" She looked at her arch nemesis for explanation.

"He activated an old artifact. He must talk like a tsundere for a day or the nail will get a nail to his head. The activation made the flat really hot we're not weirdos who eat ice cream for breakfast I swear!"

She didn't know what a tsundere is but it was just another point in the list.

"Whatch doing here anyway?"

"Morning swim."

"In the ocean?"

"For heart health."

"I think quitting the smoke is an easier-" She did a back bend to avoid a punch to the throat.

Roxy got her morning run...with an ex mercenary chasing her across the shore.

It was indeed a nice day, cloudy and breezy. The strong sun shaded.

Most people enjoyed the weekend Thursday. Karaza sat on the bench with nothing to do.

"Nice day innit?" The nameless surgeon sat down.

The cool wind blowed their hairs till she tied hers. She looked at the undone open braid of his.

"Need a tie?" She offered. He raised his shaking hands. She reached to his hair awkwardly in an ask of permission before braiding it.

'Why his hair is so shiny?'

"What do you use for your hair?"

"Ahh. Shampoo?"

'Oh yeah he's a dude after all. Why men's hair is shiny and their eyelashes so full anyway? They don't need it.'

She grew pissed off as she worked on the shiny long hair. The smell of cardamom shampoo tickles her nose.

'He's overdoing it with the shampoo.'

She tied the braid. He admired the nice work.

She went to tinker with the vending machine, soon enough she knew why he chose to buy some juice today.

'Pleaseee! I wanna smoke in a nice day!'

"No luck huh?" He came back with his bottle while she sulked on the bench.

A ghost of a flinch ran through her body as she saw the beer bottle in his hand.

"What?"

"No, nothing." She said, not too quick, not too slow. A practiced normality.

He raised an eyebrow.

"Did I do something?" His voice calm and inviting.

"Should you.." She looked at the bottle twice.Too late to think if she should ask or not. "Drink beer in the day?"

"What's beer?"

"Ah...alcohol?"

"This is juice."

"Then why it's shaped like that?"

He handed her the bottle to drink. She took a shy sip of the carbonated fruit and barley.

He enjoyed her surprised reaction.

"Not a fan of alcohol huh?" He asked, tone light and careful but curious.

"Yeah, old master wasn't good with it."

"He was a drunk?"

"Not really, but a drop of it and he gets crazy...hitting everyone."

"Like his workers?" He asked, the idea unfathomable for him.

"Servants, me, young master, his wives, messenger from the kingdom once. That was a funny one, young master convinced them his drink was poisoned. That was a long week."She chuckled on the old memory while his face boarder line scared.

"Make more of that face and I won't tell you fun stories."

'So that what it was..' He recalled the cut he saw in her head.

"And they drag us for enjoying a smoke." He shrugged, joking. Making her smile.

"Wait, that's the same guy who freed the slaves?" He recalled from past convo.

"Yes."

"Humans are multifaceted complex beings."

"Please don't say that again." She cringed.

Ryu and Roxy popped in front of them as she handed the bottle back to him.

"In-indirect smooch!" Roxy covered her eyes.

"Co- come on guys! This is crass...baka!" Ryu looked away.

He looked at the funny hat on his brother's head.

"What's with that?"

"He lost a bet. He had to speak like a tsundere for a day... and to wear this." Roxy gave the excuse while Ryu gave his brother a bag of food from president.

'His tone so flat it's almost comical.' He thought.

He drank again from the juice. The two just ran away at that point.

"Virgins." Karaza scoffed.

He opened the bag, taking a sandwich.

"Ah, you want this?" He offered a stuffed bell pepper.

"Just eat it later."

"No, it's too spicy for me."

"..It's bell pepper."

"Yeah, too spicy for me."

She stared at the void, dramatically flabbergasted.

"What?"

"Demoting you from my cool peoples list."

"I'm in the list?"

"Yeah, number six. Was. Now you're at...six and half. Still cooler than number seven."

"How did I made it this high?"

That brought her to the time they met but didn't knew each other. Her first day in the land, in operation room, inside the transparent medical casket. Was it a casket or a surface above her she wasn't sure.

" All clear, start the anesthesia."

"Don't worry ma'am, this gonna be quick. You'll be walking in no time." The anesthesia technician told. She groans as her vision gets blurry.

"Would you like strawberry or grape juice after the surgery?" He chatted as the anesthesia took time.

"Huh? Ah please don't lobotomize me, and leave my ears too. Please." She murmured as the anesthesia did its job.

Even after not feeling anything a part of her was still awake with her half albino body.

The first thing she heard from him was his chuckle, about the lobotomy presumably.

"The screens shows partial deafness. Should we do the operation Surg?" The junior asked.

"Hmm, the consent for that got revoked now." He spoke in the voice of a patient teacher.

"But we can do it as well..."

"Let's focus on the emergency." He said, friendly but firm.

Knowing what she knows now he was probably wearing his professional diplomatic smile.

The rest of operation was filled with him humming a song.

"Not gonna tell me?" His voice brought her to the present, bench instead of OR.

"It's not your business or anything...Baka." She put most her weight on that leg, feeling better than ever.

"What's with the tsundere epidemic?"

Ryu removed the hat in the street away from his brother.

"Do you love me?" Evil Roxy teased. The nail threatened to hit his head so he answered.

"Of course not...BAKA. And don't ask a tsundere that question...Tako!" He sighed, regretting his life decisions.

They saw Natasha across the street in her casual attire, looking at a spot in the air.

"Sup kiddo!"

"Mo- Roxy sama!" She hugged her.

"Just call her Mom you baka." He soon got distracted by her wish scroll in the air.

"He lost a bet to be a tsundere, you're not a baka child." Roxy patted her head.

They just stuck to her as she went about her day.

'She's curious about her wish.' Ryu concluded as the two smelled candles and body sprays in a shop.

He followed them in silence through the shops, waiting for the day to end.

"I have a headache!" Natasha whined, sitting on a bench with their bags.

"Me too! mission complete!"

The feminine urge to stiff fragrances till one get a headache won over them.

Ryu was counting the seconds till this's over.

'Wait, will it go at sunset or at midnight?'

"Wanna have a sleepover?" Natasha asked.

"It's time to leave the neat kiddo." Roxy patted her again.

The nail faded away, he took a relieved breath.

"Thanks for sticking out." He told his roommate.

"Welcome! I mean it's not like I care about you or anything! Baaaka~" She did the authentic tsundere tone.

"Please stop."