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Arkha Corvus is a very mysterious man. Yet, he is your husband. He has been for many, many years. You two married young, technically around 23 or so. Now, you're both around 100 something. Your personality varies differently from him. You're immortal as well, but you're not the wise one.
You've always been more straightforward, and adventurous. You're strong, and full of willpower. Your wrath is like no other.
You were created by the same person Corvus was, along with Kuro, and your sibling. You four only truly met after your maker mostly disappeared from you all.
Ever since Corvus became the boss of the cleaners, he's given himself a persona.
You find it so funny. You visit him at his work (you have your way of sneaking in) and he tries to act nonchalant around everyone. You can't help but laugh as he shuts the door to his office after pulling you in there.
“Sorry, sorry! I just can't get over how you put on a cute little persona" You say with a smirk, lowering your hand from your smiling face
He sighs “It's oddly embarrassing for you to point that out"
His face is lightly flushed. He's still technically a human, with the heart of one. Not so much in his soul though.
“Well, would you be less embarrassed if I say you still are calm. Cool, too? I mean your nonchalant persona doesn't fool the person you married" You say as you walk over to his chair, and plop down.
He walks over to look out the window. His eye is open, and it's staring directly at you. He's never subtle when checking you out.
“You know I see your eye staring at me, right?" It snaps close. He turns the front side of head to you. His “eyes" looking at you. You know those do the bare minimum when looking at someone. His regular vision is blurry, but it at least doesn't overwhelm him as much as his real eye. However, when it's closed, he has a harder time with stuff, so it's already open again. You know that for sure
" I have no clue what you're talking about, dear” He softly smiles.
You grimace " You suck at lying. I'm so surprised that Kuro has never taught you his ways”
His eyes widen, and he lazily smirks “Oh you're pulling that move. Well I say your sibling fights better than you." He faces away once more, knowing you're a little pissed at what he said.
" Cunning, shithead” You say, opening his desk drawers
" You started the teasing” He draws out the you
" Tamsy Caines? You're writing about that guy again?” You know the guy. Arkha is suspicious about the guy. You don't know why, but you trust your husband's intuition. After all, his eye lets him dwell into thoughts and memories. Him and Kuros' things go hand in hand. Well, they were made for that.
You shake your head slightly as you turn so listen to whatever your husband wants to ramble on about. You know he loves sharing his new stuff. He's actually a huge talker when you actually know the guy. Especially the fact he's immortal, and isn't really a human.
“I have the suspicion that he’s up to something bad. A huge bad plan. Just something about him. His vibes. Semiu saw nothing in him either. Either he thinks his intentions are actually pure and good, or he somehow hides whatever it is so well.” Your husband takes the paper from your hands
“ I actually need to hide this better. I’m guessing he’s also been going through my things. Or a helper of his”
You grin at him. You have always found how wise he is to be attractive. Kuro is wise too, but his personality is completely different from Arkhas. It’s why you only see Kuro as a best friend. He was actually the old timey form of the best man at the wedding, now that you think about it.
“I can bring stuff to my apartment to hold onto” you softly suggest
“That’s actually a nice idea. When did you gain the ability to think like that?” he teases
You grumble, and take back the paper
“Be grateful I’m doing this for you, shithead” You snap back at him
He laughs, it’s hearty, and sounds crow-like at the ends of the cackles. He only lets that noise slip through around you. Sometimes around Kuro and your siblings as well.
“Do you need me to take anything else to bring to my apartment” You ask after his laughing fit
“Yes, yes. Let me find them. I’ll get you something to put them in as well” He says with a lazy smile
By the end, you’re carrying a heavy ass bag while sneaking out of the building.
He’s a secretive man, that's for sure.
—- • —-
This time, while coming to the Cleaners HQ, you decide to visit the front desk after sneaking in. You want to give your husband some embarrassment.
The receptionist looks up at you from her porno magazine.
“Hello, I’m here to see Arkha.”
She raises an eyebrow. First name basis, the hell?
She uses her glasses on you. There's no ill intent coming from you. She senses something a little off, but oh well. You’re probably as secretive as the boss if you’re calling him by first name.
“Sorry, he’s out of office today.” She easily lies. She’s testing to see if you actually know the man.
“ I know he’s not on business today, or he’d tell me. Can you ring him so he knows I’m here?” You say with a smile. You don’t have willpower for nothing.
The lady smirks
“You definitely know the boss.” She rings him up, tells him he has a guest. She tells him your description, and you already know you’re about to see him embarrassed when walking in here.
And here comes the big boss man himself. He’s definitely flustered! You hold in your laughter.
“Yes, what do you need?” He asks, slightly fidgeting with his gloves. He’s trying to act nonchalant!
“Business stuff, Arkha. Little birdie needs ya.”
Why does Kuro need him? Arkha sighs and looks at Semiu
“I have to take a business leave, Semiu. I trust you can handle everything else.” He softly says to her as he puts his hand on your back to get you walking already.
She nods, and as soon as he leaves, she calls Enjin on her choker.
“Get your ass down here”
And now a little group is formed around Semiu’s desk as they all theorize about the business, and who you are
Tamsy pipes in as Delmon yells about you potentially being the boss's lover.
“ Maybe the Boss has a secret life.”
Everyone ahhhs at that. Enjin then asks “Like marriage and possibly kids?”
Tamsy then says “ No, something more. Imagine he could possibly be some powerful person” he says with a playful smirk. Plenty laugh at that.
Semiu adds in “ Boss is a secretive man, but a good man no less”
August then hops up and loudly yells “IMAGINE HE’S NOT EVEN HUMAN?"
Everyone laughs and continues on with theories.
Meanwhile, it’s a yearly gathering between you four. Your sibling made it back from their adventures around the ground to fight and learn more. You do the same, but you more so visit the cults of the ground to try to understand the connection to the sphere. When your maker was still around, you’d join them in battles with your sibling. Now you two just help Kuro and Arkha. Who knows if your maker will come back and demand knowledge. It’s also pretty fun, either way.
Deserts fill the tiny table in your apartment. One coffee for Arkha, soda for Kuro, Jasmine tea for your sibling, and your favorite drink for you.
Kuro is talking your siblings' ear off as you and Arkha pull the cake out of the oven and ice it.
“Kuro, what the hell are you talking about?” You ask while bringing the cake over. Arkha took his gloves off to help out, so he’s washing his hands off repeatedly with hot water. You remind Arkha to stop as Kuro opens his mouth to explain to you what he was talking about. You decide to just sit down.
“ I recently learned that one of the of age Nijiku men is still a virgin and unmarried at the time he should be due to a younger one not being a hell guard. Something of the sort lead to the older one to be more isolated ” Kuro says as he sips his soda
You give him a confused look “And how did you learn this?”
Kuro playfully grins
“ Dont give me that fucking look”
Your sibling stops you before you make the deserts fall from the table.
Arkha sits down beside you and sips his warm coffee. His gloves are crooked. You fix them for him and your sibling makes a thinking face.
“I think I heard about that too. Maybe something about a scandalous thing” They say while grabbing a small sweet and eating it in one bite. Your sibling has an oddly huge mouth. All four of you do have some inhuman thing about yourselves.
Arkha hums in thought “I sometimes overhear one of the cleaners, Zanka Nijiku, speak about that stuff. Either to himself or to someone else. When he joined, his reason was something about that. He somewhat has a persona. I believe it’s in response to that. The hell guard is a horrible system in my eyes” He calmly states
“ Says you Mr. Nonchalant” you tease. He flushes and looks away. Kuro and your sibling laugh.
“Anyway, be nice to look into the hell guard more. That’s not as important as other stuff. Maybe on a holiday we should?” You say while sipping your drink.
Your sibling quickly agrees “YES! You don’t understand how bad I wanna fight one!” You glare at them
“ You can’t give away our purpose and our immortality.” You remind them
They pout and then decides to go back to eating sweets.
You all continue in conversation and food. Arkha has been handing you food, like you can’t get it yourself. That’s when you remember, he's a crow at heart, you’re his mate. Of course he’s handing you food. Kuro of course has some ways of being that crow when eating as well, mostly like watching around, ready to alert if there’s danger. Then your sibling, they’re also a wolf at heart like you. However, they have no manners and gobble down food.
You love your tiny family. Your amazing husband, mostly. It’s because he is more collected. Or it’s because he’s not an actual dickhead unlike the other two.
—- • —-
When Boss returns to HQ, Semiu gives him a look.
“I have a huge pile of paperwork YOU need to sign off on. Anyway, one question, who was the person you left with six whole days ago?” She says while closing her porno magazine
Arkha thinks for a moment. Silence falls between the two.
“A business partner.” He calmly says
She raises an eyebrow
“ You were blushing and rushed them out the building.”
“I wasn’t expecting them, is all. It’s embarrassing to not expect a guest of high status” He smooths out his jacket
“So you’re not romantically involved with them?”
He pauses.
“Technically, I am.” And he leaves it on that
Semiu needs to inform the others.
Once more, a huge group forms around Semius' desk. All theorizing on what that comment could mean.
This lets you sneak past the huge group and head to your husband's office.
You barge in, as always. His eyes are closed, and his head is down. He’s either watching something, or thinking. You interrupt it by knocking on his desk. His eyes open, you notice his third eyelid before it opens. Was he asleep?
“Were you sleeping?” You ask with a teasing smirk
He sleepily nods, “ At least you’re the one who found me like that.” He yawns with his teeth snapping
“It’s hard for you to sleep that well, anyway” you say as you plop down on his desk
He nods and his mouth does the things birds always do after swallowing water. He’s so cute!
“I’ve been more tired as of recently. It may be from stress. I’m not entirely used to the feeling yet” He mumbles out. Arkha decides to lay his head on you lap
“Your people are gathered around the receptionist making theories about me. They’re so invested they didn’t notice the real deal walking by them!”
He cackles. Fully crow sounding. He's that sleepy, awh!
“Well, when they're interested in something, they are solely focused on just that." He mumbles
“You're that way too. " You pat his head.
Knock knock
You're already under the desk to hide. You're a little upset. You wanted him to be sleeping in your lap. Very human and very loving!
Oh! You hear some dudes voice
“Id like to take a few days off, boss.” Is that Tamsy’s voice?
“I'm sorry, but you have to wait on that. Plenty of people are on vacation recently for holidays in their home town or village."
You're messing with your husband's legs in boredom. Your hands wrap around his calf and drown out the other voices. He's oddly thinner in his legs, but they're firm. What if you… you bite his calf. He hides his reaction, from practice from years and years. You often bite him for a reaction of sorts. It's just an instinct of a wolf to play around.
Tamsy leaves and you're back to your spot on the desk. Arkha’s head rests in your lap. His eye is rolling around. Trying not to sleep. Sometimes it rolls up as he's in thought. It's funny. You place your hand on it, earning a soft little sound from him. It's a crow's version of a purr. He enjoys his eye being touched. It's sensitive, but when rubbed gently around or under it, he's so comfortable it's actually kind of concerning.
Sometimes when that eye glows, he can see the truth through words. There's other uses as well when it's like that, but that's the simplest version.
He's making crow noises. You remind him you don't understand what he's chatting about.
“Sorry..m’ tired"
He says softly and slowly. You can truly hear that his voice is a mimicking sound now. That reminds you of how your yawn is more of a howl like sound. You four are just animals in a human body, or form.
—- • —-
You wake up in your apartment, your body feels numb. It’s just one of those mornings. You lay there, awake, for a good hour or so. You sit up in your bed and yawn. What time is it? Oh, it’s noon. You want to go out in the town today. The weather is nice, anyway.
You get ready, and brush your teeth before leaving. You check your teeth once then leave.
A lot of people are out today, so you probably are the least of priority to prying eyes.
You stop in a store and look around there. You spot a coffee section. Maybe Arkha would like to try some new coffee? You walk over and look at the flavours. Why is the logo a dead crow? That's just weird. However, it reminds you that Arkha did “die” before. His neck was slit. He opened his eyes when you approached. He then said to you “ Despite us being immortal, we can feel excruciating pain like this.” It took him a few days for his neck to heal. He’d have to hold his head up with his hand. Being a creation has its downsides. There’s more of those than perks.
You decide to get him a cotton candy flavoured coffee ground. It doesn’t have that weird logo either.
—- • —-
You sneak your way into the cleaners HQ, and you barge into your husband's office. He looks up from his paperwork with a confused face.
“I got a gift for ya” You sit the coffee ground in front of him
“Cotton candy flavoured coffee?” He takes it in his hand and looks at it. He smiles “This actually seems pretty good. You know me so well. Thank you, dear”
You grin at the praise “I deserve a kiss as a reward, ya know” He blushes
You get your kiss and he’s back to paperwork
“Watcha doing?” You ask while going behind him to massage his shoulders. He likes the feeling of it, so you randomly will do it.
“A lot of paperwork. My eye is very overwhelmed. It’s fine, though. However, I am bored” he says with a blank tone
“You can take a break?” you suggest
He hums in thought “Why not?”
“Wanna walk around?”
“Definitely.”
So you two walk around HQ as you talk about your day. It eases his mind when he doesn’t have to think much. Your words he knows are true. That’s why listening to you is always something he doesn’t have to think about.
Then you guys run into Semiu
“Boss, got a call about a trash beast.”
Now you join your husband and Semiu as they send a team off. You grin and say
“I want to go as well.”
The cleaners raise an eyebrow but Semiu agrees and so does Arkha. He knows you do well in battle anyway. That was your main purpose before the maker left.
You sit in the back of a vehicle next to a red head and a kid with a stick. A blonde guy is driving, and a man with a scar over his eye is a passenger princess.
You decide to make conversation
“ So, watcha guys think about the boss?”
The drive looks back at you for a second then says
“ Can I first ask what’s your relationship to him? We’ve all been super curious”
You’re annoyed he didn’t answer you, but oh well
“ Someone he’s known for years” you say with an annoyed tone
“ That doesn’t give us anything!” The driver says in a whiny tone
“Well, he’d be embarrassed if I say more” you say with shrug
The passenger then says “Boss can get embarrassed?”
Jeez, Arkha shows nothing around them.
“Anyway, do you guys just see him as mysterious”
Everyone in the vehicle nods and or audibly says yes
“Oh.” How do you speak to humans again?
“Well, what are your names?”
You find out the guy with the stick is Zanka. The redhead is Riyo. The driver is Enjin. The passenger princess is Gris.
You decide to tell them yours and Riyo asks “Are you with Boss?”
You shrug “ Depends on what you mean.”
“Married or dating?”
“Hm, I’d say business partners.”
You have to not laugh at the others' reactions.
—- • —-
You were the one who single handedly killed the trash beast. Yes, people did attack it, but you mostly did. You also found its core. You take the old vital instrument from the core before someone notices. The cleaners just stare in awe.
Enjin then asks “How are you not a cleaner?”
You simply just say “I do my own stuff. I’d rather not be called randomly to a boring job”
You’re not like your sibling. They love battle, but you avoid it. It’s not that enjoyable for you. You just like being strong for when you truly need it.
You hear the Zanka kid grumbling about natural talent. Wait isn’t that the Nijiku kid Arkha talked about. That kid definitely has a low self esteem.
—- • —-
As soon as you’re at HQ, you run to Arkha’s office. You barge in, ignoring what he’s saying or doing. You slam the vital instrument core onto his desk
“This was in the trash beast, Arkha.”
His eyes widen some
“Huh. Either it was handmade, or old vital instruments need to be destroyed when it’s owner dies” He says in awe
You groan
“I’ll tell my sibling to inform Kuro…” You sigh
He seems annoyed
“I wonder if the raiders are making them?”
His eyes slightly close and he looks away. He’s definitely annoyed at the thought of trash beasts being made.
“Noooo clue.” you sit plop onto his desk.
Arkha lets out a tired sigh