[PRP] Self Discipl-what? (Muka/Needle)

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Unfortunately for Muka, while doing his usual routine of campus creeping, he was grabbed by two bogeymen. He at first panicked, concerned that something important happened. This then turned into amusement at what must have been an obvious mistake... and then the mistake scenario was blown away when they pointed out that they'd seen him running the Monster Dorm booth and it would be his responsibility to clean up the mess they'd all left behind.

He was deposited amidst the wreckage with a big trash bag and one of those pokey trash picker sticks that you saw convicts with. He looked absolutely lost. Cleaning? He hadn't cleaned up after himself in his entire life. At home his loyal butler did it and here at school he could usually slip a gnome a few seeds to get the job done. The strix stood there looking confused before he called his ghoulfriend to inform her of his disastrous situation.

After a brief conversation he started to poke through all the trash on the ground. He didn't pick up a bit of it unless it looked like some food or candy that was still edible... and that went straight down the gullet.

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Needle had, at first, sympathized with him. Having to clean up after a very large mess did sound like an awful lot of trouble, especially since it sounded like it wasn't entirely the Monster Club's fault. Before the call had ended she had wished him good luck, and had gone back to her drawings; he hadn't asked her for help, so she wasn't going to drop everything to assist him. Besides, it had also sounded like they were looking for anyone they could grab to clean up. She hadn't had the time to go to the House Cup, which was unfortunate.

Time passed and she decided it would be good to at least check up on him; they must have had a lot picked up by then, certainly! Just to be safe though, she took her time and made him a snack first. All it took after that was a few stops to ask for directions, and when she arrived on site she was careful to turn her feet intangible.

"This place is a mess." She sounded surprised. Well, surprised for her, anyway.

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Muka's head spun on his shoulder's to grin at his ghoulfriend with a beard smattered with bits of crumbs. He'd been in the middle of picking up a silver seed he'd found lost and forgotten under a candy wrapper. The strix had been at this for a while but it didn't look like his trash bag had any trash in it. Instead things seemed to have been pushed around, some of the more sparkly wrappers had been made into the shapes of spooky faces on the ground, and once he'd even tried to leave but the bogeymen had managed to appear again to glare at him.

"Hellooo.." Muka trilled happily, body turning to join is head as he moved to give Needle a peck of a kiss. "You are an apparition of.. hehe.. particular terror today.." His heavy handedness with the compliments were a sure tell he was trying to get out of doing this work. Like when he was assigned essays to write for class and instead he'd visit her dorm or phone her. At this point he was pretty transparent, while at the same time being oblivious to it.

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Needle was quick on the draw, and she had learned a long time ago the tells for when he was avoiding something. It seemed that her attempt to avoid helping really didn't work, because he had no real intention of actually doing it. Silly boil. Still she smiled and returned the little kiss, taking a moment to nuzzle into his growing beard. Ducking work or not, she still adored him.

"How has the cleaning been going? Have you made a dent in it?" She had a feeling that she knew the answer, but she still liked to play the game.

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Muka drew himself up and leaned on his pokey-trash stick like a cane. He stroked the crumbs from his beard and bobbled a nod importantly. "Oh yes.. There was ah.. much more when I got here." He drummed his belly, thinking of all the discarded snacks he'd eaten.

"And I made these.. heh.. funny faces!" He motioned to a face made out of trash that looked a bit like Jack Skellington. His giggling faded momentarily and the strix's nose wrinkled, "But this is... just terrible. Cleaning." He whispered now, as if the bogeys were listening, "They won't let me leaaaave."

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Needle continued to remain mostly silent on the subject, and as impassive as ever. Her head did turn to get a general idea of the trash art, but she wasted no time in turning her attention back to her large boilfriend. His voice had dropped to a whisper, and Needle couldn't help the small smile that snuck onto her lips. "Oh my, that is horrible! You know, I might have a solution to your little problem." She replied sympathetically, and then leaned in as though she had a secret. "Actually cleaning." She whispered as though it were a secret, this time ending it with a small chuckle.

"Seriously, screechheart, the faster you get to work, the faster it is done." He could have been home and eating lunch with her hours ago, she was sure of it. "And then we can eat lunch together." The little bag she was holding was then held up, indicating that there was indeed food inside.

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"You're an absolute.." Muka giggled, tempted by the lunch, and his arm snaked around her waist. His talons 'walked' across her lower back as he leaned in to attempt to distract the ghoul with affectionate nuzzling while he tried (and failed) to steal the lunch away, "slavedriver."

With a dramatic sigh he pulled away and began to hurriedly stab at trash. Some of it, apparently wasn't dead, and he chased a particular active slime ball around in the dirt for a while before it picked up too much debris and slowed down. he practically pounced it as it was snatched and shoved into the trash sack.

"What did you.. heh.. do during the Cup?"

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Muka leaned in to distract her and Needle smiled against him, eagerly nuzzling right back into his beard. Despite all this though, she knew him; the moment she felt his talons walking across her skin she shuddered, but she held the bag out at arms length and away from him. Her little smile had turned into a downright grin as he finally leaned back to call her a lovely name.

"You flatter me~" She purred out, managing a peck on the cheek before he was off to do as she bribed. The ghoul only stood there to watch for a moment or two before looking around for a place to sit. Her gaze eventually fell on what looked like a picnic table, which was good enough for her. Making her way over was a little tricky, but once she was she pulled herself up to sit on the edge of it, crossing one knee over the other. Their lunch was set down beside her and she spent a moment to smooth out the wrinkles of her much shorter skirt, still not quite used to it after years of wearing long hakama.

"I was, unfortunately, unable to attend." She said apologetically; it had been so sudden, she didn't really get to say anything to him. When she spoke next, her voice had lowered sadly. "I was summoned home. Was it exciting? What did you do?" Her voice returned to its normal state after the mention of home, eager to avoid the subject all together.

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Muka had at least finally managed to get the mass of trash into a large pile. It was actually quite impressive for him and his breathing was only mildly haggard by the time he'd considered the collection complete. The bogeys kept passing by and finally gave a nod of approval. One of them even dropped a dust pan to aid in the scooping it all up.

"Home?" He couldn't help his eyes drifting to the rare sight of knee he was getting from his ghoulfriend. Needle seemed keen on going right past that plot point. "Oh it was fun.. heh.."

Muka diligently scooped the trash while telling her all about the booths and how he ran Monster Dorm's with Demi. He told her about all the delicious snacks the monsters had cooked up and the games they'd planned. He even gave her some brief summaries of the competitive events they all competed in and that his brother Stache had come to watch (but eventually just picked up some other student's older sister in the stands).

By the time he was finished, the trash was scooped and the bag was tied up. Muka joined Needle with a heavy wheezing breath and pulled a monogrammed handkerchief from his pocket to dab at his brow. He wiggled his brows at her... and the lunch... before giving a tickling squeeze to her knees.

"Everything.. hrm.. alright at the Manor?" There had been a while when they'd discussed, almost secretively, what it would be like if she was no longer tied to the place. Muka never knew if he was supposed to ask about it. He was smart enough to realize that it was a situation that he couldn't quite grasp the complication of. He also knew there was more to it than simple wants and needs. There was Lattice to consider as well as their sibling that still remained there.

Muka's slight tickle of her knee turned into a grasp of her hand and a supportive squeeze. Of course he then gave her a devilish smile. Lunch? Yes? he was a good boy and cleaned up!

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Needle was content to completely bypass her mention of going home. Instead she listened to his stories, and asked questions, and laughed or gasped when she felt prompted to. It seemed like she had missed something that had been a lot of fun, and found herself mentally cursing her luck. All of the good things happened while she was away, except for maybe typical dates with her boilfriend.

At long last he seemed to be finished, and Needle’s lips slid into a pleased smile, followed shortly by a little clap of her hands. Job well done, though mostly because it was a job actually done. The little tickle had made her squirm enough to shift the way she sat, though she was quick to cross her legs again, and once he was close enough she leaned in for a little kiss.

“It is the same as ever. But that is a topic best left for later.” Her hand in his was comforting, and she gave it a small squeeze. She was close enough to catch the devilish smile even through her mask, and naturally didn’t take long to put two and two together. That was part of the deal after all; he cleaned, he got to eat.

“Perhaps we shouldn’t have lunch here…they may ask us to clean some more.” And by they, she entirely meant him. Regardless of her words she offered the bag to him, in case he wanted to snack on the way, and hopped off of the picnic table. After taking a moment to straighten her dress again (and feeling quite odd about the length, not to mention the fact she was wearing shoes), she leaned in to nuzzle her head into his beard, an act she would never get tired of.

“So, what do you say? Move somewhere a little more private? For lunch, of course.” Yes. Just lunch. Not anything else. Nope.

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"Good idea.." Muka hopped to his feet and recieved the lunch bag. The bogeys already seemed to be looping back around to check on him. Seeing the mess cleaned up and no place to readily put the bag of refuse, it looked like Muka was actually free to go. They didn't make a move to stop him.

The strix was happy enough to let the topic of the Manor slide for now. She would tell him when she was ready. The lunch was a pleasant distraction and he was already pulling out some small bag of crispy fried miscellaneous things and chomping happily on them.

"Privacy.. heh.." He swallowed down his mouthful. "Sounds lovely." He sacrificed the bag then, tucking it away to free his hand. His larger hand slid around her smaller one. He'd take his ghoulfriend's attention over food on most days.

"My room or yours?"

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Privacy did indeed sound lovely, and she merely smiled at her charming boilfriend. His hand moved to grasp hers and she was quick to thread her fingers with his, coupled with a small squeeze.

"Yours. My bed is still torn up." She tilted her head, which was the only real indication that she was giving him a look. The events that lead to the tearing had been remarkably fun, but since then they had both been too busy to replace or fix it, which was the whole problem. Her look didn't last long as another smile split her lips, and she absently drifted closer to him as they walked, being mindful of her needles, to rest her head on his arm for only a moment. A small sign of affection, despite it all.

"So. I have been looking for a job~" She started conversationally, shifting to walk properly, though she kept her hand in his.

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Muka merely giggled, unable to help it. "I'll send someone around to fix it for you.. heh.." Even though he shouldn't, Muka had managed to swing having one of the family butlers coming around the school once a week. He would press the strix's suits, clean up a bit, and do errands. The boil made a mental note to send the ancient skeleton around to Needle's room as well.

He perked hearing Needle speak of a job. Muka had also been looking for some income but he wasn't much of a true worker and the few conversations he'd had on the matter were still pending arrangements.

"What sort of work would you like to do?" He hooted curiously. The were approaching the monster dorms but he'd hate to force Needle to climb all those steps. Instead he paused, waiting for their chatter to die down so he could just fly them straight up there.

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"I would appreciate that." It was too badly torn for her mediocre skills to mend, and had been waiting with a great deal of patience for it to come up in conversation enough to mention it again.

"At first I thought it would be beneficial for me to look into jobs where I could be near tattoos, however...I have done that all my life. I think it is time for something different." Her head tilted slightly as she thought about it, looking up to the looming building they had paused in front of.

"I was thinking of visiting the library soon, to see if they are looking for help." She nodded, to confirm to herself that it was her plan. A library wouldn't be too scary of a first job, right? Especially to someone who had been cooped up all her life. After she confirmed this to herself she turned to face him, lifting her arms in a rather childish way of inviting him to pick her up.

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"Ooooh.." Muka trilled, as he scooped her up in his arms. The flight was short and within moments they were on the balcony of his tower room. The strix opened the doors for his ghoulfriend before hurrying in to make an attempt to straighten up. The familiar noise of bird minis echoed down from the lofty rafters as the kicked anything dirty away with his foot.

Even if it wasn't likely for Needle to even notice.

The choice came for them to go into his sitting room or to turn and go into his massive bedroom but the choice always seemed to be the same, so Muka now hurried in to clean up any discarded clothing he may have had thrown about.

"The library sounds interesting!" He giggled. "And perhaps with vast resources.. ehe.. you can read about more interests you may have!"

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