#tldr he loves wu very much AAAAA

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@kingwu​ ○ 𝕨𝕦 𝕒𝕤𝕜𝕖𝕕 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕠 ○

          ⤷  『  Wordlessly Wu wrapped his arms around Mako's waist and press his nose against the middle of his chest, keeping his face buried there. While he wasn't the best at reading the room (as most of his focus was on himself before), he eventually learned to pick up on some things from Mako's behavior over time. He took a deep breath in then sighed it out before saying, "You had a rough day at work, huh?" His voice was muffled against Mako's uniform. 』

It was rare that his own emotions were taken into account, but it was both something he'd grown used to and come somewhat to expect. The benefit of that was that even if he was having a really bad day, nobody commented on it to make him talk about it. Sometimes he didn't want to talk about it. What was the point? It wouldn't change anything…

Or maybe he'd simply convinced himself a long time ago that bottling things up was the right answer, and the young king's behaviour allowed him to keep on doing it unchecked. It was… a precarious balance he didn't want to give up on despite knowing it would do him no favours.

Today was unfortunately one of those days where 'no favours' felt like an understatement. He'd been running around Republic City like a mad man, the police department having swiftly taken advantage of the fact that he was back, even though he was officially still escorting the king of the earth nation… Not that anybody cared.

He'd worked his ass off for the department with nothing given in return and in fact even having had to deal with jealous colleagues and their petty little ways of undermining him whenever they could. Despite all that, the assignment with Wu had initially seemed like a punishment, especially once his station had been made permanent.

But…

Over time they'd learned to understand one another and even appreciate the other's presence, despite how different they were. He had gone from regarding the young king's antics with irritation to irrational fondness, and no doubt Wu had begun to look at him differently as well, putting up less resistance over time when Mako had to drag him out of whatever he was doing for the other's safety among other things. He didn't get jealous either, when Mako had to put other duties first or help Korra, Asami and his brother out with the whole team avatar thing and all that.

Well, when he thought about it like that, how could he not come to appreciate the other?

Still, maybe he'd gotten a bit too used to the chaos and relative peace of spending time with Wu, which admittedly sounded less like an assignment these days and more like something he wanted to do regardless. He actually might not take it well if they tried replacing him to reinstate him at the bureau…

Which… Hopefully they wouldn't do, because he was no longer used to the pettiness of his former colleagues, nor did he have the actual goals and motivation from before that allowed him the fortitude to ignore them and continue working. There were more important things, those fools had never wanted to understand that…

Which was why they'd run him ragged chasing empty leads and near misses, only to then mock him for it. I it any wonder he wants to punch something right now?

Coming home (when had he started considering any suite he shared with Wu home?) he'd mostly wanted to simply vanish into his room and simply become one with the covers, but instead the young king had taken one look at him and hugged him instead, and—

Mako melted into it more easily than he'd expected, wrapping his arms around the shorter male and burying his face in the other's hair in turn, squeezing lightly before letting Wu pull back. His lips twitched lightly at the question, since his entire countenance felt like it was speaking for itself.

“Like shit.” Damn it… “When can we leave?”

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#kingwu #universe • the legend of korra #inquiry • the legend of korra #interactions • mako #answered #hi this is very very veeeeery late but i miss them and im soft xD #took me a sec to get back into character with him but oooo he went off a little hehe #tldr he loves wu very much AAAAA #into the void • queue