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It wasn't anything out of the ordinary. It was just the DBF causing destruction and mayhem, ya know the usual.

"Come on red son why are you doing this? It's gettin pretty old!" Mk pointed his staff at red son, ready to defend himself just incase red son tried anything. "Why do you think bozo?! I would disappoint my parents in destroying you absolute bafoons!!" Red snapped. "Red...i think you're only doing this for your parents. I think you have a secret soft side to you!" Mk teased making a ':3' face. Red son scoffed, "whatever noodle brain just die!" He threw himself at Mk as he struck him with kicks and blows. Mk blocked and swung with his staff red son stopped when he heard his father roar, signaling they were retreating. "ARGH! whatever! We'll be back" red shouted as he turned into flames and dissapeared.

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Mk was on a bar stool, stared down at the counter next to tang, he noticed Mk was looking pretty down "hey you okay Mk? You seem pretty upset." Tang placed a hand on his back to soothe him. "I-its just-! I think red son is more than just some meanie who wants to destroy us.. Ya know?" Mk burried his head in his hands. Pigsy gave him a confused face "are you kiddin'? He's our enemy Mk he's tha demon bull family's SON! just remember that before ya feel bad for him okay?" Pigsy put a hand on his shoulder.

"I-i guess..you're right..." Mk said looking down at the counter again, his eyes gave a determined look this time, he settled one thing in his mind.

He was going to find red son and get through to him.

Mk decided that after work he would try to find red son, he sometimes saw him strolling throughout the city to go to the local market. Another reason to prove Mk's theory of red son being secretly adorable and wholesome!

So after work Mk put on a sweatshirt not thinking of the weather outside and left. He knew around this time red son would be around the town searching for who knows what, but because of the DBF's not so great reputation some of the civilians feared the red demon but he payed no mind to it, he just wanted to get what he needed. He even got along with some of the children from megapolis!

After red son finished and got what he needed he noticed it was rather chilly outside, it didn't bother him at all though due to him being made of literal fire. Red son noticed a small child with long black hair a blue kitty sweater and blue head band with a pink skirt run up to him excitedly, all while a certain monkie kid was watching from an overgrown bush. "Red! Red! Hello!!" The girl ran and gave him a big hug. He hugged back and smiled at the girl "hello alexis how are you doing today?" He gave a small gentle smile at the girl, bending down on one knee getting to her height level. "Gotcha!" Alexis said as she sneakily snatched red sons hair tie causing his hair to fall. "Hey Alexis! Haha" Red son laughed as he tried to snatch the hair tie back. Mk couldn't help but blush, wait blush? as he looked at the hair down red son. He looked majestic, beautiful.. Mk shook his head and kept watching.

"Come on Alexis if you give me my hair tie back I'll bring you whatever you want from the mansion tomorrow" red said smiling. Alexis gave it back and put her two fists up in the air as she ran away screaming "yes! I can finally get that gauntlet I've always wanted!!" Red son put his hair back up and kept walking with a little smirk on his face. Mk watched from the bushes and clutched his shirt where his heart was as he bit his lip with stars in his eyes as he blushed 'red son is so cute! - I MEAN NICE!' Mk thought struggling to get out of the huge, leafy bushes, following red to his next location.

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Red son stopped by one more store to pick up one of his favorite fruits from a local fruit market, Mk gave a slight chill due to the breeze picking up. Man he really should've brought a jacket today. He snuck in the market to spy on red son to see what he got 'is this creepy?' Mk thought to himself. He figured it wasn't since he wanted to get some of his favorite jelly straws they sold there anyway.

Red son picked up the mango and inspected it to see if it was good or not, he stood there looking at the mangos for a while. Mk looked over and squinted at the red haired fellow, he was about to turn around to pick up some of the jelly straws then saw an old lady obliviously walking with her grocery cart in hand.

It caught him off guard and he went stumbling backward into someone.

That someone was... surprise!

"Ack! Oh I'm so sorr-" red son cut himself off when he realized just who had bumped into him. "Ah! Hey... Red son...hehe" Mk rubbed his neck and nervously smiled. "W-what are doing here?!" Red son said in a quiet whisper tone trying not to make a scene. "I- was just uh- getting some jelly fruit straws?!!" Mk said shrugging with the jelly straws in his hand. "Can you get any more cuter.." Red son mumbled under his breath as he blushed. "Wait wh-" Mk was cut off by red son "so care to explain yourself? I'm not buying your story." Red son put a hand on his hip.

"I- ugh fine! I was following you around to prove to tang, pigsy, mei and sandy that you're actually really nice! and my points been proven so please accept my one offer that I've always wanted to ask you!!" mk blurted, blushing a little, not to loud to attract other shoppers. "What?! Just get it over with you fool!" "I want to hang out with you!" Mk said red son looked at him, eyes wide as he blushed a light pink.

"I wanna hang out with you! See how nice you really are! I want to prove to everyone you're actually really adorable!.. I MEAN NICE!" Mk laughed, shaking. "Wh-what? Who says I'm nice? Whatever, come along noodle brain and see how cool and evil I really am!!" Red son grinned as he narrowed his eyes at Mk. "Alright yes! Let's go!" Mk took red sons arm and dragged him to the cash register to pay.

Red son payed and now it was Mk's turn he looked for his wallet but didn't feel it in his pocket. His eyes widened as he realized he had forgotten it at his apartment. He groaned and mumbled to himself 'welp guess no jelly straws today' he was about to cancel the payment when he heard a voice speak up. "I got it." Red said as he got out his wallet and payed for Mk's snacks. Mk looked at him in awe as he nearly exploded, "wait! really red? It's no problem? Thank you!" Red son blushed and looked away "yes it's fine noodle boy." They walked out of the store and Mk hugged him tight.

"See? You are nice red! and really warm..?" Mk let go of him and a breeze hit as he shivered, trying not to make it known to red son that he was cold. "So what now noodle boy?" Red son and Mk walked side by side down the city. "Well... Let's go to the arcade!! That should be fun! If you want that is heheh.." Mk played with his hands waiting for reds response. " hmmm sure..considering I've never really been there before." Red replied "WHAT?! you've never been inside an arcade before?! I'll be glad to show you around!!" Mk once again grabbed red son and dragged him to the arcade.

They got there and Mk hadn't realized they held hands the entire way due to Mk being very excited to show red son around the arcade they both blushed and pulled away, they got there and immediately got to playing. Mk showed red son how to play most arcades games, one in particular caught reds eye. It was a zombie shooting game, he turned to Mk "hey noodle boy whats that one over there?" Red son pointed to the gaming station with a single gun hooked onto the stand and a tv in front of it. "Oooooo alright! Let's try that one." Mk looked up at him and smiled, red son gulped and blushed 'why is his smile so.. cute?' Red son shook his head out of his thoughts and walked over to the game.

Red son grabbed the gun, not really sure how to hold it. "Uhhmm uh" red son tried moving his hands throughout different parts of the gun to try and get a good grip on it. "Here let me help ya red!" Mk grabbed the gun and red sons hands to position reds hands in the correct way to hold the gun. "Alright so you put this hand here.. and this one here, and then you bring it up and aim!" Red son hadn't noticed his hair caught a small gentle flame as he went beet red. "Heya red you okay? You're as red as my bandana! Haha" Mk flashed a bright smile, at this point reds hair was on fire trying his best to calm himself down as Mk panicked. "It's alright noodle brain I'm fine! Let me try and play this now." Red slid coins into the machine and took aim and started shooting. Mk's eyes went wide, he was really good at this! Despite not knowing how to hold a gun he wasn't bad.

"Aw yeah red!! you're really good at this!" Mk jumped up with his fist in the air as he cheered.

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"Phew I hate to say this but that was quite.. Appealing?" "You mean fun?" Mk correct. "Yes.. Fun! I guess.. Thank you? Noodle boy." Red son scratched the back of his neck, looking down and blushing. "Oh.. Well you're welcome! It's always good to hang out with a friend!" Mk smiled "yeah..... Friend.." Red son sighed "so where to now?" Red son asked again. "Well how about... The park? That's a peaceful place right?" Mk suggested as they both kept walking by this time it was almost nightime and the temperature kept dropping, cold breezes flew by here and there.

"Hm sure it sounds relaxing." Red son and Mk headed towards the park in a comfortable silence.

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They got to the park and sat on the grassy cliff next to each other, the sun was setting as another cold breeze hit them. This time Mk visibly shivering, "hey you cold noodle boy?" Red son looked over at him. "W-what?? Pshh no! I'm fine, really." Like it was on queue, another icy breeze hit them and Mk was again, shaking. "Argh here you dork." Red San took of his cloak jacket thingy and gently placed it around Mk's shoulders, immediately being surrounded by a comforting warmth. Almost like a warm hug, Mk nuzzled into the jacket grabbing it and wrapping it around him some more "wait! Aren't you cold?" Mk questioned. "Oh uhm no not really heh I'm a fire demon so the cold was never a problem for me." Red son sweat drooped and turned towards the sunset.

Mk suddenly scooted closer, quickly kissing him on the cheek then came closer to red and leaned his head into his chest. The jacket still around him. "H-hey what are you doing you idiot.." Red son flushed a deep red, his hair sparking. "I could use the extra warmth" Mk smiled then felt a hand around his waist as he was pulled closer. They both held each other close as they watched the sunset. "I told you, you were secretly nice!" Mk blushed and gave him a deep kiss on reds lips. Red kissed back and wrapped both of his hands around his waist, after about 2 minutes they both pulled away, "yeah yeah whatever Mk." Red said "woah you called me Mk!" Mk said giggling as the fire demon finally called him by his name.

"Yup." Red laughed.

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(Fun fact: one scene in this book is inspired by an episode of the owl house. Can you guess which one? ;)

Also this is my first story I've ever written that has had 2k words! (Usually they're 1k)

Also my sincerest apologies! I said in my last chapter I'd upload yesterday night but I didn't! Again I'm sorry and take this as a 1k reads special! Also I might be coming down with a sort of writers block but I'm going to try and write tomorrow night ty for reading and goodbye