monkeys sure are messy

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Okay maybe cleaning wasn't as fun as he'd thought it would be. They worked together well, busy and focused on the task at hand but it felt as though it was never ending! Tachi began to huff and puff as his mountain of leaves grew. It was an unending battle really, leaves would always fall from the canopy above, so really why was he even bothering? Maybe it'd be easier to talk someone else into doing all this instead...maybe one of his siblings? But now that Kuroo was here he couldn't really slink away like that, could he? Dang. With an aching neck he swept and swept, swishing the leaves aside before he decided he was done, that it was good enough.

Approaching Kuroo once more, he peered down at the cleaning he'd busied himself with. It looked fiddly and annoying, so instead of helping he peered around for something else to do. Oh! They monkeys had snapped some branches as they'd climbed, leaving some trees all messy and dishevelled. Like an elephant had passed through, uncaring of the mess it made. Hattori would be mad if he saw all this, would probably wanna hunt down the monkeys and make an example of them. Were monkeys edible? Maybe if they roasted them over the fire, had them with trimmings.... The thought made his belly rumble. Anyway, no time to think about food, he had to look busy!

Hopping up on his hind legs he grabbed a broken stick with his teeth and yanked it off the stem before tossing it into his leaf pile. More to burn.

By the time he'd yanked the broken sticks and twigs he was panting slightly, jumping up and down to reach them was harder work than he'd anticipated. But at least the trees looked neater now, not so snapped and out of shape.

"Are we done?" He asked with a cheeky smile, eyes squinted as his little nubby tail wagged behind him. He hadn't done much compared to his big bro, but did that matter? Nah, teamwork was dream work.