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Preening, Scritches, And What Comes Next If You Move Away From That Sweet Spot

After twenty minutes of searching, Eiji finally spotted Ankh. He was looking at his phone, preening himself in a tree. Which was a typical sight. The only thing that was missing was that Ankh didn’t have a popsicle on him.

“Ah, there you are! Chiyoko needs you for something.”

Ankh looked up from his phone, rolling his eyes. With an expression of taken offense over being interrupted. “Can’t you see I’m busy?” It looked like Ankh figured out he could use the camera as a mirror, focusing his eyes back towards his iPhone as he preened.

Eiji expected this. But he couldn’t just leave him here. “Come on, it’s rude to keep people waiting.”

He ignored Eiji, focused on preening himself. Which was obviously much more important than whatever Chiyoko could have wanted.

“And why should I care? The woman can wait.”

He absolutely wasn’t going to listen, so Eiji thought it was time to employ one of his strategies for dealing with Ankh being so petulant.

With a huff Eiji climbed up the tree, sitting himself right next to Ankh. Gently placing his hand under the back of Ankh’s neck. Just below his curls, because if he touched his hair, it wouldn’t end well for him.

“Oi, what are you—” Before Ankh could even finish his sentence, Eiji was lightly scratching that spot on the back of his neck.

And it felt so good. Birds loved getting scratched, and Ankh was no exception to this. This would stop his attitude for a moment.

Ankh’s eyes were closed, lips parted slightly, and slowly began leaning towards Eiji. He looked as if he was in pure bliss.

As long as he continued in this one exact spot, Ankh wouldn’t retaliate. He had to be precise here. Eiji had learned the hard way what happens if he moved even the slightest bit away from that spot.

Especially if he happened to touch the hair Ankh worked so hard to maintain.

And it was honestly adorable how Ankh would react. He couldn’t help but admire Ankh’s expression. It was so sweet, and beautiful at the same time. Admiring his eyelashes, the blonde curls that shone under the sun, and those lips— Eiji’s cheeks flushed.

It was no wonder why Ankh was so prideful and meticulous about his appearance, he truly was gorgeous.

Unfortunately, Eiji got so caught up in admiration that he made the grave mistake of not only moving out of that sweet spot… but also committing the cardinal sin of touching Ankh’s hair.

Instantly he jolted up, glaring daggers. Obviously Ankh didn’t have any feathers inside the detective’s body, yet despite that he still managed to look puffed up and ruffled. Honestly it was impressive how he managed to do that.

In a swift motion Ankh bit right into Eiji’s hand.

“ANKH–!” Yanking his hand away, Eiji had an offended expression of his own. Ankh turned away, huffing as he resumed preening.

Great. Now he had to redo everything.

“Tch, Idiot.”

End Notes: As my one friend who owns three birds, and is an expert on birds in general, but has not seen a episode of OOO (yet) said to me once: "Ankh needs scritches. But if you go 0.1 cm away from the good spot he will bite." (I also couldn't help myself with that cardinal pun)

I hope you liked this chancellorxofxtrash! I really love writing bird behavior Ankh. Happy Fandomtrees and I hope you have a great new year!

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