Just like we used to

                                    

                                          
Y/n pov:
Kunikuzushi let go of my hand when we arrived at my cottage. He held the door open for me to walk in. 
Yin ran inside and laid next to his brother on the floor next to the fireplace. 
Kunikuzushi closed the door behind us. I walked over to a table and opened my basket. I put my arm inside the basket and felt the serpent coil around my arm. 
"So that's what was inside the basket." Kunikuzushi spoke as he watched the small green serpent around my wrist. 
I turned to him and held the serpent between us. "I found him almost drowning in the river earlier. He was lucky I arrived. Poor thing wasn't able to swim after having almost half of his body cut off by something." I said and pointed to the part of the serpent where a deep cut was surrounding it's tail. 
"I see..." he replied. 
"You were in the city this late to fetch healing herbs?" He asked. I nodded. 
After doing what I could to help the serpent, I let it slither it's way down into the basket again.
I turned back to Kuni, who was sitting in a chair, simply observing how I treated the snake. His hat was placed on the table.
"Don't tell me you were working this late?" I asked, wondering why he even was in the city that late. He didn't seem like the person to enjoy crowded drunk areas. 
"Ah... no I didn't. But... would you believe me if I said I had a feeling that told me to go to that alley?" He responded. I raised an eyebrow. "Such a thing can't be possible..." I said with a small tug of my lips, threatening to turn into a smile. I crossed my arms.
He let out a short chuckle. "Well, it was simply that. A feeling." He said, he looked towards the floor. 
I watched his face change from a simple smile into a smirk. His eyes met mine again. "Maybe it was fate? Perhaps Teyvat is trying to tell us somt-" he started speaking with that sly tone of his, which I'd never think I'd see on this new version of him. 
But I cut him off by flicking his forehead. This had become a quite usual thing for me to do. The familiar face and the small yelp he would always make, made me feel some sort of way.
I stifled a laugh as I saw his dumbfounded expression at my act. 
My hand hovered above his face as I simply watched his pretty face. 
As soon as I made a move to pull my hand away, his hand snapped up to mine, closing around my wrist. "You need to stop bullying me like that 
Y/n..." I heard his voice say. 
I looked down in his face, he had a fake sad expression. But when I met his eyes, my face heated up at how his expression immediately formed into one of a sly fox. His smile tugged at the corners of his lips, showing off a few sharp canines in the corner of his jaw, when he smirked. 
He stood up, still holding my wrist. I let out a small breath at the quick act. Then he stalked towards me with a small glow in his eyes, making me back away. After no more than four seconds, my back hit the wall. Immediately after, I heard his hand slam into the wall next to me, making me jump slightly. 
Mt eyes were wide, but I was sure that at this point, I was blushing. I hoped he couldn't tell, though he probably could, with the way he was staring at me. 
He leaned closer to me, closer than I expected. 
"When I saw those guys walk towards you and shouting at you like that... I wanted to kill them." He said, putting on no filter whatsoever.