Room 429, Friday Night

[raspberryturk]

Okay. So it had been a kinda cool dance, no pun intended, in spite of all the ice. But it was tradition to follow up dances with quality time with Rikku in his dorm room, and so, Reno did.

Because he wasn't going to be the guy to mess with tradition, okay?

And after tradition came snuggling. Of course, this was also tradition.

What was new was the ferret. It hadn't been involved in the tradition, but now that they were done being all traditional, Reno and Rikku had decided to give it some quality time, too. Mostly it involved pointing and laughing.

The ferret totally had one of Reno's socks. Socks were awesome! They were good for chewing on and honking at and hiding and smuggling away into nests!

"No, really," Reno said, watching the ninja-weasel-goose with an air of amusement, "the quarter decided it. His name is Dumbass until I can come up with somethin' better."

Well, at least Dumbass seemed to like the name.

[For Rikku, who was modded with permission!]

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[the_merriest]

It was totally for occasions like this that Rikku kept a set of pajamas in Reno's room. Because it'd be weird to pull her dress back on, while snuggling, but somehow? Playing with the ferret required PJs.

And sometimes, it was nice to curl up and snuggle in with pajamas, anyway, so it wasn't entirely the ninja-goose-weasel that inspired it, but still.

"You're not calling him Dumbass," she announced. "So you totally have to come up with something better soon. Dude, it's been a week. He's gonna be, like, traumatized from not having a name."

You could tell from the way he chittered excitedly that he seem traumatized. Really.

[raspberryturk]

Reno gave her a squeeze and laughed, lounging around in his red pepper boxers.

Because if one of them was wearing something, it stood to reason that both had to be, here.

"Well, you got any better ideas for a name? I mean, Hina suggested that it have somethin' to do with how energetic he is, but Flicker the Ferret just seemed too damn alliterative. Dumbass totally fits. Or Numbnuts. He kinda looks like a Numbnuts, to me, yoto."

[the_merriest]

"You're not calling him Numbnuts, either," she sighed. "That's mean and cruel and I'm totally allowed to take him back if you give him a mean name. It's in the fine print on the receipt."

Right.

She picked up a nearby sock and threw it, aiming near to the ferret's head but hopefully not going to hit him. "Energy? We have droids, where I'm from, but he's so not a droid. You should know lots about energy anyway, isn't that what you've been studying?"

[raspberryturk]

"Well, yeah," Reno replied, watching the ferret start on what could only be interpreted as a coordination-challenged war-dance, tripping over his own feet, the sock, the floor... pretty much anything that could be tripped over. "But he doesn't strike me as a solar-powered anything. And hydroelectric is a freakin' mouthful, and wind-power's boring, and gasoline... well. Sure, gas smells, too, but that just ain't right."

He paused for a moment.

"Guess he could kinda be a Mako..."

[the_merriest]

Rikku giggled. "He could! That sounds all cute, look at him dancing around. Heyyyyyy."

She hopped up from the bed and scooped up the ferret, who immediately began chewing on her fingers. Awwwwwwww.

She settled back in, snuggling against Reno, and let him wander over the bed. "Heyyyyyy. Do you wanna be a Ma-ko? Maaaaaaa-ko. Do you?"

[raspberryturk]

The ferret was totally interested in the name. You could tell by the way he attempted to nose under the sheets and hide from it. He approved.

Reno grinned and pulled Rikku into that snuggle, laughing a little to himself.

"It's a better name than Dumbass, anyhow. Or 'Hydroelectric.'" He wrinkled his nose a little at that. "Okay. Mako it is, yoto."

Reno reached forward to drag Mako out from the sheets he was attempting to burrow into, causing little warbles and honks and a good deal of scrabbling little feet, trying to get back under the covers. Nest! Must nest!

[the_merriest]

"Awwww, let him go," she giggled. "Maaaaaaaaako. Did you wanna snuggle-snuggle?"

Mako seemed more like he wanted to run free and eat things, so she offered him a couple of her fingers to chew on. As was only polite.

[raspberryturk]

Mako had a new bestest best friend and her name was totally Rikku and she was the best and he was gonna bounce and honk and gnaw HAY FINGERS YAY.

Reno just laughed. "Oh yeah. You can tell he wants to 'snuggle-snuggle' by how he's fallin' over his own ass tryin' yo gnaw on you, yoto."

[the_merriest]

"Some people snuggle rougher than others," Rikku grinned. "Just because he's bitey doesn't mean this isn't snuggle-time. Right, Maaaaaaaaako? Get it. Who's gonna get it? Did you get it?"

Her fingers were going to have bruises tomorrow. Awesome.

[raspberryturk]

Mako was the best snuggler ever and he was gonna snuggle even better by gnawing harder and- Oh! Those blankets weren't burrowed into yet, brb!

Reno was going to just smirk at Rikku. A lot.

"You know, I'd chew on your fingers too, but they probably taste like ferret-breath now."

[the_merriest]

"That's why I have two hands," Rikku said, holding her other fingers close to his mouth. "Just for this particular situation, in case you wanted to chew some that weren't ferrety."

[raspberryturk]

"So you were born with two hands in preparation for this very moment," Reno mused, leaning forward and playfully nipping at the finger nearest to his mouth.

More words would happen as soon as he was done sucking on that same finger, really.

[the_merriest]

She wriggled closer. "You're hopeless," she sighed. "Couldn't behave if your life depended on it."

[raspberryturk]

"There ain't no fun in behavin'," he laughed, giving her another squeeze (her pajamas told him to, who was he to argue?) and letting the ferret climb all over his bare knees.

Little ferret feet tickled. A lot. Hence the squirming while Reno attempted to snuggle.

[the_merriest]

"I think he likes Mako," she decided. "As a name. Do you? Maaaaako. Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaako."

The ferret stopped his climbing to honk at her, as he always did when the big people made noises that were specifically directed at him.

"See? He approves," Rikku said.

[raspberryturk]

"Apparently so," Reno agreed. "So, Mako it is, yo."

He was going to have to reach over and grab the honking little thing again. Because, awwww, ferret.

[the_merriest]

"He's so cute when he does that," she grinned. The honking, the dancing, the chewing, all of it, really. "We should get some of his toys. What's he like to play with?"

[raspberryturk]

"What doesn't he like to play with? Socks are his recent favorite, yo. Followed after that by empty bottles, my shoes, things bigger'n him, and anything he ain't supposed to get his teeth into."

Reno grinned as a wrestling match commenced between hand and ferret. Mako was so totally winning.

"Probably more that sorta stuff than his actoal toys, zoto."