Tang

It was a really weird sitiation in general.

In short, after the world almost collapsed about three times and everything was seemingly peacefull MK wanted to be more with his friends and that includes Macaque.

MK scolded him for living in his dusty ass dojo, if he wasn't sleeping on random trees ('old habits die hard, ok?') so he b̶e̶g̶g̶e̶d̶ proposed Tang to let Macaque stay with him and fortunatly thye both agreed, although begrudgingly.

MK couldn't blame them tho, Macaque sure as hell couldn't wuth their, uh, 'history': The first time they've met Macaque tried to turn him against his friends and then forced him to perform a ritual that activated said fire into it's vessel, Mei. Granted, he did that because the Lady Bone Demon threatened to kill him and he had been making it up for it with helping MK mostly.

But the both always kept a safe distance from eachother. Now it's a different story.

They've been sort of living togheter for a couple of months now, I say sort of because Tang had no idea Macaque was in the apartment half of the time. Having shadow powers would give you that advantage.

Their realitionship on the other hand was... Complicated, to say the least.

Macaque had this thing where he was very aloof, doing things only if they benefit him and that includes their little 'arrangement': I mean they lived togheter, for convinience sure, but they also have this weird domestic routine that feels so nice, for both of them, so it feld odd when Macaque refused to agknowlage the possibility of anything romantic happening (blame Wukong).

Now Tang just woke up, blowing the steam off of the cup of tea he just made, enjoying this lazy morning. Not after ling, he hears footsteps approaching him and of course it's Macaque. "Oh! Good morning Macaque. Did you sleep well?" He says, although he's holding the cup to his lips you can hear a smile in his voice.