--Lone Wolf and Cub--

[threebetrayals]

[Maybe it was stupid to go "fuck it" and run away from his mother's house last month, but frankly Kunikaki cannot be bothered to think it was stupid. He is seventeen and absolutely fucking tired of his mother's bullshit and his sister's somehow worse bullshit. (He gets it, he understands that his mother never recovered from her sister's death, but he doesn't have to deal with it anymore.) So yeah, he ran away.

And now he's pretty sure some freak is following him as he winds his way through the city, trying to escape the fucker, but whatever. He'll make do.]

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[threebetrayals]

You mean the giant dog wasn't a--goddammit. At least I wasn't bit.

[He is so, so tired. And sore.]

Is it dead?

[book2thehead]

I wish I could say for sure. But it's very likely.

...That night wasn't a full moon, though, so maybe it was more like a shapeshifter.

[threebetrayals]

Dammit.

[He sighs, flopping back on the bed.]

You need a bigger apartment.

[book2thehead]

[Heizou stares for a moment.]

...Are you thinking of staying here?

[threebetrayals]

Obviously? You came to the apartment and wouldn't settle until I was in bed with you.

[book2thehead]

[His face immediately goes bright red.]

What?!

[threebetrayals]

[Kuni gestures to the bed and how close they are. And also how naked Heizou is but he's ignoring that.]

[book2thehead]

[Heizou somehow manages to turn even redder. He's practically the color of his hair.]

Oh- I-I'm so sorry, let me get some clothes on--

[He does grab at some blankets to cover himself with as he goes to grab some clothes to change into. Which maybe gives Kuni an opportunity to look as much as he likes.]

[threebetrayals]

[Yeah, he's looking. Heizou is a scarred mess but it's attractive and Kunikaki is very gay.]

Obviously I don't mind, even if it was weird.

[book2thehead]

[Boxers go on first, and if Kuni really is watching closely he'll get a quick peek. Heizou's still a little too flustered about all of it to notice at the moment.]

You don't mind?! Why wouldn't you mind something like that?!

[threebetrayals]

Because I don't? My mother is married to a kitsune who has a massive skulk, do you think I grew up with any sense of body shame?

[book2thehead]

[That gets him to pause and look over at Kuni in surprise. He's still quite red in the face, but that at least has him thinking more logically again.]

...I knew you were shameless but I didn't think it extended that far.

[threebetrayals]

I grew up with kitsune coming in and out of our houses and apartments because the fox-bitch let them run rampant. I don't know what to tell you.

[Kitsune are like that.]

[book2thehead]

[Heizou blinks again... And then snorts a bit in laughter.]

So waking up with them as naked humans laying on you is just par for the course?

[threebetrayals]

As is seeing them walking around as naked humans. You stop caring after a few years.

[book2thehead]

Man alive, and here I thought people in positions like yours would all be much more proper about this sort of thing.

[threebetrayals]

You'd think, but most people don't have a kitsune for a stepmother.

[book2thehead]

[He just chuckles a little, and now that he's got an oversized t-shirt on Heizou goes back to sitting on the bed.]

...Thank you, by the way.

[threebetrayals]

For?

[book2thehead]

[Heizou shrugs, just before letting himself flop back onto the bed.]

For being okay with this. For not being afraid of me. It's... It's nice.

[threebetrayals]

[Kuni just scoffs.]

The worst you did to me yesterday was get blood on my clothes and growl at me. You're not scary.

[book2thehead]

... I didn't try to hurt you? At all?

[threebetrayals]

Not at all. Just got pissy until you recognized my scent.

[book2thehead]

....Oh.

[Well. He did put two and two together to equal "Kuni's scent seems to have a calming effect on wolf!me." Maybe he shouldn't be surprised.]

...I'll have to talk to the landlord and see what we can do about a bigger place.

[threebetrayals]

[A month later, Kuni and Heizou are moving into a house closer to the edge of the city. It was cheap and has a yard, and Kuni was insistent on getting a yard for Heizou. It's small and kind of dinky, but it's a house.

And Kuni is currently in the kitchen, organizing it within an inch of its life.]