@hopeoverdespair asked: Nagito has been staring at Kazuichi all day. In class, in the halls, just a lot of not-so-subtle glances. It was kind of unsettling. And it totally wasn't because he knew there was going to be a full moon tonight...
Kazuichi....couldn't even really get upset about Nagito's constant staring --it felt at nearly every single moment as they went about their day, he swore -- even as it made his mind buzz with the ingrained instinct that he was being watched, something that had become even more noticeable with the introduction of his canine side. It was something that was expected the moment Kaz had told him about his true nature, as was the....well the experience it had been to tell Gundham what had happened when Kaz saw him later that day. It...wasn't necessarily bad, Gundham's reaction to it all, but it was most definitely not what the mechanic had expected when retelling what had occurred that night. He was ready for anger, for the halfblood to yell and cuss and hit him complain as he tried to process how stupid Kazuichi had been, not only for getting into a preventable fight (there was no way to tell if it truly could have been avoided of course, but since he had wandered haphazardly into the area without having checked for danger first, it was completely his fault as far as Kaz was concerned. He should have known better) but for telling Nagito about what he was unnecessarily. Nevermind the fact that he had been tired and in pain, having just returned to the dorms after a full moon spent alone while Gundham tended to a new litter of pups as they came into the world. He had been stupid, nothing but a fuck up that night, but...Gundham hadn't been mad, not even a little bit, and Kaz was still confused by it.
All he had to do was lay his eyes on Kazuichi to know something had happened beyond just a routine transformation, an involuntary smile in greeting quickly falling into a look of panicked concern at just how ragged the mechanic had looked. He hadn't even questioned why Nagito was there at first, along with the fact that Kazuichi was freely explaining his evening without excluding the more...unusual bits in front of their previously uninformed classmate. Before that, the only ones who had knowledge of Kazuichi's newfound werewolf abilities, aside from Gundham, was Sonia, Hajime, and even Fuyuhiko. Telling Sonia hadn't even really been a question, the princess already knowing of Gundham's nature when she had stumbled upon him injured one night after a brief encounter with a vampire that had been prowling about campus. Had it not been for him, she would have most assuredly become another hapless victim, and without her, Gundham would have bled out right there on the sidewalk.
Hajime had been Kazuichi's decision, it feeling wrong having to tell his soul friend again and again that nothing was wrong when he was so clealry high strung. Those first few weeks after the bite and before his first transformaion had been a nightmare, with him and even Gundham not knowing just how Kaz would act once transformed.
They assumed, as was the case with most every other werewolf Gundham had come across in his rather eventful life, that Kazuichi would be nothing more than a beast, bound by instinct and instinct alone for the duration of the moon, only to be left in the dark about anything he had done as a wolf once it was through. The mechanic had been nothing but an anxious mess those few weeks leading up to what would be his first moon, only for nothing truly of note to have occurred once shifted. He had simply...been, his deep fear of losing his consciousness having sparked something within him that allowed him to keep his wits the whole way through.
Before that, however, Hajime had seen how near catatonic his friend had been without a clue as to why, Kazuichi not only finding a sudden close friendship with his former "rival" --it seeming a touch odd how quickly it progressed even with the apology Kazuichi had extended to him and Sonia for his behavior a short time before-- but Kaz even refusing to leave the breeder's room on top of it, and when he did leave, he was glued to Gundham's side with a near constant look of unease. It was no surprise Hajime had been concerned when he had gone yet another full week without hearing from his normal clingy chatty friend, nor was it a surprise he had come knocking on Gundham's door demanding to know what was wrong and why the breeder seemed to be the only one who knew about it. He couldn't be blamed for feeling hurt and even replaced at first, and while Gundham had attempted to diffuse the situation and shoo the other man way so they could keep the mechanic's secret, Kazuichi's voice had stopped the both of them in their tracks where it had sounded from under the breeder's bed, so very tired and resigned, a stark contrast to the usually brash and colorful man. And so Gundham had let him in, and they told him, which was of course met with confused denial of its reality, until Gundham had proven the existance of the supernatural they spoke of with a ball of hellfire in his palm.
Surprisingly, that had turned out well, Hajime keeping a closer eye on his friend when it drew close to the moon to make sure he faired well, along with a few snacks being carried on the reserve course student at all times once he learned of Kaz's newfound voracious hunger.
Fuyuhiko had been an accident, but an inevitable one, Kazuichi having come to his aid during a moon spent around campus when a hit had been attempted on their classmates life. A snarl was really all it took to send the goons running after they had jumped the young heir, a large and angry dog being a rather effective deterrent even to the most hardened of criminals. Kaz had howled endlessly until Gundham had found them once the danger had passed, the wolf standing protectively over their half conscious classmate as he lay bleeding from a gunshot wound to his middle. Fuyu had woken up in the breeder's dorm after that a few hours later, his wounds having been cleaned and bandaged, and the yakuza left to rest on Gundham's bed. Kazuichi had been curled up on the floor after falling asleep in a failed attempt to "keep watch", and in a moment of rather uncanny timing, the sun had risen near moments after Fuyu had noticed him, and Kazuichi had shifted back into his human form after waking with a start when the change began. Although he had been shocked, if not convinced he was mentally unsound at first, Fuyu had been rather indifferent about the whole thing, saying merely that he would keep their secrets in exchange for saving his life.
Nagito...had been a fuck up, there was no other way to put it, at least in Kaz's opinion, but so far it had only led to questions, and of course the staring. Eye giving a twitch as the classroom cleared out for the day, Kaz had his palms slamming down on the lucky students desk with a growl the moment the last person had walked through the door. "Will you fucking stop staring at me?! This ain't the kind of shit you miss, so knock it off!" Nerves a touch frayed thanks to the coming moon, Kaz's eyes widened with the realization that he had snapped without meaning to. "Uh...sorry. I um...get kinda...touchy? Before the moon, and uh...I could literally feel your eyes on the back of my head all freaking day. Not exactly fun for me to feel like im being watched, you know? Kind of an animal thing I guess..." No person would ever hate being watched this much, surely Kaz was just overreacting like usual...
"Anyways, if you still wanna tag along for the moon, we got some shit to do before then. First though, I'm fucking starving, so we're gonna go get something to eat!"
