Fangs and Tails.
Once named Demon Dog or Cat. The first 5 chaps are old and will be re-written.
Rated M on curtain chapters. I’ll warm you!
Chapter 2 - Cat with little words.
Ryu's brain could barely register what has happened to him once he arrived at Minato's. He took no time at all to find the guest room and crashing on the bed. Tears fell from his eyes like rain. He wasn't sure if he wanted to trust another soul. Mina was all he had, and his apartment, his park, his world would just have to return to what it was before. His brain couldn't keep up with all the memories he had made with the bunny in the last year. It couldn't possibly give itself a moment to think decently. Was he even remembering how to breath? It took a while, but Ryu fell asleep, exhausted from what has already been a long day.
Minato arrived at home, with her car parked poorly in the driveway. She paid the taxi and waved him off. "He's never like this." She spoke as she peered in the car and saw a discarded Hoodie resting in the back seat. Ryu never went without the Hoodie. She grabbed it and stood up walking in her house, aware of every little thing. Ryu hadn't ate, hadn't gone out to the back, not in the living room. "Shit, he must have just parked and left." She said out loud as she walked to her office, putting her bag on the desk. She looked at the room other then the picture of her two kids, she had loads of photos of her and Ryu. One was of when the two of them went to visit her daughter in England. Ryu was scowling in the photo cause her daughter's boyfriend was a fox half being. He had made it clear that he thought she should be another pure human. Another photo was of him smiling with her youngest son. The two were swimming in the pool in the backyard. Her son was in high school at the time, and Ryu had lived with him a year, before the two parted as her son went off to collage in Moscow. Minato looked at the photo closely and missed the days when the small teenage Ryu would play. She missed the days when the two boys looked like brothers. Now the two rarely see each other.
She walked out to the kitchen and began to make a dinner for Ryu and herself. She pulled out things to make him some curry and beef. As she started to cut the ingredients for the curry she turned on a small TV that sat on the counter. The news could get her mind straight. First the weather then top stories. As she chopped up a vegetable and tossed it in the pot a story caught her eye. A scientist and a reporter stood side-by-side talking about the half beings. She turned it up to hear.
"Well that's true, but no one ever thought that project would lead to something like this." The scientist said.
The reporter looked like she was highly interested, as she moved some hair from her face. "So if they did this when they started The Black Breed Restoration Project, then how is it we hear about this now?" She asked.
"In the United States the science never perfected a clone of the Black Half-child. Yet in these beings we've found the gene can be traced back to the two labs in Germany where they mixed the genetics with a few chemical compounds to clone one. Consequently creating these few mix breeds. Their lives are slightly longer than the healthiest black hair Half-Child. Their hair can be an odd color, green and blue are the common colors we've found. It's not something to fear, but it has been something well worth its study. We believe that the gene may continue to mutate as more are born." The scientist said as clips of a boy with blue and green hair, with turquoise eyes and wolf ears and fox tail played with a toy fire truck.
"So this can't possibly change what the world has lived with?" The reporter asked.
"The only significant change is that the idea of mythological beings might just be more possible than we thought." The scientist. "At the rate on the mutation we'll have the possibility to create animals from fairy tales using their blood. Though I highly doubt this will happen in our lifetime."
Minato turned off the TV and sighed. Just when would the world learn that they shouldn't be doing any of this any more. She and Hiroshi had worked so hard to stop and free black Half-Children years ago, but they still were doing what wasn't natural. She placed a cover on the cook pot and turned on her rice cooker. She tossed a towel on the island counter and walked down the hall toward her room. She only stopped to see a guest room door open. Ryu was lying on the bed curled up in a ball his tail wrapped around part of his body. He was sleeping, but as Minato got closer she saw tear stain streaking the checks of the boy she loved so much.
Minato sat beside him placing a hand on his shoulder and rubbing it. Ryu's eyes opened and looked at her. Once he saw her he sat up and hugged her neck and silent tears fell. She placed her hand on his back and rubbed it saying nothing. This wasn't like Ryu, but she knew words weren't needed at this moment.
Ryu has never been a break down person. He has only cried once in his life to his knowledge. Yet, here he was acting like a baby and he was just about six feet tall, about eight inches taller then Minato, but still he cried.
It wasn't for a while before either spoke, and the words came from Minato. "Come on you need to eat. I made your favorite." She hugged him and then held him back. She looked at him and swore that there was sixteen-year-old boy was before her, not the twenty-two year old man he truly was. She grabbed his hand and took him into the kitchen to eat.
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Kumi / @proxypuff
(original) Ryu / me
Story and art by me.
