Author's Note: Written for
fuda_100's "poise". Featuring Muraki and Satomi.
The last time Satomi had seen Kazutaka, the young man still had a quiet awkwardness about him, his head ducked slightly as if he tried to hide from that idiotic half-brother of his, pale eyes wide behind the lenses of his eyeglasses, school uniform sitting oddly on his lean frame.
Now he carried himself with the poise of a predator, his head held high and his immaculate, tailored white suit sitting neatly on his trim figure, moving with the confidence that he had lacked as a young man. The fledgling had grown out his plumage and become a full-feathered hawk.