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[untilitstops]

Characters: untilitstops and candleinastorm

Location: Their humble apartment.
Rating: Approx PG-13. Language, nudity, the usual.
Time: Oct 3, night.
Description: Post-rescue shenanigans. Recovering Aeon feels the need to reassert his superiority investigate his new abilities under changed parameters.

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[candleinastorm]

Kazu had also been having a hard time relaxing ever since Sano had been kidnapped, though he was much more obvious about it than the older man. There were dark circles under his eyes that spoke of his own nightmares, old nightmares full of fire and smoke that had resurfaced and multiplied and it was getting to the point where he'd burned something in the kitchen and almost puked at the visceral memory the smell provoked.

Far from having Sano back, Kazu had become twice as worried, hoovering around the man as unobtrusively as he could and exchanging insults by rote. Any noise woke him from dead, smoke-clogged sleep and had him padding past Sano's room back and forth until his heart stopped racing.

He was exhausted, and that was the only reason Sano's stalking aura did not someone alert Kazu. He continued padding down the hall, unsuspecting.

[untilitstops]

Inasmuch as a jaguar could smirk, Sano attempted it. His ears pinned back flat against his head, his body pressed lower to the ground--and without warning he pounced, slamming one shoulder against the back of Kazu's knees and darting away again as quickly as he could. It still hurt to move so quickly, and jumping any higher than that was almost out of the question, but he wanted, needed to see how this body moved. And after all, there was only one subject to experiment on.

[candleinastorm]

Oddly, the first words out of Kazu's mouth were not a string of inarticulate cursing, but a single panicked cry of Sano!. He caught himself before he hit the ground and recovered with impressive speed, resting on the balls of his feet as he cast around frantically for both his enemy and a weapon. he spotted an umbrella in the same instant he spotted the predator and lunged for the former.

[untilitstops]

Sano backpedaled clumsily, trying not to trip over his own paws; feline grace only compensated so much for going in a nonideal direction. Glancing rather blandly up at Kazu he gave a single growl, sounding more like a hoarse disapproving cough than anything else. He sat back on his haunches, curling his tail primly around his paws and radiating exasperation at the umbrella.

[candleinastorm]

Kazu's mouth worked open and close for a few moments, limbs still shaking with adrenaline as he waited for the thing to pounce. Which it didn't. "WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU JUST SITTING THERE YOU DEMON CAT?!"

[untilitstops]

The cat's tailtip flipped once, and Aeon began to make a low chuffing noise just barely identifiable as a self-satisfied purr. Exhausting or not, Kazu's.reaction was fairly gratifying. Moving slowly, he got to his feet again, pacing patiently closer with the intent of rubbing innocently against Kazu's legs.

[candleinastorm]

Kazu flinched, muttering a breathless curse, hands convulsively tightening on the umbrella. "You're purring," he accused. "Where the hell did you come from, the zoo? Do we even have a zoo?"

[untilitstops]

Belatedly, he realized he'd yet to determine if he could speak in this form. That a jaguar lacked the vocal cords for it was apparent; but, after all, it was magic. It was also much more amusing to keep his secret for a few moments longer, if only for the inevitably explosive reaction when his endurance gave out and the spell collapsed. Mildly, claws sheathed, he reached out to pat Kazu's leg with one paw.

[candleinastorm]

Kazu visibly slumped a little. "Are you looking down on me, you damn cat?" he muttered. After another moment he slowly reached up a hand to scratch the cat's ears.

[untilitstops]

The answer to that rhetorical question was a resounding "yes," but he permitted the fingers on his ears to distract him, rubbing his face into Kazu's hand. For a few seconds, the intent of harassing him was forgotten in favor of being petted. Remembering his purpose, he stretched up and put his paws deliberately on Kazu's stomach, trying to shove him off balance with his not inconsiderable weight.

[candleinastorm]

"H-hey!" Kazu tumbled back with a small yelp, reflexively reaching out to curl his hands around the cat's forelegs. He was suddenly reminded that the thing currently sitting on him probably had huge claws, and definitely had huge teeth."Wh-what are you doing? --Aeon!" he called out suddenly, trying to squirm out from under the cat. "A-Aeon Clock get your ass over here!"

[untilitstops]

Without trying to retrieve his legs, Sano stretched, and then sprawled with every sign of contentment on top of his unwilling pillow. Resting his chin on his outstretched legs, he fixed Kazu with a bland stare of amusement, satisfied by this explanation. The exclamation before had been another cry for rescue, which was something he could understand, even though it exasperated. Flexing his claws very slightly as though to test that they worked, he resumed purring smugly.

[candleinastorm]

"You--Well, whatever. As long as don't eat me."He went back to absently scratching the cat's ears, but jerked hard when he saw the claws. "--Or otherwise harm me fuck watch the claws!"

[untilitstops]

Sano huffed reproachfully, retracting them again. They did seem nice and large, effective enough. He had every intent of testing them further on something more durable... Eyeing Kazu's beanie, he all but smirked and pawed it neatly from his head, catching it in his mouth. Less durable, but excellent testing material...

...Or, rather, it would have been had his fading endurance not finally come to its inevitable end, leaving him quite human and naked and blinking in displeasure. With a mouthful of beanie.