[Closed] By the silvery moon

[demureshift]

Title: By the silvery moon
Characters: Horikita Maki, Ninomiya Kazunari, Ohno Satoshi
Location: Maki's Tiny Apartment
Week: Week 26, Friday, February 18, 6pm
Rating: PG-13-ish?
Warnings: Physical pain, wolfieness, mostly harmless but you never know

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[faysounds]

Nino wasn't nervous. Maki had enough nerves for the three of them - Nino couldn't be nervous on top of that. He'd wanted to be with Maki for her changes since she'd come to him bitten and bruised. But things had never been so bad as they were that one time and asking had seemed inappropriate when he knew she was uncomfortable with herself. They'd talked about it for ages before deciding on this course of action.

Nino was sure that things would be okay.

He was also very careful to make sure they were on time - it was 6 on the dot when he and Ohno reached her building's front door and buzzed up.

[tsuribakasami]

Ohno would be lying if he said he wasn't currently nervous. He would quell it, he knew, but for now he needed that little bit of nervousness. It would be gone when he was with Maki, but for now he was a little nervous.

He wasn't nervous for what Maki could do to them, no. He was nervous that there would be nothing they could do for her. The idea of being useless in this situation just tore at Ohno.

When they reached Maki's building, Ohno let out a soft exhale and squeezed Nino's hand tightly.

"Maki, it's us," he called out into the buzzer.

[demureshift]

The buzzing startled her. It was so loud, when her ears were already hyper-sensitive, always an adjustment, but Maki shook it off as quickly as she could, because the buzzer meant good things.

It meant Ohno and Nino were here.

She rose from the futon and hurried to the door, feet bare, wearing the loosest, most breathable clothing she owned and hit the button to unlock the downstairs door. "Come on up. It's the third floor."

Neither of them had been here before, and Maki wished for what seemed the millionth time that she was in a state to be a better hostess. She unlocked the door, and hovered at the threshold, resisting the urge to just...run. It wasn't what she wanted emotionally, just an almost overwhelming instinct.

[faysounds]

Maki felt anxious. Fluttery, almost, like wind through the trees. Nino tightened his grip on Ohno's hand and pushed through the door. Since Maki was only on the third floor it made much more sense to take the stairs. Her Valentine's chocolates were in his bag, though they'd wait until the night was over to be given.

Nino smiled as he caught sight of Maki in the doorway of her apartment. "Maki-chan."

[faysounds]

Nino watched Maki eat, settling down on the floor to gnaw at her steak. Her tail wagged idly as she did - meat juice staining her muzzle and the floor. Nino felt his lips curling up slowly. He'd have to clean it up after her so Maki didn't come back to a floor that would horrify her sensibilities.

First to go was the plate - he scooped it up and put it in the sink to wash, then moved back to Maki's opened futon. "Definitely a wolf," he murmured. "She wants to be outside."

[tsuribakasami]

While Nino focused on cleaning the floor, he took a wet rag and held out his hand for Maki's snout. She was absolutely hilariously filthy and Ohno knew her human side would be beyond embarrassed.

Cleaning carefully, Ohno finished with a kiss to the top of her snout. He rinsed out the rag and left it to dry before moving to join Nino on the futon. "Too bad we can't take her out. Maybe one day we can take her up north to explore where it's safe."

[demureshift]

Maki licked at the floor for any residual flavor, and was just starting to lick at her own nose when Ohno was by her side with a warm wet rag, wiping her snout clean.

It was a little annoying, but she submitted to it anyway, trusting Ohno, as much as she had trusted Nino to take the plate without a fuss. Had it been anyone else, Maki might have kicked up quite the protest, and digits might have been lost. But not here, not with them.

Still licking at her own snout here and there, Maki felt the need to pace through the tiny little apartment, into the bathroom, sniffing at the closet door, one of the windows in the living room, and the bottom crack of the front door before she wandered her way back to the futon, resting her head questioningly on Nino's lap.

[faysounds]

A warm weight landed on his lap. Nino looked up from his sprawl, catching sight of pointed ears, and propped himself up on his elbows. He scratched between those ears with one hand. "Hm? What is it, Maki-chan?"