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Wakasa is a were-leopard.
That is the reason behind why he has always been fast and good when he was engaged in a fight. Because it was always the traits of a leopard.
But no one knows about this. They probably were clueless about him being one of the so called almost extinct population, were-people. Even when they give him the nickname 'White Leopard', too. It was just one scary coincidence.
No one knows about him as a were-leopard, and he intended to keep it that way.
At least that was what he planned, until he met this cub whom Shinichiro bring to their base camp, once upon a day.
Since when did Shin-chan knows a cat-cub and why did I do not know a single thing about this?
The cub, seems like he already mastered how to properly shift, has black hair. It looks fluffy so Wakasa kind of wondering how it will feel in the form of fur. He also has blue eyes. It is so bright, and sparkly. Looks like he is in his six human years old. Or seven. Or eight. Or even nine.
For Wakasa, the cub looks tiny no matter his ages.
The pheromone-control.. it could get some work done, but it is already good enough for a cub.
Wakasa feels pleased. He nods and crouching down, leveling himself to the cub's height. He then looks the cub in his bright blue eyes.
"What's your name, cub?" Wakasa reached out his hand to caress the cub's chin softly out of his instinct.
And he knows that his Were felt content enough when hearing the cub purrs and even moves closer to him.
"Hm?" He says again, hand still caressing the cub in front of him. Completely ignoring Shinichiro who is now watching them in amusement.
"My name is Hanagaki Takemichi, a cat, Persian breed.." the cub says, still purring on Wakasa's touch to the cub's chin. A Persian. The cub got to be so fluffy on his Were form. Wakasa cannot help but wanting to see it.
"Are you.. Leopard, or a tiger, mister..?" The cub asks, oh so innocent.
He chuckles at that. This cub is already able to notice them as the same kind, though still confused on the pheromone difference between same genus. That is great. And the cub still trying his best to sounded polite, too. The cub's survival instinct is working just fine.
"The name is Waka. Imaushi Wakasa." Wakasa smiles, hand moves caressing the cub's cheek. Which makes the cub nuzzles to his hand. "And I'm a leopard. The snow one." It is fun. Submitting to his Were instinct.
The cub's blue eyes sparkles even more, it literally shines brighter than the sun. "I.. this is my first time meeting the same kind. Nice to meet you, Waka-sama!"
He shakes his head at that. "Just Waka is fine." Even though that will defy the hierarchy basic rules (in which one should not call the genus who sat on top of the food chain without honorific unless you are also one of them), for some reason, Wakasa does not wish to be called with honorific by the cub. Maybe because it is his first time meeting his kind but in form of a cub. Or maybe because this cub is so cute he wants to claim as family. Either way, Wakasa do not want the cub to call him anything with formal honorific attached.
The cub's mouth and nose scrunched down, shaping into '︿'. Looks like a look of disapproval, but maybe not. It just cute in general, to be honest.
"Then.. Waka.. onii-san..?" He says, a bit hesitant.
Wakasa nod, cannot help but grin while his Were feels really, really pleased at how the honorific escalated into something even more personal than just -san. It feels like the cub in front of him is his own. Not just a stranger who he has only met for once. "Yes." He says, purring a little bit to shows his contentment.
"Okay!" The cub chirps, cute and lovely.
He then finally realizes there was another person in the room. He looks up and find Shinichiro throw a smirk at him. All smug and punchable. Wakasa tsk-ing and gets up, not before giving the cub a head pat.
"How did I don't know that you are a were-people?"
"You don't ask." Wakasa simply answered with just that. "How did I don't know that you keep a cub under you?" He asks back.
"Two years ago, It's just so happen that Mikey got smitten by Michi on his way back home from school." Then Wakasa heard it. The fact that the cub got abandoned because apparently, both his parents are common people, and the cub was born carrying his ancestor blood as were-cat.
That is not uncommon. Where cubs get abandoned as they were born from common people. But usually, a case like this should be immediately handed to police, or government, or even ministry. Not orphanage or such. Because common people tend to not want adopt were-cubs. So why...
"Before you ask, I did try to bring him to the police, y'know." Shinichiro cut his train of thought. "But Manjiro and Emma said that we should keep him as family. The rest are history."
Wakasa rolls his eyes at this. "What history? I've got enough time in hand to hear all about my new little brother."
Shinichiro raising his eyebrows goes unnoticed because Wakasa is already focuses himself with the cub, the cute and lovely cub of his.
Not that Snow Leopard and Cat comes from the same genus but,
The point still stands.