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Your name is now Potchi
Despair, hate and resentment. Those are all the feelings He Xuan have been familiar with for the past centuries of his miserable existence.
No amount of food, no amount of ships being sank upon entering his black water, and no amount of time could ever change this feeling. Not with the reminder of their deaths, his entire family's death. And culprit behind it all, still alive and living well.
It annoys him, frustrates him, angers him. It drives him mad how his family, his life, could easily be tossed aside like nothing. He have to kill that man, he needs to kill that man, that damn man known as the water tyrant.
He Xuan had planned it so well, his been living off disguising as Ming Yi the Earth Master. In better turn of events, the fake wind master even befriended him. It was so easy, just taking a ton of time... A ton of patience...
But soon... Soon...
Soon He Xuan would get his rightful revenge.
Thats how it was supposed to be. But a slight misstep, a simple mistake had caused him to shrink down and transported in that bastard room! And his... His appearance... Why does he suddenly have ears and tails seemingly like of a cat!?
He Xuan stood in front of the tall mirror, the reflection showing a small, chubby appearance of supposedly sink sinking black water calamity. His overall appearance was mostly the same but his ears, his normal ears are gone! Replaced by this fluffy cat ears resting on top of his head! And this tail!? When does he ever had a tail!?
[Imagine He Xuan like a chibi character that looked about the same just without his human/ghost ears, instead he have black cat ears on top of his head and a black long tail. His fur is soft and fluffy. *He is wearing clothes btw*, You can imagine any He Xuan official work appearance here, or your headcanon, but I usually imagine his hair from the voice drama black water arc edition... ]
"That damn..." He Xuan gritted his teeth. He should have known that suspicious cave that suddenly appeared in his domain have something on it! But he still went in stupidly, all because it was his domain.
He Xuan stood still in front of the mirror, staring at his reflection with puffed fur. Ears shifted on the sides and lowered, glaring endlessly on those deep and endless gold gaze.
Suddenly, the door opened causing He Xuan to freeze all over. He forgot, he almost forgot...! This room was that damn tyrant's personal bedchamber! With appearance and height like this, partnered with his sudden disappearance of any Spiritual Qi, He Xuan was completely defenseless.
He Xuan slowly turned, his eyes glaring holes at the now taller and bigger water master. Shi Wudu's eyes quickly spotted and narrowed towards the intruding suspiciously weird cat by the mirror, and for a moment there was only silence between them.
Slowly Shi Wudu started striding towards He Xuan, making black water puffed out unintentionally the fur on his cat ears and tail. Shi Wudu stopped and looked down, his eyes remained narrowed and intently staring deeply at He Xuan's.
Shi Wudu turned and looked around, stared at the door for quite a bit before returning his attention to the intruding cat.
He Xuan stepped back a bit when Shi Wudu kneeled down, eyes staring so intently that He Xuan even felt nervous, and maybe fearful. But he had never expected...
"Pspspsspspsp... Whats wrong kitty? Why are you here?" Shi Wudu said with a clear hint of awe and softness in his supposedly arrogant and cold voice. But the way Shi Wudu remained staring at He Xuan...
Does he know? No. Definitely not. He shouldn't be able to connect me and "He Sheng the scholar" as the same person.
He Xuan gulped quietly, his entire body tense and the new familiar beating heart in his chest is racing uncontrollably.
He Xuan's iris turned slits when Shi Wudu extended an arm, making him sink back until his back is cornered against the mirror. Unexpectedly, the known arrogant and cold tyrant, started rubbing his head softly...?
Well... It was petting at first, then rubbing... Then sudden cuteness aggression with a bunch of light face pinching???
He Xuan was so shocked to his core, body and ash, that he couldn't even think. Let alone react or move. By the time he reacted, Shi Wudu had gone lifted him off the floor using both hands, breathing heavily with a straight face.
He Xuan was already shock from earlier, it even made him more and more shocked when Shi Wudu suddenly pulled He Xuan close and Shi Wudu's face pressed against his stomach, inhaling heavily!!
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!?????
He Xuan cursed, again and again, while struggling to push Shi Wudu's face away with his cute little hands. But for Shi Wudu, all he could hear are a bunch of Meows and a very normal cat-like behavior.
Shi Wudu felt inexplicably happy, so happy, he could even rubbed his face against the cat's stomach... How lucky... This day is definitely his lucky day!
He Xuan freeze, his eyes grew wide and more alert as his tail continue swishing loudly against the air and smacking repeatedly at Shi Wudu's hands. His eyes followed Shi Wudu's approaching face, until he felt a warm lips pressing on his chubby cheeks. A warm and tingling sensation blooms in his chest, his mood changing from clear anger to something else, his tail started swaying more softly and less aggressively.
Shi Wudu's eyes were closed as he kiss the cute black cat on the cheeks, forehead and ears. When the cat seemingly behaved in his hands, Shi Wudu pulled away and face the cat fully again. The black cat remains glaring but it is clear that it had calmed down and allowed Shi Wudu to do whatever, it's cheeks flushed with pink.
He don't know how the black cat was in his room, he don't even know if it's normal to have a cat that was kinda shaped like a small human... But Shi Wudu couldn't careless, this black cat was in his room, his property. Therefore, this cat is now his!!
Shi Wudu's lips twitched to a proud smile, he just thought of a name.
"Kitty you were in my property, it doesn't seem like you have an owner so... I'm taking you." He Xuan was silent, his tail flicking a bit angry against Shi Wudu's hand. No owner? What if his-his own owner!?
"From now on, your name shall be..." Shi Wudu paused for a bit, wondering if the name was fine, but he remembers this was the name he wants to give to the cats he wasn't able to adopt... He Xuan narrowed his eyes, somehow he got a bad feeling. A very bad one.
"Your name shall be Potchi!"
"......"
".......!!!!???????"
He Xuan's rises basically become so slitted that it simply only looks like a line drawn in his eyes. What the fuck. Who the fuck. When did the water tyrant become like this? Was he always like this? Who names their male cat potchi!!!!!
He Xuan starts struggling against Shi Wudu, clearly he doesn't like the name at all. When He Xuan finds out Shi Wudu couldn't understand him, he started cursing at him again, this time angrier. But no matter how angry he looked and how much angry meows there is, Shi Wudu seemed to misunderstood it completely.
"You like it? I know you would...!" Shi Wudu bought "Potchi" closed to his face again and started happily rubbing his face against the clothe belly of the cat.
"WHO LIKES IT!? BASTARD LET GO OF ME!! TAKE YOUR DAMN FACE AWAY FROM ME!!!" He Xuan, who refused to be ever called normal named potchi, cursed and push Shi Wudu's face. He Xuan looked down and sees Shi Wudu's happy face, an expression showing such gentle and soft smile that not even Shi Qingxuan had seen...
"PERVERT! YOU DAMN TYRANT! NOT ONLY DID YOU RUIN MY LIFE, YOUR ALSO TAKING GREAT LENGHTS TO HARRASED ME LIKE THIS!"
In the end, it was He Xuan who run out of energy to continue cursing and struggling. His body lay flat on his back with limbs extending straight like a starfish at the tyrants bed, his small appearancr... No matter how angry he was, his more of a cute cat that appears to be sulking or shy...
With his hand, He Xuan kneads the blanket below him, like a cat. Upon noticing, He Xuan stopped his movements and turned to his side, starring straight at the guy who decided to name him Potchi.
Shi Wudu was by the open window, where a table and chair were positioned, reading some sort of book. He Xuan stares at his back angrily, and then he remembers that expression from earlier and his suppose dead heart starts thumping wildly in his chest. Even more frustrated, more to himself than the other, He Xuan starts to angrily knead the blanket below him....