A/N:
In this story, after Maduke was killed, Muzaka had Frankenstein take care of Garda because they told him about what Crombel did to M-21. Muzaka has taken back the title of lord of the werewolves, but is hoping to be replaced soon. Obviously, I made it so that the werewolves can turn into actual wolves. This sort of a what if…? Fanfic, the 'what if' being, what if Muzaka met one of Raizel's human friends? I narrowed it down to what if Muzaka met Shinwoo, because… reasons to be shown later in this fic.
This is based on one of my many personal head cannons for Shinwoo. I will explain why I wrote this story in the future chapters, that is, if the story doesn't explain it later on.
I don't know how many chapters there will be, but I will write 'completed' in the summery when it is done.
Enjoy, and be afraid to comment and critique!
I don't own Noblesse.
Walking along the crowded streets of this city that he has discovered that Raizel and Frankenstein now call home, Muzaka can't help but wonder how Raizel, of all people could ever want to live in a place like this. Of course Muzaka knows that Raizel had always felt incredibly lonely back in his mansion in Lukedonia, but this, this is way too much! There are humans everywhere! Muzaka's not complaining because of his hatred for humans as a whole, which he admits is fading, more of because of how loud and smelly the place is. He still hates humans with a passion of course, it's just that there are some humans who he thinks deserve death and others he believes he might feel regret for killing, like those human children that he heard about from Raizel and Frankenstein.
Muzaka stops in his tracks, thinking back to when he saw a glimpse of red hair a short while ago, how the child smelled of… despair? Longing? He snaps out of his thoughts, remembering his self-assigned mission for himself and a few of his warriors – the task might be too much for the weaker members of the werewolves, because of the city, but Muzaka can't deny that the weaker werewolves would have a guaranteed better outcome in a fraction of the time than a lot of his warriors – and resumes walking on the sidewalk. That red haired one, from what he was able to get out of Regis, Tao and Raizel himself, the red haired one – who they didn't name for reasons beyond him – was a capable fighter with strong protective instincts which had almost gotten him killed on a handful of fights against Union agents. The kid didn't even know who he was fighting! Raizel even went as far as to say that the kid was his first "friend" – the noblesse still isn't used to the sound of the word on his own tongue – so this child of the four that he smelled at Frankenstein's house was something special. Definitely special, because what he could smell of the red haired human child, didn't smell human. It did smell human… but didn't… Muzaka can't quite figure it out, but it seems that M-21 smells it too, and when he brought Lunark and Kentas over for a visit a few times – the other werewolves had apologized, but Muzaka figured that it would be better if he bought along werewolves that they knew, especially M-21 – because he and his werewolf pack mates had noticed that M-21 has a similar smell. It's not a smell that says that they were in the same place, no it is a personal smell. They both still smell human, but there's something off. M-21 hides his smell better, but seeing that this smell is new to the werewolves, it has nothing to do with his werewolf heart, no, it's his personal smell from before he was modified, so he can't give them the answer, which left only one option, follow the red haired child.
Which brings Muzaka to where he is now, in the city with Lunark, Kentas, Juraki and Mirai – Juraki wanted to prove his loyalty to Muzaka and Mirai, having a huge crush on Juraki, wanted to tag along, claiming the same reason – divided to cover more ground and to look less suspicious. Oh yeah, they're also in their wolf forms. That's definitely odd and scary to the humans, at least the ones who aren't staring at what Frankenstein called "cell phones" in their hands while they walk. Of course, Muzaka's many scars might make him look scarier when added to the fact that in wolf form, werewolves are bigger than regular wolves. Smaller than dire wolves who are the size of horses, though in his defense, Muzaka was a pup at the time he met a dire wolf in their wolf form, but that was over two millenniums ago. Muzaka can only imagine what it's like for Kentas right know, he's a lot bigger – taller and broader – but based on the lack of terrified screams of humans and Kentas not sending out any distressed vibes, he's doing fine.
This mission is difficult for all of them. Juraki and Mirai don't know the scent they're tracking, they're big wolves in a city, and they're tracking down the noblesse's first friend since waking up. If anyone in Frankenstein's house or the nobles who know him and the heavens forbid that Raizel finds out about this… he doesn't know what might happen, but it won't be good. But, because of their protectiveness of the children, they won't let the werewolves near the children. Luckily, their wolf forms can help keep them undetected by the nobles, plus it's easier to track the red haired child. Then again, there are a lot of strong smells in this city, and his wolf nose is much more sensitive in this form. None the less, Muzaka found it, plus the red haired child is pretty easy to spot in a crowd when everyone else on the street has plain dark hair and black and grey clothing, something he identified as work clothing seeing that it's how the modified humans dress when they go to work. It's like the city is pitying Muzaka and throwing him a bone by making it even easier to follow the kid. He has bright red hair, is taller than a majority of the humans on the street and is wearing a black and crimson leather jacket and strange dark green pants that seem to have a thousand pockets – an overstatement obviously – and a big backpack slung over his right shoulder. It looks like he's leaving the city because they are near the road that leads out to a giant forested area.
After sending out positive vibes for his pack to notice, but not the nobles and hopefully not M-21, he notes that Frankenstein's house is in the opposite direction, and it appears that he's not going to meet up with the two younger nobles or the other three human children, no, he's alone, quite the opposite of what Tao told him. The hacker said that out of the four of them, the red haired one is the most social, calling them almost every day to see if Raizel or either of the two younger nobles would want to hang out when his human friends claimed to be busy – Tao talks a lot. From the three times that Muzaka saw the kid, he believes that Tao was lying. The first time being just before he met the trio, he happened to be in the area and saw the end of the kids fight with at least twenty other humans – still never caught his name even with all the other humans screaming incoherently. The kid had been an amazing fighter, Muzaka was almost convinced the kid was a werewolf because his fighting style was close to a werewolf's hand-to-hand combat. Of course, he still didn't smell like a werewolf, but he still smells like… that. The other two times he saw the kid, he was convinced that Tao was lying, or just didn't know the kid like he thought he did. He stayed a long distance away from the kid both times, but the red haired child had a terrifying look both times. The second time was another fight, but the third, the kid looked… upset, to say the least, as he sat in the grass of a disserted park at night, watching the stars. The other humans nowhere in sight.
Muzaka flinches, snapping out of his thoughts when he realizes that he caught up to the red haired kid at the very edge of the city. He didn't just catch up though, he just accidentally bumped into his leg, Muzaka didn't even notice the kid stop. Looking up, Muzaka sees that the kid is looking at him with a blank expression. A little ways away, he senses the other four wolves approaching, but he's more focused on the kid because "god dammit I got distracted and now the kid has discovered me!" Standing with his head held high, Muzaka is just about up to the kid's thigh at his own shoulders, his head closer to hip height. They just stand there, staring at each other, Muzaka's Lord instincts refusing to let him back away, flatten his ears or tuck his tail in between his hind legs. The kid is just staring at him, studying him, and that worries him. Of course, Muzaka can't just up and say 'hi, sorry for bumping into you' because he is a wolf at the moment and it would be madness if he spoke. The human pivots one of his feet to continue back on his journey, but pivots is all he does, he stares Muzaka dead in the eye, his blue ones darkening a little before he speaks.
"Stop following me."
It's almost a whisper, but with his enhanced hearing in this form, Muzaka hears it loud and clear. It was like some sort of trance. All the loud noises seemed to die out at the moment. when the kid said that, time seemed to stop, he didn't hear anything else than that voice that sounds rough but melodic, a voice that speaks in tune with the dark fizzle of the fiery aura that surrounds the kid, can't see anything else besides the blue flames in the kid's eyes, can't sense anything, not even the other werewolves approaching, only the kid's aura, not deadly, but definitely a vibe that tells Muzaka to step back.
Muzaka almost does.