Kakashi stood outside of the colonial style white house next door to his own home, staring at the place as if he'd like to burn it to the ground while he looked for any signs of someone being inside. It took a moment, but he could smell two distinct scents from inside the house, one scent belonged to his father. The smell of sable, moss with the soft under tones of leather and sweat was a dead give away.
The other scent however was strange, one that he had never smelled before. The scent was feminine. It was simply too sweet to belong to a male and consisted of almonds, cream and honey suckle with the soft hint of wild orchids.
The scent wafted through the still night air, teasing his senses with images of silk sheets and all the naughty things that could be done in them. He made a soft growling sound and walked forward intending to see if the scent was really coming from the house when he caught sight of his father standing in the kitchen with a young woman with silvery blond hair that fell to the middle of her back, soft smooth peach colored skin, pale pink lips, a petite, delicate build, and lush curves.
He looked her over, he couldn't help himself. It was simply a part of his genetics that went all the way back to the cave man days. She was tall for a female, he figured that she stood at about five foot nine, her head just barely reaching his father's chest. Her clothes consisted of a simple amethyst long sleeved knit sweater and a pair of tight faded to white jeans that looked so damn beguiling on her.
He was about to go and knock on the open door when his father looked at him, having noticed that he was standing outside because he had caught his scent and let his hand fall away from the woman's head and crooked his finger at him, indicating that he wanted Kakashi to join them.
Uzu could sense another shifter. She could sense them by the way the hairs on the back of her neck stood up and by the sudden chill she got. "Someone else is here-" It wasn't a question. She knew that if anyone could confirm her sudden feeling of dread it was Sakumo. He had probably smelled the other shifter before she had spoken anyways.
Sakumo looked down at her, noting how tense she was and felt a little badly for her before answering. "It's my son, the current alpha of the pack." She blinked at him and muttered in a slightly dark tone.
"I didn't know that you had a son."
Sakumo gave her an indulgent smile and leaned down and said softly in a hushed, half joking, conspirators tone. "He embarrasses me so I often pretend that I don't know him." She gaped at him with a slightly horrified expression on her lovely face as he chuckled and winked at her and walked across the room to the door and stopped just in front of his son.
"Dad." Kakashi said as they locked eyes for a moment. His father smiled at him and looked away before stepping in close and kissing Kakashi on the top of his head before saying something about needing to get some things out of his car and walking outside so that Kakashi could introduce himself to the pretty little human.
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Uzu couldn't help but feel even more nervous around the guy standing just in her living room staring her down. The man was almost an exact carbon copy of his father. He had the same face, the same soft silver hair, though his was styled shorted in the back and left long in the front. His eyes were different. One a deep blue like his fathers and the other a vivid red with a thin jagged scar running down the eye lid to the curve of his cheek.
The same build. He was slightly smaller in height than his father and probably stood at six foot six inches and was decked out in black leather pants a short sleeved skin tight black shirt, and combat boots. The man was just as hot as his father. Which begged the question, what made shifter males so damn beautiful? Was it something in the water? Something in the food? Or was it simply an animal thing?
"So your the human." It wasn't really a question. And he wasn't really talking to her either. He was talking to himself.
"Uh...yeah."
"I thought you'd be a male." He said with a small frown as he looked her over from head to toe with his unblinking eyes. There was something about his tone, something about he said the words that made her feel as if he had just insulted her.
She narrowed her eyes at him a little bit and had to bite the inside of her cheek to keep from saying something along the lines of, "Oh? I thought you'd be a male too." But she figured that it would be for the best to hold her insults since she didn't know this man or his temperament. At least with Sakumo, she had known his intentions before inviting him in.
The man wouldn't have needed an invite if he had come there to rip her head off or something. He would have just walked in and killed her then walked out like nothing had happened.
"But since your not a male, I should probably make a mate-claim or something to protect you from the other shifters." The man said as he lifted a hand to rub the back of his neck, his mis matched eyes never straying from her face. She blinked at him and frowned, unsure of what he was talking about for a second before it dawned on her what he was talking about.
He knew the moment that his words finally sank in, because she had gotten a murderous look on her pretty face and tipped her head back a little bit and looked-no that was too tame a word-she stared him down like she'd like to throw him to the ground and rub his nose in the dirt.
Which was sort of funny, really, considering how small and delicate she was compared to him.
But she had such a fierce look that he felt himself start to take an involuntary step back, his self preservation instincts telling him that despite her frailty and her gender, this female would and could hurt him if she was really of a mind too.
"And what exactly is a mate-claim?"
"I-It's where a guy more or less claims a woman as his mate-" Kakashi said and immediately took three steps back when the woman took two threatening steps forward, and quickly said. "But there are two parts to a mate-claim. The first part is claiming a woman as yours and the second part is more or less a ritual courtship to see if you both suite each other. The basic function of a mate-claim is to keep others from sniffing around someone else's female until she's mated. It's a measure of protection against unwanted suitors."
"And how exactly is that supposed to protect me?" Uzu hissed at him like a cat, making Kakashi back away from her a little more.
There was something very interesting about this woman. Kakashi mused as he backed away from the furious female.
It was rare for someone of the fairer sex to be able to look him in the eyes, and the ones that did, were often other alphas like himself. Yet this female, this child like, and fragile beauty was backing him into a corner using nothing but that angry expression on her face and a few steps forward.
It was mind boggling that any human would be able to do such a thing. But she was.
And that makes her both interesting and dangerous. Kakashi thought as he shook his head slightly and answered her as his back hit the wall. "It will protect you because there are only a small handful of people in Shifter town who would dare to get close to you if I had claimed you as mine. Getting too close would be considered a challenge that could end up getting someone killed. Besides, a mate-claim is in name only until your scent is mingled with an others."
Uzu was quiet for a second or so as she went over what few facts she knew about shifters in her mind. His words made sense in a weird way if one considered how few shifter females were, it was only natural to make an automatic mate-claim on the only female of breeding age, around for miles.
After all if she walked around town, she'd have to have someone with her to protect her or fighting would break out among the other shifters. Still, that didn't mean that she wanted to be mate-claimed. In fact she found the idea wholly idiotic and insulting to her as a modern woman. But if it was for her own safety then there was little that she could do except accept his mate-claim and be grateful that he was willing to even bother trying to help her.