Halloween Special!
Yusei stepped back to observe his handiwork, nodding in approval as the Jack-o-lantern shaped lights hung from the staircase banister. Their orange light cast a warm yet eerie effect on the walls and ceiling as they smiled or grimaced. It would not be long before the party and the lights were the final touches to the decorations. The food was already prepped in the kitchen, easy finger foods that people could eat as they conversed with one another, and the playlist was full of music that would add to the atmosphere. "And with that, everything is ready."
"Not quite." A voice came from behind him as a hand appeared on his shoulder. Akiza's wine red lips pouted slightly as she looked him from head to toe. Other than the Halloween themed confetti that clung to his being, he wasn't dressed up at all. "You really aren't going to dress up?"
He shook his head. "Halloween really isn't my thing." Akiza commented on how absurd it would be for the host not to dress up for his own Halloween party and he couldn't help the chuckle. "What do you plan on being? I thought I saw a package come in a few days ago from Spirit Halloween."
"Wouldn't you like to know." She slipped past him and up the stairs, disappearing into her room.
He shook his head as he entered the living room, briefly glancing at the clock before taking a seat in the couch. There was still an hour before anyone had said they were going to show up and was reaching for one of the magazines from the side storage pocket when the room began to spin. Yusei was powerless as darkness began to enclose around him, and co fusion filled him as everything suddenly righted itself and the darkness receded. What was that? He jumped to his feet as a loud thump came from above and took the stairs two at a time when he realized it had come from Akiza's room. "Everything okay?" he called as he approached her door. "Akiza?" He cautiously opened the door when no response came and blinked in astonishment at the sight before him.
Splayed across the bed in an almost seductive way was Akiza dressed in what appeared to be a wine red latex bodysuit and matching fingerless gloves on her hands that showcased her near two-inch long nails. Her cheeks became more and more tinted with pink the longer he studied her. "I-It's not what it looks like! I accidentally dropped something and tripped when I tried to catch it!" Akiza blinked as something within Yusei's stoic expression waivered at the same time that his hair shifted. Curious, she shifted into a sitting up position and gestures for him to come closer and her eyes widened as she spotted two large triangles peeking from Yusei's midnight black tresses. "So you did decide to dress up!"
"What are you talking about?"
"Come on," she winked. "how long did you think you could hide those from anyone?" Akiza reaches up and playfully tugged on one of them. She quickly let go as the man in front of her let out a yelp. Words were impossible as they ran to the bathroom attached to her room and found that his human ears had disappeared completely. "They're real?!" A horrified expression came across her features as she took a step back, her gaze darting to her phone. "No...no no no no..."
Yusei swallowed the lump of panic in his throat at the distressed tone in her voice. "Akiza?"
"I don't know how it happened, Yusei, this has honestly never happened before!" She picked it up and showed him a picture of a man dressed in dark green sporting a pair of dark grey wolf shaped ears. "I was just thinking that you would look good as a werewolf like Daniel (AN: BloodINRoses app game, Otome Boyfriend) and I was fiddling with the jammer absentmindedly..." Her words faded to silence as she noticed that Yusei's attention shifted to her hand that was holding the phone. To her horror, she found that the gloves she had put on was now replaced with short mahogany fur and her nails had become claw-like. "Oh, no."
…
Akiza couldn't tear her eyes away from the pair of triangles that occasionally shifted atop of Yusei's head. They were moving like real werewolf ears; twitching, tilting forward or back, even perking when he glanced her way as his eyes met her own in the mirror. Other than the corners of his eyes becoming sharper, nothing else had changed about him. Her being filled with confusion as he turned around, his brows furrowed in concentration. "What is it?"
"I smell something."
One of her eyebrows rose. "Care to elaborate?" Heat flushed her cheeks as he stepped towards her with slow yet near predatory-like steps and it wasn't until her back came into contact with the bathroom wall that something began to tickle her own nose. It was sandalwood with a hints of dragonfruit, lemongrass, and amber. The more they filled her senses, the more relaxed yet excited she felt. The fog that had draped over her mind like a thin curtain lifted slightly as her chin was lifted by the gentlest of motions and something warm pressed against the pulse point that rested at the nape of her neck. "Y-Yusei?" All breath left her as she was collected within his arms and lifted into the air. A giggle erupted from her as she felt something incredibly soft tickle her face as his head bent downward, and found that the cause of the tickle were his newly acquired ears. They were standing at attention, occasionally twitching when he paused in his exploration of whatever he was sniffing, but they looked so real.
His motions froze as her fingers hesitantly began rubbing the gray and gold colored ears, yet he was unable to withhold the near growl-like sound that came up his throat as unadulterated pleasure shot down his spine. The shoulder that he had been resting his head against trembled slightly as he nibbled it playfully. His vision flooded with white as her fingers shifted to the base of his new ears and it wasn't until he felt needle-like pain replace the fingers that his vision cleared. They had somehow ended up on the bed with Akiza underneath him, her face as red as a tomato and her hands over her mouth as her wide caramel orbs.
"I'm so sorry! It didn't seem that you were listening to anything I was saying so I did what I had always seen people do in movies with dogs to don't listen!" She reached up to soothe the ears but let her hand fall as he leaned away.
The scent that he had been fixated on was definitely coming from Akiza, he had established that much, but why was it so strong? Her words from before came to mind. "You said that Daniel was a werewolf. That explains the ears and the sudden sensitivity in my sense of smell and hearing." His eyes scanned the room and found the fallen jammer near the bedside table. "It must have altered the chip's effectiveness by re-collaborating the inputs. It was somehow able to alter the space around you as well as the biological makeup of those you had in mind."
"To be fair, at least I didn't imagine you with long hair."
Yusei's eyes narrowed slightly but offered a small smile as he thanked her. "I will thank my lucky stars that all I you did imagine me with is the ears."
"…and a tail…" As one, their eyes drifted downward and spotted something waving between the space of their hips. It had the same coloring as his new ears and it looked incredibly fluffy. Yusei shifted onto his knees, gathering the strange new addition into his lap. It had to be nearly six inches in length and the fluffiness had to be nearly three inches. "It's so soft!" Akzia practically purred as she brought it up to her face and nuzzled it. "If I had a whole blanket this soft, you wouldn't ever see me in the winter."
"I'm glad you're finding enjoyment in this." Yusei chuckled, unable to keep back the smile that lifted his lips. His eyes combed her hair but there was no sign of her own pair of ears. She wasn't left unaffected though; the bodysuit that she had been wearing had turned itself into a coat of mahogany fur that matched her hair and was glossy, a stark contrast to the way her hair had been before she began the road to recovery. "You're a catwoman."
"Well, I was planning on it, but they didn't have a black suit so I improvised with my turbo dueling suit." She shrugged, her attention remaining on the tail in her hands and missing the curious glint that entered Yusei's sapphire orbs. A soft hum filled her as his fingers made contact with the space between her shoulders and couldn't withhold a purr of approval as his hand drifted down her back in a slow fluid motion. Akiza's own lips lifted into a satisfied smile as his hand brushed an incredibly sensitive spot just at the base of her spinal cord.
Yusei's eyebrows rose as his assumptions were proven correct and playfully grabbed the sixteen inch long tail that risen into the air thanks to his "petting". The effect was instant; she dropped his tail with a screech and turned her slit-pupiled eyes on him as she pounced, causing them to tumble from the bed. He fell on his left side as her hands appeared on both side of his head and her knees mirroring them, only on either side of his hips. "I've turned into a wolf and you have turned into a cat. However, you forget," in a swift motion that caused them to change positions so that he was on top, he stilled her motions of protest with a warning nip to her neck. "wolves are considered an alpha species." Something within him had stirred the second he had entered her bedroom, and it wasn't until their discovery of his new attributes that he was able to put a name to it. "Tonight's a full moon, Akiza," he growled lowly, nuzzling her chin before catching her bottom lip between his teeth in a gentle nibble. "you know what that means."
"You're really getting into character." Yusei suppressed a growl as they pulled apart and spotted Leo in the doorway. The young man was dressed as a Terminator costume, complete with lights that lit up when he spoke or moved. He held up his hands as the due gave him stern looks. "We knocked for a good two minutes and found the door unlocked. It's a good thing we did, the others began showing up and yet there was no sign of you two. Luna's playing hostess right now so you don't have to worry about it for now. You two…finish up and come down when you're ready." He was turning to leave when he caught sight of something blinking near the bedside table. Curious, he bent and picked it up. "Did one of you drop a quarter?" The light in the center changed from violet to white as he flipped it into the air before placing it on the table. "Oh, I get it. One of those trick quarters! Well, you two have fun. I'll see you downstairs." If he had remained in the room for a few seconds, he would have seen the two Signers collapse into heaps.
When they gained consciousness a minute later, they found that they had been returned to normal, much to their relief. Yusei excused himself once he was sure that she was alright and had made sure to apologize for his actions before going to relieve Luna of host duties, leaving Akiza to finish getting ready. Little did he realize that she was secretly memorizing and recording what each of the levers on the jammer were capable of. "This one is definitely going to be useful later on," she whispered, making a quick note on the miniature notebook that she kept in the closet. "but first, it's time to loosen up a little."