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Chapter Two
Koushiro sat at Taichi's laptop, eyes lit with the white glow of light comming from the computer screen he'd been scanning over. His fingers danced rapidly on the many letter keys, mouse clicking numerous times on options he wanted. What was he looking for? The reason he was the way he was. That scientific experiment that changed him. He knew that he couldn't have been born as half-dog half-human, and he wanted to know the reason for him being so now. But nothing seemed to show up. He had clicked on nearly every site that looked even remotely close to combining the DNA of a human and animal, but nothing seemed to show up. Everything was 'so close' or 'done it...keeping under observation...death few months after creation'. The second looked promising, but it couldn't be possible. He'd been living for more than a few months, so whosoever did this to him had to be one of the greatest in their occupation.
"Great..." Koushiro sighed, his middle and ring finger massaging his temples. He'd been no closer than he'd been when he started. It was like walking around the block. You'd walk, see new things, but everthing around you is nothing but a bunch of buildings, and you'd always end up at your house in the end. A nice activity, but you it's always end up in the very place you started from. Koushiro rubbed his palms on a khaki pair of Taichi's pants he wore, a white v-neck short sleeved shirt that Taichi most likely wouldn't fit anymore on as well.
The redhead stood from the computer, stretched his arms over his head, and walked out of Tai's room, going to the kitchen for something to eat. No one was at present at the time, so he could freely walk around the place without a bunch of questions being tossed at him by the rest of the occupants of the apartment. Taichi and Kari were at school, and wouldn't be back for a few hours, Tai's mom had went to visit her sister, and had taken her husband with her, leaving behind a note that said they'd be back around six or seven.
Koushiro looked at the neon blue numbers floating closely in front of the wall. It read tweleve fourty-seven, give or take a few seconds. He resumed his quest for food in the refrigerator. Not finding anything he liked, however, closed it and walked over towards a cabinet on the far right of the kitchen. He reached in the cabinet and withdrew four small cans. The cans were about the size of a container of tuna. Koushiro emptied the contents of the cans in a bowl, grabbed a fork, and mashed the contents together, willing himself to wait until he'd properly prepaired the food before eating. Finally finsihed mashing the food together, he twirled the fork at different sides of the bowl, mixing the different flavors of food togheter. Satisfied, he took the bowl, and sat down on the couch, turning on the television.
"Prodigious!" He happily barked, his tail swinging around happily. His tongue ran across his lips, nearly salivating at the food in his grasp.
A mixture of different brands of dogfood was blended together, the different flavors of processed meat from beef to chicken to turkey to steak assulting his nose and making his stomach growl.
The fork he'd brung with him was tossed to the floor, the bowl shoved in his face as he grabbed the food with his sharp white teeth, chewed it hungrily, and swallowed hungrily, repeating the process.
"Enjoying your food Izzy?" a voice laughed at him.
Said boy nearly choked, stopped eating, removing the bowl from his face and lowereing it into his lap.
"Shut up Taichi," Koushiro said bluntly, not turning to face the boy who he was sure was smiling, hoping he didn't see his blush. He hated his canine cravings.
Taichi laughed at the boy's back. Koushiro, one who boasted from the highest mountain about how he never gave into canine desires, indulging into even one of them.
"What are you doing home anyway?" Koushiro asked, resting on his knees as he turned to face Taichi, the bowl of dogfood in his hands resting in front of him on the back of the couch, "You should be in school!"
"You really shouldn't try to lecture me while you've got food all over your face," Tai smiled, reaching out towards Izzy's slightly red face that was freckled with food.
Koushiro blushed at the gentle strokes of Taichi's fingers as he wiped the dogfood from Koushiro's face, collecting the thick substance on his hand instead.
"There you go!" Taichi said, begining to pull his hand away from the other boy.
Koushiro grabbed his wrist tightly with both of his hands, pulling Tai's hand back towards him. A pink tonuge darted out and begin to lick Taichi's palm, slowly caressing it, slowly licking over the five digits.
"Umm..." Taichi looked at the other, watching as he licked his palm, brung the tonuge back in his mouth, brought it back out, and continued to lick his right hand, repeating the process over and over.
"K-Koushiro," Taichi whispered, feeling odd about the whole licking thing. It felt weird, slightly ticklish at the center of his palm, a bit digusting at the edges of his palms as he felt a thin sheet of saliva collect, some rolling down to his wrist, and...and strangle sensual as he felt andwatched Koushiro lick at his fingers. So many feelings from one activity. "Are...Are you done?" He forced out.
Koushiro blinked once, realization of what he was doing setting in. A yelp of suprise passed out of his mouth as he let go of Taichi's wrist, falling backwards with shock. He could not believe he did that! What-? How-? Why? Well he'd better had come up with a good explaination, because Taichi's expresson is clearly asking what happened.
"I hypothesize that due to the fact your hand had the same scent of the food, I was drawn to it, and therefore, proceeded to...uh..."
"Yeah," Taichi finished, shrugging off his jacket.
"What are you doing home anyways?" Koushiro asked, standing from his fallen position on the floor. He didn't like how ackward it felt in the short amount of silence there was after Taichi spoke.
"Got out early," Taichi responded with a smile, taking off his shirt, "Gotta change and leave though. I havea soccer game" Taichi ran towards his room and closed the door,
Koushiro sighed, sitting back on the couch, bringing the food back into his hands, using his hands to shovel the food to his lips, eating slowly.
"Snap out of Izzy," Tai leaned over the back of the couch, face over the redhead lying on his back. "You licked my hand, big deal. You've done more embarassing things."
"Thanks," Koushiro said flatly, glaring up at the tanned boy, groaning, not really liking the way Taichi was trying to cheer him up.
"No, really! Remember that one time you'd just taken a bath and you shook all of the water on Kari and Miyako when she came to visit!" Taichi looked up towards the the roof, muttering on how that wasn't really embarassing, then looked back down on the dogboy in his clothing, "I know! Remember at the old place, that one time I was digging under me and Kari's bunk bed for my soccer ball and you sniffed my a--"
The pissed off look on Koushiro's face, the glare Taichi was reciving, and the deep growl echoing from Koushiro's throat ended Taichi's little 'cheer up' tactic.
"Get out!" Koushiro barked, chasing Taichi on his hands and feet out of the door.
"First Blue, now you?" Taichi asked over his shoulder, the gym bag over his shoulder hittng his side as he ran out of the door. Tai exhaled and walked on his way towards the steps, calling to Koushiro that he'd be home later.
Koushiro inhaled deeply and exhaled slowly. The canine instincts were getting on his nerves, making him do things he didn't want to do. Making him act way different than he normally acts. The canine was wild and energetic, whereas he was calm and not very active. It was like he was two different people in one body. But he wasn't. He was Koushiro mixed with a dog, not Koushiro and a dog, meaning that he was gonna do certain actions even if he didn't want to, and have abilities none other would ever have.
He ran into Taichi's room, beginging on his search again. He had to know who did this to him, and for what reason. The clear sound of voices comming from outside the apartment, however, put a stop to those plans. Two girls and two boys were comming. Great.
Koushiro closed all of the programs he'd been working on, stopping on the last internet window and selecting 'History', deleting everything and every site he went to. Koushiro hadn't told Taichi of what he'd been doing on the computer, and wasn't about to let the other find out anythime soon. This was his business and his alone. No sence in worring other people about your problem, right?
The redhead closed the last window and shut down the computer, turning off the screen. He closed his eyes, concentrating on transformation. He bent to the floor and his hands and feet, feeling himself shrink, fingers and toes turning into paws. He felt the slight pricks of blood red fur as it poked out everywhere on his body, the slighty disturbing sounds of his spine and ribs cracked into position, internal organs make small gushing/gurgling sounds as they moved into their new positioning.
Koushiro ran towards the door as it hissed open, five teens whom he'd most likely be taller than if he'd been in his other form walking in. Hikari walked in first, followed by a purple haired girl in glassed he'd come to know as Miyako followed in after her. Behind Miyako walked in a tall boy with golden blonde hair sticking out under a white cap and blue eyes named Takeru, and a smaller boy with brow hair and beautiful green eyes named Iori followed the blonde inside.
"Heya Izzy!" Miyako smiled, falling to her knees and wrapping her arms around the tall red dog, "How are you doing?" She ruffled his fur. Koushiro barked in reply.
"Hold on, I'll get my camera and we can leave for the soccer game," Hikari yelled to her friends as she ran towards her room.
A few seconds later, and the four of them were out the door, leaving Koushiro alone once again. He sighed, walking into Taichi's room and redressing in the white shirt and khaki cargo pants.
"I've got nothing better to do," Koushiro spoke to himself, grabbing Tai's denim jacket but putting it down, deciding it was hot enough to go without a jacket, a blue and white baseball cap Tai had brought for him, wrapped his tail tightly around his waist, slipped on some shoes and sock and walked out of the door, sniffing out his way towards the soccer game.