Chapter One
It was the early morning, and a tall figure roamed among the early morning streets. As he continued this early morning walk, he held onto his arm, blood travelling through his hand, the flow travelling all the way down to his wrist, the life-liquid dripping.
He felt rather lucky that no animals prowled the streets, as he was a rather strange sight.
He stood just below the height of a grey wolf, though his antlers surpassed that, adding half a foot onto him. His front-fur was mostly a pure white, stopping at his bottom lip, his top lip and muzzle a light brown, leading and tapering off to his eyes. If you were to face him from his back, you would notice that his entire back is a light grey.
His eyes of course, held the fullness of a herbivore, yet a sliver, similarly to a carnivore, darting around the street. He panted, showing fangs through his open mouth as he increased his speed, darting down another side-road.
The tall animal darted inside of a doorway into an apartment building, running to the second floor, and stopping at apartment "0208".
Without knocking, he burst inside and slammed the door behind him, finally allowing himself to relax.
The apartment itself wasn't too much to be proud of. It had only three rooms; A kitchen/dining room, a Bathroom, and a living room. It didn't have any windows, other than a smoky glass half-window in the bathroom.
The kitchen had all of the essentials, a small fridge, stove, sink, and counters. Of course, a small table was there too, with a appropriately sized chair at one end, and a red rug on the other.
The living room wasn't much either, it had a worn out couch, with some scratch marks one one side, and a large indent, showing usage. Across from the couch was an old TV, antenna and all.
"Zasshu? You're home late… Called a concerned voice from the living room, connected to the door by a short hallway.
The tall animal, Zasshu, finally spoke, "Yeah, Mienai, I...got caught up with something."
Mienai decided to shuffle his way to the doorway, the old Star Nosed Mole looking to Zasshu with unseeing eyes.
"Oh well, I can't really expect you to follow what I say exactly. You are 17 after all." The last part was said with a small chuckle. "Anyway, now that you've returned, we can eat some pie. It's still fresh, made a couple hours ago." Mienai said as he shuffled to his admittedly small kitchen.
"You got a pie? How?" Zasshu said in confusion. Meinan couldn't really count out the yen, or even make it to the store without getting stomped on. At least, to Zasshu's knowledge.
"Well, I managed to convince a neighbor boy to do it. For some money of course. He smelled like a canine." The Mole explained.
Oh. That made sense. Zasshu felt a tad guilty, as if he had been here, Mienai could have saved the money he had for other things.
"Sorry…" Zasshu apologized.
Meinai just chuckled, "Zasshu, you'd apologise for breathing too much if you could. Its okay, me paying that boy puts money in the economy." Meinai said, attempting to make Zasshu not feel so guilty.
"Have I mentioned that I bought cherry pie?"
Zasshu was in the kitchen almost instantly.
Meinai had already placed the food on a mole-sized table, ready to cut it, until he stopped.
"Zasshu…" Meinai called to him, slightly sniffing the air.
"Zasshu, go to the bathroom, and get the bandages out."
Zasshu cursed himself out within his head. With the excitement of eating his favorite food, he had almost forgotten about his wound, which had dripped a little bit onto the kitchen tile.
He strode through the living room, to a main hallway, into the bathroom. Absentmindedly Zasshu thought that the heat should be increased a couple notches.
He quickly opened the sink cabinet, pulling out a roll of gauze, and a bottle of Rubbing alcohol. He took a wad of toilet paper, pouring just a tad of the alcohol onto the toilet paper, and lightly rubbed it across the wound.
Hissing through his teeth, he finished disinfecting, and wrapped his arm up with the gauze.
Meinai made his way to the bathroom.
"Okay," he said with a sigh, steeling himself.
"What's the Damage? Should I take you to a doctor? Will it get infe-" Meinai flooded Zasshu with these questions as he attempted to find Zasshu's arm, before Zasshu interrupted.
"I'm fine, Meinai! It's nothing much, it doesn't even hurt." Zasshu assured Menai, lying on the last part. Admittedly, it hurt quite a bit.
The mole gave a heavy sigh of relief.
"Zasshu...you have to stop getting yourself into trouble! Every night you seem to come home with another bit of you hurt!" Meinai scolded the Hybrid.
Zasshu just accepted that in silence.
Meinai sighed once more.
"Go sit down in the living room, the Bright Stars is coming on soon." Meinai told Zasshu, the Bright Stars being an old TV show, only popular when Meinai was a young mole.
Soon Zasshu and Meinai sat on the couch together, each having their own blanket.
Zasshu noted that he could use the blanket as a tissue, it was so small.
Meinai stared at the TV without looking, smiling to himself. "That Tomoko…god, she's beautiful, ain't she?" He said wondrously.
"You can't even see her though." Zasshu said.
"She sounds beautiful, Zasshu. Pretty as a sunset."
"Huh." Zasshu muttered. That made sense, as much sense as it cou-
Meinai snickered.
"She sounds like she has a nice pair of breasts too." Meinai said this as he pretended to grab 'phantom breasts' of his own.
Zasshu facepalmed, laughing.
"There's the laugh!" Meinai said warmly, with a smile.
Thank you so much for reading, and I hoped you enjoyed!Zasshu (and the cover art) was designed by a friend of mine, Gyo.She is a great artist, and her Kik is GyoOnce again, thank you so much for reading, and have a wonderful day.