@azure-steel liked for a starter!
Somehow, he was the bad guy.
The brat had pulled his tail, as brats were wont to do to strange things that looked interesting to touch. He'd tolerated it for all of a few seconds even with her hands being sticky, mindful of how badly it had gone the last time he'd lashed out for his tail being pulled by a brat - the time it had taken for the kid to pull said tail towards her mouth.
He hadn't even yanked his tail free all that hard; it had been reflexive more than intentional that he'd yanked it at all. It had still been enough to pull the girl forward when she hadn't let go though, and she'd taken a small fall onto her hands and knees. Cue immediate bawling.
The look he'd received from her mother who had been too busy flirting with coffee shop's barista to pay any attention to her kid, would likely have made a lesser man wither away on the spot but Maru had been seething.
He was still seething when she said she was going to complain to his boss - having seen the delivery note from SDS.
He was still seething when he'd returned home and started agressively pacing back and forth in the lounge, fangs bared and ears flat.
"I need to fucking kill something and I swear to all that's holy Cloud Strife if you tell me to calm down it will be you."
