Doujun experimenting on Wolf, but instead, he’s turned into a merman. When he awakens, he’s laying on the dirt in a foul dungeon, feeling cold and dehidrated, panting for air. His robes have loosened and his hakama pools free under his new limb, like drapes. Genichiro finds him there, surprised yet disgusted by the sight, so unfit of a noble shinobi. He looks vulnerable, broken. Despite so, the view still coils something in his gut, an odd infatuation.
Genichiro kneels down, watching the shinobi gasp for oxygen like a dying animal would. Reluctantly, he reaches out to smoothe one curious hand across the tail, nails dangerously tucking under the soft flakes. They could be so easily ripped. Wolf visibly twitches under his touch, too debilitated to dare moving, a gesture Genichiro finds endearing.
It shouldn’t be this easy, to take one down. To the Ashina Lord, it almost feels like cheating.
Warmth settles in his stomach when he tucks one arm under the tail and the other beneath the shinobi’s back, lifting him up. Wolf’s cheek brushes against his jaw as he shifts his arms for comfort beneath his weight. Genichiro carries him towards a nearby pond, lays him down and unwinds his soiled scarf from around his neck and shoulders, discovers the gills on the shinobi’s neck widening with his struggling whiffs. He dips the ugly cloth into the water and dampens Wolf’s skin with it. He stares at the prosthetic: useless, won’t even be of use to a water creature, will it?
Genichiro removes it with a loud “clack”. His flesh bare now, the wound is still red, but the blood has long dried off.
He pours water on Wolf’s face, over his neck. Genichiro disrobes him only to find more flakes flaunting his chest, so delicate and small they could easily pass as human skin… He hears Wolf mouthing on air, releasing a shaky breath when Genichiro pours more water on him.
He waits as Wolf searches for his looming body with exorbitant eyes, frowning when they meet the mirth in Genichiro’s own, who could pass as a big cat admiring a fish he’d just catched.
“Looks like you’ve got yourself in deep trouble, heh, Shinobi of the Divine Heir?”
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