Tenshi took his time and jogged with the girls knowing he had no chance. He happily watched Seiji and his new friend having fun. Smiling to himself he didn't see two girls run up beside him, on his left the girl from before and to his right a slim girl with long black hair and a blond streak to the side. He didn't like how their presence made him feel, it felt dense and full of dark intent. "He finally left you I see." Akira said, her cold eyes looking to where Seiji rested on the benches across the circular track.
"What is he your guard dog?" The black haired girl joined in. Tenshi avoided their mean stares. "No, he's my friend. I'm staying with him for a while.."
"Oh really?" They both sneered. They reached the end of the track and Tenshi raced over to Seiji. He smiled and sat next to the wolf boy, he took a sip of water silently wishing the two girls would stop staring daggers at him.
Seiji sensed the boy's tension, and looked around. Akira and her little sidekick Ivy where talking to another guy who everyone called Russel, he was a large muscled guy with short brown and black hair. He was known as a big bully all over town, being a pit and boxer mix by nature he was aggressive. Seiji didn't like that they were staring at him and his boy. "Wait here." He told Tenshi as he stood and walked up to the group. His inner wolf growled, he didn't care that a circle of students surrounded them and chanted "Fight". His wolf wanted a good challenge, he didn't like that they were threatening what was his. He could feel the familiar sharp pains as his body began to shift. A small hand wrapped around his fist, it was Tenshi. His eyes silently pleaded for him to stop. Seiji calmed instantly. Tenshi pulled Seiji away from the crowd, and he followed willingly back to the school.
Later at home, Tenshi and Seiji were going home work in Seiji's bedroom. Tenshi looked around the room he hadn't been in here before now. The room was clean, but the walls were covered in band posters and other things, the bed was quiet large and soft, and there was a big tv across the room on top of a dresser by the door. Beside the bed was a lamp, alarm clock and a photo with happy looking family of five. "Who are they?" He asked aloud.
Seiji looked at what Tenshi was pointing at and picked up the old photo. "It's my family, from when I was younger." He pointed to the little wolf boy in the image. "That's me, Saki, my older brother, and mom and dad." He pointed out each of the family members.
Tenshi noticed they all had dark and the same green eyes as the woman, but the father and older brother had piercing grey eyes. "Where are they?" He asked.
Seiji tensed up. "My parents passed away a few years ago. And my brother left me and Saki afterwards. Saki chose to drop out so she could take over running the farm and taking care of me." Tenshi leaned against him and hugged his arm. Seiji smiled and petted his soft white hair. The boy was sweet trying to comfort him. His inner wolf loved the affection. But his heart gave a little squeeze, remembering the past.
Weeks passed with no word from Akira or her minions. They did little things like "accidentally" pushing Seiji into the hard mental lockers in the hall, but nothing too serious. Tenshi was becoming a great student he discovered a love for reading and swimming.
As the days went by Seiji cared more about the boy. Homosexuals weren't unheard of or illegal, but some people didn't like it. And the fear of rejection kept him from telling Tenshi how he felt. Then came the day Seiji and many of his class mates dreaded. For the next week in the science class they will be learning about sex. It was a class no one wanted to witness. Seiji groaned siting in the back of the class with Tenshi. He kept his eyes away from the front of the room, knowing the usual posters of space and the skeletal structure would be gone and replaced with diagrams of the reproductive organs.
Tenshi looked around the room, not knowing what all the disappointment was about. He watched the science teacher, Mr. Watson, walk in. He was an older man from his salt and peppered hair and soft brown eyes. He dressed casually in a brown sweater and khaki slacks, he took a seat in his rolling chair and began to teach them about the body.
Seiji looked at Tenshi with his side vision. The small teen had his elbows on the big science table watching what Mr. Watson was teaching. Of course everyone else had all of this drilled into their heads for years except him. "Since there is many varieties of species in our world not everything with look the same as someone else's. But most work the same. Like animal based females will go into heat more often than others. And males -" Seiji tuned him out and laid his head down on his arms. It was always weird to hear things that included him in it. He knew he was a wolf so he had those organs. He looked over at Tenshi, he stared blankly at whatever the teacher was showing. Seiji noticed his cheeks were slightly colored, which made him look cute. His gaze moved down Tenshi's slim body. Seiji's thoughts wondered to the day he found Tenshi, naked and laying unconscious on the forest floor. He stopped his thoughts there, blushing red he hid his face in his arms again. His mind had been doing this more often now a days, even moving to his dreams now.
After swimming in the school's heated pool during gym, everyone headed to the showers. Tenshi waited by the lockers as Seiji undressed and went to the showers with only a towel on. Tenshi kept his blue swim shorts with Hawaiian flowers on. And sat on the wooden bench with an open book in his hand. He didn't like the idea of showering with everyone there, watching him. He always waited until most of the guys left. With his eyes on his book, he didn't see Russel and two other jocks approach him. The large male took his book and threw it to the side. Tenshi looked up at the boys frightened. "What do you want?" He asked quietly. They only snickered. With his large hand Russel smacked the side of Tenshi's face, the force of it knocked him back into the floor. He held the side of his face, tears building up in his eyes.
One of the boys laughed loudly at this "Look at the little bitch, crying like a pussy."
Tenshi tried to stand up but Russel grabbed him by the hair and yanked his head back. The huge boy smiled showing his canines. "Listen fag, we don't like your kind here. We know Seiji is only using you as his little fuck toy." The other boys joined in called him other names and pushed him around. Russel pinned him to the lockers by his throat and pulled his fist back, aimed at his face. He closed his eyes and braced for the punch. When he heard a loud growl. The bully let go and Tenshi fell to the floor his ears ringing. He looked up see Seiji in his towel. Water droplets clung to his skin and hair still. Tenshi gave a weak smile happy to see him again. Seiji made a feral like growl, looking at Russel with murderous intent. Tenshi noticed that his body was quickly changing, black fur covered his body and his face elongated into a snout. Tenshi looked at Russel, a large dog with bracken fur stood in his place growling back at the large black wolf that was Seiji. Seiji leapt at the dog and biting into, Russel's shoulder. He howled in rage and shoved the wolf into the lockers, but Seiji didn't let go he bit down harder and used his front claws to scratch at Russel's snapping muzzle. To Tenshi's horror Russel snapped at Seiji's furred face, he yelped and backed off only to growl challengingly at the big dog. Both of their muscles coiled ready to pounce, when they both fell down whimpering in pain.
The gym coach appeared by the door holding a whistle in his hand, his plump face bright red in anger. "Break it up now! Seiji! Russel! Go home all of you!" The other boys hurried up and got out of there. Russel and his thugs gave Seiji and Tenshi menacing looks and followed the others, Russel's shoulder bleeding heavily.
Everyone was gone now but them. Tenshi looked at Seiji, he had a few scratches on his side and right cheek. He walked over to Tenshi and picked him up giving the boy a big hug. "Are you ok? How bad did he hurt you." Seiji looked over him, just a red mark on his face and marks around the boy's neck. His inner wolf growled angry that some one hurt his boy and got away alive. He saw Tenshi blushing and realized he was still naked. A tear ran down the boy's face and Seiji used his thumb to gently wipe it away. Without thinking he leaned forward and kissed Tenshi's lips softly. Blushing brightly he turned away and begun to dress and Tenshi did the same.
