Adapt [Part 9]

[esp_dragon]

Fandom: Noblesse
Summary: It snowed during the night.
Rating: PG
Genre: Family
Word count: 828
Total word count: 5,753
Status: work in progress



M-21's door crashed open, startling Kentas awake and making both him and M-21 jerk upright from their bed. Kentas had pulled his lips back into a snarl, already transforming his nails ready for a fight, when he saw who was there.

"M!" Tao exclaimed, scrambling inside. "It-"

M-21's pillow bounced off Tao's face.

"Tao," M-21 growled, his arm still outstretched, "what the fuck-"

"If ya'd let me finish," Tao said, grabbing the pillow and hugging it, "I woulda told ya by now." He lobbed the pillow back at them and then waved his entire arm at the window. "It snowed last night!"

Kentas blinked and looked out the window, letting go of his transformation. Snow clung to the window, and the tree outside M-21's window was covered in white. The sun had also barely begun to light the sky.

"So come on," Tao said, going over and trying to tug them out of bed.

"It's not all going to melt by the time we get out," M-21 said, rolling his eyes even as he let Tao drag him to his feet. Kentas followed, listening with amusement. Was snow rare here?

Tao scrunched his face at M-21, sticking out his tongue. "At the rate you're going, it could."

M-21 snorted, a smile still curling his lips. "Whatever," he said, giving Tao a light nudge. "We still need to change."

"Uuuurgh." Tao slumped low enough his wrists went past his knees. "If all the snow's gone by the time you get out, it's your own fault."

"Mmhm." M-21 was already pulling his top off over his head.

Kentas huffed a chuckle after Tao left, changing too. "Is it the first time he's seen snow?"

M-21 shook his head. "No. He's just being his usual self."

It had seemed like that.

Changing didn't take them long, but M-21 frowned when he saw what Kentas was wearing. "Is that it?"

Kentas glanced down, puzzled. He was wearing his usual shirt and trousers. "Yeah?"

M-21 was wearing a few more layers and he'd pulled out a pair of gloves from a drawer. He was still looking Kentas over. "You...don't feel the cold that much, do you?"

Snow was colder, but there hadn't been many places Kentas had gone where he'd needed to bundle up more. But even then... "I don't know, not compared to humans." His reaction to the cold was normal for werewolves.

"Hm. Here." M-21 threw something dark and fluttery from his drawer.

Kentas caught it and shook it out. It was almost long as he was tall.

"Just put that around your neck," M-21 said as he pulled the gloves on. "Humans look at you weird if you don't wrap up during winter."

Huh. Kentas wrapped it around his neck and closed his eyes, breathing in. "Mmn, smells like you."

M-21 snorted, heading for the door. "It's been a drawer with my other clothes for a couple months."

Kentas just grinned, following him.

* * *
He could hear Tao's whooping laughter travelling up the house, alongside the voices of the others. When they reached the living room, Kentas could see Takeo's back to them as he crouched behind a make-shift cover made out of snow.

Tao waved at them from the other side of the garden, more protected with the fence at his back. "And the sleepyheads finally join the - mmpf!" He wiped the packed snow from his face, ruffling his hair. "Okay," he said, pointing at M-21, who had another ball of snow in his hand, "that doesn't count!"

"Yeah it does." M-21 threw another one, making Tao dive for cover. The ball exploded against the fence. "You were hit."

Kentas looked between them, trying to figure out what everyone was doing.

"Hm," Takeo said, seeing what Kentas was doing, "is this the first time you've had a snowball fight?"

"...Yeah." A fight? With projectiles that didn't hurt? What kind of fight was that?

"Hmph. Calling it a 'fight' isn't accurate," Regis said, crouched next to Seira in the far corner.

"It's more a game," Tao said and M-21 was adding to Takeo's guard, making it longer. M-21 gestured him closer, but as Kentas went over, he stopped at Tao's yell.

"Three in one team is cheating."

"Not all fights will be fair, Tao," Seira said, her voice tinged with amusement.

"Yeah, but in a not life-or-death situation, the point of a game is to have fun, ya know?"

"I'll team up with Tao then?" Kentas said, looking around. It didn't make any difference to him.

"Yesss! Come to the best side!"

Snow was already piling higher as Kentas neared Tao's cover and that must have been why Tao had been hurrying them if that was how the snow was being used.

The rules were simple enough and Kentas smirked as he started making snowballs in his hands, adding them to the pile Tao had already made.

It was going to be interesting to see who won.

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Written for anon's prompt, '“Don’t you dare throw that snowba-, goddammit!” and Kentas/M-21'

Hellse Bunny had told me once about a way to calm dogs down is to tie something you wear around their neck.
...I had all that set-up then forgot about the actual prompt, whoops. I was originally going to have M-21 throw a snowball in Kentas' face.