Thread by @genjiigenjii

title: a symbiotic relationship between a wolf and a tiger.
tags: shapeshifter, fluff, au
pair: #fushiita
inspiration: a symbiotic relationship between a rabbit and a black panther manhwa

yuuji presses his snout into his paws, actively trying to become a small spot in the room.

he can hear the cackling of nobara’s red fox form from atop his back, where she was kneading his fur. still, yuuji refused to remove his snout from his paws, as a matter of fact! yuuji refused to move from this spot again!

“it wasn’t that bad!” he hears gojo-sensei joke.

yuuji, forgetting his promises of a mere two seconds ago, lifts his snout up and turns to gojo-sensei with a dour look, or the tiger’s equivalent of one, and chuffs out in discontent. that only serves to cause gojo and nobara to laugh even louder. yuuji was not amused at all.

the start of this exchange began when okkotsu-senpai asked yuuji wether or not, his instincts correlated with that of a normal cats, considering he was, in a sense, just a big cat. yuuji had simply stared at okkotsu-senpai with an unamused look, replying, “whatever do you mean?”

it was then that he saw maki-senpai bring in a huge box, and set it down in the middle of the common room, with a shit-eating grin on her face, she pointed at the box, and told yuuji to shift and get inside it.

yuuji, appalled, refused… at first. but come on, it’s maki-senpai!

realistically, what was he supposed to do! he’d turned to okkotsu-senpai, and inumaki-senpai behind him and gave them the dirtiest glare he could muster before reluctantly shifting into his tiger form.

once shifted, he stares at the box maki-senpai had set on the floor.

annoyed, he turns to the second years behind him, they smile and prompt him to get in the box. yuuji almost bites their hand off in their effort. still, he tentatively places a paw in, others paws following soon after.

it happens so quick, yuuji doesn’t even know where to start.

somehow, he’d found himself belly up, rubbing himself against the bottom of the box, chuffing contently, it isn’t until he sees nobara and maki with their phones out, cameras recording that yuuji remembers himself.

and that’s how he’s found by megumi and gojo.

at some point, nobara had shifted and pounced atop his huge body, after he’d turned around in order to hide from the world, kneading his fur till’ she’d be able to comfortably settle atop his back.

he purposely ignores megumi, and focuses on gojo and the second years.

he glared at them and chuffs in discontent. tail twirling about behind him in anger.

yuuji feels nobara’s purr from atop of him, and soon she’s gently nuzzling against the back of his ear, playfully biting his ear.

her way of apologizing for teasing him, yuuji merely chuffs.

he looks up to see megumi squatted in front of him, an upturned lip as his hand comes down to pet yuuji’s head. he’s ruffling yuuji’s head and yuuji unconsciously leans into it, letting out a soft growl from the back of his throat. it’s when yuuji opens up his eyes that he sees.

megumi’s smirking down at him, and quickly, almost unnoticeably, mouths a cheeky ‘meow’ at him.

yuuji indignantly stands up, ignoring nobara’s yowl as she tumbles to the ground off his back. he shakes off megumi’s fingers off before taking a nip at them, startling megumi.

quickly, yuuji jumps over nobara and the box, heading towards the window where he easily pounces over, heading outside. completely ignoring the fast beating of his heart in his chest.

‘fucking dogs.’

—

yuuji’s enjoying a grooming session with nobara, when megumi comes prowling about. the black wolf notices the two and walks towards them, settling down beside yuuji’s flank, resting his muzzle atop yuuji’s neck. yuuji pays him no mind, as he continues to groom nobara clean.

after a couple of seconds, he feels megumi begin to nibble at his coat, he pays him no mind, and continues to groom nobara. however, he notices fushiguro-san stop his training of the second years to stare. yuuji stops the grooming to stare back at him questioningly.

toji-san merely chuckles, and throws megumi a look, megumi stops his nibbling to growl and snap at his father, still, the shit-eating grin doesn’t leave toji-san’s face.

he feels nobara sigh, and get up from her place between yuuji’s two front legs to bite at megumi’s ears.

megumi allows it, and leans lower so nobara can properly scold him, or that’s what yuuji thinks is happening. as they’re both canines and from the same family, they’re able to somewhat communicate, whereas yuuji, as the only feline, is left to speculate. still, first toji-san?

now bara? what had megumi been doing that had caught their attention?

(yuuji forgets that wolfs are exceptionally territorial, and cannot fight the instinct of marking up what they consider theirs. poor yuuji.)

this is the end of part one of: a symbiotic relationship between a wolf and a tiger.

i’ll probably be adding more parts, as this was so much fun to do, that or i’ll turn it into a small fanfic on ao3, i’ll let you know once i’ve decided! lmk what you think, enjoy!