{From heya: seeing how long it takes for mahiru to see this}

It was a wet and cold night, rain heavy and merciless as thunder roared in the sky. No one would be out in this weather, but of course there are those who have no choice.

Clanking of metal and thudding was barely heard through the storm, guards and horses making their way through the thick woods and into a small clearing where a large shed was with an abandoned cottage.

They didn't do anything yet though, as the commander scanned the area before getting off his horse. A man with long black hair and tired eyes.

"Proceed with caution! This creature is like one we've never seen! It's much bigger than a bear and has razor sharp claws and fangs!" He said, and five guards went up to the doors of the shed and raised their swords before opening it.

The beast inside truly was a sight to behold.

It's body was completely covered in black and red fur, six electric blue eyes filled with fear and confusion, they stared intently as it backed against the wall, snarling out.

Chains covered it's oversized lion like figure, holding down it's four huge clawed paws, huge grey horns protruding from it's head, curling around it's skull. The chains even wrapped around it's snout, making it impossible to open it's mouth, though even still you could see the fangs poking out of it's black dog like lips.

It looked like a wicked beast, roars loud and earth shaking despite its shut jaw.

The guards were stunned, almost parylized by fear. The commander sighed, getting his own sword out. "Are you men or mice!"

The castle guards followed their commander inside, the man staring at the vicious beast and sighed.

This was going to be a long night.

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In the morning the sun was nice and bright, everything outside wet and fresh from the storm.

Overnight the beast was transported to the Midoriya castle, being put in the dungeon and bound once again. Of course the beast didn't like that one bit, his roars echoing and nearly shaking the castle.

It woke up a little prince, the freckled boy scared and distraught at the scary sound. The teen getting out of bed and changing quickly as he could, running down to the dining room where his mother and father were.

"What's that noise!" He asked, panting softly. Izuku holding on tightly to his shirt.

His father sighed softly, his mother gently holding him. "It's fine Izuku."

"There was a disturbance of some... beast in the town. We brought it to the dungeon so no one gets hurt." His father sighed, "Though.. The men moving him did get a bit hurt.."

His mother sent him a sharp glare. "Dont tell him that!"

"Sorry..! Just thinking out loud dear.."

Izuku calmed a bit from this and sat down to join them. "A beast?..it isn't a bear or wolf?" He asked, eating some flapjacks.

"Practically a combination of them, and a wolf, but it has multiple eyes and horns.." His father sighed, "It's very dangerous."

Of course Izuku heard multiple eyes and not the word dangerous. Nearly choking on his food as he tried to talk with his mouth full before swallowing.

"R-really!? After breakfast can I go see? Please father!" He begged, as Izuku had always been thirsty for knowledge. And if the beast was what his father claimed to be then he just had to see it!

"I just said it was dangerous Izuku." He gave him a look.

"But it's so incredibly rare! A new animal, maybe even a new species! You have to let me study it" the teen said, giving his mother puppy eyes.

His mother looked at his father with a pitying look. "You know his hobbies hunny.."

The king sighed, "..fine.. But no matter what, there needs to be at least three guards with you Izuku, and stay five feet away from the jail bars. You can ask Sir Aizawa to guide you after you finish breakfast, he helped capture the beast so he should be a good guard, tell him I said to stay with you down there."

His father was pretty over protective.

Izuku smiled big. "Thank you!!" He said and finished his food quickly, leaving with a kiss to both of them and went back up to his room to get a few things.

His leather journal that he wrote and drew the different species of anything he came across, and a small set of paints so he could anylize the beast better and made it down to the dungeon.

He saw the black haired man, going up to him. "Good morning sir Aizawa! Father said it would be alright for me to see the beast if you were with me."

It's roars were louder now, Izuku a little nervous but determined.

The man tiredly nodded, "..alright my Prince. Though it's dangerous.. Okay? I dont know why you want to see it."

"It's only natural to want to see something so rare and unique! This beast sound amazing to me, multiple eyes and horns, bigger than a bear and a body of a wolf? It would be a shame not to see it." Izuku said, eyes full of passion.

"And we might even be able to see how it lives, what are it's mannerisms." He said, walking passed him and entered the largest part of the dungeon.

And then Izuku saw it. Bursting blue eyes with cat like pupils in a prick, snout muzzled and ears on its skull. It looked absolutely vicious..yet more scared of them than they were of it.

It still was wrapped in chains and ropes, snout clamped shut by the muzzle and ropes bounding his limbs, even the long bushy tail it had.

Izuku came closer, completely entranced. "A..amazing..it's so..beautiful." He mumbled, sitting down on his knees and quickly began writing away in his book.

The teen looked happy and excited, ecstatic really. It wasn't everyday you saw something like this.

The beast snarled, claws clawing at the floor as it tried squirming back, though it was hard to from the ropes.

Izuku saw it, frowning. "Poor thing..it's terrified." He said, Cooing at it softly. "Don't be afriad, I won't hurt you." He said with a warm smile, forgetting Aizawa was there and stuck his hand through the bar so it could at least smell him.

The beast seemed to pause, it's pupils dilating ever so slightly as he moved forward to catch whiff of his scent.

Of course the man pulled him back quickly, Aizawa startled the beast again, it snarling and looked more scared if anything. "Dont do that, it'll take your hand off my Prince..!"

Izuku huffed and pouted. "But it was gonna sniff me! It wasn't gonna hurt me.." he insisted, looking back at the beast and laid on his tummy before painting it in his book.

"It really is an amazing creature.."

"We have already lost a life to that thing, I will not allow you to recklessly throw away yours." Aizawa said in a respective tone. "We will not be risking anything."

Izuku sighed, nodding softly and soon lunch rolled around and he still hadn't moved from his spot. "Sir Aizawa, if it isn't too much could you bring me a tray? I don't want to leave just yet." He said, looking at the Beast again.

"You'll do something reckless my prince." The man sighed, knowing the boy all too well. "I cant leave you alone, my apologies."

The prince pouted and chuckled softly. "Your smart." Izuku said, knowing Aizawa wouldn't leave in the first place but wanted to give it a shot. After all the man was pretty much his nanny growing up, his father wanting Izuku to see Aizawa as a role model.

"I can feel it in my bones..he's not as dangerous as he seems."

"Though you need to eat." he added, "So I'll have to ask for you to get up and go get food."

Izuku pouted more and finally stood, waving at the beast. "I'll be back." He said and let the man escort him out of the dungeon and back into the castle where he met back with his parents.

"It's huge~, and it really does have huge claws and multiple eyes. I got lots of details and a sketch. I can't wait to get even more!" Izuku gushed, sparkles in his eyes and ate some turkey.

"You shouldn't spend so much time down there." His father frowned. "It's dangerous."

The boy whined softly. "But father, Aizawa was with me the whole time and he'd never let me get hurt." He said, and sneaked some food into a napkin that was on his lap.

"Still, it's unhealthy to have an obsession with something so dangerous. I'll only allowing you to see it.. Once a day." He decided sternly. Little did he know how much this rule would be broken.

Izuku was about to protest but decided not too, nodding with a sad face. "I understand father.."

And of course later that night, after he knew his parents were asleep and the castle was quiet did he get out of bed and grab a candle.

He headed down quietly to the dungeon and picked up a little something on the way to help him distract the guard on duty.

Izuku felt a bit bad for tricking Aizawa but it was in the name of research!

He made it down the steps and peeked around the corner, seeing the man sitting at his post and grabbed the fluffy kitten out of his pajama pocket.

"Buy me some time okay?" Izuku whispered and kissed it's fluffy head before letting it go and watched it trot over to the man and hugged his boot.

"Mew!"

The man looked at it blankly before kneeling down to pick it up. "..what the hell are you doing down here..?"

He started scratching behind it's ear, basically giving it his full attention.

The kitten purred softly, licking his hand and wrapped its soft paws around his wrist. Pretty much hugging his hand. The all black kitten Looking up at the man with its big yellow eyes. "Mew~"

He sighed, "I swear.."

He started walking towards where the entrance of the dungeon was to return the kitten to where ever it came from.. Though he would have to find where that was which would take some extra time.

Izuku had got the kitten from his friend uraraka, one of the maids. He told her about the beast and why needed to see it again, and she understood. Wishing him luck and gave him one of her cats babies.

"Sorry Aizawa." He mumbled and quickly went back over to the beast, seeing it half asleep. Bringing his candle up and smiled.

It had worn itself out throughout the day, looking dull and weak.

"It's me again." Izuku whispered, bringing out some food for it. "Father only wants me to see you once a day but that just won't do." He said and looked around for a key before finding it by the cell door and opened it.

He growled softly at this.

Of course he cautiously went inside, slowly approaching it and sat down again. "They have you all bound..that's pretty mean." He said, raising his hand and held it out for the beast.

A part of him was scared..but Izuku had guts.

It looked far more afraid than Izuku.

Humans were only cruel to the beast, not to mention he didn't have too much interactions with them.

A soft, scared warning growl escaped him again, the beast cowering his body away.

Izuku frowned, cooing at him again before singing a gentle tune. A lullaby, one his mother would sing to him before bed when he was a small child.

Maybe it would calm the beast?

If anything it looked more confused, growling a bit louder to convey this.

The teen brought the food out again. "Your hungry right? If you let me take the muzzle off you'll be able to eat." He said and waited for it's reaction.

It leaned away once more, though eyes the food somewhat curiously, soon gently moving forward to sniff it cautiously.

The prince smiled, slowly and gently raising his hand close to its furry cheek. Patting softly to show he wasn't harsh. "There there..I won't hurt you."

It's head pulled away fast at the contact though, the touch surprising it. Though now it's pupils were dilated wide, giving him an innocent but slightly fearful look to it.

Izuku gave it a pitiful smile. "Will you at least allow me to take the muzzle off?" He said, gesturing to his own face to try and get the beast to understand. Not knowing if it could or not.

It was a little willing to lean forward again, eyeing the food. It was a small amount to the beast, but it was better than nothing. Which was what it had for a long time.

This made the boy smiled big, getting the muzzle off after inspecting it and gave it another pat. "Goodboy. Sorry it's not a lot but hopefully tomorrow I can bring you more." He said and sat back to let it eat.

First the beast open and closed it's sore jaw, revealing two different rows of razor sharp fangs, canines long and pointy like the rest but even more so. In a way it's eyes seemed more confident now that it had it's mouth, eyeing Izuku almost suspiciously.

Izuku was still sitting, looking docile as ever and smiled. "Don't be Shy, pretend I'm not even here." He chuckled.

It made a soft growl at the laugh, this time showing it's fangs since it could. It seemed to think Izuku was mocking it.

The boy wavered at the sight but got a bit closer, obviously mesmerized. "Such sharp teeth.." Izuku mumbled, staring into a pair of its icy blue eyes.

The confidence was gone in a second as it backed up like a kicked puppy, eyes turning to pin pricks again in fear.

Izuku gulped, confused. "E-easy.." he said, crawling towards it some. "I'm much smaller than you, no need to be so frightened." The teen said, smiling gently.

It was breathing heavily from it's nose to the point Izuku could feel it. It sounded ever so slightly like a horse after running through the field for an hour or so.

The teen pouted, not really sure what do to until he sat up against the wall and pretended to fall asleep. If he wasn't watching maybe the beast would relax around him.

The only thing the fury creature took this as was the fact this tiny human in front of him just fucking died.

It was quiet before moving over to sniff at him, waiting for a reaction, when none was given it whined softly. The human helped it and then died. Great.

Izuku did his best not to laugh or move, staying still as a statue.

It nuzzled him gently with it's snout, huffing as it got no reaction and whined again, trying to squirm and get rid of the ropes surrounding it's body with it's teeth, the next second it was standing, then turned it's attention to the smol human once more, sniffing his hair and tried to paw at his lap gently, avoiding hurting him with it's claws.

The teen was quickly cracking, slowly opening his eyes and looked up at the beast with a smile. "Sorry, I thought you didn't like me looking at you since you got so scared. But it looks like this worries you more huh?" He said and looked at all the fluff in front of him and hugged the beast without a second thought.

Incredible.

This was the softest thing he's ever felt! Softer than silk, better than a newborn lamb! He couldn't help but nuzzle and smile in the warmth.

The beast huffed in.. offense? Trying to shake him off as he didn't like the new feeling of a small human clinging to him.

After he was off, it turned away and... pouted..?

Izuku had his arms crossed, sitting on his knees and looked away. "Hmph..no one lets me do what I want. Fathers so overprotective, Aizawa still treats me like I'm five..it's not fair." He whimpered, making a sad face and little tears came out and he sniffled.

Now the human's face was leaking. Was that normal? Maybe. At least it didn't die like it thought it did.

It was laying in the corner, curled up as It stared at the leaking human.

It waved it's tail at it.

The boy sniffed, looking at the beast and it's bushy tail. "Huh.." he blinked with wet eyes.

It fell to the ground now that the animal had Izuku's attention. He stared at them, then his eyes wandered to the food he had yet to eat.

Izuku pushed the food closer to him and cleaned his face. "E-eat.." he said and hugged his knees, looking away with sad eyes still.

Was the human locked in the jail cell with the beast? Why did it look sad too?

It pawed forward and licked up the food easily, swallowing in one and then waited for Izuku to look at him, proceeding to blep.

The boy couldn't help but smile at that, giggling with the voice of a thousand angels. Izuku wiping the last of his tears away and crawled over so he was in front of the beast now.

"I can't stay mad at you. Your so cute despite looking so scary."

The beast seemed happy with this, fine with Izuku now. It didn't really understand why he was leaking or why he was being kind to it, but it didn't dislike the tiny human.

It just stared at him.

Izuku stared back, hugging his knees again and yawned. "Oh no, I'm getting sleepy..I'll have to go soon." He said, rubbing the sleepy out of his eyes.

He did not seem happy with this news, ears lowering to his head.

The boy saw his reaction, a little confused. "What's he matter boy?"

It was becoming obvious this tiny human didn't know the beast could understand him. If anything this fact upset it more.

Izuku eyed his fluff again, slowly getting closer and closer before he hugged his large paw and smiled warmly. "Fluffy~.."

It lifted it up, not liking the touch, though this showed it's toe beans.

The princes eyes sparkled, hands going and holding it before softly squishing and feeling the beans. "S..so cute.."

He made a very odd and confused noise, almost sounding like a merowl, but also a soft grow, and also a whine.

Izuku giggled happily, cheeks a healthy rose color and nuzzled it against it. "So very adorable." He said.

All six of it's eyes crossed to narrowly look at him, this just making it look dumbly adorable.

The teen couldn't help but see him as cute, giving his toe beans soft kisses before getting up. "I have to leave now. I don't want Aizawa to catch me."

It did not seem happy with this again, sitting like a dog would and dipped his head down a little.

Izuku let out a soft 'awww' and pat the beasts head, even scratching behind its ear the best he could. "I'll be back tomorrow morning, promise."

He huffed softly, liking the scritches.

The boy gave the top of his snout a gentle kiss and lifted the muzzle. "I have to put this back on you or they'll know I was here. I know you don't want to and it hurts me to do this but I must."

In an instant he looked terrified, standing on his all four legs and was quickly a good seven feet tall.

Izuku pouted. "Come on now, it's just for tonight." He said, pleading him.

He lifted on paw and covered his upper snout, making sure he couldn't get it on even if he got the chance.

The teen had enough of him being a brat, dropping the muzzle and pretended to have stomach pains before over dramatically falling to the floor and laid there unconscious.

He saw this, just setting his head on Izuku.

The teen hugged his neck, giggling gently. "Please let me? I know you don't like it but if you don't let me we both get in trouble."

He didn't give any indications of a response.

Izuku slowly pulled away, getting the muzzle and gave him a sad smile before finally getting it back on him and pressed their foreheads together. "Good boy, your very brave."

He whined, using his paw to try and tear it off already since he had broken all the ropes.

The teen tried to calm him, petting his head and ears. "Don't!" He whisper yelled, looking around to make sure Aizawa wasn't back yet.

He laid down and held both paws over his eyes, hiding behind them.

Izuku couldn't help but both feel bad and find the scene cute. "Now now..I'll be back in the morning. Just for you." He said and bent down to press one last kiss to his head.

"Goodnight..."