Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

Anime

: Beastars

Pairing

: Louis x Kagome

Summary

: A battle with a witch gone awry and Kagome finds herself in a world where humanoid animals are at the top of the food chain and few humans left are at the very bottom.

Little Human Pet
Chapter One: Saved

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This world world was peculiar and Kagome was no stranger to peculiar worlds. And if she was being completely honest with herself, peculiar wasn't the half of it. A battle with a sorceress gone awry sent her away from her home, everything she had ever known and into a world where humanoid animals ruled everything and humans were things of the past, rarely spoken of and even more rarely seen.

Humans were almost extinct.

In fact, they were bred for food if they were seen at all.

She was considered exotic meat.

Curled in a bed that was too big for her and too extravagant, Kagome let a tear slip passed her vibrant blue eyes. She sniffled and rubbed away the tears that once started she knew wouldn't stop.

Kagome was lucky and she acknowledged that things could have gone much worse than how they did. Her fingers drifted the tattoo cruelly etched below her collar, remembered the indignity of standing bare before fangs dripping saliva and claws caressing her fur-less flesh. She remembered the rumbled growls and how the scent of her fear fed their hunger.

But Kagome had survived much worse.

When she blinked her eyes open, she observed the sun trickling through the floor to ceiling windows to her right. There was a click of her bedroom door closing and she sat up from her nest of blankets, her vivid gaze meeting a cool brown. She dipped her head from her seated position and a furred hand lifted in greeting. Kagome couldn't stop her eyes from sweeping over his form, from the antlers on his head to his shoe covered feet. He wasn't the oddest sight she had even seen, she had seen monstrous youkai before. Animals talking wasn't high on her list of weird things - in fact, it barely made the list at all.

She met the gaze of her savior as he walked toward her and took a seat at the edge of her bed.

"How do you feel, Kagome?" the humanoid red deer, queried, his sharp gaze weighted and assessing her.

She tugged her bottom lip between her teeth briefly and then gave him a slight but tired smile, "Better today, Louis, thank you. My wounds - as minimal as they were - are healing just fine." His hand reached for hers and stopped centimeters before making contact, but she could feel his warmth all the same. Her smile widened if only to assure her host that she was just fine, "Honestly, I feel much better."

His ears flicked toward her, reminiscent of a normal deer concentrating on the sounds in front of it and she realized he was wholly focused on her. When he had saved her, he told her he had never seen a human before and she believed him because every time he came to her, he seemed very curious. She turned her hand, palm up, a gesture of welcome to her host and he took the invitation readily. His fur was very soft, softer than any deer she had ever touched. Deer in her world had carried almost a coarseness to their fur that his did not.

He seemed fascinated by her skin and when his hand touched a callous made from the use of a bow and arrow, he stopped, "I have never felt this before. What is it?"

Tucking a strand of hair behind her ear, she realized he probably would never develop a callous because the fur on his hands would protect his skin. She answered him patiently, "It's a callous. I am an archer and humans develop these if they don't protect their skin." He hummed as he lifted her hand and observed the callouses closely. She took a deep breath and the question she needed to ask him rushed from lips in a jumble of words and syllables, "How long will you keep me here?"

Louis let her hand drop and his oddly handsome features, pulled into a frown, "You a free to leave when you like, Kagome, but you know what is out there. My family name can keep you moderately safe but..." he looked away from her and stood. His slim, elegant frame walking to the window before he continued, "... there are still those that long to taste your flesh." It was said simply as though he had been discussing the weather. He was a very factual creature she realized in her week being there with him. He didn't mince words and told her exactly how things were but it did not stop her from flinching. He leaned against the windowsill and his eyes found hers again. "Do you want to go back out there, Kagome? You say this is not your home or your world but you have little idea how to return home."

Kagome's nose scrunched as she tried to stop the tears from welling in her eyes because he was right, oh so right. She had no idea how she ended up here, no idea what spell was uttered, no idea and she was well and truly stuck. As the tears trickled down her cheeks and fell onto her clenched hands, his hand was there, wiping them away.

The bed dipped under his weight and she buried her hand into the blue of his shirt, inhaled his woodsy scent and cried. His arms wrapped around her loosely as he murmured to her softly, "Shhh... I'll take care of you."

And Kagome had little doubt that he would.

For his part, Louis observed the interesting creature in his lap with a different feeling rising in his chest. One of his hands went to the number "1" tattooed under her collar and felt rage within swell. Her tears soaked his shirt but the chance to touch her skin, so soft and different from his, made it an acceptable exchange. He understood why carnivores and herbivores alike paid for humans. Carnivores to eat and herbivores, like himself, to keep. She had no claws, no teeth, no antlers, nothing to protect her delicate flesh. He touched his nose to neck and inhaled.

She was just so different from anything he had ever seen and right now she was his.

Kagome was his charge.

She belonged to him for the time being.

He would take care of this strange creature that he had stumbled across in the black market.

When he made his bid to save her, little did he know how she would become an integral part of his life in the future. He brought a hand to weave through the long silky strands of her hair and he wondered if anything had felt so different. He bore this interesting human no affection but he found himself unable to stop petting her. Eventually her quiet came to an even quieter stop and she turned her luminous gaze to him.

Even her eyes were different from anything he had ever seen, the pupil not quite to so animal.

Louis knew what it was like to be considered nothing more than meat but he had survived and so had she.

He knew he needed to return to the schools dorms, he had been away too long. He had originally snuck away to the black market - a not so savory hobby of his - and had stayed away under the guise of falling ill. He wondered how to protect her, wondered how he was going to keep her safe when he was all the way at school. Humans weren't necessarily considered lesser, they were just so rare that no one knew what to do with them. There were of course those that felt they were above them but he found he was not one of them.

He could keep her here but the seeds of doubt started to sow the moment he thought the thought to do it. What if she was taken and he was not around? He cast the thought away so quickly it might as well have not existed. He ran his thumb along the apple of her cheek, brushing away the last vestiges of sadness. Her hands were still clutched into his shirt and though it was wrinkling, he found that he did not care too much. He laid his chin atop her head and held his little human pet closely.

Which is exactly what he would say when she came with him to school.

She was his human pet.

Which honestly wasn't far from the truth.

He had paid for her, paid them not to eat her. Although he had never seen a human before, he knew instantly what she was when she saw her bare flesh so different from everything around her. The fools had not parted with her easily. Torn between the ridiculous sum of money, the most that any had ever seen, and the most exotic meal they would ever eat. Eventually, money wins over all and he had walked away victorious with his prize. He had taken her hand and led her away from the blood and carnage around her from those that had come before her.

He would throw whatever amount of money at the school needed to keep her with him.

To keep her safe, Kagome would have little choice but to agree.

She would be able to safely spend her days and nights by his side. As her breathing evened out and he held her against his chest, Louis felt an unbearable festering content.

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'Gome Yuki:: Hello all! I am back! I have been tossing this idea around for a bit. I'll be pretty consistently writing as I am on furlough due to Covid-19. With little else to do, I would like to pop out some updates for everyone. This will be a 3-5 part series and will contain spoilers if you haven't watched the anime or read the manga. I will take creative liberties for the pieces that don't add into the story but I won't disclose them as to not completely ruin the anime/manga for anyone.

As always, thank you so much for your continued to support of the years. Please stay safe!