#it took me thousands years to finally get motivation for kaito's design

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Yoooo that dragon au is my is jam, do you have plot for it?

Hey, Anon! Glad you like my dragon au! I DO have a plot for it, so ya’ll better be ready : ))) 

“The Hophia Kingdom is ruled by the Saihara family for many generations. The land to Hophia is vast, consisting of; grassy fields, the darkest of forests, the highest of mountain terrain, the mysterious of caves, the coldest of snow in the North, and the unexplored of the sky. 

There is many unexplored land along with other small kingdoms, but Hophia is the largest population and most known to man. Shuichi Saihara, the prince and the next heir to the throne, grew up with 3 friends in Hophia. Kaede Akamatsu, Kaito Momota, and Maki Harukawa. They were three civilians who met Shuichi during a festival at childhood, in which Kaito just invited himself to talk to Shuichi, as he was sitting in the area only royals can be in. And dragged Maki along and Kaede followed to make sure nothing goes wrong. 

As the years went by and Kaito, Kaede, and Maki wanted to serve prince Saihara as their friendship grew. So they joined in with the ranks of the knights after knight training. Although Kaito wanted to be in a much higher rank, to be with the royal knights, which is hard to do even with such closeness with his highness. Royal knights are meant to be pure at heart and have to be proven of their strength. 

Kaito, Kaede, and Maki, have just recently become knights so it isn’t likely for Kaito to become a royal knight very soon. 

During one of Kaito’s night patrols, he heard some loud noise in an alley and went to go check it out. There, he spotted a dragon; a creature known in all of the land to be fierce and killed on sight if possible. But this dragon was different...smaller than the usual ones and seemed to be trapped under a bunch of junk and nets that the merchants and craftsmen throw behind alleys. At this point, Kaito wasn’t sure if he should kill the beast, but killing it would most definitely get his chances with the royal knights in more quicker. But...something didn’t sit well with Kaito killing a creature who is defenceless and currently weak. Sure, this dragon can kill Kaito, despite it being stuck in all the junk with his breath. But the dragon didn’t seem to bother to attack Kaito at all, only hiss in defence. It felt wrong. 

He didn’t know why he was doing it but the next thing Kaito knew, he was trying to help the dragon. Knowing full well the dragon might attack when freed but Kaito had confidence he can protect himself. It was hard getting to the creature with it’s hisses and threat to bite, but Kaito was able to soothe it by saying the words, “it’s okay” and “im not going to hurt you”. Which surprisingly, he felt the dragon understood and allowed Kaito to help. Once freed, the dragon quickly try to fly away but couldn’t and failed every time he tried fly. Kaito noticed that the dragon’s wing has been injured and was unsure of what to do next, sure, he can let the dragon run away out of the kingdom. But he knew other knights were patrolling around the area. And he just didn’t want this dragon to be killed when it seemed to be doing nothing wrong. 

It took a lot of effort, but Kaito was able to assist the dragon out of the area and returned back to normal life. Or so he thought. When he got reports of a dragon running around the streets and stealing food or other goods. Surely it can’t be the same dragon that Kaito saved, right? When Kaito was set with other knights to go see if this dragon settled nearby, Kaito managed to see the dragon once again. Hiding in a small cave with all the food and materials he have successfully stolen. Along with cuts and scars, assuming from the knights attacking it when the dragon was in the kingdom. It confused Kaito why this dragon didn’t leave far away from Hophia yet, but then noticed that the dragon’s wing was still wounded. Seemed to be a really bad injury for it to not heal at this point, so Kaito used some of the items that the dragon stole, to make medicine. Which he learned when meeting one of the young healers in training; Mikan. But only knew little of how to make 1 or 2 of the medicine. It was convenient the dragon had these items, perhaps he was planning to make this medicine to begin with? But how would a dragon possibly know of these things? Kaito didn’t know or bother to look further into it, as he applied the medicine to the wing and ripping apart of his cape to bandage it. 

It should’ve been the end there. But Kaito just felt the urge to check on the dragon, and eventually came around to bringing food as well. He also bothered to ask Mikan more of medicine and learning how to brew some up. The dragon eventually got closer and closer to Kaito, to the point where the dragon allowed Kaito to even pet it. The dragon was often weird, and would seem to know how to get on Kaito’s nerves with little tricks like waking up Kaito with a roar all of a sudden. To, stealing his cape, etc. And Kaito would often tell stories of his journey in knight training, plus his hopes and ambitions to the creature. It was odd, but he viewed this dragon as a friend. 

One day, the dragon seemed to have gone. And Kaito assumed his wing was healed up and so he flew off, I guess he didn’t expect such a creature to stay with him forever. Until he met a boy, who seemed to be following Kaito around during his daily patrol. Eventually the boy came up and introduced himself, Kokichi Ouma, and claimed to need help from a “big, strong, handsome knight such as Kaito”. And told the knight to meet him at a specific area as soon as night falls. Kaito wanted to ignore this strange gremlin’s invite, but he had a strong feeling that it was important. And so, just like all of his impulse decisions, he did. Kokichi thanked Kaito when he arrived, thanked “Mr. Knight”. And Kaito was confused as to why, he had never met this boy in his life until now. Kokichi cleared that up when he started to transform just his wings to show. And Kaito knew those wings anywhere, it was the same dragon he helped healed. 

At that point, Kaito was just lost and couldn’t believe that this boy was the same as the dragon he grew a connection to. Kokichi just smiled and just stated, “Im a shifter, silly! Most dragons are, woooow, didn’t know humans can be this stupid”. It was then Kaito preferred this boy as a dragon more, didn’t speak words in his dragon form. As Kokichi gave that vague explanation, he said his goodbyes and ran into the night. Leaving Kaito still bewildered at this discovery. 

Kokichi would return, just to bother and pester Kaito in his knight duties. And so, with Kokichi’s human form, they bonded. And Kaito started to even invite Kokichi to stay at his quarters. “Ooooh, Momota-chan wants me to stay in his bed? How rotten his thoughts are to want to do that to lil ol’ me” “Do you want to fucking sleep on a bed or not? Im perfectly fine with you sleeping in the goddamn cold where you normally stay.”  “ 

OKAY, I DIDN’T PLAN TO WRITE THAT MUCH. But over time, they get closer and eventually, Kaito just started dating Kokichi. And Kokichi kinda introduced himself to Shuichi, Kaede and Maki as his boyfriend. So it was “set in stone”, as Kokichi said.  I HOPE YOU ENJOYED READING THIS AA. 

HERE’S SOME REFS 

Kokichi’s Dragon Form

Human Form

Kaito’s Ref