Disclaimer: Eyeshield 21 in no way shape and or form belongs to me…

Warnings: This fic contains explicit mention of homosexual relationships. If you do not like such things, please TURN AWAY NOW! Should you still read this fic, despite the warning, and decide to flame me none the less, I will be more than happy to address your concerns.

AN: I would like to extend a very hearty thank you to my friend PocketAces. Without her support and friendship, this little plot bunny would never have seen the light of day.

They were vermin.

What were essentially three oversized primates stared her down, all three of them with a wicked glint in their eyes. But she wouldn't be taken that easily. She might not get out of this confrontation alive, but they wouldn't reduce her to cowering in a corner like some sort of cowed canine. No, she was so much more than that.

"S-stop!" a shaky and uncertain voice cut across the glares she was receiving from the monkey horde. It looked like yet another stupid bipedal organism was crowding around her, only, this one was much smaller, incredibly so. Yet, with neither hesitation nor forethought, the strange little being – although it was still larger by far than her, she was still in her infancy after all – covered her with its miniscule and thin frame.

"Huh?"

"Huuh?!"

"HUUUUUUH!?!?!"

Such stupid animals…

She fidgeted nervously. What was this stupid little ape child doing?! These pitiful beings never did anything without expecting something in return. They were all vindictive, selfish, treacherous abominations, as would soon be evidenced by the three other monkey-like life forms.

They turned even on their own kind.

Pathetic.

Be that as it may, however, she would still take shelter behind this small little monkey. Despite coming from an inferior race his actions indicated he was at least…tolerable. Perhaps he was even useful.

Her train of thought was cut off as the mutated tree swinger with bright yellow hair glared down at the monkey bei…person covering her.

"Oi shrimp, what do you think you're doing?" it asked in a squeaky voice filled with derision and condescension.

The person, with gravity defying brown fur, she noticed, did not reply, but instead chose to curl more tightly around her cold form. She absently noticed that she had stopped shaking. The…person…felt warm.

The sad parody of an ape baby that toted a long cylindrical metal object at least as big as he was also spoke in the high tones indicating pre pubescence in males of their species, "Oi! Kazuki! Maybe we should just beat the kid and get it over with?"

The final of the three primates, this one toting some sort of rolled sheaf of papers with a glossy and colorful covering as well as orange eye coverings, spoke last, "Ya, just get rid of the kid, then we can finish off the cat," just like the other two, its voice indicated it thought not at all about the present circumstances.

However, before the blonde ape thing could reply, the person with strange brown fur, picked her up, to some initial protest – she would not be treated like any other random piece of refuse found upon the unclean streets – and dashed away at mind boggling speeds, even for her.

The three lower life forms immediately dropped their conversation and set off in what seemed like a futile pursuit. That was, it was futile until the person carrying her ran into an alley that led to a dead end.

They really were all idiots.

Even the nice ones.

The brown haired person looked about frantically until he saw the silhouetted forms of the other three parodies of living beings. This wasn't going to end well.

The person holding her ducked into the corner, completely covering her small sleek form with his diminutive body.

"Don't worry, you'll be fine," the person whispered to her in a voice that actually made her calm down, in a voice that she believed in. Ridiculous, that's what this was. It was utterly incomprehensible that a mere…a mere human could possibly be showing courage in the face of impending doom.

What was worse, she believed mere words. She believed in him! She couldn't possibly allow this!

The one with yellow fur leered over the human protecting her. No it was her human! If the human decided to serve her and protect her, then it was her human. She abruptly jumped out from her Human's grasp and jumped from his back to get a good shot at that what appeared to be the leader of the monkey people's group. She managed to swipe him twice across the right cheek, albeit, only with one of her claws.

"What are you doing?!" her Human screeched and swiped her from the air and sheltered her in his warm expansive arms, which she decided to snuggle into cozily, despite the circumstances. He would make a very, very good human.

The yellow furred monkey looked on in outrage and…there was something else…she couldn't identify it.

"You afraid, brat?" asked the yellow furred monkey being.

"N-n-no…" her Human stuttered out. Well, at least he had said the words.

The yellow furred idiot's demeanor abruptly changed and it let out a roaring guffaw, ignoring the blood oozing from its cheeks from where she had managed to get it, "I like you kid, come 'ere," it said as it pulled her Human into a rough one armed hug and proceeded to burry its knuckles into her Human's brown furred head. The yellow furred being's companions were shocked for a moment, but then joined in on teasing and welcoming her Human to their pack.

And then she recognized the look the yellow furred idiot had given her human.

No.

Oh, no.

He was her human, damn it!