Moving In. Chapter Two.
Moving In
Chapter Two: Roy
By Roofles
Oddly enough, it was Roy who woke up first that morning. The large rhino could hold his liquor that much was sure but he had also been the one snoring the loudest in the room full of drunken passed out party-goers. This would most likely explain the birth of room the others gave the pantless rhino who was upside down on his back, legs kicked up onto the wall and sawing logs like a lumberjack. Which only matched his scruffy apperance.
The first thing on his mind was where the raccoon he had crashed with gone. The second? Why his mouth tasted like vinegar. Sorting these things out was as hard as navigating through the very crowded room and finding his pants. Roy couldn't even see the floor as he stepped, walked on, stomped, crushed and pulverized anything foolish enough to be caught in his path. There were yelps, barks and whines behind him as the hungover rhino tried to go as carefully, quietly but mostly quickly as possible to the bathroom.
There were several curses from still half asleep people who had been woken up after the rhino's warpath to the restroom. The rhino just ignored them as he got flipped off from the last person, a rather older graying fur wolf that Roy didn't even recognize. He only took pity on the older man who had nothing better to do than go to such a party. Roy found someone in the tub with a lampshade covering their face, from a lamp that wasn't even in the apartment and decided it was best to just shut the curtain... while he was still taking a leak.
It was only about then that he questioned why he wasn't wearing any pants.
The gray skinned rhino just shrugged it off as he scratched his hairy belly with his other hand, yawning loudly which only remind him of the fact his mouth tasted like vinegar once more. So he chugged the mouthwash, still pissing like a race horse, and spat into the toilet as he finished up. Using his big toe to flush the toilet and put the seat back down. Roy couldn't resist turning on the shower after.
He quickly washed his hands, scratched his balls, and headed back out into the living room as there was a string of frantic curses behind him from the cat in the tub. Roy was planning to find that cute, if slightly girly, raccoon he had been chatting up the night before. He didn't prefer femboys but hey, at least someone had taken a liking to him at the party.
That bright eyed, optimistic and clearly unable to hold his beer raccoon, having gotten drunk off only one beer last night. It made him a bit giddy though, it had been a little while since he had gotten a chance to get a good morning snug in. Or rump maybe. Maybe take the little fag out to breakfast or...
A string of thoughts came to a crashing halt as, amongst the various furs he found in the apartment, there was the raccoon in the corner. In the arms of someone else no less.
"Oh," Roy managed to say as he felt everything deflate and his belly hang out once more, not even realizing he had been sucking it in before. "Damn." He muttered, shaking his head and caused a throbbing pain to shoot over the side of it. Groaning at that, Roy decided he'd finally call it quits and just head back to his place.
After all, there was nothing left for him here.
Roy's apartment was directly underneath Mathew's and his new roomie, a guy he couldn't even recall the name of in the state the rhino found himself in. He had been so lighthearted when he woke up and now found himself grumbling the whole way down the steps, bitching over the fact the elevator didn't work and over the smallest of things. His foul mood only got worse as he opened his door to find the place empty.
Derek, an elk he'd known for ages, wasn't here and must still be somewhere upstairs. Most likely with someone. Sure, the elk could get someone. He was good looking, fit and was what people wanted.
"Fuck," Roy just cursed not even closing his bathroom door as he stripped down to nothing and turned the shower on, waiting for it to heat up. He looked down over himself, then to the mirror nearby.
He was tall, bulky with heavy shoulders and a strong build. He was hairy, arms and legs, belly and groin. Even in the morning, Roy found himself with a bad stubble growing. It was true he was heavy, several hundred pounds in fact. And as he flexed, he could see it wasn't just from his stomach.
Anthromorphs, furs, whatever the slang for them were these days... well, the fact of the matter was they were physically different. Some had claws. Others had fangs. Some could even fly. While others had flippers and fins or webbed feet. Roy? Roy was a rhino. A big, bulky guy with two blunt horns sticking out between his nostrils, one slightly behind the first and slightly smaller.
Though he was classified as a White Rhinoceros, he was a very bland looking gray. His skin tough and even with a herbivores diet, he had a heavy frame. Hell, his brother was a bouncer at a night club for a reason. No one messed with a rhino. Or wanted one, in his case.
Roy didn't care that the water was still cold as he ran his head underneath it's flow and tried to snap out of his funk. Just like him to get mopey after a heavy night of drinking. Most people got depressed while they were drinking, his always seem to come the morning after. Filled with regret and smelling like sweat and shame.
"Heh," Roy did chuckle at the thought as he felt the griminess wash off in the shower. "Sounds like a typical Friday night to me." And with that, and forcing himself to think other things, he just washed the whole day before away and down the drain.
Roy dried his head off as he made his way into the kitchen to put a pot of coffee on. He checked his phone, that he had left here rather than taking it with him (he'd lost more phones that way than he'd like to count) and tossed a few things on the stove.
Most of the messages were for various jobs he had been doing. Roy was a jack of all trades kind of guy. Due to the doctors saying he couldn't work, basically because he was a klutsy half blind rhino, he did several different things under the table to make a living. Bouncer here, gardener there, grunt work mostly. People just using him like a big lug the doctors said he was. It was a touchy issue for him, to say the least. He still liked being of use and mostly worked for friends or their families.
Yet, it was the last message that made butterfly's dance in his stomach and his ears to fall to the sides.
"Hey, it's Henry. I got that shipment in! If you want to come in, anytime afternoon, you can pick them up!" A simple message, from a friendly red panda that owned a flower store down the street. And Roy found himself feeling giddy again, blushing uncomfortable and smiling the whole time as he whipped himself up a quick spinach and tomato quesadilla.
With a half bottle of pepto bismol, his meal and three mugs of coffee Roy headed down the street in nothing more than a loose pair of shorts, open Hawaiian over shirt and sandals. The large, hairy half naked rhino drew several stares (mostly from humans) and could care less. Roy snorted at that, they could go fuck themselves for all he cared.
The shop was at the corner of the street their apartment was on. A street that was designated for people like him to live not even fifty years ago. The government seemed to find it best to put anyone not human in the same area, claiming it was for their safety while in reality just wanting to keep an eye on them. Roughly a hundred years later, there was still several issues and conflicts between humans and... well anyone else. Let alone the fact several different groups didn't get along.
They formed a community over time and even opened up stores, creating their own little town within the city. One such store was a plant nursery, as the owner insisted it to be instead of just a shop. The red panda behind the counter waved at him as Roy opened the door, the small bell jingling above.
"Konnichiwa," Henry said heading around the counter to greet him warmly. Henry was a bit smaller than Roy and only came up to the rhino's chest. Henry had rich auburn red fur with streaks of orange like a setting sun. The red panda had white markings around his muzzle, ears and eyes that only enriched and highlighted his features. Making his very smile pop out. His limbs were black and his tail had a ring pattern almost like a raccoon, if they were red.
Roy returned it with a friendly head ruffle, that smile he got, messing up the red panda's hair fur.
"Got your message." Roy just said looking over the panda towards the counter. The three lane counter had a rather large tree growing from the very center of the store. The building having been built around it at the request from the previous owners, a family of a squirrels. Shelves had been carved into the trunk and mounted on the sides allowing for merchandise to be displayed. Roy wasn't looking at these but the even smaller red panda behind the counter frowning at him. Or glaring, he could never be sure. "Hey there, Ms. Takashi." And he gave a wave to the much older, graying fur red panda.
The older woman only continued to give him that frowning glare, shaking her head slowly back and forth before going back to helping a customer.
Roy wasn't sure why she hated him so much. It wasn't his fault, really, that he had stumbled through the front window on his very first visit to the store. Or cause more property damage than a bull in a red china shop. Roy always did repair the damage, even putting in the new window himself. Still, she had not been happy about it. And some very harsh Japanese was yelled at him while she beat him over the head with a broom.
Her son on the other hand was the opposite.
A very warm, friendly person who never once held him responsible for breaking the display Henry had been working on the entire morning. Roy did help clean up the mess and got a chance to have a conversation with the red panda even during his busy schedule.
"Momma doesn't exactly like when you stop in, unannounced." Henry just shrugged as he headed towards the back room with Roy in tow.
"You called me." Roy pointed out with a chuckle, glancing over at the older woman who was following his every step as if just waiting for him to trip and breaks something, again.
"Well yeah, I know. It's not me! She just..." Henry chuckled nervously.
"Nah, I understand. She hates me." Roy just shrugged one of his broad shoulders and could honestly care less over the matter.
"She doesn't hate you!" Henry tried to reassure him but only managed to say that much on the matter.
"Yeah, she hates me. Scum of the earth right here." Roy just jested, holding the door open as Henry headed into the employee only area. The two continued to talk.
"Well scum can be useful." Henry just said, smiling guiltily. "Even dung has its uses."
Roy raised an eyebrow before giving a nod, understanding. "Your mom said that about me?"
Henry only offered another soft smile in apology and headed back over, not answering his question as he grabbed the thing Roy had come for. "It's a rare bonsai tree." The red panda explained, showing the small tree in the pot. It looked like a very miniature willow tree with hanging purple flowers. "It's a wisteria bonsai." Henry said, almost handing it over but deciding it might be best if he cared for it until Roy paid.
Roy seemed to understand. It wouldn't have been the first time.
Roy really didn't see the allure these flowers held, or plants or need for such effort into taking care of them. He liked cacti. They were easy to handle. Water them every blue moon and that was it. Henry's passion on the subject and the effort he put into his family's shop was admirable and Roy enjoyed that far more.
The way those bark brown eyes sparkled as he talked about the various species and how his family specialized in taking care of bonsai trees, it brought life to their otherwise bland conversation. The family had even gone so far as to hire a feng shui artist to come in and organize and change the whole store so that it'd have a positive energy on the plants. Roy had actually laughed when Henry had told him about it one evening. Feeling like an utter ass after, seeing the embarrassment it caused the red panda and the conversation that evening was particularly short.
Roy could be rather awkward around someone he liked. And the apartment had dozens of plants he had purchased from this store, all as excuses to see the red panda some more. Each floor had potted plants, the elevator was filled with extra pots and soil for them. And then he'd donate and gift countless other plants to those of the apartment. There was a whole list of aquatic plants that the otters on the first floor adored.
"Cash or card?" Henry asked as he walked behind the counter and rung him up. Roy winced at seeing the price and tried not to let it show, too much.
"Cash." Roy said pulling a couple of bills out of his wallet and sliding them on the counter over.
"As usual." Henry chuckled, giving him a wink and a smile. He typed it in, bringing up the change, knowing Roy always worked under the table.
"When's your break." Roy asked, not taking his hand off the money. Roy gave him a large smile. It might've been the aclohol still in his system, the 3 mugs of coffee mixing with the pepto bismol but Roy felt very confident in this single second. It passed quickly. "Was going to head out to grab something to eat. If'n you wanted to join, maybe?"
"I still got a little while until my break..." Henry replied, his large ears folding back as he flushed a bit at the idea.
"You're just always working these days. Need to get a break sooner or later." Roy turned his hand over, offering up the money so Henry could finish the transaction.
"I get plenty of breaks." The red panda chuckled putting the cash away and getting the change back. "I'll have my lunch break here soon, we're usually busy around noon so I take it after."
"Ok," Roy just shrugged, stuffing the change crudely into his pocket. "I'll just hang around until then." He said louder than need be and turned around to go inspect a shelf. Scratching the stubble on his chin as he looked over every one of the delicate, breakable plants.
As if seeing this, Henry's mother quickly flew over to talk to her son about why the walking disaster was still in her store. Roy didn't understand Japanese but he could make out the look on her face as Henry explained Roy would be sticking around for a little while.
The look on her face was one of both shock and horror and those eyes slowly creaked over to look at him. Seconds later Henry was hanging up his forest green apron and being pushed out of the shop by his mother with Roy waiting out front.
"I was going to try that new little sushi place that opened up." Roy just shrugged, ignoring the fact she had slammed the door so hard the whole shutters shook. The fact she locked it might've been overkill.
"Don't you hate sushi?" Henry rolled his eyes, giving him an elbow nudge to his gut.
"Well," Roy just scratched the back of his neck. "It's suppose to be really good. A lot of non-fish options too. Very vegetarian friendly. Maybe the stuff I had wasn't the best before..."
"You bought it from a supermarket. What did you really think would happen?" The red panda laughed.
"It was so cheap though! It was a steal." Roy chuckled, placing a hand on Henry's back as they turned the corner.
"The only price was dying on the toilet the rest of the night?" The red panda chuckled.
"And morning after." Roy just shrugged. "I felt like I was dying."
"And you want to go get sushi again?" Henry raised a white fur eyebrow, twitching an ear.
"I'm a risk taker." Roy said and as if just to confirm that, tried to cross the street without the signal. Henry caught his arm, chuckling and pulled him back. Roy played it off, not about to admit he hadn't noticed.
"Someone just likes the abuse." Henry shook his head.
"If you're offering." Roy replied with a wink. "I've been bad."
"Don't you need to be wearing leather when you say that?" Henry snorted, blowing it off and crossing the street.
There wasn't a sign for the place and it was down a few steps, behind another store in the basement. A nice, quiet little place that was far smaller than Roy had been led to believe. The rhino actually had to stoop down a little so he wouldn't smack his head on the door or hanging lights. The whole place was dark and without any windows the only light came from the dimmed lamps along the walls.
It was hard to see the steps leading down and the clumsy rhino had to use the wall to navigate the final three. It was stuffy down here, several degrees cooler than outside and was a much smaller establishment than he thought. For instance, the place had a maximum limit of people that could be in here at a time. There were only a few tables in the place and, after being seated, found out they wouldn't be the only ones sitting at the booth. It was a Benihana themed place where the cooks prepare the dinner at the table; a small bar off to the side was where they made the sushi while anything else cooked was at the table.
The other two at the table, an older beaver couple, found the two together rather amusing and the man felt the need to point this out the very second they sat down.
"Two guys coming to a place like this?" The older, overweight beaver snickered. "You know this is a nice place, if ya' get my drift." And he gave the two a crude wink and a friendly chuckle.
"Oh, be nice Howard." The female said, slapping his arm. "Maybe these two handsome gentleman just didn't have anyone to come with."
"Only with each other." Roy pointed out with a furrowed frown, easily reading the underlining meaning the man had joked about.
"Henry," The red panda offered a hand which she shook with a smile. "This is my friend Roy." Henry smiled at the rhino and Roy disgustedly mumbled a few words under his breath before he took a seat.
While the chef began preparing the meal, much to Roy's confusion seeing as how they hadn't ordered anything other than drinks, Howard began going on with the conversation he had been having with his wife seconds before.
"And the reason the economy is in the state that its in." The beaver ranted, making Roy cover his face with both hands. "Is because those darn dirty scaly bastards keep coming up from Mexico!" Which was only the tip of the iceburg as several more racial slurs soon followed. Blaming the fact they had no jobs on illegal aliens sneaking into the states. Soon followed up with how the president is responsible for it all. Then the democrats. Then republicans. And then humans.
"It's great being able to go out like this." Roy grumbled, poking at the strange soy sauce sushi ball that had been given to him. It had cooked greens along with it and he couldn't fathom why everything was so expensive with these portions being so small. His own balls were bigger than these things. Some seasoned bok choy and some type of cabbage came along with it. It was well seasoned and cooked evenly with still a crunchy texture to it. Sure it was good and yet, Roy couldn't fathom why it cost as much as a weeks worth of food.
"I'm having a blast," Henry chuckled, giving another roll of his eyes as the older beaver continued on about Canada and how they were doing everything wrong. The red panda wasn't even sure what the issue he had with them, just that he had one. "There are such colorful people here..."
"That's one word for it." Roy snorted at that, a smile tugging on his lips as he bent his head down a bit to get more leveled with the red panda. "I had a few other choice words."
"Hey, hey now. You're not the only one." Henry muttered back, keeping up a friendly appearance for all sake and purposes otherwise. It wasn't like rhino or red panda were native to North America after all.
Roy was half in and half out of the far too small booth. He had scooted over to give Henry plenty of room between him and the man they had to sit with. Henry only moved a little closer to Roy as the beaver droned on like an old broken record. Trying not to take offense to the last comment said.
"Now Howard." His wife only laughed, patting his arm and went back to staring off into space. Lost in her own little, ignorant world. She did mutter something or other about her son and how the two reminded her of him and his own friends.
Roy could only frown at that. They must've been together for so long that she knew he would never change and just one day came to accept that. Choosing to just play along, deny and ignore it for the rest of her life. And the rhino sighed at that, a heavy gruff sound that made his shoulder sag. Roy rather die than end up being stuck with someone like that. He couldn't wait for their generation to finally die off. Maybe then some actual progress could come around in the world.
And the food didn't stop him. The beaver just spoke around a full mouth, drinking the sake poured for them as if it were tap water.
"These are good." Henry just said, taking a chance to get two words in between the beavers ranting. The red panda had picked up one of the potstickers, vegetarian of course. He twirled it around skillfully with the chopsticks and offered it to Roy. Dunking the whole thing in a pool of soy sauce first, knowing the rhino would prefer it that way.
Roy ignored the other two, now staring, rolling out his tongue and bit down hard on the chopsticks offered to him and ripped the poor potsticker away before grinding it into a paste with his teeth. "Good." Roy just nodded after. "Needs more soy." And the rhino shook the bottle of soy sauce to emphasize his point.
Henry chuckled at that, smiling at his friend and was soon found that their company didn't say another two words to them for the rest of the meal as Roy returned the intimate gesture with the red panda.
"You're looking good," Henry said offhandedly as he turned to face the rhino and forgetting those behind him.
"Been hitting the gym again." Roy flexed unconsciously at the compliment, sucking in his gut a bit.
"It shows." Henry chuckled lightly, placing his hand next to the rhino's. "I need to head back myself. I've been neglecting it recently, beginning to show." Henry shrugged a bit sheepish on the topic even if he had been the one to bring it up.
"Would be a sight. Seeing a buff red panda." And Roy teased him a bit, poking his side with a finger. Nudging him with his arm. And then wrapping it around him to give him a strong hug, making the already sheepish red panda even more so.
"H-hey," Henry just giggled pushing back against the rhino. "Where is your shirt?"
"Are you only now noticing?" Roy chuckled some more, chest rumbling with the sound. He messed up the red panda's head fur once more, practically giving him a noogie in the process.
"I was distracted by the fact you forgot the plant back at the shop." Henry just replied, trying to fix his hair and not look at the scruffy rhino that still had an arm around him.
"Oh." Roy said, eyes widening slightly before he just grinned and shrugged it off. "Oops?"
"We have to head back there anyways." Henry just patted Roy's hand once more, more out of pity than anything else. "I do got to get back to work."
"Already?" Roy frowned at that, his good mood bursting with the knowledge and he eased up off Henry a bit.
"Well, in a bit." Henry played off as Roy gave him some room. "It's still my lunch break."
"Well then, when do you get off tonight?" Roy asked, pushing the issue some more. "I wanted to do a few more things." Roy just shrugged a shoulder, looking off to the side.
"How about just doing them now?" Henry replied with a lewd smile. Roy's ears jumped up and he smiled at that as his hand began pulling his wallet out.
Deciding it was best to go to Roy's place, both because it was closer and that Henry lived on the second floor of the plant shop; Roy found himself pushing the red panda up against his door, lips pressed tightly against Henry's as he fumbled with his keys.
Henry kept his arms around Roy's neck as the rhino pushed his hairy chest against him. Still trying to fumble with the keys blindly as he closed his eyes, turning his head to the side and gave even more sloppy kisses to the red panda.
"Right," Roy managed to say as he pulled back and opened the door. "I didn't lock it..." And the two chuckled at that before Roy carried the smaller male in and laid him out on the first surface he came across, the kitchen counter. Roy managed to climb mostly on top of the still giggling red panda.
Henry scratched the fuzz on Roy's face making the rhino groan as those skilled fingers worked down to his hairy chest. Over his stomach and around his sides to grab and grope anything they could clench.
Roy lifted up one leg, trying to undo his pants with a hand and work his way up onto the counter.
"Someone's excited." Henry chuckled, pushing Roy back a bit so he could work on his own cloths. Roy answered him by using his teeth to open Henry's pants, snorting over the red panda's body and giving the smaller males stomach a licking kiss.
"Three months." Roy grunted, adjusting himself some more and not even bothering to take his shorts off as he hung himself free. "Three. Fucking. Months." He grunted and gave himself a good stroking rub before laying himself over Henry's groin.
"Well, I can see!" Henry said, biting his lower lip and giving it a playful tug. At the same time giving both of Roy's nipples a twist.
The rhino winced at that, pulling back. "Ow, ow, ow." Roy rubbed his chest after that, backing off to look at the red panda with teary eyes. Only to be pushed onto his back so the red panda could crawl on top.
From there their lips met once more as they explored each others bodies with nothing more than their hands. Henry rubbed over Roy's chest and under his arms as he straddled Roy's groin, but mostly his stomach.
"As much as I enjoy foreplay." Roy said, using one hand to ease Henry back off and to sit him down between his legs. "Three months." The rhino muttered again as if it were some dark tragedy. "Three. Months."
Henry just chuckled at that, focusing his attention between the rhino's legs finally. Rubbing up his already hard shaft with one hand and then the other.
"It shows." Henry only smiled at that, eyes slightly clouded over with lust as he rubbed and jerked the rhino off. Using both hands to cup and massage that hairy sack, around the sides of it and underneath.
Roy rested back with a loud groan, thinking this is exactly how he should've woken up this morning. Hell, any morning for that matter. A man needed... another man between his legs, jerking him off for him. That's how things should be, in a perfect world.
Henry worked him over, using both hands before laying down on his groin and using Roy's stomach as a pillow while he jerked and hugged his length. Licking and teasing the tip of it, making the rhino groan even louder, bucking his hips against the red panda.
Roy didn't give him much time before rolling particularly over onto him and pinning him down against the ground and his hefty shaft; balls draping over Henry's chest. Roy rubbed the back of the red panda's head as he slowly slid himself between those black lips and was rewarded with a more than eager tongue to lick over every inch it could reach.
Roy didn't even need to buck his hips as Henry went down on him further, using both hands and his muzzle to please the rhino so. And it didn't take long for the building pressure to build in him, his length already leaking. Henry only worked him more as he humped against one of Roy's legs, holding onto it with his own.
Roy pushed that head further against his own, groaning one final time before his shaft throbbed, pulsing with it's release and covering the red panda face with his finished load.
Henry didn't even have time to clean up as Roy rolled back onto his back, picking the red panda up and placing Henry right over his muzzle. The rhino just licked up at him, teasing from his tail hole all the way down to Henry's sack and with his long tongue slurping over the red panda's cock and suckling on half his groin until Henry was able to finish just as Roy had.
The two found themselves taking a quick shower before they parted ways with a kiss. Roy even walked with him back to the store, saying he'd explain it to Henry's mother why he was late. Henry figured that'd be the worse thing to say and ended up just parting ways at the front door to the store. Giving the rhino a wave off.