Chapter 01

The first chapter of *That Wolf-Boy Is Mine!* manga.

## Summary

Seventeen-year-old Komugi Kusunoki's mother is going for a year-long business trip in Fukuoka, leaving young Komugi to make a choice: move in with her Aunt Ayako and keep going to her current school, or move to her fathers in Hokkaidō and join a new school. She chooses the latter and uses it as an opportunity to get away from the "large blunder" she made in her previous social group. Her dad is ecstatic that she chose to live with him and reminisces about how long its been since they last lived together, but mellow Komugi is quick to dampen the mood by pointing out that they haven't lived together since her parents divorce eight years prior.

On her first day at Maruyama Highschool, the attention that Komugi was desperately running from had found its way back to her when popular boy Yū Ōgami is attracted to her smell. Yū is quick to call her by her first name, a rather informal thing to do in Japan when you've just met someone and a huge turn off for Komugi. After homeroom announcements, Komugi meets Kana and Keiko who are quick to attach to her.

The three girls bond during first period PE as they ask Komugi what life in Tokyo is like and tell her all about "The Idols of Maruyama Highschool", aka Yū Ōgami, Rin Fushimi, Aoshi Awaji, and Senri Miyama. Kana and Keiko tell Komugi how lucky they are to have the idols in their class and how the girls in other classes are jealous of them, but how no one is sure where the boys even came from because they didn't attend either local middle schools. Komugi is thankful that she was able to hear about the idols from Kana and Keiko so that way she could avoid them and not have to deal with the same situation she did back in Tokyo. Unfortunately for Komugi, Yū doesn't make staying away from him easy. He spends most of class finding ways to be near her so he can figure out why she smells so familiar to him.

Komugi, Kana, and Keiko theorize why Yū thinks she smells so good and roll through the options, such as her hair products or "city smell", before finally landing on "pheromones." The girls laugh at how silly that suggestion is and decide it's really not important to actually figure it out. But some Class 1 girls overhear this conversation and started making loud, sly remarks towards Komugi before running off laughing. Kana is quick to point out how petty the Class 1 girls are and that they're just jealous that Yū has taken a liking to Komugi.

For the following few days, Komugi tries to avoid Yū but he keeps finding ways to be near her. Sharing books, yelling out the windows at her, following her in the hallways, joining her and the other girls for lunch... During that time, Komugi began to notice just how kind Yū actually was and how he would go out of his way to help anyone who needed it, even if they didn't ask. Quickly understanding why Yū is so popular.

At the end of one school day, Komugi waits for Yū by the bike stand. In an attempt to get him to stop following her around, she tells him to just "sniff away" so they can figure out what she smells like. Yū hesitates at the awkward suggestion, but then Komugi sees the group of Class 1 girls that had been so snide to her before and flees. Yū follows her and asks why she ran away so suddenly. So, Komugi decides to tell Yū her reasoning...she was ostracized at her old school in Tokyo.

She goes on to tell him how a girl named A-ko had become friends with a popular boy, and the other girls in school were angered by this. They started passing around a note to all the girls in the school, "No talking to A-ko starting tomorrow." When the note made its way into Komugi's hands, she tore it up, and the next day she was the one who was ostracized instead. Yū asks if she regrets ripping up the note and Komugi replies with, "No, I don't!"

Yū goes to on to say that if two people want to be friends then that's between them and no one else. He had been hoping that since he and Komugi sit next to each other in class, that they could be friends. After hearing what Komugi had done at her previous school, it made Yū want to be friends with her even more. She agrees to be friends. Komugi was left with a sense of satisfaction from their conversation, as if Yū knew just what to say to make her feel better. On their way home, Yū finally recognizes the smell: Kusuya Udon, her dads restaurant and Yū's favorite place to eat.

The next day, upon arriving to school, Komugi finds Yū sleeping under a tree and while trying to sneak away, she accidentally steps on something. Yū wakes up and chimes out a soft, "ow," and Komugi notices he has animal ears and the thing she had stepped on was his tail. The ears and tail vanish, and Yū asks if she saw them...she did. He quickly stands causing Komugi to back up and fall. Yū suddenly transforms into a wolf asking her to keep silent about what she just saw and touches his nose to hers before she falls unconscious.

## Characters

### In Order of Appearance:

* Komugi Kusunoki
* Komugi's mom
* Komugi's dad
* Yū Ōgami
* Kana
* Keiko
* Rin Fushimi
* Aoshi Awaji
* Senri Miyama

## Navigation

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