Why are there so many of them!?

Hotate was surely thrilled to be going on the outside but he certainly didn't make it easy. A squirmy guy, hoping he could get free of the hold his parents would have had on him. But of course he was still so little and somehow they seemed to get him handled. Luckily, because otherwise he may have bolted off into the distance. Or what felt like the horizon to him at least.

His ears pulled back as he was plopped down by his father looking very clearly annoyed that things didn't go his way. He wouldn't have much time to think before Oki gave him a little love tap making him over dramatically almost fall over from the push. He wouldn't take it to heart like his father meant him harm, he was just still getting used to legs and balance. Though sitting on his butt he should have had a strong base. Oh well. And not even seconds after that was he being ambushed by some other little girl he had never met before. A lot was going on today it seemed. Though he'd much rather keep his focus on frolicking through the plains if he had the opportunity.

He easily fought back, being toppled over form the surprise and swinging a snapping jaw around. His puppy teeth weren't deadly if they did bite down on a limb or anything. Surely he couldn't get in trouble for self defense.