The background story between these two is that Gabi, short for Gabisile, is Ruggie's childhood best friend. She is an African dog based beastwoman who was abandoned as a baby in Ruggie's hyena village. She and Ruggie grew up together until Gabi and Ruggie reach their preteens. An incident causes the elders of the village to decide to send Gabi away to a dog village, so she could adapt better with her own kind. The separation has crushed the both of them, but they promise to send letters to keep in touch. Mika gets told this story by Leona on the way to their final exam camp (in that first part of the fanfic series of course), and she does ask why Ruggie doesn't text her (because he has a phone of course). Leona tells Mika that Ruggie believes that what he and Gabi have can never be replaced with text messages on a cellphone. In Ruggie and Gabi's story, during their summer break (after the events of Mika's story), Gabi sneaks away from her dog village to return to the hyena village she grew up in, mainly to reunite with Ruggie. It is obvious that Gabi is not who she once was a child, much more mature and less understanding of Ruggie's home situation. However, that doesn't stop them from rekindling and finding that their beloved friendship is more than that.

There is nothing too extensive about this prompt. It's a cute scene about Ruggie helping his lady love wash her hair, him being an adorable dork as always.

I don't think this is NSFW, but I'm hitting the button anyway because the last thing I wanna do is get in trouble by the mods.

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“Gabi!” Ruggie sang as he poked his head around the cave’s corner to his cozy space.

She cutely turned from the long view mirror, where she was focused on unbraiding her hair. “Hi, Ruggie,” she said, widely smiling.

“You gonna take a bath now?” he asked.

“I was planning on doing that. Why?”

“Sheyeheehee! Can I join you?”

Gabi’s cheeks reddened. She growled, “Ruggie Bucchi, who is the devil who possessed you to ask something like that?”

Ruggie’s heart clutched the front of his ribcage. “What? I didn’t mean like that. I just want to be with my very best friend is all.” His cheeks pinkened to the thought of it.

“Oh really?” Gabi perked one of her eyebrows. “What exactly did you have in mind?”

Ruggie approached his lovely girl and began stroking her hair. “I wanna help you do your hair if that’s okay.”

“That’s it? Seriously?”

“I need to improve my hair skills if I want to get a part time job.

Gabi scoffed. “So that’s the real reason right there.”

“I never said I didn’t want to be with you either. I don’t touch just anyone’s hair, ya know.”

“Ruggie…”

Ruggie’s eyes glistened as he snuggled up to her. He rubbed his head into her neck and deeply purring. Each breath he let out made Gabi’s body shiver. “Please?”

For a stoic dogwoman, even she couldn’t resist the hyena’s cute temptations. “Fine, you got your wish.”

Ruggie leapt for joy and dragged Gabi out of the cave to the outside, grabbing the bag of care products on the way. “Come on! The sun doesn’t stay up in the sky forever.”

The bathing hole was quiet after the rush of the morning rituals. Fortunately, for them, Ruggie and Gabisile had the pool to themselves. Gabi settled herself into the pool, draping her luxurious dark brown locks over her shoulders. Ruggie, who was already in swimming trunks, Removed his t-shirt and tossed it to the rocks. He sat at the same edge of the pool and wrapped Gabi with his scrawny legs.

“Isn’t this fun already? What a nice day for a bath,” he said.

“I haven’t even gotten my hair wet,” Gabi replied, smirking.

“Well, I would help with that, but…”

Gabi sank into the pool and popped back up again, soaked now. “That should help you, right, Rug?”

Ruggie snickered. “That’s more than enough.”

Gabi handed Ruggie the shampoo bottle over. She instructed him to be generous with the amount and to lather her hair as much with it as possible, which he followed. Ruggie’s fingers sank into the shampooed hair strands like poking sticks into marshmallows over a campfire. As he soaked the head, he also made sure to keep the shampoo away from Gabi’s eyes to prevent a worse problem.

“And that’s it for that,” she informed Ruggie in order for him to stop massaging the shampoo. He let her twist to her side and dunk her head into the pool, washing the shampoo away.

“You sure that’s working?” he asked.

Gabi returned to the open air, shampoo still crunching as she brushed her fingers through it. “I usually get it out.”

Ruggie grabbed the bucket that sat next to rock where the personal belongings rested. He dunked it into the pool. “Close your eyes.”

She did.

He turned the bucket over and drenched her with the collected water. The shampoo dissipated into nothing soon after. “There we go. Much easier, isn’t it?”

“Kinda like a shower,” responded Gabi as if to also add, “like I’m used to.”

The next step was the conditioner. Ruggie squeezed a reasonable amount into the palm of his hand, and he moisturized every follicle on Gabi’s head, making her dark brown hair, shinier than it was before the bath. Her natural curls became more prominent now that they were conditioned from the latest wash. When he thought it was enough scrubbing, Ruggie dunked the bucket back into the pool, told Gabi to close her eyes, and poured the water, cleaning the conditioner out when she had her eyes shut. Lastly, he grabbed the comb from Gabi’s bath bag and fluffed her hair to the best of his ability.

“How am I doing, boss?” he cutely questioned.

“If I had a mirror, I would give you a proper answer,” replied Gabi, “but I think you’re doing pretty good for your first afro hair go-around.”

“As long as you are comfortable and happy, that’s all that matters to me. That’s the kind of reaction you get with no money whatsoever.” He leaned over and kissed the side of Gabi’s head. “And I wouldn’t trade this even for the most valuable gem ever known to mankind.”

“Ruggie, stop bending over like that. You’ll end up with a hunch.”

“And stop treating you like a queen? I don’t care.”

“Well, I do.” Gabisile pulled Ruggie by the arm and yanked him into the pool water with her. She laughed to see his wavy bangs block his eyes. When he was able to push them away, his glare attempted to be scary, but it was far from that.

Even then, Ruggie couldn’t keep himself from being tempted by Gabi’s coy sense of humor. “Sheyeheehee! I suppose I could’ve used a bath since we were both here otherwise.”