Jim Cook x Tenjoin Asuka: A Duelist and a Gentleman: Kindness
Author: Higuchimon
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh GX
Characters/Pairing: Jim Cook x Tenjoin Asuka
Prompt: Kindness
Word Count: 685
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters here. This is done merely for fun. Everyone will be put back where they belong at the end of the story.
Author's Notes: This was the first idea I had for this challenge, and I like how it came out the most, really.
It was the cutest little kitten that Asuka had ever seen in her life. Even though it was a stray and probably had a bad case of fleas that would never all be found in that thick, short black velvet-like fur, it was still adorable.
“What are you going to call it?” Jim asked, one hand held out to the small creature’s nose. It sniffed at him gently, then carefully and regally licked his hand once, twice, three times, before purring demandingly and wrapping its tiny paws around his fingers. “He wants something to eat.”
It was amazing how well he got along with animals. She wasn’t too bad with them, but Jim Cook took it to an entirely different level. She would not have been surprised if he could have asked them to do virtually anything and they would have done so.
He was just so kind to them. Nothing he ever did hurt animals in any kind of a way. She had never asked if he were a vegetarian, but frankly, whether he was or wasn’t wouldn’t have surprised her.
“I haven’t decided yet,” she said as she went to get one of the cans of cat food Jim had bought when they’d run across this little treasure on the way back to her apartment. “I’ve never had a pet before.” Manjoume didn’t count. Even if he would have gladly laid his head on her lap and purred.
Jim wasn’t like that. He and Manjoume were similar in some cases, such as being very good duelists and both grasping certain facts about her that many others didn’t, but that was more or less where the similarities ended. The more time that Asuka spent around Jim, the more she thought there was another difference, one that she wasn’t quite ready to accept, but didn’t want to reject either.
Once the food had been dumped into the dish, the black kitten all but pounced on it and started to gulp it down. Asuka could only imagine how hungry it had been. Eating mice and whatever edible trash could be found behind a fast food restaurant wasn’t her idea of a balanced diet. That’s going to change now. And it was thanks to Jim, really. He’d caught sight of the stray before she had, and had been able to approach it cautiously and scoop it up into his hands.
“Are you sure that you can take good care of him?” Jim asked as he watched the kitten eating. There was a concerned flicker to his eyes that she found very pleasing to see. He cared about everyone, human or animal. That sort of care wasn’t easily found anymore.
“I can. My classes are spaced out enough so I can come check on him when he needed it.” Asuka kept her own attention on the kitten and wondered again what to call him. It had to be something special, simply for how unusual the situation by which she’d acquired him had been.
A sudden thought crossed her mind, and she smiled a little. It even fit…in more than one way. The kitten wasn’t entirely black. There was a small section of white hair on his chest that was shaped vaguely like a lotus flower, if you squinted some.
“I think I’ll call him Ren.” There were two ways to write that in Japanese. One of them meant simply ‘lotus’. As he looked up, as if hearing the name, she reached out gently and motioned towards that patch of hair on his chest. “See?”
Jim looked at it, then nodded and smiled his warm, caring smile that made her warm all through. “Ren.”
Asuka smiled back, and then went to get a good hot flea bath going. Jim could handle that much better than she could, she decided. But it would be nice to share taking care of Ren. She was also glad that he hadn’t mentioned anything about the other possible meaning of the name. Some things needed to be taken carefully, after all.
Author's Note: The other way to write "Ren" in Japanese means 'romantic, love'
To Be Continued
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh GX
Characters/Pairing: Jim Cook x Tenjoin Asuka
Prompt: Kindness
Word Count: 685
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters here. This is done merely for fun. Everyone will be put back where they belong at the end of the story.
Author's Notes: This was the first idea I had for this challenge, and I like how it came out the most, really.
It was the cutest little kitten that Asuka had ever seen in her life. Even though it was a stray and probably had a bad case of fleas that would never all be found in that thick, short black velvet-like fur, it was still adorable.
“What are you going to call it?” Jim asked, one hand held out to the small creature’s nose. It sniffed at him gently, then carefully and regally licked his hand once, twice, three times, before purring demandingly and wrapping its tiny paws around his fingers. “He wants something to eat.”
It was amazing how well he got along with animals. She wasn’t too bad with them, but Jim Cook took it to an entirely different level. She would not have been surprised if he could have asked them to do virtually anything and they would have done so.
He was just so kind to them. Nothing he ever did hurt animals in any kind of a way. She had never asked if he were a vegetarian, but frankly, whether he was or wasn’t wouldn’t have surprised her.
“I haven’t decided yet,” she said as she went to get one of the cans of cat food Jim had bought when they’d run across this little treasure on the way back to her apartment. “I’ve never had a pet before.” Manjoume didn’t count. Even if he would have gladly laid his head on her lap and purred.
Jim wasn’t like that. He and Manjoume were similar in some cases, such as being very good duelists and both grasping certain facts about her that many others didn’t, but that was more or less where the similarities ended. The more time that Asuka spent around Jim, the more she thought there was another difference, one that she wasn’t quite ready to accept, but didn’t want to reject either.
Once the food had been dumped into the dish, the black kitten all but pounced on it and started to gulp it down. Asuka could only imagine how hungry it had been. Eating mice and whatever edible trash could be found behind a fast food restaurant wasn’t her idea of a balanced diet. That’s going to change now. And it was thanks to Jim, really. He’d caught sight of the stray before she had, and had been able to approach it cautiously and scoop it up into his hands.
“Are you sure that you can take good care of him?” Jim asked as he watched the kitten eating. There was a concerned flicker to his eyes that she found very pleasing to see. He cared about everyone, human or animal. That sort of care wasn’t easily found anymore.
“I can. My classes are spaced out enough so I can come check on him when he needed it.” Asuka kept her own attention on the kitten and wondered again what to call him. It had to be something special, simply for how unusual the situation by which she’d acquired him had been.
A sudden thought crossed her mind, and she smiled a little. It even fit…in more than one way. The kitten wasn’t entirely black. There was a small section of white hair on his chest that was shaped vaguely like a lotus flower, if you squinted some.
“I think I’ll call him Ren.” There were two ways to write that in Japanese. One of them meant simply ‘lotus’. As he looked up, as if hearing the name, she reached out gently and motioned towards that patch of hair on his chest. “See?”
Jim looked at it, then nodded and smiled his warm, caring smile that made her warm all through. “Ren.”
Asuka smiled back, and then went to get a good hot flea bath going. Jim could handle that much better than she could, she decided. But it would be nice to share taking care of Ren. She was also glad that he hadn’t mentioned anything about the other possible meaning of the name. Some things needed to be taken carefully, after all.
Author's Note: The other way to write "Ren" in Japanese means 'romantic, love'
To Be Continued