Title: KAT People
Unit for points: NEWS
Word Count: 6x100 (600)
Characters: NEWS
Author's notes: Follow up series to
KIT-TEN? from last week.
1.
After a month, Yamapi realizes that Fatty-chan doesn’t like anyone but him.
“And he outright hates Tegoshi,” Pi frets, while Fatty-chan settles curled up in his lap, refusing to leave.
“Maybe it is because Tegoshi tried taking Fatty-chan off your lap,” Shige theorizes.
Tegoshi pouts. “That place was mine first,” he insists, while the kitten lets out a feral-sounding growl in his general direction.
“It’s just a stupid cat, lure it away with some food or something,” Ryo gripes, sick of hearing about Fatty-chan every day. Fatty-chan growls at him too.
The next day, Fatty-chan throws up in Ryo’s hat.
2.
Ryo knows that Princess is a girl cat, but she is most definitely also a bitch.
His arms are covered in scratches today, while that prissy long-haired white cat sits on top of a shelf, glaring balefully at him.
“I wonder why she’s so moody around you, ne,” Koyama murmurs.
“She’s a bitch,” Ryo explains.
Koyama frets. “You shouldn’t say those sorts of things! Cats understand people!”
Ryo snorts and calls him an idiot, then threatens to shave Princess bald if she doesn’t come down now.
When Princess throws up in his bag later, Ryo actually starts to believe Koyama.
3.
“Baldie keeps getting into fights with Lanky,” Tegoshi worries some time later, when Baldie is purring and sweet in his arms. “But otherwise he’s really nice.”
Shige, who is busy bandaging his cat’s half-torn ear, glares. “Clearly he has a Napoleon complex.”
Tegoshi sniffs. “Are you sure your cat isn’t just annoying?”
Shige wants to argue, except that he suddenly remembers how Lanky kept batting at his head like it was a toy this morning.
He sighs. “Yeah, my cat’s kind of annoying.”
Baldie looks vindicated; Lanky doesn’t notice because he’s too busy getting ready to pounce on Shige’s face.
4.
“Did you remember to feed Jimmy tonight?” Massu’s mother asks him that evening, while Massu is doing sit ups on his room floor.
Massu blinks. “Jimmy?”
“Your cat,” she tells him, slowly. “The one sitting on your bed right now.”
Massu laughs. “Oh yeah!”
He turns to glance at the kitten, that is indeed sitting on his bed and looking very futsu while not raising a fuss about not being fed at all. “Sometimes I forget he’s here, ne,” Massu admits. “He’s so quiet.”
Then stands to go and get Jimmy’s food. Jimmy silently pads after him to the kitchen.
5.
“Nyanta and Tiny are getting used to each other!” Koyama reports on his blog, and takes a picture of Tiny and Nyanta as Nyanta eats and Tiny doesn’t because Nyanta scares him almost as much as Fatty-chan does.
Koyama also notices how, when Tiny tried to sleep in Nyanta’s bed that night, Nyanta had practically smacked Tiny upside the head.
“I think there’s just something about that cat that makes others want to hit it,” Shige postulates later that week, when Lanky accidentally runs over Tiny during their play date.
Koyama wonders why Tiny can’t seem to make any friends.
6.
Kittens eventually become cats with even more distinctive personalities.
Fatty-chan develops a taste for beer when Yamapi accidentally leaves a glass out one night; Yamapi worries Fatty-chan is alcoholic.
Ryo discovers that Princess likes fighting with the strays she meets outside; he may be a little impressed that she’s so good at it despite being such a fluffy white bitch.
Lanky enjoys jumping off of high places. Tiny starts catching mice constantly, Baldie likes licking Tegoshi’s feet, and Jimmy begins making weird machine-like noises in the back of his throat.
NEWS members wonder if it’s time to spade and neuter.
END