Hello, first of all : thankyou for reading this! I haven't written anything in a good while so I hope this is a little enjoyable at least! Second : I sort of imagine the humans looking at the animals and seeing them as what they are, animals, but when the animals do look at each other they see smaller humans with ears, tails, wings etc, ya know, to make the whole romance thing easier. enjoy!

The life of a cat is a hard one, as Hinata came to learn in his first year of life.

The lithe cat had been run over by Suga's bike and the teen was panicking, never had he rushed to a vet with anything, never had he owned animals and here he was trying to work against time with a small orange ball of fur.

"ah yes Daichi? where was that vet you told me about? I'm sort of lost" he mumbled into the phone awaiting for his friend to answer, he kept walking, phone in one hand, cat in the other. Taking turns and peeking into streets, the rain wasn't helping and he tried to shield the kitten as much as he could from it. Taking his friend's directions he eventually found the clinic where he was welcomed and rushed into one of the rooms.

"Hello, so what might our little friend's name be?" the vet asked while inspecting the cats eyes and mouth, the vet's badge read "Shimizu Kiyoko" and Suga sighed and he watched the girl handle the little thing very carefully.

"well he sort of doesn't have one...yet at least.." she looked at him expressionless before turning her eyes on the animal once again. "well I think we will need to do more exams he doesn't seem too hot, so tell me what happened." Sugawara rubbed his arm thinking about the events that had taken place just a few moments before, he was rushing to get home, college had kept him longer than he had expected, the rain was pouring and then there was something running from one side of the road to the other and Suga was hitting that same something and then boom, his bike going one way, him falling to another side and a lump of wet fur in the middle of the road because of him. "well it was dark and I accidentally hit him with my bike, I didn't get a chance to stop he just came running from nowhere.." he looked at the small orange cat felling guilty...or at least he thought he was orange, he was so dirty that a good part of his fur just looked brown and muddy.

"well we might have to take him in, it doesn't seem to serious, the problem is that he was already sort of sick before you hit him, anyway how is this going to be? are you going to take him in?" the boy nearly choked, taking a cat in? having a pet? He had never had one, the only experience he had was from his roomate's cat who didn't even show up much. "W-well I don't know I never owned a pet what if I kill him by accident?what if someone sits on him he is so small." "well you sort of already nearly killed him, and he needs an owner we can't keep him in here or treat him if we aren't sure if he has anywhere to go." Sighing the boy rubbed his eyes, it was a huge responsability, he knew that if he accepted keeping the cat it would be until the end of the thing's days, or his own. Then again it shouldn't be too hard after all, all Daichi's cat did was eat and disappear into the dark places of Daichi's room, 'I'm sure all cats act alike so it shouldn't be too hard, right?' he thought to himself rubbing his chin, watching the vet rub the unconscious cat back after giving it a vaccine.

"He should be alright, He is only out cold. He is running a small fever, should you take him in you should give him these once in the morning and another one by the evening" she said pointing to a pack of pills "then in one of his meal mix in this" she showed him another pill pack "break these in half, only one half per day, and he should be fine in a week."

Suga looked at the pills, he felt like he didn't have much of a choice to begin with so he just had to accept it "So should we name him?" he patted the cat's head gently "Yeah, we should." "alright, so what will it be?" Kiyoko asked, opening a new pet page on he computer screen"

"I think he can be...Shoyo."

Hinata's POV

He didn't feel good, in fact he felt horrible, truth to be told he felt like burnt poop. he rubbed his eyes and tried to sit up, which proved quite impossible, he didn't remember why though. Why was he in such a state, he remembers he was running away from something, something that had be barking at him furiously, he was scared, he had been thrown out of those big moving animals that humans ride, those who always sound terribly angry when they're not sleeping. but that was it, he didn't remember much more other than running away.

He tried to open his eyes, but it was painfull, he tried to move his tail, but it felt heavy, his ears also felt heavy and wet. Everything was horrible.

And then something was touching him, the back of his ear to be precise, he wanted to look, but he couldn't, he wanted to smell but it was also impossible and every sound that came to him sounded drowned, like whoever was talking to him was underwater.

That was the first time he had been slightly counscious, the second time came when he felt someone near his face, he swear he could have heard a hiss too.

The third time was not long after, it felt like a decade of sleeping to him though, he awoke with someone rubbing his head, he lazily opened his heavy eyes and looked up to his petting donor "Suga come here! He's awake!" "Really?!" he couldn't really understand what the sounds meant but he saw another human drawing near. They both looked like nice humans, but then again all humans looked nice, so Hinata did the one things he knew that humans liked and understood, he purred.

"Aww he's purring, better that than nothing, right?" "I don't know Daichi, here it says they purr when in pain or stress too, maybe he is dying. oh my God I should call the vet!" the human stopped petting him and turned to the human that had arrived later "Suga he isn't dying, and you've been tothe vet like..yesterday" "but that was when he was hit Daichi!" the glorious ear rubbing returned "He is fine, trust me."

It wasn't long after that Hinata tried to get up and move, but it proved to be very hard, his muscles felt sore and his body overall felt like it had been set on fire for a while, either way even if he could move the humans seemed to insist that he remained on the basket he had awoken in. Later though he was allowed to get up, they seemed to want to see if he was able to use the sandbox 'do they want to see me pee? maybe they doubt I am capable" he though feeling irritated, his chest swelling in pride he showed them he was able to take care of himself and even cover the pee properly!

They were proud (relieved).

Hinata was later served a small bowl of food that he took no time in taking down, he still felt sluggish and tired but he felt even more hungry than all of those together. Or so he thought, later that same day he seemed to return to that long sleep state, he would wake up sometimes hurting all over, he sometimes could hear himself meowing, his meows sounded long and pained and whenever that happened it wouldn't take long for a human hand to show up and rub his head or his side.

By the fourth day Hinata felt much better, whenever he wanted to wake up but couldn't and was hurting someone would come and pet him, the dark haired human's petting felt more firm but it wasn't too rough, the light haired human was very careful when petting him, he petted him very gently, way to gently in fact since sometimes it even felt like a challenge to feel the weight of his hand. There was also the occasional sound of soft footsteps, but they were hard to hear, whoever made those was really silent he thought.

In no time Hinata was back to being a healthy cat, he felt strong and awake, he no longer went into those long sleeping sessions that would hurt. But feeling good wasn't all that great, because as soon as the humans thought him healthy they washed him. It was horrible, like he was going to drown bt at least there was no more mud on his tail or ears.

It was that same day that Hinata, who was drying by the window in the sun's light, licking himself, that he noticed someone that he hadn't noticed before. A big (huge) black (darked than coal!) cat looking at him. "Hi!" Hinata called, the other boy however disappeared, gasp how dare he. Hinata's ears fell back, he felt somewhat insulted so he had no other choice than run after the other feline.