A little bit of golden joy

It stunk.

The town smelled like rubbish and the sun was beating down at it hard. The former was probably intensified by the later. But the streets were still crowded. He hid away in the old baked potato carton again. His stomach grumbled. He peeked out of the carton and the alley again. The streets were still full of humans and creatures that at least smelled human.

He licked his paw, but stopped almost immediately again. They smelled weird. In front of the alley was a big yellow cat on two legs giving out foot to humans. He watched almost jealous, why couldn't they give some to him? He considered running there and begging for some as well. But decided against it, the last human he had tried to get some food from had kicked him pretty hard. He hadn't been able to stand on his paw for days. He put his head down. Making himself as small as possible. The wind blew through his sticky yellow coat. He closed his eyes and started to drowse.

Suddenly there were steps. He was almost instantly on his feet and out of his sleeping place. There was a human. A big mighty human. A dangerous giant enemy. He started hissing. He wouldn't let this one hurt him without fighting back. The human stopped in his tracks and looked down at him. Almost intimidating but he wouldn't give in. He crouched more closely to the ground. He wouldn't give in much.

Then the human couched down and pulled something out of his bag. It smelled delicious, mouth-watering, and simply fantastic. But it was from a human. He wasn't sure what to do. Taking it or not? Was the human trying to kill him? Was it just one of these rare nice humans? The human pulled it away again and bit into it. He had known it. The human just wanted to show him that he had what he needed. His ears slumped a bit. His stomach was still growling.

"Here. See food."

The words didn't make sense, human language never made. But the tone was soft and encouraging, he looked up. The human was holding the food in front of his nose again. This time he bit in. The human let go of it. It tasted like meat, but was a bit dry and something else as well, but he couldn't but a claw on it. He chewed at it happily. It tasted like heaven. A fest. The human looked at him and stood up again as he had finished. His eyes widened. Did the human want to go? No. He couldn't go. He ran as fast as he could and jumped in front of the human. The humans grey eyes looked surprised at him sitting at his feet purring.

"You want to come? Geez", the human talked senseless words in a nonchalant way and stroked through his dirty coat, "I'm not a very good person."

It still didn't make any sense, but these warm arms that cradled him against the human's chest when he didn't go away spoke of paradise. Of meals, a comfortable sleeping place, a family? He started purring. This human was his saver.

This probably will just be a collection of OneShots I had in mind some time ago. You might realize I like to play with the idea what different animals would do to the relationships of the second ship. I as of now don't plan to ship anything in here, but some more Yoreki anyone? I just need some fluff right now and what's fluffier than a kitten/cat?

Sincerely, Mal