"Rose," Kanaya's voice was rough with sleep, "Rose, your cat is being quite loud. Isn't there something you can do to make her stop?"

Rose mumbled something, less than half awake, but dragged herself up anyway. She picked up the mewling kitten and placed her on the bed.

"She just wanted up Kanaya. She's not too good at jumping yet but this won't last long. I promise." With that Rose went back to sleep. Kanaya lay back and was eventually lulled back to slumber as well by the soft sounds of the purring kitten between her and Rose.


Her first awareness upon waking was a soft paw batting at her face gently. In an attempt to get back to sleep Kanaya rolled over, thus moving her face out of the kittens reach. There was the slightest sensation of a warm fluffy body making its way around the top of her head, stepping carefully between her horns. Kanaya kept her eyes closed hoping that the kitten would go back to sleep. No such luck. There was that fuzzy little paw again, batting at her nose. With a small sigh of regret for sleep lost Kanaya opened her eyes to stare at the black ball of fur in front of her. The kitten chirped and then pawed delicately at her face once more.

"Yes, yes. Breakfast time, I know." Kanaya sat up and gathered the kitten in her arms. She got up and set the kitten on the ground. "Come along you tiny fiend."

The kitten frolicked its way to the door and slipped out of the tiny crack that was left for her purposes.

In the kitchen Kanaya served up a small plate of wet food for the kitten. It had become something of a morning ritual for the two of them. Despite being woken before she was ready Kanaya didn't mind all that much. Usually she thought of the kitten as Rose's but in the mornings the kitten was hers as well. Even though the kitten could be a torment some of the things she did were quite cute and Kanaya intended to cherish those moments.

As Rose said, it wouldn't last long.


"Not again. How many times have I told you to stay out of there?" It was a half-hearted reprimand despite Rose's frustration.

She scooped up the inquisitive kitten from her bookshelf. While tiny, the kitten could make quite a mess in her explorations. An entire row of books had been knocked over and would have to be tidied up. It wouldn't be so bad if this were the first time it had happened, or even the second. However, it was the fifth time that Rose had caught the kitten in action and she wasn't sure how often Kanaya had cleaned up after the kitten.

It was impossible to stay mad at a fuzzy, plump ball of purring kitten though.

Rose sat gracefully on the couch, still cuddling the warm kitten.

"What are we going to do with you?" She crooned softly.

It wasn't like they were going to get rid of the kitten for doing what kittens do but it would be nice to actually sleep all the way through the night for once. Rose hummed softly to herself as she thought and rubbed the kitten's cheeks. Looking down at the dozing pile of fur in her lap Rose smiled.

"Well, this won't last long."