"…even if he said he was taking me home… WAKE UP ALREADY HARUKICCHI!"

The Nuko frowned at his new owner as it rolled away from him and continued his slumber.

"How come it looks like I'm the one taking care of him?!"

Ryota huffed. Haruki did told him that he would take him home, he did. But right after they arrive in the quite expensive looking apartment unit (with a nameplate of 'Niiya') the guy immediately dove to the futon that was set up in the living room the room which greeted the doorway. Now, he was sleeping peacefully. The Nuko thought Haruki was just tired so he let him rest and allowed himself to cuddle with his new master… until his phone vibrated continuously.

Ryota stared at it.

It stopped.

He sighed in relief and went back to his sleep.

Again, it sprung to life and vibrated.

He had to hiss at it.

He was contemplating whether to kick the annoying gadget away to continue his disturbed sleep or be a good boy so he wouldn't be thrown away like the previous owners. He recalled how scary a teenager before when her phone annoyed Ryota to its wits. He settled to let his owner answer the phone instead.

"HARUKICCHI! PLEASE WAKE UP!"

"Mm… five minutes…"

"Before five minutes I'm going to break your phone Harukicchi!"

Wow, I that made Haruki, the laziest person Ryota had seen, got up from the futon to answer his call. He looked quite wide awake too. He figured, the phone was probably one of Haruki's precious things. He wondered why though. It was an old model, one could easily buy a new and nice looking phone.

"Mm, understood…" obsidian orbs slid to the little Nuko "Oh yeah, I have a little surprise to the both of you so don't be out too late"

Ryota watched as Haruki conversed, blinking as he realized that Haruki's tone turned into worry. Who was he talking to anyway?

"Yeah yeah it's not a girl!" yellow orbs shone in fascination as his owner turned red "He's a boy-wait- no! I'm not gay for goodness sake Hina! I don't swing that way! What possible are you saying? A pedophile? Shut up!"

For a reason the conversation hit a nerve at the back of Ryota's head. He whimpered and crouched down, holding his ears, wanting to make the pain inside his head vanish. He had experience nothing like this before. For that matter, he never got sick too. Was this the so called, headache?

"Hina for the third time around I don- wait up," Ryota could feel gentle hands picking him up, he opened his eyes (when did he closed them?) to meet worried obsidian orbs. It was like the black hole he was hearing in the television, where in you get absorb. He was absorbed alright, absorbed by the warm worry of his master he had never felt before. "What's wrong little guy?"

Like magic, the headache vanished. Ryota shook his head, not wanting to worry his master. He also didn't know. What's wrong with him seconds ago?

Haruki gave him a distrusting gaze before finally ending the call. "You must be hungry. How about we get dinner early?"

Ryota sparkled at the thought of dinner. Boy was he excited! He hadn't eaten since breakfast! Haruki ruffled his head before settling the little catboy over his head and went to upstairs.

Haruki was quite challenged on how to make Ryota's portion of food when he thought about it. The guy was small, how could he feed such a small guy? He's even smaller than a baby! So it meant his things to use should also be small. Where could he get such things? Are there Nuko stores out there who sells stuffs for them?

"Nuko and cats are almost the same," was the answer he gets.

There's no way that they could be the same. Sure cat features on but the guy was still part human so it should have more human stuff!

"A-Am I a burden Harukicchi?" Ryota asked, biting his lips, watering eyes. "Are you g-going to throw me away to-"

"Shush Ryota," he rolled his eyes and patted the nuko on top of his head. "There's no way I'm going to throw you away,"

"B-But-"

Haruki sighed and entered his twin sister's room. It was no different from his, only that it was quite dusted and filled with books, unlike Haruki's that looked spacious. Ryota was about to whine more when Haruki got the sight of the cooking toys his twin sister left ages ago. Just like Ryota does, his eyes sparkled and immediately took out the small plates and utensils. It should do, for the mean time. It was really nice that his sister always tend to forget to throw unnecessary things away.

"What are you doing Harukicchi?" Ryota asked, peering over his forehead.

"I'm finding stuff that you can use," he explained and saw a sewing kit that was neatly place beside a teddy bear. He sparkled. With this he can make more clothes for the little one and not spend a single yen for it!

"Oh it's just a measuring tape," Ryota stated, opening the sewing box for him. Deflated at the revelation, he was only now back to reality that he had eating utensils for his nuko.

Haruki encouraged himself and actually went to the kitchen to venture on how he can make small food for the small human cat. Ryota jumped off his head (which gave the bigger one a small heart attack) and looked around.

"Ne Harukicchi," he started, watching the big guy looking at his fridge.

"What is it Ryota?"

"Do you live alone? This place is so big for a single person… And who was at the phone earlier?"

Haruki shook his head and smiled at the found milk. He put some milk on the mini cup and gave it to Ryota, who accepted it merrily. "I have a twin sister, her name's Hina, and a cousin, his name is Ichiro, who lives with me here. Guess it would be us now right? The four of us in this apartment,"

Ryota beamed at him "Hai!"

"Then would you help me in cooking?"

The Nuko had no knowledge in cooking but accepted the offer. Let's just say it earned him a ban mark from helping inside the kitchen. Haruki was after all, not letting his precious kitchen destroyed again.

Hey there! I got positive reviews so here's chapter two! I hope you enjoy this one... and in the next chapter in come's the other two OCs! Please look forward for it and enjoy reading!

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