Prompt #47: Kurama adopts a kitten from Kuwabara. It wants to sleep on his head, but Kurama doesn't want it to… at first.
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"Ahh!" Yusuke jumped as a small, furry ball lept out from beneath Kuwabara's bed to land squarely on his foot.
Kuwabara snickered as he retrieved the mischievous kitten and set it on his bed with it's mother and siblings.
Yusuke glared at him. "It's not funny," he snapped.
"It is the third time it has happened." Kurama pointed out from his position on Kuwabara's desk chair.
A demonic gleam came into the detective's eyes as he studied his friend. "New hat, Kurama?" he asked slyly, pointing at Kurama's head. On top of Kurama's luscious red hair sat a furry, brown lump. Kurama reached up and grabbed the offender by the scruff of his neck and deposited the kitten on his lap... or attempted to. The kitten yowled in protest and attacked Kurama's hand in retaliation.
"He likes you!" Kuwabara crowed. "You have to take him."
Kurama stared at Kuwabara as he simultaneously tried to fix his hair and foil the kitten's attempt to reclaim his previous perch.
"I do not like cats," he said stiffly.
"Aw ,come on, man. I gotta find them homes. Shizuru says we can't keep them," Kuwabara pleaded.
Kurama yelped indignantly as the kitten finally succeeded in his task to reach Kurama's head and settled down to sleep.
"Well, that settles it!" Yusuke chortled. Kurama sighed and had to admit defeat, on both fronts.
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Two weeks later, Kuwabara visited the Hatanaka residence for a tutoring session with the redheaded fox. Shiori greeted him at the door and happily thanked Kuwabara for the kitten.
"He's grown so much. The boys adore him," she told him. She waved him up to her son's room. Kuwabara was a familiar prescence in their home and knew his way around.
When he reached the top of the stairs, Kuwabara was surprised to see the younger Suichi exiting Kurama's room, holding something and clearly trying to stifle laughter. As he got closer, Kuwabara noticed that the object was a camera. He started to ask the boy what he was doing when Suichi put a finger to his lips, then pointed at Kurama's room. He then started back down the hall towards his own room. Kuwabara moved to the open door of Kurama's room and peered inside. The fox in human skin was slumped on his desk, head resting atop his open book.
And snoozing comfortably on top of the sleeping teenager's head was the kitten.
Both Kurama and the kitten were rudely awakened by the sound of Kuwabara's laughter.
Kurama glared at Kuwabara and bent to retrieve the kitten from under his desk where he had fled to in his fright. As he rose, he placed the cat back on his head. "Do not tell Yusuke," he said flatly, his eyes narrowed dangerously into slits.
"Of course not," Kuwabara said hastily. Though he privately thought that the spirit fox's attempt to appear threatening was somewhat spoiled by the fur ball purring contentedly on his head.