A Nation and His Cat
Ch.2
Disclaimer: I do not own Hetalia or Fruits Basket.
When Kyo woke up he was quickly aware of two things and those two things where this: he was still a cat and he was in a very small cage. He had enough room to stand up and turn around if he wanted, but he didn't have a lot of room to really move about or anything. Kyo was also quickly made aware of the fact that he was wrapped up in bandages. At first Kyo did not know how he ended up there, but after thinking about it for a few seconds he was quickly able to figure out how he ended up in this situation.
'That British guy must have patched me up and put me in this cage.' Kyo thought as he looked through the bars of the cat carrier door.
From what Kyo could see he was in a rather fancy hotel and the cage that he was stuck in was sitting on the bed. The room's lights where off, but the sunlight coming in from the window kept the place nice and bright.
'I went for a walk at about ten last night, but it's daytime now so why in the hell am I still a cat. The longest anyone's been stuck as an animal is about an hour.' Kyo thought.
He would have thought about this some more, but the sound of a door opening ended up snapping him out of his thoughts. Kyo could hear someone walking into the room and before he knew it that blond haired man from last night was looking at him through the cage door.
The man smiled at Kyo before he said "Well I'm happy to see that you are awake. I already changed your bandages this morning and most of your injuries are healing up rather nicely."
The man then bent down and picked up something that was out of Kyo's sight and placed it down on the bed. It turned out that the something was a suitcase and within a matter of seconds the man had the suitcase open. The man started to pack some things away and as he packed his stuff away he continued to talk to Kyo.
"I can't just release you back out to the streets and I don't know if there are any animal shelters around so I decided to take you in."
The man then closed his suitcase and zipped it shut before he looked over at Kyo.
"Your coming home to Britain with me I was thinking of getting a pet anyway." Kyo's jaw dropped when he heard this and he started to push against the bars of the door.
He couldn't go to England with this big eye browed man he did not want to leave his home. Kyo let out a loud yell that sounded more like a cat's yowl to England. England just raised an eye brow as he watched the cat freak out before he shrugged his shoulders and picked up his suitcase and grabbed the handle of the cage before he walked out of the room and off toward the lobby of the hotel so that he could finally turn in his card key. During the whole walk toward the lobby Kyo pushed on the cage doors with his paws and he even tried to see if he could reach out and push down on the latch that was holding the door closed. No matter how hard Kyo pushed the door would not even move in inch and while Kyo was able to stick his paw out of the cage he was not able to push the latch down at all.
All in all this was a pretty hopeless situation and most people would have given up by now, but Kyo was stubborn and he was still trying to get out of the cage even when England was turning in his card key. Kyo didn't stop messing around with the cage door, but he did stop for a few seconds when he saw some man with dirty blond hair come racing toward him and the English man. The man was running rather fast and Kyo was sure that he would crash right into them, but the man was able to slide to a stop before he ran into the Brit. Kyo was able to get a good look at the man only to see that he had bright blue eyes, dirty blond hair with a single cowlick sticking straight up into the air, and a overly large smile on his face.
"Hey Iggy your checking out already?" The man said and Kyo could not help but cringe at the man's overly loud voice.
This man was rather loud and thanks to Kyo's rather sensitive ears it made his loudness rather painful too.
"America don't be so loud and yes I'm checking out." The British man hissed.
Kyo just blinked a few times in confusion when he heard the green eyed man call the blue eyed man America. Why in the world did he call the blue eyed man America? The blue eyed man didn't seemed to be bothered by the fact that he had been called a nation he just gave the Brit a slight wave of the hand before he knelt down and put his face uncomfortably close to Kyo's cage door.
"Dude when did you get a cat?" The so called 'America' asked as he stared at Kyo.
"I found him hurt last and I decided to take him in." The English man answered.
"Hey he has red eyes that is so weird!" America (or at least that was what Kyo thought he was called) said as he stuck his finger through the bars of the cage.
Kyo just glared at him before he quickly scratched the finger with his claws. America let out a little yelp before he quickly yanked his finger out of the cage and held it close to his chest.
"He scratched me!"
"He scratched you because you where being an idiot and invading his personal space." The Brit said to America.
America just glared at Kyo and Kyo just glared right back at him.
"Your cat is evil…" America mumbled.
"He's not evil your just being silly now if you will excuse me I have a plane to catch."
With that said the British man walked out of the hotel and got a cab that would drive him and Kyo to the airport….
There was no doubt about it Kyo's life sucked. During the whole car ride to the airport he tried to get out of his cage, but it was pretty obvious that he was stuck there. Kyo had even tried talking to the guy but for some reason no words could come out of his mouth. He could yowl, meow, and purr but any attempt to speak just lead to him letting out a bunch of meows. The green eyed man had just smiled at him and said that he was quite the vocal cat before he looked out the car window to watch the world go by. Kyo just could not understand why this was happening to him at all.
He should have turned back into a human a long time ago, but for some reason that was not happening and he should be able to speak to humans but he could not even do that. Kyo really could not understand why this was happening, but to be honest Kyo did not know just how the Sohma curse worked so maybe this was actually normal. Well normal or not Kyo would not do anything about it and Kyo absolutely hated being so powerless. All he could do was struggle and try to get out of his cage, but he eventually gave up once he had been placed onto the plane with all the other pets on that plane. Once he felt the plane take off into the air he finally stopped fighting his fate and he just laid down and tried to get comfortable.
Of course he would have been nice if the dog that was in the cage across from his would stop barking, but considering Kyo's luck that was not very likely. Eventually Kyo was able to fall asleep trough the miserable ride and when he woke up he was happy to see that he was now in the passenger seat of some car and the blond man was driving. The man took a quick glance at Kyo's cage and when he saw two red eyes looking back at him he started to smile.
"So you're finally awake now, huh? I'm surprised you didn't wake up when I picked you up along with my luggage, you must have been pretty tired."
Kyo said nothing to this but it's not like he could say anything anyway.
The man didn't seem to mind he just continued to talk as he said "We are back home in my country now and I already picked up everything that you would need so you'll get to see your new home soon."
Kyo could not help but let out a soft sigh when he heard that he would much rather be going back to his home in Japan. However his home in Japan was far away now and he was officially stuck in a country that he had never been to before. Kyo closed his eyes and started to think about everyone back in Japan. Was anyone worried about him and looking for him right now? Tohru was probably worried about him and trying to find him, but Tohru was a kind girl who was always looking out for everyone so that was not really much of a surprise.
Yuki could probably care less, but he was probably looking for him just to make Tohru happy. As for how the rest of the Sohma family was taking this he really didn't know. It was not uncommon for Kyo to go off somewhere for a day or two when he was upset so they probably where not too concerned. However Kyo could not help but wonder if that would change when a week or two would pass by. Kyo probably would have thought more about this, but he was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard the car door open. Kyo opened his eyes and watched as the man got out of the car and closed his door.
A few minutes latter Kyo heard the car door on his side opened up and he felt his cage be picked up. Kyo was finally able to get a good look at the house that he would be stuck in and was pretty surprised by the place. The British man's home was a huge mansion and it had to be the biggest place that Kyo had ever seen. Kyo was not really given a lot of time to look at the house because the man was moving toward the door. The man had unlocked the door and gotten inside rather quickly and he just left his suitcase next to the door before he quickly shut the door and brought Kyo into what looked like a kitchen.
The man gently placed Kyo's cage down on the ground before he undid the latch and opened the door up. Kyo wasted no time in running out of the cage and jumped up onto the counter that was nearby before he glared at the cat carrier. The man just chuckled a little before he placed some plastic bags that he was carrying down next to Kyo.
"I'm sorry I know you didn't enjoy your trip in the cat carrier. If it helps any you probably won't ever have to ride on an airplane ever again." The man said before he started to dig through the plastic bags.
Kyo was happy that he would not have to ride in an airplane in a crate again, but it was thanks to this guy that he even had to ride in one in the first place. Kyo just let out a little sigh as he watched the man took some things out of the plastic bag. The man took out two cat dishes that where decorated with little paw prints, about thirty cans of wet cat food (Kyo just cringed a little at the fact that he was going to have to eat the stuff), a couple of cat toys, and last but not least a cat collar with a little silver bell attached to it. The collar was decorated with the Union Jack and it had a simple silver tag attached to it along with the bell. The tag had the typical home address, phone number, and owners name on it and it was thanks to this that Kyo was able to figure out that the man's name was Arthur Kirkland.
Kyo was happy to know that he had a name to connect to the face now and he could stop thinking of him as that man. Kyo quickly noticed that there was something else written on the tag and Kyo was pretty sure that the something else was the name that Arthur was calling him, but before Kyo could even read it Arthur had placed the collar around his neck and snapped it into place. Kyo shook pawed at the collar with his claws out, but all he succeeded in doing was make the bell ring. Arthur just smiled at Kyo as he tried to get the collar off before he started to pet the orange cat.
"I know you might not like it now, but you will get used to your collar eventually."
Somehow Kyo really doubted that and he promised himself that he would find some way to get the damn thing off of him if it was the last thing that he did.
"Oh I almost forgot I have yet to tell you your new name or my name." Arthur said.
"I don't want a new name!" Kyo shouted out, but to England it just sounded like he was meowing rather loudly.
"Your new name from now will be Pumpkin." Arthur said with a smile.
Kyo just blinked a few times and gave Arthur a deadpan stare. Pumpkin? Really out of all of the names this guy could have chosen he decides to call him Pumpkin? Arthur just took the cat's silence to mean that he like his new name so he just continued to talk.
"My name is Arthur Kirkland, but I only use that name around ordinary humans."
Kyo just looked at the man like he was crazy, but if the green eyed Brit noticed the look he didn't say anything about it.
No the man just smiled and said "My true name is England and I am the personification of England itself."
The personification of England? Yeah it was official Kyo had been picked up by some guy who was completely off his rocker.
"You already met America the annoying git." England said as he grabbed a can of cat food and opened it up.
Kyo briefly wondered who he was talking about, but after thinking about it for a few seconds he was able to remember the blue eyed glasses wearing man that he had scratched. Great so that guy was a so called personification of a nation too? Was there a personification for all of the nations in the world? Kyo didn't know the answer to that and to be honest he kind of didn't want to know that answer to it.
"You're probably end up seeing the frog sooner or later; he always finds some way to get into my house." England grumbled out as he dumped the wet cat food into one of the cat bowls and placed it on the floor.
He then picked Kyo up and placed him down in front of the bowl before he took the other cat bowl and started to fill it up with water. Kyo just took one look at the food before he turned his head. He may look like a cat and he may be a little hungry but he was a human dang it and he was not going to eat cat food. England placed the water bowl down next to the food bowl and looked at Kyo with a slightly confused expression.
"What's wrong are you not hungry?" England asked.
Kyo just gave England a board look and blinked a few times. Oh Kyo was hungry but there was no chance in hell that he was going to eat cat food, he would just try and steal some of England's breakfast tomorrow or something.
England just shrugged his shoulders before he said "You'll probably eat later. Well it's been a long day so I am going to bed."
England then proceeded to walk out of the room and Kyo just followed after him. Kyo really didn't know what to do right now and he didn't know anything about the house so it just seemed like a good idea to follow after the guy. England had briefly stopped by the door to grab his suitcase before he continued on his way while Kyo just followed after him the whole time. Eventually England lead Kyo into a large bedroom and once the British man placed his suitcase down next to the chest of drawers before he grabbed something from the chest of drawers and walked into the bathroom. Kyo ignored what England was doing and instead focused his attention on the large bed that was in the room.
Kyo jumped up onto the bed only to quickly find out that the bed sheets where silk and they felt nice and soft against the pads of his feet. The mattress was rather cushy and he was practically sinking into the thing. Kyo made his way to the right corner of the bed before he laid down on the bed and made himself comfortable (which was a pretty easy thing to do).
"So you're sleeping in here with me, huh?" Kyo heard England say as he walked out of the bathroom.
England was wearing a white t-shirt and pajama pants and Kyo was very grateful that the guy didn't try to sleep in his boxers or something. Kyo just watched as England turned off the bedroom light and climbed into the bed.
"Goodnight Pumpkin." England said softly.
Kyo didn't even attempt to give an answer to that he just closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep….
Why did I name Kyo Pumpkin?: When I was a kid I had an orange cat named Pumpkin. Kyo turns into an orange cat so I thought Pumpkin would work just fine for him. It might not be the most creative name but it works.
Ok so that's chapter two. I want to thank you all so much for reviewing, putting this story in your favorites, and/or putting this story in your alerts. I was really not too sure how much people would like this story so I am really happy to see so much positive feedback. Anyway, I will try and get the next chapter out for you all as soon as possible to please review and don't flame.