Cats

Leon stared at Vincent eyes wide frozen in place.

"How-how you? Shouldn't he…what?" Leon stuttered.

Instead of responding Vincent chose to go back to sleep the fever had been too much, Leon stared dumbly at Vincent's small form before turning a shaky eye to the living room Cloud was in the same position as before tail flipping back and forth. Leon stared at the tail mouth watering as his eyes followed the flips, he was so dazed he didn't notice brilliant blue eyes looking at him until the tail stilled.

Being caught Leon turned back to pouring the coffee, grabbing both cups and turning swiftly, unfortunately he didn't notice Cloud had come up behind him and he ran straight into him dumping coffee all over Cloud's front.

Cloud stared unfazed at his shirt pulling the front of it away from his skin as it became transparent looking at it distastefully. "Not my typical way of consuming things but it works" he joked looking up to a horrified Leon.

"I am so sorry here" Leon said grabbing the nearest kitchen cloth and patting the coffee, "Isn't that hot?" He asked curiously looking up to Cloud's shocked face, eyes again a strange glowing green.

"Uh… yeah, right." He turned leaving the kitchen heading off to the bathroom.

"Smooth" Vincent chuckled folding his tail over his nose.

Grumbling Leon walked off after Cloud whom had taken off to the bathroom leaving the door wide open, Leon stepped inside the room one of his t-shirts and a towel in hand. Not bothering to make a sound Leon studied Cloud's shirtless form with pleasure.

Everything about how the young leopard's presented himself gave off the impression that he was weak, or needed to be protected but looking at his body Leon realized he couldn't be farther from the truth. Although he was incredibly slender he was very lean, muscles attaching at all the right places; also his skin was very battle worn, it still gave off the look of being smooth but the faintest traces of scars laced his back. One particular set of scars caught his attention long slender gashes about as wide as a katana and Leon assumed there was an identical one on the front of Cloud's chest, and the other one was a nasty burn looking mark right above Cloud's tail trailing down into the waistline of his pants.

Being caught staring again Cloud chuckled, "Not what you expected eh?" He said turning to face Leon and pulling his pants down more to reveal more of the nasty burn. "Sephiroth likes to play with fire, luckily it doesn't bother the fur." He mumbled reaching for the towel.

Absentmindedly Leon stepped forward reaching out and placing feather-light touches to the scars on Cloud's chest, right beside his heart. "Is this?"

"Masamune" Cloud stated blankly before toweling off and returning to Sora in the living room.


The night passed slowly for Leon as his mind kept wandering, playing out the events that happened in such a short time so he hardly slept when morning did decide to show up. Sighing he got up out of bed giving up on the idea of actually getting much sleep, besides coffee sounded like a much better idea.

Walking out to the living room Leon couldn't help but chuckle at the sleeping Sora, bum up in the air and tail flapping back and forth as he drooled puddles all over the pillows. It was then that Leon noticed Cloud wasn't in the bed, or in the living room for that matter, his search for the blond died early when he found him sitting at his kitchen table forehead against the wood, mumbling to Vincent.

"Cloud?" Leon asked looking over to the blond who jolted upright turning a very tired looking face to Leon. It was clear that he either didn't sleep, or didn't sleep very as well dark bags were under his eyes.

Sighing Vincent padded his way to Cloud's bag which was hanging off of the chair and digging through its contents, "Go shower Strife" He snapped angrily as he pulled random clothes from the bag, without saying a word Cloud dutifully left the room.

"He okay?" Leon questioned watching Vincent gather the clothes up, throwing them over his small form. "Would you like some help?" He asked stepping forward.

"No, and no." Vincent snapped yet again grabbing the pants, jumping off the table and walking off only to return in a shirtless humanish form moments later, "Alright so I'm taking Sora to Yen Sid's place and will be staying there until Cloud's heat has passed few things." Vincent mumbled returning his attention to the bag and pulling a rather large shirt out before placing it on.

"Firstly don't let him out of the house, I do appreciate giving him a place to stay and it is going to piss him off but really he's not stable enough to go out especially with his heat fast approaching. Secondly… don't underestimate him chances are he's stronger and faster than you so don't do anything you cannot follow through. Lastly keep this collar on him-" Vincent paused handing over a small collar with painful looking needles sticking out from the inside of the collar, "It is as painful as it looks but unless you want him all over you I suggest keeping it on him."

"Why do you keep saying he's unstable, he looks fine to me." Leon questioned turning the collar over in his hands.

Vincent didn't respond instead he just glared at Leon and adjust his shirt as red wings stuck out the bottom. Grumbling he left the room and returned with the still sleeping Sora roughly shaking him awake. "Get ready" he grumbled shoving the bag at Sora.

A loud scream from within the house caused everyone to still, the scream was filled with both pain and sorrow. "Son-ofa" Vincent grumbled stomping off in the direction of the bathroom before loud banging erupted from within the bathroom.

"I see he's in a pleasant mood" Sora yawned peeking in the bag he was handed before rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

"What was that scream?" Leon mumbled body trembling as he heard more screaming followed by an animal like snarl.

"Uncle Cloud must have fallen asleep." Sora stated plainly like it was the most natural thing in the world.

"That's….. you aren't concerned?"

"Don't get me wrong he weirded me out at first but honestly he's been like that since the war. You'll get used to it."

Angrily Vincent reentered the room and shoved a wet bundle in Leon's arms before dragging Sora out of the house slamming the door behind him.

Stunned Leon just stared at the door before looked down to his arms the bundle moved, tilting his head his head in confusion he shifted the object to one arm pulling the towel that was covering it away and revealing…

"Cloud?" Leon asked hoisting a small clouded leopard up holding the angry animal away from his body by its pits.

Blue eyes glared back and spotted tail flicked, 'Please put me down this is embarrassing' Cloud's voice echoed in Leon's head as he stared dumbly back at the cat.

"I'm feeling kind of jealous of not having some epic ability…. When I turn into my form that's all there is..."

'You can only hear me because you are holding me once you put me down you won't be able to' Cloud said as he struggled in Leon's grasp.

"What if I don't want to put you down? You are pretty adorable as a cat, this also explains why I can never hear you walking you're like… what 20 lbs?" Leon joked bouncing the agitated feline to better judge his weight.

Yowling Cloud reached forward large paw scratching Leon's face causing him to drop him before he ran off to the bathroom.

Leon stared dumbly at the empty space in front of him hand coming up to his cheek as he wiped the blood that began forming. Cloud entered the room again but this time as a human fully dressed.

"Sorry I'm just not feeling well I guess" Cloud mumbled before stepping close to Leon, "I can heal that for you if you want" he said lowering his face as a blush flushed across his pale cheeks.

Leon looked over stunned blood dripping down his face, "How?" He asked stupidly.

Silently Cloud leaned over to Leon and licked the cuts, gently sucking the blood off his face and tracing the lines until they disappeared. All the while Leon stood firm butterflies pooling in his stomach as the heat began to run lower.

He is trying to kill me Leon thought enjoying how Cloud's smooth tongue felt on his face.

Satisfied that the healing was complete Cloud gently began to pull away, secretly adding a few extra licks enjoying how the young lion tasted.

Groaning Leon reached out hands roughly grabbing Cloud's shoulders and pulled him into a gentle kiss, licking the others lip tasting the faintest taste of his blood still lingering on the smaller male. Leon's hands trailed down from Cloud's shoulders to his waist and finally resting on his hips one hand reaching back to play with the soft fur that poked out from the base of Cloud's tail causing him to gasp.

Using the gasp to his advantage Leon deepened the kiss pulling Cloud flush against his body and grinding his clothed erection against him. Thankfully he didn't seem to be the only one enjoying the moment as he felt Cloud's erection pressing against his leg; finally the blond returned the kiss tongue tentatively exploring Leon's mouth, grazing lightly over his pointed teeth.

Cloud's tentative kiss brought out the beast in Leon turning him on with a fire as he roughly picked up Cloud, wrapping his legs around his waist and slammed him into the wall, breaking the kiss to bite down on his neck causing him to moan loudly.

One hand grazed over Cloud's ass while the other took a fistful of his tail wrapping the long limb around his fist and pulling slightly all the while grinding into Cloud. "L-leon" Cloud moaned head resting against the wall as he clung to Leon, hands gripping the lion's shoulder tightly.

Leon gave a small growl in return lapping at the his bite and marking the smooth skin, using the wall as leverage he roughly began to fondle at Cloud's pants in hopes to unbuckle them lips returning to Clouds' in a heated desperation.

"Leon, pl-please st-Ahh" Cloud moaned as Leon shifted him allowing more friction against his erection, desperately Cloud closed his eyes almost getting lost in the sensation of Leon aggressively pulling at his pants when he finally unlatched them and began to pull them down Cloud snapped out of his haze harshly pushing Leon's shoulders away causing him to be dropped.

"I'm sorry…. I just .. .I" Cloud mumbled tears filling his eyes as he stared at Leon's feet awkwardly, "I can't" he said sadly.

Now broken out of his lust haze Leon stared at Cloud's speckled ears back defensively Oh wow… I am the world's most insensitive ass…. He thought squatting down eye level with Cloud, he gently placed his hand against Cloud's cheek pulling his face up to meet his in a small peck kiss.

"I'm sorry Cloud. I find you really attractive and I really like you, I got lost in the moment." Giving him another small peck Leon stood and left the kitchen choosing instead to sit in the living room.

Cloud sat dumbly on the floor erection throbbing against his pants as if cursing him for blocking its pleasure.


R&R :O:O

(Also side note since I've had some PM questions don't be embarrassed to ask questions! I'm not very good at writing so I leave holes!)

Question: "How is Sora a cat when his dad (Zack) is a dog, also who is his mother" - Hojo's experiments and Aerith is his mother, also note his wasn't like Rox and Ven, he was actually born and conceived naturally so no age manipulation there.

Question: Vincent hollow bones. - Birds naturally have hallow bones his base species is a harpy eagle despite hojo mutating him. Works out to his advantage half the time as he is a ranged fighter.

Question: How were Roxas/Ventus born/who is the second parent. – That one is actually a tricky one as I planned to put it into the story later, they only have one parent… well one hybrid parent. Basically Hojo took Cloud's sperm and put it in a regular tabby cats egg and used a machine to grow them to their present age.

Now that all the questions are gone note, I'm moving August 29th so the updates might be a bit slower than normal, with packing/tending to my now 3 month old daughter and dealing with my puppy Axel (the image of this story is my puppy, isn't he adorable) I'm still going to try to update at least weekly!

Thanks for all the favorites/reviews I'm glad people are enjoying this story!