The day had started off odd.
Ichigo seemed strangely attentive, Rin waking up to find her sitting on his chest and staring at him with a slightly startled and disgruntled gaze. It had freaked him out, of course, and it freaked him out when she started licking her butthole right in his face. Ichigo ignored her breakfast in favor of staring at him while he ate, pausing in her staring to shiver and mewl at him quietly, lick at her stomach and butthole, shake her fur out, then go right back to staring.
"Ichigo, you're fuckin' weird," Rin muttered, throwing his backpack over his shoulder. "I'm going to class now. Be back later."
He opened the door and Ichigo let out a surprisingly loud meow, louder than most of her other quiet mewls she usually crooned. Rin looked at her, and she huffed a breath of air from her nose, then licked her butthole again.
"Ichigo, I really don't want to stand here and watch you lick your asshole all day, I have to get to class." Rin growled, then after licking herself again, she meowed and hurriedly trotted down the hall in the direction of Rin's bedroom. "Fuckin' idiot," he huffed, then left the apartment.
-xxx-
"What does it mean if your cat looks you dead in your eye and then licks its asshole?"
Haru gave Rin a disgusted look, shifting slightly as the other sat down next to him, looking towards the front of the lecture hall.
"I don't know. Ask Makoto."
"Fine, I will, little miss sunshine," Rin snorted, pulling out his cellphone to text the same question to Makoto.
"When are you going to ask him out?" Haru asked, and Rin nearly choked on his own spit.
"Wh-What?" he stuttered, and Haru gave him an unimpressed look.
"Don't act dumb, Rin. You and Makoto have been wanting to bone each other since day one. When are you going to ask him out?"
"I…I don't know," Rin snarled, fidgeting in his seat, "I wanted to wait until after the kittens were born…Shut up, okay?! I'm not really good at asking people out!"
"Doesn't take a genius to figure that one out," Haru muttered, and Rin smacked him with his notebook.
-xxx-
When Rin got home, he heard a frightfully loud yowl from his bedroom. He dropped his backpack and made a mad dash for his room, finding Ichigo curled up in the corner of his room, licking persistently at her belly and rear end.
"Oh god, Ichigo, are you? Are you doing the thing? Right now?!" Ichigo yowled again, licking at herself more forcefully. He pulled out his cellphone, quickly dialing Makoto's number.
"Rin, I was just about to text you!" Makoto answered, and Rin let out a choked, garbled noise that vaguely sounded like the word 'fuck', "What? What's wrong?"
"The thing!" he screeched, "Ichigo! Sh-She's! Doing the thing! Birth! Kittens! Right now! Makoto! Babies! They're coming!"
"I'm coming over right now! Put her under an unwanted towel, and stay calm!" Makoto replied sternly, and Rin made another choked, keening noise, throwing his phone on his bed and rushing to the bathroom to grab a towel.
Rin was making all kinds of incoherent and panicked noises as he grabbed a towel and a hand towel, as well as rubbing alcohol and a box of band aids, but upon realizing what he grabbed, he chucked the box into the bathtub with an angry shout, rushing back to the bedroom where Ichigo was breathing quickly and observing Rin with wide eyes and dilated pupils. He gently urged his cat under the raggedy old towel he kept in the back of his cabinet, and she obeyed, but not before she bit and clawed at him. Maybe he should have brought those band aids…
There was a frantic knock at the front door, and Rin let out a squeak, dashing to the front and opening the door, Makoto giving him a determined smile.
"Are you ready, Rin?" he asked, and Rin let out another panicked noise, pushing Makoto and his bag full of cat medical supplies towards his bedroom.
"Go go go!" Rin urged, and Makoto shushed him, quietly closing the door behind Rin when they reached his room.
"Be quiet, Rin," he urged, "Everything needs to be peaceful and calm for this. It's going to be alright. Okay?" Makoto reached over to take Rin's hand in his, giving it a comforting squeeze. Rin blushed lightly, looking into Makoto's eyes and nodding absentmindedly.
And in that moment, Rin decided, with Makoto holding his hand and giving him that gentle look that told him everything would be okay, that it would be a perfect time to just kiss Makoto, like he had been dreaming about for weeks. He reached up, gently taking Makoto's face in his hands, leaned forward, and pressed their lips together.
It felt like whole world slowly came to a stop. He could hear Makoto let out a breath through his nose, his own heart beat in his ears, he could feel Makoto's cheeks burning, feel the bunch of nerves that jumped from his stomach to his throat. And it was perfect. Sure, Rin's lips were chapped, and he was certain one of his teeth poked into Makoto's bottom lip at some point, but Rin was feeling so many things at once, and he was just so happy, like he was an overfilled balloon ready to pop, and he pulled away, eyes slowly flickering open to see Makoto staring at him slightly slack jawed.
"…Um," Makoto finally said, only to be interrupted by Ichigo letting out a high pitched yowl, "We'll talk about that in a minute. Ichigo comes first."
"Of course," Rin said, a little too excited, and they both rushed over to the cat, who was frantically licking her abdomen, and Makoto set down his bag of supplies.
-xxx-
It was about twenty minutes before the first kitten came. Makoto and Rin were kneeling on the floor a little ways away, Makoto saying that really they shouldn't interfere with the birth unless they were really needed, and when the first kitten came, Rin almost fainted.
Makoto watched with attentiveness as Ichigo brought the jet black blob to her mouth, licking its face clean. He heard a little mewl and relaxed, and made sure Ichigo bit off the baby's umbilical cord.
"Oh my god," Rin muttered next to him, "I'm gonna be sick."
"Oh no you're not," Makoto teased, "Don't you think it's amazing? We're witnessing the miracle of birth!"
"It was covered in shit and Ichigo just licked it," Rin shuddered, "She just licked it like it was nothing. That's fucking disgusting." Makoto rolled his eyes, turning his attention back to Ichigo, who had dutifully guided her newest addition to start feeding. "…But," Makoto looked back at Rin, who was watching the cats with a sparkle in his eye, "It really is amazing."
Another kitten came about ten minutes later, white with brown spots, and Makoto only reached over to tie off and snip the umbilical cord that Ichigo had missed. Ichigo rewarded Makoto with a grateful lick to his hand, then went back to grooming her kittens.
While they waited for the next kitten, Rin had grabbed a bowl of water and set it next to Ichigo, who was purring gently as her two new babies nursed. Rin smiled affectionately, scratching behind Ichigo's ears.
The next kitten was white with black spots. It was a noisy kitten, too, mewling as soon as Ichigo licked its mouth clean. She nibbled of the umbilical cord, and the little newborn squeaked loudly, Ichigo giving off her own comforting trill, nudging the little one to her belly to begin nursing.
Makoto was pleased with how things were going so far, and he was especially pleased with the fact that Rin had decided to hold his hand as they observed Ichigo and her newborns. Rin's hand was a little sweaty, and Rin was chewing at the fingernails on his free hand, and when Rin inhaled a little breath, he looked back at the cats, noticing Ichigo giving birth to her fourth kitten, another black one, and took care of it just as well as she did the other ones.
"Do all cat births go this smoothly?" Rin asked, and Makoto nodded.
"Typically, yes. I'm actually really happy we haven't had to intervene much!" Makoto replied happily, and Rin flushed, looking back to the cats.
"I really don't get it," Rin mumbled, and Makoto gave him a questioning look.
"Don't get what?"
"How the fuck are you so cute? Is it even possible for one human being to be as cute as you are? I mean, fuck, Makoto, just…How? Why?!" Rin blurted, his face significantly redder than it was before. Makoto was sure he was redder than Rin was, and he turned away and covered his face with his hands.
"S-Sorry!" he cried out, just as Rin sputtered out an apology as well.
"N-No, don't be! I'm just…I'm just being stupid, I-I kinda ramble when I'm nervous a-and I really didn't mean it like it was a bad thing! I-I mean, um, fuck, just, I'm gonna shut up now." Makoto laughed nervously at Rin's ramblings.
"Please do." He chuckled, and Rin hid his face behind his hand with an 'oh god'.
-xxx-
A little while after Rin's outburst, Ichigo gave birth to the fifth kitten. It was a tiny little thing, white with black and brown spots, and Ichigo diligently licked its face clean, and nibbled away its umbilical cord. Makoto's brow furrowed as he noticed the kitten's mouth was moving like it was trying to squeak out its first mews, but nothing was coming out. Ichigo let out her own concerned trill.
"Is it okay?" Rin asked quietly, and Makoto carefully picked it up, Ichigo following him with another trill. Makoto brought it to his ear, listening carefully.
"I don't think its breathing."
...CLIFFHANGER, DUN DUN DAAHHHH
oh but look makoto and rin finally kissed eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT TIME? WHO KNOWS?! (only me I know what will happen but I don't wanna spoil anything buahahaha)
SO I GUESS AT THIS POINT I WILL SAY thanks for reading and please review as per usual! :) You are all lovely little puddin' pies and all of your reviews make me so happy! (/^_^)/