Conte de noël
I do not own skip beat! Yoshiki Nakamura does.
( I didn't forget my other story(evolving to reach each other) but i was like ill all the time these lat weeks and then i was in Christmas mood, i will continue it too)
Let's make a wish
Chapter 2
His bare feet rushed as he rummages into her apartment, his jaw clenched with despise at himself. When Ren had seen his bare-of-hair hands this morning and he had jumped into action. He has to contact Yashiro-san somehow. To warn him he was okay at least. Reason why against all his values and tastes, he was looking for some devise to contact him even if he wasn't sure Yashiro would understand him.
He finally found a desk in a small room with a miraculous laptop on top of it. Apologizing internally, he entered quickly, leaving door ajar behind him. Not that Kyoko would see him as he really look like but he still wanted to be discreet and a cat taping on a laptop might seem weird. He felt strange moving on his own in her flat, like some intruder.
I just want to send a short email and then I'll go…
Ren progressed to the desk chair and sit on it, the leather feeling oddly cold under his butt. Maybe he put too light clothes…
He shrugged and switch on the laptop, he didn't know how much time he would stay human, he had to hurry…
Ren was waiting trying to connect himself when distract by the ambient coldness; it hit him and he looked down.
I'm in the nude! He cringed. Why am I naked for god's sake?!
Ren paled with new realisation.
I just walked around in Kyoko's flat butt's naked…Dear god…
When is the embarrassment going to stop…?
Ren forced his mind to focus on the task at hand and turned back at the screen finally loading into his email account and-
Poofff…
He shifted back into a cat and the door creaked open.
Shit.
Kyoko came in wearing a warm smooth blue pyjamas that accentuated her curves with little white snowflakes patterns drawn on it and Ren stared at her mesmerized.
She looks different…she took a few centimetres in height since the last time I saw her I'm sure; she's taller than before… Well from my current perspective, everyone looks like a giant…it's such a change…
But I don't think it's only due to that…Ren tried to change the angle of his view, wanting to confirm his impressions.
And-…Ren blushed through his inspection; her legs are even longer and she's just a bit more curvy…
She didn't look like a teenager anymore…
She looks like…a woman…Ren thought still staring at her. How can such an adorable pyjamas can be so sexy…
"You! "Kyoko said looking at him half surprised, half asleep eye. "How did you come here?" She was sure she had kept the door closed.
-And you even powered up my laptop…How did he even do that? Wondered Kyoko, taking the enormous cat into her arms.
"Come, we are going to feed you breakfast."
Wait. My email. I need to warn Yashiro-san he miaowled in protest.
"No, no. You are not staying in this room" Kyoko said locking it behind her when they got out.
"Time for breakfast and your pill. If you are going to stay, it would be too bad to keep you in a side room when you could sleep warmly with me and snow in my room but not before taking your pill."
What are you talking about? I can't stay with you in the same bed. Do you want me to lose all reason?! He miaowled a bit desperate.
Kyoko just laughed. He was undoubtedly an expressive cat.
"You love to miaowl, don't you?"
Ren sighed, frustrated.
It was becoming urgent to make her understand he was Ren, if for anything, just for the sake of his sanity.
I need to make her understand it's me…and quickly…
Kyoko put him on the island counter near Snow and went searching for something in some cabinet.
But how? How could he make her see he was Ren?
Kyoko put three bowls in front of him one of some strange gelatinous substance, one for water and one of classical kibbles, bringing Ren out if his thoughts.
Ren stare at those then at Kyoko then back at the bowls sniffing them with disgust. He would never eat that.
I'm not hungry anyway…
"Weird. Snow appreciates those a lot. You need to eat you know."
It's cat food. I'm not eating this.
He puffed out and wrinkled his whiskers before padding to the other side of the counter. He was slowly starting to get used to have four paws and to the need to move them two by two.
He was licking his paw meticulously, seriously it was outrageous how many times he had already did that I have found a new respect for cats spending most of the time cleaning themselves when a familiar and finally pleasant scent came to his nose and he followed unconsciously to the fuming source of it.
Coffee!
He sniffed the cup, blessed by the aroma and happy to find something that finally makes sense in his world. Taping with his whiskers on it, it was incredible those things it was true sensorial detectors and very useful, he measured the temperature and when sure of it, lapped at the still slightly warm liquid.
Maybe it would even prevent him from wanting to sleep all the time…
Kyoko gasped when she saw the big cat lapping at her cup.
"What are you doing?! It's coffee, idiot" she lectured him before grabbing him under his belly to keep him away from the mug. "It's not good for you."
Of course it's good. It's the only thing acceptable here, beside water.
Ren miaowled a bit but didn't protest further. Being in her arms all the time was one of the perks of being a cat and he plenty intended to enjoy it to its fullest.
"You can have a bit of milk if you want Kyoko proposed after a short silence."
Ren sighed. Even as a cat, he couldn't escape her concerning toward food. And well, milk actually tempted him.
Odd…
She put him down again and put a saucer full of milk in front of him, but Ren detected an unpleasant smell right away. He lifted his right paw and flapped the milk around suspiciously with the tip of it finding some pounder floating and bits in it.
Do you really take me for an idiot?
He glared at her but Kyoko looked at him innocently.
I .Will. Not. Take. A . Fucking pill for cats…
Ren looked at her on purpose and when he was sure she was looking, he shift the saucer upside-down, spilling the milk on the dark grey tiles.
"You! Kyoko gasped with outrage this time. I could swear you did it on purpose this-…"Kyoko shook her head. Just now it looked like he was challenging me…
There was no way…
Kyoko sighed and started to clean up the milk. She was sure he had guessed she had put the pill in it. He's a smart one, this fluffy giant…
I really need to find him a name though Kyoko pondered. She couldn't keep calling him that. And I should buy a provisory collar until the vet can confirm me no one will reclaim him and that I can get a chip ID.
Kyoko left shortly after changing herself to buy the collar and Ren used this time to think of a way to make her figure it out.
He padded through her flat searching for ideas. He couldn't talk and writing with paws was in no way manageable.
Rest behaviour…
I need to act or show something that I would do as a human…
He rolled onto his side on living-room carpet staring at the cds and dvds cases. She really has a lot of them…
He turned and also saw a lot, lot of books.
Curiosity getting the better out of him, he edged to the shelves to look more closely at what she had.
Plenty of fairy-tales and fantasy stories as expected…Ren noticed with a fond smile remembering once more their time as children in the clearing and her calling him Corn, playing together…
His bladder pulled him out of his memories and he groaned. Being a cat was a fucking pain concerning this. As, of course, he thoroughly refused to use the little tray Kyoko showed him, he had used the toilet last night when she wasn't looking but now what was this?
Ren sighed starring at the door of the bathroom.
You locked it up…
Well, he supposed it makes sense; she wanted to reduce the places he could go until she was sure he was clean and properly going into the tray. All rooms seemed locked up as well.
I get it really…But no…that's one thing I won't let go of…
Ren looked around and spotted the glazed-door but after several failed tries he gave up on this one.
I won't go into the tray…I swear I won't…
He kept looking around for any possibilities, for any out he could use feeling the urge growing. Until eventually his eyes caught sight of a window at the first floor that sound easy enough to open.
Ren climbed the stairs and nudged the clench with his nose and paws repeatedly until it opens and pushing he stepped on the window sill before jumping down on the grass of the shared little garden of the flats.
Give me a bit of dignity at least…
His whiskers detected the freezing air but his big fur protected him from the coldness of the season this fur really is handy…I'm technically naked and I'm not even cold. He stretched happily before doing his affair and making a little tour around. He jumped back on the sill a few minutes later then inside the Kyoko's flat.
Now what?
He came back near the shelves and wrapping his long fluffy tail around himself he gazed distantly at them allowing his eyes to pass by the titles while he thought about ideas that could help.
Then he froze as it hit him.
I'm a fairy…
Well a fake one, mind you.
But it could work. She knows he's Corn. If he acts as a fairy she might figure it out.
Or rather, if I act as Corn…or try to link myself to fairies…
Ren wondered for a while if it could work but he had no better idea so.
Maybe it's worth the shot…plus I don't have much time…
Ren was trying to plan out how exactly to do that when the door opened and Kyoko entered in the freezing apartment with a little package containing the elastic collar and a little medallion that would still need to be engraved when Kyoko would have pick up a name for the monstrously big cat.
Why is it so cold here? Brrr…
Kyoko looked around wondering where the cold was coming from when she spot coming to her, no nearly running to her until-
"Miaowwwwwwwww….-What's happening? Why am I gliding on my own paws?!"
He slipped on the tiles like it was ice and he was skating uncontrollably and fell on his side on the way to her ending his race on his fur and dusting out her floor until he stopped at her feel looking grumpy and pitiful.
"What the hell was that?" He growled.
Ren didn't even bother standing back and put his chin on the ground and Kyoko looked for a second at him startled before exploding in mirth along with white fur ball that couldn't help cough in her tail.
"Hahahaha… What happened to you? How did you end up gliding like that, my floor isn't that much of an ice-rink from what I know" Kyoko asked tapping the ground in check. "You're really a hilarious cat…"
Ren sighed.
"You never learned to walk on paws or what? You look like a kitten stumbling on its paws…though it's funny" said Snow with a short miaowl.
I take it all back…I hate being a cat…your own paws are your enemy…
"It's because I was never a cat before yesterday" He answered grumpily to Snow.
Taking pity on him, Kyoko picked him up and settled herself with him in her lap on the couch. She got out the deep green collar that matched his eyes and proceed with putting it on him. Fortunately for her, he didn't struggle too much, too busy purring while she rubbed the sides of his ears in her attempted to put the thing around his neck.
"There Kyoko said with victory looking at the big cat now sporting the cute elegant thing on his neck. She checked it wasn't too tight one last time to be sure before petting him.
Ren signed internally thinking he had become just a pet for her and feeling to urge to make her understand grows.
On the other hand, he loved to be so close to her, tight against her body and her hands caressing him and she was very good at it which inevitably made him purred senseless.
This form is rubbing off on me he thought before curling to a ball on her lap feeling like it was the best place in the world.
He woke later feeling cold and noted he wasn't on Kyoko's lap anymore but on a cushion put at the side of the couch he supposed she put him on. She was rehearsing a script not far from him.
I fell asleep again…He couldn't believe it. What was it with this obsession with sleeping all the time? He has only twenty-four days now to make her understand he was a cat AND make her fall love for him. He had better things to do than sleep. He yawned and growled at himself.
Kyoko looked at him with an odd look before going back to her lines and he jumped down the couch going straight to the racks of books and discs. He watched closely at them until he found what he was looking for and set himself on the low table, took a momentum and jumped at the highest shelves knocking off several movies discs to the ground.
Kyoko looked up at the noise and gasped.
"What are you doing, now? It's not a place to settle yourself "Kyoko said a bit amused as she stood up and start gathering the discs.
"Miaowwww…Noooo, don't take it, look at them…"Ren tried to put his paw on one of the character to attract Kyoko's attention on it. It was a fairy. But she was too fast and soon the discs were back on the shelves and Kyoko had returned to her script.
Ren miaowled again but she just ignored.
Fine. Let's see who is the most stubborn Ren thought accepting the challenge.
And so the pattern repeated itself. Ren pushed over the same discs and Kyoko picked them up. Again and again.
Until Kyoko, too bothered to properly rehearse her lines paused before grabbing the discs again.
"What's the matter? Why are you so fixed on this shelf?" She asked slightly irritated.
Ren miaowled and taking advantage of it, patted one of the discs where a fairy was seen on the cover.
Kyoko looked at him in confusion and Ren patted it several more times. Look at this, look at the fairy. See the similitudes that this cat has with Corn…I have green eyes…Kuon/Corn too…Come one Kyoko…
Kyoko took the movie in her hand to look at it before staring at him with a smile.
"You want to see this with me, maybe? Okay, let's see it."
Noooo….I don't want to see it…Arghh…He let himself dropped on his side. It's going to be even more complicated that I thought.
But then he thought of something and quickly padded near Kyoko who were coming back after inserting the disc in the player.
This cat is cute Kyoko thought settling back down on the couch.
The movie started and the giant cat begun acting oddly, doing weirds poses and fumbling around on the ground to the point Kyoko couldn't help but laughed. He even did some sort of summersaults in the air, jumping high; paws outstretched then tightly together.
See…I'm flying…I'm jumping in the air and making stunts like Corn and Ren only know how to…
Kyoko clapped loudly and laughed nearly hysterically after the last jump.
"You are very skilled, hahaha. A true acrobatic cat, I've never seen something like that though I knew your race was very muscular and even suppler than the others. Are you doing some sort of exercise? Is it because you were not able to go out and spend yourself? "
"I'm sorry, if no one claims you back, I'll keep you and you will have chip. Then you will have to possibility to go outside. But for now, you're stuck" Kyoko tried to explain to him. She felt really sorry for him. He looked really in shape but if he was lost and if he had the habit of being outside all the time, she knew it must be hard right now for him. Still she couldn't risk letting him out until she had more news from the vet.
Ren gaped at her and fell backward, feeling tired after all this and discouraged.
Damn it Kyoko…It's me, Ren…
Did you not recognize the stunts?
He licked his fur absent-mindedly, feeling grumpy when Kyoko giggled suddenly.
"You know what? You make me think of someone I know? He can do incredible stunts too and has green eyes too. "
Ren jumped upright surprised but his eyes full of hopes and glee.
Did you get it? You finally get it, Kyoko!
"So I decide of a name for you" Kyoko continued. "That person, the first time I saw him doing stunts of that sort he was pretending to be a fairy. So in memory of that I thought of Cornfae…Corn for his name and fae for fairy but then I thought it was a bit complicate so let's settle on cornflake, it's cute and easier. What do you think, Cornflake?"
Ren was at a loss of words and stared at Kyoko aghast with what she was saying.
You settled on calling me after a breakfast cereal?!
Why are you so obsessed with the corn vegetable?! At least, with my name you had the excuse of being young and not understanding the foreign name…
But seriously? Cornflake!
I will never answer to that… Ren decided. I'm not a fucking petal of corn…!
Ren had a lot of things he'd like to say but he was a fucking cat and couldn't talk so he just turned away from Kyoko ignoring the numerous calls of his new "nickname" and hit the carpet with his chin.
Kyoko was worried about Cornflake. She hadn't see this cat eat anything since she found it in her room last morning though she still didn't know how he got inside her flat even if she now knew he was able to open windows after discovering the window from first floor slightly open and cat's trace on the sill of it. But the issue remain, if he didn't sustain himself soon he was risking to damage dangerously and very quickly his health and she couldn't permit that. She had already decided to keep him if no one asked for him. He was very beautiful and smart and she didn't mind a second pet even if he was also quite odd.
I'm so tired with all the stunts I did in this tiny tiny body and all I got was a Cornflake name…Ren thought and hissed angrily, swatting the carpet with his tail and left the room to drink some water while wondering if cats were more subject to mood swings.
PS: Hum hum, so the all slipping part is very frequent to Main coon cats…I supposed you have figured it out but it's because of the fur between their toes…it's since this race existed to help them walk in the snow in sort of snow rackets…Because at the beginning these cats only lived in mountains, in the wild and needed it to help them move around. So on smooth floors it's very hard for them as soon as they try to go faster to not just go skiing on the paws rather than run on it. I have two main coons so I can fully attest to that. And it's hilarious. It's the same if they try to jump on smooth surface too fast they have to be very careful.
And for information: yeah, cats can be subject to mood swings time to time or if they are stressed.
It should be the 2nd December when I post this, good beginning of December.
Kisses.
Author out.
