Kitten on the Streets
Chapter 2:
"Good morning O mighty pain in the arsch."
"Shut up Schu, you have a new partner today."
"A new toy for me? Aww...you shouldn't have Brad."
"I know, but they told me to. They guaranteed that this one was unbreakable. And don't call me Brad."
"Unbreakable eh? We'll just have to see about that now won't we?"
"I suppose, he's suppose to be here in a few minutes, care to look at his profile?"
"You seem to be in a good mood today, he must be real pretty for you to be all happy like this."
"Hn."
Crawford tossed the file to the German who took it and went straight to the photo ID. He whistled and grinned, "A real looker alright, it's no wonder you're so giddy. In fact, you look so giddy that one might think that you might just jumped out of your chair and start frolicking down the hall and start singing."
"I am not giddy."
The American glared at him, he wasn't denying the truth, sending out assassin pairs was bad enough, but Schuldig thought of his partners as toys and he'd play with them until they broke. He secretly didn't want the new guy to be broken, heck, he'd rather have him be his partner, and Schu was...Schu. And being around Schu was never all that safe, he wondered what Persia was thinking when he assigned him to the German, Brad Crawford was jealous that he didn't get Schuldig's new partner while Schuldig got him, it simply wasn't fair.
Schu read his mind, his grin grew wider, "No need to be jealous Bradley, you'll see him around...with me...in fact you'll see a lot of him around me."
Crawford gritted his teeth, "Don't call me that, it's a wonder why you haven't been fired yet."
"Looks like the new guy's here."
Just then, a redhead walked into the room in a black shirt and a pair of faded jeans and stood beside Schuldig.
"Ah, you're here."
/Crawford's jealous! Crawford's jealous! And he's jealous of lil old me! Whoa...this one looks way better up close, and wouldn't you know it? He's MY new sexy partner!/
/Shut up Schu./
"Anyways, Schuldig, this is your new partner, Ran Fujimiya, Ran, this is your new assigned partner, Schuldig or Mastermind. Your codename will be Abyssinian from now on," he muttered under his breath, "good luck..."
Ran raised an elegant, very elegant and sexy and a lot of other words that the German and American could think of such as "gorgeous" or "stunning" brow at that last remark.
Schuldig purposely slung an arm over the redhead's shoulders, he shot a grin towards Crawford, "Hey there sexy, let's show you off around here."
"Hn."
The two redheads left the room while Crawford was practically fuming in his mind, this is not fair, he should be my partner not his, damn him... He could hear Schu laughing at him already.
Ran had the sharpest amethyst eyes the German had ever seen, they were almost cat like, he was pale with blood red hair, and to top it off, he had a golden cross hanging on his neck. Whoa, déjà vu, he's like the kätzchen himself. All he's missing is a tail and cat ears...mmm...Ran kitten...
"The chibis are over there, they're in charge for hacking systems and blah blah blah, you get the rest. Chibis, this is Ran."
The smaller redhead didn't look impressed, he nodded a greeting, Omi smiled one of his ever so cheerful smiles, "Hi Ran-kun! I'm Omi and this is Nagi over here."
Nagi just nodded, /Mein gott Nagikins, you're just about as enthusiastic as the pretty little redhead beside me. I can see you two will get along just fine now won't you? You know, you nod a hi, he nods a hi back, you nod a question, he nods an answer, just think of all the conversation and fun you'll have!/
/Shut up Schu./
Schuldig led Ran to the next station, on the way they met Ken, "Hey Ran."
"Hi."
"This is your new partner hm? Not as psychotic as I imagined."
Ran just nodded, "Apparently."
"I got to run, see you!"
The redhead nodded again, Schuldig looked at his new partner, the first two word he had spoken all day was to this weird brunette instead of him!
He was somewhat insulted, /And who might that have been kätzchen?/
Ran shrugged, /Partner till I got pulled away because of some case involving an insane German who breaks people just for the hell of it./
Schu laughed, /So that's what I'm known as now, sadistic manipulating German./
/You forgot insane and psychotic./
/Psh. Anyways, Kudou and Asuka are on a mission so you won't see them today. You already met Crawford./
Ran added sarcastically, /I think he liked me./
/More then you know kätzchen, more then you know./
/What's that suppose to mean?/
/Nothing. Nice necklace would it surprise you to know that I saw one just like it yesterday?/
/Hn./
Schuldig decided to leave it at that. That night when he was walking home, he didn't see the kitten, or the next day. The day after that, they had a mission involving some insane person who was randomly shooting people from an alley, Ran had a bullet graze his arm while slicing the man to death with his katana. He left right after he informed Crawford that they finished their assignment, Schuldig headed back to the headquarters where he saw Crawford sitting at his desk reporting to the ones in charge of the organization.
"He's lasting longer then I expected, which makes you happy since it means you get to see that sexy, very sexy redhead walk around more often right?"
"Shut up Schu."
"I seem to get that a lot."
"I wonder why..."
"Me too."
"I heard Ran got hit by a bullet."
"That's my sexy new partnew Ran to you. He grazed his arm, not that big a deal."
"You do realize you have to be more responsible-"
"Well would you look at the time! I'd love to stay and chat but I have to run. See you."
Before Crawford to start his lecture, Schuldig disappeared from the room with a grin. I'll get him tomorrow...
Schuldig sighed in relief, yet another lecture handled professionally, a bundle of red caught his eye, the kitten was back. The German kneeled down to see the kitten staring at him.
"Why hello there kätzchen, back for more food?"
The kitten mewed at him, and hobbled a bit towards him, Schuldig raised a brow at the kitten's front right leg, it was grazed and still bleeding.
"And what do we have here."
He carefully picked up the kitten and looked at the injury, isn't that where Ran got shot? Pft, like people can turn into cats. Hm...Ran kitten eh? Doesn't sound all that weird anymore for some reason...
"Let's head home, I can't see anything when there's no light, especially when the blood looks exactly like your fur. You're a pain kätzchen."
The kitten mewed and enjoyed the free ride towards free food under a free shelter. When they reached he apartment, Schuldig put the kitten on the couch and grabbed bandages, he looked at the wound and started wrapping it, the kitten hissed from the pain but stayed still.
"Looks like you did a number on yourself kätzchen, I take back what I said about you being smart."
The kitten batted the German's long hair, "Hey, watch it, I might just be out of milk."
The Abyssinian mewed and wrinkled his nose, Schuldig laughed, "We're going to have to call you something other than kätzchen aren't we, let's call you..."
Before Schuldig could think of a name, the first name that popped into his head was simply "Kätzchen" or "Akai", the kitten mewed something that sounded really close to "Ran" it actually sounded more like "Reow" but the German took a hint.
"Ran?"
The kitten mewed approvingly, "Okay Ran, you have no idea how much that freaks me out but it's your choice."
It just mewed at him again, this time demanding for food, "You're really bossy aren't you little Ran?"
The Ran kitten padded slowly to the kitchen and turned around and meowed the German to hurry up and get his arsch to the kitchen to fetch him food. Schuldig got up and went to the kitchen, he poured some milk into a bowl and set it down.
"Does this satisfy your endless hunger, or would you like a pound of ham with that too?"
Ran kitten mewed and started lapping his milk, Schuldig grabbed the leftover Chinese food from yesterday and heated it up. The German took the food out of the microwave and started eating, the kitten looked up from his milk and mewed at him.
"You want some too? Aren't we greedy today."
Another mew, Schuldig sighed and poured some onto another plate and set it down beside the kitten's milk.
"Are you not happy unless you take part of my dinner and bat at my hair?"
"Meow..."
"Is that a yes?"
The kitten ignored him and started eating the food on the plate.
"Don't give me that attitude young...cat..."
Ran kitten just purred while he ate as a sign of thanks. The German shrugged, "Better than nothing I guess..."
The kitten stayed clear of the bedroom, he plopped down on the couch until Schu got out of the showers. Then they went to sleep on the couch again, Ran kitten was stretched out on Schuldig's chest sleeping soundly. When violet eyes opened again, he got off the German but a hand shot out and grabbed his wrist, the redhead spun around to see his new partner clutching his wrist in a death grip, Ran tugged but Schuldig wouldn't let go, he was thinking about gnawing on the arm but it would wake the German for sure, so he sat down crisscrossed and waited.
Finally, his patience snapped, "Let me go before I bite you."
Schuldig didn't let go, so Ran carried out his threat and bit him, the German sat up and turned his head and stared at the redhead on the floor, in his apartment. He rubbed his eyes and looked again, still there, so he wasn't dreaming after all.
"What the hell are you doing here?"
Ran thought fast, "Sitting and trying to get you to let go of my arm?"
"Oh..." Schuldig didn't detect the excuse thanks to his half conscious state, he let go of the redhead's arm, he looked at Ran's right arm, it was bandaged up exactly like Ran kitten's.
"I swear, you're just like Ran."
Then word "Busted" repeated in Ran's head but the German didn't seem to notice so he simply stated, "I AM Ran incase you haven't noticed."
"I mean the kitten."
"You named a cat after me?"
"Apparently, it kind of named itself."
"...." Ran decided to leave it at that since he knew it was true, but it was better than letting Schu decide, for all he knew he might've ended up with the name "Smoochy" or something.
"How did you get in here anyways?"
"...I...picked the lock..."
"You have no manners do you? You really are just like kätzchen, I wonder where he went off to."
"Hn."
"Well, since you're here you might as well make breakfast while I change, unless you don't mind being late for work." Schuldig winked.
"Shut up Schu. Just go change."
"Fine be that way..."
Ran sighed a breath of relief he was almost busted, stupid curse, but being a cat wasn't as bad it seemed, he made breakfast and ate his share. Schuldig came in and ate and they were off to get lectured by Crawford, well Schu was anyways, not that Ran cared in any way.
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Nya I'm half blind from the chlorine at the pool Sorry for the slow update nya Ran kitten will show up more in the next chapter yakusoku! Please R&R