Kitten on the Streets
Chapter 3:
Ran was in his office and he was really sleepy, it couldn't be helped, they just came back from an early morning assignment which involved people in suits with sunglasses and guns, Schuldig was currently in Crawford's office which would last probably another hour or two, there was nothing better to do than sleep. The only problem was if he slept and didn't wake up within an hour, he'd be back to kitten-mode, on the other hand, if he didn't sleep, he'd be really tired and fall asleep anyways; Ran yawned and stared at the wall until he dozed off.
Around an hour later, Schuldig was finally able to escape Crawford's lecture that he skipped out of last time, he went into his office expecting to see his partner glaring at him, but instead, he saw the kitten on the streets sleeping in Ran's place. Was die Hölle?
Ran kitten was sleeping soundly curled up on Ran's chair either not noticing Schuldig's presence or just not caring until the German picked him up at stared at him he mewed in annoyance.
"Hey kätzchen, what are you doing here and where's Ran...the person."
The kitten mewed again and batted Schuldig's hair, "Hey, watch it!"
Schuldig set the kitten down and sat down. Ran kitten wrinkled his nose, he wouldn't be able to sleep again for awhile and he wouldn't be able to sleep in the office if Schu was still going to be there, he meowed at his partner for waking him up.
"Hey, don't meow me, it's not my fault that you're here instead of Ran."
Ran felt like snorting but he couldn't he might end up coughing out a hairball or something. All he could do now was walk around until he got tired then go somewhere to sleep and become human again, then maybe sleep again and turn back into a kitten and make Schu feed him. He batted at the door, mewing the German to let him out of their office so he could find another place to sleep.
"Don't be so bossy, I don't even know why I put up with you." But he got up anyways and let the cat out, "Don't get lost or cause trouble."
Ran just mewed and padded out, his first stop was at Omi and Nagi's office, he sat at the door and watched them hack other people's computers. That was until Omi saw the cat and picked him up.
"Hey Nagi-kun look! A kitten, he's so cute!"
Nagi took a looked and went back to hacking, "He probably belongs to someone, put him down and help me, I'm almost through."
Ran kitten wrinkled his nose and mewed at Omi to put him down, but the boy took it as something else, "In a sec, I'm going to grab something for the kitty to eat."
On second thought, that was fine too, the boy set Ran down and grabbed a little chunk of ham from his lunch and gave it to Ran kitten, the Abyssinian mewed his thanks and gobbled up the chunk of ham. Omi giggled as he watched the kitten eat the ham messily.
"Messy eater aren't you?"
"Omi, stop playing with the cat and help me."
"Coming!"
The boy got up and headed back to the computer where Nagi was. Ran licked his lips and padded to the next office, it smelled of smoke, the kitten coughed and choked catching the attention of a lady who picked him and stared at him, why did everyone do that!?
"Hey Youji, look at this little guy."
A man stuck his head out with a cigarette in his mouth; he had long hair and a pair of sunglasses on, who wears sunglasses indoors?
"What?"
"I found this kitten sitting at the doorway choking on the smoke, if a cat can't stand it how can you?"
"A cat? How'd it get in here?"
"Not sure, it's a smart little thing, cute too."
"And I'm not?"
"Compared to this little guy?"
"I resent that. You're saying I'm not cute, that's mean Asuka." The man pouted.
Ran was still coughing from the smoke, he wanted out, now. He mewed at Asuka to let him go so he could run off and breathe normal non-contaminated air.
"Poor thing, it can't breathe, I'm going to take him outside."
"You go do that while I think about what's cute."
Asuka laughed, "You're cute enough, if you were any cuter you'd be an animal."
"I can be an animal, you know that." Youji purred, it made Ran uncomfortable, no making out in front of the kitten please.
"I know that well enough."
Ran couldn't take it anymore, his nose was killing him, he meowed louder at the lady to let him out, Asuka smiled at him and brought him back outside while scratching him between his ears. The cat couldn't help but purr, it felt nice.
"You like that don't you?"
She set him down and Ran mewed before heading off again. Asuka watched the kitten walk off down the hall into Farfello's place, it wasn't a good sign, I wonder if the little guy will be alright...
Ran sat down at the doorway of another office, inside he could see a pale man covered in scars, the door opened. The kitten was about to run off but a pair of hands grabbed him.
"A kitten...dismembering kittens hurts god."
The Abyssinian stared in horror, he struggled to get away but the pale man didn't let go, even when he scratched him. The man brought up a knife and it was going closer and closer to Ran, he mewed and hissed, nothing worked. Luckily for the kitty, a certain American came in.
"Farfello, I expect you to be working, not playing with this cat...I'll be taking him away from you."
Crawford took Ran from the madman and set him down on his own desk in his own office, the Abyssinian stared at him as he started writing.
The American looked up from his work to see the kitten staring at him, "What are you looking at?"
Ran mewed and flickered his tail, then he and Crawford engaged in a staring contest, finally the American looked away and Ran mewed again. But then the door opened and Schu stepped in while Ran slipped out with a mew.
"What was kätzchen doing in here?"
"Your cat almost got torn to pieces by Farfello."
"And you saved him...and you saved him...and you saved him! ...no matter how I say that it still sounds weird...and you saved him..."
"Shut up Schu."
"...wonder where Ran's headed to..."
"Ran?"
"Ja, I named the kätzchen that."
"You named a cat after your partner..."
"That's my gorgeous and very sexy partner to you."
"You put a lot of thought into that single sentence haven't you?"
"Oh yea..."
"Where is Ran?"
"I don't know, I go back to the office and find a cat there instead of him."
"..."
"Geeze...and you saved him..."
"Shut up Schu."
Ran padded down the hall, he was quite ready for sleep so he turned into another office hoping he got it right this time. The kitten mewed at the door and he heard a click, he yawned at looked up lazily, recognizing his old partner's scent.
"Hi, haven't seen you around in a bit."
Ran mewed his greetings and padded into the office, the only person who knew about his transformation aside from Persia was Ken, and that was only because he accidentally fell asleep in front of the brunette.
"Came here for a place to sleep?"
The kitten mewed, he looked around, Ken's office was really, really messy, the brunette noticed the cat's criticizing look and laughed, "It's not my fault it's messy, you haven't been around nagging me to clean up."
Ran mewed and watched Ken sit down, "I have work to do so just go to sleep anywhere you like."
The kitten looked around the place for somewhere to sleep, but he couldn't see a spot that wasn't covered by something so he batted a couple of things off and slept on Ken's desk instead.
When he became conscious again, he looked at the clock, only two more hours until they got off work, hopefully he wouldn't fall asleep again.
"Uhhh...Ran? Do you mind getting off my desk now?"
Ran sat up and stretched, he got off the desk and brushed himself off, before he headed out the door he said, "Clean this mess up."
Ken grinned sheepishly and saluted, "Yes sir! You'll have a cleaner place to sleep in next time sir!"
Ran hn'ed and headed back to his office which was empty at the moment. He was doing his paper work while waiting for Crawford to be finished with lecturing his stupid partner. Check that, his stupid, stupid, very stupid partner.
/That's not nice, I was looking for you./
/Shut up Schu./
/That's no way to greet your partner./
/Some partner you are, you spend half your time in Crawford's office./
/It's not by fault, Crawford's lecturing me! He's been lecturing me for about and hour now!/
/Do you even know what he's lecturing you on?/
/Umm...nein?/
Ran sighed, /How much longer is this going to take?/
/At least another hour, I think my legs just fell asleep./
/.../
The redhead sat there tapping his pen wondering what he should do, when he ran out of ideas, he decided to turn back to kitten-mode, the problem was the he couldn't sleep. Ran got up and went into Crawford's office to bail Schu out...but then he changed his mind again and went into Ken's office instead.
"Hey Ran, back so soon?"
"Hn."
"You've really got to stop that, speak in full sentences please."
"Schu's being lectured so I have nothing to do."
"Very good! That was like nine words!"
"Hn."
"How much longer until the big boss is done with your partner."
"At least another hour."
"And you were planning on turning back into a cat but couldn't get back to sleep?"
"..."
"I knew it, you were going to pull off what you did to me and mooch off him!"
"I don't mooch off people, I just deal with the insane ones." It was actually Persia's orders, see if they're actually as insane and psychotic as they seem, and if they were, report and get them fired.
"I wasn't insane!"
"Close enough to insanity."
"...I'm not so insane now am I?"
"Hn. Not compared to that Farfello guy." He shuddered at the thought of his knives.
"Is that Schu guy insane?"
"Looks can be deceiving."
"...is that a yes or no?"
"Hn."
"Geeze, you're easier to understand when you're a cat."
"Hn."
"So...you want to go back to sleep but you can't."
Ran nodded.
"So what? Do you want sleeping pills or something?"
"You keep sleeping pills here?"
"...no..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"That's not the point! So you want to turn back into a cat and mooch off him."
"I don't mooch."
"Whatever, that's the basic idea right?"
Ran yawned, listening to Ken ramble on and on always ended up making him sleepy, he pulled up a chair and soon fell asleep to Ken's endless stories.
"Hey are you listening!?"
He jerked up, his fur stood on end, he looked around quickly only to see an annoyed Ken, "You're real nice aren't you? Falling asleep while I was talking, you can't deny it either...this is probably why they thought I was insane in the first place...I'm talking to a cat."
Ran mewed and licked his paw.
"Don't try that cute act with me."
The kitten just cocked his head and mewed again, Ken sighed, "Damn you...even the craziest person in the world can't stand up to you when you're like this."
"Reow." Ran mewed his agreement.
He hoped off the chair and looked at the door, he mewed loud enough for Ken to hear.
"Yes sir, right away sir!" The brunette opened the door, "Don't expect this place to get cleaned up all that fast!"
Ran just mewed and headed into Crawford's office where the American was still lecturing the half asleep Schu. He mewed and the men turned their attention to the kitten on the floor.
"Hey kätzchen, this big evil man's still lecturing me so I can't go yet."
"Shut up Schu."
"...and you saved him..."
"Shut up Schu."
Ran mewed again impatiently, Schu took a wild guess, "I'm guessing that's a hurry up and go home so you can mooch off me?"
The kitten wrinkled his nose, he didn't mooch off people, it was simply his job!
"...you're talking to a cat..."
"...and YOU saved him..."
"Shut up Schu."
"You seem to be saying that a lot today."
"So I noticed."
"...so can I go?"
"...no..."
Ran mewed again, this time staring straight at Crawford, he put on his cute act trying to get out of having to listen to his lecture.
"Come one Bradley, even Ran here wants out."
"Don't call me Bradley, I still can't believe you named a cat after him."
"...does that mean we can go?"
Crawford sighed, "Very well, very well, off with you...and your cat"
"Technically, he's not mine."
Ran kitten mewed in agreement.
"Just go already."
"Yes sir!"
Schuldig picked up Ran and headed out the door, "Danke kätzchen, you just saved me from having to stay there another hour with that big scary man, I guess you want a reward? How about we go out for dinner, or just order out? I wonder where Ran went..."
Ran just mewed for him to hurry up and actually get the food.
"Alright, alright, bossy, I swear, I don't even know why I bother." Ran snuggled a bit, Schu snorted, "Damn that cute act."
That's what everyone says.
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Was die Hölle? means what the hell?
Nein means no.
Danke means thank you.
...did I miss anything?
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Nya I didn't know how to end this chapter nya Please R&R