Kitten on the Streets
Chapter 4:
He wasn't happy, boy, he felt like murdering his stupid, stupid, very stupid German partner, but then again, he was suppose to be the sane one. Tempura, all he wanted was tempura, but nooo, what does the idiot order? Pizza! If he had thumbs right now he'd strangle him.
Ran huffed and went to the door, mewing for Schu to open it for him, maybe Ken would get him tempura. The German took his time walking towards the door.
"What now? My company isn't good enough for you?"
The kitten mewed again, he wasn't in the mood for pizza or Germans. Schu opened the door and Ran trotted down the hall.
"Just mew at the door or something when you give up trying to get on the elevator."
Ran snorted, him? Troubles with elevators? Psh. He went down the hall and used the stairs instead, and out the door he went. Down the street, turn the corner, cross the street, ignore the dumb mutt barking at him...that dumb mutt barking and chasing after him, ah shit, Ran scurried down the street hoping to lose the dog. He turned another corner as the dog nearly snapped his tail off, that did it. The Abyssinian turned around, startling the dog that nearly ran into a pole. When the tough started chasing, Ran turned around and fought with claws.
When the kitten took a good look at the big stupid mutt, his little heart sank, the dog was triple his size not to mention furious. Sharp pointy teeth, a lot of drool, hungry, and smelly mutt. It snarled at him, Ran huffed, his fur was standing on ends, he hissed, no mutt was going to try and beat him up. The dog looked surprised at the cat's stubbornness, Ran's violet eyes gleamed in the dark. Ran moved first, he unsheathed his claws and went at the dog.
The dog hesitated but when Ran's claws made contact with its muzzle, all instincts told him at attack the blasted cat. It ended up tripping and stumbling while the cat took a swipe at its ear; the dog yelped and snapped at the cat. Ran jumped back but then the dog charged at him and smacked him with one of its oversized paws. The kitten stumbled, it jumped onto the dog's back and bit his ear, finally the dog yelped and went running down the street with its tail between its legs. Ran smirked the best he could victoriously, he showed that big stupid mutt.
He looked around, another block to go until he reached Ken's house. Ran needed tempura badly. When he was standing in front of an apartment floor, he looked up, Ken's apartment, he mewed and scratched the door until someone showed up at the door.
"Huh? Who?"
Ken looked down, "Oh, Ran, it's you, what are you doing here?"
Ran mewed and glared at Ken.
"Aren't you suppose to be with your insane partner?"
The kitten mewed again, this time for on in, I was just about to eat dinner until a certain cat showed up."
Ran wrinkled his muzzle drawing blood out from where the dog swiped him. Ken noticed it too.
"What did you do? Get into a fight with another mutt off the streets? You really should stop that, one of these days you're going to find a dog too big to fight off, then you'll be sorry."
The Abyssinian mewed and went inside. Ken's apartment wasn't much better then Schu's, in fact, it was a lot messier. Ran headed straight for the kitchen while the brunette followed close behind.
"Ohh...I get it, he didn't buy tempura...everyone just knows how much you need your tempura."
Ran mewed and flickered his tail impatiently.
"I think there's some left in the fridge...yea we do, all we have to do is heat it up..."
Finally, tempura! The kitten mewed for his ex-partner to hurry up with the fish, Ken turned the stove on and started boiling water, he picked the cat up and set him on the counter so he could watch the water bubble.
"It'll take like twenty minutes max so you just have a nice time sitting there."
Ran didn't answer, he just kept on staring at the pot of water, waiting, waiting, still waiting, any time now...sooner or later...any second...the Abyssinian turned his head and mewed at Ken.
"It's only been five minutes if not less, you and your tempura addictions."
The kitten resumed watching, soon enough there was steam coming out, he mewed at Ken who dropped a couple of tempura cakes into the water and resumed eating his ramen. Ran stared and stared at the floating tempura, bobbing up and down, just waiting for him to chomp down on it, his mouth watered. He lowered his head closer to the pot and sniffed, tempura, sweet, sweet tempura, Ran moved closer to the pot and sat down, he watched impatiently as Ken put a lid over the pot making his tempura disappear from his sight.
Ran stared at it, then looked at Ken, then at the pot again, he shuffled his paws silently willing the tempura to heat up faster. His nose twitched, and his amethyst eyes went back to Ken who was now holding a band-aid, the kitten cocked his head and watched the brunette as he stuck the sticky thing on his nose. Ran mewed in disapproval.
"Wouldn't want blood all over you tempura would you?"
The kitten mewed and turned his attention back to the pot.
"Okay...it should be done...don't worry I don't burn tempura...that much anymore..."
Ken use to burn everything he tried to cook, he burnt spaghetti, macaroni and even tempura, since then, Ran always watched him when he cooked, just incase. The kitten watched the brunette uncover the pot, a rush of steam came out dampening Ran's head, he could feel the steam soak him to his ears, he mewed and shook himself, then he licked his paw and washed his face to fix his ruffled fur.
"Well, your tempura's done...would you like noodles with that?"
Ran licked his lips greedily and mewed at the bobbing tempura ignoring Ken.
"I'll just take that as a no."
The brunette poured the fish into a bowl and left the pot in the sink. Ran stared at the tempura, he poked it with a paw, still steaming hot, damn...he repeated the gesture every five seconds until the piece of fish had cooled off enough to eat, the kitten started munching on the tempura, soon he was down to his last one. Ran pounced on the edge of the bowl and the tempura went flying in the air, then he caught it but the tempura cake was twice the size of his head, the other side covered the kitten's head and flopped back down. The Abyssinian trotted down the counter to Ken, tempura in his mouth, he plopped it down and ate it beside the brunette.
"You have a horrible habit of playing with your food. There's a soccer game soon, I doubt you want to stick around to watch, you'd better go back to your partner, it's getting late. Don't run into anymore dogs."
Ran mewed and dipped his head before heading out the door, maybe there was more tempura in Schu's fridge. The kitten went faster, and maybe some milk too, Ran came to a halt at the back door where he had came from, closed. How on earth could he get back now? He looked around, it wasn't like Ken's apartment, no outdoor staircase, damn it. Maybe he'd have better luck at the front door, the kitten went to the automatic doors, there was no way in hell he'd be heavy enough to open the doors, damn modern technology. He paced around hoping someone would step in or out, finally, he stopped and sat down to wait instead. One of the guards' noticed a bundle of red outside the door, he headed outside to check it out.
"Hey look, a kitten, must belong to someone, hey there little guy!"
Little guy, he hated that, must resist temptation of scratching guard...the man turned back.
"Do you know anyone who owns a little red kitten?"
"No." Replied the clerk.
"I guess that means this little guy will be staying with me tonight."
Ran was sick of being called little, and there was no way in hell he was going to spend the night at some...guy's apartment. The guard picked him up and headed towards the elevator, Ran's mind was screaming doom over and over again.
"Actually he's mine, so I'll be taking him back if you don't mind."
That voice, that same voice that had called for pizza instead of tempura, Ran looked at the redhead who stood there smirking, holding out his hand, the guard looked crestfallen but handed Ran over without questioning him. Mind trick, it had to be a mind trick.
Once back in the apartment, Schuldig looked at Ran, "You're a mess kätzchen, what did you do? Get into a fight with a dog?"
Ran mewed and jumped out of the German's arms and into the kitchen, he batted the fridge a mewed for milk, mmmiiilllkkk! Schu sighed, Ran mewed again, the German headed to the fridge and pulled out the milk.
"That's how you repay me for saving you from that guy?"
The kitten lapped up the milk, licked his lips and pawed at the redhead's pants, he was tired, he was full, he was content. Ran let out a low purr when Schu picked him up, the German set the kitten down by the couch as he went to take a shower. Ran looked around, yawned, then he remembered that closet, he squirmed his way through the doors and looked inside, the guns were still there.
"Kätzchen."
Ran padded back out and looked at Schuldig.
"What were you doing in there?"
The German bent down and picked the kitten up, "You nosy cat, I bet that's why you got hurt in the first place."
Ran huffed, blowing warm air onto the redhead's chest, Schuldig laughed, "You worried me little Ran."
The kitten snorted, little again, just because he was a cat didn't mean he was little, except in size perhaps. Schuldig plopped down on the couch, Ran padded around until he found a nice spot to sleep.
"I'm not a rug."
Sure you are. He gave a soft mew before falling asleep.
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