Title: Karupin Gets A Makeover
Authors: IceBlueAya and Fuzzy Wuzzy Karu
Characters: Ryoma, Momoshiro, Karupin (and Momoshiro's siblings)
Summary: "Momo-sempai, what happened to my cat? And why is there a ribbon glued to him?"

Disclaimer: We don't own Prince of Tennis.

---

"So you want me to take care of your cat for the weekend?" Momoshiro asked on the phone.

"Sorry that it's so sudden. My family decided to change plans at the last minute. I'm going to Nagasaki with them tomorrow."

"Sure, I don't mind taking care of him."

"Sankyuu."

Momoshiro and Ryoma talked for a few more minutes before they hung up and went to sleep.

The next morning, Ryoma came to drop Karupin off at Momoshiro's house. After Ryoma left, Momoshiro held the cat up to his eye level. "Hello! It's Momo-chan! Do you remember me?"

"Mroaw," Karupin responded. The boy played with Karupin for a while. His little brother and sister joined in.

Momoshiro's cell phone suddenly rang. He picked it up. "Hello?"

"Hoi, hoi! It's Eiji! I'm bored today. Want to hang out?"

"Sure!" Momoshiro answered cheerfully. He changed his clothes and told his mother that he's going out.

His sister asked, "What about the kitty?"

"You can watch him while I'm gone," Momoshiro said. He left to meet up with Kikumaru.

His sister took Karupin to her room. She took out her tea set and laid them out on the floor. The younger brother came into her room.

"Let's play war!" he said.

"No, I'm having a tea party with Josephine!"

"That's not the cat's name."

"What's your point?"

"Come on, let's play a little," the brother urged on.

"Okay, but Josephine going to be the defender of love and justice, like Sailor Moon!"

"No, not that kind of fighting. He's going to be a swordsman like Kenshin!"

"But that's an army's jacket you're giving him."

"And what's your point?"

Momoshiro returned home late and all tired out. While he and Kikumaru walked to the park, they bumped into Mamushi. The two rivals argued over unimportant topics. Kikumaru tried his hardest to settle them down. After they all calmed down, they saw two highschoolers bullying a kid. Momoshiro and Kaidoh rushed in to help. They chose to settle it with a tennis match with Kikumaru as the referee. The match exhausted them, but they won at last. On the way home, Momoshiro saw Kawamura in burning mode. Inui was trying to take the racket out of his hand. Momoshiro had to help them. Kawamura accidently grasped Inui's racket sometime during his practice.

Momoshiro ignored all the noises that his siblings made. It seemed as if they were arguing over something. Since that was an everyday occurrence, he ignored it. He fell asleep quickly, without realizing that there was a cat screeching.

While Momoshiro was doing his homework the next day, he randomly thought, "Ryoma is coming back later today." His eyes widened. "Oh, no. Where's Karupin?" He ran out of his bedroom. He shouted, "Has anyone seen Karupin?"

His sister held up the cat to him. "Here he is."

Momoshiro's eyes twitched once he looked at Karupin. Karupin was wearing a skirt and an army's jacket. Momoshiro spent the next few hours trying to undress him. "What kind of fabric is this...?" Suddenly, the doorbell rang. "Echizen is going to kill me..."

Momoshiro returned Karupin to Ryoma. He apologized, "Sorry, Echizen."

"...Momo-sempai, what happened to my cat? And why is there a ribbon glued to him?"