Being grounded was incredibly boring. Which was kind of the point, punishments weren't supposed to be fun, but still. What did his dad expect Kuwabara to do all day?
Kuwabara was sitting out in the backyard bemoaning his fate, mostly because Shizuru had gotten tired of hearing him complain that he had nothing to do, when he heard a noise. It was a pitiful, high-pitched, whining sound.
"What was that?" Kuwabara asked himself.
The noise came again, from just outside the chain link fence that surrounded their backyard. His curiosity aroused, Kuwabara followed the noise. "Oh!" he gasped when he saw what was making it. It was a kitten, roughly the size of his hands, with patchy brown and black fur. It stared mournfully up at him with brown eyes and meowed again.
"Hey there," Kuwabara said, sticking his fingers through the fence to gently stroke its head. "What are you doing here?"
It meowed again, and Kuwabara climbed over the fence so he could pick the kitten up. "Where's your mom?"
Kuwabara glanced around and didn't see any sign of a cat, but he sorta had a weird tingling running down his spine. He decided to walk a ways past the neighbors' yards to his right, to see if he could find her. The kitten settled in his arms, purring softly. In a few minutes, Kuwabara found the cat, but when his eyes landed on her, he whirled around so the kitten wouldn't see her. It looked like a dog had gotten her.
The kitten meowed at Kuwabara's sudden movement, and he stared down at it, heart breaking. "I'm so sorry," he whispered. "Your mom is gone." An old familiar pain welled up inside, nearly choking Kuwabara. "Don't worry," he said. "I'm going to take care of you now."
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