Chapter 2: Getting to know your Neko

Takuma, Kain, and Aidou stared with a flushed face at the person sitting on his knees in front of the large fish tank built inside the wall between Kaname's living room and bedroom. All three had been called together by a frantic Kaname who was babbling nonsense that neither of them could understand what he was saying and when they all arrived at Kaname's place together they all were met with a very shocking surprise and a very crazy explanation.

"You know Kaname; I never took you for a cosplaying otaku." Kain voiced out as he eyed his friend suspiciously.

"What? How the hell do you come to that conclusion after the explanation I just gave?" Kaname huffed angrily even though he was sporting an embarrassed blush.

"We heard you Kaname but it just sounds so…how should I put it"

"Unbelievable?" Takuma finished for his friend.

"Yes, exactly."

"I know how ridiculous it sounds but it's honestly the truth."

"Don't worry Kaname, they might not believe you but I do." Aidou responded.

"Of course you believe him, your practically Kaname's shadow." Kain teased his cousin.

"I'm not." Aidou huffed.

Takuma shook his head. "Well no matter what the truth is your stuck with him for a whole month and plus maybe he could finally be what is takes to cure you of your broken heart."

"I don't know Takuma. I mean, I don't even know how to go about taking care of him."

"Well you can start off by giving him something to wear." Kain answered with a blush on his face as he eyed the still naked boy.

"I guess you're right." Kaname had a matching blush on his face too as he went to his room to grab a shirt from his closet.

"So, can the thing talk or what?" Aidou asked as he made his way over to it.

"I don't know, why don't you ask it something." Kain suggested.

"Hey you?" Aidou called but Zero was too immersed in watching the fishes swim around the fish tank to even bother with the pest beside him.

That caused Aidou to become annoyed and in order to get Zero's attention began pointing at his cheek.

"Hey you, don't ignore me."

"Um Aidou…I wouldn't do that if I were you." Takuma warned the blonde man as Takuma started to sense that Zero was starting to get agitated.

"What? It's not like this thing is going to do anything- Ouch!" Aidou cried out in pain when Zero opened his mouth and latched onto Aidou's finger.

Kaname who had just returned from his bedroom saw the commotion and quickly went and pulled Zero from Aidou unconsciously causing Aidou to fall unto his back.

"What the hell just happened?" Kaname asked as he held onto Zero.

"He bit me!" Aidou cried out and received a nasty hiss from Zero. "And look, he just hissed at me."

"Yea but you really deserved it for poking at him like that." Takuma pointed out.

"Tsk, whatever." Aidou huffed as he licked his wounded finger.

Kaname shook his head and turned to Zero. "Here, put this on Zero."

Zero nodded and as soon as the shirt was on, Zero turned to Kaname. "How does it look Master?"

Kaname felt all the blood rush to his face as he stared at Zero. The shirt Kaname gave him was big enough that it reached Zero's thighs but it still wasn't long enough to cover Zero's backside if he was for any reason were to bend down to grab something. The sleeves were also long that it past Zero's fingers and Kaname was force to roll them up for him. Yet, despite all that Zero looked absolutely adorable that Kaname couldn't fight the urge to just want to hug him and do some unforgiving things to him.

Kaname had to clear his mind of the perverted thoughts before he decided to speak. "You look sex- I mean cute."

Zero smiled. "Thank you Master."

Kaname cleared his throat. "Um Zero, is it alright if I…I mean, we…talk to you seriously for a minute?"

Zero looked at Kaname's friends who were currently calming down an irritated Aidou before looking back at Kaname. "Sure but first let me prepare some tea."

And before Kaname could say anything Zero disappeared into the kitchen. When Zero returned several minutes later he had a tray of four cups of tea which he placed on Kaname's coffee table and then sat down next to Kaname on the couch.

"Okay, so what is it that you want to talk to me about?"

"Well, it says here in your manual in chapter one of the Getting to know your Neko manual is that the best way to get to know your neko is by asking them yourself, so with that we or mainly I want to know everything about you." Kaname said as he placed the manual back down on the table.

"Sure, what would you like to know?"

"What are your primary skills?" Kaname questioned.

"Well, all my skills are based off of the survey you had taken."

"And what are those skills exactly?" Takuma asked a little curious.

"Cleaning and cooking any type of cuisine."

"Even foreign cuisine?"

Zero nodded. "Any type my Master desires."

"Well that sounds pleasing." Kain answered impressed.

"Alright, what else?" Takuma pushed onward.

"I am good at marksmanship and I am also a skilled fighter."

"That can be handy." Kain commented again.

"Oh, and I'm skilled in sexual intercourse." Zero answered matter-of-fact.

That response caused everyone to cough and spit out the contents of their tea that they had all by chance taken at the same time. Wiping away the tea from around his mouth Kain spoke in clear shock. "What was that last skill?"

"You mean the skill where I'm good at sex?" Zero questioned Kain.

"Yes, that one. Why do you have that?"

"Because it was what my Master asked for."

All three of Kaname's friends turned to stare at him.

"Don't look at me like that." Kaname stated with an embarrassed flush. "How the hell was I supposed to know that those survey questions will be the building block to how my neko would turn out?"

"Yea, like how no one had suspected I would end up dating my own cousin yet here we are now not so many sexes later." Aidou voiced out.

"You're not helping at all Aidou." Takuma huffed.

"Really? I thought I was being really real?"

"A little too real I might add." Kaname said embarrassed for his friend who appeared as if he wanted to crawl in a hole somewhere. "How about you go over there and play with this." Kaname handed Aidou a sheet of bubble wrap that he took from inside the box that Zero came in.

Aidou's eyes lit up as he took the bubble wrap from his friend. "~Ah, Kaname-sama's bubble wrap. I can add this to my lovely collection."

Takuma patted Kain on his shoulder. "I feel for you, I really do."

"You're so lucky that your lover is away on business Takuma." Kain sighed. "Anyways, back to the main point here. So your skills are based on everything Kaname had said he wanted on the survey he took, right?"

Zero nodded. "But I can still learn more skills on my own if I wanted to."

"Alright, so you don't-"

Pop

"You don't-"

Pop

"Would you cut that out?" Kain shouted toward Aidou who was lying on the floor on his stomach with the bubble wrap which he had immersed himself in playing with.

Aidou turned toward Kain. "Oh, sorry."

"Anyway, what I was trying to say was-"

Pop

"That's it." Kain huffed as he made his way toward his lover and proceeded to snatch the bubble wrap from the blonde boy's hand.

"No, not my precious bubble wrap." Aidou cried. "Please have mercy on the bubble wrap."

Despite his lover's plea Kain twisted the bubble wrap causing the remaining bubbles to pop simultaneously before handing the sheet back to Aidou.

"Y-You popped my bubble wrap." Aidou sniffed. "Kain you big meanie."

"Geez Kain, was that really necessary?" Takuma asked feeling slightly sorry for Aidou.

"Oh please, it is due to Kain's spoiling him so much that Aidou is like that." Kaname added as he finished with his tea.

"And it's that reason why I'm putting my foot down." Kain sternly answered then turned to Aidou. "Aidou would you please act your age?"

Aidou crossed his arms and puffed his cheeks. "No."

Kain sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose. "Then you leave me no choice. Aidou, go to the corner now?"

"What? You can't be serious?"

"Oh but I am."

Aidou sucked in his teeth as he got up. "I never ever get to have any fun and it's all because of you, you damn Ichigo look-a-like."

"What the hell is that even suppose to mean?" Kain asked but only received shrugs of the shoulders by his friends. "Whatever. As I was saying before, you don't mind me asking what it is that you are Zero-kun?"

"Well, to answer your question I am the product of a rare species of cat known as the Silver Panther which is a species able to shape shift into panthers and human willingly."

"You can shape shift into a panther?"

"No, since I'm a rare case in which I am the product of a silver panther and a pureblooded human which explains how I look."

"So you're not some kind of robot?"

Zero shook his head. "I am as human as you are except for my ears, tail, and fangs which are the product of my panther father."

"And so the man who created you or should I say breed you is this Cross guy, right?"

"Yup, Cross-san specializes in the breeding of exotic animals and with his help I was able to be born."

"One last question. Were you born with the skill your master wanted?"

"No, I learned all of it. We silver panthers are fast learners. So when we are bought we are expected to learn the skills asked of us all for the sake of pleasing our Masters."

"Are there anymore of you?"

"Well, there are different types of neko breeds but I am the only known and living silver panther hybrid." Zero turned and faced Kaname. "I have been waiting eighteen years for someone to adopt me and finally after waiting for so long fate has finally brought me to you. So for now on, please take care of me."

Kaname forced a smile. "Ah yes, of course and you take care of me as well."

"Of course,"Zero replied back as he wrapped his hands around Kaname's left arm. 'I will love you for the rest of my life.'

As soon as the day turned to night it was high time for Kain, Aidou, and Takuma to all head home. Kaname offered to walk his friends to their cars and left an obedient Zero upstairs to clean up. The walk to his friends car was silent but it was obvious that even after their scuffle with each other earlier, Kain and Aidou were back on close terms with each other again. Kaname felt envious of his friends who had others who they can spend the rest of their life with but Kaname's chance of that left when the woman he loved no longer wanted to be with him anymore.

"Hey Kaname, what's the matter?" Takuma asked as soon as they reached the area where they parked their cars.

"It's this whole Zero thing."

"What do you mean?"

"When I entered that website I wasn't expecting to take care of another human-like being just a cat."

"Are you saying that you don't want Zero?" Kain shook his head. "There you go again with pushing people away."

"I'm not pushing him away."

"Then what are you doing?" Kaname opened his mouth to speak but then closed it for he wasn't able to come up with a reason making Kain shake his head again. "Let's go Aidou."

Aidou looked from Kain to Kaname then back again. "Um okay…bye Kaname and Takuma."

Takuma and Kaname watched in silence as Kain drove off. As soon as they were gone Takuma turned to face his friend. "Please forgive Kain for becoming upset but you must understand why he is so annoyed by your behavior."

"Yea, I know." Kaname answered.

They all knew why Kain held a sort of resentment toward Kaname. Kaname was the type to put work first over everything else, even love. Kain on the other hand was the opposite of Kaname. He would give up all that he had if it meant being with the person he loved and he even did that for Ruka but unfortunately Ruka had chose her career rather than be with him. And that left Kain with a broken heart and a bitterness for those who have people who care for them but choose to push them away by absorbing themselves with other things. So it was no wonder Kain left the way he did, because he was right, Kaname was pushing Zero away as he had done with Shizuka.

"But, he's right you know. In order for you to move on you must give others a chance." Takuma placed a reassuring hand on Kaname's shoulder. "And I like I said before, Zero might be what you need to cure yourself of being afraid to love and maybe in the one mouth you have with him you might end up caring for him. So please give Zero a chance."

But that was the problem. Kaname knew he would get attached to the boy if he did give him a chance. Yet, Kaname's fears of driving him away unintentionally like he had done with Shizuka scared him more than anything else, because he didn't want to lose another person dear to him. So he had to no matter how hard his heart would rebel against the idea. Kaname had to forbid himself from becoming anymore attached to the silver haired neko than he already was.

TBC…

D/N: Let me apologize before hand for the total OOCness of the characters. But since this fanfic is meant to be a crack story the OOCness was needed. I will also like to apologize for the lateness of the post but honestly I had total writer's block on what to do for the next chapter but finally after months of seriously thinking it over I finally know what to do and where this is going. So I will be posting more chapters -maybe not regularly- but I will be posting them.

So please enjoy this chapter as much as you can and look forward to the next update which is Chapter 3: Neko's don't eat cat food!

As always please drop a review and tell me what you think.

~Dia