Alrighty. This was just begging to be made, and with my new and improved story (Okay, it was just changed to ongoing, and there's a new description) there is the perfect opportunity! So, I have a few ideas for some more rain related stories, but I'm very open to suggestions. I'm looking for Kyoru ideas mainly (even though this isn't really one...) Just tell me if you have any!
Note: This will be updated whenever I feel like it (hopefully regularly) but it isn't the top prioritey. Keep a lookout for updates, though. :)
Title: Stray Cat Strut
Category: Humor
Rating: T (Kyo's mouth)
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Rain, Rain, go away. Come again...
Well, never. There was nothing Kyo Sohma hated more than rain, and he was currently stuck in the middle of it. Oh, joy. It had been storming for three days straight, and the Cat had felt weaker and weaker everyday. But for some reason now unknown to him, he had decided to try and brave the storm to get to the dojo (it was Thursday, after all). Sure, Tohru had warned him that it was dangerous, and he was too weak to travel all the way there alone, he was irritable and had snapped something about being fine. And now he was all alone, half a mile from home, and even further from the dojo, soaked and about to collapse.
He made a note in his mind for next time: Always listen to Tohru.
"God damn rain!" He yelled, dropping his umbrella and falling down on all fours, unable to even stand anymore. He reached for his cell phone. He was going to call Shigure and ask to get picked up. Forget pride. Forget that he was going to be teased for who knows how long by the Rat. He wanted to get out of the rain.
But before his hand could get to his pocket, a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, followed by a clap of thunder. He felt the last of his energy drain out of him, and himself transform before he sank into a blissful (and considerably drier) darkness.
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Tohru was frantic. Something was wrong, she knew it. She was pacing in front of the phone and unconsciously wringing her hands together.
"Honda-san, what's the matter?" Tohru jumped at the sound of Yuki's voice and tried to keep her voice steady as she answered, looking at the phone and out the window as she did so.
"Oh, it's p-probably nothing, Yuki-kun, but Kyo-kun left to go to the dojo an hour ago, and he promised he would call me when he got there to tell me he was okay, but he hasn't called yet." Her voice sped up as she spoke, slurring into one, long, run-on sentence Yuki could hardly keep up with.
"I'm sure he was just being his usual, inconsiderate self, Honda-san," Yuki assured her. Tohru nodded, but it was plain that she wasn't consoled at all.
One hour turned into two. And two into three. Finally Tohru couldn't wait any longer; She picked up the phone and dialed the dojo's number.
"Hello? Shishou-san?" Tohru said when he picked up the phone. "It's Tohru. Um, this might sound silly, but is Kyo-kun there yet?"
There was silence on the other end, but then, "No, I thought he wouldn't try coming today. But he did?"
"Y-Yes," Tohru's worry was magnified by about ten now, "he left a few hours ago and said he'd call me when he got there, but he hasn't."
When Shishou replied, he didn't sound nearly as worried as Tohru was. "He's probably inside a store or something and trying to wait the storm out. Have you tried his cell phone?"
"Oh, right. Not yet. I will, thank you." When Tohru hung up the phone, she immediately dialed Kyo's cell phone, but it went straight to voicemail. She should have reminded him to charge it.
"Still no call from Kyon?" Shigure walked past Tohru and frowned when he saw her face- She was struggling not to cry. She shook her head and Shigure walked over to her and put a hand on her shoulder. "He's probably fine, but we can look for him if you'd like." She nodded and Shigure called, "Come on, Yuki, we're going to try and find Kyon."
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"Mommy! Look, a kitty!" Kyo was rudely awakened by the high-pitched voice of a small girl. He opened his eyes and his first thought was joy- No rain was falling on him! It must have stopped! But, no, of course not. He saw a little girl who couldn't have been older than five was holding her umbrella over him.
"Honey, don't touch him- He's a stray." Kyo heard an older woman's voice and, with a feeling of horror washing over him, realized he must have still been a cat.
"But, Mommy, he's all alone, and it's raining! Can we take him home? Please?" No. No way. He was not going to be taken home by some strange girl just to reappear as a human in her living room later. He tried to get up, but was still too weak.
"No, you know Daddy's allergic to cats... But... There's a shelter just around the corner. I suppose we can take him there," "Mommy" relented.
"Yay! Come on, Mr. Kitty, we'll get you inside." The girl scooped him up not so gently, and Kyo tried to yell something. A "Put me down!" or maybe a string of curses, but all that came out was a soft, Mewling noise.
Was he turning into a cat?! Was he destined to live like a real cat for the rest of his life?!
He had to admit though, even if he couldn't move, it was warmer being held by the girl than laying on the cold sidewalk, and at least he would be out of the storm at the animal shelter... Although, it was going to be hard to explain if he changed back into a human in a small cage (would that be possible?), and not to mention this whole thing was humiliating. Extremely humiliating. But there was nothing he could do.
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"Look! It's Kyo-kun's clothes!" They had been walking the route Kyo usually took to the dojo and had found his pile of clothes and umbrella. Tohru's worst fears were confirmed. A quick look told her that Kyo wasn't there. What could of happened to him? Horrible senarios kept playing through her mind. She could usually make any situation positive, but Tohru knew how weak Kyo got in the rain, and couldn't possibly think of a good thing that could have happened.
"So, he transformed and... Wandered off?" Yuki wondered.
"He would have been too weak to go anywhere if he transformed... Someone must have picked him up," Shigure said. Tohru let out a soft whimper, and Shigure quickly continued, "But they might have taken him to a," he let out a noise that sounded like a laugh badly disguised as a cough, "to an animal shelter. It's getting late, but we can check in the morning, there's one near here." He and Yuki both went into conspicous cough/laughing fits, and Tohru just nodded miserably. She hoped Kyo wasn't miserable wherever he was.
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Tohru would have been upset to find out Kyo was miserable. Very miserable, in fact. A young, all too cheery man had taken Kyo from the woman and her daughter, assuring them that "He cared about animals."
"Wow, little guy, I've never seen a cat that's a color like you before," He said as he carried him to a small cage near a lot of other cats.
"It's because I'm a damn person!" Kyo tried to yell, but only succeeded in letting out a low growl.
The man chuckled and put him inside the cage, obliviously saying, "You must be glad to be out of the rain. Well, it's closing time, so I'll see you all tomorrow!" He closed te door to Kyo's cage, left the room, and shut off the light with a click. Kyo winced when another roar of thunder could be heard outside, and he settled in for a rough night.
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"Has anyone brought in an orange cat, lately?" Tohru asked anxiously when she, Yuki, and Shigure arrived at the animal shelter the next day.
I-Care-About-Animals-San was working that morning, too, and happily led them to where the cats were kept, chattering about how he had never seen a cat like him before.
"Kyo-kun!" Tohru practically shouted when she saw him sitting in his cage and glaring (well, as close as a cat can get to glaring) at the outside.
Yuki stopped short when he saw Kyo, unlike Tohru who rushed toward the cage. "Th-The cat... Oh, god, this is... He actually..." Yuki was obviously struggling to keep a grin off of his face, and he choked out, "Excuse me," before running back into the lobby. It was no use, though, because everyone still with the cats could hear him laughing.
Shigure, on the other hand, followed Tohru over and didn't try to hide his laughter. "Oh, Kyonkichi," he said in between laughs. "How do you... haha... Get yourself into these... haha... Situations?" He held onto his composure long enough to reach inside the cage to try and take Kyo out, but pulled his hand out, still laughing, a second later. "Bad kitty!" He scolded. "No biting!"
Tohru reached into the cage and effortlessly picked up Kyo. He cat-glared at Shigure while relaxing gratefully into Tohru's arms. "Thank goodness you're alright, Kyo-kun, I was so worried," she told him while they were leaving.
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"So did they feed you cat food?"
"Did you have to use the litter box?"
"Are you planning on going back?"
Yuki and Shigure took turns asking him questions when they got home and Tohru fixed him some food to help him build up his strength again. As a matter of fact, they did, he did, and he was defiantly not, but he was not going to dignify the idiot's questions with answers.
Within a few hours he had transformed back into a human, and he was ready to put the whole ordeal behind him. And, in about ten years or so, he was sure Yuki and Shigure would let him.