Title: Little Things

Pairing: Spain X Romano

Rating: T for Mano's language

Lovino had no idea what was going on. The last thing he remembered was tossing and turning, trying to get to sleep, and then suddenly this happened. He wasn't sure what to do. His family wouldn't recognize him like this! It was winter break, so they wouldn't even think that it was weird that he wasn't at school, or downstairs cussing at everybody. He was stuck.

With a sigh, he got unsteadily to his feet, not sure how to operate. Was it front left, back left? Oh, nope, that definitely wasn't it. Front left, front right? Well... maybe... but he stretched out a bit too much there. What about front left back right? Hey, that seemed to have worked a little... how about front right, left back-fuck yeah, that was it! He purred happily to himself, not even fully realizing what he was doing. He shushed himself quietly, but it was too late. It was just his fucking luck that his brother happened to be passing by his bedroom at that moment!

"Ve~ Lovi, are you in here-ooh, a kitty!" His brother flung his door open and ran into the room, getting down on his knees to sweetly brush a hand over the top of his head. "Ve, you are so cute, little kitty!" he said sweetly. "Just look at you~!" he cooed, scratching under his brother-turned-cat's chin. Lovino resisted the urge to rub against his hand and hissed at him, back arching and tail sticking straight into the air.

His brother screamed and leapt to his feet, running down the stairs to cry to their mother. Lovino felt a brief moment of satisfaction before he realized that, oh fuck, now his parents would be coming up to see this strange cat and he would be kicked out. With a hiss, he crept through his open bedroom door and down the stairs to the back door, where they had a small doggy door for some reason, though they'd never owned a dog before, as far as he knew. He pawed the little flap open once, looking at it suspiciously, then nosed his head through and somehow managed to climb out, though it wasn't particularly graceful. In any way.

Once he was out on the back porch he slinked over to the wooden fence blocking the back yard from the front yard. He bunched his legs up under him, staring intently at the top of the fence, then sprang! His face slammed right into the wood and he felt himself fall, hitting the hard stones that made up the back porch with a thump. His ears rang and his whole body hurt, and so he just lay there, wishing more than anything that someone would come pick him up and cradle him in their arms, and-

"Lovi? Lovi, are you out here?"

Oh shit. Not him.

"Lovi? You here? I checked your room but you weren't there and so your mom said that maybe you were out here and so I came to check but I don't see you out here anywhere, so I suppose I should go back inside, huh?"

Not him! He didn't want him near right now! This was so fucking embarrassing, and he just knew that he was going walk on over here and see him and-

"Oh look! A cute little kitty!" Footsteps came closer to Lovino, and he did the cat version of a groan, scratching at his face with one graceful paw. "Ooh, what a cute little kitty, coochy coochy coo!" The other boy scratched under Lovino's chin, just like Feliciano did, and then picked him up, cradling him gently in his arms. Instantly, Lovino hissed and tried to squirm away, but the other boy just laughed and held him even closer. "Oh, you're so cute, just like my Lovi!" the other boy said happily, hugging Lovino close to his chest even as he tried in vain to scratch at his beautiful face. "He doesn't like it when I hug him, either!" He planted a kiss on the top of the cat's head and Lovino's brain just stopped working. When it started up again, he started squirming and hissing and scratching but, though he did manage to give the older boy a few cuts, he just smiled and patted the spot where he had kissed him. If Lovino had had a human face still, he would have been blushing furiously.

"Well, kitty, I think that Lovino might be checking for me at my house, so I figure I ought to get over there and see!" Antonio happily hugged Lovino, then reached to set him on the ground. Lovino hissed and dug his claws into his best friend's t-shirt, forcing him to keep ahold of him. "Oh, do you want to come check with me?" Antonio asked, looking him in the eyes. Lovino nodded slightly and Antonio rolled with it like cats nodded at questions every day, smiling happily and saying "Okay then, let's go!" Lovino rolled his eyes in a rather despairing way as Antonio pulled him closer to his chest and began humming as he walked through Lovino's house and outside into the front yard. How was Antonio so calm about this whole thing? Well, he didn't exactly know that Lovino had been turned into the cat he was clutching to his chest, but he had already likened his cat form to his human form, so wasn't he having thoughts along those lines? Lovino wouldn't have been, but Antonio was a bit more... fantastically inclined then himself.

Antonio scratched him between his ears and he just barely managed to swallow a purr. Oh, fuck, cats expressed their emotions so much easier than humans did, apparently, because he really wanted to reach up and look deeply into the Spaniard's eyes before gently licking him on the nose. He made a very flirty cat, apparently.

Lovino growled slightly and dug his claws into the sleeve of Antonio's t-shirt, pricking the skin slightly. Antonio gasped a bit at this, then gently pulled Lovi's paws from his arm. "No no, no scratching." he admonished gently, rubbing his face against the top of Lovino-Cat's head. Lovino felt like he was going to die if Antonio kept doing that.

Antonio walked down the street a couple blocks until he reached his house, and then he shoved Lovino-Cat down his jacket and smuggled him up to his room, making Lovino become uncomfortably hot. Once in his room, he set him down on the ground and asked him if he was hungry. Lovino nodded again, without thinking about how weird it would seem to a normal person to have a cat nod at them, and Antonio happily bounced out of the room. "I'll get you something to eat while I wait to see if Lovino comes!" he told Lovino-Cat happily. Lovino-Cat rolled his eyes at that. Didn't Antonio know that he was Lovino? No, he realized. He didn't. No one did. What would happen when he didn't come home tonight? Or the next night? Or in a week, two weeks, a month-would everyone think he was missing? Kidnapped? Dead in some freak accident? The thought of his little brother crying at his funeral would have brought tears to his eyes but for the fact that cats can't cry.

And then Antonio popped back into the room and he was happy again.

Antonio set a little bowl in front of him. It looked like it was filled with leftovers from the night before, but only the meat. "Here you go!" he said happily as he sat down next to Lovino-Cat. "Eat! Don't be polite, go on!"

Lovino-Cat growled slightly, glaring at the bowl. Sure, he was hungry but really, Antonio of all people should know that he was a vegetarian! He haughtily stuck his nose high into the air and reached out one slightly curled paw to daintily shove the bowl away. He did this all in an overly dramatic way so that Antonio would get the picture.

"What's wrong, kitty?" Antonio asked, face falling into a heart-breakingly confused look. "Aren't you hungry?"

Lovino-Cat nodded.

"Then why won't you eat? Do you not like it?"

Lovino-Cat nodded again.

"Why not? I thought cats liked meat?

Lovino-Cat shook his head violently and Antonio's eyes brightened. "Ooh, I get it!" he cried happily. "You're a vegetarian, like Lovino!"

Lovino-Cat nodded happily, glad that Antonio had caught on so quickly. Antonio went back downstairs to the kitchen to replace the meat with some vegetables and then brought them back up for Lovino-Cat, who munched the carrot sticks and broccoli happily. Or, as happy as he could get when he couldn't chew so well...

When he was done, he moved away from the bowl and laid down in Antonio's lap, a low purr rumbling in his chest. Though he hissed when Antonio began gently petting him, he actually enjoyed the sensation of Antonio's finger dragging across his body. Of course, he would enjoy it a lot more if he was a human still, but-wait, what was he saying? He didn't want Antonio to... to... nevermind.

"You know, kitty, you're a lot like Lovino." Lovino-Cat nodded at this. It was true, after all. He was a lot like Lovino-mostly because he was Lovino. No, he was himself, not Lovino! When had he started referring to himself in the third person?! He was turning into Antonio's other annoying friend, the one who insisted he was incredibly awesome even though he wasn't. FUCK!

"Hey, kitty, where do you think Lovino is?" Antonio asked suddenly. Lovino-Cat nearly flew out of his lap in surprise, but the thought of leaving the soft warmth of his friend-yes, friend-was positively blasphemous. "He wasn't at his house and he's not at my house, and I don't know where else he could be. He doesn't go anywhere else unless I'm with him."

Yes I do! Lovino-Cat wanted to scream, even though he knew it wasn't true. He really didn't have much of a life unless it revolved around Antonio. It was a sad but tried and true fact. He hadn't hung out with someone without Antonio since around second grade, and he was already a junior in highschool.

"I kind of wonder if he's run away. He told me once that he would someday."

Part of Lovino-Cat wanted to scream that he hadn't run away, that he was right here, and the other part wanted to scream at Antonio for just telling some random cat about Lovino's most precious secret-that he wanted to run away and take care of himself. He settled on a small yowl and dug his claws just slightly into Antonio's arm, who just smiled and gently removed them.

"That's exactly what Lovino would do if he ever knew I told you!" he told Lovino-Cat knowledgeably. "He doesn't know it, but he's so cute~!" Lovino-Cat squirmed at this, feeling rather awkward. Antonio had no way of knowing that he was, in fact, himself, and who knew what sort of things he might say? "I hope Lovino is okay." Lovino-Cat felt like crying at the despairing look in his friend's eyes. He wanted so badly to just say that he was there, but he couldn't! He couldn't speak! All he could do was-

Oh. He could do that.

Lovino-Cat stood up in Antonio's lap and brought his face close to the boy's until their noses were touching. Then he just stared and stared and stared, right into his friend's eyes.

"You have such beautiful brown eyes," Antonio remarked dreamily. "just like Lovino. Actually, you have a lot in common with Lovino, don't you?" He chuckled. "You probably are Lovino!" he said jokingly.

Suddenly there was an extremely bright flash of light. Antonio reached up his hands to shield his eyes from it. When he had faded, he looked back down to the cat to find that-it was now Lovino! A horrified, embarrassed, entirely too-cute-looking Lovino but Lovino nonetheless.

And their noses were touching.

Lovino met Antonio's eyes and just looked into them for a moment, and then suddenly they were kissing furiously.

A/N *sniggers* The ending made me laugh evilly, haha. XD

Ayami Kudou, your oneshot will be coming soon. Sorry it wasn't next! XD