Neko-Ja!

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You were going back home after stressful day of work. Your job as waitress in Uyuu Restaurant is not that bad but today some important people were visiting and your boss wanted everything to be perfect for them. Gladly you didn't made any mistake and even wife of the boss was kind enough to give you some food as a bonus for doing great job. You jumped after hearing thunder and looked behind you, the dark clouds with storm were fast approaching, not wanting to get caught in the rain you start walk faster towards your village.
 -"meow" You stopped in your track and saw a adorable little cat under the tree.
-"Aww aren't you a cute one?" you always loved cats so you couldn't help yourself and approach the little fellow. Before you could get any closer the cat run to you and started to rub it's head against your legs, purring.
-"Not only cute but a friendly one!" you crouched down to pet your new friend, the cat seemed delighted by your action. You felt something wet on your nose and then more drops started to fell from the sky. The cat took your whole attention that you didn't realize that the whole sky was covered in dark clouds already. You couldn't left this kitten in this rain and storm so you took it in your arms and ran towards your home. You tried to cover your little friend with your body so it wouldn't get that much wet but it was useless at this point, the weather was getting worse and worse.

Finally after reaching your home, first what you did was placing the cat on the floor and then box with food on the table, running towards bathroom to take some towels. When you came back you rubbed dry the little fellow with a towel, trying to be gentle. The cat seemed to not mind, surprisingly it was sitting calmly and let you do the thing. After making sure that cat wasn't wet anymore you went to your bathroom to dry yourself and change into more comfortable clothes. After leaving bathroom you saw that cat was sitting by the box you got from work.
-"Are you hungry?" at you question the cat looked at you and started meowing.
-"How lucky that Okazaki-san gave me some fish as well!" You opened the box, taking the fishes that the cat can eat and put in front it while you eat the rest of the contents of the box. With every thunder you would slightly jump, you always hated storms like this, especially after you started to live alone. The cat seemed to notice your anxious state and it went to your lap, lying down and starting purring, hoping it will take your attention from bad weather. You started to pet it, trying your best to just put your whole attention on your little friend.
-"Are you trying to comfort me? Thank you, you are such a lovely kitten." You smiled. "I hope you'll stay with me, sometimes it's get little lonely in this house." The cat looked at you adorably -"You're truly the cutest cat I ever saw! And I did saw many of them!" you laughed. The cat meowed at you, starting purring louder. This evening you spent talking to your new friend about your day, till you get tired and decided it's time to sleep. You took cat in your arms and went to your small bedroom. After preparing futon, you lied down, petting place close to your head to invite cat to join you. The cat quickly walked towards you and lied down and started purring again.
-"Goodnight, have a nice dreams." You said to it, closing your eyes and falling asleep. When the cat was sure you were in deep sleep, it get closer to you putting it little paw on your neck, it was observing you movements, after a while the little fellow went back to its previous spot like changing its mind whatever it wanted to do to you. If you only woke up now you would hear a male voice reply with "goodnight".

 Three days passed after your home welcomed a new resident, the past days were filled with happiness, in the morning you would eat breakfast with your cat, then it would follow you to your job, like making sure that you are safe in morning hours, after work you would come back home to be welcomed by cat that would meow happily at you, the two of you would eat dinner that you would prepare and then play with the cat, or read to it some novels you bought. At first you wondered if you have some hole somewhere in wall for your cat to get back in the house without a problem, but you were too happy that the little fellow liked you so much that it wanted to go back on its own to your place so you didn't think too long about it. Today was another day when you were coming back home, you were excited and couldn't wait to see Tama, that's a name you gave to him for now, the cat wasn't seemed happy with this name. Tama gave you weird look when you started called him with this name, you even told him that you couldn't came up with other name and it was the first time when your cat looked at you like you're stupid. Today you bought some toys that Tama may enjoy, having hope that it will be enough to improve the little fellow mood. You couldn't wait to see Tama's reaction, so with happy steps you were going towards your village. On the road you saw some young man standing, like waiting for someone, you couldn't help but notice this person clothes that looked more expensive from what you wore. "Ah I wish I could afford clothes like this. Hmm... Is he from some clan? But why is he alone then?" you thought.
-"Ah good morning~" the young man said after noticing you and smiled. He looked like he was genuinely happy to see you, but you never meet anyone like him before, right? After all it would be impossible to forget such beautiful man like him.
 -"G-good morning, today is really nice day isn't it?" you responded with polite smile, you couldn't help but start to appreciate the stranger looks, pale skin, indigo hair that covered his ears, as well as indigo eyes with bold red eyeliner, the stranger's eyes reminded you of Tama's ones.
-"It is, it's perfect weather for a walk don't you think miss? Oh? If I may ask, what is this in this basket?" the stranger asked, even his voice was lovely, you started to feel relaxed by it and didn't think too much before responding.
-"Ah! Its' toys for my cat Tama! I really hope he will like it" you said with enthusiasm, the young men hummed at response and then said
-"Tama? Such an ugly name..."
-"Eh? I think it's cute name... but my cat doesn't seem to like it either... but I couldn't come up with any other one" you said a bit embarrassed. The stranger smiled. -"How about calling him Kunikuzushi?" Kunikuzushi? That's very unusual name.
-"Kunikuzushi?" when you said the name the stranger's smile widen. "Why such a name?" you asked.
-"I think it suits him." Before you ask why he think so, when you never even described your cat in the first place, you noticed the child from your village no far away trying to climb the tree.
-"Oi! Don't climb it! You'll get hurt!" you turned to say goodbyes to stranger but he wasn't there anymore. "How did he do that?" you wondered before going to the child telling him how dangerous is to climb such big tree and being alone so far away from village.

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