Final Flu Shanghai by Jadling

Chapter 11: Final

The lobby of the conference hotel was absurd, adorable chaos. Girls in all kinds of colorful costumes with cat or mouse ears were running everywhere, chasing each other, giggling wildly, playing a complex game with rules that seemed to be changing constantly. Any costume seemed to be fair game as long as it was topped with cat or mouse ears. There were quite a few fairies and princesses, cat or mouse versions of various anime characters, medieval barmaids, pirates, cheerleaders, a few complete actual cat or mouse costumes, and a lot of girls simply wearing pajamas with cat ear headbands or mouse ear hoodies.

A girl in pajamas and a mouse ear hoodie raced by with a giant foam cheese wedge on her back, chased by three girls in short skirts and cat ears. When they caught her, they held her while she squeaked in protest and they took several pink bows off of her, presumably some kind of point system.

Jim and Mei stepped around them, then around a tug-of-war between a dozen mouse girls and a dozen cat girls, then around several lightsaber-wielding jedi mice who were fencing with a group of ninja cats.

Then a loud gong sounded, followed by an announcement of "Cat nap!" on the loudspeakers, and all the cat girls, including Mei, collapsed to the ground, pretending to sleep. The bravest among the mice darted in and took pink bows from the cats, squeaking as they scampered away. The mouse girl with the cheese wedge was up again, grabbing the cheese and running, making a break for the escalator up to the mezzanine, several other squeaking and giggling mice racing after her.

He smiled down at Mei as he waited for her. Her eyes were shut, still pretending to sleep. Then he couldn't help but glance around at the other nearby cat girls on the floor. One nearby was particularly hard to resist staring at, with her wild hair dyed light brown, a darling lovely sweet face, perfect skin, and damn what a sexy slender body. She was lying on her back with her long shapely smooth legs slightly apart, and her skirt had ridden up so he could see her panty-covered crotch.

She caught him staring and meowed angrily at him in protest, pulling her skirt down. Other nearby cats angrily whispered "cat nap!" to remind her to be quiet. He could feel her eyes on him, glaring. His eyes slowly traveled up her slender body, past her tiny waist and perky little tits, and he finally met her gaze. She gasped and stared, her angry expression quickly changing to that familiar look of stunned wonder and rapidly growing desire. Mei giggled; her eyes must not be as closed as they looked. The other girl still had her hands on the hem of her skirt where she had modestly pulled it down. Slowly, she pulled it back up, revealing her crotch to him again, her sultry eyes still fixed on him, panting now. Then she spread her legs wider and squirmed sexily at him, subtly thrusting her hips his way.

The gong sounded again and the cats began to rise. He offered his hand to Mei, helping her up. The other girl was still on the floor, staring up at him. Then she reached her hand up toward him too. After he helped her up she didn't let go, pressing close and clinging to his arm, staring eagerly at him, her eyes wild, sparkling, predatory.

"I'm Jim," he said, smiling and gazing into his new pet's lovely huge eyes, inches away.

She answered with a long, drawn-out meow, somehow full of meaning, the sound of it and her eyes communicating her urgent desire for him, and maybe also saying give me a litter of kittens. He managed not to laugh, the sincerity of her meow utterly convincing despite how absurd the whole situation was.

"You have to check her collar," Mei whispered. "See, here it is. Her name is Yi Nuo."

Jim walked to the elevators with the two adorable kitties on his arms, shaking his head and smiling at the absurd, hilarious, insane adorableness of it all. Mei hadn't been exaggerating. It was the olympics of adorableness, and Yi Nuo had to be a gold medal contender, a world-class athlete of cuteness, her joyful lively energy perfectly matching Mei's. "Thank you, Mei," he said, smiling down at her. "You were right. This is awesome."