Nekopara fanfic

Chapter 13

Today we were open and I was on my break reading a book when someone entered the shop. I looked up. Their face was familiar but I couldn't quite think of their name. The person pulled down their hood and the memories came rushing back. I got up from my chair and hugged him. He was visibly startled by me until he turned around. "Hello brother." I said with a smile, looking down at him. He was a cat(boy?) like me and was my litter mate (Cats are born in a litter) but he was the only other one. We were separated when he was adopted (many years before now) and I was adopted later that day by my original owner. I wasn't too phased by our separation as I kind of expected it to happen anyway and I didn't see him since then but we had been close brothers. After the old lady passed away several years after, I was left as a stray but remembered my bell testing and was able to pass myself off as an owned cat(boy?) and lived out my life pretty normally which was when I became more of the mysterious type I used to be before I began working here. Since it had been so many years I all but forgot about my brother until now. He looked like me but was more Chocola or Vanilla's height, had brown hair and fur and still had both arms. While my eyes were dark brown his were light blue, and his tail was more like Maple's as it was only slightly fluffy, nowhere near as much as mine or Coconut's, his hair was also cut short, and he was wearing a red shirt with some blue jeans and a grey jacket. "Who are you?" he said, cautiously. I pushed my hair back a bit better and looked directly into his eyes. He had a surprised look on his face as he finally realized. "Brother! It's been a long time!" he said hugging me. "How have you been doing?" I asked him, "Pretty well." he said. He looked at my arm. "What happened?" he asked as he pushed up my sleeve and curiously examined my arm. "be careful not to touch that knob unless you want to get shredded." I cautiously warned him. "This is very well made, and very sturdy." he said. Chocola came over to talk to us and asked how I lost my arm in the first place. "It's a long story, but I'll tell you later tonight." I told them. "Hey Aries do you still have an owner?" I asked him. "Yeah. He's still alive and well." He replied. "Do you know their number?" I asked. He told me the number and I texted them, telling them who I was, and how I knew Aries. They apologized and said if they knew I was his brother they would've taken me too. I said it was fine, I didn't hold it against them because I got adopted by a really nice old lady, and then asked if Aries could stay over with me tonight. They said it was fine and we went back to what we were doing as I got Aries a shortcake too. Later the shop closed and we went upstairs. Since everybody seemed to want to know I told everyone how I lost my arm. "A while after my last owner passed away I was drafted into the military. Rather than buzzing my hair they let me pull it back instead, in the military I learned to fight and mastered the use of automatic, semi automatic, and bolt action rifles as well as shotguns and a variety of handguns. I worked in the armory and kept track of all the weapons and ammunition. One day while I was doing a routine inspection I found a grenade that seemed damaged. As I was going to report it and have it properly disposed of, it blew up in my hand. It blew off my forearm but luckily for me that was the worst of the injuries. Shrapnel also almost took my left eye out but instead left a scar on my left eyebrow and a few scarred my ribs. I luckily survived but was unfit to be in the military seeing as I was missing an arm. About a year later I was brought a package and a letter from the government as I not only did my job but did it well they had the arm custom made for me as thanks for my service." I told them. Vanilla leaned closer to my face. "Oh yeah you do have a scar. I must've not noticed it." she said, sitting back down. "That must've hurt." Kashou said. "It did. The worst pain I've ever experienced, which is why when I was shot by the robber a few months ago when I first came here it didn't phase me too much." I replied. I noticed Chocola took a liking to my brother, as she seemed rather interested in him. She asked him all sorts of questions while we were relaxing on the couch after dinner. I could see he liked her too, as it was rather obvious, as he acted about the same as I did with Vanilla before we fell in love. I thought about Azuki and Coconut and snickered as I realized how Ironic their lives were. Azuki was the oldest of the catgirls (Note, I specified girls because Qrow and Aries are older.) so she could be referred as the 'biggest' catgirl and Coconut despite being the tallest was one of the youngest. That night Aries and I slept on the couch with Vanilla curled up on top of me and we quietly chatted until we fell asleep after Vanilla fell asleep he whispered to me. "I'm kind of jealous. You have a girlfriend, and a cute one at that." I stifled a laugh "And I worked hard for everyone to gain her trust. I noticed Chocola seemed somewhat interested in you, if you earn Kashou and Chocola's trust you might just have one too." I told him. A few minutes later I fell asleep as well.