Just another neko story :3

Chapter Three

They both ate the pizza after their embrace and Hiro helped Yuki to walk but it seemed that Yuki was adapting quickly to his new body. He watched silently as Hiro ate the pizza, though, when Hiro caught him staring he smiled and said it was great. When they finished the meal Hiro looked like he was about to collapse, again.

“Here,” Yuki said and gabbed the dishes, “You go and get into bed, and I’ll clean up.”

“But…” Hiro muttered, but then he yawned. “Fine.” He smiled and ruffled Yuki’s hair.

Hiro had a shower and went to bed, he had difficulty until Yuki poked his head in and Hiro welcomed him. They fell asleep as they always have done.

----- Morning -----

Yuki woke up to see Hiro still sleeping, cuddling him. Yuki smiled, it was so warm and nice, to be held by him. Yuki wanted to snuggle into him and kiss him, but he stayed perfectly still trying not to wake him, just watching him sleep.

After a few minutes Yuki concluded that Hiro was deep asleep and slowly turned his head to the clock; 7:15am. He wouldn’t get to work on time and Yuki really didn’t want to wake him. One more look at Hiro’s peaceful face, and he decided what he was going to do.

He slowly got out of bed and silently exited the room, he found Hiro’s bag in the kitchen and looked through it to find his phone. Once found it, it immediately started ringing, after recovering from the heart attack; Yuki looked at the caller I.D. Boss. Yuki’s eyes widened Crap.

He took a deep breath and answered it as calmly as possible. “Hello, Hiroki Yagami’s phone.” It felt weird odd saying his full name.

“Hiroki!” Yuki had to take the phone away from his ear so he wouldn’t go deaf, “Where the bloody hell are you?” Yuki heard his name being called faintly, damnit, he had woken up. Yuki walked back to the bedroom as Hiro’s boss continued to rant. “You’re late! WHICH I told you NOT to be yesterday! I need you down here NOW. Nobody is ready or up to standard and I need an expert down here to whip them into shape.”

Yuki walked into the room and there was Hiro still in bed rubbing sleep out of his eyes, which opened wide as they saw what Yuki was doing. “Yuki, what are-“ Yuki put a hand up to stop him.

“I’m sorry, sir.” Yuki said calmly, “Hiroki cannot come to the phone right now.”

“WELL WHERE IS HE?” The boss yelled. “and who on earth am I talking to?”

“His flat-mate. Hiroki is still in bed sleeping.”

“WHAT?!”

“Yuki,” Hiro said, anger and fear filled his eyes. “Give me the phone, now.” Yuki just smiled and put a finger up to his mouth, signalling him to be quiet.

“It has come to my attention that in the previous days Hiroki has been coming home late and looking as though he will drop from exhaustion. I have put up with it slightly as this has happened in the past, though this time it has been going on for four days, longer than any other time, and I fear that the trend will continue.” Yuki said calmly, in a matter-of-factly tone. Hiro just looked at him in shock. “So I have let him sleep in and I was planning on calling him in for a sick day.”

“I’m sorry but I can’t allow that, Hiroki needs to be down here now.” The boss said.

Yuki puckered his lips, getting annoyed. “You said that Hiroki is an expert, am I correct?”

“Yes, he is. One of my best designers.” The boss said slightly annoyed. Hiroki works for a company who designs commercials and advertisements for people wishing to sell products to the public. Hiroki has been working there for years and it pleased Yuki that he has become an expert.

“I fear if Hiroki does go into work today, he won’t complete tasks to his full potential, he is drained, sir, he needs his rest.”

“No, I cannot allow that, I have four meetings today that I need him for, none of my other workers has the time or skill to come up with something that will please the clients. Tell Hiroki if he doesn’t come today, he is fired.”

Yuki smiled, checkmate. Hiro looked at him and started to climb out of bed. “Hiro stay in bed.”

The boss must have heard as he said, “HIRO IF YOU DON’T COME IN TODAY, YOU. ARE. FIRED!”

Hiro froze and looked as if he would faint. Yuki walked up to him and put a hand on his shoulder, keeping him sitting on the bed, smiling at him. “Sir, you just said that Hiroki is one of the best designers you have.”

“Yes.”

“And if were to fire him, it would mean that you would have to reassign four different, difficult tasks to other designers, who may or may not have the same skill as Hiroki.”

“Yes?” The boss seemed to catch onto Yuki’s plan, and so did Hiroki as he looked up at Yuki in amazement.

“And if he was to come in he would have to work, fighting exhaustion, to finish these four different, difficult tasks today. As I have said, he will not finish these assignments to his full potential and these may lose the clients interest.”

The boss sighed and was quiet for a few minutes, obviously thinking hard. Finally, “What do you propose genius?” He was obviously annoyed that he was bested.

“Let Hiroki work from home today, that’s something that he can do right? And if I may add, let him stay tomorrow off too.”

“But-“

“Do you want a Hiroki who is half-rested or a Hiroki who is at full strength ready for anything and is prepared to work hard?”

Again the boss took a few minutes before he replied. “Hand the phone to Hiroki.”

Yuki did so, smiling at the astonished Hiro.

Yuki stayed there while Hiroki and his boss talked about things he could make out due to the one-sided-ness. “Yes, thank you, of course, three are finished, before one? Got it. Thank you, sir. Have a nice weekend.”

Still with an astonished look on his face Hiro hung up and looked at Yuki. “He said he’ll let me stay today and tomorrow and the weekend if I get the assignments in on time and if they please the clients.”

Yuki smiled and nodded, his chest filling with pride. Hiro pulled him into a tight hug “Why did you do that?” Hiro muttered into Yuki’s shoulder.

“Because, it’s my turn to take care of you, and I couldn’t let you continue like that, I was scared that one night you will come home and collapse and not wake up again. I didn’t want you to get sick.” Yuki pulled away and looked into Hiro’s eyes, “You have taken good care for me all this time and now it’s my time to take care of you, please?”

Yuki gave him his best puppy-dog eyes.

Hiro smiled and kissed Yuki’s forehead, “okay.”

 Yuki grinned and giggled trying to hide his blush, “then go back to bed and rest.”