Just another neko story :3

Chapter Four

After a heated argument of Hiro wanting to work on his assignment and Yuki wanting him to sleep, Yuki finally won and Hiro went to bed and slept, for an hour.

Yuki spent that hour trying to make pancakes; it took him a while to get the consistency of the batter right. When he was done he smiled at the large stack of twenty pancakes stacked on the table with cream, maple syrup and Nutella. He silently crept to the bedroom and peeked in to see Hiro on his laptop clicking away.

“Hiro?” Yuki said looking disappointed, “I told you to rest.”

Hiro jumped “I was!” he exclaimed, “Until ten minutes ago.” He looked at the clock. 

Yuki sighed and rubbed the back of the neck, he felt uncomfortable for some reason, and “I made pancakes.” 

Hiro grinned, “Cool.” He jumped out of bed and ruffled Yuki’s as he walked passed. Yuki just stood there his face flushed. His mind racing, Hiro… he just kept thinking. Is it normal? No. Is it right? I don’t know… Does he like me (in that way) back? I was his pet for crying out loud! As Yuki kept thinking he just got more discouraged. Shaming himself he hung his head low and two arms wrapped around his waist making him jump and yelp.

Hiro chucked behind him, “Sorry, I thought cats had good hearing.” He said stroking one of Yuki’s ears. Yuki shivered and he felt a moan rise in his throat. He tried to mask what his body was doing without his consent, by turning into Hiro. 

“I-I was ju-just daydreaming, sorry.” Yuki stammered, smiling awkwardly.

Hiro gave him an odd look before pulling Yuki closer and kissing his forehead. Yuki hugged him tightly, trying to hide his burning face in Hiro’s shoulder. “I’m sorry, Yuki,” Hiro muttered, “You always have known what was wrong with me and you always know how to cheer me up. So, I’m sorry, that I don’t know what's wrong.” Hiro pulled back taking Yuki’s face in his hands, “Please, Yuki, if anything is wrong, please tell me, I want to make you happy as well.” 

Hiro looked like he was about to cry. I love you. Yuki wanted to tell him, though, instead, Yuki nodded and smiled, “I promise.” 

Hiro ate the majority of the pancakes while Yuki ate his slowly, telling his stomach to digest the foreign food. Hiro just stuffed one pancake after the other, not slowing until there were two pancakes left. Yuki: 3 Hiro: 15. 

Hiro sighed as he leaned back in his chair and rubbed his belly, “That was delicious…” he made a dreamy sound. “Um, Yuki?”

Yuki looked up from prodding his half eaten pancake and looked at him curiously, “Yeah.”

“Can you be the head cook? Please?” Hiro begged, “You are so much better than me.”

“Sure.” Yuki beamed. A million recipes suddenly floated through his head and chef’s instructions that he had seen on the television when he use to sit on Hiro’s mother’s lap after dinner most nights. Then his stomach rumbled when he thought of fish, salmon, tuna. There was no more seafood in the kitchen and he missed it.

“Yuki~” He was snapped out of his trance to see a worried and confused Hiro staring at him. “Are you okay?”

“Hm,” Yuki was still dazed, “Yeah, I’m fine.”

Hiro’s look softened and he looked at the pancake Yuki had picked to pieces. “We can go shopping?”

Yuki blushed and smiled, “Yes please…..but not before you finished your assignment!” he quickly added. 

Hiro laughed softly.

-------- Time skip --------

Hiro then went back to the bedroom to do his assignment and Yuki cleaned the house. Top to bottom and he made sure that all the cat hair was cleaned up. He never realised how much he sheds, and he shamed himself for making Hiro clean up after him. When he finally finished it was around midday and he peeked into the bedroom to see Hiro typing away on his laptop, with a serious expression. 

Yuki smiled and crept back to the living room where he challenged himself to play one Hiro’s Xbox game. He found himself playing Halo and soon he was determined to kill all the enemies. After a long time he completed the first mission with twelve game overs and he sat back on the couch feeling very proud with himself.

Then he heard his name being called and silently ran to the bedroom where he saw Hiro asleep with his laptop on the other side of the bed where it was close to falling. Yuki quickly scooped up the laptop and saw email sent on the screen which must have meant that he had finished the assignment and sent it off. Yuki smiled at the sleeping Hiro, but he then noticed that the sheets were all rumbled and he was sweating, his was mouthing words. Panicked Yuki quickly put the laptop on the bedroom desk and jumped onto the bed, shaking Hiro’s shoulder, trying to wake him.

----- Hiro’s Dream -----

Hiro parked his car in his tenant spot in the apartment’s car park. As he was walking to the stairs (they live on the third floor) he noticed that there was a car parked in the visitors section, something felt wrong but he shrugged it off. 

As he was walking up the stairs the feeling started to grow stronger and stronger in his stomach, making it churn and he felt like he was going to be sick. He rushed to the apartment and his stomach did a flip when he saw the apartment door open, he rushed in and called out of Yuki.

Yuki walked into the living room with a small briefcase in his hand, “Oh, hi, Hiro. Welcome back.”

That’s when a girl suddenly appeared behind Yuki, she hugged him from behind and snuggled her face into his back. Yuki laughed and smiled, one of the most happy and genuine smiles he has seen him done. Yuki hadn't been human for long, but, it look so natural and he looked so happy, Hiro felt dead inside.

The girl pulled her head back and smiled at Hiro, “Oh, hello. I’m Mira, Yuki’s girlfriend. I’m sorry, we were supposed to leave before you got back, but we got distracted.” Hiro saw that her lipstick was smudged and her hair was ruffled, so was Yuki’s. Anger boiled up in Hiro but he was frozen, he couldn’t move or say anything.

“I didn’t want it to happen like this, you took care of me, you saved me and I didn’t want to say goodbye.” Yuki looked down, no, no, no, no. Hiro was thinking but he couldn’t do anything. 

“Thankyou Hiro and…. I guess cya.” Yuki did a little awkward wave before grabbing Mira’s hand and walked out of the apartment. No, no, no, YUKI!!

---- Le end ----

Yuki was now straddling Hiro shaking both of his shoulders calling his name. Finally Hiro sat bolt upright and he started panting. He looked looked around wildly, his eyes wode open, he down at Yuki and hugged him fiercely, burying his face into Yuki’s shoulder. 

Yuki stroked his back and said comforting words, “It’s okay, it was just a nightmare. You’re okay.”

Hiro was shaking and Yuki felt his shoulder get wet. Hiro. They sat there for a while just hugging, finally Hiro stopped crying and stiffly pulled back, his eyes were red and he looked like he had just died. 

Yuki leaned in and their foreheads touched. “Do you want to talk about it?” 

Hiro tensed, “I… you…” he began to shake again. Yuki cuddled him close and Hiro put his head back onto Yuki’s shoulder. Yuki brought a hand up and began stroking his hair. It felt nice to be able to comfort him this way, Yuki didn’t want it any other way.

“It’s okay, I’m here.” 

“Never leave me, please.” Hiro whispered and Yuki’s eyes widen in shock. What?

“Never! Why would I leave you?” Yuki said softly, he tilted his head to the side so it rested on Hiro’s. 

“You would get a girlfriend. Want to see the world, get a job…” Hiro paused and took a deep breath. “Because I’d hurt you.” 

Yuki felt his heart break a little; he sighed and closed his eyes. “I owe my life to you, Hiro. When I was a kitten and I was run over by that…” Yuki tried to find the word, “truck? I was dead and you saved me. I would never leave you, I need you.”

“I need you too, Yuki.”