"Mmnh-Nyaaaaa." As the sun slightly shined in the room it hit Sorata's eyes he sleepily got up and yawned. Though only the first part of it was a yawn. 'Even my yawns are meow's. Haaa. Well it doesn't matter. What time is it?' Sorata decided to not think much of it and got his phone to see the time. It was 5:48am. Sorata usually woke up at 5:30 so this wasn't surprising to him as last night's events must've caused him to sleep a little longer.
He got up from his bed and went to check on the girls.
"..." He looked at them like he didn't understand what kind of creature they were. Miyu had not even slept on her pillow and it somehow ended up on her head while she laid face down with her arm hanging out. Kaori was on the floor with her right foot on the sofa . Emi who fell asleep first had her blanket as her pillow with her pillow as her blanket. He was unsure as to how the girls did this as Sorata usually woke up sleeping on his back instead of how he started sleeping which was on his sides.
Sorata took the pillow off the sleeping miyu and set it down on the sofa while also moving the blanket. The heater turned off and the rain stopped so he didn't want them waking up hot. He moved to his laundry room and took out the girl's clothes. He threw them in the dryer seeing as how they didn't look like they'd wake up soon they probably won't make it back to their houses in time.
'Are they that slovenly to let a boy do this for them?' Sorata thought. He wasn't just drying their uniforms but also their bras and underwear. He wasn't sure why they were okay with it, maybe they thought Sorata wouldn't do anything. But they've only known him for barely a week so he thought it was weird.
'Wait. I've barely known them for a week.Why did I let them stay over?' Sorata thought. He knew it'd be cruel for him to kick them out in the rain especially since the trains were stopped but he wouldn't let them stay for long much less let them stay all night.
'Haaaa. Whatever.'He decided to just let it go and move on. He went to the bathroom, brushed his teeth and washed his face. He put on a hoodie with pants and wrapped his tail around his waist and put pants over it. It didn't feel as uncomfortable as he thought it would. Sorata then put his shoes on, got his keys and went out for his daily run.
'I'm feeling a lot more jittery. In fact usually I would get tired here but I'm not even breathing hard yet. I want to run more, even climb stuff.' Sorata thought. 30 minutes into his run is usually when Sorata would start slowing down. But now he wasn't even tired let alone breathing rough yet. Sorata was also faster then he usually was as by his 30 minute mark he'd be at the bridge but now he was at the river bed.
'Cats are not supposed to be endurance related creatures. Cats only have a burst of speed but they don't have the stamina. So why am I like this now?' Sorata thought while running. Sorata knew a lot about cats; they were his favorite animal just like his mother. In fact Sorata had even visited some cat cafes just to pet the cats. A cat could run very fast but It wouldn't last long. They weren't like huskies or another breed of dog. They were hunters so they only needed a short burst of speed. Sorata didn't know why he was able to run longer but he decided to see how far he could go and went off his path.
"I-I've really spent too long running." Sorata said out of breath in the elevator of his apartment complex. The time was 7:20. He had be left at 5:58 so he spent an hour and 22 minutes running non stop. He checked his phone and saw he ran 16 kilometers. (basically 10 miles)
Sorata walked tiredly to his apartment and opened the door.
"They're still asleep." Sorata said out loud. The girls were still asleep even though Emi fell asleep before all them she was still sleeping.
"Well they're clearly tired so I'll wake them up after I take a shower." Sorata said and got his uniform ready. He needed to be as fast as possible to not be late for school. Sorata quickly took a shower and he put his uniform on. He again wrapped his tail around his waist and put his pants over it. He got his wig and positioned it to where it covered his ears. Everything seemed fine so he moved to the laundry room and took the girls' uniforms out and folded them and put them in separate baskets in the bathroom.
"Hey. Wake up." Sorata said, shaking Miyu.
"Mmmmhhh. Give….. me more time…. mom. Maybe….. 200 years." Miyu said half asleep. 'Mom? Do I sound like her mom?' Sorata thought. Sorata then looked beyond Miyu's green hair and saw her ears.'My mother used to wake me up when I didn't want to wake up like this, so it should be fine right?' Sorata thought. He moved her hair and went close to her ears and then blew into Miyu's ear.
"Kyahhhh!!!" Miyu, who had hot air blown into her ear, jumped up startled. She looked around as her mind was fully awake now and saw Sorata was close by her.
"W-wh-wh-wh-WHY did you do that to Miyu?!?!?!" Miyu yelled. Getting up from the couch and moving closer to sorata. Her face was also bright red.
"You didn't want to wake up. So I did that. Anyway the other two were somewhat awakened by your yell so wake them up will you?" Sorata brushed her off and moved to the kitchen. He did it with an attitude of thoguh Miyu was simply and annoyance. Of course he was merely acting this way as him blowing into Miyu's ear felt sort of erotic. He was embarrassed but didn't want to show it. So miyu fell for his act and got mad.
"Hey! Don't ignore Miyu!" Miyu shouted but Sorata just ignored her and put his apron on and began cooking omurice. He didn't have a lot of time to make a really big breakfast so this should be enough for the 4 of them. Miyu had given up on getting Sorata's attention and woke up Emi and Kaori who were still half asleep.
"If any of you want to take a shower, I've left your uniforms in the basket in the bathroom. The one in the middle is Miyu's, the one on the far left is Emi's and the far right is Kaori's.." Sorata said as he was making the fried rice. Kaori and Emi looked disoriented but they quickly remembered what happened last night.
"Oh yeah we slept here. Haaaaaa." Emi said, yawning as she stretched.
"Mmh. Miyu's gonna take a shower. Emi, Kaori, what about you?"
"I'll take one after Miyu." Kaori said.
"I'll take one after I eat. I'm hungry." Emi said.
"Sora-kun. Where do you keep your towels?"
"They should be in the cabinet near where your clothes are."
"Ah! Thank you, Miyu found them!"
"Oh you're making omurice? Don't put any ketchup on my omurice I don't like it." Miyu had gone to take a shower while Kaori turned on the tv. An anime was on the tv and it was about some big breasted girls and some guy who loves their breasts and somehow gains power from breasts. Kaori seemed to like it as she was intently looking at it. Emi on the other hand sat at the table with some tea waiting for the food to be done.
'I know I told them to do whatever they wanted but aren't they acting like this is their home?' Sorata thought. The girls had no problem sleeping here, they had no problem taking a shower either. He didn't know if people should be this trusting. Sorata himself would find staying more than 6 hours at a friend's house would be too much for him. Not that Sorata had multiple friends, the closest thing Sorata could consider a friend was Hiroto.
"Here." Sorata had finished and put one of the omurice on the rice and gave it to Emi. Emi took it and quickly got to eating.
"So delicious." Emi said throughout her eating it. Sorata plated 3 more and put them on the table and sat down to eat one.
"Kaori! Miyu's done!" Just as Sorata started to eat, Miyu yelled that she was done. Kaori got up as the anime was finished and moved to the shower. A few minutes later Miyu came out in her uniform.
"Wahh. So refreshing. Sora-kun, your bathroom has a lot of great features. My hair feels softer now!"
"My mother made it like that." Sorata replied. His mother had to take care of her hair and had a lot of stuff installed to make it easier. Sorata knew why his mother did it as having white hair is really hard to maintain. Sorata had been taught by his mother how to maintain it and he did it on reflex now but it was still troubling. Sorata's hair was very much like his mother's in the way it felt and grew so he just copied what she did.
Miyu had apparently used the conditioner Sorata used for his hair and it worked for Miyu's hair as well. Her hair looked more fluffy and shined a brighter green than before.
"Woah. If I use it on my hair will it be like that?" Emi, who had finished eating, said looking at miyu.
"It won't. Elias had used my conditioner and his hair turned frizzy. Use Elise's which should be on the third shelf." Sorata replied. When Elias and Elsie had arrived he had used Sorata's conditioner and his hair had turned all frizzy and poofy. Elise had laughed at him the whole day.
"Elsie's hair is soft so I guess I'll use it." Emi said. Elsie took really good care of her hair and Elias could use Elsie's shampoo and his hair would be the same as Elsie's. So Sorata assumed Emi would be the same. The 4 of them simply went on with their morning until it was time for them to go to school. Of course Sorata made the girls leave before him so he wouldn't be seen with the girls.
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'How the hell did this happen?!?!!?!?' In a shed filled with gym supplies stood two people. One had white hair with heterochromatic eyes bright blue and dark purple while the other had dark blue hair with similar dark blue eyes. It was Sorata and Aya. The one yelling in his mind was Sorata. His identity was the last thing he was worried about as his ears and tail were on full display to Aya who was pinning him down on the floor. His tail was being mushed so it somehow made its way out of his gym shorts and showed itself to Aya. Aya had a stunned face not by Sorata's face underneath his wig but the ears and tail of course she would be as she already knew who Sorata was.
Since Sorata and Aya were too stunned to come back to reality let's see what events led to this predicament.
"Sorata that's new,why'd you change in the bathroom?"
"I had to use the bathroom so I did both." Sorata said to the extremely handsome boy. Sorata of course was greeted by Hiroto. Hiroto usually stuck to Sorata like a bug whenever they had P.E. Sorata usually partnered with Hiroto because of it. He didn't mind as it saved him the trouble of the awkwardness of having a teacher choose your partner.
"Hmmmmm. Oh well. Hey Sorata?"
"What?"
"When do you think a couple should have sex?"
"...." 'What the hell is he asking me?' Sorata thought. He didn't answer Hiroto's question and just gave his usual blank face. Hiroto for some reason was blushing after he said and started fidgeting. 'Gross' was all Sorata could think of when he saw Hiroto like this.
"So? What's your answer?"
"Why would I know?"
"Ehh? But you're the only one I can ask this. Come on. Aren't we best friends?"
"You're just some extroverted guy who started talking to me for some reason. We haven't even done things together. Aren't best friends supposed to hang with each other after school?I'm pretty sure we haven't done that."
"Now that I think about it. YEAH! Why don't we hang out? Well I'm usually with my girlfriend after school but I do have some days when I'm not with her. Like yesterday."
"I don't like going outside. So I refused you anytime you brought it up, luckily you found another person to cling to."
"If you knew you were the reason why didn't you say anything!?!! Listen this weekend on Saturday we're hanging out! I'll even bring a friend!"
"Ugh. More people? Sounds terrible. I'd rather read indoors."
"Come one! We can go to the arcade or somewhere else. How about you bring someone? You've got to have a friend right?"
"You're the only thing I can consider a friend."
"Why did you phrase it like you don't see me as another human being!!" The two were just sitting down on a bench waiting for the students and teachers to come out and they started talking. Although Sorata treated Hiroto like an annoyance, Sorata somewhat liked his presence. Sorata thought of him as a dog that needed to be played with. So Sorata at least answered him and he even spoke more to Hiroto than any other person.
"Anyways! Saturday we'll go to that big supermall in the city across from us! I hear they got a lot of stuff there."
"Well not like I got anything to do that day." Sorata said. He would usually work in the summer but his boss was going to renovate the restaurant and add state of the art appliances for the kitchen and bar. Sorata was excited as he saw what grill and stove his boss was buying. The technology came from the takanashi group and was the newest and best of their stock. Sorata couldn't wait until he got to cook on those appliances.
"Alright! Alright we'll meet at 7:40! We'll take the train." Hiroto was excited and jumped off the bench.
"Yeah alright stop being excited pochi."
"Hmm? Is there a dog around here?" Hiroto when he heard the word pochi thought of a dog.
"It's nothing." Sorata replied and started moving towards the students who were gathering on the yard to begin class. Hiroto also quickly followed behind.
"Suzuki-kun. May you please put away the supplies." The P.E. Teacher said. Sorata nodded and got the soccer balls and uniforms and went to the shed.
"Yamamoto-San! Can you please put away the equipment?"
"Sure thing sensei." Aya said, giving a carefree smile. Aya didn't mind as the other girls were clearly not on the level of aya. The other girls were tired unlike Aya who was on the track team. She got the equipment and walked towards the shed.
"Hmm? Suzuki-kun?"
"?" Sorata, who was trying to reach the top to put the ball there, looked back and someone he didn't even know was doing P.E. 'This girl. Isn't she the one I met in the library? Since when did she go to my school? I'm pretty sure I would've heard of someone like her given her looks.' Sorata thought. He actually did hear about Aya multiple times but he confused her with Hiroto as both were called a prince. Sorata had thought for a time that Hiroto was a guy who wanted girls by saving them and getting their number or something.
"Uhmmm are you having trouble?" Aya said setting down the equipment in the appropriate place. The shed as it was called was a lot bigger than an actual shed. So where Sorata was trying to put the ball was at the highest shelf. Sorata was still 165cm(5'4ft) so he couldn't reach it.
"No. I could do it." Sorata said stubbornly as he kept trying to put it up on the shelf. Aya could easily tell that he didn't want to accept her help and she did find it sort of cute that Sorata couldn't do it. Aya ignored his plea and went over to him and grabbed the ball and put it on the shelf. Aya herself was 173cm almost ten centimeters taller than Sorata so she had no trouble doing it.
"See. Wasn't that much faster?"
"...." Sorata said nothing as Aya smiled at him. For some reason Sorata felt like Aya was mocking him.
*snap!
Just as Sorata was ready to leave and ignore her a sound was heard.
"Watch out!"
"!" Sorata should've reacted faster but he was focused on his thoughts and suddenly Aya tackled him down to the floor. There was a loud bang as the place where they were keeping the balls fell down. The volleyballs,soccer balls and basketballs all fell down, luckily none of them landed on Sorata and Aya. It appears the metal shelf had its chain broken and it fell and it took down the other shelves. Luckily aya had got them to where they weren't close enough to be hit by the shelves and only the balls were the thing closest to hitting aya and Sorata.
"Hahh. Looks like we're safe. Suzuki-ku—
"What is it?" Is what Sorata wanted to say but he quickly noticed that his wig was no longer on and his tail was no longer tucked. Sorata turned pale as he could clearly see where Aya's eyes were shifting towards and just like that another person found out about Sorata animal traits.