Something Kawaii This Way Comes
Chapter 4
Kiyone looked up as Mihoshi walked in from out of the rain. She
was carrying a thoroughly soaked cabbit in her arms.
"Mihoshi!" She wailed. "We can barely keep ourselves clothed and
fed and you bring home a pet."
"Washu asked me to take care of him. He needs a home." She
looked up at Kiyone with her big blue eyes. There were tears
brimming in those eyes. It was clear that she'd become attached
to the little animal. If Kiyone took him away or made Mihoshi
give him back...
"Okay." She gave in, reluctantly.
"Yay!" Mihoshi cheered, jumping around in a circle while hugging
the little cabbit. "You hear that? You can stay. Now, let's get
you dried off." She put the little cabbit down and walked out of
the room.
Fluffy shooks the water from his fur."Miya."
//This is a nightmare.// The little cabbit thought. //It has to
be. I'm still in 1970. Kain didn't kill me. And I'm most
definitely *not* a cabbit.//
Of course that was mere wishful thinking. He wasn't in 1970.
Kain *had* killed him, rather gruesomely. And he most definitely
*was* a cabbit.
At the moment he was a very wet cabbit. He sat there on the
floor with his fur dripping.
Mihoshi returned with a towel. She wrapped it around the little
cabbit and carefully dried him off.
//Maybe Mihoshi's not so bad after all.// he thought. //At
least she's compassionate.//
Mihoshi kissed Fluffy on the nose. "There you are." She said.
"All better."
"At least you didn't bring a puppy or a kitten home." Kiyone
remarked as they ate dinner. "A cabbit will be less expensive."
"Because they only eat carrots, right?"
"No." Kiyone replied. "Well, yes, that, too. But I was just
thinking, since there are only three cabbits and we know where
the only female is..." She sipped her tea.
"Huh?" Mihoshi asked.
"Well, we won't have trouble keeping them apart when we have to.
In other words, we don't have to get him fixed."
Kiyone could've sworn she heard the little cabbit breathe a sigh
of relief.
Fluffy hopped over to Kiyone and pawed her ankle. When she
looked down, he looked back up at her and miya'ed plaintively.
"Hungry?" Kiyone asked.
"Miya!"
"Mihoshi..." Kiyone requested.
Mihoshi went to the kitchen. She reached in to grab the carrots.
The edge of the bag was caught on the back of the shelf. She
pulled, expecting the bag to simply tear away. Instead it pulled
the entire shelf out. Everything that been on that shelf,
leftover soup and eggs included, crashed to the kitchen floor in
a huge mess.
Mihoshi took one look at it and began to cry.
Fluffy and Kiyone hurried into the kitchen.
"MIHOSHI!" Kiyone screamed. They'd worked hard for that food and
now that idiot had ruined it all.
"I'm sorry, Kiyone!" Mihoshi sobbed. "I can't do anything
right!"
//If I don't do something, she'll be wailing all night and I'll
never get any sleep.// Fluffy thought.
The little cabbit hopped over to Mihoshi, and began nuzzling her
leg, comfortingly.
//I can't believe I'm doing this.// He thought to himself.