House Cat [temporarily complete]

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Chibi lapsed into complete silence which was only broken by the faint murmurs of his constant purring and Oriel\'s gently grooming of his ear which flicked, tickling slightly as Oriel\'s tongue ran over it in tiny sweeps. Snuggling up as close as he could beyond climbing into Oriel\'s lap he nodded with true understanding - Master\'s motivations made sense to him now Oriel had patiently explained their remarkably uncomplex nature and he felt genuinely safe for the first time since he\'d been dragged from the cage. \".....thank you for saving me....I didn\'t like those nekos....in the cage...t-they....thank you Kaa-san...\"


\"It wasn\'t me,\" Oriel whispered. \"You know who it was. You should thank him yourself.\"

As if on cue, Master opened the back door to the estate and closed it behind him, stepping onto the edge of the stairs and looking out over the garden. He reached into his pocket and withdrew a silver tin, opening it and taking out a cigarette, placing it between his lips and lighting it with a small silver lighter from inside the tin as well before closing the silver box and sliding it back into his pocket. He inhaled slowly, then reached out with one hand, exhaling as his fingers ran through Oriel\'s hair and the full-grown purred louder like a kitten, leaning into the touch.

Master\'s gaze settled on the setting sun in the distance as he inhaled once more, his expression still unhappy and directed at nothing. \"I\'m leaving for another three months tonight,\" he stated matter-of-factly, in his velvety voice which seemed to lack emotion.

\"That means,\" Oriel whispered into Chibi\'s ear, \"Do you need anything?\"


Chibi nibbled on his lower lip for a moment and then in a trembling, slightly higher-pitched voice he exclaimed, \"M-master?\" while tugging self-consciously upon the hem of his loincloth and pressing himself close to Oriel for reassurance.


Master said nothing, drawing the cigarette from his lips and exhaling, tapping the ash from the tip of the slender white stick and holding it between two fingers idly, waiting.

Oriel smiled to himself, looking up at Master as well, watching the man stand tall on the marble steps like a god of war. He knew that the man he loved took lives regularly, and he knew there was blood all over his hands. He knew that Master held most of this city in his hand and he knew that Master\'s life was constantly in danger because of it. He knew that Master often had to sleep with people other than Oriel to make deals work or enforce his power, and he knew that his relationship with Master was unknown to all outside this house and was horribly shameful to Master\'s name. The few times outsider guests had been brought to the estate, Oriel had been made to wear a loincloth like all the others and he was forced to take the abuses of the guests alongside a few of the other nekos.

He knew all this, and it only made him love and want to love his Master even more. It made him all the more aware of how beautiful their relationship was, and what it meant when he was allowed to hold Master\'s head on his lap and run his fingers through the man\'s hair as Master relaxed and always took those deep, upset breaths that came out as a sigh or nothing at all.

Oriel couldn\'t recall a single instance in his life where he\'d been the happiest he\'d ever known that didn\'t involve Master, or now, Chibi as well.


Chibi\'s gaze flickered over to Oriel and remained transfixed by the expression of adoration and quiet devotion upon his face as he watched their Master - his owner and husband in silence. Almost belatedly and drawing away from Oriel so as to not annoy Master he uttered shyly, \".....thank you for taking me away from that place...\"


Master still said nothing, and he lifted the cigarette to his lips once more, inhaling deeply before snuffing it in the waiting little silver tray on the stair rail. As he exhaled, he let his fingers slide from Oriel\'s hair and turned to leave, opening the doors once more, and closing them behind him as he walked back to his study.

Oriel looked down at Chibi warmly. \"He\'s not a man of wasted words,\" he said with a small laugh. \"But it\'s safe to say as long as he hasn\'t told you he rejects what you\'ve said, it\'s been accepted or he\'s thinking about it. Welcome to the family, little one; you\'re no longer a guest here now, but a member. \"


Master\'s reaction - or rather lack of it still stung slightly, but he understood why, both from Oriel\'s explanations and his own scant experiences of the man\'s company that it was more than he should have expected or hoped for. Smiling faintly he began to purr louder and tucked his head under Oriel\'s chin for a moment, \".....what am I to Kaa-san?\" He added tentatively, having just realized he\'d been wondering where he really fit in here.


Oriel\'s expression faltered for a moment, almost saddened, before he smiled again. \"You\'re my little one,\" he murmured. \"You\'re the little child I\'ll never have for several reasons. You\'re the creature I love, and you\'re the boy I will raise into a man. You\'re my friend and my student and you\'re the ideals I have for a happy future in this world.\" He kissed the top of the boy\'s head. \"You\'re the second light in my life,\" he finished with a tender, vulnerable note to his voice. \"If you\'ll let me have you as those things, that is.\"


Chibi closed his eyes and sighed softly, but this time it wasn\'t an illustration of sadness or disappointment - he\'d never known his own family having wandered in the shadows as long as he could remember and to hear such things made his heart swell with happiness and relief. Finally he was allowing himself to accept that this paradise might be a reality, \".....I\'m Kaa-san\'s son....?\" He asked shyly, knowing it wasn\'t really true, but wanting so badly to believe the lie.


\"I\'d like that, yes,\" Oriel whispered, his grip tightening around the boy just slightly. \"You can think of us like an adoptive family, if you will. Like I said last night, that\'s what we will be, as long as you don\'t address Master as your father. You may treat him as such; I\'m rather positive he understood the implications of the request I made of him. But do not address him that way.\"

He resumed running his own fingers through the boy\'s hair. \"So yes, you\'ll be my son. And I love you with all my heart already, which I\'ll tell you every day from now on as long as you\'ll hear me.\"


Chibi resolved not to ever make the mistake of calling Master father and cuddled up to Oriel gratefully, leaning into his touch - the idea of having two male adoptive parents didn\'t faze him in the slightest and he felt a few tears of relief escape to wet Oriel\'s pristine robes. \".....K-kaa-san...\" he sniffled.


Oriel lifted Chibi into his lap gently and kissed away the tears. \"Why do you cry, little one?\" he whispered, caressing behind the boy\'s ears and down his jaw, trying his best to soothe. \"Do you not like that arrangement? You don\'t have to take that position if you don\'t want to, like I said. You can be a regular member of the household with the other boys, if that\'s what you want.\"


The little neko shook his head and when he spoke the words faltered, as if he almost couldn\'t understand what this foreign emotion that he was experiencing was anymore, \"I-I\'m h-happy...Even though huge tears continued to streak down his cheeks, falling faster now that he\'d realized what was happening he still managed to smile and swiped them away with the back of his hands, \"I wanna make f-friends...and study hard...and make you proud of m-me.\"


Oriel smiled, and tears rose in his own eyes as he heard the words, his lower lip trembling. \"Ah,\" he breathed weakly, \"I\'ve dreamt of hearing those words. You\'ve made me so very happy as well, my little love. It seems Master made a very wise choice indeed.\"

He leaned forward and touched his forehead to Chibi\'s, closing his eyes and reveling in the moment, embracing the boy in his arms and running his hand up and down his new son\'s back slowly. When they both seemed to have calmed down, Oriel sighed peacefully and stood, bringing Chibi with him so that he was holding the boy like a little child on his hip. \"Come,\" he said softly. \"Let\'s take you to the entertainment room where most of the other boys are playing, so you can get to know them. I\'m going to leave your side for a little bit, so I can say goodbye to Master before he leaves-- it\'s a little hard on all of us, because you never know which one of these times he won\'t be coming back. Is that ok?\"


Chibi\'s smile wavered, more for Oriel\'s sake than his own as he wondered quite what he meant, but he refreshed it quickly and positively beamed at his Kaa-san, feeling a little bubbling of excitement over getting to speak freely with the other nekos outside of class or dining, \"I will miss you.\" He chirped gently, meaning it with every fiber of his fragile being.

\"I\'ll be back before its bath time,\" Oriel assured warmly, as he placed the boy down on the floor outside the entertainment room and kissed his forehead. \"Enjoy yourself. Is there anything you need or want before I go?\"

\"No, I\'m....I\'m fine.\" He replied, aiming to be polite to Kaa-san as he felt he should be now their relationship was defined as one of family. Lingering by the door he listened to the sounds of animated chattering and laughter beyond with increasing nerves.

Oriel kissed the boy\'s forehead once more with an encouraging smile before nodding. \"Alright then. See you soon.\" He turned and left quickly, moving up the stairs with perfect grace and his eyes already turned up to the right wing where Master slept.

Several of the boys had picked up on the speech outside the door, and their ears had perked up. When they peered out the door to see who it was and spotted Chibi, grins spread across their faces. \"Little One!\" they cheered, as a black-and-white neko who looked around seventeen hurried out of the room and grabbed Chibi\'s hand. \"Finally, we get to play with you! I thought Oriel would never leave you alone!\"

Chibi let the other neko take his hand, but didn\'t move - only stood where he was and gazed fixedly down at the floor, his cheeks beet red from all the sudden attention. He didn\'t realize his arrival had been so interesting to his fellow nekos and he wasn\'t sure how to interact with anyone beyond rutting or being taken care of like with Kaa-san. \"...........h-hi...”

The boys all laughed as though Chibi had said the funniest thing in the world, and several licked at his throat in welcome. \"I remember being like him,\" the brown one smiled.

\"Ok, well, good,\" the black-and-white nodded, squeezing Chibi\'s hand a little. \"Then you\'ll remember to play nice, too. Oh! Hey! I know why Oriel left you alone! Master\'s leaving soon; I saw his bags at the doorway ten minutes ago. You know what that means.\"

The other boys cheered, then leered. The black-and-white, obviously the leader, turned to look at their newest playmate once more. \"I\'m Dorian, and this is Shino, Sora and Luc. You want to come with us on a little scouting mission?\"

Chibi didn\'t shy away from the greetings, but something about the way they seemed happy that Master was leaving put him a little on edge. He covered it by peeked up at the little band of nekos from under his bangs and smiling shyly, \"....o-okay...I\'ll come.\"

The boys cheered and immediately broke into a run up the stairs, falling silent and moving on all fours as soon as they reached the top of the stairs. They moved with practiced ease down the hall, and Dorian held a finger over his lips to Chibi for silence as they flipped their ears back and their tails went low like hunters.

Slowly the boys slipped down the long hall, and they spread out as they reached the rooms near the large quarters at the end of the hall. Luc, Shino and Sora all entered the room to the immediate left of Master\'s door, with Luc moving into the bathroom and Shino and Sora each sitting in different places in the room. Dorian pulled Chibi into the room on the right with him, gesturing for the boy to sit next to a closed heating vent on the floor. Leaning in slowly, he nearly put his lips in the boy\'s ear so he barely had to mouth the words for Chibi to hear, \"This is a very old house, though it\'s had some modifications made to it. The vents in this wing are still old and attached to each other, and if you are in a room with the vent open, the person in the next room can open their vent too and hear you loud and clear.\"

He drew back with a wide, \'ta-da!\' smile, and held in his laugh when Chibi still didn\'t seem to get it. Leaning in again he added, \"Master is about to leave. That means Oriel went to say goodbye-- which means Master will be taking him right about now. It\'s the hottest thing you can imagine; you can hear Master\'s grunts and noises, and Oriel gets to call Master by his real name when they\'re alone together. You\'ll see. Just don\'t make a sound.\"

Slowly Dorian reached forward and touched his fingertips to the metal knob on the vent with utmost caution, glancing into the other room across the hall and seeing the thumbs-up from the other boys that their vents were open without incident. He pulled the knob of their vent back soundlessly, in time to hear Oriel moan loudly, then whimper.

Deep, dark growls of pleasure sounded after Oriel, definitely not noises the full-grown could make, and very obviously Master. There was a low moan from Master, and then Oriel\'s voice again, high and near screaming as he begged, \"Oh, ohhh, Eiji... nnnnnh, ohh-- Eijiiiii...!\"

Chibi sat there listening with Dorian for a few moments, his cheeks gradually flushing an even darker shade of crimson - he could understand why the others would scout for something as rare as this, but even though it made him wriggle about uncomfortably where he was sat he felt wrong prying into Oriel\'s private moments with Master...Eiji? And silently he clapped both hands over his ears and shut his eyes tightly, hoping the others were too engrossed in appreciating it to notice he was no longer so enthralled.

The noises became louder, too loud for Chibi to ignore as Oriel cried out \"EIJI!\" at the top of his lungs. As Chibi had been occupied with covering his ears and closing his eyes, Dorian had been stroking himself under his loincloth, and he covered his own mouth with his hand firmly as his hips bucked and he climaxed in his hand while Oriel\'s voice carried loudly through the room, telling of the fullgrown\'s own completion.

Dorian slumped down on the floor, a pleased flush to his cheeks as he tried his best to pant silently, but when he opened his eyes and glanced over at Chibi, he frowned slightly, then arched his eyebrows, leaning towards the boy once more and drawing fingers back so he could speak into the boy\'s ear while there were these few moments of silence. \"You want me to take care of that for you, or will you do it yourself?\" he inquired kindly, indicating the erection poking at the boy\'s decorated loincloth. \"They usually go at least two time-- ah, there we are...\"

He drew away with a pleased flush to his cheeks as Oriel mewled and he heard Master growl long and low, their noises picking up once more.

Chibi glanced towards the door, ashamed of his reactions and embarrassed by what he\'d pretended not to notice Dorian doing. Silently and ignoring the other neko\'s offer he tried to escape from those forbidden sounds and got to his feet with typical feline grace, holding his hands once more over his ears tightly.


As the mewls and grunting picked back up, Dorian looked up at Chibi and waited for several seconds to see if the boy was going to nod and ask for his poking erection to be looked after, but no permission came. Shrugging, he turned his attentions back to the vent, and began stroking his sensitive length once more, leaning to the side absently and stroking his head against Chibi\'s thigh with lust as he pumped his own fist quickly.

Minutes later, as Master snarled loudly and Oriel wailed for Eiji once more, Dorian completed for the second time. He stood suddenly and pushed the vent closed with his toes, glancing into the other room as the boys finished up and closed their vents as well. \"Come on!\" he mouthed to Chibi, tugging on his arm until he got the boy\'s attention as they scampered back down the hall as fast as they could while remaining silent.

They made sure nobody was looking and hurried down the stairs, but as the other three went back into the entertainment room, Dorian pulled Chibi outside to the backyard, and into some bushes near the stairs. \"What\'s wrong?\" he asked in a whisper, looking at the boy in confusion. \"You don\'t look damaged as far as I can see down there. Why won\'t you finish it? You can\'t be seen like that walking around the house, or everyone will know.\"

Chibi looked down at the floor and shook his head furiously - he\'d rather spend the rest of the evening outside alone than acknowledge the insult he\'d unwittingly given to Kaa-san and Master. Being their son it was wrong for him to have reacted in such a way and he began to tremble, bowing his head in apology to Dorian, \"....it\'s n-not right....\"

\"Why not!\" Dorian blinked, even more amazed. \"Oriel is gorgeous and Master... Master is a thing of beauty, a god come to life,\" he murmured. \"He\'ll take you soon, I\'m sure. He takes each of us once and it’s kind of like his acknowledgement that you\'re his. Once is never enough, though.\" He shook his head sadly as though describing a tragic event. \"When he finishes and you\'re left crying because it was so good, you\'ll know what I\'m talking about.\"

Chibi sighed shakily, wishing he could see it as something wonderful as Dorian clearly could, but his bond to their Master was different so he could never understand, \"......I d-don\'t see him like that....\" He uttered, bracing himself to be mocked or reprimanded, \"....I w-want someone my own age.....\"

Dorian shrugged. \"Suit yourself; Master never brings nekos as young as you home. He only did it for Oriel. You\'re going to be taken by Master, and then you\'re never going to have sex again, if you stick to those morals. He buys us about four years apart. You\'re, what, fourteen? You\'ll be eighteen before he gets new nekos to replace the elder ones that\'ll be leaving.\"

Chibi\'s chin began to tremble as he experienced what he perceived as another telling off - he couldn\'t have cared less about not having sex again - as each experience he\'d had was more traumatic that the last, but he couldn\'t shake the idea that he\'d already alienated Dorian and the others with his cluelessness, \"....I d-didn\'t mean.....m\'sorry...D-dorian-san...\"

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