Disclaimer: Yami no Matsuei and its characters do not belong to me. They belong to the lovely Matsushita-sensei.

Author's Notes: I don't know about this fanfic. I started this -AGES- ago when I was still into YnM, but now that I think about it, this kind of plot seems overdone. I found this story still on my computer without an ending, so I thought to try and finish it. We'll just have to see where it goes from here!

Watari-san, I'll kill him for this!

Sitting in one of the office chairs, a very pissed-off Hisoka muttered angrily to himself. It really didn't matter if he had said it out loud since it was early office hours and no one was in yet. However, he was thankful that nobody was there to begin with. If anybody had seen him in this get-up at that moment, well...let's just say that compared to Tatsumi, he made him look like a helpless bunny.

Hisoka had stepped into the cafeteria to get a cup of warm tea like he did each morning when he arrived at the bureau. It had been his daily routine, to get his morning drink and sit down at his desk, working on the papers from the previous day that his partner had purposely put off almost regularly. After all, somebody had to assume responsibility of the two and it was most certain that Tsuzuki wasn't going to take on that role for the duration of his afterlife. What was different about this day was that he failed to notice that a conniving blonde-haired chemist had came to work early and tinkered with the hot water dispenser. He made his tea, walked over to his station with cup in hand, and the next minute he knew, he was suddenly one foot tall, with four paws and whiskers, not to mention a long and wavy tail.

I knew that tea tasted funny. He sighed dejectedly, staring at the dark blank computer screen that reflected his image. A skinny, dark-blonde tabby feline with sharp emerald eyes was the mirror image that looked back at him.

He suppressed the urge to just storm out the front doors of the office lest someone spot him and jumped down from his chair, landing on all four feet perfectly. It wasn't even five minutes and he already got the hang of dropping on all fours. He could hide in the library in the meantime; there were a lot of shelves that he could hide behind, away from familiar faces. That way he could avoid his co-workers for the remainder of the day. Then after everybody left at the end of the day, he would track down Watari and kill him then. That was, after he forced him to turn him back to his normal self.

Seeing the opportunity to get used to walking on all fours, he slowly made his way over to the Gushoshin brothers' library.

~*~

"Good morning!" Tsuzuki sauntered in cheerfully, carrying in a petite box of sweet-smelling baked delicacies. There was nothing like a delicious, mouth-watering apple cinnamon bun drizzled with sugar frosting to jump start the day. He couldn't wait to sit down and bite into its warm, gooey center. And the fact that they were on sale that morning made him that much happier.

The dark-haired brunette looked up when his greeting was left unanswered. He found his partner's chair empty. Hisoka was usually prompt if not early and rarely ever took a day off from work. His usual cup of tea was present on the desk though. Maybe he took a restroom break?

Just then, two small chicken figures came bursting into the office, each one pushing the other out of the way, apparently running away from something. It wasn't that unusual seeing the pair get spooked or frightened; more often than not it was over minor ordeals. However, both of them were more frantic than usual and yelled in high-pitched voices, shouting something about a monster with claws having to deal with one of their storage boxes in the back area. Whenever those two were in panic mode, one could've gone tone-deaf hearing their shouts.

"Tsuzuki, it's an emergency!"

"Code red! We have an intruder!"

Tsuzuki raised his box above his head as the two flocked around him, yelling incomprehensible words while pulling on his dress shirt.

"Calm down, Gushoshin!" Tsuzuki stepped back and placed his box of sweets on his chair, moving it underneath his desk to hide it from prying subjects. After double-checking that his box would indeed be safe, he turned back to focus on the twins' dire situation.

"What's the problem?"

"Come with us!!" Without another moment of delay, the Gushoshin brothers each took ahold of Tsuzuki's hands and dragged him off to the library.

~*~

"There! That's where that monster was!" Both brothers pushed Tsuzuki past the high-arched doors and into the library, using his tall body as a shield every step of the way. The Gushoushin were usually pretty restless any given day, but throw in something that would fluff up their feathers and they were uncontrollable.

"Okay, okay! Just calm down for me, would you?" he requested, his hands raised up in the air in defeat as they nudged and prodded him in the direction of the backroom. Not wanting to go any closer to the alleged fiend, Tsuzuki had no choice but to go in alone. He let out a huge sigh of relief now that he didn't have those two on his case - they were shaping up to be the scary ones now. He quiety made his way up to the box in the corner that they pointed out for him, not knowing what would show up.

"You've got to be kidding me! That's what got you guys so on edge? In the tone that you guys were shouting in, one would've thought that a swarm of mutant bookworms were destroying all the books on the shelves or something." Tsuzuki bent over and crossed his arms over his knees, peeking into the cardboard box in front of him.

Inside, a little helpless kitten dozed away, curled up into a tiny ball with its head hiding underneath its paws. Its chest was heaving up and down gently in a quiet slumber, oblivious to the man staring down at it.

"He doesn't look like he could harm the two of you much less lay a paw on a mouse." Tsuzuki reached in and rubbed his index finger across the slumbering feline's neck, earning a soft contented purr from the tiny kitten, arching its neck in content. "He's so cute," he chuckled, a soft smile plastered on his features.

So, how was the first chapter? The next one is still in progress, but pretty much completed, so it'll take a couple of days to proof-read. I'm still not entirely sure where I'm going with this, but I have a feeling that there won't be any 'kissy-kissy lovey-dovey' in this story. I wouldn't know how to incorporate it in this type of story due to my amateur writing skills. I know, I'm just as disappointed as you are about that! Boooo.

Anyway, please review so I can get a sense of where this is heading! Much love!! :)