Hey all! This was an idea that I have had for quite sometime and I finally got around to writing it out about 4 months ago…I just didn't want to post it yet and then forgot about it for a while as new ideas kept arising…

This is an Eiji fic. Eiji meets Oishi first, then the others will come in during later chapters.

Much FLUFF!!!!!!! The beginning doesn't have much but the next chapter has more fluff than cotton candy!

This might start out a bit confusing, but just work with me here…

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"Nya." He said, looking down on the figures dressed in white. "Unya."

"Eiji, get down here!" One of them yelled up to him.

"To think we go through this every time…" Another man mumbled to himself. "Eiji, you better get down here, or else you won't get any dinner."

"Nya." Eiji shook his head, wrapping his tail around him as he got more comfy on the bookcase. He was determined to stay as far away from them as possible.

Eiji was an experiment. Ever since he was born, he had lived in a lab, where they ran tests on him and poked and prodded at him. He was different from normal people. He had cat-like ears and a cat-like tail. His senses were far more superior to that of a normal human, and he could run faster and jump higher, beyond the limits a human would think possible.

Eiji has lived in several different labs, thus making learning to communicate with them difficult. Every time he would start to understand a few words in their language, they would ship him off to a place where the language was completely different.

But this place was familiar. He had lived in this language for a while now and was able to pick up a few words, but was still at a loss on how to say the words.

If only he could speak their tongue. Then he'd tell them to leave him alone.

"Eiji, come down now or we'll have to spray you down." He heard, but only understood his name. But he knew what they wanted by the tone of their voice, and he refused to cooperate.

The men waited a few more moments before one left and came back with a long tube like thing that could bend. Eiji couldn't see the other end of it because it was so long that it rounded the corner. Eiji's eyes widened in fear, but he kept his ground. The tube was faced towards him and Eiji hissed at it.

That was when water came shooting through the hose and hit Eiji. Now being half cat, Eiji despised water, but Eiji kept sitting there, letting the water mess up his hair and fur. After a few minutes of that, Eiji got a little fed up and stood, trying to find a way to avoid the water, but it just kept spraying at him. Eiji gave a low growl at this.

"Get the tranquilizer." He heard one man order another. Soon after the man left, he returned with a gun and aimed it at Eiji. Eiji, still being sprayed by water, hissed before the gun made a loud pop. Eiji felt pain in his arm and when he looked, he saw the dart. He removed it but when he did, he suddenly became very drowsy. His eyes soon felt very heavy and he started to sway a little. He realized that the water had stopped spraying him at this point. He soon blacked out.

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Meanwhile:

"Hey, Oishi," A voice called. "We're all going to the river for a while. Want to come?"

"No thanks, Momo." Oishi replied. "Don't you remember? I'm leaving this afternoon so I need to finish packing!"

"Oh yeah." Momo smacked himself in the forehead. "Why are you leaving today, anyways? The rest of us aren't leaving for another week."

"I start my new job on Monday." Oishi replied. He and his friends Momo, Taka-san, Fuji, Tezuka, Kaido, Ryoma, and Inui had been camping for the past few weeks. They wanted to relax a little before the semester started up again. They didn't go back to the University for about four more weeks, but time went by particularly fast in college.

"All right then. Call Tezuka's cell phone when you get back though." Momo said and went down to the river in his swimming trunks and a towel while Oishi packed up. An our later, Oishi went down to the river where everyone was to announce his departure.

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When Eiji woke up, his head was throbbing. He opened his eyes slowly, but quickly shut them again when the bright light blinded him. He rolled over onto his stomach and moaned. It's a good thing he was laying on something soft.

Eiji froze. Soft? They never had anything 'soft' to lay on in the lab. And the smells. These were not smells of the lab. It smells…fresh.

Eiji began opening his eyes to find that he was not in the lab, but found himself being surrounded by green. And blue. He looked up. The sky took his breath away. He had never seen the sky before, nor these green things sticking out of the ground.

Was he outside?

He must be. That is the only explanation.

He then heard something. Water.

He carefully got up, and sprinted towards the sound. He soon came to a river. He lapped up as much water as he could because he was so thirsty.

The water was tasty. Unlike the stale water he drank at the lab.

When he was done, he noticed something shiny flicker in the water. Eiji watched as a fish came within a paws reach from him. He slowly reached out to snatch it, but it saw him and swam away. He waited for another to pass by. When it did, he tried again and failed again. And again. And again. And again. After some time passed, he finally managed to catch one. It wasn't the biggest one he's seen, but it wasn't the smallest either.

The fish tasted delicious! It was the best thing he had ever eaten, considering the only thing he has ever eaten tasted like rubber. After he finished his meal he took a nap.

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He woke up several hours later to the sound of voices. Eiji flattened his ears against his scalp but then put one forward to hear what was being said. He had never heard these voices before…they didn't sound like anyone who would be in a lab. In fact, they sounded much younger than the scientists back in the lab. He jumped into a tree and leaped from limb to limb, following the voices. He soon spotted them. Only three were there. He watched them very closely for a long time.

After a while another came and then two more. He heard in the direction they were coming from that there where two more, and sniffing the air confirmed it. He leaped from tree to tree, heading in the direction of the two voices. He stopped in a large tree when he found them. Staying well hidden, he watched as they talked a little, then one departed in the direction of the river.

Eiji watched the boy who was now all by himself. He seemed to be packing things into a vehicle. He knew about vehicles because that is how the scientists got around the lab…but those were much smaller. But Eiji figured that it did the same thing.

The boy had dark hair with two locks coming down, stopping right above his eyes. His face looked gentle…unlike the scientists' rough and stern faces. He liked watching this human.

Then it dawned on him.

'This human is leaving.' He thought. 'I should probably leave too. In case those men decide to come back for me.' He pondered on where he should go, but he didn't know what was in which direction nor where he should start. He looked down at the boy and watched him. After a long time of making sure everything of his was packed, the strange boy headed down to the river.

Eiji quickly took this opportunity to scavenge the camp. He quickly noticed that the only thing that smelled edible looked a lot like the stuff back at the lab, but took a small bag which held very small items in it.

His ears twitched when he heard the footsteps of the human coming back. Eiji froze. There wasn't enough time to jump back into the tree without being noticed so he looked around for a hiding spot. Then he saw the back door to the car open and he quickly jumped in, hiding under the blanket on the floor behind the driver's seat. He kept as still as possible.

When the boy sat down in the car, he turned on the engine and startled Eiji a little, but not enough for the boy to notice. Eiji soon felt the car moving.

'Well,' he thought. 'At least I'm headed somewhere.'

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They drove along for a long time. Eiji was getting hungry again. Then he remembered the little bag he stole. It was now on the floor, but it was now behind the passenger's seat. He quickly reached out, grabbed it, and pulled it back under the blanket.

"Huh?" He heard the boy say. "What was that?"

Eiji could hear the boy shifting in his seat to look behind him. Eiji froze. He wondered if it was him that the boy saw. He relaxed when he heard the human say "Oh well." Even though he didn't know what 'Oh well' meant, it sounded like the boy was just shrugging it off.

He opened the bag and pulled out one of the little round things. He put it in his mouth and was shocked to find that it was sweet. Very sweet in fact.

He continued to suck on the piece of candy, completely forgetting about where he was. He soon noticed that the car was stopping. Eiji took a quick peek out from under the blanket. They were in the middle of nowhere. Why would the human want to stop here?

The boy got out of the car and closed his door. Eiji soon heard another door open. He froze when he realized that it was the door that he was right next to. He tried to stop himself from trembling, but he couldn't, and hoped that the boy wouldn't notice him.

He suddenly felt the blanket being removed from his skin.

Eiji was caught. He peered at the boy who had been driving and the look on his face was slightly cocky at first, but then as he got a good look at Eiji, his expression changed dramatically.

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At first, Oishi thought that Ryoma had snuck into the car because he heard the sound of someone eating the candy. It sounded like Ryoma, so he pulled the car over in hopes of spoiling the boy's fun. He wasn't, however, planning on finding a naked red-headed boy with cat ears and a long cat-like tail under the blanket.

Eiji quickly maneuvered so that he was facing the boy, but instead of pouncing like Oishi thought he would do, he backed up. He kept backing up until he was at the other door. He looked at the door but couldn't figure out how to open it, so he shied into the corner, hissing at Oishi while he crouched on his haunches, ears flat against his skull.

"Wh…who are you?" Oishi asked. Eiji threateningly hissed again when he spoke. He didn't want Oishi coming close to him. "Don't be scared…. What are you?"

Eiji hissed again. He didn't know what the human wanted, or why he was acting so gentle, but he wasn't about to fall for any tricks.

Oishi looked the creature over. He had small cuts, bruises, and bandages on various spots on his body. The boy was completely naked except for the fact that he had a black collar around his neck.

"A collar?" Oishi asked to nobody in particular, earning himself another hiss. "Who could be this cruel to do that to this creature? And you look half starved. Who did this to you?"

Eiji gave a low growl. He didn't want to know what this human was saying, but he kept watching him.

"Can you not speak? Is that why you are not answering me?"

Eiji sank low to the floor, his eyes never leaving Oishi. His tail swished back and forth in a threatening manner.

Oishi sighed. He slowly backed away and closed the car door. He then went to the front and opened the driver's door and got in.

"I'm taking you back with me." He said, turning to face Eiji. "You'll stay with me, I'll fix you up, and we'll find out who did this to you. You have been in the car this long without attacking me so I'll trust you to behave."

He saw Eiji's confused expression, and smiled slightly.

"You can come sit in the front with me." He offered, but Eiji looked like he wasn't going to budge anytime soon. "Suit yourself."

Oishi started the car again and they got back on the road.

'Where is he taking me?' Eiji wondered.

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They drove along for a long time before Oishi noticed that Eiji was struggling to stay awake. Eiji's eyelids were getting heavy and listening to the humming sound of the car's engine was enough to make him fall asleep right then and there. But he tried to stay awake. He didn't know much about this human, and therefore was wary about him.

Oishi would talk to him now and then, seeing if he could gain Eiji's trust, but Eiji hadn't budged in the past hour and a half.

Eiji yawned.

"You know, Kitten," he said softly. "you can come up here with me. The seat next to me makes a heck of a better bed than the floor" Oishi reached over and patted the seat next to him.

Eiji looked at what he was doing and it dawned on him that the boy wanted him in that seat. He contemplated what he should do. He finally decided to trust the human this time, seeing as to he is the one driving. He slowly got up and moved closer to Oishi's hand. With one quick movement, he jumped into the seat and curled up.

"See? Now isn't that better?" He asked.

"Nya…" Eiji said.

"Well at least you're not hissing at me anymore."

Eiji looked at the human. Why was he acting so nice?

"You know," He started again. "we need to get you some clothes. You can borrow some of mine until then, though." Eiji wrapped his tail around him. "So what exactly are you? A mutant? A hybrid? …I can see that there is writing on your collar. Will you let me read it?" Oishi slowly reached towards the naked boy's neck, but immediately was hissed at for coming within his personal space. Oishi stopped moving his hand but did not bring it back.

Eiji was getting nervous at this strange boy's actions. He sat up a little and backed away from Oishi's hand. He was grateful to him that he didn't advance any more than he had already come, but was still nervous about him. Oishi soon returned his arm to the steering wheel.

"You'll probably like where I stay." He said. "My friends and I all contributed to the payments of the rent and were able to afford a rental house on campus. We even have a backyard with a small bath house."

Eiji yawned, not understanding much of what was being said. He did however understand the word 'bath,' which made Eiji's ears turn toward Oishi. Eiji wasn't planning on having a bath anytime soon, that's for sure.

Eiji looked up ahead and saw something on the side of the road. It was very intriguing. It looked like…like a box…a big box.

Oishi saw Eiji's look of fascination for the object.

"House." Oishi said, getting Eiji's attention. "That's a house."

"Nya." He exclaimed, looking a little frustrated at Oishi.

"You don't understand a word I'm saying do you?"

"Unya?" Eiji cocked his head to the side, making a very cute face at Oishi.

Oishi smiled. "I didn't think so."

Eiji curled up and rested his head on his arm, but still kept his eye on Oishi. He may have been acting nice, but this boy was still a human, and Eiji didn't like humans.

About half an hour later Eiji fell asleep.

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Next chapter: Eiji starts to trust Oishi as they arrive to the house; fish; bedtime; FLUFF!!!!!

Expect much Fluff in the upcoming chapters. The next chapter will be the fluff starting point!

Please review!!! Please, no flames! I plan on updating before New Years…actually I have the next chapter ready, but I want some reviews first. If I get many reviews, I might post it as soon as tomorrow!

But I don't have any chapters written after the second one, so you might have to wait a while after that…but now I have more time now that I'm not in those time consuming advanced classes… I.B. just took over my entire life!!!

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Funny quote of the day:

"All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats." )

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