A Cat That Owns Dogs

Wandering around the school outdoors, the Hell Hounds found themselves following a dark figure moving along with the bushes.

“Get it!” Dazai commanded with a playful smile on his lips.

At the same time that he finished his sentence, Draco and Ron absolutely sprinted to find the shadow, silently competing with each other without a proper consent.

“Go away, Weasley! I will be the one to get it!”

“No, you go away!”

Hah, just another day at Hogwarts. The wind hitting his face as Blaise clearly shows that he is worried about the weather, the twins running around as Hermione scolds them from a distance and Ron and Draco competing against each other.

Today feels nice.

“I got it!!” Ron shouted as he jumped on top of the dark figure, very soon showing being startled by it. “Why is there a cat here..??”

Dazai perked his ears at the word ‘cat’ as he held Blaise’s hand on his and started running towards the Weasley and the angry Malfoy.

Draco crossed his arms around his chest and pouted. “Yeah, a black cat.”

“No way!” The mummy exclaimed as he got to Draco, stopping abruptly and almost fell down, being stopped by Blaise that was by side. Dazai let go of his second-in-command's hand and crouched down next to Ron, tapping the floor with his hands to attract the cat to him. “Let me hold it.”

The ginger nodded as he got distracted by Hermione approaching them, slowly handing the cat to Dazai. “Be careful with it, I just know that you might let it fall down.”

“Yeah, yeah.” He lazily agreed as he took a small black cat in his hands, not knowing how to hold it properly and just sticking his arms out straight. “It ‘s so ugly and silly.”

The cat meowed in response.

Hermione scoffed, “It can understand you! Do not be rude to it.” she muttered as she put her hands on her waist.

“It’s a female.” Draco informed.

Dazai blinked twice out of curiosity and looked at Blaise. “I want this cat to be mine.” He stated as he leaned on the other, who embraced his arms around him.

George and Fred put their hands on their bosses shoulder. “What will be her name, Snakey?” They asked at the same time, their voice as loud as ever.

“Kuro, Kage or Yoru?” Dazai questioned loudly for every Hell Hound to hear and vote.

There was a chain of “Kuro's" and one “Yoru” from Blaise… Of course Dazai heard him, he was his favorite after all! But… yeah, he couldn’t be a bad boss by having favoritism!

“Her name will be Yoru.” The boss decided after thinking about it.

“What? But you made us vote.” Hermione complained. “That’s not fair.”

The bandaged teen thought for a moment before replying to her, poking the cat’s sides. “I did, but, well, the vote from the higher-ups has a bigger impact!”

Draco angrily frowned before he started talking again, “Whatever. Yoru is a good name anyways.”

“See? Even Draco agrees with us!” He cheered as he put the cat, now going by the name of “Yoru”, on his left shoulder. His uncovered eye peeked on her as he simply sat there.

Hermione crouched down next to Dazai. “Can I pet her?”

“Mhm.” He nodded. “Yoru is now ours.”

Draco clicked his tongue in response to Dazai's claim. “It’s not like this that we’re supposed to adopt a cat. She has to choose us.” He objected.

The cat hissed at Hermione as she tried to pet him, she quickly pulled her hand away.

“This cat is rude just like you, Dazai.” She muttered.

Dazai dramatically gasped in surprise, “Nuh uh, I’m the only one that can talk shit about her. And I’m not rude! Where’d you take this way of thinking from?” Dazai abruptly patted Yoru’s head, that tried to bite him in a playful way.

“No one.” She answered in a proud tone.

Blaise was silently listening to their talk, but suddenly he simply started maintaining eye contact with Yoru, she looked like she was intrigued by him.

“Osamu, can I hold her?” He asked.

Dazai turned his head to face Blaise before answering him, “Suree! Well, that’s if she doesn't bite you.”

Blaise hummed in agreement before he stretched his hands to the dark figure on Dazai’s shoulder. She is very small and cute despite all of Dazai’s critiques. Her left ear is a bit wonky but no one seemed to care about it.

As Blaise reached out to the cat, she looked afraid, scared of him. Perhaps she knew other students that potentially caused harm to her? Yeah, perhaps.

He held the kitten below her armpits and got her close to his chest.

She looked like Dazai.

Scared, small, hurt and afraid, absolutely just like Dazai. Her heterochromia eyes are like two different personalities. Afraid of touch as if someone had hurt her in the past. Small and vulnerable despite being seen as something threatening because of her color.

Well, they do share some similarities.

He took off his Slytherin scarf and wrapped it around her small body, holding her like the baby that she is. She probably isn’t older than four months.

Blaise silently caressed her head as her big blue and yellow eyes stared at him, she looked surprised by the gentle touch. Blaise could recognize this look.

His fingers gently moved to a place on her head that he felt like it was hurt. He looked down and raised her slightly, taking in her appearance once again to see if he could find any bruises or something like that.

Moving his finger on the place again, he found it.

She had a small bruise behind her left ear..

“Dazai, I’m taking her to Madam Pomfrey.” Blaise announced, being instantly answered by Dazai’s curious look on him.

“Something’s wrong with her? I want to go with you.” Dazai said as he leaned in to pat Yoru’s head.

He hesitated for a bit before replying to him, “Sure, come with me. She is slightly bruised.” in a worried tone.

They both stood up as Blaise handed Yoru to Dazai, who gently held her since he had seen how Blaise held her. Blaise assured the Hell Hounds that they would be right back in a few minutes and that Draco was in charge of taking care of them for now.

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They got in the hospital wing and were instantly greeted by Poppy, “Good afternoon, Dazai and Blaise. Something happened?” She asked from a distance since she was cleaning up a shelf. She turned around to face them once she finished cleaning it.

“Hi Madam Pomfrey! So um-,” He paused, his tone lowering to a whisper, “We kinda have a bruised cat with us.” Dazai started as he took a step forward with the cat with her claws showing on his hands; she is, of course, wrapped around Blaise’s Slytherin scarf. He raised the cat for Poppy to see.

“Oh, dear!” She gasped as he immediately walked towards the two boys, Dazai with the cat and Blaise with his arms around him. “Let me take a look at it.”

Dazai handed the cat to Poppy, the cat who meowed loudly at the same second that got out of Dazai’s hands, she got it in her arms and started walking towards her office, signaling for the teenagers to follow her.

Blaise followed her with his right hand behind Dazais back.

‘They are looking like two worried dads’ Poppy thought as she chuckled because of her own thoughts. But she doesn’t think that she’s wrong.

She gently placed the trembling cat on her office’s table, put her gloves on and started examining the cat.

“What 's her name?” She asked in a gentle tone.

When she tried to flip over the cat, the cat completely freaked out, which was a bit weird, but Poppy wouldn’t force her.

“Her name is Yoru!” Dazai exclaimed as he leaned on a wall next to her table.

Madam Pomfrey nodded in acknowledgment.

Her fingertips touched a scrappy skin, she then gently moved the scared cat so she could take a closer look on her bruised ear. “Dear Merlin…” She muttered before she let the cat lay down so she could get an ointment so she could treat it a bit.

Dazai and Blaise started talking to each other in whispers while she searched for the ointment inside one of the drawers.

After messing around, she found it. She opened it and gently put a bit of it on her middle finger fingertip, slowly caressing behind… Yoru’s, yes, her name is Yoru, ear

The cat flinched at the cold texture and meowed loudly yet again, looking at Dazai and Blaise like it was asking for help.

Poppy reassured her that everything was going to be okay as she finished applying the ointment and put it on the drawer again, but now in a more organized way so she could find it later.

“She’s alright for now, nothing too serious. Have you decided to take her in?” She asked, picking up the cat and handing it to Blaise.

“Yes! She’s now the gang’s mascot.” Dazai answered.

“Hm, great! Good luck with taking care of her.” Poppy advised.

The couple waved goodbye to Madam Pomfrey before they left the hospital wing, Blaise still holding her like a baby.

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