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Todoroki was in the middle of a live stream in the dining room, about to answer the question: “do you have any pets?” when a shout of “NO! Get BACK HERE- Shoto! Callie escaped the bathroom! And Snuggles isn't back in their cage yet!” came from the hallway.
“I guess that answers that. I got to go now, I’ll be back in a minute.” Shoto suspended the live and set his phone down. As questions about Callie, and Snuggles filled the chat.
Todoroki calmly walked up to Izuku. “Where'd she go?”
“Fridge. Little stink knows I'm too short to grab her from up there.” Izuku pouted and walked to the living room, to herd his bunny into it’s cage.
Shoto eyed the cat from across the kitchen island, and quietly said, “don’t you dare.” before talking much louder so Izuku could hear him. “You know, if we plan on moving in together we should probably introduce them to each other. Callie can’t hunt for shit, and you’ve seen how she treats her toys even, I really doubt she’d attack her.”
he slid across the countertop as soon he was done talking and managed to push the jars the cat nearly knocked off the fridge back into place. “You little shit.” he reached up and grabbed her scruff and pulled her off the fridge, gently putting another hand in front of her claws so she couldn’t pull anything down with her, and put her into her tried and proven favorite position. Half sideways on arm on his shoulder, and one on his collar bone. She purred as soon as she was in his arms, the fear so dramatically shown when being removed from the fridge already long forgotten. “Dramatic little brat. Shoto affectionately scritched her head.
“I know I’m just nervous! She’s so old! And rabbit hearts are so delicate! What if she sees her and her heart explodes!” Izuku picked up the dwarf rabbit form the floor and placed her in her “cage”, does it count as a cage if she can get out whenever she wants? And pulled the bungee cords around to the edges of the base, just in case she decides she wants out. And placed the blanket over the top, leaving just a little bit open so she’d stay calm.
Shouto closed the bathroom door, and tried to ignore the screaming of his cat, she’ll calm down and fall asleep in the bathtub in like ten minutes, and really just wants cuddles, but goddamnit if hearing his baby scream didn’t hurt his heart.
“She’s not scared of Missy.” he leaned on the edge of the living room door, and looked at Izuku.
“Yea, but-” Izuku attempted to rebut Shoto’s claim but stopped when he saw Shoto’s cocked eyebrow.
“Izuku.” Shoto walked over to him and placed his hands on Izuku’s shoulders. “It’ll be fine. Is she can survive meeting the pure lick crazy energy that is Bakugou and Kirishima’s dog. She will survive the purring machine that is my cat.”
Izuku wrapped his arms around Shoto’s waist turning the reassuring speech, into a reassuring hug. “Your right. BUT! We are doing it through the cage first.”
“Fair enough”
The two just enjoyed the physical contact, for longer then most would, before separating to get their furbabies.
Izuku pulled the blanket off the cage fully and unhooked the bungee cords, and just hoped she wouldn’t open the cage door.
Shoto opened the bathroom door and was implicitly met with Callie rubbing on his legs and purring up a storm. He reached down and scooped her up and returned to the living room, only to see Izuku futilely attempting to reprimand Snuggles.
“Stop biting through the bungee cords! I swear! If you keep doing that I’m gonna have to switch to the heavy-duty ones! You’re only in it for like an hour at a time! You spoiled brat! Stop biting the bungee cords!” He shook the half of a bungee cord in his hand as he shook his finger at the dwarf rabbit.
Shoto snorted. “Wow, I never thought I would see a bunny look so uninterested.”
“She’s not uninterested, she’s just a brat.” Izuku crossed his arms, and reached into his “bunny bag”. A diaper bag that he got from a grocery store and uses to tote around all of Snuggles stuff. and grabbed a second bungee cord, putting it where the destroyed one had been.
Izuku looked at the cage and determined it was safe enough. Shoto put a hand on his shoulder, the only one not occupied by a headbutting cat, who wants all the cuddles damn it! “You ready Izu?”
Izuku nodded his head. “Yeah. I’m ready. This is fine! Okay! Yeah!” Izuku continued to ramble out various different ways to confirm, and Shoto smiles at it, years later and his rambling and muttering is still cute. How anyone could find it annoying bewilders him.
Shoto walks forward, Izuku right next to him, and placed Callie on the floor in front of the cage.
The cat walked forward and stared at the bunny.
Snuggles bit the Bungee cord. Callie headbutted the cage and flopped over next to it to scratch her head on the edge of one of the little nubs that held the wire bit down to the plastic base.
Izuku let out a sigh of relief, and Shoto just huffed at it, of course, she would just demand pets.
“Okay, that’s enough, I’m gonna let her out.” Izuku walked forward and unhooked the bungee cords, allowing Snuggle to immediately open her cage, slam the door onto Callie’s back, startling the cat, and then jump onto the cage door, further squishing the cat, and launch herself across the room, and began binkying on the carpet.
Shoto started laughing, “I- can’t- I-” he collapsed onto the ground in laughter. “You were so worried about Callie hurting her, but she just-” he gestured out the jumping motion. “Squish!”
Izuku joined in the laughter once it registered in his mind that Snuggle had in fact just used Callie as a trampoline. “Yea! She just-” he started laughing even harder. “Boing!” Izuku flung his arms up, still laughing.
Callie pouted over to them and stared at Shoto.
“Oh, I’m sorry!” Shoto picked her up with his hands firmly around her torso, and in proper cat fashion, she just dangled down like a limp noodle. “Did someone not enjoy getting used a tool? Now you know how I feel when you use me as stairs to get on the fridge!” Callie just stared at him a very unenthused expression on her face. Shoto pulled her forward so he was holding her like a baby. “Oh fine you spoiled brat, ill give you your cuddles.” she started purring as soon as the motion started.
Snuggles stopped with her binkies and hopped into Izuku’s lap. Izuku picked her up and held her to his chest with her feet down, he had read that you could paralyze Bunnies by putting them on their backs and straight (hah no) up refused to hold her like that since, but pictures of a younger him holding her feature her held like a baby frequently. “Snuggles want some snuggles? Huh?”
Shoto huffed a barely-there laugh, “I still can’t believe you named her that.”
“13-year-old me was weird okay!” Izuku retorted.
“Everyone is weird at 13, but not everyone is 19 with a bunny named Snuggles.” Shoto took his hand off of Callie’s belly and reached over to give Snuggles an affectionate head scritch between her ears, “A very adorable bunny named Snuggles.”
Izuku made an indignant sound. “You only like me for my rabbit!”
Shoto laughed, “No, I think her owner is 10x cuter, but the rabbit is a plus.”
Izuku’s face turned bright red, ”Shotoooooo!” he hid his face in snuggles fur.
“What? Can’t compliment my own boyfriend?” he hooked his finger in the only place he could get to without having to apply pressure on the bunny, Izuku’s chin, and lifted his head.
Izuku pouted at him. “Your boyfriend is easily flustered.”
“I know. It's cute.” Shoto leaned in and pecked Izuku on the lips and let Callie down, Izuku also sat Snuggles down.
The two became lost in their own worlds before Shoto suddenly jerked back.
“FUCK!” He yelled and jolted up.
“Huh? Wha? What’s wrong?” Izuku shakily got to his feet.
“I forgot about the live stream!” Shoto ran out of the room to the dining room and snatched his phone up and looked at the live chat.
A flurry of questions about the animals, and Izuku’s shout, as well as some of just pure confusion, and many wondering if he’d even come back, filled the screen.
Shoto quickly checked his hair in the reflection of his phone so he wouldn’t look to wild, and then continued the live.
“Hey everyone! Sorry, that took so long! I got a bit distracted…” Shoto shrugged his shoulders, and a quicky flurry of Lenny faces and other suggestive comments entered the chat.
“And now I believe I have a question to answer.” Shoto stood up and walked into the living room where Izuku was sitting with Snuggles in his lap, and Callie half in it as well. “But i think i would rather just show you then fail to explain them.
Shouto flipped to the back camera as Izuku looked up at him in shock, then quickly covered his face. “Shoto! I’m not ready!”
Shoto let out a breathy laugh. “First off as you can clearly see, we have my extremely adorable boyfriend, who of course is not a pet, though his hair is fluffy enough to fool you in the middle of the night.”
Izuku moved his fingers just enough to glare at Shoto through them. The chat had more than one “oddly specific” comment filling it.
“But in his lap you see,” Shoto zoomed into Snuggles, “His also very cute, dwarf rabbit Snuggles.” on hearing her name, Snuggles glanced up at the phone. Then went back to laying down.
“And attempting to finagle her way in, we have” Shoto moved the camera’s attention to Callie. “My spoiled brat. Callie.” a chain of: ‘rude!’, ‘CUTE’, ‘what genders are they?’ and others of the same genre filled the chat.
“I will call my cat as I like. And she is spoiled rotten, so stop calling me rude. I earned the right to do that the first time she used me as a ladder.” Shoto huffed then answered the question. “And they’re both girls.”
Izuku looked at Shoto a very defined pout on his face. Shoto couldn’t say no to that face. He flipped the camera back to the front and pushed his arm out for a better angle.
“So, now that that’s over, I once again am sorry for that very long break in between questions, but that’s my last one for the night! Good night everyone! I’ll aim to stream again sometime soon! Goodnight!” Shoto waved at the camera and turned off the stream. Sagging down while standing, and exiting out of the app.
He collapsed onto his side next to Izuku who looked at him with a fond smile. “I hate Live streaming.” Shoto Weakly grabbed Izuku’s shoulder and pulled it down so they were both laying on the floor.
“I know Sho.” Izuku discarded Snuggles to the side and pulled himself up so he straddled Shoto. Then leaned down and planted a soft kiss onto his lips and pulled away, Shoto attempting to follow him up with his own lips.
Izuku pushed himself up leaving Shoto sprawled on the floor. “I should probably go now.”
Shot grasped at his ankle when he attempted to walk past. “Nooooo! Come on! You have everything you need for you and snuggles, and you never sleep in the same room as snuggles anyway so you know she won’t get all upset if she doesn’t see you, and Callie’s always closed up in my room when we’re sleeping. C’mon!” Shoto pulled himself up and pouted at Izuku. “I wanna cuuudleeee~”
Izuku though it over and then nodded his head. “Yeah, your right. I’ll just call my mom and tell her I’m not coming home tonight.”
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Izuku smiled and sat himself down in between Shoto’s legs, snuggling down with the bowl of popcorn. “I love you Sho.”
Shoto placed a kiss on the top of Izuku’s head and started carding his hands through his hair, uninterested in the popcorn. “Love you too Izu.”
Callie and Snuggles were cuddled up right next to Shoto’s leg, Callie was carefully grooming Snuggles, and Snuggles was fast asleep.
The movie played idley and the family of two men, and their pets, slowly drifted off to sleep.