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TITLE: Meet my cats /ᐠ - ˕ -マ Ⳋ
Kenma is sitting on the couch petting a white cat on his lap. The sun is coming in through a window somewhere, bathing the living room in a nice, yellowish light that shines on the wooden floors. He waves to the camera with his free hand.
“Hey everyone, Kodzuken here with, yet again, another video in which I profit from you insatiable interest to stuck your noises on my private life”
Shoyo’s laugh is audible from behind the camera. Jump cut.
“For some reason, you guys seem to associate cats with me a lot. I'm not complaining, cats are nice and I really like them. I’m actually a cat person, and I have three of them that I’ll be introducing to you guys in this video”
Jump cut. The image is now black and white, kind of a parenthesis in the introduction.
“Although if you follow me on Instagram and Twitter, you probably have the privilege to see them every day because I’m always posting photos of them”
“Like a proud mom”
Jump cut. The image is back to normal.
“Starting with this lady right here” Kenma nods towards the small ball of pristine white fur on his lap “Her name is Lily, and she was my first ever pet. I adopted her as soon as I moved out from my parents’ house, a couple of years ago now”
A photo of an even smaller version of the cat appeared on one side of the screen.
“She is a pretty lady, so–”
A fake caught sounded behind the camera.
“Spoiled brat”
“Watch what you say about my daughter, Shoyo, she’s been living in this house longer than you”
Jump cut.
“As I was saying, Lily is an angel and has never done a single thing wrong in her whole life. She’s also clingy as hell, and follows me around the house all day to sit on my lap or lay in bed with me. And she does this whenever I push her to stand up”
Kenma uses his hands to lift Lily from his lap, placing a kiss between her ears before pulling her down on the couch and standing up. The camera focuses on the cat’s offended expression as she miaws to demand Kenma’s attention again, even though the human hasn’t looked away from her yet.
“Spoiled princess” Shoyo says behind the camera when Kenma leans down to pet her head again.
Jump cut. Now Shoyo is the one on frame, standing in the middle of the living room.
“Go on, call her” Kenma orders.
“Mocha!”
Seconds after Shoyo’s call, a fat looking brown cat appears from the hallway with lazy movements to meet him, rubbing her body against his extended hand before dropping to the floor and showing her belly.
“This cat’s survival instincts are so dead” Kenma says.
Jump cut. Now both Kenma and Shoyo are sitting on the floor showering the brown cat with affection. Lily is back on Kenma’s lap, occupying his other hand.
“Everyone in this house is so clingy” Kenma comments before turning back to the camera “This is Mocha, our second cat. We got her a bit after Shoyo came back from Brazil and moved in with me. She goes from sun spot to sun spot around the house to sleep, but gets up to greet Shoyo when he arrives from practise because he is her favorite”
On the side of the screen, a photo of Mocha sitting in front of the entrance door appears. Is clear that the picture was taken by Kenma, showing how the cat waits for Shoyo to arrive everyday
“She is also the first one to actually be ´ours´ too. Kenma adopted Lily before we were dating, so I’m only a step father”
“You do a well enough job”
“Thank you”
Jump cut.
“Can we end the video here?”
“Come on Kenma, it would be mean to leave him out”
“He is a menace”
“He is… special”
Kenma rolls his eyes before looking straight into the camera and pushing a notebook from the table to the floor, making a loud crashing sound. Immediately, the sound of claws scratching against the floor appears accompanied by a flash of orange that stops right at Kenma’s feet to bite the edges of the notebook. Kenma looks up to the camera unimpressed.
“This is the youngest and most mental part of our family, Limão. We adopted him a couple of months ago, after I found him on the street one day”
“The name means ´lemon´ in portuguese, and we choose it because Kenma said that his chaos goes above a orange cat, so he is a yellow cat”
Limão rips a small piece of paper from one of the pages of the notebook.
“I stay on what I said. This cat is insane” Kenma squats down and pets the cat’s head, earning a purring and a playful bite “But he’s funny, and I can’t imagine our house without him. It would be far too peaceful”
“You love him"
“Only a heartless asshole would hate a cat”
Jump cut. Kenma is back on the couch with Lily on his lap. Besides him, Shoyo pets Mocha, who is lying against his leg on the couch. Limão is on the couch backrest scratching the furniture with his claws. A white text appears in the bottom of the screen saying ´the traditional family God created´ with a sparkle mp3 sound effect.
Jump cut. The text is gone.
“So anyways, that makes it three. If it was up to me, we would have more, but Shoyo doesn’t let me
“I just don’t want to load you up with the responsibility of another pet. You already take care of the three of them most of the time since you work from home”
“They’re good company, I don’t mind taking care of them. Except when Limão needs a pill, that's torture”
Shoyo giggles and kisses Kenma on the cheek.
“When I retire from playing volleyball professionally, we can have the seven cats you want"
“Really?”
There’s a spark of innocent excitement in Kenma's eyes for a second. Shoyo kisses his face again.
“Really”
Kenma turns back to the camera.
“See you guys in a couple of years with part two, then”
The screen goes black
A bubble appears linking Shoyo's channel on the left, and a link to Kenma’s Boyfriend Tag on the left.
COMMENTS
kodzufan: i feel so old, i was already a subscriber back when Lily was a kitten!!
harukii: I. WANT. NINE. CATS.
pricotann: this is so domestic and wholesome!! i hope you guys can keep showing us this bits of your privacy, it's really cozy