"Chocolate pancakes! Chocolate pancakes!"

"Yeah! Chocolate pancakes! Make! Make!"

Two kids shouted as they jumped on the mattress, causing it to shake as the water inside the bed sloshed and yet unyielding against the kid's jumping and [M/N] blinked his eyes open, pretending that he was happy he could get up and easily make them breakfast then spend the day with them and being lazy.

At last, he could not.

"Come on!" Oswin complained as he tugged at his brother's hand and [M/N] groans before moving off the water bed, rubbing his eyes and stretched. "Birthday Pancakes!" Shouted their little sister, Athena or affectionately called Attie. [M/N] watched them rush out the door and their feet pounding upstairs, and their muffle talk upstairs. He shook his head as he rubbed his eyes and got up, he moved to use the bathroom then into the shower he went to clean himself up. He uses his dark towel over his head as he dries himself thoroughly before looking at himself in the mirror.

Dark eyebags clung under his lower lid, eyes a bit red from not sleeping and stubble. He wrinkled his nose, he hated stubble. He had nightmares and a night terror last night of himself being chased in a forest again as his name was being called, not sung, behind him by an unfamiliar voice. He knew who it was but didn't want to even think about them, not at all, not today.

"[M/N]!" Attie's voice called out, "Hurry up! I want my birthday pancakes before we have to go to Schoooool!" She complains as [M/N] sighs as he rubbed his eyelids.

"I'll be up in a moment!" He called back, " I still need to get dressed." [M/N] moved to grab the shaving cream off the shelf behind the mirror and his navy shaver before closing it and saw the clock blink behind him. His eyes glanced at it as he began applying the shaving cream before blinking as he saw the time.

"YOU GUYS WOKE ME UP AT 5:00 AM?!"

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The sound of pancakes sizzling on the skillet with brown dots of chocolate chips were slowly sinking into the batter of the pancake as the two kids rushed around upstairs to get dressed for School. [M/N] listened to the radio as he flipped the pancake, watching how it turns into a shade of golden brown along with the sizzle of chocolate chips hitting the skillet as well. Bacon was being fried in the air-fryer, the coffee brewing not too far from him. [M/N] was careful with how he poured the batter on the hot skillet especially since he had his work outfit on too.

"Is it done yet?" Oswin asked, sliding in the kitchen and stopping before he could hit the counter.

"No, but set the table." [M/N] says as Oswin groans before getting their plates, the napkins laid out, the forks and butterknives laid out on the table. [M/N] flops the pancake onto a nice plate and stacks them nice and big before placing it on the table. Oswin moved to get orange juice for him and Attie, as [M/N] heard the air fryer ding.

He got another plate for the bacon with a paper towel on it for the grease residue, he uses a fork to collect them as Oswin sits down, watching his brother just as he heard the sound of her coming down. He cranes his head to see her and he snickers, as she comes around the corner.

"You look...very batman." Oswin grins as [M/N] turns and nearly drops his fork seeing Attie wearing Oswin's old Halloween costume from when he was 8 years old, a bit big on her body but she used a bright yellow skirt over it, it had elastic in it so it was like a makeshift belt for her. She also wore black flats too and the bottoms of the costume rolled up a bit for her to not trip, and she wore the mask with the hood floating behind her. 

It's certainly a look.

A call from the school looked too.

"Okay, but you know you can't wear the mask," [M/N] says as he placed the bacon on the table as Attie walked to the table and she got into the chair with ease, "I can make your hair into bat ears if you want like batman's mask?" He offers as he placed a pancake on her plate and a piece of bacon as Oswin takes two of each and [MN] takes one of each for himself.

"I'm batman." Attie replies as [M/N] wanted to claw his eyes out, of course she would say it. 

"Yes, and batman's older brother has work today and doesn't need the headache of the school calling him." [M/N] says as she ignores him and began cutting her pancake by herself with the fork, adding some butter and syrup as Oswin snickers a bit. "You too, young man."

"What did I do?" Oswin complains. His eyes narrow to his brother's form as [M/N] sipped coffee, okay so maybe Oswin had done bad things at School but to be fair they keep bringing him back and believe him and his little white lies sometimes.

So, what if he released the science lab's frogs, turtles and two lizards and a spider. A big spider. That spider was still missing and he's still not allowed back in the science lab. Then the time he had rigged student body president because he didn't like either of the students and thought both of them were shit, as of now the student body president was some hamster since the votes were somehow not "didn't seem real" and then going to use the computer lab to change his C- in music to an A ++. To be fair, it sounded good for a ten-year-old, for an A ++, but apparently that isn't a thing which got him caught.

"Anything and everything you want with your grubby hands." [M/N] says as he eats and sipped his coffee.

"Hey!" Oswin whines as he stuffed bacon in his mouth.

"Where's my present?" Attie interrupts as she looked between the two, her green eyes gleam as she looked between the two still. "Where is it?"

"In a moment," [M/N] says as he looked to her as he glanced to her plate still having pancake on it, "You need to fins-" Attie stabs all the rest of her pancake with her fork and stuffs the fluffy cake into her mouth, chewing loudly and burps once it slides down her throat. "Finish your food." [M/N] sighs as he got up and rubbed his nape as he began walking out the kitchen.

"Oh boy! I hope it's what I think it is." She grins as she sipped her orange juice, as Oswin rolled his eyes at his sister, "Batman sees that."

"Batman should know that [M/N] didn't get her the present." Oswin replied with a huff, " You wouldn't even clean up after a cat."

"Yes, I can!" Attie responds bitterly, she can take care of a cat or kitten and how could she show off her amazing skills if she isn't given a cat to practice with? Amazing if her older brother gets her a cat. [M/N] comes around the corner with a big box, her eyes shine as she kicked her legs faster as Oswin watched, leaning on his hand as Attie looked like she was going to bust.

[M/N] carefully placed the box down in front of her as he said, "It took a lot of time picking one for you." He says as he starts his phone, opening it as he aims the camera as Attie grins, smiling as she opened the box as her expression falls slowly. She lifts the Batman action figure set, the expensive ones from Tokyo, the one that would not be playing, the one you have to carefully connect together and brush it with a weird brush.

His finger hits the button and the flash appears but his eyes narrow at the girl, his eyebrow raised as he puts his phone down. "I thought you wanted the expensive statues."

"I do, I did." Arttie says as she gently placed down the figure set into her box, as she closed the flaps. "But...I also wanted a cat."

"Athena, you know you can't take care of cats." [M/N] says to sooth her as he bends down, his eyes looking at her, he rubbed her back as he speaks. Oh, it broke his heart to deny her anything, Oswin too but he knew that the animals would just be a novelty for them, he knew Oswin and Athena from the back of his hand and knew that they would lose interest and make [M/N] take care of the poor pet. He didn't have the time to even give an animal that love. "Right now, you're pretty small and can't do a lot of things with a pet."

"But everyone in my class has a pet." Arttie replies, as [M/N] sighs gently. 

That and he hated animals, sure, some dogs are cute and he does like penguins but besides that? He hated them all.

"Maybe one day, okay?" [M/N] assures, "Maybe for your eighteen birthdays? I promise to buy you the fluffiest cat."

Arttie cheeks puffed but she nods as [M/N] got up, ruffling her hair.

One day, she'll get her cat, one day. 

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Ugh, where am I?

Toji's eyes opened, blinking wearily as he looked around or tried to, his body felt like lead and stiff. His eyes blinked again, glancing around as his head moved side to side. He was on something but he couldn't really get up, and this was no trick at all. He was alive and breathing, and with a body. He was not dead at the hands of that asshole, Gojo Satoru and his little bitch.

He tried to pick himself up but whatever he was on made it hard to get up and his eyes tried adjusting in the dark. He licked his lips a bit, wincing as his tongue felt heavy and like sand paper too, odd against his lips, but also noticed he had to shave because apparently his body decided to grow facial hair while he was dead.

Toji's tail flickers in annoyance; first of all, he never wanted to come back at all, not even if Megumi and Tsumiki summoned him or even prayed for him to visit using some cheap ass quija board. Another thing was that he was content being in the dark, there was no heaven or hell, he was content being dead without the need to worry about how he would feed the kids, how he would use the money without going to the horses or greyhounds. Toji was freed dead.

Wait..Tail? Huh?!

Toji looked behind him, and he slowly moved and his eyes narrow dangerously with a loud yet raspy hiss as he saw a tail flickering behind him. He did not ask for this, he did not ask for this shit, no fucking way was he a fucking-mouth breathing-furball-nut having-ass breath having-fuzzy paw- ugly looking-cat.

He kept hissing as his tail flickers as he slowly stands, wobbly and knew to the body but then something shifted under him, way under him and his eyes finally adjusted to the dark.

"Ow, Ow, Ow, something's on my leg." A whiny voice says at the very bottom and Toji rolled, landing on his feet to see another cat but possibly ghost of a person who died and yanked back to life. "Wait...that's not my leg."

"That's your tail, Yuji." Another voice, Toji felt it was familiar.

"Hahh?!" Yuji's scream made other people groan and Toji then noticed what he was on top, there were other fuckers in the box. What a sick joke this was? "I'm a cat?! HOW?!"

"Shut up!" A female voice snapped, "I'm trying to sleep! You're too fucking loud Yuji!"

"Nya~" A voice called out and then a whine, "Ow! Nanami~"

"You do that again and I will ripe your tail off." Nanami sneered somewhere in the box.

"Tuna? Tuna?"

"Yeah, where is Panda?"

"It's so loud in here." Another voice speaks up, familiar too and Toji's tail bristled as there was a silent gasp.

"Choso?!" Yuji gasped, as there was movement of the mountain of cats shifted and as Toji knew, they began falling. He could see the fluffy pink? cat was all over a brown one, his body moving over Choso's, "You have a nub tail! Lucky."

Toji rolled his eyes as he listened to them before his ears perked up, hearing movement outside and he pressed his ear against the box. There was muffled talk outside, and from what he could hear, it was children. His tail flickers, fuck his tail he could not get used to at all. He licked his lips, feeling his fur when he felt a heated gaze behind him. He slowly turned his head and in darkness he could see another cat watching him and he stared back.

The cat hissed and then the light came on.

The many eyes looked up, seeing two children with wide eyes. It was quiet for a few moments, as nobody moved, spoke or even hiss. 

"Arttie.." The boy says, warning but Arttie's eyes never leaves the kitties before a large grin came to her lips.

"My birthday breakfast wish came true!" The little girl shouts, "I got my wish!"

"You asked for one cat, not almost a dozen." The boy replies.

It didn't matter as the little girl was focusing on them all, eyes wide and happy. Then to seal their fate, there was a loud meow of all.

"Nya! Nya~"

GOJO SHUT THE HELL UP

Most of the cats thought.