Chapter 278: Not enough fluffy


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Partner, wake up.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Kazuya’s eyes fluttered open at Nami''s gentle touch. She sat by the bedside, her divine form partially eclipsing the moon’s glow from the window. On any other night, he would have whooped Nami’s ass for this disruption. But tonight... Tonight, he had granted her special privilege to ruin his sleep.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Nami’s fingers traced his forehead, her smile soft in the dim light. “Unohana won’t say no to me. I could go in your ce.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I have to do it myself.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">As he attempted to rise, he found himself anchored by Yoruichi’s arm draped across his chest. She clung to his side like she wouldn’t let go no matter what. He may have dragged her into the bed, but she liked using him as her plushie more than he did, at least during her sleep.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Nami snickered. “She does that after rejecting a rtionship for the hundredth time. Partner, I know the best way to convince Yoruichi. Push her down and tame her with your D.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Easy now,” he said, running his fingers through Yoruichi’s hair, trying to ease her into letting go. “She lived all her life without romance. She needs more time to adjust.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Even Yoruichi could no longer deny her feelings for him. She just needed a little more time to grow ustomed to this dynamic, where she was more than just a friend to someone.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Pet,” she whispered as her eyeszily opened. “Pet...” With another mumble, she nuzzled into his chest, and her breathing grew soft. She had drifted back to sleep in thefort of his, or rather her ‘Pet’s’ presence.


    <span style="font-weight:400">This wasn’t the first time he had seen Yoruichi’s Hollow taking over during the night. She left herself too vulnerable when she slept by his side, a typical habit of cats relying on others in the group to keep an eye out for threats.


    <i><span style="font-weight:400">‘This cute little thing.’</i>


    <span style="font-weight:400">Although his first meeting with her Hollow was far from great, he had warmed up to her cute antics. He didn’t mind its presence as long as it acted within its boundary, which was never attempting a forced possession of Yoruichi’s body.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Release me and go to sleep,” he whispered in Yoruichi’s cat ears, and her right ear twitched in response. “I said release me and go to sleep.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Yoruichi’s Hollow sumbed to the power of charm and loosened her grip around him. He gently disentangled himself from her arms and stepped off the bed before draping a nket over her.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Nami wrapped her arms around his waist, ncing up at him from her seated position. “Someone learned to tame bad kitties. Or should I say baddies and kitties?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Both works,” he said with a faint smirk. “Do you wanna be tamed too?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Haha. Partner truly looks the most charming when abusing your natural gifts.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">He stroked her hair affectionately. “I thought I had a weird fetish, but you’re in a league of your own.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">She dismissed hisment with a soft giggle. Standing up, she reached up and unbuttoned his shirt with a deliberate slowness. “I like every side of Partner. But if I had to pick... I’ll go with a moderate evil version with a bnce of smarts and violence.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Oh? Which version am I currently ying?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“The good guy, of course.” Nami looked away with a pout that looked oundishly adorable on her regal face. “You haven’t been evil ever since you entered the Soul Society... there was that fight with Byakuya. It was an exception, not the norm.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">He patted her back in the mostforting way. “It’s just the circumstances that made me. I’ll be plenty evil for you in the future. Now, can you watch over Yoruichi while I’m gone?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Babysitting feral kitties isn’t exactly my forte, Partner.” She nced at the sleeping Yoruichi and shook her head. “She is so unreasonable. I’d be really down if she was cute, fluffy, and meowie-wowie. Gosh, I’m gonna have to wait another few centuries to find a little catgirl pillow. I’m talking about your daughter with her, Partner.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">She got along exceptionally with Yoruichi, however, the same couldn’t be said for Yoruichi’s Hollow. The feral entity had only one person in its eyes — her Pet. The rest of the world may as well be invisible to her senses.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Kazuya nted a kiss on Nami’s cheek. “You’re the alpha of Hollows. The future God Empress. How can you let a feral cat intimidate you?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Her eyes widened as she realized her uncharacteristically spineless behavior. She took his hands and ced them on her cheeks. A smile bloomed on her face. “I know you’re tantly manipting me into this… but I can’t help it, you know. Yourpliments fill to the brim with joy… and also, my title is ‘Destined Empress of Heavens’ now.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">He leaned down and pressed his lips against hers. A brief contact of their lips was all it needed to make her grin ear to ear with confidence.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I’m gonna get ready then, current Empress of Happiness.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">The title got a good chuckle out of her. “Go without worry, for I, Izanami-no-Makoto shall protect this kitten with my very life.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">He shed her a thumbs up gesture before heading towards the bath.


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