Disclaimer: Neither Yu Yu Hakusho or Ranma 1/2 belong to me, and I make no money from this work of fanfiction at all.

A/N: As this is more or less humor, expect some OOC though I will try to keep them vaguely IC. NO promises. Ties in with my other YYH fic, Junior.

            Hiei kept his claws sunk into Kuwabara's blue uniform tightly, watching everything from his view just below the red head's ear. He was going 'home' now, and was still not completely sure why he was doing this.

            Okay, the idiot had been more worried about him than about his own transformation, at least at first. Yeah, and it was his fault (though he would hotly deny it if asked) that they both were cursed, though the oaf was as much at fault.

            Really.

            Thus, Hiei was now a house pet.

            "Hey, what did you drag home this time?" slurred a drunken voice, and Shizuru, Kuwabara's older sister and oracle, got up to stagger over and peer at the small creature cuddled next to his neck. She stared at Hiei with a gaze that would slice concrete- then started laughing.

            "What's so funny about Hoshi-chan?" Kuwabara sounded hurt.

            "Nothing, nothing," she sputtered, looking away. Hiei had the terrifying realization that she could see through whatever curse was on him. Kuwabara, with his love and trust of kittens, had not expected to see something different. "You just have a very, very cute pet..."

            Kuwabara growled in exasperation, but he gently pinched Hiei at the scruff of his neck, causing a very surprised kitten to curl up into a ball as he was put on the floor. The cursed demon scampered away, his hindquarters, due to his immature form deciding about halfway across the room to fall over, and made both ningens laugh.

            "What happened to you THIS time, little bro?"

            The tears that had been following Kuwabara didn't resurface, but he sighed and hunched his shoulders. Going over to the sink, he got a cup, put some cool water in it and dumped it over his head.

            Shizuru stopped laughing.

            Carefully, she walked over to a chair, sat down- and started laughing so hard tears started streaming down her cheeks. Then the chair fell over- and she was still laughing.

            "SHIZURU!" Kuwabara squeaked loudly, her female voice now making the squeak nearly unbearable to listen to.

            "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! NOT!" she kept laughing.

            Kuwabara stared at her, about to take a swing- then turned around and left, crying and locked herself into the bathroom.

            "Well I'll be damned... he really has turned into a girl!"

            She then proceeded to laugh herself sick.

~*~*~*~*~*~

            Hiei watched Shizuru continue to laugh, tail twitching and going around to sniff everything available. His kitten instincts scented another cat around, and he wanted to find her before she found him. His thoughts were interrupted, however, but a soft trill.

            Blinking, he looked around, the smell of the other cat getting stronger. Then a large, plump orange feline landed in front of him, headed tilted curiously.

            Hiei arched his back, getting ready to hiss and turn sideways to hop away, when the cat trilled at him again. Despite himself, he relaxed, and the cat got close enough for them to bump noses. They breathed in each other's faces, and the large orange cat- Hiei thought her name was Eikichi- abruptly bit the scruff of his neck.

            Under normal circumstances... Hiei would have freaked out. However, the kitten body went obediently limp, head cocked to the side, looking nearly broken while his legs and tail curled up while he was carried away.

            He wanted to struggle, wanted to leave... However, the giant cat had decided otherwise, and then Eikichi trotted into someone's bedroom, and to Kuwabara's bed, and he found himself deposited into the blankets.

            Then to his everlasting astonishment- Eikichi started to give him a bath. He tried to get away, only to then be cuffed on the head, and again, his kitten body reacted. It told his instincts that he had been bad and his dam was going to give him a bath whether he liked it or not.

            A soft chuckle told him he was being watched.

            "Ah, its okay Hoshi-chan, Eikichi does that with every orphan I bring home. She's a good dam," Kuwabara said, and went over to rub the kitten under the chin. Hiei found himself submitting to the caress, because 'his dam' was watching, and then his ears were tugged gently, rubbed... and he nearly fell over purring so hard.

            Kuwabara had a towel wrapped around his waist, flushed and damp from his bath, and was rubbing his short shock of carrot hair dry. Then he dropped his waist towel-

            Hiei whipped his head around in shock. What the hell was he doing-

            He was a kitten, he realized. Cats don't give a damn if someone is nude or not. They don't really care that this particular human was... well hung...

            The red-eyed kitten wished he could roll his eyes, but had to settle for swishing his tail violently. He did NOT just think that. Not about the oaf.

            Kuwabara had dressed in boxers and muscle shirt and headed over to the bed, giving both cats a good petting. Hiei tried to wiggle out of this, but was stopped again by his new dam. Gently scooped up into Kuwabara's hands, he stared at the giant in front of him... who was now wiggling around on his futon, and then settled the kitten down where it would be comfortable.

            The light next to his bed was clicked out, and Hiei was left, very confused, thinking about how things were going to go from then on.

~*~*~*~*~*~

            He was unafraid.

            He was mighty, his claws long and his teeth sharp.

            With a defiant butt wiggle, Hiei the kitten followed his kitten instincts, springing out from under the covers at the foot of Kuwabara's futon to wrap his furry legs and claws into the red haired ningen's ankle and biting the holy hell out of it.

            "YEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOWWWW!"

            Kuwabara was NOT happy. "Hoshi-chan! Bad!"

            He continued ankle biting. He was then tapped smartly on the head with a loud "NO!"

            Hiei stared in astonishment as his instincts told him that he had done something horrible and that the pride leader would punish him now. This caused the kitten to run back under the covers, looking at him with shock.

            Watching his human, Hiei saw him go to the bathroom, splash himself with cold water, and then heard a feminine yelp as he forgot his curse. He tended to do that, Hiei noted.

            I need to get out of here, the fire demon thought, wishing he could frown. I'm starting to really act like a cat. Its fun to annoy the oaf but he knows all of the counters.

            Of course, there was the matter of getting out without clothing. His own was scattered two and fro... And that Shizuru obviously knew that Hiei wasn't a kitten. Those were things to ponder after he had his shape back.

            The oaf changed back to himself with hot water, then into his blue school uniform, and made to leave.

            Looking around frantically, the tiny kitten spotted Kazuma's school satchel. It was plain brown and half empty- it was a Saturday and that meant only half a day of classes. Skittering across the floor, for once his fore and hindquarters cooperating, he scrambled into the open bag and dived under some of the books.

            He got there just in time, because a half second later, Kuwabara had closed the bag, and whistling, set out for classes. Too bad he couldn't whistle on any particular tune…

~*~*~*~*~*~

            The sun was shining brightly for the first time in days, bathing the back of a cheerful tall redhead as he walked briskly to school.

            The rain the previous night had washed out the pollution from the air, and left it smelling clean, it was cool and not humid yet, and he was halfway to school-

            When a tractor trailer rig drove by, spattering him, now her, with dirty water.

            Kazuma wanted to cry, but settled for cursing. She didn't realize how cute she looked, wet and bedraggled as she was. Of course, the local gang whose territory she was walking through to get to school, noticed immediately.

            Trudging along, she didn't notice the group of schoolboys until they had ringed around her. The way they were looking at her had her baffled. No one had ever leered at her like that… It should be noted that a masculine self-image kept Kuwabara from realizing what the boys were doing. Not her fault really.

            You try being an aquatransexual. It'll play with your head, too.

            "Hey, sweetie, what's a pretty girl like you doing in a place like this?" asked the head thug- who looked oddly familiar with his glasses. It took Kuwabara even longer to realize that the punk was talking to her. She kept looking over her shoulder.

            She didn't even realize the boys were starting to circle closer until one of them howled in pain- and Kazu-chan realize that Hoshi-chan was hanging from the crotch of the head thug- having sunk his teeth and claws into the material as hard as he could.

            "LEAVE HOSHI-CHAN ALONE!"

            Charging at the boy, Kazu-chan was about to beat his teeth out, when a green clad intruder started knocking heads. Between the two of them, the gang was out in seconds.

            Hoshi-chan had taken a glancing blow to the skull and was currently trying to make the world stop being double, when Kazu-chan picked him up and started cuddling.

            "What the hell did you do that for?" she snarled, getting up into Yuusuke's face, nearly spitting. "It was my fight!"

            Yuusuke, expecting to be thanked, nearly fell backwards. Putting his hands up, he answered. "EASY! Hey lady, I was just trying to help! I mean, really! What was I supposed to think- a girl being surrounded by a gang? Should I have just walked away?"

            This made Kuwabara pause. Maybe it was the lack of testosterone, but she was able to think about what Yuusuke said instead of being offended by being called a lady. She knew from experience that Yuusuke had trouble hurting girls and that he would go out of his way to help one… Keiko usually. Then she was abruptly aware of how close they were- and she felt suddenly shy. She didn't see the red across her cheekbones, but Hiei DID.

            "Who are you? I mean, I haven't seen you around here before," Yuusuke said, trying to fill in this bizarre pause.

            "Kuwabara," Kazu-chan answered without thinking, then her eyes tried to bulge out of her head, trying to cover her slip.

            "Kuwabara... uh, Kasumi!"  Kazu-chan tried to cover up her lapse, sputtering.

            "Nice to meet you," Yuusuke grinned, and Kuwabara blushed more, stuttering back. "Are you related to Kuwabara Kazuma?"

            Kuwabara is… Kuwabara is… Hiei blinked in surprise. Did the baka ningen LIKE Urameshi?

            "He's, uh- my cousin!" Lying was dishonorable, but she COULDN'T let Urameshi know who she really was!

            Urameshi suddenly had his face full of hissing, biting and scratching kitten, trying to rip his face off.

            "FUCK!" he shouted, and pulled the koneko off his face before tossing it away. The cat yowled in anger, before Yuusuke turned to look back at the pretty new girl.

            "YOU HURT HOSHI-CHAN!" Kazu-chan howled- and unleashed Keiko's Slap of Righteous Fury.

            Yuusuke's face was soon imbedded in the sidewalk while Kuwabara walked away, nose in the air, hugging a very smug kitten. And for the first time…

            Kazuma Kuwabara had defeated Yuusuke Urameshi.

~*~*~*~*~*~

            Hiei didn't know why he'd been so angry with Urameshi. He just didn't like the idea of his human looking at another human like that.

            Hold it… his human?

            Hoshi-chan had marked Kuwabara as his territory. Even as a young tom he could do that, and Kuwabara was HIS.

            This whole kitten thing was getting to him, he realized, even as he changed back to his normal short self and stole a set of overalls. He'd run away from Kuwabara earlier- and Kuwabara didn't stop him, because "Hoshi-chan" had done it before and come back.

            Running off, Hiei tried to find his clothes. His 'good' set was at the bottom of the spring in China. His other set was in the woods, near Genkai's. Hopefully they would still be there.

            When he arrived, Yukina was smiling to herself, sitting in the garden and sipping tea.

            "Hello, Hiei-san!" she chirped brightly. "Did you hear? I'm getting a new student!"

            Hiei blinked. "Yes I did."

            "I don't know her name yet, but she is supposed to have a lot of potential, and I am looking forward to teaching what I know to someone."

            Hiei didn't answer, just walked away.

            Splash!!!

            "Oh, Hiei, I didn't see you there," Genkai deadpanned, looking at the kitten, shaking itself to get rid of the water. She was holding a mop bucket.

            Genkai walked away, and Hiei mewed in surprise as Yukina, who squealed in delight, scooped him up.

            "What an adorable kitten!"

            It was then that Hiei realized the water Genkai had thrown out was clean, and she had stolen his clothes…

            That bitch… And he was being smothered by cuteness!

To be continued!