[Chapter:1][Family.]

In the midst of a heavy rain, two beings lock eyes.

A human girl, with light blue hair and eyes that looked like glittering sapphires.

A strange pink creature, with the body of a cat, the fur and tail of a wolf, and the eyes of a snake.

"So…you got abandoned too huh?"

"Nya…"

The human girl blinked her large eyes.

"Did you just…say yes?"

"Nya."

Seeing the pink creature nod, the girl chuckled.

"I was abandoned too, but now I live with my mom and big sister."

She seemed to be reminiscing of something pleasant, evident by the small smile on her face, before she turned back to the pink creature.

"Do you want to come with me?"

"Nya?"

The pink creature's eyes widened slightly. It raised its paws, pointing at itself, as if in disbelief.

"Yeah, you. I'm sure mom and big sis would like you too. Besides…"

The girls stretched her hands, making the pink creature back away suddenly. The two paused, the pink creatures looking at the human girl before it warily.

But the girl just smiled. A pure, beautiful smile.

"Mom likes kitties, and big sis has always wanted a wolf pup for a pet. And pink is my favourite colour. I even wanted to dye my hair pink but mom never allowed it."

She slowly approached closer, the pink creature letting it although still wary, and she picked him up gently.

"You look like a mix of both a kitty, and a wolf pup. And you're pink."

She gently embraced it.

"Don't you think you're just perfect for us, Nyanta?"

. . . . . .

Nyanta opens his eyes, which glowed a vibrant pink for a moment before they dimmed down.

His snake-like slit pupils look around, before he lets out an almost human like sigh as he found himself nearly crushed between three human bodies.

The smallest one, Rhianna or simply Rhi, whose flat chest he was using as his rather hard bed, thought she would probably smack him if she knew what he thought of it, is the one that appeared in his dream. A dream of his past, of the day he met her, of the day she named him, brought him back to her family, of the day he became a part of that family.

The one whose embrace he enjoyed the best is her and her big sister's mother, Aya. She is a beautiful woman with long, smooth violet hair and eyes that looked like bright amethyst. She is a gentle and kind lady, always doing her best for her two daughters and her 'son' as she likes to call him. Nyanta has no idea what she does for a living, since she spends most of not all her time at home, but he does she was filthy rich.

The most unique thing about her, however, isn't the fact that whatever she cooks ends up turning into poison of the deadliest variety, or that she was utterly hopeless at housework, or even that the last time she did something as simple as making a cup of tea, they had to buy a new house since their previous one literally exploded.

No, the most unique thing about her, in Nyanta's opinion, is her bust. Large, soft, kind of like marshmallows, and extremely comfortable to lie on.

Especially when she plunges him between her mountains, with only his head peeking out from her cleavage…oh, how heavenly it feels…

Nyanta quickly shook his head, sucking back the drool that almost spilled out of his mouth.

No matter how clumsy and outright disastrous she is at chores, she still did her best and never gave up. In fact, despite not being blood related, he was sure Rhi had inherited both of those qualities from Aya, both her clumsy airhead nature and her stubborn attitude of never giving up.

And she's scary when she needs to be. Nyanta still feels his fur rise in fear every time he recalls her expression the last time he went out for a walk and *cough* got lost in the way of life *cough* and ended up coming home way past midnight.

Then there's the one he likes messing with the most, the one who he was sure hates his guts almost as much as she loves him. Violet, named after her violet hair she likes to keep as a ponytail even though she looked much better when she lets it fall naturally, and her lovely violet eyes. Not really original, but she herself quite liked her name.

Meh, it way better than his own lame name, Nyanta thinks.

As for why she hates his guts…well, it all begins with the day Nyanta first learned the joys of pranking and trolling people.

He recalled it was from a show called 'Jujutsu Kaisen', an 'anime' that Rhi had showed him. He quite liked the character 'Gojo Satoru', especially how he trolled people.

So he tried it on Violet. The result? He found his first love.

Since then, not a day passed when Nyanta didn't prank Violet at least once, and similarly, not a day passed when she didn't try to murder the little pink creature.

The expression on their faces when they believe they were all but prepared for the prank, just to realise they were trolled instead…

Oh, Nyanta simply couldn't get enough of it!

Well, recently, he realised he had been running out of pranks, especially since Violet had been getting better and better at avoiding them, even though she failed spectacularly every single time…

And it's not like he could shift his focus to Rhi or Aya. Nyanta was certain the two wouldn't even realise they had been trolled. They were too air-headed for that.

"Nya~~!"

Thinking of his life till now, Nyanta let's out a cute, enthusiastic 'nya' as he stretches his body.

'Time to start the day!', he thinks as he jumps down off the bed, somehow crawling out of the trio's embrace which would have crushed any other kitty or puppy to death.

Reaching the door, he jumps, showing a surprising agility, leaping high enough to reach the lock and flips it open with his paw.

With his other paw, he catches the door knob, using his body weight as he falls to twist it, successfully opening the door.

Ignoring his achievement which would have made any human seeing it drop their jaws in shock, he walked towards the bathroom and begins freshening up.

Yes, you read right, Nyanta the kitty-pup, despite looking part kitty and part puppy, actually likes baths.

Especially dipping in the hot spring they ha behind their huge family mansion. Enjoying the warmth of the spring while plunged in between Aya's heavenly mountains, those luscious lumps of fat actually floating as they acted like his personal floating tube…

"Nya~~"

Even just thinking about it made him groan comfortable as he picked up the soap and began lathering his fur.

Seeing his pink fur properly lathered up, he rubs himself with his bath brush before plunging into the bath.

A few minutes of swimming later, his fur clean of all soap and dirt, he jumps out of the bath and shakes himself dry, which surprisingly works better than when he is wiped by a towel.

"Nya."

Done with his bath, he cleans up the bath area, before doing the unthinkable.

He walks to the basin, jumps up…

And starts brushing his teeth…

Normally, he does this before his bath, but he somehow forgot that day.

"Nyahahah."

Nyanta laughs at himself as he finishes brushing his teeth, before he walks out of the bathroom and back into the bedroom.

Looking at the trio still sleeping, he, again, let's out an almost human-like sigh, before he walks out and into the corridor.

He walks downstairs, and into the kitchen…

And then he starts cooking.

'Wash hands.', he thinks as he washes his front paws. They were dirty from his walking on all fours, after all.

'Walk on two.', he thinks as he walks just on his hind legs, and also making sure not to dirty his furry tail. It needed to be clean for him to use it, after all.

'Breakfast…how about traditional Japanese? We live in Japan anyway, and it's been a while…'

With his slit eyes narrowing lightly, he expertly jumps down from the basin, and walks to refrigerator on his hind legs alone.

Reaching it, he opens it, revealing large amounts of vegetables, different kinds of meat, and all kinds of perishables stuffed in orderly.

Picking the stuff he would be using, he starts to busy himself.

Washing vegetables…

Chopping vegetables…

Washing the meat…

Chopping the meat…

Lighting the stove…

Boiling the water…

Cooking soup…

Baking…

Washing the rice…

Using his tail to hold the ladle…

Around forty minutes later, the kitty-pup cooking show that would have made the brightest of scientists pull their hair bald ends with an assortment of delicious breakfast on the table, ready to be devoured by the gluttonous beasts that should just be waking up.

"Nya?"

'Strange, what's taking them so long?'

He had been cooking for a while now, and even though the three lazy women liked to sleep in, the fragrance of his food usually manages to rouse them up after a couple minutes.

They should have come down after brushing their teeth by now…

"Nya?"

Just then, Nyanta hears rapid footsteps approaching him from above. Looking at the stairs, he sees the little loli Rhi nearly stumble as she runs down.

"Nyanta!", she practically screams, her face glowing in excitement, her breaths hurried and her eyes wide and shining like she just found a new toy.

"Nya?"

Nyanta cutely tilted his head, confused.

'What made her so…'

He couldn't finish his thoughts as he saw the other two residents of the mansion, Aya and Violet, similarly hurry down.

'Ok, what?'

Nyanta's jaw nearly dropped to the ground at the sight of the normally easy going Aya looking nervous, worried, excited, alarmed, suspicious…

'Now even I'm getting worried…what even happened?'

"Oi Pinky!", Violet called him by the name she used to mock him.

"Is this another one of your pranks?"

Nyanta looked at her as though looking at an idiot.

'What are you talking about, woman? What reactions would I get from that sleepy face of yours when you haven't yet fed that bottomless pit you call a stomach?'

By then, Rhi had reached him, and she scooped him up and brought him into her embrace before showing him a…

'Smartphone? What the hell? This is what made her so excited?'

Nyanta practically had a question mark pasted over his face at that moment.

"Nyanta! Look! A Chat Group! A Dimensional Chat Group! Just like in those fan fictions!"

'…what?'

Nyanta gave her a blank gaze.

"She apparently found that smartphone floating in top of her, asking if she wanted to accept the invitation from a (Girls' Chat Group) or whatever."

Violet, seeing his confusion, explained, thought that only made him more confused.

'What the hell? A Chat Group? Like the ones in those harem fanfics written by horny humans?'

"By the time I woke up, she was shouting in excitement about it all. And she also apparently accepted it…"

It was the first time Nyanta saw Aya so genuinely worried. The mood infected him somehow, making his usually lazy and sarcastic nature turn serious for the first time in…a very long time.

"Oh! It looks like I'm the Admin!"

The trio, two women and a strange pink creature, turn towards the source of their current worries, and the girl in question looks at the smartphone in her hands in excitement before showing it towards the three.

"Look! It says I can get a free random reward from the Chat Group as the benefit of being the Admin! I wonder what I'll get…?"

And before the three could protest, she taps on 'continue', making a lottery wheel appear on the screen before it starts spinning.

""Rhi!""

"Nya…"

'Sigh…idiot…'