you were looking around for Kyojuro, you two were going to train together. While searching you saw a small cat with gold hair with red tips and gold eyes with red irises.

”meowww!!”

he was adorable! He allowed you to pet him too! Then Shinobu wakes up to you and told you that that’s Kyojuro and by accident she turned him into a cat. It would only last for a few weeks though. Shinobu forced you to be the one to care for him. But that’s alright