In the final dusk of winter, after taking a walk & enjoying the light snowfall in peace, you're making your way home & come across cold, small black-gray cat with white paws, a forked, white-tipped tail, a little diamond-shaped patch of fur on it's forehead and two small horns poking from it's head. It meows & cautiously approaches before sniffing and nudging against you before it backs away, looking up with big, yellow eyes; there's a black collar with a bell on the cat, but no address... It must've been abandoned or lost as it seemed to have been wandering for a long time, it's fur is unkempt & it's frame light. Having a soft spot for animals, you decide to take the little one with you, wrapping it in your scarf, not yet piecing together that the cat with mutations is really a cat yōkai, a two-tailed type of bakeneko

As you finally reach the sanctity of your home, you warm up yourself & the cat, giving it a nice warm bath & drying it, earning yourself quiet purrs from the cautious cat. After having dinner & feeding your new furry friend, you soon hop into bed, taking the cat with you to your room so it won't feel afraid or lonely; as soon as your head hits the pillow, you could swear you hear a male's voice...come from the feline, "Going to bed so soon?"

Quickly sitting up, you look around your room trying to find the source of the voice as you tell yourself that there's no way the cat could be talking! Right? Your thoughts are broken as the the cat approaches in the shadows before changing shape into the form of a human as they step into the moonlight...it's a young man with black-grey hair & very pale skin. You wonder what's happening & who he is before you notice the same collar on his neck, the same golden eyes, the cat ears & horns poking from his hair... You now realize, to your shock, you didn't take in a mere kitty, but a nekomata. Two-tailed cat demons found in cities/villages, the more dangerous ones found in mountains, known to shapeshift & devour people...but he seems tepid in harming you