Prompt! If you wanna. :) “I may have accidentally sort of adopted five DOGS.” Kougino!
Kougami expected to come back to the apartment to find Ginoza reading peacefully, or watering his plants, or (most likely) sitting on the couch with Dime attempting to do the work he really wasn’t supposed to be doing until his shift started the next day.
When Kougami opened the door, he thought he’d walked into a kennel instead of his home.
Two small dogs and three medium-sized ones rushed towards him, and he shut the door before they could rush past. Three of them jumped on him, knocking him back, and all of them were barking.
He saw Ginoza stand up from where he’d been on the couch, Dime at his side.
Ginoza looked sheepish. He never looked sheepish. There was dog hair all over his green sweater, which suggested that all of the dogs that had attacked Kougami had been on the couch with Ginoza moments before.
“I may have adopted five dogs,” Ginoza told him.
Kougami’s jaw dropped, and for once he couldn’t think of a single word to say. He panicked, just a bit, wondering how they were going to take care of the five furry things all vying for his attention in addition to the huge wolf-monster that was Dime. Fur everywhere, dogs dragging him down the street, night barking.
Ginoza started laughing, almost doubling over. He hadn’t laughed like that for a while, and it snapped Kougami out of his panic-induced vision.
“Gino!” he snapped again.
Ginoza pressed his hand over his mouth to stifle his laughter and straightened up. “Sorry,” he gasped, “but the look on your face. This is for all the problems you give me.”
“What is this?” Kougami asked.
“I just agreed to watch the dogs for the night,” Ginoza told him. “I’ll take them back on the way to work tomorrow. But they are lovely, aren’t they?”
Two of them were still pawing at Kougami’s pants. “They’re something.”
He went to get changed, and when he was more comfortable he came back into the living room. Ginoza was reading, curled up against Dime as he often did when he wanted comfort. But this time, five other dogs were surrounding him, one with its head resting on Ginoza’s shoulders, two sharing his lap, another curled against his other side, making some sort of furry nest of warmth. Ginoza looked half asleep and the small smile on his face told Kougami that it had been a day off very needed and well spent.
He didn’t even mind that when he sat next to Ginoza on the couch, one of the dogs chose his lap as the perfect place to nap.