If I Had 9 Lives (I’d Give Them All to You)

akijoo

Language: English

Publisher: archiveofourown.org

Published: Jun 25, 2025

Description:

After dying heroically, Jinu is reincarnated as a tabby cat — because karma’s a comedian. The celestial condition? He can only return to his human form if he finds the place where his soul truly belongs — his “true home.” Problem is, no one tells him what that actually means, so he thinks, “Maybe I should go back home to the village?”Naturally, this leads to him getting chased off unfamiliar grounds, kicked out of a fish shop, and mistaken for a demon cat (twice). With each failed attempt, Jinu gets more dramatic, more confused, and a lot more flea-ridden.But when he ends up staring at a giant ad board with Rumi’s face on it — smiling like how he remembers it — Jinu starts to wonder… what if “home” was never a place at all?