If you want to disclaim WotC/FR, there's Rakshasa.
Elder Scrolls has the Khajiit.
CJ Cherryh featured the hani in her Chanur novels.
Your world is largely anime-based, I suspect, and so Neko or some variant would probably work. It's also a generic enough concept that you wouldn't need to disclaim any specific fandom. Just be careful not to use uniquely identifiable content that would take your story out of Originals and put it back into a fandom.