Author's note: Hey guys! Welcome to my first ever fanfic! I hope this isn't too bad for a first timer, and please do review for any error or improvement you guys have came up with! My grammar is definitely super bad, but I hope it's at least somewhat enjoyable to read my fanfic! Cato/Katniss is probably my favorite OTP, since they are just so adorable together the way I pictured it! So after reading countless Catoniss fanfics (almost all of the ones posted on ), I have finally decided to write my own! Enjoy!

Chapter One: Meeting

Cato Larson was not having a great day.

First his mother dragged him out of bed at 7 o'clock to go visit district 12 with his dad, because apparently his dad has business there and also wants to introduce Cato to his best friend's family. Cato for one has no idea why on earth would father's best friend live in district 12 out of all places, or why his father is friend with someone living in that poor district, because he learned in school that district 12 is a scum district and only scums lives there. However when he voiced that thought to his parents at breakfast, he was scolded by them both and had to cut his breakfast short due to his rudeness.

Then he had to spend 5 whole boring hours in a bedroom on the train to district 12, because his father is still mad at him for what he said during breakfast and didn't call him down for lunch.

Now he has arrived at the dirty district that's covered in coal dust, hungry and still bored, just waiting for his father to finish whatever business he had in the dark mine. Sitting by the entrance of the mine, he thought it's a bit unfair that his father was mad at him for speaking the truth of this horrible horrible horrible district, didn't let him eat dinner, and left him outside of the mine bored out of his mind.

So Cato decided to go and look around this district, though there really is nothing to look at, but it's still better than sitting here looking a coal dust. As he walked around the town of district 12, he is amazed by how small it is and how the shops are all plain and ordinary with no flashy lights or signs in front of shops. But he soon begin to realize that many people are staring at him for his nice cloth, shiny blonde hair that's been spiked up by hair gel, and icy blue eyes that differ from most of the dark blue ones in this town. He soon became irritated at been stared at like something on display, especially by those scum people living in a scum district, and picked out places with less people to walk to. Soon he discovered that he is in an area with houses that looks even smaller and shabbier than the houses he just saw, and the ground are covered in an even thicker layer of coal dust, which disgusted him to no end. To his relieve, he saw a beautiful meadow and an endless sea of dark green forest beyond some wire fence not far from where he is standing. He thought hard about weather or not it's illegal to cross that fence, since his teacher said that the fence signals the end of an district, and going beyond the outline of an district is illegal, but there is no fence around district 2 and Cato's father always takes him to the woods outside of district 2 to teach him about how to use a sword and prepare him for training in the academy, so it must be legal to go to the woods in this district too. With that in mind, Cato walked toward the fence and crawled through the first hole he could find and made a dash for the forest beyond the beautiful meadow. Walking through the forest, Cato realized that it's very different from the forest back in district 2, for one this wood is a lot denser than the one back home and there are a lot more noisy bird that won't stop chirping. The chirping was really getting on his nerve when suddenly all the bird stopped and a beautiful voice started to sing not far ahead of where he is. Cato stopped his trek into the unfamiliar forest and listened to the sweet voice of a little girl, and he thought that girl must be beautiful if she possess a voice like an angle. The voice was beautiful, but a bit too soft from where Cato is standing, so he quietly begin his trek again and listen hard to the words the voice is singing. Then he heard the sweetest lyric he has ever heard in his entire life.

Deep in the meadow, under the willow

A bed of grass, a soft green pillow

Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes

And when you awake, the sun will rise

Here it's safe, here it's warm

Here the daisies guard you from harm

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true

Here is the place where I love you

As the song nears the ending, Cato found himself walking closer and closer towards a tall and old tree, and on top of a sturdy branch stands a tiny girl with long and wavy mahogany hair, sun kissed olive skin, beautiful face that seems unearthly and a pair of warm smoky grey eyes that snapped to Cato as soon as he approached the tree.

"Hello, my name is Cato Larson, I'm 8 years old now. And I think you sing beautifully!" yelled Cato to the little girl who he has deemed an angle up in the tree.

"Hi, my name is Katniss Everdeen, I'm only 7 years old, and thank you!" yelled Katniss "Why are you here? You are not supposed to be here in the woods! It's illegal! Wait where are you from? I've never seen you in the district before."

"Well do you know everyone in the district?" Cato begins to chuckle at her question, she couldn't possibly know everyone in this district, he doesn't even know everyone back in district 2, and Cato at the age of 8 have already met many people from all the parties her parents held and the ones they were invited to. " And if it's illegal then why are you here?"

"Only most of them." Katniss hummed, and is genuinely confused to why the boy is laughing, after all district 12 is pretty small. "But I would know if I've seen you around, no one in this district have blue eyes like yours. And I'm here because my daddy always takes me here when he hunts!"

This got Cato blushing, and his heart flutters a little. He couldn't believe a little angle like Katniss just said she will remember him if she ever saw him! "Well I'm from district 2, and I'm here because I want to be! And hunt? Isn't that illegal? What would your dad hunt with?"

"District 2? Isn't that really far from here? And my daddy hunts with a bow, and I can use a bow too! Just not as good." yelled Katniss again.

"Yup, district 2 is where I live! And it is very far, the train ride took about 5 hours to get here!" Yelled Cato, "Hey Kitty Kat why don't you come down here so we could talk normally? Just so you know I can use a sword and I'll be going to the training academy soon!" He decided to tell her that so she could be impressed by his ability.

"Nope! I don't want to move down, the view is so much better up here, why don't you come up here?" yelled Katniss " And why do you call me Kitty Kat? That's not my name, my name is Katniss."

"I think I will! And I call you Kitty Kat because I like to call you that." Yelled Cato with a little smirk on his face, and started climbing up the tree, but with absolutely no experience at climbing, he is soon stuck on a branch 10 feet above ground.

"But no one calls me Kitty Kat. And you have to jump a little to reach the branch above you." Said Katniss, who peaked down from the branch she was perching on and started to instruct Cato on how to climb a tree.

"Well Kitty Kat that's what I'm going to call you from now on!" said Cato now 15 feet above ground and is only 2 branched below Katniss.

"Fine, I suppose you could call me that if you really want to." Said Katniss, looking at the boy who has pulled himself up to the branch she is sitting on, " Good job! That wasn't so bad for a first timer."

"Hey, how did you know that was my first time climbing a tree?" Yelled Cato who is now blushing again, because he failed to impress his little angle.

"Well you didn't even know where to put you feet." Giggled Katniss "But that was really good! I'm impressed that you actually got 20 feet above ground. So what is that training academy you were talking about?"

At that, Cato couldn't help but proudly puff up his chest a bit; his little angle just said she was impressed with him! This has to be on of the best day in his entire life. "The training academy is where most kids in my district trains for the Hunger Game! The best in the class gets chosen to volunteer in the Hunger Game, which is the biggest honor ever in my district! I know I'll be picked one day!"

"Hunger game? Why would you want to be picked to be in the Hunger game? And why would people train their kids to volunteer for that? A lot of people die in the Hunger game, my daddy said that to be a victor you have to kill people!" Exclaimed Katniss with her little nose scrunched up in disgust.

"Because it's an honor to represent your district! If you get picked to volunteer than it means you are the best out of all the people who is training in the academy! I'll make my district so proud when I win one of those games!" Said Cato, who is a little confused to why his little angle would react like that to the Hunger game.

"But you have to kill people to win! I don't ever want to kill anyone! And it's children who are competing in those games! Would you kill me if I'm in it with you?" Exclaimed Katniss again, and she looked up at Cato with a little droplet of tear in her beautiful grey eyes.

This got Cato heart to suddenly do a flip-flop and he was overwhelmed with the urge to hug Katniss and comfort her in his arms, which he didn't hesitate on doing so. "Of course not! I would never kill you Kitty Kat! I can't imagine anyone would ever want to do that! You are too beautiful for anyone to want that!" exclaimed Cato with his little arm around Katniss.

"O-Okay, thank you for telling me that. And just so you know, I don't think anyone will want to kill you either, since you are so sweet and nice. I like you, I think we should be friends!" Said Katniss who begins to blush at what Cato just said and started to push out of Cato's embrace "Anyways, I should start to head home soon, dinner will probably be ready when I get home, Where are you staying tonight?"

"Oh my god, I need to get back to the mines! My dad was still there when I left by myself!" Yelled Cato "I forgot all about him! He must be worried, and we were suppose to meet his best friend tonight for dinner!"

"Oh, are you going to the mines?" Asked Katniss " I'm supposed to go meet my father there so we could walk home together, I'll walk with you back if you want."

"Really? That's great! Because I really don't remember which way I came from!" said Cato

"Yup, no problem!" Said Katniss who easily begins to climb down the tall tree " Let's go!"