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Animal I Have Become
Chapter 1
A tall man with medium-length black hair and dark eyes walked humming into a dining room. Smiling a goofy smile and continuing to his seat with his eyes closed, he was surprised when another occupant of the room accused him.
"Shigure, it's too early in the morning for you to be thinking perverted thoughts." An orange haired male complained.
The dark haired male gasped. "Why Kyo, you wound me!" he complained, putting a hand to his heart. "And how can you say that? You should know quite well that every young man wakes up every morning with a-"
"Shigure!" Kyo yelled, glaring at the innocent-looking male. "Get your head out of the gutter!"
"But Kyo! I was only telling the truth! Of course, at your age you shouldn't have to be reminded, as it probably occurs every d-"
"Breakfast everyone!" a cheery voice called, its owner walking into the dining room carrying a platter.
The brown haired and teal-eyed girl didn't notice the seething Kyo or the smiling Shigure as she served everyone. Once Shigure and Kyo were served, she stopped, and looked inquiringly at Kyo.
"Where's Yuki?" she asked the orange-haired male.
Red eyes flashed. "How the hell should I know where that damn rat got off to? Probably still sleeping, the lazy a-"
"Shut up you stupid cat." A grey-haired young man walked into the room and took a seat at the table. "It's amazing how anyone can sleep with all the racket you make." The young male took a bite of his food.
"Oh like your SO quiet yourself, you bastard!" Kyo yelled, cat ears appearing on his head.
"Um." The brown haired girl said, attempting to stop the argument.
"The meal you have made is delicious Miss Honda." Yuki said, turning purple eyes on said girl and smiling as he took another bite.
"Yeah, it's…good, Tohru." Kyo said, immediately calming down and resigning himself to eat.
The meal passed in relative silence, which was broken towards the end with the sound of the doorbell.
"Oh! That must be the construction workers already." Shigure said, looking slightly puzzled. "They must like to start early." He commented as he went to answer the door.
"Construction…workers?" Tohru asked, confused.
The two males looked at the door Shigure had exited with equal amounts of confusion.
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Black hair that went down to the male's chin covered his left eye. The right one, a dark green, was glaring at the girl in front of him who was peering over the seat with interest. The male reached beside him and pulled the blanket higher over the form next to him, effectively cutting off the girl in front of him's view, and earning him a light green glare from said girl.
He raised his right eyebrow and said nothing, silently damning the rule that said you couldn't smoke on a plane. Shifting to a more comfortable position, he turned back to his book, looking at the contents but not really seeing them.
There was too much on his mind for him to even think about reading, so he closed the book and put it back in his black carry-on bag. Glancing at the form next to him, he was glad that at least she was staying in one form. He knew there would be hell to pay should she change back.
A flash a bright blue suddenly caught his attention. His breath caught. 'She's awake.' He thought, trying to keep himself calm, knowing that soon he would have to calm her down as well. 'We'll be fine as long as she stays in that form. Thank god first class is relatively empty.'
He wasn't looking forward to erasing anyone else's memories; he had had to do three already today, and six the day before. He just hoped that fate would smile upon him, for once in his damned life, and keep the girl silent and in one form.
"Where are we?" the form beside him asked curiously, bright blue eyes trying to see anything but the cloth covering her form.
"On a plane." Was the short answer. He saw the form nod tiredly out of his eye, the girl sprawled out on his right.
"When will I change back, Hatori?" she kept her voice low, trying hard to attract attention. Well, no more attention then she was already attracting.
"Hopefully not here, Teigra. I do not want to have to erase anyone else's memories." Hatori responded.
There was silence from the form, and Hatori mentally cursed himself. 'You just HAD to say that, didn't you?'
"I apologize, Teigra, I didn't mean to r-"
"No no, don't apologize." She responded, lifting her head so that the cloth slipped from it. Hatori looked at the white tiger beside him.
"It's not your fault they chose to forget."
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"Shigure…what are the workers doing to the house?" Yuki asked, not liking all the commotion that was going on right beside his room.
"Hm? Oh that." Shigure said, looking up from his work for a moment before returning to it. "I'm having another room put in."
"…Why?" Yuki asked.
"For my library! You don't REALLY think I'm going to continue to allow Kyo to abuse my poor book collection now do you? The way that boy treats my books, why; it's enough to put any author to tears. If only I-Yuki?"
Shigure looked around the empty room, finding his audience gone. He sighed.
"No one has any appreciation for the novelists soul these days." He said sadly, shaking his head.
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"How on EARTH did you manage to get her here like THAT, Hatori? Surely you were seen, questioned, and arrested?" a teenage male questioned the older male, astonished grey eyes out right staring at the form lying on the examining table.
"Seen and questioned, yes Hatsuharu. Arrested, hardly. Do you think I would be here now if I was arrested?" Hatori questioned reasonably, lifting up a white tiger paw and examining the claws.
Haru shook his head silently, messy white hair going in all directions. The tiger on the table watched his hair with fascination. It seemed that he was as absorbed with her as she was with him.
"Are you sure that's not a real tiger? She could pass for one, you know."
Vicious growling came from the tiger. "I have passed for one you asshole. I was kept in a zoo for three weeks before Hatori found me." She growled at him again.
Haru didn't respond, merely kept himself quiet as thoughts went through his mind.
'Three weeks? I wonder what would have happened had Hatori not found her…'
"Alright, you're up to date on your shots now, and should be quite healthy within a few weeks. There are only two things that I'm worried about right now. One is malnutrition. You are extremely malnourished, young lady."
"Yeah, well, you'd be malnourished too if the only thing you'd had to eat for weeks is raw meat. I'm surprised I don't have salmonella poisoning."
"Correction, you do."
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