I know I'm working on a Harry Potter story, too, but I'm kind of stuck at the moment... XP I need to look up some more things about it before I can go on. I'm working as fast as I can, but I decided to also start writing another story while waiting. I AM SO SORRY! But please read and review this story!
I do not own anyone in this story except for Neko and her parents.
"NEEEEKOOO!" Neko cringed at the shrill voice of her mother screaming for her. She hated her name, but mainly because of all the nicknames she got from it. Why oh why did they have to name me Neko?! I am not a cat! She shut the book she was reading before sliding down the banister with her long reddish brown hair flying out behind her. It wasn't much fun anymore, so she only did it because it pissed off her parents more than most things would. "WHERE ARE YOU -" She was walking out of the kitchen while Neko was sliding down. She stood there and glared at her, making her smirk in satisfaction. She leapt off the thin wooden rail and bowed. "HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE TOLD YOU NOT TO DO THAT?! YOU COULD FALL AND BREAK SOMETHING! HAVE YOU EVEN NOTICED HOW MANY EXPENSIVE AND VALUABLE VASES THERE ARE AROUND HERE?!" She screamed at her, making her cringe slightly. Same mother as always. Only worried about her precious vases! Not even worried about me. She thought bitterly, her smirk disappearing.
"What do you want, Stephany?" Neko asked, venom dripping from her words. She hated calling the woman who gave her birth 'Mom', so she just called her by her first name: Stephany. "Is it something important or are you just going to blame me for something that I didn't do, again?" Stephany gasped as if she had just stabbed her, making Neko roll her eyes. "Oh, shut-up, you know you always do that. Don't try to act all innocent and crap."
"How dare you! I was simply going to tell you about your new school, but I won't tell you now since you've acted so... so rude!" She acted as if Neko had personally offended her, even if she was just faking it. "You can just go back up to your room and think about what you said! And no supper for you tonight!" She shrugged and walked back up the stairs, making sure she touched each vase on the way up, making her mother cringe at the high-pitched chime they made when she tapped them.
Neko walked in to her room and shut the door. She walked to her window, opened it up, and jumped out. She landed in the bush they had planted under her window - which was very useful to her when she wanted to get out - and jumped over their fence and in to her neighbor's yard. They were never home, so she didn't have to worry about getting caught.
She walked out their front gate and headed to the one place she could never be found - the forest. Neko loved nature and the feel of being free.
She took trails used only by animals, and she had once found a trail with little rat-like feet. She thought it was odd but shrugged it off. She found it again, but it looked as though it had been used more recently. She followed it, ignoring the branches that tugged at her hair and clothes, and soon came to a beautiful home. In the front there was an orange-haired boy fighting with a boy that had dark gray hair.
"HEY!" Neko shouted, gaining the gray-haired boy's attention. The orange-haired boy was about to punch him, but the other one grabbed his fist. "Why the hell are you two fighting?!" She asked, beginning to walk towards them. "There's rarely ever a good reason to fight, you know." The boy with gray hair dropped the other boy's fist.
"We were simply sparring," The gray haired boy said softly. He sounded sort of shy, but by the way they were fighting it didn't act shy and it certainitly didn't look like sparring to her. "Why are you on Sohma property?" He asked her quietly, making Neko strain to hear him.
"Oh, I didn't know this was private property," She replied, quite shocked. "I saw a rat trail and was curious to see where it went. Do you by any chance have a rat problem?"
"Yes!" The orange haired boy spat. For some reason he glared at the gray haired boy. Neko just realized he had purple eyes. They were like hers, except a little darker. The orange haired boy had brownish orange eyes. She couldn't tell which color exactly because of the way his hair shaded and covered some of his face.
"Shut-up, baka neko," The gray haired boy said, making her angry. When she saw the orange haired boy get upset, she realized he wasn't talking to her, but to him.
"Shaddup, kuso osoi," The orange haired boy said heatedly. "Whanna fight?!"
Neko giggled. She couldn't help herself. They just sounded so funny when they called each other animal names. The orange haired boy turned to glare at her. "What about you?!" He earned a punch on the top of his head from a taller man with black hair and brown eyes.
"Kyo, Kyo, Kyo," He said, shaking his head sadly. "Always trying to start a fight with someone, even a pretty young lady like this one." That comment earned a glare from Neko.
"I'm sorry about the two of them. I'm Yuki Sohma," The boy with gray hair said. He looked ready to run or cringe when he said that, but she had no idea why. The name sounded vaguely familiar to her, but she couldn't get it right. Then it clicked!
"I think I heard some girls in a school uniform talking about you! I think they called you... 'Prince Yuki'. Am I right?" Neko asked. "I guess so," She said, smiling slightly when he cringed. "It's fine, I don't even know you. I'm Neko Takeshi." The boy with orange hair - who she assumed was Kyo - looked up at her strangely. "What? Are you going to come up with a nickname for me, too?" She spat.
Yuki chuckled softly, but didn't explain. Instead, he continued with introductions. "The ill-tempered baka neko -" Again, she felt angry for a split second with the use of her name "- is Kyo, and the pervert behind him is Shigure," He said, not sounding as soft and timid as before.
"Well, I'm sorry for trespassing Yuki-san, Kyo-san, and Shigure-san. I really should be getting home before my baka parents send out the police," Neko said, sighing. "I guess we might meet up again, if I wander back here. Bye!" She waved to them before sprinting through the trees, following the rat trail backwards. She walked back into her neighbor's yard, jumped over the fence, and used the old bricks in her house to climb back to her room.
"NEEEEKOOOO!" She cringed at her mother's shrill voice, but didn't go out of her room this time. Instead, she walked to her bathroom to start fixing herself up.
"WHAT DO YOU NEED, STEPHANY?!" She screamed back, pulling twigs and leaves from her hair and cleaning small scrapes on her face. She found it very handy to wear jeans and a jacket all the time, even in the summer.
"YOUR DAD'S TAKING YOU TO SCHOOL TOMORROW, BUT FROM THEN ON YOU'LL HAVE TO WALK, GOT THAT?!" She shouted. Neko heard a faint 'Hey!' of protest from her father - Jake - and figured her mother hadn't talked to him about it before screaming it to her.
"WHATEVER!" She replied, continuing to clean her cuts out before getting ready to bed. She took a quick shower because her parents always hated her taking evening showers but she hated getting up early to take morning showers. She towel dried her long hair before looking at the clock - 10:59 pm.
Neko fell asleep, thinking of the odd Sohma family and of the rat trail that had led her to them. She thought everything meant something, and that everything happened for a reason. There used to only be one thing she couldn't figure out, but now there were two. One, why did she have to have this horrible family? Two, why was it a rat track and why did it lead her to the Sohma family?