A/N: Okay, I know, I know, another new story without finishing any of the others or updating them, blah blah blah. Honestly, I don't care. I finally decided to write something other than AkuRoku for once, and I chose the pairing of Joshua and Neku from The World Ends With You! Anyhoo, this is gonna be AU, so not in the game, or post-game or pre-game. Also, one last thing, it'll all be from Night's POV. Enjoy~

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the story and Night.

A Neko's Angel

Chapter 1

Everything will drastically change soon…

That was my last thought in my dream before I was pounced on and rudely awoken. My pure silver eyes flew open, and orange flooded my vision. I gasped, and almost immediately kicked off my attacker, but when I gasped, I caught the familiar scent of my friend who had pounced on me.

"Neku, get OFF!" I barked, struggling a bit beneath him. I heard him purr in amusement, but he got off of me. As he stepped back, his slender orange tail flicking back and forth with anger, I noticed he seemed unusually irritable.

Normally the orange-haired neko was quiet, sullen, private, and not playful at all. At least, he had been that way for about the past five years, and he's eighteen now. He really kept to himself, but I was the exception to that. I was bonded with Neku through his heart when he was just an infant, so he shared a lot of things with me. We were very close.

I had come to this world to find him when he was born, anyway. While I was back in my home world, Dragon Realms, I was sent a series of dreams from the spirit world, and they depicted me going to the human world and finding a child. I knew he was special the moment I had the first dream about him, especially seeing as he was a neko, and they were extremely rare in the human world, and being non-existent in mine. I'd only known of them through reading books in the library, but there were other dobutsu, as they were called. There was the inu, the dog person, the ookami, the wolf person, the kitsune, the fox person, and many more different kinds.

Anyway, I arrived in Neku's world about 8 days before he was born, and I was very fortunate to have found him, but it was under unfortunate circumstances. His parents had been killed as a result of being dobutsu themselves, and Neku was found when his parents' home had been discovered. I had just so happened to have been staying somewhat nearby, and when I heard the screams and smelled the blood, I raced through the forest to find the source.

By the time I had arrived, it was too late for Neku's parents, but Neku was still alive. The people who had killed his family were about to kill him, but I had swiftly dove in and killed the men who were going to kill an innocent newborn life. Once the deed was done, I calmed Neku down, and discovered his parents had already chosen his name for him, as it was written down and circled on a paper titled "Our Baby's Name" inside their ransacked home. I had raised Neku from an infant to who he is today, and he had turned out a lot like me, but also different in some ways, besides the obvious physical ones.

We were both quiet and not very talkative, preferring to communicate telepathically, so we didn't talk much when it was just the two of us. On very rare occasions, though, we would run into another dobutsu while traveling through the massive forest, but Neku would hide his orange cat ears with his pair of purple headphones and would puff out his tail, making it fluffy and not looking like a cat tail. We would go into the city sometimes, too, and I would simply use my shape-shifting abilities to transform into a human, while Neku kept his ears covered or down, depending on whether or not he had to talk to someone, and kept his tail hidden in his pants.

We noticed on occasion that we weren't the only ones who did this. There were other dobutsu that would disguise themselves and walk amongst the humans undetected. The only reason Neku and I would do this was if we needed new clothes for him, special occasion foods, or trinkets such as Neku's headphones. We didn't go often, but when we did, we didn't stay long.

As for the clothes, Neku hadn't needed any new clothes in a while. He was fully grown by the time he turned 17, so that made it easier. And as far as getting money went…I would snitch some here and there from people that were distracted, not paying attention, or wouldn't detect it. Neku would just rob people while they traveled through the forest, just like any other dobutsu. We still seemed to have more than we needed, though, but we held on to it anyway, just in case. After all, you never know what'll end up happening.

It was good that we had the extra money, too, because otherwise I never would've been able to get Neku his headphones and music player. I remembered how he had complained to me once that he hated always having to keep his ears constantly pinned down while in town, so that was why I had gotten the music player and headphones. It made him more comfortable when he could block out the sounds of other people.

Anyway, enough explanation, back to the matter at hand. I looked Neku over, studying him to make sure there was nothing wrong with him besides the fact that he seemed angrier than usual. When I finished looking him over, I finally spoke.

"And why are you so angry now?" I asked, confused. He simply shrugged and started to swing his legs slightly while sitting on a wide branch from the tree we had slept in last night, and that meant he was upset about something. I gave him a stern look. "Do I have to search your mind to find out, or are you gonna tell me?"

"Damn it, Night, that's not fair!" he snapped. I kept the same stern look on my face, though, and he sighed irritably. "Fine. I met someone today while you were still sleeping, and he pissed me off." I tilted my head sideways slightly.

"How did he piss you off? You normally block people like that out," I pointed out.

"I couldn't. Apparently, he can use telepathy like us, but his can be with anyone," he informed me.

"Seriously?" I asked in disbelief. He gave a short nod, and then began to sulk. "What did he look like?"

"Well, he's my height, has violet eyes, ashen blonde hair, and white feathered wings," he told me flatly. I could tell there was something else bothering him, so I decided to ask.

"Okay, I know for a fact that he didn't just piss you off, Neku. What exactly did he do?" Neku was silent for a few moments. Right as I was about to ask again, he finally replied.

"He kissed me." His voice was almost a whisper.

"What?!" I yelped. He seemed upset about it, but not angered. His upset felt more like confusion than anything else. His pale blue eyes shimmered a bit, and I could tell he was about to cry. I scrabbled to my feet and quickly made my way over to him, gently wrapping one of my long, slender wings around his back.

"He kissed me, and I didn't push him away. I couldn't. I wanted to, but my body wouldn't let me," he mumbled, the tears finally starting to fall. I loosely wrapped my tail over his shoulders in comfort and murmured soothing words in his ear. Neku's crying soon turned into sobs, and I almost felt my heart break in two from the sound. He had never cried before, even when I told him how his parents were killed and how I had found him. He had never cried before this, so I knew this had scared him badly.

"Neku?" I asked softly once he had calmed down. He hiccupped and nodded slightly, acknowledging me. "Where did you meet him at?"

"By the spring…" he breathed, and I nodded to myself. "Night, please don't leave me right now. I don't want to be alone…"

"I won't go anywhere," I promised him. "I just wanted to know so that way I'll know we need to avoid that area for a while." He nodded slightly again, and his ears lowered slightly, showing his depression. I sighed and started humming a soothing tune to lull Neku to sleep. He needed to sleep off this feeling, and regain his energy. I knew he was emotionally drained after his episode, so he needed the sleep. I gently stroked my claws through the soft, spiky locks of orange hair, and thought to myself, Oh, Neku, if only you knew what this could mean…

X*X*X*X

It was dusk by the time Neku finally woke up, and I felt him stir beside me as he started to awaken. I had stayed with him all day, refusing to leave his side even to eat or get a drink of water. When he began to wake up, I placed a hand on his shoulder to let him know it was me beside him, and he looked at me. He looked awful; his pale blue eyes were red-rimmed and still slightly puffy, his face was still slightly pink, and his nose was a bit red. I pulled out a damp cloth from my pack for him to wipe his face with, and he accepted it in silence. Once he had wiped his face off, he handed me the cloth and sighed deeply. Then he spoke.

"Night…Why wasn't I able to push him away?" he asked softly. "I willed my body to move, but it wouldn't. Was he able to control me or something?"

"I highly doubt he was able to control you, Neku," I assured him. "As for why you weren't able to push him away…I think I know why." Neku's eyes widened as he stared at me.

"Why, Night?" he breathed.

"…Because you may be in heat," I said hesitantly. He seemed confused, and I sighed. "Okay, first off: have you been feeling warmer than usual?" He nodded, seeming reluctant. "Then you're in heat." He still seemed confused, so I explained. "Heat is when a dobutsu, such as a neko, inu, ookami, kitsune, etc. is ready to bear young. At least, the body is. Obviously, your body is ready, Neku, but you're not mentally or emotionally." He seemed stunned into shock with what I had told him, and then his eyes started to fill with tears again. As he began to sob, he choked out a sentence.

"But…h-how…? I-I'm a guy…not a girl!" I gently wrapped my wings around him in comfort and answered his question.

"Neku…some male dobutsu are capable of bearing young," I told him gently. "The reason this other dobutsu kissed you without getting to know you first or anything was because he could smell your heat. When a dobutsu goes into heat, they give off a scent that male dobutsu that can't have a heat can smell, and this other dobutsu who kissed you probably wanted to mate with you. I'm honestly surprised you got away without a scratch." He sniffled quietly, and then answered me.

"I got away because I revealed my ears and tail to him, and then scratched him," he whispered. I understood why the other male let him go then. A neko like Neku is incredibly rare, and Neku is the only one I know of. It must have stunned the other male that he was going after a neko. Even Neku's mother wasn't a neko; she was a kitsune, but she must have had some neko in her to have a neko as obvious as Neku. Neku knew how rare his kind was, and that was why he disguised himself the way he did when we encountered other dobutsu. I hugged Neku close.

"We'll stay in hiding out here for a week, okay, Neku?" I suggested, and he nodded, and then looked at me.

"Why a week?" he asked softly.

"Because by then your heat will have ended, and the scent will have faded by then, too," I explained, and he nodded slowly in understanding. I reached into my pack and pulled out a water bottle from it and handed it too him after taking off the cap, and he drank from it greedily, quenching his thirst. He polished off the whole thing, and when he finished, I stuffed the empty bottle into my pack to refill it at the river when we next got the chance. I held Neku close to comfort him as he fell back to sleep, and I fell asleep beside him, feeling like someone was watching us.

A/N: And I know you now know that this is gonna be an mpreg! Seriously, there are NOT enough mpreg fan fictions on here for Joshua & Neku, nor are there any Joshua & Neku fics with them as animal hybrids! Also, sorry about not explaining the dobutsu thing before; it basically means animal in Japanese, and in this, it basically means half-human half-animal hybrid. Credit goes to KairiMcEwin on here for the idea of using dobutsu in her fan fictions, "Of Cats And Dragons" and "Nine Lives". Anyway, Read & Review, peeps!