"Akari!" A furious sleepy eyed girl with curly dirty blond hair yelled, standing on her front porch in only her night dress. Her angry bright blue eyes glared at a small black cat currently sitting calmly across the road. She would go and retrieve him but it was nighttime and she was only in her night clothes.
"Meow?" Akari cast her a curious glance, obviously wondering as to why he was being called.
"It's bedtime, get in here you silly cat!" The young girl, who was known as the dream-queen Kaylee, stomped her foot. She had Akari since she was almost four, Akari had always been her best friend. She kneeled down and patter her knees. "Come on Akari, I'm not kidding. Something bad could happen to you at night!" Said cat just leaned down and licked his paw delicately and rubbing his face. Kaylee pouted and stood, it seemed like she was going to have to fetch Akari herself. She grumbled as her feet touched the cold grass on her front lawn, stalking over to her black furred friend.
"Meow~" Akari seemed to tease as he rubbed his head on her bare legs. He was picked up under his armpits and placed into Kaylee's awaiting arms.
"Okay silly don't try that again, it's cold out." She hurried into her house and closed the door before setting down Akari. He trotted into the kitchen and sat down beside his water bowl and lapping at the water. Kaylee huffed. "It's bedtime." She told the cat firmly. Akari lifted his head to give her a sideways look, as if to ask her if she was kidding. No sooner he bent back down to his bowl and continued his previous activity though. Kaylee placed her hands on her hips but didn't hesitate on walking down the hall to her bedroom. She crawled under her covers and snuggled up to her pillow. Not even ten seconds later she felt a small weight and saw glowing yellow eyes. She patted Akari's head as he purred.
"See you in the morning Akari." She yawned and was soon asleep. The cat watched her sleeping form. His whiskers twitched lightly. He trotted forward and licked her cheek, he knew this was the last time he would see her. He jumped off the bed and looked back slightly.
"Goodbye..." Akari called to her as he slipped past her door.

Kaylee sat up and rubbed her eyes, whacking her alarm clock that was seeming to scream at her. She jumped out of bed and went to the kitchen to see her friend.
"Akari~" She called happily only to be puzzled when she didn't find the black sat at his spot by his food bowl. "Akari?" She lifted up the table cloth on her table to see if he was there. Not having any luck she rushed back to her room to check her bed. He wasn't there either.
"Akari!?" She yelled desperately searching her home. There were no signs of the cat. Her eyes started to burn as hot liquid spilled from them. She fell to the ground and sobs rippled through her chest. Her best friend since she was a child was gone...
four years later
A fourteen year old Akari sat at her school desk and twirled a piece of her blond hair between her slender fingers. She didn't really pay attention to what the teacher was droning on about, that was probably the cause of her horrible grades. She looked down at her notebook that she had been doodling in. The was a small cat at the bottom of the page snuggled between a blanket. It was scribbled in black and the blanket was colored in with a pink highlighter. She smiled softly at the picture and pushed up her lime green glasses. She had terrible eyesight. The bell rang shrilly in her ear, signaling it was time for all of the students to pack up their things and leave. She stood up and brushed off her school uniform then stretching her arms and yawning. She slang her backpack over her shoulder and sluggishly made her way outside. She popped in her ear buds to her MP3 played into her left ear and stated the six minute walk to her house. The sound of her black Mary Janes on the sidewalk filled her other ear and assured her no one was near her. She hummed the lyrics of the loud song echoing in her ear. Her head swayed slightly to the rhythm. A slight clicking sound be heard behind her. She stopped dead in her tracks, no one took this way from anywhere as far as she knew. She turned around and to her surprise couldn't see anybody. She heart was hammering, maybe she was imagining things... She stated walking slowly, again the soft clicking was to be heard behind her. She turned around sharply and scarcely saw a piece of black hair dart behind the gate behind her.
"I know you're there." She stated crossing her arms over her relatively flat chest. A head peaked around the corner of the gate. It was the face of a boy, she guessed he was about sixteen. A mop of crazy black hair was on his head, it was the darkest shade she had ever seen. He also had the weirdest shade of brown eyes, they almost looked gold. He gazed at her quietly. His expression had no embarrassment from being caught, he just a blank stare. Kaylee could feel her eyebrow twitch.
"Well?" She asked in an irritated voice. The boy stepped out from behind the gate and she saw he was wearing a grey short sleeved hoodie, black jeans with holes on the knees and a pair of black converse. He still said nothing. She could almost feel the vein in her forehead pulsing. "Who are you and why were you following me!?" He cocked his head to the side at her question.
"I'm...." He seemed to think for a moment, "Iraka, I'm Iraka. I just moved her from Japan and I thought of asking you direction around town. I'm pretty lost." He said it boredly as if it wasn't of any interest if she showed him around. She glared at him.
"You could've just asked me instead of stalking me creepily." She snapped at him. Iraka just shrugged her off and sauntered up next to her. "Where do you live?" She asked him as politely as she could muster, which wasn't very nice at all.
"A large blue house on Fifth Street." He said lazily. A light went off in Kaylee's head, Fifth Street?
"That's the road I live on. Do you live in that house that was recently rebuilt?" He nodded his head and stuffed his hands into his pockets. That meant they were neighbors...