Watching~ part 2~

A/N: You have to read this rather fast to find it funny. Read it relatively slowly and you won't. (For chapter 1 only)

1 First Draft

Mikara: Thank YOU Legato… if this thing has any typographical errors you're dead, ya hear?! But then again you agreed to type this thing for me in the first place without me having to threaten or beg you for it so I guess some thanks are in order.

(audience claps politely)

Legato: Since when did we have an audience??

Mikara: Since I said so ya twit.

Legato: There goes the 'twit' thingy again.

Mikara: *glowers* since when was quoting Fujima such a bad thing??

Legato: Since you used it, it wasn't so bad when Fujima himself was saying it.

Mikara: What was that, gaki!?

Legato: Ack! Now she's quoting Touya!

Mikara/Knives: How about if I disembowel you, play with your guts and then hook you up to a life support machine and let you watch as your vital organs are served up to the maggots?

Legato: O.o; (recovers) I'll let you do that after I perform everything in my 'wish list'. (to the kiddies) Do YOU want to know what's on my 'wish list'? (kiddies nod eagerly) really? (nod) REALLY? (convulsions) okay then, MIDVALLEY! (the horn man appears) STRIP!

(Midavalley strips)

Audience: O.O

Mikara: LEGATO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW COULD YOU?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

The real Legato: Ate! How could you?!?!?

Mikara: Heheheh…

Legato: I wanted RUKAWA!

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4 The First Impact

"Akai!"

Kiyota waved his arms, trying to call her back.

"Hey, Akaii!"

He yelled even louder not noticing the looks he got from a couple of the audience members. The smile was fading from his face.

"Akaiii! Can't you hear me?!?" he bellowed. "Hey! HEY!!"

This time, more than a few people looked his way, Akai among them. He saw that she had been crying. But when she saw him looking at her, she started running again.

"Akai- Akai, goddammit! Get out of my way, damn you!" he said, tripping over Miyamasu.

He ran, and it seemed to him that everything and everyone was in the way. He wove in and out of the crowd, tripping over barricades, an old lady and some weird dude in red who was getting the crap out of him by some 12 year old in a white cape.

Once or twice he thought he spotted Akai, but she disappeared again before Kiyota could reach her. He was getting closer, though, and he was now fairly sure she had been crying her heart out.

He suddenly had a bright idea (A/N: Now this may not have been a very big thing for the Narutakis and Detective Conans of the world, but it certainly was a very big thing for Kiyota Nobunaga because this is KIYOTA NOBUNAGA we're talkin' about, boys and girls). He cut his way through the crowd and passed through a shortcut although where and how the hell the way he took could rightly be called a shortcut because Akai was only 20 feet and in front of him before this not so bright idea came into his head only God knows.

So it wasn't such a bright idea after all.

"Akai, wai- gaahh!" he tripped over something else. It was a cat. "Stupid cat…"

It's bright green eyes looked at him reproachfully. It was black, and two other cats slunk right behind it, a red cat and another black cat, both with blue eyes, which looked very familiar.

"Rukawa," he breathed, reading the name on the collar. "So you finally decided to adopt this thing that follows you everywhere." A lunatic grin came over his face. "I wonder why you're not following him tonight… he probably sent you away so that he could fuck the monkey private…" he cackled. "Well Mr. Kitty, too bad for youu!" he yelled, the fact that it was the other black cat he tripped on. "Serves ya right, ya flea-bitten freaky blue-eyed hairball…"

But instead of running away, the Rukawa no Neko simply landed on its feet (or paws) and strutted (yes, that was what Kiyota thought its walk resembled the most) back in front of him, forming a line with the other two cats.

They stared at him disdainfully, and Kiyota. In spite of himself, he felt himself growing hot under the collar.

The silence spun out, until Kiyota finally lost his temper (which was about 10 seconds, I'm afraid) and he screamed, "SHUT UP YOU STUPID CATS!!!" although everybody knows cats can't talk and they certainly weren't talking to Nobunaga Kiyota that day.

At last, Kiyota's poor overtaxed brain got the message the cats were trying to give him, although this author is quite sure that Kiyota never reached the conclusion by himself; perchance God took pity on him and sent one of His angels (probably Fuuma) to whisper the secret in his ear.

Why the hell are you standing here yelling to us for? They seemed to hiss. Go on, go after her!

Her? Kiyota wondered stupidly.

Akai, you halfwit! Kiyota was sure now that it was none other than Fuuma who was whispering in his ear. Go after her, if you love her!

"Okay then," Kiyota said, starting off again.

It wasn't until he had already ran for about 25 feet.

"Wait a minute-" He stopped. And wondered.

"If I love her…"

He turned around. The cats were still there… watching him.