Uri's POV
The moment I saw him, I lunged. I had been encaged in such a small space, squirming and writhing, itching for a fight. I felt my claws dig into soft, human flesh and I almost sighed in pleasure. I couldn't stop myself from clawing into him again, this time deeper. He smacked me away.
"Fuck! Get off me!" He growled, rubbing him face with his hands. I sat down, smug, and licked my claws. Once he realized I wasn't going to do anything else, he turned around in his chair, turning his back on me. I jumped up onto the desk he was working at. He gave me a glare and lit a red flame on his ring. Yummmmmm! I tackled his hand, licking the flames hungrily. I haven't had these in sooooo long! I felt his hand tense up, and slowly relax under my paws. I realized I hadn't really had a good look at my new box holder. I took one more lick before I turned to look at him. He was wearing thin glasses covering emerald green eyes, his hair tied back in a small ponytail. His bangs hung in front of his face, despite his efforts to pull them behind his ear. He picked up a small book from the stack on the desk.
"It says here I have to introduce myself, so I guess I should start now." He said. His voice was raspy and smelled of cigarette smoke.
"I'm Gokudera, and I'm your new partner. it says here that you don't have a name, so I'm going to have to think of one." He snarled a bit.
"I can't believe I'm doing this. I'm speaking to a cat!" He got up and walked to another bookshelf. I kept watching him, perplexed. Never before in my (long) cat life have I ever seen anyone so handsome, and he called me his partner. His partner!
"What are you looking at?" I heard him say. If a cat could blush, that's what I would have done. I jumped off the top of the desk and decided to walk around this place.
I found myself in a small, metal room. I guess I should be safe here... I scanned the room for cameras. None. That's good. If Gokudera found out about this... I quickly cleared my mind. I closed my eyes and felt my body beginning to change. I was growing larger, longer, my skin pulling and ripping. It hurt a bit, but I was used to it. After a few seconds, I was in human form on all fours. I stood up, a little shaky from having not been human for a while. I bent backwards and groaned when I felt my back crack. I sat up and popped my knuckles. I looked over in the reflective surface of the metal walls and took in the sight of my human body. I was roughly fifteen in human years, with short strawberry blonde hair and red eyes. I was wearing tight black leather pants and a black T-shirt with a leopard skin jacket. I had on a leopard print beret. Wow. I look great. I opened my mouth to speak. At first, all I could emit was a purring sound, but I could slowly start to form words with my tongue.
"My name's Uri." I said. My voice was smooth, but the beginning and the end of the sentence was slightly muffled, as I didn't quite have a grip on my purr-to-speech quite yet. I heard footsteps in the hall, and I took one more look at myself. Until next time, human self.
"That damned cat, making me walk around this whole fucking base. Tsk." I recognized the voice of Gokudera and began walking towards the door, my body rapidly turning back into a cat's.
"There you are!" He said. I saw him again, and this time he had a cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth, his hair down and his glasses discarded. I felt my heat leap. What is this feeling? I thought. He leaned down to pick me up, and I scratched him. He recoiled, his lips down-turned.
"Why do you fucking hate me so much?" He murmured under his breath. I don't hate you...I just don't know...
"Anyway, I can't think of a name for you." He began to walk back the way he came, and I followed him. We walked in silence, and I wanted desperately to show him my human form and to tell him my given name, but I couldn't. It was against the rules of the box weapons. We couldn't show any other form unless necessary, or we will be banned to never return to our box for a year, and a week was enough to start draining our power. We came to a styrofoam box, probably used for packaging, and I stopped short. Could I write in this body? I unsheathed my claws and started to draw on the styrofoam.
"What are you doing?! That might be important!" Gokudera said, rushing over to me once he noticed I was gone. His eyes widened in shock once he saw what I wrote.
Name is Uri. Girl
"Holy Shit...Uri it is then." He whispered. I licked my claws in satisfaction.
Gokudera's POV
I never believed something could be a blessing and a curse, or, at least until I met Uri. I mean, fuck, her claws hurt like hell, but she seems smart for a box weapon. That time when she wrote, I knew I had got it good concerning box weapons. Since when has a cat been able to write? To understand language? I looked over at Uri in awe. I saw her eyes squint and her claws start to unsheathe. I quickly looked away from her, and she resumed grooming herself. For some reason, she hated it when I looked at her in admiration. When I looked at her in pain or hate after she's claw me, she would look away, almost as if she was embarrassed or hurt. If a cat could feel those things. The door to the library opened.
"Hi Gokudera!" Tsuna said, walking towards me.
"Juudiame!" I exclaimed, jumping out of my seat. In the corner of my eye, I saw Uri roll her eyes. If that's even possible... She seems like more of a person than animal sometimes...
"I was just coming to check to make sure you're okay with your box weapon and everything... We have to break into Byakuran's base soon, and I'm nervous..." Tsuna scratched the back of his head, his eyes looking at the floor.
"You don't need to worry! You should be training, not worrying about us!" I said. I always hated when 10th put us before himself. Doesn't he realize he's the most important?
"You guys are my friends as well as my allies, and I want to make sure no of us-" He stopped mid sentence. I guess it makes him upset to use 'die'. As if it will jinx us.
"get hurt." I could see the worry and anticipation in his eyes as he spoke.
"Don't worry about us, Juudiame! I'm your right hand man! You can count on us!" I said. Tsuna nodded, and began to head out of the library.
"Okay Gokudera-kun! I'll see you at dinner!" Tsuna said. I waved, and he exited.
"We'll be okay, right Uri?" I said. I didn't dare look at her, the pain of claws digging into my face didn't seem appeasing right now. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Uri climb off of her perch on the top of the book shelf and down onto my desk. I sat down on the chair, and picked up a book.
"Sistema C.A.I..." I muttered. I began to read the books my future self had been reading, and settled into the chair. After a moment or so, I felt something soft and warm on my legs. I looked down, and saw Uri curled up in my lap, her head resting on my knee. I sighed.
"I don't think I will ever figure you out..."
