Cat's Eye Galaxy

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Things That Are Important And Necessary To Avoid Confusion:

Main Characters:

Fai Fluorite:20 years old, thus not a bajillion years ancient, owner of the Cat's Eye

Chi Fluorite:17 years old, thus loves cute things like puppies and adorable little kids, younger sister of Fai, the two are refugees from a, ahem, 'war-torn country' (I know, "that's one way to put it")

Kurogane You-ou: 23 years old. As a young child he went into a grief-stricken rampage over his mother's death, damaging tons of property and injuring several people; is paying off the cost to this day, providing free labor to a certain budding business owner.

Okay, this is obviously AU, so roles and powers are deleted or changed usually. However, some keep their abilities; for example: Yuuko and Clow are still magic and Subaru and Kamui are still (hawt) vampires; but nobody can cross dimensions (no one needs to), also Sakura and Tomoyo aren't necessarily princesses…Screw timelines…Err, just assume everyone's looks, personalities, and ages are like that from Tsubasa; unless otherwise apparent. The numbers are there to help explain my reasoning as well, but are not really necessary for you to (hopefully) enjoy the story. Actually, I probably wouldn't read them 'til the end if I was you.

So now, after probably the world's longest Author's Note, I proudly present to you: Cat's Eye Galaxy!

Onward!


~Opening Up Shop~

Kurogane scowled at his far too cheerful new boss, "Why do I have to work for you? For free, no less."

"Well, as a new business owner, the ever-so-kind people at the employment agency, under the impression that being inexperienced equates to being naïve, foisted you upon me." Fai said grinning "Anyone can tell you're paying off some massive debt if they're offering you up to the cheap-labor-desperate dogs as an unpaid worker, but you have yet to be snatched up and tore apart in one of their merciless jaws. Did you level a city?"

"…How can you say anything of that smiling? And if you're so informed about me-"

"So I was right about Kuro-wanwan!" the blonde ducked under a punch.

"As I was saying, if you know so much about me, why did you hire me?"

"Because I can't afford to pay anyone yet."

The dark-haired man raised an eyebrow, "Then what's with mahogany tables?"

"Why, that's a secret, Kuro-rin."

Kurogane huffed, "Fine, what do I have to do anyways?"

"Kuro-tan's the busboy."

"What?!"

"More like janitor, but you get the idea." Fai said happily. "We're low on workers; you, Chi, and myself are the only ones."

"Hey, if I'm the janitor, who are you two?"

"Chi's the cook and I'm the waiter." He said straightening his miniature red bowtie. (1)

"Waiter? Aren't you the owner or something?"

"Correct, but this way if a customer gets too rowdy or unpleasant, we can kick him to the curb without a middleman." Kurogane once again wondered how his new boss could smile so cheerfully while speaking of such violent and malicious things. "Plus, people show more respect towards the owner, their true personalities are shown when dealing with the underlings."

Kurogane had the distinct feeling that the word 'underlings' was directed at him. His eyes tried to glare a hole in the back of Fai's skull as the café owner went to change the 'closed' sign to 'open'; however the blonde seemed immune.

It was this moment that Chi chose to burst into the room, announcing she brought ice-cold chocolate milk for her hardworking nii-chan and Kuro-wawa.

"I'm not a dog," Kurogane grumbled, drinking it anyways. "This is good." He said staring incredulously at the glass; he looked up at the two, "Why? It's milk!"

"That's because it's made with love!" Fai said hugging Chi.

~~First Customer~~

The bell above the door rang. A girl stuck her head in, her gaze landing on Fai, who paused in his smirking at Kurogane to walk over. "Hello, miss. How may I help you?"

"Is this the new café they said was opening?"

"Indeed it is; would you like to come in?"

She smiled, "Yes, thank you."

"Sakura-chan!" (2) A winded boy appeared panting in the doorway, "Warn me–hah–before you–hah–run off–hah–like that."

"Syaoran! I was just checking out the new café."

"Hey, you got money, kid?"

Syaoran opened his mouth to reply to Kurogane when Fai cut-in. "Oh, don't mind Kuro-pon. You're our first customers. Order whatever you like; for you, it's on the house. Just make sure to tell everyone about us."

The brilliance of Sakura's pure, innocent smile nearly knocked Kurogane to the ground. "Thank you, I'll ask my brother to come later today."

Out of nowhere, Chi glomped Sakura, "You're so kawii!"

"Err, thank you?" (3)

Chi dragged her over to one of the barstools, "What do you want?"

"Oh, I don't want to take advantage of your kindness."

"Nonsense," she turned to Syaoran, "what would you like?"

"Umm, if you insist, I guess water."

Chi blinked, "…You two are the most unselfish people I have ever met." She shrugged, "Ah well, I'll decide myself."

After she went into the kitchen, Kurogane walked over to Fai. "As much as I don't want to give advice to such annoying boss, it'll be a problem later if I don't."

"Yay! Kuro-kunkun's going to share wisdom from his Fountain of Knowledge with me!"

"Shut up!" Kurogane huffed, "You are going to need to think about getting hired help in the future at some point. I've seen it happen during my seventeenth job and my third time as a bouncer. The place had too much business and not enough workers. People got impatient and the place took a nosedive. Only time I wasn't fired from a job."

"Aww, Kuro-black cares!"

"Shut up! I just don't want to deal with cranky patrons!"

"That does change the fact you think we'll get good business."

"Of course so if you keep attempting to seduce every female customer like you did that Sakura girl. Really, 'miss' and 'for you, it's on the house'? Next time you might even try to entice some poor guy."

Fai stepped so that their chests were inches apart and whispered alluringly into his employee's ear, "Are you sure that man would unfortunate, Kuro-sama?"

Kurogane scrambled away with the slightest blush dusting his cheeks, clutching an edge of a table for support, "Don't ever do that again!"

Ignoring his worker's distress, the blonde sauntered towards him. Stopping very close, Fai placed his hands on the mahogany wood on each side of Kurogane and leaned over him, "Are you sure about that?"

Kurogane was one shade of blushing away from declaring to Chi he was getting a restraining order on her brother but was prevented from doing so by their customers' compliments of her cooking.

Luckily, this also caused Fai to return over to the counter where Syaoran and Sakura thanked them both for the free food and left. "Why do I feel that those two are going to be the least strange to come here?" Chi commented.

"Because they already are."

"Aww, Kuro-kiwi, we're not strange; we're just different."

~~~Royalty~~~

Sakura burst into her home, dragging poor Syaoran along with her. "Oi, monster, don't barge in here like that. Are you trying to break land speed records running here?" Touya paused, "…again." Sakura stuck her tongue out at him. "Why is the brat here?"

"Me and Syaoran went to visit that new café, the Cat's Eye."

"That's open now is it?" Yukito asked.

"You bet, and since we were the first customers they gave us these absolutely delicious cakes! And there was this nice girl and-"

"Whoa, slow down there, monster."

Sakura took a deep breath, "I told them I'd bring you, so come on."

"You did what?"

"Ah, let's humor them. I've been waiting to go there when it opens."

"You just want to see how fast you can down their entire food supply."

Yukito smiled brightly, "Exactly."

Touya sighed, "Fine, I'll go."

"Yay!"

"But I'm not paying for all of you!" he turned to his best friend, "Especially for you and your bottomless stomach." Yukito only smiled.

"This better be worth it, monster." Touya said as they walked to the café (4); it had been Syaoran who suggested that if he had been worried about everyone eating too much, that they should 'walk there to burn off some carbs'.

"Don't worry, it definitely is." She answered, pushing the door open.

"Welcome," Fai said turning towards the door, "Ah, Sakura, how are you?"

"Good,"

"And who might you two be?" Fai asked Touya and Yukito.

Yukito's face broke out into a mischievous smile, "This is his royal majesty Touya and I am his humble adviser, Yukito."

"You are anything but humble, and I told you not to stop with that." Touya growled.

"But it's so much fun to tease you!"

"Huh?" Kurogane asked bluntly.

Touya sighed and glared at his smiling 'adviser' "When we worked at a diner a customer mistaken me for some king I must look like. Ever since my dear friend here has taken to calling me that in public."

"And here I starting to think that Yukito kid was the least strange, guess I was right all along." Chi commented to no one in particular.

"Does that make the she-brat a princess?" Kurogane wondered aloud.

"It will be a pleasure to serve you, Sakura-hime." Fai said mock-bowing.

"Stop it with the royalty references already!"

"Ooh, if Sakura is a princess," Chi said smiling mischievously, "does that make Syaoran her royal consort?" The said two outshined the sun with the brilliance of the red now coloring their cheeks.

"Off with your heads, all of you!" Touya said, finally giving-in to the metaphor.

"Would his majesty and company like to be seated?" Kurogane had a massive feeling this was going to become a running joke. Great.

"Whatever." Touya said sulking a bit.

Fai offered a hand to Sakura, "May I escort you to your chair, hime?" She giggled and took his hand.

"You're in luck; we have just enough of these for you four." He said giving them each a fancy cream-colored menu with gold writing. After taking their orders, Fai left to give them to his sister.

"They sure have a kind waiter here." Yukito observed, "I wonder who the owner is." He turned to his friend, "What do you think, your majesty?"

Touya's eye twitched, "Well, dear adviser, there may be a way to find out."

"Huh? How's that, your majesty?"

"You're the last one I'd think would go along with that, brat."

Syaoran smirked but turned bright red after Touya had smiled maliciously and said that it may be because he liked being "monster's consort".

"Can we get back to the meeting the owner thing?"

"Sure thing, monster princess; since I've been lately 'low on the dough', I thought we could have another restaurant job; me and Yukito that is. This place can't run on only three people."

"Hyuu~, the king wants to work as a lowly servant?" Touya clutched his rapidly beating heart, that waiter had appeared out of nowhere! "I'll see what can be arranged." The blonde said, setting the food down, "Will that be all, your highnesses and adviser?"

Sakura giggled, "We're good."

Fai turned towards the potential employees, "Come back before opening to meet with the owner."

Yukito smiled, "We look forward to it."


A/N: This was going to be a group of interconnected one-shots, but it didn't turn out that way. The Great Story Spirits would not allow it. In the beginning the 'chapters' can be read individually…kinda. They're also a bit too short to separate in to chapters. That doesn't mean I won't have more than one chapter, just less of them…yeah. The 'interconnected one-shots' thing was a self-challenge I gave myself to write interconnected one-shots (which I epically failed at) as well as to not use, ahem, 'strong language' and to not use little up-carrots ^ to insert whole paragraphs in between words. Though that only works in Olive, my notebook, but whatever.

1: Fai and Kuro-pon are in their anime-Oto clothes; Chi's in Sakura's outfit, that's how I see them at least.

2: I'm warning you now, I'm not going to use 'Fangirl Japanese'; it's troublesome to write and with my slow typing, it ain't gonna work. Also, with a few exceptions, Kurogane is the only one who gets honorifics. Also, with a few exceptions, Kurogane will always have a different honorific each time Fai speaks the word 'Kuro'

3: Chi is enough years older than Sakura to see her as a cute little girl. Plus, when it comes to Sakura, everyone has a bit of a Tomoyo-complex.

4: Two things, 1) I didn't feel like using scene changes in here, deal with it; and 2) in case you didn't notice, I write a lot of dialogue, as I don't have paragraphs in Olive, it's a bit hard to tell if you'll have weird-looking typed pages. Plus, I like using the whole "person's way of speaking reveals who they are" thing, that's why I gave a polite way of speaking to, well you'll see…