Okay so here I am starting my second Cat Return's story. (yahoo) The summary is that it's been one year after the events of my first story, "MisMatched Eyes Of Affection". And now Haru must tell Lune if she returns his love. But after she does this unknown to everyone is a new cat who comes to the kingdom. Once he lays his eyes on the young king's bride to be however, he tries to take her away from him? How will Lune react to this? And how will everyone react when the cat who turned down the prince's marriage proposal shows up wanting to be with him. Anway I hope you will enjoy this story.

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To Stay By Your Side

Haru sighed with exhaustion as she put her cap and gown away in her closet. She still couldn't believe that her last year of high school had gone by so quickly. She knew the reason why it had though and that was thanks to the "former" prince (crowned king a day or so after she had left) of the Cat Kingdom, Lune. The brunette wasn't quite sure why, but ever since her trip to the Cat Kingdom she had started to get up for school either on time or sometimes before her alarm would go off. Not to the young woman's surprise though her mother soon became curious as to what had caused this change in her. So the brunette had no choice, but to tell her mother of what had happened and what surprised Haru the most after she had told her mother of this "adventure" was that she seemed alright with it...although Haru knew that her mother obviously found some of the things that she had said to be not true.

So the young woman wanted to prove to her mother that what she had told her a few months ago was all true. She then changed her clothes to a light purple short sleeve shirt with a long dark purple skirt as she looked at the ring that Lune had given her as she thought, "I hope Lune won't mind if I pay a visit to the castle. If hie isn't busy that is." She then focused as she put the ring in front of her and within a second a portal opened up as she then quietly stepped through it.

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King Lune sighed heavily as he let himself fall onto his bed having just finished yet another meeting with the court. He knew that being King was going to be exhausting, but for some reason whenever he come back from visiting Haru, or whenever she would leave to go back home, the young king felt a slight emptiness inside of him which made the rest of the day seem like it was taking forever to end. Thankfully however, it had been a year (along with an extra month or so) since he had confessed his love for her. Now he only hoped that she returned it so that they could plan their wedding and also so that this feeling of loneliness would go away.

His ears then twitched when he heard Natori talking to someone as the elderly advisor said, "I'm sorry my lady, but His Majesty is very exhausted from performing his royal duties. So he is resting in his room and does not wish to be disturbed right now."

The grey furred noble then heard a sigh as the voice replied, "I had a feeling that he might have been worn out since he seemed tired the last time that he came to visit me." The king then sat up noticing the pause as the person added, "Oh and Natori, you don't need to say "my lady" after you're done talking to me. Just say Haru for now...until I marry Lune that is."

"Ah, so does this mean that you do return His Majesty love for him?" The light blue cat asked, as Lune quietly walked closer to the curtain.

He then moved the curtain back a little to reveal Haru standing out in the hallway with a dark blush on her face as she slightly turned away while she answered, "Well actually Natori, I do love Lune with all of my heart."

The king watched as the kimono wearing cat lightly hugged Haru for a few minutes then broke away as he asked, "That is certainly wonderful news to hear, my dear. So when did you realize your feelings for the king?"

The young woman looked back at the advisor as she explained, "Actually I realized that I had these feelings for him after his last visit to my place. I know he was in his full cat from, but within an hour after he felt I started to feel lonely. And whenever I would think about him I would start to daydream about us being together which always managed to make me smile."

The shorthaired king had heard enough as he pushed back the curtain and said, "Hello Haru, I wasn't expecting you to visit here so soon." He then proceeded to walks towards her and once he was right in front of her, he pulled her into a hug as he added, "However, I am glad that you did."

Haru was not surprised when the young cat king had hugged her since he had done it all of the other times when she had visited the Cat Kingdom as she laid her head on his chest. However, after a moment or so Haru noticed that this hug seemed different from the rest of them since the grey furred half cat was actually purring as she thought, "Lune's purring? His never done that before...he must have really missed me."

"Uh Lune, I don't mean to ruin the moment here...but um I was wondering if you could come back with me for a few minutes so that you can meet my mother?" Haru asked, as she opened her eyes and looked up at him.

Lune looked down at her as he smiled and replied, "Of course, Haru. But doesn't your mother know that she has met me already?"

The brunette rubbed the back of her head as she admitted, "Well, sort of...you see after I had told her that you were that same cat who was always at our front door waiting for me she wasn't completely convinced that it was you so... " Before she could go on however, the shorthaired cat king opened up a portal back to the human world. And as he took her hand, Haru hoped that perhaps seeing the half cat king in this form would finally make her mother realize that she had told her the entire truth.

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Naoko continued to put her daughters clothes away knowing that she had gone off to see Lune again. She didn't mind that Haru did this, but since she was her mother she at least felt that her daughter could give her a warning for when she would be gone. The older red headed woman just sighed as she put the last of Haru's clothes away. Her eyes widen though when she heard Haru's voice from downstairs as her daughter asked, "Hey Mom, could you come down here for a second?"

"Coming." The woman replied, as she started to walk down the stairs. While she was doing this though half of her was surprised that Haru was home so soon, while the other half of her wondered why her daughter had asked her to come downstairs.

When she reached the end of the stairs and had walked into the living room she gasped at what she saw. There standing next to Haru was a grey furred cat, only he was standing up straight completely, was wearing a pair of shoes, gloves, and a uniform of some sort of royalty as the shorthaired cat bowed and greeted her with, "Hello Mrs. Yoshioka, Haru has told me much about you."

Haru's mother just adjusted her glasses as she stared at the half cat's mismatched eyes while she thought, "I know that I've seen those eyes somewhere before...but where?"