Chapter 2

Planeptune Basilicom: Dining room/Kitchen

5 P.M. same day as chapter 1

Pov (Kaito)

After we had eaten a simple dinner; I offered to help Noire clean up the dishes, so I could get to know her a little more. "Plutia said that you were searching for something. May I ask what that is?" I asked Noire as I was drying a plate that she handed me.

"I guess I can tell you." Noire told me as she let out a small sigh as I placed the plate that I had been drying in the nearby cupboard, "I'm looking for a CPU Memory, so I can become a CPU like Plutia has."

"Sounds reasonable. You don't want to be seperated from a close friend of yours." I said after hearing her goal and taking the next plate from her, "If you would like to join me; I was planning a trip to Zeca Ruins, which has been stated to be a Memory Core, tomorrow so I could do a couple fetch quests, and check out some reports of a sketchy duo being spotted near there."

"Can you hold your own in a fight?" She asked me as she started scrubbing another plate.

"Definitely." I told her while drying the plate I had been given, "I may only be a C-Rank guild member, but I only joined two months ago. I had two great teachers; my father and his best friend Kamito."

"I guess I can join you then." Noire told me as she finished scrubbing the plate and placed it on the counter in front of me, "Plutia will probably just stay here napping all day like she normally does, but just in case I'll ask her if she wants to come along."

"What time works for you, and would you want to get breakfast before we go?" I asked her as I placed the plate I had been drying with the other dry one, picked up the next one, and casually asked her to get breakfast with me.

"Breakfast would be nice before going." She said before starting to scrub the pan that had been used for dinner, "Where do you live? I can meet you there before we leave."

"Yeah; about that, I don't actually have a home." I said solemnly as I finished drying the plate in my hands, "I've been constantly on the move for a while, so I can't really stay in the same place for long."

"Why are you constantly on the move?" Noire asked me before adding; neither of us noticing Plutia behind us, "Not that I'm curious or anything."

"I'm originally from Lowee, but I couldn't keep living in the slums." I said answering her as I placed the third plate in the cupboard, "The crime rates kept rising and nothing was getting done about it, so I left; but I was still spotted by one of the border soldiers, and was chased to the border. This was a little over two months ago; I've been living out of hotels since, and when I can't get a hotel room I sleep in one of the local parks; really hate those nights."

"If that's the case then you can stay here with us." Noire and I heard Plutia say from behind us, "You have nowhere to go, and we have plenty of rooms. You would also be safe here."

"Well she's not wrong, but do you really want to live in a home with two women and you being the only man?" Noire asked me before turning slightly look at Plutia with one eye, "Are you sure that you want to live in the same house as a man?"

"If it means anything; I promise I won't do anything on purpose." I told the two of them as I rather liked the idea of having a home again, "I won't be a freeloader either."

Zeca Ruins

11 A.M. the next day

"What's the descriptions of the two people that you're here looking for?" Noire asked me before we entered the dungeon.

"Well, for a lack of a better term, one's a big bipedal mouse. The other is a grey skinned woman wearing a somewhat revealing witches outfit." I said answering Noire's question, "The mouse seems like it's the smaller threat, so Plutia can handle that one. Noire; you and I will handle the witch."

"Sounds good to me." Plutia told us in her usual slow tone as she carried a stuffed plushie in the shape of a bear.

"Let's be ready at a moments notice." Noire said as she summoned her weapon, which was a rapier, in a dark purple swirl.

"Not a problem." I said as a sword (Eryn's first fury form from FFF but in white and with a dark blue edge) appeared in my hand from an azure colored swirl, "Let's get going. If we find a CPU Memory; then I promise that you'll get it, Noire."

As the three of us got deeper into the ruins; we barely saw the bipedal mouse running down a side path, and Plutia took off after it. "We'll find them later, Noire. For now let's find the other one." I said as I watched Plutia slowly run after the mouse.

"I'm more worried about the mouse if Plutia transforms." Noire told me with a slight shiver, but followed me deeper into the ruins until we reached a half circular room with a lone figure standing in the center.

"Ah; glad the two of you could make it; you may call me Arfoire; not that it really matters." the figure said in a haughty feminine voice before turning to us to reveal grey skin and a revealing witch outfit before a black mist surrounded her, "To bad that the two of you won't be making it out of here alive."

A/N: The next chapter will be the fight of Kaito and Noire against Arfoire; along with Kaito meeting Iris Heart. Warechu will still have two CPU Memories btw.