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"I think we'll be safe up here." he had led me to a tree that was full of leaves. Perfect for hiding.

"Thanks for helping me." I scratched behind the black kitten's ear.

"Anytime. Uh...Amu..." I looked up and saw a hint of red on his cheeks. He looked down at the people walking under us.

"What is it?"

"Here." He handed his jacket to me without looking up.

I looked at my clothes and saw that they were clinging to me. I blushed and took the jacket. It smelled like fresh spring grass.

"What are you going to name her." Ikuto was looking at the kitten on my lap.

I shrugged and regretted it. He saw me wince and look at my arm again. He looked around and then jumped down from the tree. He landed perfectly on his feet. He looked up waiting.

"I don't think I should jump..."I thought of would what happened if I didn't land right.

"I'll catch you. Just jump and don't worry." I closed my eyes and jumped off. I fell into his arms and opened my eyes. I saw him smiling at me. "I told you I'll catch you."

"Thanks again." he groaned. "What?"

"Stop thanking me! If I help you or save you or whatever don't say thank you!"

"What do I say then?" I watched him consider this.

"Just say 'good job' or 'well done'. Just not thank you. Okay?" he looked into my honey eyes.

"Okay." I said smiling.

"Good. Now lets sit." he walked over to a bench and sat down. When I tried to get up he stopped me. He rearranged me on his lap. "Take the coat off so I can see your arm."

When I took mine and his coat off and placed the unnamed kitten on the bench next to Ikuto. The place where the cyclops grabbed me was all black and blue. He looked in his satchel and pulled out somethings. They where bandages, a bottle, a Popsicle stick, and a leaf.

"Stay still as I fix you okay?"

"Fine."

He unscrewed the bottle and used the Popsicle stick to spread some weird looking goo that smelled bad on my arm. He then broke the leaf while mumbling some words. He spread the pieces and wrapped my arm in bandages. He put the things away and took out a spoon and a bottle of medicine. He poured a little pink medicine on the spoon and gave it to the black kitten. She licked it clean and went to sleep.

"Your fixed and the little black cat won't get sick. Just let her rest and she'll be fine." he handed me my coat and put his own on.

"How do you know so much about healing?" I asked as he watched me.

His eyes turned dark and his face solemn. "It's part of the reason why I came here."

I didn't ask him more about it. After I was dry and the kitten in my coat pocket, we went off to buy what we needed. We finished when it was about 3:41pm. We sat down at a cafe and ordered our lunch. I got a tuna fish sandwich and a vanilla latte and Ikuto got the the same. As we waited to get our food, we talked.

"Well you tell me now what was bothering you?" he asked leaning in.

"Fine." I leaned closer too. "It was my uncle."

He seemed confused. "What about him?"

"He doesn't like you."

Ikuto laughed. "That's what was bothering you?"

"You don't get it. If he doesn't like you then you can't do anything bad. If you break the law or do something to me, then your going to be punished."

He smiled at me. "You care about me. I never had anyone care about my safety."

As the gnome brought our food, we leaned back in our chairs. I took a bite out of my sandwich and chewed thoughtfully. I heard the kitten meow in my pocket. I took her out and put her on my lap. She put her paws on my chest and tried to get some tuna. I tore a piece out of my sandwich and fed it to her. She ate it happily and looked up when she finished. I giggled and gave her another piece.

"If you keep doing that she'll be eating all of it." Ikuto was smiling. "Hand her to me." I gave her to him and drank some of my latte.

He gave her what was left of the sandwich. She purred after she finished. The kitten reached up and tried to lick his face. Ikuto laughed a little and scratched her ear. She curled up in a ball and purred contently. He sipped his latte.

"I'll tell you why I came here." he took a breath and looked at me. "I grew up in a village far, Far, FAR away from here. It's called Gilden and you probably never heard of it. My dad was the best healer there and my mom was the best cook. They were both Children Of the Shadows. I was their only son. My sister was supposed to follow my moms foot steps until she died from a sickness. I was supposed to be the best cook and healer after they died. But I didn't want to.

"I tried to tell them that I didn't want to, but they didn't listen. I was great at cooking and even better than my dad at healing. They had my whole future planned out for me. So I just decided to do it. I studied and practiced for months. Until Lulu came.

"Lulu was the prettiest and the most obnoxious girl in our village. My parents and her parents agreed and engaged us. When we both turn of age, we were supposed to get married. She liked me, but I didn't like her. Sure she was pretty and a ideal wife. But Lulu just wasn't my type. She was mean, bossy, demanding, bratty, and spoiled. When I heard that I was supposed to marry her I ran away. I left a note saying that I was sorry." he was looking into his cup the whole time. He looked up to see my reaction. I was shocked and amazed.

"What do you want to be instead of a healer or cook?"

His sad eyes lit up. "I want to be a warrior and be married to a woman who understood me and was my type."

"What's your type?" I asked smiling.

"A lady who was delicate, but can fight. Who's nice, beautiful, a cat person, loves nature, and loves me the way I am. What's your type?"

"Pretty much the same as yours. Nice, strong, a little shy, cat person, outgoing, funny, sweet, and loves me and not the princess me." I whispered the last part.

"Hmm...interesting..." a gnome came with the check. "I'll pay." I refused, but he ignored it.

"Let's go to where you'll be staying." I said standing up.

"Where is that?"

I turned around, "My house."

My house was a two-story cottage with a basement and a attic. It had four extra bedrooms, a kitchen, two bathrooms, dining room, living room, and a garden in the back. It was painted green and red on the outside. Inside it was blue on the first floor and purple in the second. It was located between the lake and the forest in the Northern tip of Wicker. Many animals came here when they were sick, injured, hungry, or just bored. Many nymphs, naiads, and other creatures came here after traveling for long. When we reached my house a white rabbit was munching on a carrot.

"Did you steal that from my garden?" as I walked closer it looked scared. "If you wanted one you could have waited till I came home and got you one." I rubbed between the bunny's ears. "I'll get you another one from inside. Just wait for a little."

"You sure do like animals." he said as we walked in.

"They don't care if you're a princess or different. If you're nice to them they're nice to you." I took a carrot from a shelf and threw it out the window to the waiting bunny. It took it and went to the woods.

"Where do I put the things we bought?"

"Anywhere." he put them on the counter. And set the kitten down on the floor to go look around. "Okay, time for a tour and rules. Follow me." I stepped into the living room. It had a dark blue couch in the middle, two wooden stools, a red love seat, a brick fire place, and a wool rug. "This is the living room. If you spill something you clean it and if you break something fix it or buy a new one." Ikuto nodded. "Moving on." we went into the kitchen.

"This is the kitchen, obviously." I said as I walked in. It was yellow with a stove, fridge, windows, oven, sink, cupboards, counter, and a door to the back yard. "Take what you want, just don't burn anything, when your finished clean up what you used. That's the door to the backyard and don't freak out if you see a lion or a bear out there. They just come here sometimes for a snack. Give them a piece of meat and they'll leave. You can plant your own garden if you want. Just don't mess with mine unless I say so." I went to the hallway and gestured down the hall.

"There's a bathroom next to a room where I put sick animals to get better." I went back to the living room and went up the stairs.

"The rooms are up here. Mine is the one with the red door. You pick whichever you want to stay in. Oh the bathroom is the third door on the right." I watched him look at the rooms. He opened and closed all of them until he found the one he liked.

"I'll take this one." Ikuto was standing in front of the room directly across from mine. "Can I paint the door midnight blue?"

"Sure. Everything is pretty much in there. We just need to dust and clean it. I need to get some sheets and pillows." I looked up at the door to the attic. "There are two more rules. And if you break them you get kicked out."

"What are they?"

"Don't ever go into the attic or basement, never ever. If you think you hear something tell me and I'll deal with it." I pleaded him with my eyes to say yes and not ask any questions. He looked at me for awhile.

"Okay. Can I see your room?" I sighed in relief and lead him to my room.

My room was painted red. It had a mahogany bed in one side, a bureau on the other, two windows facing the front of the house and overlooking the forest, two bookshelves filled with books, a nightstand, and a stuff animal on my bed. Ikuto walked inside and looked around and I watched him from the doorway. He picked up the stuff animal and examined it.

"I never thought you'll have a purple stuff cat." he said smiling.

"It's the last thing I have from my parents. That and a necklace that my dad gave to my mom." I went over and took the cat.

"What did you name that?"

"I named it Tsumugu. After my father. His other name is Khaos Mad." I put the stuffed cat down and went to my closet. I remembered Uncle said that the uniform was there. I opened it and gasped.

Inside were about 10 uniforms. 5 winter uniforms and 5 summer uniforms. The skirt was blue for winter and red for summer. The shirt was white,long-sleeved for winter with a red tie and a blue jacket. For the summer uniform it had a short-sleeved white shirt, with a pale sweater vest, and a blue tie. I looked down and was glad there wasn't any matching shoes. I pulled a winter uniform out and looked at it.

"Can you go check if the kitten is alright?" I said without looking back.

"Yeah sure. Come down when your finished." he closed the door when he left.

After I put the uniform on, a pair of black stockings, black boots, and washed my now healed arm I went down stairs. I saw Ikuto in the kitchen cooking with the kitten close behind. I watched him cut some carrots and stir something in a pot. Eventually he noticed me. He looked at me and stared a little. Well a lot.

"How does it look?" I spun around nervously.

"It looks good on you." he said while tossing a piece of a carrot to the kitten.

"What are you cooking?" I asked while I sat down in one of the chairs near the counter. The black kitten came and rubbed my leg. I bent down and put her on my lap.

"I stew that my mom showed me how to cook. It has a special ingredient." he kept stirring and cutting.

"Can't wait, I'm hungry." I smiled as he turned around to get a potato. "Hey! I got it!"

"Got what?"

"I got two names for this little black cat. Midnight or Nemesis. Which one do you like better?"

"Why did you pick those names?"

"Midnight because she's black and Nemesis because she is the Goddess of revenge, the cyclops might be mad so he'll want revenge." I said smiling lovingly at the kitten in my lap.

"You don't know a lot about gods do you?"

I frowned at him. "Not really..."

"Here's a quick lesson. Nemesis was Nyxs' daughter. Hermera was her daughter too. She had a lot of children that are very important, but under appreciated."

"So I'll go with Nemesis! Thanks! Oops, I mean good job." some one knocked on the door."Can you get it? I don't wanna get up."

"Sure." he left into the living room to get the door. I looked out the window and watched the sun set. "Guess I got mine." I jumped as he appeared at the door.

"Got your what?"

"Uniforms. 5 of each. Don't touch the stew while I try it on." he left to change in the bathroom in the hall.

When he came back he was wearing the uniform. For boys it was long blue pants, the white school shirt, a tie, and a blue jacket. He still had his muddy black boots. I made a mental note to buy him some shoes.

"Nice. You look very middle school-ish. Doesn't he Nemesis?" she meowed in agreement.

"The stews done. Can you set the table?" he walked over and stirred the stew.

"You sound like the host and I'm the guest." I commented as I went to set the table.

After we ate I changed into some old shorts and a shirt. Ikuto went to take a shower. As he showered I cleaned his room and got it ready for him.

I wonder how middle school will be? I thought as I dusted the room. I just hope they don't let any sirens or other evil creatures into the school. That would be bad.

After I dusted, cleaned, and set the bed, I walked to my own room. It was a little dusty. I changed the sheets and dusted everything. I went and set up Nemesis's bed in the living room. She laid down and fell asleep. I went outside to see if there was any animals who needed food or somewhere safe.

I few woodland animals came, but just for food. I laid down on the grass looking at the starry sky. After a while Ikuto came.

"Hey Amu." he said as he sat down next to me.

"Hi." I whispered.

We sat there staring at the sky until I felt tired. I got up to go inside, but Ikuto grabbed my hand.

"Wait."

"What?"

"...Never mind. Sorry." he let go and I walked inside confused.

Ever: Thanks to Moonlightstarange113 for reviewing! :D

Amu: Whoa! Ikuto is ooc

Ever: I said you guys would be =3=

Ikuto: I seem so stupid

Ever: If you value your life you will stop talking

Ikuto: What are you gonna do? Tickle me?

Ever: * takes out chainsaw*

Ikuto: O_O * runs away*

Ever: * says sweetly* Please review and I hope you enjoyed this chapter ^^