Chapter 4

Haru bowed as she said, "It's nice to meet you, Your Majesty." While in the back of her mind she thought, "Well, they do look alike...but hey wait did the king just call me "babe"?"

A grin appeared on the Cat King's muzzle as he suggested, "Hey, I've got an idea. Why don't you let me show you around the kingdom, Haru? I'm sure you'll hae a wonderful time. So what do you say, babe?"

Before the girl could answer the king, Lune took Haru's right hand into his left paw (as best he could) as he interjected with, "As much as I'm certain Haru would enjoy your company father. I'm afraid I'll be the one to show her around the castle since she is my guest after all."

Lune then led Haru out of the changing room leaving both the longhaired king and elder advisor taken aback by the prince's actions. The Cat King then showed a displeased look on his face as he began to leave the room as well. But before he did he slightly turned his head to where his blue was looking at his advisor as he ordered, "Natori, make sure you keep an eye on Lune and Haru."

"...Yes, Your Majesty." The light blue cat replied, and once the king was gone his let out another tired sigh as he then left the room in search of the cat prince and his guest.

Once the two were outside the castle Lune took Haru to a large tree that sat close to the edge of the outer garden. While they were wakling towards it though, the high school student couldn't help but wonder who that small present was for as the two then sat down underneath the tree. She waited fa minute or two before she asked the prince, "Lune, do you remember that small present that you were carrying when I saved you? Who was that for anyway?"

She noticed a light blush had appeared on the prince's furry face as he looked away slightly and replied, "That gift I was carrying was intended to be a way that I could show Yuki how much I loved her." Surprisingly Haru found her body had stiffened after that statement. "But after I had confessed my love to her, she...left the castle saying I should not have wasted my time on her." The prince finished with, as his eyes showed much hurt in them.

Haru was now the one to look away as she replied, "I'm sorry Lune, I shouldn't have brought it up."

"No it's alright Haru, my heart will always ache a little from thinking about it. But I know that with time I should be fine." The shorthaired prince reassured her with, as he lightly smiled in her direction. He then took a deep breathe as he knew that this question would surprise the girl, but he just had to know the truth as he asked her, "Haru, are with anyone back in your home?"

Haru blushed and looked away as she replied, "I, uh, well, you see there is a guy that I've had a crush on for about two years now. His name is Machida, but he...has a girlfriend so I don't want to tell him how I feel since I wouldn't want him to think I was a jerk." To her surprise a tear fell from her face as she ended with, "But the worst part of it all is that I don't even think he knows that I exist."

She then felt a paw place itself on her shoulder and when she looked to side she saw Lune's face as he replied back, "I'm sorry to hear that, Haru. To be honest I'm very surprise that a girl like yourself hasn't found that special someone yet."

Hearing this caused a light blush to reappear on the brunette's face as she smiled but lightly waved at him as she protested with, "Lune, thank you but that's enough."

"No Haru, it isn't enough." Lune said back, which caused Haru to let out a soft gasp. The Cat Prince then processed to take her right hand into both of his paws as he went on with, "You must know how genuine a person you are don't you, Haru?" The high school student found herself lost for words as the prince went even further with, "Only a kind hearted and caring person like yourself would have done what you did when you saved my life."

Once the prince had calmed himself down Haru could still not find any words to say as she would have never guessed that Lune would say such kind things about her. She then found herself lost in the prince's eyes as she started to lean her head forward while Lune did the same. Haru stopped however, when she looked at her watch and noticed that it was 12:30 back home as she said, "Oh, wow it's that's late already." She then finally noticed that it still seemed to be about noon in the Cat Kingdom as she asked, "Lune, does the sky in the Cat Kingdom always look like it's noon? Doesn't it ever change?"

"Unfortunately no it's always looks like this here. Of course the seasons do change, but other then that nothing else does." Lune explained, as he stood up and helped her to her feet.

While the two were walking back inside however, they had no idea that Natori had been watching them the entire time with a pair of binoculars as he lowered them and thought, "Did Miss Haru, and Prince Lune almost kiss? I have to make sure that the prince doesn't move too far ahead in this. I don't think he could handle another rejection." The light blue furred advisor hurried inside hoping to find Prince so that he could confront him about this.

Meanwhile Lune and Haru continued to walk down a different hallway when the prince stopped and pulled back another curtain to reveal a small, but nice looking room. It had a bed, a desk, and when Haru saw that her school uniform was in fact hanging next to the red dress she was revealed as Lune said, "I hope that this room is to your liking. I know it's not that big, but since I knew that you were only going to be staying for a few days I thought that this was all that you would need."

"No the room is fine thank you for doing this, Lune." Haru replied, as she walked towards her bed (after undoing her hair) and pulled back the covers.

Once she was comfortable though she heard Lune's voice as he softly said, "Sweet dreams, Haru."

She smiled as she turned to her side and said back, "Thanks, sweet dreams to you too, Lune ." She then fell into a sound sleep as the cat prince then left to retire to his room for a few hours for some well deserved rest of his own.