School's been a drag, so I'm sorry about the slow updates as of late. I beleve that school's the enemy...
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"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder." –John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Chapter 4
The waves gently swayed the gondolas in the calm atmosphere. Venice had just managed to meet the sun's rays, the sea glittering. All had been peaceful so early in the morning, nothing at all could disturb.
"SOMEONE GET THAT BLASTED CAT!" the cranky man from the butcher store yelled through the streets of Venice, lifting the peacefulness at the time to frantic. "YOU UNLUCKY BASTARD!" he swiped his broom, aimlessly striking at where the cat had been a few seconds ago. The cat continued to dash away from the angry man, and surprisingly dove into the water filled with gondolas. "GOOD RIDANCE TO YOU BLACK CAT!" He huffed, making his way to his shop.
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Kanda groaned as he awoke from a splash of water. Rubbing his eyes, he realized he hadn't been at Alberto's home. Instead, he had been outside, in the middle of the normally busy city. It had been quite, and he almost forgot the cause of his awakening. He quickly stood up, dusting off dirt and such off himself while deciding to find out how he ended up outside later.
The splashing continued as Kanda approached his rude awakening. His eyes widened as he laid eyes on the stray cat, extending his little paws towards him. Kanda, without thinking, kneeled at the edge of the port and extended his hand to the stray. He managed to pull the cat up, completely soaking wet. He'd been confused at what this cat had been doing in the sea, while the stray had been looking as though if he could sigh in relief, he would.
Kanda stared at the sight in front of him; the cat had been trying to dry himself off. The exorcist had silently examined the cat's appearance. He had been black, and oddly enough had himself blue eyes. The cat noted Kanda's had been staring at him, and walked towards him, while Kanda eyed the feline's every movement.
"Aren't you supposed to be 'bad luck'?" Kanda looked around making sure no one had been watching. He picked the drenched cat up, and began his way towards Alberto's home. "I highly doubt you bring bad luck to anyone but yourself."
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As Kanda walked the streets of Venice everyone gasped at the sight of a black cat in his arms. The cat in his arms had oddly settled, allowing a complete stranger to take him somewhere the cat hadn't known. A black cat in the city of Venice wasn't very welcome as Kanda noted. He didn't believe in the whole bad luck deal. It was complete and utter rubbish to him.
"My savior blue knight! It is him!" A woman pointed out, "He wears his eye mask! He's finally returned!" Everything from pots to pans had met the floor, everyone running towards Kanda. "A BLACK CAT! OUR HERO IS IN DANGER!"
"What the-?" Kanda shifted the cat to his left arm, and felt his face. 'What am I doing wearing the eye mask? I don't remember putting it on.' He completely ignored the town's people's gasps of the black cat he held in his arms.
"You idiots! Can you not see? The legendary black cat with piercing blue eyes is the blue knight's own partner!" None other than Alberto had appeared, "Azuro, do you all not remember? Nearly all of the blue knight's deeds had been achieved with the help of Azuro!"
They all nodded in awe, some in shame of not remembering this equally famous sly cat. They all turned to see the knight and his cat but were too late. Kanda had already left the hectic part of the city, failing to hear Alberto's explanation of the cat he had in his arms.
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It was irritating. The last time he remembered, he had already managed to crawl into his bed and fell to sleep. Nothing that had to do with the blue knight had been near him, and yet here he was, wearing the eye mask and holding some strange cat he found in the ocean of all places. Venice so far hadn't been the place he wanted to be at the moment.
He realized that the cat he had rescued from the sea had still been in his arms. He found it strange how the cat hadn't at the very least attempted to scratch him, or at the very least try to wiggle out of his grip. He assumed that this had been a good place for the cat to stay, away from water (well, as far away from water as possible in the water city). He knelt down and placed the cat on the ground, "Next time you fall into water, you won't be lucky."
After that, he walked away, the cat's blue orbs following his every step.
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Kanda glanced at the clock once he arrived in Alberto's home. That was about all he could do once he entered, annoyed that he of all people had been outside, with the eye mask of all things placed on him. He hadn't remembered at all putting it one, nor did he remember when he all of a sudden decided to sleep outside wearing it.
His thoughts were interrupted, "Where were you, Yuu?" Lavi couldn't help but giggle at his sentence. "But seriously."
"I don't even know."
A/N- Yes, I know. UNBELIEVEABLY SHORT. BUT! This short chapter is necessary.
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