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Anyway… (yes that was me arguing with myself) this chapter is episode 3 so blah de blah de blah. I'm absolutely sure I'm right in the brain (don't trust me when I say that) so do not worry! This chapter will be good! I hope! I don't own Noragami, only Kittie! *hiccup*

Living with a Phantom inside Me

Chapter 4: The Day I Remember Something of My Past

Point of View Switch: Yukine's POV (Third Person)

Yukine hugged the jacket tighter to his body, hoping to warm himself up with it, and glared at Yato, who was sorting through the bag of clothes for the homeless people. "I seriously gotta wear this junk?" he asked incredulously, staring at the clothing that littered the floor. He let out a shuttering breath from the cold, clutching the jacket.

"Quit complaining…" the supposedly god muttered. His eyes widened slightly at the sight of a jacket and he held it out to the boy. "Hey, check it out Yukine! This seems cute!"

It was a blue and white sweatshirt-jacket that was way too big for the Regalia to fit in. On the back it said "Capypa Land!" with a picture of a capybara that stood on its hind legs. Yukine instantly felt resentment to it.

"That's lame…" he denied, looking away.

"Then I'll wear it!"

Yukine sighed and turned around, taking another shuttering gasp. I doubt that would change my mind… he thought to himself, zipping the jacket down. He was doing it slowly, as if he wanted to keep it on as long as possible. And it was true. He did want to wear it since it provided him some warmth that the god didn't provide him with (and he was still wondering if he was a god). Besides, that girl who gave it to him… was so familiar to him but no matter what he couldn't find out who she was. Isn't she a Phantom though? Her ears and tail (hell, humans aren't supposed to have those!) were a silvery-grey and were transparent much like the Phantoms around them. Why hadn't Yato slayed her already if she is a Phantom? But then why would she have a human form? What the hell is she?

With all the questions in his head, he shook it clear and shrugged off the jacket. He tossed it to the side gently and muttered, "Why do I still feel physical stuff like this," he took off his robe and looked at the red marking on his collar bone, "even though I'm long dead?" His breath flew out in white, wispy puffs.

Point of View Switch: Kittie's POV (First Person)

Waking up to the sound of scratching at the door was no surprise to me. After all, I am supposedly the cat "god" of this place. Dammit, why can't they let me sleep? I need my damn sleep if I would be running around soon following Yato and probably pestering him to help me with my problem. But dammit, he just won't listen will he? That damn god…!

Groaning loudly, I sat up, glaring at the door when I heard a meow. Damn cats and trying to worship me…! As much as I like something worshipping me like a god, it was beginning to get annoying. Oh wait, it already is annoying!

Tossing off the covers, I blinked down at myself, wondering what the hell happened to my jacket. My ear flicked and my tail whisked around the bed. Oh, right. I gave my jacket to that kid Yato brought back as a Regalia since he was cold. That same Regalia I felt like I should protect as if I was his mother.

A loud, begging yowl came from behind the door, jolting back to reality, and I grumbled under my breath. Standing up I marched to the door (making sure the people below me knew of my presence) and slammed open the door, glaring at the cat sitting in front of the doorway.

"Hellion…" I muttered, shivering lightly. It meowed in response and jumped on the bed.

Gently I picked her up under her forelegs and stared at her brown eyes. She was quite a pretty feline; she had creamish-orange fur and a white/cream underbelly. In her claws were… strands of hair?

Shifting her so that I could hold her like a human child, I plucked the black hair from in between her claws, thinking it was from another cat. However the scent told otherwise.

Blinking at her, I raised a grey eyebrow and asked, "Did you happen to run across him, by any chance?" Seeing her nod (how the hell did she understand me?!) I continued, "What did he do to you that made you scratch his ass off?" She just curled her tail with another meow. I gave her a deadpanned look but sighed in defeat, setting her back down onto the bed.

Looking back at the hair, it was definitely Yato. The smell was like his, but mixed with feline scent and fish. I would've face palmed but I paused after hearing large footsteps. The landlord.

I glanced out the door, seeing that he was approaching this room, and grabbed the cat, darting to the window almost instinctively. I opened it in a swift movement and jumped out right before he could take a step in. Placing a hand to calm the cat (that freaked as soon as I jumped out the window) I landed on my feet safely and placed her on the ground, shushing her so she didn't attract attention. I wasn't worried, since I'm a Phantom.

I followed the scent of Yato, wanting to bug him and kind of wishing that his blonde weapon would have my jacket. Goddamn, it was cold.

Sitting next to Hiyori in a random restaurant, I purred satisfyingly. My stomach was grumbling. Sure, I'm a Phantom, but that doesn't mean I don't get hungry. I barely survive off of what the hotel provided, so being at a restaurant seemed as if someone gave me a thousand dollars. However, Hiyori didn't seem to like it, as she stared at Yato with a sour expression.

"Hiyori's offering me some food!" he announced cheerfully to his Regalia- Yukine, right?- who was just walking up, not seeming to noticed Hiyori's look. "How nice and charismatic of her, wouldn't you say?!"

He was wearing a light blue sweatshirt that concealed a black long sleeve shirt and black pants. On his head was a white snow hate with a little fluff ball at the top. Across the body of it was a blue stripe; above it was a green strip with a line-dot pattern and under it was a thicker green stripe with a horizontal zigzag pattern.

Pink eyes narrowing, the half-Phantom beside me told the god, "Once you're done, I expect you to finally listen to my request." She didn't get a reply back as Yukine looked at me and gave me my jacket (that I missed so dearly) by tossing it in my hands, then sitting beside Yato and putting his head down wordlessly. He took off his (cute) snow hat, minding his manners since he was in a building, revealing his mane of golden hair. I blinked at him, not expecting it at all, but shrugged and put it on. There was a certain smell on it, almost like Yato's but… different. I kind of liked it.

A glass of water was set in front of Hiyori and the waitress smiled warmly at her, offering her a welcome. Then she asked what she would like to eat, but Yato interupted, "Three glasses of water and a glass of milk, Miss!" My ears perked up at the word "milk".

The waitress gasped and repeatedly apologized for her mistake, going back to get what he said. After she left, Hiyori switched her gaze to the god and questioned, "I thought people can't see you because you're not human?"

I shook my head, joining in on the conversation. "No, that's only Phantoms. She couldn't see me, but she did see Yato and Yukine but forgot about them instantly." I got my knowledge of gods by observing (and whenever I did that I nearly got killed more than five times), in case you were wondering. Yato didn't bother asking how I knew about gods and just answered her.

"It's not like that. We're not invisible; we're just hard to notice. People can see us." Now adorning a small smirk, he challenged her, "Now let me ask you, how many waitresses are there here?" When she moved to look, he stopped her by saying not to look, only guess.

"Um… Two?" After her guess, he motioned for her to look, and I counted four instead of two. One was working the cash register, one pouring water into a cup, and the other two serving the guests. "Huh? Four?"

Yato placed two fingers on his chin and said, "It's just like that. Yukine and I blend in with the background just like the two other waitresses you didn't see. Once noticed, we're seen as people… but then we're soon forgotten again." The waitress apologized again after appearing with three other cups, two filled with water and the other with milk. As soon as she placed it down, I snagged it quickly. "Like, you don't remember the people you've ever passed on the street, right?" He grabbed his cup and sipped the water. Yukine just stared around the restaurant with a bored expression. "Since we're from the Far Shore, it's like that, but stronger."

As soon as the food arrived, all the seriousness disappeared and Hiyori's sour look came again. But I didn't pay much attention to her; I was gobbling down the food that she didn't eat with a happy sway of my tail. I never had food like this before, and it is absolutely delicious! Why the hell don't the people in the hotel serve this instead of healthy shit like apples?

"You certainly eat a lot, though." she commented, her hand slightly shaking. She glanced at me as I took a ravenous bite out of a hamburger.

Stuffing even more food in his mouth, Yato replied with a helpful tip: "Never waste an offer! An important rule!"

I responded with my own say. "I never had anything like this before! The shit I eat is healthy and organic." I scowled at my own words, shoving another bite down my throat and biting into another dish.

She sighed, worrying about our health because of how we ate, but Yato just waved it off. "I'll be fine! Gods don't poop!" His comment made me giggle slightly and Hiyori to choke on the coffee she was drinking.

I walked out the restaurant behind Hiyori, my ear twitched when the waitress that served us thanked her for coming. Hiyori grumbled to herself about Yato and paused after seeing Yukine standing outside, looking at the street distantly. After hearing the door open, he glanced at us (mainly Hiyori) and muttered, "Thanks for the food…" A small blush appeared on his cheeks as he said that.

I thought it was so adorable of him to do that, but I snapped out of it and tossed a hand over her shoulder. "Yeah," I said, agreeing with the young spirit, "thanks, Hiyori!" With my ears pricked and tail waving I gave her a catlike smile.

She blinked before her face broke out in a smile. "Not at all." Now she looked at Yukine and introduced herself, "I'm Iki Hiyori. You can call me Hiyori." Oh right, they don't really know each other much. But he doesn't really know of me either since he didn't ask me. I wouldn't bother until he asked me anyway.

His red-orange eyes flickered at me for a mere second before they switched to the restaurant as he asked the half Phantom, "How do you know him, Hiyori?" He pointed to what he was looking at, us following the finger.

Yato was inside in front of the counter speaking to a waitress about the free candy bowl on the counter. Patting the candy inside the bowl, he told her, "I'll take all this candy. I mean, it's free, y'know?" I tuned out the rest of that conversation, knowing it was completely useless and stupid, and flicked my ear to what Yukine said after Hiyori explained to him why she knew him.

"Hm. Sucks to be you."

Hiyori agreed with him with a bitter face and laugh while I snickered. She turned around and asked him curiously, "Ummm… what about you? How did you…?" I blinked, before realizing what she was hinting at. 'How did he die and become a little globe of light?' was the unspoken question. I was also curious, since this kid was somehow linked to me in some sort of way. Maybe it could make me remember something.

Yukine looked up at her question with a raised eyebrow, indirectly querying what she meant.

"What did you do before you became Yato's Regalia?" she inquired quietly, hoping not to strike an emotional side of him.

Yukine tilted his head to the side to think about what she said and shrugged. "I dunno. I do know that I died but all I can recall is suddenly being in his hand…" He meant when he transformed into the naked blade. "I don't remember anything from when I was alive. I dunno what to expect either." As he said that, the cat that tore out Yato's hair and came to my door walked up behind Yukine and rubbed against his leg. She looked at me and meowed, waving her tail in greeting. When he felt it, he looked down and muttered, "You're the sardine thief!" He kneeled down to pet her and I smiled, ear twitching and tail swaying.

"Kind of like me." I piped up. He paused in stroking the cat, shifting his gaze to me. I shrugged at his questioning gaze and said, "All I can remember is me dying when I was human. I have no memories of what I did or who I actually was, including my name. When I woke up I was a Phantom." His eyes turned astonished quickly, and I cursed when I realized I revealed my past again to another person ('Because you're too soft, Kittie.' a nagging voice in my head said but I ignored it).

"You were a human?!" he shouted in absolute shock. I nodded, ear twitching. He paused, but then continued to stroke the cat who just purred at the contact. Hiyori stared at me, then him, and broke into a smile.

She skipped down the steps that led to the restaurant and bent down with her hands on her knees beside the Regalia. "Do you like cats, Yukine-kun?" I twitched my ear in surprise, a slight blush appearing on my cheeks. I don't know why, but the question she asked him made me a bit flustered, considering that I'm like a cat.

Without looking at her, he murmured, "Probably."

"Cats are cute, aren't they? I like them too."

Okay, now they were acting like I didn't even exist. What she said made the blush increase on my cheeks. Why was I blushing? She clearly didn't mean me, but actual cats.

Yukine glanced at her, his cheeks turning pink again as Yato walked out. Yato flipped with a comical cry of pain, holding the back of his neck. In his hand were various candies and he had a lollipop in his mouth. "Yukine," he spoke through the candy, "you just had a dirty thought, didn't you?!" My blush faded and I looked at him.

His Regalia also looked up with blushing cheeks, but he shook his head and diverted his attention elsewhere.

"Listen, Yukine! Just so you know, gods and Regalias share mind and body. As your master, I sense all your wicked thoughts, you know!" He took out his lollipop and pointed it at the blonde boy.

"Huh? What the heck are you talking about?"

Hiyori stood up, facing Yato, and asked, "Umm… what do you mean, share body and mind?"

After glaring at the boy, he grinned and tossed the candy in his hand. I crept beside him and stole one piece without him noticing, swaying my tail mischievously. "Kids in puberty can be such a handful." he commented slyly.

"Shut up, moron!"

"Who are you calling a moron!?"

I sighed, jumping down the stairs to stand beside Hiyori, picking up the cat. Watching the two scrabbled I stroked the cat with a shake of my head of exasperation. They will argue all the time. I'm sure of it.

Yato's phone rang in the middle of their argument and he answered it almost immediately, a catlike smile and a gleam in his eyes. "Hello! Fast, affordable, and reliable! Delivery God Yato, at your service!" The person on the other side said something and Yato grinned even wider, saying to Yukine, "Yukine, we have a job! Let's get going!"

"Ah, wait! What about my job!?" Hiyori instantly knew what they were going to do next because she ran up to them just as they teleported out of sight. Her body collapsed on the ground, causing me to wince in sympathy. I walked up to her to pick her up, but noticed something. She was asleep.

I scowled slightly. Her soul was with them, and I don't want to leave her body out where Phantoms could get her. I set the cat aside and picked her up. Hopefully no one will notice a floating, sleeping girl.

Leaping roof to roof, I headed in the direction of the Storm and the direction of Yato's smell. They were pretty close together, so I'm pretty sure they were Phantom-hunting for their job.

I had put Hiyori's back at her house in her bed (I guessed it was her bed) and her parents weren't home, so I went through the front door. I would've wondered where they were, but I don't know humans that much, especially adults. Maybe it was because I tend to observe gods more than humans and if I observe humans, it'll probably be the teenagers or children.

Back to the topic, I was getting closer to the Storm when I heard a familiar voice. Yato.

Looking down, I recognized Yato, Yukine, and, surprisingly, Yato's former Regalia that I knew of. Except she was wearing a white kimono with red hakama instead of a dark red kimono with light purple vertical stripes, and a pink scarf around her shoulders, which was what she wore when she was with Yato. Now that I was closer, I noted that she had short black hair and green eyes. She was pretty, I have to admit.

I hopped down; catching the attention of the two Regalia, but Yato's back was facing me. Yukine asked why I was here, the black haired Regalia gasped about a Phantom (me), and Yato acknowledged me with a glance. Before I could speak (I wanted to know where the hell Hiyori was) he cut in. "You came in at the right time, Kittie. I want you to help me with something."

"Yato! This is a Phantom you're talking to! Why do you know her, and why haven't you slayed her yet!" Yato's former Regalia hissed, pointing at me. I narrowed my eyes at her.

Yato turned around, and I was shocked by the fierceness in his blue eyes. His pupils were almost slits like a cat and to be frank, I was almost terrified by this look. But I managed to calm myself down, thinking it was outrageous to think I would be scared of a happy-go-lucky god.

"I think you answered your own question, Tomone. Let's go, Yukine, Kittie."

"Where do you think you're going!? And don't call me that!"

"Sekki!"

I nodded and Yukine transformed into the naked blade when the kanji flashed in front of him. Yato ran forward, grabbing the blade, and jumped over the train ahead of us. I followed him onto the top of another train, and we rode it until we were near a train station. Looking at Yato, I shouted over the wind, "I hear Phantoms and Hiyori! They're near!"

He nodded at the information and took a running start, leaping high in the air. Up ahead, the half Phantom was strapped to the tracks by blue Phantoms. Planning to kill her.

Not on my watch! I growled in my head, slipping on my clawed gloves swiftly. I crouched like a cat stalking its prey and pounce on the two Phantoms that were closer to the station as Yato swiped downwards with the sword at the other two. They shrieked and darted away.

"Jump!" Yato yelled to Hiyori, just as the train was about to hit her.

Seeing her struggle to get up, I grabbed her hand and bounded onto the top. We crashed onto the top, causing me to yelp at the slight pain. Hiyori's Phantom tail was bristled like a cat's tail from the fear of getting run over by the train she had felt, but it smoothed down eventually.

"You okay?" Yato asked. She nodded, on her hands and knees. "Man," he muttered, "you'll die if your tail is cut, remember! Now just stay put!" He twisted his head to stare at the black smoke-ish substance up ahead. It was far off, but with the speed the train is going, we'll be there soon.

So this is where the Storm is coming from…

Yato continued to stare at it, his slit pupils narrowing in concentration. "Yukine," he called to the Regalia, "our real work is coming up." Just ahead of us, I could finally see what the cause of the Storm was. The cause was a man with a back pack and a red Phantom on his back, a dark blue hand dotted with red spots waving him into the path of the train. "We're taking out that Phantom. Don't wuss out, Yukine!"

Yukine replied back with a simple, "No prob."

Narrowing my green eyes I faintly heard the word "easy" coming from the man's lips and he began to cross the bar that blocked people from coming in contact with the train. Crossing it only defeats its purpose.

The blonde weapon soon lost his laid-back composure after seeing this, and he shouted, "Oh, no! We're not going to make it-!"

"Yes, we will!" Yato growled, charging to the Phantom while still on the train. He jumped off, heading directly to the hand like Phantom.

"You who would desecrate this land of the rising sun! With my advent, I, the Yato god, lay waste with the Sekki and expel the vast defilement!"

As he said that he traced the blade with his fore finger and middle finger, a blue light almost blinding to me appearing in their wakes. He sliced down at the Phantom, shouting, "Rend!" The entity's fingers were sliced clean off, and the cut was so powerful that it sliced almost everything around it, including a tree, the bar, and a random pole. Yato jumped back, telling Yukine, "Yuki! That's enough! Revert! You cut too well!" He landed on the ground beside the man as the kanji flashed. Hiyori and I remained on the train.

After leading Hiyori to her house for her body, I walked beside her to the place where we saw Yato and Yukine last. They were still there. Why, I don't know. It was already evening time, and the sun was beginning to set.

"You said people who want to die should just die… but I guess you do help them after all!" Hiyori exclaimed, smiling. That must've been before, when I wasn't there, because I don't know what the hell she was talking about. Judging by what she said, it must've been about the task, considering that the man before tried to kill himself by getting run over by a train. Doesn't sound like living happily to me.

Without looking at her Yato replied, "It ain't like that. But I refuse to let anyone die in front of these guys, if I can help it."

"These guys"? Who does he… I blinked as I realized the meaning of what he said. Oh…

"Even if things are painful and tough," he continued, "people should appreciate what it means to be alive at all." He gritted his teeth as if he was regretting something.

Suddenly without warning I saw something flash in my mind. I furrowed my eyebrows. It was an image of a five year old girl looking exactly like me with the exception of the cat ears and tail was holding hands with two adults, probably her parents. What is this…? I asked myself, closing my eyes to shut off every sense that I had. The girl was laughing, her eyes closed and her mouth wide with joy. She looked so young, so carefree, so untainted by the cruelties of life.

Then it changed into a clip. She was laughing, skipping beside the two joyfully. The mother smiled and the father chuckled with a sweet smile. But it was forced.

It switched again. This time, the girl was about ten years old. She was in a hospital chair, her face distraught and concerned. Beside her, her mother was crying into her hands, sobbing something but it wasn't audible. The door opened beside the two and a doctor came up, looking grim. I was already dreading it before, and the sinking feeling grew. The girl saw the look on his face and widened her green eyes, identical to mine. Tears brimmed them, but she stood up and shoved her way inside, despite the man telling her not to. The heart monitor was the first thing I saw. A straight line.

I blinked my eyes open my eyes once it faded, just in time to hear the soft pitter-patter of something wet landing on the floor, almost like rain. My ear twitched and I looked at Hiyori. And panicked.

She was crying. Yato instantly asked Yukine if he made her cry, which he denied with an insult. Hiyori just waved it off after wiping her eyes, saying, "I-I'm fine. Some leftover fragments got in my eye, that's all!" I flipped out after hearing that.

"How is that fine!?" I asked incredulously.

"That's not fine at all!" Yukine said, agreeing with me.

"Ah, don't rub your eyes! Stay calm, Hiyori! Take deep breaths!" Yato.

"Will that really help her!?" Yukine.

"I don't think that'll work, you dolt!" Me.

It never clicked in my mind that the things I saw in my head was a flashback of when I was human.

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Question: How many cat references are there? (Meaning anything that is related to a cat or "like a cat" *coughcoughhintcoughcough*) :3 Meow.