"Can I leave now?" Catarina hissed, as Azura finished bandaging her.

"What do you think," Azura sighed. She had enough of the fowl Catarina for one day. After all Azura culd deal with alot of annoyances, but Catarina was beginning to get to her.

"Well aren't you getting snippy," Catarina laughed, she always enjoyed being trouble. "To think you where so nice and polite."

"My," Azura said as she grabbed a tray of food another made had brought in. "I hate to corect you, but I am polite and obedient."

"Like a mindless maid should be," Catarina snickered. "Except you aren't mindless."

"I don't understand what point you are trying to make," she said as she placed the tray before Catarina.

"That you are not a mindless woman," Catarina sneered. "Why do you pretend to be?"

"You mean besides the fact I keep a warm home, am not hunted down by the other cat demons?" Azura laughed, her life had not been so great before Youko. After all Youko had saved her from her so called family, and was in debt to him. Working as an obedient and trustful maid hardly made up for saving her life. "Youko spared your life, and yet all you can do is complain and whine to get out of here."

"Sorry if I didn't mind dying," Catarina screamed as she knocked the tray of food on the floor. Azura went to clean the mess up, as Catarina crossed her arms and sulked. "I did not ask to be pitied and spared. My job was clear, I was to kill him. If he wasn't a fool he would have strike when he had a chance, he would have been doing me a favor."

"Why do you wish for death?" Azura asked, as she looked up from where she knelt on the floor.

"I don't wish for it," Catarina muttered. "You wouldn't understand. I am alone in this world now, and really can't find much to live for."

"Oh really now," Azura huffed, as she got up and faced her. "I'm alone too. Besides Youko I have no one. My brother beat me up everyday and my parents did nothing to stop him. Youko came to my defense and stole me from them."

"So you are in his debt," Catarina smirked. "Honorable aren't we."

"A bit," Azura sighed, as she went back to her cleaning. "Also how can you be alone. Are you not apart of the tiger demon assassin tribe?"

"Was," Catarina sighed. "Then I killed my father, and made myself a fugitive."

"You killed your own father?" Azura replied shock, her eyes bugging out.

"It was revenge for my mother," Catarina laughed bitterly. "He killed her when he left her. She died of a broken heart. Do you realize I brought my mother pain every time she looked at me, because I reminded her of him. I was the source of my mother's pain, yet she still loved me. But he scarred her for life."

"I don't understand," Azura said, as she finished the job and stood up. Placing the upset tray, and the spoiled food on a table, she faced Catarina once more. "Why would your father do that?"

"Because my mother was human," Catarina replied, as she stared out the window. Day was begin to break, her mother's favorite time of the day. It was a new day, letting yesterday live in the past, and letting yourself live in the moment of a new day, new start. "Half breed were forbidden to exist, and they remained in hiding until my grandmother's death. The first thing my father changed was the rule of no half breeds. Many half breeds then came forth. But it was too late, she had died in the spring, and he showed up in the summer. I had to kill him and I didn't care if I wasted twenty eight years of my life plotting my revenge against him. When I saw my chance I took it, and watch him take his last breath."

"Your revenge is complete," Azura said as she sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Catarina. "But what of your tribe?"

"I killed their pack leader," she laughed. "I am a traitor."

"Your father was pack leader?" Azura gasped.

"Yes," Catarina hissed. "I was to be next in line, and I walked away after he took his last breath. Four days ago, he has been dead for four days now, but it seems a life time ago."

"Well your revenge was your life," Azura told her as she thought about it. "Now you have to find something else to fill the void the revenge left."

"Fill it with what?" Catarina asked her.

"I donno," Azura sighed. "Love maybe?"

"Love?" Catarina snorted. "Please, the last thing I need is love in my life. From what I've seen it's love that ends up destroying you in the end. So I'll remain love free thanks."

"Love isn't like that!" Azura shrieked. "It is an amazing incredible feeling that makes this life worth living. It can make you feel lighter then air, and happier then you have ever felt before."

"It can also make you feel worthless," Catarina snapped. "End up killing you. Love is a pain."

"Have you ever been in love?" Azura asked.

"Nope," Catarina replied as she laid back in the bed. "But after seeing what it did to my mother, I don't think I would want to fall in the death trap called love."

"I'll go get you more food," Azura said as she went to get the tray. "Obviously no food has made you irrational."

"I like it better when you aren't mindless," Catarina told her as she headed out the door. Azura smiled, she was starting to like Catarina, and it appeared Catarina may like her. She needed a friend, and maybe she could find one in Catarina, after all she really had no one else to speak her mind to. Heading into the kitchen she started humming to herself, while she fixed a new meal for Catarina. Youko saw Azura in a good mood, so he decided to follow and ask how his new toy was doing.

"Azura," he snapped, causing her to drop the trap in her hands. "What is that sound coming from your throat?"

"Sorry M'Lord," she blurted out quickly. "I was only humming, I meant no offense."

"Well in the future don't." he ordered. "Now tell me how is our little house guest doing?"

"I cleaned and bandaged her like you ask," Azura replied. "I was going to get her new food."

"Oh really," he said as he looked down at the tray she just dropped. "What happened to her food?"

"She upset it," Azura siad then held her breath. Youko hated having his house a mess, everything had to be perfect, like him.

"Did you clean it up?" he inquired.

"Yes M'Lord," Azura told him.

"Good," Youko said as he started to walk away. "Also clean up that mess at your feet. You know I hate a mess on my floor."

"Yes M'Lord," she sighed. Youko had to be in a good mood, since he didn't call her a clumsy fool for dropping the tray. An evil thought popped into her mind, but she quickly brushed it to the side. After all Youko had his mistresses and she was beginning to like Catarina. Why ruin that by trying to set those two up? Although, Azura could deal with Catarina being mistress of the house then any of those other whore Youko saw.