Scroll 6

Kirara opened her eyes gingerly. She lay on the ground, having just been attacked by a gang of little kids. They had come out of nowhere, and there had been so many of them, Kirara hadn't had time to react.

She shakily got up, barely able to stand. As she looked around, she became frightened: she had no idea where she was. So, with nothing else to do, she began to walk. As she was walking she heard loud voices. They sounded angry.

"Hey, look! A weird looking kitten! Lets go beat it up cuz it's different!" a little kid shouted as he started running towards Kirara. The other kids followed in suite.

Kirara was ready this time, but she was also greatly outnumbered. She turned and ran as fast as she could. She ran and ran and ran, but the boys were just as fast, and they were right behind her. After running for about six blocks, Kirara began to tire, probably because of the beating she had gotten earlier. The gang gained on her until they caught up to her.

"Mew!" Kirara whimpered in fear as she backed into the corner of an ally.

"Come on guys, let's get it!" the leader of the gang ordered.

The boys and girls advanced towards Kirara, and as they did an idea formed in her mind.

Suddenly there was a burst of red-orange light, and a ball of flames appeared out of thin air at the dead end of the ally. The gang that had been chasing Kirara backed away when they saw what emerged from the flames.

Kirara, now transformed and ready to fight, bared her fangs at the kids and gave a menacing growl. She stepped towards the kids, who at this point were shaking in their boots. Another growl, this time more threatening, rolled off her tongue, and the gang of little kids fled.

Once the kids were safely out of view, Kirara transformed back to her cute and small form in another burst of flames. She then continued on her way, unsure of where she was going. She thought of transforming and flying in the air to get her bearings, but she guessed that would attract too much attention.

Eventually, she came upon an old abandoned warehouse. She soon discovered that it wasn't abandoned. Kirara peeked around the corner of an open door to see a large bunch of women gathered around something. The group was dancing in circles, like it was one big party. Kirara found that the thing in the middle of the group was a person; a man, in fact. He wore his dark black hair in a small low ponytail, and his eyes were closed in enjoyment, though at the same time his face was twisted in an oh-shit-I'm-such-a-freaking-idiot look.

A thought floated through Kirara's mind. Wow…that hair and face…they seem so familiar… she thought, but she was too curious about the world around her to stick around for too long.

She left the warehouse and continued walking, this time to somewhere that looked occupied. She accomplished her goal, as sometime later she found herself in a very residential part of Tokyo. She walked along a street filled to the brim with fancy houses. A little girl in the immense yard of one of these houses spotted Kirara wandering all alone.

"Mommy! Mommy! There's a kitten with two tails outside! Can we keep it? Can we? Please, please, please??" she asked her mom, who looked over at Kirara. The little girl's mom went and picked Kirara up and carefully examined her.

"Hmm…it looks fine…no collar…sure, I suppose we could keep it. But if it's owner comes looking, we have to give it back," the mother explained to her daughter.

"OK! Thanks Mommy!" the little girl said with glee, as she sprinted toward her mom to pet Kirara. "I'll call you…Ally!" She slid her outstretched hand across Kirara's silky fur, and surprisingly enough, Kirara stayed where she was and began to purr. S

"Mew," Kirara moaned moaned in enjoyment, as she stepped into the girl's arms and quickly got comfortable in a cuddle.

((Change in time))

Kirara finished her dinner of dry cat food. She hadn't like it at all, but it was better than going hungry. She licked her lips and headed for the little girl's room, intent on a catnap. She easily found a place to snooze in the room; it was filled with plush animals and princess stuff. She hopped onto the girl's princess style bed and fell to sleep.

That night Kirara dreamt of the black haired man she'd seen that day. Something definitely seemed familiar about him, but she couldn't figure it out. No matter what she did, she couldn't get him off her mind. So, having tried many times to go to sleep, she decided to pay him a visit.

Kirara hopped off the bed and landed softly on her feet. "Mew," she said as she stretched her legs. She walked to the open window and climbed onto the windowsill. She jumped out the window onto the huge oak tree in the yard. She leapt from branch to branch until she got to the ground. Once on the ground she formulated a plan.

She transformed into her fierce flying form and a redish orange light filled the yard. The tips of the blades of grass caught fire, but Kirara quickly put them out. She didn't want the family that had taken her in to get hurt. Planting her back legs firmly on the singed grass, she gathered power. She sprung from the ground into the air and began to soar.

She looked down on the buildings from her spot in the up in the air. After a long while of searching, she thought she found the person she was looking for. She flew in for a closer look and found that it was indeed the place she had been at earlier. She silently landed outside the door that was jammed open, probably done by some gangsters that had previously resided here. She walked around the corner of the building and transformed yet again. She might have to be stealthy for this, and her other form was not the stealthy type, with its enormous fangs and roaring fire around its legs.

She went back to the doorway and poked her head in. She went unnoticed, to her relief. If she wasn't wanted here, she didn't want to get caught. She observed that although there had been many, many girls here last time, now there were only a couple, with a young man sitting on the bed. He was tense. One of the girls stood in the middle of the warehouse; the other was busy getting her things together.

"Well, it's been fun. Later!" she said as she walked out the door opposite Kirara. As soon as she was gone, an argument between the girl and the man fired up. This went on for more than half an hour, and ended so abruptly it was hard to realize it.

The girl seemed to calm down a bit as she walked over to the bed. She reached into her glamorous purse and dug around in it for a few seconds, then pulled out a few thousand yen.

"Here. Apparently this is all I'm worth," she said as tears took shape at the edges of her eyes. She thrust the cash towards the man, who had the most shocked expression on his face.

Before he could protest, the girl got all her stuff together and walked towards the door, a certain sadness about her.

"But, Stacy, I can make it work! Really!" he pleaded as she reached the door.

"Sorry, but I don't think you're up for long term. You failed my test, which proves my point," the girl named Stacy argued.

"But…but…please?"

"No. Not now, not ever. We could have had something, but you trashed it. If we were to do long term, you couldn't be around pretty girls like this any more. And I know you wouldn't be able to give that up."

The man hung his head in defeat, knowing that she was right. "OK…" he said as he watched her disappear out of sight. A sigh escaped his lips as he looked away from what he lost. Kirara wasn't sure, but she thought he might have spotted her. She ducked out of sight, just in case.

((End of Chapter 6))

Well, here's chapter 6 for all of you! I'm still working on thinking up filers to make it longer, so I have lots to do. I'm thining of getting a laptop, so I can do all this whenever, instead of being restricted to whenever my mom's not on. Anyway, other than that...there's not much going on over here. I now have thriteen chapters, although some of them aren't typed, and I'm still writing. I hope to have the entire fanfic done by next September, though I have a feeling it'll be complete a lot sooner than that.

If you have any ideas on what should happen in the story, feel free to send them to me...I think I have a case of writers block right now. But keep this in mind: if I do use one of your ideas, I wonts acctually use it. I'll put my own twist on it, to make it my own. Well, that's about it for now

Chapter 7 coming soon!!