Well, unless I can think of some details that weren't in the hand written version, this chapter's gonna be about as short as the last one.
Chapter 7, Meet and Greet
About two weeks later, Hikaru was compleatly cured of the flu. It was at this point that the men in the white coats allowed the boys into the rec. room. The blond banged boy looked around the room in excitement and curiosity. The room was full of other kids with animal ears and tails, all playing games and having fun. There were Go boards, shogi boards, chess, checkers and just about every other kind of board game you could think of along with balls, jump ropes and a few other toys.
Yuki smiled at Hikaru and said, "This is the only good thing about this place. This is where I learned how to play Go."
"WOW!" was all Hikaru could think to say.
"C'mon, there's a free Go board over there."
Yuki lead Hikaru to the open board and began to play. They were in the middle of their second game when a boy with crazy black hair and the ears and tail of a monkey walked up to them, eyes staring strait at Yuki.
"So, I heardja ran away Mitani," the monkey said.
"Aw, shut it, Waya!" Yuki said back.
"And who's the new comer? He's kinda cute!" the monkey, now dubbed Waya, said.
"His name's Shindou Hikaru, and he's MINE!" Yuki responded.
Hikaru blushed when her heard Yuki say 'mine.' He didn't mind it though. In fact he liked it quite a bit. He thouroughly enjoyed the idea of belonging to Yuki.
Waya leaned in and looked at Hikaru's collar. "That's funny, 'cuz it says here he's a no name."
Both cats furrowed their brows in confusion.
"But my name's Hikaru...I've been called that my entire life. I know my parents named me Hikaru," the blond banged boy said, trying to convince himself as such.
"Well, no-name, ro Hikaru, or whatever, once you get here, you should pretty much forget about your past life. This is your new life, and there's no escaping it."
Hikaru looked down at the Go board, suddenly depressed. Yuki sighed and stood up, walked around the table and wrapped his arms around the smaller boy.
"It's okay, Hikaru. Atleast I'm here for you," he said soothingly. He then looked up at Waya with so fierce an expression, there's no good word to describe it. "Great, look at what you've done! It's bad enough they kdnapped him when they took me back, then it was even worse when they changed him to be like us! Then almost imeadiatly after he woke up, they took him for an experiment which gave him the flu, suffered through that for two weeks, and on top of it all, probably worrying the hell out of his mother! Then you have to come and say that he should forget everything about his life outside of here."
Waya's tail drooped. "Sorry, I didn't know."
"Well, now you do."
Hikaru was still staring at the Go board when he suddenly resigned. This caused Yuki to glare at Waya with such intensity it would be indescribable. The monkey backed off and another boy walked up to them. He had a bowl cut, coke bottle glasses and the horns, ears and tail of a goat. Yuki glared at him too.
"What do you want, Ochi?!" he snapped at the goat.
"Nothing from you, Mitani," Ochi snapped back. He looked at Hikaru. "I just wanted to warn the new comer about the dangers of being with you."
Hikaru looked between Yuki and Ochi with confused curiosity. "Dangers?" he asked. "What dangers?"
Ochi leaned in toward Hikaru's ear and raised his hand to block it from Yuki's sight.
"Well, you see," he whispered. "Every time there has been a new cat, the've always died not too long after they come. And they say that it's Mitani who killed them." Ochi smirked when he saw the look of terror on Hikaru's face. "Well, best of luck to you."
With that, Ochi walked off, earning a venomous glare from Yuki on the way. He turned and looked at Hikaru, causing the latter to flinch.
"Hikaru, don't listen to anything Ochi tells you," Yuki said, extending his arms to Hikaru. The blond banged boy inched away from the other. "Hikaru, who do you know and trust more? Me or Ochi?"
What seemed like a tear fell down Hikaru's cheekand dripped from the bottom of his chin.
"shitteirumasen..." he said so quietly it was nearly a whisper.
"Hikaru..." Yuki took a step toward the boy.
"SHITTEIRUMASEN!!" Hikaru yelled, turnning around and running away.
"Matte Hikaru-kun!" Yuki sighed. "None of it's my fault..."
Hikaru ran out of the room and down the hall. He didn't know or care where he was going, just getting away from Yuki before something bad happened to him.
'Hikaru? What's the matter?' Sai asked.
You heard what Ochi said! Yuki killed all of the cats that came before me! And I might be the next one! Hikaru answered.
'But that can not be true! You've known Yuki for a while! You know he's not like that. I just can't belive that you would believe a person you just met over some one you've known for much longer.'
Just then, Hikaru bumped into one of the men in the white coats. He landed butt first on the floor and rubbed his head. The boy looked up to see who it was. As soon as he saw the coat, he scrambled up and ran in the opposite direction.
Why didn't you say he was there?! Hikaru asked Sai.
'Because you bumped into him before I could say anything,' the ghost replied.
Hikaru ran all the way back to the rec. room and entered. He looked at Yuki and imediatly ran to the opposite side of the room from the cat. Yuki furrowed his brow and reached out for Hikaru, quietly calling his name.
Then the man in the white coat that Hikaru had bumped into entered the room. Hikaru ducked under the closest table. The man looked around.
"I'm looking for the cat that just ran in here," the man called to all of the children.
Everyone watched as Ochi stepped foreward.
"He went under that table over there," the goat said, pointing at the table that Hikaruwas hiding under.
The man walked to the tablethat Ochi pointed out. Hikaru felt hi heart beat faster and his breathing felt quicker as adrenaline pumped through his veins. He knew he was going to be in trouble for running into the man earlier and the man was probably coming to get him for a punishment. Hikaru flinched as the man knelt down in front of him.
"Come with me, new one. We're going to give you your name," the man said.
Hikaru looked at the man and blinked, suddenly relieved that he wasn't in trouble. Then it occured to him that he could be punished later...
-end chapter-
I'm sorry everybody for the chapter not being as long as the first few were...
Anyway, I know I'm going to be asked this, so I'm going to answer it. "Shitteirumasen" means, "I don't know." Well, thank you all for reading, and please wait patiantly for the next chapter!
