Kitty-Chan

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Previously: "The master wishes to see you." Sebastian said showing that she should dismiss any words of argument. He walked her to the master's study for the second time that day.

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As the two walked an air of tension arose and suddenly it was cut. Not from a knife but from an explosion. Catarina, being more caring for other's safety, ran to the kitchen while Sebastian sighed in annoyance and walked. When they reached the kitchen they saw a soot covered Bard and a frantic Mey-Rin. Finny just looked confused.

Catarina walked up to the sink and soaked a rag and walked up to Bard. She reached up and started wiping his face. (Note: I am keeping her at 5'8 and Bard's height is 5'11. It is his actual height in the anime) Bard closed his eyes at first suddenly feeling the wet, rough rag on his skin. Catarina gave a huff of annoyance and politely asked him to sit down. Bard complied.

Catarina got close to his face while rubbing the stubborn soot off his face with a pout on her lips. Bard was thankful to the soot for covering his blush at her cute face. Her eyebrows pulling down and an anime annoyed mark appeared on her head. She rubbed harder and the soot wouldn't come off. She threw the rag on the ground and jumped up. She crossed her legs in the air and fell to the floor criss-cross-applesauce style. She crossed her arms across her chest and looked to her left. She muttered about stubborn soot and crazy afro wearing cooks.

Suddenly Catarina eyes widen and a smile appears on her face. She snapped her fingers and gave a "That's it!" She ran to the cupboard. She grabbed the baking soda and grabbed a bowl. She went to the sink and filled the bowl with a little water. She poured in some baking powder. She mixed to concoction together to create a paste. She walked up to Bard and dipped her hand into the bowl. She brought the gunk out and threw some at his face.

Bard was shocked and stared at her as if she slapped him. Mey-Rin was giving out giggles, Finny just laughed his blonde head off, and even Sebastian let a few chuckles lose. Catarina got more of the gunk and smeared it all over his face. "That's weird . . ." Bard said.

"What is?" Catarina asked the American cook. "I feel like it is sucking on my skin." Bard said a little bit freaked out. "That means it is working." Catarina said while putting the bowl in the sink to wash later and rinsing her hands. "What do you mean, Cat?" Finny asked the beautiful girl. Catarina gave a small smile to the boy making both the gardener and cook blush at her gentle sea green eyes.

"You see I discovered this concoction when I got stung by a bee. I didn't have anything but some baking soda from a job, some herbal leaves, and a nearby stream. So since baking soda is absorbent I mixed it with the water. I put it over the sting and rapped an herbal leave over it. It kept it from becoming infected and when I took the hardened baking soda off and found it sucked the stinger out. Also there was no stinger poison in my wound. I used that since with any injury and stains."

Catarina explained and saw all their faces. Sebastian and Tanaka looked like they didn't really care. The nitwit trio just looked at her as if she were a genius. Bard looked especially funny since he still had the hardened, and cracking, baking soda mask on. Catarina walked up to Bard. She grabbed the edge of the mask and peeled it off his face. When she was done she grabbed a shiny pan and showed him his face. It was cleaner than ever before and free of any soot.

Bard was happy and just grabbed the girl into a hug. Catarina stiffened, eyes flashing a bit yellow, as did everyone, yet including Tanaka and Sebastian, else in the room. Catarina relaxed hugged back for a second. She than pushed him back and closed her eyes. When she opened them they were a tanish blue, everyone stared at her shocked at the unusual coloring. "Bard now you have to brush your hair and clean the kitchen." He looked deflated. "That means NOW Brad." She said in a slightly dark tone. This tone sent shivers down Sebastian's and Bard's spines, out of fear or pleasure neither knew.

Catarina was walking out of the room when she turned to look at Sebastian with the unusual colored eyes, "We should head to the Master now." Sebastian walked up to the girl and agreed both heading to the study. "What does it mean when your eyes are yellow? And what do your eyes mean when they are a tanish blue?" Sebastian asked.

"I told you all before they reflex my mood and emotions. Also the shade and amount of mixture between colors matter. So it can vary depending on the occurrence, who or what caused it, where I am, and who's around. You can try to figure it out if you want. It took me some time to figure it out, myself. Consider it a . . . game." She said with a gentle, playful smirk. A bright, sunshine yellow and orange swiped across her almond shaped eyes.

Sebastian gave his own smirk, "Ahh it seems you have a fetish for games then seeing how often you bring them up when we speak about you. Hmm and yellow and orange must be playful then?" He questioned the girl who shook her head. "Look at the shading and mix orange could also mean many things as could yellow. Dark orange could mean distrust. A redish orange, or scarlet, could mean happiness."

"Orange, with its varying shades could mean fascination, creativity, enthusiasm, encouragement, attraction, even stimulation. But also relates to distrust and deceit. Red related orange could mean desire, passion of all sorts, domination, and aggression. Gold orange could mean feeling prestige and wisdom. Yellow could also vary just as much as orange though to a lesser degree. A dull or milky yellow could mean caution, decay, sickness and jealousy. While a light or bright yellow could mean intellect, joy, cheerfulness, happiness, energy, and warmth. But if you put yellow against black it shows warning as if saying 'trespass and you are in for pain' so it can be predatory."

Catarina stopped her monologue and looked at Sebastian's face. He had shock on his face from how specific and knowledgeable she was with colors. Who would know so much about colors and how specific shades can vary with meaning. (Me! Yeah I know but all of that was true. I have a thirst for knowledge.) Her eyes were now a royal blue. "But each color has meaning, each shade has value, and each highlight has depth. But each of those varies with each person. Some colors have more meaning then others." She said in a soothing tone.

They reached the Young Master's study and Sebastian went to his usual facial expression. He opened the door and let Catarina in first, being a gentle . . . demon. Ciel looked up to see Catarina with royal blue eyes. He was a bit taken aback since he was used to a lighter blue/green/gray look. "What was Pluto doing to you?" Ciel said being blunt and getting straight to the point. "Happy I forgave him and asking to play." Catarina said wondering why Ciel would ask a question like that.

"Why would you need to forgive him?" Catarina sighed, "I was talking to Finny when Pluto rammed into my back, pushing me into Finny, causing me to accidentally kiss him. Then, after I checked to Finny for injuries, I whacked the dog on the head. He started crying and since I am such a softy for criers I forgave him. He got all happy and tackled me again. He was tickling me with dog kisses when your butler came." She said getting straight to the point.

Ciel and Sebastian were both shocked that a kiss occurred between Finny and Catarina, even if it was accidental. Sebastian wasn't happy in the least. He was going to kill that hell hound one day; he just knew he would. He just had to find a way without angering the unicorn or his soon-to-be meal. If he goes against his master he loses a meal. If he angers Catarina he loses an ideal mate. 'This is why I prefer cats. Hmm Catarina's nickname is Cat, kind of ironic. I guess I will have to put off disposing of that mutt for later.'

Ciel dismissed his servants to do their chores. So the two went off to go clean the kitchen. Both knew that the nitwit trio were just going to make the mess worse.