Chapter 9
"Sometimes I think you purposely try to kill yourself to give me a hard time~nya."
I looked around from where I was. I was in a branch in a tree... in a random park. I think I had been to this park before, yesterday maybe or a few days before that. It looked very familiar...
I looked above me to see Tadashi leaning back on one of the branches. He was ranting on about random stuff and sounding like a stalker.
"Are- are you cosplaying or something!?"
Tadashi glanced down at me, "no..."
Tadashi had a pair of dark blue cat ears on top of his head and a long blue tail behind him.
I climbed up a few branches of the tree, to wear Tadashi was sitting. I stared at him for a moment awkwardly.
"There is no way those are real..." I said as I reached over and tugged on his ears. "Why aren't they coming off!?"
"I already told you, they aren't fake! Now stop touching them!" He slapped my hand away from his ears.
"Then is it a fake tail?"
Tadashi glared at me, "please tell me you aren't going to pull it to find out..."
I crossed my arms, "why am I here anyways?"
"Mostly because you tried to kill yourself by taking a swan dive off of the roof."
"I didn't! I lost balance!" I snapped... But it was pretty stupid to be arguing about what happened earlier.
"Fine, you tried to do a tightrope act but epicly failed... it wasn't even epic, pretty sad to say the least." Tadashi smiled playfully as his tail swished back and forth.
I glared at him, tapping my toe on one of the branches, "why aren't I back at school?"
"Your friends that were up there think you're dead, and I'm pretty sure your memories will be recovered soon... and you'll most likely completely freak out~nyan." Tadashi moved his hand and yawned.
"L-Len thinks I'm dead!?"
"Why is everything about Len!? Of course not~nyan. He of all people should know you'll land on your feet... even off a five story building~nyan." Tadashi began to glare at me as he was speaking... but later on his glare turned into an evil smile.
"I'll land on my feet?" I ask wondering if this was a metaphor or just some more Tadashi and Len nonsense like those ears and tail tadashi's wearing.
"Allow me to show you an example," Tadashi evilly smiled and it sent a chill down my spine.
He got up walked over to where I was, smiling... I stared at him for a moment, I wondered what he was about to do. I secretly hoped he jump off and leave me alone.
I saw his hand for a quick second before he pushed me off the branch of the tree. I saw my feet fly behind my head as I fell. my hands were now facing the ground as my body slowly turned. In a few seconds my feet were facing the ground again.
I landed on my toes... amazing, right?
"What was that for!?" I screamed up the tree.
Tadashi smiled and muttered, "ah, it worked~nyan."
He then jumped down and landed on his feet, right in front of me.
"Look behind you~nyan." He pointed behind me and once again smiled playfully.
I spun around to see a cat tail sprouting from my lower back. It was black and shined in the sunlight. The tail curved and was looking epic. Once i found the tail, I immediately reached at the top of head, to see if there were ears. there were... a pair of black neko ears were on the top of my head.
"Oh my gosh~nya! I'm neko~nya!" I said with a huge smile on my face. One of my life's dreams were now complete- I was neko!
"hmmm... I thought you would freak out, I sort of wished you did, it would be pretty funny~nyan." Tadashi's cat tail still swished behind him.
"You're mean~nya... So this means you aren't a cosplayer or something? that you and I, were neko!?" I almost squealed I was so happy.
"And Len, but instead of being part cat, he's part dog." Tadashi said, his ears and tail then vanished into thin air.
I thought out loud for moment, "I can't believe this is happening!"
"Well, it is, since you made that contract with that stupid cat..." Tadashi crossed his arms and looked off to the side.
Tadashi's cell phone vibrated in his pocket and made a loud buzzing noise. He grabbed it and flipped it open, answering the awaiting phone call.
"I see," Tadashi nodded his head and then stared at me, "we'll be right there... of course."
He then closed his cell phone and slid his phone back into his pocket. He slowly walked towards me with a straight face, at least it wasn't one of those creepy playful smiles...
Tadashi stopped in front of me and stuck out his hand. I think he expected me to take it, but my arms lied at my side. Once he realized I didn't want to take his hand, he reached out his arm and grabbed my risk. I flinched as I felt his touch.
"What are you doing?" I stared into his eyes as Tadashi turned and pulled me out of the park. I tried to pull my hand away, but his grasp was too tight.
"I got a message..." Tadashi looked in the path in front of him.
He sprinted out of the park and took a sharp left. As we turned, ears and tail sprang from his body. My pair of neko mimi and my tail were just being blown back in the harsh wind.
As we approached a town up ahead, Tadashi stopped, causing me to trip forward and land face first in the grass. As I fell, Tadashi let go of his grip on my arm.
"Ow..." I muttered as I slowly got to my knees. I brushed my bangs out of my face and then stood up on my feet. I brushed the dirt and grass off of myself as fast as could... hoping no one would see me.
"What are we doing here~nya?" I asked as Tadashi looked up towards the town.
"I already told you... pay better attention, will you~nyan?" Tadashi began to tap his toe on the ground impatiently, looking away from me. "You have to get your ears and tail to vanish."
I stared at him for a moment and then quietly repeated, "to vanish?"
The next thing I knew, Tadashi's ears and tails vanished with in a mere second. He smirked, "like that."
I stared at him, "but... how do I get them to... vanish?"
"Just think them away I guess... It's not like it really matters, anyways. You just need to think that you don't want them..." Tadashi said, he turned towards me and smiled.
"To think them away?" I repeated. I began to think of how I didn't want them on my head... even though I really did want neko mimi and a cat's tail.
"Oh my god, please stop that." Tadashi said, turning away from me with a frown on his face.
"WHAT!?" I crossed my arms.
"You looked constipated."
"Well, I can't just make them vanish! Forget this! Let's just go already!" I began walking off into the city.
Tadashi caught up with me and looked down towards me. He frowned and stared at me intensely, making me feel really uneasy. I shook after a few seconds and began to walk faster, trying to pass him up.
"It's not my fault if you get captured by the government and get tested on 'cause you're half neko." He crossed his arms and looked off to the side as we approached the city.
"Yes it is, isn't it your job to protect me?"
Tadashi's face dropped, "eh! Oh! You can't take advantage of it like that! It's not fair."
We continued to walk towards the city. The building sizes increased as we got closer, and I suddenly felt tiny in this huge city. Tall skyscrapers surrounded us as we walked by. Even tiny one-story building looked giant compared to me.
"Why is everything... so big?" I looked up at Tadashi... he looked at least a foot taller.
"It's not, you're getting shorter."
We stopped in front a building with a glass wall on it. I could see my reflection in it. It was true, I was getting shorter. Only, my body was changing little by little. The ears and tail that were on me turned a white color and my eyes turned golden brown. My skin was getting extremely pale and it almost looked white. Cat whiskers began to appear on my face and my height was shrinking by the second.
"I- I'm turning into a... a neko~nya!?" Even my voice seemed to be high pitched.
Tadashi nodded his head as he glanced into my reflection, "when your ears and tail are out for too long, you begin to change into a cat. This period of transformation lasts about an hour. That means you have an hour to turn back to normal... otherwise you're stuck being a neko forever."
I turned to face him, "I would be neko forever~nya?"
The sailor's collar on my school uniform then changed into a bright red leather collar around my neck. I was only about two feet tall and still getting shorter... and still becoming a cat. My hands were beginning to stick together to form paws.
"We need to hurry, Lanie." He smiled down at me and scooped me up with his hands, "but I have to admit, you would make a pretty adorable kitten!"
Tadashi sprinted down the road and literally jumped over bystanders in his way. He was going so fast that his hair blew in the wind. He then took a sharp left down an alley. It looked like the path was a dead end, but Tadashi somehow managed to do a wall jump from the sides of the buildings around him to get to the roof.
"Nya~ where are we~nya~ going~nya?" Everything I was saying was beginning to just sound like "nya."
"Up there," Tadashi pointed to the roof of one of the tallest skyscrapers. "We're meeting some people."
I was now completely neko with golden eyes and cream colored fur that blew in the wind. I now knew that I had merely a few minutes left before I would turn completely neko forever.
Tadashi climbed up the side of the skyscraper and stopped before a window on like the forty- sixth floor. He opened it up using one hand and slid inside.
"Ah, now all we gotta do is get to the roof." Tadashi yawned and then exited the room and walked down the hallway.
"Nya, nya, nya?" I asked... but it was meant to sound like "won't anyone notice you?"
A guard saw Tadashi and immediately launched forward at him. Tadashi's eyes met mine for a quick second and he immediately dropped me on the ground.
I hid under a nearby table... really wishing I wasn't a cat at this moment. I watched Tadashi intensely and tried not to get distracted from a piece of string hanging from the table above me.
Tadashi jumped over the guard and kicked him in the back, causing him to fly into a wall, "good day, Sir."
He then ran over to where I was under the table with a piece of string in my paws. Tadashi picked me up and headed towards the elevator. The string was still tied in between my paws.
"Nya, nya?" i asked, "what just happened?"
Tadashi stared at me, he obviously couldn't make any senses of me saying "nya" just smiled and nodded his head as he pushed a button on the elevator door. We began to move up the building slowly.
"Two minutes, fifty two seconds until you're a cat forever." Tadashi said looking at his watch on his risk.
"Nya!?"
We reached the roof top and exited the elevator. Len and Bela leaned against the railings of the roof, their eyes widened when they saw us.
Len run at Tadashi, "what happened to Lanie!?"
Tadashi groaned, "right there."
He pointed to me. I was laying on the ground playing with that piece of string from earlier.
Len picked me up and smiled, "Awww, you would make such an adorable kitten."
Bela crossed her arms, "we still have important information to discuss."
