Because I left her out last chapter, I had to put her in this one. You just can't resist her. ;D A little treat right here for Halloween~ v I don't own anything as per usual.

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A Year in Length

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000 October 31st: The sunset cast colors on rotten leaves like blood that splay on flesh.

The faint burn of the crosses being cut into the flesh by a force no one could see. It was frightening and exciting, but a rebirth none the less.

The little girl jammed a fingernail into the fur of my coat. I barely felt it but pulled away with a glare to the golden rim of my eyes.

She didn't notice the stare, just swung her legs, smiling as though no one could see the bits and pieces of that cruel soul rejoicing beneath that shell of skin, bones, and flesh. She had black hair and a smile that could fool, me too if I hadn't caught her pulling the ponytail of the little girl that sat in front of her. Outside of that classroom window, I watched as her lips cruelly twisted into a childish smile.

I left and she found me when the bell rung out and classes were now a countdown that touched zero.

We sat side by side, she tilted her head to the side and the setting sun cast a tangy shine to her cheeks. She swung her legs and whispered beneath her breath.

"Not all good people do good things… and neither do all bad people do bad things… You know." She looked into the mango skies and the breaks between her words seemed to leave her breathless in the bronze glow that everything emitted with. The leaves strayed from the tree and the ground had a carpet of yellow, brown and red. She ran a hand on the bricks of the wall we sat side-by-side, smooth childlike fingertips running along the irregular pricks of the rough surface. The force she applied to her fingers almost left me thinking when her skin will break through.

And then she continued on a subject that I had assumed was long over.

"Because good people do bad things and bad people do good things too."

Her mouth broke out into a smile; lips gleaming with a shine from the burn of the setting sun. I stared at her without blinking even an eye and she turned to me, smile melting into something warmer and sweeter.

Childhood innocence as I recognized.

The cruelty dispersed from the ends of her hair and she was no longer the girl who saw humour in another little girl's pulled hair or a little boy's tripped and scrapped knee. She was just a little girl with a kink for the bads of the world.

She leaned over with that sweet chaste smile and fished something from her dress pocket.

It tinkled in the set skies and I couldn't see what it was from my seat on the wall.

"I name you, Lulu."

She tied a bell around my neck.

Meow.

XXX Kuro

Biggest glitch in the world right here, Lulu ain't a cat (she is more of a panther…) Damn the newest chapter for destroying this whole piece DD: But you can always just read this with the anime in mind, afterall she was a cat in it (or as far as I could recall DD:) Still happy Halloween, tell me what you are dressed up as this year? ;D