1,300+ views? Oh. My. Jashin. Thank you all! I honestly am shocked. As I'm sure I've said before, I didn't expect to get more than a few views! Thank you so much. And, thank you for the reviews. I got my eighth review, and kicked my brother off my computer after I saw it... I got it on August 7th, which was a long time ago, and saw it on August 20th, which is now. Sorry for the wait...

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Day 4

I shivered. Did someone turn down the thermostat? Opening my eyes, I immediately hissed and shut them once more. Someone had opened the curtains, so the sunlight was pouring in.

"Shuhhthacurrins." I murmured, my words incoherent.

"Nope~ It's 1:03! You missed breakfast." The voice belonging to the purple haired demon said cheerily. How he understood my jibberish was unknown to me.

"Get ouuuuuut..." I whined.

"Your dog left you and went to explore the academy~" He sang, then exited the room.

I immediately sat up, threw off the covers, and got up. I rushed around, did my morning routine-threw my hair into a very messy bun, brushed my teeth, and washed my face-, messily pulled on a jacket over my long sleeved pajama shirt, took off my blue pajama pants and pulled on black sweatpants.

I threw open the door, ran down the steps, and out the door that Mephisto held open. He wordlessly held out a key as I ran past him, and I grabbed it right as I went by. The door clicked shut behind me.

I ran towards the academy, hell bent on finding Shi and giving him an earful for leaving me.

But my plans were interrupted as I ran into someone that came around a corner. I was sent backwards, landing on my bum. "Jashin..." I hissed to myself.

"Ah... Hoshiko-san? Are you okay?" I glanced up, meeting blue eyes.

"Oh! I'm fine!" I grinned and sat up, then bowed. "Sorry for running into you, Taki-san! I was looking for Shi..."

"It's fine. I think I saw him a moment ago..."

"Thank you. I need to go. It was nice seeing you again!" I continued running, the grin still on my face. Then, I remembered my hair and the grin melted to a face of realization. It looked like a bird's nest made of straw. Very light colored straw. I winced.

"You just passed him." Tou-Chan #2 pipped up, the familiar warmth of the flames surrounding my left eye.

I backtracked a few steps, and looked down the alley I had just passed. No one was there.

"Oh joy, this feels like a game..." Hanabi sighed.

"Nice of you to join us, Hanabi-Chan."

"You know what? I reject that name. I've chosen my own name."

"And what is that?" I grinned.

"Sagi."

"Deceit? Good choice. And, my dear daughter, since when did you have another voice in your head?"

"Since last night... And I've had many voices in my head." I walked down the alley, instantly getting the chills as I stepped into the shadows.

"Go left."

"I say right."

My eyebrow twitched. I, or we, had reached the end of the alley, with two other ways sprouting out from it.

"Don't I have enhanced senses or something? I'm your kid, Tou-Chan number two." I whined.

"You're stronger than other kids your age, and have better eyesight. And, don't forget the flames."

"You have insanity, if that helps."

"It doesn't." I hissed at Sagi/Hanabi. I think Sagi is a pretty good name... But I'll use Hanabi to annoy him sometimes.

I looked down each crossway, and took notice of a paw print in some dirt going down the left crossway.

"Left it is." I continued down the alley, which I decided to dub, 'Horror Lane', since it looked like something straight out of a horror movie an- Oh my Jashin is that blood?

I purposefully avoided the red stain on the floor, which definitely wasn't from today judging from it peeling off the floor and the dark color. I grimaced.

The alley ended and I took the only way out, which was to the right. I ended up on a very empty stone street, some buildings having unplugged neon signs above their doors. The only people outside and in view for the moment being a teenager on her phone, a man entering a house that looked abandoned, and a boy leaning against a building right by the alley I exited, smoking. I scrunched up my nose at the smell.

I wonder what Shi would be doing in a place like this... It looked like an empty version of the red light district.

"Hey, kid." I glanced towards the boy that was smoking.

"Hmm?"

"You shouldn't be in a place like this." He tilted his head, his messy mop of shockingly bright red hair drawing my attention. Bringing my eyes back to his face, I took notice of his bright green eyes.

"You're here, though."

He let out a low chuckle. "Yeah, but I'm old enough to be here."

I puffed out my cheeks. He was no older than 20, and he's telling me what to do? I'm not entirely sure how old I am now, but I know I'm older than him!

"I'm looking for a big, black dog. He looks like a wolf. Have you seen him?"

He let out a thoughtful hum, then said, "A lot of dogs come through here, but don't normally look like wolves. I saw one earlier with some freaky green eyes. He yours?"

I nodded. "Do you know where he went?"

He tilted his head down the street. "Went down that way. But you should really get out of here. Lots of people get kidnapped or murdered around here."

I bit the inside of my cheek, then replied with, "Thanks, but I gotta find him."

He nodded. "Well, be careful, kid. Don't take candy from strangers or follow them into nasty places."

I smiled. "Shi will get them before they can do that." I walked away, down the way he told me to go.

Right before I was out of earshot I heard him ask no one in particular, "Who is Shi?..." I grinned, then broke into a run. A black, furry tail disappearing behind a building had me speeding up, then making a sharp right turn.

"Shi?" I slowed to a stop, and scowled when I saw the large black dog with white paws and ear tips turn towards me.

"I have terrible luck..."

"Yes. Yes you do."

"Why not just summon him?'

My eye twitched, and I instantly felt stupid. I pulled the white paper out of my pocket I had hastily put it in, and bit my lip hard enough to draw blood, then swiped my finger over it. I rubbed it in the middle of the circle.

"Shi~ Hurry up." I hissed. A moment later, he was at my side, his ears perked.

"Pup, what are you doing here?" He asked, tilting his head.

"I could ask you the same thing."

He let out a huff, bit the end of my shirt, and started tugging me back into the street. We walked for a bit, then entered an abandoned building.

"What are we doing here, Shi?" I raised an eyebrow.

He released my shirt, and nudged me towards some stairs. I made my way up them, and walked through the open door at the top. My ears were instantly abused by the (very) loud sound of mewling.

A small smile curved onto my lips as I looked at the kittens and adult cat curled up on a fluffy blanket on the floor.

"This explains it, you cat addict." He only hummed, then made his way to the cats. The female cat nursing the kittens only flicked her tail as he approached. A moment later, he was in his human form and scratching behind her ears.

I took a seat by them and frowned slightly when a splash of white in the corner of the gray blanket caught my eyes. I stood and walked to the corner, then sat once more, nudging the white ball of fur. It let out a mewl, and uncurled. It's head turned towards me, it's pretty icy blue eyes turned towards me.

Gently, I wrapped my hands around it and brought it up closer to my face. It had silver spots and stripes on it, along with a pretty silver swirl on it's forehead that was definitely not normal for a cat. I ran a finger down it's back, and a small purr escaped it. My lips curled back up into a tiny smile.

"Huh... He's back in the corner again. I put him back by Yuuhi before you summoned me, but I guess she was the one who put him there."

Ah... In my last life, my mom told me sometimes mother cats reject a kitten, a few, or all of them if she doesn't have enough milk, or if the kitten or her is sick.

But to be sure he was moved and didn't crawl over there, I should probably put him back by the mom, or Yuuhi, as Shi named her.

I stood, still gently holding the kitten, moved over by Shi, knelt down, and put him by his siblings. All of them were either brown, yellow, or calico. The one I had held was the only kitten with the pretty white and silver color, matching the mother. The mother, Yuuhi, looked exactly one of the cats-an Egyptian Mau-I had obsessed over in my last life and always wanted to get. Before I could convince my mom to get one, I died. Meh.

Yuuhi sniffed at the kitten I had just put in with the group, and gave him a nudge. He let out a loud mewl as he was pushed back a bit.

"We're keeping him, aren't we?"

"Yes. Yes we are." I stated, and gently picked him up once more. He'd die if we left him while his mother refused to feed him, and we could feel him formula.

I tugged a pillow case off a pillow on the abandoned bed in the room, then wrapped the kitten in it. I held him to my chest, and we exited the building. The cold air instantly hit us, and I held the kitten closer.

Shi closed the door behind us, then put the key to Mephisto's house into the key hole. He turned it, the pulled it back up. he opened the door, and we hurried inside.

"You both took a whil- What is that?" Mephisto walked up to us, then tugged back the pillow case, revealing the kitten.

"...I should have expected this." He sighed. "I'll get someone to go buy kitten formula, since I know you won't know what to choose."

"You know me so well." I grinned.

...

Day 5

I yawned, rolling over to the edge of the bed, then swinging my legs over the side. I stood, then went to the corner of the room. A small smile curved my lips upwards and I knelt down by the basket with a blanket inside it. The kitten was curled up inside it, asleep.

"I should give you a name... Shi will probably kill me for choosing it without him."

"How about Hanabi?"

"That's your name. And Shi said it's a boy."

"My name is Sagi, not Hanabi." 'Sagi' huffed.

"Let's name him Satannia."

"No. Let's name him... Bacon."

"He looks nothing like bacon. Your hunger is clouding your judgement."

"Shaddup. Bacon is a wonderful name."

"Whatever you say..."

"Fine. Be that way! His name is now Gin."

"I can deal with that."

I stood once more, then made my way out of the room. After clearing the stairs, I knocked on the kitchen door.

"Come in."

I hummed, then opened the door. "Ukobach, where did they put the kitten formula?"

"The cabinet at the very end, on the left."

I opened said cabinet, then pulled out the kitten formula. They had gotten a kitten bottle too, so I grabbed that off the shelf. After getting a teaspoon from a drawer, I put in the amount of powdered formula I was suppose to, then repeated it with some warm water. I shook it up, then headed upstairs.

After entering Shi and I's room, I picked up Gin and sat on the bed with him. Shi was still asleep on the other side of the bed, in his human form.

I held the tiny end of the bottle up to Gin's mouth, and he started drinking. I grinned happily.

Only to squeak in surprise when Gin suddenly grew twice his size.

"Shi..." He didn't respond, so I reached a hand back and smacked him on the back.

"Wha- I'm up, I swear!" He immediately sat up, looking around.

"Shi, kittens do not grow double their size in half a second." I hissed.

He stood, then made his way to my side. He poked Gin.

"Huh... I guess he isn't a normal kitten."

Gin bit the end of Shi's finger.

"Ouch!" Shi whined and jerked his hand away.

"We have too many demons in this family."

"So you've already adopted him into your patched and glued together family?"

"Yes. Yes I have."

The day passed by with us taking care of Gin, and Mephisto poking him when we told him. Gin also bit his finger, which I immensely enjoyed witnessing.

That night, I went to bed after taking a-rare-uninterrupted bath.

People... I'M SORRY FOR THE WAIT! But really, I need to find inspiration...