Chapter 13

Once Baron and Orihime had reached the center of the banquet hall the cat figurine put his hand around the girl's waist while she put her hand against his shoulder as they then began to dance. After doing this the half cat and girl immediately started to dance a few steps and then they would turn ever so often. To the orange haired girl's surprise though after turning a few more times the orange and cream furred half cat dipped her for a little bit. He then brought her back up and then began to twirl her a few times before he retook her hand and the two resumed their earlier movements.

When the Cat Creation noticed however, that all eyes were fixed on the two of them and as he twirled the girl again he commented, "Well, it seems we have an audience."

After he had retook her hand again they made another turn as the high school student let out a nervous laugh and said, "We do? Gee, I guess I hadn't noticed."

"And why is that, Orihime?" Baron asked, as they turned once again.

A light blush appeared on the girl's face as she answered, "Because I've been having such a nice time dancing with you I thought that we were the only two people in the room."

Hearing this caused the green eyed half cat to look down at the girl with a warm smile as he replied, "You see Orihime, I somehow knew that you would end up enjoying yourself if you came here with me."

The girl nodded as the dance to came an end once the half cat had dipped her one last time. After their dance was finished the two began to walk towards theirs seats at the end of the circular table. But before they could sit down they both noticed Lune and Haru walking towards them as the human queen commented, "Wow, that was quite a waltz you two did."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Baron replied, as he took Orihime's hand into his.

The brunette then noticed a light blush was on the orange haired girl's face as she turned to her and asked, "Orihime, can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Um yes of course, Your Highness." Orihime replied, as she removed her hand from Baron's and started to walk with the queen out of the banquet hall leaving the two half cat's to converse with each other.

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Orihime continued to follow Haru down the hallway as she let out, "Um Your Highness..."

"Please Orihime, when it's just the two of us just call me Haru." The human queen injected with, as she stopped and walked through an opened curtain way.

The high school student nodded as she tried again with, "Right. So Haru what did you think of Baron when you first met him?"

She then noticed a warm smile had appeared on the queen's face as she answered, "Well, to be honest when Baron had held me in his arms I found myself feeling very safe...like what I had when Lune would hold me. I also found out that he was a very kind hearted person who enjoys helping others with their problems." She then looked over at her as she ended with, "So now I'll ask you the same thing Orihime, what did you think of Baron when you had first met him?"

Hearing this question caused a deep blush to appear on the girl's face as she replied, "Well, I-I...um you see..."

She then was surprised when the queen let out a light giggle and said, "Don't worry Orihime, I think I know how you feel about Baron. You love him don't you?"

Now an even darker blush (if that's possible) appeared on the girl's face as she replied with, "I...yes I do love, Baron." She then put both of hands against her face as she went on with, "When I needed to talk someone about my problems or troubles he would always listen and would never get bored even if I got off topic. He also was so kind to me and showed a lot of concern if I was upset about something. And whenever I'm around him I feel like nothing can go wrong and that maybe I belong with him at the Bureau."

A somewhat sad expression showed on the queen's face, but before she could say anything someone said, "Orihime, I had no idea that your feelings for me had grown that strong so quickly."

Both girls quickly turned around only to see the cat figurine standing in the opened curtain way as Orihime gasped as she stuttered, "B-Baron, I-I'm sorry I didn't know that you were standing there."

The orange and cream furred half cat just walked up to her and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder as he stated, "That's alright Orihime, I should not have been listening in on your conversation to begin with." He then looked over at Haru as he added, "If you don't mind Your Highness, I would like some time only with Orihime...if that is alright with you."

The brunette nodded in understanding as she walked out of the room and headed back towards the banquet hall. Once Baron knew that she had left however, he smiled down at the orange haired girl as he offered her his hand and asked, "Orihime, could please come with me for a moment?"

The girl nodded as she extended her hand towards his and grabbed it. He then led her a little further down the room that they were in as she asked, "Um Baron, where are we going?"

Unbeknownst to the girl however, was the fact that the green eyed half cat now had a smirk on his face as he simply answered back with, "Don't worry my dear, you find out soon enough." A barrier then went over the open curtain way that led to the back of the room preventing anyone from getting in as the half cat turned around and stared into Orihime's purple colored eyes.

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Haru returned the banquet hall surprised to see her husband and the cat figurine talking to one another as she approached the two and asked, "Baron, what are you doing here? I thought you wanted to speak to Orihime about something?"

This caused the Cat King to give his wife a confused look as he replied, "Haru darling, what are you talking about? Baron and I have been talking with one another the entire time."

The brunette's eyes widen with fear as she let out a light gasp and asked, "Wait if you have been here with Lune ever since Orihime and I left. Then who was it that I saw in the opened curtain way?"

The cat figurine's eyes widen remembering that Reginald had said that he would have to wait to thank Orihime "properly" at another time as he let out, "Oh no, Orihime!"

He then took off running out of the banquet hall hoping that he was not too late to stop Orihime from leaving the castle with a fake him as he thought, "I don't want to believe that, that rogue would show up here at the castle. But if he was foolish enough to show up here I have to stop him."

Once he saw a room with an opened curtain he ran inside and saw that Orihime was in fact with a Baron look like. And when he saw that the two were about to kiss he ran forward to try and stop them from doing so. The only thing that happened though was that he ran into an invisible wall that was blocking his path as he started to bang on it repeatedly.

To Be Continued

Sorry it took so long for this chapter to be up. I was away from home for a few days.