Okay, I've re-looked at the picture and the cat's more of a reddish-brown, but I'm still calling her red in case anyone cares

Okay, I've re-looked at the picture and the cat's more of a reddish-brown, but I'm still calling her red in case anyone cares. Knives is probably going to be way out of character, but I'll try hard not to have him that way. Please be kind and review, thought I was going to say rewind didn't you?

Akaneko

Not again, Knives raged as he felt an all too familiar weight compressing his ribcage. Why couldn't they leave him alone? He was beginning to think there was a huge, flashing neon sign above his head that said, "All cats and odd girls, sit on my chest." Of course this time he was prepared for such an intrusion. He kept himself perfectly still, as though still asleep, even as he tensed his muscles.

Without warning he lashed out and felt a small burst of triumph as his hand connected with a pliant, furry body. With a pained shriek the cat flew off the bed and thumped against the wall on the opposite side of the room. He gave a grunt of satisfaction, dragging his weak body into a sitting position, as the little monster remained motionless in the corner. Closing his eyes he sank back into the bed that had been his world ever since he had awakened.

"That wasn't very nice," the cat…no girl declared as it/she stood up. Gingerly she ran her pale hands through her disorderly red hair.

"What are you?" he demanded staring at the odd creature before him.

"Well, since the cat is out of the bag, so to speak," she began ruefully, "I'm the little red cat that's been stalking you."

"I think I figured that out," he told her blandly. "What species are you? You can't be human. Unless those worthless beasts have managed to suddenly evolve, which I doubt considering how pathetic they are."

She stood up and moved gracefully over to him, "Of course I'm not human. I'm your own personal observer." He stared her for a while, wishing he had taken his previous opportunity to snap her neck instead of strangle her. He had been so involved with her lack of visible suffering that he had inadvertently allowed her to live.

"I'm not supposed to let you see me like this, but, well, hitting that wall really hurt," she told him glibly, aqua eyes wide and expressive. She wasn't accusing him of being responsible for her impact even though she had to be aware it was his fault. There was something too innocent about her, as if she hadn't spent any time in the real world. "Of course they haven't said anything about it yet, but he warned me not to."

"You're crazy aren't you?"

"Of course not, what gave you that idea?" she responded in confusion. He raised a haughty eyebrow that suggested she knew perfectly well what he meant.

She stretched lazily and then hopped onto his chest, oblivious to his cry of pain. He glared balefully at her as she dug her elbows into his chest in order to prop up her chin. She regarded him with unfeigned fascination, apparently intrigued by him for some unaccountable reason. Her warm breath fanned his face as she continued staring at him and he became acutely uncomfortable under such close scrutiny.

"Tell everything about yourself," she told him suddenly, breaking the steadily unsettling silence that surrounded them. She lowered her arms and crossed them on his chest.

"If you tell me who these people are that hired you," he returned, fully aware that she wouldn't. Even though she was not human, her mind worked in the same simple logic that that lesser species utilized. He momentarily thought of shoving her off, but the prospect of facing excruciating agony deterred him.

She sighed loudly in frustration and regarded him with a calculating look, "Fine then I'll have to get the present instead."

He was about to ask what she was talking about now when she cradled his face in her hands and kissed him. He was shocked, more so by his instantaneous reacting than by the action itself. At the first touch of her soft lips he was filled a strangely burning heat. Before he could explore or justify this she pulled away from him.

"I will know everything about you with or without your involvement," she told him calmly. For once he was unable to say anything. She faded from sight, her countenance solemn.

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Okay, this one is a little shorter and all of it is rather odd. Please review.