Disclaimer: I do not own the Powerpuff Girls.

A/N: Child Abuse, Self-Mutilation, Suicide Thoughts, and Rape are all wrong, don't do any of them please.

A Kat's Tail.

A Puff Fic written by Universal Comet Mistress AKA, KK The Italiano Gatto

Rated: PG-13 for Child Abuse, Self Mutilation, Suicide Thoughts, and references to rape.

Buttercup stared outside at the house next door. There was a moving van there and two eleven year old boys; twins probably were helping the movers and a tall woman carry things inside. The boys were very masculine, and looked very bad. They both had spiky black hair with green stripes in it, and green eyes. They wore the same exact thing, green hat, green muscle shirt, baggy jeans, and black tennis-shoes. God they looked cute. She sat there staring dreamily at them, as Blossom did Bubbles' hair. "Buttercup..." Blossom said, brushing the blonde's hair. Buttercup didn't hear her, she stared at the boys as one of them pushed a little girl down, she was around her age, with brown hair down to her chin, and brown cat looking eyes. She wore a pink kimono and a pink hat on with an even darker pink cat paw on it, but as she stared at the little girl's hat, she noticed two lumps under the hat. "What the..." she muttered. "Buttercup!" Blossom stomped. "WHAT!?" Buttercup turned around quickly. "Hand me...the ponytail holders off of the dresser." Blossom said, trying not to snap back.

Buttercup walked over to the dresser and picked up the ponytail holders. "We have new neighbors." She said walking over to Blossom and handing one to her. "Wow, what are they like?!?" Bubbles exclaimed in question. "Hold still Bubbles." Blossom said putting her hair up in one pigtail. "I don't know I haven't met them..." she said handing the other ponytail holder to Blossom. "...but there are two boys, and a girl. The boys are cute. My kinda boys. And the girl...well she looks weird...she wears a pink hat and she's got these lumps under it." She said, Blossom putting the other pigtail in. "Maybe they're cute pigtails her big brothers put in!" Bubbles exclaimed turning around and smiling at Blossom. "Thank you Blossom." Blossom smiled and giggled. "You're welcome, Bubbles." She said patting the girl on the head. "Bubbles is right...they could be pigtails." Buttercup pondered that. "I dunno...I suspect something...lets get to school..."

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"Mom...don't make me go to school, please! Let me stay home, please! I'll be a good girl! I will I will! Just let me stay in home school!" The brown haired girl cried, hanging onto the labcoat of a tall woman with long black hair, and green eyes. "Please, mom." Her brown eyes were big and full of tears, but the woman looked down at her like she was an odd creature. "No. You need discipline...discipline that only a school can bring...you are a very very bad girl, Kat." She said as she looked back at some papers that she had been filing. "Besides...you'll learn to be more like your brothers. Irohotoh and Ikusat." She beamed thinking of the two boys, that Buttercup and been drooling over earlier. "My two angels." Kat blinked and peered into the boy's room, they were stocking they're bookbags up with rubberbands, slingshots, straws, and paper. Anything to make trouble with in a classroom. "Ummm..." She blinked and looked back up at her mom. "Mommy...please...please...I promise i'll be a good..." She stopped as a vase next to her fell over, her eyes went wide and looked at the vase and then at her laughing brothers. She looked up at her mom, scared. Kat's mom, turned and looked at the vase, and then at Kat. "YOU! YOU BROKE MY FAVORITE VASE!" She screamed. "I-I..." She looked at her hands, they were still clasped onto her mom's labcoat. How could she have. She looked back at her brothers who were laughing madly. Irohotoh was holding a slingshot. It was him again, he always got Kat in trouble. She looked up at her mother just as she struck her to the ground. "WHY CAN'T YOU BE A GOOD LITTLE GIRL!? WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE GOOD!?" She yelled. Kat was on the ground, her nose was bleeding she sat up, tears and blood running down her face. "LOOK AT YOU YOU'RE A MESS! AND STOP CRYING THAT COULDN'T HAVE HURT!!" her mother yelled at her. "GO GET CLEANED UP, NOW KAT!!" She yelled.

Kat stood up and walked to her room. She looked at the boxes that she hadn't unpacked yet. She sighed, trying not to cry anymore. She knew that if her mother heard her crying again that she would get an even worse punishment. She went to the bathroom that connected to her room and washed her face. She pinched her nose shut before anymore blood could drip out. She sighed once more letting go of her nose. Her nosebleeds never lasted that long. She took her kimono off as she walked back into her room, not a lot of blood had dripped onto it, but it was noticeable. All over her small shaking little body were bruises and cuts. No, the cuts weren't from her mother, they were from her own attacks that she unleashed onto herself in the evening when she was sent to her room to go to bed. She had a small pocket knife she kept hidden in the wall at her old house but when they moved she had to find a new hiding place for it.

That was the first thing she had done when she got to her new house late the night before. There was a loose board in the floor where her bed was now. It was perfect. She hid the knife there and asked for her bed to be put over the hiding place. She opened a box and took out a lavendar sweater, and baggy blue jeans. She put the sweater and the jeans on as she left her room and went to the edge of the stairs. She went to step down and she fell. Or rather she was pushed. She hit her face on the wall giving her a black eye. "Oh...." She said dazely looking up at the person who pushed her. It was Irohotoh. "Sorry...." he said gruffly. "You were in my way freak." He walked past her laughing, Ikusat following close behind. "Come on, Kat. We have to walk you to school." Ikusat spat. Kat got up and ran to the door, trying to rub the pain from her eye, she took her shoes and put them on. The two older boys walked out the door and Kat followed. She thought a minute, very angry about this mornings happenings she wanted revenge for once, she flew up into the air level to them and kicked them in they're heads and flew in the direction of Pokey Oaks. "HEY GET BACK HERE FREAK!!" They yelled after her. But she just kept flying.

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Kat stood in front of the class next to Miss Keane, shy, and fidgety. "Class this is our new, student...Kat Austin. She just moved here from the city of Urbanville. Lets make her feel welcome." She smiled down at her. "You can go sit next to Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. They'll make you feel welcome." She pointed to the three puffs, and Kat got a frightened look in her eyes as she looked at the three of them. She didn't want to move, she didn't want to come to school, and she didn't want to sit next to three girls who had weird names; one having to do with the life cycle of a flower, one that had to do with a floating ball of soap, and one that was named after a flower. ( ().o don't ask peeps.) She wanted to go home, back to Urbansville, back to homeschool, back to her little stuffed chao-chao named Gir, that her mother insisted she leave behind.

Miss Keane gave her a confused look. "Kat is there something wrong?" she asked. Kat wanted to spill it out right there. Why she was scared, why she was wearing a sweater in the middle of spring, why she wanted to die at her age. She wanted to tell everyone that her brothers and mother abused her, and that she was so depressed she turned to self mutilation, and why she was so depressed. But she didn't she just shook her head and walked slowly to the table that the three puffs sat at. Before she got there, Buttercup turned to Blossom and Bubbles and whispered. "Look that's her...look at that hat she's wearing...it's really weird." Blossom and Bubbles glared at Buttercup. "Shutup, can't you see she's scared enough...look at her." Blossom pointed at her. "She looks sad." Bubbles said sadly.~They're talking about me I know it.~ Kat thought to herself. She reached the table and sat down as Blossom and Bubbles smiled. They were about to say hello when Buttercup swiped Kat's hat off, revealing big tiger ears on her head. The class's eyes went wide. "FREAK!" Buttercup started laughing and then the class chimed in with her. Blossom and Bubbles glared at Buttercup. Kat got a twisting feeling inside of her stomach.

She wanted to go home right then and grab her knife from her hiding place and end it all. End the pain that she felt each day. Bubbles was getting angry as she saw the tears come into Kat's eyes. "Please...could I have my hat back?" She choked. "NO FREAK! THIS IS TO FUNNY!" Buttercup laughed. That was it, something in Bubbles snapped. "QUUUUUIIIIIIIT LAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHIING!" She yelled at the top of her lungs, as Blossom grabbed the hat from Buttercup. The laughing stopped, and Kat's tears went away as Blossom smiled and handed her hat to her. "Here you go, Kat." She said, sweetly. "Don't worry 'bout Buttercup. She has an ugly disorder. It causes her to act ugly." Bubbles giggled as Buttercup glared. "That isn't true, I just think freaks are funny. Do you have a tail to, Kat?" she asked coldly. Kat nodded. "Yes..." She said, the laughing started again. "I'M GONNA HURT SOMEBODY!" Bubbles yelled, the laughing stopped again. "Why are you trying to be nice to me?" Kat asked shakily. "You don't need to be nice to a freak." Bubbles giggled and Blossom smiled. "You're not a freak, Kat." Blossom said almost in a motherly way. "Tiger ears and a Tiger tail do not make you a freak. It just makes you different...which...we all are...we're all different...no one is the same." Blossom professed. "And it also makes you cute." Bubbles giggled floating over to her and patting her ears. "Really?" Kat asked in disbelief. "Yes." Blossom said in the same motherly fashion she did before. "You wanna be our friend?" Bubbles giggled. "Yeah come on...you can be our best friend." Blossom smiled. "Not gonna be my best friend..." Buttercup hissed. "Ignore her Kat...do you wanna be OUR friend? As in Me and Bubbles?" Kat thought a moment and smiled. "Sure."

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Nine years had passed and the three friends had grown closer than ever, everyone was happy. Well, Kat was happy when she was around her friends...not when she was at home...nothing had changed...except...it had gotten worse...four years ago Kat was washing the dishes, she wasn't supposed to be caught with her hands out of the water, doing nothing, but she fell into a daydream, and her mother caught her, she struck her, her head hitting the counter and cutting her. Her mother picked her up by the collar of her kimono she was wearing and held a knife up. "You're being bad, Kat." She hissed. "Very bad...do I have to punish you?" Kat shook her head, crying. "NO! NO!" Kat cried. "I'LL BE GOOD! I SWEAR MOM, DON'T PUNISH ME!" Kat was terrified, and she was blacking out from when she hit her head she accidentally stumbled forward, startling her mother and the knife went into her side. Her mother rushed her to the hospital and lied, saying tha Kat had been playing with the knife, running through the house and fell. But when they took her clothes off to examine her, they saw the results of her self-mutilation. They stitched her up and put medicine on her old cuts to make them finally heal. When they went into the waiting room to question her mother about the other cuts, she told them she knew nothing about it, but she would find out. The doctors told her it might be self-mutilation...they had a strong feeling about it. She told them she'd keep an eye on her and brought her home, except she didn't. The only time she kept an eye on her was when she was looking for a reason to hurt Kat.

Kat now sat at the park, swinging on the swing and waiting for Blossom and Bubbles. She decided that this was the day that she was going to finally tell someone. And she decided that it would be Blossom and Bubbles. She looked up from the ground and saw her brothers walking up with the ruff boys. Kat got scared. Her stomach knotted up as Brick stood in front of her and grabbed her wrists. He leaned in close to her face, and Kat could smell the liqour on him. She knew Brick liked her, and she sort of liked him. He asked her out so many times and she wanted to say yes, but she just didn't want to get hurt because, he wasn't the type of boy that she felt would keep her safe. He was a bad boy, like her brothers, and she didn't want anyone like her brothers. "Hello, Brick." Kat leaned back away from him as he spoke, his breath burning her nose from how sooped up he was. "Heya Kat...wanna come...and hang out...with ush...?" he slurred. "Ummm...I'm waiting for Blossom and Bubbles at the moment, but maybe later." She lied. Brick grabbed her and pulled her close, not to gently might I add. "HEY!" Kat yelled. The other ruffs, and Kat's brothers laughed. "You're gonna hang with me for a while...whether you like it or not, Kat." And with that he kissed her. Kat blushed and couldn't help but kiss back, hey, she did like him, but she was scared. Forgetting how un-sober he was, when he broke the kiss she whimpered. "Please don't hurt me, Brick." Brick snickered. "I won't hurt you...much." Kat then remembered, because, Brick no matter how bad he was never talked to Kat like that, he was sweeter than that to her. Leaving notes and flowers and candy in her locker. Telling her how much he wanted her to be his. He hadn't liked any girl that much since Blossom. But Blossom was going out with Mitch, and well...you know. "What are you going to do to me, Brick?" she asked scaredly. The other boys laughed again as Brick silenced her with a kiss. ~Brick...~ she cried in her mind. ~Stop. Bubbles. Blossom. Help me...please!~

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Kat woke up on the park ground behind a bush, covered in blood, her clothes ripped. ~My God...~ She cried. Remembering what had happened. Brick had beat her to a bloody pulp and raped her to much blood was lost at that point so she blacked out. ~My God...~ She cried again. ~What am I going to do?~ She looked up and saw Buttercup standing there. "What do you want?" She cried. "What happened to you, Kat?" Buttercup asked, caringly. Kat didn't say anything. "Tell me, Kat. I know what you've been through...I dated both of your brothers...remember? They bragged about it...all the time, and...it didn't make me happy. Kat please tell me...what happened...and who did this to you?" Buttercup had been the Utonium sister that she hated, and couldn't get along with to save her life. In return Buttercup hated her as well. But deep inside, Buttercup really did want to be Kat's friend...she cared. It was just hard for her to show. "Kat?"

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A/N: Will Kat tell Buttercup what happened to her? Will they start being friends? If she does tell and they become friends...can Buttercup help? Find out in the next chapter sillies :P. And remember, Child Abuse, Self-Mutilation, Suicide Thoughts, and Rape is wrong.