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Crono sighed, getting out of bed. After doing a few stretches, he walked over to the stairs, prepared to go downstairs and get ready for the Millennial Fair. Suddenly, behind him he heard a loud thumping noise being him and a female voice saying, "Itai...." He whirled around, snatching his sword sheath off of a dresser. Drawing his sword, he prepared to face any danger.

The girl who had just hit the floor looked up at him with wide eyes. "Nande kuso...?" she whispered.

"What?" Crono asked then shook his head. "Never mind, I don't think that's important. Who are you? What do you want? Where did you come from?"

She flipped her dark ponytail back over her shoulder and glared at him. "Aren't you curious?" Then she paused, staring openly at him.

Crono lowered his sword, staring back. "What?"

The girl blinked rapidly, rubbed her eyes, and said, "Crono?"

After jumping almost three feet in the air, Crono demanded, "How do you know my name? Who are you anyways? Where did you come from?"

"You're repeating yourself," the girl informed him. "I thought you were a lot quieter."

Crono blinked, and she sighed loudly. "Never mind. I'm Cat. I know your name because..." she tried to think of how to word it without making him freak out. "...I know everything!" Oh, yeah, that really was going to make him not freak out...

Raising his sword again, Crono glared threateningly. "Stop messing with my head. Where did you come from?"

"I'm not sure. My house. I just suddenly showed up here," she admitted.

"Thought you knew everything..."

Cat cocked her head at him curiously. "I thought you talked a lot less than this!"

"And I thought you knew everything."

"Oh shut up, smart aleck!"

"Crono! Wake up, sleepy head! Do you want to sleep through the fair?"

Crono glanced over his shoulder at the stairs, looked back at Cat, and finally shouted at his mother, "I'm awake! I'll be down in a minute!"

"Good!"

Then he looked back at the girl who was currently looking at the view outside his window. "Well, what do you know, it really is pretty..."

"What in the world am I supposed to do with you?" Crono wondered aloud, making Cat jump and hit her head on the window frame.

"Itai..." Cat turned back to the redheaded boy. "How should I know? I don't even know how I got here!"

"I thought you knew—"

"I get the point! So I don't know everything, so sue me!"

Crono decided to ignore that comment and instead said, "Okay...so now I have a girl who just showed up out of nowhere in my bedroom and my mom is about to yell at me again."

"Crono!"

"I'm awake! I told you, I'll be down in a minute!" Then he looked at Cat, rolling his eyes. "I know her too well..."

"For heaven's sakes, what's taking so long?" Footsteps were heard on the stairs and before Crono could tell his new 'guest' to hide, his mother had come into the room. She stopped, staring at Cat. "Crono..." she said threateningly. "You'd better have a good excuse for this..."

"Ma'am, I swear this, I just showed up here! Honestly I did!" Cat shook her head vigorously. "I'm not his girlfriend, that's the blonde's job!"

"Blonde...?"

"What blonde?" Crono demanded.

Cat thought for a second, then said, "Oops, wrong redhead!" She shook her hands around, smiling disarmingly. (A/N everyone who's played Crono Trigger should know what she meant by "that's the blonde's job"... and it wasn't REALLY the wrong redhead, just...she's trying not to destroy the game. After all, if Crono decides he doesn't want to hook up with Marle, or he decides he wants to see if he can keep himself from not doing so, poof! There goes one of the major parts of the game!!!)

Crono and his mother stared, his mother's face confused and his face disbelieving. Finally his mother said, "Who are you? Where'd you come from?"

"My name is Cat," the girl said, looking out the window again. "I came from my house, I don't know how. I was just playing a... game, then I started to shrink or something and I fell down on the floor here."

Crono scratched his arm as he thought. "Well... I guess you should leave. Where's your house?"

"Where are we?" Cat asked, even though she knew perfectly well.

"Truce Village," responded Crono's mother. (Is that right? I can't remember, and I'm just going by what I saw in a fanfic... I probably should go play the game, but I want to post this, so I'll do it later)

With a sigh, Cat wondered aloud, "How am I ever going to get home? I don't even know where home would be from here."

"Well, until you figure it out," Crono's mother declared, "you can stay with us!"

Cat blinked a few times. Staying in the same house as a very cute video game protagonist? What if she messed up the game? 'Wait a second...' she thought. 'In the tradition of all self-insert fics, you ALWAYS mess something up anyway, so why fight it? And it's not like I have anywhere else to go...' "You don't mind?" she asked aloud.

"Of course I don't!" the woman said with a smile, ignoring Crono's dismayed protests. "Crono, be quiet."

"You can't just let everyone who shows up stay here!" he practically screamed. "What if she's a thief?"

Cat narrowed her eyes in irritation. "What do you have that's worth stealing? I can't see anything, unless I want your cat food. I don't think it'd be very easy to steal the cat; it'd probably wake you all up as I tried to take it out the door.

Crono considered that for a second, and finally had to admit, however begrudgingly, that she was right. "All right! You can stay!" he grumbled sulkily.

Cat's face lit up happily and she actually hugged him, surprising the poor guy. "Yay! I can't believe this! This is soooooo awesome!" The dark haired girl danced around the room happily, making Crono's mother smile.

Crono scratched his head. He'd never had a girl he didn't know just.... HUG him like that.......

"You won't regret this!" the girl chattered. "I'll help with dishes, and laundry, and cleaning, even though I hate doing chores, it's the least I can do!"

His mother laughed. "Thank you! Well, now there's not much to do, so you can go with Crono to the fair. He's going to see his inventor friend... What was her name again, Crono?"

Crono rolled his eyes, wondering how many times she'd forget. "Lucca."

"Lucca, that's it. Anyway, you can go and see her as well. Maybe she'll have some idea of how to get you home. She's a very smart girl after all."

Crono's eyes widened. He hadn't even thought of that. Most likely, Lucca WOULD have some sort of theory about this girl's coming. He smiled at Cat, who grinned back. "All right, she can come along. She'd probably just mess something up around here."

Cat fumed. "I would not!"

Crono laughed. "You would too! You've already fallen on your backside and hit your head. Next thing we know, you'll have knocked over the fridge, you klutz!" His mother laughed quietly.

"In any case, you should go see the fair. It's not like you'd see another one in your lifetime," she told Cat. "Go on, go see it. I'll stay here, and it's not like there are many chores to do right now."

With a bright smile, Cat spun around in a circle happily. "Wai! This is so awesome!"

Crono rolled his eyes and walked over to the stairs. "Well, are we going to go or are we going to spend all day waiting for you to get dizzy and fall over?"

Cat skipped past him and rushed down the stairs. Crono shook his head as he and his mother followed. 'Where in the world did she get all that energy?' Crono wondered flippantly.

After a few seconds of studying the downstairs, Cat rushed to the door. "Let's go, Crono!" she cried, then laughed out loud. "I made a rhyme!"

Crono couldn't help but laugh. What a crazy girl. "Hey Mom, can I have my allowance first?"

"Oh, of course!" Crono's mother handed him 200 GP. "Spend it wisely," she admonished.

Crono rolled his eyes. "Of course I will, Mom." He flashed her a grin as he followed Cat out the door. "I'll see you later Mom!"

"Bye!" the woman called after them. "Have a good time!"

Crono watched Cat as she ran around in circles for a moment. "Wheeeeee!" she cried and fell back on her backside with a smile. Crono shook his head, pretending to be embarrassed to be in her company, and she grinned at him. "So, which way?" she asked.

"That way," Crono pointed. "Where all the balloons are."

"Oh yeah!" Cat remembered. Then she started walking there. "Are you sure you don't mind me hanging around you?" she asked suddenly.

Crono walked past her. "Nah, not really. I just act like I do. It's not a big deal."

Cat's eyes flashed mischievously as she walked behind him. He looked so casual and laid-back that she couldn't resist. She kicked his back foot into the back of his other foot as he started to take a step, a really effective way of tripping somebody. Just like most other people did, he fell forward, hitting the ground. When he looked up, Cat was standing in front of him, grinning evilly. She stuck her tongue out at him and said, "Nah nah, you can't catch me!" Then she dashed off towards the fair.

"You little..." Crono jumped to his feet and ran after her. She glanced at him as he slowly started to gain on her, and started to run faster. But he hadn't been training for years for nothing. He caught up to her and yanked on her ponytail.

"Itai!" she cried, hands reaching back to pry his hand off her hair. Then he kicked out with a foot, tripping her. "Hey!" she cried as she landed on her back. Crono leaned over her, grinning at her. Crono held out a hand to help her up, and Cat took it and pulled herself to her feet. "You dork..." she sulked. "It's not fair to pull a girl's hair..."

Crono grinned playfully. "You mean like this?" he asked, pulling her hair again.

"Itai! Yes!" she grabbed a lock of his hair and pulled it too. He just laughed and pulled harder. Finally Cat let go and tried to make him release her hair. "Okay okay I give! Just let go!"

Crono laughed and did as she told him to. She rubbed the back of her head and glared at him. "That's foul play," she pouted cutely.

"Who cares? You started it," Crono pointed out with a laugh.

"Well, I can beat you to the fair."

"Can you now?"

"Yes," Cat said, starting to run again. "Watch me!"

Crono decided to let her get a head start, and when she was a few yards away, he started to run as well. After about thirty seconds, he was neck and neck with her, which irritated the teenage girl, and she tried to pull ahead without success.

Soon they arrived at the fair, out of breath from laughing and running. Crono had to admit, silly as she was, this girl was a lot of fun. The last time he'd laughed that much was probably years ago.

They entered the fair and were greeted by an old man standing by the entrance. Cat suddenly remembered something, and fell back a bit. Crono looked back at her, looking mildly concerned. "Something wrong?" he asked.

"No, no, not really," Cat grinned nervously. She could NOT mess this part of the game up. If she did, who KNOWS what would happen? "I'm just a little tired. I'll just sit down for a minute."

"Oh. Okay," Crono replied, walking over to a bench.

'Kuso!' Cat thought angrily. 'No no no! He is supposed to just go without me! I can't mess this up!' "Go ahead and have fun," she told him. "I'll just sit here for a few minutes, then I'll come join you."

Crono asked, "Are you sure? I really don't mind waiting."

'Awww...he really IS a sweet guy... and really cute too....' Cat realized what she was thinking and slapped herself mentally. 'You idiot! He's practically taken! You saw the ending! What are you THINKING!?' Quickly she replied, "Yes, I'm positive. Just don't go see Lucca without me!" 'Mess it up or not, I'm not being left in this time when they go 400 years or whatever back in time...'

"Okay," he said, sounding a bit unsure. "I'll see you in a few minutes then..."

"Have fun!" Cat told him cheerily.

Crono flashed a smile at her as he went up the steps to another part of the fair, and Cat buried her face in her hands.

'What is wrong with me? I can't mess up THAT part of the game!'

'Why not? He isn't taken yet...' another part of her whispered.

'You shut up. I wonder if he met her yet.'

Cat stood up and walked over to the stairs that led to the other part of the fair. She peeked around a booth and saw Crono talking to Marle. 'Yes! I didn't mess it up!'

'Not yet anyway...' that irritating little voice replied.

'I thought I told you to be quiet.'

'So?'

With a sigh, Cat wondered when she's started talking to herself. Suddenly, Crono looked around and saw her standing there. With a smile, he said, "Hey Cat! Come here a second!"

Cat smiled back a bit nervously and did as he said. Crono gestured at Marle. "Cat, this is Marle. Marle, this is Cat. Cat, Marle wants to know if I could show her around since she's new around here. Is that okay with you?"

Cat thought, 'As if I have a choice...' Then she grinned and said, "Of course it's okay. If she doesn't know where everything is, it'd be rude to just tell her to go figure it out."

Marle jumped happily. "Thank you so much!"

Crono said, "No problem."

Turning her head, Cat asked, "What all is there to do?" Having played Chrono Trigger so much, of course she knew, but she couldn't exactly tell them. It was odd having to play dumb.

After a moments thought, Crono answered, "We can fight the battle robot, watch the races, go to the Tent of Horrors, or other random games which aren't much of a challenge."

"How much does the Tent cost?"

"Oh, we have to earn some silver points first." Crono thought for a second. "You can pretty much get silver points from any of the games."

Marle said, "Okay, Crono, since you seem to be the only one of us that knows this place fairly well, why don't you pick something?"

Crono thought for a moment, then asked, "Can you two fight?"

Marle nodded, but Cat looked a bit sheepish. "I can't really fight with a weapon.... I never learned how. I can fight with a stick... if I had one right now... I was actually kinda hoping you'd teach me how to use a sword..." As she talked, her voice became steadily quieter until you could barely hear her.

Crono smiled at her kindly. "Don't worry about it. I'll teach you. It's not a problem. But you do need a sword."

For a moment, Cat thought about where she could get a sword. Then she remembered about Melchior. "There's a guy down there," she told them, pointing, "He has some swords and stuff for sale. Can we go look?"

"Sure," Crono said. "You'll have to pay me back if I get you something though..."

Cat grinned at him, and answered, "Okay."

With that, they walked off to find Melchior.

Chi: Well, was it too bad? I hope you didn't mind that it was so long. I got a complaint that it was too short, so.... I was supposed to stop this chappie after Crono and Cat left his house but... *shrugs* it got away with me. Anyways, I'm fairly satisfied with it. I have to go start the game again to get all the little details. Oh yeah! I forgot to tell you! "Itai" means "ouch" as you might've guessed. It's Japanese. I'm sorry that I stick that in a lot, it just comes out naturally. And Cat says it all the time when we chat so... And "Nande kuso?" means "what the hell?" She says that a lot too. Those are the only ones I think I stuck in there...but they're there because she says them.

Cat: I got to mess with Crono! ^_^

Chi: *sigh* that you did... heeheehee....

Cat: *glare* what are you planning...?

Chi: ^_^ Sore wa himitsu desu!

Cat: *sigh*