You guys are going to hate me. I'm groundeded again, and I don't know for how long. I'm truly sorry. I've had OE and this chapie done for awhile and the day I was planing to update was the day I got groundeded. So, try and update on the weekends. I am truly sorry yall.
The Past 2: The News
Sai and Katsumi had been friends since the first day that they met. She loved hanging around him and playing around. He liked having someone look up to him. They had started to 'date' for a few years now. Whenever Kat's parents were on a mission, Sai always said that she could come over and wait for them.
When she was enough to understand responsibility, she was taught and trained how to use her powers. She was around 6 in human years. Her mother trained her the demon part of her power, which consisted mostly of mental abilities. Her father on the other hand taught her spirit attacks and martial arts. That's was when they were not on a mission or out of energy. Sai said that he would help training her, which was she enjoyed a lot, because she learned a lot of trick that her parent didn't want her to learn. That was when she was younger. Now that she had grown up, Sai trained her harder and about an hour longer every time. He eventually showed her how to use weapons, which she didn't like using very much.
After a day of training of mental and fighting combo, Kat was exhausted. She leaned against the big cheery tree that grew at the edge of that garden at Sai's house. The sun was setting behind the horizon. Kat had positioned herself so that she could watch it as she rested. She quietly groomed her ears, tail and hair like a cat does. Sai told her that she had to try and hold her demon form for a day, even when they trained.
Sai came up next to her, and sat down on the soft ground. Kat leaned closer to him and placed her head on his shoulders, and she swayed her legs to the side of her to get a bit more comfortable. Sai placed his head on her head, playfully blowing her hair out of his face.
"So, how did I do today?" she asked watching as the remaining golden sliver disappear behind the horizon.
"You were wonderful as always, Kitten," he replied kissing the top of her head.
Sai picked her up gently and moved her onto his lap and placed his arm around her, so she doesn't fall backward. Kat willingly let him move her. She placed her head on his other shoulder. The two watched the colors from the sun fade way.
She felt a cold chill blowing across her bare arms. She snuggled a little closer to Sai. Sai felt her shivering and snapped his finger. A gray hoodie appeared and wrapped around the shivering neko. It looked like a tent on her.
"Thank you, Sai-chan," she said softly and kissed his check.
"You're welcome, Kitten," he answered. "Now, I think that you should sleep. That training was hard," he told her.
He waited to hear her complain about not wanting to sleep or something. He looked at her face and saw her sleeping. A smile came to his face.
She looks so cute and harmless when she's asleep, he thought to himself as he began to playfully play with her ears.
She jumped slightly but settled back inching a bit closer to Sai. He heard her starting to purr in her sleep. The quiet sound of her purring and the sounds of the crickets chirping reached his ears, and he slowly drifted into a deep sleep.
The two slept under the tree the whole night. Sai was the first to waken when the sun hit his eyes. He slowly opened his eyes to adjust to the light. When everything came into focus, he noticed something on his lap. He looked down and saw Kat had moved in middle of the night and had her head on his lap now, with her legs bent close to her.
"Kitten, wake up," he cooed softly placing a hand on her waist. He began petting her head and her ears trying to wake her up. She stirred and moaned before she turned on her back. "Wake up," he said as she turned and his hand on her waist moved to her stomach.
"Just a few more minute," she whined rubbing her eyes with the oversize hoodie with one hand and with the other one waved the voice that was trying to wake her.
"Kitten, please get up, your starting to cut the circulation to my feet," Sai said.
"Fine," she grumbled opening her eyes and saw Sai looking at her with greeting eyes. "Morning," she said smiling.
"Morin'," he replied.
She sat up, twirled around to her knees, and gave Sai a big innocent smile all in one swift movement. Her ears were perked high and her tail waved back and forth behind her quickly.
"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like you have something up your sleeve, or you did something?" he asked her suspiciously.
"Because," she began placing her hands on the top of her leg and leaned closer to him and gave him a kiss. "I was able to stay in my demon form for a whole day," she said cheerfully with the smile still plastered on her face.
"I've noticed. Very good, Kitten, but I don't think that's way you're looking at me like that," he said.
She leaned in again and gave him another kiss. "Nope, that ain't the other reason," she playfully said. "But I'm not going to tell you." She got up and started to run towards the garden laughing. The hoodie that she was wearing fell passed her butt about six inches.
"Hey, that's not fair. Get back here," he ordered running after her.
She turned back around to see if he was following and quickly chanced back to her normal form. Her ears, fangs, and claws disappeared, but her tail always stayed. She couldn't find him. She stopped to look where he was, but he wasn't anywhere that she could see. As she turned back around, he tackled her to her ground and began to tickle her.
"Are you going to tell me, or am I going to have to continue tickling you to get it out of you?" he asked playfully.
"Stop...hahaha…it…I'll…hahaha…tell…you," she managed to say when she was being tickled to death.
"Promise?" he asked still tickling her.
"Yeah," she said holding her stomach after he stopped. He continued to sit lightly on top of her. She leaned up and gave him a kiss before resting on her elbows.
"What was that for?" he asked shocked at the sudden kiss.
"Why don't you even know?" she questioned him back.
"No, should I?"
"Yeah, you jerk, it's your birthday," she replied cheerfully.
"It is, isn't it?" he questioned jokingly.
"Yeap, and I got you something," she said.
"What is it?" he asked.
"Well, if you get off of me I can get it," she replied. He chuckled and got off of her and reached down and picked her up. "Come with me," she said taking his arm and 'calling' for her oar. Botan had been her baby-sitter when she needed one, and she had become an 'unofficial' reaper.
"Where are you taking me?" he asked sitting behind her on the oar and wrapping his arms around her waist as she took off unexpected.
"You'll see," she said giving him a smile.
The two flew for a while, over forests, fields, and hills. Kat landed next to a waterfall. (Corny yeah, I know. This should be something a guy does but just go with me.)
"So, this is my present, a waterfall?" he asked jumping off the oar.
"No, I thought that you would like to have a picnic but before that I thought that you might like this," she said walking over to an old log and pulled out a long wrapped box from the end.
"And what's this?" he asked inspecting it.
"Just open it," she said getting tired of his questions.
He started tearing the paper, revealing a box. "Oh, thank you, Kitten. I've always wanted a box," he said trying to act gracious.
"No, open the box, you idiot," she said hitting him gentle on arm.
"I know. I was kidding," he replied opening the box.
He pulled out what was inside revealing a sword. It was in a black leather scabbard that had a tiger etched in it. The hilt had a gold cat's eye at the end. He unsheathed the sword to find that it was the most beautiful sword that he had ever seen. The blade was sharp and seemed to have diamonds embedded into it. It had a golden shimmer to it.
"Well?!" she asked.
"Wow, I love it. Where did you get it?" he asked testing it.
"Oh, from one of my mom's old friends," she said slyly. "Do you really like it? The blade is embedded with diamonds. So, it can practically slice through anything."
"Yes, thank you, Kitty," he replied giving her a kiss and placing it in his belt.
"You're welcome, Sai-chan," she answered kissing him back.
"Now, where's that picnic that you said we were going to have?"
"Right here," she replied leading him to a little clearing.
The couple sat down on the blanket and ate their food. They sat talking and watching as animals came up to the waterfall to drink.
"Kitten, I know that this is my birthday, and that it's not normal to give something, but I can't wait anymore to do this," he said taking a deep breath before continuing. "Will you marry me?" he asked taking her hand.
Kat was blown back by this and looked at him unable to figure out what she felt. Emotions mixed into a huge blob. One emotion stood out the most, she loved him and he loves her too.
"Yes," she said tearing and throwing her arms around his neck and giving him a kiss.
"Well, I know that I am suppose to give you a ring, but I don't have one at the moment," he said.
"It's okay, I don't need one."
~Katsumi?!~ a voice asked in her head.
~Yeah?!~ she replied hesitantly.
~It's Abby. Are you with Sai?~
~Yeah, we're having a picnic for his birthday, why?~
~Okay, can you bring him back. Your parent's, Abby and I have to talk you two,~ another voice answered.
~Sure, be there in a few minutes,~ Kat replied.
"Hey, Sai-chan, our parents want to want to talk to us. Should we tell them?" she asked leaning back to look up at him.
"We're going to have too. Why do they want to see us?" he asked.
"Don' know," she replied. "But they want us to come now."
"Kay."
The newly engage couple packed everything up and flew off to Sai's house. They walked into the door hand in hand.
"Hi, everyone," Sai said walking into the living room where everyone was gathered.
"Hi, Sai, Kat," Abby said.
"Sai, we have something for you," Caleb said reaching down to the side of the chair that he was sitting in and grabbed a package. "Now, son, every cat demon that is not full blooded receives one of these when they become adults," he stated. (I don't know corny, but I don't know demon to human age ratio, if there is one, to know how old they are when they ain't kids.)
"What is it?" he asked opening it.
Inside was a small kitten. It had strawberry fur with light highlights, just like Kat has.
"Aww, she soo cute. What are you going to name her?" Kat asked petting the kitten.
"I don't know," he said taking her out of the box and held her.
"Sai, she already has a name. It's Sage," Abby said.
"Cool, her name is my last name," Kat said happily.
"That is what we were going to talk to you guys about," Ryo butted in.
"What Ryo is saying is that. Do you two remember the first day that you met, and we talked?" Leila asked pointing to the others.
"Yeah," Kat answered getting confused with Sai.
"Well, we you were playing we were discussing your futures," Abby continued for Leila.
"What about our futures?" asked Sai.
"We made an agreement that when you two were to be married," said Ryo blankly.
"What? You arranged for us to be married with out our consent?" questioned Kat outraged.
"You weren't born when we made with arrangement. When we came over we were just making the final agreements," Leila answered.
"What if we hate each other?" asked Sai.
"Well, you don't have a choice in the matter," Caleb said.
"We know that you two don't hate one another. We've seen you two practicing and kiss all of the time," Abby stated.
Kat and Sai looked at each other quickly smiling.
"What are you two smiling about? You were just mad a second ago," asked Abby.
"Well, this news is kind of old," explained Sai.
Their parents looked dumbfounded.
"That's right. Sai-chan, just proposed to me right before you told me to bring him," Kat said not able to hold in her happiness.
The grown ups looked at each other in disbelief. They were actually engaged and did it on their own. Sai and Kat as well as the others talked about the plans and everything.