Baron awoke several hours later, when a thin stream of light cascaded through a crack in the curtains, landing on his head. Needless to say, it didn't help improve his headache...
And so the morning was greeted by a mumbled "Bloody hell" from the Lord among Cats.
He blinked several times, trying to figure out firstly, what had happened to him, secondly, where he was, and thirdly, why he was here. Wherever here was. Placing a hand to his head, the answer to the first question became apparent...Hands. He was human. That...Was a problem. Because firstly, he didn't know how he became human, secondly, he didn't know what to do now that he was human...
Baron winced. Oy. Too many numbers, he thought, the firstlies and secondlies floating around in his head...Deal with the first problems immediately, Baron, they did come to you first, after all.
Right. First question down, now he had to tackle the second...Where was he?
He blinked again, and looked around the room. It was very neat...He was in a very comfortable bed. And, on the nightside table beside him, there was a quaint little cow clock that read 6:00am...
And there, kneeling at the side of the bed, was a girl, fast asleep.
He had to blink again, although he knew that he had already done that action far too many times in the past fifty seconds. He knew this girl...
Haru.
He gasped her name silently, and almost recoiled away from her, afraid to touch the one who he had dreamt about for so long.
What he felt towards her couldn't be right. It just wasn't right. He had no real defined age, always young in spirit- But he was actually quite older than her. That, and...She was human, and he was a cat.
Was a cat.
That startling conclusion brought him back to earth. There was no barrier of specie...But, how long would it last? He didn't even know how it happened, so what was to say that such a switch wouldn't occur again? He was just so confused...
She was the only thing that remained the same, the only real thing in the confused jumble that his life had become. She was the only stable element, his rock...He tentatively reached out a hand to touch her, to make sure she was real, and he wasn't confined in some wretched nightmare, really back in his bed in the Cat Bureau...His fingers brushed a lock of brown hair out of her eyes, caressing her skin ever so-lightly, a forbidden contact...Her name tumbled out from his lips. "Haru."
The angel began to stir at the sound of her name, and Baron hastily drew back his hand, not wanting her to know that he felt that way towards her...He didn't want to loose any friendship he might have with her...
"Baron, for the record, I think I might have a little crush on you."
Her words came ringing back to him clearly, but he still felt himself in denial. Feelings changed over time, especially those of teenager girls. That, and...He wasn't quite sure of what he felt...
"Baron?"
He glanced down into bright green eyes, which were gazing up at him in concern. Beautiful eyes that could hold his gaze for hours...
"Are you alright?" She asked quietly, and placed her hand over his in concern. Baron's stomach churned at the very thought, although the touch itself was very pleasant. "I'm fine." He replied softly, and gave her the best reassuring smile that he could, under the circumstances.
She tilted her head at him, questions in her eyes. "How did you get like this, Baron? I mean, it's not that I mind...Er, I mean, I liked you as a cat, but, um, you're very handsome as a human." Erk! Did she just say that? Oh no!
He just sighed, and laid back on the pillows, having not noticed the handsome comment. "In truth, I do not know how I came to be like this. I'm very confused myself...The last thing I can remember was being back in the Cat Bureau, having a rather violent nightmare." Haru's eyes widened at the mention of a nightmare. The coincidence was great..."A…Nightmare? What did it involve?" Suddenly Baron looked very bashful indeed. "It was nothing." He said quickly, not wanting to confess that it involved her, fearing that she would either think he was having nightmares about her in a bad way, meaning that she was the horrible creature chasing him, or think that he was having dreams about her that were, er, inappropriate. Well, Baron did admit that he dreamed about her frequently in a romantic manner, but never in such a crude manner. "Um, well…It's nothing, honest. Nothing you should be concerned about." Haru frowned, and went to say something, but then-
"Haru?" A voice called from down the stairs, "Haru dear? Are you ready for breakfast? Come on sleepyhead, school starts soon!"
Haru jolted up with a gasp. "MOTHER!" She whipped over to Baron, her eyes wide. "Baron, can you walk?" He managed to nod meekly, rather stunned at how fearful she seemed. "Good. You'll have to get out of here...Right now! If my mother finds a man in my bed...I'm going to have to do a lot of explaining, and I can't think of any excuse for you just turning up!"
Not wanting to stress her out any further (As Baron well remembered what her screams could sound like, although he never had been the victim of them), he scooted out of bed, and looked around confusedly. "But...Where will I go?"
She stood still for awhile, and it was then Baron followed her eyes over to the window.
"Oh no."

Haru's mother's head snapped up abruptly as she heard a rather large CRASH! ringing from the outside of their house, in front of her daughter's room. "...Haru?" She called again, this time a hint of questioning in her tone, "Do you know what that was?"
The girl in question came bounding down the stairs, her schoolbag flinging in the air behind her. "I think it was just a clumsy cat falling into the dustbins, Mom." She replied with a grin, knowing very well that it was the truth, "Nothing to fear."
She grabbed four pieces of buttered toast off the table along with a glass of milk, and continued her dash to the door, only pausing to slip on her shoes. "Gotta get to school early today Mom, see ya later, bye!"
The door closed with a slam, and her mother just stood in the kitchen, spatula in hand, just looking at the door.
"I didn't know she could eat four pieces of toast...And what will she do with the glass?"

Haru continued running out at breakneck speed, eager to get food to Baron. Hopefully this would bring her up in his eyes, but then again, she didn't even care about that. All she wanted was to make sure that he was alright, and food was good for the soul, and after what he had been through, Baron-
"Haru!"
The voice jolted her out of her thoughts, and with a shrieked, "OHGEEZ!" she jumped a very respectable three feet in the air, the toast and droplets of milk flying as her arms flailed around.
While many respectable judges from around the world would have given her take off top marks, Haru's landing was less spectacular. Although she managed to grab the three remaining pieces of toast and keep a firm hold on the glass, when she returned to the ground her footing slipped, and she found herself tilting backwards...
A warm, strong pair of arms wrapped around her waist, pulling her back into a firm chest, breaking her fall. She let out a sigh of relief, happy to have saved the food, and leaned back against her saviour, savouring the warm feeling that he illuminated...
Until she realized what sort of a position she was in, and with whom.
"Oh dear!" She cried, and suddenly bolted out of the welcoming arms, "I'm so sorry Bar-" It was then she actually turned around, and was saw her saviour- A rather sheepish looking man with a piece of toast on his head. "OH MY-I'm so very sorry, Baron!" She kept on spilling apologies, so worried that he would be angry with her, and she picked the toast off his head hurriedly. "I'm so, so, so sorry...!"
The Lord Among Cats said nothing, only put a finger to her lips, and opened his mouth, grinning.
Haru froze, his finger against her skin, suddenly terrified at what he might want her to do.
Then she smiled, and placed the toast in his mouth.

-Authoress's note
Erm, yes. I know this is rather late and rather horrible, and I apologize. But I was faced with A)Exams and B)The worst writer's block ever, so I'm sorry that this is late and badly written.
HOWEVER!
I have created these devious, evil little plot bunnies that I plan to implement. Ones involving Toto, Muta, Rune, The Cat King…Everyone. Muah.
And…
I was told that if I updated I would get a cookie? Please? bambi eyes
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And Kiwifluff, your fanart is WONDERFUL. Especially the one of human Baron…I squee-ed over that for about five minutes and then went into Baron fangirl hyper ventilations. Wonderful.
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