Chapter 5 : Where's Kaito?

The next day, Kaito started to adapt with his current situation. He was now a secret resident in Kazuraba's family, but hopefully it wouldn't last long. He hated to think if the apartment owner knew about him, Kouta and his sister might face a serious problem. As a human/cat, he tried his best to be as silent as possible. Although what Kouta did to him sometimes made him wonder if the man was truly an idiot person. The ex-Gaim member really like to tease him and urging him to play with him, it really showed how much he craved a pet. Poor guy.

At first, Kouta was just stroking his fur (which Kaito really had no problem with, since it felt good), but it escalated into poking his head and ears, then he started giving Kaito a plastic bag or an empty cardbox. What the hell should he did with them? Helping him recycling or something? Then when the golden-eyed cat refused, Kouta just mumbled about why this cat didn't want to play and something about 'hot items' that cats liked to play with.

That's it. He just had to get out of there, or he might died out of irritation. The fluffy-tailed feline went over to the door again and scratching it, growled the unspoken demand to get out. Which made Kouta waved his hand in defeat, turning the knob as the sunlight washed over them. It wasn't a problem for Kaito's fur though, but Kouta quickly released his blue hoodie and knotting them on his waist as he made wide steps to chase his furry pet.

Kouta was surprised that the cat went into the Baron's base camp again. Now he started to wonder why the small animal was so keen on the place. Maybe it was a place where cats liked to gather? That reminded Kouta, he should've met up with Kaito at Drupers after they were attacked by Sengoku Ryouma on the next day. Planning to assault Yggdrasil on minor scale. He scrapped that thing from his mind, because he knew Kaito would likely to be mad at him now for not showing up. He'll dealed with it later.

If the Inves Game was still going around, Kouta might be suspected for spying them. Thankfully, since they realized it was a dangerous game, teams started to relate better to each other and worked together to exterminate those monsters. Now he felt at ease near the Baron's base, as he met up with Zack and Peco again.

"Kouta! What's up?" Peco shouted at him cheerfully, as Zack turned his head to smile at him too.

"Sorry for butting in again! This cat just lead me here again.. I wonder why.."

"Really? Now that's weird," said the tall Baron leader."Maybe it's familiar with this place?"

"I don't know, I'm just followed him here," said Kouta in puzzled.

They just realized the cat had been entering the white-colored main hall and jumped leisurely into the glass table. Not long, the three of them joined inside the room filled with the other Baron members and greeted each others. They noticed the cat looked restless as his body moving around in circle.

He saw some member played with the fruit-themed card deck. He instantly leapt into the cards, searching for a particular card. The people there was confused as they thought the cat enjoyed scrambling the cards (which Kouta took note to search his card deck later), before the cat bite a card with banana picture on it. Then the cat sat around the place where Kaito's chair, growling desperately to tell them his real identity. Unfortunately, the desired effect was the opposite.

All of them cheered for him while taking pictures and videos of what he was doing.

Seriously, Kaito unknowingly had done something very bizarre for a cat. But his options were limited, so he just did what he could. If he ever lived his day as a human again, he would forever kept this as a secret.

"Kouta, this cat is so damn hilarious! Bring him here again sometimes!" Zack couldn't stop his forming tears, laughing along with Kouta.

"Can't we make him as a mascot or something?" asked Peco, while scooting closer to take another photo of the annoyed cat."Somehow he reminds me of someone."

"Yeah, playing with cards like that. And that grumpy face."

"Sooo-much like Kaito-san!"

Kaito couldn't help perking his ears at the mention of his name. Peco was getting his distress signal. Maybe making Zack and Peco recognized him wasn't impossible at all. But as fast as his hope rose, so did the downfall. Kaito was about to went over to the youngest Baron member, but slender arms suddenly halted him from doing so.

"I will take him here again, but I'm not allowing him to be Baron's mascot!" exclaimed Kouta. Oh, how the cat would love to tear up that goofy grin of his face.. The man apparently ignored the growl filled with protests.

"So stingy!" answered Peco jokingly, his hand proceeding to rub behind the cat's ear. "Now I kinda wished I have a Driver to fight for this cat."

"Only if you're qualified enough to be my successor, Peco." said Zack.

All of them laughing again, before the man with the blue hoodie asked them, "By the way, have you seen Kaito lately?"

The tall man with the dark hair shrugged while pocketing his hands,"No, we haven't been in contact with him. You know that he left for good."

Peco nodded, suddenly looking sad."We do miss him too, but we don't want to disturb him. I sent some text but he didn't reply it yet. It usually means that Kaitou-san is really busy."

"Yeah, he'll always reply back. We'll just wait until he does."

"Oh.. so he's really serious about that.." mumbled Kouta.

"Kouta, do you know something about it?" asked Zack hurriedly."What's Kaito up to?"

"I-I don't really understand it too.. I just know that he got something that he had to do." Kouta accidentally stuttered himself, trying hard not to make both of them worried. He knew they didn't know about Kaito's ultimate goal. And Kouta remembered not to spread anything related to the big company thanks to Micchy's warnings. The man didn't want to build another unnecessary confrontation with Kaito. But right now, Kouta was curious about Kaito's whereabout, because they usually met up in common places, either he intended to or not. So why suddenly there were no sights of him?

Somehow he knew he will spilled the beans if he stayed too long, so he made up his lame excuses. "O-Oh.. Look at the time, I had to do my part-time job!"

"Really? Okay then, see you next time," said Peco."You too, kitty!"

The Gaim user plastered his fake smile and waved out, half trying to calm the creature on his hand. This cat seemed to be too interested with Baron's base, but that didn't bother Kouta so much. He just kept his focus on sealing his lips tight.

Author's Note : I rolled myself around when writing this.. Cat Kaito is soooo cute~ And Team Baron is getting cuter on each episodes, tee hee.

And.. I don't think I can update next week, I'm so sorry. I'm going to be out of town..

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Thank you for reading as always! \(0 w 0)/