Chapter 3

The Blue Cat

Hello everyone~! So…IKUTO IS IN THIS ONE! Yay! Anyway, this is now a Katsumi oriented chapter, finally. We finally get to learn more about her, if I don't procrastinate! And…I should probably get started!

Characters:

Hikono Katsumi-15

Tsukiyomi Ikuto-15

Hinamori Amu- 12

Fujisaki Nadeshiko-12

Tadese Hotori- 12

Soma Kukai- 13

Yuiki Yaya- 11

Katsumi woke up the next morning to the sound of her father screaming at her to wake up. Baka. Stupid, drunk, baka. "Get up, you useless piece of junk!" Yelled her father. "Ditto." She muttered and changed into her school uniform, a plaid, knee-length skirt and a gray long-sleeved button-up shirt. She let her hair fall loose today. She finished getting ready and walked downstairs, Mizuki floating beside her. "WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?!" "I was getting ready for school." Katsumi stated calmly. She grabbed a granola bar and her book bag and rushed out the door. She hated her father. Why did she get stuck with him? And her mother was dead. Run over by a drunk driver five years ago. Ah, irony. Nothing like it. Her mother was killed by a drunk, her father hated the drunk, and now look how everything's turned out. She hurried to school, and the rest of the day passed without much event. As soon as she got out of school, she decided not to go to the tree today, but instead to go for a walk in the park. As she passed through the courtyard of Amu's school, Nadeshiko and Amu ran up to her. "Guess what-" Amu started, but was cut off by Katsumi. "I don't want to hear it." "What?" "I don't want to hear it. I don't care WHAT it is, just leave me alone!" Amu's jaw dropped, and Nadeshiko's eyes got big. (A/N: As in she did this number: O.O) Katsumi took off. She just wanted to be alone. Life was cruel, and that was the truth. But she needed to be by herself. She ran to the park, her hair flying behind her. Then she heard a sound. She stopped to listen. And she sensed something. What was it…An X-Egg! She ran across to a building where the sensation was coming from. There she saw an X-Character, one belonging to a computer programmer that worked in a building near an alleyway. The she saw Amu, using her Amulet Heart transformation, trying to purify the X-Character. Katsumi decided to transform as well.

.:Katsumi's POV:.

"Mizuki! Character Change!" I yelled. "Right!" "My own heart, unlock!" I yelled. Two white cat ears and a cat tail of the same color appeared on me. I was wearing a black shirt that was cut off at the stomach and black shorts that reached to just above my knees, and white boots that were just below them. I also wore slivery-gray gloves that stopped midway up my arm "Shadow Moon Neko!" But before I could attack, Amu had already taken care of things. Wow, I didn't know she was that powerful. I found myself to be a little jealous, surprisingly enough. "Help! Someone! Ikuto's been hurt, nyah!" "Ikuto? Who's he?" I asked. I was a bit curious, but cautious at the same time. After all, it could be a trap of Easter's. I turned towards the voice, and to my surprise, I was facing a Chara! He looked a lot like Mizuki, but his cat features were black. "I'll go..." I said. I figured I'd better help the guy, his Chara was so worried about him he couldn't be all bad. I followed the Chara until we reached a wall. A guy about my age was lying there, unconscious. He was bleeding heavily from the stomach. "What happened?!" I asked bewildered. How does this happen, a man getting hurt during some random X-Character break out? "Some guy stabbed Ikuto with some sort of sharp object, it looked like a knife! He screamed something about Ikuto trying to kill him, but that's not true, nyah! Ikuto wouldn't do that, nyah!" I sighed, and put my hands over his wound. A pure white aura started stitching the gash together. You see, my special power when I Character Transform is healing. When I was done, Ikuto stood up. He looked around, and then took off without saying thank you, even though I had just saved his life. His Chara started floating after him, but then rushed back to me. "Arigatou, nyah." He said quietly, and pushed his head up against my hand, much like an actual cat would do. He then hurried back to Ikuto. I smiled, almost against my will. "Sure thing."

A/N—Well, there you go. Another chapter! Sorry if Yoru was a bit out of character there in the end…When you review, please tell me if you like third or first person better! More Ikuto in the next chapter.