Chapter 2

Eliminate

The second chapter's here.

Enjoy!

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Lelouch sweat-dropped. Cats can be such a bitch, huh? (even though 'bitch' isn't the correct word, since it means 'female dog')

"Umm.. sorry little fellows, I got to go for a while. Need to get the jobs done. Boss is waiting." Suzaku pulled on his coat while walking to the door, "I'll be leaving, bye. Get along well!"

And then the door shut close. Okay, the 'get along well' part won't be that easy, I guess.

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Lelouch walked to the kitchen, knowing that there should be some food for him. Phew, when you're getting smaller, small distance could feel quite far. When he reached the doorway to the kitchen, Lotte was already eating messily from one of the bowl.

Then Lelouch walked to his food dish and started to eat. Even though it looked disgusting, the canned cat food actually tasted very good. This time, it tasted a bit different from before. This one tastes more like sardines, with tomatoes and carrots. His cat body was more sensitive than his human body. For instance, he could taste that slight hint of cilantro in his food, or smell whether or not Suzaku has taken his shower, or what he had for lunch. Or when Lloyd hugged Suzaku on his workplace, Lelouch could smell his perfume on Suzaku's body. That perfume smelled similar to Milly's, his girlfriend.

He was lucky that Suzaku's the kind of person who will spoil his pets, catering all their needs, which includes providing delicious food. Cats are picky about their food.

While Lelouch was taking his time eating his food, enjoying the taste on his cat tongue, the cat beside him already finished his food, and was already eying for the other's food.

Lelouch took another mouthful of food, and munched it happily. Then as if the smaller cat wasn't there, the Lotte dived his mouth to his bowl, also eating his food.

'What the..?' Lelouch looked a bit surprised at first, 'Maybe I'll just share the food. I don't eat that much.'

Then when Lelouch moved his head to take another bite, Lotte hissed at him.

'H-hey, what?'

The brown cat pulled the food dish closer to him, and continued eating shamelessly, while Lelouch watched with disbelief.

'What? This cat just stole my food? Right in front of my face?'

Lelouch growled, and lunged forward to claim his food back. After several failed attempts, Lelouch gave up when he saw his food bowl already empty. Even as a cat, he wasn't physically strong.

'What. A . Bitch. That cat, that fucking cat that I saved yesterday! I shouldn't have caught the cat when it fell from the tree.'

That day didn't become better. Soon, Lotte roamed all the rooms, and marked them with her smell and sometimes with her pee. At first, Lelouch didn't really care.

But when the cat attacked him when he's just going to the litter box, Lelouch made the battle cry.

"Seriously, I take that as a war declaration."

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Few moments later, Lelouch was peeking under the sofa, looking for something. And then he noticed the white-purplish fluffy thing, and snatched it.

Lelouch looked around him, and found that it's safe to come out. He then ran to the kitchen, and jumped to the only window in the room. He put down the catnip he's carrying between his teeth, and peered to the outside.

3rd floor. Nice.

After struggling for a while with the window, finally he managed to turn the knob with his little cat paws, and opened the window, wide.

Preparation finished. He was glad that his brain didn't change to cat's. He was still as sharp as ever. Now, for the last part.

Lelouch jumped down from the counter, and with the catnip between his lips, he searched for Lotte. It didn't take a long time to find a noisy cat inside this apartment. Soon, Lotte was following Lelouch, clearly curious with the toy Lelouch had.

'Come here pussy, pussy...'

The brown cat followed Lelouch to the kitchen, then jumped on top of the counter when Lelouch jumped. Lelouch stopped near the window, and looked at the cat behind him. Lotte also slowed her movements, eyes at the catnip and Lelouch, as if telling the smaller cat to give the toy to her.

Lelouch made a small smirk, and set the catnip near the open window. The other cat looked at him suspiciously, but then at the flower. A soft breeze blew in, making the flowery part of the toy moved, as if it's alive, while spreading attractive smell.

Lotte now fixed her eyes to the catnip, eyes showing clear interest. Lelouch could see that she's going to jump at that thing anytime soon. He knew that feeling. He knew that no cats would be able to resist that urge.

A small swirl of wind moved the catnip again, as if inviting the cat to catch it. And Lotte jumped at the fluffy moving part of the toy. After catching the toy with her paws, she realized that she's on the edge, almost losing her step. In the attempt to regain her balance, she tried to put her claw on something. But it's too late. The black cat used this moment to push the back of the larger cat out.

Soon there was a screeching meow, and Lotte fell with the catnip out of the window.

Lelouch smiled satisfied, his plan worked flawlessly.

'Bye kitty cat, this time brain beats brawn.'

He looked down to see. Well, as he'd expected it, the brown cat was alive. That was either caused of cat's amazing reflexes, or she just used up one of the 9 lives she got. And as if nothing happened, she was playing with the new toy.

'Stupid cat. Willingly jumped out of a window for such stupid flower.'

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Lelouch walked back to the basket bed, previously owned by Lotte, now he claimed it as his. He poked the little cushion with his paws. 'Nice and soft, a prize I deserve after kicking out that annoyance'

He couldn't believe that less than 24 hours ago, he was choosing this exact basket from the front display of a pet shop with Suzaku. And now, he's curling inside of it, inside the basket which was supposed to be a bed for the cat he just kicked out. Just when he relaxed, and lied his head on the mattress, he suddenly sit up straight.

'Oh no, I couldn't stay like this forever! Oh shoot. I gotta find a way to get my body back!'

He looked at his surroundings, Suzaku's room was nice and tidy. He jumped on the study desk, hoping to find something. Suzaku was quite a neat freak. Everything was organized, pencils, pens and notebooks on their places. On the corner of the desk, near the desk lamp, Lelouch saw some framed photos, and on the middle, the biggest, a picture of Suzaku and himself, still in his human form, on last year's Halloween. What a memory...

They were forced to wear cat costume by no other than the student council's president, Milly Ashford. She decided by herself that the council members were going to wear cat costumes, because of her sudden fascination of her new cat bag from her boyfriend, and veyonce, Lloyd.

But it wasn't too bad though, Lelouch did look nice on that costume. And Suzaku too... He blushed a bit looking at Suzaku's beautiful smile.

'Now, why did I think like that? All I got to do is to find a way to turn back into human!' Lelouch thought to himself, 'C.C! Right! She must have known something about the effect of the Geass. Just like on my dream!'

He jumped down from the desk, and walked to the front door. He knew C.C's room number. But... okay... another big problem. How to open the door? It must have been locked by Suzaku before he went out. And there's no way he's going to jump like Lotte. There might be other ways...

At that moment, the sound of the keys outside of the door could be heard. And then soon there was Suzaku, messy and tired looking. The brunette closed the door, put down his bag, and threw himself on the couch. Excited that his friend/owner already home, he jumped to the couch, near Suzaku.

Seemed like Suzaku didn't notice him. He was closing his eyes, resting for a while. Then Lelouch mewled softly, catching Suzaku's attention. Suzaku looked surprised, maybe he forgot that he now had cats.

"Oh, hey there Lupin!"

A hand reached to carry Lelouch on his lap. The expression on Suzaku's face was no longer tired.

"How's your day? Are you being a good cat?"

Lelouch stared up at Suzaku cutely, and meowed. Suzaku chuckled, and patted Lelouch's head with his hand. Lelouch pushed his head back against the touch, then snuggled comfortably at Suzaku's thighs. His previous plan to find C.C forgotten.

Hell, why all of the sudden, he felt like cute little cats on the movies? But well, it felt nice and warm, with Suzaku's hand rubbing his back, then to his tail... When Suzaku touched his sensitive tail, Lelouch meowed, then wiggled it away from the hand.

Suzaku chuckled, "Oh you don't like being touched on your tail?"

Lelouch meowed again, softly. Well, it's not like that he didn't like Suzaku's touches, but it's just... very sensitive there. And it's close to his... um... you know. And it always made him feel tingling on his lower part, his groin. Well, how to put that? It's just nobody has ever touched him on there.

"It's okay then. Oh by the way, where's Lotte? I didn't see her." Suzaku's head looked around, with Lelouch still on his lap.

Lelouch stood up, and jumped from Suzaku's warm lap, quite reluctantly. As Suzaku looked around, inside his bedroom and bathroom, Lelouch hopped to the kitchen, then looking back at Suzaku as a sign to follow him. When they're both inside the kitchen, Lelouch jumped on top of the kitchen counter, then to the opened window, looking outside.

"What's with this... Oh! Don't say Lotte actually jumped outside?" Suzaku looked a bit panicked, looking down from the window. "Oh no, I gotta find her first!"

Lelouch smiled inwardly, that his enemy now gone. But...

'What? No! No, no, no you don't have to look for that filthy cat!'

He wished he could talk that time, when Suzaku started to walk out of the kitchen to the front door. Lelouch meowed. But Suzaku only looked back, and say, "Stay put, okay. Be a nice cat. I'm going to look for..."

Lelouch meowed again, with a 'don't-go-away' face, hoping that Suzaku would stay. But Suzaku misinterpreted that. He rolled his eyes, and walked to Lelouch. At first he was wiggling his tail, happy that Suzaku didn't have to go to look for that damned cat. But then Suzaku carried Lelouch on his hands, and walked to the front door.

"Okay, okay, I'll bring you with me. We'll search together, okay."

Lelouch groaned inside his head. He, like many other cats, didn't really like to leave his warm, comfortable room to the cold, windy weather outside, typical autumn.

He curled tightly when Suzaku walked to the side of the building, where Lotte was supposed to be if she fell. But, looking around, they found no sign of that cat. To Lelouch's relief.

Then they looked around the building, asking several people, without any result. Suzaku sighed, then asked another girl, with a light blond hair, wearing white long dress-like clothes. She's eating pizza right from the box. C.C!

"Uh, excuse me miss, by any chance, did you see a brown cat recently? It's about this size, with a black spot on her right eye and tail.", Suzaku described to her like what he did several times.

"Um... Sorry, I didn't think I saw her.", there came a soft, almost dreamy reply.

"Oh, thanks for the time.", Suzaku said with a slight disappointment.

"But you do have a really cute cat right here.", C.C smiled, while looking at Lelouch, currently looking at C.C curiously.

"Oh, this. Um, thanks!" Suzaku replied her smile.

"What's his name?" the girl asked, "I can tell that this cat's a male."

"I called him Lupin. Just met him yesterday. To be exact, found him." Suzaku said, while patting Lelouch's back, almost touching his tail again. Lelouch tensed a bit when he felt a finger near his tail.

"Oh, it's very rude of me. I'm C.C. Nice to meet you.", the girl offered Suzaku a handshake.

"Nice to meet you too, I'm Suzaku. Do you live in this apartment? I didn't see you very much."

"Yes, the 5th floor. I don't actually go out very much. I prefer to stay at my room, playing with my cats."

"Oh, so you have some cats? It's very nice that the owner of this apartment allowed pets.", Suzaku replied, interested.

"Yes, I just moved in about 4 months ago. I'm very happy to found this apartment." C.C continued to munch her pizza while talking, then offered Suzaku her pizza. "Want some?"

"Thanks", Suzaku politely accepted a slice offered to him. They continued to talk for a some time, till finally C.C remembered that she got some cats to be fed. So they exchanged room numbers, and said goodbye.

All of the time, Lelouch tried to think of a way to talk to C.C, privately. As a cat, he couldn't talk, of course. How can he tell C.C that he's now a cat?

Suzaku continued his search, and after about an hour without any result, he walked back home. Lelouch thought of some ideas on the way home to Suzaku's room. 'Well I can work on it'

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To be continued.

End of chapter 2.

Meow. He's found some sensitive spots.
I don't know for sure whether tails are sensitive in that way.
But it does for our cute Lelouch. (It's not going to be long till I changed the rating to M)

Please tell me what you think.

Thanks!

Bye.

~rcrdef.