Yay! I'm finally updating! This chapter's dedicated to Kurisuten Ichikish and ShinjuUchiha! By the way, Kurisuten Ichikish told me she would give me a cookie if I updated!! For this story I'm trying to go for 20 reviews or bust! It's just a goal I'm setting for myself! I like to do that when writing fics! Uh-oh, I got off subject! Um, I hope everybody likes my story so far! Stick around for the next chapter and take every chance to review, okay? Alright so here comes chapter 1 of The Life and Times of Half Aliens and Half Mews! Wow, is my title long or what? AHHH!! Getting off subject!
Chapter 1 Dreams and School
Sekkai woke up to a book in her hands. It was unmistakably Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin, some American writer who most of her friends didn't appreciate unlike Sekkai. Sekkai set the book on the end table next to her bed and stretched and glanced at her digital clock. 8:04 a.m. She was late for school again.
Sekkai was always the lazy one and took her time sweet time unlike her mother used to. In her sleepy daze she grabbed a purple and an orange sock instead of two orange socks… she didn't even correct herself… She pulled on orange sweater and a pair of plain jeans out of her messy and cluttered closet.
When she walked out of her room she grabbed her orange earmuffs and her white coat out of the closet near the stairs that lead to the ground floor.
Ringo popped out of his room already for school, he usually left late anyway so he could skip his first class (which was English). He grabbed his blue and white football jacket before heading downstairs. As he descended down he stairs, he glanced at his sister.
"Nice socks!" he teased.
Sekkai didn't pay attention because he usually said things to annoy her. She followed him downstairs slowly still trying to blink the after effects of sleep out of her eyes. Their mother, Ichigo, was trying to get breakfast ready but sadly, she was a horrible cook…
"Wow, scrambled eggs and instant ramen again?" Ringo said looking at the strange mixture of eggs and shrimp flavored ramen.
"Hey, it's probably better than what I cooked last night!" Ichigo said to her son reminding him of the sushi casserole she had cooked. (Well, halfway cooked)…
Sekkai grabbed her usual breakfast out of the cupboard. Pop tarts and marshmallows with a glass of chocolate milk.
"Sekkai, you really need to lay off the sweets," Ichigo said.
"Okay…" Sekkai said monotonously as she stuffed mini-marshmallows down her throat.
"Did Dad already leave for work?" Ringo asked his mom as he got his usual breakfast of cereal and milk.
"Yeah, he wanted to get their early so his boss wouldn't get mad at him again," Ichigo said with a smile.
"I thought you were the one who was always late for things?" Sekkai said sleepily.
"I did too, but he's usually bothering me in the mornings like a little kid!" Ichigo said with a sigh.
The reason she wasn't mad at her kids was because she knew how she was always supposedly late for school. Plus, when Sekkai was through with her sleepy spells she ran to school. Ringo said he had the same habit as Sekkai so he wouldn't get in trouble for skipping English.
"Bye Mom! See you after school!" Ringo said as he grabbed his backpack which was beside Sekkai's on the floor next to the door.
"What he said…" Sekkai said after covering her pointy ears with her earmuffs.
She walked out of the door after grabbing her backpack and walking out of the door the cold winter breeze blew at her. December had prepared her for January's cold chill so she wasn't bothered with the low temperatures. She set off for school down the cement sidewalk at a leisurely pace as if she didn't know she was late for school. She pulled out Pride and Prejudice again and continued on the eighth chapter of it.
It wasn't long before she neared her school. The morning bell had already rang and the tardy bell was just tolling as she stepped into the halls.
"I really need to learn how to work my alarm on that stupid clock," Sekkai mumbled as she set down her backpack to put her book back.
That's when she FINALLY noticed the orange and purple socks…
"Great…" she sighed before pulling her jeans a bit farther down to hide the mismatched socks.
Sekkai stopped by the office to pick up an admit slip so she could get into class. The office workers were used to her visits and already had one made out for her. Sekkai picked it up off of the office window sill and continued walking to class.
The plaque above the door to her first class read: Math Room 12. Sekkai hated math as much as she hated her mother's cooking. It never made sense to her like in every other class except Language Arts.
She drug her feet into the classroom as she groaned. The teacher was already starting the day's lesson. Sekkai just set the slip on the teacher's desk and sat down at her desk beside her dark-haired friend, Natsuhaze.
"I can already guess why you're late," Natsuhaze said with a playful smirk.
"Don't rub it in," Sekkai replied grumpily.
"By the way, nice socks," Natsuhaze giggled.
"Don't remind me," Sekkai mumbled, "I was still sleepy this morning."
"Like you're never not," Natsuhaze said as she rolled her eyes.
Sekkai didn't bother replying, she was happy to know Natsuhaze isn't as snippy as usual. As the teacher talked about something that Sekkai didn't even know about, she pulled her book back out again. She was on the tenth chapter when the teacher called her out and she finally was forced to put up her book.
Sekkai grumbled as she zoned out for awhile. Then, as she zoned out more and more until she was finally asleep.
A/N: Woohoo! Dream sequence! Yeah, it's the corny whole dream thing with the creepy nakedness and the whole cat jumping-ness! (Jumping-ness I can't believe I actually said it…) Anyway, I'm going to try to not make the dream sequence too much like the Ichigo dream thingy. I tried it out in experimental stories and it seemed a bit too much like the manga the way I used it. So here goes the dream sequence!!
Visions of a black wildcat flashed through Sekkai's mind as she dreamed.
She found herself walking in a black void. Even though nothing was under her feet to support her, she was walking normally. Balls of white light with a pink tinge to it floated around her. They were like stars but nearer than they were in the sky. There was what looked like grey, dead trees scattered around her but a living tree with silvery green leaves towered above them all.
Sekkai stared up at the tree that looked radiant in the white light that glowed around it. Then, like lightening a slightly large cat jumped out of the limbs of the tree and landed safely even though the height it jumped was dangerously high.
Upon further look the cat was black with slightly visible black spots. It looked up at Sekkai with yellow-amber eyes. She felt like she could talk to it somehow.
"Where am I?" Sekkai asked.
"Inside of your mind," the cat replied as it sat down on its haunches. Its voice strangely sounded like hers.
Even though this startled Sekkai a bit, she tried her best to remain calm but knew the cat saw her fear.
"What are you?" Sekkai asked.
"I'm part of you," the cat replied.
"WHAT?!" Sekkai exclaimed as her eyes widened in surprise.
"I'm part of you," it simply replied again.
"B-but how can you be me?" Sekkai managed to stutter.
"My mother was apart of your mother, when you were born, I was born into you," the cat said.
"Hold on, this doesn't make any since!" Sekkai exclaimed.
But everything went dark…
Ringo was hanging out with the rest of the school's 9th graders who were on the football team behind the band room. They were doing whatever bored teenage boys do. Such as, check out girls, make fun of the dorks, talk about manly stuff, and writing random notes on the wall of the band building.
"Hey, I've got the football!" said Haru, one of the guys on the football team.
"No way! the football?" Ringo asked in excitement.
The football was the High School seniors' football from their unbeaten season.
"Yeah, the football," Haru said as he pulled it out of his backpack.
Since they were jocks, it wasn't long before they were playing catch with it.
"Hey, Ringo, heads-up!"
Sadly, Ringo hadn't been paying enough attention and got pegged on his head and fell unconscious.
Ringo was leaning against a tree. The beautifully green and sunny forest was deadly quiet and none of the forest creatures stirred…except for one…
Ringo was staring into the distance even though everything was blocked by trees. This place was strangely familiar.
Then, a black cat with darker spots leapt down from the tree Ringo was leaning against. It stared curiously at Ringo with its amber-yellow eyes.
"So, I finally get to see what the body I live in looks like," it stated it was obviously male judging by its voice.
"Dude! You can talk?" Ringo exclaimed.
"I am a part of you, so why can't I?" the cat said.
Ringo reacted to this with a moment of silence.
"Explain, please?" Ringo asked as an anime sweat drop formed on his forehead.
"My mother is a part of your mother, so now my mother's children are a part of your mother's children," the cat simply stated.
Ringo sank to his knees so the shock could settle in better.
"Are there more of you?" Ringo asked.
"One, and she's my sister," the cat said as he crawled into Ringo's lap.
Ringo was staring into the cat's eyes sifting through what was happening.
"So, your sister is a part of my sister…right?" Ringo asked.
"You took the words right out of my mouth," the cat said as he curled up in a napping position that a cat would do.
"So, what does this mean?" Ringo asked.
"It means you and your sister are both Me-," the cat said but was cut off as everything grew silent and dark…
"Sekkai, wake up, it's time to go to English," a voice said.
Sekkai parted her eyelids to see Natsuhaze's annoyed expression.
"Huh, what happened?" Sekkai managed to yawn.
"You slept through Math class is what happened, and we're going to be late for English if you don't get up!" Natsuhaze half shouted.
"Oh, yeah, English," Sekkai said as she reached for her backpack and left her seat.
As they were walking to English Sekkai remembered her dream.
"Hey, Natsuhaze, do you get any weird dreams about talking cats?" Sekkai asked hesitantly.
"I guess not, why are you asking?" Natsuhaze replied.
"Well, I had a dream like that during Math," Sekkai said with a nervous laugh.
"Hey, Sekkai?..." Natsuhaze said pausing to make sure Sekkai was listening.
"Yeah?" Sekkai answered.
"Lay off the pop-tarts in the morning!" Natsuhaze said with an air of exasperation.
"Dude, Ringo, are you okay?"
"Huh?" Ringo said as he rubbed his eyes so he could see better.
"You took a harsh hit to the head, are you dead yet?" said one of his friends.
"No," Ringo said sleepily as he sat up from the ground.
"Alright, well, we're going to miss second block if you don't hurry up and get up," another guy said.
"Geez, it's not like we haven't ever been late before," Ringo said as he got up.
He was silent as he walked to his next class alone thinking about what the cat from his dream said.
I'm a what? What am I? Well, whatever I'm supposed to be, it starts with M, Ringo thought.
Okay, now it's the end of chappy 1! It took me awhile because of school and wot-not. Oh, well, school will be over soon and then I'll be able to write as much as my hands can take! Okay, here come the next chap dedication announcements! The next chapter is dedicated to the 10th reviewer! So hurry and review so you won't miss a chance to have a chapter dedicated to you!
Ja ne!
Ninja Cat of Light