Return of the Cat
Plans
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Yuki and Lune rested peacefully in a field of wild flowers just outside the walls of the Cat Kingdom palace. The new king lay with his head on Yuki's lap, purring as she gently stroked the fur between his ears. With the ball drawing ever closer, the two hosts were finding it harder and harder to maintain stress. And to spend time alone together. Suddenly, Lune remembered something.
"Did Baron tell Haru?" he asked his lovely wife, who sighed and replied in the negative. Lune continued, "I wonder when he plans to tell her."
"I hope he tells her at the ball," Yuki answers.
Lune rises so his eyes meet hers. "So he decided to come, then?" he mused. When she confirmed this, he added, "Speaking of the ball, love, how are the preparations coming along?"
"The decorations have already been put in place. They look wonderful. But for some reason, the kitchen is divided on the menu..." Yuki explained.
"What is there to fight over?"
Yuki shrugged and gazed at her husband. "They just want everything to be perfect."
Lune gazed back at her, eyes filled with more love than the universe itself could ever dream to contain. "It already is."
Haru twisted in front of the mirror, holding up different dresses against her body, testing out each one for perfection. The one she held now was black and slender, very regal, but not her style, as she had borrowed it from Hiromi.. She snatched up another one from on top of her bed, a green one this time.
"I dunno. What do you think, Muta?" she asked a large white cat laying lazily on the floor nearby, dozing. He looked up, blinking a few times to help wake himself up. He grunted and resumed his nap. "Thanks a lot, Muta," Haru said sarcastically, then returned to checking out the look in the mirror.
"Yuki was always better at this stuff than me," Muta grumbled.
Before Haru could reply, she heard the sound of a door shutting downstairs and her mother calling her name. She gasped. "Mom's home!" she exclaimed, advising the cat to get out of her room before her mother came up. With that, she opened her window quickly to allow the chubby animal an escape route. closing it just as her mother knocked at the door.
"Haru, I brought home some dinner," she announced, opening her daughter's bedroom door. She then observed the state of the room. "What's with all the dresses?"
"One of my friends was having a party soon, and I didn't know what to wear," Haru explained, keeping details to a minimum.
"Oh...you didn't tell me about a party."
"Musta slipped my mind," Haru replied.
"Well, okay. When is it?"
"Saturday. At six."
"Alright...just be home by eleven. And call me when you leave," her mother told her.
"'Kay, Mom."
There was one more look at the room before the door was finally closed and Haru breathed a sigh of relief. She then glanced at the line of dresses, laid the green one to the side, and put the rest away.
Baron stood in front of the mirror, trying on jackets of every color of the rainbow. Muta had gotten bored long ago with the whole business and flipped through the paper.
Toto flew in at that point and complimented Baron on a cream colored suit, very similar to the one he usually wore. "I think that one's perfect."
"Thank you, Toto," Baron said curtly, advancing to the door.
"Oh, tonight's the night, isn't it?" the bird remembered. "Don't tell me you're late."
"Then I'll say nothing," Baron joked, grabbing his cane and leaving. "Come, Toto."
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