Hello~! Here's another update! Sorry for not updating for... 2 months? My motivation for this story went downhill. But no worries, I'll be finishing this one. It's just that I'm not really used to multi-chapter stories. And I am running out of ideas. So if you guys have ideas, feel free to type them in your reviews.

And thank you for all those reviews, favourites and follows~

Disclaimer: I don't own LoveLive! Sunrise does.

Chapter 4

The morning sunlight managed to peer out from the curtains and casted it's blinding lights to the occupants of Maki's room. Nico faced the opposite direction to dispel the brightness. Maki, on the other hand, had her blanket draped all over herself, so she was not particularly disturbed.

And because the sunlight managed to hit Nico's face on the first light, she now finds it a hard time to go back to sleep. She slowly got up and rubbed her eyes off of sleep. Once she's cleared of sleep, the raven-haired girl stood up from her spot and walked over to Maki's bed. Ever since the ordeal, she always checks on Maki every morning, in hopes that she'll be back to her old self. It's already been three days since this weird phenomenon happened and there's still no change on the red-head. She still sports the ears and tail of a cat. For three days, Maki's behaviour had shifted into that of a cat. Well, sort of. She's always napping by the sofa whenever she managed to get a hold of it.

"Maki?" Nico called out. "Are you awake?"

A slight shift on the bed prompted that Maki is already awake. She brought down her sheets and rubbed her eyes. Her scarlet hair's messy from her sleep. She was about to say something when she felt sharp pain from her throat.

"You okay?" Nico asked.

Maki clutched her throat and curled up into a ball, hoping that it could relieve her of the pain. Nico peered in to check up on her. Maki tried to pull the covers over her head in an attempt to block the petite girl's view but to no avail.

"Hey, Maki! Say something!"

Finally managed to remove her covers, Nico peered in. She placed a hand on Maki's shoulder, informing her that she's right there with her. After a few moments, Maki loosened up from her position. Nico could her soft sobs coming from the red-head.

"Nyi...co..."

Nyico?

Nico pulled Maki back and saw tears on her eyes. One hand is still covering her mouth and her other hand is still on her throat. Fear filled those lavender eyes as they locked with Nico's red ones. Nico grabbed her hand assuringly and removed it. She let out a surprised yelp when she saw 3 strands of long hair protruding from her face.

Whiskers.

"Maki...?"

"How the heck can we explain this to the others..." Nico muttered as she opened the door to Maki's room. She took the liberty to prepare breakfast for the two of them while Maki tries to regain her bearings. When the raven-haired girl entered the room, she saw Maki sitting up on her bed, her eyes downcast, and ears flattened on top of her head.

"Here. I've made breakfast." Nico placed their plates on her side table. Maki shook her head, not in the mood for food.

"You gotta eat." Nico sighed. Maki ignored the other girl and turned her back away from her.

Nico heaved another sigh and sat down beside the red-head. To be honest, she is completely lost with Maki's condition. How the heck can a person grow whiskers overnight?

"Why don't we call up the others?"

"N-N-N..." Maki coughed as words got stuck with her throat. The soreness of her throat was long gone. Her whiskers twitching for every cough she does. "Nyao..."

The two girls blinked when they heard Maki's response. Maki clamped a hand on her mouth while Nico stared at her with wide eyes.

"What did you say?"

"N-Nyaaico..." Maki once again mewled and covered her mouth.

Nico scratched her head as she saw fear slowly creeping up again on Maki's face. Tears started to fill her lavender orbs. She's at her limits already. Nico doesn't know how or why is this happening, but what she did know is that they need help already.

"Yeah... We should really ask the others for help." Nico grabbed her phone and dialled Eri's number.

"Nyao!" Maki exclaimed, shaking her head. "Nyao! Nyao!"

"Look, I can't understand you if you keep on mewling like a cat." Nico said in an annoyed tone. Seeing as she couldn't form coherent words with her mouth, she scrambled for a notebook by her pillow, which she keeps, in case of music ideas late at night. She grabbed a pen and wrote something down.

"No! I don't want the others to see me like this!"

Nico pressed the end call button before the call could connect. Red orbs glared at the red-head's lavender orbs. Maki's being stubborn again and Nico's reached her limit with all these craziness happening to her. But the red-head's words sent Nico thinking. Maki trusted her. She trusted her so much that she allowed her senior to see her like this. Sure, Maki's a girl of logical thinking. She doesn't believe in such peculiar happenings until it happened to her. And the first person she confided with is Nico.

But Nico doesn't know what to do anymore. She already reached her limits

"Come on, Maki! Quit being so stubborn!" The raven-haired's outburst caused Maki to stare at her wide-eyed.

"We don't know what's going on with you! We're both out of ideas. You still refuse to seek help when you're turning into a cat?!" Maki flinched at the phrase "turning into a cat". It seems so surreal but it is really happening and they don't know how to stop it. They don't even know if Maki can go back to normal. Nico saw the distressed look on her junior and placed her hand on her head.

"It's going to be okay." She assured her.

The two of them locked gazes again. Maki could see traces of fear in those red orbs. Nico's also scared out of her wits but tries to remain strong for the both of them. The raven-haired girl brought out her phone again and pointed at it. Maki understood it and quietly nodded. She wrote something down on her notebook before Nico could dial on her phone.

"I need a medical mask". She then pointed on her face, where her whiskers were.

Nico nodded while she walked towards the door with her phone on her ear. She closed the door behind her, leaving Maki, who started to check the meal on the bedside table.

"Hello?" A voice from the other end answered.

"Eri."

"Ah, Nico. What's up?"

"Are you busy?"

"Not really."

"Can you and the others drop-by Maki's house after school?"

"Is something wrong with Maki?"

"Err." She casted a glance back on Maki's door. "Just drop-by later, okay?"

"Okay."

This will be a long day.

See you next time! :D