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Chapter 8: The Solution?

"Are you sure that there's nothing wrong? Maybe you forgot something. Like... an ingredient?" Lune asked the five cats.

"N-No my king... W-We're sure that there's nothing wrong or forgotten..." The cat, second from the left, said. Lune sighed.

"Please check again once more." With that, all the five cats bowed, then ran to various ways once more.

Toto and Muta were patrolling around the tower. Searching for something broken or strange. While Baron was checking the portal on the top. Yuki and Haru were at the bottom of the tower. Haru was... very quiet.... Yuki tried to talk and comfort her that everything was going to be fine. But failed. There was a 'Leave-Me-Alone' aura around Haru and she was staring at the floor.

Suddenly, Baron jumped from the top of the tower and smoothly landed in front of Haru and Yuki.

"I've checked the portal, but there's nothing wrong with it too." Well... That didn't make anything better for Haru. So the aura darkened. "But." Haru looked up at him expectantly. Baron was quiet taken a bit. Her face was messed up, there were dried tears on her cheeks, her eyes were still sparkling from the tears. It made Baron's heart throb, seeing her like that.

"But...What?" Haru asked in a low tone. Baron coughed.

"But... There's still a way to take you back to the human world."

"How?"

"...There's a library at the Cat's Palace. I'll look for some ancient spell to take you to the human world." He said. Haru relaxed a bit but quickly tensed again.

"...Do you think there're some spell to make me human again?" Baron smiled confidently.

"Yes." That simple word made Haru jumped excitedly at Baron. She hugged him with a death grip.

"Oh my god! Thank you Baron Thank you!" She squealed happily, still hugging him. Baron hugged her back and softly stroke her hair. But she quickly released the hug. "Oh! Sorry Baron..." She said shyly, Then turned back to Yuki.

"D-Did you hear that Yuki?? I can return to my home!" She said then hugged Yuki. Yuki giggled.

"I told you Baron will fix it." Haru's smile became bigger. Then her eyes widened, like she remembered about something.

"Oh... Baron, how long will this search take?" Baron thought about it for a moment...

"About... 3 weeks... Or maybe a month..."

"A MONTH?! My mom will going crazy if she won't have information about where I am and what I'm doing! She even almost called the police once, just because I was late coming home from school!"

"... Maybe... We could use the crystal ball." Yuki suddenly said.

"What?" Haru asked.

"I used it once to tell you about the Cat Bureau. Remember?" Haru thought about it for a moment.

"...Let's try it." Yuki nodded, then she called her husband and the others. After everybody had gathered, they soon went to the palace where the crystal ball resided.

At Haru's home...

There was a police car in front of Haru's home and a police officer was trying to comfort and telling a certain red haired woman that everything was going to be alright.

"Calm down miss Yoshioka. I'm sure that nothing bad will happen to you daughter. We'll find her as soon as possible."

"CALM DOWN?? How can I 'CALM DOWN' if my daughter is missing!? She's out there somewhere and I don't know about her condition!!" She yelled.

After quite a bit of yelling and several outbursts, the police officer gave up, then he left. Miss Yoshioka was now pacing back and forth in the living room. She sometimes looked at the phone, wishing that there was a call from her daughter.

"Gods... Where are you Haru... I swear if she's going to another wedding party or ANY party I'm not going to let her go all by herself!!"

"Mo...Mom..." There's a familiar voice on the air. Miss Yoshioka looked around. "Mom.. Mom! It's me Haru!" She closed her ears with her hands.

"Oh my god! I'm starting to hearing voices! And it ssounds like Haru's! Am I going crazy??"

"You're not crazy mom and I'm here to expla-"

"GO AWAY! I'm not going to believe in some random voices!" she shouted.

In the crystal ball room..

"It's not working!" Haru said. "Isn't there something else we could use?" Everybody thought about it for a moment. Suddenly Natori walked inside the room.

"What happened? Why it's so crowded here?" Haru sighed then told Natori what had happened. Natori think about it for a moment... Then...
"It's easy. Use the device in the next room. Make a video or something to send to your mother."

"Video sounds good.. But what about my appearance? I can't make a video of myself in this form and calmly say 'mom, I'm a cat now'!" Baron touched her shoulder, a smirk on his face.

"You forgot that this is the Cat Kingdom. Everything could happen."

"What do you mean?" His smirk became wider. He looked to Natori and said.

"Surely there's some special features in that device, right Natori?" Natori nodded.

"But it won't work long, it's very old and hasn't been used for a long time... Actually.. I doubt that the system will work..."

"10 minutes would do."

"What are you guys talking about?? Tell me!" Haru pouted. The others just looked at them weirdly. Even Lune didn't know about this device.

A few hours later...

Haru sighed tiredly. Baron was holding a package. He was muttering something and then 'poof'ยด, the package was gone.

"That should do the trick." Baron said, a satisfied smile was on his face.

"I didn't know that making a video was that tough." Haru said tiredly.

"Yes and I don't expect ALL of us to be in the video, too." Toto said while he cawed happily.

"Well, put off that expression from your face Haru! Let's look at your mother's reaction." Everyone quickly went into the crystal room.

In Haru's home...

Miss Yoshioka was still pacing back and forth, now, there were Hiromi and Tsuge, too, in Haru's home. They were currently sitting on a big sofa.

"At least sit with us, Miss Yoshioka. You are already pacing for almost 2 hours." Hiromi said with a concern in her voice.

Suddenly, they heard a loud thud in front of the house. Miss Yoshioka went to the front door and quickly opened it and... she found a package with a big "FROM HARU" on it. She furiously opened it and found a video. She took the video and placed it in the receiver. Hiromi and Tsuge were watching her with curiosity. The video was quiet old, so the picture was buzzing here and there.

"....*Buzz* Is it on?" Haru's voice could be heard. All attentions went to the TV. "*Buzz* It's on! Here we go then!" Then the picture cleared.

There were Haru and two people on her right. One man and one woman. The man was taller than Haru and the woman, He had shocking black hair. But what stood out the most were his eyes. They were mismatched. Flaring red and ocean blue.

The woman was very pale. She had long light blond hair. She also had a pair of beautiful sapphire eyes.

"Mom! If you're watching this than I'm in Hawaii!"

"WHATT??" Hiromi, Tsuge and Miss Yoshioka screamed in unison.

"I know that you'll be surprised. But.. I Don't have a choice! I'm the guest of honour and if I didn't come with this 'newly-wed' couple to their other ceremonies, it would have ruined everything!"

"BUT YOU SHOULD AT LEAST CALL ME FIRST!" Miss Yoshioka yelled at the TV.

"We're sorry for your this inconvenience... But we really needed Haru..." The woman said. Her voice was very gentle.

"We promise we will take good care of her." The man said.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce you. This is Lune, and this is Yuki. They're my friends."

"I DON'T CARE ABOUT THEM!! HARU YOSHIOKA!! YOU'RE GOING TO CALL ME AND TELL ME EVERYTHING!!" Now, Miss Yoshioka started to shook the TV like It's Haru.

"Miss Yoshioka! You'll break the TV!" Hiromi said. Tsuge was now standing beside Miss Yoshioka, standing ready if the TV ever should fall down.

"Oh, and you should know that cell-phones are not allowed here." Haru said, smiling in the video.

"WHAT??" Miss Yoshioka yelled again...

"But don't worry. I'm not alone here, there're my other friends, too."

Miss Yoshioka's eyes widened when a man came into vision. He was as tall as Lune, had dark blond hair that it fell down gracefully to his shoulder. A bit long but not messy. He had a pair of emerald green eyes. But what caught her attentions was his 'oh-so-handsome' face. But her thoughts soon vanished as...

"You shouldn't worry about her, Miss Yoshioka. I'll make sure that there will be no harm happening to her." The man said smiling gently, while pulling Haru closer to him.

"DON'T TOUCH HARU LIKE THAT!" Miss Yoshioka started to shake the TV again... But stopped when she looked at Haru's expression.

"Uhmm.. This is Baron, mom. He's a good f-friend of me." There's a pure happy smile on her face. A slight blush could be seen on her cheeks.

"Hey don't forget about me!" A voice said in the back. There, Miss Yoshioka saw another man with messy black hair, who was taller than all of them.

"Oh yes, this is Toto, Baron's friend." Haru introduced.

"Hey! What about me, Chicky! Make some space for me!" Another man again... This time it was a big fat man with short brown hair. His eyes were very small.

"Muta! You're taking the space with that HUGE belly of yours!" Toto said while smirking.

"Why you... BIRD BRAIN! You've done it again!" Toto ran and Muta chase him. They fought like children in the background. Haru giggled.

"Don't worry, they always fight like that." Haru said. Suddenly the video started to buzzing again. "Oh, it's time? *buzz* sorry mom! We gotta go! *Buzz*"

"W-what? WAIT! HARU!" and the picture was gone... Hiromi approached Haru's mother and put a hand on her shoulder.

"From what I saw, Haru is just fine, Miss Yoshioka." Hiromi said.

"B-But--" She was cut mid-sentence by Hiromi.

"Besides didn't you see her smile? She was truly happy there with her friends... and don't forget that she's an adult now." Miss Yoshioka was taken aback by her. It's not everyday Hiromi talked like that. "Oh, and IS THAT REALLY BARON? Gods, where did she find that guy?? He's HOT!" She squealed. Tsuge snorted. "Oh, but you're always number 1 for me Tsuge-kun~"

Oh well.. The real Hiromi was back. But when she thought about what Hiromi had said earlier... She was quite right...

'Well... I hope you're alright there... Haru..."

Back in the crystal room everybody was cheering now.

"It worked! It worked!!" Haru squealed happily. She then jumped to hug Natori. He was surprised at first and he almost dropped his glasses. But he regained his self control anyway. A King's adviser must always stay calm, right?

"... It's nothing, Miss Haru. I'm quite surprised that the 'human-form' system is actually working." He said. Haru smiled some more, glad that her problem was saved. Well... For a while..

Baron was glad that Haru regained her spirit. He always loved how she smiled brightly, her smile always made anyone who saw it become happy and soon forgot their problems. There was this selfish part of him that wanted Haru to stay in her cat form forever or maybe take her to the Cat Bureau and to make her stay there with him for eternity. But he shook that thoughts away.

'If she's happy, than that's enough for me.' He thought. He sighed once. "Well, what are we waiting for?" he asked, the others soon played their attentions to Baron. Baron put a small smile on his muzzle.

"Let's start the searching."

To be continued...

OMG~ that's the longest chapter I ever wrote... ~ please don't stop reviewing or reading folks! =)

Love,

Lorie