A/N: I feel horrid! I haven't updated in like a century!! O.O I know, I know, you may now pelt me with tomatoes and other items you wish to throw at me.

ANYWAY! On a lighter note! Please enjoy the next chapter of Alley Cat!(which the other day I was talking about it to my friend and just couldn't remember the name of it, sad isn't it? When the author can't even remember the title of one of her own works?)

Chapter 3

With a groan, green eyes fluttered open to stare at the ceiling he had become familiar with for the past years. As he sat up on the wooden floor, pain shot through his head and he winced. 'Why am I on the floor?' Matt wondered confused. Just then, memories flooded his mind and he scanned the room quickly.

Heaving a relieved sigh at seeing no blond haired boy in the room, Matt stood. 'Man, what a strange dream.' He mused to himself. He rose his hands over his head and groaned as he felt his muscles stretch. Then he smelled something in the air, something awful that made him cringe. 'What the hell?' He wondered and opened the door of his room and followed the smell to the kitchen. His eyes widened at the sight before him, the whole kitchen was surrounded in black smoke as a figure stood in the center looking around in boredom.

"WHAT IN THE WORLD DID YOU DO!?!?!" Matt shouted as he ran over tot he oven, which he figured was the cause of the smoke, and grabbed the flaming pans off the stove and threw them in the sink quickly as he turned on the water. He then ran over to the window in the kitchen and opened it, doing he same to the rest of the windows in the house. After clearing the room of the invading smoke, he turned to the blond boy he had previously thought was a dream, and glared at him.

"Care to explain why you tried to BURN MY HOUSE DOWN!?" Matt was furious.

"Hmm...I was hungry." Mello shrugged. "How was I supposed to know I couldn't cook?" Mello asked.

"You're a cat!!"

"Cat demon. And just because I'm part cat doesn't mean I can't cook, my cousin knows how to cook." Mello stated crossing his arms.

"You...argh! Just forget it!" Matt threw his arms in the air as a sign of defeat and then walked off into his living room, plopping down on the couch. Sighing, Matt tilted his head back and closed his eyes, wishing with all his might that he was dreaming, that all of this was just a crazy dream. Unfortunately for Matt Mello mimicked him and plopped down next to him.

"I'm hungry."

The red head shot the cat demon a glare wondering how he could say such a thing at such a time. "Then leave and get yourself something to eat."

"You took me in, so 'You' have to take care of me." Mello smirked as cat ears popped out of his head. Matt stared, adn staredm but thankfully this time his eyes didn't roll to the back of his head, instead he just blanched.

"Is that...normal?" His voice came out monotonously, his eyes clouded, and face slightly paler than normal.

"What?" Mello asked tilting his head to the side. What in the world was the red haired boy blabbering about now?

"Your...uh...ears."

Oh, that. "Yes, yes it is." He nodded. The boy, Matt, just continued to stare, unnerving Mello to the point he wanted to scream what? at him. "What? What are you staring at?" He barked. Hm, how weird. Wasn't he supposed to be a cat? It seemed that Matt also thought this for he chuckled, color returning to his face.

"Sorry," he apologized. "It's just not every day you meet a..." He looked expectantly at Mello who sighed.

"Cat demon." Not that hard to remember genius. He added in thought with a sarcastic tone.

"Right, cat demon. Especially when said cat demon can look like someone cosplaying as a neko."

The blonds right eye twitched, and he sneered. "I am not like a fucking cosplayer! If anything they're idiotic humans with too much time to spare that have the weirdest and completely useless only like animated things, things they will never have. They'll never amount to anything." He finished his tirade and crossed his arms in a huff.

Matt frowned while the blond ranted on and on, brows furrowing as he continued to listen to the other boy speak badly about cosplayers. He'd cosplayed a few times, and if anything, he was a huge anime nerd. Anyone wonder what he played in his game-boy, psp, etc? Anime related video games, as well as some normal ones and ones that tested his intellectual abilities.

Noticing for the first time the silence that now hung around them, Mello turned his head and felt like shrinking away when he saw the heated stare the other was giving the floor as he lost himself to whatever thought was appealing enough to have gathered his full attention.

Did he say something wrong? Oh my gods, maybe Matt was one of those geeks that liked dressing up like oddly dressed characters and fantasized about animated girls in little skimpy school uniforms getting banged by their teachers! Maybe he should apologize...Yeah, that sounded about right.

"No offense." He mumbled snapping Matt out of his thoughts.

"Hm?" It took the red a minute to realize what the blond had said and flushed, realizing that the blond had figured it out. "Oh, um...none taken." He sputtered out nervously, scratching the back of his neck in a nervous manner Mello thought made him look oddly cute. "So....you said you were hungry, right?" Mello of course perked up at this and nodded his head vigorously. Again Matt chuckled. "I guess we could go out and grab a bite to eat."

"Yosh!" The blond shot up, fist in the air and a large grin plastered on his face. It was about damn time he as gonna get some food. And the even brighter side to getting food was that he didn't have to pay it! Being somewhat owned was looking to be a pretty good life. If...the red head decided to keep him that was.

A/N: Short, I know, not to worry though! I'll be sure to make the next chapter longer! Please review! Oh, and-

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