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~Chapter 4: Cats do smile, you just don't see it~

"The Hanabusa household is always used to noise made by it's masters, namely Aidou Hanabusa, the master of the house and his daughter, Aoi Hanabusa. The two bare extremely close similarities not only in looks but in personalities as well, they both rely heavily on their butler, Tanaka, and are only serious in matters which endangers the people they like and themselves of course..", The sharp eyed butler replied to the tall potted plant as it concealed a very shaken Ichiru.

"So Tanaka what else can you tell me about the young mistress?", Ichiru said as he squirmed in the small space between the plant and the wall, small flakes of ice streaked his hair and his garments reminding himself of his great escape from Aoi and her girls, "—preferably something to blackmail her with and keep her off my back for awhile..".

Ichiru frowned at the butler's comment both annoyed and relieved that he chose the right butler to talk to, nobody likes a butler who lies after all.

"Nothing will ever stop the young mistress from pursuing her prey so if she's interested in you, only death will part you from her mind...true story", the butler said leaning coolly on the wall beside the plant as he made the comment.

"Oh ICHIRU, WHERE ARE YOU?~ " the soft yet loud sound of Aoi's voice made Ichiru jump by reflex, he had gotten so used to escaping from Aoi that the mere sound of her voice told Ichiru's body that it was a sign of certain death.

"Master Ichiru, I will distract her as you leave, I do not want to be held responsible for your discomfort", Tanaka, the butler said as he left his plant hidden guest and made his way towards the direction of Aoi's voice. As soon as the butler disappeared from his sight, Ichiru ran in the opposite direction and made his way towards the study where his parents and uncle Aidou were.

"So your saying you understand Zero?", Yuuki said as she put Zero down on the coffee table much to the Blonde's disliking.

"Get the cat off the table! That's pure-"

"Shut it, Hanabusa, it's just a table"

Aidou laughed as the words were on cue with the silver hair's lip movements, it's really talking! a talking cat! Great! All he needed was singing birds and you could say this was a legitimate fairytale! Yuuki frowned, worried from Aidou's odd hysteric laughing and the tint of crazy in his eyes, if she was in his situation, she'd do that too because talking to cats wasn't normal, turning a person into a cat was more believe-able now thanks to Aidou's sudden Cat talking proclamation, at least something good came out from it right?

"A-Aidou, I know this is strange but I reaaaaaaally need you to help me turn Zero back! The faster, the better", Yuuki did not let this get to her, she wanted her husband back and he wanted no more talking kitties, she wanted this to end.

"Oi Hanabusa, I need you to translate what I'm saying to Yuuki", Zero said sitting upright and wearing his red ribbon as if it was some kind of medal of honour.

Aidou crossed him arms with straight hands as if saying no, "KIRIYU, I'M NOT GONNA BE SOMEKIND OF ANIMAL TRANSLATOR FOR YA' IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOME HELP IN THE ANIMAL UNDERSTANDING DEPARTMENT, I SUGGEST YOU GET CEASAR MILAN, I HAVE HIS NUMBER ON MY FRIDGE...that meant no by the way" Aidou chuckled as he mentioned Caesar Milan.

"Who is Caesar Milan?", Yuuki asked entering the newly formed conversation.

Aidou stood up, surprised as he realized that no one in the room knew what he was talking about, "hello~? Caesar Milan! The dog whisperer? On Animal planet?—on a thing called television?", Yuuki pouted and if Zero could pout I guess you could say he did too.

"I'm not stupid Aidou, it's just that your wasting my time", Yuuki said furrowing her brows and frowning earning multiple nods from the staff.

After a few moments of anger and Ichiru's rather awkward entrance into the situation, the four got down into the matters at hand, turning Zero back into a human much like what happened to Aidou before as it was mentioned that Kaname turned him into a mouse out of whim.

"Alright this is how I turned back into a human, there are three stages according to Aoi's book-", Aidou said as he walked over to the black mahogany self on the edge of the study, the shelf had books with black covers except for a pink mouse themed notebook on the upper left corner, Aidou pulled it out and sighed.

"Read it and weep", he said as he handed the notebook to Yuuki and Ichiru.

~Father is a mouse! ~

This is Aoi Hanabusa's so NO TOUCHY! :3

1. Today Uncle Kaname turned father into a mouse! It's super funny and I decided to record everything so that one day I can maybe help other peeps who Uncle Kaname turns into cute animals back into humans! It will be like I have the antidote~ and the peeps will be like "Please lady super awesome and beautiful Aoi! Turn us back!" and I'll be like "oh sure—wait! NO" and me and my friends will laugh about it~! Hoho I'm so cruel!

"At least she knows right?", Ichiru blurted out.

2. As I have observed father, it would be better if he does not lose his sight of being human, if he thinks like a mouse and forgets he is human then the chances of him changing back might grow even narrower, will power is a very important component to change after all. (note: Tanaka helped me write this 3)

Yuuki and Ichiru looked at Zero then back at the book causing multiple questions to pop into the cat's head.

3. There are three stages in the transformation as I have observed, I have carefully treated him as if he never turned into a mouse, he slowly turned into an adult mouse so I took it as a good sign and after one week of treatment as a human, he transformed into the third stage, a humanoid.

~3 stages~

1. Baby mouse

2. Adult mouse

(ze adorable stage 3)

" that sounds good! right Ichiru?" Yuuki said smiling as Ichiru kept reading, honestly mother you would look for any good signs in anything considering you're the one who turned father into a cat, Ichiru sighed.

4. A humanoid is half human and half animal thingy by the way :33

Father stayed as a humanoid for one week and then he turned back into a human, I think feeding him stuff that applies to his animal like cheese for example will slow down the process and humiliation also has the same effect. As a humanoid, he regained his normal self but retained an adorable rat tail and EARS AWWWWWWWWWWWW HE'S SO CUTE!

Yuuki blushed as she imagined it, Zero with kitty ears... ( :D )

5. After a week, Father still had the symptoms of a mouse , he mentioned it a uncontrollable and he would squeak every now and then which is super funny! :D He also sometimes crawls and nibbles on food and he'd really like running around like a mouse, he would show no interest in things that he normally would show interest to like WINE! HE WON'T DRINK HIS WINE, HALLELUA FOR A SOBER FATHER! :33

Yuuki and Ichiru bursted out into a fit of giggles as Aidou blushed, "I'm guessing you got to the part of me being sober right?", Yuuki nodded and went back to reading.

6. After watching him for a month, I'd say he's back to normal but knowing my father, the shame would haunt him forever! 3 But I guess uncle Kaname had good intentions to turning him into a mouse! I HOPE THIS HELPS TO ALL THE OTHER CUTE FARM ANIMALS! :DD

~end~

"that was a tiring read", Ichiru said slumping back into the couch, "so father can't have anymore milk and can't be treated like a cat, he also can't think like a cat right?" Yuuki nodded, handing the notebook over to one of the maids and she put it back into the shelf.

Yuuki smiled at Zero, "I have a feeling we'd have our Zero back in a bit since he doesn't easily lose himself like Aidou", Zero walked about in the table happily as Aidou's eyebrow twitched, "I'm still here, Kiriyu!", "Whoops I forgot", Yuuki giggled earning a small smile from Ichiru.

"So is that all you guys need?", Aidou said crossing his legs and frowning, "if that's all, I'd like you guys to leave, you've given me a huge amount of stress".

Yuuki stood up and bowed along with Ichiru as a form of thanks catching Aidou by surprise, "Don't bow! Your embarrassing me! Just don't tell anyone about this!", Yuuki smiled as she picked Zero up, cradling him in her arms, Zero was starting to like this constant hugging.

"Thank you so much for your help, Hanabusa", Zero nodded off.

"Just don't talk, Kiriyu and don't mention it...seriously don't", Aidou started to rub his temples, a soft yet loud shout echoed from outside alerting Ichiru once more, Ichiru started to push Yuuki towards the door on her heels earning raised brows from all over the room.

"T-thank you for helping us uncle Aidou but we must take our leave!", Ichiru said as he felt the small shards of ice on his head stand meaning the approach of it's owner.

"I-Ichiru! We can't go yet! I still-", Yuuki countered.

"Mother we have to go now"

"But Ichiru!"

"Now for the sake of my soul"

Yuuki shut up and let her son steer her towards the car, she waved at the staff as they headed for the door, Ichiru opened the door with his mind and they made a break for the car, he opened the car doors again with his mind entered the side seat as Yuuki put Zero on the backseat. Zero smiled at his son's anxiety as he watched Ichiru shakily put on the seatbelt, of course it's about Aoi, Zero could see it in Ichiru's eyes, his fear, he wanted to talk to them again, he missed being human, he wanted to be human again.

He had to be human again.

"She must be really scary right Ichiru?"

"You don't know the half of it father!"

A small silence enveloped the car as Yuuki reversed from the driveway, Ichiru's eyes widened as he looked at the back of the car surprised to see something very unexpected.

"Ichiru who are you talking to?", Yuuki asked as she steered around the empty road as if it was full of cars.

~end~

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