Chapter 1 : Tabby Cat

~flashback~

Sonya flushed the toilet and lazily walked back towards her room, yawning as she scratched the back of her neck. "I ate too many of those octopus balls" she thought as she closed the bathroom door behind her. Perfectly traditional japanese cooking was sure appetizing, she'd had almost twenty of those takoyaki.

She ventured into the "Royal Kitchen" as she called it, with its fancy tiles and everything one wouldn't even feel like cooking in there in the fear of dropping scrambled eggs on the 'beautiful floor', it looked less like a kitchen and more like some royal chamber of sorts. She pulled the refrigerator door, and after a thorough surveillance of the ice cream kept in it, she chose vanilla.

"mm that feels better" She said sleepily inserting a spoonful full of creamy delight into her mouth. Once she devoured it all, She cleaned the spoon and kept it where she had originally taken it from, as for the empty ice cream container, it happily went into "the golden bin", the dustbin in here was expensive looking too, in fact whatever may be thrown into it would be only too happy. Sonya couldn't stand watching these people have fancy things such as these when half the population didn't even own a proper house so instead; she learned to humour herself with things that slightly appalled her. She was in her nightgown as she walked towards the staircase that led her back to her room; her toe felt something was below it after taking a step. Sonya bent down to pick up the article she stepped on.

It was a golden reading glass which was unusually bigger at the nose. "Definitely his".

"I better get this back to him or he'll think I stole it" She thought walking up the stairs towards his office. Sonya still remembered the time when he had lost his lucky silver ring and blamed it on her, saying that she was a filthy thief. The ring was ultimately found in his own drawer, the result was that he fired the maid who had found it, how ruthless. Sonya had tolerated him, as besides everything, he truly loved…no fantasized her mother and he treated her like a queen. The way she truly deserved to be treated, and not the way her real father had treated her.

~FWF~ (A/N: Flashback within flashback)

"come on give me some money you useless women!" Sonya heard the shouts from her room which was separated with the next with only a curtain.

"I already gave you all I had!" Her mom shouted.

"Then what's with the gold chain huh?" Pete retorted

"In your dreams am I giving you this" Oguri said angrily. Sonya knew why, the necklace was her grandmother's.

"what was that women?!" Pete shouted

"I said that you're an ugly ape!"

"take that back! Or—"

"Or what!? You'll chase me out of this house? Well I'm afraid you can't even call this a 'house'" Oguri made quotation marks in the air.

The shouting was getting unbearable. Sonya had a test tomorrow and she was going to get demoted at this rate.

"you're so useless!" Pete shouted angrily

"What do you need the money for anyway!? For those stupid lotteries?!"

"At least I'm contributing!"

"Your contribution is not required thank you very much!"

"Why you—"

"Will you to cut it out!?" Sonya shouted angrily.

"Get out of here Sonya!" both her parents said in unison peering out of the curtain, and then glaring at each other. "How dare you—!" they said again, in unison

"I'm going out to play!" ten-year-old Sonya ran out of the little apartment.

~FWF end~

She stopped in front of her stepfather's office door and was about to knock but then she heard him speak. "Business will go on, but tell me isn't my wife wonderful?" Sonya could make out that's what he said.

"Yes, she's very nice now about raising the stock prices—" Sonya heard a cold voice say but Tetshaki (the stepfather) interrupted.

"I got her off a bastard who…" Sonya couldn't hear what was being said as his volume lowered, so she leant down on the door to hear more clearly, unfortunately the door was loosely opened, and along with her leaning, the door opened.

The two old heads turned to look at the intruder.

Sonya awkwardly smiled and raised the reading glasses.

"Why you..! You've been listening haven't you!" Tetshaki accused.

"who is this?" the other man questioned.

"she's the daughter of my wonderful wife" Tetshaki said "Only she's not as wonderful as her mother" he said viciously.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier Hiromi?"

"Of her?.. oh no she's not of any use"

"Of course she is! Didn't I tell you that I had an unmarried son?"

"I don't see how telling me you have a son helps. "He's trying to make me jealous again, but now I've got a goddess-like wife while he doesn't even Have one ha!."

Yoshiro tried his best to keep from face-palming. "How could this idiot have made so much profit?"

He inhaled shortly and said "I've got a son, and you've got a daughter, so we can get them married. The business will make extreme profit from this, as it'll join the two companies"

Tetshaki tried to take in what had been said.

"That's a great idea!" He exclaimed. He would get rid of this pest called Sonya and also make profit from it.

"Come here….?"

"Sonya" Tetshaki informed.

Sonya stood stock still. The words marriage floated in her mind. No! she still had to see so much in this world! And there was so much left to do! She couldn't leave! And what about the idea of tasting all sorts of food in one platter!? and also finding her father and beating a pulp out of him? no her life couldn't be over! she had so much to do! (double insertion intended)

"you little … you you" Tetshaki searched for the correct slang.

"Mongrel" Sonya muttered, her eyes blank.

"What!?"

"you call me a mongrel" He did call her that when she first entered the household.

"why yes! A mongrel! A manner-less little mongrel!" Tetshaki spat. " Don't you know you have to acknowledge a person when they mention you!"

Sonya just turned back and walked off, not giving a faeces to the shouting Tetshaki behind her.

"YOU!" Tetshaki said angrily then turned to Yoshiro. "positive you can handle this little bitch?!"

"I'm sure Kyoya can" Yoshiro stated, un-amused.

Sonya managed to hear the name faintly, not that she wanted to know anyway.

~end of flashback~

"Kyo~ chan~~" came a sugary voice behind him in the corridor. Its source travelled on a certain 3rd year student's shoulder towards Kyoya.

"not again" Kyoya said inwardly.

"Kyo-chan! When is the next time that we'll go to Nago—"

"I'm sorry Hunny-sempai but I have a meeting with father" Kyoya said calmly.

"Kyo-chan is so mean!" Hunny wailed.

"Takashi, turn!"

This was probably the 50th time according to his calculations (which were always accurate) that Hunny had tried to convince him to go to Nagoya, particularly to "Taki". There was absolutely no profit from this, so, no. two Hunnys were intolerable.

Kyoya Stepped into his limo and it took-off.

The distance from Ouran to the Ootori mansion was a thirty minute drive. Clouds had formed in the sky, and as expected, it started raining.

He looked out of his window to see everything go wet. He didn't really like rain. It made him feel.. well humid. And the puddles were something he strongly disliked. He remembered the time when Tamaki dragged him into the rain and he caught a cold while Tamaki didn't, maybe Tamaki was used to playing in the rain, considering how childish and reckless he was, he'd certainly drenched himself in the rain many a times.

His train of thoughts were interrupted when by the nearest concrete construction was a wet little kitten, its paws on the carton box it was kept in; it was a yellow tabby cat which was very, very fluffy,. The cat's containing hard paper box, was filling up with the rain water. At this rate the chances of survival of a little kitten who didn't seem more than two weeks old, was very little. It would probably die of cold, Kyoya didn't seem to like the thought of accusing himself for the death of a kitten.

"pull over" He commanded the chauffeur.

"hai!" he obeyed.

"I guess I'm not the shadow king after all" Kyoya chuckled as he stepped down from his limo after he'd extended the umbrella, a black one.

He avoided stepping on water collected spots, nearing the kitten, it looked at him with wide eyes, and when he tried to poke it, the cat scratched him away angrily. It seemed it didn't like him. How'd he planned on saving it anyway?

Now it would probably just die and—

"Stop!" A voice commanded out of nowhere. Kyoya looked left and right to know the source,

"Here you idiot!" he saw a completely wet girl, who wore the poofy yellow attire of Ouran, walking closer towards him. She had brown hair up to her shoulders, which were wet and stuck flat on her neck, was not very tall, and had a curvy body.

"I found it first!" she said pointing at the cat as she walked near him.

She was standing right in front of him now, hands on the hip.

Kyoya wasn't really aware of the authority claims the girl was making, he'd noticed something else, the moisture had seeped through her clothes, making her curves look more prominent. Especially the chest area. It was hard not to notice the factor.

*Smack

went her hand on his cheek.

"Pervert!" she shouted at his face.

Kyoya touched the cheek she slapped and readjusted his spectacles, realizing he'd been looking. He was about to apologize for his extreme rudeness when she spoke.

"As for the cat, it doesn't even like you!" She fumed. Taking the tabby kitten into her arms as she marched away.

"Awkward" was the only word playing on Kyoya's mind.

"Never-mind" He shrugged it off and went back into his limo. A tinge of moisture on his cheek because of those wet hands.

But how often was it to see an Ouran female, drenched in rain from head to toe and not charmed by his looks? Wait… wasn't she the girl who bumped into him the morning and snapped at him instead. Yes, it was totally her.

"at least her tits were nice" NO, Kyoya didn't think that, he would never. That was the author's pervert-tism display. *cough moving on.

Kyoya entered the Ootori mansion. He half-thanked god for sending that weird girl to take the kitten from him, he couldn't even imagine what his father would have said if he saw him with a kitten.

He went straight into his room to freshen up, after which he would attend the meeting.

Kyoya lay there on his bed. "You will be getting married to his daughter" His father had said

"My apologies, I couldn't convince her to come" Mr Hiromi had said. Kyoya was calm about this as it had happened to him twice before, but it never reached the alter. He decided to take it seriously as the Hiromis' were the most competent to the Ootoris'.

His mind then drifted back to the girl in the rain. It was extremely rude of him, a gentleman. But after all he was a male, and it only occurred naturally. He tried to remember what she looked like. She was not extremely pretty, nor was average looking,. somewhere around the middle of really pretty and average looking.

Her eyebrows were big though.

Kyoya switched off the lamp and pulled up his sheets. It's not like he won't meet her tomorrow.

A/N: Glomp that kitten.

Please. REVIEW, it motivates me to write even when exams are still looming.

When you think Sonya think Tachibana Mei of Say I love you... with big eyebrows.