Toru: why do you do this?

Me: because I have to pull teeth and I shouldn't have too to get reviews I'm not asking for like 20 just 5 a chapter.

Toru: so wait I caused the Salem witch trials?

Me: yep.

Hitomi: what if we didn't kill all those people?

Me: then they still would have happened.

Hitomi: that makes no sense.

Me: it makes perfect sense if you think about it. The trials were instigated by a child's over active imagination and her ability to become Americas first bitch. *the girls give confused looks* ok let me explain it a different way. When I was little I use to love watching Kiki's Delivery Service hop on a broom and pretend I could fly. Obviously I couldn't but if I had said this back in puritan time were things were looked at biblically instead of scientifically do you really think anybody would have denied it?

Hitomi: oh I get it.

Me: well I asked during part 1 if anybody could answer correctly where a bit of lyric came form 2 chapters ago they could suggest the next filler chapter. I was disappointed that only one person did it but Fortinbras13 won and they requested a Hitomi and Orion chapter.

Hitomi: hurray! I love you Fortinbras13. Thank you, thank you!

Me: time for cat love! Remember I own nothing but my own characters.

Previously:

Unbeknownst to them a little girl only 11 years old had seen everything and was looking off frighten half to death. She had never seen anything more terrifying in her young life. Another little girl soon joined her.

"Abby? Abby!" the girl shouted.

"Huh?"

"Geez what are you thinking about so hard?"

"Oh, um, nothing Betty, really" Abby said.

The young girl stopped in front of Abby. "Abigail Williams, you're my cousin and I know when you're lying to me, so tell me the truth."

"Alright I'll tell you but you have to promise that you won't tell anybody, not yet anyway."

"Ok I won't."

"Swear it!"

Betty sighed. "I, Betty Parris, swear to God not to tell anybody until you say so. Are you happy now?" Abby nodded. "So tell me what you saw."

"I saw a witch." She whispered in her cousin's ear.

Chapter 29: Love is Formless

Chase Young's lair

Hitomi was in Toru's room looking out her window; it has a great view of the citadel but the only thing Hitomi was looking at was Orion as he did his usual rounds. Oh how she loved him and even though she dropped hints to him here and there she never truly confessed to him. Why couldn't she muster up the courage to tell him straight up?

She admired everything about Orion in human and cat form. He was brave, willing to put his life on the line to save a comrade. He's kind-to Hitomi at least-even a kitten she tried to spend time with him and he never seem to lose patience with her, making her glad over the years that she wasn't one of his soldiers, seeing how any mistake they made were never tolerated. He's smart, you don't get to fight the Persians, fight the Immortals and live to tell about it without being strategic.

But even though she admired his characteristics Hitomi would have to admit she didn't really know anything personal about him, in fact no one did, Orion kept to himself. Hitomi wanted to know more about him, but how?

Toru walked in listening to In the Dark by The Birthday Massacre and saw Hitomi sighing looking out the window and saw what or rather whom she was looking at.

"So are you gonna tell him your feelings or are you gonna be his distant admirer for the rest of your life?" Toru asked.

Hitomi's ears lowered in responds. "So you never confessed to Lord Chase." Hitomi saidwith a whining sadness.

"True but he officially made the first move so I didn't have to" Toru said with a side smile.

Hitomi suddenly grabbed onto Toru. "You have to help me!" she whined shouted. "I've tried everything from those stupid teen girl magazines and nothing has worked and I'm too scared to ask him up front, please help me!"

"Ok 2 things went wrong 1: you don't use modern tactics on someone who lived before Jesus was born. And 2ndly…I'll help you." She sighed

Hitomi's ears perked up, "You will! Oh thank you!" she hugged her 'mother'. "How?"

Toru shook her head. "Oh, I'm not gonna tell you."

Hitomi's ears lowered it again. "What why? Whats the point of helping me if you won't tell me the plan?"

"I'm not telling you because I don't want you to get nervous again and pussy out, that's why I'm not telling you." She gave the clouded leopard a heartfelt smile. "You'll never see it coming."

Hitomi wasn't sure how to react to something like this, sure Toru was an excellent strategist but how was she going to play match maker? Hitomi was already starting to regret this.

A week had passed and Toru had done nothing to help further Hitomi's relationship with Orion, she was starting to wonder if she ever would.

Hitomi was lounging around in the throne room in her cat form as Toru walked in and Hitomi took on her humanoid form looking her in the eyes.

"Hey cat, I need a favor." Toru said

"Yeah what?" Hitomi could hardly believe that she's asking for a favor right now she hasn't done anything to help her with her problem.

"There's a flower that blooms once every couple of years for a few hours and I would like to add it to my garden. I would go get it myself but Master Chase wants us to go on a little dragon hunt and I won't make it back in time to it get before it wilts. Here, take it." Toru handed Hitomi a small golden-brown pellet.

"Whats this?" Hitomi asked tilting her head in a curious manner.

"It's a resin tablet all you need to do is drop it on the flower and it will be incased in amber keeping it from withering until its brought back. You will help your 'mother' won't you?"

Hitomi sighed she could never say no to Toru. "Alright I'll do it, but Toru you will help me won't you?"

"Don't worry I'm working on it."

Toru gave Hitomi a map on where the flower blooms every year. The path seem easy enough to get to but she would have to move quickly if she didn't come back with that flower than Toru was going to be pissed and any of her punishments always ended up with her getting wet.

Hitomi has been gone for about 10 minutes plenty of time to gain some distance.

Toru ran over to Orion with a worried look on her face, and tears welling up in her eyes.

"Is something troubling you, my lady?" the Spartan asked.

Tears were rolling down her face as she sobbed lightly. "Oh, Orion, its all my fault. Me and Hitomi got into a fight, she said she hates me and ran off, she's been gone for hours and I'm worried. I'm afraid she won't come back if I try to talk to her." she grabbed Orion's hands. "Please Orion you have to convince her to come back if there's anybody she'll listen to its you. You will help me, right?"

Orion looked Toru with slight disbelief she hadn't seen her cry since she was a child, but Hitomi ran off it must have been bad. "I will, my lady."

Toru wiped her eyes and handed him a map. "Thank you. I think this is where she's going we use to go there a lot when she was a kitten. This is the only path."

She shows him a path to get to her location. The path she showed him was twice as long as the original path that was given to Hitomi but it would have given them more distance and less of a chance of running into each other. Toru wouldn't want them to meet up to soon.

After Toru gave Orion the map he left. She gave a couple more sobs as he was leaving and started to laugh lightly when he was gone.

She wiped the crocodile tears from her face. "I deserve an Oscar 'cause that was to easy."

She soon joined Chase in the throne room in her Kunoichi outfit with her sword at her side. As she approached him she bowed respectfully before looking at him again.

"Are you ready to depart, Toru?" Chase asked his mate.

"I am." She said

Chase then approached Toru and places an arm over her shoulder. "Then lets go."

They evil couple started to walk out. "So where are we going this time?" she asked.

"Shanghai. My spies informed me that there were still some dragons left there in hiding."

"Do you think we could destroy a few temples once we're done, maybe a neighborhood or 2? I have a burning desire to eradicate something." Toru asked leaning up against Chase's shoulder.

The evil prince chuckled darkly, "Of course my mate," he cupped her face gently. "anything you desire. We can destroy a temple once we get there and everything else within a 10 mile radius."

"Perhaps it will lure the dragon out of hiding."

"And if not we'll move on to the next one." He said with a side smile.

Hitomi had made it to the small cliff and found the flowers just as they were blooming and did as instructed and encased a flower in amber. Hitomi grunted lightly as she plucked the flower from the ground. As she was about to leave she heard something and turned to see it was Orion.

"Oh, uh, h-hi Orion, what are you doing here?" Hitomi said nervously.

"I came to speak to you." The Spartan simply stated.

"Oh, about what?" Hitomi tilted her head in a confused manner.

Orion was trying to ignore the fact of how Hitomi looked at the moment. The sun shining through her blue hair, the flowers that surrounded her complimenting her fur and the innocent position she was standing in. She obviously doesn't understand how most men would react to that. Even a girl sitting by herself would have been vulnerable to attack.

"You're fight with Lady Toru."

"A fight?"

Orion explained what he was sent there to do and all Hitomi could do was laugh, not at him of course just at the situation. When Toru said she wouldn't see it coming she meant it.

Hitomi continued to giggle. "I'm sorry Orion, this is more my fault, you see I asked Toru a few days ago to get us alone."

"And why would you do that?"

"To talk, I wanted to get to know you. I don't know anything about you." Hitomi said twirling her finger in her hair nervously.

Orion walked towards Hitomi in almost a brooding way. When he was up close like that Hitomi was dwarfed by his size. Orion was taller than Lord Chase, being 6'6 he was really intimidating.

"And I normally keep it that way." Hitomi's ears lowered in sadness to his response. But he instead of being mad he petted her head. "But for you, mikró I'll make an acceptation."

Hitomi's ears perked back up as a smile ran across her face. There was a beach just below the cliff and they decided to take a walk alongside the light crashing waves. Hitomi couldn't be happier she was finally alone with him, although she was still nervous from time to time she thought her heart would beat out of her chest.

"So can you tell me something about your life, you know before you met Lord Chase." Hitomi asked.

"What would you like to know?"

"Well general stuff, your family your time in the Spartan army, stuff like that."

Orion chuckled he hadn't thought about his old life for a long time. "My father's name was Lysander, and my mother Elektra. I was the oldest of 5 other children."

"Any sisters?"

Orion smiled, "Yes 1, Chloe, she was a mischievous child." He soon frowned at the memory. "But she died of illness when she was 10."

"I-I'm sorry." Her ears lowered a bit. She could see the nostalgia on his face.

Orion quickly noticed and petted her head calming her. "Do not feel bad, mikró, there was nothing any one could do."

"I know but, you just seemed to care about her so much, and I know what its like to lose a sibling you really care for."

Hitomi wiped the pending tears from her eyes and tried to remain strong. Orion's eyes widen a bit, she was about to cry…for him. His sister did mean a lot to him but as he thought about it he never properly mourned her as he should have.

"Could you tell me about the training you went through you were younger?" the clouded leopard asked.

"Without a doubt the most difficult time in my life. We trained constantly and were given little food. Our instructors encouraged us to steal since we might one day have to live off the land."

"Were you ever caught?" Hitomi asked with a devious smirk on her face.

"No mikró, but some of the others were. I believe that I would not have lasted as long as I did during those years of training if not for Teresa." Orion said her name with a light smile.

"Who's Teresa?" she asked.

"My wife."

Hitomi's eyes widen a bit trying to hide her surprise. He had a wife? Someone who he probably had children with. Someone he lied in bed with.

"I had known Teresa since we were children. She would risk getting caught and sneak me food from time to time. Her kindness kept me strong and I swore to her that her kindness would be repaid." The Spartan explained.

Hitomi's head was lowered. "So you made her your wife." Orion nodded. "Did you…have any children with her?"

"No we did not. We were only married for a few months, but that was around the time I met Lord Chase."

Hitomi would never say this out loud but she was glad he had no children, as awful as it sounds she didn't want him to have any other children unless they were hers.

Hitomi desperately wanted to change the subject and soon found a spot on the beach to sit and continue their conversation. "Can you tell me what it was like to fight the Persians?"

Orion could see that talking about Teresa had greatly upset her and complied with her question, and smiled. "It was a glorious battle."

"Weren't you scared?" she asked pushing her hair back from her face.

"Not in the least. You must understand, my lady, Spartan males are trained from birth in the art of war, and once we are finally in battle the years of training with your brothers, knowing that they would die for a comrade and fight until the last man was standing it is something we would eat and breathed every day. The fight with the Persians is something I would never forget. The so called 'Immortals' were worthy foes but they fell at our hands none the less. The first 300 soldiers gave their lives even after a retreat was called, they lost their battle but not without taken many of the enemies lives." He said with a smile.

"Weren't the Persians lead into an ambush?"

"Yes they were. We ambushed them in a cavern that would have led them to Athens. The battle went on for days I can still remember disemboweling the Immortals, their blood running down on my swords and hands. Hearing their dying screams as the arrows pierced their bodies." Hitomi started to quiver from the gory details. "Oh, am I scaring you?" he chuckled.

Hitomi giggled nervously. "No, n-not at all I love hearing war stories with gruesome details. History books can't beat a firsthand experience."

The pair talked for hours Hitomi was truly fascinated by his life and found out they had more in common then they originally thought (Although its not a lot). Hitomi confessed she did love a lot about Greek history and couldn't get enough off it. Orion was curious about her last showdown with the monks and she explained that Toru taught her street fighting and how it doesn't have any set routine to keep the enemy confused and how it involved a lot of cheap shots and using anything and everything you have on you as a weapon. She was sure that Orion would find her dishonorable and be mad at her but all he did was laugh and said that as long as she never sacrificed any of her comrades then he could never see her as such.

The sun had finally set, the moon reflected beautifully on the water the scene was to lovely to leave and the pair had made the decision to stay the night.

In their cat forms Orion had carefully laid his head on Hitomi who had fallen asleep a little earlier staring at the ocean and soon fell asleep himself. Hitomi was the happiest she's been all day, sure this wasn't a routine date but it was a date none the less and she couldn't help but purr throughout the night.

Orion had an interesting dream to say the least, more of a vision actually. His wife, Teresa, had appeared to him and she was as lovely as she remembered. Orion was sure that she would hate him for leaving her, but she was as understanding as always and held no animosity towards him.

Orion was confused this whole day, he never intended to enjoy today much as he did, not wanting to give his heart to another but he couldn't help it, he cares for Hitomi greatly, and Teresa couldn't be happier. She thought Orion deserved happiness finally and told him it was ok to move on because someone else truly loved him. He knew Hitomi had feelings for him but could never accept them in the past, but now nothing was holding him back. He has a new life and the Gods are giving him the chance to start a new family. Hitomi wanted to be with no one else and he knew it, she was his.

The dream had ended and Orion had woken up, the sun up would be in a few hours and he would enjoy every minute of this. He gently lifted his head trying not to wake Hitomi and looked at her sleeping form. Whether in human or cat form she was beautiful and he would protect her. Orion gently licked her face and went back to sleep as Hitomi continued to purr.

And done! Wow I did not think this chapter would be so long. I hoped you all liked it especially you Fortinbras13. Thanks to all my loyal readers. It sucks but I go back to school on Monday so I might not be able to update as much but I will try. But I'll only do it if I get 5 reviews per chapter now. That is my rule for this story and any others I may come up with in the future. So how'd you like my cat couple? I hope everything works out in the end for them. Anyone want to see how Chase and Toru's 'date' went? Plez for the love of God review!