A Very Unusual Cat – Chapter 02

Toujou Nozomi x Ayase Eri/Minami Kotori x Sonoda Umi

A/N: Meanwhile the Cat/Priestess pair is starting to get along. Minami Kotori-sensei is getting into some sort of trouble?

Disclaimer: Oh, I own the cats that are not Eri.

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"Are you okay, Arisa-chan?" Kotori asked as she kneeled by the bushes in the popular shrine in the area. "Did you lose something?"

"I'm looking for my cat…" The teal/yellow-ish female of about five years old told the young teacher. "She was lost about five days ago… my mother told me she'd just come back, but she hasn't in a while."

"Has this happened before?" Kotori asked, patting the girl's head to comfort her. Meanwhile, they heard meowing sounds from behind them and turned, only to see jeaned legs, and black sneakers. The two looked up and found a white cat bundled in the arms of a person wearing a short sleeved blue turtle neck, hair in disarray and a few leaves on it as well. "Sonoda-san?"

"Uh, hi. We meet again." She kneeled by Arisa and handed her the cat in her arms. "This your cat?"

"Cherry!" The child hugged the cat and thanked Umi. She then waved goodbye and went home.

"Glad she found her cat," Kotori answered and laughed. She then walked towards the female who appeared to be the same height as her. She reached her hand out, and removed two, three, four leaves from her blue hair. "Your hair is pretty so we better fix it."

Umi immediately blushed and thanked the female. She watched her face, scrutinized her pretty eyes, wonderful lips, and nice chicken hairstyle while Kotori fixed her hair.

"There we go," Kotori said and smiled. "What are you doing here?"

"Oh, I dropped Rumi in the day care. Then I saw that girl; she said she can't go home if she doesn't find her cat now or at least get some clues of how she is, so I helped her," Umi answered. "What about you?"

"Oh, I was on my way to the day care when I saw her. I'm glad you helped her," Kotori answered and smiled magnanimously.

"Ah, ye- yeah." She blushed.

"What a cute person." Kotori giggled.

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The birds chirped loudly outside the window, definitively a good morning. Nozomi hugged the blonde in her arms and wondered why her tail was moving. Round and round in circles, settling in one part of the bed… then moving up and down, then round into circles again. Curiously, she looked at the slumbering blonde's ears that were directly to her eyes and watched it occasionally move.

She was tempted to touch it.

So she did.

The female in her arms suddenly stirred, her tail moving violently up and down, but her eyes didn't seem to be opening anytime soon. Her eyes narrowed at the suspiciously moving tail, and made an attempt to reach for it with her free hand.

When the slightest touch, she earned a delightful whimper right on her chest, where Eri's face nestled in. She removed her hand right away.

"Please stop doing that," Eri spoke, moving her tail left and right and up and down.

"Okay," Nozomi answered in a whisper. She didn't want to ask why. She felt like she didn't want to know why. "How are your injuries?"

"They're a bit sore," Eri answered and parted from the soft and fluffy breasts of her savior, then turned around to curl like a ball, hugging her knees. She let her tail unconsciously brush around Nozomi's thighs. "I'm hungry, but it's a bit comfy in here."

"Then stay there." Nozomi laughed. "Although, I'm quite curious though, if you return to being a normal cat, what should I feed you?"

"Well, hopefully, I wouldn't have to be put in a situation where I would have to stay and impose longer." Eri answered with a serious tone, her ears slumping forward like she was a bit depressed. "Although I do like staying."

"I've been wondering about that for a while though," the violet haired female spoke. "You don't have a collar, meaning you aren't really that owned. You showed up with bruises all over. Why not just stay with me then?" Nozomi grinned as the drooped cat ears came to life.

"But I—"

"You're so stubborn."

"N- Not stubborn!" Eri exclaimed, her tail moving up and down furiously. Nozomi laughed. "Don't laugh!"

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Minami Kotori and Sonoda Umi walked back towards the day care. The two were chatting nonchalantly as if they had known each other since forever when a red headed female with violet eyes approached them in a hurry.

"K- Kotori!" the female called towards them.

"What is it, Maki-chan?" Kotori hurried over towards the redhead. Out of curiosity, Umi did as well. The redheaded female showed her a note.

"We have the children. Wait for a call."

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Nozomi left a quietly napping Eri in her room and went to the kitchen to prepare some breakfast before heading over to the shrine and do her duties. Upon settling down plates on her table, something peculiar caught her eyes, then onto the table.

There it was. A cat, on all fours, on top of the kitchen table and furry. Nozomi looked at it intently; it was the same confident and stubborn blue eyes that had stirred up her mind for the past few days.

"Eri?"

"Meooowwrrrrrr."

(END/Chapter 02)

A/N: FINALLY GETTING SOMEWHERE HERE. Although I still don't know about where should I go with it. LMAO. (Just wrote it on a whim), also, I'll be updating this story every Thursdays at GMT+8.