Cat Burglar of the Alley Kind

First reaction

Reinai Sugita wouldn't say that he was the type to dismiss a very important fact but it just so happened that he just did every once in a while. Rei was a very observant person for sure and that was why he almost never dismissed important facts- it was like they were right in front of him for the taking! Once he saw an important fact- it was like second knowledge, stored into the respective space of his brain. If only he didn't have a shit memory. If he didn't have a shit memory then maybe Sugita would actually be able to take those very important facts and slam them on people and impress them. But Rei sometimes hated people being impressed with him, it was like when he did something slightly out of his comfort zone his family would be all happy and giddy like it was something new. Rei did something!.. It made him feel scornful in the slightest as Rei wanted to think of himself as a person with above average ability. Perhaps he would- if he was a person. Rei wasn't sure why but he had been blessed- sometimes he felt cursed- with the soft ears and long winding tail of what creature he assumed to be a small feline known as a cat around the world. Rei did find at the little age of 5 that having a set of ears and a tail was not customary for normal humans. But Rei later found out that he was different from other humans anyways personality wise- thus he didn't feel negatively to the tail or the soft little ears.

Rei was different personality wise because he was a bit less tolerant than other people. He felt detached from the rest of the world- his classmates growing up, professors, social interactions. Eventually it caused Rei to drop himself out of college at the age of 21. It had been a year since then and Rei had found that he was able to make himself a decent enough living with just his high school diploma. It wasn't that he was too lazy to earn his college degree- truth was, no, he was not the one that dropped himself out. He was kicked out of the school for beating another student senseless. His knuckles were scraped and bruised and he had this mark on his upper arm where the guy had gripped and begged him to stop. But Rei didn't forgive people who made fun of the middle school students touring the college. The president of the student council ( what was that fucker's name? kaoi? kaubu? ) had looked at him disapprovingly as he was about to smash the guy's head into a poster advertising an upcoming school play. Rei had stopped and stared back but in no more than a few seconds did the president turn on his heels and walk away. His shoulders were stiff and his back was straight. It didn't take a god damned genius to realize that he was the polar opposite of Rei. Probably popular, probably good grades. And eyes that were blue, not a shade of yellow that Rei so hated. In just another moment a teacher came rushing down the opposite end of the hall and stopped him with force. Rei couldn't write it off as self defense as there was video footage- plus somehow that fucker Kaoi Kaubu whatever his name was was out of the range of the camera. Damn angle. And so Rei was expelled and that guy he beated on probably got showered in 'are you okay''s because Rei had probably broken his shoulder.

But there was that other time where Rei had stolen something. More than one thing, actually- but a multitude of things. He had a large sweater jacket type things- A damn sweater hoodie with pockets and drawstrings. He hid small and useless things in the pockets that might sell for some money and then left with them by easily hiding them. Never once, never once, did little Rei get caught. He sold the items at a nearby pawnshop and then brought the money back to his falling-apart and struggling family. But once when he had brought his money home his father had cornered him and asked him where he got his sum of money. Rei was a stuttering lier- in a weak voice he had said he had gotten it from someone next door. His father had gone next door and asked and Rei was given a beating because he had stolen. But his father might of been a bit drunk and accidentally broke Rei's skin. Rei had screamed at the top of his lungs and smashed a bottle on his head- he didn't really remember what he had said but he knew if was something with the ability to cut hard and deep just like the bottle of vodka. His father, with bloody bits of glass and stinging alcohol trailing down his face, had kicked Rei out of their happy little home in the slums.