Homeward Bound

Chapter 1: Separated

"I already told you I'm sorry Mahiru," said the black cat on his master's shoulder almost pleadingly. "Can't you find it in your heart to forgive a cute little pet like me?"

"Well it's your own damn fault, Kuro!" Mahiru yelled hot temporally at the cat, earning a few odd stares from bystanders. He grimaced and lowered his voice to a whisper, "what part of no late night video games don't you understand! It was a simple order, but no you just had to be up all night playing that thing and now the there's a mess in my living room. Not to mention a ruined PS3"

"If you haven't decided to barge in yelling when I was drinking cola, I wouldn't have accidentally spilled it all over..." Kuro complained in his head, he would of voiced it, but with his Eve's mood now it would start another one sided argument that he wants no part of. "So is that why your dragging me from place to place. To buy a new PS3."

Although Kuro tried to make it sound like he was uninterested, the human knew better than to think that the vampire didn't care about his video games, after all, he saw Kuro's Christmas list included all the latest video games.

"No"

"What!" Kuro uncharacteristically cried in shock, almost falling off Mahiru's shoulder.

Mahiru sighed in exasperation before answering, " I can't afford a new one so you would either have to holdout for a couple of months or get a job."

"But..."

"No buts about it Kuro," he said firmly before continuing. "As for the dragging you around part, we need more food and supplies, and our regular convenience stores are closed so we're going to have to find another one."

With a low grumble of "what a pain," Kuro decided to give up on this losing battle and sleep.

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"Kuro wake up, I need you to wait out here"

The kitten soon felt himself being jostled awake by none other than his Eve. Cracking open one of his red eyes he looked to the boy.

"This is the only open store I could find with the things I need so, but..."

"They don't allow cute pets like me inside," Kuro finished for him and gave the sunlit sidewalk an irritated glare. "Can't deal... Maybe we should go shopping some other time."

"what?!" Mahiru yelled into his already sore ears from the other yelling he got that day, he used his paws to cover them before they get more damage. Seeing that he got strange looks again, Mahiru lowered his voice to an irked hiss, "After spending the whole morning looking for a place to buy supplies, you decide now to back out now! Is it because you can't go inside?"

"It's not because of that..." the Servamp of Sloth defended. It really wasn't, he wouldn't mind waiting outside, under the shade of the mailbox in front of the store, it was that he had a bad feeling that something would happen the moment him and Mahiru got separated.

"You do know we're out of ramen and cola right?" Mahiru was starting to become more hotheaded. Kuro knew that if he doesn't cool him down soon then Mahiru would make rash choices.

"I better explain to him before things get out of hand. Knowing Mahiru, he wouldn't listen to reason when riled up." The black kitten sighed before starting his explanation.

"I just have a feeling... hay! Mahiru!" the cat yelped when his Eve suddenly grabbed him and placed him in the mailbox's shade. Kuro glared at Mahiru's back as the boy was going in the store. "Mahiru!" he called out, not caring if people heard him, which luckily they didn't, as got up to go after him.