Tangled!Mao Mao AU

Chapter 1: Usual Morning

The sound of rushing water faded as the damp towel hung on the hanger neatly in exchange for fresh clothing from the closet soon closed. Little creaks came from the floorboards of each step taken from as a black-fur male feline went forward towards that one single window. With a quick click and push, he opened it and began to embrace the warm sunlight that seeped in as the scent of fresh air went into his well hidden nose before sighing out; the take of the smell relaxed him so dearly to lay his head onto his arms placed upon the window still. His tail swayed gently side to side within the touch of the fabric of his green cape which matched his enthusiastic emerald shine eyes, looking in awe of this new day. The small tinges of light orange still mixed in the pastel blueness of the sky, it was quite remarkable of the scenery. A breathtaking one at its best like the other the day before with the one day before and before and before and before.

It always was the same thing, isn't it? His father was out again as he was by himself with his repetitive thoughts that corresponded over the many years. It was almost that day again, the one where he'll watch those mysterious lights float through a dark night. Those 'stars' his father called them as and only stars they were, but the feline boy had begged to differ within silence of course. That small retaliation in his mind he couldn't describe well, but it was something that he desired in secret. It was absolutely wrong to think about that, almost within a guilty way of even considering it. He couldn't help that feeling of just...

"Yeah, I don't think so. You like it here", eagerly he said to himself in the convincing state he repeatedly puts himself in to vanish away the ideas of rebellion.

Eagerness slowly went to this guilt state. His father is trying so hard to maintain his protection and all he thinks is leaving him behind? To diminish the one who has cared and loved you? He's in this tower with this father for a reason and that is for him to be safe.

The outside world is dangerous as his father always said; a deadly and twisted world that he had witnessed of a young, but blurry phase. The small nervous shivers crawled up of his spine as it traveled down to above his waist, making him quickly clutch on instinct. A gentle feel to the soft fabric of the green sash that helped in covering the reason for this type of life. He knows why, but he also doesn't. Standing still now as his mind blurred on more things he shouldn't be thinking of in the first place. He shook his head in an instant as he quickly brushed it all off and stood back straight.

He backed away from the single window before more thoughts flourished through his conflicted mind. There were chores to finish before his father comes back from his outside trip, it was no time for nonsense. He had many or so doings to do, many that he had perfected all within the years of isolation of the cat's life. Always the same.

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"Are you actually serious about this?!", an angry male badger with robotic features (ironically named by said features) questioned, "Like actually serious?! This feels like too far off the line!".

 The female tanuki near him was at this point well-annoyed by her partner in crime ongoing complaining, more so in the volume of his tone at a place where it would be the worst to yell loudly in; considering that they are hiding the bushes near the stairway of the castle. Luckily not many people were roaming around near their section of hiding which proves a bit strange to her, but otherwise it was very helpful on their part of the plan. However, the citizens here tend to appear out of nowhere and highly during times of new people visiting; she needed them to be really careful, especially since she had heard that a festival was taking place tomorrow.

"Oh hush, Badgerclops. We have done this many times before. Why are you questioning my method now?", she asked while her eyes fixed in awe of the scenery of the place, "Because it's a enormous kingdom!", BC states. He was correct on that fact at least. The use of her method previously worked sufficiently because the place was not exactly big or populated; they had never done a place this big. The one they considered it being the biggest was possibly where they went to what was a lively village, but now on their last roots of existence. It was said that over the years the village has shrunk because of an incident. She couldn't exactly remember what was said at the moment, but still knew that it was a very tragic event that caused a family to move then soon others moving away as well.

"Tanya, just think about this. Do you even remember the times where I almost got beheaded?", a hard shiver went through him as the memory of a crime before that seeped into his mind but the tanuki just rolled her eyes, "That was because we didn't know the place too well and mostly the fact that you gave me the wrong info. Check your citations first before putting it into a fact".

She then looked back to the still questioning cyborg badger, "I checked in every small detail this time. Besides that, we extended our professions to those two who also knows the spaces of this place for the extra reassurance", she gestured to the new duo of a male fox and a male raccoon that held onto a giant bag labeled as 'treasures' starting to walk up the stairs to reach the gateway of the castle. BC's single eye looked over to the two initiating the start of the plan, "I'm still not sure on why you decided to hire those two along. Didn't they state that they are scammers?". "Yeah, but they know the ins and outs of this place well", she exits out carefully from the bush, "Come on. We need to get up to the East side and get the loot. Perhaps enough where we don't have to bounty you this time".

"Finally a day where my life isn't in danger", BC remarked sarcastically following out, "That still doesn't solve the amount of risk here, Tanisa!". She flinched at that small extension of her name and only responded with a small glare before they both scurry off to where they needed to be. It was very difficult, but that comes in the term.

"High risk, high rewards"

((A/N: Sorry for not updating for like a month. I'm now back into this, so expect more. Hopefully sooner this time. Please leave a comment below if able. Thanks!))

((A/N #2: Finally got myself a laptop after finally graduating, so it is easier to do stories and do grammar checks. Depending on how my college goes as well as other adult things and my motivation, I'll be trying to update this story as well as hopefully the other more often. As I stated before, it is all planned but just difficult to put in words to write.))