Chapter Five: Interrogation

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"Where did you get those clothes?" Y/n let go of the boy's tie and pushed him back a little.

"Why do you want to get me out of them?"

Almost choking on her saliva she turned her face to hide her reddening cheeks before the boy could notice, but to her displeasure he had noticed, smiling smugly in response, "W-What no! I was just asking because it's the school uniform!"

"Hm," He closed one eye and nibbled on a cookie, "If you want to know so bad, I stole it." He opened up his previously closed eye and stared into Y/n's e/c ones. The intensity of his stare caused her to shudder, something about the way he looked at her creeped her out.

"Why," her hands were clasped together and were firmly placed to her chin, "would you do that?" Y/n's hands chopped the air, still held together as they pointed to him.

His left ear twitched as he continued to nibble his snacks, "Because I'm naked when I change forms for the first time and I didn't bring clothes with me so, I ran outside when you were at school and found this on a clothesline."

She felt heat creep up to her cheeks upon hearing that he was naked when but she ignored it, closing her eyes shut in semi annoyance but she soon sighed and looked at him once more, "Okay then why did you trick me into thinking you were a cat? What are you?"

"An Idiot sandwich."

"What? No, I'm serious here, what are you?"

A sigh left his lips, and a thought ran through his head, 'I can't even eat in peace.' Rolling his head slightly to look down onto Y/n he opened his mouth to speak, "I didn't trick you, well I kind of did, but I had good reason to."

Y/n looked at him as if to say, 'Go on.' And that he did.

"My kind isn't really treated well by humans, they don't really know of our existence, but they don't like things they don't understand," Sighing lightly he lifted his shirt, revealing the wound Y/n had dressed and taken care of when he was in his cat form, it was loosely bandaged up.

"I didn't get this in my cat form, I got it in this form, a human did it," he grit his teeth, his eyes narrowing at the word 'human' not liking the sound of it one bit, "because I'm different." pointing to his ears he sneered, "Now that you know what I am you're going to be just like the others."

Y/n shook her head, her eyes widened and began to burn, she refused to cry, but holy shit did she feel bad for him, "What makes you think I'll react like the others huh? I've seen you transform or whatever the hell you call it, am I treating you with violence? No, didn't think so." She stepped forward and sighed lightly.

Her arms shakily and gently wrapping themselves around his torso, engulfing him in a comforting hug, "I said I was never going to hurt you back then," her words muffled as her face was buried in his chest, "so please trust me."

A small blush crept up onto his face, the box of cookies in his hand dropping onto the floor with a light thud, he didn't say anything but his eyes glossed over, tears threatening to spill.

Y/n pulled away from the hug and looked up at him, a small smile on her face, "Now, please, continue."

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Y/n had learnt a lot throughout the past hour, she had learnt that the boy's name was Tamashi Aito and he was seventeen, being a year older than her, he was from the forest, rebelling against his parents one year ago he ran to the city to be with humans and it took a downfall onto him.

He belonged to a family of what he calls shapeshifters, everyone there was family to him before he left and he had great pride of his family and what they were. Everyone could transform into something different, a different animal depending on what matched their soul.

Aito's mother was a panther and his father a leopard; it was odd that Aito shifted into a small housecat. But Y/n didn't pay it any mind; it's what made him unique.

"Anyways, as I was saying," Aito looked up to the ceiling with his eyes closed, his hands on his hips in a prideful stance, "I'll have you know, such as myself, my kind are powerful and majestic shapeshifters."

Y/n closed her eyes and laughed lightly, gaining the attention of Aito as he looked at her, curiously, "What's so funny."

"I'm sorry but, Imagine having a whole species of shapeshifters and your soul spirit is a fucking house cat."

Opening his eyes an irk mark ticked onto his forehead, he looked down at the girl who was snickering lightly at her own sarcasm. 

Looking down at her features, he felt his heart pound against his chest, he had the sudden urge to smile at her, to hold her in his arms, but he didn't like this feeling. It was foreign to him, making him feel sick, so he just pushed it aside and avoided it by flicking her on the forehead, "Oi."

"Ow, you bitch." Y/n dropped her bottom lip and pouted in fake hurt, causing Aito to roll his eyes at her.

She picked up the cookies from the floor and placed them on the kitchen table, "You owe me by the way."

"What, no, I don't." Aito scoffed, crossing his arms, "Why would I?"

Y/n's eye twitched lightly, taking a small breath in and a loud one out she rose an eyebrow, "Um, first of all, I saved your dumbass, and second you ate my cookies!"

"Yeah, and I'll do it again."

"Hey, don't forget who's house you're in, I'm letting you stay here until you can find a safe place to get to."

Aito looked off to the side and mumbled something which Y/n couldn't comprehend; a sigh slipped her lips before she looked around, "I only have one bed, and I'm not nice enough to let a snack thief take my bed, so you're sleeping on the couch."

"Or I could sleep on your bed with you in cat form."

Y/n paled at the thought in her mind; she would've been fine with him sleeping with her in that form if she didn't know he could shift into a humanoid form. Aito had explained before that his human form is more comfortable and easier to hold and the thought of him transforming from his cat form into the one that stands on two legs didn't sit well with her.

It made heat rise to her cheeks, and she mentally scolded herself for thinking so indecently, "Absolutely not," she shook her head, "not when I know you're not a cat."

Aito pouted before transforming into his cat form, jumping into Y/n's arms and staring at her with his big blue eyes as if he was begging her.

'Oh God, I can't say no to that face...'

Shaking her head, she placed him on the ground, "I said no."

"Boo, you're no fun." Aito was back in humanoid form with his arms crossed over his chest, a  sullen expression on his face.

Y/n shook her head at him slowly, but she wore a small smile on her face, looking at Aito from the corner of her eye she wandered off, returning with a blanket and a pillow, "Here," she threw them at him, and he barely caught them, "you're sleeping on the couch."

Y/n was sitting on the couch, watching television with Aito, he was sitting on the far side of the couch, as far away from her as he could possibly be.

The movie on screen was about a young college man avoiding and trying to uncover the identity of his stalker along with uncovering the truth about why his friends were going missing.

The end of the movie was enough to make Y/n shudder which didn't go unnoticed by Aito. She was uneasy with the ending, not understanding why someone would stoop so low to kill someone for the person they like.

She was snapped out of her thoughts; however, when a ding came from her mobile device.

She picked up her phone and looked at the screen.

From Kou:
Hey, I'm sorry I bailed on you! My father is super strict if I don't leave on time.

To Kou:
It's okay! I understand.

Y/n entered a response even though it was a lie, she didn't understand at all, but she just rolled with it before typing another reply.

To Kou: 
What are you doing anyway?

From Kou:
Texting the most beautiful woman in the world.

Y/n read the response and scrunched up her face, 'okay cringe' she shook her head lightly, despite her feeling weird over the compliment she had a small smile on her face.

That smile didn't go unnoticed by Aito.

To Kou:
Ew.

From Kou:
What? I can't help it; I know beauty when I see one ;)

Rolling her eyes, playfully Y/n was about to respond until she felt her phone being taken from her grasp, "The fuck bro?" She looked over at Aito who held her phone in his hands, reading over her messages with Kou.

"Who's this?" He asked, not looking at Y/n, his eyes remained on the phone screen as his back lay against the arm of the chair.

"My friend, why does it matter?" She leaned over, her knees digging into the couch cushion as did her left elbow, her right hand reaching out for her phone as half her body hovered over Aito.

Aito noticed her presence and sat a little straighter, in an attempt to distance him from her a bit more, "Doesn't sound like a friend," he pressed onto her phone screen and returned the phone to Y/n, "Don't talk to him, he sounds like a creep."

Rolling her eyes, she snatched her phone back and crawled to the other end of the couch, distancing herself from Aito, "I think I can choose my friends thank you very much."

  A 'tch' noise left Aito's general direction, but Y/n didn't pay it any mind. Instead, her eyebrows furrowed, "Did you fucking block his number?"

"So what if I did, he sounds like a creep."

Y/n unblocked the number without looking at her phone screen, her eyes were boring into Aitos, his eyes staring back into hers, "I'll make you sleep on the fucking floor if you keep this up." She stood up from the couch and angrily stomped over to her room to reply to some messages in private without anyone snooping in.

"Whatever."

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