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“You’ll be okay. I'll be gone for a long time, ok?” A woman who had cat ears and a tail said to her daughter. She spoke with tears in her eyes and a hand on the girl's face. “Just know that I love you ok?”
A girl groaned as she began opening her eyes. She has purple hair and cat ears with ear jacks on them. She had a purple cat tail and she had sharp onyx eyes while wearing some beaten up and torn clothes and socks on her feet. She was sleeping on a metal beam inside a rundown warehouse. She sat up and stretched her arms out.
She looked down and saw an orange haired girl with a side ponytail with orange cat ears and a tail sleeping on a worn down mattress. She too wore torn and beaten up clothing with bandages around her feet. Once she got impaled by a nail in her left foot. They wrapped bandages around and she liked the style so she wore it on her other. “Hey, Itsu. You're trying to go back to sleep?”
She groaned as she flipped on her back and opened her eyes. “Yes, but I couldnt. I am starving though.”
“Well…” The purplette started. “What do we gor to eat for breakfast?”
“Uh….” Then the orange haired Neko got up and went to the corner of the room. She swatted down and started tossing empty, opened cans across the room. “Uh-... we only have one can of tuna left….. Luckily it's not beans.”
“Wait hold on, isn't that what we found yesterday?”
“Indeed it was, Kyoka.”
Kyoka groaned “Well we don't really have a choice here, do we?”
Itsu shrugged. “Unless we are skipping breakfast, then no.”
“Alright then, we can eat now and search for more food later.”
“And hopefully not get caught and have to run away like yesterday.”
Yep, a world where there are two races of humans. Normal people and Nekos. Nekos are humans with cat ears and a tail and other features cats possess.
Nekos are usually used for slavery as they are infieror to normal humans. Humans have 80% of their population that possess an uncanny power called a quirk. For Nekos it's 5%.
Kyoka and Itsuka are close friends who were separated from their parents at a young age as they were taken for slavery.
They have had each other’s backs since then. They searched for food, avoided capture, they even found the warehouse together. They even took turns on sleeping on the one mattress.
Kyoka jumped down and landed on her two feet. “Alright.” she said sitting crisscrossed on the floor. “Set it here and we’ll eat, Itsuka.”
“Alright then.” Itsuka then approached Kyoka and sat across from her. She opened the can and placed it between the two. “Hey, how do you think people live without a Neko as a slave, Kyo?”
“Well way better than this… that's for certain.”
“Yea… I wonder how it will feel to sleep on something that isn't metal or broken.” Itsuka sighed. “Let's just eat…”
“Ok, let’s see if we find anything here.” Kyoka said standing beside multiple trash cans. “Watch my back, k’?”
Itsuka nodded as she stood watch. Kyoka began rummaging around the outskirts to find something outside of the trash.
“Holy shit!” She suddenly shouted.
Itsuka looked over at Kyoka who had a white bag in her arms. The purplette looked inside. “Fucking bingo, dude! This will last us over a week!”
“And you will make us a fortune.” Suddenly the tops of the many trash cans came off and Kyoka ran to Itsuka. People started coming out of them as the cans were actually empty.
Kyoka looked at Itsuka with a fearful look on her face and whispered one word. “Run.”
Itsuka quickly picked up one of the trash can tops and curve threw it at one of the men, hitting them at the side of their head. “That little bitch!” The man who was hit shouted as Kyoka and Itsuka quickly began to run away. “After them!”
The two Nekos can hear a stampede of footsteps behind them. Kyoka was the one holding the bag with all the food in it, but it was a bit heavy which Itsuka did notice.
“Here! Lemme take it for a bit!” Kyoka gave Itsuka the bag as they continued to run away. This was three times in a row now. Three times that they have been either baited or spotted.
After making a couple turns down different alleys and running across the streets, they eventually escaped into another alleyway.
Kyoka and Itsuka were panting from running away. “We finally… got away…” Kyoka said under her pants.
“Yeah…. we did...wh-..what was in that b-bag again?” Itsuka said as she opened the bag and her eyes went wide. “Whoa. This isn't just canned food.” Inside the bag was actual food. some of it looked like it was ordered from fast foods. “No wonder it was so heavy.” Kyoka looked at her with a small smile and nodded.
“Well we should head back ho-.” Suddenly, Kyoka stopped talking and paused her action of standing up.
Itsuka looked at her, confused on why she stopped talking until she saw the look of fear on her face. Itsuka took a shaky breath as she looked into the direction she was looking.
There stood a man who had green fluffy hair and wore a long coat that was torn at the bottom. Within that coat he wore a green tie and a white shirt. He wore cargo brown long pants and a…. Devil’s tail? He looked at the two with tired eyes that looked like he could care less about anything.
The two nekos were already tired out. Did they have to make another run for it? They are far too tired for that. There isn't anything they can do right now. They are going to get captured an-.
He raised a hand slightly while looking away and began walking off. No sign of hostility, no sign of interest in making them his slave. Just a simple, small wave of a hand. To be honest that was the nicest thing any normal human has ever done for Kyoka and Itsuka.
The two looked at each other as if they stared death in the eyes and lived. They were extremely shocked and confused. “Wh- Why didn't he….?” Itsuka questioned her purple haired companion.
“I-I-I don’t know… But that w-was so scary…” Kyoka clutched her already fast beating heart as she was breathing heavily and her knees on the ground. “I thought th-that we were going t-to-.”
“Hey, Hey, it's okay. N-Nothing happened and we're still here.” Itsuka said, placing a hand on Kyoka’s back to calm her down. “L-Let's just get back home, alright?” Kyoka gave a slight nod after calming down a little bit. “Besides…” Itsuka grabbed the bag with all the food in it. “We scored big tonight.” She said with a smile on her face.
Kyoka gave a small smile. “Y-Yea, we did.” The two stood up and began heading back for the warehouse with caution.
Once they arrived there, they walked around from to back as there was a door there. They always entered through that door because it made a lot less noise.
Kyoka opened the door and walked in with Itsuka behind her. “So uh…. do you want to eat or-….?”
Itsuka sat down crisscrossed and set the bag beside her. “hmmmm…. I mean I am hungry. But are you? We agreed that neither of us will eat unless the other is hungry. So?”
“Well of course! I’m starving.” Kyoka sat across from Itsuka who grabbed the bag and started looking through it.
“We got a bowl of Katsudon….? How? Why?” Itsuka said as she took out a bowl wrapped in aluminum foil which she had taken off already.
“Maybe they said “Go big or go home?” Kyoka said as there were also two plastic forks in the bowl. “Wow, it's like they were specifically going for us…”
Itsuka picked up a fork. “Worst mistake of their lives i'll tell you that.” The orange haired neko said as Kyoka grabbed a fork as well.
The two began to eat and after the first bite, it made the two feel like there was a rainbow in their mouth. “So much better than canned tuna” Kyoka stated.
“Agreed.”
After they almost finished the bowl. Itsuka asked a question. “So why do you think that guy showed no interest in ya know…. making us his slave?”
Kyoka looked down at the bowl. “I-I don't know, but m-maybe he just doesn't care enough about nekos to have o-one?”
“But then why would he wave us goodbye then?”
“I dont know…”
Itsuka and Kyoka finished the bowl shortly after that. “Welp, I'm pretty tired…Imma head to sleep. Your turn on the bed tonight.” Itsuka said walking towards a mound of boxes and climbing up to the same metal beam Kyoka slept on.
“Ok, I'm going to head to sleep too. Night.” Kyoka said as she laid onto the bed and curled into a ball.
“Night” Itsuka replied as she was laying down fading the ceiling of the warehouse.The two closed their eyes and eventually fell asleep.
Kyoka shuffled in bed, hearing the sound of metal being moved. It was the middle of the night. What was Itsuka doing wake at this time?
Kyoka opened her eyes while her body was facing the ceiling and her eyes went wide. She saw Itsuka up on the metal beam, looking at the direction of the noise.
Kyoka looked where Itsuka was looking and saw that one of the two gate doors to the warehouse was slightly opened. Kyoka looked back at Itsuka who merely shrugged.
Kyoka slowly got out of bed and walked towards the opened door, wanting to check it out before closing it. She tried to move as silently as she could. Her tiptoes touched the floor before the soles of her feet did with each step.
When she reached the door, she slowly peaked out of the warehouse before slowly stepping out. After taming the first step, she immediately felt something go over her head and tighten around her neck. She was then forced to the ground and she could feel a weight on her back.
“Kyoka!” Itsuka shouted as she jumped down wanting to help. They found them, how though?
…… The bag.
One guy was sitting on Kyokas back as he forced her to stay on the ground by holding her down by her head. “You aren't going anywhere, and you are sure as hell we aren't letting your friend escape.” The man said as three other men went into the warehouse.
“W-W-Why?” Kyoka rasped under her breath with tears in her eyes. “Why do th-this.”
The man laughed out loud like a maniac. “Do you really believe your kind deserves to live a happy life? You’re good for nothing but being slaves.”
In the warehouse Itsuka was practically backed into a corner. Three guys were against her and on top of that she had to get Kyoka out of the current situation as well, she wasn't just going to leave her.
Everything felt like it was in slow motion as Itsuka had no idea what to do. It was like all her senses shut down besides her eyesight. Then her eyes went wide as she saw the three guys in front of her get knocked onto the ground. What she saw in front of her was a boy who was holding Kyoka with one arm as she latched onto his side with both her legs and arms. He had pure white fluffy hair and a mask that only showed his emerald eyes along with him having a tail of a devil…. just like…..
“Go on, get down.” Kyoka had her eyes shut so she slowly opened her eyes to see what she wasn't holding onto wasnt Itsuka.
She quickly got off of him and shrunk beside Itsuka. “I-I-I-I’m so-sorry.”
“This bastard again?” One of the men said, getting up on their feet as his comrades did the same. He showed of his fire quirk by holding his hand up a bit and a small flame ignited. “Why do you bother helping Nekos?” He asked in a threatening tone.
“It's obvious, because they are more human than you will ever be.” The devil tailed boy said, putting Itsuka and Kyoka in shock at his words.
“It's honestly baffling to me that you guys think you're human.” He said as horns started growing from his head. His vibe alone changed as the horns grew.
And even if Kyoka and Itsuka couldn't see it, his eyes turned to black with emerald irises. “I'll kill you all.” He spoke. “I don't care how many of you fucks have to die for these people to have their freedom. Whether it’d be 10 normal people or 1000 “heroes”. I’ll kill you.” He raised a hand and what appeared to be circles with squares inside them appeared on the floor and disappeared. Some of them were even in the air and still disappeared.
“Come on then. Are ya scared?”
“Hell no!” The man who seemingly led the slavers attacking shot his fire forward and the guy with the mask made an audible yawn as the fire was blocked by one of the circles that just appeared.
The white blond did a motion with his hand and the guy's fire came flaming back at him. “The fuck-?!” He was then engulfed in his own flames and he screamed in pain as he ran out of the warehouse.
The three slavers left charged at their opposer. The two nekos watched in fear as the guy beat every single one of them senselessly. One was punched so hard in the face that his face practically smashed in. Another was used as a weapon against the other with bone cracks being heard.
The Nekos collapsed onto their knees practically squeezing the life out of the other in pure fear. The attacker of the slavers snapped his fingers as his horns began to shrink. He looked back at the two nekos who looked terrified.
He walked towards them. “Hey.” They both shivered hearing that. He knelt down in front of them while taking off his mask. After he took it off, he revealed his face to be the exact same as the boy they saw earlier. “You guys ok?”
The two widened their eyes and they went from terrified to completely and utterly shocked. Did he just ask them…. if they’re ok? The two let go of eachother but they didn't say anything, not a word. He sighed as he put back on his mask and walked away, taking the three bodies with him.
The two looked at eachother still shocked. “What….just….” Itsuka managed to spit out.
Kyoka gave a small shrug. “I-….I dont know….” The two sat there in silence for hours, still processing what had happened. At this point, the sun just began to rise. They only snapped out of their thoughts when they both heard footsteps approaching them.
They looked up quickly and saw the boy in a normal suit and a green tie. He held a tray in his hands as he walked towards them. He sat down in front of them as they attempted to shrink away from him a bit, but that was until they saw what was on the tray.
Two to-go coffees and a plate of sandwiches that were cut in half diagonally. He looked at them and they looked back at him with their cat ears down.
“It's yours.”