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[Ayatsuki Kizune]

It was late afternoon, and classes had ended.

Kizune stretched out her front legs as she lay down on her favorite bench beside the woods. She had just visited her Rei,and was now ready for a nice long nap that would hopefully be undisturbed either by pestering students who'd want to bother an unknowing animal or simply by random events that would usually result from out-of-control or irresponsibly used alices.

Either way, she was sleepy. She would do her homework later when she wakes up. Right now, she wanted to sleep.

[Senuma Keiko]

Keiko walked dejectedly in the school grounds. She had just come from her classes, and she was feeling rather drained.

I think painting for a bit would cheer me up, she thought, scanning her path for something to paint.

Just then she saw something black on a bench just ahead. Curious, she put on her glasses. The 'black thing' turned out to be a black cat napping on the bench.

How cute! Just what I needed.

She sat down on the bench beside the cat, putting down her bag and bringing out her sketchpad and a pencil.

[Ayatsuki Kizune]

Her nose twitched.

Kizune opened her yellow cat eyes and looked behind her, where a girl was sitting on the once empty space on the bench. She had a sketchpad and a pencil out, and Kizune rather knew what the girl was about to do.

Her tail flicked left and right. Who did this girl think she was for daring to draw her? Her eyes narrowed, her tail flicking.

[Senuma Keiko]

Yes, so cute...

Keiko was so ecstatic as she opened the sketchpad to a blank page and began sketching a rough outline of the cat.

Then, she saw the cat's tail flick.

Oh no, not a good sign. Please don't be annoyed; I won't hurt you or anything...

She continued sketching, talking to the cat as she did so.

"Good afternoon, dear. Have I disturbed your nap? I'm sorry to do so, but I'm feeling sad and you cheered me up." She felt weird talking to a cat, but then, so what? It made her feel cheerful again. "You are so cute, you know, I hope you allow me the honor of drawing you."

[Ayatsuki Kizune]

"Good afternoon, dear."

Dear? Kizune's human eyebrow could have raised.

"Have I disturbed your nap?"

Of course she did, the dolt...

"I'm sorry to do so, but I'm feeling sad and you cheered me up."

Well, it wasn't Kizune's problem. Her problem was that she did NOT want to be drawn, cat or human, while sleeping. She didn't freaking care if the girl was sad. Who on earth never became sad?

"You are so cute, you know, I hope you allow me the honor of drawing you."

Honor? Kizune could have snorted. Thanks for the compliment, but I have no intention of becoming your model, she thought, still staring with narrowed eyes and waving tail.

[Senuma Keiko]

The cat didn't reply. Of course, Keiko hadn't expected it to do so. That would have been extremely weird, even weirder than whatever was usual at the Academy.

But there still was the trouble of the narrowed eyes and waving tail...

Oh no, the tail...is still flicking...what do I do?

She continued sketching.

Then a sudden thought occured to her. What if the cat was an Alice like me and didn't want to be drawn?

Troubled, she turned the page over. She decided to draw something else. It doesn't pay to annoy anyone, least of all a rudely-awakened cat.

"If you don't me want to draw you, it's okay. I'm really sorry."

She started drawing the landscape in front of her.

"By the way, I feel like a dork for asking, but... are you an Alice?"

[Ayatsuki Kizune]

"If you don't me want to draw you, it's okay. I'm really sorry."

Oh thank goodness.

"By the way, I feel like a dork for asking, but... are you an Alice?"

FINALLY! Someone who had the right mind to expect the impossible!

Kizune, upon hearing the question, deactivated her alice and smirked at the girl. "You don't look at all smart."

[Senuma Keiko]

"You don't look at all smart."

Keiko turned to look at the cat, but it was gone. In its place was a girl, presumably from the high school division because of her uniform. The girl's hair had the same color as the cat's fur.

Keiko was startled. It was one thing to think about transformation, it was another to witness one. She shook her head to clear it.

She ignored the girl's remark.

"Oh, so you're the cat... Sorry about what I did earlier..."

She went back to sketching.

[Ayatsuki Kizune]

"Oh, so you're the cat... Sorry about what I did earlier..."

The girl started sketching again, and Kizune stared, her eyes watching the moving hands. An artist, eh? "Tell me,are you such a bored child that you decided to focus on what you would call wonderful scenes?"

Artists were blinded people, looking only at what thought were beautiful and never really looking at the real world. Well...that was what she thought they were. The girl was, as she saw it, too innocent, like most children she'd met.

[Senuma Keiko]

"Tell me,are you such a bored child that you decided to focus on what you would call wonderful scenes?"

Keiko smiled.

"Bored, me? I wouldn't call myself that."

Weird that someone would call her bored...

"I think that life is just so wonderful to forget. I paint to capture life or my impressions of it. I don't focus just on 'wonderful scenes'. I paint what I want to relive or to be remembered."

Thinking of this made her remember her mother.

"That was what my mother taught me to do."

[Ayatsuki Kizune]

The girl smiled. One of Kizune's eyebrows raised again.

"Bored, me? I wouldn't call myself that."

"I think that life is just so wonderful to forget. I paint to capture life or my impressions of it. I don't focus just on 'wonderful scenes'. I paint what I want to relive or to be remembered."

I think that life is just so wonderful to forget. Oh great...another optimistic fool. Kizune could have barfed at those words.

"That was what my mother taught me to do."

Oh, that made her laugh. "Attached to your mommy?" she mocked. "I suggest standing on your own feet and learning the world by yourself. I think your mother chose to make you a gullible child."

[Senuma Keiko]

(OOC: Gomen for not replying for so long...)

The other girl laughed. Keiko ignored her, but was jolted to reality by girl's last words:

"…I think your mother raised you to be a gullible child."

Keiko couldn't help but be irritated. She doesn't have a right to say something bad about my mother. Besides, she doesn't know me that well, so why does she say I'm gullible or will be one. She frowned.

Then she suddenly saw the image of her mother. Mama would never want me to lose my temper, especially if it's about her. Besides, I was the one who intruded in the first place.

"I suppose I can't change what you think, but I do hope you wouldn't say such things about my mother," she said at last, eyes still on what she was sketching.

[Ayatsuki Kizune]

"I suppose I can't change what you think, but I do hope you wouldn't say such things about my mother."

"Hmph," Kizune smirked to herself, giving the girl her peace by stopping her laughter. "Go blind yourself."

She then looked away and watched the one or two strollers who passed them, wondering if the individuals carried any chocolate in them.

[Senuma Keiko]

"Go blind yourself." The girl looked away to some passersby.

Keiko sighed. At least, I didn't lose my temper...

Then, she suddenly remembered something. She clapped her hand to her forehead. "Oh, gomenasai! I'm so absentminded that I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Senuma Keiko, from the elementary division." She smiled apologetically at the girl and waited for a reply.

[Ayatsuki Kizune]

She heard a clap; she sighed.

"Oh, gomenasai! I'm so absentminded that I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Senuma Keiko, from the elementary division."

Kizune lazily averted her gaze to the girl named Senuma Keiko. She blinked.

"Ayatsuki Kizune, high school division."