Those Darn Cats (Mission/Suzune)

Lady Luck flipped her coin of fate up in the air, determining the young man’s promise of a hopeful day. Unfortunately, for him, that very coin is wrong in Jiyuu’s favor. The reason for that is quite simple, unwanted company. When the ringing of a young girl’s voice passed through his ears, he could have sworn it was familiar, almost too familiar. Of course for him, he wouldn't have known until it was a second too late. “No worries, just on time,” he said in remark for the mysterious girl’s apology to her tardiness. But when he turned his gaze toward the voice, it welcomed the sight of one of Jiyuu’s ‘favorite people, Suzune Oda.

What light of hope in his gaze, quickly turned to disdain upon realizing he has to be teamed with ‘her’. And almost in synchronization, he matched his unique greeting as she did to him. “Ah,” he breathed for a moment, in-taking the slow burn on how funny life can be. “It’s just you, hammer girl,” speaking his trademark name toward the brown haired teammate of his. Almost immediately how he wished things could be different, why would he have to team up with one of the most combative people he’s ever known?

Now, Jiyuu has a new goal: Instead of waiting for other people to arrive, get this mission done so wouldn't be around this spoiled princess anymore. He set forth in his new agenda by nodding to the obvious question, delivered by that hammer girl. “Looks like it,” he said in the most neutral of tones, almost as if accepting nothing good will happen today anyways. But a twist of fate, if you will, happened only a second later. That hammer proposed a challenge on who gets the most cats, and the winner gets lunch. A chance to put down his smug attitude ‘and’ get a free meal out of it? How can Jiyuu ever resist that little proposal. “You’re on!” he said with a smirk.

Watching her make her first move and hearing her cries of terror, Jiyuu simply chuckled to himself. Because now, all he has to do is clean up her mess and to get the prize of whatever is in front of that hammer girl’s face. Shunshin himself forward toward the cries, tracing his pace all the way to where he can see that hammer girl in his sights. “How about I show you, how it’s done!” A bold claim and willing to give just enough proof to back it up.

Clawing his way to scoop up one cat in the middle of that hammer’s self-made chaos, he managed to snag at least one cat. Of course, he had sights on the next one, “That makes one!” He was about to take charge to forward the next cat- but the cat in his possession sudden vanished without a trace! Shocked and widen eyed, almost saw ghost when that cat disappeared the way it did. “Wait, did that cat just use-,” before he could even finish his thought, he felt something amiss-a cat was in his shirt. And that cat didn't do nothing either, the cat clawed and scratched inside of Jiyuu’s shirt. Not only that, the other cat pounced his cat for a two-pronged attack.

Needless to say, he was in for a world of hurt, “FFFFFFFFFFFF-ARGHHH!!”