~Reunited~

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Ku's ears pinned again as his snout turned to point toward the ground; he found nothing funny about it, it wasn't his fault he couldn't fit in with her prefect little world, wasn't his fault he was the way he was, and certainly wasn't his fault she was a bitch. "Yeah, lil bit," he half muttered. But when Zuri suggested that he go back with him, he couldn't really refuse. His ears perked again, only really hearing the word 'food' and pretty much blocking everything else out. A chance at a free meal, how could he pass that up? And this could even open up the chance for another opportunity, an opportunity Ku was sure to take advantage of.

"Um, yeah, alright, I guess I could." He tried not to sound overly excited, just monotone and apathetic. Before he knew it though, he was following Zuri to the registers....

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They got up to the cashier and Zuri couldn't help but to notice that everyone was watching them. He knew it wasn't just because he knocked over a display, no one really cares about that. He knew it was because of Ku. He didn't know if he had stolen things other than the cereal bars and someone could of noticed. He just acted as if nothing was wrong as he put his groceries up on the conveyor belt. He figured they had noticed each of them came in at different times so his plan for them thinking they were together and less suspicion was ruined. Then he heard some manager and a stock boy talking.

"I'm pretty sure he did. I saw him earlier without that guy. I saw him packing something in his pants earlier." Claimed the stock boy.

"Do you know what it was?" Asked the manager.

"Not really. Plus look at his pants. They're bulging like crazy. He had to have packed something in there."

"It'd help if I knew what it was. But fine, I'll check just in case. I can't go off of speculation you know. I do kind of need some solid evidence. Ha, like this store could give me that. Ah, this place deserves it either way."

"Ha, figures." Zuri thought. "Haa, well hopefully I can swing this off."

Zuri payed for his stuff and packed it into his kart for the time being. He knew the manager and the stock boy were going to wait outside for them.

"Come on Ku. Just follow me." Zuri said, with a bit of a emphasis on 'follow me', trying to tip him off to what was going on, if he didn't already know.

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Ku was stupid, but he wasn't an idiot.....wait, what? Never mind, let's just say that Ku inherited his mother's sense of hearing, and anyone who knew his mother knew she had sonic hearing. He also overheard what the stock person and manager had said amongst themselves, and knew this wasn't good for him. Subtly, he reached down into the pockets of his pants, curling his fingers around the bars. He kept his head down, tried to make the bulge seem like just his hands, and even lowered his wings just slightly to cover his pockets, but he had a feeling he was already busted. He was just about ready to consider splitting when Zuri ordered him to follow. Since Zuri was the master thief, he decided to follow; he could only pray things worked in his favor.

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Zuri thought quickly and got an idea ready in his mind. When they got outside, as he expected the manager confronted them and asked them:

I'm sorry sir but I am going to have to ask you to empty your pockets.

Zuri agreed and pulled out everything in his pockets. All he had was his house keys and his wallet. He just had to wait for Ku. He just had to hope that Ku would shut up and played along.

"Well this is all I have. Just my keys and wallet. Oh, and my son here has some cereal bars on him. I hope there isn't a problem with that. He's diabetic and well I make him keep some cereal bars on him just in case his blood sugar begins to get a little low. He does have his insulin but that's just in case it gets a little low. But I hope thats alright. I don't want you to think that we stole it or something. I'm sorry if it seems that way." Zuri hoped that his quick talk confused the manager and got him to trust him.

"Hmm, alright. I just have to keep my eyes out you know. I thought I saw him messing with something in his pants and thought that he may have taken something. You never know with boys right?" The manager said seeming slightly reluctant to agree."

"Yeah, I know that. He can be a little trouble maker." Zuri said as he rubbed Ku's back. He could tell the manager was trying to blow off that Ku looked like he would steal something. The manager was trying to act as if he just pulled Ku aside just because the way he looks.

"Geesh, you shoulda seen me trying to get him outa bed. I told him if he was hungry he was gonna have to come with me. I figured he woulda at least cleaned up a bit." Zuri laughed, "Ah, what can you do right?"

The manager laughed and said, "Yeah, what can you do? Well you two have a nice day."

"You to." At that Zuri just walked passed and started for a clearer spot where he could get his groceries out of his kart and load up for home.

"You owe me your ass boy. That was close. Here, take some groceries, we got a little ways to fly from here." Zuri said to Ku, trying to laugh off what happened.

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Ku kept his head down, even as they stepped outside and the manager approached them. At first he was reluctant to empty his pockets, but after hearing Zuri's excuse he got the idea. He did show the manager that was all he had, but the manager still didn't seem convinced; Ku couldn't blame him.

When Zuri used the word 'son' to describe Ku, Ku physically winced; that was an uncomfortable thought. Likewise when Zuri began rubbing his back, Ku felt the need to rip the man's arm off and begin beating him with it, but he kept himself calm. The manager wasn't convinced, and Ku decided to chip in on the saving of his ass.

With a polite grin he looked up, shrugged a bit and replied, "When you've been getting all A's on finals, waking up on a Saturday morning to go shopping just doesn't sound like much fun, so unfortunately some things like getting cleaned up just get pushed to the side." Thankfully being around a bunch of smartasses gave Ku enough skill to speak English somewhat properly. And although what he said probably wouldn't have convinced the manager without Zuri's assistance, he figured it had helped some.

After the manager had left and he had followed Zuri through the parking lot, Ku half shrugged and pinned his ears back. "Um, yeah....I guess." He did owe Zuri his ass, but he wasn't going to admit it; they both knew it so why repeat it. "What do you want me to carry?"

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"Zuri just handed Ku some bags. "Ah, about whatever you can carry and still fly."

Luckily Zuri didn't buy all to much but still, it was a bit hard to carry all the bags. He tried to cram as much as he could in each bag and also making sure none of them would break, he also triple bagged everything. Zuri handed off a few bags to Ku and grabbed the rest.

"Ok, just follow me then. I live on top of one of those mountains over there so yeah. We'll be going as far up as quick as we can here. Oh, and don't drop anything, I need all that stuff. I eat to much of this stuff to quickly."

At that Zuri spread his wings and jumped up into the air and started flapping his wings and headed up. He didn't take off to quickly, he didn't want any of his bags to break. He'd be pissed if anything broke or fell.

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It was all Ku could do not to laugh when Zuri instructed him not to drop anything; knowing him he probably would, but he'd try not to. He played stupid and put several bags on his tail, which most people used for balance during flight, and only carried one small bag in his hands. Either way, it worked. Ku stretched his large feathered wings and flew after Zuri, climbing upward with ease. The only part that made this difficult was the fact that Ku hadn't flown in months, and he could feel how soft the muscles in his wings and back were.

He didn't pay much attention as they flew; he was following Zuri and watching for 'traffic', which really just consisted of low-flying birds, but was otherwise gone. It was kind of like autopilot; he knew he was flying and following Zuri, but his mind was thinking about other things. Zuri had got him thinking about his mom, and about how much he hated her, how much he wanted her dead. And then for some reason he couldn't stop thinking about sex. Well, he wasn't really thinking about sex, at least not in an aroused manner, but for some reason he just had this picture of some blond chic in his mind. It was strange; he could see himself on top of her, see her wrists pinned beneath his curled fists, he could even hear her screaming, see her crying. Unfortunately, he didn't really remember it; in his mind, this instance never occurred, or at least not that he had remembered.

With a sigh, he pushed the thoughts aside and forced his focus to the sky. From the corner of his eye he noticed a small black crow-looking bird flying beside them, but he thought nothing of it.

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They finally reached Zuri's house on top of the mountain. He landed at the edge of his side walk near his front door.

"Whelp, here we are. Sweet O' Home of mine. I'll just open the door and we can just drop the groceries on the floor in the kitchen." Zuri said as he opened the door. He opened it up and stepped in and the first thing he heard was an annoying yell echo throughout the house.

"God Damn dude! Why the fuck didn't you go to the grocery yesterday! I'm fucking starving here!"

Zuri's eye twitched as he scowled, "Little fuck. I swear I'm gonna kick his ass." He said somewhat quietly to himself. "You can go get the groceries to you ass. Gawd, your fifteen, you your lucky I don't just kick your ass out of here and make you get a job and buy your own fucking groceries!" Zuri yelled back.

"Cuz I can't fly." The voice muttered back.

"What was that?! That's what I thought. Learn! If you can't do that then you can still call the cab service then you ass. I know you got enough for that! You've already bought enough fucking weed. Waist your money on something more useful. Fuck, your lucky I even give you an allowance!" Zuri yelled back.

"haaa, you think someone who is high half the time on weed would be chilled out more." He said to himself. "Welcome to my abode Ku. And that little fuckerd in there is Ashton. Which he is a FUCKING LITTLE SHIT THAT DOES NOTHING!!!!" he said and yelled.

"Fuck you!" Yelled back the voice.

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Ku's only response was to raise an eyebrow and cock his head. This place was worse than Anna's house. At Anna's there were people cussing all the time, which he didn't mind, but at least everyone was careful to do it silently and not around the little kids, which he did anyway so it didn't matter for him.

Without responding, he followed Zuri into the kitchen and did as previously instructed, just placed the bags on the floor. There wasn't much more he could do, or even wanted to do. Sure he could have been helpful and tried to put things away, but he didn't know where they went and that seemed like a lot of work for him anyway.

At first he didn't notice Ashton. Well, it wasn't that he didn't notice the christmas kougra, it was just that he didn't look directly at him. The longer potion of his hair fell down to cover one eye anyway, impairing his vision. During a moment of silence, however, Ku lifted his head, flicking his snout in one direction to toss the hair back where it belonged. He became confused when he first saw Ashton - the similarities between him and someone else he knew were incredible. "Fuck dude, you look exactly like someone I used to know....was a girl but still. Any chance you have a twin?" He didn't even have to ask; he already knew the answer. And now that he had seen Ashton, he figured he knew the relationship between him and Abby. He could now guess that they knew each other because of these twins, he didn't know how they got them, but figured that's why Zuri hung around his house all the time.

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"He's a smart one isn't he?" Ashton said.

"You'll have to just ignore him. And yes. Ashley is his twin. She lives at Anna's house with Strips and Abby and them. Yeah, long story don't ask." Zuri said as he remembered the pain in the ass it was to take care of Ashton from where he was. He remembered him being a bit nicer though back then, not now.

"Yeah. Hey if you want to take a shower the bathroom is at the end of that hall there. I'm just gonna get the groceries put away and make some breakfast. Waffles ok?" Zuri asked, though he really didn't care, he was gonna make them pretty much either way. Ku could make something else if he really wanted.

"Ah, waffles, whatever. As long as its food. I'm starving over here." Ashton griped at Zuri.

"Ah shut up. You coulda made anything while I was gone anyways. As long as you didn't catch it on fire again." Zuri snapped back.

"That wasn't my fault. I can't help it the towel was there when I turned on the burner." Ashton complained.

"My ass." Zuri replied.

"Ah, whatever, just cook." Ashton commanded.

"How bout you help me get this stuff put away first, that way we can get cooking faster, thankyou." Zuri commanded back at Ashton.

"Ah fine, whatever." Ashton griped as he actually got up to help. He just figured if it got him food faster then fine then. He was hungry enough as it was.

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Ku picked up on Ashton's sarcasm, narrowing his eyes but saying nothing. He didn't even answer when Zuri asked him if waffles would be okay for breakfast; he figured Ashton had answered for him anyway and it didn't matter to him what they ate, as long as it was food. He took Zuri's suggestion and left the kitchen, turned down the hall, and made his way to the bathroom. Of course, he kind of figured that the only reason Zuri had suggested him taking a shower was because he reeked, and that was Zuri's polite way of telling him to go clean the fuck up.

After entering the bathroom, he closed and locked the door behind him, made his way to the shower, and turned both the cold and hot water all the way on. It didn't really matter to him what the temperature of the water was; hot or cold, he didn't care. Being part shoyru, a dragon type, and part kougra, a feline type, he naturally drew toward warmer temperatures, but at the same time he could tollerate cold. He stepped into the water and before the bar of soap even touched his body, mud ran off him in sheets. The water falling off his body was literally brown, most of the dirt having come from his wings. He stood under the water for a whole twenty minutes before the water going down the drain finally began to clear. When it finally came time to actually start scrubbing, he used an entire bottle of shampoo on his thick fur, hair, and wings.

Once again, his mind drifted off into an autopilot setting. He saw the girl in his mind again, and now he could almost feel her too. He could feel pain mixed with pleasure; for a moment he even thought he could smell her fear. He kept telling himself that none of it was real, that this memory had just been something he had concocted himself; how could it be real when couldn't physically remember raping someone.

"You know you did, don't you Ku?" A loud, demonic voice snarled. It sounded like the voice had come from behind, but when Ku turned around, he discovered he was still alone.

Ku closed his eyes, dropped to his knees, and bent forward, letting the water run over his head and pinned ears. "I did nothing!" he snarled back out loud, though it was unlikely anyone would hear him over the running water.

"Murderer, thief, why not add rapissst to the lissst," a different, softer voice hissed.

"Shut up!" Ku commanded, pounding his fist into the shower's floor. Silence overcame his mind, and all he could now hear was the sound of rushing water over his ears. Still, he didn't move for quite some time.

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While Ku showered Zuri and Ashton put away all the groceries and Zuri started to make the waffles.

"Come on! I'm starving here." Ashton griped at Zuri.

"Well your the one that took 15 minutes to help me put everything away. We woulda been done by now if you didn't take so long. Geesh." Zuri griped back.

"Yeah yeah. Just get those things done." Ashton commanded.

"Haaa, I'm going. Hold your horses. Not like your gonna die. It'll be like another 3 minutes." Zuri said back.

"Fine." Ashton said simply.

Zuri made the batter. He made alot of batter. He figured he would eat 3 or so himself, Ashton he knew would eat atleast 2 if not more, and he figured Ku would be starving just the same and would eat atleast 3 or so. So Zuri made enough for about 15 waffles. Good thing he bought a lot of butter and syrup. He poured the batter into the mold and let it cook. As soon as it was done he put it on a plate and handed it off to Ashton.

"Haaaaa fiiiinally." Ashton said as he lathered butter and syrup across his waffle.

Zuri rolled his eyes and continued to make waffles till Ashton had his fill.

"Haaa, that was good." Ashton said in satisfaction.

"Good." Zuri said simply. He made about 8 more and then sat down himself. He made one waffle, full of butter and syrup and started to eat.

"Haaa, that does hit the spot." He said as he lifted up his glass of milk and took a large drink. "I wonder whats taking Ku so long?"

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When he finally got up the will to move again, Ku lifted his head and turned off the water. He staggered over the wall of the tub and plopped himself down on the ground, lazily gabbing a towel from above his head; he hoped it was clean. Pulling it into his lap, Ku leaned forward and rested his head on one knee; it was another ten minutes of this position before he finally stood up and began drying off.

After he was completely dry he began snooping around; it was almost like he couldn't help himself. He opened cabinets and draws, not finding much of anything - this was a male's bathroom after all. He did find something of use to him, however, when he opened the medicine cabinet above the sink. It was fairly empty, some pepto, a box of q-tips, and a bottle of Tylenol was all it housed. Still, Ku couldn't pass this up; he grabbed the bottle of little red pills and dumped the entire bottle into the pockets of his pants. After recapping the bottle, he returned it to it's shelf exactly the way he had found, just empty now instead of full.

Wrapping himself in the towel, he grabbed his clothes and walked out of the bathroom. He found what he could only assume was Zuri's room, since it wasn't decorated in a kid-ish fashion, and began raiding more drawers. The only difference was that this time he was looking for clothes. He found a nice pair of pajama bottoms and put them on, not being able to find any type of t-shirt. At least he wasn't wearing any of Zuri's underwear.

Before he walked back into the kitchen, he half folded his clothes and set them beside the couch in the living room, almost trying to hide them in a corner. He walked back into the kitchen and plainly stated, "I'm wearing your pants," before sitting down.

Immediately he took two waffles, but before lathering them in anything, he took one and broke it in half. He placed one of the broken halves in the pajama pockets and then proceeded to pour excessive amount of syrup on the remaining waffles, practically inhaling them afterward.

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By the time Ku got to the table Zuri had only gone through 2 waffles. He wasn't inhaling his food and was enjoying it. He didn't feel like rushing anything. When Ku stuffed a waffle in his pant pocket Zuri had to ask, "Why? Just why?"

He just grabbed another waffle and put butter and syrup on it and then refilled his glass while waiting for a responce from Ku. He just kinda figured it was Ku's wierd way of needing to shove things in his pants. He has to feel as if he stole something. Plus he could of just got it from the fridge later. Seriously, there was no point in it. Zuri just started eating, feeling no need to ask anything further.

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Ku looked up from his plate, a wide ornery smile slowly consuming his face. He knew what Zuri was asking about, the waffle; he imagined it did seem a little strange. And since Zuri had decided to make such a big deal out of it, Ku decided to have a little fun of his own. "My dirty little secret," he replied simply, looking back down at his plate. Yeah, he probably could have grabbed a waffle from the fridge later... that was assuming, of course, there were any left by the time he was done. He fully intended on eating anything that no one else ate; he had already finished his one and a half and had grabbed another. All of this sugar was probably going to shock his system later, but at this point he didn't really care - food was food.