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Mio is feeling sorry for herself. She hates being a cat. Actually, hates might be putting it a little bit mildly. Mio absolutely detests being a cat. For one thing, her clothes, wallet, and schoolbag all disappeared off to somewhere when she got transformed. This means she had no access to her money or her credit cards in the Nexus.

Being flat broke for the first time in her life was not a pleasant experience. Mio was uses to the softest feather beds and the highest quality gourmet food. She had neither of these in the Nexus. Sleeping under bushes, in boxes, and behind dumpsters was not only horribly uncomfortable, it was unsanitary, and she kept having to defend her territory from other cats as well, meaning that she had not gotten anything near an uninterrupted night's sleep for the entire time she had been in the Nexus. On top of that, scrounging for food was demeaning. She was not going to beg for food, begging was not something a daughter of the Hongo family would ever consider. Unfortunately for her, Mio was not very good at scrounging, which led to her going hungry most nights.

Interrupting herself from her internal complaints, Mio goes to check around the Nexus Conroys to see if the old lady who runs this flowershop has put out any food today. The obaa-san is a little bit senile and often forgets, but Mio always comes by to check every day just in case she has put something out.

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Mio considers. If Ran poured a small amount of soy sauce on the sushi plate itself (instead of the little soy sauce bowls), she could probably maneuver the sushi into and out of the puddle with her paws.

"Yes, please. Just pour a little bit onto the the plate right there please."

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Ran does so. She's had a lot of practice at this sort of thing thanks to the hazards of her profession. "so what do you look like when you aren't LOLed, Hongo-san?"

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Mio maneuvers one of the shrimp sushi through the puddle of soy sauce with one paw.

"I am 160 centimetres in height, and weigh 50 kilograms. I have short black hair, slightly longer than chin-length with bangs, and gray eyes." Mio is not going to mention her scar unless Ran asks.


((That's 5'3" and 110 lbs for us American types.))

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Scars aren't something that are easily talked about. Ran has quite a few of her own, but they're more easily hidden. "You must be very pretty."

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Mio doesn't feel pretty sometimes, especially with all of her mother's comparisons of her to Misao.

"Thank you," Mio says. It's never worth turning down a compliment.

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"Are you in high school? Oh, um, does your world have high school?"

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Mio nods. "I am a second year in Seika Academy's high school division this year."

Mio felt a brief stab of loss. She hated those twittering idiots known as her classmates, but she had enjoyed studying and learning from Seika's top-notch teachers. She wondered if she would ever be able to go back now.

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"I'm a third year now. It's odd because I'm in the same grade as Niichan now, but I like being able to study with him."

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Mio blinks. She is slightly confused by what Ran said about being in the same grade as her brother, but is trying not to show it. "Oh, so you have a brother, Fujimiya-san?"

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"Yes. Niichan is the best older brother ever. He's two years older than me, but he was injured and got behind in school while he was recovering."

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"I am very sorry to hear that." Actually Mio's not sorry at all, who was she to care whether or not Ran's brother had been injured, she barely knew her, after all. But it was polite to say so, so Mio did.

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"It's a lot better now." What with killing it all better and Ran being out of the coma. "He even comes to the Nexus sometimes. Not often though. He studies harder than I do."

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"Oh, I see."

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"Niichan is really smart. He's handsome, too." Ran is going to babble about how awesome her brother is until Mio interupts her, probably.

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Mio interrupts Ran with a request for more sushi. "Would you pass me some hamachi, please?"

((Hamachi=yellowtail, if you care at all ^_^))

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"Oh, yes, of course." And there she is. "What about you, Hongo-san? Do you have any siblings?"

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"I have an one older sister, Misao. My cousin Mizuki also lives with us." Well, works as a maid in the Hongo house, more like, but that wasn't for public consumption.

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"I always wanted a sister when I was growing up. Are you very close with them?"

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"No." Mio's reply was blunt.

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"I'm sorry. That must be very lonely."

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"Not really." In fact, she'd be glad if Misao and Mizuki weren't around. (Well okay, she'd miss Mizuki a little; Mizuki knows how to make tea just the way Mio likes it.)

Mio continues to nibble on her sushi.

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Tea is important! Yohji and Ken are never, ever allowed to touch Ran's tea supplies. "I'm glad it doesn't bother you, then." Ran is starting to eat more slowly now. She might be full soon. YAY.

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Mio finishes eating the plate she's been working on.

"Another plate of maguro, please."

This will probably be Mio's last plate.

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"Of course."

"If you don't mind me asking, does it taste about the same to you as a cat?"

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Mio pauses to consider for a few moments. "The overall taste is similar, but the flavor of the fish is more intense. I also found that the texture of the rice feels drier to my cat senses."