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Kuumia was curled up in her den. Her empty, lonely den. She had taken a brake from Xana and vice versa, but now... She was home and had been for what seemed like years. She was patiently waiting for him, and slowly giving up. She was a bad girl and good things don't happen to bad cheetahs.

Her amber eyes slowly opened. Her dreamland floated away like cotton candy clouds. Every warm feeling she had was growing colder and her hate for everything growing stronger. Everyday that she had to wait was taking it's toll on her mood and emotions. Her dagger eyes were back and ready to pierce through souls again. Her normal blood lust was stronger. It was all empty. It left her numb, bored, apathetic. Kuumia's stomach felt weak. She turned her nose up at eating. There was something making her nervous and jumpy.

Her mind was wandering back to the stranger she once called friend. He was gone now and the female he knew was leaving too, leaving her an empty shell of a cheetah. She had her mind set on never seeing him again, no matter how much she wanted to.

Sighing, Kuumia crawled out of her den. She poked her head out and her body followed. She needed a walk. A calm, relaxing walk.

Her eyes were thrown up at the sky. The deep blue was comforting and took all thoughts from her pretty little head. Her reflexes slowed and her breathing did to. Kuu was relaxed and calm. Another day with out him would slowly begin to be easier and easier. Then something touched her. With a delayed and slow turn of her head, her dull eyes brightened and a smile crept onto her face.

Maybe he was just a daydream. A figment of her imagination. After all, He couldn't really be there. Especially not with a gift. He was a greedy whore. Sleeping all day just so he could steal more in the light of the moon. He never wanted to talk. Just Steal. Her mixed emotions were dragging her every which way. She wanted to scream and cuddle him, but at the same time she wanted to claw his eyes out.

"A LITTLE LOST?!" She screeched. 'A little lost' MIGHT have flown with her if he had been back a few days sooner. But this was lunacy. Xana left her waiting, alone. "And HOW did you know I'd be here?!" She was getting madder and madder by the second when her eyes feel upon the bright sparkling gem. It was so pretty. Kuumia snatched it from him. Cradling it gently in her paws.

"You have five minutes to explain yourself."

Her ears perked up. It had to be to good to be true. No more deceit and stealing. Ha. She had to be dreaming. Kuu hummed to herself and slipped closer to him, wanting to hear more or his impossible story. A goddess? No way was THAT possible.

Kuumia cuddled up to him, holding the gem close to her like a new born cub. For now it was the apple of her eye and the very beat of her heart. Her mind was slowing to a stop and her head rested on his shoulder. Kuumia really did miss him, but she was still far from admitting it to his face.

"I hate you cause you left." She said bluntly. "But It's nice knowing my cuddle buddy is back." She tried to make it sound like thats all he was. A buddy to keep her warm.

Kuu grinned sardonically, it was time for her to shine. Although, she didn't brag. Just shrugged it off as nothing; stretching the truth only enough to see what he was thinking and if he cared about her. Her eyes shone in the glimmer of the sunlight. It made her feel more elusive about the whole thing.

"Oh. Nothing to much. Ran into a male or two." Kuumia failed to mention that one male had been an idiotic smelly lion. That, and he didn't need to be bothered with such trivial facts. "It was nothing." a coy smile drifted on to her face. "All though, if Memory serves correctly, that handsome cheetah I met did make for a fun time."

Kuumia got up and moved back towards her den, tail swinging lightly behind her and the gem in her mouth. The cheetah that she had met did make for a fun time. Just not in the way she was hinting at. Kim had put up a fight and a good one at that, but not that it mattered now. She ducked her head into her den and looked back questionably. "Coming?" She murmured through her new trophy.

Finally. She was getting somewhere with the big Oaf. Jealousy was drifting along in the air and Kuumia liked it. It was her own bit of superiority over other females. She had won the prize she had wanted and had a gorgeous green trophy to prove it. Kuu enjoyed of the green monster of envy reared it's ugly head. It made her giggle lightly as she spun her tale of her meeting with Kim.

"It was fantastic. Treated me so nicely. That is..." Her amber eyes held a secret in them, alluring and deep. "Until I beat him into the dirt." She listened to what he had to say about the females he had met and casually said "That's nice." Those were the only words that she felt were needed. After all, he he liked them so much THEY would have him. They would also have the pretty gem she had cradled in her paws.

Kuumia purred at the thought of more treasures, beginning to enjoy the feeling of being just as priceless as the glittering gem, feeling like Xana's treasure. He was, after all, the only creature she could stay on a calm note with. All the others made her leave in a huff and had new scars added to their faces. The truly anti-social and violent Kuu subsided while she was with him, leaving a calm shell of what she really was.

"Well, it is MY den. So I DO demand respect." She spoke forcefully with a bit of malice sprinkled over it. "And as for being better..." She stopped. Maybe it wasn't the best time for a rude remark. Kuumia still had to snap the trap and make Xana and the gem her precious prizes.

"Shut your pretty little trap." She said smoothly with a hint of a smile. "You know as well as I. This Den is the both of ours and it has been since I led you here. And it will be until I have something of true significance." There was a twinkle in Xana's eye and it was obvious that he was thinking just as she was, and it was a thought that she adored greatly.

All this talk of Kimanda and the female that Xana had run into were mere annoyances. She sat, calm and collected, and listened patiently and repeating all of the words in her head. At the note about 'cubs' Kuumia's face dropped. had really said what she though he did? The thought of having cubs, especially one's not Fathered by her dearest and only friend, made her skin crawl. It was disgusting. Horrible even.

"Don't you dare talk about any other male fathering my cubs." all of the anger had lit in a split second and subsiding the next. All of her previous thoughts about cubs seemed to slip away and her feelings of getting 'fat' seemed lees horrible than before.

"But, if you go off to find Eta, you're whole journey would have been in vain. You would have nothing to show for it but heartache. Besides. You'd miss me to much." Kuu rubbed her cheek under his neck, making note to act sweet and gentle for the time being.

"You can have it if you so desperately want it. It's nothing more than a warm place to sleep at night." Kuumia was slowly getting fed up with the incessant arguing over her den and if it would please him so much as to keep it for himself, she would let him.

"Well, I'd much rather have you father any cubs I might have." Her radical temper flaring and her sharp tongue sealed those words with fire. "But most importantly, they would be gorgeous." Xana was giving her the headache of her life. On more than one occasion, she would simply lash out and attack but that seemed impossible at this moment. She was growing impatient with all of words coming out of his mouth.

When the two of them had met, hadn't there been a clash much like this? Oh, she knew there had and it flustered her at the thought. He wanted dominance and she would fight for it to. It would take more than gems for her to allow what he wished.

"You're beginning to get used to all of this, though. Don't deny it, I see it." Kuu knew he proved a point and she knew she had to. She stuck by her previous accusation of "If you wanted to stay with a different female, why would you be here and giving me gifts?"

"Who says I haven't?" Se spoke with a voice as smooth as honey. Kuu shifted her shoulders so his paw fell off and away from her. If he was going to Try anything that had worked on other females, she would reject it; wanting better. Then an thought and memory slipped into her mind that made her wonder.

"So, are you still a lier?" She accused, a little more serious than she thought; but it was still a good point. "What happened to saying you were a 'Virgin' and all of that nonsense that you so smoothly dropped into my head? Luring me into a false sense of security?" (Apperently Sei had been playing to many Phoenix Wright Games) There were so many things that were slowly beigging to bother her, but the speak of cubs lightened her mood.

It lulled her into a sweet, calm state. He was making her enjoy his thoughts more and more. But the question was, would she be ready to have them? With a history of bad temper would she end up harming them in a fit of rage? Or would Xana stay with her? Being her Morphine and keeping her in an almost harmless state.

The only problem with this would be more frequent travels from the den to release all of the built up aggression onto unsuspecting creatures-but now, it didn't seem like that much of a problem.