Akira paniced a little. He could not let those people notice that he had been living with Roku, nor that he knew Hiyoko. But where could he go now? He felt trapped between the few tenants around him. He wanted to flee like always in this kind of situation but he couldn't. It felt like his feet were glued to the floor. Akira felt like crying and wished silently that someone would save him. But at the same time he hoped that nobody would do that because it would put the saviour in a tight spot for helping a black cat. The only one that didn't seem scared or angry at him was the baby. Not that this was helpful for Akira. Truthfully, Akira was more scared of what these people would do to him than they were for the bad luck that a black cat was supposed to be spreading.<br/>Then the baby started to wriggle, he wanted to get out of his mothers arms. He was gesturing towards Akira. He wanted to go that way. The mother was of course holding him back. "Bwacky," the baby tried to say. His parents reacted shocked that their baby was calling out to 'Blacky'. He really wanted to go over to Akira. With a big friendly smile too. The mother held her baby back while the father took a step forward. "Don't you dare touch my child," he treatened Akira who hadn't moved a milimeter from his position. He was just as shocked at the baby as his parents were. Although this underlined again tht these people were not bad, they just believed black cats to be unlucky just like everyone else. Akira tried to take a stap back, only to find the front door of Roku's appartment at his back. Akira shrinked, he was really backed up in a corner. Yet the father being confronted with his baby's liking towards the balck cat and the fact that the unlucky cat himself looked like he would break out into crying at any moment, he really couldn't keep up his anger very well. "Look, just disappear right now and don't show your unlucky face here again," he said with a stern voice ignoring his wife who was protesting a little. The man gently pushed his wife towards the side a little to make room for Akira to pass through.<br/>Akira took this opportunity to slowly walk past them, finally being able to lift his feet of the ground. He was very alert to sudden attacks though. Just when he was passing the couple, the baby started to giggle loudly, apperantly he thought that Akira was coming to play with him. Akira was startled by the sudden noise and sprinted away and around the corner.<br/>With the black cat out of their sight, the wife started to reprimand her husband for just letting the unlucky black cat go. "Honey, didn't you see how scared the kid was?" He asnwered calmly while taking over the baby. "I couldn't possible harm him." Seeing how nothing bad had happened the couple quickly put aside their argument whule going back inside.