Hey everybody! This is yet another story! Yay! I've had three major tests this week and I have three more this week, so I finished studying for the past three hours and wanted to have a little fun! I'm not stopping Shifting Secrets! I'm still a dedicated writer! But I am also a working student! And an artist → Future professional Artist! Once I'm done with college that is and maybe a few years after that. Well! Lets move on shall we!

This story is LOOSELY based off of my other story "Shifting Secrets" but with MAJOR differences! It is almost nothing like it! But I am going to keep the "Shifter" aspect in there.

SUMMERY ~Shifters take over 85% of the worlds populace. Humans less than 15%. Shifters are beings almost identical to humans, but are closely linked to their family animal and accept their animal traits. Long ago the Shifters were almost drove to extinction by the humans, but after many wars, the Shifters took control of the world. The humans ran into hiding after loosing hundreds of thousands of their kind and the Shifters started society and built towns and cities. Now in the twenty first century, The few humans that are left are captured and sold to Shifters as property. Sasuke was driving home from work one night and almost hit an object in the street. That object was a human. Sasuke is a Shifter. What will he do with the boy?

So! Sounds interesting? If this sounds like another FanFic I'm sorry! I try my best to make originals. But with the Naruto category well into the 300,000's it would be hard to make a completely, 100%, original story. Lord knows I've tried! Hehe, well now on with the story!

Thoughts

Sounds

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BOOOM. The sky thundered as rain suddenly fell from the ominous clouds that swayed in the powerful winds.

Sasuke trudged down the empty street, without an umbrella, and pushed his soaked hair away from his eyes. Sasuke had just gotten out of work and was walking to his car. His work building had a parking garage just for the employees , but it was two streets away. Most of the time the walk was nice, after a long day in the office, the fresh air was much needed for the black haired male. And the weather report called for sunny skies with partial clouds, not rain. Damn weather reporters. This isn't sunny. So Sasuke didn't even think about taking an umbrella, and halfway to the garage, it started down pouring. Sasuke glared at the sky, but just kept with his usual pace. The street was quickly emptied of people, the street lamps flickering through the rain. Sasuke checked his phone for the time, 9:27, he had thirty three minutes to get home in time for his favorite show.

"Ch, damn rain." Sasuke grumbled as he shoved his phone back into his pant pocket and blankly stared ahead at the empty street.

The night sky crackled as lightning was added to the thunder and rain. Sasuke glared as the rain starting coming down harder. The now hail-like rain pelting poor Sasuke in the face. The black haired man growled, quickly pulling off his business jacket to let his wings out and shelter his head from the harsh rain. The feathers barely managed to reach over Sasuke's ebony hair, but it was keeping some of the water off of him. It's better than nothing. Thought the gloomy pale man as he rounded the last street and was within eyes sight of his car. Sasuke looked both ways down the street before walking across and pulling out the keys to his car.

Once under the concrete over hang of the parking garage, Sasuke flapped the water off his feathers and pulled them neatly to his back. Jumped into his car and quickly pulled out of the garage and onto the empty road. The drive back to Sasuke's home was about twenty minutes without traffic. And thankfully tonight there seemed to be almost no one on the road. A few cars were seen here and there, but over all, a pretty desolate Thursday night.

The rain made it almost impossible to see through the windshield, even with the windshield wipers on their highest setting.

"God damn rain! Can't see a damn thing." Sasuke growled as he slowed the car to a stop at the end of the street at the stoplight.

After a few minutes Sasuke flipped on the radio and tried to make the best of this crappy night. He still had fifteen minutes until his show was on, no problem, he was almost home.

BOOOM. The crashing of the wind shock the ground as well as Sasuke's car itself. The pale Shifter cursed and held tight to the steering wheel. A bolt of yellow, molten white, lightning bolt split the sky, branching off before disappearing as fast as it came. Sasuke grumbled and turned the radio's volume up two notches. The song was ok, not one of his favorites, but the vocals were descent.

The wipers went just fast enough to keep Sasuke from crashing into the side of the road, but they were too slow compared to the amount of rain that was falling. And the booming thunder mixed with the radio made it even harder to pay attention to the road...or what was on it. Sasuke clipped the side of the street as he turned a blind corner, but he wasn't that upset, the small bump would likely not even leave a scratch. Sasuke sighed and checked the clock on the radio. He had thirteen minutes left.

Sasuke's eyes left the radio and looked back at the road, just in time to see a large object not even fifteen feet from the front of his car, lying in the middle of the road.

"Shit!" Sasuke slammed on the brakes, coming just a few feet before the object. Sasuke's heart beat pounded in his chest, threatening to burst. The black haired man took a deep breath as he tried to see what he almost hit. The mass was rising from the ground, and slowly started pulling itself to the other side of the road. Sasuke was left in a trance as he watched the object flop and crawl to the other side of the street.

The mass was mostly black that shined as the rain pelted down on it. But Sasuke could see bits of other shades in the bundle. Light brown near the front that swayed as it moved, and pale skin-like areas under the brown an-

"Shit! Its a person!" Sasuke's eyes widened as he noticed the arms that were trying despertly to pull at the tar ground. The small legs dragging behind. The pathetic head trying to stay steady. Sasuke watched as the body slowly relaxed on the pavement of the side walk, finally making it across the street. Sasuke blinked once before throwing open his car door and running to the side of the body on the side walk. No cars passed on this street. The only sounds was the sounds of the rain hitting the ground, thunder, and the sound of Sasuke running though the shallow puddles on the ground.

The body's head rose at the sound of the splashes, its eyes widened at the approaching figure. Its relaxed state broken as he scrambled to his arms and feet and tried to run. Sasuke sadly watched as the body could only make it a few more inches before collapsing once again.

"Hey! Are you alright?" Sasuke called out as he ran to the person's side. Idiot! Of course he isn't alright! He's practically dying on the side of the road! Damn.

Sasuke bent down to look at the fallen body, trying to find an injury, or cause of the collapse. The figure pulled its head under its chest and attempted to raise its arms, but couldn't find the strength. Sasuke carefully pulled at the clothing on the body.

"Listen, where are you hurt? I need to know if I can lift your body or not. And also so I can tell the ambulancemen so they know what to bring. Can you hear me?" Sasuke said in a low and monotone voice. Not wanting to agitate the person, but making sure he heard him clearly. The body didn't move. Sasuke wiped at his face as the rain pounded at his unshielded eyes. Sasuke pulled out his ebony wings and stretched them over the fallen body and partly himself. The cover was helpful to shelter the two bodies from the rain, but it also cut off the light from the street lamps. Sasuke cursed and moved so that he could shelter himself and the body from the rain, but also have light.

Sasuke pulled out his phone and began to type in 911, when something caught his eye. A short red rod with yellow flights on the end. A dart? What the hell? Sasuke pulled the dart from the back of the person's neck and flipped the body.

"A kid?" Sasuke said as he saw the young face with dirt and some blood coming from his forehead. The boy seemed unharmed beside the scrap on his head, so Sasuke focused on the dart in his hand. Was the kid hit by mistake? Damn kids running in the streets late at night. Probably pissed of an old man with a dart gun. Sasuke frowned as boy opened his eyes and looked at Sasuke, his body shaking. Sasuke punched in the last numbers on his phone, ready to call the police. Sasuke felt the small shakes, but pushed the worry to the side, thinking the boy was just cold.

"No." It came out in a whisper, Sasuke looked down at the boy, almost not believing that a sound had come from his mouth. Damn kid doesn't want to get in trouble. Too bad! Sasuke ignored the plea and pulled the phone to his ear.

BOOM! CRACK!

"Shit!" Sasuke jumped at the loud thunder and sound of a tree breaking. He looked around and saw that it wasn't anywhere in sight. Sasuke looked back at the boy for a moment, and stopped. His eyes.

Sasuke finally saw that the boy was shaking harder, tears falling from his eyes and small cries huffed from his mouth. His hair was covered in mud, but as the rain washed through, Sasuke could see the golden shine. His cheeks had three black marks on each side, not too uncommon for Shifters, but they seemed...different. As if they were scars instead of birthmarks. The boy's damp clothes sagged on the ground, a long black jacket covering most of his body. The boy's eyes...He was terrified.

"Listen, I have to call the police. You won't get into too much trouble." Sasuke said, with a little softer tone, trying to calm the boy. He looked like he was only sixteen, maybe seventeen, not yet a man, but still a little too old to be called a boy. Sasuke was only twenty two, just out of college, and this teen would be still in high school. What is he doing out here all alone? Don't boys his age do all this crazy crap together? Did his friends ditch him? Sasuke sighed and looked back at the boy. His scared blue eyes falling shut and his shaking slowing as his body seemed to finally to calm.

"Please...don't...I-" The blond boy's head fell to the side as he fell unconscious. Sasuke cursed as he watched the body still on the ground. Sasuke grabbed the boy and tried to wake him up, shaking calling out, even slapping the boy's face a few times.

"Damn kid was hit with a tranquillizer." Sasuke growled and shut his phone, hoping the water didn't seep in yet. After a few moments of debate, Sasuke grabbed the boy and started to lift him up.

"What the?" Sasuke went to grab under the boy's knees when he saw that the boy didn't have a tail. Pausing, Sasuke wiped at the water dripping from his hair and blinked. He had no gills, no wings, no tail, no fangs, no claws. Sasuke's breath quickened as he searched for a Shifter trait. But all he could find was the scars on his cheeks. Every Shifter had a trait or two. This wasn't right. No family has whiskers. Not even Cat Shifters or Fox Shifters. Not Mice, or defiantly not Dogs or Raccoon Dogs...What are you? Sasuke ruffled the water on his feathers as he looked down on the boy.

He can't be. No. A Human? Sasuke pulled back his wings and let the rain fall down on the motionless body. Slowly the black haired man rose to his feet and walked back to his car. The clock read 10:03. Sasuke gripped the steering wheel as he started the car, his head lights brightening the empty street. Illuminating the fallen boy on the side walk. Sasuke growled as he saw the unconscious lump on the side walk. No. I'm not picking up some stray human on the side of the road! Damn thing probably ran away from its owner or something. I'm not going to be accused of being a thief! He'll be picked up later anyway.

Sasuke pushed the gears into drive and put his foot on the gas pedal. And nothing. Sasuke looked back at the boy and then to the road. His eyes glaring at the rain as it soaked the boy on the sidewalk. He got hit with a dart! Obviously he will be found soon. How far can he run before collapsing? They'll be hear any minute. Sasuke grumbled and sat in his car, waiting. Hoping to see his owner come and take the human out of the rain before he cause pneumonia. One, five, seven minutes go by.

"Dammit!" Sasuke yelled as he threw open the car door and stalked over to the boy. He lifted him up and threw him onto his shoulder before trudging back to his car and throwing him into the back seat. The lifeless body slunk down against the back seats. Sasuke jumped into the front seat and drove down the empty street. Completely ignoring the fact that the boy didn't have a seat belt on.

Damn human! Making me pick up his ass! Made me miss my favorite show! Sasuke growled, his feathers ruffling and puffin up as he drove back to his house.

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Well that's it for this chapter! Hope you guys liked it! New chapter coming soon! For this story as well as Shifting Secrets! I hope to update all my stories soon, but you know how it goes. Packed schedule, school, work, chores, pets, friends, art, yeah its hard. I feel for all the writers out there!

No worries! I know its tough!

So! Next chapter soon! Review :3