Moon Born Children.
Fenribane - A new story with 'Pets', I've done vampire and werewolves, so lets do another common story line...This will likely be a slowly updated story due to it been a side project while i do my exams and studies. I hope you enjoy.
Disclaimer - I do not own Naruto or any character featured in the Naruto series. I own nothing...Not even a computer, a house or even clothes...Well maybe clothes...Do rags count?
Prologue.
Three basic questions asked about 'pets', what are they, where do they come from and what do they do.
Pets as people refer to them in common day life are animals that have the ability to talk and change shape to resemble humans; however the shape change is never perfect as certain features don't change. Ears, tails, wings, spines and horns are always present, making pets easy to identify even in human shape. This ability to change is something that comes with time and usual pets change shape to please their owners. Where pets come from is a harder question as not even the oldest pets really remember where they came from, and human history has never been interested enough to remember things of this magnitude. As to what they do it varies from owner to owner, some are kept as servants other are meant for security as pets are very loyal especially dogs, some are simply kept as pets and a few are kept as lovers...Although no law stands to ban humans from indulging in sexual activities with pets, it is a common taboo to get a pet pregnant. As the child is seen as been soulless...
In Konoha the largest city in the Fire country is the largest centre of pet society, to own a pet is a sacred right of all citizens when coming of age. The coming of age been general twelve years old... It is also law for all pets to receive a check up at one of the cities many vets once a year.
It was a nice summer's day when the black luxury car pulled up outside the smallest Vets in Konoha, the small business was solely kept in business by it loyal customers. The old tired shop was also known as a shelter for abandoned pets, for abused pet's even pets had civil rights...
As one of the car doors opened a stone faced man stepped out, he had long raven hair that was kept in a ponytail. The man had pale skin like a porcelains dolls and the mans eyes were an oxen colour however they were extremely bloodshot and some people could swear they got redder as the man got angrier. His name was Fugaku Uchiha the head of the infamous Uchiha clan, a leading power in the Fire Country. Following after the man a similarly pale skinned woman exited the car; she had black hair that came down to her waist. Her eyes were a similar shade of oxen but without the bloodshot that Fugaku had, her name was Mikoto Uchiha the devoted with of Fugaku and matron of the Uchiha clan. When meeting the pair a person would notice two things the first been that Fugaku had a very quirt and antisocial manner to him, and secondly that his with Mikoto was the complete opposite she had a way of calming a person down and been able to talk to them on the same level. It was one of the reasons the Uchiha clan was doing so well, the women was a brilliant negotiator for the business of the Uchiha clan.
Fugaku walked to the back driver back door and opened the door with a quick yank, a door swung open and light poured into the car a pair of dark shapes moved.
"Come on, its time for your check ups" Mikoto said as she came too the door side and gazed inside.
Inside was the small form of a black cat, the small beasts yellow eyes opened slightly and the closed as the small creature started to stretch on the leather seats. Its claws digging groves into the leather, much to the anger of Fugaku. It was then that the cat sat and looked at the building and in one quick flash the creature had its back up and hissed at the run down building.
"No way am I going in there...Its disgusting." The words came form the small cat in the form of a young women's voice.
"Now, now this is where you came from Rayne" the cat gave another hiss at her name, true she had come from this run down part of town but it wasn't by choice.
"You promised to take me to Otto's" the car hissed as she back up some more. Otto's was the most luxurious pet spar in Konoha, as well as the most expensive.
"Rayne! Out now" Fugaku shouted as his temper snapped due to the cats claws digging further into his leather seats.
The cat sat smugly and refused to move, her yellow eyes daring the two humans to try and move her.
"Fine, Giles come on boy." Mikoto said and from behind the small black cat a large black shape moved.
Shoving passed the small black cat Giles moved, springing forth from the car to his master call.
Giles was a large black dog; he was a Fenris Hound a strange breed of dog that came from the northern regions. He looked a cross between a wolf and a hound, his body being large and muscular and covered in thick black fur with a long snout that curved slightly. He sat before Mikoto with his tail wagging and his long tongue hanging from his gapping mouth as he panted in the summer heat. Giles was not a pet or at least he was not a 'Pet' but a common dog that Mikoto owned. Although many people had their doubts about Giles, he was uncommonly clever and intelligent and had a way that he seemed to understand people but what was most strange was his age. He'd been living with Mikoto mother for several years before Mikoto was born, even then he'd been full grown and that had been nearly thirty five year ago. But he never spoke and he'd never been able to take human form, Mikoto had tried for years to find out if he could to no avail.
Now he sat happily wagging his tail at the pair of ravens, seemly unaware of any problems.
"Who's a good boy...?" Mikoto went down on her knees and started to baby talk to the huge beast, stroking him with her hands.
"Dammed mutt nearly broke my neck" Rayne hissed from the car as she came to the edge of the seat and glared at the dog.
Giles turned and started looking at the cat his tongue still dangling from his jaws, the cat hiss violently at him. She was only fourteen years old and still in her bitchy teens, so she made an experimental swipe at the dog with her claws.
"Don't you dare" Rayne hissed and Giles seemed to wag his tail even more.
In one quick movement Giles had the cat in his jaws and pulled her by the surf of the neck from the car. Placing her down as Mikoto closed the car door with a thud; Giles had the intelligence to jump back when the cat went into a furious state.
There was a moment when Rayne was formless it lasted only a fraction of a nanosecond and then a girl stood in the cats place. She oddly resembled the two humans greatly, her black hair was almost raven and her skin was an unnatural white. She wore a black top that in Mikoto's opinion revealed too much and a skirt that could have been a belt along with leather high heel boots. Her yellow eyes fixed on Giles and she kicked out at him in temper, then striating her hair and her long black tail that hung from her lower back she turned to Fugaku who was glaring at her angrily.
"Sorry master" Rayne said in a sad little voice as the large cat ears on the sides of her head went flat with fear.
As they entered the small dilapidated building the smells of a thousand hit them, this repulsed the three ravens slightly but to Giles it was like smelling a garden of roses. The black animal skipped happily down the rows of cages holding young pets and stopped ever once in while to stare at the timid creatures in the glass cages.
"Good Morning Giles" the black dog looked around to see a spiky grey haired man reading a book at a small counter. With a happy bark the large beast that was Giles raced over to greet the newcomer.
"Ok it nice to see you too...Come on, don't get slobber on my book." The grey haired man was busy wresting Giles off him when the rest of the group arrived.
"Good Morning Kakashi" Mikoto said in a friendly manner to the grey hair man. Kakashi returned the greeting to the women and her husband and looked at the slender figure of Rayne.
"And how are you Rayne?" Kakashi asked the girl glaring at the state of the shop.
"Ok, if I wasn't in this dump." She sneer at something she'd just stepped in.
After a moment or two another man came in or at least he looked like a man but on closer inspection one could see the small stubby tail protruding from behind him. He had long brown hair that was tied up and a large scar across his nose; he also wore a pleasant smile. Giles was immediately apone the newcomer and savagely licking the man.
"Down Giles." Mikoto said as Giles nearly toppled the brunet.
"Make sure to be careful with Giles Iruka, he's seemed a little more energetic of late." Mikoto said sweetly as the newcomer named Iruka lead the dog away to a back room. Leaving the Uchihas and Kakashi to deal with Rayne.
"Time for your check up Rayne..." Kakashi had barely finished before the young girl had changed shape and raced off into the large number of doorways leading to storage rooms.
After ten minutes Giles and Iruka silently came out of the back room to find Kakashi and Fugaku shouting at the mass number of doorways, they had yet to find Rayne's hiding place. Giles trotted over to Mikoto who was sat in a chair by the counter, her look of boredom present.
"How was he?" she asked Iruka, even if he was a pet he was one of the best vets around, having spent his whole life looking after pets.
"Still in perfect health, a few more grey hairs but at his age I'm surprised he isn't bald" Iruka said and from the dog came a snorting sound as though Giles had disliked that statement.
Mikoto laughed and petted the black muzzle that was now resting on her knees.
"But what about his over activity he wasn't so active before." She said as she ruffled the dog's ears.
"Oh that, well you see Rayne's not as young as she used to be and well...She started to go on heat and he's...He's..." Iruka tried to word his statement without making Giles sound like a horny old mutt.
"He's simply reacting like all animals do when they smell a female in heat."
From the door ways a scream erupted and Kakashi came out with a large scratch on his hand, it wasn't serous but it still looked painful. Finally Fugaku came stomping out of the mass number of door ways his eyes filled with anger; he glared at the door ways.
"Come out now or you'll be sorry."
No reply came and so the Uchiha turned his gaze to Giles who was happily standing next to the man his tail wagging.
"Fetch!"
With that Giles was off and after several quirt moments the dog retuned with the hissing Rayne locked in his jaws.
"Fucking traitor! Put me down." The small cat hissed and tried to scratch the dog but couldn't.
As she was dropped at Fugaku's feet the man leaned down and grabbed the cat, brining her up to eye level he said in a rage filled voice.
"Now behave or you'll not be feed for a whole week." Rayne immediately went quirt and nodded in agreement. As Kakashi, Iruka and Fugaku saw to having Rayne checked Giles and Mikoto were left alone in the shop, after several moments a thought struck her.
'Itachi will be coming of age in a few days; i might want to check if their any pets for him.'
The women stopped that thought had been very strange, for one it had sounded more to come from thin air than her head, and it had been in a mans voice. This was not a odd occurrence she would often get thoughts like that, normally she'd be sitting in the kitchen at home readying too go out only for the voice to tell her it would rain, and low and behold five minuets later it would start to pour it down. So she had grown to trust these thoughts no matter where they came from.
She glanced to Giles who was chasing his tail in a happy circle, until he creaked into the counter with a thud. He sat for a few moments dazed and then went back to chasing his tail, the women smiled and called out the animal.
"Come on, let's go browsing." She said as she stood and started to wonder around the cages, from the examination room came the sounds of screaming and protests. Rayne's examination would not be over for a long time yet...
As Mikoto walked around the cages she'd stop every so often to gaze in on the pets on sale, birds, bugs, monkeys, fish, rats and many more sat staring back at here. Sad little eyes burning into her soul, if she could she would buy the entire store. As she walked along Giles would follow after gazing into each cage with the women and helping the women shop, along the lines of whenever the women stopped for too long the dog would start to nudge her along with his cold wet nose.
When they started down the cat section Giles point blankly skip it and went on to the dog section, here he trotted up and down the rows of cages like he was the one shopping for a pet. Mikoto walked up and down and although the dogs were cute and sweet nothing struck her as been Itachis type.
Then the pair walked down the next section a part reserved for rare creatures, and immediately Giles found something and started to bark too catch Mikoto's attention. Inside the cage was a small black ferret it's said eyes staring out at the women, and immediately she knew it was the one...The women opened the cage and picked the small pet up, its tiny form pressing against her as it looked at the dog. Giles sat his tail wagging, mouth opened as he panted.
"What's your name then?" The women's eyes traveled to the information on the side of the cage.
At that moment Iruka appeared at the end of the row of cages several scratches covering his hands, but his smile still present. Soon after Fugaku appeared carrying a small cat that had been sedated, Rayne still had enough strength to hurl abuse though.
"What are you doing dear?" Fugaku said as he saw his wife with the small pet in her arms.
"Planning on replacing the mutt with a real pet." The raven said as the dog glared at him with a hurt filled expression, immediately the man regretted the statement. They where such sad eyes after all...
"Its Itachis coming of age soon so I'm picking him a pet, what do you think?" Mikoto said as she showed her husband the ferret, the man lazily gazed at the creature then to the information on the cage. His expression changed immediately...
"I think you have very expensive tastes, it costs more than the house." Fugaku raised his voice as he looked at the zeros at the end of the numbers.
"Sai is a very rare species of ferret, highly luxury, fine temperament and soft fur plus he's very obedient." Kakashi appeared from nowhere business man mode kicking in and he could smell a sale.
"No!" Fugaku said as he glared at his wife, she simply glared back.
"We'll take him."
"No we won't."
"Yes we will, otherwise you can do your sales pitches from now on." Mikoto threatened knowing her husbands fear better than him.
"Fine!" the raven stomped his feet as he finally accepted defeat.
As the group walked to the counter to pay for the small ferret named Sai a thought struck Iruka.
"Mikoto did you choice Sai?"
"No actual it was Giles who found him, why do you ask?" Mikoto said as she glanced at the dog beside her. Giles happily looking up at her wagging his tail, a slight glint in the creature's eye.
"No reason." Iruka said honestly.
As Fugaku paid for the small ferret named Sai Mikoto was busy talking to Iruka about looking after a baby ferret, dogs and cats were easy to look after but she had no idea how to look after a baby ferret and she doubted Itachi could do everything for the pet.
"You might as well leave Sai here until Itachi's birthday and then come and pick him up. We'll keep him in the back room safe and sound." Kakashi said as Fugaku watch his hard earned money disappear from his hands.
Iruka took the timed creature off of Mikoto and disappeared into the back room, as he reappeared the group left waving a goodbye to the store owner and his pet.
"Now where were we...?" Kakashi said as he opened his book to the right page.
"Pervert." Iruka said as he went to check on the pets...Kakashi becoming engrossed in his book.
As the Uchihas car pulled off with a roar of thee engine, Giles sat on his back legs watching the front window his tail wagging. Rayne was laid out next to him, still drowsy from the drugs...As she watched the dog turned and with a drawls covered tongue started to like the poor defenseless cat. The silence in the car was broke as a tidal wave of abusive comment was hurled by the cat at Giles.
TBC