Chapter 1
Lonely. Scared. Sad. I kept repeating these words in my head. I lost my entire family in one night. How is that possible? Mommy and Daddy and everyone else were so strong. Tears started to form in my cat-like eyes as I clutched the purple, shimmering crystal hanging around my neck, to my chest. It may have happened all of one week ago but the wounds were still fresh. When I thought about it again, the tears fell from my eyes in streams. You couldn't see them anyways since it was raining quite heavily. I looked up when I heard the sound of footsteps in the rain. My black, fuzzy, cat ears flattened against my head and my black, bushy cat tail lowered to the soaking wet ground. I gave out a warning hiss to the person that was still approaching. I looked up and glared at the young man with silver hair and a mask. I hissed at him again.
"Hey there feisty kitty." He said.
"Don't call me that! Leave me alone!" I snarled at him.
"Nope I don't think I will," I stared at him dumbfounded, he wasn't taking the hint to go away. "where are your parents?" He questioned.
"Dead." I said simply, a new round of tears started forming at the corners of my eyes.
"Hmm. Well. Would you like to have a new dad?" This person asked. I pondered this for a few seconds. It would be better to be with someone than to be by yourself.
"Yes. I would." I replied with a nod. I could tell the man smiled under his mask as he helped me up off of the ground. "Oh. My name is Amaya. Amaya Neko." I said since this man would be my new father. His eye widened slightly at my full name.
"Hmm. My name is Kakashi Hatake." He said. We started walking to his home. I smirked under my long black hair. So, the great Copy-Cat ninja is now my father. Interesting.
Beep. Beep. Beep. Bee-
I slammed my fist on the alarm clock to turn off the high pitch noise. I rubbed my eyes, yawned and stretched. Thinking about the dream I had when we first met, I was six at the time. I can't believe that was seven years ago already. I looked at the clock to see the time. Apparently, I must have hit the clock too hard since it was broken beyond repair. I sighed. I then got up off of the edge of my bed and went to the bathroom to take a nice, hot, shower. After I did this, I dried and brushed my long black hair and walked back into my bedroom to get dressed. I shrugged on a black kimono shirt that had purple flower petals around the edges of the sleeves. I then pulled on some black capri pants and a pair of black open toe ninja boots that went up to the top of my shin. I then attached a hip pouch and a shuriken holster to my right leg. I put black hat on to cover my ears and wrapped my tail around my waist. Walking in to the kitchen and grabbing an apple for my breakfast. After finishing the apple, I threw the core in the trash and walked out into the living room to find Kakashi reading his Make-Out Paradise book again. Who knew that the Copy-Cat ninja was such a pervert? Not me.
"Hey I'm headed off to the academy now. Have a good day." I said while half way out the door.
"Wait," he said while sitting up. I stopped and turned back to look at him. "I knew it. Your eyes, use the genjutsu please." Kakashi said with a sigh and put his book down. I nodded. I can't believe I forgot about that. With a flash of a few hand signs, my purple slitted eyes turned into dark blue eyes with circular pupils.
"Thanks Dad." I said while giving him a hug after the genjutsu. Kakashi smiled under his mask and patted me on the back.
"You better get going to the academy, don't wanna be late." I nodded my head and left the house.
I made it to my classroom in less than two minutes. I cheered mentally in my head. I was getting faster! With that, I walked into the classroom.
"Good morning Iruka-sensei." I said.
He turned to me and said, "Good morning Amaya. How are you?" He asked.
"Well," was my reply, and that was my cue to take my seat. I walked over to my seat that was by the window. Right after I sat down I felt a movement to my right and saw Sasuke Uchiha sit down. I nodded my head in greeting and he did the same. Sasuke and I aren't really friends, we are just able to put up with each other since neither of us annoy one another. However, I couldn't say that about his stupid, little fan-girl club. They were screeching some nonsense about who would sit next to him when suddenly a chunin burst into the room.
"Sir, its Naruto, He's painted the stone faces." Geez, why can't he stay out of trouble? But it is kind of funny. Iruka-sensei groaned.
"Class, I'll be right back, Amaya, you're in charge while I'm gone." I nodded my head. With that he and the other ninja left. I stood up and walked to the front of the room.
"HEY!" I yelled, getting their attention. "Thank you. Now please behave yourselves and don't make too much noise and we won't have a problem okay?" I asked they nodded their heads in understanding, I've been left in charge other times, and they have faced my wrath before. I then proceeded to go and sit in my seat and take a little catnap.
I woke up to the sound of Iruka shouting at Naruto. Big surprise there.
"I'm at the end of my rope Naruto." Iruka said to a tied up Naruto. "You failed the graduation test last time, and the time before that. Tomorrow, you've got another chance. You can't afford to mess up again!"
"You got that right." I muttered, which earned a smirk from a certain Uchiha.
"Hmph" Naruto said and turned his head to the side. Iruka got an anger vein from Naruto's attitude.
"Fine. Because you missed it the other day Naruto, we'll all review the transformation jutsu!" Iruka exclaimed. There were a bunch of groans. We all got up and formed a line, Sakura was first of course.
"Alright, Sakura here, let's do it!" Six words from her mouth and I already have a headache. "Transform!" With a puff of smoke she became Iruka.
"Transformed into me, excellent." Iruka said as Sakura changed back.
"Yes! I did it!" Sakura yelled while jumping up and down for joy. "Sasuke did you see that?" Dear Kami, just when I thought she couldn't get more annoying.
"Next!" Sensei yelled. Thank you for stopping that nonsense. "Sasuke Uchiha." He did the same thing as Sakura did. Minus all the screaming and yelling. Then it was my turn. "Amaya Hatake." I did the transformation, except I transformed into a big, black, fuzzy, cat. "Uh, good job Amaya." I meowed in reply and transformed back to my brown skin body and went to the back of the line. "Next up, Naruto."
"I can't believe we're doing this, it's such a waste of time." I heard Shikamaru mutter. I totally agreed. Mentally of course.
"Iruka-sensei?" He turned to me and nodded his head. "Can I please leave and go home." I pleaded, I so don't want to be here.
"Sure you can go back home." There was a bunch of complaints. "Hey! When you all behave and get outstanding grades like Amaya, then you can leave early. Understood?" Iruka yelled at the class. I just laughed silently to myself as I left the academy. I then headed toward the store since I noticed that we were pretty low on food.
After I bought, ran back home, and put away the food, I decided to go back out and look around. I walked past a pet store and something in the window immediately caught my eye. In the window was a gorgeous black, fluffy, cat with big yellow-green eyes that had a light green around the pupils. He also had a little white patch of fur on his chest. The cat also had bald patches on top of his eyes, but there was still a little hair there. Quickly, I went into the store and looked at the cat.
"Hey there, what's your name?" I asked quietly.
"Masuru." He scoffed. So his name means victory.
"Hey I can understand you so don't think I'm some stupid human." Masuru looked at me with wide eyes.
"You can understand me?"
"That's what I said." I stared at him for a moment. "You're a cat, a full grown cat, what are you doing here?"
"I was a ninja cat but I was abandoned by my ninja comrade." He said with a sigh. That's awful who would do such a thing? I looked at the tag that was on his cage. It said that he cost $50. I pulled out my wallet to see how much money I had. Luckily I had $100, just enough for him and all the things he needed. "What are you doing?" Masuru asked. But I just ignored him and went and grabbed a few things for him and went to pay for the things and him.
"You really want to buy him? He's a cat. For a pretty girl like you, wouldn't you like a kitten?" I shook my head. "Okay then." The cashier said with a sigh. After I gave him the money, he asked, "Do you want a carrying case for him." Once again, I shook my head. I walked over to the cage and opened it. Masuru stared at me with surprised yet happy eyes. I patted my right shoulder and he jumped onto it. When Masuru and I got home I had had enough of him saying thank you.
"Okay you're welcome. Geez."
"Who are you talking too?" Kakashi asked, but then he saw Masuru. "Is that a cat?" He asked in a creepy tone. Masuru gave me a funny look.
"Yes it is. I already bought him and he's so nice! Plus he's a ninja cat. How awesome is that? Pretty awesome! You know my clan had their very own cats. I mean, I never got one." I looked down sadly and Masuru gave me a questioning look. I looked up again with hope in my eyes. "So please can I keep him?" I pleaded. He thought for a while. He thought for five agonizingly long minutes before making his decision.
"Fine, but if I see anything, ANYTHING," he said it twice, "that belongs to him in this house, he has to sleep outside." Kakashi said with a fierce look in his single eye.
"But, what if there is traces of his presence in my room, that's okay since it's my ROOM right?" He nodded his head, giving me confirmation that it was fine. "YAY!" I squealed. I picked up Masuru and headed toward my room in a hurry. Once the door was closed, I lifted Masuru up by his armpits and swung around dancing with joy. "I get to keep you! I get to keep you!" I chanted over and over again.
"Yes! Okay! Can you put me down now?" I stopped dancing and frowned.
"Aww, but you're so soft and fluffy!" I put him down after he gave me a glare. "Say, what do you want for supper? After all, it will be like a 'welcome to the family' thing." I exclaimed with a goofy grin on my face.
"Tuna. Tuna sounds good."
"Awesome! I love tuna too! Come on and follow me okay?" I said while walking out the door. I looked behind me to see that he wasn't following. I frowned and went back to my room to see him standing in the doorway. "What's wrong? Aren't you coming?"
"You're father, Kakashi right?" I nodded, "He doesn't want me to be anywhere near him." He said with his ears flat against his head and tail swishing on the ground. I sighed.
"Don't worry about him, he's more of a dog person. Here, just let me get into some comfy clothes and you just stay here and let me get the food ready okay?" He nodded his small little head. I took off my hat and changed into a dark purple sports bra, and some black sweat pants. With that I let my tail unwrap from my waist, I then released the genjutsu for my eyes since I wasn't planning on leaving the house later tonight. I turned back to walk out the door only to be tackled by Masuru. "Geez, you scared me. Why'd you tackle me like that?"
"YOU HAVE CAT EARS! YOU HAVE A CAT TAIL! PLUS YOU HAVE CAT EYES TOO!" He screamed in my face.
"YES I HAVE CAT EARS, A TAIL AND CAT EYES! I COME FROM A CLAN THAT HAD SPECIAL AFFLIATIONS WITH CATS!" I screamed back in his face.
"Geez, you don't have to yell at me." Masuru pouted. I groaned, this was one moody cat. "But that is really cool, so that's why you're able to talk to me and everything?" I nodded my head. We laid on the floor for a little bit, he was laying on my stomach when both heard something growl. "Umm, I'm kind of hungry, can I have the tuna now?" I giggled, and nodded my head. Masuru (with much convincing) and I walked into the kitchen. Well, more like sneaked into it since we didn't want Kakashi to be over my shoulder while I was making food. "Get to it! I'm hungry! Make tuna now!" I ignored him and all his little temper tantrums. Finally I was able to make an excellent dish of plain tuna... Oh well, it's still tastes good!
"Dinner's served!" I shouted so that the whole household could hear me. Right after those two words left my lips, Kakashi was already at the table.
"Awesome! What are we having?" He stopped, and looked at the food I placed in front of him, "Aww, why do we have to have tuna? I hate tuna!" Kakashi whined as he crossed his arms and turned his nose up. Masuru and I gave him a hard glare and he gulped. "I mean, tuna is just delicious! Mmm." He commented on after he pulled his mask down and ate. I placed a bowl of tuna on the table next to me and Masuru jumped up and started eating it. "He can't b-" I gave him another glare and he went back to eating, ah the effects of having cat eyes.
"This is so delicious!" Masuru said. None of us said nothing after that. That was the last thing that was said all tonight and we all went off to bed, well, Masuru didn't get his own bed, he slept by me but it's pretty much all the same right?
I realize that the main characters name is the same as my other one, just ignore that. I wrote this one before the other one so yeah. By the way, Masuru, if you're wondering what he looks like, is my profile picture. If you have any questions, ask. So yeah, PEACE