Kitty Me
Naruto's Age: 12 (still)Shadow's Age: 2,200 (again, still)Slight OCness
Pairings: NaruHina, GaaSaku, ShadSapp, ShikaTem
"talking" 'thinking' "Sasuke-neko talking" 'shadow thinking, and inners' "jutsus" "kyuubi talking in Naruto"
Chapter One
"ACK!! GET AWAY FROM ME!!!" Naruto's voice jolted me out of the best dream I had had in ages. I padded sleepily into the kitchen of our small apartment and saw the half-demon boy (read volume two ch. 2 for more info) standing on the table staring at something on the ground. I peered around a chair to see... a very small spider.
"Naruto, we really need to take care of your problem. That little thing couldn't hurt you even if it wanted to." Tail flicking in annoyance, I went up to the little thing and picked it up in my jaws, and brought it outside. "Thanks for helping me with the prank Golo. I owe you one." The spider kid nodded and crawled off to his home. "There problem solved, you can get down now."
Naruto jumped down from the table, and continued making his ramen. Someone gag me! He eats that slop for every damn meal of the day. There was a scratching at the door, Naruto went to open it. A black and white blur shot into the apartment and tackled me.
"Shadow! You have to help me! I've been turned into a freaking cat and can't change back!" exclaimed the black and white kitten.
"Sasuke, that you? O. K. tell me what happened." I pushed him off of me and stood up and shook the dust out of my fur. (A\N: I will probably turn Gaara and Hinata into animals too in later stories, so don't kill me if you no likey ninja turned animal stories. And I know that there are a lot of Sasuke-neko stories out there, I will try not to copy anyone's ideas. ;3)
"I don't know what happened. I woke up this morning in my bed and I was a cat! Please, help me out here! I know that you were able to change Naruto back, so you can change me back right?"
"Well, yeah. That is, if you don't mind living the rest of your life as a neko hanyou with fuzzy ears and a fluffy tail. Other then that, no." He slumped down to the floor and started muttering something about Uchiha pride being flushed down the toilet.
"Hehe, did you say Sasuke? Hey, teme, what happened to you? You're actually cute! Hahaha." Naruto had returned to the kitchen and decided to jeer at the Uchiha's situation. Said Uchiha pounced at Naruto and used his face as a scratching post.
"You two do realize that you can understand each other, right?" Naruto blinked a couple times, then had the grace to blush. (this is NaruHina, not NaruSasu) When he opened his mouth to speak, what came out was a much deeper voice then Naruto's own. A.k.a. Kyuubi.
"Hey bro! Let me out of here, will you? This damn sewer reeks of ramen!" Sasuke lept behind me as Naruto's eyes bled into red and he gained the features that he does when he got mad. Sasuke had experienced first hand what he could do under little bro Kyuu's influence when they fought in the Valley of the End. The only reason he was still hear was because he had passed out soon before Kakashi had arrived and gotten the curse seal removed.
"Fine, fine. Just get back in there and I'll let you out." Instead of using chakra with a summoning, I decided to test a theory that I had come up with. I searched for that brotherly bond that we share in my mind, took it in my inner hands, and yanked. Theory proven, there was a distinct poof, and there in a jumbled heap, was Kyuubi.
"Ouch! What was that for?! You could have just used a summoning you know?"
"I know. But I wanted to test a theory that I had come up with. I was right. Now get up so you can help me with the Uchiha here." I scooted over so Sasuke was in the open, without a shield. "I'm sure you were listening in to our conversation. Have any ideas?" He pondered this for a minute and... came up with nothing. "Well, I'll have yet another look in the library at home, but later. Naruto? You still alive in there? Hello?"
"Huh? Wha? What happened?"
"Tested a theory of mine, 'course my stubborn brother didn't return into you in time, so it put you in a trance type state." Sasuke nudged my side to get our attention back on his situation. "Alright, well, you're going to be like that for a while, if what happened to Naruto is any indication under the sun, so let's get you situated." I showed him to the only guest room in the apartment, just to save him some embarrassment, and put some spare sheets on the small bed. "Think you need a litter box?"
"Shut up you! I don't even know how I got like this. Hey! I got it! Go back to my place and have a sniff around, you know, to see if you can find out who did this? I mean, you do have the best nose in the whole village."
"I will do that as soon as I feel like it. Kidding! I'll go now, but you're coming with me." I changed into my human form, Sasuke on my shoulder, and we headed to Sasuke's place. After the mass murder of his family, he had packed everything away, and moved into an apartment of his own. It was a couple floors below Naruto's so he could get to us in an emergency, and vice versa.
When we got there, I changed back into my fox form, and started going around searching for any unusual scents. After thirty minutes of searching, I found something. "Hey, kit, get in here! I found something!" I heard the soft padding of paws on the floor and Sasuke appeared beside me. "Recognize this scent?" He sniffed it and gave out a cat like growl.
"Itachi! That bastard! I'll kill him!"
"Hey, whoa! Don't go all avenger on me now! It's just in this spot, so that means that this is where he cast the jutsu, it is next to your bed. He must have masked his scent, knowing that you would go to me or Naruto and Kyuu. But had to release it to do the jutsu." That made sense, considering that everyone from here to Suna had found out about Naruto's transformation. In fact, the sand sibs were supposed to come into town today. "Well, nothing much we can do here but leave. I'll keep a look out and let you know if I find any thing."
Truth is, Itachi wasn't responsible for the deaths of the Uchiha's, it was Orochimaru. He had gotten one of his goons to transform into Itachi and frame him. He had left the village out of fear of being killed, and joined the Akatsuki (Sp?). The only ones that knew this were, me, Naruto, Kyuu, and Tsunade. So, we went back to the apartment and passed on the message to Naruto and Kyuubi.
"Damn, that's bad. Well, maybe he's sending you a message. You never know." said Kyuu. I had a feeling that he was right, and that Itachi was trying to tell Sasuke something. What, I had no clue.
"Yes, Kyuubi. My bastard brother is trying to tell me something. 'Hello foolish brother. How are you? I hope that you have fun being a cute little kitten!' Ha! That's laughable! I highly doubt that he is trying to communicate. He slaughtered my family."
"You never know teme. He could be doing just that! But in the mean time, let's go train. I'm starting to get stiff!"
"Ok. But I get to choose what we have for lunch. And it will not be ramen! Seriously, that stuff is putrid."
"How can you say that!? Ramen is the best food in the world."
"You keep telling yourself that. Oh, by the way, Gaara and his siblings are in town today. I here that they are staying permanently. Let's see if we can find them before we go train." We had a look around town and found Gaara at the bridge by the Team 7 training grounds, just standing there staring at nothing. "HEY!!! GAARA!!!" I yelled. Poor guy nearly had a heart attack, which was pretty funny, considering how stoic he normally is.
Once he regained his composure he said. "What?"
"I hear that you and your siblings are staying here permanently. What happened?" asked Naruto. Gaara was staring at his fox ears and the single—or for the moment, single—tail waving behind him. He shook his head slightly and said:
"We just decided to live here for a change. No big deal, really. I personally like the forest better. But it really makes it difficult to practice with my sand."
"Well, we could teach you some jutsu that you could use in the forest. In fact, I'm sure that Shadow would be happy to teach you how to use Shukaku's chakra without tranforming into him, kinda how I use Kyuubi here's chakra. You do know the basics like, substitution, and clone jutsu, don't you?" Gaara nodded. "All right, Shadow, he's all yours."
"Sure kit, drag me into this. Fine I'll teach him. But shouldn't it be Kyuu teaching him? I mean its his chakra that you're using, not mine."
"But you've been sealed in someone more then I have. You're more experienced then I am." Kyuubi had a point there. I had been sealed more times then I had tails.
"True. Now Gaara, first thing's first. Chunk the gourd. It will just get in the way with the techniques that I'm going to show you." When he had his gourd to the side, I showed him a simple chakra control technique. It was where he had to summon the demonic chakra, or yokai, that Shukaku possesses. He got it down pretty fast, he was surrounded by Shukaku's yellowish-brown yokai and charged at a tree like I had, and with a yokai covered fist, obliterated the tree. "Whoa." Was all that I could say.
Shaking my head, I said "Now then, since you got that down so fast, lets try something more chalanging. Your chakra type is most likely wind, so I'll show you some of what Naruto learned since the last time that you saw him." Changing into my human form again, I gathered some of my chakra into my palm. My chakra is black, so that means, so was the move that I was about to show him. "Rasengan!!" I cried as I thrust it forward twards yet another tree. KABAM!!! CRASH! The tree exploded into two pieces and fell to the ground. "That's one. Basicly, you concentrate your chakra into your palm, and thrust it at your enemy, then KABLUY!!! No more problem."
Gaara gaped at what used to be a tree. "Um... why was it black, instead of blue?"
"That is the color of my chakra, same goes for my yokai. Now, give it a try, see if you can get it." Gaara tried about six time and failed. Colapsing on the ground, panting, he looked up at the sky. "Well, you got pretty damn close, but not close enough. It took Naruto about a month to perfect it, so don't feel too bad." I tossed him a water balloon, like what Naruto had used when he was training and explained what to do.
Meanwhile, Sasuke was watching Gaara and I with big eyes as we trained, praying that he would be able to stay on our good sides, because of what he was seeing. Gulping, he padded up to us and said: "Question? Can you teach me some of what you're teaching Gaara?"
"No, I don't think that I'll be able to. I think that your chakra types are Fire, Lightning, with a little bit of Darkness type mixed in there. Mine are Fire, Wind, Water, Lightning, Darkness, Shadowed, and Dragon, Kitsune, Pheonix, and Wolf types. Beyond nine tail status, like little bro Kyuu, but changed up a little. Gaara and Naruto's are Wind, and Fire. 'Course with Naruto's tranformation, he has a little of Kyuu's types mixed in there. And Gaara has Shukaku's Sand type, and a bit of water and Wolf types in there. I can teach you some more Fire, Darkness, and Lightning type attacks, but trying to use Wind type will either screw up your chakra system so much that you will never be able to use it again, or kill you." I said while leaning against one of the training posts. Sasuke-neko was trying to process this, and I could have sworn that he paled when I mentioned that he might die trying to use any type attackes other then his own.
Gaara was sitting there scratching his head, trying to make sense of what I said. He had only been half listening when I started talking, but when he heard his name, I had his full attention. Water balloon still in hand, he stood up and walked over to where we were, from under the tree he had been laying under. "So what you're saying is that, because of Shukaku, I can use Water and Wolf types? Hm, cool. Hey, did you see where Naruto went."
"Hm, lets see, yes, yes, and no. Let's see if we can find him." We searched around the training grounds, and found the fox boy sitting in the shade talking to Hinata. "Hey you two! Mind telling us where you are going to go next time?"
"Sorry Shadow! But, the conversation that you were having was so boring. I decided to go somewhere else to train and ran into Hinata-chan." I got an insane idea in my head all of a sudden, so pulling a quick substitution, I switched my body with a Shadow Clone. The real me appeared behind Naruto with my scent and pressence masked. The fake me charged Naruto for a supprise attack, and he quickly destroyed the clone. To say that Naruto was supprised was an understatement. I showed my self to the others and put a finger to my lips to tell them to keep quiet (still in his human form). I snuck up behind Naruto and grabbed him in a bear hug, a bone crushing bear hug.
"Let's see, what is it that Kakashi is always telling you. Oh yeah! 'Never let your enemy get behind you.' You still need some work in that category." Relesing him, I disappeared again, and sluged him in the jaw, and sent him flying. When he stood back up he charged me with a Rasengan powered up in his hand. Pulling another substitution, I got behind him again and exclaimed, "Leaf Village Secret Finger Jutsu: A Thousand Years of Pain!!" Shoving my fingers up his ass, the same way that Kakashi had, and with a burst of chakra, sent him flying, clutching his abused back side, screeming like a little girl. "NEVER LET YOUR ENEMY GET BEHIND YOU!!! HAHAHAH!!! He still needs to work on that."
Gaara, Hinata, and Sasuke-neko backed away when I turned to them. "Kakashi-sensei taught you that... didn't he?"
"Yup! He also taught me this." I disappeared, only to be replaced by a straw stuffed version of my self holding up a sign that said 'OWNED!!' I reappeared behind Gaara the same way that I had with Naruto and gave him the same treatment that I gave him. There was a distinct splash, letting us know that he had landed in the lake about ¼ of a mile away. "Think I over did it? Him of all people should know what Naruto doesn't" There was a distant twin bellow of:
"SHADOW!!! I'M GONA KICK YOUR ASS FOR THAT!!!" coming from both Naruto and Gaara.
"Wheeelp, I'm gona go now." With that I disappeared yet again, and reappeared next to Kyuubi in the Team 10 training grounds. He had sensed that I was going to cause mistiff, and fled the area. "Yo! Did you hear those two? They sounded mighty pissed."
"Ya think!? You shoved your finger up there asses, and sent them flying, what did you expect." A wall of sand and a hoard of toads burst out of the forest at that moment. We fled the area yet again and ened up and the ramen shop. It was the one place that we knew Naruto would destroy trying to kill me. Gaara was another story, though, concidering that Naruto was his best friend, he would probaly try not to destroy anything that he likes. "See what I mean! As soon as they can get there hands on you, I don't think that even I can stop them."
"Heh, you're probaly right, but, there is no way that they could kill me, no matter how hard they tried. If they ever show up, I'll call a truce and buy them ramen. That's like the only way to calm Naruto down." Hinata, with Sasuke-neko perched on her head, walked into the ramen shop, knowing that that probably where we would end up.
"The dobe is out for blood you know. You are soo dead."
"Oh shut up! There is practicly no one who can kill me. Besides, the only way to his head besides Hinata here is ramen. So, I'll treat him to some ramen."
"Ugh! He eats so much of that stuff, that the scent has seeped into the bars of that sewer cage that I'm sealed in! It's putrid!"
"I feel your pain bro. I really do. But, focacing on other things, Hinata, I'm sure that Naruto has told you about Sasuke's current situation, right?" She shook her head. I slapped my forehead and said, "He's sitting on your head."
Hinata looked up (without moving her head mind you.) and Sasuke was looking down at her, with his head cocked. He was the picture of cuteness, and innocence. Three, two, one.'
"SO CUTE!!!" So much for the quiet, shy Hyuuga. She was hugging him so tight, that the white patches of fur on him had turned purple. Snckering, I pryed him from her suprisingly tight grasp, and plopped him on the counter so he could regain his composure. "S-sorry Sasuke." The Uchiha-turned-cat just glared at her. I glared at him, and he supposedly felt my gaze, 'cause he turned and met my eyes. I let iced daggers creep into my glare and he shrank back, averting his eyes to the ground.
"Wow bro, you just out glared an Uchiha. That deserves an award."
"Hey! I can out glare you to, and Gaara."
"What about me?" The sand user's voice came from behind me, nearly giving me a stroke. I spun around to meet two heated glares.
"Oh. Uh... Hi?"
"HI? HI???!!! WHAT DO YOU MEEN HI???!!! I CAN'T FEEL MY BUTT BECAUSE OF YOU!!!" Screamed Naruto.
"That's only because you let me get behind you. If you hadn't, then you would still be able to sit down." With this, we entered a three way glaring contest.
Let's draw the curten here folks. Well, that ends chapter one! I'll get chapter two up as soon as I get five reviews on this one. All Naruto characters are © to there owners. All ocs are © to me. And sorry if I accdentaly copied any ideas, I tried to make it original. R&R peoples! But no flames please! ;3
