October's Echo.
Story basic data:
*Alternative Universe.
Half- animal/Human.
Romance, Drama, and Humor.
Unbetaed.
Pirings:
(Neji./Shikamaru & Neji/TenTen.)
Chapter One.
Wild cats, they are so troublesome !
To be part of a Hybrid family that were constantly running from others annoyed the young boy. It was a constant fight to survive in the forest. Good thing he wasn't those types of animals who died for their stupidity, the only exception to his advantage was to be too lazy to care to run.
Too bad he was being hunted by those damn cats.
He had been taking a nap. Everything had felt so safe back in the soft grass close to the Nara territory. His senses had felt something observing him, and when a wild cat had jumped from the bushes he had jumped from his spot.
"Shit!" The first thing he felt was his crane smacking hard against the grass, and sharp nails over his neck. "Argh!"
Yeah, he was sure that running once in a while with his group wouldn't be that bad. They constantly annoyed the thirteen year old hybrid about his laziness. They were part deer, which obviously mean either you had to run fast or get captured by some wild predator.
Well, fuck. I'm gonna get eaten by a fucking cat…Was good to know you Pops.
He closed his eyes. May as well evade the painful memory of having some troublesome cat taking off his skin. It made it less of a drag.
He waited, and waited. The only thing he could feel right at the instant was the fierce eyes of the other hybrid over his face. It was awkward to just have a dangerous animal on top of you, who was supposed to be eating you. But, may be the cat was too stupid to understand how you were supposed to kill your prey.
"Why aren't you fighting?" The cat hissed. "I want you to scream of fear. That's what the weak do."
Finally he opened his eyes, meeting a young feline. His eyes were fierce and white. Yeah, he was pretty sure he was of those Hyuuga clan. One of the main enemies of the Nara.
"No, thanks. Too troublesome." He noted the ears and the sharp teeth. "Just eat me already."
The cat simply got closer, gazing in curiosity the young deer. Shikamaru simply moved his head away, feeling uneasy with the cat so close to him and with those sharp teeth. But it was better to him getting eating by a Hyuuga rather than a Uchiha, they tended to have some kind of sadistic way of killing their prey.
"You're too big for me…" The cat turned his face, "You're a Nara."
Yesh, now I'm too fat for cats?
"Yeah, I think you should be eating me right now…" He said with a bored look. "You know, cat-eats-deer-thing…"
"I won't eat you…yet." He looked at him sharply. "I don't understand, why aren't you scared? Most of my food tend to fight back, even bigger ones. Besides, your smell is terrible. I won't eat something that smells and probably tastes bad."
Shikamaru simply rose an eyebrow. Sure he stank. Thanks to the stupid cat he had fell in the dirt two times, and had to get up. It wasn't like he didn't bathe himself.
"Hey, you never know until you try." He deadpanned. "Aren't cats supposed to be smarter than they prey?"
The cat sharply moved his head closer to the Nara deer. It was an insult, but he was telling a true fact. And, besides, Neji surely wouldn't mind eating a bad-mouthed deer.
"Fine. If you want to be eaten so bad." He surely sounded pissed. "Deer."
The cat leaned closer, sharply licking the deer. He felt like rock some bears licked, but he was sure he preferred to be a rock right at that instant. At least rocks didn't felt disgusting have saliva all over their them.
The young cat licked the face of the Nara. Shikamaru simply felt a funny thing in his stomach each time the cat licked his cheek, slowly as if taking his time to torturing the young Nara. That was surely another thing of why he hated cats. Some of them licked you until you were clean for later sharply bite you.
He turned his head to face the cat-thing. The instant he did the cat had unconsciously licked the mouth of the deer-hybrid…
"Ewww, I told you to eat me, not to mate with me."
"What?" The expression of the fourteen-year-old turned in disgust. " What kind of twisted idea is that? I would never mate with a Nara, that is the most disgusting and ugly thing I have ever hear. And I'm not molesting you, I won't eat something with dirt all over them."
Well, excuse me for being too ugly. Pussy.
A 'Crack!' was heard.
"Whatever, just eat me."
"Shut up, You would take too much time to eat." The cat-hybrid got on his feet. "This is one way to let my race know you are my food."
"Yeah, cuz leaving saliva all over my face is very clean."
"Shh…there is it again."
Crack!
The feline simply got on his feet, leaving Shikamaru resting in the floor. Shikamaru simply stayed there, while the cat circle him, but observing the tree-pines, other predator hiding between the green camouflage. The stupid cat seemed to have a big ego and he obviously didn't want other animal to take his food.
A food that the cat considered dirty…
The cat hissed when a female thing gazed at them. It had big pointed-like-green-horns, and some kind of long tail with a…flame?
No. Way. Those things still exist?
The girl seemed to not like Shikamaru. Yeah, It wasn't like he liked to get licked all over the face by some stupid cat obsessed with clean food.
The cat still hissed at her sharply, showing his teeth sharply and trying to shoo her away. The female-hybrid shyly tried to reach the cat, but he moved closer to Shikamaru, protecting his food from the other animal-thing-female. But, there was something more about the way the girl that made the Nara curious.
"I'm not going to attack you." She said confused and altered, "I just want to know you."
"Leave my food!" Neji hissed. "I told you not to reach me again! I don't trust whatever you are!"
The cat sharply took Shikamaru with his mouth. Moving him away from the girl. He circled him during what seemed hours. The girl simply sat there observing the protective cat. Casting a angry glance at the poor deer-boy.
Man, he's so blind. She wants him.
He simply stopped caring about the cat eating him and decided to close his eyes and sleep, just in case he was eaten in the morning or before his family noticed he was separated from the group and away from the Nara territory. Thanks to the stupid cat that decided to kidnap his food.
Shika is a half deer, Neji is a half cat, and the girl…I reveal her half part next chapter. Lame story. Just put ears and a tail to Neji, and deer horns to Shika. They thirteen and fourteen(Neji.). Live in the wild…(A forest) Alternative Universe.
Unbetaed