Snow Leopard Uchiha, Kagome
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Inuyasha, and therefore, claim no rights toward it. The only thing I own is my creativity.
To my readers, I have already written this out and the story is finished, I am typing it late. Therefore, there will be no voting on pairings, because if I change anything now, it will screw up the entire story. I will not post any of the pairings yet, as I am sure you would like it to be a surprise. If you really wish to know, leave a review with the request and I will send it to you personally. If you are anonymous, I am sorry, there is nothing I can do, as I don't reply to those. If I tell anyone the final pairings now, then I am sure I will be chewed off again as the pairings hint in different places, but the outcome is the same. Thank you.
Ages:
Kagome – 5
Sasuke – 6
Itachi – 12, going on 13. One month before he becomes an ANBU captain.
Neji – 7
Naruto – 6
Chapter 1
Kagome Uchiha ran through the warm lake water, laughing. At five years old, she knew how to swim better than her brothers, Sasuke and Itachi. Both sat under the shade of a tree, watching her with slight smiles. She waved at them to come in with her and Itachi shook his head slightly, normally emotionless eyes sparkling with mirth as he watched his sister splash at a playful doe that had come out of the forest to play with her.
Sasuke shrugged and went to the line of the shore. He pulled off his shirt, leaving his khaki, knee length shorts on as he entered the water. He laughed when Kagome and the doe splashed him. The animals coming to entertain his little sister was nothing new to him. He was one year her elder, and had grown up around the animals flocking to her.
None of the elders were able to explain it. The girl that had deep blue eyes, black near her pupils, and blue-black hair to her knees, was unique to the Uchiha clan. Though nothing was special about her heritage, other than the fact that she had Uchiha blood, she could transform into a feline. A snow leopard to be exact.
So, as natural, her personality was affected by the nature of the great cat. She was graceful and smooth with her words and movements. Although, she was a bit on the lazy side when it came to naps, even for her age, when she was up, she was up! The girl had the speed of the leopard side of her, and loved to climb trees.
"Sas! Achi!" the brothers turned to look where the girl pointed and frowned.
"Nothing's there, Kagome," Itachi said quietly, secretly liking his sister's nickname for him, knowing she was capable of saying both of their names perfectly.
Kagome shook her head and splashed out of the water, running past the startled doe that had frozen and had her ears turned in the direction she had pointed. The little girl in a red two-piece bathing suit zipped toward the direction and Itachi followed silently, his Otouto (younger brother) bringing up the rear, cursing.
Itachi stood, frozen in place, as he watched his Imouto (younger sister) in her leopard form, place herself squarely between Neji Hyuga and a snarling melanistic leopard. The snow leopard cub that was his Imouto came up to his mid-calve in height, seeing as she was young, while the black feline snarling at her came up to mid-thigh. The cub growled a warning at the elder leopard in an immature voice and stood straight, her head held high.
'Leave cub!' the elder feline commanded.
Kagome did a cat version of a sneer and stuck her tongue out of her mouth. The leopard pounced in her direction and she purred in happiness. She let a freezing mist envelope her small paws and lifted one to touch the throat of the cat as it almost landed on top of her. The feline fell to the ground motionless, it's black fur tipped in white with frost.
She purred at the clean job she had done and bound back to her brother, tail swishing happily.
"I did good, ne?" she asked, at his feet, and waited to be picked up.
What she didn't expect was to be lifted by the loose skin of her neck and held at eye level with Itachi's red orbs.
"You did well, yes. But no more scaring me unnecessarily like that!" he scowled at her and she cat shrugged.
"It had to be done! The over grown housecat was going to eat that boy!" she defended.
At that, both remembered the boy and Itachi moved her so that she could perch on his shoulder, small claws digging into the material of his shirt gently. They both looked over at the Hyuga boy as Sasuke came running into the clearing, still cursing.
"'Gome? What's with your eyes?" he asked the cub, not noticing where they were staring.
Itachi glanced at his little brother in amusement.
"It's the Sharingan Sasuke. She has a fully developed Sharingan from facing the leopard," Itachi stated, nodding toward the frozen black cat.
"But, how did she skip directly to a fully developed Sharingan when she didn't even have stage one yet?" Sasuke frowned.
Kagome shrugged, before dropping off of Itachi's shoulders easily. She walked to the unconscious Hyuga male and shifted back to her human form. The boy had been knocked into a sturdy tree, where his head had been hit roughly. She knelt down and felt for a pulse with two fingers.
Finding it easily, she then checked the various claw marks on his arms and legs.
"Achi, do you think you can sneak him into the Uchiha District without others seeing?" she asked quietly, and her eldest brother nodded slowly.
"Why are you helping him? He's Hyuga!" Sasuke demanded.
"Sas, he's helpless and unconscious. Another demon will be attracted by the blood," she pointed out and his eyes widened at 'demon' before he shook his head to clear it.
"So let's leave him at the Hyuga compound!" he suggested.
"You know Hiashi! He'd skin him alive for allowing an Uchiha to save him, even if he's unconscious," Itachi said, though soon to be an ANBU squad captain, still able to have mercy on his clan's rival.
He stepped forward and picked the Hyuga up bridal style and started walking toward the Uchiha District. Kagome smiled as Sasuke's stunned expression and tapped him on the shoulder. He rolled his eyes and bent down so she could climb onto his back.
To say Kagome was strange would be an understatement. She preferred her leopard form to her human one, and could often be seen as a white cub running through the Uchiha District courtyard, chasing after birds in a game of tag. When in cat form, she loved to simply sit on Itachi's shoulder like a bird, or lounge across it. Often times, though, she would end up in his arms, his soft hand rubbing her ears.
In human form, however, she loved hanging off of Sasuke's back. She was always on one of her brothers, and was the chain that linked them. They had something in common when it came to her. Both loved her, pampered her, and would grant her every desire. They would die for her. Or kill.
Kagome's always being in physical contact with her two brothers was her unconscious leopard way of staking her claim on them. It only worked on animals, but it calmed her animalistic way of reasoning, to somehow know that her siblings were always safe from animals. With her scent on them from always holding her, she staked them as hers, her family, her Pard, her territory, hers.