Finished: June 9, 2017

Published: June 9, 2017

== A.N. ==

I know, I know, I shouldn't be starting a new story (actually I was saving this idea for later) but not writing for the last few (I don't know how long its been anymore – I might be going crazy) weeks is driving me insane. So here I am, with a new story. Hope whoever reads this enjoys it.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Naruto characters, just the plot for my story.

Also Kakuzu doesn't hate cats ( I'm just really bad at coming up with titles… :D )

~.~.~ I hate cats but this one stuck to me ~.~.~

Kakuzu wondered the empty streets of Canario city as he looked for a place to stay. It had been a long day – actually it had been a long few days. He had been on the move after he skipped town – personal reasons, don't worry about it – and was looking for a different home where he could start anew, where nobody knew him, and where people wouldn't ask too many questions.

He had traveled somewhat of a long distance and so far he found himself employed at a small bar where he probably wouldn't make millions of dollars like he would have liked to – he did love money after all – but he would earn enough to keep himself alive and with a roof over his head.

If only he could just decide what roof though… sigh, all the places he had seen so far were not to his liking, either too small and cramped or too big with wasted space.

Yes he was one man, without any family, but he needed a place where there was room for him to stretch his legs, so to speak.

As Kakuzu was about to give up on his search, his eyes landed on an apartment complex. He decided to give the place a try and see if he could find the right apartment before night fell. After talking to the landlord he decided to give the living space of his dreams – yeah right – a look before agreeing to anything.

It had two rooms, two bathrooms, a living room, a kitchen and that was about it. Simple – probably too much for one person – but it was good enough for him. He would have asked one thing of everything – like only one room and only one bathroom – but the apartment would have turned out to be another cramped one he didn't like so it was better this way.

After getting paid for a months rent in advance, the landlord left Kakuzu to make himself at home. Kakuzu wasted no time in taking his bags to his room and started to unpack, placing the few articles of clothing he had packed in the drawers of a brown dresser that was positioned in one of the corners of the room opposite to the door.

When Kakuzu was done he shoved his suitcases under his bed and headed for the door. He walked out of the apartment and headed to the nearest store with a few dollars in his pockets.

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It didn't take him too log to find a place that sold instant food. He bought pack of instant cup noodles – a twelve pack which would probably last him a few days – and a pack of disposable forks. As he was paying for the items he saw a packet of beef jerky and decided to buy it.

As he walked down the streets once again he felt a drop of water hit his cheek, it appeared I was going to rain. It was obvious since clouds had been quickly forming since the afternoon but he had been hoping to be able to get back to his apartment before the ran started falling.

Oh well, it didn't matter the rain was just starting and he was only a few streets away from the apartment complex.

The movement from his steps made the plastic bags rustle, the noise was annoying, the streets were deserted and the only noise that accompanied the rustling of the plastic bags was the droplets of water hitting the dirt beneath his feet-

"Meow." Scratch that, now there was mewing. Kakuzu stopped mid-step and looked to the side where he heard the sound come form. He saw a small dirty silver kitten. It had violet eyes, it seemed to be albino, it's mother must have abandoned it because it was albino. Albinism in animals usually means they are either blind or deaf, it seemed this one was deaf considering it looked as if it had been watching him. He clicked his tongue and continued walking.

"Meow." There was that sound again but this time Kakuzu wasn't going to stop and he definitely wasn't going to look back. He hurried his step home, the rain would start pouring any second and he wasn't about to be caught under heavy rain; all he wanted was to eat, was that so bad?

As he unlocked his door and was about to open it, a flash of sliver ran up the stairs headed for his door; it was that stupid kitten again. He removed his hand from the doorknob and glared at the kitten standing in front of his door. He pushed it away from the door with his foot but the kitten just walked over his foot and stood in front of the door waiting. Kakuzu's eyebrow twitched and he decided that he wasn't in the mood for fighting with a stupid little animal.

He looked through one of the plastic bags and pulled out his pack of beef jerky. He frowned as he opened the bag but he knew that the kitten would leave him alone after he fed it. He placed a small handful of the jerky strips on the stairs away from his door and saw the kitten rush to the food. He quickly made his way inside his apartment and locked the door.

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Kakuzu was slurping his noodles as he was watched TV when he suddenly heard mewing coming from outside his door. His eye twitched in annoyance but he just reached for the remote and turned up the volume of the TV.

'Out of sight, out of mind' he thought to himself as he continued eating his cup noodles. Suddenly there was scratching on his door, "You have got to be kidding me…" grumbled Kakuzu as he placed the cup on his coffee table and headed for the door.

He unlocked it and opened it slowly careful not let the kitten run inside. He cracked the door open slightly and glared a the kitten who immediately started mewing. Kakuzu made the scariest face he could and squatted down to be as close in eye level with the kitten as he could.

"Go away or I will eat you." The kitten looked him straight in the eyes but refused to move, "I don't have any food so you'll be my dinner if you don't leave in this instant." The kitten still refused to move away and just meowed at him.

Kakuzu knew that the annoying little fur-ball wouldn't leave so he just stood up and closed the door once again deciding that this time he should just go to bed and ignore the small pest, he had almost finished his noodles anyway.

"Meow, meow, meow!" the noises produced by the small kitten were accompanied by scratching at the door. Kakuzu sighed as he realized he wouldn't be able to get rid of the kitten by just ignoring it. He headed to he door and opened it. The kitten looked up at him and Kakuzu just opened the door wider.

"Come inside…" he grumbled as he moved aside and let the kitten step inside, "Just one night then you leave." He wasn't fooling anyone the kitten couldn't understand what he was saying but he felt that he would convince himself that he had not just picked up a stray cat if he said it out loud.

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Kakuzu could have sworn he had seen the kitten smile as it walked into his house. The kitten settled itself at the foot of the couch in his living room in front of where Kakuzu had been sitting as he was eating his noodles. Now that the kitten was there Kakuzu didn't want to move it so he grabbed his cup of noodles and sat on the other side of the couch.

Seeing that the brunette had sat on the other side of the couch, the kitten got up and moved closer to the man.

"Meow." Kakuzu looked down at the kitten.

"What is it now?" Kakuzu put his noodles on the coffee table, giving the small feline all of his attention.

"Meow." Answered the kitten and Kakuzu picked his noodles again.

"Cats don't eat noodles." He slurped the noodles as he looked at the kitten, this time the little fur-ball got up on its hind legs and placed its front paws on Kakuzu's calf.

"I already fed you," Kakuzu didn't know what was wrong with him, maybe he caught something and he was currently dying slowly as his brain decayed. Yep, that was probably it. Otherwise he wouldn't be trying to reason with a small ball of fur that couldn't understand him.

"Meow." This time the silver kitten rubbed its small head against Kakuzu's leg.

"Fine." Kakuzu rose from the couch and walked to the kitchen to grab the bag of beef jerky he had left on the table. He walked back with the bag in hand and raised it up, "this is what you wanted, right?" the kitten meowed as if it had understood him and Kakuzu sat down on the couch. The kitten rushed to him and climbed his pant leg and rested on his lap, eagerly awaiting the meaty treat.

Kakuzu grabbed a strip of jerky and plopped it in his mouth, "You know, I don't have pets for this reason, they eat my money…" the small kitten meowed as if he was asking Kakuzu to continue, "and I don't need company, look at me now; I'm acting crazy… talking to a cat… you can't even understand me." The kitten meowed and licked Kakuzu's lap.

Right, he was going to give the kitten some jerky too.

"Here ya go." Kakuzu reached into the bag and gave the kitten a strip of beef jerky. He held the food between his index and thumb as he fed the little ball of fur. The kitten eagerly ate away the dried meat while Kakuzu watched it and smiled subconsciously. Once the kitten was done eating the meat it licked Kakuzu's fingers and meowed asking for more.

Kakuzu chuckled and gave the kitten a second strip. He was utterly fucked at this point, he knew he was now attached to the stupid little animal and the worst part was that he hadn't even named it yet, but he knew he had taken a linking to the little rat.

Actually scratch that, since he had already decided he would keep the little twerp he might as well name it now.

"I have decided to keep you," after hearing this the kitten stopped eating and licked its whiskers before contently meowing in response, it was now purring, "and now I have to give you a name, now, since I am very unoriginal I'll name you money because you are what you eat and right now you are eating my money." The kitten meowed again but this time sounding displeased and nibbled on Kakuzu's fingers instead of his food, "I'm guessing you don't like it… well its either money or beef jerky; they're both stupid and one of them will be your name so you better chose the one you hate the least; that is unless you can come up with something better." The kitten didn't meow but rather returned to eating.

"Money it is then…"

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Kakuzu finished feeding the kitten the rest of the strips – except the few he ate himself – and decided to go to bed.

As he got up from the couch and walked in the direction of his room 'Money' decided to follow him. When Kakuzu noticed this he stopped mid-step and turned to the kitten.

"Sorry Money, you sleep in the living room." The silver kitten looked at him funny before it meowed in response, "you can sleep on the couch if you want but my room is off limits." With that said Kakuzu continued with his walk to his room. The kitten stood still for a few seconds before it started following him again. Kakuzu sighed and turned to look at the kitten.

"I said no." his tone was abrasive, he meant business. The kitten meowed, this time lower than it usually did, and walked back to the living room. It jumped on the couch and curled up in a ball.

'If only it had been this obedient when I tried to scare it away…' thought Kakuzu as he walked to his room, he stripped from all his clothes and laid on his bed under the soft covers. Soon sleep consumed him.

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Kakuzu rose as he felt the annoying orange glow of the sunrise hit his eyes as rays of light made their way through the gap in between his curtains all the way to his closed eyelids.

"Ugh, Mondays…" he grumbled to himself as he ripped the covers off his body and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. It actually wasn't a Monday, it was Tuesday morning at the moment but he felt like saying Monday because everyone hates Mondays.

Kakuzu walked stark naked through the short hallway in his apartment and into his restroom, he took a morning piss and stepped into the shower. After showering he realized he had forgotten to bring a towel.

"Shit…" was all he thought of saying before he walked out of the shower and into the cold hallway – now not only naked now but also wet – leaving stupid little puddles behind him with every step he took; great, he'd have to clean that up later.

Now in his bedroom Kakuzu found a towel and dried his body with it before he wrapped the towel around his hair keeping the hair off his face and shoulders. He looked stupid with the towel wrapped around his head like that but it kept his floor and body dry so whatever.

Kakuzu found some pants a shirt and a pair of boxers he could wear, today he had work but it didn't start until later. He had woken up at five in the morning and his shift started at eight so he had time to kill. Now he had 'Money' so he could kill time by playing with the kitty or something, people kept pets because of that right?

"Hey Mone-", Kakuzu walked barefooted through the small hall towards his living room, he stopped in his tracks as he saw a small naked figure curled up in a ball sleeping on his couch.

He approached the figure cautiously, it was a small child, a boy. His hair was a sliver color and his skin was very pale. As he moved closer, the small child stirred threatening to wake up.

Kakuzu was unsure whether he wanted the kid to wake up so he could ask him what the hell he was doing in his house naked and sleeping on his couch, or if he wanted to pretend that he was hallucinating and go back to bed hoping the kid would be gone by the time he woke up.

Or maybe he was dreaming and would soon wake up not having to ask a naked little kid what he was doing in his house, yes, maybe he was dreaming and should go back to bed and wake up and it would turn out there wasn't a little kid in his apartment; yes that seemed logical, actually like the most appealing because maybe this was just a figment of his imagination.

As Kakuzu was moving away from the sleeping figure the child stirred again, only this time he sat up and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, looking momentarily startled by his surroundings before he smiled at Kakuzu.

He tilted his head slightly to the right wondering why the brunette looked so horrified, also, why did he have that stupid piece of clothing – was it maybe a shirt? – wrapped around his head? The child snickered but then realized, he had snickered, his mocking smile soon found itself erased.

'Crud.' The small child thought to himself.

"Who are you?" was all Kakuzu could bring himself to ask as he saw slight panic begin to show in the small kid's eyes.

"My name is Hidan…" answered the silver haired kid quietly before he shyly smiled at the brunette, "well that was until yesterday, now I'm 'Money' apparently… unless you like my real name better."

== A.N. ==

How was that? Interested? Huh, huh? *Nudges you*

This story will definitely be Yaoi, and more importantly KakuHida!

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