ok as i have stated in the first chappie...these first few chappies will be slow cuz of transitional stuff and setting stuff and i jus needed filler chappies and i sux at writing humor when i'm in a good mood...dunno why lmao but believe me...my other two stories (pale eyed boy and frozen chakra) are much much much more faster (that's many many many many LOTS faster) and that this is jus to give my mind a break :steam floats out from ears:

o yea..bout forgot...i'm posting 3 chapters in this today because of the slowness...after the 4th chapter it picks up...promise lol

legend:
"blah blah blah cookies!" is the cat's (neji and kakashi) talking to each other

'yadda yadda yah chocolate!' is someone thinking to themself

"wassssuuuuuuuuuuup!" is jus normal talking

disclaimer: me no own naruto


Kakashi felt consciousness come back to him and he stretched then froze halfway through. It didn't feel like his normal stretches. Opening his eyes slowly, he saw a rumpled up quilt. He then looked down at his body and nearly died of a heart attack. Looking at what were his hands, he stretched what would've been his fingers and he felt the claws come out from his feet. He then looked at the rest of his body. It was a cat's body. Looking around frantically he saw a large black cat starting to stir next to him.

"Neji?" he said.

Kakashi was more shocked because it came out as a low, deep, muffled meow.

Neji heard a low meow say his name and opened his eyes and looked in the direction of where it came from. There was a large silver-ish white cat looking right back at him. One of its eyes was a deep blue while the other had a purple tinge to it. The one with the purple tinge had a vertical scar going across it. Neji looked quickly at his own body and froze.

"Kakashi-sensei?" he asked looking back at the white cat.

The other cat's head bobbed slightly in a nod.

"What happened to us?" Neji continued.

"I don't really know. The last thing I really remember is that woman's face looking larger than I had thought and I heard her say something of "change was good" or something like that."

"Change?! She changed us into cats?!" Neji shouted quietly.

Kakashi looked just as shocked. "I believe so, and you've actually got pupils."

"I do?"

Kakashi nodded that weird nod again.

"Where are we?" Neji asked.

They both looked around. There was faint light coming from windows on one wall and also from a large skylight in the ceiling. The side windows looked out over smaller houses as the sunset was nearly gone. Kakashi stood up then fell onto his side.

"Are you ok?" Neji asked.

"Yeah, just lost my balance."

Neji tried to get up too. Once he was standing he took a tentative step forward. He felt his body start to get unbalanced so he stayed where he was until it was regained. Kakashi got up and tried walking too. After a while they were traipsing around the bed with an occasional stumble. Kakashi decided to get off the bed. He crouched on the edge and jumped down. When his feet hit the ground he stumbled, but remained standing. Neji dropped down next to him. On the floor a wave of smells hit their noses and they blinked slightly because it was starting to overwhelm their noses. After a minute they walked over to the door and peeked out into a hallway. A new wave of smell hit them and their mouths watered. It was a delicious smell. Kakashi was the first to step out into the hallway. Neji followed cautiously as well. Humming came to their ears and they followed it and the smell towards one end of the hallway where light was streaming from. When they came to the end they looked out into a living room. It wasn't very furnished with a large, low table, an armchair, and a comfy looking couch. They then looked over to the other end of the room and saw a kitchen where a girl was cooking at the stove. She seemed to be in her early twenties. They stood and watched her for a little bit. She continued humming as she stirred something on the stove. It smelled even more delicious and soon the guys' stomachs were growling.

"Do you think we could trust her?" Neji asked quietly.

Kakashi did a cat shrug. After a minute of thinking on it, he slowly stepped into the living room and walked towards the kitchen. The girl looked up from her stirring and smiled broadly.

"I was wondering when you were going to wake up. Where's your buddy?"

Neji crept up next to Kakashi and the two were slightly crouched near the ground, ready for anything.

The girl saw their slightly wild looks and laughed. "You've got nothing to fear from me. I found you lying in an alley on my way home and I couldn't leave you two there so I brought you back with me."

Kakashi and Neji exchanged side glances.

The girl realized something, "I bet you two are hungry aren't you? I don't have any cat food, but I bet you'd like some milk." She went over to one of her cabinets and got out a shallow bowl. She then walked over to her fridge, poured some milk into the bowl and walked towards them. They backed away from her. She smiled again.

"I don't bite, it's ok," she crouched down and placed the bowl on the floor then went back to her stove.

Kakashi crept towards the bowl and started smelling it. Neji followed suit. They weren't fully used to their heightened sense, but they also didn't trust the woman and kept an eye on her as she watched them.

"Do you smell anything?" Kakashi asked.

"No."

Sayuri laughed as she heard the two low meows from the cats. "It's almost as if you're debating on whether or not it's poisoned. Here," she grabbed a small cup from another cabinet and walked over to the bowl. Kakashi and Neji backed away quickly, Neji falling over his back feet and landing on his side. Sayuri laughed again and dipped her cup into the bowl, showed them the milk in it then drank all from the cup. "See, it's not poisoned. Drink up," she went back to the stove.

Kakashi waited until Neji got up and they both went over to the bowl. Slowly they started licking at the milk like they remembered seeing cats do. The liquid was good and cold and their stomachs started growling more so they lapped up the milk as fast as they could.

Sayuri laughed again and turned to her food. Once it was done, she sat at the dining table and watched as the two opposite colored cats sat near each other, sometimes emitting a soft meow.

'It's like they're talking to each other. What strange cats,' she thought to herself.

"What are we going to do? The others are probably going to be worried about us," Neji pointed out.

Kakashi sighed. His brain was fried from trying to figure things out. "If there was any way of getting to them. Maybe they would recognize us."

"Kakashi-sensei, this isn't a genjutsu. I don't even feel most of my chakra anymore and besides, how would they recognize us. My eyes have pupils now and you don't have a red eye. Just a blue one and a slightly purple one."

Kakashi looked back at the empty bowl wishing for more to fill his stomach. "I don't know what to do, Neji."

They both looked at the girl. She got up and took her plate to the sink and then walked past them down the hall. After only a minute she returned back to the table holding a well worn notebook and a pencil. She sat down at the table and opened the book to the middle.

"Do you think she's trust worthy?" Neji asked.

"I don't know, but it's probably worth finding out since we might be stuck with her for a while."

Kakashi stretched his new body and walked over to the table. The girl didn't look up. He crouched down near one of the empty chairs and jumped up into it. He then looked above the table and hopped up onto it. The girl looked up.

"And what do you think you're doing, mister?"

Kakashi flattened his body quickly against the table and his ears went to the side as he waited for a blow to come from her, but when he looked back up at her she was smiling.

"I'm not going to hit you, silly."

Kakashi brought his ears forward as he looked into her eyes.

"You've got pretty eyes," she said when she saw them.

Kakashi slightly uncrouched and crept forward.

The girl remained where she was watching him calmly as he crept near her, his eyes never leaving her face. She watched as when he got close, he stopped and started sniffing, trying to catch her scent. She started to move her hand towards him and he crouched down quickly again, waiting for a hit.

"You poor thing, you were abused when you were younger weren't you? I'm not going to hurt you," she brought her hand slowly down near Kakashi.

He leaned forward, his eyes never leaving hers and he took in her scent. She slowly moved her hand and he watched it warily, but she moved slowly and remained relaxed and he felt her place her palm on the middle of his back.

"See, I'm not going to hurt you," she said as she slowly started petting him.

At first Kakashi remained tense, but soon he relaxed and laid down on the table, comfortably.

Neji saw him relax and decided he'd join as well. When he jumped up onto the table, he crouched down and watched her. She only smiled at him.

"You can come over here too. You've got pretty eyes as well. I've never seen such a pale gold."

Neji looked at Kakashi's half lidded eyes and walked forward tensely.

Sayuri saw his glance at the white cat. "You must be the older of the two," she said to the silver cat.

It looked up at her and nodded slightly. The girl's eyes widened a bit.

"You can understand me?"

The cat just stared at her.

Sayuri stared back for a bit then shook her head, "I must be seeing things. It has been a long day."

She continued petting Kakashi and looked down at her notebook.

Neji sat next to his superior, "Nice going, you almost blew it."

"At least I didn't reply to her question," Kakashi replied with a small sigh as he laid his head down.

Sayuri looked at the black cat that was staring at her then at the silver-ish one that was laying half asleep by her arm. "You two need names, but what?"

Kakashi sat up and she saw his fur sparkle slightly in the light.

"I think Kiri would be good for you," she said as she petted his head.

She then looked at Neji who just looked emotionlessly back. They sat staring at each other for a while and finally Sayuri sighed.

"I can't think of anything right off for you so I'll just call you Kuroi."

Neji just blinked at her.

She smiled and said a little louder, "And I'm Sayuri! We can be a family, if you two decide to stay with me." She rubbed Kakashi's head again and went back to looking at the book. After a while she picked up her pencil and began writing.

Neji scooted closer to it and sat next to Kakashi who just laid there watching. They were reading what she was writing.

"Seems like a story," Neji commented.

"Yup."

Sayuri looked up at the two who exchanged a couple sounds with each other. "Now don't go commenting on my bad penmanship. I know I'm not that good, besides this is just a little hobby of mine," she looked back at the page. "I've always loved to write and daydream so I just started writing stories one day and this is my newest one. I'm almost done with it. So far I've written 3 long stories, but I'm too embarrassed to show them to anybody," she grinned up at the two.

They looked back at her with no emotion.

"Well, you two are a lively bunch." She reached out towards Neji. He crouched down a little bit, but let her touch his head. Sayuri smiled and started petting him. "See, that wasn't so bad."

Neji had to agree that her scratching his back with her nails did feel good. He slightly closed his eyes.

"Gai-sensei, where's Kakash-sensei and Neji?" Naruto asked worriedly.

The green beast of Konoha looked out at the fading twilight. "I don't know."

"Maybe we should go look for them?" Sakura asked.

Gai looked back down at the 4 teens. "You four go in groups of two and I'll remain here incase they return."

The teens nodded and instantly left.


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