Hm, okay, after about.. -looks at calender- ..three or four months, I decided to update. Wow. And I actually finished chapter two today. Even more wow. Er, yeah. Introduction of new character right in this chapter. Hope it's not too cliché. -sweatdrop- Anyway, enjoy the chapter, and leave a review, if you like.
Disclaimer: Naruto is copyright to their respective owners. I am not making money for writing this fanfiction, I write it for my own enjoyment.
Chapter Two
Shuddering lightly, Naruto walked towards the lean-to. The other cat eyedd him wearily. ''Who are you?'' he asked suspiciously.
''N-Naruto,'' he stuttered, out of cold. His fur was totally wet and stuck to his body. If this was what life outside looked like, he certainly didn't like it. He noticed the other cat was giving him looks. ''What?'' he asked tiredly.
''You should lick yourself dry, or you'll get a cold,'' the cat suggested. Not having the energy to protest, Naruto did what was told and found himself much warmer when he was done.
He finally got to have a look on the other cat. His fur was black and he was a shorthair, just like himself, the only strange thing was that the cat had hints of scarlet in his eyes. Naruto blinked and held his head crooked. ''Hey, you're eyes are red. Why's that?''
The black shorthair glanced at him. ''It runs in the family,'' he mumbled.
''Oh! That's cool! What your name?''
''Sasuke..''
''Do you have any family?'' Naruto kept on ranting and asking and-
''I'm going home,'' Sasuke suddenly announced.
''What? Why?''
''The rain has stopped… Idiot.'' Sasuke stood up, studied his paws for a moment, and then walked in the opposite direction of where Naruto had come from.
''Hey! Wait!'' The orange cat yelled and he sprinted after Sasuke, slowing his pace as soon as he had gained on him. ''I can't get into my house anymore.. so… Can I go with you?''
Sasuke rolled his eyes. ''Fine, idiot.''
''I'm not an idiot!''
''Yes you are – what kind of housecat can't get into his own house anymore?'' Sasuke jumped on a trash can and from there on a fence. ''Well, are you coming or what?''
''Um..'' Naruto stared up to Sasuke.
''Oh, please don't tell me you can't climb…''
''I can climb!'' Naruto loudly protested. He stared at the trash can. 'It's just like the stairs.. Come on!' He jumped to the trash can and landed there with a loud BANG.
''Idiot..'' Sasuke mumbled. ''You can't do anything right, do you?''
Naruto dug his nails in the fence and climbed up. ''See, I can climb,'' he proudly announced and then noticed Sasuke had already walked ahead.
Walking as fast as he could without losing his balance, Naruto followed Sasuke.
If anyone would've looked up right now, they only would've seen Naruto struggling to stay upright; Sasuke had reached the wall of the house already and was waiting there for Naruto. He was almost invisible in the shadows, but Naruto could clearly see him. His eyes were made for things like that.
Finally, he reached him and together they made their way over the roofs.
''..so this is where you live,'' Naruto said.
''Yeah,'' Sasuke replied. They were standing in front of an old factory. ''Ignore the smell. You'll get used to it after a while.'' Naruto was about to ask what Sasuke was talking about, when this really human scent came drifting into his nose. ''Ew,'' he muttered.
''I told you,'' Sasuke looked back at him, ''ignore it.'' He pushed the door open with his right paw and it squeaked. He peeked his head inside, and then the rest of his body followed. ''It was a paint factory, that's why it smells like this,'' Sasuke told Naruto.
''Oh..'' Naruto had just come in and he looked around in the enormous space.
''I don't live in this room. It's too cold in winters and too hot in summers, if you get what I mean,'' Naruto nodded, ''behind this one there's an office. It's not used anymore, though. I sleep there.'' He walked right through the space to another door with human letters on it.
Sasuke looked over his shoulder at Naruto, ''Well, are you coming or what?''
He followed Sasuke and ended up on a comfortable chair near the heater. ''So, what do you do?'' he asked curiously, wondering what cats did when they didn't have an owner that took care of them.
Sasuke looked up; he had been watching the people outside. ''Do in what kind of way?''
''You know, what do you usually do?''
''Dunno… Watching humans, I guess.''
Naruto cocked his head to the right. ''Isn't that really boring?''
Sasuke shrugged, stretched out and jumped on the desk. ''Depends…'' he stared down at Naruto. ''Why?''
Naruto stared back. ''Well, aren't you longing to some kind of adventure?''
''No, not really.''
Naruto scrunched up his nose, ''Man, you're boring!''
''Whatever…''
Naruto almost jumped when another cat suddenly jumped on the desk. ''Who's you're friend?'' he asked Sasuke.
''Naruto,'' Sasuke replied, ''and he's not my friend.''
''Oh,'' the cat blinked (as far as a cat can blink), ''but anyway, the Hocat wanted to talk to me so that's why I'm late.''
Sasuke rolled his eyes, ''Yeah, sure.''
''..and he told me he wanted to talk to you about your behaviour. Not that I haven't already tried,'' he muttered darkly. ''He expects you this afternoon.''
''I don't have time this afternoon.''
''Than make some. It's serious.'' Again, Sasuke rolled his eyes.
Confused, Naruto looked from Sasuke to the unknown cat and back, and repeated that a couple of times. ''What the hell is going on!'' he then loudly exclaimed.
Sasuke glanced sideward at him and proceeded to jump on the chair, next to Naruto. ''Nothing,'' he whispered in the blond cat's ear, ''absolutely nothing.''
The cat on the desk coughed loudly to gain both of the younger cats' attention, and then said, ''Naruto, was it, right?'' the yellow-orange shorthair nodded slowly, not really understanding where this whole conversation was going. But, oh well, it was better than the one-sided conversations he had had with the humans, where he had to fill in their answers, wondering what they were trying to say. Naruto was suddenly regained conscious of where he was because the cat on the desk had started talking again. ''While I escort Sasuke to the Hocat, you might want to come with me. If other cats smell you, well, let's say it won't be a pretty scene.''
Sasuke snorted at hearing he would be 'escorted', but than again he couldn't blame the older cat for not doing so. He himself was well-known to be able to escape at the oddest times, blaming some other animal for giving him wrong directions if they caught him. The cat was rubbing off on him, he suddenly realised when he over thought his excuses, that seemed to become lamer each week.
''Hey, hey, can we go now?'' Sasuke gave Naruto an irritated glare before they set off to follow the elder grey cat, who had as matter of factly two seconds ago introduced himself to Naruto, as none other than the famous Kakashi. Naruto, being Naruto, obviously hadn't heard of him. But than again that probably wasn't his fault, it hadn't been his decision to get taken in by a family.
Sasuke stared at the backs of the cats that very recently had been introduced into his life, messing around with his schedule and habits. And although it would be impossible to see by any human right now, he was smirking his daily smirk, and was satisfied with what life had brought him today: a very hyperactive shorthaired housecat, and a longhaired grey street cat that stole porn books out of trashcans.
And that was about chapter two. I'll think about chapter three later. Things might get a little more interesting, by then. (um, or is it, 'by than'? -blinks confused-)