Hello again, Beautifuls!: I'm so glad to see you are back reading the second instalment of my first published story! I hope you are enjoying it, please let me know if you are, or aren't. Feed back is always greatly appreciated. I'm still working on how to make the format look the way I would like for it to. Kinda tricky, but hopefully it isn't visually annoying to look at. I can't quite figure out why the tab space at the beginning of each paragraph goes missing, but hopefully the content makes up for it! lols. How are you liking the first person, real time point of view? I haven't written like that before. Let me know if it reads well for you.
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And Onto the story!
Tiny Terrors: Akatsuki Cats. Ch.2 New Place and Something Comfy.
"Ugh, my head. Wha…what happened, un?" I open my eyes for the first time and rapidly blink away the haze. The air smells of trash and plastic. Some of my blonde hair is covering too much of my vision so I lift my hand to brush it aside. When doing so I couldn't believe my eyes. I wasn't looking at my hand, my hand which can sculpt masterpieces, no. Not only are my beautiful tools missing, the mouths gifted to me from my ninja bloodline limit, but I wasn't looking at a human hand at all! "WHAT THE HELL!?"
"Oh look, sleeping beauty is finally awake." Looking for the origin of that snarky comment, I see another cat. Blue with black lines on his cheek bones.
"Good, now we can find shelter, and plan how to return us to our normal forms." A black cat with blood red eyes said.
"Kisame, Itachi?" I ask feeling very confused, "Why are you cats, un?"
"Cheh, take a good look at yourself. We are all cats." I look around and I see four other fluffy bodies.
"Sensei! You're awake!" Tobi's high pitches cheer rings through my ears. No, not you too.
"Shut up, Tobi!" I yell.
"Be quiet, Brat. You are making more of a fuss."
That voice, it can't be, but it sounds too familiar to be wrong. "Sasori? Is that you, un? Didn't you die?" I look at the source of the comment and see a burgundy cat. The look he gave me solidifies the unlikely truth.
"You kept us waiting." Yup, that is definitely my old partner.
"We all died." The pointed statement came from a dark brown cat with thin lines of fur missing, I can make out black lines going through the patches. Kakuzu, as straight to the point as always I see.
"Speak for yourself, asshole! Lord Jashin would never let me die." Came the coarse knee-jerk response from a silver cat.
"Idiot, what is the last thing you remember, Hidan?" Kakuzu asks him.
"I was fighting that stupid shadow nin!" he pauses in thought, "OH RIGHT! He had me over a hole with paper bombs all over me! That son of a bitch!" He gives a trash bag a kick of frustration.
"You blew up too, un? I didn't know you had a taste for art, Hidan. I bet my death was spectacular. I used my suicide jutsu to become one with my art in my last moments. Art is an explosion!" I couldn't help but show the excitement I feel for my ultimate art.
"Shut up! Suicide is an affront to Lord Jashin. To keep the glorious pain of death to yourself! You have to share it!" Hidan is practically screaming now.
"Oi, enough with your 'Lord Jashin'. If he existed, do you think he'd let you die only to get reborn as a fucking cat, un?" Now I've done it, from the look in his eyes I've really ticked him off. Next thing I know I was flying out from the relative safety of the dump, my face throbbing with pain, and landing in a sprawled heap. "You, son of a bitch, un!"
GASP! "Oh my God! You poor thing!"
Now who the hell said that, un? I look around me, wincing from the ache in my cheek. There's a girl here. There's a girl here!?
"Are you ok, sweetie?" My first impulse is to run back towards the other's, but she is too fast. Her hands are upon me, and I am suddenly in the air. "It's ok, shh shh." She tucks me tenderly under her chin. I'm now sprawled over her right breast, her hand holding my hindquarters securely. These boobs are huge! I could get used to this. Maybe being a cat won't be so bad, un. "How did you get here little guy?" She asks softly while stroking my chin. Yeah, not bad at all.
"HEY! Don't think that bitch can save you from the rest of your beating, asshole!" Hidan is screaming from the sidelines.
"There are more of you?" she asks and uses some form of jutsu to produce light from her hand, I heard some movement, but I didn't see any hand signs. How is she doing this?
She spots Hidan still looking very angry, but is more surprised by the sudden appearance of the woman. "Easy, Vicious. Who pissed you off?" the woman asks Hidan, but soon notices the other members of the Akatsuki.
As she appraises them, I appraise her. She is obviously larger than myself in this form, but if I were human I imagine she is much shorter. Around five feet by the look of things. She has a soft heart shaped face, but her eyes are keen surrounded by black rimmed glasses. Her hair is a dark brown, nearly black. Long and wavy. Her skin is a light olive tone, and soft by what I can feel with my tiny cat palms. Can't forget to mention her breasts, which are large, and very comfortable to lay on. She is obviously no string bean, but not unhealthily large either. Just has all the right stuff in all the right places.
She's speaking to one of the others, but I'm not listening until she moves and I see Tobi is at her hand enjoying himself a bit too much for my liking. "Yes! Attention! I love it! No wonder you look so happy, Deidara! This feels so good!" God, does he ever shut up, un!
I growl to him in warning "…Tobi….", but before I can get another word out I'm bouncing against the luscious mound under me, and her nose is rubbing my cheek. My irritation fizzles out. Why does touching my face and chin feel so good, un? My pleasure and slight confusion is short lived however as she pulls away to speak.
"Well, you guys don't look like alley cats. There's no way you all came from the same litter. Too exotic looking just to be randomly left behind, people could make a pretty penny off of your unique features. Did you escape from somewhere?" Her voice is soft but definitely an alto for sure. Yeah, we escaped from death, un. She sighs, "I can't take you all home."
Well if this woman did take us home it would fix our most pressing issue, safety. We don't have any way of defending ourselves right now. I can't even feel my own chakra. I think the whole Akatsuki are on the same train of thought because none of us are moving, just staring at her. "No, really. I can't take you home." She reiterates, and looks at me. We are in a dead lock stare, and I can see her slowly pull her bottom lip in between her teeth. A sure sign her will is breaking. Time to put the nail in the coffin, un.
Blinking slowly, I open my eyes as wide as possible, knowing full well how to get my way with woman. "But, you must, un."
"GAH! FINE! You are all too fucking cute! I can't stand it!"
"YAY! Deidara Sensei! You did it!" Tobi yells while jumping around and trying to get onto the woman's lap.
"Alright, well let's get you all loaded up into the car." She scoops Tobi in her grasp. "Hopefully all your other friends will follow and I won't have to chase them down."
"Come on guys! She's our ticket out of here!" Tobi yells, and slowly the others do follow.
"Shut up, you idiot. We don't need some random woman to take care of us!" Hidan yells back, but follows regardless.
"Be quiet, Hidan. Haven't you noticed? There are no chakra signatures anywhere around. We have no idea where we are, and she very well could be our only hope of finding information to safely turn ourselves human again." Kakuzu puts him in his place, as usual.
Suddenly there's a noise from a large metallic looking cart of some kind, and it briefly flashed with light, but before I could question it she's pushing me higher onto her chest, which is fine by me, and opening a door. She puts myself and Tobi gently onto a soft fabric and turns to the rest of our group. "Two down, five to go." She mumbles, and looks surprised then confused when each of the Akatsuki walk over and allow her to put them in the cart to join us. Well…all except Hidan.
He attempted to attack her first, "Bitch, I don't need any help!"
"Oh really now?" She says. Can she understand us, or is she just good at reading behavior? "Well, go on. Get in the car yourself then." So that's what this device is called, a car. She stands back a bit waiting on Hidan to make his move. He made two attempts and fails. On the third he got himself well and stuck. Much to my delight she boots him in the rest of the way.
"Don't need any help, un?" I chuckle, and a few others join in.
"Shut up, asshole." He turns and starts glaring at the woman.
"Alright, everyone in? Ok, let's get this show on the road." She shuts the door, and reappears in the front seat putting a key into a hole. The car vibrates with life, which is surprising. Another jutsu? Soon the car starts to move.
"Tobi wants to see outside. Maybe we'll see something that'll let us know where we are!" He starts climbing up the chair, reaching the top quickly looking out the window. "I see a lot of trees, maybe we are in Fire Country?" he's precariously balancing on the top of the chair leaning very close to the window.
"Tobi, be careful, un!" I yell at him.
"Aw, sensei. You do care!" I'm practically fuming now. Why you little… "OH! Look, everyone! There's light coming up!" the lot of us became curious now, climbing onto the seat and stretching to look out the window too.
What I saw was amazing to say the least, buildings everywhere lining the road all extremely well lit, and there are even more cars. Amegakure was considered the most industrialized city, but wherever we are now takes the cake. "We are definitely not in Fire Country…" I state in awe of the sites as they flew by, no one spoke for a time processing this new development.
"We may be in a bit more trouble than we originally thought…" Kisame's smooth timber broke the silence. "Eh, Itachi?"
"So it seems." Came his short reply.
The large buildings became scarce in favor of smaller huts until we finally pulled in front of one and the gentle hum of the car ceased.
The woman turns around from the front to look at us, "Home sweet home, my furry cuties." She smiles at us, then quickly leaves the car after grabbing a bag and a sweater from the passenger seat, and opens our door once more. "So who wants a ride?" she's holding her arms open to us now in invitation. Tobi took advantage immediately and is placed on her right shoulder and breast, making me huff with annoyance. "Well, any other takers?", to my surprise Kisame steps forward. "Alright, big guy.", he too is placed against her left breast, being longer than the rest of us she still needs to put her arm under his rear to keep him from falling off.
I noticed their eyes never broke contact in the movement, and it must have unsettled her because the next thing she says sounds hesitant, "Oh…kay then…Let's get inside and feed you all." Dutifully the rest of us file out of the car so she may close it, and follow her to the door.
It opens easily for her and we step into what will become our new base of operation. She locks the door behind us and sets down her things from the day. We all keep an eye on her, watching every step, while also observing the house. The first room immediately from the door is a living space, a big plush blood red couch on one side, and a black square picture frame on the other that takes up quite a bit of the wall space. What is the point of that? Tell me that's not supposed to be art, un? I groan internally.
"I'm going to assume the staring means you are hungry." The woman states as she walks over to the couch.
"YES! Tobi is famished!" - "Hell yeah, bitch. I'm fucking hungry." Tobi and Hidan yell simultaneously, and the rest of us give short replies in the affirmative except Sasori.
"I'm going to assume that is a resounding yes. Good thing I love tuna sandwiches, and have plenty stocked up." She places Tobi and Kisame onto the couch and leaves us to our own devices.
"This woman is far too trusting; she can't be a ninja." Kakuzu starts our conversation. "How can we get information we need if she is just a civilian?"
"There may be no ninjas around. I haven't seen nor sensed a hint of anything related to chakra use. Whereever we are, it must be very far away from the known countries." Itachi gives his opinion.
"So what? That means we're stuck like this?" Hidan asks his tail flicking behind him wildly. "And what about the bitch? She thinks we are just cats. Fucking man handling us like that."
Kisame chuckles, "You're just jealous you didn't get to lay on her massive breasts." Dismissing Hidan's irritation.
Hidan looks like he's winding up for a loud comeback but Sasori interrupts, "Yes, she does think we are just cats. Which we will continue to let her believe. We need her for now to think we are defenseless to keep us safe. So don't act too suspicious. She has a keen eye to notice behavior and we don't want to break our ruse." A moment passes as we process his words until we hear a growl coming from him.
"What…was that, un?" I ask still looking at Sasori. The growl comes again, still from Sasori's direction. "Oh my god, is that your stomach? I thought you didn't get hungry, Sasori, un."
He sighs exasperated. "It seems in the change I am no longer the perfection of my puppet form. And this…body…craves sustenance."
"Holy shit." Hidan says just as we took notice that the woman returned from what must been the kitchen, because she has food in her arms, and a sandwich hanging from her mouth.
She pauses for a brief moment with all of us staring at her and gives us a funny look. Shit, un. We are supposed to act natural and cats don't just have impromptu council meetings. She places the plates of what looks to be tuna on the ground in a row, all the while keeping her right eyebrow raised watching for our next move. "Alright, dinner is served." She says after taking the sandwich from her mouth, then sits down on the floor with us, her back up against the coach. She begins her meal.
I sniff my plate, It certainly smells like tuna, looks like it's from a can though, not fresh. Should I try it? Maybe I should wait for one of the others to go first.
"You guys are not normal cat, huh?" Well that's the understatement of the century, but you aren't supposed to know that! "Why aren't you eating? Not like it's poisoned or anything." Her and Itachi seem to be sharing a silent conversation of mutual mistrust and skepticism, until she reaches out and takes a piece of tuna off each of our plates and eats it. "See? Not poisoned.".
"YAY! Tobi is relieved, I couldn't wait any longer, it smells so good!" He starts eating in a hurry, followed by Hidan. Well if the supposed immortal didn't die, it must be fine. I start to eat as well.
"You guys have trust issues. Who did this to you?" she asks but obviously doesn't expect and answer and we eat in peace.
Tobi finishes before the rest of us, and must have gotten bored because he would not leave me alone! "Go away Tobi, un. Can't a man digest a meal in peace?" he keeps flailing himself around me.
"But Tobi has so much energy! What do you think of the pretty lady? Isn't she nice?" my eyebrow starts ticking, "OH! How about how she held us? You certainly looked like you were enjoying yourself." Fumes are coming out of my ears, "Comfy, right? Deidara?" That's it.
"BE QUIET! UN!" I launch at him, but he's quick like usual so I take chase.
I almost had him, but next thing I knew, Tobi was out of my range in the arms of the woman. Shit, un. I look ahead of me again and see Sasori whom his eyes are growing wider. I couldn't stop my speed. Double shit!
AND- Until next time!