Beta: Nope.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or anything related to it. Only Mia and the others are mine.
Warning: I honestly don't remember if I should put a warning here or not ...
I forgot to let you all know who got which names.
Itachi: Kieran
Kisame: Blue
Zetsu: Darth Skudakumoochoowte (Darth Moo or Moo for short)
Sasori: Darth Maul (aka Asshole)
Tobi: Tobi
Kakuzu: Scarface
Hidan: Gorgeous
Deidara: Spike
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The next day was the day that my father would leave for Norway. After the recent events – the one with my mother -, I hated to admit that I was kind of childish as he hugged me in a goodbye. I didn't know when I would see him again, but dammit, the man just had to betray me for that horrible human being calling herself my mother.
I was angry, dammit.
"Mia, I'm sorry, okay?" He said and I glared at him. "She just showed up and I couldn't just deny her seeing you."
"However, you could have denied her to enter your house." I bit out.
He raised an eyebrow at me and I sighed. Yeah, he could have done that – she would have just made a couple of calls before having the army invading our house to get to me. I sighed again. My mother was kind of like an army herself. She stopped at nothing until she reached her goal.
"Don't comment on that, okay?" I sighed and he nodded with a small smile.
"I know you, Mia. You just need some time, that's all. Just …" he broke off at the end, seemingly not sure what to say.
"'Just don't kill her'?" I suggested and rolled my eyes at him.
"I trust you enough not to kill anyone." My father deadpanned and I laughed slightly, throwing my arms around him.
"I'll miss you, dad." I told him and took a deep breath, willing myself not to cry.
My father patted my head but he returned my hug nonetheless. I couldn't let go of him right away, so I buried my nose into his perfectly fitted suit and took a deep breath. I had been home alone before but this was something else. Before he had never been more than a couple of hours away and always in the same country. Now he was going to the other side of the world, miles and miles away from me. I couldn't just call him and demand he got home to a family dinner. I wanted to be selfish and tell him not to leave me, but that would be just that: selfish.
He had been offered a great position in his company and I knew he really wanted this job, so how could I be selfish? It would have been wrong of me to be so. Yet the thought of him being halfway around the world, scared me shitless. I was sixteen, yes, but I was still a child. I needed the few people I still had left near me or around me.
As I watched my father get in the taxi, I managed to keep up a happy façade but as the taxi got further and further away, it was harder and harder for me not to cry. It was so childish, really. All three of us was lined up at the top of the stairs in front of the door and was seeing our father off, all while my lower lip was trembling.
Daniel noticed my brave attempt to not cry and after a moment of hesitation, he snaked an arm around my shoulders and pulled me into a one-arm hug. I bit my lip, my vision getting blurry. It wasn't like he was going to die after all.
I hated goodbyes. Both the permanent and the temporary.
Feeling Cameron taking my hand and squeezing it in a comforting manner, I felt a few traitorous tears escape my control and falling down my cheeks.
\(•_•)/
Makayla had been forced to leave by her mother until sometime tomorrow and so I found myself alone in my ridiculously big house after I had reassured the twins I was okay and that they could leave me with a clear consciousness. Feeling like I was in a horror movie, I severely regretted that I had somewhat kicked them out.
At least I had my kittens.
"Come on, guys. Let's crash in front of the TV and watch sappy romances." I sighed, picked Gorgeous up, and buried my face in the softness of his fur. "I really need some love, Gorgeous." I told him and kissed him atop of his head.
I could hear Spike and Blue kitty laugh and looked down at them where they stood at my feet and looked up at me with twinkling eyes.
"I'm not kidding so stop laughing at me." I huffed and hugged Gorgeous into my chest.
He began to purr. That little pervert. Glaring at the kitty currently burying his entire face between my boobs, I sighed. Walking into the living room, I couldn't help but remember what Makayla had said and – cursing myself silently – admitted to myself that I was really beginning to think about getting out some more. I looked at the kittens.
"Guys, do you think I need a boyfriend?" I asked and received this incredulous stare from eight little kittens. "I mean, you guys could always kill him if he didn't treat me nicely, right?" I added and smiled to myself when I imagined my furry felines killing another human. What a ridiculously thought – they were after all only kittens. They couldn't and wouldn't kill anyone.
I looked at Gorgeous. Since I had laid down on the couch, he was now lying comfortably on my boobs, staring at me with those beautiful fuchsia colored eyes.
"You are so handsome, Gorgeous." I mused and then looked at the other kittens. "You are actually all kind of handsome. Bet you get lots and lots of attention from all the lady cats." I wiggled my eyebrows suggestively at them all, getting stares back that clearly told me I had lost it.
"Maybe you guys could be my boyfriends?" I suggested and absently petted Tobi, who had climbed atop my head and was rubbing his chin on my forehead. "You could be my harem."
The laugh made me giggle and then I snorted. I could imagine Makayla's and the twins reaction if I told them I had decided to get a harem filled with kittens. It would be hilarious.
Blue meowed demandingly and I looked down at him. Even if he was a baby cat, he was still a giant along with Scarface. They were easily twice the size of Maul or Spike. I was actually not certain whether or not Blue and Scarface were both older than the others of if they were just very big kittens. They certainly looked older, almost like adult cats.
I looked over at Scarface, Kieran, Darth Maul and Darth Skudakumoochoowte and frowned at them. They looked severely unimpressed at my frown. It was worrying me that they were so distant towards me. I mean, Scarface and Kieran would sometimes allow me to touch them but it was rare. However, it was even rarer that they would seek my attention out of their own free wills.
Maul and Moo was something entirely different. Maul seemed to tolerate me to some extent. He almost never let me touch him and never did he seek my attention by himself. Moo was even worse. He could always be found in the same room as me, like the rest of them, but he would always sit furthest away from me. He didn't allow me anywhere near him and if I tried to touch him, he would hiss at me and swat my hand away. Sometimes he would use his claws, sometimes not. He'd even tried to bite me a couple of times.
I was worried about them. It wasn't good they were this distant, but I guessed that if I had been forced into a small box and left in some alley, I wouldn't be too trusting either.
Gorgeous demanded my attention by gently swatting my nose and I smiled softly. Gorgeous and Blue were my favorites among the kittens and I kind of felt bad that I even had favorites to begin with. Giving him the attention he wanted, I looked at the four kittens who was currently using my body as a pillow.
Gorgeous was the one seeking my attention the most along with Blue, and he could always be found somewhere near me – if it wasn't because I was holding him. He would often push away the others if he felt he hadn't had my attention for a while – even if it had only been a minute …
He would hiss at Moo if he accidentally – I refused to believe it was on purpose – managed to scratch me with his claws or bite me. He would even go so far sometimes, as to attack Moo. Although Blue didn't outright attack the poor fella, he would raise his hackles and hiss at the other male.
Spike seemed to believe I was a necessary evil and although he did like my attention, he wasn't as protective of me as Blue and certainly nowhere near Gorgeous' level of protectiveness. He would although pounce on Tobi if he broke something or lightly bit me to get my attention. I suspected it was more because he enjoyed being a dick than anything else.
Tobi was … uh … he was hard to describe. He seemed angry sometimes and would even glare at me on rare occasions but he also seemed so … childish, if you could call a cat that. He was clumsy sometimes, other times as graceful as the others were. He also seemed like a jester, greatly enjoying to annoy the other kittens.
The kittens tolerated the twins – only Daniel was an exception for Moo and Tobi since they would outright attack him whenever they had the chance to – and Makayla. Maul, Scarface and Spike defiantly liked her and it wasn't anything rare they would seek her attention. Though, Spike always did and Scarface and Maul only did when they felt they would grace her with their presence.
They were a weird bunch, these kittens of mine.
\(•_•)/
I had apparently fallen asleep on the couch because I woke up with a jolt when I felt a sharp pain near my right ankle. Disoriented, I rolled off of the couch, instantly waking the kittens up. I looked around and tried to make out anything from the dark shadows filling the room. It was sometime in the night and I was ready to kill any intruder.
Moo meowed and I stared at him, mouth hanging open and when I finally closed it, Gorgeous had already attacked Moo and was now trying to cause him serious bodily harm, maybe even death by the looks of it. I figured that the only reason as to why Gorgeous was attacking him this fiercely, was because the one inflicting pain upon me had to be Moo.
Or maybe, he was just a dick. He could be sometimes.
"Gorgeous, let him be." I told him and pushed him away from Moo with my foot.
He glared at me but then he stalked over to me and swatted my hand as a kitty command to pet him. I snorted and pushed him away. I reached out towards Moo and he narrowed his eyes at me and hissed, swatting at my hand with his claws out and all.
"Come on, Moo." I cooed and wiggled my fingers at him.
He hissed but then, as if someone had pushed a button on him, he switched personalities and meowed while looking curiously at my outstretched hand. I took this as a good sign.
"What a good boy you are." I cooed and leaned forward towards him, hoping that I would be lucky as fuck and not have a murderous kitten on me in a moment.
Gorgeous walked in front of me and sat down but still allowed Moo to do whatever he wanted to do. When Blue joined him and they both sat there like some kind of bodyguards, I realized they were trying to warn Moo not to attack me again.
Moo looked at his two brothers and meowed but then he switched again and hissed, ears flat against his head and hackles raised. Blue was the first one to react this time around, and so he did the same, soon joined by both Gorgeous and Spike. However, Moo didn't back down and he glared murderously at me, ignoring the three other kittens as he stepped toward me. Scarface and Kieran was suddenly in front of me, hissing warningly at the bipolar kitten. Tobi had hid himself somewhere in the living room. Maul was lying on the back of the couch, sleeping peacefully, not deeming the situation serious enough to grace us with his presence.
Asshole, I thought and glared at the red kitten.
I should rename Maul. Asshole would fit him perfectly.
"Guys, stop it. There's no need for fighting, okay? It was my fault anyway. I wasn't respecting Moo to begin with. He merely tried to make me back off." I said and stood, intent on making the other kittens forget about it.
Gorgeous and Blue growled at Moo and sent him some incredible nasty glares, but they backed off nonetheless. When I walked out of the living room and into the kitchen, they followed me, one on each side of me. I couldn't help but laugh a little. It sometimes seemed like they were my bodyguards or something and the thought of them trying to protect me from whatever harm they believed could be done to me, was hilarious.
While I was preparing food for the kittens, my thoughts began to wander and when I finally came to again, it was because someone had tapped me on my shoulder. I turned my head to see who had actually dared to sneak up on me and ready to kill if it should prove necessary, only to come face to face with my brother. Or my half-brother to be correct.
"Jason? Oh my God, what are you doing here?" I shrieked and threw my arms around his shoulders while still holding onto the can with cat food.
I could feel the deep rumble through his chest as he returned my hug and lifted me up to swing me around.
"Hey sis, how's it going?" he laughed and I wanted to cry.
I had missed the jerk so much since he had decided to study abroad at University of Oxford in England. I only saw the asshole on rare occasions and last time was nearly six months ago.
"Don't change the subject." I laughed as he released me. "What are you doing here?"
"Can't an older brother go and check up on his adorable little sister without any reason?" Jason asked and placed a hand over his heart in a mocking gesture.
"Not when it's you." I retorted and rolled my eyes. "You are literally married with your beloved university." I snickered and quickly filled the bowls with food and placed them on the floor.
The kittens looked warily at Jason and neared their food with a suspicious glance at Jason. Jason raised an eyebrow at the felines but didn't comment. Instead he focused back on me and snorted at my comment.
"Don't tell Cali that or she'll kill me." He laughed and I snickered at the thought of the temperamental redhead.
She packed one hell of a punch, I admitted that. Jason had also been on the receiving end of Cali's violent love and he also knew how surprisingly strong the slender woman was.
"By the way, when will the wedding be?" I asked him and laughed at Jason's expression.
It's so typical of my brother to propose to the girl of his dreams and still be scared shitless of the wedding. He had already stalled the wedding the past three years. He really needed to get moving.
"You do know Cali won't wait forever, right?" I asked him and smiled at the groan coming from him.
"I know, I know but dammit, the thought of a wedding is scaring the shit out of me." He said and scratched the back of his head.
"Don't worry, Jason. You're obviously enough doing something right since she's still with you." I told him and walked out of the kitchen with Jason close behind.
He raised a single eyebrow at me. I knew what would be coming next and I groaned as I hid my face in one of the pillows on the couch. I should have never said anything.
"What about you? You still don't have a boyfriend?" he asked and laughed when I groaned once more.
The kittens had entered the living room and was watching me and my brother with what could best be described as kitty smirks.
"No." I muttered and glared at him.
"Mia, if you keep going like this, you'll die a virgin." He teased and I scowled at him.
"I hate you." I said and pointedly ignored the stupid kitty laugh coming from Spike, Blue and Gorgeous. Even Tobi had joined this time and although Scarface, Maul and Kieran didn't laugh, they still had those smirks in place.
"I know you love me." He said and I glared at him but didn't say anything.
What could I say?
"So where's everyone? Dad said something about going to Norway?" Jason said and swung his legs up on the table.
"Yeah. Dad left yesterday. Makayla should have been here but her mother called and demanded that she returned home at once. "By the way, how come you came home in the middle of the night?" I added as an afterthought.
"I don't know, I just felt like coming." Jason said and shrugged. "Why did you feed your cats in the middle of the night?" he asked and raised an eyebrow at me. "How come dad even allowed you to get cats?"
"I had nothing better to do." I said blankly. "He may have thought I needed the company since he would be leaving to the other side of the world."
Jason nodded and then tried to hide the yawn coming but he didn't succeed very well. I laughed and stood from the couch.
"Come on, Jason, you can sleep in the twins' room. We'll talk tomorrow." I said and started walking towards the stairs with all of my little shadows close behind me. "You know where everything is." I said over my shoulder and he nodded, already half sleeping in the chair.
Well, if he wanted to sleep in the chair, who was I to stop him?
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Hello, sweet ones and sorry for the long wait. Some shit is going down in my life currently and it's making me feel like I'm a thousand years old.
Thank you for the reviews and sorry for not responding to them always, but remember I love them nonetheless.
It's a rather short A/N but I really do not have the energy to write any more ... besides, I have a killer headache.
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