Yūbi opened her eyes a tad, feeling rather comfortable and warm. She let out a smooth purr, stretching her limbs and body against the being she was next to, happening to be Itachi. His head was tilted one way, an arm dangling off the bed while the other was curved, and in that curve was Yūbi. The she-cat lied her head on Itachi's chest, continuing to purr rather loudly, and the Uchiha must have sensed it, for he shifted, mumbling something before turning his head over her way.

He lifted his head a tad, cracking open his eyes to see Yūbi's head lying on his chest. He gave a small smile, reaching up and scratching between her ears before lying his head back down, starting to doze off.

The two lied like this for a little while longer, before Yūbi grew bored: too bored to sleep. She finally sighed, pushing herself to her paws and arching her back in a rather delicious stretch as she gaped her jaws wide in a yawn. She shook herself, looking at Itachi once more before climbing over him and off the bed. She looked over at Kisame in his bed. The shark was sprawled out, snoring lightly and seeming in a rather deep sleep.

He still did not like Yūbi.

The cat slipped out of the room, for the door was left partially open just for her. She padded lazily down the hallway, not sure of what to do.

Despite having been here for a few days, she mostly stayed concealed in Itachi and Kisame's room. This may be the first time she had went out on her own. Desperate bordems call for desperate measures, of course.

"The blonde who secondly found me.. I think it was Deidara.. yes, he didn't seem to mind me too much.. Maybe he's up. If not, I'll wake him up," Yūbi finally decided, trotting quicker until she reached their room. As she approached, she saw it was closed, and slowed, freezing when it suddenly opened and Danna walked out and down the hallway the opposite way of Yūbi. She watched him head off, before slipping into the room.

She saw Deidara sprawled out on his bed, his face buried in his pillow as he hugged it with one arm. She padded over, jumping up on the bed beside him. She let out a meow. He didn't move. She meowed again. He still didn't respond. She then proceeded to climb onto his back and lie down, right there like that.

He shifted, groaning before trying to move, but then just stopped. She stooped down so she was beside his head and neck, and licked, then gently bit his earlobe. He grumbled slightly, giggling a bit and trying to push whatever it was away. She licked more of his ear, biting harder, flinching a bit in surprise as he let out a moan.

It sounded liked a pleased moan.

Wow, awkward..

She sniffed his ear, all the while purring to see if he would wake up. He seemed to mumble something, before turning his head to the side, blearly opening his eyes, trying to focus them. "Oh.. your're that.. Itachi's cat.." he slurred tiredly. Yūbi just meowed. "What? Go ask your master for food," he grumbled, starting to go back to sleep, but she began to prod and knead his hair. With her claws, as well. "Hey, not the hair, yeah! That hurts!" he hissed tiredly, trying to swat her away, but she continued on.

With a harsh sigh, he finally sat up, pulling her away and holding him out in front of her.

He looked tired, annoyed, and rather disheveled, especially his hair.

She looked cute, innocent, and playful.

He groaned, setting her down and rubbing his face. "Okay, I'm up, yeah.." he sighed, rising to his feet and stumbling into the bathroom. She settled herself down on his bed, waiting.

He reappeared not too much later, dressed and his hair fixed. Deidara then sat down beside her, looking at her expectantly. "Well? Why did you wake me up?" he plated.

Yūbi looked up at him, just letting out a meow. "You should show me around," she rubbed against him, curling her tail around his arm before leaping off the bed, looking back over at the blonde and meowing once more. He blinked, standing as Yūbi led him out of the room. She padded down the hallway, stopping for him to take the lead, but he just halted as soon as she did.

She growled quietly, running down the hallway, soon stopping by a room. She peered inside. It was.. the Hidan and Kakuzu's room. Nobody was currently in there. "You want the Zombie Team, hmm? They're on a mission," Deidara announced as he slowed to a stop by the room as well. Yūbi's eyes fluttered over to the stacks of money on Kakuzu's desk, and she suddenly grinned a devious little kitty grin.

Bounding over, she jumped on top of the desk, using her tail to balance herself as she knocked a few stacks of cash onto the ground.

"Ack! No, don't do that, Kakuzu will strangle you! Is that what you want?" the blonde human behind her gasped out, but Yūbi already had a few dollars clamped firmly in her jaws. She turned to Deidara, before darting straight between his legs and out the room. She stopped, looking up the wall at one of the many lights that dimly lit the hallways. She crouched down, tightening her hind legs and hackles, and with a small wiggle of her haunches she leapt.

Extending her claws, she just managed to grapple onto the light with her upperbody. Straining her neck, she hid the money by the light, before dropping to the ground, licking her jaws and looking over at Deidara. He was watching, his mouth slightly agape as he looked from the money back to Yūbi. A smirk suddenly crawled onto his face.

"I see, yeah.. you're a smart cat.. dumb for doing this, but smart.." he grinned, disappearing in the room, before reappearing with an armful of cash.

"Yeah, you DO actually have some balls," Yūbi chuckled, following the blonde as he took off down the hall. After awhile of running around the entire building, they had hidden the miser's money carefully throughout the hideout, and now both lay on Deidara's bed.

Yūbi was lying on Deidara's stomach, while Deidara was lying back, stroking her softly as he stared up the ceiling, chuckling quietly to himself before letting out a sigh. "Hmm, I wonder what Kakuzu will think when he gets back.." he drawled, sounding somewhat absentminded.

"What I'll think about what?" Yūbi's whole body stiffened, as well as Deidara's. Slowly, they both looked over at the devil himself standing in the doorway.

"Eh-heh.. uh, Kakuzu, why are you here, mm?" the blonde smiled nervously.

"Sasori owed me some money, and I came to retrieve it, but he is not here, I see. What will I think about?" he repeated.

"Uh.. nothing, what are you talking about?" he chuckled, rubbing the back of his neck. Kakuzu's body was completely still, before he turned, walking off simply. Deidara let out the breath he had been holding, pulling Yūbi close to him. "That was a close one, yeah.. for a moment I thought-"

"DEI. DAR. A."

"Oh, damn."

Various black tentacles suddenly squirmed their way into their room, heading directly for the two on the bed, while Kakuzu came and blocked the doorway, several of the tentacles protruding from out of his body as his shadowed gaze seemed to burn like Hell through both beings. Yūbi swallowed back a pitiful mewl of fear.

"Well, you're on your own, bud," she laughed nervously, before squirming her way out of the blonde's grasp and bolting past Kakuzu and the tentacles out of the room.

"WHAT!? YOU CAN'T JUST- NO, KAKUZU, I SWEAR, IT WASN'T MY IDEA, IT WAS THE CAT'S, YEAH! OW, NO, LEAVE THAT BE! NO," Yūbi couldn't help but let out a small snicker, but gasped as her hind legs were suddenly yanked straight out from under her.

"NoooOO!" she wailed, her body being dragged across the ground as she tried to halt the process, extending and digging her claws into the stony ground. Suddenly yanked into the air, another tentacle wove it's way around her middle, holding her up as she was brought over, now eye to eye with the rather harsh "rapist".

"Call me insane, but I actually believe the dumb brat," Kakuzu's voice rumbled in a growl as he begun to squeeze her body. She let out a surprised hiss, tail lashing wildly as she began to writhe- or at least try to.

"No! Please let me go! I'm a cat, a cat I tell you!" she yowled alarmingly, trying to strike her front paws out to grapple the miser in some way. She ended up nicking him across the nose, and as soon as she felt claw connect with flesh, she instantly regretted her decision. Kakuzu's eyes darkened a tad, and now her front paws were wrapped up as well.

"Oh, no.." Yūbi groaned, her tail immobilized as he began to basically wrap her legs and tail together.

Please, just, let me down.. she growled internally, wincing as the string actually begun to burn. This is really not going to end well..

Yūbi was now limping down the hallway. Not only was she limping, she was limping quite awkwardly.

Her hind legs and hindquarter were out to one side more, as if she was approaching prey or an enemy cautiously. Where the tentacles had touched, her fur was mildly singed, sometimes the flesh even visible. Ears flat against her head and eyes dark she focused on the ground, trying to make it back to Itachi's room.

I just want to lie down, cuddle up in his arms, feel him stroke my wounds and make them better, and just sleep away my pain, and wake up feeling fresh.. and ready for revenge. Yūbi thought with a small, weak purr, eventually reaching the Uchiha's room, but to her disappointment, he wasn't there.

But neither was Kisame.

But you know what was there?

The fishtank.

Her wounds burned.. water soothed wounds..

Well, one dip couldn't hurt..

She hobbled over as fast as she could, painfully leaping onto the desk, then peering down into the fishtank. After several moments of hesitation, she splashed in. The water hit her wounds, stinging quite horribly, before it began to sooth the pain. Yūbi let out a sigh of bliss, ducking her head under the water quickly before resurfacing.

The fish nipped at her, but otherwise seemed to leave her alone. As she heard approaching footsteps, she pulled herself out, dropping onto the ground like a limp, wet blob. Eyes wide, she watched Kisame walk into the room, halting and freezing. He looked at the wet pile of Yūbi, before the fishtank. As it clicked, he growled, pulling out his sword.

"Damn cat, you brought it on yourself this time!" he roared, charging at her. Scrabbling up, Yūbi took off out of the room once again. Despite the water cooling off her wounds, they still hurt rather badly.

She wasn't sure how long she could keep up the chase.

Panting, she looked at the ground as she ran, before she heard the footsteps completely halt, along with another pair walking. She looked behind her, watching Kisame meekly put his sword away. She smirked, looking back ahead, only to crash into another pair of legs. She staggered back, looking up at the person.

Oh, man..

They looked down darkly at her, before reaching down and picking her up so she was now eye to eye with them. Their eyes..

Purple.

Rippled pattern.

It was.. weird..

Their skin was rather pale also, their face riddled with various.. piercings, it seemed to be. His gaze thought was quite harsh and intimidating.

She shrunk back in her fur with a small mewl. He snorted, carelessly handing her aside to another pair of hands. These hands felt smaller and softer, and Yūbi looked up at her new holder.

She had short hair, a pretty blue, maybe violet, hue, with a well crafted origami flower perched in it as well. The only piercing she had was a labret, and she was looking blankly at the spiky orange-haired man, before focusing her grey eyes on Yūbi herself. Yūbi looked up at the blue-haired woman, eyes wide, shaking slightly.

"There is a meeting." The pierced man finally spoke, starting down the hallway again, passing right by Kisame. Yūbi felt air gently brush her sodden fur as the woman holding her began off also. Taking various turns, they reached a large room, with a large table and only around eleven seats or so. The man sat down at the head seat, while the woman walked up beside him.

"Nagato.." she said quietly, slightly holding out Yūbi. He spared the smallest of glances at her.

"Dispose of it." he simply snorted, looking back away, and Yūbi stiffened instantly, struggling a bit, but despite the woman's delicate looks and hands, her grip was strong. She turned her head, looking at the woman, who looked down at her very mildly, a small frown fluttering her face before it was gone.

"Hai." the woman finally obliged, beginning to scatter into small pieces of paper. Yūbi stiffened, her vision overtaken by the paper, before she suddenly found herself outside. In the rain.

The woman then set her down, and Yūbi looked at her with large, round eyes. She looked down at the cat, her face soft but idle.

"I sense there is more to you then meets the eye. I shall disregard Nagato's orders this once. Run along, find somewhere better. Find your home," she said softly, and her body re-dispersed into papers, and soon, she was gone.

Yūbi could only stare up to where the papers had fluttered away miraculously into the pounding rain, her tail drooping and hitting the ground, and soon, her body followed suit. She sneezed lightly, beginning to shiver as she placed her head on her paws.

But.. I don't know what else is better. I have only just gotten here, but..

..that was my home.

A/N: This chapter is kinda.. spacey? Scattered? Gomen
Anyhow, I will be adding these at the bottom, especially if it's needed.
I might not be able to upload a chapter for a week or so, varying on certain things.
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