Title: Canidae

Title: Canidae

Summary: They have been tamed, and molded to societies fitting. They roam the streets like everyday people, yet they stick out so much. Upon meeting a stray that has not been claimed, you are supposed to kill it.

Chapter 4

Entering the room, Naruto saw all sorts of canines sitting around, enjoying talking or other activities, and some looked like they were about to just pounce. No, Naruto was no child, he was probably the same age as most of the canines and one feline here.

"Meet the family Naruto-kun!" Temari announced loudly, causing everyone to stop what they were doing and look over at the blonde. "Let's see, how about introductions peoples!" The fennec fox demanded.

The first to meet the blonde was a girl with violet-indigo hair, pale eyes, and cream ears and tail that were striped with a darker shade of cream. "My name's Hinata, nice to meet you Naruto." She said tenderly, extending her hand out, which the blonde gladly took.

Anko walked up to the blonde, smiling down at his chibiness. "The name's Anko!" She barked out, a gruff yet friendly smile over taking her face.

Tobi walked up a bright smile on his face. "Hello Naruto-kun, I'm Tobi!" The black-backed jackal exclaimed, engulfing the fox in a hug.

A blonde with dingo ears and a red head with dhole ears walked up, the red head had his arm slung around the dingo's shoulder. "I'm Deidara, and this is Sasori-koi, yeah!" He cheered.

As the introductions went on, Naruto found out a few things about some of them. Sasori and Deidara were mates. Gaara and Neji, the youngest fennec fox and the arctic fox were mates. Shikamaru and Temari, the oldest fennec fox and the grey fox were mates. And that Kiba and Shino, the two arctic wolves, were mates, too.

The last one in the room that had yet to introduce himself, had been staring at the fox for some time now, Naruto knew it, and had a hard time keeping his eyes away as well, finally walked up. "Uchiha Sasuke."

Naruto felt a blush rising as the black wolf reached out to shake his hand, but pushed it down. "Pleasure to meet you Sasuke."

Sasuke grasped his hand, bowing down and kissing the hand lightly. "No, the pleasure's all mine." He replied smoothly.

Ino, a golden jackal looked around the room. "Oi, where's Itachi?"

Anko scoffed. "Where do you think he is?"

Ino sighed, sitting down in a recliner. "One of these day's, that poor fox isn't going to be able to walk."

Naruto blushed even harder, some of it rising to his face as the wolf smiled at him, leaving to sit back down on the couch.

"Well, he needs to be here for this information! I need to tell everyone, but Kakashi and Iruka seem to be… ahem… busy right now because Iruka-san got turned on by Kakashi-san yelling at Shiinki." Kiya rambled, sitting down.

"What was he yelling at her for?" Hinata asked.

Arashi chuckled. "She still has her mind set on Sasuke and Sakura mating to create the first feline-canine breed."

The room noted how Sasuke's eye twitched majorly at this statement.

"And they're going to be boarding here for about a week." He continued.

Sasuke's eye further twitched.

Later that night, Itachi returned to the living room which was known as the den, seeing as even though they each had their own rooms, they loved to sleep in here, he was followed with a man with blood red hair and golden eyes.

Kiya pulled him aside instantly. "Kyuubi… We found him." She spoke soft but firm.

Kyuubi's mind blurred a little bit. They'd found him, his little brother? He looked over to the mass of canines and one feline and instantly spotted his brother, Naruto, wedged between Temari and Anko, sleeping soundly. He covered his hands with his mouth, dropping to the floor in silent tears.

Itachi, worrying over his mate's distress, tapped Anko on the shoulder. When she peered up to him, he pointed over to Kyuubi in a silent gesture for her to move, to which she complied.

Kyuubi crawled over, wrapping himself around Naruto and hugging him close, feeling Itachi's strong arms wrap around his upper torso as a final good night kiss was laid on his neck juncture.

Kiya smiled, walking over to Arashi and curling up with the golden wolf.

Naruto slowly opened his eyes, feeling arms wrapped around him and chest pushed against his back. He sat, stretching his arms out. "Morning." He said to no one in particular.

Kyuubi's eyes snapped open at the sudden movement from his brother, and he automatically pounced on the smaller fox. "Good morning Naru-chan!" He chimed.

Naruto whipped around to tear the person who had pounced on him to shreds until realization dawned on him. "Kyuu!" He called, leaping on his brother. "Where've you been?"

"I should ask you the same thing!" Kyuubi said, smacking his brother playfully on the head.

"Good to see everyone's up!" Iruka said happily, popping his head in. "Breakfast will be done soon."

The doorbell rang, and Hinata was the one who got up to get it. "Ah, hello Shiinki-san, here, let me take your coat." She greeted, smiling lightly

Shiinki patted the liger's head roughly, messing up her hair. "It's so good to see that at least one of Kakashi's pets have class." When she took her hand away, she failed to notice Hinata trying to nip her fingers off, and tossing her jacket randomly on the floor.

Shiinki walked into the kitchen to see Iruka making breakfast and Kakashi sitting at the table with a mug of coffee in his hands. "Hello Shiinki-san. Are you here to drop off your pets?" Kakashi asked.

"Kya! Kiya, run to the restroom, run, you can make it, you can!... Okay, you can't! Iruka-san, we've got a mess in here!" Temari's loud voice came booming through the house. Iruka sighed and flipped one last pancake and went to help them.

Shiinki looked disgusted. "You still haven't house trained her?"

Kakashi glared at the woman. "I have, she's been getting sick real often, and can't hold it down long enough. Now, are your pets staying here right now?"

Shiinki held up the three leashes on her hand. "Yes, there's three of them, Sakura, Chouji, and Tenten. Sakura is a white tabby, Chouji is a sphinx, and Tenten is a Balinese."

Kakashi took the leashes from her hand with a twitching grin. "Well, I'll see you in a week Shiinki, just set their kennels by the door and I'll move them into a room." He said, waiting until the woman had left his house to stop smiling and unclipped the collars.

Sakura changed back into her human form and walked off, picking up her bags and going to where her rooms were. Chouji changed into a portly man with spirals on his cheeks and hairless cat ears sticking out of his head and a hairless cat tail swaying back and forth behind him, doing the same as Sakura and going to his room. Tenten changed into a young teenage girl with two buns on top of her head, brown cat ears and brown cat tail, and peaceful smile on her face.

Tenten walked up to Kakashi, and bowed respectively. "Thank you Kakashi-san for letting us live here temporarily." She spoke, standing up.

The silver haired man chuckled and patted the kitten's head. "You seem like a nice enough girl Tenten, just don't get into trouble while you're here." He advised, smirking as the young cat nodded, grabbing her bags and dashing out.

There went that nasty doorbell again, damnit! It was two o'clock in the fucking morning for goodness sakes, go the fuck away!

Anko grudgingly got up, her lover's arms twitching as the African Wild Dog left them, and trudged to the door. She slammed it open and nearly screamed at the sight before her, a black tiger stood in the doorway, half way beaten to death. He suddenly collapsed, the purple haired woman catching him with fast reflexes. "Kakashi! Iruka! Wake up now!"

In a flash, said humans were at the door, Iruka gasping at the sight, and Kakashi moving to help Anko carry him into the bathroom and place him in the shower. "Anko, run to Tsunade's and tell her to bring a black collar and a medical bag."

The She-Dog nodded and ran out of the house, huffing and panting as she desperately tried to get to Tsunade's. Iruka ran into the kitchen to boil a pan of water and Kakashi sat the boy up in the tub. The boy had pale skin, probably paler than Sasuke or Itachi's, his shirt showed his midrift, and his black hair framed his face.

With all the commotion, Kyuubi had woken up, and walked in to see what it was about with Naruto clinging to his back. "Whats-"

"Sai!" The smaller kitsune yipped, leaping down and going to look at the black tiger. "What happened?"

The black tiger groaned and shifted a bit, revealing the lashes of blood up and down his back. His collar was held, torn in his hand.

Naruto's eyes softened as he took in the sight. "Oh Sai." He murmured, taking the tiger's paw and patting it lightly.