Hey everyone! I am back!!!!
Here is the latest installment of Kure-Tori.
Now just to set things straight, this is multi-character. The plot does not revolve entirely around just Deidara and just Sakura's relationship. It has to do with a lot more. Their relationship is just the main pairing as well as the story is from their focal points.
So I want you to all know one really important thing: FluffyKeira is awesome and betaed my story. She is the writer of an amazing DeiSaku story called 'Art of Destruction'. Seriously, go read it. Right now I'm dying for the update (which is late . cries to herself).
Another good story to go put a bunch of reviews on is 'From Leaf to Flower'. Seriously, if you aren't reading it, your missing out on some cute stuff. Deidara was finally added and it is super cute!
So now for the finishing touches: Thanks to everyone who reviewed! You helped me slay the writers block and finish writing this chapter. It was hard because I didn't know how to write this one scene, but I finished it! I hope to get a lot of input from you about this!
But for now:
Enjoy.
Kure-Tori
Chapter 9
The Value of Worth
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, yeah. Or it would be totally different! Dattebayo!
The rest of the week went off without a hitch. Naruto had been nervous at first, worried about how Deidara would be when he came back later that day with Tsunade, but one good sarcastic comment from the blond artist calmed the younger teen right down.
Deidara and Tsunade had talked about what he had just learned, and he decided it would be a good idea to write a full report about everything he knew about Akatsuki with sketches and blueprints included into the report.
He didn't even know why he was going into such detail, or so he thought in the beginning. He could have kept it short and sweet, but the more he began to think about it, the more he began to add.
In Akatsuki, all he had ever been was the arsonist, not an artist or even an invaluable asset, just the arsonist. Only on occasion was he ever used more than just the guy that wiped out villages in one big bang. He was rarely seen by others since he had kept to the sky, so with a slight altercation, he looked like a female and was able to flirt information from men, though he would get severely drunk afterwards before jumping into a cold shower to wash away the grime he felt.
He had been wasted there. All he ever got was disrespect. Hidan constantly made fun of his feminine appearance. Itachi thought he was better than everyone else just because of those eyes. Sasori- though he was a fellow artist- scoffed at his ideas even and preferred to keep a distant between himself and the blonde. They were fine together, but that was the extent of their relationship.
Leader constantly wasted his time and dismissed the other skills that he brought to the table, preferring men like Kisame- who looked bigger and stronger- or Zetsu- who was intimidating and sneaky- to do the job. Deidara knew that they missed important details, but decided not to mention it because of the fact he didn't like the place anyways.
But when he first met Tsunade, he felt something. She needed him. He knew that. She had stuck her neck out there when he was still on the enemy's side and asked him to help her. She saw more then what Akatsuki saw, he could tell by the gleam in her eye. So he had said yes.
Each time he sent one of those birds, he would activate a special jutsu that allowed him to see through his creations eyes. Tsunade-obaasan always smiled happily when she saw the bird and always thanked it, even though she didn't know he could know. It had made his heart jump with excitement, someone actually thought him valuable.
When he had been discovered that day, he was in the middle of warning her about something, but he couldn't remember it now. He was in the middle of writing something about the moon, but that was when Tobi came in. Deidara had fled the scene as quickly as he could break the powerful genjutsu, but it had been too late and now a large chunk of that important information was gone. All he knew was it had something to do with the moon.
It had surprised him when Tsunade had come through with her part of the deal, like Jiraiya had clearly stated that day at breakfast, his usefulness was up. Yet she took him in, healed his wounds, nurtured him back into some health, and introduced him to two people that would forever shake his foundations.
Sakura was the first one. She was shy at times, but was extremely caring and saw him, not as an arsonist, not as a tool, but as a person in need. She was mindful of his feelings and had comforted him on more than one occasion, though the most recent was the strongest one yet. He had decided the day she told Tsunade she would take care of him, that she was his own and would not be harmed by any who tried.
Naruto was the surprising second. He was against the blonde jinchuuriki at first, since he had been after him and attacked him before, but soon he realized the boy held a grudge as long as a brick held his attention- all of three seconds. When Jiraiya had put Deidara down with his words, it was Naruto that told everyone that the bomber did indeed have worth and never to doubt it. It was then that he decided the boy would be his own to guard and protect from harm. And it was because of Tsunade, because of Sakura, and even because of Naruto that he was working so hard on this report.
He would die for these people. He would die for those two, his own.
He usually worked on the report after everyone else had gone to bed. He would spend hours writing, until Naruto came in near one in the morning and began to do his own studies. Only then would he go to sleep, even his restless dreams searching out any tiny details that could be of use.
They had finished learning the basics quickly and now Naruto had a miniature army practicing and reading so that the list would get done quickly. From about breakfast time to almost three, Deidara and Naruto would go over the books. Then Naruto would head over to the Hokage's office so he could learn from Tsunade.
Sakura would stay by his side during these times and the two of them would just relax, completely at ease with each other's presence. Sakura would sometimes be finishing up some of her work, and Deidara just stayed quiet and watched her carefully, appreciating the small crease it her brow when she came across something she didn't like, the soft swell of her lip whenever she bit it in mild frustration.
It was around one in the morning when Naruto came into Deidara's room, his shoulders slumping tiredly.
Deidara looked up from his huge report that looked like a novel complete with pictures and schematics, appearing uncannily like a young professor as he peered intently at Naruto through his bangs.
"Morning." Naruto mumbled as he rubbed his right eye.
"It's getting to you." Deidara said as he stared at Naruto a bit more, somewhat amused at the sleepy determination before him.
"Just a bit," Naruto said as he sat down on the floor, "I'll get used to it eventually."
Deidara just closed his report and set it aside along with his pen and ink, "No need for that, just sleep on the other side of the bed, yeah."
He moved back so he was lying down. Closing his eyes and readying himself to sleep. Naruto just looked at him a little surprised before he double checked what he had heard.
"So… You don't mind me sleeping next to you?"
"Nope."
"Not at all?"
Deidara opened an eye. "Would I be offering if I did not feel comfortable with you, yeah?"
Naruto grinned happily as he flicked off the lights hopped onto the bed, landing on the opposite side of Deidara's side.
"Night Aniki." Naruto whispered.
Deidara's breath hitched a bit, but soon he responded, "Good night Otouto."
Tsunade had gotten ready that morning like usual. She had picked up the habit of checking up on Deidara in the morning to see if she couldn't catch Naruto still in there so she could ask them what they were doing. She could wait for the day that they slipped up, so she decided to bring a camera with her to capture them in the act.
She had never expected to find what she did find though. She grinned mischievously as she quietly snapped a picture of the sleeping teens and silently darted to Sakura's room. She was coming out of the bathroom, drying her damp pink hair.
"Sakura," Tsunade whispered as she walked up to her, a diabolical smile on her features. "You have to see this."
"See what Shishou?" Sakura whispered back wide-eyed, knowing when to follow the other's lead.
The older woman just grinned giddily as she leaned over and whispered something into the young kunoichi's ear.
"Do you know the difference between a cuddler and a snuggler?" She asked.
"Wha?" Sakura replied, looking confuse.
"Come on, just be very quiet and suppress your chakra." Tsunade whispered as she motioned Sakura to follow her, shoving the camera into her inner coat pocket.
Sakura did as she was told, following her shishou as she was led to Deidara's room. She was about to question it, but as she peered into the room through the door that had been left open, she quickly bit her tongue to stifle the laugher.
Tsunade's question now made sense. There was Deidara and Naruto, both doing two very different things.
Naruto was cuddling Deidara by hugging him and resting his head gently on the ex-Akatsuki member's chest while Deidara was not only hugging Naruto, but had his face deeply buried into the younger blonde's hair, his arms clasped more tightly than Naruto's.
So Sakura learned that Naruto was a cuddler and Deidara was a snuggler. The very thought made it almost impossible to keep from laughing out loud. Tsunade though, held a finger up to her mouth as she walked up the two boys before she began to lightly shake Deidara and in turn Naruto.
"Wake up sweeties," Tsunade said gently so as to not alarm them.
Sakura walked closer to watch the two react.
"Deidara-chan, Naruto-chan, get up," Tsunade said with a small laugh that escaped her lips.
Deidara and Naruto opened their eyes almost at the same time. Both took a moment to figure out what was going on, their sleepy eyes wide with confusion. However, as soon as they realized who they were hugging, both gave a terrified yelp and Naruto, who had somehow gotten on the other side of Deidara, rolled off the bed in an unceremonious heap.
"What were you doing, yeah," Deidara asked rather loud and accusingly, not noticing the two women laughing their heads off at the moment.
"What was I doing? What were you doing?!" Naruto retorted in the same terrified tone.
"I was sleeping, yeah! How did you even get on that side? You were on the other side of the bed!"
"I don't know! I was sleeping! That means I didn't plan it out, dattebayo! What were you doing with you face in my hair?"
"I… I can't breathe Shishou." Sakura said as she rolled on the ground laughing.
"Neither can I." Tsunade managed out as she bent over from laughing so hard.
Both boys looked over at them before giving an upset shout.
"How long have you been there?" Both asked with a blush crossing their faces.
"Long… long enough," Tsunade said as she managed to straighten up, small spasms of laughter still wracking her voluptuous figure.
"That was great," Sakura said already off the ground, still giggling, "How I wish I had a camera."
"Thank Kami you didn't," Naruto said as he stood up and brushed himself off.
"I don't need this, yeah," Deidara said as he put his pillow over his head, trying to hide his embarrassment.
"So," Tsunade said, changing the subject, "What are you doing in Deidara's room so early in the morning?"
"Uh… I um…" Naruto said as he backed up a bit, his hands waving in front of him, begging for the embarrassment to stop. "Well you see…"
Deidara didn't look up or say anything. Instead he just buried him head deeper under the pillow.
"It couldn't possibly be because Deidara was having trouble sleeping, right? Because he would have come to us about that problem if he was, wouldn't he?" Sakura asked as she arched an eyebrow.
"Yes," Tsunade chimed in rather amused, "He would know better than to keep that from us, right? Sakura-chan?"
Both women grinned slyly as Sakura answered, "Oh I totally agree."
She turned to Naruto. "Right Naruto-kun?"
"I… um… You both already knew, didn't you?" Naruto realized after a moment, his hands falling limply to his sides.
Both women nodded.
"Since the first time. I have been trying to catch you in act since." Tsunade said before growling, "What were you two thinking trying hiding something like that from us?"
"Well… you see… we just thought…I mean… this is going to hurt, isn't it?" Naruto asked weakly as both females looked at him with that glint in their eyes.
Deidara was still hiding under his pillow; too embarrassed of being caught doing something so… awkward; oh, and being caught lying to the two most powerful kunoichi around; and too terrified of the very same kunoichi's wrath to look up at his impending doom.
"I think I'd prefer Naruto's punishment, yeah." Deidara said as he squirmed as far back as he could, trying to dodge the spoon of vile liquid.
"The sooner you take it, the sooner you'll be done," Sakura said as she shoved the spoon into his mouth.
He gagged as he tried to swallow it, knowing the consequences would be worse if he spit it out.
"No, I really would prefer Naruto's punishment. Please, no more, yeah." He looked up at her dolefully.
"This is not punishment," Sakura reminded him as she poured another spoonful, "This is to help you low immunity. It is the pure extract of a few of the more potent herbs. It's good for you."
"No," Deidara corrected her as he pulled his head away from the coming spoon, "This is punishment for lying to you and Obaasan. You wouldn't be making me take this if it wasn't true, yeah."
"We just are making sure you don't get sick, Deidara-kun," Sakura said innocently as she shoved another spoonful into his mouth, "There is no punishment since we knew about this from the start."
"Right, yeah," Deidara said as he gagged at the taste again, "How much more of this?"
"Ten more spoonfuls," Sakura said calmly.
"But I've had ten spoonfuls, yeah!"
"Then only ten left."
"Would saying I'm sorry do anything?"
"Hmmm… I don't know, give it a try."
"I'm sorry for lying to you, yeah. I won't do it again."
"Aw, thanks."
Another spoonful shoved into his mouth.
"But that doesn't mean I reduce the amount you need. Nine more."
"Aw, come on!"
"Aw, come on!" Naruto whimpered as he hugged tightly onto Tsunade's leg, "Not this!!! I will do any other punishment!!! But not this! Dattebayo!"
"What are you talking about Naruto? I'm not punishing you," Tsunade said with a sickly sweet grin, which gave Naruto the shivers. She was so sinister when she was angry. "You are merely offering your serves out of the kindness of your heart."
"But it's Ino! Shopping with Ino! Even Sakura-chan avoids this!" Naruto whined as Tsunade kept walking, dragging the protesting boy along.
"Naruto stop acting like a child," Tsunade growled as she kicked the boy off of her, sending him sprawling on the floor.
"But Baa-chan," Naruto whined, "It's Ino! She spends hours doing it and actually hires someone to walk around to hold her bags! Please, no!!!"
"Too late," Tsunade said as she knocked on the Yamanaka head's door.
"Coming," Ino's voice called out from the other side of the door.
"Quick, before she gets here, let's leave," Naruto said as he tried to take off, only to have Tsunade grab him by the ear and pull him back.
"Oh no you don't. You are helping her and you will do it without complaint. Understand?" Tsunade hissed into the boy's ear, "Or so help me I will punish you for real."
Naruto gulped as he let out a small, "Yes Baa-chan…"
Ino opened the door and looked at the Hokage holding onto Naruto by the ear as the blonde tried futilely to free himself.
"Hello Hokage-sama," Ino said as she looked at Naruto again, "Naruto is here for the mission I submitted."
"Yes," Tsunade said as she easily tossed Naruto right next to Ino, "Don't go easy on him."
"Alright," Ino chirped happily, "I'll have fun with him."
"I'm doomed," Naruto groaned as he began to hit his head on the door frame of her house.
It was around nine at night that day when Naruto came crawling back. He was rather nervous looking as he slipped into Deidara's room. Sakura looked up from the book she was reading; Deidara looked up from the report he was making.
"Hey, your back," Sakura said before looking back down at her book, "So how was Ino?"
"She's good," Naruto said with a nervous look, "Somehow… I ended up with a date with her."
"What," Sakura choked as she shut the book and stared at Naruto, disbelief evident on her face. "Did you just say you have a date with Ino as in my best friend Ino?"
"You went off to get punished and landed a date, yeah?" Deidara asked sceptically.
"I guess," Naruto said as he rubbed the back of his head, "I don't really understand exactly what happened that ended me with a date."
"Well," Sakura said as she stood up and steered Naruto eagerly towards a chair, "Spill! Tell us what happened!"
"I told you I'd rather have Naruto's punishment," Deidara muttered, "But I got the nasty medicine, yeah."
"Stop complaining, the stomach ache went away after a while," Sakura said as she sat on the bed next to Deidara, giving Naruto the spot light.
"So," Deidara raised a brow, "Are you going to tell us or what, yeah?"
"Do I have to?" Naruto asked reluctantly.
"YES!" both said firmly.
"Do you want to know what you did that got you the date?" Sakura asked with an annoyed look.
"Just pretend that this is an official debriefing, yeah. Just tell it as you saw it, leave out stupid details that have nothing to do with anything but your own thoughts… Like we covered a few days ago, yeah." Deidara said as he crossed his arms.
"Okay, okay," Naruto said as he took a deep breath and let it out slowly.
"It all started when Tsunade-baa-chan left me for dead in the care of Ino. I mean of all the missions she could have given me, Baa-chan had to-"
"Get to the point!" Sakura said with a scowl, "Stop getting off subject. Pick it up from where Tsunade left."
"Alright, alright. Can't a guy give his opinion, 'tebayo?" Naruto grumbled as he tried again.
"Baa-chan had just left and I was alone with Ino. She invited me in saying she needed to go grab her jacket and then we would head out. It didn't take her long and soon she was dragging me by the arm to the first shop. It was, of course, a clothes store and we spent a good hour there before she purchased her goods and dragged me to the next store. She didn't really talk to me the whole time other than 'Does this look good?' and stuff like that I didn't really answer.
It was after I think the sixth store three hours after we started when she decided to actually talk to me.
"Hey," she said to get my attention, "Do you always have to wear that same outfit?"
I didn't really get the point of why she was complaining about my outfit when she was on a shopping spree and just paying me to walk around with here while holding her bags, but she did.
"What's wrong with my clothes? They're just fine," I told her rather offended by her statement.
"Well, you just wear those ALL the time! When are you not wearing those?" Ino said as she threw her hands up in the air, clearly annoyed with me for not getting it.
It took me a minute before I replied to her, dattebayo, because I didn't ever think about it. I know Sakura-chan has more clothes in her closet and even you have more changes of clothes than me, Deidara, so I was really curious to why it mattered if I had different outfits.
"I have different clothes," I finally told her, "But they are too small for me. This is my color anyways, 'tebayo."
With that she just stared at me for a while, which made me kind of nervous, but eventually grabbed my arm and actually began to drag me somewhere!
"What are you doing?!" I asked as I tried not to trip.
The angle she was dragging me in was not very comfortable at all.
"To the men's clothes store," Ino finally answered me, "I am sick of you just wearing that ugly orange outfit and I will buy you clothes if I have to."
So, I started to complain, but she wasn't listening. She pulled me into a store, shoved me into a dressing room, and told me if I came out without her consent she'd complain to Baa-chan. I was already in enough trouble with Baa-chan and I didn't want to get into more, so I did as I was told.
She came back after a while, took my forehead protector off telling me not to wear it while trying on the clothes and then told me what clothes were to go with what. Then closed the door after bossily telling me to get dressed.
So I did. I came out, showed her, went back in, redressed, showed her again, and kept doing it till I ran out of clothes.
Though it was strange, dattebayo, each time I came out, her eyes grew wide and I think when I tried on the last outfit I think she may have been drooling. Maybe she was hungry; I'm not sure. I finally redressed in this one and you know what she did?! She actually bought some of them and told me to carry them.
She did this for five hours! I mean, every cloths store there was and she took me to each of them and made me try things on and then bought some! She even went to a shinobi store and bought me a couple things! I don't even get it! Then, after that, she takes me out to get BBQ and treats me to food, while smiling! I felt bad because I ate more than her! After that, it was late, so I walked her back to her house, and was about to leave, when she stopped me.
"It's late, so I'm too tried to go through the bags and pull out the ones that I bought you," Ino told me with a yawn.
"You really didn't need to buy me anything, 'tebayo," I told her, a little embarrassed that she did.
"Nonsense," She said with a strange look on her face, "You looked great in those outfits and plus, you need more variety in your life. Come back tomorrow around eleven and pick up the clothes, you are going to take me to lunch and then you are going to take me somewhere nice for a while. I like flowers and jewellery. Be there or I will hunt you down and make you take me out, Uzumaki Naruto." She looked really scary as she glared at me, proving her point I think, then she went back to that smile and said, "Goodnight, Foxy."
I stared at her door for a minute before I was able to walk away."
Naruto took a long breath and exhaled, before looking at Deidara and Sakura. Both were wide eyed and just staring at him.
It was Deidara that spoke first.
"Kami! He did it and he didn't even know how he landed a girl! That has to be unfair, yeah!" Deidara said as he slapped his hand over his eyes and plopped down on his pillow.
"What the hell was Ino thinking? She never buys other people clothes unless it's their birthday! Naruto! What the hell did you look like that made her do that?" Sakura said as she looked at him with puzzlement.
Naruto shrugged a bit, "I don't know. I didn't really care. I just put them on and came out. I didn't look in the mirror!"
It took Sakura a moment before calming down, "Okay, that's fine. Just go into Deidara's closet and pick out a pair of jeans, a plain shirt, and maybe a mesh undershirt."
"Why my clothes?" Deidara complained as he looked at the rosette.
"Because you're the only other male in this house and though you're taller than him at least we will get a feel for what Ino might have seen. Naruto, leave your forehead protector off as well."
Naruto just looked at Deidara for a minute before getting a nod of approval. It wasn't like the younger blond would be keeping them anyways.
Naruto opened up the closet and stared at it wide eyed, "Geez! How many clothes do you have? This has to be more then Sakura and I both!"
"Really?" Sakura said as she got off the bed and walked into the walk in closet before yelling out to Deidara as well, "What the hell? You do have more clothes then me. I think you even outdo Ino on her best day!"
Deidara scowled at his closet, where the other two were currently ogling his clothes and gave a huff, "I like variety. Plus a good third of those had been worn once or twice in recon missions, yeah. I just didn't have the heart to throw them out afterwards."
Sakura came back out holding an elegant kimono that was a deep shade of red and about her size, "You have to let me borrow this!"
"What?" Deidara said as he propped himself up, "Do I look like a girl that you can trade clothes with?"
"No, you look like a boy who has the cutest stash of kimonos in his closet," Sakura said as she snuggled the kimono, "Please?"
Deidara didn't last too long with that look she was giving him, "Fine. I'll help resize it for you…"
"Yay!" Sakura yipped, "You're the best Dei-kun!"
Deidara was glad she dashed back into his closet so she didn't see the blush that brightened his face.
Sakura came out a couple minutes later, sitting back down next to Deidara who had just schooled in his expression and waited for Naruto to come back out.
He did a couple minutes later wearing Deidara's ripped up jeans, rolling then up at the bottom so he didn't trip, and a simple black tank top that he tucked in, wearing a mesh underneath.
Sakura and Deidara stared.
"That was the look! That was the one she had right when she looked at me in an outfit for the first time!" Naruto said as he pointed at them, "What's that look for anyways?"
"Kami, Naruto," Sakura said as she gulped, her eyes still wide from the shock. "If you wear anything like that in public, you'll have a fan girl following worse than Sasuke."
Naruto just looked at her like she had lost her mind. "Why would that happen?"
Sakura rolled her eyes as she realized she was going to be forced to say it, "You look hot Naruto! Better then Sasuke on his best day! Believe me, I've seen him with his shirt off and even that doesn't compare to you right now! Do I need to say more?"
Naruto finally looked in the mirror, "I don't get it. Orange looks better."
Deidara and Sakura just groaned.
Sakura glanced in quickly to check up on Deidara. She was heading out soon and wanted to make sure the blond bomber was doing well.
After yesterday, Tsunade had used an old method of lulling Deidara to sleep; filling up his stomach with a warm meal and then giving him a large glass of warm milk. It had worked like a charm, though she had heard Deidara mumbling something under his breath beforehand. Something along the lines of 'she's trying to get me fat, yeah'.
He went out like a light soon after that, almost comically fast. His light snores could be heard coming from his room from the hall.
Sakura sighed as she looked at his figure lying helplessly in bed. He was sleeping, but not without thrashing about, whimpering a bit and mumbling words. His pretty golden hair clung to his frowning brow as he turned his head from side to side anxiously. Sakura was about to go ease his dream when a hand snatched her arm and pulled her out of Deidara's room, the door closing quietly.
Sakura spun around to see who it was.
"Naruto," She hissed angrily as she looked at the whisker marked blonde. "What the hell?"
"You'll wake him." Naruto said a little uncharacteristically. His eyes were serious as he gazed at her steadily, the grim look in his eyes making her double-take. "He's trying to recollect any information he can about Akatsuki. Waking him up will just cause him problems and embarrassment."
Sakura's eyes widened as she looked back at the door, her anger forgotten, "Why is he doing that?"
Naruto sighed as he ran a hand though his hair. It was too early for this. "Because, he found his precious people."
And with that, Naruto walked off and headed to the nearest sofa to read the book that was in his hand, the one written by Jiraiya. Sakura just stood there a bit more before she could finally move. She began to walk on autopilot as she wandered down the streets to make her usual rounds.
'Deidara has found his precious people?' She was confused she had never thought of something like that before. She had heard Naruto speak about it beforehand, but cast it off as his usual ramblings- like being the next Hokage.
But something about himhad changed. He was becoming more astute the more he listened and learned from Deidara. He could sit and read books when not even a month ago he struggled to read a sentence. It made all the more sense now that she finally was thinking about it.
She too had precious people- though she didn't call them that. They were those she slipped into special categories. People she knew, good friends, close friends, and family. Those higher on the category list made her work harder to protect. Family came first- those like Naruto, Shizune, and Tsunade- with close friends coming in close- Ino, Tenten, and Hinata- and going down from there. She wouldn't know that to do with herself if one of her close ones died.
'Because, he found his precious people.'
The thought echo in her head. Her brows furrowed together as she thought. Where was Deidara in all this? She had yet to place him anywhere.
Her heart throbbed a bit in guilt. She knew he was up there, but she didn't think she could place him as just family or just close friends. They didn't fit. She sighed to herself as she just thought on it harder.
Where did Deidara belong in her heart?
Her thoughts were broken when she heard as small mew and felt something rub affectionately against her leg. She looked down to see a small cat purring as it looked up at her with silver eyes. It was almost black color to the cat's fur, but what kept her from thinking the fur was black was the even darker black strips that decorated its coat.
"Well hello there kitty." Sakura said with a smile, she loved animals.
The cat let out another quiet mew as it nuzzled her foot. She laughed lightly as she played with it a bit, letting it gently bite her hand, before it licked her adoringly.
"Aren't you a cute little cat," She said affectionately as she played with its tail.
The cat pawed gently at her hand in a playful manner. It made Sakura giggle to see how loving the cat was.
"Well I'll be-" Someone said from the front of a store.
Sakura looked up to see the store manager looking at her in surprise. He made his surprise clear as he looked down at the cat.
"That has got to be the first time since that cat was born that it let a human touch him so willy-nilly."
"Really?" Sakura asked as she petted it again, enjoying the velvety feel of its head under her hand. "He looks like a people's cat."
"He's not. He was born from a litter of stray cats that lived in the alley over yonder. His mother was the strangest cat. He's got to be at least way over ten years old by now, but still as spry and energetic as always." The man said before laughing, "You should probably take him in; it's good luck when a cat like him accepts you."
Sakura laughed a bit as she finished petting the cat, "I wish I could. Goodbye old kitty."
After a quick goodbye, she went back on her way, continuing to walk around and gather the things she needed. Trying not to think too much about Deidara's place. She decided that his place would eventually be revealed to her and she should leave it at that. She didn't realize till she was walking back to complex that the cat was still following.
The cat mewed again when she was walking back into the house. Sakura spun around to look at the cat that stared at her expectantly.
"Well aren't you a quiet one," Sakura said amused. "Not many cats can sneak around me like that. Not even Tora-chan."
The cat just purred.
"I can't bring you in; Shishou probably won't like a kitty. She prefers Tonton, Shizune-nee's pig." Sakura said apologetically, trying not to be taken in by the cat's cuteness.
The cat just looked at her with those big silver eyes, pleading with them. He looked like he wanted her love.
"I just can't little kitty, even if Tsunade-shishou said yes, I'd have to wash you to make sure you're not carrying a disease and then I'd have to make sure you had all your shots and everything! I just can't."
The cat watched her for a second more before purring and rubbing against her. She sighed in defeat as she opened the door and let the cat in. Maybe it wouldn't be too bad to have a cat. If her Shishou agreed then all she would have to do was some basic animal care, which wouldn't be much of a challenge for someone like her.
"You can't run around and be rubbing on everything. I have to ask to even see if I can keep you." Sakura said before looking out at the entrance garden.
She didn't see the cat's eyes glisten as it slowly walked inside, a calm stride as it walked further into the house.
It let out a purr as it thought to itself. It had been generations since his kind took to a human. This child seemed to radiate promise, but then again, so did the other residents of this household. It could feel it radiating off the occupants even through the walls.
The silver eyes gleamed again. Perhaps it was time to see what humans had to offer.
Again, FluffyKeira- go look her up. The cat was an idea from on of my readers -goes and checks up on the name- her name was DarkLillyOfTheNight96. Thank her for the cat. He's going to be interesting later on. (I told you I like input!)
So here are some things I would like you to answer:
Did you like it?
How many of you are already liking where this is going?
How did you like how I did the chapter?
How did you like the ending? Wondering about the cat??
Anything special you want me to add later on?
Here is the translations so far:
(Dat)Tebayo: Naruto's japanese catch phrase... not sure it really means believe it. Someone told me it didn't mean anything though- like Gozoro.
Kure-Tori: Clay bird
Shishou: master
obasan: Aunt
Baa-san or Baa-chan: old lady or grandma
Please tell me what you think so far!!
Ja Ne
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