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Okay, so I got writers block, and decided to take a break from the storyline for an Omake :P don't hate me! it should be entertaining:)

"Haunted house?" Ayano replied disbelievingly. Itachi perched on the tree above them and Shisui was spread out on the ground while Ayano sat in the shade aginst the tree. It was another sunny day, but this time it was just plain hot, and she didn't want to get a sunburn.

"Yep," Shisui replied cheerfully. "The condemned house behind the compound." Itachi was looking at his cousin as if he had a mental problem.

"I thought there was a field behind the compound," Ayano objected. Shisui grinned, ignoring Itachi.

"The house behind the field," he corrected. "There's supposed to be the ghost of a Maneki Neko going around."

"A cat?" Ayano scoffed. "A dead, ceremic cat?"

"I need to take you to see Ibiki," Itachi spoke up, looking at Shisui. "He needs to check you for mental problems."

"Hey, it's true," Shisui defended. "I saw it!" Ayano rose an eyebrow.

"You lie," Itachi accused. Shisui grimaced and sat up indian style, using his hands to describe.

"No, for real, it was like this black cat the size of a dog and it was like really skinny, like it had been starving or something. It was walking around with like this weird smoky black thing following, and it had weird jade eyes." Ayano pictured it.

"Creepy," she grimaced. Itachi looked at her sharply.

"You don't honestly believe him, do you?" he asked increduoesly. She frowned.

"Just because I think it sounds creepy doesn't mean I believe in it," she defended. Shisui grimaced and crossed his arms, turning away from them.

"Fine, then," he sniffed. "If you don't believe me, go there tomorrow night. During the full moon."

"You're a sorrow excuse for ANBU," Itachi stated, grimacing. Shisui stuck his tongue out at him.

Ayano was grinning.

"Sounds kinda fun," she admitted. Shisui whipped around to face her with stars in his eyes. Itachi scoffed.

"Do what you want, but I'm not going to waste my time for something as stupid as this."

"I can't believe I'm wasting my time for something as stupid as this..." Ayano giggled.

"Cheer up, Weasel-face," she told him. "It'll be fun." He sighed.

The night was dark, but lit up by the full moon overhead. The forest was quiet around them, and it was making Ayano tense.

"Boo," something whispered in her ear.

"Eep!" she exclaimed, whipping around and instinctively swiping her hand towards it as she leapt back. Itachi caught her hand with a mocking smile.

"You're not actually scared, are you?" he asked her. She glared at him and yanked her hang back, walking beside Shisui and mumbling something under her breath like 'stupid weasels' or something. Itachi chuckled and shook his head.

The house began to peek out from the treeline, and Ayano found herself getting more nervous. She glanced over at Shisui, who looked relaxed, but saw the clench to his jaw that told her he was uncomfortable.

It was basically a huge four-story house, bigger than Itachi's. Windows were broken, boards were loose, and it looked downright rundown. There was a stone fence running around it, but they could only see the front part of it. Tree limbs hung over the fence into the front yard and had moss hanging down from it, giving it an ominous look.

"Be careful when you walk in it," Shisui told them. "I seriously almost fell through the floor more than once."

There was a slab of stone beside the gate entrance, and a black lucky cat was perched behind it, green eyes twinkling mischievously.

"I hope this wasn't what you were talking about," Itachi grimaced, crossing his arms and he looked down at it. Shisui ignored him and leaned down to observe it.

The slab had writing on it, and Ayano peered at it to try and read it.

Kanojo ga kanojo no chuushin to tsukut ta nani o ima aru kare no chuushin no chikaku ni,

kanojo no chuushin o shiyoo shi te kanojo wa kanojo no yuujin no chuushin ni chikai mono o tsukut ta,

betsu no buhin o setsuzoku shi, kokoro no yasuragi ni ari nasai. (A.N: The translation is at the end of the chapter.)

"...Why?" Ayano asked after she read over it again.

"It's a poem, I guess," Shisui shrugged.

"Or a riddle," Itachi supplied.

"Same thing," Shisui waved it away.

"To you." Ayano ignored their bickering and peered up at the house, trying to see through the window. It looked like nothing could survive in there. Something caught her eyes, and she looked at the window of the third floor, quinting her eyes to try and see.

A feline figure slunk in front of the window, casting barely a glance at the little group in front of the house.

With a yelp, she shied back, and tripped over Shisui, who squeaked out a very un-manly scream, and fell onto the lucky cat and tipped it over. A faint ringing noise filled the air.

The cat hissed at her.

"What?" Itachi asked, instantly stepping in front of her.

"Something was in the window," she breathed. Itachi relaxed from his stiff position and looked at her. "I'm not lying!"

"You're seeing things," he sighed, She folded her arms and glared.

"Well It's not my fault I've had some bad experiences with windows," she growled. "Excuse me for being paranoid." Itachi just shook his head.

"Come on, let's just get this over with." He started off towards the house, and Shisui left after him. Not wanting to be left alone, Ayano followed.

Itachi came to the door and paused, testing the floor out. Ayano glanced up at the window and saw nothing. She looked back at Itachi and saw him walking in the house. She hesitated.

"I got your back," Shisui assured her. She sighed in relief and slowly walked into the house. Itachi was waiting for her, and she was grateful. He looked around the foyer.

"Do we have to go through all of it?" he asked Shisui, who shrugged.

"Just till we find something interesting," he stated, glancing around as well, Ayano was basically tuck to Shisui's side.

A gush of cold air passed over them, and Ayano got chill bumps.

"Shisui." She glanced over at Itachi and took note of his stiff position, and looked in the direction he was facing.

A sleek black cat, about the size of a labrador retriever stood in front of the entrance to what she thought was the living room, staring at them with cold jade eyes. It looked completely malnourished, as if it hadn't eaten in weeks. It had a silty black coat of fur, though, giving it a creepy look. What caught her attention the ost were the black tendrils floating around it's end, whipping about like extra tails.

Itachi's hand inched towards his pocket, where he had a kunai.

The cat saw this and let out a growl, ears flattening and it's back arching. Itachi activated his Sharingan.

The cat leapt at him.

Ayano screamed and clung to Shisui's arm as she watched Itachi swipe at the thing with his kunai.

And watched it go right through it, as the cat raked a claw across his face, leaving a bright red welt, and proceeded to phase right through him and move in front of the door. It then starting yowling as low as it could, hissing and spiting at them.

"What is it, Itachi!?" Shisui yelled over the screaming as he pulled Ayano behind him.

"I don't know, I can't see it!" Itachi yelled back. He was looking right at the cat, but having a shocked look on his face.

"What do you mean, you can't see it!?"

"I mean, when I activate my Sharingan, I see no chakra, I can't see what it's going to do next, and I can't see anything there!"

"We need to get Ayano away," Shisui shouted next, and Itachi nodded. Itachi leapt at the cat, shutting it up so it could try to defend itself, and Shisui grabbed Ayano pulled her up the stairs and through several hallways. Itachi had jumped back at the last second and was following them. They came to a door in the hallway and Shisui pulled her into it, shutting it as quietly as he could.

"You okay?" he asked a shaking Ayano, who nodded breathlessly. He looked at Itachi. "How's that scratch?" Itachi ran his hand over his forehead, where he knew he had gotten scratched, and where they had saw him get scratched. Ayano couldn't see in the dimmer light, yet.

"It's not there," Itachi breathed, sounding shocked. Ayano blinked.

"It's not?" Shisui repeated. "Are you sure?"

"Well, I'm feeling where it's cold as hell right now on my skin, and I feel nothing other than the possible frostbite." Shisui breathed a sigh of relief.

"Some Maneki Neko," he chuckled.

"More like Akuma Neko," Ayano panted, leaning on her knees.

Shisui didn't say anything, because he was now staring at Itachi with his mouth hanging open.

"What?" Itachi snapped.

"Did you just run from a ghost?" he asked incredulously. Itachi glared at him.

"In case you didn't notice, it is hostile, it has no physical shape, it can harm us, and I can't see it with Sharingan. Mind telling me what we do if it doesn't let us leave?" Shisui chuckled nervously. "...Shh!" Itachi suddenly said sharply. Ayano clamped her mouth shut, holding her breath, and Itachi pressed her and him against the wall and Shisui followed.

That cold breeze overcame them again, and Ayano started trembling. The soft patter of an animal walking sounded through the hallways, and her breathing started again, loudly. Itachi clamped a hand over her mouth and nose.

It kept walking and stopped at the door.

The four seconds it stood there felt like an eternity.

"This is my house," a harsh voice hissed from the door, making Ayano's skin crawl. "Get OUT!!!"

The door flew open with a gust of freezing wind, and Ayano screamed again, her need for air causing her to pry Itachi's hand from her face.

"Get out, get out, get out, get out, get out!!!" The voice ranted.

"The window!" Itachi exclaimed. Shisui saw it and made a dash for it, throwing himself at it and breaking the glass as he fell through tot he outside. "Hold on," Itachi told Ayano as he picked her up bridal style. "Keep your head against my neck. You might get cut."

"Get out, get out, get out!!!!" He ran for the same window Shisui jumped threw and leapt through himself, landing softly on the ground. He nudged Ayano an put her down. She only whimpered when she saw their new surroundings.

They stood in a cemetery, with even the ominous mist to complete the look. Shisui was busy reading some of the tombstones.

"I think I found the last resident," he called over his shoulder. Ayano walked over to him with Itachi following behind her. Shisui checked them both for injuries, and she smiled in spite of herself. He was a good cousin, even if his little cousin could kick his ass. "It was Miyano Tsukuhira, right?" Itachi nodded.

"I remember, " Itachi said. "She used to make clothes and ribbons and sell them in town. My mother told me she died of cancer at the age of I think it was 87 when my mother was 4."

"Can we just leave, now?" Ayano whined. "Can't we just jump over the cemetery wall?" Shisui shook his head.

"Don't you know, Shrimpie? Anything except leaving out the way you came will get you cursed." She groaned.

"Then is there anything that tells us how we can get out safely or something like that?" Shisui shook his head again.

"If anything, I'd say the riddle at the gate would help us, but it made no sense to me."

"The cat lost something dear to him, obviously," Ayano pointed out. "'Eyes for only the gift his master gave him, using her heart, she made what is close to his, join the separate pieces, and be in peace.' So we need to find out what he lost and give it to him."

"But we have no clue what it is, though," Shisui whined.

"We do have one," Itachi stated. "This Miyano person had a specialty for ribbons. If we can find out where she kept them, we might be able to find a clue." It was Ayano's turn to whine.

"We have to go back in there?" she whined. Itachi sighed.

"We all can't go back. One of us needs to stay with Ayano."

"I'll go," Shisui immediately spoke up. "If I get in trouble I could just flicker out. You guys wait for me and I'll try to find something." He started walking back towards the house, against Ayano's protesting, and scaled the wall to the window they have jumped out of. He clung to the side of it for a while, listening to anything in the room, before slinking in.

"He won't be long," Itachi promised her. "He'll stay safe." She had this nagging feeling in the back of her head that was worrying about Shisui. She waited for who knows how long, waiting for Shisui to come back, waiting for Itachi to go in to find him, waiting for the ghost cat to show up.

She really wished she hadn't thought of the latter.

Because now it was standing behind them about twenty feet away, waving it's tail in twitching motions. With her eyes wide with terror, she tugged on Itachi's sleeve and pointed to it. Itachi turned to look at it stiffly.

It growled at them, and Itachi wasted no time in simply grabbing Ayano and jumping the roofs to the other side of the house, where the gate was.

"Let's go," Itachi said as he set her down again and pushed her towards the gate. "Come on!"

"I found out!" Shisui's voice came from somewhere. They looked back up on the roof to see him swinging himself out of a window, holding up a handful of what looked like dust. "She had jade carvings in her room, next to a bunch of ribbons! There were some mess ups, but I found out she was making a bell!"

A bell...

Shisui was suddenly slammed through the roof, and the demon cat jumped out of the hole it just previously stomped Shisui into. Itachi, having already passed the gates, turned to go help his cousin, but as he took a step forward, he was pushed back. He put his hands on the invisible wall keeping him from the property and pushed. It didn't budge. He looked up in panic at Ayano, who was still on the other side.

"Come on!" he told her.

"But, Shisui-"

"He can take care of himself. But right now, you have no defenses. Come on!"

The cat jumped down to the ground, stalking towards Ayano, and Itachi's attempts to get past the barrier increased.

Ayano looked around frantically before seeing the plaque and knocked over lucky cat. It had broken. A dark blue ribbon stuck out of it. She ran to it, and the demon cat charged at her.

"This must be it," Ayano breathed, scrambling on her hands and knees and picking up the delicate bell. She turned to the demon cat. "You wanted this, right?!" Ayano yelled, holding out the jade bell towards the rushing ghost.

It stopped in it's tracks, ten feet away from her, staring at the piece of art in her hand.

"Miyano-san made it, right?" Ayano went on, trembling. Itachi was feet behind her, hands outstretched as if he was about to grab her and run. "It was in this ceramic cat. You missed it?" The cat warily walked forward and sniffed the bell. Ayano forced herself not to shiver when it picked up the bell with it's teeth.

And suddenly, in the blink of an eye, it was a normal sized cat, still holding the bell in between it's teeth, and Itachi finally pushed through the barrier. It seemed like it was about to trot off before Ayano stopped it.

"Wait," she called. It paused and turned to look at her.

"What are you doing?" Itachi hissed from behind her. Ayano ignored him.

"Do you want me to tie it around your neck?" she offered. "So you won't lose it again?"

The cat blinked at her.

And then trotted over to her, sitting with it's back to her and twisting her head to offer her the bell. Ayano carefully took it, afraid of how it would react. But it didn't show any hostility and she tied it loosely around it's neck, trembling. When she was done, the cat looked back at her with what seemed like a smile.

"Thank you," it purred, before disappearing altogether. Ayano took a few deep breaths, eyes scanning the house for anything. She saw nothing.

And then she was pulled to her feet by a rather pissed Itachi, who was checking her to see if she had any injuries.

"That was incredibly stupid," he hissed out. "You could have been possessed or something." Ayano laughed nervously.

"Kami, shrimpie!" Shisui exclaimed as he rushed over after falling down from the window of the fourth floor. "I saw what was happening from the roof. You could've gotten killed!"

"But I didn't," she stated as an excuse. The two boys rolled their eyes and glared at her, and she let out a more relaxed laugh.

"What's going on here?" a voice boomed through the forest, nearly making the three teens jump five feet in the air. Well, Itachi would've only jumped two feet.

Ayano looked up to see a confused Fugaku standing at the edge of the forest with three other officers standing behind him.

"We got complaints about screaming coming from this house," Fugaku stated suspiciously, narrowing his eyes at the three before him.

"That was either Shisui or me," Ayano snickered, remembering when she fell on Shisui and made him scream. Fugaku narrowed his eyes.

"What happened?"

"We were chased by a ghost cat who was looking for it's master's present to it for the last forty years," Itachi said nonchalantly. Fugaku looked at him like he was crazy.

"...What?"

"It's a long story," Shisui summed up. Fugaku scowled at them all, and Ayano wanted to hide behind Itachi.

"Well, I'm going to hear the whole story, because I would count this as trespassing public property." Ayano cursed under her breath and shot a glare at Shisui, who glanced back innocently.

"...You're going to tell my Mom, aren't you?" she whimpered pathetically to Fugaku.

"Damn right I am." She groaned.

"We didn't damage much," Itachi spoke up. "...Except a ceramic cat. And the roof."

"Itachi."

"Yes, father?"

"You're grounded."

*snicker*

"And Shisui, you get to take care of any civil disputes we called for, for the next month."

"What?!"

"Ayano."

*gulp* "Y-yes?"

"You're hired."

"Huh!?"

"You're fired."

"What??"

And that night they all put charms around their house to keep away the spirits.

Sorry if the poem was translated bad T.T I'm pretty sure it means this:

Eyes for only the gift his master gave him,

Using her heart, she made what is close to his,

Join the separate pieces, and be in peace.

If it's wrong, OH WELL, pretend it's right :P

SO how was this? I was half asleep when i wrote it, so please no flames T.T they make me sad

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