Pet
By: Chibi
Notes: O.K. I have to say thank you for all the reviews for this fic. I didn't expect it to go over so well, so thank you everyone! All right, so, here's how this fic is going to work (I hope). All the lemon parts to the fic will be posted elsewhere (just check out the links in my profile here on and there should be a few places to check for the lemons). I'm trying to write it in a way that'll make it so you don't have to read the lemon parts to understand the fic. Therefore, those who don't want to read the lemons don't have to, they won't miss anything.
On that note, he's part two. Yuri begins to show up in this part, and there's another yaoi pairing introduced along with a yuri couple I didn't expect.
There is a side chapter for this fic that takes place right after chapter one, showing what happened in Itachi's office once he was alone with Naruto. Yes, that means Itachi x Naruto, but there's also one more pairing in that chapter that's a surprise. If you want to read it, go check out one of my links in my profile (I usually post to the SasuNaru community first, so if you want it fast, go there).
flashbacks
Auction
The door opened and Gaara looked up to see Itachi walk out with a rather satisfied look on his face, like a cat with a canary or some metaphor like that. In his arms was Naruto, back in the form of an ordinary fox, as if ordinary foxes had nine tails and coats the color of fire. Naruto lied there peacefully, enjoying the feeling of being petted all over by someone who was obsessed with feeling his fur anytime he could.
The door opened and Gaara looked up to see Itachi walk out with a rather satisfied look on his face, like a cat with a canary or some metaphor like that. In his arms was Naruto, back in the form of an ordinary fox, as if foxes had nine tails and coats the color of fire. Naruto lied there peacefully, enjoying the feeling of being petted all over by someone who was obsessed with feeling his fur anytime he could.Naruto opened his eyes enough to look at Gaara then gave a happy yelp and leaned forward, licking the side of his face. Gaara gave a tiny smile in response and petted the fox behind one of his ears.
"We're heading downstairs." Itachi informed Gaara of what was going on, as he always did when it was time for an auction.
"You're having another one already?" It was easy to find the sourness in Gaara's voice, easy to figure out that he hated these auctions. Secretly, or not so secretly, Naruto hated them too. Itachi was the type to know what you hated and just not give damn about it so perhaps he did notice Naruto completely freeze or grow pale, even in fox form, over the auction. What animal would enjoy seeing another animal being sold off? It was fine when Haku did it of course, his job was to get them into good homes. As much as they all loved the shop it was not where they were supposed to live.
Surely Haku didn't mean to sell them to a man whom bought his animals, kept the ones he wanted, then sold off the rest. If he ever found out...
"Yes, I'm having another one. Is there a problem?" And sometimes Gaara despised that thing pets had about being obedient to their masters.
"No. No problem at all." As a reward Itachi rubbed behind one of Gaara's ears, enjoying the sight of the human boy purring as if he were a cat right now. The best thing about these beautiful animals was the fact that they responded to your touch so wonderful, even if they were in a human form.
"Good. You may go for the day. You are no longer needed until tomorrow because Kisame will take your place." Gaara nodded his head, petted Naruto one more time and accepted one more fox kiss, then turned and headed to the elevator so he could leave. As he left there was the smallest of smirks on his face that neither Itachi or Naruto could see, but knowing Itachi he knew that the red head was smirking.
Gaara knew why he was able to go back home now. Itachi also knew the same thing Gaara did. And Naruto... well, it was quite the thing to see, a fox snickering over something.
At one of the first auctions Itachi held, when he first got Gaara and just had to show him off to everyone like some kind of eager, immature little five-year-old boy, Gaara had done something that the other pets called heroic, brave, and just too damn cool for words. Naruto hadn't been around at the time, still a kit in Haku's store, but oh he had heard stories downstairs in that place where the auction was held and oh you bet your life he asked Gaara and got the truth. The stories were absolutely true, nothing false about them. Pets did not mess up a good story, they told it the right way and in a proud voice, as if they themselves was the one who accomplished the task.
Gaara had done what Itachi asked that day. He had transformed into his human form, showed off pale flesh the color of sand, unruly red hair and the brightest and prettiest green eyes you had ever seen. He had let them touch him, pet him, feel that his skin still felt like the skin of a panther and listened to those cigar smoking wine drinking men go on and on about how deliciously good looking he was. Gaara showed no emotion whatsoever, he had just stood there because that's all he had been told to do. Stand there. And Gaara was obedient, yes he was, and would do what his master asked of him no matter what it was.
That was until, "Can I get a taste?" That was until that had been said. Some overly large, gross man who looked so desperate for sex that it was pitiful reached for Gaara with shaky hands and a hopeful expression on his face.
Just stand there.
So Gaara had stood and let the man grip onto his hips and pull him forward to try and kiss him, try and rub his body against him, try to get just one sweet taste of a forbidden fruit.
Gaara's eyes narrowed and he growled dangerously. The fat man had moved him out of his spot, the spot where he was supposed to stand, and not only that but had the nerve to try and kiss him after he moved him?
Everyone watched Gaara move faster than the human eye could see, and in a tenth of a second the man was down on his back with a sand colored panther biting his hand so hard that with one false move there would be bone visible instead of skin. The man had started begging to a god or two, saying something about a wife and kids and not wanting to die. Itachi had called Gaara back, made him let go, and reluctantly the panther pulled back but not before the fat man discovered he had a nice set of bleeding teeth marks in his hand. Some snake like man in the back had said something about, "Oh, feisty," and Gaara looked ready to skin the man with his teeth and claws. But with a strict order from Itachi to leave Gaara left that area and never returned.
The fat married pervert never returned either.
When Itachi brought it up afterwards he couldn't even say anything, because Gaara had reminded him that he was told to stand and stay put, nothing else. He never disobeyed Itachi that night, technically speaking, and even the Uchiha had to have a sense of humor at the sight of the poor guy praying up to the heavens above for a miracle.
No one in the Uchiha building asked.
They just stared.
What could possibly be said? Their boss was heading down to the basement holding the nine tailed fox he was always petting in his office. So what, their boss had a nine tailed fox, they had all seen little Naruto before once or twice.
But...
... the large shark looking man walking with Itachi...
They just stared.
Frighteningly tall with sneaky, small black eyes that were surrounded by a face that looked like something out of Jaws. At least in his human form Kisame lost his blue skin, for that would truly scare the living crap out of the people who worked for Itachi. It was bad enough to see a large, shark looking human walk around... but to find out that this thing wasn't human? Itachi really didn't need to have everyone run away and quit their jobs in this seemingly normal business he ran.
Each step Itachi took with Kisame echoed in Naruto's ears as they got closer to the basement. He absolutely hated the basement, hated everything about it. The basement meant nothing but bad things ever since he had been brought to this place.
"Are you sure?"
"What do you mean?" Naruto sat patiently by the window of the pet shop, waiting for that sleek black sports car to pull up and take him to his new home. New home... was he really about to leave this place? Leave this shop he had been brought into? That was the destiny of all pets, right? To be brought to a home.
"Are you sure you want to go with this man?" Haku asked, standing with Naruto by the window.
"He chose me, so of course I have to go with him. Right? He's my new master so I have to listen to him, right?"
Had to listen to him... Naruto had no problem with that... until the basement became involved.
The area looked pretty bare, from walking down the hallway it looked as if there was nothing of importance in this place. It looked like... a basement. That part of a building where the janitor roamed around, that part of a building that you never thought of going, never thought of hitting "B" when you were on the elevator. No one paid the basement any attention, but if they did... if they bothered to look further down they'd see why the basement was truly the most exotic place in the building, right up there with Itachi's office.
Itachi opened the only door in the basement and just like that they were introduced into another world. The room had a feeling of some kind of jungle, the wallpaper was made of leaves and the ceiling was lined in vines and other plants. There was actually what looked like a waterfall at the end of the room, the water falling into a pond and giving the room a complete outdoor feeling. The room itself was beyond words and Naruto would've loved to run around in it, but it was what took place in the room that made him dread every trip made there.
The first thing he heard was the sound of giggling, for the fish in the pond where now sitting at the edge of it, each one dressed in a colorful gown that was once their skin when they were all in their fish forms. Each one was playfully splashing water at the other, each one having a wonderful time. They didn't quite understand what took place in this room since none of the buyers really wanted something like a fish. Naruto looked around to see other animals appearing, wandering out from sleep or play to look at Itachi, their master. Half of them looked just as wary as Naruto did, already knowing what was going to happen tonight, already knowing what the word auction meant. The other half looked curious and wary at the same time, curious to know why the other animals looked scared yet not curious enough to ask, and definitely scared enough to not want to know the answer.
Two birds, one canary yellow and one strawberry pink, flew over to Naruto and begin chirping in his ear. The kitsune closed his eyes and a peaceful look crossed his face from the beautiful song they sang together for him. The two pretty birds always sang to him, always flew around and let him try to catch them for play. They always came to him when he was down here to try and cheer him up because they knew why Naruto dreaded this place.
He was the display pet.
Naruto was that one pet Itachi had, that pet Gaara was before, who he would always show off to the greedy humans who came to the auction to buy animals from Itachi.
Itachi sat himself in one of the chairs in the area, a throne looking piece of furniture to show that the Uchiha was a pretty conceited bastard, sitting in a throne amongst his rarest of pets. Kisame stood at his side and Naruto curled up in his lap, enjoying the feeling of Itachi petting his many tails and trying to use the feeling to clear his head. The little pink bird sat on top of his head, still chirping and still calming the fox with her song. The yellow bird, however, was participating in the fun activity of pissing shark dude off by flying around and pecking at his face when she found an opening. Kisame looked ready to eat her but restrained himself from doing so. Itachi would never allow such a thing to be done to one of his pets, no matter how annoying she was to Kisame.
It only took a few minutes for people to start arriving. Regular customers walked in first. The snake like man walked with who everyone assumed was a pet simply in human form. Attached to a collar and pressed against him, the pet looked quite content with being dominated like that in front of everyone. Itachi nodded to the pale skinned snake and his pet as they sat down on the ground, not even bothered with not having a chair. Immediately the pet curled up in the snake's lap, the human acting so much like the obedient pet that it was almost scary.
"Nice to see you again, Itachi."
"Same to you, Orochimaru. And Kabuto as well." Naruto made it a point not to look at them. These two were always at the auctions and Orochimaru was always, always trying to get Itachi to sell Naruto to him. This, of course, angered Kabuto but he never showed it, obedient pet he was.
"And how is little Naruto? Still in fox form until the show, as always." Orochimaru gave Naruto a slimy grin. "I look forward to seeing you again, fox." Naruto shuddered and the pink bird on top of his head chirped angrily at the snake like man, clearly telling him to back off. Kabuto growled, just a bit, not enough for anyone to really notice his distaste of the fox his master had become obsessed with.
Behind them more people began to show up, some regular customers, a lot of new timers. The whisper word of an auction in the business world intrigued them, tugged at their curiosity. Auction? Auctioning of what? Something rare, my friend, and something you've never seen before. But it's wrong, wrong to want to go, but how can you not want to go? It's Uchiha, it's forbidden, and you can't help but follow that curiosity Itachi's has awoken inside of you.
One person in particular walked in and as soon as she did Naruto and the two birds perked up. The only woman who ever came to the auctions but never, ever bought anything. She simply came to see the display of beautiful animals and nothing else because deep down she hated the idea of an auction as well. If she knew of Haku's shop she'd go there in person herself instead of sitting in at an auction. Along with the blond, pigtailed woman was another shorter woman who always stayed by her side. Rumors about them being lovers were certainly true, and neither bothered to hide it from the world since the blond had an arm wrapped around the shorter woman's waist.
That was the kind of ownership all the pets admired. To have someone for love and for no other reason but love. These two human women had quickly become the favorites among all the pets.
"Tsunade. Shizune. Welcome back." Shizune sat on the ground while Tsunade lied down with her head in the woman's lap, enjoying the feeling of her hair being petted.
"Thank you." Tsunade held her finger out and the pink little bird immediately flew onto it, the yellow one taking a seat on Shizune's head. "Why hello there, little Sakura." Sakura chirped happily in response as Tsunade moved one of her fingers down the bird's back, petting her. "And Ino?" The yellow bird made a sound in response, content at watching Sakura being petted by the woman.
Naruto made a soft whining noise and the four women, two human, two animal, laughed at him. Shizune was the first to respond to the fox's whining. "I think he's jealous that he's not getting any attention."
"He's a big baby, that's why." Tsunade laughed harder when Naruto stuck his tongue out at her. Meanwhile, Sakura flew off of Tsunade's finger and tugged at Naruto's ear playfully with her mouth. Behind them the rest of the crowd, who had been completely awed at the setting of the auction, wandered over and stared at the site of these two women talking with the animals, and Itachi looking like it was a completely normal action. Itachi simply nodded to everyone, telling them to sit down wherever they pleased be it ground or in one of the chairs set up if they preferred. Wine and cigars were offered, making it look a bit off to see men smoking and drinking in the middle of a jungle.
It was the reminder that this was not a jungle, but a basement. And this was an auction, not a reunion with good friends like Tsunade and Shizune.
"Gentlemen, relax, sit down and enjoy what you are about to see." Itachi stopped petting Naruto. "Naruto, if you would please."
"Why do you speak to him as if he's human?" One man asked. It was the question in everyone's head ever since they got there and saw the blond haired woman and her lover talking and playing with the animals as if they were children, not pets.
"Because, my friend, he is." There were collective gasps of surprise.
One man rolled over in laughter and disbelief. "I think this life is too much for you, Uchiha." Because the life of a rich businessman was so much to handle, of course. "You're seeing things." Tsunade, Shizune, Orochimaru and Kabuto didn't bother to respond. They knew the truth and had seen it several times. They knew what was coming next, and Tsunade gave Naruto a sorrowful look because she knew that he hated this more than anything. Orochimaru, on the other hand, had eyes that shown with anticipation at what was about to come.
"Am I?" Itachi nodded to Naruto who jumped out of his lap. The fox faced all the men, obviously a bit reluctant to do as Itachi asked but what else could he do? Itachi was his master and all pets knew that they were supposed to listen to their master, right?
"But... Naruto?" Naruto could remember what Haku had said to him the day Itachi came in, pointed his finger at him, and decided to bring him home. "Pets also decide who that master will be. They decide who the person is that they want to listen to."
"I... want to..." Naruto closed his eyes and let his fox form slip away. Ignoring the sounds of the men choking on their drinks in surprise Naruto revealed himself, his nine tails wrapping around his nude form like they always did. "Itachi... is the only one who has come in for me. So that means he wants me, someone wants me."
"Oh, little Naruto. Don't you realize how beautiful you are? One day, I can't say when, but one day... someone will want you... who you will want in return. But, I suppose this is enough for now." So Naruto stood there as the men surrounded him, brushed their fingers eagerly over his tails, his ears, and his body. And he stood there and remembered Haku's words.
"This is enough." Naruto whispered to himself. "For now."
"He's breathtaking, Uchiha. Where did you find him?"
"Such a beautiful face, beautiful body..."
"... he's soft! Did you feel him? He's so soft!" Tsunade rolled her eyes and muttered something about stupid men who just had to touch everything they thought looked good. It was possible to just look and not touch.
"And as lovely as always." Orochimaru stood and walked over to Naruto who made his tails cover himself up more. This man, gods how he despised this filthy man's voice, hands, everything. Kabuto watched with slightly narrowed, jealous eyes as all the other men who had been previously ogling Naruto stepped away, as if Orochimaru's very presence near them urged them to move and let him have his time with the fox.
Naruto backed away and Orochimaru chuckled. "Aww, don't be like that. Come here." Naruto shook his head and took another step back while Tsunade and Shizune glared at the man, both Ino and Sakura chirping wildly as well. Itachi frowned from where he was sitting, showing his disapproval of Naruto saying no.
"Naruto. You heard him."
"But... I..." "Pets also decide who that master will be. They decide who the person is that they want to listen to." "I... I don't want to..."
"What?" Itachi was very close to glaring. "You don't want to? Is that what you said?"
"I..." His voice trailed off into a cry of protest when Orochimaru pushed his tails away and purred from being able to see Naruto completely naked, no tails covering anything.
"... you? Yes, you are absolutely delicious." Orochimaru looked back over at Itachi. "Name your price, I want him."
"We go through this all the time, Orochimaru. That one is mine." Itachi suddenly smirked. "But... feel free to have a taste if you must."
"Oh yes. I think I will." One day, I can't say when, but one day... someone will want you... Orochimaru reached for Naruto but before he could grab him he ended up hissing in pain and drawing his hand back. Angry claw marks lined Orochimaru's hand, the marks bleeding pretty badly. All the pets and the people attending the auction were in complete silence as they saw Naruto glare hatefully at Orochimaru, his claws much sharper and edged with blood from him scratching the man. And his eyes... his eyes were actually red, the color of a great blaze of fire. ... who you will want in return.
"Don't touch me..."
"Naruto!" Itachi stood from his chair, glaring, but for the first time ever Naruto glared back at him, actually growling.
"I don't want him touching me!"
"Oh don't worry, little fox. I'm not going to touch you." Orochimaru waited for Naruto to try and scratch him again but to everyone's surprise he moved fast enough, faster than a fox, and caught Naruto's wrist and pulled him against his body. "I'm going to taste you." And to Naruto's horror the disgusting creature captured his lips in a deep and unwanted kiss. Behind them Kabuto glared at Naruto, silently blamed his master's obsession with the fox on the fox himself despite the fact that Naruto fought against Orochimaru. The last thing Kabuto wanted was to blame his beloved master for something.
The others in the auction looked quite impressed, murmuring amongst themselves about how feisty Naruto was and how exciting that feeling had to be of finally dominating the creature. Itachi smirked and sat back down in his chair while Shizune looked away, not wanting to see, and Tsunade began to chant a couple of death threats under her breath towards Orochimaru.
Seeing Naruto look so absolutely disgusted and pale, as if he wanted to throw up and take the longest shower in the world, made Sakura more than a little angry. Naruto had done nothing to deserve this and had become her friend. The last thing she wanted to see was her friend whimpering and suffering, begging someone for help but not having anyone hear him since Orochimaru was too busy devouring his lips. Without a second thought the little pink bird flew up, zoomed after Orochimaru and began pecking and biting him wherever she could.
"Sakura! Stop this at once!" But she didn't listen to Itachi, at the moment the Uchiha man could go and fuck himself but she was not going to let Naruto continue doing this. It didn't take very long for Orochimaru to finally stop kissing Naruto to glare at the little pink bird but in response she nipped his ear so hard that if she were just a bit stronger she could've quite possibly bit it off.
"Filthy creature, stop it!" Orochimaru reached back to slap Sakura away but before he could a hand grabbed his wrist and squeezed it, hard.
"You touch her and I'll claw your eyes out." Orochimaru turned and stood face to face with a very pissed off looking Ino. Long blond hair trapped in a ponytail, bright blue eyes narrowed in anger. The girl had yellow feathers tattooed down her arms and spine as her only form of clothing since she just transformed. The tattoos actually moved over her body as she gripped Orochimaru's wrist tighter, almost breaking it.
"That's enough, both of you!" Itachi shouted. Ino shoved Orochimaru away who decided that it was best to just sit down and not try anything else.
"That was quite the show, Uchiha." One man said amongst the crowd, stepping up. He locked eyes with Ino and grinned. "I think I know what I want."
"No!" Before she could even think of what she was doing, before she could even realize that revealing herself was probably a bad move, Sakura transformed and held onto Ino tightly. Unlike Ino, Sakura's hair was short and pink, almost looking like it had been chopped off. She was also naked like Ino was and along the entire right side of her body she was tattooed in pink feathers. In a few places, like along her breast and the small of her back, the tattoos were actually real feathers, giving her a more inhuman yet beautiful appearance. "You can't take her away!"
"Oh, she's pretty as well." Another man spoke up around a puff of cigar smoke. "I think I want that one."
Itachi simply nodded and Tsunade frowned. "You're really going to allow these two to be separated? You see how close they are."
"Itachi..." Naruto spoke up softly but stopped when he saw the glare on Itachi's face, telling him to stay quiet. "Bu-but... the contract..."
"Contract?" The man who wanted Ino asked curiously. Itachi glared harder at Naruto while the man wasn't looking.
"It's nothing of importance." Itachi nodded to both of the men. "If no one else wants these two lovely creatures..."
"Wait! I would like the pink one." Another man spoke. Then another spoke about wanting Ino, two speaking about Sakura again, one more about Ino. Both girls held each other tightly, trying to block the sounds of the prices rising higher and higher for them, ignoring words like companion, someone to warm my bed, a gift to share with my lover.
Itachi simply grinned at the growing numbers while Tsunade looked over at Naruto who was watching Ino and Sakura sadly, not able to say anything in their defense. But he wanted to, and Itachi knew he wanted to. Tsunade frowned quietly to herself and just focused her attention on Naruto.
Contract? What was that supposed to mean?
Finally two men won the auction, one who wanted Sakura as someone to warm his bed and another who wanted to share Ino with his lover. Naruto covered his ears when the two men tried to pry Ino and Sakura apart, the two girls screaming a sad song loudly, not wanting to be away from each other. Naruto looked over at Itachi, wondering if he was going to stop these two men but he simply sat there, watching with an uninterested look on his face.
How could he let this happen? He knew that... "... there are rules to follow in keeping these pets."
"You give me this speech with all the pets, Haku." Itachi looked over the birdcage with both Ino and Sakura in it, the two birds singing happily to each other.
"Ah yes, that's true. But you will do well to remember the rules with these two." Haku handed the cage to Itachi then spoke again. "These two are loverbirds. They are to stay together at all times and to never be separated. This shop, and myself, will not be held responsible for the damages that could be done if you break these rules."
"No! INO!"
"SAKURA!"
Haku watched Itachi leave with the two birds, a small smirk on his face. "For if you break the rules... those two will stop at nothing to find each other again."
"I'll find you again, I promise. I promise Ino, I'll find you again."
"I know you will." Ino's eyes suddenly grew cold as she got a good look at the man taking Sakura away from her. Sakura did the same thing, green eyes narrowed and bordering on being the color of blood as she let her eyes roam over the man stealing Ino.
"Loverbirds can't live without each other so can never be separated. So please be careful, Uchiha Itachi."
End Auction
Next Chapter: Yume
Preview:
"This is a dream, right?" Sasuke asked, his voice much softer then he expected it to be. The creature straddling his hips giggled, a beautiful sound that actually caused Sasuke to shiver as if in pleasure.
"You can call it a dream if you want, Sasuke." The creature leaned forward and without warning licked very slowly at Sasuke's lips in a fox's imitation of a kiss. Sasuke's eyes widened and only one thing came to mind when he felt that kiss. He had a kiss like that before, several times when his brother's pet fox jumped into his arms in a bundle of fur and tails and attacked his face with his tongue.
"Na-Naruto?"