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Oh, if u guys want, I could email you the picture of the kitten in reference to this story XD

Enjoy the 2nd part!

Disclaimer: Naruto and all characters in this fic belong to Masashi Kishimoto

"Oi, Sakura. Until when are you gonna call that furball Koneko?" Kiba watched as Sakura moved the feathers around and the kitten ran to catch it.

"Mmmm?" Her hand stopped and the kitten jumped onto the feathers and enthusiastically bites them. "He's a little energy bundle, isn't he?"

"Yeah. But you can't keep on calling him 'Kitten'. He's gonna be a full grown male cat, Sakura." Kiba rolled his eyes. The tabby kitten jumped in shock when Sakura pulled back the feathers and tried to catch it again when Sakura moved them again.

"Truthfully, I don't really know what to name him," Sakura eyed the white patch on all four of the kitten's legs. The tabby looked like he's wearing white boots when the rest of his body is black and grey random stripes with hints of gold. "He has short attention span… like Dory in Nemo," Kiba laughed at this. "And he has soooo much energy, though he's only interested in moving stuff. He doesn't like static things, ne?" Kiba eyed the sharp teeth biting the colourful feathers. "Typical cat…" he added. He's not really of a cat person 'cause Kiba prefers dogs, but this kitten intrigued him- he hasn't put his fingers on it yet though.

"So what should we name him?" Sakura looked at Kiba. Kiba sweat dropped at her question.

After a moment of thinking, Kiba looked at the kitten's eyes. "We could name him 'Sora' -Sky- after his eyes."

Sakura picked up her kitten and looked at the bright blue orbs. "I really wonder if he's a pure-bred. I don't remember tabby has blue eyes."

"Whatever, Sakura. Focus here. Name…?"

"…"

Kiba looked intensely at the blank look that Sakura gave him.

"…"

"Well…?" Raised brown eyebrows.

"…" Sakura looked at her cat. "I don't know!!" She suddenly screeched.

Sasuke who just got out of his room to get a glass of water in the kitchen rolled his eyes at the duo in the living room.

"I don't know what to name him!!" Sakura whined again.

"Idiot." A deep voice suddenly spoke, which made Kiba, Sakura and the kitten jumped in shock.

"Shit, man! You shouldn't scare us like that!" Kiba glared; which of course had no effects on the 'Ice Prince'.

"That cat looks like an idiot-" –followed quickly by an offended "Hey!" by Sakura "-so it's only logical to name him 'Idiot'"

"It's not even a name, Uchiha" Kiba said, deadpanned.
"It's one for him now." Sasuke smirked.

"Go away, Sasuke-kun. You are not helping here." Sakura moved the feathers again. But the kitten seemed to have lost interest on the feathers now and head to the kitchen, to where Sasuke is.

He mewed at him.

Sasuke gave the cat one of his 'iciest' glare but the kitten wouldn't budge. He mewed at Sasuke again.

"Get lost." Sasuke pushed the 6-weeks kitten aside with his feet and strode into his room.

"You know what…" Kiba said after watching the two. "I sincerely thought he's changed a bit when he named the cat and smirked. But maybe I was wrong."

Sakura nodded sadly. "But you cannot expect him to change after one day, Kiba. Come here, Koneko-chan. Come!" She called the tabby.

Slumped against the door when he got into his room, Sasuke closed his eyes. 'Idiot!'
He didn't know if that was addressed to the cat or himself.

000

"Shut up, Uzumaki!" hollered a raven.

"Shut up yourself, Teme!" One sunny blond angrily shouted back. Naruto glared a his so-called best friend, cheek puffed and one eye started to go dark blue. The raven ignored his 'rival' and wiped the trail of blood from his mouth, his back to Naruto.

"Why couldn't you just listen to me once, huh? Huh, Sasuke?" Naruto said in anger, but the tone was softer.

"I told you to shut up, didn't I, Uzumaki?" Sasuke snapped. Fire in his black eyes was directed straight to Naruto that the blonde felt a pinch in his heart.

"You know what Sasuke. This is one thing that I've been meaning to tell you for a long time- you are so fucking stubborn. Everything must be your way. Why can't you listen to some other people once in a while-"

"Don't start, Uzumaki! Don't even start your lecture with me!" Sasuke gritted his teeth. "Who the hell you think you are, judging me?! You think you know me?!"

"Hell, I would know if you let me! But no!! Everything has to be dark and mysterious- the Uchiha way!" Naruto taunted.

Sasuke was so angry that the words choked in his throat. He kicked the tyre of his car as hard as he can to vent out his anger. Sasuke looked at his left, and then right both ways the road stretched into the horizon. "Unbelievable.." he muttered angrily. "Un-fucking-believable! Urgh!!" He kicked the dirt and walked away from Naruto.

The beautiful sunset went unnoticed by the two friends who both were seethed in anger. Naruto spun around only to realize Sasuke had walked quite a distance.

"You bastard! Sasuke! Sasuke-teme! Come back! I'm not done with you yet!" The blond in orange shirt shouted, running after the teen in dark blue shirt. "Don't you walk away from me, you coward! Sasuke!"

Sasuke 'pfted' on Naruto and walked in the middle of the road. 'Idiot!' he kept muttering under his breath. Blood pounding in his ears as the adrenaline rushed as he strode in anger- he tuned out everything else, except for the rushing and buzzing of blood in his ears.

A sound attracted Naruto as he neared Sasuke. Onto his left, a car looming with a very high speed. Naruto's heart picked up and his eyes widen as he glanced onto Sasuke on his right, right in the middle of the road.

Right in the middle of the speeding car.

"SASUKE!!!"

That was all Sasuke heard as he was being pushed away- hard on to the ground, away from the road. From his back, he heard a sickening crack as the car crashed into Naruto and sped away.

When he turned around to find his friend, all he saw was a bundle of orange mixed with angry red in a pool of blood that started to ooze out. Bile rose up his throat at the scene but he swallowed it all down. Ignoring pains in his limbs and bleeding arm, Sasuke ran to Naruto.

"N-Naruto… Naruto!!" his fingers shook as he took out his cell phone and dial 911. "N-Naruto, C'mon! Open up your eyes!" Tears started to gather at the corner of his eyes.

"S-Ssasuke…" a whimper and the blonde opened his eyes. Naruto coughed up blood as his body convulsed. Fear gripped into Sasuke as he saw the dullness in Naruto's eyes.

"Sas'ke…" the blonde whispered again as his body started to convulsed again.

"Naruto!" Hand shot out and Sasuke instantly sat up.

That nightmare again… Shaking, Sasuke looked at his hands as tears started to swell up. His ragged breath was the only sound in the dark room, in the middle of the night.

It has been two years. Two years since then yet the scene was so vivid in his mind. Sasuke closed his eyes in anguish.

"Sas'ke.." short breath from the paling boy. "I d-don't want… t-to die y-yet..!" Naruto's natural golden brown colour skin started to look like ash.

"Naruto!" A choke and Sasuke started to sob.

Mewing was suddenly heard from the laundry room, where Sakura kept the kitten when she went to sleep or out of the house. The kitten mewed again and again, as if sensing someone in the house was awake in that dark hour.

In tears, Sasuke lied down, pulling the covers on top of him.

"S-Shut up!" he whimpered amidst the sobbing, hands on his ears trying to black the sound of the kitten. "S-shut up!" a whimper again and the silent tears went unnoticed by the two other occupants in the house…

000

"Sora sounds nice on him. It reflected his.. sky blue eyes. Right Sora-chan?!" Sakura smiled at her beloved kitten.

"Sora sounds good. But it's too.. girly," Kiba whined. The two has just finished their last class for the day and both were in the living room, played with the dark tabby with white furred chest and feet.

Sakura glared at the dog-loving boy. "You were the one suggested Sora in the first place, Inuzuka!"

Kiba rolled his brown eyes. "Yeah, but it was a suggestion, get it? Sug-gehst-ion" He emphasized the last word.

"Then give a 'manly' suggestion already!" Sakura barked. The kitten shied away from her high-pitched voice.

Kiba called the kitten towards him, patting his hands against the sofa. "Look, you scared the cat away. Come here, Koneko-chan!" He called the kitten again. The blue eyes looked at him curiously, eying his moving hands and get ready to attack it. "Fine, fine… how about houka?" Kiba wriggled his eyebrows. "That's manly," he added quickly.

"Fire?! This is a cat, ok? Not some toys or something," Sakura shrieked.

Kiba frowned. "You asked for suggestion, so I gave you one. Ok, how about this- Tsuki-chan?" Sakura was about to barked once more when Kiba quickly added, "Listen to me first- Look at his colour… it's black and grey. You yourself said he reminds you of Sasuke. And Sasuke has always reminds us of night. And night reminds us of moon, right?"
Sakura was stunned for a moment. Then her face changed- to one of sadness and anguish.

Kiba gasped after a moment, eyes widen. "God, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to-" Sakura shook her head to stop Kiba.

"It's okay," she whispered. "I haven't heard that kind of reasoning for a looong time," she chuckled.

"Yeah…" Kba agreed. The air was solemn for a moment, even the kitten lie down and kept quiet, as though understanding the situation.

"That is his reasoning actually- when one day he called Sasuke Tsuki-chan." Kiba added.

"I miss him…" Sakura stroke the now-sleepy cat.

"This kitten is actually a lot like him, no?" Kiba chuckled to himself, finally understood why the kitten intrigued him so much that he didn't mind its presence. Sakura laughed too. "Yeah." She continued stroking the kitten.

"Let's name him hinode then," Sakura suddenly said. That woke the cat up. The kitten blinked to its owner.

"Sunrise is not the right word for him actually. It's more like 'sun' 24/7." Kiba disagreed.

"Hmm… Hikari… Light… How about that?" Sakura asked.

"That, I can deal with," Kiba nodded in agreement.

"Do you like that Hikari-chan?" Sakura rubbed the cat's belly.

The kitten mewed in answer.

TBC…

I'm not Japanese and hence the Japanese words in this fic are all from online dictionary. I hope I didn't confuse you with the Japanese words that I put to name the kitten, yeah? The exact meaning is actually within the paragraph/chapter itself, if you see what I mean. Anyhow, if you have any confusion, just tell me, I maybe have to change the way I explain/describe things in the story.

Teaser (for next part):
"…this is the one and the last time I ask you of this kind of favour-" she asked with a big puppy eyes, and added silently, "-I hope."
Sasuke looked at her ridiculously.