Yami the Kitty
By Yami a.k.a Rachel
Chapter Three: A Hospital Visit And A New Home
As Kakashi and the others were heading toward Sasuke's room, Yami was trying desperately to take off Kakashi's mask. Naruto was laughing and said "Having a hard time Yami?" Yami looked at Naruto and stuck her tongue out at him. After Yami gave up trying to take off Kakashi's mask, they had finally arrived at Sasuke's room. Everyone entered the room to see Sasuke was still asleep. "Quiet you guys, he's still asleep." Sakura said.
They all took seats around Sasuke's hospital bed. Sakura was on his right side, Naruto on his left, and Kakashi with Yami in his lap at the foot of his bed. "I hope he's alright." Sakura said. Yami meowed softly. Kakashi gently rubbed Yami's back. Yami couldn't help but purr. Kakashi smiled behind his mask. "Like that do you." He said. Yami meowed once more in a yes.
After what felt like hours to the others, Sasuke was finally starting to wake up. His eyes fluttered open and he looked around the room. He slowly sat up just to have an excited Sakura nearly knock him back against the bed. "Oh Sasuke, I'm glad you're okay!" Sakura said. "Thank you Sakura, can you please get off of me." Sasuke said. "Oh, sorry." She said sheepishly.
As Sasuke looked around the room he noticed two things. One, Yami was no where to be found. Two, he noticed a black kitten siting in Kakashi's lap. "Kakashi, where is Yami and what's with the cat?" He said. Kakashi sweat dropped and said "Well that's one of the main reasons why we came to see you Sasuke." He continued "You see, something happened while you were recovering. Yami won her match in the preliminaries." Sasuke nodded for Kakashi to continue.
"Well once her match was over, she went to go clean up and watch the next match. Only she ran into a small problem. She ran into someone." He said. "And?" Sasuke said impatiently. "And this someone turned Yami into the cat you see before you." Kakashi said. Sasuke's eyes got wide in realization. He looked at the kitten and said "That's...that's Yami?" "Yes, I know it's hard to believe, but it's true." Kakashi said. "She understands us, but doesn't know us."
Sasuke looked at Yami and asked Kakashi "Do you know who did this to her?" Kakashi shook his head and said "No, but we are doing everything we can to find out." Yami couldn't take it any longer. She leaped out of Kakashi's lap and onto Sasuke's bed. She then made her way to Sasuke's hand and started rubbing against it, purring the entire time. Kakashi smiled and said "We, at least she likes you." Sasuke looked down at Yami and spared a small smile.
Sasuke started to subconsciously scratch behind Yami's ears. As Sasuke did this Yami thought to herself 'I could get used to this. Maybe I won't kill Kabuto after all. Just severely hurt him.' Sasuke pondered on who could have done this to his teammate. "Kakashi, I think I know who might have done this." "Really? Who?" Kakashi said. "I think it might have been Kabuto. He's the one that helped us get passed the forest. He always acted weird around Yami." "It could very well be Kabuto. We won't know until further investigation."
Kakashi got out of his chair and said "I know you all want to try and find the person that did this to Yami, but you need to let me and the other higher ranking ninja handle this. We have many ANBU working on this case as we speak. So try not to worry. Be more like Yami, she's not worried at all." Yami had been pawing at Sasuke's bangs, but stopped when she heard her name called. She meowed and continued with messing with Sasuke's hair.
"Okay Sasuke, do you think you have fully recovered?" Kakashi asked. Sasuke thought a few minutes but nodded eventually. "Good. We need to start your training. I will tell you more later. For now though, relax. We will start your training for the finals tomorrow morning. Is that clear?" Kakashi said. Sasuke nodded. "Good. I will see you tomorrow then." With that, he got out his book and left the room.
Sasuke picked Yami up and put her on his shoulder. He climbed out of bed and said "I'm changing and heading home. I'm taking Yami with me. Is that alright with you two?" Sakura looked surprised and said "Oh, of course Sasuke." Naruto said "Yeah, I couldn't take care of a cat anyway. No offense Yami." Yami just meowed and continued nuzzling against the side of Sasuke's head. Naruto and Sakura left the room to let Sasuke have his privacy and change.
Sasuke sat Yami down on the bed and said "Your not going to peak are you?" It was at this time that Yami was grateful for being a cat. She was blushing like crazy at the statement. Yami closed her eyes unwillingly. Sasuke smirked and started to undress. Yami couldn't help herself, she barely opened one of her eyes to peak at Sasuke. She nearly opened her eyes completely when she saw Sasuke's well toned body.
Once Sasuke had finished dressing into his usual clothes, he picked Yami up and placed her on his shoulder. "Lets go home now. I don't know about you, but I'm hungry." He said. Yami meowed. "It's going to be hard not being able to understand a word you say." He said. Yami just licked the side of his face in response. They finally arrived at Sasuke's house. It wasn't much, but it was home.
When Yami saw the inside of the house, she nearly fell off Sasuke's shoulder. The house was so neat and clean. Sasuke walked over to the kitchen, set Yami down and got a bowl out of a cabinet and a jug of milk out of the refrigerator. He then poured the milk into the bowl and set it for Yami to drink. "Seeing as how you are only a kitten, it wouldn't be wise to give you anything solid for right now." He said.
While Yami drank her milk, Sasuke prepared himself a couple of rice balls to eat. He sat at the bar while Yami sat on top of the bar. Sasuke was finishing his last rice ball as Yami was lapping up the last of her milk. "Okay, Yami. It's time for bed. I have a long day tomorrow." Yami meowed and jumped on Sasuke's shoulder before Sasuke could grab her. They headed up stairs to Sasuke's room. Sasuke changed into some night clothes and laid in bed with Yami curled up on top of him. The beating of Sasuke's heart helped Yami fall asleep fast.