"Talking"

'Thinking/Thoughts'

Yami the Kitty

By Yami a.k.a Rachel

Chapter Four: Training

Sasuke woke the next morning to find something was tickling his nose. He wanted to find out what it was, but was too tired. Maybe he hadn't recovered as well as he thought he had. He slowly opened his eyes to see a black furry tail swishing back and forth across his nose. At first he didn't know what was going on, then the revelations of last night replayed in his head. He smiled to himself. He noticed Yami's breathing was deeper then usual. 'She must be dreaming'. He thought.

Trying his best not to wake Yami up, Sasuke lifted her off of him, sat up, and sat her back down on the bed. He was grateful he didn't wake her up. He didn't know how many hours a kitten needed to sleep. He really wasn't cut out to take care of a pet. Then again, she really wasn't his pet, she was his teammate. Or is she more then just a teammate. A voice in the back of his head said. He shook his head and began to get ready for his first day of training.

Once Sasuke had finished taking a shower and got dressed, Yami began to wake up. Sasuke watched in amusement as Yami slowly opened her eyes. At first she looked lost, then a look of realization donned on her face. She looked up at Sasuke and meowed happily. "Good morning to you too." He said. He picked her up and headed toward the bathroom. 'I have a bad feeling about this'. Yami thought.

Sasuke grabbed a towel and sat Yami on the edge of the bathtub. She looked down inside the tub with a look of worry. "It won't take long, I promise." Sasuke said. "Easy for you to say, your not the cat here." She said, but all Sasuke could hear was a meow. "I don't know what you just said, but it sounded like wining." Sasuke said. Yami stuck her tongue out at Sasuke and before she knew it, the water was ran and he dipped her in the luke warm water. "See that wasn't so bad." He said grinning.

Yami had to be honest with herself, it wasn't that bad. She was really enjoying herself actually. She could get used to having Sasuke bathing her all the time. She loved the feel of his hands rubbing up and down her back. Once he finished washing her, he rinsed her off and went to drying her off. When he was finished drying her with a towel, he couldn't help but laugh. Yami had turned into a small ball of fluff. Yami just got an annoyed look on her face. "Relax, I'll find a comb or brush." He said.

He finally managed to find a brush and started to comb Yami's fur. Once Yami's fur was tamed, Sasuke picked her up and carried her down to the kitchen. Just like before, he sat her down at the counter and poured her a bowl of milk. "I will have to find out when it is okay to start serving you solids. Not to make you nervous, but I know nothing about caring for a kitten." He said. Yami just meowed, she was too busy drinking her milk. Sasuke ate a small breakfast, he didn't know what Kakashi had planned for him.

The two were just finishing up their breakfast when a knock came at the door. Sasuke walked up to the door and opened it. Kakashi was standing in the doorway reading his book as usual. "Are you ready to begin your training Sasuke?" He asked, not looking up from his book. "Yeah I'm ready." Sasuke said. "Oh and we are going to take Yami with us. It wouldn't be good to leave her by herself." Kakashi said. Sasuke nodded, grabbed Yami and the three of them walked out the door.

The three had arrived at a cliff near the town. Yami leaped down off of Sasuke's shoulder, wanted to walk a little on her own. Kakashi looked at Yami and said "Now Yami I want you to not leave this spot. You understand?" Yami tapped her paw once to let him know that she wouldn't move. Kakashi smiled and looked toward Sasuke. "Lets begin shall we." Sasuke nodded and listened closely.

Yami had been watching Sasuke's training, and as usual, he was doing great. In her opinion anyway. After about three hours of training, Kakashi said "Alright, I think that's enough for today." Sasuke nodded and walked over to pick Yami up. Kakashi was a little surprised when he saw that Yami hadn't moved from her spot where he told her to stay. He figured she would wonder off at least a little. He shrugged it off and headed back home with Sasuke and Yami following him. Before Sasuke entered his home, Kakashi said "Same time tomorrow." "Got it." Sasuke said. He then walked in.

Once they were in the house, Yami jumped off of Sasuke's shoulder and ran up the stairs. Sasuke was going to follower, but before he did, he got himself a glass of water. He began walking up the first few steps when he heard Yami hissing. He started running up the steps to see one of the funniest sights he might ever see. On the floor was a ladybug. Yami was standing right in front of it. Every time Yami went to touch the bug, the bug would sprout it's wings, causing Yami to hiss at it. Yami looked at Sasuke as he started laughing. She stuck her tongue out at Sasuke and tried to kill the ladybug, but the bug kept flying away from her.

As Yami was jumping in the air to try and catch the ladybug, Sasuke grabbed her while in mid air. "Come on, he's going out the window." He said. Once the bug was out the window, he closed the said window. Yami made some kind of noise that Sasuke took as complaining. "I have something better for you than a ladybug." He said. At this Yami's ears perked up a bit. Sasuke saw this and smirked. He walked into the closet in his room and started looking through it for something. When he finally found what he was looking for, Yami gave a loud meow of happiness.

What Sasuke held in his hand in front of Yami mockingly was a ball of blue yarn. Yami tried desperately to grab the yarn, but couldn't reach. "Calm down. I will give you the stupid thing if you relax." He said. Yami did her best not to fidget as Sasuke let her down on the floor. Sasuke then tossed the ball of yarn on the ground and was surprised to see what Yami did to it. Instead of ripping it to pieces like he thought she would have done, she was laying on top of it rolling back and forth. She then started rolling it in different directions with her head, then walking along side it as it coasted across the floor.

As he watched Yami play with her ball of yarn he whispered to himself "Will I ever understand you Yami?" 'I don't know why you just don't come to terms with yourself at the fact that you like her.' Said the voice in the back of his head. 'What are you talking about, of course I like her, she's my teammate.' He told the voice. The voice laughed and said 'No, I meant you like her as more then a teammate or friend.' Sasuke paused and said "Do I?" 'Yes you do.' The voice said. Sasuke growled and said 'I'm going to seriously hurt you.' 'Hey, I'm just the voice in the back of your head that tries to guide you to make the right choices.' The voice said. 'What are you trying to tell me then?' Sasuke asked.

The voice sighed and said 'What I'm trying to tell you is, is that you need to stop thinking about whether or not you love her and just go ahead and love her. You do love her after all.' Sasuke looked surprised and said "How do you know if I love her or not?!" 'Cause I'm the voice in the back of your head, duh!' Sasuke glared straight ahead and thought 'Should I tell her? I couldn't even if I wanted to. She doesn't know who I am and that would mean that she wouldn't feel the same way.' 'Have you ever thought about waiting until she is turned back genius?' Sasuke just glared.

Once he was finished having the conversation with the voice inside his head, he looked to see Yami lying on her ball of yarn looking at him with a confused look on her face. She tilted her head to the side in a way that made Sasuke want to fall on his knees. "Don't worry about it, just thinking to myself." He said, as the look on her face changed from confusion to worry. She got off her ball of yarn and ran up and jumped on his shoulder. They then heard a few hard knocks on the door. Sasuke ran down the stairs and opened the door.

Naruto was standing outside beside Sakura. "Yeah." Sasuke said. "Kakashi sensei said that he would treat us all to ramen for at least making it through the forest during our exams!" Naruto said happily. Yami looked at Naruto with a look that said 'Are you crazy?' "Alright, just let me lock up the house." Sasuke said. With that, the four of them headed toward the Ichiraku Ramen shop. Yami was getting all kinds of stares as they walked to the shop. She wanted to hide from everyone, but couldn't find a place to hide without leaving the others. Sasuke saw Yami's fear and instead of her on his shoulders, she was being held by Sasuke. "There, is that better?" He said. Yami tapped her paw once against his chest to let him know.

When they finally got to the shop, Yami leaped back on top of Sasuke's shoulder. Kakashi was already there sitting on one of the chairs. "Wow Kakashi sensei! You were here before we were!" Naruto said. "I'm not always late." Kakashi said, smiling behind his mask. 'Only nine times out of ten.' Yami thought. The three students sat down and made their order. Sasuke had ordered what he always got when he came to Ichiraku. Yami leaped off of his shoulder and inspected the ramen. Sasuke was very amused as Yami slowly lowered her paw in the bowl. When she was sure that it wasn't too hot, she completely put her paw in the ramen and then licked her paw. 'Man alive! No wonder Naruto eats this all the time!' She thought.

Sasuke had finished his ramen before everyone else, seeing as how he was sharing his with Yami. Although he hadn't planned on it. When the kitten had first tasted the substance, she immediately started to climb in the bowl so she could reach for noodles. Sasuke had to grab her before she got herself completely sticky. Sasuke ended up feeding Yami some of his ramen. He didn't mind though, it was Yami after all. 'Finally figured it out have you genius?' The voice said. Sasuke thought 'Yes I have, are you happy now.' 'Yes. Yes I am.' Sasuke rolled his eyes inwardly. "Guys, I'll see you later. I think me and Yami are going to call it a day." Sasuke said. Yami just meowed and leaped into Sasuke's waiting arms.

The walk home was a lot better then the walk to the shop. There wasn't as many people walking the streets. Although when a passerby would look at Yami, they looked confused. For the love of Hokage, you would think they never saw a cat before.' Yami thought. On their way home they heard a man shout. Yami tensed and dug her claws into Sasuke's arms. Sasuke tensed and said "It's alright, you can retract the claws." Yami eased up and let go of his arms. She meowed in apology. By that time they finally had arrived home. Sasuke unlocked the door and headed inside. Yami jumped out of his arms and headed up stairs. 'Must be looking for that ball of yarn.' He thought.

A few minutes later Yami came down the steps and rubbed up against Sasuke's leg. Sasuke bent down and picked her up. "Bored already?" He said. Yami tapped her paw once on his hand. "I take it that means yes?" Yami once again tapped her paw once. Sasuke thought for a few minutes and said "Okay, I have an idea." He then headed to his room. He sat Yami on his bed and began looking around his room. For what, Yami didn't know.

After a few more minutes of searching, he finally found what he was looking for. He came back to the bed with what looked like a sketch pad and a pencil. Sitting on the bed, he leans against the head board and says "Go over to the edge of the bed and try to stay as still as possible." Still confused, Yami walked over to the edge of the bed to that she was facing Sasuke. 'What in the world is he doing?' She thought. She stayed there for a good half hour when Sasuke said "Okay, you can come over now."

Yami was excited to get rid of her confusing and walked over to where Sasuke was looking at the sketch pad. Yami looked at the sketch pad and what she saw surprised her greatly. On the sketch pad, Sasuke had drawn a picture of Yami in the same position she was in a couple minutes ago. 'I had no idea Sasuke could draw. The detail is amazing!'She thought. "You like it?" He said. Yami tapped her paw once. He smiled and said "I'm glad. Check out some of the other things I've drawn."

Yami had never seen as much creativity as she had when she was looking through Sasuke's sketch book with him. Some of the pictures drawn where of the team, which included Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi and herself. Then there was portraits of his members. Once again there was a portrait of Naruto, one of Sakura, one of Kakashi, and one of her self. Only as Yami was looking through the sketch book she noticed that some of the sketches were not colored. The only ones that were colored was the sketches of her self. Another thing she noticed was that a lot of the sketches was of her. Odd. She thought.

"Okay Yami, lets get something to eat." Sasuke said as he closed up the sketch book. Yami meowed in happiness. She loved the sketch book, she was quite flattered actually, but she was getting very hungry. As the two walked down the stairs, Yami thought about all the pictures Sasuke had drawn of her. She had soon decided that her favorite one was of her as an angel. Sasuke had thought of her as an angel. 'Is that really what he thinks of me?' She thought. She couldn't get the picture out of her head. Just like the site of Sasuke naked, the image was burned into her mind.

"Okay, I thought about having you try something solid, but I'm afraid your not old enough to eat solids yet." He said. "So yes or no to solid foods." Yami thought about it for a few minutes, then tapped her paw twice. 'I can't help it, that milk is just too good.' She thought. Sasuke smiled and said "Okay, milk it is." He got out the bowl and milk and began to pour the milk. Once he was finished Yami began lapping up the milk like it was her last life line. Sasuke laughed and began making his own dinner. 'Maybe I'll buy some cream for her tomorrow.' He thought. 'I'm sure she would love that. Said the voice. Sasuke smirked and thought Still there are you? Yes, yes I am.' Said the voice.

Once the two had finished their dinner, Sasuke thought that it would be a good time for Yami to have another bath. "Will you be more cooperative this time?" He asked. Yami tapped her paw once sheepishly. Sasuke smiled and said "Thank you." He picked her up and headed toward the bathroom. After getting all the necessary items and running the bath water, he set Yami slowly and gently into the luke warm water. Yami stayed calm the entire time Sasuke washed her. When Sasuke rinsed her off, he got her out of the tub and got a towel so he could begin drying her off. Just like before, she ended up as a huge ball of fluff. After much combing, Yami was clean and set for bed.

"Tomorrow will be another day of training." Sasuke said, as he and Yami headed for bed. Sasuke laid down and Yami curled up beside him. "Good night Sasuke." Yami said, but all Sasuke heard was a meow. He looked at her and said "Good night Yami."