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'Animals talking.'

chapter 3

The small black Uchiha cub awoke the next day in a dark cold room. He raised his head slightly and looked around. The room was empty except for a bowl of water and what looked like food. Slowly the animal got up and sniffed the water. Feeling it was safe, he started to drink. Suddenly a door opened filling the room with light, startling the cub who crawled back until he hit the back wall. The strange animals that walk on their back paws came walking in. They were carrying something in their paws. One of them came up the cubs door and swung it open.

"Come here, its not going to bite." he sneered at the other man who stood there in awe. He slowly walked over to assist the man. "Im going to put this around it's neck, your job is to make sure it doesn't jump out of the café. We want to get it ready as soon as possible. Got it?" the man nodded.

"Here we go." he said grabbing the pole with the nose on the end and attempted to place it around the animals neck. The cub growled and moved out of the way. The man tried again, no dice. The cub had no intention of cooperating. As the man tried again for the third time, the cub hissed, scaring the other man. The Uchiha jumped out of the cage and took off running. He didn't know where the hall led but he didn't care, he wanted away from this place. He wanted to be back home snuggling with his mom, waiting for his father to get back with food. But that wouldn't happen. He would just be going back to a blood covered den. And who knows what happened to the bodies. Maybe an animal already got to them.

"Don't just stand there! Catch it!"the man yelled and the other went after it. It was a rather funny sight to see. A grown man chasing a baby leopard. It took him fifteen minutes before he caught the smart animal.

"Ouch!" he screamed dropping the cat. "It bit me."

"You idiot! Get the net!" it took a half hour to get the animal under control. "Come on, lets hurry and get this cub to the bath house." the man huffed. By the time they got the animal cleaned, the two men were utterly exhausted and soaked with water.

"Good luck to the fool who bought this thing." the men huffed in agreement as they put the leopard back in the cage. "You go tell boss he can call the buyer to pick the Uchiha up." the man nodded and left.

"Ah, Kakashi, good to see you again. I just knew you'd be the one to buy the cub." a fat man laughed shaking Kakashi's hand.

"Well you know me, I love big cats." Kakashi chuckled.

"Well you might have your work cut out for you. This one isn't like your other four."

"What do you mean?" Kakashi asked curiously.

"You'll find out. Well here it is." the man said grabbing a medium sized cage and handed it to Kakashi. Looking inside Kakashi was met with dark, coal black eyes. "He's young. His sharingan eyes haven't developed yet. He's between a year and a few months old. Good luck."

"Thank you." Kakashi said leaving. He put the cage carefully next to him in his limo. It took about an hour before they reached the mansion. Kakashi carried the cage to the livingroom. He closed all the doors, so the animal wouldn't get out, and placed a bag and a bowl of water on the floor. He then sat down next to the cage and opened it.

The silver haired man expected the cub to run out and look for a way yo escape, but it didn't. It just sat in the back of the cage staring out the open door. But it wouldn't move. Kakashi even placed the bowl of water next to the door. Kakashi sighed and opened his book. He sat there for half an hour before the phone rand.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Kakashi, did you forget?" the man on the other end asked.

"Forget what?" kakashi asked closing his book and scratched the back of his head, trying to remember.

"The meeting. Kakashi I told you yesterday not to forget." the man said frustrated with the silver haired man. "What was so important that make you forget?"

"Well...um...I kind of bought a new pet." there was silence, then a sigh.

"Kakashi, I thought we agreed, no more animals. Your permit only allows 5 endangered animals. But if you get another complaint from your neighbors, the police will call animal control and you'll lose 2 of your cats and your permit will be reduced to 3. Can you really choose between your pets? No. Know, I'm coming over to give you a recap on the meeting."

"Alright, Iruka, see you in a little bit." Kakashi said hanging up the phone. The silver haired man huffed and went to the kitchen where his laptop was. Opening it he went to his calender confirming he did miss his meeting. Sighing Kakashi decided to take a shower.

"Ah, Iruka, how are you?" the maid who answered the door asked.

"Good, where's Kakashi?" Iruka said getting to the point.

"I think he just got out of the shower. You can wait in the livingroom, that's where he'll be headed once he's finished." she said closing the door behind Iruka and walked away.

"Thank you." Iruka said heading for the livingroom. When a small ball of fluff ran into his leg. Iruka looked down surprised. 'Is that?' Iruka thought bending down and picking the small cub up. The black fur ball looked at Iruka with wide eyes as the man walked them back into the livingroom.

'I just got out of here! I don't want to go back.' the animal growled. 'Hey! Are you listening to me? Hello!' (No, they cant understand the animals. Just want to clear that up so I don't get any questions about that. Lol.) frustrated, the cub was about to jump down but the man placed a hand on his head stopping him. Scratching the cats ear he seemed to melt into Iruka's hand. Iruka chuckled and opened the livingroom door. Kakashi was in there looking around the room, confusion could be seen through his visible eye.

"Looking for something?" Iruka said causing Kakashi to jump in surprise.

"Iruks." Kakashi chuckled. "Here already?"

"Yeah. So what are you looking for?" he asked.

"Well, I was just looking for my, um, my laptop. I can't seem to find it." Kakashi lied.

"Are sure you are not looking for him?" Iruka smiled mentioning the cub in his hand. "Here did you get it? This is one of the rarest leopards, there's almost none left."

"I got it where I got all my pets." Kakashi said grabbing a collar from the bag he had put on the floor earlier. "Hold nim still while I put his collar on."

"So what have you decided to call him?" Iruka asked keeping the animal in place while Kakashi struggled to put the collar, with his name and license on it, on him.

"Sasuke."

ok so thats all for today and I promise I will try to update sooner. Again sorry. And sorry if it sucks. Reviews are appreciated.