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ANYWAAAYS, here's chapter twelve (gasp! twelve already!?). I think it's one of my best chapters. When I was writing it in my notebook, it took about thirteen pages. Xd It was a SMALL notebook, though, so…yeah…..

Eh, don't have anything creative to say. I'm typing this at midnight and I'm pretty tired. Can someone give me some coffee or something?

Thanks for the reviews!! I REALLY appreciate it!

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DRABBLE TWELVE: An Animal's Wrath

The two of them just stood there in the doorway. Frozen.

Emotions expressed: shock, surprise, bewilderment. It was a total "out of the blue" and "what possessed her to do this" ordeal.

Kabuto and Anna didn't know what to say or do. It was too bizarre.

A fully grown, adult male antelope was currently napping on the couch. An innocent looking Shadow was petting the antelope's head from her spot on the grass covered carpet, whispering cooing noises into the animal's ear.

It was like watching a mother taking care of her child.

Kabuto broke the awkward silence. " Shadow……what. The. HELL?" he asked rather loudly.

Shadow jumped at hearing Kabuto's voice, unknowing that he was even there. She turned sour at the tone of it. " What do you mean 'what the hell'? Shut up, you're gonna wake Charles!"

" Charles……?"

" Uh, YEAH. My precious pet antelope," Shadow explained to Kabuto in a tone that could've been used for a two-year-old dimwit, hugging the sleeping antelope around the neck. She resumed on calling it baby names and even began to nuzzle its face.

"……Shadow. Antelopes are WILD animals."

Shadow huffed at this fact. " Yeah? What of it?"

" Well….WHAT'S A WILD ANIMAL DOING IN THE HOUSE?!" Kabuto roared, going over to where the antelope resided and attempted to shove it off the couch, but Shadow slapped his hands away, growling as she did so.

" GET AWAY FROM CHARLES, YOU BUFFOON!! CAN'T YOU SEE THAT HE'S SLEEPING!?" Shadow thundered with such fierce audibility that the living room shook.

And woke Charles up.

Shadow face palmed. " Now look what you've done. You woke 'em up!"

Kabuto gaped and made a face that screamed " what did I do?", but it was ignored by Shadow, who turned back to "mommy" and paid full attention to Charles, who looked at Kabuto intently with huge, brown eyes.

There was something….wrong…about those eyes. They weren't very innocent or friendly looking…..but there was something else, too. There looked to be a thin circle of red around the pupil rims……and they were glowing?

Kabuto shrugged it off and returned to his rant of complaints about the newest yet somewhat unwelcome houseguest.

" We can't have an antelope as a pet! Where's he going to sleep? Manda already takes up the whole basement! And the antelope can't sleep or run around outside in the yard without the neighbors seeing! He can't stay in the house either, Shadow, he just can't! He'll eat the furniture, get mud all over the place, plus he'll-"

He was met with an old newspaper that came hurdling at his face.

" Sorry? You lost me at the word WE," Shadow said sarcastically. Her voice transformed into sweet as her attention turned back to Charles. " Awww, you're so cuuuute! Yes you are!" She tickled the antelope's furry chin lovingly.

Kabuto truthfully didn't know what to do. Shadow would literally kill him if he got rid of the blasted antelope. Maybe she'd come around to her common sense if Anna said something.

" Anna, you know we can't-"

He stopped as he saw Anna lean down and begin to stroke Charles's long horns. If it were possible she would've had hearts for eyes.

" SQUEE!! Charles is UBERLY cute!" Anna squealed, now rubbing the antelope's belly.

" I KNOOOOOW!" Shadow replied in the same type of high-pitched and excited girlish voice that was reserved for cute and adorable things.

The two girls smothered their new pet with affection, taking turns kissing his head and hugging him around the neck, coos and squeals of delight never ceasing.

Kabuto was on the verge of gagging.

Just then, Orochimaru entered the living room through the kitchen. Everyone stopped and stared as they wondered whether he'd approve of their new pet antelope.

Orochimaru cocked his head and caught sight of Charles on the couch. It made his slit eyes widen a few centimeters, but otherwise it didn't make him unfazed. Actually, he expected that something like this was bound to happen. He was surprised it wasn't sooner.

He then almost toppled over as he felt a pair of arms wrap tightly around his slender waist and a body slam into his abdomen. When he looked down, his eyes met Anna's, whose were wide as saucers and were full of innocent joy.

" Ah- Oro Oreo-sama! Can we please keep Charles?! Please, please, PLEASE!! Pretty please with immortality on top!?" she smiled wide at her little joke.

To make up for her cousin's childish way of asking and incorrect way to speak to an elder (especially one as serious as Orochimaru), Shadow got up and gave her master a low bow.

" Yes, Lord Orochimaru, we wish to keep Charles, our…err….antelope as a pet. You won't have to deal with him at all. Kabuto promises to take full responsibility for him."

" WHAAAAT?!"

Shadow rolled her green eyes. " Okaaaay, Anna and me, too."

They all waited for Orochimaru's answer.

" Fine," he simply replied (Shadow and Anna cheered while Kabuto sulked), " but if he causes ANY mayhem or creates ruckus in my house, I WILL HAVE HIS HEAD MOUNTED ON MY WALL." He produced a large kunai to get his point (more like threat) across.

Anna squeaked in terror and timidly bowed a couple times, all the while going, " Yes yes, Oreo! We'll take good care of Charles, don't worry!"

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Nighttime rolled around quickly. The grandfather clock loudly chimed a quarter past one.

Most nights you could find Kabuto and Anna snuggled up on the couch, sleeping peacefully with the big blue blanket covering them up.

It was quite different tonight.

Kabuto, no matter how hard he tried, couldn't sleep a wink.

He tried everything- reading, watching television, listening to soothing sounds of nature on the stereo. But he just couldn't fall asleep.

For some reason he thought that it wasn't he couldn't fall asleep…..maybe it was that he couldn't afford to sleep. Like he needed to be awake for some unknown purpose.

So far all that kept him company for the past hour and a half he lay awake was the agonizing sound of silence. This statement soon proved false as the sound of hooves padding against the floor was heard coming down the hallway.

Kabuto twitched as he heard Charles inch closer.

He turned his head around and saw the faint silhouette of the antelope, hidden amongst the darkness of the room.

But what Kabuto saw then made him scream.

Huge, demonic looking eyes stared back at him. They were red as the sun.

Kabuto shot off the couch as fast as a bullet, preparing himself by positioning his body in a battle stance and pulling out a shuriken.

The psychotic antelope was quick, leaping over the couch's wall and landing full force where Kabuto once lay. The dramatic increase of weight on that one side of the couch bounced poor Anna clear off the couch and into the air. She suddenly awoke during mid-flight, clueless about what was happening yet terrified as she realized she was in the air. Her shriek of fright ended as she landed, face first, on the carpet.

A second later, the antelope lunged off the couch and came right towards Kabuto, his front legs and horns aiming for Kabuto's chest.

But the medic ninja was stealthy as well, for he back flipped in mid-air and whipped his shuriken at the demonic antelope, who just leapt out of the way of the weapon like it was nothing.

" Dammit!" Kabuto grunted, throwing three small kunai at the antelope's heart, but Charles managed to avoid all of them. Two of the kunai ended up stuck to the couch and one of them landed launched in the carpet, only mere centimeters away from Anna's face.

Anna got up from off the floor, her whole body shaking in fear. " Kabuto, what the HELL is going on?!" she ran over to him and gripped on his left arm.

" I don't know!" Kabuto explained as he watched a psychotic Charles rip through the living room. " All of a sudden he just went mad! And his eyes are red, did you see- DUCK!!" Kabuto interjected, taking Anna and throwing her and himself to the floor in the nick of time, for Charles rose on his hind legs and swiped his front legs at their heads, but he sent his legs through the television screen instead. Glass shattered and flew in all directions. Charles tried to frantically free his hooves from the inside of the busted television set, but couldn't.

The sound of the television set breaking must've been heard, for the door to someone's room opened and the hall light flicked on.

And out came a very pissed off, cranky Orochimaru with a tranquilizer gun.

All it took was one shot. Orochimaru fired and the bullet hit Charles, penetrating his behind. The effect kicked in, sending Charles to the floor, taking the TV with him unfortunately.

Orders were given instantly. " Kabuto, go call Animal Control. They'll get this beast out of here. Anna, go fetch a broom and sweep all the glass up."

He swiveled around with lightening speed just before Shadow, who'd been hiding behind the computer desk all this time, could make her escape.

" And Shadow……."

Said girl gulped.

" If I ever have to be abruptly aroused like this again…..I won't hesitate to mount your head on my wall."

Orochimaru's icy tone of voice was the one thing that made Shadow cringe out of fear. Especially when it's being directed toward her.

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Wow. That only took me fifty-six minutes to type! Good for me! Oh, and Kabuto….why didn't you try taking sleeping pills?

Kabuto:……..(face palms) Why didn't I think of that?

Shadow: (rolls eyes) Because you're a dumb-ass.

Me: (sighs)

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