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Because I Love –To Torture- My Brother

Chapter One

The little foxed yawned slowly showing off small, pinprick sharp fangs as it stretched slowly, before resettling back next to the caged, large white dog he was sleeping with.

He had spent the night huddled there, the dog pressing against him through the small squares in the cage as they slept together. For some reason the dog had taken a liking to him so he had stayed next to it. But though he was still tired he'd have to move soon and get out. If he wasn't careful one of the noisy humans he heard bustling around outside might come in the back and find him.

Not that he couldn't escape if that happened but still…A low snuffle and a wet nose pushed into his side woke him what only seemed like a few minutes later and he was about to swat the overly playful dog on the nose when he heard footsteps.

"We have all sort in the large room, but of course we group by species. We have normal dogs, hybrid dogs, large cats of the more rare type you know, the newest in miniature cows, hybrid pigs, deer, a few large predator birds…"

'Oh…crap.' He stood up suddenly, bristling against the dog's cage as long legs turned the corner and stopped suddenly before him.

"Ah, do you also have foxes?" His carmine eyes flashing he set his paws apart and bristled threateningly letting out a low, almost purring growl.

"We do in the other area but we don't often get requests for normal foxes…we are after all a mostly hybrid store. Why do you ask?"

He had used his time to look over his seeker, a tall human with dark eyes and equally dark long hair as he stared down at him, amused the fox could tell, by the smirk on his lips.

"Well, you have a loose fox here and he doesn't look happy." No kidding. The fox took a step back and hit into the dog's cage again. He should just run for it. It had been fun to stay for a night with other animals but he had been discovered; it was obviously time to leave.

"Loose!" The crimson coat flashed by as the fox took that exclamation as his starter's gun and bolted. And boy could he run. But he neglected to remember one thing…the door. The only reason he'd got in was because of his skill but he obviously couldn't use it now to get back out…

Skidding to a halt and turning tail to the door out he growled threateningly as the tall, pale human was the first to catch up.

'I'm not going without a fight and by God you better believe I'll win!' The fox flattened his ears and bared his teeth in warning as the human stepped closer and bent down.

"Hey little fox…how about we play nice and you let the nice man put you back in your cage?" He almost paused at the calm, soothing voice but did not let himself relax. He had the voice of a whisperer, soft, persuasive, charming. But hybrid foxes were not easily charmed. Especially hybrids of higher intelligence.

Carmine eyes narrowed to slits as the human lifted a pale hand to grab him. 'Now or never. All or nothing. Believe it! I'm getting out of here.' And with a high yelp he jumped and latched his teeth into the offered hand.

"AH! Fu-UHG! Damn-!" Itachi winced but didn't try to shake it off. He did the smarter thing and grabbed the fox with his other hand, tucking it into a lock under his arm. The fox obviously did not expect this as he released its bite and immediately started trying to wriggle out of his hold but his other hand released only gave him a tighter grip.

"Gotcha little fox." He smirked even as he wanted to wince at the spasms of pain wracking his hand. But he continued holding on and walked to the back rooms where he caught the shop keeper looking around dazedly at cages.

It was rather a spirited little thing. And cute too with its fluffy red tail and flat, wide swiveling little red ears. In fact, he looked the small dog sized fox over. It was all perfectly an unmarred burnt-red. Awfully intelligent eyes were staring up at him, sizing him up as they walked and Itachi found himself looking back into the fox's eyes…found adequate when it finally stopped struggling and took to frowning at the passing cages.

'A frowning fox.' Itachi thought with a laugh. And yet, there was a little furrow of folded skin between the two red eyes. Yup, the fox was frowning. Probably plotting a way to escape…

"What is the problem?" The man was still scratching his head and walking up and down.

"There aren't any empty cages…I don't understand…"The shopkeeper looked to the fox in Itachi's arms and back to the cages. "He looks like one of ours, a hybrid…fabulous care, great coat, even albino type eyes…but…"

"This isn't one of your foxes?" The man hesitated before shaking his head. Then he saw his prospective customer's hand.

"Definitely not our fox!" He stated firmly. "We don't have violently animals here."

'You mean you don't have spunky animals here.' Itachi looked around. 'Even your beloved Hinata-sama was too easy for my brother to break. They're all so timid save a few. This one definitely isn't yours.'

The small red fox was looking up at him again, eyes wide and assessing. Itachi made up his mind with one more look. The fox might be interesting in blue…

"I'll take it. I'll even reimburse you a small amount since I found it here. And you need not worry about prosecution for the bite." The man blanched and Itachi smiled cuttingly. "After all it's not your fox right?"

"R-right!"

"So let's deal."

A/N: I hope more people get interested...Dattebayo!

Ja ne!