Chapter 07

The feline continued again with its soft purring and snuggling. The cat enjoyed himself and paid no attention to anything but to the girl's warmth and constant pettings. Hinata on the other hand was too busy stuttering away, saying her apologies to her friend Kiba for about an hour or two. Or was it three?

The boy didn't know, and he simply didn't care, for he was furious to even give a dang. Kiba's hand twitched. The boy was sweating bullets, it took him a lot of strength to restrain himself from yanking the cat's dirty paws off of his crush – urm, friend and throw the damn thing out the window. Oh how he wanted to stuff the cat in the oven and turn the dial up to 500 degrees and watch the cat burn in agony. But no, no way would he ever do such horrible yet tempting act, that is unless the girl, Hinata isn't around to keep an eye on the creature. He could easily see that she was protective of the little fur ball, seeing the way she held the creature close to her. Afraid that she would drop him or lose him, while the feline gets to feel the comfort and luxury of being held by her.

But - Kiba couldn't stop this feeling in his chest, it bothered him greatly. Could this be, jealousy? Pfft, yeah right. Like Kiba would ever be jealous over that ugly little thing. But he couldn't help but imagine himself as the cat, the very exact same cat that sat across from him that was being showered by Hinata's attention. To have her hands to pet him gently on the head, down to his back. Wait… hold up!

Kiba stopped himself and couldn't stop the blush that ran across his face, Kiba quickly covered his face with his long sleeved jacket. Hinata was startled at his sudden action and asked what was wrong. The boy simply responded that it was nothing, Kiba couldn't look directly at her snow white eyes, those innocent pure eyes of hers...

Kiba gulped as a sweat dropped from the side of his head.

Oh God, what the hell is wrong with me?

"Bye K-kiba."

"Sure, seeya Hinata."

Hinata stood near the doorway and waved at her fellow friend Kiba while he walked away, she kept it up until the boy was out of sight. The Hyuuga then closed the door, and she remembered to lock it this time. Hinata's back leaned against the door, her hand placed right on top of her chest, on top of her heart. She could still feel it beating again, and again, and again, and again. She just couldn't seem to calm it down. Her legs began to wobble, her body slowly slid down against the door until her bottom met the floor. She began to tremble.

"N-no, I can't believe I lied to K-kiba, to my v-very own friend... Did I do the right thing?" She turned pale, as white as a ghost. Hinata never did enjoy lying, heck she never lied in her life! Especially to her friend Kiba.

"Mao?" Hinata looked down to see a little feline at her side, Sasuke.

The girl vigorously straightened her back to compose herself, she then cleared her throat to the side just to hide her embarrassing blush, "I'm so sorry y-you had to s-see that." Her cheeks were a bit flushed.

The cat gave a simple nod to Hinata, a gesture that showed his understanding. The little Hyuuga's eyes saddened a bit, Sasuke couldn't help but tilt his head in confusion. Hinata noticed and began to explain,"S-sorry Sasuke, I shouldn't have p-placed you there in that closet, I w-wasn't even thinking straight." She sulked in shame. "Urgh, I'm such an idiot… are you hurt anywhere?"

Sasuke didn't feel soar or in pain for the moment, so he just shook his head once again.

Hinata let out a relieved sigh, "Thank goodness." She wrapped her arms around her legs, she then placed her chin on her knees. There was an odd silence, but it didn't last long,

"N-now then, about Kiba-kun. I know you didn't mean to attack Kiba, it was just p-pure instincts that caused you to react like that, right?"

Well yes. That's true, just not entirely.

"But you know, Kiba isn't a bad guy, he's a good friend of m-mine and you should get used to his presence alright? He'll be coming o-once in a while because we live close by."

With that information given, Sasuke's ears lowered down and he averted his eyes to the side a bit. Clearly discomforted by the given information, the girl couldn't help but melt a bit when she saw the cute expression and gesture the little feline made, it was as if he was annoyed or something. Her hands suddenly began to move towards Sasuke, her fingers hesitantly stroked his soft black fur. Sasuke's body perked a bit at the sudden touch but after one second, he instantly enjoyed the comfort of her strokes. Hinata noticed that the white bandage that she wrapped around his torso area wasn't there anymore.

I-it must've came off when he transformed.

She examined the cat's body even closer by gently brushing her hand down to Sasuke's chest, the scratches were gone as well.

"Wow, You're wounds… they're already g-gone."

Amazed by the fast recovery, Hinata didn't realize that Sasuke was staring at the girl once again.

He didn't even pay any attention to the vanished scratch marks that was once inflicted on his chest, but was focused instead on the obvious. How odd, he thought. That a girl like her would even be worried over such small injuries that could be healed in an instant, strange is the only thing that Sasuke can describe the girl. But, he couldn't help but admit that he was indeed drawn to her.

The feline purred, he stood up and walked towards the girl while keeping the side of his back in contact with the girls whole arm.

The corner of her lips curved up at the cute sight, his smooth onyx fur tickled Hinata's arms, she failed to refrain another giggle. But the tingly sensation stopped when Sasuke saw whatever that covered the Hyuuga's knee. Something didn't smell right, a strange scent was radiating off from the handkerchief that was hugging onto the girls leg, Sasuke cautiously took another step closer, he let out a growl as his nose twitched in disgust.

"Wh-what's wrong Sasuke?"

The cat didn't choose to respond to her question, instead he continued to glare at the ugly looking cloth. Sasuke could smell him, the boy Kiba. For some odd reason, he wanted to run after the boy and finish what he had left off, he really wanted to claw out his eye balls. The scent annoyed Sasuke dearly, he needed to get rid of it, fast. The feline swiftly sank his teeth down on the fabric without touching the girl, and simply pulled the handkerchief away, thus ending the scarf's embrace. Hinata sat there, with eyes wide as they can be. Sasuke was tackling the poor cloth, tearing it to pieces.

"S-sasuke?"

Hinata helplessly watched as Sasuke vigorously bit, wrestled, and clawed at the sad handkerchief into as many pieces as he could. It was a somewhat gruesome site to look at. The little cloth was pushed aside, by the murderer himself. But the cat was not satisfied, oh no. For the stench still lingered in the air, he turned his attention to Hinata's knee. "S-sasuke? What's with that l-look?"

The little feline approached her, his nose twitched as he got closer. There he stood, his head hovering over the wound that emitted the disgusting smell. The cat cautiously leaned in closer to the girl's knee, the stench was overwhelming.

tch.

Hinata gasped, right when Sasuke's tongue made contact with her bruised knee, the stinging sensation returned again. But this time, it didn't hurt as much as before. After every lick, the annoying stinging gradually decreased, the Hyuuga girl could feel something strange happening to her knee. Before she knew it, the cat stopped with it's licking. The scent of the boy can no longer be caught by his sharp nose, he could finally breathe in clean air again.

Hinata looked down, her jaw dropped.

"H-how." The bruise on her knee were no longer there, gone, nada, zip.

She brought up her knee close to her face to get a better look.

A-amazing, how on earth did he do that?

"I-it's really... gone." she poked her knee where the wounds used to be, only to feel no pain "Yup, it's gone."

"Mao."

Hinata's ears perked at the sound, she looked down only to find Sasuke looking back at her.

"Sasuke." The cat tilted his head in response. Hinata looked back and forth between her healed knee and Sasuke, she forced down a gulp.

"T-tell me, what e-exactly are you, Sasuke?"

A presentation was taking place within the dark cave, two men sat still on their chairs, listening attentively while their eyes were fixed upon the flashing screen. Pictures, figures, plans, and random doodles showed in each slides, one right after the other.

A man with gorgeously long silky hair happily pointed out the pictures that were on the screen with his handy dandy metallic ruler, while speaking of his master plan.

"Thus giving us our prime objective with a little bonus."

With that said, he lightly tapped on the red button that was located on his desk, the projector turned off at the push of the button, the images began to fade away as the office lights awaken from their short nap. The man turned his attention to his two most trusted companions with a cute yet slightly creepy smile on his face.

"S what do you guys think? Which one of my plans do you much rather prefer?"

There he stood, waiting for a response, there was no reply. The man lady simply decided to take to direct approach.

"Well, which one shall it be? Kabuto, Kakashi?"

Nobody said a word once again, Orochimaru puffed his cheeks.

"You guys are so cruel! Are my plans really that horrible?"

Kabuto simply shook his head, "No no , It's not that." the young man brought up his right hand and pushed up his glasses up to the bridge of his nose. "Your plans are just so, very well thought through. The calculations, the date, the timing, everything. Simply flawless… But – "

"But what?"

The man, Kabuto couldn't help but give a small chuckle at his boss's intense yet childish look on his face, Orochimaru's amber like eyes all on Kabuto, begging him to finish his sentence.

"It's just that I can't seem to pick which one is the best."

Orochimaru's eyes sparkled, "Really? hmm, I guess so. Considering that I'm a genius." He laughed boastfully, like any egotistic man would.

The guy with the spectacles nodded in agreement. Kakashi on the other hand was silent, Orochimaru didn't hear a peep out of him for quite some time, not even a sigh or a cough. The snake was getting very concerned.

"Say Kakashi, is there something bothering you?"

The masked man calmly looked up to his boss "Oh, Please forgive me Orochimaru. I was just too busy trying to figure out which one to pick." He let out a little chuckle and scratched the back of his head. The snake man flashed a smile,

"It's alright, I too can't seem pick one from the bunch."

Orochimaru leaned back on his desk, his face looking up at the ceiling, his eyes looking rather distant. "Hmm… which one, which one." seconds felt like minutes, minutes felt like hours, and they have yet to decide on which procedure to choose until Orochimaru gave a dissatisfied nose by sticking out his serpent like tongue and blew a raspberry.

"I don't wish to partake in this boring picking game anymore." The two men instantly looked at their boss in concern. And as usual, the four eyed man spoke in behalf of Kakashi.

"What are you saying? Are you dropping all the plans?"

The long haired man gave a violent nod, "Yup! Urm, well no. Not entirely. I whipped myself a better one, a plan that is much, much, more enjoyable than the previous ones." Kakashi couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, obviously curious as to what this sinister man is going on about. For as long as he remembered, this person, Orochimaru is by far the most oddest man he's every met. his moves are unpredictable, no matter how hard Kakashi tried, he just can't seem to determine his boss's way of thinking. And he often questioned on where the obscure man got his sense of humor from.

But he knew well that Orochimaru's appearance are very deceiving from who he really is. Underneath all that childish demeanor lies an intellectually sick mastermind. And out of impulse, he blurted the question out, in hopes that the answer was something that isn't entirely insane.

"Is that so? Let's hear it then"

There was a chuckle, "Alright, alright. So impatient aren't you? But first, I'd like to play a game." Orochimaru imitated a Cheshire smile, revealing his two deadly venomous fangs. Kakashi smirked under his mask, "And what game might that be?" The long haired man placed his index finger on his lips and looked at both of the young men with such fake innocence, he giggled with villainous excitement.

"A very enticing game that I'm sure you'll very much enjoy."

to be continued...

Oh my, Orochimaru gotts a naughty game for poor innocent Kabuto and Kakashi! Nah~ just kidding