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Chapter Three: Itachi's Day Out

Sakura awoke to the sound of hissing. A yawn escaped from the girl's lips as she crept out of bed onto the floor. She freaked when Itachi was by the window hissing at a cat hanging out on the ledge. The girl's voice hollered constantly for the feline but it resisted her calls and remained near the pane.

Her vision grew cloudy when the black cat moved away dropping from the window onto the floor. Sakura stormed near it and shooed the cat away before closing the window with her bare hands. She glared at Itachi as he started cleaning himself with his tongue.

"Sakura, you ready for work yet?"

"I'll be down soon!" She shouted at her father and turned towards the cat. "Don't you do that again you hear me?"

Itachi sat there while the human left out the room down the steps out the house. He got up and jumped on the window sill pressing his nose against the glass. Sakura was down below walking past the fence out into the streets of Konoha. Itachi scrunched up into a ball and narrowed his red eyes when a tabby came into view.

'May I help you?'

'No, but mind telling me why your in there?'

'No, you first.'

'Eh? Your confusing me!'

'Tell me why your outside then I'll tell you.'

Okay, fine. I'm a stray.

Itachi spun around with his back turned. 'That's nice..'

The tabby sweat dropped at his actions. 'Wait a minute! you didn't tell me why your in there!'

'Don't know, don't care..'

'Your ridiculous..' The tom breathed out and wandered away down the ledge. Itachi waited patiently for the stupid stray to leave and slowly turned around staring into space. He took notice of a small bird reclaiming the tabby's spot. It sat there twitching it's head and picked at it's wings.

They locked eyes with each other. Itachi felt the need to capture and devour it as his prize but the window was closed thanks to Sakura. Suddenly, a plan came into mind. There was nothing too difficult for Uchiha Itachi. Said feline jumped off the window sill and trotted down carpet out of the kunoichi's room.

He moved constantly into each room checking each window pane to see if it was open so he can kill the bird. Just his luck, there was an open window in the down stairs bathroom. Itachi hopped up on the toilet and scattered out of the window onto a fence.

The same tabby from before was there. 'Hey, why the fudge did you follow me?'

His eyes narrowed in disgust. 'I do not follow strays like you.'

It's eyes widened then grew slim in curiosity. 'So your human let you out?'

'She is not my human. But a mere acquaintance.'

'Acquaintance, brauaintance.. Either way, she is still your human.'

Itachi got annoyed by the stray and moved in on it almost causing the cat to fall off the fence. The tabby moved back and leaped onto a roof laughing his ass off at the Uchiha. He stared at the cat who looked away spying the same exact bird perched atop on Sakura's window pane.

'Ooh, lunch. I've been praying for this for months!'

The kuroneko smirked at this sudden information. While he baths in the lap of luxury, this fellow tabby gets nothing but garbage and sewage water. As he absorbed the information like a sponge, taking the bird out of it's misery made it entirely more interesting than he thought it would be. Itachi moved, keeping a steep pacing method while he traveled north on the spiky white painted wood jumping up the roof.

Said orange tabby got spooked. 'Ack, you move fast like a ninja cat!'

'In the flesh.' He mewed icily and galloped towards the edge. Itachi barely struggled with not slipping on the leaves so he would be put behind the stray cat in last place. He hopped across another building inching closer towards the window pane where his prize rested.

Way back, the tabby wasn't doing to well. Lack of food in it's feline like stomach took a toll on him causing his ability to run at high speeds to deteriorate. His vision caught a glimpse at the black cat's speed. He admitted that the kureneko was way faster then he would ever be. But not so sneaky as to take reference of the Konoha design of the buildings. The stray mad a detour to the right leaping off into another direction.

Itachi slowed down and took a rest near a building. Not liking that puny stray's existence made him unaware of the hot tense weather. If only he would have taken up the offer to replenish his thirst back at the house. He could recall a nice bowl of cold milks in the kitchen but he had ignored it and found himself in a terrible predicament.

This awful weather made it difficult for him to run any further. Itachi put his body to the floor and kept a look out for the evil tabby that will threaten his wining. His body flinched when the door behind him slowly opened revealing a blond haired boy with whisker marks on each cheek.

Said kuroneko turned around staring at the human with his sharingan a blazing 'It's the Kyuubi no Kitsune..'

Naruto stood there in shock. He was stuck between words. "I-its, the b-black.. cat!"

Itachi stared at the boy before taking off leaping across the roof onto another and ran down the bend. Naruto was quite confused by his sudden appearance and left in a puff of smoke ready to tell Tsunade of his discovery. Meanwhile, the black cat was having difficulty with reaching his goal.

Over near the window was a fat black cat with green eyes. It towered over the bird crushing its confidence at it's maternal instincts to fly off towards a safety haven. Itachi did not feel like letting the fatter mongrel eat his item, but let alone lose against him. In fact, how did this big ass waste of space get up here anyways?

It had to have lost over a thousand pounds from jumping off those trash cans and roofs. The kuroneko looked at it's victim. Said bird had black beady eyes of fear wishing to be rescued by anything. Does a cat count? Itachi moved across another roof taking in the distance between him and the black cat.

The cat grinned at it's said opponent. 'What do we have here? A relative perhaps?'

'You are not my kin. They weigh less then you will ever be.'

A red irritation mark show on it's over sized skull. 'Oh yeah? I'll show you!'

Itachi sat on the ground. 'Be my guest..'

The fat cat launched off it's paws running towards him. Itachi closed his eyes and waited patiently for the massive feline to cross his path and moved away when it almost collided with his medium sized body mass. Said kuroneko watched in boredom as the colossal fat cat fell over falling down off the roof into the trash cans.

He could have congratulated him self with a pat on the back but felt the presence of a stray. Itachi turned on his paws and noticed the tabby with the caught chib bird stuck between in his fangs. The black cat didn't say anything and walked away empty handed.

Said stray spat out the dead bird. 'Hey, didn't you want this?'

Itachi kept on trotting against the tumbling sun light. Even though he despised giving up the bird to a stray cat, he didn't care. For the tabby's future, and his self, it's best that they don't have any conflicts and move on. For now, he will look for food else where.

His body crept down a local drain pipe onto the ground. Itachi landed on his paws very steadily, turning off his sharingan and moved into the streets of Konoha inhabited by it's local humans. He caught sight of ripe fruits and crisp fresh vegetables in the carts. Smacking his lips at the presence of food will not be accurate of his personality so he formed a thin line on his lips as he kept moving down the streets.

'Psst, hey buddy.' Mewed a cat from nowhere. 'Psst, over here.'

Itachi stopped on all fours. 'What do you want mere stray?'

The stray, a tuxedo cat with clear green eyes stood near a corner. 'You helped Kyou right?'

'I did not help, but give him the bird as a peace offering.'

'Sure. He told me of the predicament and would like to thank you for your efforts.'

Normally he would ignore the offer and fend for himself, instead Itachi followed him into the alley way. There was plenty more cats, both male and female of all ages chowing down on food. It was not from the garbage can but from a door where food was being made inside.

He followed the tuxedo cat and mimicked it's actions. Itachi sat down and stared into the open door watching a man walk out with two bowls in hands. The kuroneko felt a warm sensation come over his face when the bowl was set on the ground.

Itachi got puzzled at the free food. His furry head traveled from left to right as he watched the other cats feast on this like dunked mice in chicken broth. He canceled out his own pride and dug in lapping his tongue into the ramen bowl. Once he finished his meal, the large black cat left on his way back to Sakura's house.

Remembering where his escape route was quite easy as he climbed the fence up into the house. When he he got into the bathroom there was nobody inside or steaming hot water coming from the faucet so it won't expose himself. He wandered from room to room finding the kunoichi in her room brushing her pink locks.

She turned around in the chair. "There you are, I was worried about you." Itachi allowed her to reach down and pick him up. He felt at ease when the female ran her cheeks through his midnight fur. Sakura put him on the dresser and resumed brushing.

Itachi laid on the bureau and heard claws marking up the glass window. His head turned towards the noise and found Kyo sitting near the ledge. His body got up and he silently moved towards the window staring into the tabby's green eyes.

'Good evening Kyou.'

'Same here. Haven't you heard?'

'About what in particular?'

'There's a rumor going around that your dead meat.'

'That's prosperous. I can only tell people that they are dead meat.'

'No, I'm not lying. There's this kid in particular telling the anbu of this village to be on the look out for a cat with red eyes.'

Itachi told him a tall but true tale. 'How strange. My eyes are black.'

'I know, which is why your dead meat. They could mistaken him for you.'

'I'll be on the look out for him.'

'Okay. See you tomorrow okay?'

Itachi watched the orange feline disappear into the moonlight vanishing from his sight till morning. Ever since his run in with the Kyuubi, his identity has been exposed for the worst. But there is a small chance that his hide out in the pitiful human's house will be hidden. Now if only he could keep the sharingan off till the coast is clear.

His ears flicked back and forth in deep thought. Sakura's dainty voice could be heard from afar and he leaped off the window to hang out in the covers even though he should be blocking her from harms way in the next couple of ways.

The storm is drawing near..

Ooh, I smell trouble!

This story is getting good.

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