Kin's POV

I watched silently as Itachi tied his anbu mask behind his head. He gave me scratch behind the ears before he jumped out the window towards the hokage tower. I stretched and leapt after him, using a mild transformation jutsu to change the color of my fur to a deep black.

If I could follow him and his team for any distance without being detected I could survive the missing nin outside of Konoha. I slid into the Third's office and kept my chakra as still as possible. No one appeared to notice.

I observed the anbu team. Hatake Kakashi was the captain. His chakra was unique and I had spoken with his summon ,Pakkun, several times about him. Itachi was the second in command, he was too recently initiated to have a higher rank yet. The third member was Inoichi Yamanaka, the interrogation specialist.

"Your first mission as a team is to get rid of this man, Mori Satoshi an illegal weapons dealer, without being traced back to Konoha. He is currently staying in a compound on the border between Fire Country and River Country. He is said to be heavily guarded, more than that we don't of the single anbu we've sent haven't come back. I expect you back within the week. Dismissed!"

The room cleared instantly. I stood and walked in front of the hokage's desk to exit through the window. I slipped outside as the Third smiled knowingly. I swear that old man knows everything.

I sensed for Itachi's chakra, there heading South out of Konoha with the other two chakras I would now recognize as Hatake Kakashi's and Iniochi Yamanaka's. I scurried after them. I wanted to make sure I could get a visual on them undetected by the sharingan.

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Three days. I had followed them for three days. Training with Shisui really paid off. I sat above Kakashi on a branch as he took his turn on watch. It took all my willpower to keep my tail from twitching with excitement as he looked around for enemies.

I did a quick scan for chakra myself. Inoichi was asleep under the tree . As well as Itachi. Kakashi was right below me and Kakashi's clone….Kakashi's clone was right behind me. Dang.

I jumped straight down and the real Kakashi did exactly what I hoped he'd do, he dodged. I fell straight on top of Inoichi and used my chakra to leap right back onto the branch Kakashi had vacated moments before then run. Really fast. In the direction I knew they were going anyway.

It was naturally Iniochi who caught me using a mind transfer jutsu. I watched from his body as he fought internally with Kohaku and was unceremoniously dumped out and I was once again a cat. I stopped and looked at him for a minute. He looked kind of surprised. I promptly sat down and began grooming myself. Itachi looked at me for a minute before he reached up to rub his mask covered forehead.

"Chibi-chan." He acknowledged. I looked up and gave him a 'No duh' look before I went back to my grooming.

"You know this cat ?"said Kakashi harshly.

"Unfortunately, she's the Uchiha house cat."

"That's some house cat to follow us undetected." Said Iniochi,"Not to mention she kicked me out of her head."

"She was the one who helped retire Fugaku. She's probably the strongest cat out there. I believe she is part demon."

"Well, you're in charge of her Itachi. We don't have time to take her back."

"Yes captain."

I watched as they prepared for travel. I gave my paw a final lick and jumped up onto Itachi's shoulder to ride. He gave me a blank look. He must be mad at me.

I dug my claws into his shoulder. He concentrated on keeping pace with Kakashi.

….

It took another hour to reach Mori Satoshi's hiding place. Though it wasn't very hidden. It was… well, it was a mansion. It also had an absurd number of guards. I didn't see any enemy ninja yet though, but it was an anbu mission for a reason right?

Kakashi pulled out a summoning scroll, unrolling it he placed his hand on one of three spaces meant for each member of the team. Itachi and Iniochi quickly followed his lead and pushed their chakra into the scroll, releasing the floor plan of the house with a puff of smoke.

"Satoshi is supposed to be in this room here," Kakashi tapped a place on the map. I memorized the location, but I didn't put much stock in Satoshi being where he was supposed to be. I didn't have much faith in the floor plan either. It was just too easy.

A barrage of kunai punctuated my thoughts almost instantly. Itachi simply dodged them as I clung to his shoulder.

"Well, well, a team of Konoha anbu. Surprise, surprise. I thought we'd be fighting Mist anbu."

Iniochi sent a flurry of shuriken in the direction of the voice. A single man dropped down from the trees. He paused for a moment before rising from his crouch and into an almost relaxed position.

I slipped off Itachi's shoulder and back into the bushes behind our team. I continued to sense for chakra signatures, but there was nothing.

I did know there were at least a few other ninja because he had said 'we' when he spoke. I had to find them before they could sneak up on the others. If the others were killed off because of well hidden chakra, I wouldn't forgive myself.

…..

I slid back into the clearing where the others were barely finishing off the hired missing nin. His three teammates had been using some sort of shield jutsu to encase their ally with their chakra and replenish his supply. Meaning no one could touch him, and he was constantly being fed chakra, so that meant no genjutsu and Iniochi couldn't switch minds. Basically he was untouchable. The weakness of the jutsu was that his team couldn't move while they were sending him chakra, resulting in their deaths.

I sat down next to Itachi and began to clean the blood out of my fur. Kakashi gave me a strange look as my fur shed blood like water. I imagined I looked fairly interesting. Once I was clean I replaced myself on Itachi's shoulder. The rest of the mission went easily. I was almost disappointed.

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3rd person POV

Kakashi stayed behind after the rest of his team left.

"What is it Kakashi? Is something wrong?" asked the Third as he puffed serenely on his pipe.

"That cat. What do you know about it?"

The Third continued to puff on his pipe as he contemplated how to answer.

"I saw how that cat arrived here," he said gesturing to his crystal ball, "and I have yet to find anything it has done to harm Konoha. It has helped more than any normal cat could, and its loyalty is to Uchiha Itachi rather than Konoha. But it will not do anything that Itachi wouldn't want it to do."

"Thank you, sir."

Kakashi vanished through the window and the Third looked at his crystal ball contemplatively. He covered the orb with a piece of velvet before he rose to go to a council meeting. The door snapped shut behind him, leaving the room in silence.

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It's been a long time since my last update…school started so I guess I'll be slower than I would normally be. But I will be giving regular updates again since my computer decided it actually wanted to connect to the internet.

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Also expect updates on Cake(my other story) sometime tomorrow or the next day. Thanks,

Sety.