First Days of School

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Author's Note: This really did happen yesterday. We found a kitten and we named it Mystique, because it was black with blue eyes. She thought I was her mother, but I had to leave her with the teacher. :( And I have recently gotten an account on Fictionpress under the same name, if anyone's interested.

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"Best friend: if I could reach up and take a star for every time you have made me smile, I would have the entire night sky in my hands."-Anonymous

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Fourth period health—no student's idea of a favorite class; especially this health class that was across the school near the ISS portables. Naruto, luckily, had Biology upstairs in the building nearby. His bookbag had been lightened by a quick trip to his locker to drop of some textbooks. Climbing the three quick steps up to the portable, he heard a sound that was not generally found in classrooms—a mewing kind of sound. Dropping his bookbag in his chair, Naruto jogged up to the teacher, Guy, who was holding a bundle which, by the brilliantly green color, was his jacket.

"Ne, is that a cat?" Naruto peered into the bundle and two pale green eyes peered up at him.

"Nope. Fox kit, actually." Guy gently transferred the bundle into Naruto's arms.

The fox was rather tiny. It could sit easily in the palm of one of Naruto's hands. As he wriggled out of the cocoon of blankets, Naruto noticed that while he would certainly have to be wild, his coat was silky and soft to the touch. The kit's stomach was a streak of white, as well as his muzzle and the tip of his tail, but the rest of him was a warm orange-brown save for the muzzle and his paws, which were a splash of black.

Naruto smiled as the fox climbed up his chest and nuzzled his neck. "Does he-she?-have a name?"

Guy shook his head. "I'll leave that up to you. She seems extremely attracted to your fiery spirit of youth." He refrained from yelling so as not to scare the small animal.

"Ah, so you're a she." Naruto grasped the kit around the middle, lifting it up to eye level. The kit mewed again, lightly pawing his lips.

"We got a class pet now?" Sasuke asked from the door.

Naruto bounced over, carefully with the fox, and showed the Uchiha. "Nope. Guy found her. Speaking of which," Naruto turned to look at their teacher, the kit still remaining interested in Sasuke. "Where did you find her?"

"Under the portable. It was my planning period and I heard it crying. Found it and got some milk from the cafeteria to feed it."

Sasuke offered a hand to the fox. The fox pulled itself over Naruto's bicep to inspect the pale appendage before gingerly onto Sasuke's palm.

"She's light." Sasuke remarked, setting her on his shoulder.

"She likes you, Sasuke!" Naruto told him as the kit curled itself up on his shoulder.

"Does she have a name yet?"
Naruto shrugged and shook his head. "We got nothing."

"Her eyes look like fireflies though. Hotaru, maybe?"

Naruto rolled the word around, changing the infliction before shaking his head again. "Nah. Doesn't quite fit."

Other students were trickling into the room. "Naruto, Sasuke, I'm leaving you guys in charge of her for the day. She seems quiet with the two of you."

The two nodded and took a seat at the teacher's desk, where Guy was keeping the milk. Many of the girls cooed over it before Naruto told them it bit and they scurried back to their seats.

The kit pawed at Sasuke's bangs and Naruto stifled a laugh before gently taking it. "You can't do that, okay? Sasuke doesn't like that."

She licked his cheek and Naruto chuckled. "That tickles." He told her.

Naruto continued to play with her, allowing her to climb and clamber on him, even letting her settle into his hair. Sasuke let the tiniest of smiles cross his lips as he watched his boyfriend play with the small animal.

"Kyuu."

Naruto and the kit looked at him. "What?"

"Kyuu. That should be her name."

Naruto lifted her up to eye level again. "How's Kyuu sound to you?"

She mewed and licked his cheek. Naruto laughed and nodded. "Sounds like she likes it. Kyuu it is."