hi! I want to thank everyone for reviewing! So, this is chapter 4. I am writing this from my bed on a cruise ship in Alaska! Warning, the first part is pretty tense, I wanted people to know nix's back story though.
Remember I only own my character.
Enjoy!
Chapter 4
Nix looked around, confused by her surroundings. She was pretty sure she remembered falling asleep in her bed. Walking forward in the misty grass she blinked and blinked once again when she suddenly appeared in a house. She could hear cheerful laughter coming from the other room, and turned to investigate when she heard the doorbell ring.
"Who could that be at this time? In the middle of a snowstorm nonetheless?" She heard a familiar sounding man ask before a young girl saying "I'll get it," exclaim .
A smaller version of nix appeared, passing the other nix to open the front door.
She invited the person in and nix watched as the younger her trotted back to her family, not seeing the sick smile he had as he grabbed a large knife from the counter.
Although there was a sick feeling forming in her stomach, nix was helpless to stop what she knew was going to happen.
From the living room a shot rang out, then a second as a woman began screaming.
The walls became transparent, forcing nix to watch the massacre. The man was standing over her little brother. He knelt down and slashed through the back of the four year old, making it so he wouldn't be able to run. The little boy began screaming in Pa n, trying to get to his feet and escape. The man grabbed the frozen nix and tied her hands behind her back using ducktape. He settled her against the wall and patted her cheek smearing blood on her face.
"Sit tight my love, we shall be ready to go once I finish my masterpiece," he said, walking over to her still living but unable to move parents. By the time he was done the room had been painted a grisly red, nix had screamed herself hoarse, and her family was in several piles around the room.
The man walked over and picked her up, leaving through the front door.
Nix wrenched upright in bed with a scream, dislodging kittens as she lurched from bed to her bathroom, throwing up in the toilet.
"Shit! Now what?!" Hidan yowled as he tumbled tail over nose to land in a pile on the floor.
Konan, itachi, and tobi entered the bathroom, nose wrinkling at the smell of vomit to see the girl shaking and dry heaving, her shirt soaked in sweat. Konan meowed and nudged her uncertainly, feeling worried.
"S-ssorry," the girl whispered, shipping her mouth and flushing the toilet before sitting back against the wall, pulling her knees in and continuing to shake.
Now very worried, konan reared onto her back paws to bat at her leg insistently, meowing loudly.
Nix scooped her up and buried her face in konan's soft fur. Soon tears soaked her fur as the girl wept quietly, whispering I'm sorry over and over I to her side.
Konan meowed sadly and the rest of the akatsuki gathered around her in the bathroom, comforting her the only way they could.
By the time the sun rose nix had cleaned up and was sitting in the chair in the living room, nursing a cup of coffee and surrounded by papers and kittens.
She looked at a rather gory picture and studied a paper with writing on it. Brow creased as she looked back and forth again and again.
"I know there's a connection here somewhere, I can almost see it," she mumbled.
Itachi narrowed his eyes, trying to figure out what she was seeing.
His eyes widened as he spotted the similarity.
He batted her hand meowing loudly, startling the other members.
"What is it?" Nix asked, looking down and patting him absently. He growled and jumped off her lap pacing anxiously.
"Itachi? What is it?" Leon asked, cautious, but curious.
"I know what the connection is! I wish I was human! I could help her!" He growled in agitation.
He collapsed when a sucking feeling suddenly seemed to appear in his stomach. He yowled in discomfort, the sound changing to a human help part way through as he changed back to human on the carpet in front of a shocked nix and akatsuki.
Well nearly human, he concluded, seeing a light black robe covering his body, a long black tail curled around his legs, fingertips ending in claws, ears flicking back and forth, and when he swallowed he felt something around his throat. But he had human vocal cords now! He could tell Nix what he'd figured out.
"Nix-san!" He began before a hysterical scream escaped from nix's throat and she kept to her feet, scattering the remaining kittens and pointing at itachi wildly.
" .Hell! You...you...you're supposed to be a cat!" She shrieked, backing away from him.
He held up his hands soothingly.
"I'm sure this is very confusing and alarming for you..." he began, before a cup of still hot coffee was thrown at his face. He was so surprised he didn't dodge and ended with a face full of burning coffee.
He hissed, falling backwards, trying to wipe the painful liquid off.
"Oh my god! Are you okay?" Nix asked wildly, before remembering he'd been her kitten not five minutes ago.
"What the hell are you? A demon or an alien?" She asked in panic backing away again.
Itachi stared at her, unable to believe what he was hearing.
"Oh my machine, that's hilarious!" Nissan yowled in laughter.
"Be quiet, Hidan," itachi hissed, embarrassed.
"Wait, you understood him? Is he an alien too?" Nix asked, eyes widening even more, looking like she was considering whether she needed to get holy water or a gun.
"I am not an alien! Or a demon!" Itachi snapped before taking a deep breath and continuing, "I am a ninja and my name is Itachi. It is nice to finally be able to properly speak with you," he said.
"Err, yeah," nix said uncertainly, watching him warrior but at least she wasn't trying to run away yet, so he counted it a win.
"And to answer your other question, yes I can understand him, which is unfortunate, and he is also a ninja like me. We all are. The white one you called ice is Hidan. His partner who you call cub is Kakuzu, the red one is Easier and his partner is Deidara, the one you called Soleil. The black and white one is sets and his partner is the smallest kitten, his name is tobi. The blue one is my partner, Mistake and the purple female and orange male are our leaders, konan and pein." He said, pointing to everyone.
Nix slid down the wall with a thump, looking a little wide eyed.
"I am so confused right now," she whispered.
"You were kittens but you're actually humans, but ninjas with weird names that look like cat people." She muttered, holding her head in her hands.
"Oh! But I figured out the connection you were looking g for!" Itachi exclaimed, suddenly remembering his original mission.
"What?" Nix asked, confused.
"It's the third victim! Both instances happen every third victim!" Itachi said before a sucking feeling happened again and he realized he was once a kitten again.
Nix had dived for the papers, reading through them again, instantly distracted and she leapt to her feet running out the door shouting, "stay there, alien ninja cat people! I'll deal with you once I get back!"
The door slammed shut. Pein turned to itachi.
"What happened?" He asked.
"I don't know, I just wished I had a way to tell her, I was frustrated at my inability to help her, next I know I was in that half form. It was...odd," itachi said.
"Hmm, well I suppose we have no choice but to wait for her to return...again," pein said with a sigh.
Several hours later the front door opened and nix walked through slowly. She looked at the gathered kittens, filthy and exhausted but a slow grin spread across her face. She crumbled to her knees in front of them, grabbing itachi and hugging him tightly.
"Thank you so much. We managed to get there just I. Time, we saved the last victim," she whispered before kissing his head gently.
"Soo, she's doesn't seem afraid of us at least," Hidan said from the background.
"I...understood that," nix whispered, eyes widening a bit. "J feel like I'm going crazy, but I'm not scared of you, although I'm not sure why. I don't trust people right away, especially men, I just don't. But, you helped save that little boy, so you must be at least a little good."
None of the kittens mentioned that they were criminals.
Nix sighed and held itachi close.
"Thank you so very much, I was terrified Wed be to late to save him." She whispered into his fur.
Her phone rang, startling her. She fumbled to get t out of her pocket, sitting up and setting itachi in her lap as she answered.
"I can visit him tomorrow," she said into the phone, she eyed the kittens.
"I inherited few kittens, is it alright if I take them along? It might make him feel more comfortable," she asked.
She made a face but nodded, "okay, only two, got it." She said sighing.
Hanging up she smiled brightly down at the kittens, so who else beside shadow wants to come with? She asked.
