Okay, here is the newest chapter. I am going to post this for all my stories, but i have noticed that while I have a lot of views, no one really reviews. It doesn't have to be a lot, but it is really frustrating to get tons of views and no reviews. I just like to know people are enjoying the story.
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Chapter 8
Nix woke up to the sound of Nichalos whimpering in his sleep. She sighed as she rolled out of bed carefully, trying to avoid crushing any of the kittens sleeping around her. She walked quietly to the room next to hers and opened the door to see the little boy tossing and turning, caught in another nightmare.
"Nicky, Nicky honey, wake up. You're having a nightmare sweetheart," she said softly, sitting beside him and gently shaking him.
He woke with a gasp and sat up, shaking. Nix wrapped her arms around him, rubbing his back gently as he clung to her, whispering comforting nonsense.
"Are you alright?" she asked, after he had let go and sat back.
he shook his head, not meeting her eyes. "I don't like sleeping," he confessed in a tiny voice, "he keeps coming back everytime I close my eyes,"
Nix pulled his covers back and tugged on his hand gently, "Come on, it'll be a tight squeeze with all the kittens sleeping on the bed too, but you can sleep with me tonight, help keep the nightmares away," she said.
He followed her instructions without complaint, showing how shaken he really was, and clung tightly to her hand as he followed her back to her room. Inside the kittens were awake, sitting up on her bed.
"You get in first, I'll lay closest to the door," she instructed softly.
Nickalos slid under the covers and scooted over to the window, curling up into a little ball. Tobi, Itachi, Sasori, and Konan curled up around him and he tugged Tobi closer, bundling him under his chin. Nix smiled a little as she climbed back into the bed and the rest of the kittens arranged themselves around her.
"Thanks you guys," she whispered to Pein, who was laying by her head on the pillow.
"You are supposed to work tomorrow and Nicky has to go to school tomorrow. He has had nightmares every night for the past two months except for when he sleeps in here. It may be better to simply buy a larger bed and have him sleep in here until he no longer has nightmares, Nix-chan, or else you will be tired when working and from what you have described of your job, that is a dangerous state to be in," he answered.
"Yeah, that might be best," she whispered back as she stroked Nicky's hair comfortingly as she slowly drifted back to sleep.
Bright and early the next morning the alarm went off, startling her awake as she sat up and fumbled blindly for the alarm, dislodging kittens and Nicky as she tried to turn it off.
Finally shutting it off, she looked around to see ten kittens and one boy looking at her with unimpressed expressions.
"If you're sleeping in here, it's not my fault that my alarm wakes you up," she said defensively, sliding out of the warm bed and crossing the room to her closet, pulling some clothes out and heading into the bathroom, "Besides, it is school today, so you should start getting ready anyways Nicky," she called from the bathroom.
Nicky cringed at the reminder a little but climbed out of the bed as well and headed back to his room, Itachi and a few of the other kittens following him.
"Do you think you will be okay? You look nervous, Nicky-san," Itachi asked quietly as he jumped onto the boy's bed and watched as he began digging through his closet half heartedly.
"I'm not really scared to go back, I just know that everyone is going to stare at me and ask questions, and I don't want that," he answered, leaving the closet for the moment to sit on the bed by the kittens.
"if you do not want to answer questions, tell them that when they ask, you do not have to tell them anything if you do not want to," Sasori said.
"Maybe it'll be that easy. I wish one of you could go with though," Nicky answered.
Nicky blinked, shocked when there was suddenly four people sitting on his bed where there had been kittens moments before.
"Huh, so it works for Nicky- san to, un" A young male with long blonde hair, blue eyes, with feline ears and a tail said, looking down at himself.
Nicky gaped at them, mouth opening and closing as he tried to say something.
"Nicky-chan doesn't look very good!" the smallest one on the bed said, voice coming from behind an orange mask.
"I will go get the others and Nix-chan," the only female said, as she got up and headed out the door.
"Nicky-san, you need to calm down. You are beginning to hyperventilate," the one closest to him said, moving towards him slowly.
Nichalos lurched back and fell off the bed, or started to, as a pair of hands flashed out and grabbed his shoulders gently, stopping him from falling.
"Oh boy, this is going to be interesting!" a voice said from the door.
He looked over to see the rest of the kittens at the door, Hidan at the front.
They walked in and there was suddenly a lot less room as every one of the kittens changed.
Nicky at this point was past hyperventilating and with a sigh, Sasori walked back out and returned a few seconds later with a paper bag. He pressed it to Nicky's face and gently forced him to put his head between his legs.
"What the heck?" Everyone except Nicky, who was still panting, looked over to see Nix gawking at the filled room, Pein and Konan, both in the same form, behind her.
"what happened?" she asked Sasori, seeing him standing behind the boy, who was still bent over.
"He hyperventilated. We should probably move to another room so he is not so crowded, once he recovers enough to walk," Sasori responded.
"Uh, yeah," she answered before shaking herself a little. "Everyone, head to the living room, we'll be down in a few minutes, okay?"
Everyone filed out and headed down the stairs obediently, Pein and Konan going last.
Nix walked in and knelt down in front of Nichalos, patting his knee comfortingly.
"You okay?" she asked when he looked up at her.
"what was that?" he asked, sounding just shy of hysterical.
"Um, it's kinda a long story, but you don't have to be scared of them, okay? I promise you you're still safe here," she reassured him.
After a few minutes he heisitantly followed her downstairs, staying behind her as they entered the living room to see everyone sitting on the couches, chairs and floor, looking at them.
"why don't you guys reintroduce yourselves?" Nix suggested quietly, Nicky looking at them from behind her cautiously.
The orange haired man nodded.
"I am Pein," he said before gesturing to the lavender haired female sitting next to him.
"My name is Konan," she said with a little smile.
"I am Itachi," the man with long black hair and red eyes said.
"Kisame," the blue haired giant went next.
"Sasori," the red head who had gotten him the paper bag said.
"Deidara, un!" the blonde said cheerfully.
"Kakuzu," the oldest looking man there said.
"Hidan," said the man with white hair and pink eyes.
"I am Zetsu," the black and white man said as he kept one hand on the collar of the person sitting next to him, keeping him from jumping up.
"Hi! I'm Tobi!" he said excitedly.
Nix smiled down at the dumbfounded boy. "Seem a little more familiar now?" she asked.
"You were kittens though," Nicky said, as he relaxed a tiny bit and moved to stand by Nix's side instead of hiding behind her.
"We talked, didn't that seem strange to you? Honestly, i don't see why this is such a huge shock to you," Hidan said, rolling his eyes.
"I guess, I just didn't think you could change, though! No one told me!" Nicky protested, sounding a little offended.
"Yeah, that was probably my bad, this should have been brought up a lot sooner," Nix said, looking sheepish.
"Ummm, so what are you guys? Aliens?" Nicky asked.
"We are not aliens. Why is that the first thing you think?" Kakuzu asked with a scowl.
"Well,what are you then?" Nicky asked.
"We're ninja, and from what I can gather, are in a different world," Itachi answered.
"Wow, that's kinda cool I guess," Nicky said.
"You seem to be taking this pretty calmly now," Nix stated, looking at him with raised eyebrows.
He blushed a little and ducked his head. "i think I managed to get most of my freak out over before you came in," he said sheepishly.
"Well in that case, the school bus is here," she said with a little smirk, glancing out the window, "Aaand, it's gone. Looks like you're walking, kiddo,"
"What?!" Nicky yelped, jumping up and running to the window.
"Get moving kiddo, I have to leave in fifteen minutes and you need to leave in five if you don't want to be late on your first day back," she said as she left the room.
Nicky flopped back, "Geez, this sucks," he grumbled.
"If Nicky needs to get to school soon, Tobi can bring you! Tobi can get there really fast!" Tobi exclaimed cheerfully.
"What are you talking about? You know what, nevermind. If you want to go with me and keep me company on the way there, i'd like that," Nicky said as he ran out of the room to grab his bag.
He ran back in a moment later and yelled, 'Tobi's gonna walk with me to school! I'll see you later!"
Nix came down the stairs, slipping her gun into the holster on her back and pulling her shirt down over it. She gathered her long hair into a ponytail and gave Nicky a quick hug.
"If it's to much and you end up needing to leave, just leave okay? Don't force yourself, I won't be mad if you decide that," she said, looking him in the eyes with a serious expression.
"Kay, thanks. Be safe," he mumbled, hugging her again tightly.
She chuckled softly, "of course, you too," she said fondly, ruffling his hair before looking up at Tobi sternly.
"You keep an eye on him, kay?" she said softly.
"Tobi will!" Tobi said.
"I'll see you later, I'm going to leave," she said. Then she was gone.
Tobi and Nicky left a few minutes later. Once they got to the end of the block, Tobi scooped the small boy up and deposited him onto his back.
"Tobi! What are you doing?! Put me down!" he screeched, struggling.
"But this way is faster! Hold tight so Tobi doesn't drop you! Tobi responded excitedly.
"What are you talking...aaah!" Nicky screamed as Tobi ran straight up the side of a house and launched himself off the roof. He landed on the next roof and began jumping from roof to roof quickly.
"Oh my god Tobi! You're going to kill us! Put me down you psychopath!" Nicky screamed, wrapping his arms around Tobi's neck tighter.
"Brat, calm down and loosen your grip. I assure you that I am not going to drop you," Tobi responded, but he sounded so different from usual.
Nicky went tense, "S-sorry," he whispered, beginning to shake.
Feeling the boy on his back tense, Tobi glanced back and saw that Nicky was looking even more terrified than he'd sounded a few seconds ago. He sighed and aimed for the top branches of the nearest tree. He released his grip on Nicky and had to lunge forward and catch him as the kid slid right off him and nearly fell off the branch.
"When I said loosen your grip, i didn't mean stop hanging on at all," he scolded lightly, setting him back against the trunk as he crouched down.
"Sorry," Nicky mumbled, not looking up, still tense.
Tobi sighed, "I'm not mad brat, stop apologizing," he said, waving a hand.
Nicky still didn't look up, and he was about to press the issue when he heard the faint sound of a bell.
"We'll talk later, but the bell just went. If you want I will bring you the rest of the way, otherwise I'll just bring you to the ground," he said.
Nicky heisitated but slowly looked back up at him. He got to his feet slowly and nearly fell off again.
Tobi caught him again and Nicky looked up at his mask, "I really don't like heights, they make me dizzy if I look down. But I trust you and I don't wanna be any later so can you bring me the rest of the way, please?" he asked.
Tobi's one visible eye widened and he nodded. He turned around and waited until the young boy had a good grip before standing up and jumping again, being noticibly more careful.
"I...did not know you were afraid of heights. i should have asked first, I apologize," Tobi said after a second.
"It's ok, I didn't mean to offend you," Nicky said back, chin over his right shoulder and eyes tightly closed.
Before he could reply the school came into sight and he set Nicky down out of sight.
"I'll be waiting here if you change your mind or when you get out, whichever comes first," he said and disappeared from view.
Nicky shrugged and turned to the school. Taking a deep breath, he resettled his bag and began walking.
Out of sight on a roof of a nearby building, Tobi sat and watched.
