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Before his eyes the words of the note changed:
Things are going to change for you all; you might not like the changes.
Pein crumbled the note and it disappeared in his closed fist. He really wished he had a name or a face to this mysterious person who had so much power over their lives.
“The person who put us in this conundrum warned us that things are going to change and we might not like the changes.”
The Akatsuki bristled at that and they all looked nervous.
Then they heard something “Cats, now.” Pein ordered and he became a cat.
James came home to his cats, they looked bothered about something. “Hey cats what’s wrong?”
Of course he got no answer but he was not expecting one.
“Okay I got tuna because it’s cheaper and they only had one bag of cat food but there was a hole in it. I got tuna!” He said in sing song.
The cats did look interested but none came closer. James went to the kitchen and put the food away; he noticed a lot of the cat food was still there. ”Good I don’t have to feed them tonight.”
James did give the more water in both of the bowls and put away the tuna he didn’t need after all.
James went to his room to change and come out in jeans and wife-beater tee, he had no shoes on but in his hand was a small radio.
James went to his basement, put the radio down, pealed the tarp off the easel and sighed. The painting looked great to him; it was complete as far as he could tell. He took the note off the painting and read it again as he had read the note several times
James I need you to paint this and I can pay you for it
James had people pay for his painting and had people send requests, but never had somebody pay so much for just one painting. He held the note and looked at the painting again, it had to be perfect or he would not get paid. James took all paintings seriously and if for a client he worked hard and scrutinized everything but for he had obsessed over this painting. He took the painting and very gently laid it down on his work table. James wrapped it very carefully in brown paper he kept next to the table. He used perhaps, too much tape but anything to keep the paper neat and in place.
James went to the trunk and got out other painting that needed delivering. He wrapped them carefully and labeled each one with information as if was going in the mail.
He grabbed an armload of paintings and took them to the house he went back for another arm load of paintings.
The Akatsuki was interested in what he did but did not get involved at all. They watched as James carefully staked the wrapped paintings on the dining room table.
“Okay cats leave them alone; I have to deliver them tomorrow.”
James went back down to the basement and turned the radio on, got a new canvas and his paints the brushes and went to work. He did not notice when Domino came in, nor did he notice when Donny came in. But when Pookie rubbed in his leg he notice, he was startled.
“Oh Pookie you scared me.” He picked up Pookie and snuggled him. “You’re such a good cat.” It was only then did James notice the other cats. “Hi guys, wanted to know what I’m doing?” He held Pookie to the canvas “What do you think, do you like it?”
Tobi did like it, whatever it was he wondered if he would see it finished.
The cats made themselves at home in his basement/painting room and watched as James paitied. Sunny was not content to watch, he would stretch to see it, he would touch un -painted areas he talked in his cat speck. James thought it was cute at first but Sunny would not stop interacting with his panting.
James got a chair for Sunny so he could be close to the painting but not allowed to touch any more. Pookie joined Sunny on the chair but when he did Sunny smacked him.
“Sunny no! Pookie can be there if he wants to, there room for the both of you.” James felt silly saying so much to a cat but he also liked it.
Sunny allowed Pookie to stay on the chair with him but he did not look happy.
James spent a lot more time painting then he realized when the radio announced the time 11:00 pm he was very surprised.
“Oh shit I should be in bed.” James said and took his used brushed and cap his paints and left the cellar. He took the brushes and rinsed them in the sink. He dried his hands and went to bed. His cats followed behind all the while from the cellar, to the kitchen and to the bedroom.
James did not turn the light on, he knew the way to his bed and as his room is always clean he did not have to worry about tripping over anything. He could feel the nearly undetectable pressure changes in the bed as cats jumped on it. He smiled his pets were…
They are strange to him; the cats are always near but almost never close only at night are they affectionate. Pookie is always cuddly but none of the others have shown any interest in him. But now James feels the weight of three cats on him and assumes one is Pookie. James smiles and pets the cats wondering who they are; he guesses he will know in the morning if they are still laying on him.
When James is breathing deeply and clearly asleep the cats rise from the bed and leave the bedroom their feet padding soft across the floor James would have barley heard even if he was awake.
But they quickly found that they could not transform back into humans and the fear and anger was felt by all.
They all chattered, talked, complained and whined the noise woke James. He rushed out of bed to see his cats, what seemed to him to be fighting.
“Cats go to bed and leave each other alone!” He picked cats at random Salem and Pookie and took them to bed.
He shut the others out and put the cats on the bed and went under the covers.
“Good night Itachi.”
“Good night Tobi.’
“Shut up cats.” James said thinking they were still arguing.
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“Well shit this is perfect were stuck as fuck’n cats.” Hissed Hidan
“There’s nothing we can do about it, we will try every half hour to change back until then save your energy, go to sleep.” Leader said and jumped on the couch and curled up. Konan joined him curling along side of him.
Kisame got on top of the couch as he closed his eyes he thought that Itachi and Tobi got the best deal. Hidan jumped on a chair Kakuzu on the table. Deidara leapt on the armchair and he thought of the day they had. Zetsu hid under the couch liking the darkness fell asleep instantly.
6 am
They all awoke to the damnable alarm clock, which James slammed off and groaned. “Well time to get dressed.”
James got dressed and he did not see Salem and Pookie go under the covers. When dressed he went to look for his cats.
He looked under the bed and then ripped the blackest off the cats. Salem glared and his tail swished in announce. Pookie stretched and curled up trying to go back to sleep. James gathered up the paintings and put them in his trunk. He came in and opened tuna cans and dumped them in a bowl.
James made oatmeal for himself and he and the cats ate he talked to them.
“I gotta drop paintings off at client’s houses and I’m thinking of taking one of you.”
None of the cats looked up they were not interesting in what they couldn’t understand. James doesn’t know why he likes talking at the cats but he does. “I like Pookie best he’s my favorite but that’s the problem.”
Tobi looked to James he was being called by his cat name. “Yes?” He trilled in a meow.
“Oh nothing just thinking aloud.” James he told Pookie.
James eyed his cats from the dining table as he ate the last of his breakfast. When he drank the last of his milk he made his decision.
“I’m taking Argent and Domino.”
Hidan and Zetsu reacted differently to their cat names being used, Hidan stiffened and looks at James with suspicious eyes of Zetsu was nervous and looked ready to run.
“And that’s why you guys are going you need better social skills.” James said he put the dishes in the sink and rinsed them.
“Okay so you guys be good I’ll be back in one hour and a half maybe two if the chatter clients get a hold of me.”
They of course did not understand any of that but they were very interested when Hidan and Zetsu were picked up and left with the owner.
‘I hope they’ll be okay.’ Tobi thought he desperately hoped Zetsu and Hidan would come back. But who knows where the young master was taking them?
“Maybe he’ll come back for all of us.” Kisame said he could only hope it was true.
They heard the car start up and out the window they looked and saw Hidan and Zetsu from the rear window as the car drove away.
“I was wrong.” Kisame admitted.
“They will come back he likes us.” Itachi was certain of this.
“Of course but now we try to be human again.” Pein said and he tried but failed.
The Akatsuki could feel no chakra and there was no way without chakra. From the nowhere floated down a note All of you are going to be cats for a while just give up.
“I’m gonna blow that person to pieces if I can.” Deidara vowed but he knew he would never come face to face with the person behind this.
“What do we do now Leader?” Itachi asked he could think of nothing that would help them.
“Do what you want.” Pein he walked outside, James had left the kitchen door open for them
But he came back a moment later.
“We going to the neighbor’s house.” Pein announced.
They went to the Lipinski home and while it was closets house it was not that close, they could barley be called ‘neighbors’.
They were greeted by the cats owned by the Lipinski’s and Mr. and Mrs. Lipinski.
Mr. Lipinski is in appearance very average, he is average height, he is average weight brown hair and eyes and very tan. His smile is big and natural, his hands, his skin is a bit rough his large callused hands pick up the obese, ginger tom cat Pumpkin. Mrs. Lipinski is her husband’s match in many ways, she is average in looks but there is something special in her smile. She scopes up the tiny adult, Lady, a brown cat and she smiles down and she and her husband smile at the cats at their feet.
“Hey you most belong to James; he told us he got a lot of new cats.” Mr. Lipinski said
“I wonder if he knows you’ve escaped.” Mrs. Lipinski said
“What do you think Martha do we take them inside or do we try to carol them back home?”
“I think we should invite them in but if they want to go back I think they know their way home.” Said Martha.
“Alright, come on cats were going in.” Mr. Lipinski
Slowly the other cats followed the Lipinski couple into their home.
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James was very pleased with how things were going, Domino was in the passenger’s seat sunbathing and Argent was in the back, also sunbathing. At first the cats were unhappy and they had complained with growls and meows, but now they seemed very happy. James held on the wheel with one hand but with the other he gave Domino pets.
Domino’s eye snapped opened, he looked around and he was both scared and angry.
“Oh now you’re okay Domino, you’re okay and were here.” James shut the car off and took the keys out and wondered what to do next.
He brought the cats so they could do what? He wanted to have time with them and hoped he could bond with the. James rolled down the window a little and got out. He got two paintings out off the trunk and went to the front door and knocked on the door.
He was greeted by Ms. Jones who smiles had hugged him easily. “James dear, so good ta see ya.” Her Scottish ascent was light her voice warm.
“Hello Ms. Jones I got,”
“Call me ‘Myra’ I don’t know how many times I have to tell you that.” She scolded lightly.
“Yes, Myra ; I hope you like them.” James out the painting on the counter in the kitchen.
“I will love them.” Myra assured.
She loved that he wrapped them; it was like a present every time. She gasped at what she saw when she removed the last of the brown paper.
The panting is the town of No Where as it is in winter, snow and ice and Myra felt chills, delightful chills as she looks and at the home in the painting a home in the far background, her home looks beautiful in snow and ice. She looked over it carefully and saw tiny birds, small leaves drifting down and minuscule falling snowflakes and it was all wonderfully realist. It literally took her breath away.
“Oh James it is so beautiful, you did a wonderful job I love it.”
Myra opened the wrapping to the other panting and although she excepted it tears still came to her eyes. The portrait of her daughter, with the very real eyes of her daughter’s and the smile of the portrait of Lisa was overwhelming.
“Oh she’s beautiful you did a perfect job James, its stunning I can’t thank you enough.” Myra said and hung it on a wall with a nail that awaited the picture.
Lisa looks very much like her mother, but as James looks at Myra and the imagine of Lisa, he thinks the older Ms. Jones is the prettier one.
He had met Lisa, a nice girl but her personality was lacking, two dentinal, while Myra is vibrate and somehow more real than her daughter. James looks at Myra Jones, in her hazel eyes and thinks she is much more than her daughter is.
“I cannot wait to tell Lisa and for her to see it.” Her acesent grew thick as her voice was being chocked by tears. “Thank you James, so much let me get you a check and please sit down.”
James was about to sit down “Actually Myra come out to the car and see my cats.” He said.
Myra whipped around and grinned and ran out the door ahead of James and beat him to his own car. She peered into the car expecting to see a panting of cats, but instead she saw actual cats.
“Oh! How cute James when did you get cats?”
“A few days ago but they don’t really like me much. I hope they’ll warm up to me.”
“Oh strays do take time dear. James can I hold one please? The silver one is so beautiful.”
“I think you should go in I don’t want them getting out.” James said and opened the door for her.
Myra all but jumped in the car and with speed of lighting grabbed Argent who grumbled loudly but Myra held him even as he hissed.
Domino dove under the seat but James got him out and held him. Domino struggled and kicked but James held on till he stopped struggling, then he let the cat go.
Meanwhile Hidan was still desperate to get away he even tried to biting “Zetsu help! He sold me, that bastards sold me and I don’t want to go! Help me!”
“You’re fine stop and she’ll let you go, I don’t know she really seems to like you.” Black said was blunt sounding irritated and white sounded amused and teasing.
“Myra I think you should let him go he might bite you.”
“He might but he will not get what he wants when he is bad.”
“You bastard help!”
“I told you how: stay still he let me go.” Zetsu watched the struggling Hidan from the front of the car as he smoothed down fur on his ears.
Hidan growled but stopped struggling and he was released.
“There you were never being harmed you silly thing.” Myra petted Hidan who hissed and ran away.
“This is why I brought them, they need to be socialized.” James explained.
“This one seems nice.” She reached over to pet Domino but Zetsu ran way.
“That’s Domino he spokes easily and Argent as you know can be aggressive.”
“Do you have other cats or any other pets?”
James knew he could be honest with Myra who could be completely trusted with his secret. In No Where it is ageist the law for anyone to own more than two pets but Myra had always had more than three pets at any given time. Her two dogs and two cats lay a sleep upstairs at that moment.
But while Myra is trust worthy it did remind James to be very carefully and he had to be sure that people only saw the same two cats and he had to be very carful when inviting people over.
He could easily imagine what would happen if he was not carful. He could see his coworkers at lunch and they would talk as they always did.
“James has the cutes cats, two gray ones.”
“Gray? I saw one brown tabby.”
“Are you sure their gray? I saw two black ones.”
“Solid black? I saw a black/white and a solid black.”
“Is he feeding strays or are they his pets?”
“They were in the house they must be his pets.” He knew he could trust them not to steal from them, he believed they could be trusted to not lie but James did not trust them to keep a secret. He was sure that most of them would rat out their own mothers. Every citizen of No Where knows just how strict the ‘No more than two pets’ law is upheld.
James theorizes that crime is so low in No Where that the small police force is so bored they viciously enforce all infractions of the law no matter how miner. James also theorizes that people are so bored in No Where they tattle to liven up their piety lives.
“I’ve gotta go Myra I have other clients and then I have to help Ed for an hour.”
“Oh very well if you must but please stop by any time, Lisa will be home this Saturday please come by for cake I’m having a small party for her.” Myra smiled and gave Argent one last pet before leaving. “Oh I nearly forgot to pay you!” She dashed into the house.
James sat in the back seat of his own car and waited for Myra to return. He smiles at Domino who came out from under the driver’s seat. “Hello Domino.” The cat slunk back under the seat; James chuckled.
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The Akatsuki wondered around the Lipinski house and found nothing of interest, nothing at all. But what were they expecting? They all had a hope born from desperation that they might find something that would help them go home and/or turn into humans again. They all searched the house with visions of finding a scroll with a jutsu, or a potion with special abilities really anything would help. They found nothing they wanted what was found was a note.
You are all silly; there is nothing in this house that can help you. There is nothing anybody can help you but who I chose for you. Go home and wait for what happens next.
Itachi found it and he found himself bristle at he read the note, and he knew it was pointless but he glared down at the note. ‘Go home’ really got under his skin. He thought about how to get the note to leader. He considered putting it in his mouth and giving it to him, or he could find Leader and take him to the note. The first option was not very dignified and it would risk the people who lived here from finding it. So he went off to find Leader and bring him to the note.
A moment later all of the Akatsuki were over the letter and none looked happy as they went back, they went home.
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James had the check from Myra in his glove box and both cats were in the backseat and they had not come to visit him since he started up the car. ‘Oh well it least their quite.’ James thought.
He was not looking forward to the next deliver neither the location nor the customer but it was the best paying and he would d not stay long. James felt more dread as he came to the delivery spot where Mr. Akron always picked up the paintings.
“Oh there you are James you’re early but that’s better than late.” Mr. Akron shock James’s hand firmly and he smiled easily at him.
Mr. Akron is a slender man with dark hair and blue eyes and he is dressed in his favorite dark blue suit and black shoes. “So have you got it for me?” Mr. Akron smiled and wiggled his eye brows “Or are you here for something else?” The good natured smiled turn dark and was very eager for an answer although he knew what the answer would be.
James looked puzzled, he blushed a little and said “No, I’m just here to drop off your panting, nothing else.”
“Are you sure?” Mr. Akron asked as he waited for James to open the trunk of his car. He was leaning ageists James’s car but jumped when he heard a sound coming from the car.
“Just the cats don’t worry about it.” James said as he handed the large panting to Mr. Akron who took it but was still looking into the car with interest. “What’s this?”
James wished he could leave but he did not want to be rude “Just my cats, they talk a lot.” James explained. James looked desperately to the wrapped panting as if it would unwrap its self and once unwrapped he could go.
“Well, pussy cats how about that?” Mr. Akron smiled the dark but very pleased grin. “Well let’s take a look.” He said and unwrapped the brown paper that covered the panting.
The panting was perfect and he was very pleased with how it turned out. “Well done James it’s perfect. Come inside and help me pick a place to hang it.”
“No, sorry but I should get going.” James slammed the trunk shut hoping to be paid now.
“Well come along while I get your money but if you see a place for this please point this out.” He smiled at James who looked very uneasy.
James knew he was blushing again but could not help it as he walked behind Akron going to whore house Akron runs.
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Hidan and Zetsu sat tense in the car “I wish I knew what’s going on.” Zetsu murmured.
“I still think were being sold.” Hidan said with a growl.
“That’s very paranoid of you.”
“Well why else are we here?” Snapped Hidan.
“Well I think we’re here to keep him company.”
“Why aren’t the others with us?” Hidan demanded.
“This thing.” Started Zetsu he racked his claws on the seat, something was nice about this “This thing is not big enough for all of us. I think his going to be busy all day and he brought us to keep company.” Subconsciously Zetsu’s paws were lightly clawing the seat “I really don’t think were being sold Hidan.”
Hidan still looked sour “I hope you’re right.” He said and after a moment’s pause “Where is that bastard? We’ve been here forever!” He whined.
“Stop whining. Look for something to do.”
Hidan leapt off and jumped into the back window “It’s warmer here.” He commented to Zetsu but left to inspect other parts of the car.
Zetsu was interesting in the back window, warmer was interesting but he did not want to risk being seen by more people. Hesitantly he carefully went to the back window and looked to see if there was anyone around. There was no one around so Zetsu felt comfortable closing his eyes and fell asleep.
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Description
Before his eyes the words of the note changed:
Things are going to change for you all; you might not like the changes.
Pein crumbled the note and it disappeared in his closed fist. He really wished he had a name or a face to this mysterious person who had so much power over their lives.
“The person who put us in this conundrum warned us that things are going to change and we might not like the changes.”
The Akatsuki bristled at that and they all looked nervous.
Then they heard something “Cats, now.” Pein ordered and he became a cat.
James came home to his cats, they looked bothered about something. “Hey cats what’s wrong?”
Of course he got no answer but he was not expecting one.
“Okay I got tuna because it’s cheaper and they only had one bag of cat food but there was a hole in it. I got tuna!” He said in sing song.
The cats did look interested but none came closer. James went to the kitchen and put the food away; he noticed a lot of the cat food was still there. ”Good I don’t have to feed them tonight.”
James did give the more water in both of the bowls and put away the tuna he didn’t need after all.
James went to his room to change and come out in jeans and wife-beater tee, he had no shoes on but in his hand was a small radio.
James went to his basement, put the radio down, pealed the tarp off the easel and sighed. The painting looked great to him; it was complete as far as he could tell. He took the note off the painting and read it again as he had read the note several times
James I need you to paint this and I can pay you for it
James had people pay for his painting and had people send requests, but never had somebody pay so much for just one painting. He held the note and looked at the painting again, it had to be perfect or he would not get paid. James took all paintings seriously and if for a client he worked hard and scrutinized everything but for he had obsessed over this painting. He took the painting and very gently laid it down on his work table. James wrapped it very carefully in brown paper he kept next to the table. He used perhaps, too much tape but anything to keep the paper neat and in place.
James went to the trunk and got out other painting that needed delivering. He wrapped them carefully and labeled each one with information as if was going in the mail.
He grabbed an armload of paintings and took them to the house he went back for another arm load of paintings.
The Akatsuki was interested in what he did but did not get involved at all. They watched as James carefully staked the wrapped paintings on the dining room table.
“Okay cats leave them alone; I have to deliver them tomorrow.”
James went back down to the basement and turned the radio on, got a new canvas and his paints the brushes and went to work. He did not notice when Domino came in, nor did he notice when Donny came in. But when Pookie rubbed in his leg he notice, he was startled.
“Oh Pookie you scared me.” He picked up Pookie and snuggled him. “You’re such a good cat.” It was only then did James notice the other cats. “Hi guys, wanted to know what I’m doing?” He held Pookie to the canvas “What do you think, do you like it?”
Tobi did like it, whatever it was he wondered if he would see it finished.
The cats made themselves at home in his basement/painting room and watched as James paitied. Sunny was not content to watch, he would stretch to see it, he would touch un -painted areas he talked in his cat speck. James thought it was cute at first but Sunny would not stop interacting with his panting.
James got a chair for Sunny so he could be close to the painting but not allowed to touch any more. Pookie joined Sunny on the chair but when he did Sunny smacked him.
“Sunny no! Pookie can be there if he wants to, there room for the both of you.” James felt silly saying so much to a cat but he also liked it.
Sunny allowed Pookie to stay on the chair with him but he did not look happy.
James spent a lot more time painting then he realized when the radio announced the time 11:00 pm he was very surprised.
“Oh shit I should be in bed.” James said and took his used brushed and cap his paints and left the cellar. He took the brushes and rinsed them in the sink. He dried his hands and went to bed. His cats followed behind all the while from the cellar, to the kitchen and to the bedroom.
James did not turn the light on, he knew the way to his bed and as his room is always clean he did not have to worry about tripping over anything. He could feel the nearly undetectable pressure changes in the bed as cats jumped on it. He smiled his pets were…
They are strange to him; the cats are always near but almost never close only at night are they affectionate. Pookie is always cuddly but none of the others have shown any interest in him. But now James feels the weight of three cats on him and assumes one is Pookie. James smiles and pets the cats wondering who they are; he guesses he will know in the morning if they are still laying on him.
When James is breathing deeply and clearly asleep the cats rise from the bed and leave the bedroom their feet padding soft across the floor James would have barley heard even if he was awake.
But they quickly found that they could not transform back into humans and the fear and anger was felt by all.
They all chattered, talked, complained and whined the noise woke James. He rushed out of bed to see his cats, what seemed to him to be fighting.
“Cats go to bed and leave each other alone!” He picked cats at random Salem and Pookie and took them to bed.
He shut the others out and put the cats on the bed and went under the covers.
“Good night Itachi.”
“Good night Tobi.’
“Shut up cats.” James said thinking they were still arguing.
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“Well shit this is perfect were stuck as fuck’n cats.” Hissed Hidan
“There’s nothing we can do about it, we will try every half hour to change back until then save your energy, go to sleep.” Leader said and jumped on the couch and curled up. Konan joined him curling along side of him.
Kisame got on top of the couch as he closed his eyes he thought that Itachi and Tobi got the best deal. Hidan jumped on a chair Kakuzu on the table. Deidara leapt on the armchair and he thought of the day they had. Zetsu hid under the couch liking the darkness fell asleep instantly.
6 am
They all awoke to the damnable alarm clock, which James slammed off and groaned. “Well time to get dressed.”
James got dressed and he did not see Salem and Pookie go under the covers. When dressed he went to look for his cats.
He looked under the bed and then ripped the blackest off the cats. Salem glared and his tail swished in announce. Pookie stretched and curled up trying to go back to sleep. James gathered up the paintings and put them in his trunk. He came in and opened tuna cans and dumped them in a bowl.
James made oatmeal for himself and he and the cats ate he talked to them.
“I gotta drop paintings off at client’s houses and I’m thinking of taking one of you.”
None of the cats looked up they were not interesting in what they couldn’t understand. James doesn’t know why he likes talking at the cats but he does. “I like Pookie best he’s my favorite but that’s the problem.”
Tobi looked to James he was being called by his cat name. “Yes?” He trilled in a meow.
“Oh nothing just thinking aloud.” James he told Pookie.
James eyed his cats from the dining table as he ate the last of his breakfast. When he drank the last of his milk he made his decision.
“I’m taking Argent and Domino.”
Hidan and Zetsu reacted differently to their cat names being used, Hidan stiffened and looks at James with suspicious eyes of Zetsu was nervous and looked ready to run.
“And that’s why you guys are going you need better social skills.” James said he put the dishes in the sink and rinsed them.
“Okay so you guys be good I’ll be back in one hour and a half maybe two if the chatter clients get a hold of me.”
They of course did not understand any of that but they were very interested when Hidan and Zetsu were picked up and left with the owner.
‘I hope they’ll be okay.’ Tobi thought he desperately hoped Zetsu and Hidan would come back. But who knows where the young master was taking them?
“Maybe he’ll come back for all of us.” Kisame said he could only hope it was true.
They heard the car start up and out the window they looked and saw Hidan and Zetsu from the rear window as the car drove away.
“I was wrong.” Kisame admitted.
“They will come back he likes us.” Itachi was certain of this.
“Of course but now we try to be human again.” Pein said and he tried but failed.
The Akatsuki could feel no chakra and there was no way without chakra. From the nowhere floated down a note All of you are going to be cats for a while just give up.
“I’m gonna blow that person to pieces if I can.” Deidara vowed but he knew he would never come face to face with the person behind this.
“What do we do now Leader?” Itachi asked he could think of nothing that would help them.
“Do what you want.” Pein he walked outside, James had left the kitchen door open for them
But he came back a moment later.
“We going to the neighbor’s house.” Pein announced.
They went to the Lipinski home and while it was closets house it was not that close, they could barley be called ‘neighbors’.
They were greeted by the cats owned by the Lipinski’s and Mr. and Mrs. Lipinski.
Mr. Lipinski is in appearance very average, he is average height, he is average weight brown hair and eyes and very tan. His smile is big and natural, his hands, his skin is a bit rough his large callused hands pick up the obese, ginger tom cat Pumpkin. Mrs. Lipinski is her husband’s match in many ways, she is average in looks but there is something special in her smile. She scopes up the tiny adult, Lady, a brown cat and she smiles down and she and her husband smile at the cats at their feet.
“Hey you most belong to James; he told us he got a lot of new cats.” Mr. Lipinski said
“I wonder if he knows you’ve escaped.” Mrs. Lipinski said
“What do you think Martha do we take them inside or do we try to carol them back home?”
“I think we should invite them in but if they want to go back I think they know their way home.” Said Martha.
“Alright, come on cats were going in.” Mr. Lipinski
Slowly the other cats followed the Lipinski couple into their home.
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James was very pleased with how things were going, Domino was in the passenger’s seat sunbathing and Argent was in the back, also sunbathing. At first the cats were unhappy and they had complained with growls and meows, but now they seemed very happy. James held on the wheel with one hand but with the other he gave Domino pets.
Domino’s eye snapped opened, he looked around and he was both scared and angry.
“Oh now you’re okay Domino, you’re okay and were here.” James shut the car off and took the keys out and wondered what to do next.
He brought the cats so they could do what? He wanted to have time with them and hoped he could bond with the. James rolled down the window a little and got out. He got two paintings out off the trunk and went to the front door and knocked on the door.
He was greeted by Ms. Jones who smiles had hugged him easily. “James dear, so good ta see ya.” Her Scottish ascent was light her voice warm.
“Hello Ms. Jones I got,”
“Call me ‘Myra’ I don’t know how many times I have to tell you that.” She scolded lightly.
“Yes, Myra ; I hope you like them.” James out the painting on the counter in the kitchen.
“I will love them.” Myra assured.
She loved that he wrapped them; it was like a present every time. She gasped at what she saw when she removed the last of the brown paper.
The panting is the town of No Where as it is in winter, snow and ice and Myra felt chills, delightful chills as she looks and at the home in the painting a home in the far background, her home looks beautiful in snow and ice. She looked over it carefully and saw tiny birds, small leaves drifting down and minuscule falling snowflakes and it was all wonderfully realist. It literally took her breath away.
“Oh James it is so beautiful, you did a wonderful job I love it.”
Myra opened the wrapping to the other panting and although she excepted it tears still came to her eyes. The portrait of her daughter, with the very real eyes of her daughter’s and the smile of the portrait of Lisa was overwhelming.
“Oh she’s beautiful you did a perfect job James, its stunning I can’t thank you enough.” Myra said and hung it on a wall with a nail that awaited the picture.
Lisa looks very much like her mother, but as James looks at Myra and the imagine of Lisa, he thinks the older Ms. Jones is the prettier one.
He had met Lisa, a nice girl but her personality was lacking, two dentinal, while Myra is vibrate and somehow more real than her daughter. James looks at Myra Jones, in her hazel eyes and thinks she is much more than her daughter is.
“I cannot wait to tell Lisa and for her to see it.” Her acesent grew thick as her voice was being chocked by tears. “Thank you James, so much let me get you a check and please sit down.”
James was about to sit down “Actually Myra come out to the car and see my cats.” He said.
Myra whipped around and grinned and ran out the door ahead of James and beat him to his own car. She peered into the car expecting to see a panting of cats, but instead she saw actual cats.
“Oh! How cute James when did you get cats?”
“A few days ago but they don’t really like me much. I hope they’ll warm up to me.”
“Oh strays do take time dear. James can I hold one please? The silver one is so beautiful.”
“I think you should go in I don’t want them getting out.” James said and opened the door for her.
Myra all but jumped in the car and with speed of lighting grabbed Argent who grumbled loudly but Myra held him even as he hissed.
Domino dove under the seat but James got him out and held him. Domino struggled and kicked but James held on till he stopped struggling, then he let the cat go.
Meanwhile Hidan was still desperate to get away he even tried to biting “Zetsu help! He sold me, that bastards sold me and I don’t want to go! Help me!”
“You’re fine stop and she’ll let you go, I don’t know she really seems to like you.” Black said was blunt sounding irritated and white sounded amused and teasing.
“Myra I think you should let him go he might bite you.”
“He might but he will not get what he wants when he is bad.”
“You bastard help!”
“I told you how: stay still he let me go.” Zetsu watched the struggling Hidan from the front of the car as he smoothed down fur on his ears.
Hidan growled but stopped struggling and he was released.
“There you were never being harmed you silly thing.” Myra petted Hidan who hissed and ran away.
“This is why I brought them, they need to be socialized.” James explained.
“This one seems nice.” She reached over to pet Domino but Zetsu ran way.
“That’s Domino he spokes easily and Argent as you know can be aggressive.”
“Do you have other cats or any other pets?”
James knew he could be honest with Myra who could be completely trusted with his secret. In No Where it is ageist the law for anyone to own more than two pets but Myra had always had more than three pets at any given time. Her two dogs and two cats lay a sleep upstairs at that moment.
But while Myra is trust worthy it did remind James to be very carefully and he had to be sure that people only saw the same two cats and he had to be very carful when inviting people over.
He could easily imagine what would happen if he was not carful. He could see his coworkers at lunch and they would talk as they always did.
“James has the cutes cats, two gray ones.”
“Gray? I saw one brown tabby.”
“Are you sure their gray? I saw two black ones.”
“Solid black? I saw a black/white and a solid black.”
“Is he feeding strays or are they his pets?”
“They were in the house they must be his pets.” He knew he could trust them not to steal from them, he believed they could be trusted to not lie but James did not trust them to keep a secret. He was sure that most of them would rat out their own mothers. Every citizen of No Where knows just how strict the ‘No more than two pets’ law is upheld.
James theorizes that crime is so low in No Where that the small police force is so bored they viciously enforce all infractions of the law no matter how miner. James also theorizes that people are so bored in No Where they tattle to liven up their piety lives.
“I’ve gotta go Myra I have other clients and then I have to help Ed for an hour.”
“Oh very well if you must but please stop by any time, Lisa will be home this Saturday please come by for cake I’m having a small party for her.” Myra smiled and gave Argent one last pet before leaving. “Oh I nearly forgot to pay you!” She dashed into the house.
James sat in the back seat of his own car and waited for Myra to return. He smiles at Domino who came out from under the driver’s seat. “Hello Domino.” The cat slunk back under the seat; James chuckled.
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The Akatsuki wondered around the Lipinski house and found nothing of interest, nothing at all. But what were they expecting? They all had a hope born from desperation that they might find something that would help them go home and/or turn into humans again. They all searched the house with visions of finding a scroll with a jutsu, or a potion with special abilities really anything would help. They found nothing they wanted what was found was a note.
You are all silly; there is nothing in this house that can help you. There is nothing anybody can help you but who I chose for you. Go home and wait for what happens next.
Itachi found it and he found himself bristle at he read the note, and he knew it was pointless but he glared down at the note. ‘Go home’ really got under his skin. He thought about how to get the note to leader. He considered putting it in his mouth and giving it to him, or he could find Leader and take him to the note. The first option was not very dignified and it would risk the people who lived here from finding it. So he went off to find Leader and bring him to the note.
A moment later all of the Akatsuki were over the letter and none looked happy as they went back, they went home.
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James had the check from Myra in his glove box and both cats were in the backseat and they had not come to visit him since he started up the car. ‘Oh well it least their quite.’ James thought.
He was not looking forward to the next deliver neither the location nor the customer but it was the best paying and he would d not stay long. James felt more dread as he came to the delivery spot where Mr. Akron always picked up the paintings.
“Oh there you are James you’re early but that’s better than late.” Mr. Akron shock James’s hand firmly and he smiled easily at him.
Mr. Akron is a slender man with dark hair and blue eyes and he is dressed in his favorite dark blue suit and black shoes. “So have you got it for me?” Mr. Akron smiled and wiggled his eye brows “Or are you here for something else?” The good natured smiled turn dark and was very eager for an answer although he knew what the answer would be.
James looked puzzled, he blushed a little and said “No, I’m just here to drop off your panting, nothing else.”
“Are you sure?” Mr. Akron asked as he waited for James to open the trunk of his car. He was leaning ageists James’s car but jumped when he heard a sound coming from the car.
“Just the cats don’t worry about it.” James said as he handed the large panting to Mr. Akron who took it but was still looking into the car with interest. “What’s this?”
James wished he could leave but he did not want to be rude “Just my cats, they talk a lot.” James explained. James looked desperately to the wrapped panting as if it would unwrap its self and once unwrapped he could go.
“Well, pussy cats how about that?” Mr. Akron smiled the dark but very pleased grin. “Well let’s take a look.” He said and unwrapped the brown paper that covered the panting.
The panting was perfect and he was very pleased with how it turned out. “Well done James it’s perfect. Come inside and help me pick a place to hang it.”
“No, sorry but I should get going.” James slammed the trunk shut hoping to be paid now.
“Well come along while I get your money but if you see a place for this please point this out.” He smiled at James who looked very uneasy.
James knew he was blushing again but could not help it as he walked behind Akron going to whore house Akron runs.
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Hidan and Zetsu sat tense in the car “I wish I knew what’s going on.” Zetsu murmured.
“I still think were being sold.” Hidan said with a growl.
“That’s very paranoid of you.”
“Well why else are we here?” Snapped Hidan.
“Well I think we’re here to keep him company.”
“Why aren’t the others with us?” Hidan demanded.
“This thing.” Started Zetsu he racked his claws on the seat, something was nice about this “This thing is not big enough for all of us. I think his going to be busy all day and he brought us to keep company.” Subconsciously Zetsu’s paws were lightly clawing the seat “I really don’t think were being sold Hidan.”
Hidan still looked sour “I hope you’re right.” He said and after a moment’s pause “Where is that bastard? We’ve been here forever!” He whined.
“Stop whining. Look for something to do.”
Hidan leapt off and jumped into the back window “It’s warmer here.” He commented to Zetsu but left to inspect other parts of the car.
Zetsu was interesting in the back window, warmer was interesting but he did not want to risk being seen by more people. Hesitantly he carefully went to the back window and looked to see if there was anyone around. There was no one around so Zetsu felt comfortable closing his eyes and fell asleep.
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