AN
First chapter of the sequel, I should have just kept Insomnia going…. it's pointless to do a sequel….oh well, too late now.
Anyway, note. If you haven't read Insomnia, go read that unless you want to be confused somewhat. At least know the general plot of Insomnia before you read this. Otherwise the things mentioned you'll be like "Wut?" Awesome. Let us continue.
Enjoy
Summary- I never thought I'd ever have anything extraordinary to happen to me ever again after the first time. However I was wrong. And I learn this when the box of oddly colored cats found itself on the doorstep. I don't know whether to say fuck me, or to go along with it. Then of course there's the usual problems, feelings, family, etc, shits hitting the fan again. And now, I have my two brothers and my old crew of idiots to meet my new crew of idiots, the Akatsuki. Fan-fucking-tastic.
Itami's POV, as always
"Itami get your ass down here!" I merely glared at the trapdoor that led down to the ground floor where my brother was yelling for me.
"No!" I yelled back.
"Yes!" screeched my other brother.
"Make me!" I challenged. There was a long period of silence and a rare smirk appeared on my face. They couldn't get up when my trapdoor was closed and locked. Suddenly I turned around upon hearing a knock on the window. I blinked, seeing that somehow my brothers had found a ladder that reached my room.
"What're you going to do now? You can't fit through the window." I pointed out; the window was small, too small for even Jack, who was scrawnier than Chris to fit through. I'd possibly be able to fit, if not for my boobs. But nope, I couldn't fit. Neither could my brothers.
"Let us in!" snapped Jack, banging his fist on the window. My bi-colored eyes glared into his icy blue ones.
"No." I replied calmly as he squinted. I turned around and walked over to my bed where I decided to lay down and stare at a mirror I had put on the slant the roof made above it. I stared at myself. The last time I did this, before everything that had happened, I looked different.
Back then, my hair was jet black with crimson tips and it was long. Now, my hair was only about mid-back, finally evening out after the accident involving the guy from the Narutoverse. My skin wasn't as pale now for some reason, I was no longer sheet white. My eyes were also a bit wider, my eyes used to be narrow however now for some reason they seemed…. bigger. Almost like an anime characters eyes. I also had more scars, I had three on my face my left bang covered when I let it down over my face, it hid my mint green eye too.
I was also more fit. I could now successfully do a full split, I also had muscle. I could probably outrun everyone in my class, and beat them all up. But I could have beaten them all up anyway. I also was more accurate with weapons now. I was also showing more emotion, instead of a firm line my mouth was curved slightly down. But the last thing I noticed was something about my eyes. My eyes showed wisdom. I had seen, lived through something no one else would. I had escaped death more than once, I conversed with an angel, and I lived with an organization of criminals with super powers. My eyes just had that shine, that seriousness, that maturity that I had gained. The wisdom I had gained.
So yeah, I had changed.
I was also more somber; Jack and Chris knew something was up. And Jack, always the firm believer, knew it wasn't something they should be able to comprehend at first. They tried waiting, and they were not patient, it had been months. I was turning seventeen soon, and I was working on my driver's license. Turns out, all Duncan's have horrible driving skills. I drive like a maniac too, but that may be because of my road rage. I don't like sharing the road.
Sharing is caring? Well guess what, I don't fucking care.
I also had to pick a career to pursue according to my school counselor, I had no idea. I was thinking anime and manga, or maybe music production, all of them sounded good. I was happy with them, of course my counselor didn't like them. She thought I should be a lawyer.
A lawyer.
Me? A lawyer?
No. No way. I can't stand my social worker, and I can't stand her because she reminds me of a lawyer. That woman should be a lawyer, should she be a defense attorney everyone would give up because of how annoying and bitchy this woman is. I liked pissing her off by calling her by her first name, Nancy.
"Let us in!" Oh yeah, my brothers are still out there. I rolled over to peer at my window to find brown eyes next to blue eyes. Chris was up here now too.
"Shouldn't one of you be holding the ladder?" I called. Both their eyes widened, sadly for them it was too late. I almost chuckled at their faces when the ladder tilted back.
"Mummy!" squeaked Jack as they fell back. I heard a loud thud and decided that it was safe for me to leave my room without being bombarded by my brothers. They'd be busy with Band-Aids and ice packs. I wandered downstairs and smirked upon finding them sitting in the living room already, I had taken my time to walk downstairs.
"Have a good time?" I questioned, receiving a wonderful glare from the two.
"Don't be a bitch." muttered Chris. I shrugged and turned towards the front door.
"Where are you going?" called Jack. I shrugged again as I opened the door. As I went to take a step out onto our porch, I tripped.
"Shit!" I snapped, falling over something. I looked back and found a cardboard box big enough for me to probably sit in.
"The hell?" I looked around for signs of a delivery truck or something.
Nothing.
I shrugged and stood up. I lightly kicked the box to test to see if it had something live in it.
"Meow!" I swore loudly as I watched the box jump and meow.
"Oh hell, not cats!" I kneeled down and opened it and sure enough, ten little kittens looked up at me. Shock seemed to bloom across their faces. Of course that made no sense, can cats even look shocked?
"Itami, what's up?" called Chris. I decided not to answer as I looked at the cats.
Fucking strange cats.
There were two blues one, one blue one was huge and had gill like markings. The other had amber eyes and was pawing at the box towards me. I also saw a cat with green tipped ears. Then there was a blonde cat, an orange cat with ringed purple-gray eyes. I eyed the cats as if they were dangerous before I picked up the calmest one, a black one whose eyes changed from onyx to red every so often.
"Fucking weird cats." I muttered as his eyes changed right before me. I dropped him in the box as I heard footsteps behind me.
"Itami? What's with the box?" I heard Chris ask. I felt him look over my shoulder.
"Fuck, get them out of here before Jack sees them!" hissed Chris.
"Sees what?" asked Jack, looking over my shoulder. His eyes widened and he grinned.
"KITTIES!" he shouted, trying to grab one.
"BLUE KITTY!" he grabbed the large blue one and jumped up. He spun around, much like a child while holding the cat. I felt bad for the poor thing. First, it somehow gets blue, then it gets to be spun around. I bet it felt like he was in that astronaut thing that spun you around to test you on something. I looked at the cats that were all staring at me.
"Can I keep them? PLEASE?" begged Jack.
"No." replied Chris. Jack turned his begging baby blue eyes to me.
"Please Itami? You're the woman of the house!" I blinked and then looked down at the cats.
"My rules for keeping the cats, I get the final say in names, I refuse to run around the neighborhood if one of them gets lost with one of you insulting our black neighbors by screaming Blacky, or being embarrassed by you running around screaming about pussy. You get to clean up their messes and their litter boxes. I'll feed them, and I'll also take them to the doctor to get them neutered."
"Why would you take them?" questioned Chris. However I turned my attention to Jack who had an outburst at hearing I was going to neuter the kitties.
"You can't cut off their balls!" screeched Jack. I looked behind me to see our neighbor, an older woman who had bat like hearing, watching us from her window. Her small beagle was sitting in the window watching us also.
"Shush, Mrs. McMultry is watching us." I snapped.
"So? She spreads gossip either way, she already said that you're a devil child." deadpanned Chris. My eyes narrowed as I heard the cats meowing in what sounded to be laughter. Could cats laugh?...
"Shut the hell up, I'm still thinking that was you!" I muttered as I picked up the box of cats. Jack put the blue one back in and I stumbled into our living room. I plopped down the box and Jack danced around like a little girl.
"I'm so excited!" he finally announced, "When mom and dad lived with us we couldn't have pets!" I sighed. I should have said no.
"Names." I looked down and picked up the cats who I knew would receive stupid names, the blonde cat, the black cat, and the two blue cats.
"What names should we use?" questioned Chris as Jack calmed down and we looked over the cats. The cats I had pulled out all piled on my lap other than the black one which stayed next to me.
"And why do the cats love you?" Jack asked jealously.
"By all means, take them." I stated. Jack reached for the blonde cat, the cats reaction was to hiss and slash at him.
"Mean kitty!" Jack accused, pointing at the kitty while Chris snorted.
"Names, what should be name this one?" I inquired, holding up the blonde kitty, who was soon confirmed to be a boy by Chris.
"Blondie." decided Chris.
"Barbie." added Jack. I scowled.
"Get some better names, something that hasn't been used before." I complained.
"….Vivian?" questioned Jack.
"That's a girl's name dumbass!" snapped Chris.
"SO?" asked Jack, "Maybe he wants to be a gay kitty!" The rest of the cats seemed to laugh as the blonde cat hissed at Jack.
"I doubt that, if no one names him I'm naming him either Kiiro or Banana." I stated, looking at the cat. Kiiro was blonde in Japanese, and I wanted an answer so I put in Banana knowing one of the two would agree with one of them.
"Banana!" agreed Jack, so it was decided. The blonde, blue eyed kitty was now Banana.
"Blueberry." proposed Chris as I held up the female blue kitty. Her amber eyes looked straight into mine. I dropped her and grabbed my forehead, memories flowing back of a blue haired girl with amber eyes.
"Just Berry." I decided.
"Fine by me." agreed Jack. Next I picked up the black kitty with the changing eyes. I looked him in the eyes and his narrowed as they turned red. I blinked a few times afterwards, I could have sworn they looked familiar.
"Blacky." I scowled at Jack's suggestion.
"Did you not hear my terms for keeping the cats? We have African American neighbors, we don't need them coming to beat you up because they think that when you're yelling Blacky that you're talking to them." I clarified.
"Itami, that's so racist." muttered Chris.
"I'm not racist, just a realistic pessimist." I replied handing the black cat to Chris.
"How about Raven?" questioned Chris.
"No, that sounds too girly." Jack denied.
"Crow?" suggested Chris.
"Reminds me of Naruto, Kankuro's puppet." And thus, I denied the name.
"Grim?" tried Jack. I shrugged.
"Sure, it doesn't bring back any memories of me being shot by a kid named Grimly." After Jack and Chris looking sad from my coma being mentioned, they perked up and put Grim down.
"I wanna name him Jaws." Jack said seriously as he held up the large blue cat, he had gill like markings and he did look like a shark.
"No, we're not naming our cat Jaws." I replied.
"How about Donald?" Jack and I stared at Chris.
"Whhhhhy?" drawled Jack.
"Donald duck, and he just looks like a Donald to me." replied Chris. I shrugged.
"Donald it is." I agreed. Next we had a cat that was half black, half white, with eerie yellow eyes and green tipped ears.
"Oreo." offered Chris.
"No, he's colored right but not designed right." I disagreed.
"Cthulhu!" shouted Jack.
"No." I stated.
"Please?" begged Jack.
"Negative, however about Pompeii?" I replied.
"Pompeii?" asked Chris. I shrugged.
"It was the first name I could think of after denying Cthulhu." I answered.
"Zule." decided Jack.
"Zule?" asked Chris and I together.
"Zule, it means nothing and it can be used since we can't think of anything better." he clarified. I shrugged. Zule it was. Next was the orange cat with the eerie purple and gray ringed eyes. He also had a red tint to his fur and he had black-gray dots all over.
"Gibbs." decided Chris. He received a stare from Jack and I.
"Gibbs? From NCIS?" I asked. Chris nodded.
"Look at his face, does he not look like he would make a good Gibbs?" Jack and I stared at him, and I soon agreed. He did look like a Gibbs.
"Gibbs it is." I finally agreed, actually liking the name.
"I'm running out of ideas." whined Jack as a red cat came out with brown eyes and a white patch on his chest.
"He could be Pompeii." I suggested.
"Why?" asked Jack.
"He's red, that makes me think of volcanoes." I replied.
"Pompeii it is." Pompeii was moved over. We had a black cat with an orange face and one closed eye, a silver cat with purple eyes that was loudly meowing at us, and a brown cat with fucking weird green eyes with red irises and gray stitch like markings all over him.
"I say we name him Crabblesnitch." decided Chris.
"Why would you name him after the grumpy principal from Bully?" I asked as Chris held up the one with the weird red and green eyes.
"He looks crabby to me." he replied, showing me the cat who did not look happy in the slightest.
"We're not naming him Crabblesnitch, we could call him Johnny if you want, or Jimmy or Petey or Gary." I suggested. Chris shook his head.
"Nah, you'd obsess over him should be name him Johnny, and Sky would flip if we named out cat Petey. Josh would try and kill him if we named him Petey." muttered Chris.
"Slawter." decided Jack. Chris and I stared at him.
"Slawter?" I questioned. Jack nodded.
"Slawter it is." I agreed as I pushed Slawter over.
"Mushy!" chirped Jack as the black cat with an orange face came up. I picked him up and stared at the side of his face.
"It's not pronounced Mushy, it's pronounced Moo-shi." cracked Chris with a snicker. I frowned at the Last Air bender reference.
"If we're going The Last Air bender he's Zuko, because he's like, scarred on the side of his face." I stated, turning the cat around so they could see.
"Nah, he's not Zuko, how about we name him Pooma?" suggested Jack.
"What the fuck is a Pooma?" I asked. Jack shrugged.
"Nothing, I was thinking of Pumpkin, but that's too normal. So Pooma!" I agreed after a few minutes of persuasion. Finally we had the silver cat.
"Crystal or Gem." I stated.
"Why?" asked Chris, "He's a dude."
"One, he's getting his balls cut off when I take them to the vet," I replied calmly making Jack shake his head wildly and grab at the cats as if he could protect them from me, "And two, he is silver like silver, and he has gorgeous purple eyes that remind me of amethysts."
"Fine, Crystal will be his name." Chris finally agreed.
"Ok, so we have Banana, Grim, Berry, Donald, Zule, Pompeii, Gibbs, Slawter, Pooma, and Crystal." listed Chris. Jack laughed.
"We are so fucked up with our naming skills." he laughed.
"I'd be fine with naming them Kiiro, Kuro, Tenshi, Aoi, Sho, Akaro, Itai, Kyoshi, Okane, and Atama." I replied.
"Eh?" asked Jack.
"Japanese words, names, and words I took from Japanese words." I replied, "They sound better than Pooma, and Crystal for a guy." The cats seemed to laugh while some were in their own little emo corner. I doubt they liked their names, if they could understand us.
"Awe, your name isn't that bad Donald." cooed Jack as he grabbed Donald and began spinning him around again.
"Poor cat." muttered Chris. Then, Jack's hand slipped and Donald went flying, knocking over a chair from being a freaking huge cat.
"God damn it." I muttered as Chris chuckled.
Fuck my life.
AN
Ok, so, the names were random and me being weird, here's a name chart since even I can't remember the names. I should have just used the original cat names but NO I HAD to be different, HAD TO BE! I also just had to do a kitty story, and what better than for that to be the way the Akatsuki comes to Itami's world?
Kitty names!
Pein-Gibbs(Tell me you can't imagine this, PEIN IS SUCH A GIBBS!)
Konan-Berry (Tenshi is used often I think, besides, I like the name Berry, it suits her)
Deidara-Banana(His hair is yellow, thus Banana was born. Blondie and Barbie are way too overused in my opinion)
Sasori-Pompeii(It came to me, it just did. I wanted to give him a ridiculous name, like in one of my absolute favorite stories his name was Loofa, I wanted to use Loofa actually but I didn't want to get my head chopped off for using it)
Itachi-Grim(Raven sounds too girly, I think Crow I think of Kankuro's puppet, and Kuro was used in my favorite story. So Grim was born)
Kisame-Donald(I wanted to call him Bruce, same reason for Loofa though that I'm afraid to use the name)
Tobi-Pooma(I dunno, I was running out and Lollipop is too annoying for me to type, plus I love saying Pooma. POOMA!)
Zetsu-Zule(Oreo was explained, and I can't think of any other names for Zetsu, I was going to make him Japanese for green, but Midori sounds girly.)
Kakuzu-Slawter(The references to Bully, I'm absolutely obsessed with the game, I started a fanfiction, please read it, if not look at the title picture and compliment my abilities to cut, paste, and draw using paint)
Hidan-Crystal(I wanted to use Shiny, same reason for Loofa and Bruce I couldn't use it though, sigh. Watch the typos come out with Loofa, Bruce and Shiny. God damn.)
Originally I totally forgot Hidan and Kakuzu, otherwise Hidan would have been first named since he'd probably be the loudest cat.
Anyway, more notes. I just realized this now but why did I start a new story? It's just more hassle! I could have just put in 'Ark Two, Wide Awake' Sadly it's too late now, I can't change the title of the document. And I have to keep my stories organized.
Q-How do you like my cat names? Also, how do you like the title picture? I worked hard on it.
A-…..
Anyway, toodles.