Itachi was sure he died after poking Sasuke in the forehead, his illness had finally gotten to him in his last moments.

But then why did he open his eyes again? Where was he? And why did the forest seem bigger?

"Zetsu? Kisame?" he questioned frowning in confusion as he tried looking around.

Only the two mentioned could be responsible for the reason he was still alive, but the only thing he found was two black cats sleeping. He ignored the two cats deciding to get to the bottom of everything. When he tried walking, he tripped and fell on his face.

Perhaps he should be glad that the others weren't here with him. They'd never let him live it down.

"Who's there?" he heard a feminine voice ask.

His eyes narrowed as the footsteps came closer.

"Kitties?" the girl questioned.

Itachi's ear twitched as he turned to look at the newcomer, a girl with blonde hair and brown eyes. The girl was wearing weird clothing, but even so it was obvious to Itachi that she was from nobility. What was more attention drawing was the two gold keys the girl had in her hands, the keys seemed to be emitting a weird aura.

Similar to chakra, yet so very different.

"Who are you?" Itachi asked.

"It's okay, I won't hurt you," the girl assured crouching down to his current height, she hesitantly made a move to pet him, and Itachi allowed her to do so preparing to attack should the girl do something wrong.

Instead he found himself purring at her touch, his eyes widening in surprise before he figured out that somehow he was turned into a cat.

'How?' he wondered as the girl picked him and the other two cats up.

"You three must be hungry, I'm surprised you even survived in this huge forest," the girl noted.

As Itachi stood on the girl's, Lucy he discovered her name was, bed. He concluded a few things.

One, he wasn't anywhere near any hidden villages.

Two, Lucy truly was from nobility. A princess of sorts from what he's gathered.

Three, he truly was a cat.

Four, the only thing he could do was use his Sharingan.

But that didn't matter, for now he had to wake up the two slumbering cats and see if they had the answer. Itachi was no fool, he knew that the other two cats being there with him couldn't be a mere coincidence.

So without wasting anytime he bounded over to the two, slowly but surely getting used to his paws, he tapped one of them on their nose repeatedly.

"Five more minutes..."

The voice sounded so familiar that it made Itachi freeze, "Shisui?" he questioned in disbelief.

Slowly, the black cat's eyes went open to reveal a very familiar pair of Mangekyou Sharingan, "Itachi?!"

"You should be dead..." Itachi muttered trying to make sense of things, "Just like me."

"Wait, you died?" Shisui asked, "And why are you a cat?!"

"You are a feline too."

Shisui blinked, slowly bringing his left paw up to inspect. "I'm a cat?" He murmured, before his eyes widened. "I'm a cat!"

Itachi sighed as Shisui began pacing around in a panicked manner, before finally losing his balance and falling face first.

The next thirty minutes had been dedicated to explaining what happened after Shisui's death and the recent events.

Shisui took the news better than Itachi thought he would. Trust Shisui to hear that his clan was massacred by his best friend and yet still be calm headed.

"So this Lucy found us? Maybe she knows what's going on?" Shisui wondered.

"Hn, she didn't seem to be deceiving me, but perhaps she's a good actress."

"We should wake this guy up then," Shisui suggested, motioning to the other sleeping cat.

Nodding, Itachi began slapping the other cat with his paw.

He didn't wake up.

"Odd," Shisui commented as he joined in, instead of slapping he started poking the cat's nose.

Lucy sat cross legged on her bed, staring intently at two of her three cats, they stared at her intensely as well.

Although all three cats were black Lucy spotted the differences easily. The sleeping one had fluffy fur. One of the two that were awake had spikier hair and moved more slowly while the other's hair wasn't spiky and his movements were calculated. (?, Shisui and Itachi respectively.)

"How did you three even get here?" Lucy questioned, it was odd and suspicious that three cats managed to get so close to her house without any supplies. Her family property was very large after all.

"Meow," the spiky haired one meowed in answer.

Lucy didn't see anything suspicious about the three cats, hesitantly she placed her hand on the cat who rubbed his head on her hand. She giggled slightly at the ticklish feeling the spiky fur provided, "It looks like you three don't belong to anyone," she noted, absently scratching the cat's head, "I wonder if papa would let me keep you...it gets lonely in here."

"Meow."

"Even if he doesn't let me keep you, I'm planning to run away soon anyways."

"Meow?"

"But is it a good idea to travel with cats?"

"Meow."

"Hmm, it does look like you three managed to survive for awhile in the forest."

"Meow."

"You keep answering me as if you can understand, you know that?" Lucy smiled at the cat who peered up curiously at her, "Well, finders keepers. The three of you are my responsibility now. So what should I name you three?" Lucy pondered.

"...meow."

"Ah, I know!" Lucy grinned, "You'll be Spiky, and he'll be Noir, the sleeping one can be Fluffy!"

"Lucy-sama?" a knock on the door made Lucy jump in surprise.

"Yes?"

"Lunch time."

Lucy sighed in relief, "I'll bring you three some milk, just stay here okay?"

"She seems nice," Shisui smiled once the door closed.

"Hn, her body language didn't suggest any lies." Itachi agreed, heading back to the other cat.

"It'd be nice if she could understand us though," Shisui sighed, following Itachi.

"I know you're awake." Itachi informed the 'sleeping' cat.

"..since when?" a more sheepish sounding voice asked as the cat opened one eye only.

"You were awake the whole time Lucy was here, right?" Shisui cheekily asked.

"Correct," the cat stood up, albeit a bit clumsily.

"Who are you?" Itachi wasn't one to beat around the bush after all.

"I'm Obito Uchiha!" the cat grinned at them.

"Haven't heard of you before." Shisui bluntly said.

"Hehe, see, I died during the Third Ninja War," Obito explained.

"This is odd though," the two turned to look at a frowning Itachi, "We all died in different time periods."

"Now that you mention it, I guess you're right," Obito thoughtfully said, "Maybe this is a jutsu of sorts?" he offered.

"Perhaps," Itachi agreed.

"Is there even such a jutsu? I mean I know about the Edo-tensei, but not about someone actually coming back to life as a cat. And even then there's no way someone could have find any of my DNA to revive me." Shisui gave his own input.

"Or that girl really has the answer?" Obito suggested.

"Maybe." Shisui agreed.

Obito was confused, one moment he was taking Rin's hand as she led him to the afterlife and then everything went black. And now he's stuck as a cat with two others who he was indirectly responsible for killing.

Talk about majorly feeling guilty.

He couldn't let them know who he really was, lest he lose their trust, so he had no choice but to use his true identity.

'It's been a long time since I called myself Obito...' He noted to himself, absently licking his paw.

"Why do you have one eye closed?" Shisui suddenly asked.

Obito froze, how was he going to answer that? Would Itachi figure him out? No, that's not possible. He just had to play it cool, "I gave it to my best friend so I can look at the future through his eyes."

"Oh, I'm sorry for bringing up memories," Shisui apologized.

"Who was he?" Itachi asked.

Obito's smile twitched a bit, "He was Bakashi, better known as Kakashi Hatake."

"No way, you were the one who gave Kakashi-san his Sharingan?" Shisui was shocked.

"Yep~! Why?" Obito played oblivious.

"Kakashi-san is one of the strongest ninjas from the Leaf!" Shisui excitedly informed him.

"Is that so? And he said whatever Jounin gift I gave him would be useless," Obito let out an arrogant 'hmph.'

The three's attention then turned to the door hearing footsteps approaching. On cue the door went open.

Obito sucked in a deep breath, 'Her eyes!' his mind screamed as he stared at Lucy's eyes that reminded him of Rin's.

"Oh? You're awake Fluffy!" Lucy grinned.

"Fluffy?" Obito asked with a sweat drop.

"That's you. I'm Spiky." Shisui informed.

"Noir." Itachi supplied.

Lucy had two bottles of milk in her hands, "You guys will have to share, okay?" she asked with an apologetic smile as she closed the door.

"There you go," Lucy poured the second bottle of milk in a red bowl.

She frowned in confusion when the three kittens didn't make a move to even sniff the liquid, weren't cats supposed to like milk?

"Is something wrong?" she asked despite knowing they couldn't answer her.

Noir blinked owlishly at her before stepping forward and gave a small lick at the milk.

Three tense seconds later Noir began licking up the milk at a more moderate pace.

Soon enough Fluffy and Spiky went to the other bowl and began doing the same.

Although a bit confused at their behavior Lucy was pleased to note that she was doing a good job with her pets.

Perhaps she should get some collars for them.

Shaking her head of those thoughts she walked over to her nightstand and grabbed her two gold keys. Cancer and Aquarius.

She fondly brushed them before holding her hand out while grasping Cancer's key not noticing her trio of kittens looking at her curiously.

"I am linked to the path to the world of Celestial Spirits, now! O spirit, answer my call and pass through the gate! Cancer!"

"Meow!" she faintly heard one of the cats jump in surprise as Cancer appeared.

"What kind of hairstyle would you like today? -ebi" Cancer asked, not even glancing nor asking about the kittens.

Lucy smiled at her spirit, "I need you to trim Fluffy, Noir and Spiky's fur for me."

Cancer took it as his cue to look at the three kittens, he could immediately guess which one was which.

But he couldn't help but feel that there was something odd about those kittens. They had more magical power than Lucy, but it didn't really feel like magic.

"May I ask where you found them? -ebi"

Lucy tilted her head at him in confusion, "In the forest."

'Suspicious -ebi, I will have to tell Aquarius...'

Cancer held his pair of scissors firmly preparing to trim all three's hair in a quick flash before pausing.

Why did the three kittens seem on edge?

"Is something wrong Cancer?" Lucy questioned.

Cancer shook his head before quickly dashing to the other side of the room, his speed fast enough for him to instantly trim their fur in the blink of an eye.

"Done -ebi" he informed.

Lucy looked at her three kittens with a grin, their fur was practically shining, "Nice work Cancer!"

"I'll take my leave then -ebi" Cancer informed, disappearing in a flash of gold light.

He had to inform Aquarius as soon as possible after all. In the meantime he hoped those kittens were really just kittens with a lot of magic instead of what he was suspecting.

Lucy felt like shivering at the intense look she was getting from her three kittens.

"E-eh, that was my friend Cancer..." she awkwardly informed them, wondering what was wrong with her spirit.

If possible their look intensified.

"What?" she asked them.

"Meow."

Lucy was even more confused, this was the first time she wished she could understand cat.

The three kittens shared a glance before Noir stepped forward walking towards her.

Lucy looked on curiously as Noir began pawing at her feet. Lucy understood that he wanted to be lifted up?

She crouched down ready to lift him up only to pause as Noir pawed at her hands.

She opened her hand revealing her two gold keys, "What's wrong?" she asked.

Noir tapped at Cancer's key before looking up at her.

Lucy tilted her head, "This is Cancer's key," she quietly informed.

Noir's tail twitched before he once again tapped Cancer's key before looking up at her, this time tilting his head to the side as if copying her.

Lucy's eyes widened realizing what Noir was trying to say.

'What is this?'

"These two keys are Celestial Spirit Gate Keys, they're magical items. Magical Items are objects with Magical properties, so they have magic stored in them, amazing right?"

Lucy then gazed at her two keys, an excited look on her face.

"Celestial Spirit Gate Keys are Magical keys that can be used to summon Celestial Spirits, beings from another dimension that can be used to fight their contractor's opponents, to do chores or just to hang around with."

"There are two different types of Celestial Spirit Gate Keys: the Silver Keys and the Gold Keys. The Silver Keys are common keys that can be bought from stores while the Gold Keys are very rare keys that can be used to summon the Zodiac Spirits."

"I currently only have two gold keys that I received from my mother, Aquarius the water bearer and Cancer the giant crab. My dream is to one day gather all twelve gold keys!" Lucy informed with an ambitious look.

"But first, I have to join a guild..." Lucy's shoulders slumped as she let out a sigh.

"Meow?" Spiky meowed joining in as he too tilted his head to the side.

"In general, guilds are formed for individuals to take Jobs and earn Jewels, and also for them to train and grow see, if I don't join a guild I can't he considered a full-fledged mage."

Lucy seemed to have a depressed aura around her as she gave another sigh, "This is why I want to get out of here, I want to join a guild..."

She blinked in surprise when Fluffy licked her fingers.

"Fluffy..." she mumbled in surprise.

Fluffy looked up at her, "Meow."

Even though Lucy couldn't understand him, she had a feeling he was trying to comfort her.

She smiled slightly and rubbed his chin, "Thanks."

"One day I'll get there, I'll be a full-fledged mage and I'll join Fairy Tail." she firmly said.

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Chapter End

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Author's Note: Heyo~! How y'all enjoying the story?

Edit date: 27/2/2017