A/N: Greetings all. This is my first fan fiction so please be gentle. The idea of Sam being cursed into a bakeneko AKA Monster cat came from my love for cats and my sister's L4D fic Left 4 Cats. This is slash and I'm gonna try and make this a Everyone X Sam pairing. I don't know why but I seem to have a soft spot for All x Sam…yes I know I'm weird. Homophobic people please turn back before you hurt yourselves.

Warning: Shape shifting, cats and yaoi. (To avoid, please look down at the upper right-side of the keyboard. Do you see a button with a Backspace and an arrow? Press it. Thank you for visiting this fic and come again soon.) Don't like, don't read.

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Sam stared out at the vast blue ocean that surrounded the island, half listening to his parents as they augured about where to visit first. They were on a vacation in Japan for a week. The holiday was spent with shopping in Shibuya and Tokyo and stuff, they even visited Shinto temples and tried out hot springs. Right now they were in Tashirojima, an island east of the city of Sendai. The island was also known as Cat Island due to its large number of stray cats.

The teen missed the Autobots but didn't regret the vacation. It was hard explaining to the robots that he was leaving the county for a few days. They became very protective of him ever since the incident in Egypt and didn't want to let him go. However Judy and her ever-so wonderful bat that always had this magical ability to suddenly appear whenever needed took care of that problem easily.

Sam grinned at the memory of his mom chasing the giant 'bots around the base, chuckling to himself when he remembered the horror on his friends faces as they ran from the small human. Even Optimus Prime got a lecture and a few dents in his right foot when he tried to talk Judy out of taking the boy.

The teen rolled his eyes at that thought. After the death of the Fallen, the Autobots's watch over him was suffocating. He spent weekends in their base and there always seemed to be at least one 'Bot around him. He'd hang out with his best friend/car Bumblebee or chat with Optimus then train with Ironhide and get check-ups from Ratchet who'd teach him things sometimes. They all got to spent time with him and he was happy for it but it was starting to frustrate him. They were huge over-protective mother hens, always asking about his safety and if he was comfortable and stuff. Sam knew that they cared for him but the stress was getting to him.

And then came the staring and cuddling. They'd just stare at him for no reason and it unnerved him, the cuddling was okay but it made him feel like a teddy bear they won from a funfair or something. The teen was brushed it off as a robot thing but there was defiantly something they were hiding from him.

'Well at least I'm free here.'Sam thought, grateful for the break as he blew a strand of white hair aside when it fell over his eyes.

One of the side-effects of dying and coming back was his hair turning a snowy white (Lucky for him, such colours were common in Japan) and his deep brown eyes becoming a lighter shade along with specks of gold. Ratchet took loads of scans when the changes came a few days after the fight, other than the physical appearance, the medic couldn't find anything wrong with him besides the healing injuries and had no choice but to let him go.

Well the good thing from it was that the world wouldn't be able to find his face too easily. The government tried their best to clear his name but there were some parts of the world still kept an eye out for him thanks to the Fallen. Lucky for him, Japan wasn't one of them so he was sort of free till someone recognizes him as the one with huge robots and a mob of Gundam-fans/anime-fans would swam him. (I'm one of 'em)

After Judy made sure the 'Bots understood that they needed a vacation, (when asked now how they'd be safe, all she did was raise the metal bat and smiled) the robots drove the Witwickys to the airport. The teen could feel a sadness aura from them when he took his luggage out 'Bee, Sam just smiled at them brightly. He promised to come back in one piece and laughed when some of them blasted their horns in reply, startling other humans in the front. The holiday was spent visiting temples, hot springs and shopping for souvenirs. He wondered about what he should get his giant friends until a loud voice snapped him out of his thoughts.

"-See those cat houses. We ate not too long ago, right Sam? Sammy?" The said boy blinked at the concern tone of his mother.

"Y-yes mom?"

"Oh for goodness sake were you even listening?" Judy shook her head and said "I was saying that we should check out those cat houses but your father thinks food's more important." She finished with a slight glare at Ron, making him frown before replying.

"Well those cats won't come out till later, might as well go eat something." It was in the afternoon and most of the cats were sleeping but Sam didn't say that as his parents began arguing again. He sighed, about to step in when he saw movement at the corner of his eye. He saw some kids run out of the town to the forest area with a look on their face that spelled trouble. Curious, the teen quietly followed them, making sure his parents didn't notice.

Sam followed them to a rocky path that led him towards the sea, but he noticed some foot prints that went off the trail and into the small forest. Blinking, he carefully made his way through the greenery, finding more shoe tracks while avoiding tree roots. The teen then came to an opening where he saw a large old shrine (1); the abandon building probably didn't get visited for a long time. The shrine was larger than the one he had seen before on the island.

The shrine's roof had cracks while the wooden sides were rotten and claw marks all over. A red door stood there with a white ribbon loosely tied around the door, along with rotting talismans stuck onto it. Sam could barely make out faded Japanese saying "Bakemono" (2) but he never heard of it. The shrine just stood there alone and decaying, he wondered why they stopped visiting this shrine for it still had some of it beauty.

The teenage turned and walked behind the shrine but stopped when he heard a little meow from above. Looking up, Sam saw a little golden tabby kitten perched up on a tree nearby. She was just a kitten, staring at him with blue eyes, too afraid to come down. The white-haired male sighed and made his way to the tree and began to climb it slowly as not to scare the cat. He wasn't much of a cat-lover but it felt so wrong to ignore the poor thing.

"Hey there, you alright sweetie? Don't worry I've gotcha..." Sam said gently as he neared the feline, slowly reaching out and scooping the she-kit who simply mewled in return. He smiled and held the kitten close to his chest, giggling at the ticklish feeling when she nuzzled him as he made his way back down. When the teen stepped onto firm ground, he heard laughter and shouting of children. He quietly walked over to the shrine and peeked, still cradling the kitten in his arms.

There five boys covered in mud and chasing each other playfully. One of the boys stopped at the shrine's door and shouted at the rest. They gathered and whispered to each other before grinning as they started pulling off the talismans. Sam felt anger flare as paper littered the ground and rushed forward.

"Hora! Anata wa nani o yatte iru?" (3) He read a How-to-speak-Japanese guidebook on the plane, the photographic memory gifted by the Allspark made it too easy. The children froze in mid-pulling and ran, ripping the last charms off. Sam shook his head and began to pick the fallen paper, adjusting his hold on the kitten who had curled up in his arms and fell asleep. He picked up the last piece when a creaking noise made him look up.

The doors stood wide open, revealing an unusual black cat far bigger than any house cat. The cat had black fur, long razor-sharp claws and two long tails lashing side to side. Crazed amber slit-eyes locked onto frighten honey brown eyes and the human felt something deep inside him react.

The feline reared up on its back legs, roaring before leaping at him. Sam snapped out of it and quickly turned to run but cried out when the cat slashed his left shoulder from behind. Pain flared and he fell onto his side, hearing the sleeping kitten wake up and hiss at the large cat before all faded black.

Sam twitched and groaned in pain, not registering the noise sounding odd. The teen felt as if he had been run over by Optimus repeatedly and then thrown into a fire pit along with this dull ache at his head and the end of his tailbone. He lay on the soft leave covered ground and jumped slightly when he felt a soft yet rough wet thing touch his face. Sam opened his eyes to see a close up of the kitten he had recused; the she-kit purred and continued licking him. Was it him or was the kitten bigger then he last saw her?

Blinking in confusion, Sam looked around and saw that the world seemed too have grown. He could hear all types of bird calls and the scuttling of small mammals, the leaves dancing in the breeze and even laugher of humans from the village. His sight increased, enabling him to see a further and sharper and so did his sense of smell.

Sam felt a cold lump of dread in settle in his stomach and slowly got up. He spotted a small pool of water and half-dragged, half-walked over to it. Dizziness came to him when he stood but it left fast and he looked at his reflection.

A beautiful cat twice the size of a normal house-cat stared back at him. The feline had bi-coloured eyes, the right honey brown and an enchanting gold for left. It had longish white silky fur with pale black spots dappling it like markings along its pelt except it's the paws which were chocolate brown. Pair of fuzzy white ear with brown at the tips adorns the head and beside it was a long, slender white tail that was split a little at the end, brown tipped as well.

Sam stared at the image in horror, hoping this was a dream. He raised his right arm and saw the cat raise its right paw then smacked him with it, feeling the hit. The teen-turned-cat let out a yowl, ignoring a similar shocked yowl from the kitten behind him.

"Oh hell no. No! No no no no this can't be real!" Sam screeched and tried to run away from the reflection, only to trip over his own paws. He scrambled up and was about to scream/yowl his head off when a kind voice spoke.

"Lost little one?"

Sam looked up and saw a huge elderly woman tower over him. He yelped in surprise and turned to flee but remembered the kitten. He managed to stand in front of the kitten, instinct made him bare his new fangs and arch his back as he hissed fiercely.

The old lady only smile. "I mean no harm little neko-san" she said gently and continued. "The nekomata (4) who was sealed in that shrine escaped when the seals came off. It was still angry at the humans who sealed it away. It took it out on you and has cursed you into one of its kind."

Sam stared at her then meowed "How the hell do I change back? Oh shit Mom and Dad so going to kill me!" He yelled but only a distressed wail came out.

"Right now you are only a bakeneko but in time your forked tail shall split into two, making you a nekomata." She said, not understanding a word. Sam sighed, standing and forcing himself to try. He fell down a few times but kept going. It felt weird having a tail and moving on all fours, the tail was like having something like an extra limb behind that helped his balance while moving was very different. Unlike most animals, he walked by moving both his left front and back paw first followed by his right front and back and repeat. Soon he was able to walk, run and leap like an average feline.

"Okay I can walk. Will you tell me how the heck do I change back now?" Sam meowed irritably, not caring if she understood or not. He could take things like alien robots landing on his world but turning into a cat was NOT one of them.

The old lady smiled and stuck a hand into one of her kimono sleeves, saying a soft 'Yatta' when she pull out to reveal a beautiful silver bell with weird symbols on it and it hung on a blue ribbon. Sam's eyes widen and scrambled away but too late and the lady picked him up, tying the ribbon round his neck. He struggled at first but stopped and huffed in annoyance as she made sure the ribbon was secured before placing him back on the ground.

Sam shook his head, trying to dislodge the fabric around his collar, ears pricking at the soft chime of the bell. It felt restricting but did not hurt. He raised his hind paws to scratch it off but no avail. Instead he turned and glared at the old woman, ears folded back and tail swishing slightly.

"The bell shall help you, neko-san. It belonged to another bakeneko who used it as a medium to control its powers. You'll learn to use harness yours naturally" Sam just gave her a long weird look but closed his eyes. He wasn't sure what to think but willed himself to change back. The white furred feline felt nothing at first then a surge of power came and he reached out to it, the power seemed to flow through him.

He opened his eyes to see the world back to its normal level but the heighten senses stayed with him. The teen checked himself, turning red at the sight of his nude body and quickly tried to cover himself. Sam blushed harder when the elder chuckled and walked towards him, handing him a set of clothes. The clothes turned out to be a plain white kimono and a red hakama (5). With some help from the old woman, he stood looking graceful in the costume. She stepped back to inspect her work, giving him a pitying smile when she spotted something.

"Seems like there are a few…side effects but don't worry, you can just hide them." She said, passed a bamboo hat from nowhere to him before adding "And I'm really sorry for there is no cure."

Sam tilted his head in confusion and followed her gaze, jaw dropping when he saw a white and brown forked tail swishing slowly under him. He stuffed it down the hakama and looked at the bamboo hat before reaching up to his head and touching two soft fluffy ears. So the bakeneko took a deep breath and-

"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"

Birds on the island took off in fear, sleeping cats in the village woke up while the ones awake jumped a foot in the air, rodents ducked for cover and humans either jumped or gave a small scream themselves. (Reminds me of Brother Bear)

[Somewhere in the town]

Ron could had sworn that sharp noise he heard sounded familiar but ignored it and chased after his wife, trying to stop her from scaring people as she questioned them about her son's whereabouts. He was worried too for his boy but Judy was going over-broad, throwing questions at random locals and screaming Sam's name. He rushed forward and grabbed her arm before she terrified another old couple.

"Calm down Judy. He's almost an adult now and if he can survive a war between alien robots, he probably can live being lost on a small island for a few hours." Ron tried to reason but flinched when Judy shot a death glare at him and was about to snap at him when they both heard their son's voice.

"Um…Mom? Dad?" They turned and stared in shock at the sight before them.

A nervous Sam stood wearing a traditional plain white kimono and hakama, a worn out bamboo hat, a blue ribbon with a silver bell with his hair suddenly longer till it touched his shoulders and carrying a gold tabby kitten. Oh and most of the population of cats on the island nuzzling him and trying to groom him.

Ron and Judy stared a bit longer before Judy went into lecture-mood about disappearing and making them worried. Sam lied that he wandered off and saw a kitten stuck on a tree and saved it but fell into a pond while climbing down. An old woman happened to be nearby and gave him the spare clothes; unfortunately she was a cat-lover and left cat-nip in them thus explaining the cat mob following him to the hotel while the bell pendant was a gift from the lady for saving the kitten he said. Judy rolled her eyes at the oblivious lie but didn't ask anymore since her little boy was safe so they made their way to the hotel.

That night Sam sat by a window, his new cat ears exposed since his parents were asleep. He had gone to the bathroom the second they stepped foot into the room. He changed into a white shirt and jeans and took the time to inspect himself in the mirror. Sam found out that his canines and fingernails had grown sharper and stronger while his eyes would sometimes dilate depending on light and he felt,

Other felines roam around as his new condition allowed him to watch as easy as it was in day. He sighed and began pacing along the room silently, feeling restless. Ever since dusk Sam had this strong urge to just walk out into the night, to run free and jump around as he please but he held back. The teen finally stopped and sat down on the Japanese comforter set, curling up as he tried not to think about tomorrow. He was so deep in his thoughts that sleep took him without him knowing.

Sam had a wonderful wake-up call which was his mother's scream. Getting up fast he looked wildly, his body unconsciously bended and a hand rose slightly to attack. The white-haired teen saw his parents standing at the edge of the room, both staring in shock. His hands flew up to his ears, feeling them uncovered and flat on his head. A soft whimper escaped him. "Mom, Dad I can explain. I swear it's not my fault." He said nervously as the adults stared.

Judy came out from her shock at the slight fear in her child's voice. She felt hurt in her heart as she saw her son look so scared, quickly she rushed forward and hugged him.

"It's alright Sammy. Don't be afraid, I'm right here." She cooed, feeling her little boy shake and hiccup as he broke down. Sam tried his best to hold back his emotions but failed and sobbed softly as he hugged his mom back. Ron shook his head slowly and sat down as his wife and son lowered themselves onto the mat. When Sam's sobbing reduced to sniffing, he smiled thankfully at his mother who smiled back. He then retold the tale of what happened of following the children, saving the kitten, the mysterious cat and the unknown elderly woman. By the end Judy just grinned and hugged her son, saying that he was so brave while Ron tried to digest the story.

"So you got cursed by some ghost cat and now you're a monster cat?" He asked, earning a hard smack from Judy when he said monster. Sam just nodded and looked away, ears and tail flopped down. The man watched his son before sighing "Did the lady tell you if you could cure it then?"

"She said that there was no cure." The couple glanced at each other worriedly before Judy looked up.

"Should we see a doctor then? Or maybe let that robot named after a screwdriver check you?" Sam shook his head quickly with a hint of panic in his eyes.

"No! The doctor will tell the government send me to a lab or something for them to experiment while Ratchet will never let me leave the med-bay."

"Sam, they'll find out eventually. We need to tell someone so that they can help us."

"…"

"You'll tell them or I'll the moment I see them, do you understand Samuel?" His mother sent him a stern glare, making the boy pout and look down.

"I…I'll tell them but not right away. Just give me sometime please." Sam said softly and Judy's eyes soften at the plea and hugged him. She grinned and scratched one of his ears, making Sam purr at the nice feeling and grinned back at her. Ron smiled, gave his son a pat on the back and stood up.

"Come 'on, let's go home."

That's it for now and i think I wrote too much, it just came out like a flood. Hope y'all liked it and me promise Sam will interact with the 'bots in the next chapter if you review.

(1) I've a friend whose aunt lives on that island. Rumors say that a stray cat got killed, turned into a nekomata and caused trouble for people so they sealed it in the shrine and left forgotten. It's said that the shrine still stands somewhere on the island.
(2) A monster or yōkai that can shape shift.
(3) "Hey! What are you doing?"
(4) A two-tailed cat, it's more powerful than the bakeneko as it has mastered all of its magic. They can control ghostly fire balls, causes nightmares, turn corpses into zombies and more.
(5)Traditional Japanese clothing/pants?

Anyway please review this. Give me at least 10 reviews so that I know people want me to keep going. Thanks for reading ^-^