Depression

Neko sat on a rock over looking the desert which lay before her. She sighed and blinked, egausted. The moon was high in the sky and the sand was almost white compared to the black sky

"I really thought... Thought I was getting there... now I reallize I never did do a very good job."

She started slipping off the rock, falling half asleep.

Ich ran near where Neko was, noticing she was slipping so he grabbed Neko in wolf form and tried to pull her up

She blinked a few times, but didn't steady herself, thinking she was in a dream. "Hello Inu-chan. Could you direct me to the nearest Gaara-kun airport?"

Ich got pulled into the cliff and says as he transforms into human form, "What are you talking about Neko!?"

She shook her head around and then sat up strait. "Oh, Ichichi-kun! I thought I was sleeping a moment ago. Did I slip off the rock, meow?"

ooc: I'm wearing a Hello Kitty ring! X3 lol

"Yes..." Ich huffed and puffed (and blew your house down XD X3), "you slipped... off... the... rock..."

ooc: lol X3

"Oh, well then thank-you, meow." she put her index finger, her middle finger, and her ring finger on her forehead, shaking back and forward a little bit more to wake up. "I had a drem I needed to get to an airport that was run by Gaara-kun to tell him I was sorry... Then a dog told me the right way to go and I started heading that way when I woke up."

Cloud was at the bottom of the cliff.


"O_O"

Ich was about to burst with laughter but then pain came across his chest... it was a day after his surgery.

Kat walked up to the three of them "You shouldn't laugh at people's dreams, Gaiya!" She said and turned and looked at Neko "I'm Sabaku no Kat, who are you?"

"Meow?" Everyone kinda poofed, so she was a little stunned but stuck her hand out. "Neko-Coneko, just Neko. It's nice meeting you Kat-chan, and, uh, thanks." She smiled, referring to Kat's scolding of Gaiya in her defense.

Kat smiled at Neko and ruffled her ears "Awww, I haven't seen a cat person before!" She said and sat down beside Neko "Are you friends with Gaara-sama?" She asked curiously "I think Naruto went to go bother him or something like that!"

"Sorry Kat... I just couldn't help myself... I never had a laugh in a millenium" Ich says truthfully, and then continues to say, "You still going after Naruto?"

Neko smiled and nodded to Kat. "Gaara-kun is my first friend, he is to a lot of people, but apparently, I'm his first-ever best friend too, meow!" She twitched her ears. "You know him too? A lot of people seem to know him, unfortunately, I don't know that Naruto-chan you speak of. Or is she a boy?"

After she was done speaking, Neko's smile grew. If she had made Ichi laugh when he hadn't in so long, well, that made her feel special. Then she waited for Kat's reply, hoping Kat wouldn't decide to not be her friend because she didn't know Naruto's gender.

Kat chuckled at the thought of Naruto being a girl "Um trust me, Naruto is very much a guy! Just don't call him 'Naruto-chan' to his face, it'll piss him off but I do it and he seems to like it!" She said. Her eyes sparkled as she was thinking of the fond memories she had with that blonde boy, perhaps she would forgive him... "How could I not know Gaara-kun? I was the one who brought him back from the dead. You know, I was so sad when he died, I thought I'd never be cheerful again." Kat explained and wondered why she was grinning, she glanced at Neko "Your cheerfulness if very contagious!" She said.

Kat turned to Ichi "I'm not sure now, it wasn't like Naruto to just go off and try to kill me like that. Perhaps I should forgive the stupid idiot afterall..." She murmured.

Neko smiled at Kat's response and compliment. If this girl was the one to have brought Gaara back, Neko owed everything to her. She decided that she liked Kat. Liked her very much. And Neko would do everything in her power to make this new friend happy. "Kat-chan.. Kat-chan will be a new friend I think!"

Neko bowed her head to Kat, but looking up, she just realized what Kat had said about Naruto to Ichi. "Naruto-kun..? Tried to kill... You..? But I thought he was your friend, meow?"

"You know, Kat... I didn't get the entire story... can you explain everything to me so I'm on the same page... and if I run into Naruto, I'll ask if I can get his side of the story... only if it is ok with you." Ich suggested

Kat sighed and tried to block out the images of the stupid grinning blonde idiot from her mind. She closed her eyes for a moment and whispered "After I revived Gaara, Naruto suddenly went berserk and started saying that I was in his way of getting back Uchiha Sasuke. I never thought he would turn on me like that, maybe I don't deserve him..."

Kat smiled again "But I guess it's okay because I have Gaara, Hitori, Raku, Ryu and Tamwyn and now I have Neko so I consider myself lucky to have any friends at all!" She turned to Neko "You don't have to bow to me, I should be bowing to you for being nice to cold-hearted monster like myself!" She said.

"I think he had one of his spasm moments... you know, crazyness for no apparent reason..." Ich says while looking at the red moon that was in the sky, then suddenly looks into Kat's eyes with his royal blue eyes and says, "But anyways, my name is Ichiyashago. And Kat, you are not a monster... I was... but with help, I became humane"

Kat shook her head and muttered "Naruto had superb control over his demon, and I can sense when it is the demon controlling the body." She thought for a moment and continued "And...what is it like being human and living a disgustingly normal life?" She asked curiously.

Neko sighed, sadly. "In this world of ninja, nobody's life is normal. And yet, people who think they're different say that they are monsters in such a common tone that you'd think they were talking about the colour of their eyes." She shook her head. "In all my life, of all the people who I've known, none of them have been monsters."

She started up at Kat, smiling sadly. "So, what is your definition of this thing you call yourself.. A monster?"

Kat's eyes widened in surprise and she didn't know what to say to the cute kitty person (LOL I love cats ^_^) "Most people would never accept me due to the fact that I have two evil little demons sealed within me. And I hardly doubt that they would accept a werewolf either, which is what I am. I used to murder people to feel alive, I existed for myself and I loved only myself for I thought I had no purpose. I am disgusted with myself, for I am truly a monster."

"Same here... That's exactly how I lived my life before I became a vampire" Ich says looking away

ooc: YAY KITTY-LUV!

Neko sighed again, tilting her head to one side as she gazed at Kat. "Well, 'most people' can take the stick out of their ass and look at who we really are." Her tone of voice was very polite for someone who just said something like that. She stood up and continued talking while dusting her knees off.

"The people who have things inside them, are not monsters because they are the hosts to such things. It was not any one of our faults that we were chosen to be who we are today. In fact, the real monsters are the people who shove demons into innocent, pure people and then ridicule them for it. It doesn't make sense."

She stood up strait, stretching a bit because she had been sitting for so long. "It's like me dumping a pile of garbage on your head and then making fun of you for being covered in garbage. That makes no sense at all."

She took half a step forward and put one finger on Kat's heart. "Just because something with a black soul lives inside you, doesn't mean you are the one with the black soul. In fact," She lightly smiled, looking up at Kat. "You are very pure."

"Neko's right... but I killed for the heck of it when I was just 2... and I wasn't a jinchuuriki..." Ich says truthfully