A/N: What a cute way for these guys to hook up. Tenzo looks like a cat person just like Sasuke. Except Sasuke isn't being hunted by a certain copy ninja.

Cat-a-Ratic

"You have a cat?"

"No, Hayate Gekko had a cat. I'm just cat-sitting until Yugao Uzuki returns from her mission," explained Kakashi.

"Oh."

"Does it disappoint you that I have no feline companion along with my ninja-pup crew, Yamato."

"No, it's just...you seemed like a cat person to me, besides being an extreme dog lover."

"Well, we could always make an arrangement for YOU to substitute as my short-haired-feline friend. If you had ears, you'd look like one of those neko's I keep hearing about. They're just all the rave these days. A rare find but worth keeping if fortunate to stumble upon."

"Are,...are you hitting on me, senpai?"

"Why ever would you think that, Yamato?"

"Well, don't take this the wrong way, but,...friends aren't usually in kissable distance as you are with me, senpai."

"Would it bother you, if I were,.." purred the Sharingan user, leaning in.

Tenzo's head snapped up, almost knocking heads with his superior, when his senpai made a suggestive pass at him. He could still feel the moment when Hatake Kakashi's lips firmly touched his, in a feathered kiss that left him awe-struck and uncertain.

Not wanting to push his luck too much but also not wanting to back down, Kakashi chuckled softly to himself and brushed his finger across his lips, before going back to the pretense of innocence, with a switch of his eye expression.

Staring wearily, Tenzo backed slightly away from his senpai's reach but not too far to cause offense and commanded his body to stop and stay put like a man, instead of cowering away like a maiden on her wedding night.

It wasn't like they were going to do it. Rip off their clothing and see who had more stamina. Kakashi or him. He was certain Kakashi did but than again... Before this...before team 7...he never really thought of his senpai in terms of, "Hey, would you like to have sex with me. I'm sure you have a horde of knowledge in this area. Unlike me..who is in fact, a virgin and as vanilla as it comes."

No, he was sure *SEX* was far from his senpai's mind with him but then again, he couldn't really tell with that mask thing concealing his facial features, to be a 100% sure.

He couldn't deny he felt self-conscious, now.

It kind of reminded him of the time, when he joined Anbu and after the mission, he hesitated to use the shower stalls of the anbu locker rooms. Still only in his teens, he wasn't very confident of how the guys would size up his package with theirs. Since guys, had competitions on these sort of things.

Was it too small. Was it too big. Would they think him gay, if he took a measuring stick to theirs. At least they got to wear the animal mask but still,...

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When no further movement was possible on his part, Tenzo risked exhaling the breath he was holding and look exactly how far Kakashi-san was to him.

Still in kissable range, he speculated and when the realization dawned on him that his senpai wasn't going to go anywhere soon, until he got, said kiss, Tenzo did what any intimidated soul would.

His heart began pumping in overdrive in his chest as the blood in his veins flowed to his ears, making it seem louder than the thudding of his heart, as he contrasted with himself whether he should go along or flee from the room, with the little dignity he still had in tack.

Kakashi chuckled softly and as Tenzo was busy arguing with himself, he stepped over to him and pushed him purposely yet non-resistant back against the door junction, so that the raven-haired anbu young man would have no other choice but to use the vertical wood surface as a support vessel to steady himself.

Tenzo stared eye-wide at Kakashi-san as he slinked up beside him, never once breaking eye contact with him, as his senpai grabbed the front of his jounin vest and pasted himself to him. Bending down and nuzzling his silver-grey head against his face and neck, like a certain feline creature they were talking about.

"Or maybe you would want, ME, to be your pet cat. Is that what you want, Tenzo?" asked the copy-ninja, finally using Yamato's real name to show he wasn't playing around any longer.

"K-Kakashi,.." Tenzo finally found his voice from his earlier stutter of the older man's name, "On what ground's is this conduct -"

Tenzo froze as Kakashi grabbed his chin between his fore finger and thumb and hovered his unmasked face over his lips in invitation, "Being a dog person isn't enough for you. I now realize this, as my attempts at gaining your affections has always seem to fall short of your attention but if this is what you want, I can shuffle things up a bit and try to appease to your...eccentric taste."