I never thought I'd actually get back into this fandom... Let alone actually rewriting one of my most popular stories from when I was in Sophomore year of HIGH SCHOOL! Anyways so a few major things... One character has been completely erased from this rewrite and two new characters are gonna be popping up A LOT more. The erased character was based on an old friend of mine that I had a major falling out with, and thus will not ever be popping up again. However... the other character (aside from Catherine who is mine) will be popping up, she's just gonna appear much later in this rewrite though.

Oh and for shipping, I'm going to hold a vote on which OC should go to which character as the story progresses. I'll probably begin the vote officially around chapter 5 when I get to it.

Aside from that, hope you enjoy this remake and enjoy the new/remastered characters!

Chapter 1:

"Shit! Why the hell did it have to rain today?!" a young woman yelled as she ran down the streets of a city, holding a black messenger bag with Attack on Titan written in green close with one arm to her chest. Her long blond hair was sticking to her near sickly pale face as the hood of her black and white sweatshirt had fallen off due to the wind. Her blue eyes, forced to peer through a pair of nearly fogged up glasses, squinted to try and keep a good lookout before catching sight of a familiar sign for a bus stop. Stopping near it, the young woman let out a heavy sigh as she pulled her hood back up and removed her glasses for a moment.

"First the professors spring a test on us, then my flash drive went missing with my project before I could turn it in, I have to redo my storyboards and NOW I have to wait in the rain for the damn bus…" The blond grumbled to herself as she cleared as much fog from her glasses as she could. Once satisfied, she reached into one of the real (thank god) pockets of her black dress pants and pulled out a phone, checking some texts from her roommates, her parents and even clicking over to turn on some music to listen to… only to pause at a sound from an alley nearby the bus stop.

Blinking for a moment, the young woman turned to peer into the darkened area.

It's either a cat, homeless person… or someone that's probably gonna kill me. Kinda rooting more for the cat, but then again… Death could get me out of class tomorrow. The blond thought as she turned on the flashlight app on her phone to get a better look. Taking a couple steps into the alley, her black boots barely keeping the water from soaking her socks from the large puddle she stepped into, she soon found her answer.

Laying sprawled out on it's side behind a couple of trash cans was a dark ginger cat with a white splotch on it's slowly rising chest.

"... And here I thought it was gonna be a serial killer or something." The girl sighed in relief and was about to head back to the bus stop but paused when she looked back down at the stray cat. It's fur looked completely soaked, from the way it was breathing it seemed almost like it wasn't sleeping… it… it actually almost looked more like the ginger cat was having a bit of trouble breathing in all honesty. Dread started to pool into the young woman's gut.

Oh no… getting closer to the cat the woman quickly knelt down and touched the cat. It's body felt freezing and it's heart rate was slow…. And now that she got a better look at the cat it's nose was completely submerged in the large puddle from the heavy downpour.

"Oh no, no, no!" Quickly pulling out her phone and googling 'How to give CPR to a cat' she skipped to the steps on how to perform the infamous, "kiss of life" as it was called (or at least that's what she thought it was supposed to be called)… to a small furry creature that was definitely dying from lack of oxygen.

Okay, okay… jaws closed, breath into their nose, short sharp breaths. Following those steps, and felt kinda weirded out while doing so, the young woman got some oxygen flowing into the cat's lungs. As soon as she did that, the cat's eyes opened wide and it pulled its head out of her hold and began coughing out water.

"Well… this was eventfu- AH!" the young woman spoke up, only to cut herself off with a sharp yelp as her phone's ringtone went off. The ringtone even startled the exhausted cat. Fumbling for her phone the girl quickly answered.

"H-Hello?"

"Hey Cat!" an excited, familiar voice sounded from the phone.

"Luna, Hey… I'm uh, just about to get on the bus." Catherine, or rather "Cat" as her friend's call her, glanced back to the ginger cat that she saved… and it seemed to be staring right back at her.

"Alright, I'll make this quick then. You mind picking up some more cat food before you come home? Zoey's bitch ran out."

"Uh, yeah… Yeah sure I'll pick it up. I'll see you guys in a while." After a quick "Bye~" from her roomate, Cat glanced outside the alley. Seeing no sign of her bus yet, she turned back to the small animal in front of her and saw how it was shaking.

It's clearly a stray… and the bus doesn't allow animals on it unless they're helper animals… not to mention I still gotta get my car from the park and ride… Thinking to herself as she watched the ginger cat take in its surroundings with it's dark amber, almost brown looking, eyes.

"... You know what fuck it. Let's get you out of the rain."

….

Nearly three hours since finding the cat, many scratches from when she picked it up and tried to keep it hidden while on the bus, one soaked sketchbook (RIP) and a trip to the grocery store later, Catherine was finally walking into the one story home she shared with two friends.

"Hold still a little longer okay kitty?" Cat pleaded as she adjusted the bag she carried, with the stray cat she put into it. Said kitty seemed to let out an annoyed huff and at least complied. "Well, at least you listen unlike Clover."

That said, Catherine opened the door to her shared home, the sound of some anime playing in the background as the door swung inward, and then she called out. "I'm home!"

"He-ey Cat! You got the bitch's food?" A young woman, with her long light blond hair tied back into a ponytail, with a black headband to help keep it all held back in place, wearing a plain purple colored t-shirt under a grey hoodie and a pair of nice looking jeans.

"That depends Luna… you got my will to live?" Catherine asked, quirking a brow at her fellow blond and looking her right in her light blue eyes. There was a slight shift in her side bag at her question but other then that no noise from the ginger cat inside.

"No, but we do have Drifters playing." Luna shrugged, but did glance down to the darker dressed blonde's messenger bag.

"Eh, that'll work." Catherine smirked a little and carried the plastic bag over to the side kitchen to set the cat food into a specific cupboard that was near a cat food and water bowl… before going into her messenger bag and pulling out the ginger cat she had rescued earlier. "Here you go little guy, you might have to share with Clover for a bit but-"

"Catherine you brought another cat into our house?!" Luna shouted, her expression stuck in between being excited but also being pissed off. As soon as the shout finished, loud footsteps from the other roommate came stomping from one of the rooms, to sliding in front of the kitchen opening. This roommate had short, bob cut blond hair that was a shade somewhere between Catherine's dirty blond and Luna's near pale blonde, bright green eyes that seemed to hold more excitement than anything in them and she was wearing a black t-shirt with bright colored versions of the Eeveelutions in a stained glass design on it, as well as grey shorts.

"Yup." Cat responded, popping the p as she didn't look her fellow blonde's in the eye as she kept an eye on the ginger cat. Said ginger cat seemed to eye both bowls for a moment before looking back up at the bespectacled girl with an unamused look.

"Holy shit he's a little cutie!" the short haired blonde, Zoey squeed as she got a good look at the new kitty, before glancing down to Luna, who was shorter than her by at least 5 inches. "Come on Luna, it's just one more kitty… Clover can learn to share."

"That's not… What will the landlord think?"

"You can't have more then four pets wandering around…. Is what I remember him saying, besides fish don't really count, and neither does your Venus Flytrap Luna." Catherine responded, frowning a little as she saw the ginger cat just straight up ignore the cat food and seemed to be taking in her roommates now.

"Hey, Zetsu's very important in this house!" Luna protested.

"She's not saying he's not, just that he's a plant and doesn't count as a pet." Zoey laughed, kneeling down and beaconing for the new cat to come over and greet her…. Only to get straight up ignored as the cat turned it's brownish colored eyes to Luna. The pale blond haired girl sighed and glanced down at the cat, biting at the inner wall of her cheek for a moment in thought before sighing again.

"Fine…. Just… don't make a habit of bringing strays into the house after this okay?"

"Hey, we're college students with minimum wage jobs…. Like hell we'd be able to afford any more." Cat responded, just letting the new cat start his wandering to get used to his new apparent home. "... Imma call him Scorpion."

"What? Hey! It's supposed to be a house vote on names Cat." Luna exclaimed, while Zoey huffed.

"Yeah, at least let us think of something as well!"

"Considering I had to learn CPR for said cat, and he's got a white mark on his chest that kinda reminds me of the kanji on Puppet Sasori's chest, his name is Scorpion." Both Catherine's roommates blinked for a moment before looking down at the cat, more specifically at the white splotch on it's chest.

"... Huh, if you squint a little it does kinda look like the symbol." Luna hummed, while Zoey squinted a bit before sighing.

"Considering I've barely watched that anime, I got no clue… but if both of you say so then I'll take your word on it." The short haired blonde conceded while rubbing at the back of her neck before turning around and leaving the small kitchen area to go back to whatever she was doing before running to meet the newly named Scorpion.

"... Wanna watch Drifters again?" Luna asked after Zoey left, watching as Catherine stood back up and seemed to ponder a couple things first.

"Why the hell not, I gotta destress after some of the bullshit of today anyways."

….

If this is what awaits everyone after death… Well… this is not at all what I was expecting. Sasori thought to himself as he slowly explored the house he was brought into.

Sure when he first woke up here and when he first saw blond hair, he thought Deidara had somehow brought him back… however unlikely, but regardless that shattered when he actually felt oxygen entering his lungs for the first time in years… as well as the fact "Deidara" had purple framed glasses and hair that curled at the ends instead of hanging down straight. The real shocker was the fact he was in a cat's body!

A CAT of all things! He was an S-Ranked Criminal who turned corpses of enemy shinobi into his puppets, not a fluffy little monster that others cuddled and children put their disgusting hands all over!

"Wanna start over from Episode one Cat?"

On top of his list of annoyances… Sasori found himself surrounded by blonde girls. If it wasn't for the facts that thanks to Deidara he had a dislike for loud blondes, didn't enjoy other people touching him without his permission and that he wasn't a fan of people in general, this was more a nightmare than a fantasy for the former puppet master.

"Fuck yeah I do."

What are they even doing anyways? Feeling one of his now triangular ears twitching only added a little more agitation to his growing annoyance, as he stalked into the room where the girls, (Cat and…. Luna was it?) were sitting. His curiosity peaked when he heard something else being played in the room.

It was a pretty advanced seeming screen that wasn't playing anything that looked real, rather… it was moving art work. Blinking in surprise Sasori found himself slowly more drawn into the moving images on the screen, the story playing out before him of a Samurai warrior stumbling into a new world.

"Looks like Scorpion likes Anime as well." Catherine smirked as she caught sight of the former puppet, now fluffy shinobi fully immersed in the anime that was playing on the screen.

"Or maybe he just thinks Toyohisa is hot as well." Luna brought up as the anime continued to play on the screen.

"Luna, you think everyone in Drifters is hot." Cat smirked while playfully giving her fellow blond a soft shove.

"And I still curse you for introducing it to me to this day." Luna responded with a soft elbow to the bespectacled girls side, getting a bit of a chuckle out of said dark blond.

Though he did hear this, Sasori chose to ignore the commentary from the girls and instead focus on the story in front of him… after all he had a feeling he would be here for a while, might as well learn more about his surroundings. He had a lot of time to himself now…. Provided the girls around him don't annoy him or any of the other bothersome Akatsuki members show up, he should be fine.

Slow burn and a slow collection is what's going on around this time, I figured that this would be a better way to slowly get to know the characters and have different things happen through the story. Hope you all enjoyed!