This is the newly updated version of this chapter, I didn't change much, just a few grammatical things, but expect new chapters to have a slightly different style. It's been five years, what did you expect?

Hiya~ Welcome to my very unoriginal idea for an Akatsuki Kittens story! I read a few of these and I decided what the hell might as well make another one for fanfiction readers to read. Enjoy the writing that was born from my boredness.

Disclaimer: Yes, I own Naruto. That's why I live off of cheap ramen noodles and I can't afford to buy a new computer. In case you couldn't tell: I DON'T OWN NARUTO.

Nori's POV.

I was enjoying a rather nice dreamless sleep, which were fairly rare for me, when an obnoxious electric guitar chord sounded. I jumped awake and took a defensive position on top of my bed with a large hunting knife in my hand. My face was contorted into a threatening snarl. Well, as threatening as a short girl in fluffy heart decorated pajamas could look at least. My narrowed, slightly hazy from sleep eyes looked around the room for the source of the sound that woke me. After carefully searching the room with a cautious glance, I dropped my gaze to my phone that was now on the ground. I vaguely remembered knocking it off my bed when I jumped up. Dropping my defensive position, I reached down and picked up my phone. The screen flashed the words 'One new message from: Crazy Bat Outta Hell'. I smiled at the ridiculous nickname Rina had given herself and flipped open my old, crappy phone. My air conditioning broke. We will b over in 20. I sighed and rolled myself out of the warm comfort of my bed.

"I suppose I will be housing Rina and Paige again."

I turned my attention to the mess I call my hair and clothing. I trudged over to the bathroom that was joined to my room. Looking into the mirror, I knew I was in for a fight when I saw the tangled rat's nest of hair that I had gained by moving so much in my sleep. I sighed deeply and looked over at the brush. I'm fairly certain that if brushes could talk, this one would be saying 'I'm not going anywhere near whatever the hell you call that thing on the back of your head!'. I picked up the brush, despite the protest I knew it would give me if it could speak, and began the torture of taking care of my hair.

~Ten Minutes Later~

Grinning in victory, I set down the brush, which was most likely crying inside because of the pain it just endured, down and admired my now smooth and soft to the touch dark brown hair. Now that it wasn't all knotted up, it came down in waves to my lower back. My bangs hung in a curtain, shielding parts of my face from view.

Now that my hair was done with, I could focus on my clothing. I walked over to my closet and picked out my outfit. After changing, I looked in the mirror. My outfit consisted of my black shirt with the words 'I'm not short, I'm fun sized!' in large purple writing and black skinny jeans. I nodded once at my appearance before sloppily making my bed and setting my Sasori plushie on it. After tidying up, I left my room and poured myself some coffee, sat down at my table, and waited for my two crazies to get here.

Normal POV

A large black car, fondly called the toaster, pulled up to a large, almost mansion-like house.

"Party time!" a shout sounded from the car.

"Rina, wait!" someone else shouted as a blonde dashed out of the "Toaster".

"Get the mail! Please and thank you!" the blonde, known as Rina, called back to her friend who was just now exiting the car. The dark-haired teen watched boredly as her friend ran full speed to greet the owner of the house they would be staying at for the next few weeks. She waited until her friend was completely inside the house before walking towards the mailbox. As she was reaching to grab the handle, a loud hiss distracted her. Dropping her gaze, she noticed a large cardboard box that contained ten kittens. Animal-lover instincts kicking in, she picked up the surprisingly heavy box and headed towards the still wide-open door. When she peered inside the door, she saw a rather odd sight.

Rina's POV

Waking up in the mornings is never fun. Whoever created them must have been in a shitty mood. Oh, and Mondays too. I hate Mondays. They are just so...blegh. Aside from the rather long list of things I hate, I had woken up to find out that during the night my air conditioning had broken again. I hate it when it breaks! Along with really annoying people and- Sorry, sorry! I'm done with that topic, I swear! Paige was already awake, and it didn't seem to concern her that it was like a bajillion degrees. I doubt she even noticed actually. She can be a little dense sometimes. Well, its either that or she just doesn't care, but that's whatever. Back to the air conditioning problem! It breaks a lot, like almost every month. When it breaks, we (Paige and I) normally crash at Nori's place. I love her house! It's huge! We all have our own rooms there and our own secret place. Nori's is hidden behind a bookshelf (cheesey right?). Mine's connected to a hidden door in the basement. Paige's is connected to a hidden door in the floorboards. Its our escape place at her house; if we don't wanna be bothered then we go to our secret rooms. Nori told us that we could decorate them anyway we want. She's such a sweetheart! I got off topic again, didn't I? Oops! On with the story! I texted Nori so that she knew we were coming. After my text, Paige and I climbed into the toaster with all our things from my place and drove off to Nori's house.

When we finally got there, I jumped out of the car and ran towards the door to see Nori. I vaguely remembered shouting something back to Paige about mail, or maybe it was something to do with hail? Who cares! So anyway, I threw the door open and jump on top of Nori, who was conveniently sitting at a table next to the entrance.

"Nori!"

"The hell? No, Rina don't!" she yelled when I jumped at her. 'Too late.' I thought as I collided with her.

The noble sacrifices of my excited greeting were as follows: a lamp, two cups, everything that happened to be on the table, and the table itself. Oh well! I have my Nori, and that's the only thing that matters!

"Rina, get off me!" I pouted, but did as she said.

"Um...What's going on here?" Paige asked as she walked in.

"I was attacked."

"Well, you see, what had happened was-" I started.

"Never mind, I think I can guess what happened," she said, observing the damage I had caused.

"The table deserved it, I swear!" I defended.

"Are you sure you are actually nineteen?" Nori asked.

"Of course I'm nineteen, silly!"

"Uh-huh. Sure you are," Paige said.

"Paige! You were supposed to- Oh! What's in the box?" I asked, already peering inside.

"Kittens!" Nori and I said together, although mine sounded excited, while hers was said with annoyance.

"When did you get ten kittens?" Nori asked.

"They aren't mine. They're yours," she answered and added, "I found them next to your mailbox."

"I swear, I didn't order those online!" Nori said franticly.

"I don't care where they came from, we are keeping them!" I said.

"I don't think we should-"

"We're not going to-"

"We. Are. Keeping. Them." I said, effectively cutting them both off.

"Fine..." They said. I silently cheered and looked down at the small kitten faces of our new pets.

Normal POV

The Akatsuki had all woken up after a very peaceful sleep, or laying down with his eyes closed in Sasori's case, to the sound of a car approaching. Hidan was the first one to speak.

"What the fuck is going on? Why the hell are we all cats?"

"I don't remember going to sleep in a giant box, un," Deidara said as he looked around.

"Itachi, can you see anything outside of this box?" Pein asked.

"I see nothing recognizable, Leader-sama," Itachi replied after using his Sharingan.

There was a chorus of questions and then arguments broke out through the group of kittens about what to do. This went on for a few minutes before Pein let out a loud hiss to silence them. Just as he was about to speak, they felt the box they were currently inside of being lifted. They all looked up to see a tall, black haired girl picking them up and carrying them to a destination that was unknown.

"What do we do?" Kisame asked.

"Let's just wait and see where she takes us," Pein said.

The Akatsuki couldn't see anything but the four walls around them. Kitten eyes looked back and forth between their surroundings until the person carrying the box suddenly stopped. Before anyone of them could speak or complain, the tall, dark haired girl began a conversation of her own. As the humans conversed, the kittens talked quietly amongst themselves about their situation and what they thought should be done. After some quiet conversing with Itachi and Konan, Pein finally addressed the Akatsuki.

"I believe that while we were sleeping, one of our enemies used a jutsu to send us to a completely new universe, and judging by what Itachi told me, these girls are now keeping us as pets. I don't think they know that we are the Akatsuki or, that we are supposed to be human. Until we find a way to return to our original forms, we will be relying on these girls to care for us. Your new mission is to find out any useful information about this new world and to start trying to find ways to become human again. Understood?"

"Tobi likes that plan!" Everyone else just nodded.

No sooner than that conversation had ended, a blonde-haired girl peeked her head over the side of the box.

"What should we name all of them?" the blonde asked.

"You're the one who wanted to keep them, Rina. You pick the names,"

"Okay!" the girl, now identified to the Akatsuki as Rina, said.

She picked up the first cat she saw, which happened to be poor Kisame. She looked him over and then said,

"This one looks like a fish! I shall call him Shark-bait!"

Poor, poor Kisame. Rina set him down on the floor and picked up then picked up the next one. Sasori glared at the oblivious girl.

"Red fur...Red equals fire..."she mumbled, "I shall call you Sparkie!"

Sasori's kitty glare intensified. Hidan was snickering at 'Sparkie', until he was the one being picked up. Hidan hissed and swiped at her with his claws. She dropped him and exclaimed,

"Ouch, you stupid ass-face! That's your new name, Ass-face!" after that remark, the other girls decided it was not such a great idea to let Rina pick the names.

After lots of deliberation, the rest of the kittens were named: Shark-bait (Kisame), Sparkie (Sasori), Ass-face (Hidan), Dracula (Itachi), Lollipop (Tobi), Princess (Konan), Sunny (Deidara), Oreo (Zetsu), Zombie (Kakuzu), and Lion (Pein). Needless to say, the Akatsuki members were not exactly thrilled about their new names. Except for Konan, who seemed generally pleased with her name. The kittens were now all free from the box and looking around at their surroundings.

"Who is coming with me to get stuff to care for these little things," Nori asked.

"I'll go," Paige offered.

"Okay, that means you're in charge of the kittens, Rina. Don't let them wander around too much, I don't want to lose one." Nori told her.

"Okay! I'll be sure to take good care of them! Hurry back!" Rina answered.

The door closed behind the two girls and left Rina alone with the cats. Ten little kitten faces looked up into green eyes, almost as if asking what they were supposed to be doing. She stood up from her sitting place on the ground and walked over to the living room. She plopped down on the couch and told them,

"No going up stairs. You heard Nori, don't wander around too much either. Other than that, I don't give a fuck what you do."

She was surprised to see most of the cats nodding at her. She furrowed her eyebrows, but didn't comment on it. Turing on the TV, she relaxed and sank into the couch. Sasori, Itachi, and Pein jumped up and sat on the couch to watch with her. Not that she noticed, she was too absorbed in the TV to notice much of anything. Twenty minutes later, Rina was brought out of her TV induced coma by a loud hiss. She stood up to find Hidan and Kakuzu fighting. She picked up Hidan to get him to stop attacking.

"I'll have none of that, mister!" Hidan pouted and sent her a glare.

"Aww! You're too cute to be mad at!" she said and kissed him on the head.

A loud poof sounded and smoke filled the room. As the smoke cleared, a very confused Rina held a very naked Hidan around the waist. Rina screamed and jumped away from him, just as Paige and Nori walked through the door.

"Hey is everything alright? I heard a scream-" Nori stopped mid-sentence, when she saw a naked Hidan and terrified Rina.

"What the hell?"

Yes, what the hell indeed. Haha, I'm going to stop it there. I know it's a little short, and it probably feels a little rushed. Sorry about that. I really hate starting a new story so I tend to rush through beginnings. Oh, well. I hope you enjoyed it.

For those of you who read Fangs and Cherryblossoms, I don't know if I'm going to finish it. I lost my inspiration for it and I don't remember where I was going with the story. I apologize for those of you who liked it. It might continue and it might not. It all depends on what happens with my schedule. There will be a note posted on to it explaining what happened in more detail. For those of you who haven't read it, completely ignore that.

I will be continuing with this story! No worries! I do appreciate constructive criticism and I will answer any questions you have. I will post a chapter once every week (most likely). Thanks for reading! Enjoy the rest of your day/night/week!