Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Maximum Ride or Naruto characters, only the OCs and even then they are based off of real people I know.

Chapter One: Introductions

I woke up that night hearing something downstairs being broken. My parents had, once again, left on a trip somewhere. I immediately got up an rushed out of the room and down the stairs to see five very familiar people standing in the living room. I smiled to myself knowing that at least this time instead of new travelers coming it was instead some old friends.

Three ninjas, two bird-kids. All standing in the middle of the room with broken vase shards everywhere.

"Imtiyaz, Toma, Dayyan, Blindseer, Smokepaw your all here!" I shouted as I looked at Itachi, Tobi, Deidara, Iggy, and Gazzy who were all standing there looking at one another.

The ninjas stood to one side while the bird-kids to the other. Iggy and Gazzy looked like they had been patiently waiting for me, while Itachi, Tobi, and Deidara – having not seen this house before – looked like they were just copying Iggy and Gazzy, probably already having figured out that this was not their house.

When I spoke they all looked at me confused, as if they don't know how I could have possibly known their nicknames that I had given them. Well, I had changed my appearance somewhat since the last time they were here.

First off, I had cut my long brown hair so that it now was now an inch or two from touching my shoulders. Secondly, I had recently gotten henna so now my entire left arm from fingers to my shoulder was covered with the dark red-brown flower pattern. I had also grown a little taller, although other than all of that I still looked the same.

"Silentstep?" Gazzy asked.

"Hi Sammie." Iggy said, being blind he wouldn't have been able to see the changes I had made to my appearance and thus wouldn't be confused like the rest of them.

"Itachi, Tobi, Deidara we are in my house right now. We'd moved back to Kuwait last year and are now living here instead of with Panda and Aboss."

They nodded in understanding before starting to bombard me with questions.

"Who the hell are they, un?"

"Tobi wants to know why we are at marshmallow's house!"

"Hn."

"Repeating the blonde girl's question, who are they?"

"I'm not a girl,un!"

"You look like one."

"So what's the latest news with Clarus and Star?"

"Quiet! I'll answer your questions one at a time!" I shouted. Deidara and Gazzy continued their argument as to weather or not Dayyan was a girl. I looked back and forth between the two before finally losing patience with them. "CHUB!"

They shut up immediately. And for those of you who don't know, chub means 'shut up'. Or at least that's what I've got from hearing Panda say it to Aboss all the time when he's noisy.

"Now, to answer your questions first off this is Iggy and Gazzy, they are from a different world and had come here last year. Iggy, Gazzy, meet Itachi, Tobi, and Deidara who are also from another world, they were the ones that came the year before you did. Its been two years now since you ninjas were here and one since the Flock. Tobi, I do know how you got here, just not why she would want to bring you here. Also, I am guessing that Clarus has now come out of hiding again. As for Star, I think she will be joining us soon enough as she always does when Clarus comes out of hiding."

I turned to look at each of the five of them before asking, "Any more questions?"

"Tobi wants to know when Sammie got a tattoo!" Tobi said, pointing to the dark red-brown henna covering my left arm.

"First off, its not a tattoo, its henna. And secondly, I got it a few weeks ago." I said. "Now how about we all sit down so I can get you, Imtiyaz, and Dayyan caught up on what happened between the time you all left and you being here now?"

After awhile I had gotten them all caught up on the Flock's time here as well as about Clarus, the one who is causing us all of this trouble.

"Does he really look like a girl?" Iggy asked Gazzy, referring to our beloved bomb-loving pickle.

"I DO NOT LOOK LIKE A GIRL,YEAH!"

"Can Iggy not see what we look like?" Tobi asked.

"Yeah, Iggy's blind. However its pretty easy to forget, which is why Dominique had given him the name Blindseer." I told him. Tobi nodded. "Also," I said turning to look at Deidara and Gazzy, who were still fighting about weather or not Deidara looked like a girl. "I really thought the three of you would get along better." I told the three blonde-haired, blue-eyed, bomb-lovers. "After all, don't you all love blowing stuff up?"

That got Gazzy and Deidara to drop the whole 'Does Dayyan Look Like A Girl Or Not' conversation and for them and Iggy to start talking about their love of blowing shit up.

"Sammie who's here this time?" I heard Calen call from the stairs.

"Took you long enough." I told her as she walked towards where we were seated.

Calen's appearance had also changed. Her hair was now a little longer than shoulder length instead of down to her waist, and she had bangs covering one of her blue eyes. She also wore a fox necklace – having not entirely given up her love of them – that she almost never took off nowadays. She had also gotten henna, but only on her hand and unlike me she decided to just let it wash off so it now had faded away mostly where as I redid it so it would stay longer.

"So now we've got to take care of both ninjas and bird-kids?"

"Bird-kids?" Dayyan questioned.

"Iggy and Gazzy are two percent bird!" I shouted.

Silence all around. Deidara looked a little shocked (didn't see that coming, did ya?) , Itachi showed no emotion, and with Tobi I couldn't tell because of the mask. Gazzy and Iggy looked wearily at the ninjas, seeing how they would react to finding out they weren't entirely human. However what they didn't know is that seeing weird people is really nothing new to them. What with Kisame looking like a shark and Zetsu the plant-man not to mention countless others.

"That explains why Sammie-" Tobi started.

"Kitta!" I shouted. Everyone looked at me confused. "I go by Kitta or Kayaty now."

More confused looks. "Kayaty means kitty and kitta means cat." Calen clarified. Everyone (excluding Itachi, me, Calen, and possibly Tobi) made O faces at that.

"As Toma was saying-" Tobi began again, "that explains why Kitta referred to Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, The Gasman, and Angel as the Flock!"

"Yes, yes it does." I said. "Do you guys want to come with me to school tomorrow?" I asked them.

"Of course me and Gazzy will go, its one of the few times we get to go to a school without being chased by Flyboys and white-coats." Iggy said.

"Deidara, Tobi?" I asked them since the last time they were here they went to school with me.

"Toma would love to go to school with Kayaty again and Dayyan too!" Guess who.

"Itachi?" I asked, turning to him.

"Hn."

"I'll take that as a no, unless it was a yes? Does anyone speak Uchiha around here?" I turned to look at Gazzy and Iggy.

"Don't look at us! We don't even know what an Uchiha is!" Gazzy said.

I turned to Deidara. "I don't speak it, un."

I then turned to look at Tobi. Surely he, being Madara Uchiha (Note to self, Kuwaitize his name) , could speak it. However I don't think he wanted anyone to know that even if he could. "Tobi doesn't know how."

I sighed in defeat and looked at all of them "All right then, lets go to bed."