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A/N: Hi there, and welcome to the Wonderful World of Mir's and Suus' Crazy Imagination! Also known as 'Noodles Basket'!

We hope you enjoy the first chapter, and we also hope that you will review! -pokes the little review button-

Note: This fic will not exactly be like Fruits Basket. Some things will change to make it more 'believable', and this fic is not exactly like Naruto either. Some things will change as well! (obviously)

WARNING: This fic will contain slash. If you don't know what that means: BoyxBoy romance. If you don't like it, run away! Unless you don't like it and don't mind it either, of course xD I don't think there will be any hardcore smexing in this story anyway, so it doesn't really matter.

A little explanation as to where and in which time the story takes place: Sasuke never went to Orochimaru but trained with Kakashi instead. Naruto still went away with Jiraiya and Sakura had also decided to be Tsunade's apprentice. There will be no Sai, or anything like that. If we did that it would be too troublesome for us -shrugs- They are sixteen here xD

Chapter 1- The Not So Evil Plan

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A long time ago, God called all of the animals and invited them to a banquet. This banquet was to select twelve animals to represent the twelve calendar years. The Cat heard about this and told his best friend the Rat that they should go together. When the day finally arrived, the Cat decided to take a nap and asked the Rat to wake him up when it was time.

"No problem," said the Rat. "I will wake you up." But when the time came he left without waking the poor Cat. You see, the Rat was afraid that he did not have a chance to be one of the Twelve Zodiacs, after all, he was the smallest of the animals. And therefore he did not wake his friend.

All the other animals walked together in a long line towards the banquet. The Rat had also tricked the Ox into giving him a ride, so he was the first one to arrive, after that came the Ox, then the Tiger, the Rabbit, the Dragon. Then came the Snake, the Horse and the Sheep. Next came the Monkey, the Rooster, the Dog and last came the Pig. All of them had a wonderful time, except for the Cat, who was sleeping and dreaming about the banquet he could never attend.

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A dark haired man was sprinting through the forest. He wasn't exactly paying any attention if there were people near- merely because he knew he could handle anybody he would meet and who would try and stop him. He didn't want to fight right now though, he was on a mission and needed to do this fast, so there was no need to make his presence known by killing others.

The sun was burning brightly and without a cool breeze, it was quite hard to keep up the speed he was running with, but nothing was too hard for Uchiha Itachi. The air was so dry and warm, that he was sweating heavily as he jumped from tree to tree, occasionally glancing backwards to see if he wasn't being followed. He wasn't really worried about it either.

Now slowing down, he silently walked up to a building hidden in the middle of the forest, tall trees surrounding it. It was an old one and had probably been a station during the war as it was the perfect place to store weapons, food and other items necessary for battle. The building was secluded and could not easily been found, unless you knew the exact location. But that wasn't what the building was used for now- oh no, not at all.

The truth was, it contained a secret and ancient scroll. It had been stored inside for over a decade, or so he had heard from an old… colleague.

Itachi had only known about it thanks to pure luck- when Orochimaru was still in Akatsuki, he had talked about it to one of his followers. The black haired boy had only overheard it of course, without Orochimaru knowing it. Not that Itachi usually really listened to the pathetic worm, but this captured some of his interest. So therefore, the young man had decided to gather some information about it until he finally found the location of said scroll and could steal it for himself. It was a dirty trick, but that didn't really matter to him- after all, he only was a pathetic, little snake.

He figured that this little scroll would benefit him greatly. And he could also have a little fun.

Not that he was someone to be quickly amused. Actually, he didn't like a lot of things- but there was one thing he did like. And that was the pleasure of making other people's lives miserable. Not that he was a sadist of course… well ok, he was, but let's not get into that.

He was observing the area around the building and was able to conclude that whoever had put the scroll inside of here, was an idiot. The bloody thing was dangerous for crying out loud and they hadn't even put up any guards! At least, he couldn't sense any chakra at all and there was no one in sight, so all there was left were booby traps. And the scroll itself wasn't very dangerous, but when one used it, it could be.

Then again, it probably wasn't under heavy security because only few people knew about it. And besides, who'd want to have something like that? It wasn't exactly something really threatening. And why, might you wonder, would Uchiha Itachi be after it when it isn't even that dangerous? Well, that answer would be very easy.

The guy can make even a pillow dangerous.

So, with the ancient, secret and forbidden scroll he wanted to obtain, he would finally be able to capture the target they had been wanting for ages. At least, it was very likely that this would succeed. But let's get back to where we left off now, shall we?

Itachi, being an evil mastermind and all, easily avoided all the traps that had been set and casually walked up to the building, resisting the urge to yawn. It wasn't too long until he held the scroll in his hand, smirking slightly as he was rushing through the hot forest once again. All he needed to find now, was a cool place to perform the ritual and to start the fun.

After a couple of minutes searching, he stumbled upon a small river. The place was a bit cooler than the rest of the forest and it was secluded enough. The tall trees surrounding the little river gave a lot of shade, so he could finally cool down a bit and rest up. And the chances of people finding this particular spot were very slim indeed.

Not that he was scared of getting caught or anything, he just didn't like the trouble.

After reading the scroll very thoroughly, he decided it was time to begin. It wasn't particularly hard, but it needed to be done precisely as it said- or it could go horribly wrong. And that would spoil it all. Besides that, it was also rather dangerous to him, should he miss anything important.

First, he needed to write down fourteen names with his own blood while imagining their faces- or else it wouldn't work. It didn't matter if they were female or male, but it did matter where on the scroll he had to write them. For instance, his own name needed to be at the top- well, actually that one only really mattered, along with two other particular names. The rest he didn't really care about.

Like I said before, Itachi had done some research. But not only did he found out where it was, but also what he needed to have in order to perform the 'spell'. When he found out he needed to have thirteen other names, he decided to spy on the villagers of Konoha and, besides the two other names he definitely needed to have, he found several others as well, since it wasn't enough to only have them- he also needed to know what their faces looked like.

He took the one kunai he had taken with him and made a cut in the palm of his left hand, blood dripping out of it immediately. He held his left hand above the scroll and wrote down the first name with his right index finger, with the blood that was pouring out of the palm of his other hand.

'Uchiha Itachi'

He looked at his messy handwriting and was slightly stunned by the way his blood dried up so fast. It turned an even darker shade as it dried up and began to look as though it was simply red ink. He started to write down the second name, while picturing the face of that person inside his mind, which wasn't a very hard thing to do, since it was a person he knew very well.

'Uchiha Sasuke'

Yes, a little fun with his little brother couldn't hurt one bit. Besides, this was also Sasuke's chance to fight with him again, to show Itachi what he had learned from two years worth of training. The young, black haired man started to feel as if he was signing some sort of contract- and it probably was.

He pictured another face inside his mind, and started to write down the third name.

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He looked at the scroll and allowed himself to smile slightly. Yes, it would be a lot of fun. His own blood had dried up long ago and all that was left was perform a few difficult hand seals. He also needed to transfer some chakra into the scroll so it would be activated.

Performing the seals perfectly, the names started to glow bright red, indicating that everything was working so far. As the finishing touch, Itachi transferred some of his chakra to the little scroll and felt it working already. He felt like a God.

Let the fun begin

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"Where is he?" A young, pink haired girl asked. "We've been waiting for him for two whole hours. This is driving me mad!"

"It's too late for that," a young, energetic and blond haired boy with whisker marks on his cheeks replied cheerfully, even though he was looking rather bored. For that tiny remark, he gained a punch on his head. "Ow! Sakura-chan! What was that for?" He whined. The girl, Sakura, looked pleased with herself when she saw she had smacked him good.

"Well, Naruto-kun," she started sweetly, while glancing towards another boy who was leaning against a tree with his arms crossed, waiting patiently for his teacher. He didn't look at all interested in their argument and wanted to stay out of it as much as possible. "First of all, you were irritating me. Secondly, you are irritating Sasuke-kun as well," she smiled sweetly at Sasuke, who had looked up at them when hearing his own name. For a moment, he had been scared he was involved. And that meant getting stupid insults from Naruto. And that meant - oh well, you get the idea. "Thirdly, you were irritating me."

"You already said that," Naruto pointed out, while rubbing the new bump on his head. "And I don't understand where that idiot is. I mean, this is our first training session in three years and he's late!"

"That doesn't really matter to him," said Sasuke, walking up to them with his hands in his pockets. "Remember the first time we met him? He was late for that too. But no need to complain anymore- he's here." Sasuke looked up at the tree the silver haired Jounin was sitting in, waving at his students cheerfully.

"Kakashi-sensei, you're late!" Naruto and Sakura yelled together, pointing at him accusingly. One of the few times they agreed with one another was when their teacher was late once again and that was nearly every day.

"Well, I can explain," Kakashi said, jumping out of the tree and landing on his feet perfectly. "You see I-" But before he could even finish his sentence, Naruto interrupted him.

"Let me guess," he started, crossing his arms. "The Hokage suddenly called you because she was being attacked by a bunch of male tigers who mistook her for a ball of yarn," Kakashi shook his head at this and was about to tell them the real story, before Sakura started to talk as well.

"Or you were lost in your own hometown, apartment, street or convenience store while looking for a glass of milk," she said, raising her index finger, while looking thoughtfully at her sensei. Kakashi shook his head again, though he was chuckling to himself at their strong imagination.

"You overslept, didn't you?" Sasuke said simply, raising an eyebrow. Kakashi smiled happily at the young boy.

"Yup, that's the one," he replied happily, which earned him a glare from Sakura and a scowl from Naruto. "Well, are you guys ready for today's training? I'd like to know what you guys learned over the past three years," he nodded at Sakura and Naruto, who grinned happily as they found out it was their time to show him how much stronger they had become. He finally started to sound a bit more serious. "So," he took out two bells from his pocket. "I'm going to give one of these bells to Sasuke and one I will keep to myself. You'll have until tomorrow to steal them from us, good luck!"

Time passed by rather quickly. Afternoon turned into evening, evening turned into night. All was dark and peaceful, with the exception of four ninja's who were hiding from each other, patiently waiting and scheming a plan.

Sasuke was close to where Kakashi was hiding and could easily sense the chakra of the other two. They were near, but also hid themselves behind bushes and were together, obviously. It wouldn't be easy to fight them off- last he heard, Naruto had grown very strong, just like Sakura. It would be a problem, but he also had Kakashi on his side, so they would probably win.

Besides, that idiot of a Naruto couldn't possibly have grown even stronger than he had.

"Sasuke, look out!" Kakashi barely managed to say, to warn him. With lightning reflexes, Sasuke blocked Naruto's sudden attack and jumped away from him… right into the arms of Sakura, who was standing not too far from them, waiting for Sasuke to get out to ambush him.

What happened next was hard to comprehend if you would've seen it with your own eyes- first of all, there was a loud 'poof' when Sasuke bumped into the pink haired girl and grey smoke surrounded the pair of them. Naruto saw this and thought Sasuke was attacking Sakura, therefore he jumped right where the smoke was. Instead of jumping on top of Sasuke though, he felt he had jumped right on top of his partner.

Sakura, who didn't know what was going on right now, heard another 'poof' and this time orange smoke appeared. She started to lose her balance after the sudden impact.

Kakashi saw it all happening- well, he thought he saw it all happening. In his eyes, Naruto and Sakura were still attacking his partner and were winning. Therefore, he decided it was time to interfere, so jumped inside the smoke, not seeing where he went but merely followed Sasuke's chakra. Of course, it led him straight to the young girl and he bumped into her. Another 'poof' was heard and black smoke appeared.

By this time Sakura had fallen to the ground, since Kakashi had given her that final push to completely lose her balance. When she hit the ground, she felt something sitting on her- well, she actually felt three things sitting on top of her. Finally regaining some of her senses, she looked at them and saw that they were actually a black dog, an orange cat and a grey rat. She rubbed her head a bit and was about to look around for the others- maybe they were fighting somewhere else? She could sense their chakra nearby, so they couldn't have gone far. Besides, it was dark after all, so it was harder to spot them if they were fighting at a high speed. She pushed the dog away, as he weighed the most and was hurting her a bit, but before she could get the cat off of her, it did something strange. Or at least, it said something strange.

"Ugh, I feel sick," the cat said. Wait, it said? Sakura shook her head- that couldn't be possible. Looking at it, she just figured she had fallen on her head and that she was imagining things. Cats couldn't talk.

"Hey kitty," she said sweetly. "You can't talk, can you? No, you're just a cute, little kitty and-" She was about to pet him before the cat turned to her, as if he understood her.

"Who are you calling a kitty?" He said, while narrowing his yellow eyes.

"My head hurts," the dog whined. "I think I'm coming down with something."

"Same here," said the rat coolly, still resting on something soft he couldn't identify. He didn't bother to look up though as he was nauseous from being hurled up into the air.

And at that moment, Sakura yelled her lungs out. They probably could hear her at Ichiraku's.

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A/N: Well, there it is folks! Hope you enjoyed reading! XD and press the little review button on your way out! –grins-