A/N: Aww, I'm actually upset that I didn't upload this when I said I would. It just feels weird not uploading on my birthday, but I kinda fell asleep before this got finished, and my stupid laptop is totally fucked up. :(

Another thing I'd like to add is R.I.P Whitney Houston. You were a very talented woman, and even though the time in your later life wasn't well spent, you didn't deserve to die so young.

Anyway, off the sad subjects, and on to the awesomeness that is Katie's birthday.

Enjoy!

I'm sorry, I lied. I don't own Naruto, or the Akatsuki. *cries*

(First Person, Katie!)

My birthday sucks.

Every year, it's the same. It never changes.

I stay in bed until whenever I can be arsed getting up, I get up, eat, watch some anime, open some cards from family that I don't even know, bitch with Mel or whoever comes over, then I go to bed. Every single year.

So a pretty average and boring day.

I don't really see the point of it to be honest, except for when Mel comes over. It's kinda fun then. Since Mel and Matt stayed over last night, I was kinda hoping that my day might be different.

Oh, it was different alright.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATIE!"

Mel ran into my room and leaped on top of me, at first scaring me, then suffocating me.

She must have seriously put on some weight, because I wasn't normally crushed when she did that.

I'm normally just a bit pissed off, but getting crushed made me even worse.

"Ugh! What the fuck Mel, get off me! Too much love... can't... breathe..." I gasped.

"Oh, oops! Sorry Katie!" she shouted.

"Mel, does the phrase 'indoor voice' mean anything to you? You're way too excited. It's only my birthday." I rubbed the sleep from my eyes and sat up in bed to see Matt leaning against the doorway, chuckling at our antics. "What are you laughing at, asshole?"

"Good morning to you too, birthday girl." he muttered sarcastically. Bastard. "Did you enjoy your little wake-up call?"

"Of course I did, what seventeen year old girl doesn't like being woken up to a glomp from a hyperactive idiot at half nine in the morning?" I snapped back.

"Hey, don't take it out on me! I told her it wasn't a good idea to wake you up this early." he said, raising his hands up in front of his face in mock defence.

"Damn right it wasn't! I haven't been up this early since we were still in school."

I stretched a bit and threw my hair up into a loose ponytail, before shoving Mel off my bed and climbing out.

"Ow! Katie, you didn't have to throw me off, that's mean." she whimpered from her spot on the floor. "I was only trying to be nice! I just thought that the earlier you get up, the more time you get to spend with your best friends on your birthday!"

"Another reason for me to stay in bed." I hissed. I threw a pillow at her face and stomped off towards my bathroom, slamming the door shut behind me.

It wasn't until I heard a few meows from in front of me that I realised they'd shoved the cats in here, and I'd just woken them up.

I sighed and picked up the large plastic tub they were in, whatever anger I'd had left from before draining away when I looked at their adorable sleepy kitten faces.

They were just too cute to be angry around.

Kicking open the door, I unceremoniously plopped the box down just outside of my bathroom door before grabbing some random jumper and jeans and a towel from my dresser beside the door, then returning to the tiled room to get cleaned up.

Once I was dressed, I threw on a bit of makeup, dried and brushed my hair out and put my hand on the doorknob, about to turn it to go back into my room, but something stopped me.

My seventh sense was trying to tell me something.

My seventh sense is pretty strange. I've got a weird ability to somehow know when Mel or someone equally strange is being weird. It only goes crazy like it was then when the person in question is doing something that would be face-palm worthy. Or so weird that it would mentally scar anyone who sees it for life.

It wasn't as bad as I'd felt it before, so I was guessing it was just a face-palm moment.

If you're wondering what the sixth sense is, it's actually something everyone has, not just me. It's that weird feeling you get when someone's watching you, and if you're daydreaming, you look up and directly at the person looking at you. For me, it's not just a feeling, it's like a sense because I don't get it when people are staring, I get it when people just glance at me. Sometimes it's really annoying, as me and my friends get stared at pretty much all the time for the way we act in public.

I slowly turned the handle on the door, and pulled it open, mentally preparing myself for what disturbing things might be happening in my room.

"What the fuck?"

Mel was sat cross-legged on my bed, covered in cats. She was giggling like a maniac and trying to tie tiny ponytails into her feline victims' fur. So far, it looked like she was finished with Fluffy, Jaws, Kala and Pussy. Fluffy's ponytail was on the top of his head, and unlike the others, he seemed to be quite happy with it. Pussy on the other hand looked livid. Like so angry that he looked like he would spontaneously combust if he got any more pissed. (A/N: For any noobs out there, spontaneously combust means randomly explode/set on fire. This can actually happen. Seriously.) I honestly have no idea how she managed to get the ponies on him anyway. I thought the rabid little fucker would've clawed her eyes out or eaten her hand if she even attempted to go near him.

Frank started making this weird choking noise, which kind of sounded a bit like laughter; well it would if cats could laugh, I guess. Pussy spun round, growled and leaped on him, starting a literal cat-fight. Lollipop was bopping all the ponytails with his paws, much to the annoyance of the violated kittens. The rest of the group, except for Jaws, were either ignoring the screaming pair or trying to avoid getting their fur styled by a still grinning Mel.

"Oh hey Katie! You like their fur?" she grabbed Fluffy and shoved him in my face. The poor thing must seriously be tired of that by now.

"No, I don't. That's freaking animal cruelty!" I plucked Kala and Jaws from her lap and gently untied the elastic holding their hairstyles in, trying not to hurt them. Once I was finished with them, I took Fluffy as well and undid him.

What I saw when I was about to put him down made me completely freeze in shock, then have a major fangasm shortly after.

"Huh? What's up Katie?" Matt walked over looking both confused and concerned for my mental health.

"The paws! Look at his paws!" I squealed. I all but launched the cats off me before running over to my computer and hurriedly trying to switch it on.

I could see Matt and Mel (who was still covered in the remaining cats, by the way) beside me, looking at the puzzled kitten's paws. Mel screamed so loud that she dropped Fluffy and all the others mewed in shock and jumped off her. She was pretty much vibrating with fangirl love, so I'm not surprised they were terrified.

"Shit Katie! What the fuck are these things?" Matt cried.

"Deidara, what are they talking about?" Pein asked.

Deidara blushed lightly and lifted one of his front paws to show his leader. "I think they've seen my mouths, un. I guess they scared them a bit, you don't really see kittens with mouths on their paws, yeah."

"Hmm. That doesn't explain why the red-haired girl ran over to that strange machine so quickly though." Kakuzu muttered.

"Or why the one on the bed is staring at us like that and OH SHIT SHE'S COMING STRAIGHT AT US! DUCK!" Kisame yelled.

The kittens all scattered to escape from Mel's glomp zone. She had pretty much attempted to leap off the bed and land directly on top of the animals. She landed straight on her face, and her arms and legs were sprawled all over the place, twitching from the pain of bellyflopping my wood floor. "Ow."

"Mel! Wait! Leave them alone for a minute! Katie looks like she's on to something!" Matt grabbed both of her arms and put her in a headlock to stop her from trying to latch herself onto to the furballs again.

"B-But... AKATSUKI!" she screamed. "It has to be them! You saw the mouths too! Must... rape... Deidara!"

She carried on struggling to get out of Matt's tight grip and get the cats.

"In case you hadn't noticed, they're still freaking cats! You can't rape a fucking kitten! If you are the Akatsuki, you'll be able to understand me right now. For your own safety, run into the bathroom and hide!" Matt commanded. To all of our disbelief, the entire group of cats blinked and turned around to run into the bathroom.

"Oh.. Shit." he said. "It's like we're in one of those stupid fanfictions!"

My mind was racing at about a hundred miles an hour. Mouths on a blonde kitten, with pale blue eyes and fur over its left eye. Stitch markings on a kitten with brown fur, always fighting with a short-tempered silver one. A black one with red eyes, blue one with gills, ginger one with black piercings, and freaking Zetsu! How didn't I notice it all before! It was so obvious!

I spun around in my chair and logged onto my computer, quickly clicking onto the Internet.

"Mel, do you remember all those stories about the Akatsuki being turned into kitties?" I asked.

"Yeah, I've got some favourited, why?" she replied, panting from her struggles.

I clicked onto the folder that contained Mel's favourites, and sure enough, there were four different Akatsuki Kitty stories in there. I opened them all up on different tabs, and quickly scanned through them.

"If these cats are who we think they are, we need to find a way to change them back. I don't really want the Hidan kitty tearing up my house any longer." I said, clicking print.

(Third Person, Akatsuki!)

"How the fuck do those people know us?" Hidan yelled.

"Be quiet Hidan, the main issue here isn't how they know us, but how much they know." Pein replied. "They clearly know our identities and the organisation we belong to already, so they could possibly know our plans and possibly our weaknesses, and that could cause some serious issues in our conditions."

The rest of the group agreed and began muttering between themselves.

"What are we going to do then, Leader-sama? Should we try and escape, or stay with them?" Sasori said.

All of the Akatsuki's ears pricked up at the sound of Katie's voice. "If these cats are who we think they are, we need to find a way to change them back. I don't really want the Hidan kitty tearing up my house any longer."

"I think it would be best if we stayed. They don't seem to want to cause us any harm, except maybe the black haired girl." Everyone shuddered at the memory of Mel's attack earlier. "From what we have just heard, they might be able to help our situation as well, if they find a way to reverse whatever jutsu was used on us."

"I agree with Leader-sama." Itachi chipped in. "We are new to this world, and if we were left like this to fend for ourselves, it could lead to all kinds of danger. At least here we have a roof over our heads, and people with money and food to care for us."

"I don't want to be fucking taken care of!" Hidan huffed. "We can handle ourselves."

"Hidan, if you want to be a stubborn bastard like we all know you are, then go straight ahead, un." Deidara growled. "Take a look around, everyone else agrees with these guys, so we're staying right here, yeah."

The silver haired kitten huffed even more. "Huh. Whatever. And I'm not a stubborn bastard, so shut the fuck up, Fluffy!"

Everyone else zoned out to the impending argument, but quickly snapped out of it to the sound of the door slowly opening. Katie stood in the doorway, leaning against the wall with a smirk on her face.

"So, you're the Akatsuki?" she laughed. "Pein, get your ass over here."

Pein growled but complied. Katie crouched down and lifted him up gently to look at his face. After about a minute of staring, she nodded to herself, put him back down, did a 180 and shut the door behind her.

"Uh... Does anyone know what just happened here?" Kisame asked.

"I have a feeling it would be better if we didn't waste our brain cells trying to figure out the things these people do." Kakuzu droned. "It seems as if it would just confuse us further."

"For once, I agree with the tight-ass." Hidan sweatdropped.

(First Person, Katie!)

"Yup, it's definitely them." I closed my eyes and braced myself for the predictable fangirl squeal from Mel, but surprisingly, it never came. I opened my eyes again and sighed when I understood the only reason why I didn't hear anything was because Matt was pinning her down on the carpet with her mouth buried in a pillow. I could see her excitement sparkling in her eyes though, so I walked over to the printer to spare her the misery of waiting. I picked up the papers that it had spat out, and shuffled through them, separating them into three groups. I threw a pile at Mel, hitting her square in the face, another at Matt, and kept the last for myself.

"How are you sure?" Matt questioned.

I face-palmed. "How dumb can you get, Matt?" I began counting the reasons off on my fingers. "One, Deidara's mouths. Two, Pein's Rinnegan. I know that shit is real, I just went and checked, and it's as awesome as it is in the anime. Three, they're clearly more intelligent than your average abused strays. They followed your order to get in the bathroom, right? Finally, their appearances are just too genuine. Not even kitty cosplayers could get their fur colours and patterns that spot on."

He and Mel nodded slowly in understanding. I walked over to the bathroom door to lock it, and allowed Matt to release Mel when I knew it was safe for the criminal cats. She rolled onto her back and took in a deep breath, obviously glad she could breathe again. She glared daggers at Matt.

"What the fuck, you douchebag!" she yelled, pointing an accusing finger at his face. "You almost killed me!"

"Don't exaggerate, I only stuck your face in a pillow." he dismissed her statement by pushing her finger away.

"I'm not on any sides here, but that is a way to smother people, so she has a point." I added in with a small smirk. It's always fun to correct him when he thinks he's right. He gets so pissed off.

He grunted and folded his arms. "Whatever. Anyway, what are these papers you threw at us?"

I blinked as I remembered them. "Oh those? They're some Akatsuki Kitty fanfics that I found in Mel's favourites. It's our job to find a way to reverse whatever happened. There's got to be something in one of these. So yeah, flip through them and write down any cures you can find. We can try them out once we've got a good list."

The other occupants of my bedroom nodded and immediately started reading, grabbing pens from my bedside table and scribbling down what they had found on separate sheets of paper I had included. Fifteen minutes and three sheets of paper later, we were finished.

"Right, show me what you've got." I said, holding up my own sheet. "I've got hot water and drinking lemon juice. What about you guys?"

Mel held read hers out. "Cold water and eating sugar."

Matt lifted his up. "Vinegar and eating chilli powder."

"Okay, let's get the furballs out and test the theories. I'll take Itachi, Hidan, Pein and Deidara. Mel takes Kakuzu, Konan and Zetsu. Matt takes Kisame, Tobi and Sasori. Mel, no raping the kittens, just grab them and go." She pouted at this. "I don't think we'll need to tell them what's going on, they can probably hear what we're saying. They already had ninja hearing, so the cat ears must have made it even better."

The three of us got up from where we were sat and I unlocked the door. We peeked inside to see the group huddled in a corner, and all of their eyes widened in fear when they noticed Mel standing there.

I laughed out loud at their cuteness.

I can't believe I thought that the criminals in front of me were cute.

Well, I am slightly insane, so it's to be expected really.

"Don't worry, Mel isn't here to eat you." I chuckled, earning myself another glare from said moron. "We've found some different ways to try and turn you guys back to normal, so we've split you into groups to test them."

I informed them of who they would be following and where they would be going, before sitting down with my legs sprawled either side of me. Mel and Matt left with their kittens and walked off to where they were assigned to go. I noticed the strange looks I was getting off Hidan and Deidara for my weird position.

Sighing, I explained. "Before you even try and ask, I've been born with some weird thing wrong with my hips, so I can't cross my legs, and I sit in the opposite way, like this. It offends me when people make fun of it or the way I walk, so don't even try that unless you want to lose your ability to bear children."

All of the kittens nodded quickly in horror. I had to suppress a snort of laughter at Pein's face when he was scared. I never thought I'd see the badass leader of the Akatsuki look so adorable.

I rubbed my hands together and looked over my victims. "So, let's start with the hot water, shall we?"

I turned the tap on the bath to 'hot' and waited for it to heat up to a suitable temperature.

"Hop in, kitties. The water shouldn't be too hot for you, just good enough to be classed as hot."

They followed my instructions and let the water soak into the fur on their legs. I waited for the puff of smoke to indicate their transformation, and sighed when nothing happened. I spread a towel out on the floor and told them to jump out. I heard a mew of disappointment come from the two more emotional members.

"Ah, shut up, you impatient bastards. I'm sure we'll eventually find a way. Let's get you dried off."

I grabbed Itachi and started drying his fur with the towel. He looked shocked at first but started to relax into it, almost letting out a purr of contentment.

I was proved wrong when I thought there wasn't anything cuter than Pein the Kitty's scared face. Itachi just took the cake.

I dried off Pein and Deidara, Pein when I got his nod of approval, and Deidara because I knew he wouldn't want his fur to go frizzy.

If fur could get frizzy.

Whatever.

Hidan looked at me expectantly.

I raised an eyebrow and stared back at him.

"Wait, you expect me to dry you as well?" I snorted. "No way. You're the bitch that hissed at me when I first looked at you. You can suffer. Oh and no, I didn't completely get my revenge with the name Pussy. You have many more days of torture to come." He gulped and backed off at my evil grin. I looked back down at my list. "Lemon juice. If I remember right, Mel keeps some in one of these drawers..."

"Why would someone keep lemon juice in the bathroom, un?" Deidara asked Itachi.

"I have no idea. I've already learned not to be surprised by the things they do now." He replied. The kittens nodded in agreement.

"I bet you're thinking she's crazy keeping that stuff in my bathroom, but it's because it's apparently some good cleanser or something. The acid gets rid of the dirt." I said, rooting through the top drawer of my bathroom cabinet. I pulled out a small yellow lemon shaped bottle. "Aha! Here it is! One of you get over here and stick your tongue out."

"Hidan, you do it. You're immortal, so it can't kill you, un." Deidara said.

"Yes, that would be the best idea." Pein nodded.

"Ugh. You would agree to me being the one to fucking suffer, fucking Pein-in-the-ass..." Hidan grumbled as he walked over and reluctantly stuck out his tongue.

Just as I was about to drop a tiny bit into his mouth, I heard a poof and a squeal of delight along with some clapping from the direction of the bathroom downstairs.

"It worked!" Mel screamed. "Ew! Zetsu, put a freaking towel on!"

I face-palmed, and Hidan sighed in relief. It seemed like he hated lemon juice or something. I'd keep that in mind for later...

Kukukukuku...

"Which one did?" I heard Matt holler.

"Cold water!" she yelled back.

"Cool! I'll throw some water on these guys then, thanks Mel!" he shouted. His group mewed in surprise.

"Will you guys shut the fuck up already? Turn your kitties back and get them back up here!" I roared.

"Yes, mother..." they both grumbled sarcastically. I rolled my eyes as a series of five other poofs could be heard.

I switched the 'hot' tap off and switched on the 'cold' one.

"You know what to do. You're all guys, so don't be shy, and the towels are in a pile here when you need them. I'll go in there so I don't have my innocence taken from seeing you four naked." I gestured to the towels and the bath and walked out, shutting the door.

Sighing, I flopped on to my bed. I looked at my watch.

Still only 10:15. Ugh.

Freaking idiot waking me up...

I'll get her back for that.

A few more poofs came from my bathroom, so I prepared myself for what I would see.

Hearing loud footsteps thundering up the stairs, I sat up and leaned on my headboard, knees up to my chest. Mel skipped into the room first, her group of people wrapped in towels trailing behind her, or in Konan's case, my bath robe. Matt came in closely after, also followed by his group. I motioned for Mel and Matt to join me on the bed, and both fell down on the foot of the bed. The Akatsuki just stood by the door, looking awkward until I pointed in front of my bed and told them to stand there. They followed my orders and stood there instead, looking even more awkward.

The door of my bathroom slammed open and Hidan stomped in, arms folded across his chest, glaring at me. Pein had his hand over his face and was shaking his head at the Jashinist's tantrum. Deidara and Itachi followed behind, both just looking curiously around to find their partners to stand next to. Eventually, the entire gang was stood in front of us in a line next to their respective partners, only dressed in towels, staring expectantly at us three on the bed. I stared straight back at them, thinking of what to say.

I sighed and decided to break the ice. Taking my hair out of it's ponytail, I shook my head around a bit to help the kinks fall out and leaned back into my pillows, letting my hair spread out over it, and focused my gaze back on the wonderful men in front of me.

"So... You're really the Akatsuki, huh?"

Before anyone could respond, I started laughing quietly to myself. It soon turned into a full-blown giggling fit, with me sprawled over my bedsheets laughing my ass off.

Not one of those psycho type of laughs you get when you have an evil idea or something, but a genuinely happy one. I just couldn't believe what was happening.

I mean, who else gets to wake up on their 17th birthday and see nine hot, half naked fictional males in their bedroom?

Ah, I love my life sometimes.

A/N: Hehehehehe.

Was it worth the wait?

So, the Akatsuki have been brought back to their human forms. Sorry if this seems a bit rushed, but I couldn't think of many things to do to terrorise them as kittens. It would just make the story much more interesting to make them humans, and I have lots of plans for them now. :)

I think that either next chapter or the one after it will start going onto my own plotline, for now it's just introductions and settling in, so bear (bare?) with me.

Thanks for the reviews, I love reading them, it's really entertaining to see what you think about my stories.

Random fact #2: Katie is about 5' 6", Mel is about 5' 2", and Matt is about 5' 9". I know that the majority of the Akatsuki is smaller than these three, so I'm going to pretend that they're taller than they actually are. I'll include their heights in another random fact if I can't find anything better to write. Also, I've converted most of my buddies to the Way of the Otaku. YES! What an acheivement.

Next update due on 24/03/12, don't judge me if I'm late or anything, I try my best :)

Please review or favourite or whatever you want to do, I know it's clichéd, but it honestly gives me the motivation to keep writing. I mean, what's the point of writing if nobody likes it? :)

See you next time! :D