Thank you so much for so much activity so far :D I hope you like this new version since, from here on out, most of this will be completely rewritten.


~Third Person P.O.V~

"Shit, shit, shit. What am I going to do? Why did this have to happen to me? Why not an insane fan?" Ashlen began to rant as she paced in a small circle thoughtfully. Michael and the Akatsuki kittens looked up at her as if the teenager had gone crazy.

"Ashlen, you're going to make yourself dizzy if you keep walking like that." Michael pointed out. The teenager stopped her pacing to look over to her brother before looking down at the kittens nervously.

After pulling her brother away from Kisame, Ashlen began to go into a panic. She had read many stories about Naruto characters coming into the real world as some sort of animal. More than half of them were about the Akatsuki somehow being turned into dogs, cats and even hamsters(1), and ending up with an insane Naruto fan. Well, the first two came true like many others, the last was false; Ashlen was no where near an insane Naruto fan.

Yes, the teenager loved the show and read the manga. Yes, her favorite villains were the Akatsuki members, and yes, she enjoyed the series very much. However, Ashlen did not live her life around Naruto. She simply enjoyed the episodes and sometimes day dreamed about meeting them in person. Unlike most unstable fan girls, who not only wished to meet characters like the Akatsuki members, but would also talk about raping them, Ashlen was different. Sure, she might envision meeting an anime character she's into, but the teenager wouldn't obsess over them.

"What's gotten into her? She basically just threw me off the brat's lap." Kisame complained as he recovered from his fall. The others looked up at the nervous girl as Hidan snickered.

"Maybe the bitch just hates blue things." He said teasingly. Kisame growled under his breath and shot the silver kitten a evil grin.

"At least the girl is smart enough to know I'm a male, Miss Pretty Kitty."Kisame said teasingly, allowing the Jashinist's comment to slide; kind of. Towards hearing laughter and chuckling from Deidara, Kakuzu, Zetsu and Tobi, Hidan hissed angrily.

"Fuck you, Fish Face!" Hidan snapped, which only caused more laughter. Michael watched with confusion as Ashlen was trying to think of what to do.

Anyone would think she was out of her mind if they knew she thought her ten kittens were the Akatsuki from Naruto. Yet each kitten looked like their Akatsuki counterpart, and the personality radiating off of them seemed to match as well. It seemed too weird not to be true. So, Ashlen was torn between making the kittens leave or keeping them and getting their trust for when and if they return to human form. However, that kind of scared Ashlen. Unlike most fanfictions she'd read, Ashlen doubted the Akatsuki would turn into love sick fools who were willing to give up their life of evil for her.

Michael, however, was questioning his sister's sanity. Sure, the kittens might have looked a little odd, but he had never seen his sister freak out like that before. It wasn't like the blue cat had hurt him or anything, so what was wrong with his big sis? So, when Ashlen hadn't been paying attention, the young child sat back down on the floor in front of all the kittens.

"I've got an idea." Ashlen whispered to herself, as she turned towards the basement stairs. Stopping half way, the teenager turned back around and pointed an accusing finger at the kittens.

"If you dare lay one claw on my brother, I will make sure you get a sex change." She said with venom in her voice. Then, leaving some very confused and shocked kittens down in the basement with Michael, Ashlen bolted upstairs.

"What the fuck?! Why is the bitch so fucking violent all of a sudden?" Hidan yelled, his skin becoming pale under his silver fur with the threat. Kisame, Deidara and Tobi also shuddered at the thought of having their "things" removed while the others seemed indifferent.

"I think she's suspicious of us. It's the only logical explanation." Itachi said, his body jerking slightly as a hand touch him. Upon realizing the child was just petting him, Itachi forced himself to calm down and relaxed.

"Sorry about my older sister, she's acting very weird today. She normally really loves cats." The child apologized to the kittens. Exchanging looks with each other, the Akatsuki looked up at the young child, wondering if he would give any information towards his sister's break down. He didn't.

~Normal P.O.V~

"Marvin, wake up." I called, poking the cockatoo through the cage. The bird twitched before it opened it's eyes to look at me.

"What do you want?" He asked with a whistle. Opening the cage, I stuck in my arm to let him sit on my wrist.

"I need a favor, Marvin." I said as he climbed onto my arm. Once his claws were gripping into my skin, gently but enough for it to pinch, I pulled him out and closed the cage door.

"What kind of favor?" He asked with another whistle and ruffled his feathers. I smiled as I carried Marvin out of the room.

My idea was simple but also a long shot. If the kittens downstairs were normal cats the bird should not be able to understand them. Marvin can only understand other birds, proven when he has no idea what the dogs were barking about. However, if the kittens were indeed the Akatsuki, I was hoping Marvin would be able to understand them. Not only would it prove I wasn't crazy but the bird can be used to translate for us. If he can't understand the kittens I'll feel foolish for allowing my imagination to get the best of me.

"You'll understand in a moment." I replied as I entered the hallway to the basement. However, before I could even reach the door, a sound from behind me stopped me.

Looking behind me I saw none other than the blond kitten and the red kitten. If my suspicions were right, and I wasn't just being paranoid, Deidara and Sasori had followed me up from the basement at some point. I guess even as cats they were good ninjas, even though cats are well known for their stealth. If they were behind me it must have meant they followed me soon after I left the basement to get Marvin. Well, at least this could be a good time to test my theory before I go all the way downstairs. With my threat I don't think anyone would try to hurt Michael.

"Why did you two follow me? I was just getting someone would can translate for us." I said as I stared down at the two cats. Said cats looked at each other before looking back at me, staying silent .

'So that's how they want to play it? Fine, it looks like I will have to take it up a nudge.' I thought and slowly got to my knees. As I got lower, I noticed both cats were looking at Marvin more than they were me.

"I can't talk to cats. Why are you talking about?" Marvin questioned with yet another whistle. I ignored him as I placed my face closer to the blond kitten.

"This is a dangerous game you guys are playing. I am more than five times your size and can seriously hurt you. So, why don't you stop the cat acts, Deidara, Sasori, and just talk already." I demanded, looking at each cat as I said their name, hoping to god I wouldn't regret anything. To my surprise both cats gained a surprised and panicked look on their faces as the blond began meowing frantically.

"It can talk!" Marvin shouted in surprise, flapping his wings just as frantically as the kitten was meowing. I couldn't get over the surprise and I swear my jaw almost hit the floor.

Holy crap! I can't believe I was right! I mean I suspected something was wrong and the kittens were really the Akatsuki, but I never expected to actually be right. In fact, I was hoping my mind was playing tricks on me. I was hoping that perhaps a crazy Naruto fan got their hands on the cats and made them look like the Akatsuki... Oh shit! This is very bad; I called Hidan pretty and basically threw Kisame off my brother's lap... Tobi also licked me.. EW!

~Third Person P.O.V~

"What the hell! She knows about us, un!" Deidara freaked out after the girl addressed him by name. Sasori, not near as freaked out as Deidara but still shocked, turned to glare at his partner.

"Stop freaking out like that, brat! You are only making her more suspicious." He said before sighing deeply. "Though, I guess it is too late for that. How this girl knows about us I do not know, but we need to inform the others of this recent development." Sasori said, as he began to run past Ashlen with Deidara following close behind him. Swearing under her breath, Ashlen stood up and sighed deeply.

'Please don't say I just made a horrible mistake.' She thought and followed after the Akatsuki kittens. Butterflies soon swarmed in her stomach as she slowly walked down the basement stairs.

Ashlen was starting to regret opening her mouth. Even if the kittens were the Akatsuki, maybe it would have been better to ignore it until they somehow returned to human form. Now Ashlen was even more torn on what to do now that she knew the truth. Keep ten people that might kill her when, and if, they turn back to normal, take them to the pound to be someone else's problem, or keep them and try to gain their trust so they won't want to hurt her or Michael upon returning to normal. Out of all of those, and even if it frightened Ashlen a bit, the third option seemed like the best to follow.

"Just so you know, my brother does not know what I know." The teenager said as she stepped off the last stair. The Akatsuki, who just got finished telling the news from Deidara and Sasori, looked over to Ashlen and Marvin.

"What are you talking about, Ashlen? Why do you have Marvin?" Michael asked confusingly, having Kisame back in his lap as he scratched his back. The ninja cats all looked at each other before Pein stepped forwards and began to meow.

"He said, 'how much do you know about us?'" Marvin translated with yet another whistle; he whistles or bocks after, or before, every sentence. Ashlen looked from the cockatoo, to the kittens, and her brother before sighing in defeat.

"You better follow me to my room because I can better explain this there. Michael, get him off of you and come as well." Ashlen ordered before turning her back on everyone. Michael frowned in innocent confusion but did as his sister asked, though gently taking Kisame off of him instead of pushing him.

The only reason Ashlen wanted her little brother to come with her was because he was also a fan of Naruto. Their parents tried to keep Michael from watching Naruto at first, because of all the fighting, blood and swearing. Yet it never worked. Whenever Ashlen watched the anime, the little boy would join his older sister in her room. The teenager agreed to let her brother watch with her under the conditions that their parents didn't find out and he didn't try any of the things he saw the ninjas do. Thanks to Julie, Michael was already starting to swear but the habit was starting to be broken with bribery.

So far, Michael only watched up to episode four of Naruto Shippuden. So the only Akatsuki members the child had seen were Itachi, Kisame, Zetsu, Deidara and Sasori. Michael's favorite character overall was tied between Kiba and Shino, while his favorite villain was Kisame. Yeah, Michael was a typical boy that always had a thing for animals and weird looking people. Plus his favorite color is blue.

Easily venturing to Ashlen's bedroom, the teenager allowed Marvin to sit on the back of her computer chair as Michael flopped down on her bed. The Akatsuki, however, were enraptured by all the things hanging on her walls and laying on the shelves. Aside from a few Vampire Knight items -posters, a key chain and a male Day Class uniform in her closet- posters of the Akatsuki rested just about everywhere. There were three posters in total, one of Itachi and Kisame as a team, another of Deidara and Sasori as a team while the last was the Akatsuki, including Pein's other bodies, as a group. That one didn't show Tobi as Madara though.

Besides the three posters hanging on the walls, Ashlen also had a couple of forehead protectors pinned to the walls, all of which were scratched besides her Sand Village forehead protector. The freakiest thing the Akatsuki saw though had to be the plushies. Ashlen had plushies of Deidara, Sasori, Kisame, Itachi, Zetsu and Shikamaru(2). Ashlen couldn't stop a smile as Hidan jumped on her bed and began poking the Deidara doll, before looking towards the bomber to meow something. Whatever he said must have made Deidara angry, because the blond kitten hissed angrily.

"What the hell is all this shit, un?" Deidara demanded as he slowly sniffed the doll of him. The others voiced their confusion as Ashlen sat on her bedroom floor, against her bed.

"Too many are talking at one time." Marvin complained, looking between all the cats talking to one another. Ashlen gave the bird a pitying smile.

"It's fine, I don't need a translation to know that they are confused." She said, while watching the kittens with interest and slight amusement. "If you want me to answer your questions, please speak one at a time so Marvin can translate better." She spoke out loudly, gaining everyone's attention.

"Ashlen, what's going on?" Michael questioned in confusion, sitting above Ashlen's head on the bed. Reaching a hand up, she patted her brother's leg comfortingly.

"You'll find out soon." She assured comfortingly. Her attention was then directed to Kisame as he pointed his paw at his plushy counterpart.

"What are these things and why do they look like us?" He questioned, putting his paw down once he noticed the girl looking at him. Marvin translated so Ashlen could understand.

"It's a doll, or more commonly called a plushy. Michael tends to steal that one from my room every now and then." The girl explained ,as she gave her brother an accusing look. The said thief gave an innocent smile, grabbed the plushy and hugged it to his chest.

"I wouldn't have to steal it if you would just give him to me." The young child said innocently, giving the Kisame plushy a tight squeeze. The real Kisame raised a kitty eyebrow at the young child as Deidara and Hidan chuckled mockingly.

"Michael, behave yourself." Ashlen scolded, as she looked nervously at the real Kisame. "By the way, I'm sorry if I caused you to hurt your head. I'm just very protective of my brother."

"So we've noticed." Sasori stated calmly. Marvin translated again and Ashlen blushed a little but stared at the little cat in full seriousness.

"I meant every word of my threat. No one hurts my little brother and gets away with it." Ashlen said coldly. Sasori blinked, unaffected by the coldness in Ashlen's voice as Itachi, resting on the stomach of a large teddy bear on the ground, looked at her with some interest.

This girl was very protective of her younger brother, something he had in common with her. He too would do anything for his brother and already did so much for Sasuke. If there was any more Itachi could do for him, the Uchiha would. So the ninja could respect the girl's protectiveness over her little brother. Not that many of them would stoop to hurting a child in the first place though.

"Exactly how much do you know about us?" Itachi called out calmly. Marvin repeated what Itachi said, but with a whistle.

Instead of answering with words, Ashlen got up from her spot on the floor. The Akatsuki watched in curiosity as the human girl walked over to a bookcase. Now that their secret was somehow out, the ninja were unsure if this girl was trustworthy or not. None of them could sense chakra radiating off either her or the child, but the knowledge the girl had could be a signifigant threat to them. Yet, in the forms the Akatsuki were in now, killing her was not an option, so gaining her trust was the best thing to do until they could find a way out of this, ah, predicament. According to how the child acted towards the Kisame doll, they knew he knew something about them but did not know the kittens were the Akatsuki themselves.

Quickly going through her anime and manga, Ashlen decided to grab volume one of the manga and volume twenty-one of the anime; where Itachi and Kisame first come into the series. Turning back towards her bed, she saw that Michael was now petting Deidara. The kitten didn't look too happy about it, but he took the big sister's threat seriously. Besides being a little embarrassing and degrading, Deidara didn't mind being pet; it almost felt like a back rub. Still, Ashlen could see the annoyance on Deidara's face and whacked Michael over the head with her book.

"Michael, stop that; he doesn't like it." Ashlen scolded. Pouting, the seven year old boy removed his hand from Deidara's back to rub the top of his head.

"Bitch."He mumbled under his breath. However, Ashlen heard and hit a second time.

"Micky, no swearing! Just for that, I'm not taking you out for lunch."Ashlen snapped, before gently dropping the manga and anime on her bed. Michael pouted but didn't say any thing else.

"Wasn't that just a little excessive? All the brat did was touch Deidara and swear." Kisame said as he went to examine the things placed on the bed. Marvin translated as the others jumped on the bed to get a look.

"My brother is supposed to be getting out of his swearing habit. Besides, I didn't even hit him that hard. Michael just likes being a drama queen." Ashlen smirked as her brother glared at her before looking at Deidara. "Besides, you looked annoyed." she shrugged before sitting on the edge of her bed. Michael continued to pout stubbornly as the kittens looked between the anime and the manga.

The book had Naruto on the cover, a scroll between his teeth as he stood on two large frogs. He had what looked like two large paintbrushes sticking behind his back and clouds surrounding him and the frogs. Lastly, Naruto was in some kind of pose as his hands were out in some kind of jutsu. Yet, even though surprised to see the Kyrubi host on the cover of a book, the case next to them absolutely shocked the Akatsuki.

Both a human Itachi and Kisame, as well as Kakashi in a fighting position, were seen on the case. Kisame was in the background, looking like he was about to swing his sword at Kakashi's head. Itachi's upper body was seen on the cover, staring at everyone coldly. Itachi's Sharingan was blazing and both Akatsuki members were wearing their cloaks.

"What the hell is this shit! Itachi, Fish Face, why are you on this thing?" Hidan demanded as he poked the picture of Itachi. Itachi hid his annoyance and looked at himself in confusion as Kisame rolled his eyes and glared at Hidan.

"Stop calling me Fish Face, Hidan." He growled in annoyance. Hidan rolled his eyes and replied with a 'fuck you.'

"Marvin, I don't think I want that translated." Ashlen said as she watched Hidan meow. It was very likely he was swearing and insulting Kisame.

Soon, after an hour of explaining what the book and DVD were, as well as how Ashlen knew about them, the Akatsuki members finally understood what was good on. Kind of. They were all still very confused about how their world was a means of entertainment in hers, but understood how she knew their names. However that only lead to questions on how much she knew of each member. In truth, Ashlen knew a lot, not everything, but a lot. She knew the truth of why Itachi killed his clan, she knew who Tobi really was, and she even knew that Sasori had a sweet tooth as a child. However, to protect not only herself, but certain Akatsuki members, Ashlen told a half lie and said not much. The teenager explained knowing Pein's goals, told Itachi she knew about Sasuke, told Kisame she knew about the seven swords men, told Sasori she knew he was a puppet and told Deidara about his extra mouths.

In that time Michael had also finally caught on to what was going on. Unlike his sister's first reaction, Michael reaction much differently. He had grabbed Kisame in a tight hug and kept saying how much he liked him, even calling him a epic bad ass. Ashlen hit him over the head for swearing again while Kisame was conflicted what to do; struggle away from the kid or start laughing.

"Michael, let Kisame go." Ashlen sighed in exhaustion as a few of the more immature members laughed at Kisame's predicament. Pein ignored the immaturity of the members as he looked up at Ashlen.

"The knowledge you hold is quite dangerous. Tell us why we should trust you." Pein ordered, staring up at Ashlen coldly. Ashlen returned the glare with a small smile, finding Pein too cute to be scared of him in his kitten body while Marvin translated.

"I have a few reasons to why. Reason one, I am not the only human that reads Naruto. Reason two, I am one of the much saner people you'll meet. Reason three, I have no reason to tell others your secrets; you'd probably just kill me when you return to normal if I did." The teenager said with a shrug. Pein stared at her for a moment before blinking to take in her reasons.

"Very well, until we return to our human forms, we will trust you to take care of us. If you betray us in any way, you will be dealt with because of it." Pein threatened darkly. After Marvin translated Ashlen frowned but nodded.

"Understood, but if any of your men try to harm me or my brother, I stand by my earlier threat." She said back coldly. The Akatsuki leader simply nodded before he jumped down off the bed.

"Alright, feel free to wonder around the house. Michael, please take Marvin back to his cage and everyone leave my room; I'm going to get dressed. Michael, because I am hungry and too lazy to cook, I'll take us to A&W for lunch." Ashlen announced as she slid off her bed. Finally letting go of Kisame, Michael did as his sister said with a eager grin.


(1) There was a story where they turned into Hamsters but it was deleted

(2) I really do have a Shikamaru and a Kisame but that's it

I want to mention that these OCs are not based off my family. I do not have a brother but I do have a sister who is younger to me. However Julie is not her name and she does not act like that. I also have very few friends so Ashlen is only based on me by some personality