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

School Names:

Tobi – Eric

Konan – Taylor

Deidara – Ben

Kuwaitized Names:

Hidan – Hibban – Lovers,Beloved One

Itachi – Imtiyaz – Great King

Tobi – Toma - Twin

Deidara – Dayyan – One Who Takes Revenge

Konan – Kiran – Beam Of Light

Kisame – Kiraja – no meaning

Chapter Four: Out of the Frying Pan

In the morning while we were getting ready my sister spotted a mouse in the hallway. It disappeared not long after that, but that meant we would need something to get rid of the mouse. I took note of our lack of food and wrote down a list of things we need to do.

Get more food

Deal with mouse

Get ninjas home.

That was all I could think of at the moment. I showed Panda the list and told the ninjas that we would be stopping by the jameya on the way home. I had started remembering how the Akatsuki members had suddenly appeared in the living room. First five of them appeared at midnight. Then a few days later Kisame appeared alone at 11:00 PM. Would more of the Akatsuki members suddenly appear tonight at 10:00 PM? Or maybe other Naruto characters?

When we arrived at school I walk by the small gym again, looking for Star. "Star? Star? Are you here?" I say as I open up the door to the small gym to look for her. I hear meowing behind me and turn to see Star sitting there on the fake grass. I walk over to her and stroke her soft fur while Deidara,Tobi,and Konan wait patiently for me so we could go. Normally I visit Star every morning when I have school. But now with the Akatsuki members staying at my house I've come only twice to see her. Star started purring and then I told her I had to go and left with Deidara,Konan,and Tobi trailing behind me.

I went to LA with Deidara. Dominique and Zainab were already there.

"Hi pickle! Hello marshmallow!" Dominique said when we entered.

"Pancake you and Chocolate are already here?" I said as I sat down in my seat.

"Oh! Your reading The Hunger Games again?" Zainab/Chocolate said as she swiped the book from my desk."The Hunger Games is like the best book ever!"

I had been watching what books I have been reading since the Akatsuki arrived. I haven't read/watched any manga/anime to make sure that they don't somehow find out about them being a show and comic book. However, I have also been careful about what regular books I read because I have a strong feeling that the Akatsuki are not going to be the only fictional characters to find their way into the real world. At least, I hope its really the real world and I'm not just some made up character as well. Its not very likely though.

During science class today we were dissecting fish. For the sake of readers with weak stomachs I will only tell you that me,Konan,Hussein (Hassan's twin brother), and Lujain (an old friend I don't talk to that much anymore) probably mentally scared Mr. Rudisi's fish in the fish tank next to where we did the dissection for life. Hussein's antics made sure of that.

The first bit of trouble that I had pretty much had since the ninjas arrived was during ASK Radio. We were all finished with our assignments and surfing the web when Hassan started causing, for me at least, trouble.

"Hey guys! You'll never believe it but I just found out that To-"

"Hassan" I said, cutting him off. I was sitting right next to him, with Tobi sitting at the row behind us. On his screen I could see him reading the Naruto manga online. "Eric hasn't gotten to that part yet."

"I didn't know that he also liked it." Hassan said before going back to reading the manga.

I looked back at Tobi, and saw him looking at me. Had he guessed that I knew who he really was? Could he see what was on Hassan's computer screen? I turned back to my computer and started looking through several fanfiction stories, looking for possible ways to get the Akatsuki members home.

When school was out Panda picked us all up from school and took us to the Zahra Co-op. There me and Panda took a cart each and started grabbing food off the shelves to feed the hungry Akatsuki members with. We also searched for things to use to get rid of our mouse problem, but no luck. We finally just decided to come back and look later and went home. Calen,Aboss,Konan,Tobi,and Deidara helped Panda and me carry the groceries in.

"Hibban,Imtiyaz,and Kiraja, have you been playing mahjong without me?" Calen said when she saw Hidan,Itachi,and Kisame at the table with the mahjong set out, in the middle of a game.

I looked back at Tobi, still wondering if he found out about them being a comic book, when a loud meow sounded from behind me. I turned to see none other than Star sitting on the couch, flicking her tail back and fourth as she watched us.

"What are you doing here?" I told her as I petted her. "Did you follow us home from school?" I asked her. She purred in response before, at least to me, seeming to remember something and sticking her head into my open bag, and pulling out the Coraline book.

"What do you want that for?" I asked her as she dropped the book. It opened to a page with a picture of a rat on it. Star placed her paw on top of the picture.

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Experiment 5718 watched with interest as the cat named Star pulled a book out from a backpack. She recognized the book immediately as the one the 7th grader was reading in her Language Arts class. # 5718 followed her and her ninja escorts almost everywhere they went. Watching them try to cope with the classes and her trying to keep the fact that in this world they aren't suppose to be real a secret was fun. The cat dropped the book and it opened to a page showing a picture of a rat. Experiment 5718 realized that the cat was trying to tell the humans that she was responsible for the ninjas' appearance. It was true, but not something she wanted them to know, at least, not yet. Experiment 5718 realized that she couldn't keep calling herself that. She needed a real name. One word came to mind, Clarus. She remembered someone at the school mentioning it as the Latin word for Bright One. Clarus saw that the cat was now meowing,hissing,and purring as they tried to figure out what Star had wanted to tell them. Now seemed like a good time for an unexpected visitor, one who would make things upon his arrival much more interesting.

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"Um, are you trying to say something about a rat, Star?" I asked her. She meowed in reply.

"A mouse?" Calen said. Star purred. We had worked out a system to help us figure out what Star was trying to tell us. She would purr if we got what she was trying to say,hiss if we didn't,and meow if we were close.

"Ok, so a mouse has something to do with...?" I waited for Star to give me another clue. She jumped off the couch and rubbed up against all of the Akatsuki members.

"Are you telling me that a mouse had something to do with them coming here?" I said. That's when a giant swirling blue and white portal appeared.