(BRIEF EDIT, JULY 2015: I am 22 years old and I wrote this when I was 14 and it is the most embarrassing piece of "work" on my profile yet. Guaghhh.)

Here is the second half of my chapter, which ended up being 20 pages long so was cut in half to be practical. Note that in the beginning of this chapter, Sakura and her family have resided at Suna for roughly a year and a month.

June 9th, 11:03 AM

Two weeks, more or less, had passed. The arrival of her violin teachers constantly collided with the launching of Sakura's destruction plan for the council in Sasori's castle. She realized that she needed the council meeting to be broken up with raging chaos before her tutors got to Suna, but then realized that if Sasori banished her and her family from the Suna area then Tsunade might not have enough money to pay Asuma and Kurenai, the tutors.

When she explained this problem to her friends, Hinata musingly said, "Take money from the politicians," and the other three kits stared at her, unbelieving that the quiet girl could possibly even think such devious things. "If they're politicians and advisors, they have to be rich…don't they? They probably have money on their clothes s-somewhere, so you can take that and when the prince kicks you out, you and your family will have money for the um, tutors."

"I love you." Kiba and Sakura said at once, and, catching on, Ino repeated the phrase and brought them all together for a group hug. The kits all felt glad that they were sitting on the roof of some clothing shop, unable to be seen by anyone.

You may be wondering why Sakura's friends are so happy to help her get banished from the area when they all care for her so much. Their solution was that they'd simply send letters back and forth to communicate, and their parents were all nice enough to allow them to travel and visit each other at least once a year, so they wouldn't completely lose each other, and that was plain enough for all of them.

They sat there on the roof of the clothing shop as Hinata and Sakura, the two most knowledgeable in the area of animals, told Ino and Kiba of the various types of bears in the world, and of the traveling carnival that they'd heard would be passing at a town very near Suna. The town was called Friesian, and the carnival was going to be packed up into several gigantic wagons for the night before setting up shop the next day. A traveling carnival would doubtlessly have bears trained to balance balls on their noses or to dance jigs. With bears trained like that, it would be easy to give them signals that meant "Attack these people" and send them roaring upon the politicians. It was mostly Sakura's fine connection with nature and animals that made them feel this plan was only slightly over-the-top, but then again none of the children were even ten years old yet, so their judgment for this sort of thing was not the best.

The youngest two female kits, Hinata and Sakura, decided that grizzly bears were better than Konik red bears, and hoped that the traveling carnival—which they would sneak off by night on Foxtrot to see—had grizzlies. And if not, surely they had some wild animal that the kits could borrow for a bit.

The children spent the next hour or so discussing which horses would be best to take them to the traveling carnival. Foxtrot would be one and he was enough to carry two or three of the children, but another would be needed to carry the other one or two, and probably another horse would be needed to pull along the animals they planned to borrow from the carnival. The kits were still deciding if they should bring some herb or medicine to put the animals to sleep, and even if they didn't, why not bring along another horse? It would be some extra muscle no matter how they ended up doing things.

"Foxtrot and Renee and Ruki, because they're all pretty strong." said Kiba at last. "But Feathering, too. She's my family's cart horse. When we go to other towns near Suna, Feathering pulls our carriage. She's a Saddlebred, a big black one, so big some people think she's a draft horse. I bet she could carry three grizzly bears on her back!"

"And Toshiro, too, maybe…" Hinata added. "My parents have three horses, and Toshiro's strongest. He's a mountain pony, kind of small, but, uh, uh, pretty strong. He can carry my mother and father at the same time pretty fast."

So it was decided. Late that night, the children would take those five horses to Friesian, the nearest town, where the traveling carnival would be staying for the week. They would borrow a few bears or wildcats or elephants and bring them to Suna through Kiba's secret passageways. The politicians were in the castle already, sleeping in guest rooms at night and touring the city by day, and that night they would awaken to wild animals rampaging everywhere.

The children spent the rest of the day inside Ino's home, putting together puzzles and looking through picture books so hopefully no one would guess the grand-theft-animal operation they were planning.

They all agreed to meet at eleven at night, in the Stables. The Stables, you see, are where most of the Suna residents keep their horses, as only a few Suna houses had barns and grassy backyards fit for horses. Thankfully, none of the three Suna children had such things in their homes, so they didn't have to go through the trouble of suspiciously sneaking through the Suna city gates at night with big old horses. Kiba's knowledge of the city allowed them to crawl through an underground tunnel under the city wall, and come up through a rabbit hole just a few meters away from the outside of the wall.

"Genius," Ino muttered jealously as they crawled out of the hole and dashed silently over to Sakura's cottage. She was standing next to her family's barn when they arrived, and she opened the big red door silently to reveal Foxtrot the trotter horse and Renee and Ruki, the draft horses, fully equipped and ready for riding.

Ino and Hinata rode together on Ruki, who was slightly gentler than her twin sister. Kiba rode Renee and Sakura rode Foxtrot, all making their silent and swift way across the fields to the other side in a great half circle, where the castle had its back to them, where the Stables were. This place, thank goodness, was only guarded by six human men, whose senses could never detect the four wily felis kits coming into the barn from the back entrance. It was made up of five warm, sound-muffling stone buildings anyway, and the odds of being found were very low. It was certainly safe enough to enter.

Toshiro, Hinata's small mountain pony, stood out clearly in his stall, as his light gray coat seemed to glow in the dark night. The stallion recognized one of his masters, and when the violet-haired kit touched his muzzle, he knew to be quiet. Kiba found Feathering, the great black Saddlebred, and she acted up at being woken from her sleep. The kits patted her as soothingly as they could while leading Toshiro, Renee, Ruki and Foxtrot back out of the Stables.

The humans never saw the kits or noticed the two missing horses out of the hundreds in the Stables, and also never heard said kits and horses riding away over the fields and into the woods far beyond.

"We're fugitives!" Kiba screamed once they'd ridden well over two miles into the woods. "We're stealin' stuff! We're gonna give it back, yeah, but we're evil!" The five horses were tied together by ropes on their reins so as not to get seperated for any reason, and these ropes were held both in the hands of Sakura and Ino. The horses tugged on their ropes as they picked up on the excitement of the night atmosphere around them. They whinnied in response to it, pounding their hooves harder and harder on the dirt path.

Once the tops of the huge trees faded, the even more enormous mountains reared up before them, and the children gasped, never having seen anything so absolutely colossal. These mountains ringed the forests, which ringed the fields, which ringed Suna, and thusly they surrounded the royal city in a great circle. Even the excited horses calmed as the group passed between the great walls of tan-colored rock. Once past these, however, after a half hour or so of cantering in silent awe, a hilly spread of rocky land showed itself, sloping slightly downward toward another forest several miles away. Twenty or so miles beyond that forest was Friesian, where the carnival was waiting for them.

The next two and a half hours passed with wonderful, childish jokes and stories and anticipation of the operation.

June 10th, 12:58 AM (late at night)

Six mansion-sized wagons sitting motionless and dark on the outskirts of the little city of Friesian marked the traveling carnival. There were no people about, no scent of anything but the weird mixture of animals, sweat and sweet candies. The four kits let their five horses stand between two of the huge wagons without anyone holding their ropes. Thank goodness, here were three great bears, two grizzlies slumbering in a wrought-iron cage and in a neighboring cage, one…

"What's with that littler one?" Ino asked, pointing to a bear hardly the size of a human adult, whose coat was pathetically short but beautifully sleek. Sakura looked up from her job of unlocking the grizzlies' cage with a metal pin, and looked in at the third bear. The bear lifted his head and showed a yellowish mark on his chest.

"It's a sun bear! Wow!" the green-eyed kit exclaimed. "That's the smallest bear there is. And look at his muscles! He's pretty big for a sun bear. Most aren't even as big as little Toshiro there."

Kiba had taken Sakura lock-picking pin from her while she fluttered all about the sun bear's cage, and had now picked the lock. It clicked open and fell into his palm, and the metal cage doors opened. The two grizzly bears, one male and one female, stared at the foreign kits sleepily. The male bear, the larger one, lumbered out of his cage and stood up on his hind legs. He was taller than any human or felis the kits had ever seen.

"Whoa."

"You can say that again."

"I should say it five times again. Two times isn't good enough. Isn't big enough."

After knowing Sakura for over a year, the kits found out about her relationship with mother nature: how leeches never stuck onto her after a swim in a lake, how she spent nearly all her time climbing or running under the sun, and how animals—most animals—acted calmer when near her. Luckily, this was the case with the three carnival bears. The male grizzly had no problem with Sakura slipping a rope collar around his neck and tying said rope to Feathering's reins.

The female grizzly, and the sun bear when he was freed from his cage, were also complacent with being collared. The job was easier than they'd suspected, but they all became tense and furious when Ino suddenly exclaimed, "Oh my gosh! Look at this thing, look, look!"

The sun bear became somewhat annoyed at Ino's high-pitched voice and had to be calmed by Sakura's petting to keep from standing up and growling in pure annoyance. Hinata and Kiba stayed by the five horses and the three carnival bears while Sakura ran over to Ino on the other side of the huge carnival wagon. Ino was pointing up at a huge creature sitting next to a dark camping tent like some kind of freaky watchdog. An orange, spotted thing with long skinny legs and a ridiculously long neck.

"It's a giraffe." Sakura murmured excitedly, her pink feline ears twitching. "We have to take this one with us. Bears are scary if they're attacking people, but if they see a giraffe running around the castle, they won't know what to think! It'll be even better!"

So the giraffe, named Shimmer by Ino for her eyes that appeared like glittering jewels, was given a rope collar (with much trouble and jumping) and given to Hinata to hold while she rode Ruki the brown draft horse. Sakura mounted Foxtrot again with the female grizzly's rope secured around her hand and to Foxtrot's saddle. Her connection with nature was serving her better than it ever had been before.

"Try to keep quiet on the trip back home, okay?" Hinata whispered. She reached over to pet the giraffe's side. "If we make noise and someone's around and sees a bunch of kits with a whole lot of animals, th-they'll think we're evil or something and they'll tell other people…and we want to keep really really secret, so just be quiet okay?" Hinata's nervousness at the whole operation was showing.

As though in response Renee, Ruki's twin, trotted over and nuzzled the kit. "Yeah, Renee's right!" Ino whispered as the group set off at a brisk trot, bears and giraffe in tow. "We'll be quiet, Hinata, chill out, okay? We got the daughter o' nature right here! Everything's gonna be fine."

The male grizzly stopped loping along, sat down, and burped, and set a happier mood for the trip back. Kiba named the male grizzly "Boomer" as the burp had echoed seemingly everywhere in the night.

June 10th, 4:52 AM

The politicians, advisors, and "important people" as the Suna residents humorously dubbed them, had arrived at the Suna castle two days ago, had been given rooms to stay in, and invited to treat themselves to anything the castle or the city had to offer. Most enjoyed the fine horseback riding in the fields just outside the city, theatre plays and music shows in the amphitheatres or just relaxed under the excuse that they couldn't ever do it at home.

One of these "important people" was Kushina Uzumaki, a human woman of twenty-nine, the queen of Konik. Her husband Minato had been unable to come to Fell for unspoken reasons, and she was the only "royalty" attending the gathering. There were no other kings or queens but she, she outranked all others and thusly the room she stayed in was just a floor below Sasori's, a most honorable position. The bed was four-post and large enough for three people if for some reason needed, and one wall was made up entirely of a window that showed Suna's encircling mountain range and the forests below it, not to mention the lovely moon.

The Suna castle was in the very back of the city and looked out over it and the mountain pass leading out of the area, but Kushina's room faced the other way, towards the lesser-used mountain pass that led to Friesian. Kushina woke once late at night to sip some water, and afterwards she lay in bed, exhausted and ready for sleep once more, whenever it came. But her eyes, sharp for a human, caught a glint through her enormous window coming from the mountain pass to Friesian.

The redheaded woman sat up in bed and stared. Her eyesight was flawless, but she couldn't help wondering if she was really seeing a party of children leading horses and bears—and a giraffe!— towards the rear of the city. The glimmer she'd seen was the giraffe's shimmering black eyes, and…did that child have pink hair?

"The…the prince's kit?" she gasped to herself. "What is she doing…?" But halfway through that sentence a childish and devious smirk broke out on her face. Stories had spread all over the world of the kit's adorable reluctance to accept her bond with Fell's redheaded prince, her devious schemes to get said prince to throw her off his land, most of which caused some amount of local mayhem before only strengthening the prince's fondness for her dangerous and fiery heart.

Kushina covered her mouth to keep from laughing. "Are they really, g-g-going to!" She could picture it plainly: a trio of bears and a giraffe running amok in the prince's castle.

Kushina only wished she knew how the children planned to get those animals into the city when it was surrounded by a wall and its gates were closed, not to mention how they would get into the fortress-like castle!

She lay in bed, pillows fluffed many times over, smiling and giggling to herself like some naughty child, waiting for the inevitable screaming of some poor staff member who would be having a heart attack within the hour.

June 10th, 5:31 AM

"GOD IN HEAVEN! SOMEONE DO SOMETHING!"

"Anko, move! Move! MOVE!"

Don't you feel bad for the poor prince of Fell, the poor felis fellow who has to wake up to that at five-thirty in the morning?

Sasori's belief in a higher power above was just strengthened a little; there was no one in his personal chambers to see his eyes shoot open in shock and his tail bristle. In ways unknown to us common folk, he was out of his grand room and four stories down, on the main level of the castle, in less than a minute, and his elegant nightclothes and hair weren't even ruffled.

When he arrived at the bottom of the stairwell and turned a corner it was only a quick and graceful dodge that saved him from being hit by a flying carrot. Said carrot hit something with a dull thud and an animal—an animal?!—roared behind him. He turned and saw a pair of bears standing roughly ten feet away from him, on their hind legs, roaring and waving their paws in fury.

One was surely a grizzly; the shaggy brown coat and incredible standing height told that. The other was a species unknown to him. It was only just half the size of the grizzly, colored black with a single yellow chest marking, and its coat was thin and sleek, hardly making it look any bigger than it was. However contrasting the pair of creatures were, they were angry and unmistakably aggressive. The smaller bear, the black one, was foaming at the mouth.

"Move, Majesty, move!" It was the voice of Anko, the head chef of the castle. Obediently, he moved and narrowly missed being hit by a projectile that moved so fast he couldn't tell just what it was. The object struck the giant grizzly in the neck and it staggered back a step before going down on four paws and charging past Sasori towards Anko. But Anko had run away and the grizzly ran off down another random castle corridor, bellowing all the way. Sasori was left with the thin-coated, smaller bear, who was taking some threatening steps towards him.

Being a felis, the prince of Fell had a unique ability given to him at birth, some form of puppetry that allowed him to move and control…most things. There were some random objects he couldn't move with the ability, such as oak leaves, spoons, certain people, certain animals…

But this black, skinny bear was no exception. It took only a few fancy finger movements to have the bear lifted into the air and slammed three or four times against a wall until it fell into unconsciousness. He set it down with unnecessary force, dropping it from seven or eight feet in the air. The bear would sleep for several hours, and by that time, it would be restrained and returned to wherever it came from.

His ears, human yet sharp as that of any felis with feline ears, picked up the sound of a trio of people running down a stairway near him. There was something large running behind them, not quite as big as a bear, or at least not as heavy and lumbering. He recognized the voice of Kushina Uzumaki, the queen of Konik, who was not screaming, but laughing for some unearthly reason.

A door burst open twenty feet down a hall to his right, and out came the queen herself in her turquoise nightgown, followed by Sir Baki, a felis advisor to the king and queen of Noriker, and a black-haired felis man whose name he vaguely remembered was Uchiha. They ran towards him, Kushina trying to hide her smile and the felis man and Baki looking ready to have seizures. The door they'd come through was kicked out of the way and against the wall by a quartet of long, skinny yellow legs, which could only belong to…

"What is a giraffe doing plodding about in my home?" he questioned rather threateningly. No one answered. The giraffe was having some trouble moving its head low enough to pass through, and was apparently thinking that kicking the air with its four skinny legs would eventually make it so that it could slip its long neck through the wall and continue on its way.

"Giraffes can't go down stairs, Ino! They'd bump their heads on the ceiling since it's sloping down! Now look at Shimmer, the door's so low she's stuck at the bottom! Come on, help me bring her back upstairs!"

He felt the hand of the Konik queen on his shoulder. "Akasuna no Sasori…" The woman was addressing him formally. Unusual for her boyish, carefree personality. "I'm not completely sure, but I believe your kit is behind this. Is that voice hers?"

"It is." He murmured, making his way towards the flailing giraffe legs.

Who would have thought that, to get his attention, the kit would sneak wild animals into his castle? Into a castle that no thief had been able to penetrate for the last decade?

That kit would have a surprise when he got to her.

June 10th, 5:33

"Well…I don't think giraffes are, you know…made to go down stairs, Sakura!" Hinata said exasperatedly. Her small violet felis ears were twitching in fear. She knew she would get punished for this, she knew they all would, but they knew it would be worth it for a good friend. Now she couldn't help but look at the dents in the wall and stairs the female giraffe had made trying to chase the screaming people down the stairs, and realize that she could probably get herself beheaded for ruining the castle of Akasuna no Sasori.

"I didn't mean for her to go down, though!" the pink-haired kit tried to explain. "I tried to make her go the other way. There's another staircase, a little ways down the hall, and it's a lot bigger and Shimmer could have gone through that one a lot easier but she just…she just went all by herself. Hey, where's Ino and Kiba? I thought they were behind us with Boomer."

"Sakura, they went up some stairs a long time ago. And who kn-knows where the other two bears are!"

As though Hinata speaking was some kind of cue, Shimmer's neck craned backwards until her head was nearly touching her spine and she slipped under the doorway and into the hallway beyond. ("She's gonna break her neck doing that!" Sakura gasped in horror.) Immediately after, Shimmer lay down and leaned her neck against the wall as though she had no energy left in her great, lanky body. In that same doorway where the female giraffe's legs had been flailing, the prince appeared. His curled tail, half-closed eyes and black nightclothes and overall unhappy air did not make Sakura want to walk down the stairs and explain to him what was going on.

He lifted his hand slowly, threatening, black-painted claws making Sakura think even more that she should really get out of there. She grasped her violet-haired friend and did just that, taking off as fast as her legs could take her in a burst of adrenaline.

The pink-haired kit was a curious object in the matter of Sasori's puppetry ability, in that he could sometimes use the gift to move her however he wanted and sometimes he couldn't. There was no rhyme or reason to this, and Sakura was very unwilling to stay and find out if this was one of the times where she would find she couldn't move a muscle because of him.

She and her friends had been up all night and the exhaustion was getting to all the children. Their bodies weren't used to running all day and all night as well. But despite the want for sleep that had been plaguing them for several hours now, Sakura found no problem in running full speed down the grand castle hallway and sharpening her senses to listen for any prince who might appear from around the corner and catch her.

Waiting for their parents to go to sleep, sneaking out to the Stables and borrowing some horses, riding to a strange town miles away from home, borrowing some circus animals and sneaking said circus animals into a walled city and a castle and leading them around and rewarding the animals for frightening the poor castle residents really could tire out your average eight or nine-year-old. Sakura's burst of speed lasted for about three hallways and then she found that dragging Hinata around was extremely tiring.

"We'll just…take a break here for…ten seconds, okay?" Sakura panted. Her friend, much more tired than she, didn't even nod. Sakura added for her, "Yeah, yeah, okay. Kiba and Ino will have to pass us soon anyway…"

The two felis kits sat down against a wall, nearly knocking down a glass vase of some rare and gorgeous plants. They panted for several minutes, eyes closed, almost falling asleep though they were still wearing the clothes they'd worn yesterday (or many hours ago, if you look at it that way). When she felt Hinata's soft tail poking at her leg, Sakura looked up to see the prince and three unfamiliar people looking down at her, all in their nightclothes, only one of them looking irritated at all. The prince, the redheaded woman, and the black-haired felis man all were smiling and their tails were sweeping the ground, a sort of loving, appreciative felis gesture. Sakura didn't know what a sweet sight they made: two young, sleepy kits staring up innocently at their elders, knowing that they were in trouble.

Sakura knew something was going on just by looking in the prince's eyes. Her cute expression of tiredness didn't change, but her mind was awhirl with questions she hadn't thought of before. Would he cut off her tail for embarrassing him like this? Would he banish Ino, Kiba and Hinata, too? Would he kill one of her horses just for punishment?

She almost said, "Please don't kill me okay?" but was barely able to keep herself from doing so.

She tried to put on an expression of "I-know-what-you're-up-to" when the prince bent down to pick her up, but she wasn't sure if she succeeded. His purring was excessively loud; any human within twenty feet of them could surely hear it. This made the redheaded woman and the black-haired man curl their feline tails in what looked like delight.

Sakura expected him to rip her ears off any second. She set one hand on his shoulder and the other on his chest, the same way she would arrange herself when anyone picked her up and carried her. This would make it seem, she hoped, that she wasn't expecting him to rip her ears off. She heard the redheaded woman make an silent exclamation something like, "Ohhh, she's cute, Majesty!"

What happened next was most unexpected. Our devious kit found herself dumbstruck for once when the prince darted out a velvet tongue gave her a tender lick on her left cheek, an experience which was so unfamiliar Sakura's mind could not register it. This was followed by a nuzzle on her soft skin, of the same affectionate nature. This made the kit close one eye for fear of the prince poking it out, and the lovability of the scene was enhanced still by her adorable look.

You readers of this tale may remember I, the narrator, mentioning that a lick on a felis's feline ears is an ultimate sign of affection. I called it an ultimate sign for a reason, and that reason is: a lick on the cheek or the lips is the ultimate sign of affection.

Sakura, unwise in such things, did not know the message this action conveyed to the three adults standing by, and could not bring herself to do anything but stare at the intricately-patterned floor.

The three adults standing by did understand the message conveyed by Sasori's actions. Old Baki, advisor to the Noriker king and queen, nodded respectfully and tried to keep his smile small and civil. Queen Kushina and the black-haired felis man, Obito Uchiha, did not. Kushina and Obito looked near insane in their grins.

"You will not be in trouble if you promise me you'll never do something like this again," Sasori warned. The kit nodded dumbly, her ears pointing downward a bit. "Good." Another lick. "I don't think you know how much I would hurt if you were the victim of a bear's claws. If you were killed, I would be also."

He turned to Hinata, who'd watched the event with wide, shocked eyes. "Come, child. Let's find your other friends, hmm? I'll take you home. I assume you've been up all night bringing these wild animals into my castle." Hinata nodded, ears pinned to her skull in shame and fear and confusion, and followed after the prince as he made his way away. Kushina, Baki, and Obito stared admiringly after him.

A few minutes later, on the second story of the castle, Sasori, Hinata and Sakura found Kiba and Ino following sullenly after Anko and Tenten. They all looked worn, exhausted and unhappy, but Kiba and Ino were only too happy to explain exactly what had gone on that night, as Hinata and Sakura were much too tired and dumbstruck to talk.

The prince's brown eyes showed something that may have been akin to shock when Ino got to the part about "borrowing" some circus animals, animals who could have very well killed them if treated wrongly, but looked most concerned when he learned that the children had snuck outside the city and ridden horses at least twenty-five miles to a strange town in the middle of the night. This may have been some hidden embarrassment at the fact that these children, not even ten years old, could do such things and get away with them without him knowing a thing until it was too late.

"Because of you, security will be tightened everywhere in my city." Sasori said flatly as they exited the castle and walked the sleeping streets of Suna. "Nothing like this will ever happen again. If it does, you all will be properly punished."

The children were silent as they walked down the streets and blinked as the sun just began to rise and glare at them through a pathetically thin veil of clouds. The first door to be knocked upon was the Hyuuga house. Hiashi Hyuuga, Hinata's father, was to say the least extremely surprised to see the prince of the continent in his nightclothes standing on his doorstep, backed by a group of children at six in the morning, one of which was his daughter.

All was explained, and Hiashi was ordered by Sasori not to punish his daughter ("You must save the punishment for when they try a stunt like this again, Hiashi."). Ino was returned home and then Kiba. None of the parents had known their children had left in the night, and were completely shocked at what they heard, and would doubtlessly gossip about for months. At about six thirty in the morning, Sakura was still being held by the prince. The guards, who had only just come to their post at the Suna gate a few minutes ago, also had the events explained to them and opened the doors for them, eager and slightly flabbergasted.

Sakura's home was not yet in view when Sasori asked, "Will your mother be awake at this time?" She shook her pink head. "No. Not for another hour. Maybe more." Her tone suggested she was close to falling asleep. Even her wild, lively eyes had darkened with sleepiness.

"Then when she wakes up, tell her that she is not to discipline you. If she does, I will discipline her. And be sure to give her the reason." Sakura stuck out her tongue, making sure he didn't see. "Yeah, yeah, so you can punish me next time. Fine."

As you may guess, Sakura's earlier promise not to try any more stunts like this was a complete lie. She had planned many more schemes, and knew that as she got older these schemes would only get more and more complex and devious, so much so that there'd be no evidence she'd done a thing, but everyone would know she had done it out of obviousness. For things like this the prince could banish her but not do anything along the lines of imprison or behead her like a criminal who had obvious evidence against them.

The kit knew as she fell more and more into sleep on Sasori's shoulder that things would only get more interesting as she grew up. Of course, she didn't know that the prince thought the same.

Well wasn't that unrealistic. Eight and nine-year-old sneaking out of a walled city, stealing horses from a guarded stable, riding god knows how many miels away to steal circus animals, taking them back, somehow sneaking these circus animals into the walled city, into a freaking castle, and having these animals act aggressive and rabid on command. It's not fanfiction for nothing, guys. I for one am having a good time.

I was sort of hoping that the "cute" ending would distract some people from the fact that it's so unrealistic. Well, Sakura's a virgin birth, devious and clever as the devil's right hand, Kiba's knows the city so well he's like Dodger from that "Oliver" cat movie and can find ways under the city, and...well, can't you just enjoy it? Oh, also, Obito Uchiha has no significance in the story. I just wanted to give the "black-haired felis man" a name, so there he is. I hoped you enjoyed the read.