Hello~

Lots of answers down below as promised.

Enjoy my lack of ownership of Naruto.

Because someday, it will be mine.

A bloodcurdling scream ripped through the silence of the base. My hands froze on Sable's fur and I was instantly on my feet. I knew that scream and it had been years since I last heard it.

The last time I did was when Orochimaru kidnapped Kathryn and I.

Sable charged ahead of me, knowing where the scream was coming from. Deidara and Sasori darted out of the kitchen as I passed it and they followed after me. Itachi, Kisame, Hidan, and Kakuzu emerged from the training grounds as we ran by it and they ran along with us.

I skidded to a stop in front of Kathryn's bedroom door and kicked it open before rushing to the bathroom since I didn't see her in the main room. Sable's hair was up and she was snarling viciously, looking around for any sort of threat. I hurried over to Kathryn and took her face in my hands as Deidara crouched by my side, worry evident on his face.

"Kathryn!" I demanded. "What the hell happened? What's wrong?"

She was sitting against the counter, sobbing into her hands. She shook her head and cried even more.

"Mom." Tiburon gasped, pushing by his uncles and father. "What happened? Is Kitty okay?"

Sanaa squeezed in beside him, looking scared and worried. "Mommy? Are you alright?"

Kathryn just continued crying.

Deidara pulled her into a hug and stroked her hair, whispering soothing words in her ear to calm her down. "Easy babe, un. What's wrong? What happened yeah?"

She sniffed into his shoulder and shuddered. "I found a gray hair!"

The atmosphere of the room changed dramatically.

"What?" Sasori and I demanded in unison.

Deidara sighed with relief. Kakuzu shook his head and Hidan began swearing under his breath as they turned straight around and left the room. Kisame chuckled in exasperation and Itachi merely rolled his eyes.

"I'm old!" She sobbed. "I have gray hair!" She buried her face into Deidara's shoulder. "I'm not sexy anymore! Dei's not gonna love me!"

Deidara gawked at her. "What, un?" He shook his head and pulled away from Kathryn to look her in the eye. "Kathryn, don't be stupid, yeah. I love you with all of my heart. Nothing could ever change that. You could be a wrinkly old prune with no hair and I still would think you were the most beautiful woman in the world, un." He stroked her cheek. "I will always love you no matter what. Don't ever think otherwise yeah."

Kathryn looked up at him. "Really?"

"Really un." Deidara nodded, kissing her lips lightly.

She sniffed and wiped her eyes before smiling at him, managing to glow even though she had been sobbing. "I love you too, Dei." She hugged him tightly, smiling brighter when he chuckled and hugged her back.

Sasori glared at her and he snatched away the hair in Kathryn's hand and looked at it before rolling his eyes. "This is blond, Kathryn. It's just a very light blond. It isn't gray."

"Really?" She asked.

"Yes." Sasori snapped. "You're going to give me gray hairs if you ever scream like that again."

Kathryn rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly. "I'm sorry Danna… I couldn't help it."

Sasori rumpled her hair. "Don't do that again. And you're not old. You're almost twenty-seven. Kakuzu is old."

Kathryn giggled. "True. But he's still sexy."

"Damn straight." I agreed. "Scream like that again, and I'll shave your hair off. You gave everyone a heart attack."

"Sorry." She apologized.

"Mommy." Sanaa giggled. "You're so silly."

Kathryn smiled at Sanaa and extended her arms towards her daughter. "Come here gorgeous."

Sanaa hugged her mother when Kathryn hugged her and they held each other. "I think you're the prettiest woman in the world, Mommy."

"Not as pretty as you." Kathryn corrected. "You get it from your daddy."

Sanaa giggled. "And you, mommy."

"The mushiness is killing me." Sasori grunted.

"That makes two of us." I deadpanned.

"Three." Itachi said with a sigh.

Tiburon raised his hand as Deidara joined in on the blond love fest. "Four."

Kisame laughed. "Well, I'm just going to leave and break the trend." He looked at Tiburon. "Yo Tibby, come train with me."

"Kay." Tiburon grinned. Tiburon trotted away from Sanaa towards the door. He paused briefly to pretend like he was going to punch Itachi in the stomach. However, Itachi, being the badass Uchiha he is, grabbed Tiburon's hand and suddenly Tiburon was upside-down in Itachi's arms.

"You have a few more years before you are able to hit me, Tiburon." Itachi said smoothly. "Nice try."

Tiburon snickered. "Damn."

"Tiburon." I snapped. "Watch your mouth."

He smiled. "Sorry mom." He poked his dad's cheek. "Can I get down?"

A second later, Kisame had Tiburon thrown over his shoulder as Itachi handed him over. Tiburon protested loudly, but Kisame just ignored him because he gets a kick out of tormenting my son.

I smirked. "They're cute."

"Hn." Itachi grunted. He extended his hand towards me. "Come."

I raised my eyebrows but went to him, taking his hand and allowing him to lead me from the room. Sasori followed us for a moment before going into his room. Sable trotted after us, as happy as a clam. "Where are we going?"

"To our Leader's office." He explained.

"What for?" I wondered.

Itachi glanced at me as we walked towards Pein's office. "We are going to discuss a meeting time and place for Tiburon, Sanaa, and Sasuke to meet the last member of their team. Pein-sama is having the child moved out to the village nearby in order to lessen the distance, but skill keep the child out of Konoha."

"Oh." I nodded. "Sounds good. But shouldn't Sasuke be in on this?"

"Sasuke is already there." Itachi told me. "I didn't tell you because if Tiburon knew, we would not be able to have the meeting as easily as we will." Itachi knocked on the door to Pein's office and a second later, the door opened.

"Enter." Pein said with authority in his voice.

I smirked at his messy orange hair and excessive piercings as I walked in. "Sup Pein?" I looked around until my eyes landed on the beautiful blue haired woman by the window. "Hey Konan."

"Hi Alice." She smiled gently.

I grinned at her before looking at Pein with a completely serious face as I began twitching. He returned the twitching, continuing our greeting of silent, spastic movements and signals.

Pein dipped his head at me when our small conversation of twitches was over, amusement hinting at the corner of his eyes when I hugged Sasuke and kissed the top of his head.

"Hi baby brother." I cooed, hugging him. "You're so cute, Sasuke."

He huffed. "Hello Alice."

I snickered at his misfortune and Uchiha characteristics before taking a seat a chair away from him so Itachi could sit by his brother. Itachi poked Sasuke's forehead with a smirk before turning his attention to our Leader.

"Alrighty, let's get this show on the road." I stated.

"Indeed." Pein stated. "The child I have chosen to fill the last spot on your team, Sasuke, was the top of his class in Ame. He is from the Oscuro clan, a rather small clan native to the land of rain. As far as I know, he currently has no Kekkei Genkai though that might be attributed to his age since there are few in his clan without the ability. His chakra nature is water." Pein entwined his fingers. "He is an orphan raised by the other members of his clan so he is living with his elderly guardian in my village at the moment. From what I've seen, he is a rather quiet, respectful and shy boy, but he has great potential."

"What's his name?" I asked, knowing Oscuro meant dark in Spanish.

"Cielo." Pein informed me.

I smirked. "Good name."

Sasuke looked at me while Itachi rolled his eyes.

"His full name means Dark Sky. Cielo means Sky in Spanish." I explained. "It's fitting since Ame is such a rainy place." I threw a meaningful look at Pein. He just twitched his nose.

I smirked at ran my tongue over my top row of teeth. He chuckled in response.

"Will you two knock it off?" Konan sighed.

"Sorry." Pein and I said in unison. I rubbed the back of my head sheepishly.

We sort of drift away from reality when we go into our code.

"What is the Kekkei Genkai of his clan?" Itachi wondered.

Pein sighed. "His clan has the ability to cut off all of the senses of their opponents for certain durations of time. They can take control of it and manipulate it as well, sort of like a Kekkei Genkai Genjutsu, but a lot more focused. The duration varies depending on skill with the jutsu, the victim, and chakra levels in general."

"Interesting." Itachi mused.

"It focuses mainly on eyesight and hearing. It is a powerful technique especially against other ninjas since we Shinobi base a lot of our talents on our sight and sense of hearing." Pein continued. "If Cielo does possess this ability, he will need to be trained to control it. That is why I picked you, Sasuke. Because of your skill with Genjutsu, you will be the best trainer for him outside of his clan. Genjutsu can have a similar affect on a Shinobi. It is less… efficient because it is less focused, but nonetheless."

"Great." I sighed. "Another cool ninja ability that I can't see." I huffed. "This is why I like fire jutsu and stuff because I can ogle at how awesome it looks."

Konan giggled. "Be happy they don't work on you."

I nodded. "True."

"I've arranged for Cielo to arrive in the town nearby by tomorrow night at the latest. In two days, Tiburon, Sanaa, and you, Sasuke, will be able to go out and meet him. He will then either stay here in the base with us, or stay with you in Konoha since I cannot keep you out of Konoha longer than your Hokage will allow." Pein stated.

I pouted. "I hate the thought of Tiburon being gone for more than a few hours."

"I will never allow anything to happen to Tiburon or Sanaa, Alice." Sasuke assured me. "I'll protect them with my life."

"I don't want anything to happen to you either, Sasuke." I told him. "Itachi's sexy when he's angry, but I'd rather him not start a fifth world war because someone gave you a booboo."

Itachi looked away from me stubbornly. Sasuke chuckled, smirking at his brother.

"Regardless," Itachi began. "I think this conversation is over."

Pein raised his eyebrow, shocked by Itachi's announcement since it questioned his rank as Leader.

Itachi sighed. "Tiburon and Sanaa have recognized and located Sasuke's chakra."

"Uh oh." Sasuke stated, getting up.

Thirty seconds or so later, the door was thrown open and Tiburon tackled his uncle. Sanaa copied him, landing on top of the duo and making it a group hug.

"Sasuke!" Tiburon greeted.

Sanaa lifted her head off of Sasuke and looked around at us. "Should we call him Sasuke-sensei now?"

Konan giggled while Pein massaged his forehead. Itachi mentally face palmed and I just smirked at their antics.

Sasuke rumpled Tiburon's hair and patted Sanaa's head before pushing them off of him so he could get up. "Hello you two. And I don't care, Sanaa. Call me whatever you want."

"Oh the possibilities…" I mused with a playful smirk. Sasuke glared at me.

"Hi Pein!" Tiburon waved. "Hi Konan."

"Hello Tiburon." Pein and Konan said in unison.

Tiburon looked around. "What were you guys doing?"

"Having a meeting." Itachi said calmly.

"I told you we should have waited." Sanaa whispered to him loudly.

Later on that evening…

I was lying on my bed, my arms tucked under my pillow. Tiburon was lounging beside me on the bed, twisting a kunai around his index finger. Itachi was lying on my other side, since our bed is huge, and he was stroking my hair.

"Hey mom." Tiburon began, stopping the twirling of his ninja weapon to look at me.

I raised my eyebrow at him and opened my good eye. "Hn?"

"Where did you get all of those scars?" He asked. "I remember asking you when I was really little but you never told me."

I hummed. "I got them from a lot of different things."

"Such as?" He pressed, rolling onto his side to face me and his father. Itachi watched him, his fingers slipping through my hair to caress my neck on occasion.

"I was tortured a few times." I told him. "A few were from the man I was with before I met your dad and a few of from fights I got into when I was younger."

He raised his eyebrow. "Do you mean serious fights, or like the kind you, Hidan-oji, and Dei get into?"

"Serious fights." I told him. "I used to be rather violent when I was younger and I got into fights a lot."

"Cool." He grinned.

I scoffed. "Kids."

He snickered and rolled closer to me. "So what about this one?" He ran his finger along the very first scar I ever received in this world.

"I got that one from a young man who was very lost and confused." I told him.

"Who?" Tiburon asked. A second later, the door opened and the devil himself walked inside. Tiburon grinned. "Hey Sasuke."

Sasuke smirked at our position and walked over to the bed. He sat on it and turned to face us, petting Sable when she rolled over to greet him. "What are you three doing?"

"I was just asking mom where she got her scars from." Tiburon informed him. He looked at his uncle. "Do you know?"

Sasuke looked at me, guilt in his eyes. I smiled at him and shrugged, letting him know that I held nothing against him. Sasuke sighed and looked back at Tiburon. "Which ones?"

"This one." He poked my temple.

Sasuke sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. "I gave her that."

Tiburon's eyebrows furrowed and he looked between us. "Why?"

"It was before he knew me and I pissed him off by insulting him and being sarcastic." I told Tiburon. Itachi kissed the top of my head and I knew he was looking at his brother by the way Sasuke avoided looking in his direction.

"Did you know dad then?" Tiburon wondered.

"Yeah." I nodded. "Your dad and I had known each other for a while by then. But, Sasuke didn't know me and I kind of deserved it."

Tiburon rubbed his head. "I'm confused."

"Sasuke and I were not on speaking terms at that point in our lives, Tiburon." Itachi explained. "Sasuke was a missing nin, just like I was. However, I was a member of the Akatsuki and Sasuke was not. We had some family issues that separated us, so when I met your mother, Sasuke did not. It wasn't until your mother decided to mess with fate that Sasuke and I mended our relationship and the pieces fell into place."

"And I will be forever grateful to you for that, Alice." Sasuke told me.

I smiled at him. "It's my pleasure, Sasuke."

"Was it the Uchiha clan massacre that separated you?" Tiburon wondered, looking between Sasuke and Itachi. Both of them stiffened and Sasuke avoided making eye contact with anyone while Itachi stilled and he closed his eyes sadly.

I looked at Tiburon. "Yes Tibby. It was the Massacre."

Tiburon nodded. "Oh." He looked at me curiously. "So who tortured you?"

"A man named Orochimaru, and Konoha." I told him.

He glared. "Why did Konoha torture you?"

"I was a threat because of my knowledge on everyone." I shrugged. "The Akatsuki, at that time, had been an enemy to everyone in the ninja world. Konoha kidnapped me and they tortured me for information that I would not give them. In the end, you dad, your uncles, and Pein destroyed Konoha to get me back and show the world their power."

"Of course, a few weeks later, we joined the Shinobi Alliance and helped win the war which restored the world to peace." Itachi finished with a shrug.

Tiburon sighed and shook his head. "How come all the cool stuff happened before I was born?"

Sasuke made a small snort of amusement while Itachi chuckled and I laughed.

If only he knew.

Yeah… about dat…

Fun Fact: My Puppy is named Bowie, after David Bowie.

Answer: Dogs, all the way. They embody loyalty, love, and adorableness. I essentially share the same opinion of dogs as the incredibly sexy and awesome Roy Mustang. Shame on you cat people. I'm allergic to cats and I only like them when they belong to other people. Kathryn's cat Poo-Bear and my friend Blake's cat Cookie are the only two cats I like.

QotC: This is an interesting question one of you suggested. I believe it was Nerd4ever243 who asked it. How many of you watch Comedians? For those of you who do, who is your favorite?

WotC: perseguir – To chase

Questions: Do I plan on making more stories based in our world that aren't related to these Akatsuki kitty stories? Uh… No. I don't plan on it, but I've had some ideas floating around in my head. None of them are more than amusing musings though so don't count on it.

Can I help you with your stories?: I'd love to help all of you who ask for it, but I honestly don't have time for it. I had to quit a lot of my story betaing because of my lack of free time.

Will Tibby and Sanaa be a couple? I don't know. You'll have to wait and see.

Will the third member be a boy who likes Sanaa? And will this be Love Triangle? Again, I'm not telling you.

I already plan on getting tattoos, so yes. My first tattoo, and don't make fun of me, will be Sasuke's sealed curse mark, the one on his shoulder. I'm getting it in the same place. My uncle, who is a tattoo artist is going to do it for me.

What is earthquake in Spanish? There are a few other words I'm sure, but the first ones I was taught are temblor or terremoto. One really means tremble or something like that while the other is earthquake.

All of you go to xdreamernumbuhfour's profile and read her shit. Seriously, go do it and tell her how amazing she is or I'll beat you. And maybe, if you do, I'll actually find time to write the oneshot I was going to make for all of you Alice fans.