Chapter 5: Super Kittens Arc - Button Eyes

For the sake of all of our young viewers, I will try my best to limit cursing. However, Hidan may be very tough to control when I eventually start writing him...whoops! Getting off topic here!

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Disclaimer: I had a dream that I owned the Akatsuki and Naruto. Then, I woke up to face the reality that I only owned my OCs and the plot.


Sasori's POV

"Danna, where do you think Tobi could be, un?"

I whacked Deidara with my tail, not amused at all. "Brat, I just asked that five minutes ago. If I knew where he was, why would I have asked that question in the first place? Besides, looking for Tobi is not our mission right now. We must invade the kids' bedrooms and see what we can find."

"Agreed," muttered Zetsu. Although I could tell that his dark side was indifferent about Tobi's disappearance, his light side was still visibly worried for the boy...er, cat. "But still, we can search for him while we search for evidence, right?"

"If you want to," I growled, then turned to face Deidara, motioning towards an open door in front of us. "Hurry up, brat. Let's check out this room first."

Deidara quickly nodded, and the two of us pushed past the door and into the room.

The walls were painted yellow — almost the same exact shade of Deidara's hair — with large sakura flowers painted sporadically around the room. A small bed sat alone in the corner of the room, with three pillows, a down comforter, and a stuffed fennec fox. Next to the bed was a tall white dresser, with eight drawers arranged in a two-by-four fashion. Two lone windows stood in the other corner of the room, brightening up the room with daylight. Next to the window, on the opposite end of the dresser, was a huge bookshelf and a large desk, the latter having several books, a lamp, and a computer.

"Whose room could this be?" Deidara asked. "It's either Kaiya or Kagami's, since boys usually don't have a thing for flowers, books, and foxes."

"I think this is Kaiya's room," I replied. "Kagami's room would be more colorful and would probably have a ton of stuffed animals. But still, Kaiya is the oldest kid, so maybe she knows more about us than her brothers do."

When Deidara didn't respond, I turned around to see what was wrong. Instead of a threat, I spotted the yellow kitty in one of the corners of the room, trying to leap into a cardboard box. Whatever was in there must have been interesting, because every time he jumped, a smirk would appear on his face.

"Hey, danna!" he called happily from the corner. "I think there are fireworks in this box, un! Finally, I can watch something blow up!"

I mentally facepalmed. "Brat, are you that stupid? You can't set off fireworks in the house! You'll get everybody here mad at you, and besides, what are you going to set them off with? They're not made with chakra or clay, so saying 'Katsu' isn't going to work."

"Fine! Be that way, un!" he growled, deciding to walk towards another corner. "But then again, you're right. Kaiya did say that those fireworks meant a lot to her, since they conveyed her true feelings about the week. It does make me quite curious why she does that instead of just writing them down, un. But anyway, let's keep looking."

I nodded silently, proceeding to check the room for anything strange. Padding up to the side of the bed, I leaped on top of the bed, crashing into the stuffed fennec fox. Luckily, the thing was made out of cotton, so the blow to my head did not hurt as much.

"Are you okay, danna?" Deidara called from beside the bookshelf.

"I'm fine," I muttered back. Continuing my search, I lifted the down comforter and began tunneling underneath, searching for any books or items she had left under the sheets. I knew in my head that the possibility of finding anything under the blanket other than pillows was close to zero, but I didn't care. After all, I usually hid poison under my blanket in the case of an invasion.

Eventually, I exited the covers in vain, unable to find anything. There was nothing underneath her pillows, but still, it did not surprise me. I crawled out onto the top of the bed and watched as Deidara climbed up the bookshelf using his claws.

"Is there anything up there?" I asked sternly. At the sound of my voice, Deidara lost his balance for a second, but quickly recovered and leaped onto the second shelf.

"So far, nothing," he answered. "I'm going to assume you didn't find anything either, un?"

"No," I replied. I jumped down from the bed, rushing over to the desk by the bookshelf. Moving quickly, I leaped onto the small chair by the desk, and then jumped onto the desk itself, right onto a sheet of paper with some sort of sketch on it.

At first, I had no idea it was there, but when I looked down, I realized what I was standing on and leaped off of it. Examining the drawing to see what Kaiya had drawn, I gasped when I saw the unfinished sketch.

It was a boy, smirking as if he enjoyed all the attention he was getting from there being no other sketch on the sheet of paper. He looked to be around twelve years old, wearing an orange and blue jacket with a white collar. His hair was short and spiky, and three whisker-like marks were drawn on his cheeks. A kunai knife was in his hand, pointed toward anybody who was looking at the drawing. He had been drawn in a leaping position, jumping through trees that had been not drawn in yet. But none of those was the scariest part of it. The creepiest part of the drawing was not only the fact that the boy was wearing a Konoha forehead protector, but I knew exactly who he was.

Uzumaki Naruto, the jinchuuriki of the Nine-Tails.

"Um, Deidara," I stuttered, still in shock, "Come here really quickly. I found something that Leader-sama needs to see."

"I'm coming, un," he responded, leaping off of the shelf to check out the drawing. As soon as he landed on the desk, he gasped, staring at Kaiya's sketch in shock. "What the name of—"

"The Kyuubi boy," I interrupted. "She knows who he is."

Deidara's eyes widened, then quickly returned to normal after he spotted an open book on her desk. "Possibly, but look at this book. It's part of a manga series."

I turned to look at the book, closing it with my paw and reading the title. "Naruto: Volume 1," I read. "By Masashi Kishimoto."

"That's his name, un," Deidara said. "So there's an entire manga series about the boy?"

I nodded. "It looks like it. And since we are familiar with him, it is likely that we may find ourselves in the manga as well."

Deidara's expression began to turn serious. "We need to get these pieces of evidence to the rest of the Akatsuki as soon as possible, but without the children catching us." Using his paws, he carefully rolled up the drawing into a scroll. Securing it by holding it with his tail, he continued. "Let's get to work, un!"

Nodding, I attempted to grab the book with my tail, but it proved to be way too heavy for me to even lift. Sighing, I pushed it off of the desk, and it landed on the ground with a soft thud. Immediately, I froze, waiting for the boys to rush upstairs and catch us in the act, but even after ten seconds had passed, no footsteps had echoed throughout the hallway.

Jumping off of the desk, I landed on the book, causing it to slide closer to the bedroom door. I then quickly pushed the manga volume through the open door, and Deidara followed, the scroll still secured onto his back. As I walked out, I noticed Zetsu walking back into the halls, done with his search in the bedroom at the end of the hall.

"Did you two find anything?" Zetsu asked as soon as both of us exited the bedroom. "That boy Yukio's room had nothing useful in it."

"We found a few significant things," I explained showing the book and sketch to him. "This drawing and manga volume we found seems to be about the Kyuubi boy. Can you please take it to Leader-sama and Konan?"f

"Fine," muttered Zetsu's dark side. "We'll get it to them as soon as possible!"

Wrapping his tail around the drawing, Zetsu proceeded to push the manga volume down the steps as silently as possible, and I returned my attention to Deidara.

"We better check the other rooms," I told him. "If one of the children know, then the others probably know as well."

And besides, I want to find the bratty girl's room and have her pay for giving me that stupid name, I thought to myself, flexing my claws.

We padded towards the room next to Kaiya's, which also had the door swung wide open. Deidara shoved me inside first, and I immediately gasped at the sight of everything.

How the hell... I thought, covering my mouth with my paws so I didn't blurt out my thoughts. Sure, it's pretty, but can anybody stand having this much color without being mesmerized?

Unlike Kaiya's walls, which had a simple design on them, this room's walls were painted with an extremely complex mix of almost every single color in the universe, from dark crimsons to bright violets. It was as if a unicorn had magically appeared in the house and barfed all over it, not that I even believed in them. Even Deidara, who usually liked colors, was stunned into utter silence.

I examined the other parts of the room, trying to avoid staring at the hypnotic rainbow swirls on the wall. The bed and windows were in the same position as Kaiya's were, but the pillows and blankets on the bed were barely visible. The bed was covered with a mountain of stuffed animals of all sorts, literally, compared to Kaiya's, which had only one plush. The bookshelf and desk were in the same places, but this time, they were white instead of brown. Next to the bed was — wait for it — an even bigger mountain of stuffed animals. On the very top of the mountain was a giant teddy bear, with a sign around its neck that said, Do Not Touch.

"What the hell, un?" screamed Deidara in shock. "How does one child have so many stuffed toys?"

"I'm going to assume that this is Kagami's room," I muttered, trying to keep a straight face. "Based on the personalities of the other children here, only she can stand to be in a room full of this stuff."

"How can you be so calm about all of this madness, un?" Deidara growled. "Wouldn't you be screaming about how horrible the colors are blending together?"

"Brat, remember our mission?" I answered. "Besides, there's something that I've wanted to do for a while."

Ignoring Deidara's questions, I rushed over towards the huge mountain of stuffed animals and began climbing up towards the giant teddy bear. The more I stared into those eyes — those adorable, beady, button eyes — the more I wanted the shred the thing apart and tear off its annoying smile made out of stitches.

"Danna?" Deidara inquired skeptically. "What are you doing?"

"What I must," I simply replied, continuing to scale my way up the gigantic pile of stuffed toys. Suddenly, one of my paws got entangled in some sort of string, tripping me and sending me tumbling back to the floor. I shook my head, trying to escape my daze from hitting the ground.

"Ugh…" I moaned, then stopped as soon as I saw what was attached to my leg. It was the very thing that I had been looking for ever since I had woken up that morning.

"A wooden puppet," I breathed, shocked that Kagami played with them. Its strings were tied up tight around one of my hind legs, but as much as I wanted to bite off the strings, I did not want to damage the puppet. So instead, I shook my leg violently until I finally got the darn thing off.

"One more try," I muttered to myself as I returned my attention back towards the teddy bear. Extending my right paw towards the bear, I began to take a step towards it, then froze. "But I don't want to climb that stupid mountain again...how do I get it down?"

Suddenly, I began to feel an odd — yet at the same time, so familiar — sensation in my extended paw. It was if there were a strange aura present in my body, one that I hadn't felt ever since the entire Akatsuki and I were dropped in this world. The aura that I had grown used to all of my life: the very one that I had used to control my creations.

Chakra? I asked myself in shock, putting my paw down. How the hell did I…

But as soon as I had thought about something else, the feeling went away, leaving no trace of its existence on my paw. As soon as it had come, it had quickly gone. Sighing, I looked up at the teddy bear again, glaring into the depths of its sightless and emotionless button eyes.

The aura might appear again if I focus more on the teddy, I pondered. Maybe it really could be my chakra returning? Well, only one way to find out.

Right after, I thought of my desire to destroy the bear and rip it to shreds in order to convey my thoughts to Kagami, lifting up my right paw again. At first, nothing happened, but slowly, I felt the familiar aura pour out of my body again. This time, it felt stronger than before, and I could actually feel the aura forming into thin strings at the end of my extended paw.

Okay, it's definitely my chakra.

Focusing on the teddy bear, I thought about carrying it down to the floor, where I could claw it to pieces. As I focused, the strings subconsciously bent to my will, attaching to the bear and moving it slightly. Soon, the slight movement eventually turned into levitation, with me safely controlling the bear as if it was a puppet.

I watched in awe as it floated down slowly towards the floor, and it was at that moment when I first started seeing my chakra threads attached to it. I had known that they were there, stuck to the bear like needles, but I had not seen them. Until that moment, when I could detect the thin blue strings, they had been invisible.

"Danna," called Deidara, "I can't find anything h—"

He stopped mid-sentence, stunned into silence. "S-Sasori-danna...is that..."

Deidara eyed the glowing strings on the tip of my fingers, observing in shock as I continued carrying the bear slowly down from the tower. Although I was usually much faster with puppeteering, I decided to go slow with the bear, since I wasn't exactly sure how my chakra powers worked in this world.

"Not fair, un!" he suddenly complained. "Why do you get your chakra back first? My hand-mouths are still sealed shut! How did you do it, danna?"

"I don't know," I mumbled emotionlessly. "But still, at least it gives me more chances to tell you that art really is eternal beauty—"

"It is not, un!" he spat. "Art is still an explosion and will always be!"

"Says the brat who can't make art yet," I quickly countered.

In response, Deidara growled. "Hey, but that doesn't mean that I never will!"

We continued arguing, unaware of anything that was going on around us. As a result, I was completely unaware of the fact that my hand was still outstretched, continuing to help the bear float in the air. In addition, our argument was so loud, we certainly did not hear the footsteps that were getting closer and closer to the open door.

Suddenly, I heard a shriek, and both of us spun around in surprise. With me completely distracted and my paw being placed down, the bear plummeted down from where it had been floating, landing on my head. Luckily, it was soft, but that wasn't the least of our worries right now.

The most important thing at that moment was dealing with the pigtailed little brat that was standing in our doorway, whose gaze was constantly shifting from me to the bear, and back to me in utter disbelief. In her arms was the sleeping form of Tobi, whose sudden appearance only added to Deidara's shock.

My only thought at that moment? Uh-oh.

And then, all hell broke loose.

"Onee-chan! Nii-chan! Kami-sama!" screamed Kagami in a fit of panic, running back down the stairs as fast as she could. "Rosie is using the force! Rosie is using the force!"


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