Chapter 7: Super Kittens Arc - It's All Fun and Games

Once again, for the sake of young viewers, curse words will be censored except for the first letter. If you count the number of asterisks, then you should be able to figure out what word Hidan or some other Akatsuki member intended to say.

Disclaimer: I DON'T own anything except for my OCs and the plot.


Deidara's POV

I eyed the laser pointer in Kaiya's hand curiously, gasping as she clicked a button at the end.

At first, I thought nothing had happened, but that was when I saw it: a tiny, bright red laser light on the ground, beckoning us to come closer. Staring at the light made it all the more tempting to just pounce on it, but I stayed put, not wanting to fall for it. All of the other members did not move as well, but I could see their wide eyes as they tried their best not to succumb to the temptations of the light. However, when I was sure that all of us would stay still, Hidan made a jump for the light.

To all of us, he had appeared to catch the light in his paws, but when he looked up to see a smirking Kaiya, he realized that the laser light had moved elsewhere. Detecting it sitting on his right, he tackled it again, but Kaiya pointed the laser in yet another direction. We could tell how angry Hidan was at the moment, but we only continued to laugh our tails off as we watched him vainly try to capture the light with his paws.

"Onee-chan!" called Kagami. "Can I use the laser pointer, too?"

Kaiya smiled and nodded. "Of course, my imouto. Just not in their eyes, okay?"

Kagami clapped her hands with glee as the toy was handed to her, and she quickly clicked it on.

"Here, Twinkleshine!" she teased Hidan, causing us to laugh some more. He turned around, about to scratch her, but as soon as he saw the laser light again, he made a leap for it and missed.

"Just give me the d*** light already!" he hissed as we exploded into mrrows of laughter. "Curse you, b****!"

Thankfully, the children didn't seem to understand us, so Kagami did not need to hear Hidan's...colorful choice of words. That was definitely not the type of colors a seven-year-old should hear or see. Ever.

"Too slow!" Kagami chuckled, moving the light away again. "Hurry up, you fat ball of fur!"

Hidan sent another fierce glare at her, baring his teeth angrily. "You're going to f****** pay for this, b****!"

Kagami quickly flicked the light off, turning towards her sister with a confused look. "Onee-chan, did I go too far?"

Kaiya shrugged, before restraining the cursing kitten with her hands. Hidan squirmed around frantically, trying to escape her strong grasp. "Calm down, Twinkleshine! It was only a game!"

Twinkleshine stopped flailing wildly, but continued to wear an angry scowl on his face as he eyed Kagami. I knew immediately that like danna had, he was plotting his revenge against her.

I continued to giggle and guffaw at the poor silver cat, that was, until Kagami noticed how hard I was laughing and aimed the beam of light at me.

"Glad you're having fun, Firework!" Kagami trilled, waving the pointer back and forth. "Wanna chase the laser light, too?"

My laughter ceased as I stood there, watching how Kagami was moving the laser light from one spot to another, then back again. Although I tried to bore my gaze away from it, I couldn't help but stare at the light as it moved back and forth. Despite it being a tiny bright red dot on the floor, in my vision, it appeared hypnotic, mesmerizing, and all the more...enticing.

Before I knew was I was doing, my body moved on its own, leaping for the laser light on the floor. I tried to clasp my paws around it, but of course, I missed, because Kagami had moved the pointer. Growling, I quickly located the laser light and pounced on it, but she had moved it again. This time, she spun the pointer around in slow circles.

"Stop moving, you stupid light!" I hissed, chasing the light around the perimeter of the carpet. Although I was focused on capturing the light, I could hear Hidan and Kisame laughing at me, as well as the sound of Kakuzu stifling his laughter.

Kagami giggled, continuing to move the light towards different places. Finally, she decided to leave the light fixed on the edge of a wooden rocking chair, and I stopped in front of it, smirking triumphantly.

"I don't know why I'm doing this," I said to myself, taking out my claws, "but you're going down, un!"

With that, I leaped onto the chair and slammed my paw down on the edge of the chair, expecting to finally catch the light. But of course, Kagami had clicked the pointer off the second before I landed, so that left me dangling off of the side of the chair, which was largely unstable due to the amount of force that I had placed upon it. It rocked back and forth, but my claws were still stuck in the wood, so I precariously rocked with the motion of the chair.

I cursed under my breath, hearing the sounds of Kagami and nearly all of the cats laughing from behind me. I swore that I even heard Itachi chuckling, but it was probably just my imagination influenced by the annoying noise the chair made whenever it rocked back and forth.

"Put me down, un!" I growled at the chair, despite fully knowing that it was an inanimate object that couldn't hear me. "Put me down, you hideous piece of junk!"

At that moment, I recalled an old proverb that a friend in Iwagakure had taught me when I was a kid. Long before the Akatsuki came to recruit me, nine wise words had been whispered in my ear.

Deidara, be very careful of what you wish for.

Because not only did the words summarize part of my life, but at that very moment, the chair decided to rock really far forward, unhooking my claws and sending me flying into the process. I tried to scream, but the words got stuck in my throat as I watched the members of the Akatsuki continue laughing their tails off.

I collided with the wall with a thud, too stunned to realize that I was still falling to the ground. As soon as I had regained my sense of reality, I fell right into a clay pot, with the sounds of the Akatsuki's laughter ringing in my ears.

"Mrrow…" I groaned, rubbing my head. Pushing against the side of the pot, I ran back to the group, slapped Hidan in the face, and returned to my original position besides Sasori, who had remained totally unfazed by the entire thing.

"Let's move on," sighed Naoki. "I'm getting bored of this laser pointing game. Besides, the only ones who seem to be affected by the laser pointer are Twinkleshine and Firework. Why don't we just play an old-fashioned game of frisbee?"

"That's a dog game," muttered Kaiya, "but I guess the kittens can play it, since they are quite intelligent."

At that, Hidan smiled and puffed his chest proudly. Sasori, Kakuzu, and I simply rolled our eyes.

Don't let it get to your head, you half-brained nitwit.

Naoki came back from the pile of toys, a disk-shaped toy in his hand. As he was about to throw it, Yukio interrupted him by closing his hand around the frisbee.

"Nii-san, can I throw it?" he asked his older brother. Shrugging, Naoki handed his otouto the frisbee, who proceeded to chuck it across the room.

Instinctively, all of us raced to catch the disk before it hit the ground. However, upon realizing that only one cat could pluck the frisbee out of the air, Hidan and Kakuzu began shoving each other as hard as they could. Itachi, Konan, Leader-sama, and Kisame just charged for the frisbee with no intent on shoving anyone, but I barreled into Tobi and continued sprinting for the disk.

Suddenly, the disk curved and flew towards the windowsill. Almost all of us were able to change our direction in time, but Hidan and Kakuzu were too busy arguing in order to realize that the wall was right in front of them.

Ouch, I thought, wincing as soon as I heard the thud. That has got to hurt...oh wait, they'll just come back to life. After all, they're the Zombie Combo.

I pushed past Konan, who quickly picked up the pace and pushed past me again. But as soon as I saw Tobi bouncing playfully towards the frisbee, I smirked, an idea forming in my head. Swiftly, I dashed over to Tobi, jumped on his back, and pushed my hind legs off of his head to get a higher jump.

The frisbee flew in front of me, just inches away. Smirking in victory, I reached out with my paws and clamped my teeth down on it...only to take a bite of the air. I flailed around wildly, falling to the ground with a thud.

"Are you okay, senpai?" asked Tobi, having already forgiven me for using his head as a launching pad.

"I'm fine, un," I mumbled, dusting off of my pelt. "Tobi, did you see who got the frisbee?"

"Yes!" replied Tobi, jumping up and down. "Great job, Zetsu-san!"

Surprised, I turned around to face Zetsu, who was smirking with the disk in his jaws. He spat it out, then faced me.

"I did it! Yay!" exclaimed his light side. "Ugh, plastic tastes so horrible! It's even worse than jelly!"

Yukio rushed over to retrieve the frisbee, then quickly tossed it in the opposite direction before any of us were even ready.

"Hey!" Tobi pouted. "Tobi wasn't ready to play another game yet! Give Tobi some time!"

Before anybody else could react, Itachi leaped up and slammed his paw on top of the frisbee, sending it plummeting to the ground, where Kisame sank his teeth into it, then spat it out just as quickly as Zetsu had.

"Zetsu's right," he mumbled in disgust. "Plastic does taste horrible."

I returned my attention towards the children again, watching as Kagami scolded her brother for throwing the frisbee too quickly. Wanting to play something else, I ran up to Kaiya and placed both my paws on her shoe, wagging my tail playfully.

That was the moment I realized that cats didn't wag their tails like dogs did. Because before I realized it, Kaiya had already received the wrong message.

"Firework, do you need to go to the bathroom?"

I paled immediately in disgust, and the members began laughing again, with Hidan, of course, being the loudest. Shooting them a quick glare, I looked up at Kaiya and glared into her gray eyes for a very long time.

"What the hell, un?" I hissed at her. "T-That's not how it was supposed to go! I meant to ask for another toy to play with!"

She nodded in understanding...until I heard what she had to say next.

"Okay...Firework, I'm going to take you outside. Bang on the door whenever you're done, alright?"

If it was possible, I turned an even whiter shade of white than I already was. Now I knew that Itachi was laughing at me, and nearly everybody else was rolling on the floor laughing. Only Leader-sama, Konan, and Sasori kept a straight face, but a few seconds later, I saw Konan raising a paw to her mouth in order to stifle her laughter.

Before I could growl at them, a pair of arms lifted me up in the air, and I flailed my arms and legs wildly in response.

"Hold on, Firework!" Kaiya said, trying to restrain me. "I'm taking you outside, okay?"

"Put me down, un!" I spat. "I told you, that's not what I meant!"

But of course, I had forgotten the fact that I was still wagging my tail, so I immediately ceased. Nevertheless, Kaiya continued to head for the door.

"I said, put me down!" I hissed, placing my paws on her hands. "I don't need to go to the freaking bathroom! That's Hidan's thing, especially with all of his bloody sacrifices!"

Suddenly, Kaiya screamed, dropping me in the process. I looked up at her to see what was the problem, but I saw no visible threat anywhere or any bug that would make her scream like that.

"Firework, what's that wet stuff on your paws?" she inquired. "Did you soak your paws in the water bowl by accident or something?"

"What are you talking abo—" I started, then suddenly realized the answer. Could it be…

I turned my paws around to the side where my hand-mouths were. At first, they looked like they were still sewed shut, but when I focused hard on one of them, I noticed it stick its tongue out at me.

"Wait," I asked myself, realizing what that meant. "What about my chakra? Where is it?"

My answer came in the form of a thin aura that surrounded my body. Initially, I had only felt it, but when I squinted my eyes, I was able to detect a faint outline of blue swirling around me.

"Firework…" Kaiya breathed, her eyes wide. "You're...you're glowing…"

She quickly turned to Kagami and whispered something into her ear something that was inaudible from where I was standing. Kagami whispered a reply back to her older sister, who in turn nodded and faced me, while Kagami faced Sasori.

"Danna," I called to him, "I think they know about our powers now."

He nodded solemnly. "Yes. And based on the drawing of the Kyuubi boy in Kaiya's room, it can only be concluded that they know that we are the Akatsuki."

"So if you two can use those powers," Kaiya pondered aloud, "it must mean that the other cats can unlock powers of their own, which also means…"

Well, I thought to myself, I guess we've been caught.

"...that you are magical creatures from another world!" Kaiya finished. "Wow! That is beyond amazing!"

Wait...what? I twitched in confusion. That's partially correct, but at the same time, we're still humans…

"Where are you from?" asked Kagami, joining in. "The moon? A world of witchcraft and wizardry? A galaxy far, far, away?"

"I don't think so, imouto!" piped up Yukio. "They can't be from Alderaan or Tatooine, or else they would all be wielding lightsabers and using the force! Only Rosie can use the force so far! I'd say that they're from an alternate dimension or something!"

The three siblings debated on and on, while Naoki just stood off to the side, rolling his eyes. I turned to Sasori, who simply gave me a curt nod. Spinning around to face Kaiya, I glared at the oblivious siblings, with the full intent of telling them who we were. After all, they were going to eventually find out who we were, one way or another.

"Deidara," Leader-sama said, "what are you doing?"

"What I must," I responded, then returned my attention to the children, my paws forming a hand seal.

"Listen up, you clueless kids!" I roared at them, stopping their argument and grabbing everybody's attention. "Have you not yet figured out who we are? We are the freaking Akatsuki, one of the most feared S-class criminal organizations in the entire shinobi world! The freaking A-Katsu-Ki, un!"

Suddenly, the clay pot that I had landed in earlier exploded, causing all of the children to scream in terror.

What the… I thought confusedly. How did that...oh, did I accidentally stress the "Katsu" in "Akatsuki", and do the correct hand seal? But still, I didn't make that, so how could that have—

"Brat," Sasori grumbled, walking towards me. "Did you, perhaps, discharge some chakra when you landed in the pot?"

"I don't know, un!" I blurted out, panicking. "I have no idea how I managed to get my chakra back! Do you remember how you unlocked yours, danna?"

He shook his head. "Not really. All I really remember is that when I was able to unlock my chakra, my leg was tangled in a puppet—"

Sasori stopped, his eyes widening in realization.

"What is it, danna?" I inquired curiously.

"You know, Deidara," he answered, "I think I just might know how to unlock everybody's chakra."


A/N: Looks like they've been busted. Shame on you, Deidei-chan...

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