Over the next few hours, people came in and out of the cat room, taking cats from a variety of cages.

The update was this: the only akatsuki kittens left were Deidara, Sasori, Pein, and Konan.

After nobody had come into the room for quite some time, the ninja lady came with two buckets.

She went around to each cage and placed one thing from each of the buckets into each cage.

When she finally came to the akatsuki's cage, she reached into the first bucket and pulled out two small two-sided bowls, each of them containing pellets that must have been food and water.

She then reached into the other bucket and pulled out a blanket.

She placed these items into the cage where the kittens were being held, making sure to give each of the kittens a pat on the head.

The four kittens only put up with this since they knew, from watching the other cats, that any signs of aggression would make it harder for them to get adopted.

After she had gone to all of the cages, she turned off the light and left the room.

The akatsuki could see in the dark, since they were cats, and Pein and Konan went to one bowl, and Sasori and Deidara went to the other bowl.

After they had all eaten and drank all that they wanted, they settled down onto the bundled up blanket.

Each of them slowly drifted off to sleep, continually thinking to themselves 'I'm an S-rank criminal, and if I can stand having my arm ripped off, I can stand this.'

HIDAN

"YAAAAHOOOO!" cheered Hidan as he raced around the track once more, strapped onto the top of a toy racecar.

Man, he loved this kid!

When Hidan saw him walk through the door of the cat room at the pound, he knew that the kid was the only kid in the world that he knew of that he would not sacrifice to joshine.

Mainly because his first words when he stepped in the door were "Oi! Is this where the f***ing Kittens are?"

Another reason was because he was wearing a joshin diagram bracelet.

Of course, one of the biggest factors was the boy's totally H-O-T older sister!

Hidan was only sad that, at the first chance, he was gonna have to make a break for it.

Or else Pein would use Hidan's little silver fur coat as decoration in his room.

He soon forgot about his worries when the hottest b**** within a billion miles walked in.

Better yet, she was in only a TOWEL, since she had just gotten out of the shower, and had been heading to her room.

"You'd better treat Jash better! Otherwise I'll tell Mom and Dad!" she yelled.

"Joshin, I could hear his yowls all the way down the hall! You know what, no. I'm going to keep him in my room tonight, or at least until mom and dad get back with a refill of your medication."

Jash, aka Hidan, had a smug grin on his face as the toweled, 20-year-old hottie took him to her room.

Alriiiiggghhhttt…! thought Hidan.

Then he realized something; man, I'm such a perv!

Oh well.

Zetsu

Zetsu wanted to die.

Well, at least his black half did.

Strangely enough, the white half was enjoying being put into a little tutu and given a tour of the house by a little eleven year old girl.

As she showed him her older sister's room and told him never to go in there for the ninth time, half of Zetsu wanted to use mayfly to sink into the floor, while the other half wanted to see the backyard's garden again.

And, of course, the two couldn't sink into the ground, since they didn't have their giant Venus flytrap thingy to control their chakra with.

But they COULD see the back yard garden again, and this pleased white Zetsu.

"Come on, Naoki! I wanna show you my favorite flower!" exclaimed the girl, named Sayuri

"Mower!" squeaked Zetsu, which translated to "Yaaaaaay!"

Then he squealed "Mrrrr…" which meant "No, not again!"

Kakuzu

It hadn't taken long for Kakuzu to find an opening to get out.

Unfortunately, that option required going to the vet.

Kakuzu always had a fear of needles, and that's why he still doesn't use them to stitch Hidan back together.

He also liked his tiny body just the way it was just fine, with all, ALL, parts of him intact!

So, that opening was out of the question.

After the mention of the vet came up on the way back to the girl's house, Kakuzu had put together a daring plan for when they got to the house.

Once they got there…

He hid under the nearest thing that he could, the couch.

By night, the people still couldn't get him out.

This totally stinks!

Tobi

"Meow?" squeaked Tobi, the meow translating into 'more tea, madam?'

"Why thank you, monsieur Lolli (lolli was what the girl had named Tobi,) I would love another cooking," said Mimi, the little girl who had taken Tobi home.

There is no need to elaborate things, so I'll make it short.

Tobi had no intention of leaving anytime soon, but Madara did.

Imagine what THAT must have felt like, poor Tobi trying to keep Madara from coming out and murdering the child's entire family.

Yeesh.

Deidara's POV

Deidara now officially hated cat carriers

Especially if you have to stay in one along with Sasori.

And also if the lady who woke him from a sound sleep to put him in this stuffy container with this fool who doesn't understand art keeps on going on about how it's her daughter's going to LOVE you as a birthday present and how you don't have to worry because she's SO responsible.

Oh, and that she would be sure that her brother would treat the one of us that he got well.

That last part freaked Deidara out just a little bit.

I mean, what if he died in some horrible incident before he could escape?

He knew that it was selfish, but he sure hoped that Sasori would be the one chosen by the boy…

AUTHOR'S NOTE

So, I hope that you don't mind that I didn't include any other character's situations, but you can rest assured that Pein and Konan are still in the boring pound, at least for now.

And Sasori is thinking the EXACT same thing as Deidara, only hoping that Dei would get chosen by the brother.

Hope you like it!

Oh, and I will put any of the first four or five characters into the story if they ask in a review or a PM.

Lol! ^.^