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Chapter Two

"Sakura! Wake up! It's time to go meet your team!" Her body jumped to the sound of her mom yelling at her from across the house. Drearily, she glanced at the clock, red numbers flashed at her but she couldn't quite make them out. Her hands rubbed the exhaustion out of her eyes.

"KYAAAAAAAA!" 10:50 flashed back at her and Sakura's heart sank. Maybe her alarm was on silent? Pure Chaos ensued. Books hit the ground, her clock knocked over and flailing arms proceeded her hasty awakening.

Frantically, her eyes scanned the room for her shoes and dress. With the agility of a frog, she dressed herself, successfully toppling over, tripping on the books she dropped and banging her cheek on her bed frame. Not even acknowledging the pain in her cheek, she grabbed her dress without looking and slipped it on, holding her eyes shut from sheer annoyance at her situation. After chanting, 'shit shit shit,' she finally made her way out the window and to the meeting spot with thirty seconds to spare.

Upon arriving Sasuke hid his mouth behind his arm and Naruto started giggling. 'What are they looking at?' Her eyes followed Naruto's look and found her normal beautiful dress was replaced by a low cut glittering silver evening dress. The dress was meant for her to go out and celebrate with her family when she became a ninja. 'Idiot, you look like a fool in front of Sasuke and Sensei!' She mentally scolded herself.

"Trying to impress sensei?" Sasuke smirked at her, successfully turning her face the color of the tomatoes Sasuke loves so much.

"Tsk…You will have to wear proper ninja attire to impress me Sakura," a voice a little too close behind her cut in. The prick of newly formed goosebumps as slithered up her arms.

"Ehehe, you see. I must have grabbed the wrong dress when-" Sakura began.

"It doesn't matter, we are going to begin. Maybe wearing such a," Sakura cringed, waiting for her sensei to finish, "unique outfit will improve your chances. Cats are known to be Kleptomaniacs."

Her featured twisted in confusion, her eyes slid between Sasuke and Naruto, looking for answers. Naruto seemed to be rubbing his chin with a blank look on his face. Sasuke's eyes widened, barely enough to catch. Anxiously, Sakura looked up at Itachi, avoiding his blood red eyes that screamed danger. Her gaze drifted to his brother, a soft frown plastered on his face. His onyx black eyes gazing solely at his brothers, his face void of anything other then determination.

"In order to pass, you must get rid of these two ninja cats. These cats are dangerous, they require skill and patience to take down," a small paper was given to each of the team seven. "they are giving the Hokage a tremendous headache and need to be taken care of, permanently. You have one hour." The right corner of his mouth twitched slightly, a smirk almost appearing.

"This will be easy!" Naruto yelled as he pumped his fist in the air.

"Only two of you will pass, the cat ninjas have been spotted in training ground 2 and 4. Begin." The tone of Itachi's voice was final.

'Ninja cat? I have never even heard of such a cat. Maybe Sasuke knows about them.' Sakura looked behind her to find her teammates. Unfortunately she found no one there but her sensei.

'How is this going to work? Only two of us can pass? That makes no sense!' Fiery hot anger built up as Sakura looked down at the paper in her grasp. Looking between training-ground two and four, she made her way to the latter, dashing through the trees.

"MEOW!" Was heard in the distance, Sakura increased her speed and made her way to the edge of a clearing. Some leaves rubbed against her skin and face, as she nestled into a branch with more coverage.

"GROSS!" A voice boomed, unmistakably Naruto's. Cautiously, she jumped down from her tree and hid herself in some low and dense bushes. The branches scratched her as she crawled her way closer, almost getting a glimpse of the fight.

"SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" Sakura gazed in awe as fifty, no, one hundred shadow clones filled the air. All of them ready to pounce on a small white cat wearing a small red robe. The robe was tied with a tan sash. 'When did Naruto learn to make shadow clones? Let alone that many!' Sakura gasped as the cat jumped up on two legs and launched some sort of projectile at Naruto. Almost all the clones popped in a poofs of smoke.

'Come on Naruto!' Sakura thought as she watched the clones disperse. 'How can I help?' Kunai ready, she poised herself to attack. Naruto's all around started itching like crazy! 'What's going on?' Just then, she saw some sort of bug move across a clones body. 'Spiders? No, FLEAS! GROSS!' Sakura watched as Naaruto ducked, avoiding a kick, but was sent sprawling back.

"SEXY NO JUTSU CAT STY—!" Her expression faultered. 'What jutsu?' Whatever it was, he didn't have time to finish. A blue and grey blob flew through the air and crashed into Naruto, sending him flying into a nearby tree. 'Sasuke?!' Sakura could barely make them out through the gaps in the leaves, but it appeared they were knocked out cold and beat up.

"Meowww, I smell you girlie. What do you want?" The largest cat she's ever seen walked into the clearing. It looked like a female, the cat was just a bit smaller then her, dressed in a basic red dress that tied around the waist. Its teeth were blaring, mouth just slightly open. A giant orange spot encompassed that cats cheek and ear, and claws peaked out beneath large paws.

'There is no way we are expected to kill this cat! That's just insane! What should I do?' Thoughts were interrupted by a flea projectile zipping right past her head. "Gotcha, girlie," The cat purred out. Sakura muttered under her breath and jumped into the clearing. Cat number two appeared; a huge tortoiseshell cat rippled with muscle concealed beneath soft luxurious fur. 'IM GOING TO BE A NINJA, DAMNIT'

"You injured Sasuke—and Naruto!" Sakura yelled, pissed her only hopes were helplessly passed out together at the bottom of a tree. Her legs moved without thinking and she was in the air, heading toward her opponents, kunai drawn and dress glittering in the sun. She just barely saw the tortoiseshell lunge, but she twisted in the air just in time to avoid all but a small cut. Just then the other cat scratched, successfully chopping into the log that replaced Sakura. Pivoting from behind a tree, she threw a kunai at tortoiseshell behind, only to feel something slam her from the side.

"I guess that answered that, pitiful..." and laughing was all that touched her ears as her dreams of becoming a ninja faded into darkness.