Foosha: I don't know who has possessed me to write this much, but I'm not complaining. I've never actually written this much for a story before and it's awesome! Thank-you jaevees, Hex Aether, DeeaE, Chillybean, ICanHasCheezburgr and Yuti-Chan for the reviews! I seriously love you guys and you're the ones who keep me writing! And of course I have to thank Kim and Crescent Moons Suicide for being awesome friends and inspiring me to write even when I'm not sure what to say. All of you get a kitty! *hands Marshmallow*

Nicky: I dun think you should be givin' away special plot kitties…

Vash: Nah, let her. It's just Marshmallow.

Nicky: Errr…..'kay. Foosha doesn't own Naruto, video game references, Spider-man, movie references, or …kitties.

Foosha: I wish I had a kitty, but honestly I probably wouldn't be writing any stories if I did. Also, sorry if there are any repeated sentences. I checked and it doesn't show any but when I go read through the story, it shows some. I don't understand T_T

Vash: Get your priorities straight; homework first. *sends her to her room without supper*

Nicky: For kitten names, please refer back to the other chapters. If you feel strongly about having another list please let Foosha know and she'll post one on this chapter also.

It's been about two weeks since the kittens arrived on our back doorstep and we've fallen into a routine of sorts. Vash still has another week or two left of her internship so usually she's off working and when she comes home, we watch a movie or play video games, eat dinner and do random things until bed time. During the day however, I've taken it upon myself to educate the kitties with what TV shows are awesome, how to play video games (more entertaining for me really, I was instructing kittens after all and all they did was stare at the screen), what desserts look amazing that I wanted to make (or have Vash make), Miyazaki movies, and how to random dance (since I don't think I can really dance). In these two weeks… I've realized I have favorites, even though I try to give all the kittens' equal attention.

Ghast is always so playful and it's fun just to mess with him. Actually, I like to try to scare all the kittens. Hardly ever works though. Anyways, I love Cal, he's just adorable. Every time we've given them meat for dinner, Cal tries to rip into it like a vicious beast, though he only has kitten teeth so he can only do so much. Still cute though. He follows me around sometimes, tryin' to be all sneaky like.

I've also grown randomly attached to playing with Foofy's hair. It's just so soft and fluffy. Sometimes Spirit and him will randomly watch me when I decide to doodle. I'm not the best artist, but I still like to draw a lot and look at other people's drawings on the computer, which they also like to watch. Fishy has also been pretty cool. He's just like a living stuffed animal so whenever I decide to randomly pick him up he'll just relax in my arms. He's like a big kitty baby. The best kind of baby if you ask me.

Some of the cats will venture into my room occasionally during the night now. And sometimes I'll take one in with me and they'll lay next to me on the bed for a bit before I fall asleep, but they're never there when I wake up. Oh well though. No cat I've ever had likes me enough to actually let me cuddle with them for that long. Thank goodness though, not all of them look at me like I'm stupid like my past cats. Not all the time at least… Regardless, I still love them all equally (for the most part)!

Moving on, today was a Thursday like any other and I decided to show Ghast Killzone 3 so he could see the dudes he was named after. After grabbing a bowl of popcorn, I sat on the couch, some kittens jumping up to sit next to me and beg for popcorn. I took a few pieces and placed them in front of the kittens to nibble on while I started up the game.

"Okay so see these red-eyed guys? These are called the "Helghast" and they are evil guys tryin' to take over the world or something. I'm actually not too sure what they're doing. I haven't paid much attention to the story, only how it looks. And it looks awesome!" As I explained it to him (and whatever other kittens were paying attention), I had left my seat and was now standing in front of our somewhat large television, pointing to the characters and objects I was talking about.

"All right then. I'm gonna start it up and it's going to be intense. This will be your viewing of your first rated "M" video game. Now let's do it!" The other games I had shown them were on the Wii, including Animal Crossing (I finally caught the dragonfly!), Okami, Donkey Kong, Mario Kart, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, and The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess. All relatively mellow games. Usually when I wanted to play any shooters, I had to be in a certain mood. Otherwise, I'd just get frustrated and not want to play them again. Today I was in a mood to shoot some stuff after finding claw marks all over the leather couch. But sometimes I want to play shooting games when I'm hyper, too. Yeah, I'm not sure why either.

Suddenly sounds of gun shots and explosions filled the room when the story mode started up. Some guy was talking and saying really lame dialogue (Foosha: seriously, it's pretty lame), so I ignored him and skipped through the scene to where I could move around.

"I really wish you could be a Helghast as the main character in this game. Those guys look soooo cool and they even have these crazy mutant cat/robot thingys later on. Are you guys even paying attention?" I looked to the cats to see them immobilized by the giant explosions of tanks blowing up and guns shooting off everywhere. "Sheesh. Didn't think you would be so entranced by the violence. Just don't let me catch you breaking anything in this house. Otherwise… Vash will get you *insert random flash of lightning here*." I decided to continue to play, thinking they would get used to it at some point. Creeping through the high grass, I was required to get through this next area without letting anyone spot me, or else I would die a horrible death from a guy in a silver version of the "Green Goblin" suit.

"SCRREEEEEEEEEEECHHHHHHH" I jumped a bit in my seat, surprised by the sudden noise that came from the giant cat robot thing that landed in front of my guy, causing me to accidentally move my character and catching the creature's attention.

"Oh my god I forgot how terrifying this part is! Here!" I tossed the controller to Ghast and covered my eyes, "you play!" This was something I regularly did with Vash while playing games. I would get into them and then a scary part would come up, so I'd hand the controller to Vash to get through it for me. Not hearing the sound of death, I peeked through my hands to see the characters moving slightly (and very awkwardly) away from the cat creature. And then, there were gun shots! I blinked and looked to Ghast to see him moving one thumbstick with his paw, Foofy moving the right thumbstick (looking slightly annoyed with Ghast's lack of ability to make the character walk), and Fishy pushing the trigger button.

"You… you're playing?" I giggled maniacally and then I was filled with excitement and thoughts of possibilities. I could totally YouTube this! Or they can just play games with me from now on when Vash is gone! Oh my gosh this is so awesome! Bwaaaaaa! The screen of death brought me out of my rant, though I could still feel the giant smile on my face.

"You guys! That was awesome! Even though you didn't survive, like… wow! That was incredible! Do you know what this means?" I got right in their face, with wide excited eyes. They looked slightly scared as they shook their heads. "This means you guys can play games with me! Oh my god! We could even play online when you get better! How funny would that be if you beat some random dudes on there? Pretty awesome, I'd say." I continued to ramble as the kittens just looked at me oddly.

Kitty POV

"Is… is this what their world is really like?" Konan asked quietly over the loudness of the video game. She sat on the floor beneath the couch, next to Pein, who remained emotionless as usual. Sasori padded over to sit next to them.

"If it is, we'd be in serious trouble if we were to turn back into our human forms now. We can't sense them since they have no chakra, and the weapons they use seem incredibly powerful." Hidan scoffed from his seat near Tobi on the couch.

"Yeah right. We're the fucking Akatsuki. Like these shitheads could take us out," he growled confidently. Kakuzu nodded in agreement, surprisingly.

"For once, I agree with him. Their machinery seems quite costly and clunky. If we were to take them all out, there is no way they could afford to make enough more to destroy us. Not to mention how long it would take to construct something that complex."

"I suppose that is true, if worse came to worse we could probably take out these weapons if the circumstance called for it," Pein reasoned to the others. Some nodded until Kisame spoke up, pointing a paw to the screen, since Nicky was now playing.

"Uh… what about those things?" The kittens looked back to the television to see Nicky zoomed in on an enemy figure, with some sort of small cross marking the enemy's head. Suddenly a shot was fired and he instantly fell dead.

"Even through the heavy looking armor, the projectile still reached his brain and killed him. What would that mean for us, without armor or a way to sense the enemy?" questioned Konan, a crease forming on her kitty forehead. Again, Hidan groaned in aggravation.

"I could fucking handle that shit. I'm fucking immortal and-"

"Perhaps it'd be best to find our way back home and then worry about becoming human again after. If we were to come across a group of those, there would be a low chance of surviving," Itachi muttered under his breath, surprising the other kittens with his amount of speech. Some of the others began to nod slowly.

"But I could bomb them from above and they wouldn't have a chance, yeah," Deidara argued and Sasori gave him a look.

"Shut-up brat. What if they called in their flying units that are much more efficient than your bird and have quicker access to bombs? Then we would be surrounded both above and on ground level. We still don't know how their weapons work either and with no way to predict that it might as well be a suicide attempt. Even if Hidan could get through most of them with his immortality, he could still get blown apart by explosions from those tank things and there'd be no way to fix him with us all being preoccupied. These people use long range combat, so we would have a hard time getting close to them at all." The other kittens who weren't quite sold on the idea of being defeated before nodded unsettlingly at the outcome of the situation. Even Hidan was quiet for once. Pein looked to the rest of them, giving them a quick nod.

"It's settled. Our new plan will be to find our way back before turning into humans. Is that clear?" The rest nodded. "Now, we need to think back to what happened before we got here. Does anyone remember anything?" They looked between each other, some shrugging slightly. Tobi jumped down from the couch to join the half-circle forming on the floor.

"Oh oh! Tobi remembers the angry lady!" Deidara rolled his eyes and sat down next to Tobi, whapping him upside the head.

"Of course we all remember that idiot, un. It's the reason we're cats in the first place! We're talking about what happened after, yeah." Tobi tried to rub the back of his head with his paw, though it's kind of difficult when you're a cat. Kisame finally joined the group, a thoughtful look on his face.

"I remember being in that box for a while before being moved around again. And then… I remember hissing noises. Like snakes or something." And as if realizing the same thing, the kittens who did share expressions turned exasperated, muttering "Orochimaru... mumble mumble evil snake man mumble mumble" or something similar under their breaths.

"We should have known that pest was behind all this," Zetsu mumbled crossly as he flexed his claws.

"Hey guys, whatcha talkin' about?" The kittens jumped and realized Nicky was watching them carefully with a curious expression. "Seems pretty important. Do you guys wanna play or something?" She sat a second controller on the couch next to her, and before any of the kittens could do anything, Hidan launched himself at the controller with a determined look in his eye.

"I'll show you bitch. I can beat fucking anything!" Kakuzu placed a paw on his forehead. Nicky just smirked.

"Oh of course you would want to play, wouldn't you Marshy? Come on tough guy, show me how good you are," she taunted at him. Getting even more riled up, Hidan complied as the game began, trying his best to keep up with all the controls and sometimes just smashing whatever buttons were closest. The rest of the group turned away from the intent video game players.

"You know, at one point I remember the box opening enough to see some sort of vortex after hearing Orochimaru perform a kind of forbidden jutsu," Kakuzu remarked scratching an ear with his back foot, one of the many kitty habits the group had begun to pick up after watching plenty of animal programs. Pein nodded his head.

"Yes I remember that too. So Orochimaru is behind this then. Perhaps if there is a portal here, there is a portal back as well. We'll just have to find it." He gave the group a stern look, "our new mission is to stay hidden in these forms and to search for the possibility of a portal back to our world. Whenever we possess the opportunity, we must look for this portal, understood?" The members nodded, attention returning to the screen to see Hidan dying horribly, a string of curses soon following.

Nicky POV

"I have the weirdest cats ever," was all I could think as I watched them conversing with each other. I wonder if I could ever learn cat language.

"Oh! I forgot I need to take out the garbage!" I hopped up from my seat on the couch, nearly tripping in the process, and bagged up the garbage to take it out. When I turned back around I saw that Professor Layton had taken my place with the other controller, having a bit of difficulty in figuring it out, but all together pissing off Marshmallow, while he sat hissing at the screen. "Be good guys! I'll BRB!" I called back to them, making my way up the stairs and out the door.

It was relatively cool outside today compared to how it had been recently. Probably about in the high eighty's with a light breeze. Just right. I placed the garbage in its appropriate container, turning around to head back inside and coming face to face with the next door neighbor, peeking her done-up face over the fence. When she saw me she smiled and beckoned me over.

"Oh Nicky! Just the young lady I was looking for!" Uh… who is this person? I kept my face blank and gave her a confused look.

"Oh… what for?" She checked her watch looking preoccupied and looked back to me for a moment, adjusting the purse strap on her shoulder.

"Nicky I need you to babysit my daughter Rin for a few hours. I just have some shopping to take care of, so you won't mind will you? Of course not! I hardly ever see you leave so I'm sure you'll love the company. One moment, let me go get her." And as quickly as she appeared, she left, leaving me dumbstruck.

"Wait… what? I never agreed…" and then something clicked in my mind, "wait! Children! I can't deal with children!" While I was busy having a meltdown, the woman returned in front of my backyard gate and knocked before inviting herself in. She pushed a young girl in front of her while motioning to me.

"Rin, this is your new babysitter from now on. Her name is Nicky. Now you two get along. Oh and Nicky here's your money for today." The woman strode towards me and grabbed my hand (for I was too shocked to react), putting in five twenty's. "Have fun you two!" And with that she was gone, leaving me with my mouth slightly ajar, hand outstretched with a ridiculous amount of money for a babysitting session of a few hours, and still no idea how I got into this mess. There was a coughing noise and I looked down to see the girl looking at me. I guess she was pretty cute for a kid. She had long dark brown hair and sandy colored eyes. She was wearing a black shirt with some sort of rainbow unicorn on it, a jean skirt and black leggings, but the thing that caught my attention was her backpack. I suddenly snapped back into reality and kneeled next to her to see the item up close.

"Is this a Totoro backpack!" She just nodded slightly, while my eyes remained locked on the masterpiece. "It's adorable! Where did you get it?" And with that, there was an instant connection. She wasn't a normal kid anymore to me but, an awesome child of awesomeness! I pulled her inside the house, rambling about my favorite parts in "My Neighbor Totoro" as I lead her to the extra space on the couch and telling her to sit. The kittens were looking up at me with quizzical expressions, so I waved my hand towards Rin to get their attention.

"Gentlemen and lady cats, this is Rin. She is my new responsibility for the moment… so… yeah don't be mean to her or anything! Also," I looked to Marshmallow, shaking a finger at him, "No scratching up her backpack or I will let you stay outside all night and not even care. I know you're the one who's been scratching the couch, you little smore-head!" He just looked at me like a regular kitten would, but I knew better! He had an evil glint in his eye, like he always does. I shook my finger at him again, adding a glare to seem more menacing before returning my attention back to Rin.

"So… uh… what do kids like to do anyway? Are you hungry or something?" Please don't be hungry, pleeeease. I only have one macaroni left! Actually… I remembered the random money I just received sitting comfortably in the right pocket of my sweats and grinned. "All right! Now I can get more smoothie stuff and steak! Woo!" I danced around a bit in a circle. I call it "The Dance of the Money Fairy"!

"If you can't cook, I can make my own food," Rin offered off-handedly while inspecting the kitchen. Ouch. Is it that obvious? I just laughed and nodded.

"Yeah... I'm not that good of a cook. What can you make?" I asked, genuinely interested as I picked up Spirit holding him against my shoulder and scratching behind his ears. My mom never taught me how to cook so it surprised me how what appeared to be a seven year old, was cooking her own meals.

She didn't answer at first, and began sifting through the small amount of cooking materials in the fridge, finally emerging with a loaf of white bread (it lasts longer in the fridge!) and some cheddar cheese.

"I'm making grilled cheese. I usually make my own food because momma and poppa aren't home." Now I felt kinda bad, but I'm pretty awkward with sympathy so I decided not to say anything relating to her parents.

"Oh that's cool. Can I watch?" She nodded slowly and got to work, completing her masterpiece in a few minutes. It looked perfect! For a grilled cheese, I mean. We both took a seat on the couch, her with her sandwich and me with Spirit on my lap. The other kittens jumped up on the couch, lounging themselves around me and Rin as I turned the television on to "Castle in the Sky" (another Miyazaki movie I love).

"You seem like a pretty cool kid. I guess you can hang out here whenever you're lonely or whatever." I muttered, trying to hold back my embarrassment at inviting a girl younger than me, though far more intimidating, over to my house. My eyes shifted to my right where she was sitting, to see her offering a small piece of her sandwich to Izaya and Ghast, who took them happily. I smiled a bit. Yeah she does seem pretty cool. Maybe I'll have a kid someday if she's like this. Quiet and able to cook and also liking awesome things like kitties and Totoro. Yeah…

"I'll probably be doing that anyways. Momma has been watching you for the past week and said you were going to be my second home from now on." My eye twitched in response. That devil woman… at least her child is tolerable. Suddenly, the door to outside was pushed in rapidly by an out of breath Vash. I blinked

"Hey Vash, I have some… interesting news-" She cut me off though.

"Me too. Jen is home early."

Foosha: Whapping is totally a word! It's another word for hitting! Sometimes I just pull words out of nowhere and they turn out to be real words after all.

Nicky: So… what's the story with the lady and the kitties?

Foosha: That my dear Nicky is for another time. Dun dun dunnn! Oh no Jen is home early! If you don't remember, Jen is Nicky's step-sister who isn't a fan of cats and may or may not (more likely) want ten kittens living below her. So I suppose it's kinda like a cliff-hanger. Bahaha my first one!

Nicky: And who's this Rin girl anyways?

Foosha: You will find out Nicky, soon enough, soon enough (at the rate I've been updating).

Nicky: Ugh I hate waiting! T_T

Vash: You'll survive.

Foosha: Just put up a new picture of Nicky, Vash and Rin! The link is on my profile if you want to take a look.