~Naruto Kittens: The Re-Write~

~Chapter Two~

Meanwhile, in the Naruverse...

Sakura and Sai had just shown up with back-up, who consisted of Kiba, Shino, Akamaru, Shikamaru and Hinata. They searched the whole clearing, even ventured further, but couldn't find Kakashi or Naruto anywhere.

"Hey Sakura, Sai, I thought this was where you said they would be?" Kiba asked. The brunet boy was extremely confused and a bit annoyed that he had been dragged all the way out here for nothing. "I don't see them anywhere."

Shino nodded, pushing his glasses up his nose, as they had begun to slide down. He adjusted his hood, blocking the sunlight from his eyes. "And I don't sense their chakra, or any chakra for that matter. Are you sure this is the right place?"

"I'm positive!" Sakura said, nodding her bubblegum coloured head. She looked all around the clearing and let out a frustrated cry. "This is where they were!"

Shikamaru sighed annoyed. "Well then where are they? This is so troublesome..."

"M-maybe i-i-it's the w-wrong cl-clear-clearing?" Hinata suggested timidly, pressing the forefingers of her hands together. "T-t-there's a l-lo-lot o-of cl-clearings in th-this f-for-forest."

Sai sighed, almost sadly. "Alright, let's keep looking. If we don't find them by sundown, we go straight to the Hokage, okay?"

The group of seven nodded -well, Akamaru barked- and moved onto another clearing to try and find their friend and sensei.

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~Melanie's POV~

Megan and I carried the kittens in our arms, each of us holding two, while we carried the other nine in their box, or home, whatever you wanted to call it. The box was actually rather large, which is why it took the two of us both to carry it up. We didn't mind though, and the kittens had hopped onto our shoulders to watch as we struggled. I had the tan one and the blond one with markings. Megan had one of the black ones and the silver one with the two-coloured eyes. The rest were curled up in the box and, oddly enough, they looked like they were discussing some things, like at a meeting. Or maybe it was just how they all sat in a circle? Oh, I don't know.

We successfully carried the kittens to our room and we set the box down in the middle of the room inbetween the two queen sized beds that we slept on. I put the kittens I was carrying on my bed, Megan following suit, and then stretched. I smiled when I heard a satisfying 'pop' and stopped stretching. I looked over and saw Megan going through her closet.

"Hey, what are you doing?" I asked, tilting my head to the side as I looked at her.

She looked back, rolling her eyes at me. "I'm not going to the pet store in my pajamas, and quite honestly neither should you."

I blinked before looking down at my long sleeved blue t-shirt and blue pants with black polka dots. I thought I looked dashing. All I needed were my ankle boots, my hair in a ponytail and a hoodie and I would be fine. I looked back at Megan and scoffed as I told her this. "Besides, we're coming right back here. And it's winter break, too. No ones going to say anything."

Megan sighed and stopped going through her closet. She was also wearing pajamas, ones very similar to mine. They were practically the same but where there would be blue on mine there was white on hers. "Okay, okay, fine. Let's go just like this. But Melanie I swear to god if I see someone I know from school I will claw your eyes out."

"Oh, I'm so scared, I'm shaking!" I cried, face fear slipping into my voice. I turned and dove onto my bed, careful not to accidentally land on one of the kittens. "Help me kittens! Protect my eyes!"

I sat up in bed as Megan approached me. I fake gasped and picked up the tan kitten, holding it out for Megan. "Stay back, evil beast! Or I'll set my mini lion out on you!"

The tan one looked back at me and I stared at it. It looked back at Megan, gave a feeble meow and started swiping the air in Megan's direction, adding in hisses when it could.

I swear I just about died.

I let out an exaggerated 'Aw!', as did Megan, and hugged the tan kitten to my chest. It mewled and clawed at my chest, but because it was only a kitten and it's claws hadn't fully come out it didn't hurt me. I set it on my lap and smiled at it. "Okay, after that little show, I know exactly what I'm going to call you!"

Megan sighed and crossed her arms back over her chest. "You're going to call him Lion, aren't you?"

"Ew, no." I said, making a quick look of disgust. "I'm going to name him Simba."

"Didn't we say that we would go buy them food before we name them?" Megan asked, raising an eyebrow as an amused look passed over her face.

"Well, it's undecided." I countered, standing up from my bed. I grabbed a credit card from my dresser, the emergendy credit card, and grabbed my jacket and boots from my closet. "Alright, you ready?"

"Yeah let me just get my coat." She said, walking back to her closet. As I waited, I put on my jacket and zipped it up, slipping the credit card into my pocket. But not before looking at the paper that was placed next to it. I put that in my pocket too, memorizing the three-digit PIN.

4-3-5, 4-3-5, 4-3-5.

"Hey, Mels, you ready?" Megan called from putside the room. I blinked and rushed out after her. I hadn't even notice her leave the room. As I ran out of the room, I pulled my boots on, almost tumbling down the stairs as I did.

We said goodbye to the kittens before closing the door so they wouldn't be able to leave the room. I had quite a few water bottles scattered about so if they got thirsty or hungry at least they had water. I contemplated on going back, but Megan practically pulled me into the garage. I opened the garage door with the garage door opener (obviously) and unlocked my dad's mustang. It was a 1998 model and the first car that my dad had bought on his own. It meant a lot to him, but he didn't ride it anymore which is why he gave it to Megan and I. It wouldn't be a problem sharing the car since we always go everywhere together. Unfortunately, I was the one out of the two of us to actually get their license, so only I could drive it for the time being.

I unlocked the door and got into the drivers seat, Megan slipping in beside me into the passenger seat. I waited until she was fully buckled in before putting my own seatbelt on and starting the car. I pulled out of the garage and the driveway as Megan clicked the button and closed the garage door. I then started off towards the PetSmart. Or was it PetsMart? I honestly had no idea. Either one could be it!

Megan turned the radio station on and Imagine Dragons song 'Demons' started playing. I saw her grin from the corner of my eye and she turned it up a bit higher. "Yes, I love this song!"

I nodded my head, grinning as well. This was one of my favourite songs of all time. I knew all the words to it, but I didn't sing along. Neither did Megan, but as we came up to a stop light we began bouncing to the music.

"If people see us, they'll think we're crazy." Megan commented but she continued to bounce along to the music. I stopped bouncing but I began to nod my head to the beat, even after I got weird looks from the cute guys beside us. Who needs guys when you have kittens anyway?

We arrived at the PetSMart quicker then we expected. I parked the car, shut off the engine and pulled the keys out of the ignition. I stepped out of the car, the bitter cold wind tossing my hair around. It was only then I remembered that I had to tie it up. I swore under my breath and looked in my pockets for a hair tie but I came up short. I sighed and slammed the car door shut, stuffing my hands into my pockets. When I heard the slam of the other door and felt Megan beside me I pressed the button on the car keys that locked the doors.

We began walking towards the PetSMart, all the while thinking what we would need to buy.

"Well, obviously we need food." Megan started. "But should we get dry or wet cat food?"

I shrugged my shoulders. It's not that I didn't care, I just really didn't know. "We could get a small bag of the dry stuff and then a couple cans of the wet stuff? And we'll put them both out to see which they like better."

"Yeah, but what if they like both?" Megan asked as we walked through the doors of the PetSMart and headed for the cat food.

"Most cats end up liking both. If that's the case we'll come back and buy more. We'll have to, regardless." I saidM stuffing my hands in my pockets.

"You really are the smart one." Megan said, chuckling before stopping herself. "Oh, we'll need kitty litter and of course a litter box too."

I nodded, turning my head to look at the shelves before stopping and blinking. I grinned and pulled a bag off of the shelf. "Found the kitty litter! Oh, and I think we should take this mat to so if they make a mess it won't be on the ground."

Megan nodded as well. "Good idea, let's get it. Now we just need to figure out where the litter boxes are."

"I don't know where the litter boxes are, but the next aisle over has all the cat food. Let's go." I said, grabbing my sister's arm and pulling her into the next aisle. We observed all of the food in the aisle, comparing nutrition facts, especially the ones that were on the boxes marked 0-1 years old. I didnt know exactly how old the kittens are, but they looked small enough to be classified under a year old. Megan grabbed the bag of food and some cans of wet food and we continued on. Luckily, it didn't take us long to find a litter box and we headed for the cashier. They weren't having that much of a busy day so we only had to wait for one person, and they were getting their change when we showed up anyway.

When the lady left we walked up to the cashier and placed the dry food, wet food, kitty littler and litter box onto the counter. As the cashier rung up our items, he flashed a smile in my direction. "That'll be $26.98, ma'am. Would you like me to add some freshners as well? They're free, and it'll keep your house from smelling like cat poop."

I let out a short laugh and nodded my head. "Yes, please. Um, I'm paying with a credit card, so..."

I trailed off and the cashier placed the...whatever it's called in front of me. I inserted the card into the thingy. I entered the PIN number and clicked the right buttons to click when the time came for them to be clicked. Soon enough I was done and the cashier had bagged our items. He handed me the bag and the receipt and Megan and I were soon on our way.

We walked out of the PetSMart and quickly made it into the mustang. I started it up and drove back home. We kept on hitting green lights so we were there in five minutes. As soo as the mustang was parked in the garage, Megan grabbed the bag and burst up from her seat. She literally sprinted away and I wondered how such a small person could have so much energy packed into her.

Hey, it's not my fault she's short as fuck.

But I shouldn't be saying anything, because I'm short as fuck too.

I closed my door, went around and closed her door, and then locked the car. I shrugged my coat off as I walked into the house and draped it over one of the kitchen chairs. I immediately went up to Megan and I's room, where she was showing the kittens everything we bought.

As I entered the room, she turned around to look at me, a sad expression on her face. "Mels, we forgot to get them a cat bed."

"S'okay. They can sleep with me in my bed." I said, shrugging my shoulders. I bent down, picked up the tan kitten and sat on my bed with him in my lap. "And we always could just decorate their box so it's more comfy and they can sleep in that."

"Oh, yeah, I guess we could do that." Megan responded. She got up from her place on the floor and put the bags and cans of cat food on the top shelf of her bookcase, which was luckily unoccupied. "I already set up their litter box. It's in our bathroom, in the corner inbetween the bathtub and shower."

I nodded my head. "Good, that's good. Now, let's start naming them, shall we?"

"Wait, don't you wanna call anyone over to help us?" Megan asked. She placed one of her pillows on the ground and sat on it.

I copied her actions, gently cradling the tan kitten in my arms as I sat down. "No, they're our kittens so it want only us to name them. Is that okay? We can call over Savannah and them afterwards if you'd like."

Megan nodded as she picked up the royal blue kitten. I noticed that on the kittens left ear, it was completely white. Also, there was a black spit under her chin. I hadn't noticed it before but I shrugged it off when Megan began speaking. "Yeah, that's fine. Besides, they'll probably give pretty messed up names to them anyway."

I laughed. "Yeah, that's true. I mean, Aome does have a dog named Blazzerella for crying out loud."

Megan laughed with me. "Oh yeah, I remember when she told everyone about it. We just about died."

We laughed for another short amount of time before finally stopping. I cleared my throat and motioned towards the kittens, who were either staring at me or Megan in what looked like confusion, suspicion and wariness. I brushed it off, though. "Okay, so there's thirteen kittens."

Megan nodded. "Yeah, thirteen. That's a lot. But anyway, we can each name six and then come up with a name for the last one together. Savvy?"

Ever since we had watched Pirates of the Caribbean, 'savvy' had become Megan's all time favourite word. Not that it bothered me, it was actually kind of funny witnessing her trying to sound like Captain Jack Sparrow. "Yeah, that's fine with me. Now, let's pick our kittens, yeah?"

She nodded her head and we picked our kittens. I got the tan one (obviously), the blond one with swirls on its belly, one of the black ones, the pale blue one, the black one with the orange face and the silver one that looked like it was wearing a half face mask. Megan got the other black one, other silver one, other blond one, the royal blue one, the orange one, and lastly, the red one. The half black, half white kitten stood alone and I felt really bad for it, that was the one that we said we would name together. So after we picked our kittens, I quickly said; "Why don't we name this one first? It'll probably be the hardest to name."

"Yeah, you're right." Megan said and then paused. "You know, to be honest, he kinda reminds me of Zetsu. You know, because Zetsu's half white and half black and so is this kitten."

"Let's name it Zetsu then." I said, shrugging my shoulders. "Why don't we name all of the kittens after Akatsuki members?"

"Was that sarcasm?" Megan asked. "With you, it's always hard to tell."

"No, I mean it." I said, laughing as I shook my head. I pointed at the tan kitten in my arms. "Look, see this one? It has marks on its body, and they look like stitches too. Who do we know from the Akatsuki that has stitches? Kakuzu."

"I'm guessing you're naming that one Kakuzu, then?" Megan asked. I nodded my head, grinning and she sighed. She looked around at all of her kittens before scolping up the orange one. "This one reminds me of Pein. So I'm going to name him Pein."

"Wait, so it's agreed that this one is Zetsu right?" I asked, rubbing the belly of the black and white kitten. Megan nodded and I grinned. "Awesome, now let's get to naming!"

I named my kittens after the characters that they resembled. They ended up being Kakuzu, Tobi, Naruto, Kakashi, Itachi and Kisame. Megan did the same thing I did, her kittens ended up being Sasuke, Deidara, Sasori, Hidan, Pein and Konan. Of course, there was also Zetsu. Though it was a bit hard to determine which kitten was Sasuke and which was Itachi, since they both looked the same but we figured it out eventually. After we had finished naming them, we texted Savannah, Aome, Naomi and Dakota, separately, of course.

An hour after we had sent out the texts, none of them had responded. I sighed and replaced Kakuzu with Tobi and began to pet him. Megan was in the kitchen preparing the kittens food while I was watching TV with said kittens. I had asked Megan if she needed help but she said that she didn't so I didn't go to help her.

Just to our luck, an episode of Naruto had been on. As soon as I clicked on the channel, the kittens seemed to be enticed by it. We were currently on the fifth episode (we had started the series over so the kittens would know what was going on). Don't get me wrong, I loved Naruto, but the kittens were so intrigued on watching it that they wouldn't let me pet them. But it was okay, because this was the last time they were watching TV.

At that moment, my phone began to ring, startling the kittens. I chuckled and pulled it out of my pocket. I looked at the caller ID but I didn't recognize it. I frowned and answered it anyway with the phrase that I always used if I didn't know how it was. "You've reached the Fanne residence. Melanie speaking. How may I help you?"

I heard laughter from the other side of the line. "Hey Mel. I got your text. Open the door, please."

I blinked, once, twice, three times. "Savannah? Is that you? What phone are you calling from?"

I got up from my spot on the couch and went over to the front door. I looked out of the peephole as Savannah answered my question. "Oh, my phone broke so I had to go to the mall and get a replacement while they fixed it. I'm still using the replacement one and they gave me a new number so yeah. It's also why I didn't respond for so long. I had to put all my contacts into this phone. Sorry about that."

As I saw Savannah standing at my door, I unlocked it and opened. I turned my phone off too as Savannah stepped inside. "Hey Mels. Where are the kittens?"

"Oh, they're watching TV in the living room. Naruto, to be exact." I responded, taking her coat from her. She closed and locked the door as I hung her coat up in the closet near our front door.

Savannah let out a laugh. "Seriously? You've only had hem for what, half a day and you've already go them hooked on Naruto?"

I shrugged my shoulders as I led her to the living room. Kakuzu and Tobi both meowed and I bent down to pick the both of them up. The other kittens just stayed lounging on the couch, watching Naruto on the TV. As soon as I picked the two kittens up, Savannah let out an 'aw.'

"Oh my gosh, they're so cute!" She exclaimed, but not too loudly. She reached out for one of the kittens and I gave her Tobi. He seemed to be the most jumpy of the kittens, but he absolutely loved getting attention. Savannah cradled him in her arms and began to pet him, scratching him under his chin and on his belly. She looked up at the other eleven kittens sitting on he couch and let out another aw.

"What did you name them?" She asked, looking at each of the kittens. Before I answered, she added, "And what did you do to them?"

I laughed loudly. "The kittens are Megan and I's birthday present from our Uncle Marko. He said he found the kittens like this. They're names, well, we named them after the Akatsuki. With the exception of Kakashi, Sasuke, and Naruto."

Just then, Megan came into the room carrying two large dishes of what I guessed was cat food. "Dinner time, kitties!"

The kittens immediately raced over to Megan and I let Kakuzu jump out of my arms. Savannah did the same thing with Tobi and the two kittens raced over to the large dishes. As the kittens ate, they lined up in a line. Megan and I took that as an opportunity to point out which kittens were which.

"These are Zetsu, Kakuzu, Tobi, Sasuke, Deidara, Konan, Naruto, Pein, Sasori, Kisame, Hidan, Kakashi and Itachi." Megan and I said, speaking in unison.

Savannah looked at the kittens. She made a motion with her hands that neither me nor Megan could figure out what it was. "They're just so cute! Oh, I just want to hug all of them!"

"You can." I started.

"When they're done eating." Megan finished.

A thought suddenly came to my mind and I turned to Savannah. "Hey, Savi, we texted Naomi, Dakota and Aome too. Do you know where they are?"

"Huh? Oh, them? They went to Florida. Dakota owns this huge mansion by the beachside over here." Savannah said. "I was so mad when I found out they left without me."

My jaw dropped. "Are you serious? They went to Florida?!"

Megan 'harrumphed'. "Why is it that everyone always goes to California without inviting the three of us? It's not fair anymore!"

"At least we have kittens." I said, gesturing to the kittens who were done eating. "Besides, it's winter break, the school is being demolished next week, and school will basically be post-poned for, like, five months. We can go to Florida anytime we want."

"It is?" Savannah and Megan chorused.

"Yeah, they said so on the last day, during the assembly." I said. The kittens had sauntered over to us and were now listening in on our conversation. I smiled and bent down, picking up Itachi -well, it could've been Sasuke- and beginning to pet home. Savannah and Megan mimicked me, Megan picked up Konan and Savannah picked up Zetsu.

"I don't remember them saying that." Savannah started as we walked into the living room and plopped down on the couch. "But you're the smart one out of the three of us so we'll believe you."

I chuckled and rolled my eyes. No one else said another word as we began to watch Naruto again. Eventually it became dark and before I knew it, everything went black.

Hello everyone! This is your wonderful authoress, Melanie, speaking!

How are you guys enjoying the re-write so far? It's only the second chapter, I know, but I think I'm making good progress with this. I'll try to get a chapter up every day, however, school just started up for me (well tomorrow will be the first day back after the winter break) so after today I might not get an update in every day. Also, I have another story on a different website that I'm writing, so yeah. But I can promise you this that there will be at least two updates per week. Some of you might be thinking 'well everything's already written out, so why would it take you so long to update?'

Yes, I know that there 32 chapters of this story on my other account (The-Anime-Loving-Panda) but I am re-writing this, and as you guys can tell from the first two chapters, a lot of things are already different. So please, bear with me.

Well, that's all I really have to say for this second chapter. So, bye.

-RylahCaverley/The-Anime-Loving-Panda/Melanie