Tsukaia: I do not own Naruto. for if I did Naruto would soooo different.
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Shadow: You never do the disclaimer...
Tsukaia: I wanted to try it. *sticks tongue out childishly* Anyway here you go and enjoy. Please R&R...
Chapter 3: Rude Awakening
The next morning Sakura woke to a loud noise coming through her front door. She groaned and plucked all the kittens off her body. She got up and walked to the front of the apartment. She looked at the pile of men in her floor with the exception of a fox.
"What do you four think you're doing? It's too early to be making all this noise." Sakura said rubbing her eyes and they looked up at her.
"Well these idiots decided to burst through the door time I unlocked it instead of giving me time to open the door." Sai said and Sakura rolled her eyes. Kura and Hinata made their way to the front and had to sigh at the mess in the door.
"Will you get up already?" Sakura said and they stumbled off of each other. "What's so important that you had to wake me at this time in the morning?"
"First we would like Naruto back." Sasuke said and she nodded and Naruto was back to normal. "And second, you're housing Akatsuki kittens?"
"Yes, Sasuke, I have all ten of them under one roof." Sakura said rubbing her eyes again.
"Oh my goddess, Kura's here." Naruto said just realizing Kura was standing there. Naruto pounced on the sleepy brunette purring happily. "I missed you so much." Naruto said and Kura chuckled while Sasuke and Kakashi growled.
"Yay, Kura's here." They said halfheartedly as they watched their blonde purr with pure delight.
"So, what did you bring me this time?" Naruto asked and Kura raised an eyebrow.
"A new look." He said and Naruto hopped down waiting for Kura. He snapped his fingers and Naruto was dressed in an orange kimono with a black dragon on it and his hair was longer. It was long just like Kura's except a little shorter and pulled into a ponytail with his bangs hanging in his face. "Turn around and show it off." Kura ordered playfully and Naruto turned on his heel to look at everyone in the room.
"Wow…" They were speechless and could barely believe their eyes.
"Sakura, we'll be back later this morning." Kakashi said grabbing his blonde's hand and dragging him out the apartment with his bluenette. Sakura giggled and closed her front door. She looked at Sai and he looked ready to paint something.
"Sakura…" He said and she nodded heading back to her bedroom taking off her shirt in the process. Kura followed and Hinata went to her room curling back up with Itachi.
Sakura walked into her bedroom and noticed all her kittens were awake. She smiled at them and crawled back into bed. She lay down and Kura snapped his fingers. Her bra was gone and the red satin sheets were just covering her butt.
"We're going back to sleep while Sai paints my back." She mumbled and the kittens looked confused but started dozing off anyway. Sai straddled her legs, getting to work on her back, caring the brush sensually across her back. After hours of delicate working he finished.
He eased off the bed to take a look at his works. On her back were her ten kittens, each one representing her many different auras. Gaara had once told her that when he looked at Sakura, her aura was multi colored. It was green, orange, yellow, two different blues and browns, black, white, and red. They never understood why it was like that but he found a good way to put it out.
He stood there looking at her, now trying to think of a name. He looked at Kura for advice and the demon was asleep. Sai sighed softly and ran his fingers through his hair.
"Master's Will…" Sai mumbled and smiled. That was the perfect name for it because she was their master now and they listen to her every word. "That is much more suitable for this lovely tenshi." He mumbled and left her house smiling softly.
Sakura woke up another hour later and mewled softly as she stretched her body. She slowly realized her kittens were all staring at her back. She looked at Kura and he was staring too.
"What are you staring at?" She asked and Kura snapped out of trance.
"You're aura is on your back." He said and she raised an eyebrow. "As in Sai painted your multi colored aura in the form of those kittens." Sakura gracefully got out of bed and looked at her back in the mirror.
"I don't like it." She said and Kura gasped. "I mean I love it an all but I prefer my emotions not to be known. Sai, get over here." She said and Sai appeared in the room with his eyes closed.
"I know you're complaining about it but I found it to be nice. With the way you filter from one emotion to another and your aura takes on a full color for once." He said and she sighed. "It's like beauty in the eye of the beholder."
"Who might the beholder be?" She questioned and he chuckled. He could name a kitten that liked it.
"You'll figure it out sooner or later." He said and Kura laughed softly. "Sakura, I named it Master's Will because it's not like this is something that happens every day. Tell me once where you've been able to control the outcome of your own life?" She sighed and shook her head.
Not once has she ever been able to control what happened in her but as of right now she's been able to control it. Since she found the kittens she's been able to make the choices herself without them having a fatal effect on her life.
"Three…two…one…" Kura counted down and Konan became human again. She gasped and covered herself. "She represents control in your life. Once you realized that you now have control over it, she goes back to normal." Kura said and Sakura blinked. "That is what's going to happen to the rest of them once you figure out what they represent."
"You knew this whole time and didn't tell me." She growled and he blinked.
"It's not my job to interfere with something like this. I'm only a demon at was made your guardian since you are my reincarnation. It's my job to protect you and help you along the way." He said defensively and she sighed and looked at Sai.
"You're more helpful than I thought." She said and he smiled. "Okay, only for today then it goes."She said and walked off to her closet.
"Sakura, don't leave me here with all these men." Konan said and Sakura pecked out her closet.
"I'll be back in a second." Sakura said and went right back into the closet and came out a second later in a red lacy bra and boy shorts. "Okay, Sai, you and Kura go to the living room and sit until I come make breakfast." She said and they walked out the room. Sakura pulled Konan off the bed making her drop the sheet that was covering her.
"Epp!" Konan yelped and tried covering herself. Sakura swatted her hands away and Konan whimpered. She hated her body it wasn't pretty or curvy at all and she was told that every day.
"Hm…perfect you're the same size as me." Sakura said disappearing into her closet again and coming out with blue underwear like her. "The shower's through that door." She point and Konan nodded. "Use whatever you like and the towels are in the cabinet." Konan disappeared into the bathroom and Sakura's delightful mood disappeared as she glared at the kittens.
"Are you retarded or something? You should never insult a woman's figure especially since she has to live with nothing but men. Rule 1: Women have low self-esteem when it comes to their bodies." She scolded the kittens and they whimpered. "I could care less about what others think of my body but others depend on it."
She walked over to the mirror and brushed her tousled hair. She swopped it up into a messy ponytail and looked back at the kittens.
"What possessed you to tell her that?" She asked and they looked away from her. "So that's it. Hurting her cause you could." She said and shook her head. Sakura walked into her closet and came out with two outfits. She laid them in the couch in her room and waited for Konan to come out the bathroom.
Konan walked out the bathroom in the underwear with a towel wrapped around her. She winced slightly when Sakura took the towel from her.
"Come on, let's go make breakfast." She said and Konan winced again following as they walked out the room with no clothes and the kittens following her. "We're going to do this until you get your self-esteem back. So when you're in the house you're not allowed to have on any clothes." Sakura said and Konan nodded. "And just to make you feel better same goes for me and Hinata."
Sakura walked into the kitchen and was greeted with breakfast already on the table and Hinata fixing tea.
"Someone needs help with their self-esteem?" She asked setting up another plate for Konan and Sakura nodded.
"It seems that away. She's been damaged by mean men." Sakura said glaring at the kittens as they ate their fish and rice.
"Uchiha-san was the only one that never said anything." She said softly and they looked at Itachi.
'I have my fiancé so I have no reason to look at other women.' He said and Hinata giggled at his reason. Sakura nodded and started eating her food in a dazed state as Kura came in the kitchen and started eating with Sai.
"What's on the schedule today, Sakura?" Kura asked and Sakura blinked.
"You are going back to the heavens until I call for you." She said and he pouted. Sai's eyes widen and he pulled out his stretch book and started drawing. "I'm going to help finish helping Hinata with her training and Konan going to help out."
"Sakura, we're back." Kakashi said from the entrance and they all walked into the kitchen. Naruto was limping slightly and wincing softly with every step. Sasuke and Kakashi looked beyond satisfied with their work. Naruto took a seat in Kura's lap and sighed.
"So Konan, how's Sakura been treating you?" Naruto asked and Konan blushed and fidgeted under his eyes. "Ah, so that's it. A little self-esteem problem." He mumbled then smiled at her.
"Oi, why don't I have a plate?" Kakashi asked and Sakura shrugged.
"I didn't make breakfast, Hina did." She said ignoring his pout and putting her plate away. "Hina, you remember the rules. No clothes in the house." Sakura said and she nodded. The guys sighed and went into the living room, Kura carrying Naruto, as the girls walked down the hall to change. The kittens decided not to follow their angry master so they walked into the living room.
"Bad kittens, I thought you had at least a little respect for women." Naruto said and Itachi trotted over to his brother and sat at his feet. Pein hissed and growled at Naruto and Naruto barked back, scaring the kitten. "I'm sure Sakura gave you rule one so here rule 2: Never insult a woman's figure. It either causes you pain or them." He said and they groaned.
"So how are you three going to spend your day?" Sakura asked coming into the room. "I know Sai's disappearing with Kura…" She was rudely interrupted by Naruto.
"I'm spending it with Kura." He said clinging to the brunette and said brunette sighed.
'You're going to kill them Naruto. A day without you is like a day without the sun to them. Are you willing to kill them?' Naruto nodded and Kura sighed.
"Okay, what about you two?" She asked and they shrugged. "Locked in your house waiting for your blonde to come back." They nodded and she sighed.
"Bye, Sakura." They said walking out the door ignoring their now pouting blonde. Naruto got out of Kura's lap and stomped out of the house to stop them.
"Let's go, we have things to do." Sakura said and Kura disappeared with Sai.
Side Track for a minute:
"Where's my kiss?" Naruto demanded and they just looked at him. He growled and stomped his foot.
"You're fonder of Kura so it didn't matter if you got one or not." Kakashi said and Sasuke nodded his agreement.
"You, two, get jealous too easy. You're my lovers and Kura's my best friend and nothing more." Naruto said and they looked away ashamed. He sighed and walked over to them grabbing their hands. "Fine, I won't hangout with Kura today." He said and they wrapped their arms around their blonde and started for home.
End of Side Track:
Sakura picked up the kittens and put them in her bag and picked it up. She walked out the door with the other two following after her. They hopped from roof to roof and landed softly in the training grounds.
"Okay, Hinata start off from where you left off." Sakura said and Hinata nodded stripping of everything except her underwear. As she started moving, Sakura noticed they weren't steady and she was going to fall soon. "Hinata, pause for a minute. I want you to take this in easy fluid steps. You're unbalanced somewhere."
"It's her chest. With her bloodline it requires her to use her lower body the most and only her hands when it comes to the upper body." Konan said and Sakura blinked as she realized she was correct. "But she can use that to her advantage. If we straighten her stance instead of lowering it, she can balance her body and be able to move it more freely instead of it being lowered." Konan analyzed the way her body moved when she was in a lowered stance and how it would move if it was straighten.
"Deidara …Sasori…you think you can put her in the right stance?" Sakura asked and they nodded. They trotted over to Hinata and she followed their directions. "How's this stance?" Sakura asked and Hinata smiled.
"I like it." She said simply and Sakura nodded.
"The only problem is that she's going to have to break from the traditional Hyuga style completely. She has to create her own style so that it works with the new stance." Konan said and Hinata brows knitted together in thought.
"I've been experimenting with my chakra. Gaara's been helping me out a little with it, when he comes to visit." She said remembering how she made her chakra appear around her hand and got fascinated by the way it glowed.
"Okay, we'll try that after we work on how you're going to move your feet." Sakura said and Hinata nodded. She knew exactly how she was going to move her feet but first she was going to experiment.
Sakura and Konan watched as Hinata start spinning on her toes and balancing herself perfectly. Then she started moving her arms and hands. Her hands glowed and she started moving faster and faster until a full net was surrounding her then she started slowing down coming to a stop. She slightly touched the net and that square lashed out and cut through the tree it touched.
"Amazing…" Hinata said and giggled, she had finally perfected that small detail she could never figure out. Her new stance made it work more efficiently. "That was all I needed to perfect that. Thanks Sakura-chan, Kon-chan." She said smiling and they laughed as she got back dressed.
"This whole time the only thing she need was a new stance. Amazing…" Sakura said and Konan giggled.
"And she got the help from the least of likely people." Konan said and Sakura nodded.
"How about we call it a day and go shopping for some clothes for you?" Sakura asked and Hinata and Konan nodded. They had the kittens back inside the bag and started walking back towards the village. The whole time laughing and joking with each other.
"Bitch, your freaking cat messed up my face!" Ino yelled and Sakura ignored her. "I'm talking to you, forehead." Sakura stopped and looked at her.
"And I'm ignoring you." Sakura said like yesterday but this time Ino drew her fist back to punch her. Hinata caught her wrist in a vice like grip and Konan grabbed her neck.
"I'm going to ask you nicely not to lay a hand on her. If you do, I will gladly snap your neck." Konan said tightening her grip on her neck as Sakura sighed.
"She's not worth the effort or time. Come on, we have business to take care of." Sakura said walking off as Hinata and Konan followed after her. Ino found the biggest rock and chucked it at Sakura's head. It made contact with the back of her head and it connected hard.
People in the streets gasped as blood flowed into her pink mane. Hinata and Konan glared at Ino along with the other villagers. Sakura reached up and removed the rock from her skull. She looked at it and tossed it over her shoulder and kept walking.
"Shall we continue?" She asked after realizing they weren't following her. They nodded and ran to catch up to her.
"Aren't you going to do something?" Hinata asked and Sakura glanced at her.
"Not right now. She's another problem that isn't worth my time yet." Sakura said and they nodded but looked worriedly at the back of her head. "It's already healing so stop worrying about it." She said and they nodded.
They shopped for food and brought Konan some new outfits. They walked to the hospital where Tsunade was in her office. They knew they had to tell her now or else it would be a pain later.
They stepped into her office and Tsunade looked up from her work to see who it was.
"I already know. As long as they follow your every command, I have no problem with it. But once they all go back to normal they are out of the village." She said and Sakura nodded. "You're already attached to them, aren't you?" Sakura nodded again and Tsunade sighed.
"What if I can't let them go?" She asked and Tsunade looked out the window chewing her bottom lip.
"Then I shall let you go with them. Hinata won't let you go unless she goes too, so I'm letting both of you go. Besides that Hinata would want to be with her fiancé." Tsunade said and Sakura nodded. "Neji, Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, and Sai will be devastated if I let you go without them so their free to go too. Can all of you live in peace together?"
"With a big enough place to stay, yes but if it's not it'll be nothing but chaos." Konan said and Hinata spoke up.
"I have a summer home. It's built inside a mountain. It'll provide enough space for all of us. Everyone would have their own private room which comes with a bathroom attached to it. It automatically personalizes the room to your likings when you step in. The only problem there is is that it hard to navigate around the place. It's like a giant maze." Hinata said and Tsunade nodded.
"They had to have had floor plans for it. If they dug it through the mountain's side then there's a gaping hole in the side of it."
"No, not really, sure there was one but they put a large door there. Only way you can see it is if you have my permission and there aren't many people that have my permission." She said and they looked at her. "Only Neji and Gaara have my permission. Other than that, I don't trust anyone to know where it's at."
"And your father gave you this?" Tsunade asked with a raised brow. Haishi couldn't have possibly given her that, the man hates her.
"Yeah, right, like that man would even bother to waste his money on me. I had it made myself. Gaara helped of course. He had said something about it being our vacation home during the summer. So we split it down the middle, paying for everything, including the man that set up the jutsu for the rooms to change to your personality." She heard hissing coming from Sakura's bag and Sakura taking out an angry Itachi and handing him to her. She sighed and rubbed behind his ear.
"Have we come to a reasonable decision?" Tsunade asked and Sakura nodded as Itachi poofed back into human form. He hid his nakedness behind Hinata.
"Kura put him on some clothes." Sakura said and Itachi was dressed in a black kimono. "Thank you." She said and he stepped from behind Hinata. "So that means you're my reasoning side?" He nodded and glared down at Hinata.
"Have a lovely afternoon, Lady Tsunade." Konan said and they all vanished to the apartment. They dropped their bags into their rooms and Sakura made Konan strip.
"Yes, you really have to do this otherwise you're going to be self-conscious of your body." Sakura said striping down to her underwear too. Her kittens were sitting on the bed looking at them. They were all too aware of the fact that her hair was mated with blood.
"Sakura-chan, what about your hair, it's filled with blood." Konan asked and Sakura walked into her bathroom. She came back five minutes later towel drying her hair.
"Much better, now what to cook for dinner?" Sakura mumbled and grabbed her brush.
"Itachi's cooking." Hinata said walking into the room with Itachi wrapped around her waist. Hinata was pretty much naked like both of them.
"What are you cooking?" She asked and he shrugged. "Okay, we'll sit back and you just surprise us." He reluctantly let go of his Hime and walked to the kitchen. Sakura looked at the kittens and they quickly scrambled out of the room. She closed the door and took a seat on her bed with the other two.
"I love that I have some power over them." She said and they giggled. "So Hinata, why was Itachi mad at you?" Hinata sighed and Sakura raised an eyebrow.
"Because he thinks I cheated on him with Gaara, just because we have a summer home together." She said and Konan raised an eyebrow.
"You don't seem like the type of person to do something like that." Konan said and Sakura nodded.
"She's not the type of person to do that." Sakura said and Hinata sighed.
"Gaara's like the big brother I always wanted. Neji's my guardian, my protector and everything in between. But Gaara's been there for me every since Neji went against his promise to always protect me, during the chunin exams."
"I was wondering why he went against his promise." Sakura said and Hinata looked at her. "That was the first time Haishi ordered him to kill you." Hinata nodded.
"I didn't learn this until I found Neji curled up in a corner whimpering from the beatings Haishi gave him for every time he failed to complete this task."
"Have you found out why he wants you dead?" Konan asked and Hinata nodded.
"He found the agreement he made with Itachi's parents. That agreement is still in effect because Itachi is still very much alive. With him alive means that he has to step down and hand the title over to who's next in line. So instead of going after someone he can't beat, he goes for the next best thing."
"Okay, back to Gaara. So every since the chunin exams he's been there protecting you?" Sakura asked and she nodded.
"Yeah, Gaara's listens to me and my problems and comforts me when I need it the most. In return, I became his best friend. You know Gaara has a crush on someone." She said and Sakura gasped leaning in closer. She wanted to know who the sand demon was crushing on since he never wants to tell her his love life. He always shied away from the subject when they talked. Sakura was his best friend too and it wasn't fair that Hinata got to know his secret and she didn't.
"Who is it?" Konan asked wanting to know too.
"It's…" Just as she was about to say the name Itachi walked in the room with someone.
"You have company." He said and they looked over at him and the person.
"Gaara, love, how are you?" Hinata asked and hopped off the bed and hugged him while kissing him softly on the lips. Itachi twitched and walked out the room. "Sakura, there's no poison in your house, right?" She asked and Sakura shook her head and Hinata nodded.
"I'm fine my princess. How are you?" He asked addressing all of them. Sakura looked away from him pouting. Konan said she was fine. He already knew Hinata was fine. What got him though was Sakura, she didn't even look at him and it hurt him that his best friend was ignoring him.
"I'm not talking to you." She said childishly and there was a crash in her living room. She got out of bed and went to check on it. She blinked as a grown man was lying across her floor. He had long black hair, piercing red eyes and the features of an Uchiha. She forgot to mention he was naked.
Kura put some clothes on him and she blinked at the man. He sat up and rubbed the back of his head.
"Um…" She said and he looked at her. "Who are you?"
"Tobi…" He said and she blinked. Her cute kitten was this hot guy. "Um…Tobi's my nickname. I'm actually Uchiha Madara." He said and she blinked. There was no way in hell this hot guy in her living room floor was an eighty year old man. "I don't age, I'm forever eighteen."
"Okay, so you're supposed to be my childishness." She asked and he nodded. She hummed and walked back to her room. She closed the door and sat on the bed. "Did you know Tobi's like hot?" She asked and Konan raised an eyebrow.
"No I didn't. I think we're seeing two different people. Tobi always wears a hideous orange swirl mask on his face and is constantly annoying. I just figured he was ugly because he hid his face behind an ugly mask." Konan said and the door opened and in walked Tobi.
"I'd appreciate it, if you didn't call me ugly." He said and closed the door with his foot. He sat behind Sakura as she childishly kept ignoring Gaara.
"You know there was a reason why I didn't tell you." Gaara said and Sakura stuck her tongue out at him. "I didn't tell you because you're closed to him than Hinata." He said and she raised an eyebrow.
Both she and Hinata were close to Sasuke and Naruto and Sai. The only person she was closer too than Hinata was…Neji. Her eyes widen and Gaara sighed.
"Oh my Kura…" She said and blinked. Gaara was in love with Neji, her best friend. And what was so ironic about it was that Neji was completely and helplessly in love with Gaara. "I can't believe this, they're both so dense." She said and Konan and Hinata giggled understanding what she meant. Gaara and Tobi raised an eyebrow.
"Anyway, back on subject. Hinata has a jealous fiancé and he thinks Hinata's having an affair with Gaara." Gaara chuckled and licked his Hime's neck. "Which they probably are but aren't telling anyone." She said and Hinata giggled.
"They're totally having an affair." Konan said and Tobi raised an eyebrow. He thought they were trying to get the poor boy killed because a jealous Itachi, is a dangerous Itachi.
"Um…you're trying to get him killed. A jealous Itachi is a very dangerous Itachi." He warned and Konan knew this. She knew Itachi was very dangerous when jealous and that they should stop before something horrible happened.
"Okay, enough with the little joke. Itachi might kill Gaara in his jealously fit then I'd have to kill him." Hinata said and Sakura sighed.
"Yes, now that I've released my inner childishness. It's time to become violent." She said and they raised an eyebrow. "Ino wasn't worth my time earlier but now I'm in the mood to cause pain."
"Well count me in; I don't like the blonde bitch." Tobi said and Konan looked at him. That was a new one from Tobi, he didn't curse ever.
"Not tonight, little Kura-chan…" Kura said appearing in the room with a tousled Sai in his arms nuzzled in his chest. "We have something important to do tonight Sakura." He said and she raised an eyebrow. 'Kami wants to see you.'
"Okay, I'll be back. Go ahead and eat without me." She said and Kura glared at Tobi. He was touching his little Kura-chan and no male was allowed to do that but Sai, Neji, Gaara, Naruto, Sasuke and Kakashi. Sakura sighed softly as Kura took her away from Tobi.
Hinata and Gaara giggled as Kura disappeared with Sakura and Sai while Tobi pouted. Konan sat there confused for a minute then realized that Kura didn't like males touching his Kura-chan. Gaara held Hinata close and walked out the room to the kitchen with the other two following.
Itachi put down the knife he was using and took his fiancé from Gaara. He didn't like her being naked in front of all these men because her body was only meant for his eyes. Hinata watched with interest as her fiancé chopped up the vegetables.