Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Maximum Ride or Naruto characters, only the OCs and even then they are based off of real people I know.

Chapter Three: Bomb Squad and CCT

Third Person POV, with Clarus

Clarus watched as the ones called Iggy, Gazzy, Deidara, Tobi, and Itachi appeared in the living room of Sammie's house. What are they doing here? Clarus thought as she looked over at the ninjas, I had wanted to bring only the Flock here! Not them again!

Clarus wasn't even remotely scared by the fact that ever since last year her powers were becoming a little out of control.

The first sign had been when she had brought all of the Flock to this world at once last year instead of one or two at a time. The next had been when she brought Ari, Max's half-brother instead of just Total. And now, she had brought some of the ninjas from two years ago back.

I just hope I can keep my powers under control...

XxX

That night I woke up to the sound of someone cursing a lot and another screaming and running up the stairs.

"Help me! Crazy guy with a scythe downstairs!" Nudge shouted as she ran down the hall. Wait, Nudge?

"Where the hell am I?" I heard none other than Hidan shout from downstairs. I quickly ran down the stairs to see him standing there in the room with his giant red three-bladed scythe.

"Hibban's back?" I said. He looked at me confused before saying "Sammie?"

"The one and only!" I said, "Although I go by Kitta or Kayaty more now."

By now everyone was downstairs watching us. "Bird-kids, this is Hidan." I said pointing to said person. "Hidan, this is Iggy, Gazzy, and Nudge, and yes they are part bird." I said then pointing to each person when I said there name. "And now that we've all met each other can we please go back to bed before I rip someone's head off!" I shouted, still hating being woken up in the middle of the night.

"What's that?" Gazzy asked, "I never saw that part of the henna before."

In the pajamas I was currently wearing you could see my shoulders, meaning that they all saw the part of my henna design that they didn't know about. Some kunai and shuriken were there as well as a pair of wings at the top, vines connecting them all.

"Oh, well I had it done because I had been wondering if you guys would be coming back again. Also I didn't want the entire design to be a flower pattern."

"Nice tattoo." Hidan said smiling.

"ITS NOT A TATTOO ITS HENNA!" I shouted. After my verbal assault on everyone's ears we all decided to go to bed before I start cutting people up with Hibban's scythe, not that I think I would be able to even pick it up.

The next day we all got up and went downstairs to find Iggy cooking breakfast.

"Blindy cooks?" Hidan asked when we walked in. I guess he had already figured out that Iggy's blind.

"DO NOT INSULT IGGY HIBBAN!" I yelled, one again hurting everyone's ears. Deidara and Gazzy walked in then complaining about my yelling.

"Hurray the Bomb Squad is all here!" I shouted happily, although not as loud as my earlier yelling.

"Bomb Squad,un?" Dayyan asked.

"You, Iggy, and Gazzy," I said, "because you all like blowing stuff up." They all nodded and waited for Iggy to finish cooking.

After breakfast we all went our merry ways to either get to school or find something to do at home. When we got to school I was immediately found by Hassan, who had apparently been waiting for me.

"So the ninjas and bird-kids are really back?" he asked.

"Itachi, Tobi, Deidara, and Hidan are the only ninjas so far and Iggy, Gazzy, and Nudge are the only bird-kids."

"So I guess this means Clarus is back,huh?"

"Yup." I said, turning to see Dayyan, Toma, and Blindseer coming my way. "Hi guys! Wanna go see the cat army?"

"Sure."

"Whatever."

"Kitties!"

"Then lets go!" I yelled, running to the field where I usually meet my furry friends.

"Kayaty wait for us!" Tobi shouted, all of them running to catch up to me.

When we got there we found all sixteen cats there. Ginger came up to me and meowed. I leaned down to pet her and Tobi came up, trying to pet her too. Instead Ginger bit him before he could pet her.

"Ops, I forgot to warn you, Ginger bites." Ginger hissed at him and let me pick her up. I was petting her when I noticed a very familiar gray cat with a star-shaped mark over her left eye. "Star!" I yelled and she came over to me.

Hello Sammie, or is it Kitta now? I heard her say in my head. I guess Deidara and Tobi heard her too because they stopped walking around the cats and turned to look at me.

"Did you hear that?" Deidara asked.

"Yup, that would be Star. Remember me telling you she could speak in our minds now?"

"Star is back?" Tobi asked.

Yes I'm back.

"Well where are you?" Deidara asked, looking around the sea of cats.

Down here.

Deidara looked down to see Star standing right next to him. "Star can you please make sure all the cats, minus Falcon and Claw, are at the Elementary gate when school ends? I'd like my Clarus Catching Team to come and help us catch her."

"Clarus Catching Team?" Iggy asked, standing off to the side petting Pearl.

"Yup, I've trained them to catch mice alive, and who better to catch Clarus than a bunch of stray cats?"

"Why aren't Falcon and Claw coming to Kitta's house?" Toma asked.

"Falcon's not coming because people would notice his absence and Claw isn't because I don't think he wants to be separated from Patches, do ya Claw?" I looked at said cat, sitting next to Patches.

Sure, I'll make sure they're all there, but don't you need to get to class?

"Shoot! Your right! Come on guys! We'll see you later CCT! (Clarus Catching Team)" I said, already starting to run to class, the others not far behind.

After school Star lead all of the cats back to our house, us having not been able to come up with a lie to tell Hamad. I already had a lot of cat food (bought recently), bowls, and litter boxes for them at the house left over from the people that lived here after we had left the house before moving back in.

"What the fuck is with all the cats?" Hidan yelled when we got back. Itachi looked at me, waiting for me to tell them why so many cats were at the house.

"They're the Clarus Catching Team!" I said happily, "They're here to help us catch her."

Nudge and Gazzy were petting some of the cats while the rest were exploring the house.

"With all my cat friends, us, and a few traps we'll have caught Clarus in no time." I said, smiling at the thought of catching the one causing the appearance of my ninja and bird-kid friends who just don't belong in my world.