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 Seven: Siblings and Books

Later that day I heard the doorbell ring and went to the door to see who it was. My visitors from other worlds waited either up on the stairs or on the second floor. I opened the door to see Aboss standing there with some small yellow flowers in his hand.

"Acghoy!" I shouted.

"Oghtee!" he shouted.

"Acghoy!"

"Oghtee!"

"Acghoy!"

"Oghtee!"

"Acghoy!"

"Oghtee!"

"Acghoy!"

"Oghtee!"

"Acghoy!"

"Oghtee!"

"Its OK everyone its just Aboss." Calen said. Everyone came down.

"What the hell have they been saying for the past few minutes?" Hidan asked.

"They've been calling each other brother and sister." Calen answered.

"Who are the flowers for?" Nudge asked.

"They're for Kitta, Thalab, Nudge, and Angel!" Aboss said happily, giving said people a flower each.

"My gosh he's almost like a miniature Hidan..." I mumbled under my breath, not loud enough for anyone, even bird-kids, to hear while I took the flower. What I failed to notice, however, was that Itachi was holding a book that I would have rather not been found.

"Care to explain this?" Itachi asked, holding out the first book in the MR series, The Angel Experiment, out for me to see.

On the cover you could clearly see a girl with wings running away, you can't see her face but she's holding her hand out as if she was pushing something away while running in the opposite direction. Three others with wings – two boys, one girl – could be seen in the background and the words 'YOU'VE GOTTA SOAR TO SURVIVE.' there as well.

But that's probably not what caught his attention. Written in big letters across the top were Maximum Ride, and I had told the Akatsuki members that was Max's real name when telling them a bit about their time in my world last year. I was soon proven correct.

"It has Max's real name on it."

"Coincidence?" Itachi glared at me, as well as the other Akatsuki members. The Flock members just looked at the scene and decided to just let me handle it, apparently not exactly sure what to do.

"Tell us the truth, un."

I took a deep breath before beginning my explanation, knowing I wouldn't be able to get out of this one. "!" I yelled. "There I said it now give me that book back!" I reached for the book but Itachi held it out of my reach.

"Tobi couldn't understand what Kitta said."

"I find it odd that you four don't seem to concerned about this." Kisame said when he noticed the bird-kids standing off to the side. Now it was their turn to be under the now curious/angry/slightly shocked Akatsuki members' gaze.

"Ask Kayaty, she explains it a lot better than we could." Nudge said.

Gaze shifted back to me. Aboss just stood off to the side, looking back and forth between me, the bird-kids, and the Akatsuki members.

"It would probably be better if I just showed you." I told them before I remembered one very important thing. "No wait, scratch that I don't think I can."

"Why the feck not?" Hidan asked.

"Or maybe I can," I said, "or maybe not. It depends. Imtiyaz can you please hand the book to one of the Flock members? I want to test something."

He raised an eyebrow but gave the book to Angel. "Angel can you please open up to the Prologue and read the first few sentences if you can see it?"

"What does Kitta mean by 'if'?" Tobi asked.

"OK Kitta!" Angel opened up the book. "Congratulations. The fact that your reading this means that you've taken one giant step closer to surviving till your next birthday. Yes, you, standing there leafing through these pages. Do not put this book down. I'm dead serious – your life could depend on it." she finished reading.

"OK so I can show you."

"Show us what? Tell me already!" Kisame said.

"You all are an anime and manga series in this world." Blank stares. "A manga is kind of like a comic book and an anime is like a cartoon, but both have unique styles in the way they are drawn."

"So basicly people all over your world watch and read about us all the time, yeah?" Dayyan asked, sounding a little shocked.

"Yup, the series your from is called Naruto – yes the Nine-Tails Jinchuuriki – and it revolves around him. You guys are the major antagonists of the series."

"What about them? Tobi wants to know if its the same for Iggy, Gazzy, Nudge, and Angel!"

"They are a series of books and they have also been turned into a manga series as well. Not to mention the movie coming out..."

"Hold on, we're going to be a movie soon?" Nudge asked.

"Yup." The Flock members let out excited yells at being turned into a movie.

"You guys already feckin' knew you were a series?" Hidan shouted, angry at not being told until now about apparently being a series.

"Ya, Kitta told us about it last time we were here after Angel found out she knew some things about us that – until finding out that we were a series – we thought that only They would know." Iggy told them. Everyone nodded, knowing who he was talking about.

"Those scientists-"

Cough, "White-coats," cough, I said.

"Er, white-coats did sound a lot worse than even Orochimaru." Hidan said.

"Yup, but the Flock kicked their butts! Down with school!" I shouted.

"Don't you mean the School?" Gazzy asked.

"I was actually talking about both..." I said. Almost everyone laughed at that.

We all spent the rest of the day helping Star and the other cats search for Clarus.

XxX

Clarus was currently hiding in the vents in the house. It was one of the only places she could be in now without all those cats getting to her. Clarus found keeping her powers under control becoming harder and harder with each passing day.

So far the worst that's happened because of that is she brought the unwanted ninjas here in place of the Flock members she's wanting to bring back. Clarus would have sent the ninjas back by now if she could, but it was as if her third eye – what she uses to bring people/animals/things from one world to the other – no longer worked exactly the way she wanted it too, like it had a mind of its own. Her fur was also slowly losing its cream color and now she had several dark, gloomy gray hairs dotting her once bright and cheery looking coat.

What's happening to me?