Hi people! Heres chapter seven, hot off the presses. Enjoy! thanks to the reviewers. Lets see if we can get an even twenty before chapter 8, 'kay? Thanks!

I owned Naruto at one time, but I felt it wasn't going anywhere, so I sold it to Masashi Kishimoto. Worst. Mistake. Ever.

Well, the animals didn't like the thought of being launched into space, so they started picking up stones and hurling them at the house. Oddly enough, when the stones hit the floor of the house, they became small round cakes. Still hungry, Sakura decided to eat a few. Luckily, instead of growing, she shrunk down until she was her normal size. Taking that as a que to leave, she ran from the house, dodging the animals still occupied with pelting the house, and ran back into the woods.

When she could no longer hear the animals, Sakura slowed down with a sigh. The day had been crazy, and she felt like she had been up for more than twenty four hours, but it was still light out. With a deep breath, she forged ahead, walking until a gate stopped the path she was on. The gate was dark iron and was surrounded by stone wall on both sides. Sakuras heart leaped, in the hopes that there might be someone inside who might help her.

Inside, she found a young woman holding a wailing infant, seated at a small table in a beautiful garden. The woman looked up as Sakura approached and smiled softly. "Hello Sakura," she said quietly.

Sakura didn't say anything back. After everything that had happened, she wasn't the least bit surprised that this woman knew her name. The person seemed to know this, so she turned to face the giant cauldron previously hidden by her skirts. She was wearing dark blue skirts almost completely covered by a winter jacket. Her hair was a blue that was similar to the colour of her skirt. Her eyes were a pretty pale grey without pupils. Leaned over to the cauldron and dumped a cup of pepper into it.

That's way to much pepper, thought Sakura to herself. It was so much that Sakura could barely avoid sneezing wildly. The woman and the baby were certainly affected, since both were achoeing nastily. The only one not affected was a black and white cat sitting in the corner, grinning from ear to ear. "Why is your cat grinning so much?" Sakura asked, hoping to distract the woman from her sneezing.

"H-he's a Cheshire c-cat, that's w-why." The woman replied.

"I wasn't aware Cheshire cats grinned. Hell, I wasn't aware that any cats grinned." Sakura said in surprise.

"Th-then you r-really d-don't know much, d-do you?" The woman said. "And th-that's a fact."

"Duchess," another young woman walked in at that moment. "Is the soup ready?"

"I-I believe s-so." The duchess replied.

The woman nodded and immediately moved to take the soup off the heat. Once it was off, she took the opportunity to start throwing everything at the duchess within reach. Everything from the soup ladle, to garden shears was flung at her. The oddest thing was that she seemed to take no notice of the flying objects, even when they hit her. The baby was crying so hard that it was hard to say whether the objects hurt it at all. Sakura moved forward to protect them, shouting, "What are you doing?" to he woman doing the throwing.

The duchess apparently thought that she was going to protect the baby, so she threw it at Sakura, saying, "Here, if y-you wish to nurse i-it, go ah-head." She turned and began to hurry away, only pausing long enough to say, "I m-must go get r-ready to p-play croquet w-with the queen."

Sakura caught the baby with some difficulty; since it writhed in mid-air and stuck it's arms and legs out at odd angles. Now what? She thought to herself. If I leave it here, it'll probably be killed. Would it be murder if I left it behind? She looked down at the bundle in contemplation. It seemed to sense her gaze, and shifted and grunted up at her.

"Well," she said, "If you're going to become a pig, then I wont have to worry about protecting you. Think about that!"

The bundle didn't move, so she peeled away the blankets to look at the baby, only to find that it was indeed a pig. With a shrug, she set it down. It trundled off into the woods through the open gate without a second glance back. She cocked her head after it, and decided to follow it. When she exited the garden, the gates clanged shut behind her, and locked themselves. Well, looks like that option's out. She thought, glancing back. When she turned around to look for the pig, she saw it was gone, but the Cheshire cat was sitting in a branch of a nearby tree, grinning at her.

"Hello Cheshire cat," she said.

He was a rather odd cat, split almost perfectly down the center, with one side pure white, and the other pitch-black. He grinned again, "Hello little girl," he said back.

Sakura jumped in surprise, though by now, she really shouldn't of been so shocked. She blinked at him, and when she looked at him again, he was suddenly humanoid with cat-ears and a tail. However, he retained his colour split of black and white skin. "Really, by now you shouldn't be shocked by anything here. You idiot, take a picture, it will last longer."

Sakura blinked. For a second there, she thought that he ad the same problem with a dark side as her. Speaking of, where is Inner? She thought. She shrugged, if it was that important, she would have been more worried, but Inner was always vanishing and reappearing randomly.

"I was wondering if you could tell me where to go from here," she said, since it was the truth.

"Well, that depends on where you want to go. Down that way lives the March Hare," he pointed left down the path. "And that way lives the Mad Hatter."

"Well, I'm kind of tired of mad people," she said, turning left.

The cat chuckled. "By now you should have realized that we're all mad here."

She glanced at him, but he just grinned at her innocently. "Well, this has been fun, but I'm going to see the duchess' match against the queen. I like it there because there is always some poor fool recently beheaded for us to eat." Sakura shuddered at his tone and glanced at him to see if he was joking. He wasn't."Maybe I will see you there," he said to her, grinning once more.

She blinked, and he was gone. She immediately decided that he was the creepiest one she'd met so far. With a pang, she realized that he was wearing the same cloak all the others had worn. She resolved to ask the next person she saw about it, and set off down the path to the March Hare's house.

Yeah, I know Hinata's not in Akatsuki, but I needed someone for the roll, and I was running out of characters. DON'T HURT ME!

On another note, I'm considering bringing Inner back in for colour commentary. Please out in thoughts on this in you reviews.

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