Tobi - Black tabby with orange stripes, and orange swirls on face. Black eyes. Adult.

Sasori - Solid red (crimson). Hazel/reddish eyes. Kitten/young cat.

Deidara - Sandy blonde color, gray spot over left side of face. Blue eyes. Adult.

Itachi - Solid dark grey. Red eyes. Adult.

Kisame - Light blue with dark blue tiger stripes. Silver eyes. Adult.

Konan - Russian blue with a white underbelly. Amber eyes. Adult

Pein - Ginger coloring with black spots. Grey eyes. Adult.

Hidan - Silver/gray coloring. Amethyst eyes. Adult

Kakuzu - Grayish brown tabby, thin black stripes. Green eyes. Older adult.

Zetsu - Left side is solid white, right side is solid black. Eyes are yellow. Adult.

(3rd person POV)

The next day dawned a bright and sunny Thursday in the small ocean side town of Blankly, California, it's residents awakening to go about their business as usual, some more reluctantly than others.

It was the rumble of a truck, accompanied by the warmth and light of the sun that woke the first member of the Akatsuki that day. Specifically, the Jashinist of the group.

A crick in his neck, Hidan stretched and yawned, groaning, squinting his eyes against the bright sun. That's the last time I let anybody let Tobi near a damn scroll. He rolled onto his side and looked around suspiciously. Last he'd known, they'd been sucked through a portal into some nearly lightless void, not in some empty neighborhood. He shrugged, and lifted a hand to stifle a yawn.

And then he screamed like a little girl.

Instantly, the others were on their feet-er, paws- ready to fight the threat. "What is it Hidan?" Kakuzu spoke before getting a good look at his partner. There was much confused screaming that morning.

"What the hell?" "Hidan, What-" "AHHH WE'RE GONNA DIE!" "Shut up, Tobi, and tell me what did you do, hm?!" "SHUSH ALL OF YOU!" "All of you look so tasty like this." "Zetsu, I swear to Pein, don't eat anybody." "Hn." "WHERE'S SAMEHADA?! NOOOO, MY BABY!" "Why the f*ck are we cats?! F*ck this!"

"EVERYONE, except for you Konan, SHUT UP OR I SWEAR TO MYSELF I WILL ALMIGHTY PUSH YOU ALL SO HARD YOUR GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, again konan is not included, WILL GET INTERNAL BLEEDING!" Pein yowled, his ginger coat fluffed up in anger.

Everyone, except for the kunoichi and Uchiha, flinched and nodded, tails between their legs. Literally. "Yes, Pein-sama." The Akatsuki echoed before falling into tense silence.

Pein sighed internally. They had been just about to send Sasori and Deidara off to capture the one tail's jinchuuriki, and everything was going great; then this had to happen. He didn't know why or how, and he certainly didn't know where they were. Perfect, just fan-flipping-tastic.

"Okay, it seems we all made it through together," He eyed his subordinates warily. "And besides from being cats, no one is hurt." He rubbed his face with his new paws. It was first thing in the morning and the day was already looking like crap. "First order of business is to find a secure location." He glanced around at their surroundings.

Scruffy grass and a few scraggly bushes were the only things that grew around them in the dry, cracked earth. Surrounding the small field they were in were buildings made of brick and cement, along with black-grayish roads.

Aside from a middle aged mom out for a morning jog, and the sleeping kid in the stroller she was pushing, no one was around, although they could hear the sounds of civilization from the town all around them, and there was a slight smell of salt in the air.

At their leader's command, they dashed for the road, only to screech to a halt at the approach of a terrifying beast.

It was HUGE (even compared to their tiny states), an eye-glaring shade of red, and let out a deafening growl as it barreled past them.

"What the hell is that, hm?" "T-tobi is s-scared, Tobi w-wants to go home now!"

Elsewhere in the town, a raven haired teen perched on a stool behind the counter of the town's hardware store, feet on the desk as she texted her friend.

Me: Ugh, I can't go home tonight, My mom caught a really bad summer cold and she thinks it might be flu, so she kicked me and my dad out

Yoko: :P You could just come over to my place

Me: oh right, duh

Me: But maybe we can hang out this afternoon too?

Yoko: I'll ask my Dad

"Anya, you better not be texting on the job again." The gruff voice of the manager made the teen look up in surprise.

"No sir," She slid the phone back into her pocket. The manager gave her a look, and as innocently as possible, she said, "Just checking the weather, sir."

The old man snorted incredulously. "Well whatever you were doing, get off your lazy bum and come help me with the Higgin's order. I can't lift it on my own, and I need your freakish strength." He turned and headed into the back, Anya trailing behind him.

"Hey Dad?" Yoko yelled, leaning back in her chair.

The reply, muffled by the walls of the house, came a few seconds later. "Yeah?"

"Can I hang out with my friends this afternoon?"

"Sure, don't see why not, just don't be loud."

"Thanks dad!" Yoko smiled, brushing a few strands of unnaturally white hair out of her eyes. She quickly sent Anya a text, turned back to her computer, and resumed watching Naruto.

She was rewatching the original series and was on the episode where Sasuke gets his punk ass handed to him by Itachi (again).

After a few minutes, she paused the episode, quickly looked around to make sure her little sister, Umi, or her dad weren't around, and reached forwards to touch the screen reverently. She gave a pervy smirk as she sensually stroked Itachi's face.

"My precious…. I shall read all of your dirty fanfics, mwehehehe!"

And then she resumed watching like nothing had happened.

Angel was sleeping in on her day off, but was woken by the buzzing of her phone. Sleepily, she rolled over and felt around on her nightstand for her glasses. Once she could see, she unplugged her phone from it's charger and looked over the texts, yawning.

Anya: Hey

Anya: Hey wake up u lazy bum

Anya: can I stay at your place tonight?

Anya: NVM, I got that covered….wanna hang out this afternoon? I can drive~

Anya: pls answer me D:

Angel smiled softly and checked the clock (9:31), before texting Anya an affirmative. Even if she didn't really like social gatherings, she'd be alright just hanging out with her small group of friends.

She then rolled out of bed and began getting ready for the day. As she got breakfast, and downed two cups of sugary, hot coffee, one of her many unfinished paintings caught her eye. The artistic young woman hummed thoughtfully, then set out to find her acrylics and her paintbrushes. They couldn't be that hard to find in her small apartment, right?

"Haha, yes!" Andrea's twin brother, Aaron, crowed triumphantly in their family's signature english accent. "I win!"

Drea rolled her eyes, and scoffed. "You only won because you got the better controller," She tossed the nintendo controller away and got to her feet. "Besides, Mario Kart's a stupid game anyways…"

"You're only saying that because you lost!" Aaron retorted as she walked away.

She ignored him, pulling her phone out of her pocket.

Me: Yo

Yoko: Sup Drea, Anya text you?

Me: yeah

Yoko: You coming?

Me: Yeah :)

The redhead closed her door behind her and sat at her desk. Papers covered in doodles and ink sketches littered it's wooden surface. She sorted them for a minute before carefully selecting a blank page, laying it out in front of her.

She'd been wanting to work on an Akatsuki Doujinshi for a while now, but she kept drawing blanks when it came to ideas. For now though, she was just sketching.

Soon, one of her favorite characters began to take shape on the page, One of the Seven Swordsman of the Mist, Kisame Hoshigaki.

Meanwhile, the Akatsuki had managed to find a temporary place to stay while they figured out what the hell kind of mess they were in.

It wasn't the nicest digs to be honest, (and that was being extremely kind) as they were literally just hiding in the hollowed out trunk of an oak that had fallen just off of the road that lead out of the town.

"So what now, hm?" The blonde cat asked, easily ducking away from Sasori's annoyed attempt to claw his ear off. "Shut up, and maybe we'll get the answer, brat!" "Hm!"

But unfortunately for the impatient redhead, it didn't look like anybody would be getting answers anytime soon.

Kisame was curled up into a ball, mumbling under his breath about his 'poor missing Samehada,' and how she was probably 'lost, and alone, and scared!'

Tobi and Hidan were playing 100000000000 questions about where they were and why they were cats, and how interesting everything was as cats, with a very unwilling Pein, who was probably going to twitch himself to death as he tried his darnedest to ignore them.

Kakuzu, Itachi, and Konan all did their best to remain calm and not kill a bitch.

Surprisingly, it was the Zetsus who managed to get everyone under control. "WILL ALL OF YOU PLEASE SHUT UP?! BEFORE I DEVOUR ALL OF YOU!"

As would be expected, everyone closed their mouths and sat still.

After his initial moment of shock that it had been Zetsu to calm the situation, Pein spoke. "Alright then, back to the important stuff."

"Thanks to that despicable scroll, we are now animals," He sighed heavily, "And we have no idea where we are!"

(Later that day)

A white SUV rolled into the driveway of a small beachfront house and began squawking at the house.

HONK! HONK! HOOOOOONK!

Anya continued leaning on the horn for a few seconds before sitting back, shooting a shit eating grin at the red-head in the passenger seat.

Drea sighed and shook her head, "You stop that."

The door to the house opened, and out came Yoko and her sister Umi, who hurried over to the car so Anya wouldn't feel tempted to honk some more.

"Aw hey!" Anya greeted as they got in. "You brought the munchkin!"

Umi slammed the door behind her and rolled her eyes. "I'm 14 years old, not 8."

"Yeah," Yoko buckled up. "I hope it's not a bother, but I couldn't just leave her at home." She smiled affectionately at her younger sister. "Can you imagine what kind of evil person would leave her to rot in boredom?"

As the sisters chatted, Andrea pulled out her phone and turned to Anya. "Hey, we should go get Angel, she's wondering when we'll get her."

Anya nodded and pulled out of the driveway, "Gotch'ya."

When they pulled up in front of Angel's apartment building, the thin brunette was waiting for them.

"Finally you guys show up!" She smiled jokingly as she got in the back, the sisters scooting over to give her a seat.

"It wouldn't have taken so long if Anya would drive like a normal person." Drea smirked slightly. "Or just let me drive, I'd have gotten here much faster."

The young woman in the driver's seat shrugged. "Whatever… Buckle up peeps, we're going for a ride!"

As they drove back into town proper, Angel looked out the window. A few oddly colored cats milling around by the side of the road caught her eye for a few moments until they faded into the distance. She could have sworn that one of them, a small, bright red cat, had looked her in the eye as they rushed past. A curious thing, but she pushed it to the back of her mind, thinking it was an unimportant moment.