Anko sighed as she entered her cold, dark, lonely apartment after an entire week of stalking her students to find out where the orbs could be, and how badly Naruto was being screwed over. Ten out of ten shops that attempted to screw him were visited within an hour by the ANBU's IRS team. Being the tough, and ultra-super skilled kunoichi she was, she did the best thing she could think of when facing the nerdiest division of the ANBU.

She slipped away into the shadows and ran as fast as her chakra enhanced legs could carry her. She was an awesome ninja, but NOBODY would mess with the IRS, not unless they wanted to be completely and utterly destitute by the end of the day.

Chucking a kunai at her dart board she smiled as it caught him in the stomach. He'll probably have some gut problems. Not that she cared, she just wanted Kureai to let her come over again, this apartment sucked... only one thing made it worth keeping. Entering her room, she smiled as she hugged her stuffed Kuddle Kitties collection, and settled in on her Pretty Princess Pillow Pussy Plush collection, which after getting the entire group of them turned into the ultimate soft and cuddly couch, for a five year old... so for her it made a nice comfy chair.

Picking up her Kunoichi Sanrio-chan doll she pouted as she folded in on herself. "Those mean, stupid villagers are making a big mistake... If it wasn't for Naruto being such an awesome cutie, he'd have gone Kyuubi on their asses long ago. Jeez, ya'd think they'd have more faith in the Fourth's seal, huh Neko-chan?"

Acting as though she was listening to her doll, she sighed and pouted. "No, I'm not plotting to get revenge, you know me better than that... I promised Nai-chan I'd be good..."

"It's not fair though..." Anko continued, sniffing as tears stung her eyes. "They're treating him like me when that jerk Orochimaru abandoned me to die with his stupid cursed seal..."

Acting as though she was being scolded by the doll, she humphed and turned her head away. "No I will not take that back, he was a jerk, and a big, mean, poopy head!"

Hugging the white plush cat doll close, she wiped the tears that were rolling down her cheeks. "I'm sorry Sanrio-chan... I know you don't like when I use mean words..." Anko answered back to some silent phrase it had offered up. "But those villagers keep blaming me for everything that was his fault... and poor Naruto didn't even do anything either... and I can't do anything to help but be there when he lets us help..."

Falling silent, she picked up her Teenaged Mutant Ninja Kittens water bottle and took a long drink of the Catnip Brand Juice. Silently she thought that if anyone else knew about her secret obsession with cute, children friendly cat merchandise, shows, and stories, she would never again be able to show her face in public again. So far only four people knew about her obsession. The Hokage (gave her the first movie for the Kuddle Kitties when she was ten), Orochimaru (never quite got it), Kurenai (Her supplier), and herself.

It was during her meditation on her secret that she found herself being interrupted by a knock on her front door. Putting Sanrio-chan back down carefully, she exited her room, making sure to shut the door. Not many people knocked on her door, but even if it was one that knew her secret, she didn't want to risk its exposure.

Getting to her front door, she slammed it open and hiked a kunai ready to strike down the fool who dared to approach her sanctuary. The decent was cut off by a single well manicured finger pressing against her wrist long before she could begin its decent. "Let me in Anko..."

Gulping deeply, she stepped back, flicking the kunai into her dart board, sadly she couldn't take a look to see where it hit, because Kurenai was matching her step for step, and she did not look happy. Thinking quickly, she tried to imagine what she could have possibly done to upset Kurenai this much, and could only whimper as too many things came to mind to even attempt to narrow down.

When the door clicked behind Kurenai, Anko was stunned when the woman kissed her lightly on the nose, and smiled brightly. Oh yeah, she was so very screwed right now it wasn't even in the same space-time continuum as funny. "N...Nai-chan... I can explain... r...re...really I can..."

"That's fine dear," Kurenai stated calmly with an almost blissful state of being as she drifted over to the couch, and sat down. "Now then..."

"DRINKS!" Anko shouted in a panic, before heading to the kitchen, "You want some tea I bet... I've got some of your favorite calming jasmine tea in here... How about I put it on... and maybe get you some snacks too... and uhh... oh yeah, I have your favorite cakes..."

"Anko... we need to talk..." Kurenai stated, freezing the snake summoner in her tracks. She hated those words with a passion to rival even her hatred for Orochimaru. Those four words NEVER brought about anything good. Turning around, she saw that same caring smile on Kurenai's face, and knew she was doomed.

"Nai-chan... please... we can work it out... really we can..." Anko started, only to be cut off by a shake of Kurenai's head. "It's Asuma, isn't it? I swear, I didn't do nothing to him! And besides, I already said I understood if you wanted to see him too..."

"It's not that Anko, it's..." Kurenai started, being cut off by a pleading Anko.

"If it's about the dango stand incident, I only did it because I was going through withdrawals again, you know how I get without my dango..."

"No love, not that, it's abou..."

Anko cut her off again as she began pacing about, wearing a hole in the flooring. "If it's not that, is it about those rumors? I swear I didn't start them, and I'll hunt down whoever did!"

"What rumors?" Kurenai asked curiously, before sighing and shaking her head. "No Anko, it's not that... What I came over to talk to you about wa..."

"If it's about my flirting, I'm working to stop that, really I am... I stopped flirting with Tenten, and any girl below Chuunin or civilian girls under 18... well she said she was 19... And I only gave her directions anyhow, the flirting just slipped out, you know how I am and I didn't mean to, so please don't be mad over that, I'm working on it..." Anko started rambling, only to be cut off by Kurenai pulling a shiny new DVD case out of a storage seal she placed on her wraps.

Anko's eyes locked on the DVD case as though laser guided, following its every motion up, down, left, and right, as Kurenai moved it around. "As I was saying Anko... was we need to talk about your recent actions with our students..." Kurenai stated calmly as she flipped the DVD case over, showing its super-ultra rare collector's card on the back, still mint in the wrapper. "I'm very proud of you."

That brought Anko out of her trance like running into a brick wall. Proud, of stalking her students to find the orbs? That didn't sound quite right. "P...proud? I... I didn't do anything to be proud about..." Anko started defending herself nervously.

"No? You've taken a special interest lately in the living conditions of our young charges, and even in how Konoha has been treating them. I have to admit, I was a little worried about you accepting this responsibility..." Kurenai explained with a proud little smile on her face, casually she held out the DVD to Anko, for the snake summoner to take. "Here's a little gift for being such a good teacher... and you can come over again starting tomorrow."

Anko squealed with glee as she leaped over and glomped her girlfriend, kissing her lips passionately. Hey, she was getting her happy, fun-fun sex time back, and the latest Kuddle Kittens movie out of obsessing over her students and the orbs, she had to take the chance that the world was going to end any second now, while she could.

Pulling back, Anko took the DVD and with great care and precision began trying to remove the seals on the DVD case. After ten minutes she finally had to admit defeat and held it out to Kurenai with a mega pout. "Naaaaaaiiii-chaaaaaan.... it won't ooooopeeeeeeeen!!"

Kurenai let out a small chuckle as she easily removed the sticky plastic preventing Anko from her precious DVD and collector's card. Handing the case back to Anko, she smiled as the snake summoner looked at the card and squealed like a fangirl. Apparently having Naruto pick out the lucky case was a good idea. "Nai-chan! I got it! I got it! It's Mrs. Fluffykins the Persian!"

"That's the full set, isn't it?" Kurenai mused with a playful smile. "And all still in the wrappers..."

"Oh yeah! It is! Sweet!" Anko squealed while rushing off to add the card and DVD to her collection. "Oh this is so awesome Nai-chan! Thank you-!"

Kurenai laughed as she realized once again why exactly Anko lived in this apartment building all alone in the middle of the destroyed section of the village. It kept her dirty little secret very secret. She even pays extra to rent out the rest of the apartments in the building, which she uses to house her snakes with a lot of sun lamps.

There was a lot about the special jounin that most people overlooked, mostly because of the sheer levels of batshit crazy that rolled off her in waves. The fact she loved her pretty, childish cat collections, the tenderness she showed to her snakes, and the little ticklish spot that Kurenai was now kissing with a feather's lightness.

Anko melted as Kurenai kissed and nibbled her ears lightly, there was no chance she could resist this tender torture, and Kurenai knew that better than anyone on the planet. "Naruto gave us a gift love... would you like to see it?"

"Naaaaai-chaaaaan... not in front of the kitties..." Anko moaned as she felt herself being dragged out. "My movie..."

"We can watch it later love... I'll even wear those footie pajamas you like..."

Anko's mind drifted off to the exact pair she was considering at the moment. They were skin tight black footie pajamas with cat ears and tails, and a white belly and 'paws'. The mental image was more than enough to release any lingering hesitation on Anko's part.

Anko was placed on the couch while Kurenai pulled two boxes out of her storage seal 'pockets', handing one over to Anko. The snake summoner found a small circle with the words 'chakra here' printed carefully in the center. She had to laugh at how cute he was being.

Figuring if it was a trap, she could just punish him with impunity later, maybe she'd even get Nai-chan in on it too. Placing her finger on the spot, she gently poured a little chakra into the box. After a second she felt a curious weight build inside, and the lid pop open. Lifting the lid off she looked inside and nearly dropped it as she and Kunrenai gasped in shock. Inside, sitting as though it had been there forever was a single orb each.

Even before they could blink, the orbs launched themselves out of the boxes and swarmed over the bodies of the two stunned women. Before Anko and Kurenai knew what was going on, they were speaking out loud.

"Well Willow, this is new..." Anko's body stated while looking over her black and cream striped form, paying careful attention to the oversized paws at the end of her arms. "My host body has an... odd idea of a cat's form..."

"Indeed Fuwa-chan..." Willow whispered softly into the felinoid's ear, causing her to jump off the couch and nearly claw up the woman formed of living wood. 'Fuwa' took a moment to glare at Willow before turning away in a huff. "Sorry kitten... I didn't mean anything by it..."

"I'm not fluffy!" the cat hissed out while pouting heavily, drawing a bemused chuckle from the dryad.

"No of course not dear, you live up to your name Princess Hebineko..." Willow answered soothingly, causing the cat's head to swell with pride, only to deflate the ego with a lead weight when she finished, "...Flufferkins"

"GAH! WHY! Why did that scientist have to let his daughter name me!" Hebineko bemoaned her name once again. It was just so undignified...

While Willow tried to comfort her partner, something was stirring deep in the depths of the world. In a dark, cave, terrible forces were waking up from ancient slumbers to plot and scheme against the world far above. However, they weren't important, let's instead look at the villainous entities for this story. In a pleasant sea-side cove where the sun was shining, and the palm trees swayed there was a evil being of an unknown form sunning itself. "Hmm... they're waking up..." it mused quietly, before summoning forth a couple small minions. "Go and play with those Orb things..."