This got messed up so I had to re-write all of it... bummer.

So like I said, I made this one as fast as I could! Enjoy!

I don't own Naruto that is all... I only own the ones I make up...

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Chapter 19-

Talking cats... Yeah I think I'm losing it... :3 (Meow.)

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Recap:

"What exactly happened?" Kakashi asked. Tazuna's body was starting to shake again.

"In front of everyone, Kaiza was put to death by Gatou!"

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Tazuna told us the rest of his story about how and why Kaiza was killed and how Gatou took over this island and small country. Through the rest of the story I couldn't help but get madder and madder, until I couldn't take it anymore.

I stood up abruptly when he was finished, looking down and the table so my hair covered my face. There was a loud crash as my chair fell to the ground. Everyone jumped at the loud noise.

"Harmony! What's wro-" I cut Sakura off.

"Gatou." I growled from behind my hair. "So people these days still do whatever they want and toss other people’s lives away, like they are nothing but trash. It sickens me, all ways have and all ways will. I really hoped that would have changed. But I guess not. People who do such a thing are worse than scum itself, and they have no heart and conscious. I don't what you have to be these days to be called a monster of demon, but to me, people like that will all be the real monster." When I was finished I was so made that I bet that everyone could feel my anger in the air. I turned and walked to the door with my fire red hair flowing in the air behind me.

"Harmony, where are you going?" I heard Kakashi ask. I whipped around. I could tell that in this light and with my red hair and my anger, my eyes must have looked demonic or something, because everyone had a terrified look on their face. I smirked 'I like that look, that's the same one I want Gatou to wear when I come after him.' I closed my eyes and shook my head. 'No, don't think about things like that, or you'll be just like them.'

“I am going out to let out some steam, don't expect to see me till morning." I said with my eyes still closed. I opened them and looked straight at Tazuna. "Oh and Tazuna, tell Inari this. ’Kaiza was the type of person who was an honorable man, and a hero who loved his village and his family, no matter what he may think. Even I can see that, and I have seen a lot of the other type of people in my life.' “With that I turned around and slammed the door behind me and rushed into the forest with only the moon lighting my way.

----=^.^=------Naruto's POV ---=^.^=----

I watched the door that Harmony just went through, terrified out of my mind that she might come back and break the door, or somebody, into pieces. Her usual warm amber eyes so...so...animistic, and that smirk she had, even if it was only for a second made me think that if she wanted to, she could have killed us, all of us! She may have scared, and so did her smile, but her eyes, scared me the most. Her weird eyes held a new light to them and new found darkness and looked as hard as steel. I had never seen her so mad, ever. I had seen her when she was quiet, scared, happy and cocky, but I don't the last one counts a whole lot because that was only when she was trying to get us all determined to climb those trees, so she was acting.

'Kaiza was the type of person who was an honorable man, and a hero who loved his village and his family, no matter what he may think. Even I can see that, and I have seen a lot of the other type of people in my life.' 'What did she mean by that? Seen a lot of the other type of people in her life? And why did she saying 'these days'? I put my head on the table and grab my hair in frustration. 'Sometimes I can't figure her out! She is a genin like the rest of us, but she fights even better than Sasuke, and he was said to be the best! And she sometimes acts and talks as if she... she... OH I DON'T KNOW!!' I let go of my hair and thought of what she said though. 'Kaiza was a hero...'

'Are you stupid? There’s no such thing as a hero!!' 'Inari said there was no heroes, but his father was one.'

'U...UU...Dad.' 'Before, Inari was crying and calling out for his dad...'

I got up suddenly and ran to the door, only to trip on air and fall on my face.

"OW!" I cried out as I rolled on the floor.

"What are you doing Naruto?" Sakura-chan asked me.

"If you're thinking about going out to train, forget about it. You've released too much chakra, anymore and you could die." Kakashi told me. I didn't listen to him. I slowly got off the floor.

"I'm going to prove it." I said as I stood up and finished waking to the door. "Heroes do exist!!"

-----Harmony's POV-----

" *sigh* Looks like I have nothing else to destroy." I was sitting in a middle of a large clearing that I found, okay, I made. There were no trees within the clearing, only their stumps and maybe the occasional one that had its trunk go up to 4-feet, but it was really beat up. Branches, twigs, kunias, shuriken and senbons littered the ground still nice ground. Okay that's another lie, the ground took a beating too. There were small craters everywhere, some filed with pieces of tree trunks that I had kicked. All in all, it looked like a huge battle went on here. I sighed again and layed down on a crate-less spot on the ground, and let the early-morning sun rays wash over me. 'I think I may have gone a bit overboard, but at least I'm not as mad anymore. I am still pissed at that treme thought.' I growled lowly under my breath when I thought of him, a signal that I was getting angry again so i thought of something else. I looked around again and chuckles softly. 'Man, if anyone sees this, I would have a lot of explaining to do. But their faces would be hilarious. A 13 year old girl in a middle of a clearing where it looked like a serious battle took place. God that would be funny. My soft chuckle grew into a soft laugh, and then into a full on laugh. I held my stomach as I rolled in the dirt, my body shaking from laughter. It took me about another five minutes to calm down, but I still had the occasional giggle here and there. I was still lying on the ground after my fit and I decided to listen to the forest. I closed my eyes and I grew still. I could hear the wind softly blowing through the blades of grass and gently playing with my hair. Listening to my surroundings like this is like my form of meditation, so it calms me right now. I thought about the destruction I cause last night. 'Why didn't I think about this sooner!? God I am an idiot!' I wanted to smack my forehead, but I stayed still. I heard a small bird land on a tree in the distance and sing a small tone, and toe squirrels making noise, and the sound of footsteps approaching.

Footsteps?! I jolted up and quickly took a nearby kunia out of the ground before I threw it into the direction I heard the steps come from. I heard a soft thud telling me my kunia hit something other than the person, so I grab my flute in its kunia form and slowly waked towards it. After I past a few tree I found my kunia suck in a trees trunk... right above the head of a small kitten! It was doing the whole 'Paws to the sky' kinda thing.

I blink and looked at it. 'A kitten? Really? I did all of that because of a cat?' I knelt down on one knee to get a closer look at it. It was completely golden yellow, with a darker spot at the tip of its tail. The kitten had wide, dark crystal green eyes that looked as deep you could drown in them, and that they could see right through you. She reminded me of a small lion cub. 'It is pretty cute, but the question is, is it really an it?' I picked up the tiny kitten to check. 'So it's a she. Huh, she must have been the runt in her litter.' I sat down and placed the very small girl kitten on my lap and started to pet her.

"What are you doing all the way out here in the forest alone little girl? Don't you have a family?" I asked her out loud. The kitten shook her head no. I looked at the small kitten with wide eyes, then I shook my head from side to side. 'I must be going crazy! I must be dreaming, I mean, cats can't understand humans! Yeah, this is a drea- Wait I only ever get nightmares if I sleep, and I was up all night making a mess, so that means...' I looked down again at the green eyes kitten.

"This is crazy but... Can you understand me?" I asked her. She nodded her head. I looked up at the sky.

"Yup, I'm going crazy! But hey, at least this kitten can't talk! No animal can ta-"

'That is true, I can't talk, well unless you count this as talking.' A strange, but sweet and young voice said. I whipped my head around.

"Who said that!? Come on out!" I yelled into the forest, looking for the speaker.

'I did. You know that cute, cuddly kitten on your lap that you are petting.' The voice said again. I stopped my hand in mid-pet and looked down at her. She titled her head to one side and closed her eyes.

'Hi!

*cue scream*

The kitten opened her eyes and gave me a look that almost looked like a frown.

'Awww.... You stopped petting me.'

"B-But how can you... I mean... Just how..." I didn't know what to say. Here was a tiny kitten, talking to me.

''Simple. From what I can tell, I am able to talk through people’s minds, so really, if anyone else was here, it would look like your talking to yourself...' I took a deep breath.

"Okay, that's understandable.... but how did you learn to talk? I asked her. She looked down at the ground.

'I don't really know when I learnt how to talk like this; I just have all ways been able to. It's caused me a bit of trouble too.' She said before lifting her head again.

"Trouble? What kind of trouble?"

'Well I have no family, because they were all killed by an illness, so whenever I go to try and find a new family, everyone would freak out and call me a demon cat.' I stared at the little kitten.

"Huh, that makes sense seeing that you are all alone. So little mind cat, what's your name, you haven't told me it yet, and I am getting tired as referring to you as the kitten."

She tilted her head to one side. 'My name?' I nodded my head.

"Yeah, your name. You know, what people know you as. Don't you have one?" I asked her.

'I might have had one from my mother a long time ago, but I can't remember it...' She hung her head a little as she said that.

"Hmmmm..." I placed a finger on my chin. "Not remembering your name is as good as not having one, and if you said you family died from illness, that means you also have no home. So no name, no family and no home. What if you come and live with me and I could give you your new name. It would be like we are a family!"

The kitten's head snapped up and her tail stated to wave slowly.

'Really?!' She asked full of joy. I nodded my head.

"Of course. Now let me see... Well to start off my name is Harmony Kakureta Merodi from the hidden Melody clan, which means that your name is... Nala Kakureta Merodi, because you remind me of a little lion. So Nala, is this okay, I mean your new name?" The kitten looked down in thought.

'Nala Kakureta Merodi... Yeah, I like it! Thanks Harmony-sempai!' Nala jumped up and nuzzled her head under my chin, making my giggle.

"Glad you like it, but none of that 'senpai' stuff. We're now family, so just call me Harmony, I hate using titles, so I don't someone in my family given me one." I told her as I started to pet her again, making Nala purr.

'Got it!' Nala said and tickled me with her tail. I giggled and scratched under her chin, making her purr even louder.

"Oh, someone’s got a sweet spot!" I teased her. "Hey, Nala, what do you say about going to meet my team?" Nala stopped purring a little.

'Team? You’re on a team?'

"Yeah, my team. See I am a ninja from the hidden leaf on a missing to be a bridge builder’s bodyguard, along with my team. I am sure that they would love you. I mean, who wouldn't?" I said, chuckling when I saw stars in her deep green eyes. I slowly picked her up and placed her so she was sitting on my shoulder, shocking her a little. I gave her a knowing look and began walking back to Tazuna's house. When I started walking, Nala had wrapped her tail around my shoulders to steady herself.

'WOW! You’re a ninja! So you must be really string and all that!' I slightly nodded and scratched the back of my head.

"Yeah, but I'm kinda not supposed to show my true strength, but last night I went a little overboard and made the clearing back there..." I pointed my thumb backwards in the direction it was. Nala looked back.

'Really! That was you! Hey Harmony, why do you have to hide you strength?' She asked me.

"I'll tell you about that all later... Anything else?"

'Yeah! If you're that strong and this nice, what's the rest of your team like?

"Well my teammates are like misfits that could work together if they really tried and saw past their differences and one to see past his major ego." I could tell that Nala was going to ask another question about them so I just continued on. "There is an orange wearing, ramen loving hyper-active knuckle heads that dreams of being Hokage, a pink-haired fan girl who could be really strong if she spent more time training and less time fawning over guys. There is also the last Uchiha on my team and he has a major ego and is silent most of the time, but can be mean when he talks, and my childhood friend, who is really their sensei, but not mine." Nala chuckled.

'They sound fun! Well not the Uchiha one with the ego, but the rest do!' I nodded my head. 'Wait to you meet them...' I said in my mind, not wanting her to hear that.

'Why do you say that? Wait to you meet them? What's gonna happen when I meet them?' She asked me. I turned my head and looked at her with wide eyes.

"How did you... Did you just hear my thoughts?" I asked her. She gave me a little cat shrug.

'I guess so. It makes sense, I mean, I am talking to you threw our minds, so you should be able to talk to me in the same way.' She said to me. I tried it out. 'That does make sense. And now I don't have to look like a total loon around everyone!' I said in my mind to her.

'Yeah, but your still talking to a cat, so are still are a loon.' Nala told me. 'Toché.' We walked in the forest for a little bit before Nala asked another question.

'Hey Harmony, why are you doing all this for me. I mean taking me in as family and all..." I kept looking forward when I answered her.

"It's because I can tell that you needed someone to be there for you, and just like you, when I was little, my family was taken away from me by death, so I also needed somebody." I turned my head to look at her now and gave her a smile. "And besides I couldn't just leave a cute little kitten in the giant forest. I may be a ninja, but I am still a girl you know." Nala gave me a happy nuzzle and stayed silent this time. We walked until we found another clearing. I saw Naruto there, and it looked like her was freaking out for some reason.

'Who's the blond guy freaking out?' Nala asked. I didn't want Naruto to hear me talking, so I spoke to her in my mind. 'My orange wearing, ramen loving, hyper-active knuckle head teammate. Why you ask?'

'He's kinda cute, with the whole blond hair thing. I raised an eyebrow at her even if she couldn't see it. 'You're one weird cat, and his like a brother to me, well he kinda is, but not by blood, but he doesn't know anything about it, but still no pervy on him.'

'What?!' Nala screamed in my mind and jumped down off my shoulder and walked beside me, I winced slightly from how loud it was. 'Oh just clam down, I'll tell you about it later...'

"Hey Naruto!" I called out and waved to him to get his attention.

'"Harmony-chan! What are you doing here?" He asked as he ran up to me. When he got close enough I answered him.

"Oh nothing really, just walking back to Tazuna’s to get a bite to eat. What about you? What are you doing out here so early in the morning?" I asked him. Naruto scratched the back of his head.

"I've been training all night." He told me with a smile, which I returned when I looked up and say the progress he made on his tree.

"Nice job Naruto! You’re starting to get the hang of it." I told him and gave him a small hug. I could have sworn I saw his cheeks get a little red when I hugged him, but it was probably just my mind playing tricks on me.

"Thanks Harmony-chan!" Naruto said to me making me laugh slightly.

"No problem Naruto." I told him, and then remembered that he was freaking out before. "Hey Naruto, why were you freaking out before?" I asked him.

"Ummmm... It was nothing really..." I raised an eyebrow at him and gave him a look. "It was just that I had fallen asleep and this really pretty girl woke me up and got me to help he pick some plants with her. And I mean she was REALLY pretty, like prettier than Sakura-chan, and maybe even you. Thedistrubingthingwasthatshewasreallyaguy." Naruto said really fast at the end, but I caught it all and so did Nala.

'Did he just say that there was a guy here that was prettier than you? That's just wrong.' She said as she jumped back onto my shoulder. I placed a hand on her head. ’I wonder what Sakura would do if she heard that. Naruto said that the guy was prettier than me and maybe me, so he just said I was prettier than his childhood crush and teammate...'

"Hey Harmony, why is there a small cat on your shoulder?" Naruto asked as he pointed to Nala. I did a large sigh before I told him, just to play it up.

"Well if you must know... This is Nala. I found her in the forest and we decided to travel together and be partners. So She is all so part of my family now, and the newest member of squad 7. Nala, like I said before, this is Naruto Uzumaki." 'The knuckle head. Now be nice, and don't freak him out.' I added in my mind. Nala nodded her head to me and looked straight at Naruto and bowed her head a little and spoke in her young, sweet voice.

'Nice to meet you Naruto. I look forward to work with you and the rest of squad7 in the near future.' Nala said to him, making Naruto fall down backwards and point at her, all while freaking out. ' *sigh* Just as I didn't want him to...'