Hey all, if anyone who read this years ago reads it again, sorry for the lack of update. Just kind of lost interest in writing for a bit, that's pretty much it. But hey, back now and rewriting the first two chapters. Got chapter 3 nearly finished too. Onward, to story!
Kiba grumbled under his breath as he wandered towards Team Kurenai's usual meeting place, walking at a slow pace. He was so bored. All their missions lately had been mostly Rank D. And at the moment he didn't even have Akamaru, because the massive dog was with his sister, Hana, after eating a poisonous weed. Why did Akamaru eat the weed? Because Kiba lacked the ability to tell a poison weed from a herb, apparently. Personally, he blamed the fact Hana's herb garden stank so bad you couldn't tell anything from dog crap.
Which, in hindsight, he decided had been a bad thing to say to her.
Kiba's nose twitched when it caught a familiar scent. I got plenty of time, He reasoned, and I haven't seen Naruto in a while, I'll just say hi.
As he set off towards the source of Naruto's unique smell, which reminded Kiba of ramen and foxes for obvious reasons, four harsher smells came to him on the wind. Two were similar, the way siblings who eat the same things and live together are similar. The third and fourth scents sent Kiba running towards Naruto. The scents of blood and sweat.
The dog-nin exited the trees into a large clearing. The clearing was populated by three other people, one of whom was a bleeding and tired Naruto. The other two people appeared to be ninja. Both were dress similarly, in a loose long sleeved black shirt with hoods, black trousers, black sandals, black gloves and black sword scabbards. The only way to them apart was that one had his forehead protector around where his mouth and chin probably were, their angry looking eyes being the only facial features that could be seen under the hood, and his scabbard on his belt, while the other wore his forehead protector on his actual forehead, and his scabbard on his back. Their forehead protectors were blank.
One tried to behead Naruto with his katana with a high strike, while the other attempted to prevent the blond Nin from avoiding the blow with a literal low blow.
Kiba charged forward, kicking the would-be-header away not a second too soon, the katana cutting through the front of Naruto already damaged jacket, missing his neck by centimetres.
Without the first to worry him, Naruto spun, kicking the second enemy ninja in the head.
"Hey Naruto, thought you might need a hand." Kiba said as the two Konoha shinobi went back to back.
"Nah, I was doin' fine, but you're welcome to join in." Naruto said, panting. "After all, the future Hokage should be generous." Although he couldn't see it Kiba knew the blond was grinning as he said that.
Snorting, the dog-nin replied "Good to hear. Does the mean when you're Hokage you'll be generous enough to pay Tsunade's depts?" That stopped Naruto dead for a moment, sending a shudder down both their spines at the thought of that bankrupting sum.
Meanwhile their two enemies circled them, weapons at the ready, looking and moving as if they had just got out of bed and were ready to spend the rest if the day fighting. In truth, both were exhausted, having had a lot of trouble with the Jinchuriki. With the arrival of another Konoha ninja, the odds were not in their favour. Time to pull out that.
And yes, by that I mean the ominous weapon or technique everyone seems reluctant to ever name until it's used.
Some silent signal pasted between them, for at the exact same, and I mean at the exact same time, they charged, both forming unfamiliar seals.
Kiba and Naruto charged as well, both doing what they usually did. Naruto used created a Shadow Clone to unleash his Rasengan on the run, while Kiba used his used his Beast Mimicry and Fang Over Fang. Except without the other Fang to be over, or to under for it to be over for that matter. So it was really just a fang, to be perfectly honest. Granted, a rapidly spinning chakra enhanced living fang but a fang nonetheless.
Naruto reached his attacker a split second before Kiba due to the smaller distance between them, which was enough. Using his Rasengan, Naruto sent his opponent flying back before he formed the last seal of his attack. Kiba's enemy, however performed the last seal and shouted, "Crippling Mutation Seal" with a bare inch separating him from his foe, finishing as Kiba struck him. Both were sent flying, but the green glow which had briefly surrounded the black clothed ninja's hand before being struck had covered Kiba.
Laughing, the enemy both recovered, slower than before, and with a poof! of smoke, disappeared.
Naruto stared at where his assailant had been, grinning from ear to ear in the belief that he had frightened off the enemy. Until, of course a few seconds later, when he saw Kiba laying on the ground about fifty meters away, glowing with a strange green viewable chakra and writhing around.
"Kiba!" Naruto shouted when he reached his comrade, who was shaking as the chakra pulled on his body, tearing up his clothes.
Kiba screamed in pain, as the chakra tried to forcefully change his body and DNA, loud cracking and popping sounds filling the air.
Through Kiba's clothes, Naruto could see his body thinning and changing shape. Bulges and growths appeared for seconds before settling back and regrowing in whole new places. His body seemed to be constantly shifting.
Kiba screamed again, although this time it sounded more like a shriek of undiluted pain.
Panicking at this admittedly distressing turn of events, Naruto formed the necessary seals for the Summoning jutsu and slammed his hands on the ground, summoning Gamakichi. Grapping the still changing Kiba, Naruto leapt onto the toad, roughly the size of a horse, and demanded they head for the Hokage tower.
Several hours later, Kiba slowly came to. He picked sounds of a hushed argument somewhere nearby. Moaning at his sickening head-ache, Kiba tried to sit up, opening his eyes to find himself in the Konohagakure Main Hospital, starring at the ceiling when his arms and back failed to keep him up.
"Fucking arms." Kiba muttered. 'Hang on', he thought, 'that didn't sound entirely right'. His confused his line of thought was interrupted by a painfully familiar voice.
"Don't swear in my presence, idiot!" Tsume Inuzuka barked in her...son's ear. He absently noted that the quiet argument had stopped.
Kiba glared at his mother, entirely failing to notice several key factors of his situation.
"Don't shout in my ear, it fu..fu..what the fuck happened to my voice!" Kiba's arms shot up to grab his throat, only to encounter some fleshy obstacles en route from his lap, where they had been lazing about, to his throat. Head turning down he, or rather she, found something very distressing. And very confusing. In fact, she found two very distressing and very confusing, and because once simply wasn't enough very distressing lumps.
The door to Kiba's room opened before Tsume could say anything and Tsunade entered the room followed by Sakura and Naruto. All three were wearing amused expressions, and in Naruto's case he was barely holding from laughing out right. In fact, every so often he let out a few giggles. Normally Sakura or the Fifth would have given him smack upside the head, but they understood him. Besides, it was surprising that he had held himself back from laughing out right and as it was Tsunade was worried that when he did he might hurt himself holding it in.
Very amused Tsunade began before either Inuzuka could start at her. "Well, I've had DNA tests done and you are most certainly Kiba Inuzuka, of that we have no doubt." Ignoring Kiba and her mother's sarcastic 'oh really' she went on. "This is a very unique...ailment-"
Kiba cut her off saying, "You obviously never saw one of our class henge tests." Kiba shut her mouth when Tsume, Tsunade and Sakura glared at her, while Naruto snickered in the back ground.
"Continuing on, if we don't have any more comments, we've looked over the records and found something similar to the jutsu that was affecting you, causing random mutations, mostly things just as bone growth, cancers and a variety of other things you really don't want to know about." Tsunade's voice left no room for argument. "Had Naruto not acted as fast as he did, we would not have been able to save you from becoming a pile of pulsating, pain-filled lump of flesh. In fact, to keep you human we had to use some of your mother's DNA in the procedure." Biting her lip to keep from laughing at Kiba's scowl, which looked like a very cute pout, the Hokage continued. "I think this may be the reason you are female. If we had a male Inuzuka on hand, we could have used them, but as you should know, you are the oldest male Inuzuka and we couldn't locate any of your more distant relatives fast enough."
Kiba frowned. "Can you reverse this?" She twitched at the sound of her voice. She sounded...cute. Arrgh.
Tsunade shook her head. "I'm afraid I have no idea about the mechanics of the jutsu used on you. All we had were vague reports from a medic during the First Great Ninja War, along with an outline of a theoretical procedure. Luckily I was able to use that old thing as a base and develop a better method in time. It was a near thing." Tsunade's voice was strained and Kiba realised it must have been difficult, if performing it could affect the Hokage like this. Of course, Kiba was still a girl and right now it was hard not to be angry.
"Most of it, what do you mean?" Kiba asked "Do I still have stuff growing in me? The fuck?", before being smacked on the back of the head by her annoyed mother.
"Shut it brat! Would you have preferred being a mass of leaking, pulsating tumours?"
"...at least I wouldn't have boobs!'
Tsume gave her former son another slap on the back of the head. "Idiot, women don't say boobs, we say breasts." She looked at the Hokage. "I still have mission, as you know, so I trust you'll deal with this, Hokage-sama." Turning back to Kiba she said, "Listen, I'll be back as soon as possible, so be good and don't do anything stupid. When I get back we'll be discussing the repercussions of this, if it's permanent. Hopefully you'll better when I get back." With a brief affectionate ruffling of her son turned daughter's hair, Tsume left her red faced child to the tender mercies of the Hokage.
"Well... What the Hell now?" Kiba asked to distract them from her mother's goodbye pat. "What am I supposed to do while these things are poking out of my chest?" She demanded, gripping the offending orbs in each hand.
Sakura smacked Kiba in the head, since Tsume was gone and someone had to. Tsunade would send her through a wall if she did it.
Said Kage smirked. She couldn't wait to see what this would cause. Life had been getting dull. "Until we have a way to reverse this, you, Kiba Inuzuka, shall continue in the service of Konoha as a kunoichi!" at this announcement Naruto nearly lost it, forgotten in the background as he huddled in a corner, desperately trying to hold the funny in it. The Hokage wasn't finished. "For the next few days Sakura will assist you in adapting to your new body. Which neatly leads to the next thing on the agenda; getting you more suitable clothes."
Kiba stared at the smirking Hokage, Sakura squealed in delight at the prospect of taking someone shopping on the village's money and Naruto collapsed as his laughter finally filled the hospital.
Thanks for reading, will update the 2nd chapter and add the third soon, within a day or so.
Please R&R, but if you're here to bitch or whine or complain, I don't really care if you if you dislike my work. I'll try not to be too crushed that some random idiot who has too much time has decided to waste his life telling me how much he hates what I've written. Or she, which ever. I'm equally apathetic to both genders.
That's a kind of equality, after all.