S/N: I know, I know. You're sick of all the new stories while I still haven't finished any of my other ones, I KNOW! But I just couldn't leave this one alone! Don't blame me if I keep getting chased by the plot bunnies! Anyways, this story was inspired by...actually, it wasn't inspired by anything! 0.o Oh, well. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto! Masashi Kishimoto(or as I like to call him 'The Best Troll Ever') owns everything! I only own the plot! PLEASE DON'T SUE ME!
Chapter 1: Who- No, What Are You?!
They say that 7 is a lucky number. Well, usually it's a lucky number. Other times, it can cause utter chaos! And no, I'm not exaggerating it. Anyways, other times, it can cause utter chaos! Like this for example. Team 7. Yep, they're chaotic all right. And what are they doing now, you ask? Well, they are being their usual selves while coming back from a D-rank mission. As in, Naruto and Sasuke are bickering about...something (probably related to Naruto's ramen fetish), Sakura is trying to get them to stop arguing (trying as in, rooting "her Sasuke-kun" on and threatening to hit Naruto), and Kakashi is somewhere, off on the side, reading his so-called "literature" (*cough cough* porn *cough cough*). Yep, their usual selves. In this D-rank, they had to catch the demonic cat of the Daimyō's wife. Oh, joy.
"No, it's your fault that we spent almost our whole day trying to catch that damn cat!" Naruto snarled.
"Hn. Says the guy who got beaten up by something that's 4 feet shorter than him," Sasuke retorted arrogantly.
This only helped to enrage Naruto more. "Grrrr! WHY YOU-!"
*SLAM*
And that was Sakura, hitting Naruto on the head to reprimand him, as usual.
"Don't speak to Sasuke-kun like that!" And as in "reprimand", I mean hit him for picking a fight with "her Sasuke-kun". Geez.
"B-but Sakura-chan! He started it!"
"Do you want me to hit you again!"
Naruto eeped. "No!"
Kakashi, who was torn in between watching the entire scene and read his book. He sighed. "They're never gonna stop, are they?" he asked himself. The fighting dragged on for a while until Kakashi decided that enough was enough. "Alright guys, let's get back to the Hokage Tower, we need to report this mission in and maybe get a new one," he said, getting a simultaneous group groan in response. Hmm, Kakashi thought. So they can work together after all. "Naruto, do you have the cat?" he asked with an amused eye-smile.
"Unfortunately, yes!" he exclaims, holding the demonic feline at arms length. Said cat was flailing around in the blond's arms.
"Alright, let's go then," Kakashi said.
Soon, they reached the Hokage Tower, with Naruto and Sasuke bickering and the cat trying to kill Naruto. Well, the cat tries to kill everyone, but Naruto was the closest, so...yeah.
When they were inside, they found, as usual, the Sandaime and a couple of Jōnin and Chūnin at the front. Their client was waiting there as well. But what surprised them was who- or better yet, what was sitting in the front. In the front was a medium-sized fox and a raven-colored hawk of the same size.
"Uh... Sandaime-sama?" Kakashi asked uncertainly.
"Yes, Kakashi?" Sandaime answered.
"What are they?" He pointed to the 2 unmoving animals up front. Said animals seem to be having a stare-off with Ibiki, who had the hawk's gaze, and Anko, who glared at the fox. The jōnin next to the proctors nudged them, breaking the stare-off. Ibiki and Anko glared at the people who nudged them, then returned to staring at the animals, who were looking in the Sandaime's direction with slight smirks on their lips/beak.
"I'll tell you in a little while. Just hand over the cat to the client and I'll explain when she leaves."
Naruto handed the cat, who was yowling quite much, to the client. She handed the Sandaime the money for the mission and scurried off without a word. The office was filled with an awkward silence until Naruto (of course) decided to break it.
"Hey, old man!" he shouted, breaking said silence very effectively. "Are you gonna tell us about those animals or what?!"
The Sandaime stayed silent for a while, like he was contemplating something, then said, "Very well. But I must tell you that these animals that are before your eyes seem to refuse to explain to us why they are here until your Team 7 was present. So now I assume you are going to explain this to us now?" Sandaime looked at the animals, who now are turning their attention to the Hokage.
"Sandaime Hokage," the hawk said. Everyone noted the lack of the honorific. "The reason we are here is because we have some serious business with 2 certain shinobi in Team 7."
"Well, who is it? I'll send out the other 2 that aren't needed," Kakashi said.
"No, there's no need for that, Kakashi," the fox said. Kakashi recoiled, now wondering how the animal knew his name. "The 2 people we need to confront are, Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto."
"Huh, what?" Naruto wondered aloud. While Sasuke was silent on the outside, he visibly tensed at the mention of his name.
"Let us explain," the hawk said. "A while ago, we were given the task of protecting 2 very important people, the people being Naruto and Sasuke. Neither of us will state why they are important or what they're important for."
"What we can tell you," the fox continued, "is that this mission was- is ranked as above S-rank. The specifics of the mission is that we must protect these 2 with our lives. We will continue protecting these 2 until the threat is gone. And no, we will not tell you who is the threat."
The Sandaime's eyes narrowed. "What makes me think that this is real and not a hoax?" he questioned. The fox then got a scroll out from a hidden seal. Well, at least that's what it looked like.
"This," he said. The Sandaime eyed curiously, then opened it up. He gasped. "Th-this is-"
"Yes, that is all the signatures of every Kage to ever exist," the hawk said, shocking everyone in the room.
"Not every Hokage, every Kage. That means every Hokage, Kazekage, Mizukage, Raikage, and Tsuchikage to ever exist," the fox added.
They were right. The scroll was a mission scroll that had the ranking "above S-rank" and had all the Kage's signatures. But what was strange was that below the missions details, which had only been a tiny paragraph, was a long list of unreadable handwriting. The Sandaime thought it would be best not to question it at the moment. The Sandaime looked incredulously at the animals.
"Now are you convinced?" the fox said with a smirk.
"Well, since this is a genuine mission scroll with all the past Kage's signatures, I guess there's nothing I can do to stop you. You may go now," the Sandaime said, needing some time to think about what the hell just happened.
Well, unluckily for Team 7, the Sandaime stopped them from leaving the Hokage office at the last moment to give them a few more D-ranks to do. And by a few, I mean a lot. Right now, they're walking back to the village from the, what? 27th? 37th? Eh, I lost count. The fox and hawk that were supposed to be protecting Naruto and Sasuke were now, sleeping. Yes, sleeping. The fox reduced itself to a small size with a type of jutsu, and got on Naruto's shoulders and wrapped himself around Naruto's neck like a scarf. The hawk, who was minimized to about the fox's size, was sitting on Sasuke's head, napping away peacefully.
"Uh... hey, wake up," Naruto said to the napping fox.
"What is it?" the fox asked, opening one of it's eyes.
"Well, what kind of fox are you? I've never seen your species of fox before."
"Yeah, you get up too, I wanna know exactly what you are," Sasuke added, nudging the bird.
Said bird sighed in annoyance. "Fine," it grunted.
The fox and the hawk both enlarged, now about the size they originally were in the Hokage's office. The fox now walked leisurely alongside Team 7 with the hawk perching on it's back.
Now that everyone saw them up close, and weren't to awestruck to react properly, they could see the actual physical appearance of the 2 animals. The fox's fur was a light yellowish-orange color with a tint of ruby red in it, particularly at the stomach and paws and end of it's tail. If you look closely, you could see that a darker tinge of fur, mostly a dark red mixed in with sparkly gold, was running along the edges of the animal's body, in thick lines. Like, down it's arms, down it's legs, right in the middle of it's tail, along it's back and on it's shoulders. (S/N: Just think of the lines along the body of Kurama when Naruto's in Bijū Mode.) Also, instead of regular whiskers, it has 6 dark red lines along it's cheeks. On it's stomach and shoulders, were swirl patterns in bright sparkly gold, overlapping the tinted red fur. It's eyes were the most interesting part though. Instead of regular foxy, slitted eyes, it's eyes were a dark, deep, color that looked like a mix of azure blue and midnight blue. The eyes were almost human.
The hawk was also a sight to see. The hawk's raven feathers had a hint of blue, black, and the tiniest hint of red when seen in the right light. Although, the insides of it's wings (which were open for it to show off) were incredible. The top row of feathers had a line of blood-red, crimson feathers, and under that row was a similar one, only the color was navy blue. Then came the pearly white feathers, and the obsidian black. It's tail feathers were in a...pattern of sorts. For example, the pattern of colors came in like, three of the blood-red, crimson feathers, then three navy blue, then three pearly white, then three obsidian. And so on and so forth. It's eyes were just as amazing and mysterious as the fox's. The eyes were a deep, obsidian color. And just for a moment, if you look at it at the perfect angle, you can see it. In a sort of glassy, reflective image. Three bright red intersecting ellipses with a straightened pinwheel in the middle with a black background. (S/N: Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan pattern.) The image disappeared as quickly as it appeared. It's beak, like many other features of his body, had a slight tinge of blood-red along with the initial midnight blue color.
"Wow," Sakura says after a few moments of shocked silence.
"What kind of species are you guys?" Kakashi asks, eying the hawk's eyes curiously.
"Well," the fox said. "I am a special hybrid that's a combination of 3 animals: A fox, a cheetah, and a tiger. Obviously, I have much more fox genes than cheetah and tiger genes. While, that guy over here," he pointed his tail to the hawk, "is a hybrid mix of a hawk, a raven, and a crow. He mostly has the genes of a hawk, obviously, but gets most of his obsidian black feathers from crow and raven genes. Don't ask where he got the crimson red, pearly white, and navy blue. I have no idea and I'm certain that he's not very willing to answer."
"Says the fox who has actual gold fur in patterns of swirls all over his freaking body!" the hawk retorted.
"Wait, this is real gold?" Sakura asked, getting up close to the fox. "Wow, it is real gold!"
"Awesome!" Naruto shouted, fist pumping in the air. "What can yours do, teme?"
"Hn. I don't need to show off to the likes of you," he answered smugly.
"Why you-!"
*SMACK*
"OW! What the hell was that for?!" Naruto glared at the fox, who was the one that smacked him with his tail. Bet you thought that Sakura hit him, didn't you?
"To shut you up so there won't be a fight that nobody will enjoy. Now shut up, we were talking," the fox said, earning him another glare.
"Hn. Serves you right, dobe-"
*SMACK*
Now, feathers with the colors of, obsidian black, crimson red, pearly white, and navy blue were flying all around, but mainly around Sasuke's head. The Uchiha rubbed his sore scalp and glared the infamous Uchiha Death Glare™.
"You heard the fox with abnormal golden fur. Shut up, we're talking," the hawk said.
"Oh, I'm the one with abnormal fur, huh? Are you forgetting the fact that whenever you ruffle your red feathers, actual rubies fall out?! How is that even possible, anyways?!"
"How am I supposed to know?! It's not my fault! Well, whatever. I'm going hunting."
"By the way, can you get me some dinner, too?"
"Hell no! After what you said, there's no way I'm gonna get your food like some kind of servant! Get it yourself, why don't you?!"
With that, the hawk stormed off, with the fox not so far behind, shouting things like, "Wait, you bastard! Don't you remember that you still owe me?!".
Then, Naruto suddenly remembered something. "Hey, wait!" he shouted.
The animals stopped. "What?" the fox shouted back.
"We didn't even get to learn about your names!"
The fox smirked and shouted, "Just call me...Kurama."
"And call me, Susanoo."
And with that, Kurama and Susanoo left to who knows where.
Many Hours Later...
"Hey!" Kurama shouted. He was now waiting impatiently by a small river. "Where the hell are you, Susanoo?!"
"I'm here," Susanoo replied calmly, perching on a rock next to said river. "Now, what do you want? I already got you your dinner with that little promise..." He leaned in, emphasizing "little promise".
"Exactly. Here." Kurama threw a bright red tomato in Susanoo's direction. Susanoo's eyes twinkled in delight and he flew up, catching the fruit in midair. And yes, in case you didn't know, the tomato is a fruit.
Susanoo perched on a different, larger rock and started to eat his favorite food. "Aah," he sighed. "Tomatoes are amazing, even when I'm in this form."
"Whatever. Ramen's much more better though," replied Kurama, walking over to the river for a drink.
"What's with you and your obsession with ramen? Why do you love it so much?"
"The same reason that your obsessed with tomatoes. By the way, you have something here." He pointed to his snout, showing where the hawk had tomato all over his beak. Susanoo licked away the tomato.
"Whatever. So how long are we gonna keep this act up?"
"Until we find out who made us this way, how we were made this way, and how we're gonna get back. And hopefully that will be soon, cause we can't stay here for long. Eventually they'll find out."
"Yeah... How do you think the others are taking it?"
"Not well. You know how they are. They care to much about us to not react like there's an apocalypse about."
Susanoo chuckled. "I wonder if they'll come here as well. Wouldn't that be interesting."
Kurama chuckled as well. "Tell me 'bout it. Anyways, let's go. The sun's up and Naruto and Sasuke will probably wake up soon."
"Right. Later."
"See ya!"
They walked/flew off in different directions, each of them heading in their respective locations. And only one thing went through each of their minds. This is only the beginning...
End
S/N: Well, that's not much of a cliffhanger ending! But still, who do you think the animals are? Because they're not who you think. Or are they? You'll never know! *Insert evil laughter* Ahem, anyways, thanks for reading!
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Ta-ta~
-Serena