He was stuck in an infant s head, and there is not much that goes about in such a thing. He poked his tails past the seal into the infant to see if there was anything at all he could use to entertain himself. Whence he got to the child s soul he finally found something. The child was a reincarnation.
While not as common as some mortals may think, reincarnation is not rare either. Most cases are playthings of this god or that power. He poked it a few more times and got some feedback; it had only two past lives, not all that surprising; and its past lives were of a male mage of some sort and a hermaphrodite Ki adept. That was definitely interesting.
The demon fox took a few hours to reconnect the past energies with the present, and a few more to make sure they would not atrophy before the child s had become developed enough to use them. By the time he was ready to reconnect the memories, both of life and death, the consciousness of the child was before the seal.
"Now, let s see who you are"
Snap.
"I am Harry potter... I am Ranma satomne... I am ... alive again? That bitch!"
"Let me guess, fate?"
"Yup."
"How bad did she screw you over?"
"Each life I'm fated to be a selfless, but stupid hero and die by the hands of my wife... hey, wait a moment. Who are you and haw am I alive again?"
"I am the Nine tailed kitsune of this world, and the demon lord of the forests in this contentment that the humans call the land of fire."
"Huh. So why am I talking to you?"
"You were reborn into the infant that was used to seal me when madr..."
"Go on. Why were you sealed in me."
"Madra used my gifts to him to make me attack a human settlement."
"Hah. Usually it s the human that gets screwed over."
"He's more like a hell spawn that I ever was."
There was a lenghy pause, the nebulous choice of a mortal "sat" across the seal from the fox demon.
"Then you'd belong to Inari?"
"I am a nogikitsune, but I do have a connection to the god."
"Can fate steal a kitsune from Inari?"
"No. Why would you ask such a thing?"
"I want out of fate's hands and I'm willing to make a deal if it would work."
"A deal?"
"Are you powerful enough to transform me into a kitsune, so that I would belong to Inari, and not fate?"
"Perhaps... but it would require payment. To both me and Inari."
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Late in the night, after the Fire Shadow deposited Naruto at the orphanage, all of the ninja in the village felt a terrible chakra. To their combined horror, a massive red nogikitsune rose from the orphanage. But to their combined confusion, it was short one tail (Such is the kind of detail Ninja are trained to notice), and fled without any property damage, other than several hundred gallons of fox piss in the uchiha baths.
Not a single person in kanoha, neither ninja nor civilian, noticed a single white fox kit also flee from the orphanage, and make its way to an Inari shrine on a farm rode a short way from kanoha.
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The ninja of kanoha maintain the conviction that the Yondimine defeated the kyuubi, and that it gave up one of its tails to escape and slinked away in defeat.
The farmers surrounding kanoha tell a very different tale. They speak of how Inari cut off one of the Kyuubi's tails and how it became the white tailed fox that frequents the local shrines.
Though these two stories sometimes caused drunken arguments in kanoha bars, none except those who already knew of the fact ever paused to think that both tales are true in a sense. Only Sarutobi ever worried of what happened to the infant Naruto. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\
Authors note: those are cameos, not crossovers. This is going to be about a kitsune going a-pranking.
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