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Prologue

WilyKat and WilKit were bored out of their minds.

Boredom was the thing that they feared the most because it happened more often than not. In the previous four months things had gone downhill fast. Four months ago the ThunderCats were the most feared and respected animals on Third Earth. Four months didn't feel like eternity that it was. It felt like it was just yesterday.

In less than one day the Cats were knocked from the top of the Food Chain to the bottom. The Lizards had launched a heavy assault that at first was pushed back until the unimaginable happened. Technology, something that was a myth nowadays, appeared with the Lizard army and proceeded to steamroll over their forces. The impenetrable wall was brought down, the city was destroyed, and their hope destroyed. With the death of their King, King Claudus, they were brought to their knees and their hope shattered, though rekindled in the form of his son, Prince Lion-O, who left to find the person responsible for it all; Mumm-Ra.

It was no more than a day after the sudden attack that Lion-O, now crowned as Lord of the ThunderCats, began a quest to hunt down his fathers' killer and bring back the honor and power of the ThunderCats. They would rise from the ashes and take back what was theirs.

But the journey was anything then what they thought it would be. They knew that they would face tough challenges. They were up against an enemy that had even greater understanding of Technology, a large army that feared their leader because of his history and power, and now affectively controlled most of Third Earth. Mumm-Ra's grasp over Third Earth was impressive and his sight was endless because of his dark magic. He could see and hear everything from wherever he was at all times. It was this that made the quest to avenge Claudus very hard.

But there was hope for the small group of Cats. After much hardship they were finally able to find the Book of Omens. It was a book of legend turned real. Where it came from, no one knew. It was hidden away, lost for all of time. Many brave and wise Cats had gone out to find it but to no avail. Even the might Panthro and Grune couldn't find it and were forced to return, though the later returned only after agreeing to work with the enemy, Mumm-Ra.

After searching for two months they were finally able to find it. They had fought their way through two other villages, far beyond the walls of Thundera, and eventually made it to the Tower of Omens. The test to get to said place was beyond difficult. No single being would have been able to make it with the tests that were set up. It was almost like they had set it up for a future cause as each test was set specifically for certain abilities: speed, swimming, luck/lock-picking.

But they hadn't been able to get to it alone. Mumm-Ra had followed them and battled them over the book. It was only through the valiant sacrifice of Jaga that they won the battle. Though no one felt like victory had been achieved with Jaga's death.

After only a day of rest and mourning did things begin to return to normal. For some it involved inspecting their equipment. For others it was all about exploration. WilyKat and WilyKit fell under this area of choice.

They were all about finding the City of Treasure; El-Dara. It was for a noble cause. They wanted the riches to support their family. Their father had worked for years and they always wanted to help out, but after his death and seeing their mother worry all the time, they had to make a grab for the treasure. It was the only way to help their family.

And here they were, in the fable Tower of Omens, with nothing better to do then explore. Logic dictated that treasure of any sort was on the lower levels of any building for this kind of grand scale. Getting down wasn't an issue either. Doors and pathways were open for them. So since the entrance was hidden again for the time being they had no fear of anything being here at all. There would be nothing to attack them, stray of a wild animal that actually snuck in.

And yet, they stood in the presence of a cracked door where a furry blond and red tail stuck out that was long as they were tall that was connected to something on the other side of a shadow where light snoring could be heard. The tail was clearly not that of a Lizard, so they didn't have to worry about this thing having a gun of some kind. The tail was also not that of a Cat, which meant it wasn't an ally. No Cat had a bushy tail like that. Most Cats didn't have tails period.

The light snoring didn't show any signs of stopping even as they approached, knocking over a few stray cups along the way to the door. As soon as they were within arms' reach of the tail they gave it a healthy tug which earned an excited yip as the tail was yanked away and disappeared into the darkness. What came out wasn't a Cat. What came out was a teenage boy in his late teens with blond, spiky, hair that shot out in every direction and ended just short of the center of his shoulder-blades. Blue eyes with slitted pupils looked them over with curiosity. Whisker faced that seemed more like scars than actual whiskers. Two pointy ears swiveled around, their red tips leaving strips from how fast they moved. Wearing black and orange robes with thick matching armguards covered his entire body. He looked like a cleric if anything with his clothes.

"Who are you?"

The twins turned and ran when they saw his sharp teeth as he smiled at them.

The two ran like all of Hell was on their heels. They didn't even look back until they reached Tygra. Tygra was busy fiddling with his pistol and not really bothering to pay them any attention either. It took them a moment to get his attention. The Tiger was too busy speaking with Cheetara to listen to them as he usually sometimes did.

"What!?" he finally snapped at them.

"There's a blond haired Fox down in the basement coming after us!" The two yelled.

The two older Cats gave the twins a harsh look. But the fear in their eyes made it clear that they weren't joking about this. The need to at least make them happy forced them to deal with the situation. They followed the two terrified Kittens down to the location of the scary Fox and found said Fox sleeping again. His tail twitched and he snored loudly inside the darkened room. Tygra looked over his shoulder to see that two Kittens hiding behind a pillar.

Shrugging, the Tiger reached out and grabbed the tail, giving it a hard tug. "Wake up!"

The tail went stiff and a leg lashed out in a flash. One moment Tygra was standing with his hand holding the tail of the sleeping blond, the next, he was in a wall with his behind and part of his back firmly stuck in the wall. Tygra moaned before blackness took him.

Cheetara looked at her downed friend before her eyes turned onto the Fox that was on his feet and petting his tail. "That hurts! Why does that hurt so damn much?" Sapphire eyes landed on Cheetara and the blond Fox blinked twice. "Not a bad dream to be having. I wonder if she's single." Stunned into a stupor, Cheetara could only watch as the blond Fox slinked up to her and smiled. "Why do all the girls in my dreams start out naked and then get clothes? Can you take your clothes off?"

Cheetara snapped from her stupor at that point, brought out her staff, and thoroughly whacked him on the head. The sound of wood meeting flesh echoed through the chamber and the blond held his head from the impact.

"Why did you hit me?" His eyes narrowed. "Wait… You hit me… and it hurt. Oh man, you're real."

Cheetara opened her mouth, closed it when Tygra groaned while pulling himself out of the indent in the wall, and then made a quick choice. She scooped up the children and began running, Tygra following only a moment later.

"Hey wait!"

The blond gave chase, running as fast as he could. He bumped into walls and pillars along the way, but even with his collisions he kept up with them. Cheetara looked over once when the children began screaming something at Tygra and saw that the blond was nowhere to be seen until she looked up and found him running on the ceiling as though it were the floor. Sure she could run on the walls if she ran fast enough, but she couldn't run at her full speed with two children scooped up in her arms. She was still fast, just not very fast.

They bounded up the stairs, Tygra lagging behind to take a few shots at the advancing teen. He took one hit and vanished for only a moment only to appear overhead and fall past them and towards the ground. Not even bothering to take another crack shot at him after that, running became everyone's primary idea. When they finally reached the platform where Lion-O was, they stopped, turned, and made ready for combat.

They waited twenty seconds, all the while listening to the strange questions of the advancing Fox. Lion-O, armed with the Sword of Omens, fidgeted next to his brother. The twins were behind them, armed with their own weapons but otherwise looking scared. Cheetara looked more than happy now while Panthro just stood passively as he waited for the enemy to show itself.

A blur darted over the edge of the stairs, hit the last step, tripped, rolled, and sprawled out before them, sapphire eyes blinking wildly as he sat on the ground before them like an amused five year old Kitten, happy to see new faces and overjoyed to know that it was having fun. He just stared at them, smiling with a good natured smile and eyes beaming towards them.

"More faces!"

Lion-O eyed the twins and then the new arrival. His sword presented, he missed the look of shock on Panthro's face. "Excuse me, but who are you?"

The blond focused intently on him for a fraction of a second. In that second his eyes had turned to the sword in the Lions' hands and then stood up and snatched it up in the blink of an eye. Lion-O didn't register the loss of his sword until the blond was clinging to the wall starring down at him with dark eyes. He looked angry and sad rather than devious. Lion-O wondered why but started walking towards the teen only to be stopped by Panthro.

"Stop him!"

"Panthro," the blond fox screamed while waving the sword around. "Why does that runt of a Cub have my friends' sword? What the hell happened since the last time I saw you guys?"

Confusion abound, all eyes turned to Panthro as the angry blond walking straight up the curving ceiling as though he walked on the ground. The twins were too busy staring at the blond in total awe. To them, this was something that was just too cool for them to not pass up. It was almost like watching a circus act.

The blond was busy stabbing the Sword of Omens into the ceiling and doing something with his hands. There was a groan from the temple but nothing too noticeable.

While he was taking his time in doing this, Panthro rounded their attention and began. "His name is Uzumaki Naruto and he's a friend of Claudus. Naruto was found more than fifty years ago by one of the Clerics, Jaga, if memory serves. He was found somewhere, but I was never told where. When your father took over, Naruto was brought before Claudus and the two became friends after a few meetings. I'm sure you probably don't remember him, but you've met him once before. Do you remember when you were six and you got a strange metal toy from a special Cat, Lion-O?"

Not waiting for a reply, Panthro continued. "Your father hadn't been able to get you a toy for your birthday present, yet the special Cat was able to make up for it by presenting you with one. He gave you something weird, a metal box that sang music. Do you remember it?"

"Of course! It was the thing that made me have an interest in technology." He stopped and looked at the boy that was now kneeling down before the sword. Though he hung upside down, Lion-O could make out the Fox in almost clear certainty that he had seen him before. "But father said he was a special kind of Cat."

"Father lied to us?" Tygra shouted. "But why? Why would he lie to us about his species type?"

Panthro shook his head. He didn't know why he would have lied to them about what type of animal Naruto was, but it really didn't matter. Jaga saw no evil intent from him and the boy was always kind to King Claudus." Panthro shrugged as if a sudden thought had come to him and then continued. "Naruto was only brought to Thundera when your father was having issues, normally with you two. If it wasn't for political issues it was mostly you two that he had issues with."

A thump and Naruto was on the ground between the Panther and the others. "I never understood why Claudus asked me for parental ideas concerning the two of you." Naruto dusted his arms off, tears evident on his face. His face bore a look of sadness to match the tears. He wasn't faking it. He was honestly hurt by the sword being in Lion-O's hands. "I told him since day one that I was an orphan at birth. My parents died not an hour after I was born. Still, he asked me, someone who didn't have a family of any kind, for parental advice. That didn't start until after your mother died, though. With her death and your arrival, Lion-O, your father had no idea on how to raise the two of you."

Dusting his pants off, the blond turned and stared at the other faces. "I'm sorry that I attacked and scared you guys. I'm not used to people finding this place. In fact, shortly after Jaga was shown this place and found me, no one else ever came here with the exception of Jaga when I was needed. Your father usually used me as a sign of information and as a storyteller. I'm not very smart, not in the way of some if my friends I once had, but I fought in battles for reasons beyond what your father or even you guys could ever understand. Of all the things that your father and I argued about was the ideals of peace. Your father believed that the strong protected the weak and worked them to his own advantage. In simple terms, his method was simply peace at the end of a sword. That's all his method was. You got the best land, resources, and produce, leaving the other animals with nothing but scarps."

"And your point?"

Naruto snorted and walked off.

"Hey! Give me back my sword!"

Lion-O reached out but found nothing but air. Naruto had vanished right before his eyes in a swirl of wind and leaves. Seeing one of his options out of the picture, Lion-O turned his sights on the sword. It was still in the ceiling, and the ceiling was very high up.

"Why'd he do that?"

Panthro scratched at his head. "Well, you see, Naruto has more claim to the sword right now. Though I imagine you went through the test to prove yourself for the sword, Naruto didn't know about it and probably never got word of it either. From what I understand, if your father fell in battle, along with Jaga, Naruto would take over as owner of the sword until someone worthy could take it up. Since he doesn't know about the test you went through to obviously prove yourself, he believed you to not be worthy of it."

"So a Fox would have taken ownership of the sword until I passed some sort of test or something?"

"More or less. Jaga said it was for some sort of a special reason that he wouldn't divulge to me." Lion-O grumbled and began moving to the wall to begin his ascent. "I don't think you can get the sword back right now. You're better off finding Naruto and trying to get him to get it for you. That's about the only way I imagine you'll be able to get it back now. Besides, what are a few hours away from the sword anyways? It's not going anywhere for a while."

Cursing, Lion-O decided to just take the risk and started climbing up the wall.

Tygra shook his head. "Anything else you can tell us about this kid? I've never seen him before."

"I doubt you would have. He considered Naruto a special friend. Claudus kept his friends close to him, even if it meant keeping them secret from others. There's no telling how many friends he kept secret from others." Panthro took a thoughtful pose before looking around. "I personally didn't know Naruto lived here. If I had known that, I'm sure we could have found the Book of Omens a lot sooner. Grune might not have even betrayed us in the end."

Tygra shrugged. He honestly didn't have any good views on Grune after he killed his father, no matter how tightly woven their past bonds had been in the past.

Deciding that it was best to leave his brother to his task of getting his sword back, the Tiger followed after the General. Cheetara and the twins followed soon after watching Lion-O fall after getting a third of the way up the curve of the ceiling.

By the time they all caught up with Naruto, the blond had positioned himself on the edge of the temple where the stone floor melded with the green grass. The blond boy seemed to just be looking out over the landscape with a faraway look in his eyes. If Tygra were to guess he was looking out in the direction of Thundera.

Panthro sat down beside him and looked out across the landscape as well. Soon everyone was doing the same, just staring out ahead like there was something out there for them. After a while Tygra began to growl and turned his attention to the young Fox.

"Why would father in-trust you with the sword?"

Naruto remained silent for several minutes before speaking. "In the likely event that the sword rejected the two of you and a suitable owner wasn't found, I would take the sword and hide it away until a new owner could be found. That was the agreement we came to after he figured me out. It was never was my idea… but Claudus was determined to have the sword find a good owner if you or your brother failed the tests provided. If my memory is correct, you failed the test. Did Claudus give Lion-O the test?"

"Yes. He passed so you know."

Naruto snorted.

"You don't have a high opinion of my brother, do you?" A grunt was his answer. "You cling pretty tightly to your old ways, don't you? Father in-trusted the sword to you only if a good owner wasn't found, correct? Do you approve of my brother?"

"I don't see how that's any of our concern for the moment," Panthro snapped.

Naruto stood up and growled something.

"Where's the other guy that's usually with you? You know… that Caretaker you have?"

The blond Fox grumble something and began moving back through the temple. They followed in silence until they reached where Lion-O was. The Lion was trying hard to get back to the sword and Naruto's sudden arrival seemed to have sparked something in Lion-O again.

The Lion dropped from where he was and began moving in on the blond. Naruto paid him no mind as he started looking around. When Lion-O grew angry enough to try and take a swing at him, Naruto simply turned and stared at him.

"You want your sword?" Lion-O was about to make a reply when Naruto gripped the collar of his armor and threw him at the top of the ceiling. Lion-O screamed and caught the sword handle, grinning as he did. Naruto turned back to the others. "He won't be able to get it without me releasing the ability I put on it."

Looking around, he snorted and turned away as the new King of Thundera screamed for help in getting down.

"Where are you, Librarian? I know you're here! Where are you? I'm in no mood to find you and not hurt you!"

Naruto turned around hastily and growled at a shadow in the far corner of the room.

The others looked in the direction as well. There was something there. They could see it. It was a figure clocked in a trench coat, top hat, and a mask over his face. There was no part of his skin to be shown. He stood in the darkness with only a book and if they were guessing right his eyes were stuck on the hanging Lion.

"When did you know?"

"Since it happened."

Naruto grabbed him up and threw him at the wall. It cracked and the ceiling groaned.

"You bastard! You knew and you didn't have me head out? I could have gone out and saved him! It wouldn't have taken me more than a second to reach him!" Naruto punched the wall beside him. The entire building shook. The dent in the wall put anyone that wanted to speak out against him into utter silence. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"Didn't you want to stop fighting?" He whispered. No one else heard him. "The life you had… You said you were hoping to leave it behind. So why break that rule you made if you were going to go back into the fray and fight for no other reason than fighting?"

"Fighting to destroy a threat to a friend is a reason all on its own."

"Still breaks your rule."

He broke out of the wall and moved towards the others. Book in hand; he began writing in it as he walked around each of them. The twins turned so that they didn't have their backs to him. Tygra gave him a hard look but that didn't stop him from tailing around him until he had thoroughly written two pages in the book he carried. Cheetara and Panthro both only had him circle them one time before he was gone and standing back beside Naruto.

The blond turned his attention back to the masked man and growled at him. "They have some of the same energy readings as one of the artifacts that were lost when the chamber was opened." Naruto showed no signs of carrying about that. "Stall them for as long as you can while I look in on this."

"Yeah… I'm going to pull a dick move right here because I'm pissed." Naruto stormed right up to Panthro. "We need to check all your gear because you might have something that was lost when the chamber opened up eighty years ago. Yes; I am over eighty years old. Respect your elders and all that fun stuff. Where's your technology because I know you have some."

"Look here, you little Fox!" Tygra pointed a finger at him and instantly Naruto was standing too close for his personal comfort. "You don't control us! So first of all-"

"You afraid of heights?" Naruto grabbed his chest and threw Tygra up at the ceiling without bothering to wait for the reply. Tygra clung to the vines on the ceiling and looked down in fear as the blond looked at the others. "I will throw every single one of you up there if you try to act tough. I'm going to give you the watered down version of this right now. Eighty years ago the chamber that had me in it was opened and when that happened, all the artifacts that were created by a madman were lost. All of them are extremely dangerous and unstable. Right now, you guys have one in your possession and we're taking it back. Do any of you have a problem with this? Good. I thought so. Librarian, find the damn artifact and put it where you put the others."

And with that, Naruto promptly vanished, not giving anyone a chance to ask what he was talking about.

All eyes on the ground turned to the one remaining person that could probably answer any and all questions. With an agitated sigh, he ordered Panthro to show him the location of their technology, which turned out to be a giant tank in the middle of the forest. For someone that probably hadn't seen anything like it before, he didn't seem too surprised by it. Panthro tried to explain what the stuff was that he was looking at and ignore the questions that were plaguing him.

"We've been free for eighty years," he said randomly. The others that came looked on with an eager sense to learn more. "Naruto's past is his own. So I will not tell you how he came to be in the chamber as that is his own story. I, however, will tell you what he was speaking of. My Lord created dozens of artifacts to keep his dream of world peace alive, but, however, in order to make it last longer he needed to increase the power in which he had come to use to create peace. That ended with utter failures and eventually he was forced to scrap the idea altogether. He sealed the artifacts with us. When the chamber was broken in to all those years ago they flew out as if possessed by something and were scattered. I've found a few, but there are more out there."

"So why didn't you just go looking for them?" WilyKit asked.

"Naruto doesn't want to fight anymore. He was a warrior like no other and used only for fighting. He has long since tried to leave that life behind. For eighty years he succeeded. But with the death of his friend and with me knowing about it, I fear he may once more return to the battlefield, if only out of revenge."

"And you don't want him to?"

"What he does means very little to me. I am his keeper and as such I must follow him for the day his power is needed again. My master would be angered with me if he were to find that the boy has died before he could be used again."

"And your master is…?" Cheetara eyed him carefully.

"My master is my master. Names are trivial things. I have no name. If you must call me anything, call me No Name or Librarian. Naruto has called me such since the day he was freed from his prison."

"Prison?"

"When you can't get out of something, we refer to it as a prison. If you were stuck inside this contraption with no way out, would you then classify this as a prison?" The female cheetah nodded and the strange figure began speaking again. "This is what I'm looking for."

His hand came back with a fist sized jewel in his grasp. The entire tank hummed once before the lights went out. Panthro cried and ran inside to try and save his baby. Librarian tossed the fist sized object around for a moment before pocketing it and heading back for the tower.

Panthro stayed behind to care for his baby while the others followed after the strange man.

Once they were back inside, the trench coat wearing man walked into a hidden room and began rummaging through a stash of boxes. The three members of the ThunderCats that were present waited until he returned. After much rummaging he did return and walked past them carrying a silver case with numbers engraved on it.

They returned to Panthro and the large panther was quickly on the defensive as the Librarian returned. "Take this," he offered, opening it up for him to see a brightly colored pink jewel. Panthro gave it a once over before taking it. "This is something I found in my few short travels. I should suffice for a power source until you can acquire a better one. Make no mistake, it will die in due time."

"I suppose you want me to thank you for giving me this after you took the good one away from me?"

"It is highly unstable and would have eventually lead to your death. I would believe that living is better than dying."

"Hmm… Good point."

The large General quickly went back to work while the twins began looking around for something to do. They obviously didn't want anything to do with the strange new guy. Even Cheetara seemed a little put off by him.

Deciding that they would rather find something fun to do, the twins ventured back into the temple to find something or someone to bug. The first place they checked was where Lion-O was to see if he was still hanging from the ceiling with his brother. Sure enough, the two were still clinging to the roots in an attempt to stay up there and also get the sword down. Lion-O was even hanging from said sword while trying to yank it out while Tygra was desperately looking for a way down.

Once they were certain that things were normal here they began looking the temple over for something fun to do or find. Each room had its own unique twist and turns to it, but not a single room was loaded with gold or any other form of treasures that one would identify with treasure. By the time they had explored the entire temple Lion-O and Tygra had both managed to get down from their spot on the ceiling, but not with the sword. The sword was still firmly planted in the ceiling and would obviously remain so until Naruto retrieved it.

To this end, Lion-O began tearing the place apart to find him. After the Thunder Tank was fixed, Panthro aided them but not without warning them that Naruto was powerful in his own right. For a fox that could climb up walls without the use of tools or his hands and plant a sword deep into the stone, he had to be strong. No one else could do that as far as Panthro was aware.

They eventually did find the wayward blond resting on a cliff edge overlooking the waterfall. He seemed to just be staring out into the horizon. He didn't even register that Lion-O was near him and talking to him until the new King of Thundera roughly grabbed his shoulder. Naruto's instincts seemed to have kicked in as Lion-O was hastily thrown onto the ground with a set of claws at his throat.

"Sorry… I was thinking about something. Don't sneak up on me."

"I want my sword back."

"Then go get it. I'm not going to stop you."

Tygra pushed past his brother and growled down on the male fox. "Give him back his sword and get off our sacred temple!"

Naruto stood up and smirked at him. "I'll have you know that this spot is where I was trapped for years and then released by your clerics. They decided that I could stay here and guard this place from threats. From my perspective, you're nothing but a threat. So kindly shut up unless you want to see the ground from this far up." He motioned over the cliff to make his point.

Lion-O wasn't backing down. "Then how can I get you to get my sword back because I can't retrieve it from the place you put it!" Naruto huffed in annoyance and continued to look out across the open terrain. "Don't you know that if Mumm-Ra gets the sword, he'll have a dangerous artifact in his possession that he can't have? Do you realize that sword is all I have left of my great people?"

"I couldn't care less about you, your people, or the sword. The only thing I care about right now is getting some peace and quiet. Now either leave me alone, or get ready for a fight. I'm in no mood to deal with an upstart cub that couldn't fight his way out of a sack! Now pipe down before I throw you in a bag and into the river to watch you drown." His gaze was obscured when Lion-O forcefully picked him up and growled at him. Naruto just snarled at him. "You wanna fight?"

"Ye-"

Naruto hauled off and punched the ThunderCats' leader with only a fraction of his strength. Lion-O jerked back and fell flat on his butt. Blood oozed from his nose. Child-like instincts took over as he held the bleeding orphic and rolled over. Blood slipped through his fingers, but rather than cry like Naruto was expecting, the young King got to his feet and charged him. Naruto easily jumped to the side and evade, punching him in the back of the head as he passed him by.

Lion-O wasn't going to back down and continued his assault until, after two minutes, Naruto thoroughly trashed him. Now pinned to the ground and a half-beaten mess, the others could only stare at their fearless leader being beaten so easily by a strange fox.

Hauling him to his feet, Naruto gave him a hard look before throwing him at his adopted brother. Tygra gave an angry growl and was soon on the other end of the stick when Naruto turned on him and cracked him once on the top of the head.

"If you're done bothering me, leave me be. I have more pressing things to attend to then deal with a few upstart cubs." Naruto waved them off with a lazy jerk of his hand. If it wasn't for the timely arrival of the Librarian another fight would have clearly started. Naruto watched them go with an angry growl while his caretaker gave him a strange glance that was only seen through the tilting of his head.

Lion-O, after being dragged away, finally cooled off enough that when he was released he didn't run back to pick another fight with Naruto. Instead, he stormed around, flexing his arms and hands as he thought of ways to take him down. Whether he was coming up with anything good was unknown.

"What's wrong with him?" Tygra finally asked in irritation. Lion-O stopped to nod and then went back to pacing back and forth; hand on his chin as he thought about another way to beat him up. "Panthro, you know more about him than we do. What's his story? Is he always like this?"

"No. Claudus was a good friend to him. One could even say that Naruto was actually like an adopted child. You guys just need to give him a chance."

The two brothers looked at him like he'd grown a second head. It was very clear that they already had their minds up about him. Naruto wasn't someone they could trust or like. He was an evil animal that knew only how to cause pain. Panthro could understand the latter though. As soon as Naruto had seen the Sword of Omens he had snatched it up, stabbed it into the ceiling, and then proceeded to be moody. He'd also just punched Lion-O into submission. So if they had a reason to hate him, he wasn't making it easy for a defense in his court.

Cheetara was the first to speak up. "He may be a friend to King Claudus, but he leaves a lot to be desired right now. I can understand that he's in pain over his death, but he should at the very least try to see things our way. He's only seeing things his way."

"He's obviously a lousy person with a secret," Tygra added. He crossed his arms over his chest and closed his eyes. "That fox doesn't act like a normal fox. They're tricksters, evasive, and would never fight you straight up the way he does. He's hiding something."

"I can't see him hiding anything form us," WilyKit said. Outside of her brother and Panthro, the others gave her a strange look. "Look; you guys have been pushing him and you need to set back and just give him some space. He may be a little cold hearted right now, but think about everything he just learned. If we go by what-Hey! Are you three even listening to me?"

The two brothers had turned back to each other and were holding another conversation on how to fight the fox. Cheetara decided to leave the two young Cats to their talks and departed to find food for them. Panthro just left to work on the tank, leaving the twins to do what they wanted, which consisted of them watching the two brothers before that got boring and they went to find the strange fox. He may seem violent, but it was clear to them that he was only violet when you did something he didn't like. He wouldn't hurt them if they didn't do anything he didn't like, right?