Hey people. I just started reading the manga +Anima and I thought it would be so cool if people in the shinobi world could use animalistic powers. So I spent days thinking about this and decided 'Yea, why not, It'll be a side project (or not) for me while killing my head for the next chapter for my other two stories.
"Kyuubi no Kitsune"- Normal Speech
"Kyuubi no Kitsune"- Thought Speech
Disclaimer- I do not own Naruto or +Anima. Masashi Kishimoto and Natsumi Mukai do, respectively. (I'd totally jump Senri if I did own +Anima though.)
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It was October Tenth. A day which many people celebrated, a day which one child feared. It marked the day of the Kyuubi no Kitsune's defeat, the death of the Yondaime Hokage, Namikaze Minato, and the birth of his son, Naruto, but few people knew that anyway.
In Konoha years later, hordes of people celebrated the Kyuubi's defeat with a festival; namely dubbed, The Kyuubi Festival. Men were sitting in bars drinking all types of alcoholic beverages. Women had knitting circles while talking about the courage of the Yondaime Hokage. While all this was happening, a young boy sat in a dirty alleyway alone.
His hair was a sunshine blond rarely seen in Konoha and he had cerulean colored eyes that put sapphires to shame. Three parallel whisker marks decorated the sides of his cheeks. He wore a black tee-shirt with a picture of a flame on it and green shorts. His name was Naruto. Naruto carefully stood up, cautious of making any sounds and tiptoed his way to his apartment.
On his way there he suddenly stopped. His eyes widened as his heart throbbed.
"It feels like my heart's burning… Feels like somethings missing… I feel…sad?"
He put his hand over his heart and closed his eyes willing away the dull but fiery pain. A quick image of a large spectral crimson bird flew past his vision and disappeared as quickly as it appeared. He opened his eyes again and blinked.
"What the- It's gone…? Where'd it go?"
Naruto looked around hoping to see the bird again. While looking up at the sky he bumped into a drunken man. He muttered a quick 'sorry' and lowered his eyes when he realized the bird was not there anymore. He saw a foot coming from the corner from his eyes and jumped to the side to dodge it but he flew forward anyway and yelped as he crashed into another person. The man, a shinobi, screamed at him.
"You brat! How dare you attack me?! I'll give you a lesson you'll never forget!"
Naruto widened his eyes, "I'm sorry mister…I'm really sorry. It'll never happen again." He whimpered a bit while slowly backing up; not noticing he was backing right out of the huge gates of Konoha. The man smirked as he withdrew a few kunai from his holster and threw them.
"Demon, die!"
Naruto screamed as he was nicked by one and quickly turned around and ran into the surrounding forests of Konoha. He kept running until he came to a clearing. He fell to his knees and tried to catch his breath. His breath hitched as another image besieged his head. A quick flash of a young red headed girl smiling and the image was gone again.
"Wh-What's wrong with me? This never happened to me before…an-and I feel like I should know that girl or something…"
A low growl roused Naruto from his thoughts. A large beast with golden eyes was staring curiously at him. It was quite large with sharp fangs that could easily rend a person's arm useless. Naruto gasped silently.
"Lion…"
Naruto's eyes widened further as the lion stood up on its paws and padded towards him. He gasped once again as he realized that instead of the normal tawny fur a lion usually had, this lion's body was covered in a pure white snowy pelt.
"So…beautiful…"
He walked slowly towards the magnificent beast and lifted his arm. He smiled slightly as the large cat nudged his hand after smelling it. As he rushed his hand through the lion's large white mane he smiled widely. The grass behind slightly rustled but he didn't pay any attention to it.
In a quick instant, the white lion pushed him away and leaped forward pushing the shinobi that was sneaking up behind Naruto to the ground. The lion growled as he bit the Konoha shinobi on the arm nearly ripping the appendage off. The shinobi growled as he swept his kunai over the lion's stomach and kicked him of himself with a chakra infused kick. The white lion rolled and tumbled in front of Naruto. Naruto's eyes were filled with fear and sadness. Tears fell silently from his eyes as he tried to hug the large lion with his short arms. The shinobi smirked evilly.
"Demon, now you're crying? Hnn… Are you angry that you couldn't take the life of that cat, yourself? Pshh, now that we're not in Konoha, I'll kill you and blame your death on that piece of shit there and I'll be praised as a hero for killing the Demon!"
He kicked the lion on its side while talking. The lion coughed up blood as the kick penetrated his ribs. Naruto's eyes narrowed as all he could see was the lion, the white lion. He roared as he felt stronger than he ever felt before. He leaped forward intent on killing the shinobi in front of him. The shinobi widened his eyes in surprise as his throat was ripped out but still leaving one unspoken word lingering in the air.
"DEMON…"
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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN NARUTO'S NOT IN HIS APARTMENT?!"
The Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, all but screamed at the Anbu standing in front of him. The Anbu slightly winced at the volume of the Hokage's voice. While the Sandaime gave the 'Why you should watch Naruto on his birthday' speech, the dog-faced Anbu entertained his own thoughts.
"Goodness…That's probably the loudest Hokage-sama's been for years. He'll have a sore throat tomorrow if he keeps this up…"
"…and that's why you should pay extraordinary attention to Naru- Inu? Inu?! ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?!"
"Hai, Hokage-sama. You know…last year when he wasn't in his apartment we found him in a alley, so you shouldn't get so agitated over this…You know…blood pressure…"
"Blood pressure my ass; I just don't want to be the one to tell the rest of Konoha Hokage-sama died because of a heart attack which was connected to the failure of my mission to watch over a kid.."
The Sandaime narrowed his eyes at the Anbu as he snapped his fingers. An Anbu appeared in front of him and next to Inu.
"Inu, Ushi, find Naruto! Dismissed."
The two Anbu nodded and disappeared in a 'swoosh' of wind and leaves leaving bunches of leaves on the floor. The Sandaime scowled as he stalked over to a closet and grabbed a broom and quickly brushed the leaves into a corner where many other leaves were.
"Why can't they ever use the door?!"
The Sandaime look up at the ceiling with worry evident in his wrinkled and weathered face. He glanced over at a framed photograph on the wall. The blond man in the photo was frowning. The Sandaime winced as he turned away.
"I'm sorry, Minato."
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Tears trailed down Naruto's cheeks as he kneeled next to the nearly unmoving body of the white lion. The lion slowly reached his paws out towards Naruto with his claws outstretched. Naruto held onto the heavy paw with a sob breaking out. He loosened his grip and moved more closely to the still warm body of the lion. He gasped out in pain as the claws of the lion suddenly stabbed into his stomach. Red chakra flooded out and disappeared as the lion dug his claws deeper into the Shiki Fuujin seal which was now disappearing as well. The whisker marks on Naruto's cheeks slowly faded away to nothing. Naruto screamed loudly as intricate designs appeared on his arms up to his shoulders. Then suddenly the pain stopped. The white lion also stopped breathing. Naruto cried while wiping his tears away with arms. The bush behind him rustled. Naruto instinctively growled and spreaded out his claws.
"Wait…WHAT?! Claws? Where? My hands?"
As Naruto wondered about the absence of his hands, a young girl came out of the bushes. Naruto looked up and widened his eyes immediately recognizing the red haired girl. He whispered with incredulity in his voice.
"You…"
The girl look at him with her cobalt eyes and responded with a light but clear voice.
"+Anima."
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Inu- Dog
Ushi- Bull
Sandaime Hokage- Third Fire Shadow
Shiki Fuujin- Dead Consuming Seal
How was that? Good? Bad? Tell me?! Direct your questions to me as well. I'll try to answer them to the best of my ability.
I had so much fun typing Sarutobi. I always wondered about where the leaves went when a shinobi used a shunshin. Well…now everyone knows. (In a corner of the Hokage's office.)
R&R
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