Bwahaha! And so it begins! This chapter begins it all...and I'm quite proud of it if I may say so myself....
*Disclaimer.
It's pretty obvious I don't own Naruto. If I did, Naruto would have whipped Sasuke's ass a long time ago....
WHAT.....THE HELL?
"What the hell?! I can't see a thing!"
"Then stop flailing about like that dobe! That's the second time you've run into me!"
"Gah! This smoke's messing up my nose! And Akamaru's too!"
"I-It's b-blocking the B-Byakugan!"
"Gah! This is so troublesome...."
"Hey! Forehead girl! Where's your good for nothing sensei? He should be here!"
"Listen Ino pig, Kakashi sensei is probably busy with whatever made that noise..."
"My bugs....the smoke is confusing them..."
"How interesting! This smoke is interfering with our youthful adven- OW! Ten Ten! Why must you halt the progress of youth with your painful blows?"
"Look....it's clearing..."
The genin (and Shikamaru) fell silent as the lavender smoke dissipated, leaving them in the empty clearing, the hut having completely disappeared, not even an indenture in the grass to show that it had been there.
Naruto frowned, peering at the spot where the hut had been. His eyes widened.
"That's so weird! It's completely gone! How does that happen?" he exclaimed, scratching the back of his head. A vein popped up on Sakura's forehead. "Well, it wouldn't have happened if you and Sasuke hadn't been fighting! Kakashi's going to kill us! We made the hut disappear!" said Sakura with a pout. Naruto glared at Sasuke. "Way to go teme!" he sneered. Sasuke's eyes narrowed. "What makes you think it's myfault?" he snarled. Naruto narrowed his eyes and marched towards the Uchiha. "Listen teme-," the blonde-haired troublemaker broke off as he tripped over a rock, causing him to crash into Sasuke.
Then, something strange happened.
The boys were suddenly enveloped in a cloud of the same lavender smoke, which quickly cleared, to reveal....
"OH MY GOD! NARUTO AND SASUKE MELTED!!!!!" cried Ino, pointing at the pile of empty clothes on the ground where the boys had stood a moment before.
"What....the hell?" said Shikamaru, scratching his head.
Suddenly, the clothes began to move, and a small furry head popped out of the mound of orange, while a long snake wriggled out of the pile of black. The monkey was golden in colour, with the fur on it's head spiked in a manner similar to Naruto's, and it had the same whisker marks as the missing gennin as well as the same cerulean eyes.
The snake was black, with a gray and white underbelly. Its eyes were onyx, and it had a weird spike on its head the jutted out in the same manner a Sasuke's duckbutt hair cut. The other ten gennin (and Shikamaru) stared at the two creatures in confusion.
"What's going on!" cried the monkey in Naruto's raspy voice. "Why are my hands furry? Why am I so small? Where are my clothes? Why are you all staring? What's going on!!!" he screeched, waving his hands about in a panic.
"I'm....a snake," said Sasuke slowly, attempting to slither forward but mostly waving back and forth without any progress.
"Sasuke?! Naruto?!" cried Ino and Sakura, clutching each other in terror.
Then, they too, were enveloped in lavender smoke, which cleared to reveal...
A large pink lizard, with leathery wings folded against its back. It had green eyes, and a crest that fell around its neck in the same manner as Sakura's hair. Beside it was a rat, golden in colour, with a small ponytail and Ino's small eyes.
The two of them seemed to be in shock, sitting in a pile of their clothes. The other children remained silent, Naruto and Sasuke included.
"...I-Ino? S-Sakura?" stammered Hinata, staring at the dragon and rat in shock. Kiba backed away, obviously afraid of suffering the same fate as the other four. He back up so quickly that he didn't see Neji and Hinata behind him...
There was another poof of lavender smoke, and in the place of Kiba, Neji and Hinata was a dog, a rabbit, and a lamb.
The dog was brown with the fur on its head spiked like Kiba's and with red patches of fur on its face, the same as the dog boy's face markings.
The rabbit was light gray in colour, with a patch of dark brown fur running from the top of its head to fall into a ponytail that hung over its shoulder. Its eyes were white and pupil less.
The lamb was white, with purpley blue wool on its head that fell in front of its face, partially obscuring its lavender, pupil less eyes.
There was silence in the clearing.
"Okay," said Shikamaru. "Obviously that smoke did something to us that cause us to turn into animals. Naruto's been turned into a monkey, Sasuke's a snake, Sakura is what appears to be a small dragon, Ino's a rat..." The blonde rat wailed in horror, "Kiba's a dog, Hinata's a lamb and Neji's a rabbit," finished the chunnin.
Lee laughed and knelt down in front of Neji.
"Look at you Neji-kun! You're such a cute little youthful bunny rabbit!" he said with a sparkly grin.
"This...is so degrading," muttered Neji.
"Wah! Why am I a monkey?! This is so weird!" wailed Naruto.
"At least you have...limbs," hissed Sasuke, still attempting to move.
"I'm a horrible, scaly beast!" wailed Sakura. Then, she flapped her wings experimentally and her look of horror was replaced with an intrigued one. "...but I wonder if I can fly..."
"I'm a rat! A filthy rat! Why am I a rat?! This is soo unfair!" cried Ino, sitting down on the ground despondently.
"Cool! I'm a dog like you Akamaru!" said Kiba, trotting over to sniff noses with his partner. Akamaru barked excitedly at the sight of his master in the same form as him, and the two of them ran excited circles around each other.
"I'm glad someone's enjoying this," muttered Neji, extremely upset about his form. I mean, really, a bunny rabbit?
Hinata said nothing, blushing profusely as she tried to hide herself underneath her clothes, feeling naked, wool, or no wool.
"So, the rest of us just have to not touch each other?" said Ten Ten, looking at her transformed comrades with apprehension. Shikamaru nodded. "I think so. They seemed to change whenever they came in contact with another person. Naruto bumped into Sasuke..."
"Nice going dobe," hissed the snake.
"...Sakura and Ino hugged each other...."
"Does that mean we can't ever hug Sasuke-kun again?" wailed Ino.
"...and Kiba bumped into Neji and Hinata."
"Stupid dog," mumbled Neji, still put out about his appearance.
"Okay," said Ten Ten, blowing out a sigh. "Nobody touch me! I hate animals with a passion and the last thing I want to do is turn into one!" she commanded sternly. Lee, however, had other thoughts.
"I can't help but to wonder....what type of youthful animal would I turn into?" he said, tapping his chin thoughtfully. Suddenly, the spandex clad boy leapt up, his eyes sparkling. "Comrades, I will join you on your youthful journey to uncover the hidden beast within me!" he said, "And Ten Ten will join me!"
Ten Ten whirled around in horror, seeing Lee rushing towards her, his arms spread wide. Her brown eyes widened.
"Oh hell no-,"
There was a pouf of lavender smoke as Lee embraced Ten Ten, and when it cleared there was a horse and a large cat where Lee and Ten Ten had stood.
The horse was tan in colour, with a thatch of bowl shaped hair on the top of its head. It had Lee's wide, sparkly eyes and crazy grin.
The cat was large, reaching up to about mid-thigh on Shikamaru. It was a mottled brown, with darker brown stripes. Its ears were extremely rounded, resembling Ten Ten's buns, and it had her enraged expression.
"Lee, I swear to God, I'm going to tear you into little youthful pieces!" she snarled, brandishing her new fangs and claws threateningly. Lee however, paid her no mind, too preoccupied with his new form.
"Look how youthful I am! I am a youthful stallion, filled to the brim with youth! Look how majestic and youthful I am! Neji-kun, do you see how youthful and great your companions have become?" said Lee, every inch of his new form sparkling.
Neji didn't say anything, more embarrassed by his rabbit-ness then ever, seeing Lee as a majestic stallion and Ten Ten as a dangerous Tigress.
"This is so troublesome...." muttered Shikamaru, letting his head fall into his hand. At this point only, he, Chouji and Shino were still human.
But not for long....
Chouji, suddenly possessed by a streak of curiosity and mischievousness, grinned evilly, and grabbed Shino by the coat and Shikamaru by the ponytail, enveloping them both in a large bear hug.
There was a puff of lavender smoke, and the three boys were replaced by a boar, a rooster, and a cow.
The boar had a Mohawk of reddish brown hair that jutted out at the sides, like Chouji's, and two red swirls of fur on its cheeks.
The rooster was brown, with black feathers replacing the usual red ones. The feathers on its head jutted out into what looked like a ponytail, with the same pineapple puff as Shikamaru's.
The cow was black, with a white face and underbelly. Two black splotches were over its eyes, resembling Shino's sunglasses, which, mysteriously, weren't in his pile of clothes...
"I am....mad," said Shino, turning to glare at Chouji. The Akimichi was staring at his form in horror. "A...pig?" he said with a sob. "I am NOT a pig!"
Naruto and Kiba snickered, seeing Chouji freaking out at being a pig.
Shikamaru sighed. "So...troublesome. I don't even know how to sit down...."
"This is horrible! We're all animals! What are we supposed to do now?!" cried Ino, flailing her tiny arms about.
"Must...learn...to move...." said Sasuke, still trying (without much luck) to slither forwards.
"I can't believe I'm a rotten furballed, banana eating monkey!" said Naruto despondently.
"At least you have opposable thumbs!" growled Ten Ten. "I swear Lee..."
"I will certainly be able to go at extreme youthful speeds in this youthful form! I can't wait to show Gai Sensei this new, even more youthful side of me!" exclaimed Lee.
"Ugh...what's Kakashi sensei going to say...we really messed up..." muttered Sakura.
"This...is more troublesome then I could have ever imagined..." muttered Shikamaru, attempting to lie on the grass but mostly just floundering on his side.
How do I sit down? He thought with an internal sigh.
"This is so cool!" cried Kiba, his tongue lolling out of his mouth. Hinata remained silent, buried in the mound of her clothes. Shino was also silent, glaring as he was at Chouji, who was blubbering over and over again: "I am not a pig! I am not a pig! I am not a PIG!"
Neji was also silent, sitting quietly in a dark cloud of despair, brought about by his....rabbitness.
It was at this moment that Kakashi jumped into the clearing.
"Sorry, I got sidetracked by a lost little gi-," the white haired shinobi froze.
"Um..." he said, staring at the monkey, snake, dragon, rat, dog, rabbit, lamb, horse, tiger, rooster, boar, and cow, all of which closely resembled his twelve charges.
"What's....going on?"
And there you go!
Yes, this is a Fruits Basket parody.
I actually matched the animals with the personalities of the kids. So, yeah, Chouji's not a boar just because he likes to eat. He's a boar because he has characteristics of someone born in the year of the Boar. If you want, I'll post the definitions of the twelve zodiac signs and the personalities that go along with them on an upcoming chapter, in case you disagree with the animals I chose for each person. The matches aren't perfect, but I did the best I could! In some cases, some aspects of the character's personality matched that of the zodiac sign completely, but other aspects were completely different. But, again, I did the best I could!
Plus, I really wanted to make Neji a rabbit...teehee.
Teehee, the hilarity will continue....eventually. Like I said, this is mostly to alleviate stress, so I won't be updating it consistently, but I will update! .....At some point....
Review! My rusty spoon is still at the ready!
xoxo, natcat5 ;p