~Chapter three: Kit-Tora~
Rain POV:
I laughed at the way Kurami was blushing but then I felt a sensation. I looked behind me and my tail was there. "Ekk! Not now!" I thought.
"Uhm Kurami can I see you for a second." I asked.
"Why?" she asked.
"I just need to see you, like now." I said and dragged her away leaving the others with puzzled faces. I looked behind me to make sure there was no one following us. I lead her into an alleyway.
"Help me." I said letting her go.
"What's wrong?" she asked as my ears popped up. "Oh..." she sighed and pulled out a scroll from her pocket.
"Thank you." I said as she opened it up and bit her finger letting a little bit of blood drip on the scroll. It then revealed the writings and two circles. "You know the deal." she said.
I made a small cut in each of my palms and placed my hands inside the sighed and made a couple of hand signs. "Fuuinjutsu: Seal." she said quietly then slapped her hands on top of mine. That always hurts... a lot. I felt my tail and ears fade away. Where they went exactly I have no clue all I knew is that they come back. I looked behind me to make sure my tail was gone then felt around for my ears.
"Thank you Kurami." I said sheepishly.
"You owe me one." she said putting up the scroll and began to rub her wrist.
"I know, I know." I said. "It still burns?" I asked.
"Yes, stupid snake person." she said and let go of her wrist revealing the curse mark that was now glowing red. "Bite me hmph bite him." she mumbled.
"Come on we have to go to the hokage, you know how he gets." I said heading towards the exit.
"I'm coming." she said following behind me. "What do you think he has for us today?" she asked.
"I dunno probably another lame mission." I said.
"Arg, why doesn't he just go ahead and give us C-ranked missions?" she asked folding her arms.
"Cause we haven't taken the chunnin exam." I said.
"Screw the chunnin exam." she said.
"No don't screw the chunnin exam! It never did anything to you!" I said pointing my finger at her.
"It did too. It took away my possibility of being able to do awesome missions without having to take a test for it." she said.
"Point taken." I said as we entered the hokage's building. "But it's not like we can do anything about it." I said.
"Says you." she said and jogged up the stairs. "Who's a slowpoke now?"she said.
"Mer! You know I don't like stairs!" I said walking up the stairs. "They're out to get me man!" I said.
"Sure they are just like the poles." she said waiting for me.
"But they are! They want my soul!" I said as I reached the top step.
"Come on before you hurt yourself then." she said heading down the hallway.
"Wait don't leave me." I said catching up to her. "Mer meanie." I said
"and proud to be one." she said with a smile and knocked on the door.
"Come in." the voice said from the inside.
"Old man! We came to check in as usual." Kurami said opening the door.
"Good, thank you for doing so." the third said.
"No problemo." she said.
"Do you have a mission for us?" I asked.
"Yes, but I want to talk to you guys about something first." he said.
Me and Kurami exchanged looks and I knew she was trying to remember all the bad things we did and I was too. We looked back at the hokage and gulped.
"It's about Rain's Kit-Tora form." he said and we sighed in relief.
"What about it?" I asked.
"Please don't tell me you want to see it cause I just sealed it up." Kurami said.
"Don't worry I don't want to see it but I am concerned, lately it's been becoming more and more easily unsealed. Why is that?" he asked.
Me and Kurami exchanged glances of concern.
"I don't know but I've noticed that it's been occurring more than usual." she said.
"Is that bad?" I asked worried.
"Hhmmm maybe, either one of two things could be happening." he said and stood up and looked out the window. "Either Kurami's seals are becoming weaker or your Kit-Tora is trying to take over." he said.
"And what exactly does that mean for her?" Kurami asked.
"It means that if we don't get this sorted out she could end up turning into another jinchuuriki." he said.
We gasped "But how? My Kit-Tora doesn't have enough chakra to be a tailed-beast." I said.
"That's what you would suppose but over time your Kit-Tora might have been storing your chakra somewhere making it into hers and now it's starting to overflow." he said.
"And what exactly do you want us to do about it?" Kurami asked.
"Once again you have two choices." he said and turned to face us. "One, you can train to be able to control it better, however this method does have its risks. Option two is to seal it away for good." he said.
I was speechless. I don't want to seal away my kit-tora form she's part of me.
"What do I risk for training?" I asked.
"Losing it for good." he said.
"What kind of training method is that?" Kurami blurted out.
"Wait..." I said stopping Kurami from saying anything else.
"But..."she said
"Let me take care of this, this is my problem." I said. I turned my attention back to the hokage. "I want to learn how to control it better." I said.
"Is that your final decision? Remember if you mess this up though you will lose it forever." he said.
I looked over at Kurami who know was leaning against the wall with her arms folded over her chest. She shrugged. "Your choice." she said. I looked back at the hokage.
"Yes." I said.
He nodded "Very well then, tomorrow we will start training." he said and sat back down. "And one more thing, the chunnin exams are coming up and as my own two personal students I am enter you guys in it." he said as he flipped through some paper.
"Can't we just skip the chunnin exams and become chunin?" Kurami asked.
"No sorry plus this year it's being held here in Konohagakure." he said.
"Whoopee." Kurami said sarcastically spinning her finger in the air.
"Oh come on Kurami it'll be fun! Plus we'll be able to meet people from other villages." I said putting my arm around Kurami.
"If you say it'll be fun." she said sliding away from under my arm. "So when exactly is the chunnin exam?" she asked.
"In a week."he said not looking up from the papers.
"A week?" me and Kurami said in unison.
"Is that going to be enough time for me to be able to train to control me Kit-Tora?" I asked.
"It's more than enough." he said. Me and Kurami exchange glances and she shrugged.
"Well then I guess we'll see you there." she said.
"Is that all you needed us for?" I asked.
"Yes that is all and Rain I will see you tomorrow morning at the training fields bright and early, understood?" he said looking at me with a raised eyebrow.
"Sir yes sir!" I said and saluted him.
"Alrighty then I guess we'll be leaving then." Kurami said inching towards the door.
"Not so fast Kurami." he said and she stopped dead in her tracks. "While Rain is training you're going to be going on missions." he said.
"Arggg! Can they at least be fun missions?" she asked.
"Don't worry I'm sure they'll be fun enough for you." he said holding back a smile.
She looked at him with a puzzled face "Uhm...okay..." she said.
"Well it was nice seeing you old man! See you tomorrow." I said and headed towards the door and dragged Kurami along.
"Alright see you tomorrow." he said as we walked out. We exited the hokage's office.
"Where to now?" I asked.
"I dunno." Kurami said as she stuffed her hands in her pockets.
"hhhmmm..." I said.
"Come on Lee! If we can't do this then we'll run around 1000 times around the village and if we can't do that we'll run around 10000 times around the village on our hands!" (Yes it's the most energetic pair of humans in spandex.)
"Yes Gai sensei!" Lee said as him and Gai came around the corner. Me and Kurami got a sweat drop.
"Not the spandex buddies." Kurami said.
"Bwhahahahaha! Spandex buddies!" I said laughing.
Kurami face palmed "Great now you got their attention."she said as they looked over to us.
"Ah Kurami! Rain!" Lee said and they rain over to us. "What have I done." I thought.
"How are you girls?" Gai asked still jogging in place. "Would you like to join us for some training?" he asked and flashed one of his 'famous' smiles.
"No, no it's fine." I said waving my hands.
"Yeah, we were just about to go train on our own." Kurami said.
"We were?" I asked and she elbowed me. "Ow... I mean yeah." I said.
"Ah such youth! Right Gai-sensei" Lee said looking up at him.
"Yes, indeed well don't let us stop you." Gai said and started jog again. "Come on Lee only 562 more laps to go!"
"Right! I'm coming sensei!" Lee said and they went away.
"Phew, that was close." I said.
"A little too close if you ask me. I mean imagine what would happen if we were to wear spandex." she said. I pictured ourselves along with Gai and Lee wearing spandex and doing the whole pose thing. It sent shivers down my spine just thinking about it.
"Eww, I think I just died a little on the inside." I said shivered.
"Hey you guys! Have you seen Gai and Lee?" Tenten asked stopping in front of us gasping for air.
"That a way." Kurami said pointing in the direction Gai and Lee went.
"You find them yet?" Neji asked catching up.
"Yeah they went that way." Tenten said.
"Come on." Neji said and the were off.
"Sucks to be them." Kurami said.
"I think they make a cute couple." I said nodding my head.
"What?" Kurami said trying not to giggle.
"I dunno it just kinda popped in my head." I said and shrugged.
"Man just looking at them makes me tired." Kurami said.
"Ain't that the truth." I said
"Let's go home, Imma take a nap." Kurami said.
"You mean sleep?" I said.
"Same difference." she said and we went home.
