When Lightning Strikes
Disclaimers: I don't own Naruto
Asuka (fragrance of tomorrow)
Chapter Three
"What is his name? Why doesn't he have fur?" I ask curious looking at Kyuubi.
"He is human unlike us foxes. Humans call him Gaara. So Gaara will be his name. He will grow up safer with us." Kyuubi reply smiling.
"I like playmate." I don't know whether she mean Gaara or Ichibi will be safe, although it was thoughtful of her. At least Gaara won't get a lonely and hateful childhood since he is here with us.
I feel strange with the child kidnapping idea. I hope it all turn out for the best. It turns out Kyuubi want me to help her to look after Gaara as well as play with him. I don't mind looking after him but it would be troublesome on top of my studies.
"Come kit." Kyuubi said. I walk up to her. "It would be annoying to look after him in our fox form. So we will change into human form to do so. I will show you how."
Kyuubi grow smaller as she transform into a human female. She has cream skin, shoulder length deep red hair, red eyes and wore a long dress but bare footed.
"Your turn now kit. Think of yourself as a human like me but smaller and then apply chakra." Kyuubi instructed me.
So imagine myself as a human eh? I thought of original form – well my old human form. I could use that. Closing my eyes I concentrated, picturing the image in my head I use a bit of chakra. Then I felt a strange cool feeling wash over my body.
"Use more chakra kit, you need to lose your fur and tail otherwise good work." Kyuubi commented.
I nodded to show that I understand. I use more chakra and then l opens my eyes to look at my body. Yup, I'm transform into a human. Instead of brown hair and green eyes, I change it to be dark red hair and a light shade of red eyes. Kyuubi put and tied a blanket on me. Where did she get that from?
"I need to get clothes for you. I will be teaching you how to be human too." Kyuubi sigh as she pick up Gaara, beckon to me to follow her through the forest which I follow her on my legs and hands.
I had gotten used to walk on fours. What? I'm not supposed to know how to walk on my two legs yet.
"What are clothes?" I ask innocently.
It is interesting to have Kyuubi as a mother and Gaara as a brother. It is not normal to have a powerful demon fox that can easily kill you to look after you. There are times where I freaked out by moving sand going after me because Gaara wants me for some unknown reasons.
Kyuubi can talk to Ichibi somehow and manage to get Ichibi to train Gaara when he is older. Also from what l overheard kyuubi got Gaara in a village in the middle of a forest, in a room surrendered by glowing lines. Some sort of sealing? It can be Konoha as the Sand and Leaf villages are allies. The leaf village has the best seal masters according to David.
As time passed I fell into the rhyme of helping kyuubi looking after Gaara, playing with him, learning jutsus from kyuubi and Ami, relearning how to be a human (it's annoying as I pretend to be ignorant). Also leaning to hunt for food, how to fight in both fox and form and how to throw various weapons that the other foxes had found.
Gaara and I grow bigger, older, wiser (I hope) and stronger. I obtain two more tails so I am a three tailed fox. It was a big shock and unnerving for the first time as I don't know what is happening. Kyuubi just said that the number of tails indicates how strong I am.
11 years later.
"Kits come down here." Kyuubi call to us.
Gaara and I leap from a branch from a tree that we were sitting on onto the ground. Gaara's sand caught him and places him gently on the ground. I use the wind to slow down my fell. "We will be going to visit a human village for a while. I have taught you two to behave like humans so let's put it to the test. Don't let anyone find out what you contain Gaara."
"Yay!" I yell happily bouncing up and down. "We are going where the humans live."
"I like to see their dens." Gaara said feeling excited and happy.
"Follow me kits."
Kyuubi starts to go in one direction speeding away. Gaara and I follow her, after a while put some chakra on our feet to catch up with her. What is her hurry? I gave Gaara a question look, he shrugged. He doesn't know either. Then kyuubi change into her human form with clothes, I did too.
"Mother, what will we do when we get there?" I ask eagerly. It had been years since I been to a town or city. I love to explore this world.
"We find a job, buy better clothes and act like humans." Reply Kyuubi.
That is great. So what should I do about Orochimaru and Akatsuki because they might be going after Gaara. I have no real plan now as I don't know where I am and where I can find those creeps. Suna might want Gaara back if they find out where Gaara is. I wonder if I can meet the main characters.
Two days later we slow down our traveling speed to normal walking pace to enter a town. Gaara and I stick close to kyuubi as we look around with interest and curiously. I see familiar settings and clothes. Kyuubi lead us into a building to a man sitting behind a desk, he didn't notice us as he is reading some paper.
"Is this where I sign up for work in the Gotou's shipping companying?" Kyuubi ask catching his attention. He looks at her in surprise and disbelief before putting a blank expression. He pushes some papers and a pen to her on the table.
"Read the agreements and sign it if you agree to the terms." The man said.
Kyuubi read it, pick the pen up to sign it. I see him watching her with interest. Pervert. I widen my eyes slightly in surprise. Wait a minute, Gotou? Does this mean I'm this early in the time? No duh Asuka, have a look at Gaara – he's probably around 11 years old. Too bad I don't have a Naruto calendar that tells me the events happens around here. Then again things had changed so the story I know of won't be the same.
"We need more mercenaries to help protect our cargo. Fighting is required and would that be alright with you?" The man asks.
"Fine by me. I need the money." Kyuubi answered.
The man looks at Gaara and me. "Right. Go outside and go down the street on your left to the end where the harbor is. Tell the ship captain that you a hired mercenaries and he will tell you what to do."
"Thanks." Kyuubi said. We did as we are told. It was easy to find the captain as he was yelling out orders. The captain told kyuubi to help move his cargo onto the ship, he told Gaara and I to get onto the shop and stay out of the way. So we sat on the rails watching people work.
"Big pond." Gaara said looking at the sea.
"It's called the sea." I said looking at some sea gulls. I hope they won't do their business on me.
"Oh."
We set sail around noon. I heard some sailors talk that we are going to Wave country. I grin happily, I can finally find out what part of the story now when I get to Wave. Kyuubi walk to us some time later. Kyuubi gave us some bread and water for lunch. Gaara eat it with interest. I munch on it.
"Kits, I want you to look around Wave country when we get there but don't draw attention to yourself. Observe humans and what they do, to mimic them, I would ask you questions about that. I send foxes to you or if you hear me calling you then come to me. Understand?" Kyuubi ask.
"Yes mom." We said, I can't wait to get there.
A day past until we reach land. During this time Gaara and I set off to explore the ship. At some point we got chased out, other places we get to look around. Half the time we got in other peoples way, annoying them. We were curious and bored at staring out in the sea.
We are happy when we set foot on solid ground, I'm pretty sure I am not going on a ship any time soon. Kyuubi said her goodbyes before we went off to look around Wave County.
"How do we contact her if we need her?" Gaara ask as we start to walk aimlessly in one direction.
"I don't know. I'm sure she would have some foxes watching us. She wouldn't let us be alone without her if she thinks we can't look after ourselves. We just look after ourselves normally, watch humans and look around this place as we wait for her to contact us. We just need to be really careful and be cautious wherever we go." I reply confidently.
"There are people and their places ahead, let's see what they doing." Gaara said, hurrying forward.
"Alright." I walk quickly to catch up to Gaara. It seems like I'm not the only one who want to visit a town.
