Lucky-sama: Sorry about the late update, my laptop crashed on me and I had to retype the enitre thing on another computer.
Tensai-san: And next chapter for Team Demon might come out later on today or not at all depending on the time we have.
Lucky-sama: I still haven't finished my X-mas shopping yet so I'm in big trouble right now.
Tensai-san: And a little Christmas surprise for everyone! The first reviewer will get a fanfiction specially written by us on a pairing of their choice! And if we get 5 reviews, we'll reveal what on of the pairings is in the next chapter!
Lucky-sama: Enough talk, on with the chapter!
Tensai-san: Merry X-mas! (Santa is a stalker, if you agree with me, post Santa is a stalker on your profile, I think Santa's in cahoots with the government, the government is watching you always...dun dun dun...)"Your sheath," Ikasu tossed a package to Naruto.
Naruto watched as the packaged spun heads over heels and landed neatly in his hands. Without wasting another moment, he ripped off the brown paper covering it, revealing a metal sheath and a black strap so it could be carried. Silently, he slipped his zanpakuto inside the sheath and swung it over his shoulder. Then he tightened the strap so it wouldn't come off.
"All set kid?" Ikasu held up their bags which were filled with their stuff.
"Hai!" Naruto grunted as he shouldered his own bag.
"Let's move!" Ikasu grinned and leapt out the window with Naruto following close behind.
While they were waiting for the sheath to be made, Ikasu had taught Naruto how to walk on walls and stuff. It took Naruto several tries to get it right and now he was proficient in the skill.
They leapt through forests, fields of grass and plains of sand. Many times, they hid in the crowd of merchants heading down the path in order to avoid any trouble. At times, they thought they had been found out by some nin on guard but they kept their act up and passed through without much trouble. After they had crossed the border and into the Snow country did they stop.
"Where are we going?" Naruto shivered dispite the fact he had a cloak on.
"If I remember correctly, there should be-" Ikasu stopped adbruptly which caused Naruto to crash into him.
"What's wrong?" Naruto demanded crossly as he he dusted himself off.
"Home sweet home," Ikasu grinned as he strode off towards a heap of snow.
"Home? Don't tell me we're making an igloo! HEY! Wait up dammit!" Naruto struggled to catch up with Ikasu's long strides. At about halfway, Ikasu seemed to glide over the snow and left no footprints even though his foot sank through. Curious, Naruto tried putting chakra into his feet and walk like Ikasu did. Instead, he simply stood on top of the snow, he didn't sink in like Ikasu did. Shaking his head, he made a mental note to ask his sensei about it later.
"It's still here!" Ikasu waved his hand and the snow flew in many directions revealing a modest sized house buried underneath it.
"How-" Naruto was cut off as Ikasu promptly kicked down the front door and dragged him in.
Ikasu immeadietly wandered off into the depths of the house, lost in old memories. Grumbling, Naruto begrudgedly placed the door back in it's proper spot. Then he turned and for the first time he took a real look at his surroundings. An oak dining table sat in the middle of the floor, several chairs sat around it loosely. The kitchen was sparkling clean, and everything was in the proper spot. Naruto wheeled around and turned his attention to the fridge and the pantry.
He took a deep breath and pulled the pantry open. Inside was food, tons of it, canned food was neatly stacked and stored away on the shelves. On the floor, there was a box that caught Naruto's eye, it was labelled, INSTANT RAMEN AND OTHER NOODLES!! His eyes widened and he immeadietly slammed the pantry door shut. "Must not go crazy, must not go crazy," he chanted to himself.
After he had calmed down he crept over to the fridge, wondering if he ought to be scared or not, he took another deep breath and pulled the door open. Inside was fresh vegetables, eggs and milk and whatever else you would find in a normal person's fridge. Naruto reached out and lifted a jug of milk to make sure it was real and not some illusion his sensei had put there. Gingerly, he unscrewed the cap of the jug and took a testing sniff. It smelled normal, his nose told him. But not wanting to believe his nose, he brought the jug to his mouth and drained the entire jug in one go. "It's good," Naruto declared as he chucked the jug into the waste.
"Yo-What did you do?" Ikasu raised his eyebrows.
"I drank milk," Naruto replied nonchalantly.
"You grew more like," Ikasu walked up to him and stared him in the eye without bending over.
"Woah," Naruto breathed as he looked down at himself for the first time. He had grown as soon as he drank that milk, and now his shorts were way to short and his T-shirt was always too big for him so it was a little too tight. "What did you put in that milk?"
"Nothing, it's just you, it's just...I'll explain after we get you some clothes that fit," Ikasu sighed and led the way into the hallway.
He flung open a door and pulled open the closet. A mesh T-shirt, some black pants with a white stripe running down the side of each pant-leg, a dark blue sweater with a trailof orange running across the chest and sleeves were thrown at Naruto. Naruto hastily put it on and tossed aside his old clothes.
"Now answer me, why did I grow?" Naruto demanded after the hetic change was done.
"It'll be better if you met sensei face to face," Ikasu sighed and tapped Naruto on the head which caused him to black out.
"Hello kit," a loud voice rumbled in Naruto's ears. Groggily, he sat up and stared around him in shock.
"Where am I?" he asked.
"Your mind," Ikasu came into view.
"My mind?" Naruto repeated dumbly.
"Yes your mind, can you not understand what he said? Or is your mental capacity so low that it takes a moment to process what we just said? Perhaps, we, need, to, speak, slower," the last few words were exaggerated and slowed down.
"Who?" Naruto whipped around, only to come face to face with some bars and a giant fox staring down on him.
"I'm Kyuubi no Kitsune, the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon," Kyuubi lowered his head so his head rested on the floor.
"Kyuubi? I thought the Yondaime killed him!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Listen kid, the Yondaime was a master of seals and sealing," Ikasu hinted and examined his fingernails, bored.
"Sealing? Oh-he sealed Kyuubi into me!" Naruto exclaimed in realisation, it took a moment to sink in, "He sealed the Kyuubi into me?!"
"Tough life kid, don't think your the only one, there are many out there who have other demons contained in them, me included, their lives may have been better than your's or worse, it doesn't matter, you all walk the same road basically," Ikasu shrugged.
"You included, so which demon do you have?" Naruto asked curiously.
"Kyuubi no Kitsune," Ikasu replied simply.
"But I have the Kyuubi! How can you have him if I have him?" Naruto demanded.
"I don't have the Kyuubi, I had, I've released him along time ago," Ikasu sat down lazily.
"How do you release?" Naruto scratched his head.
"There are two ways," Ikasu held up two fingers, "One, you either get the demon forcibly extracted from your soul, but there's a 99% of dying or you die and you choose to release the demon at that time,"
"Meaning?"
"I'm dead,"
"WHAT?" Naruto stood up adbruptly, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE DEAD?"
"In order for me to release the Kyuubi, I have to be dead, only then can I release," Ikasu tapped his fingers together.
"If you're dead, then how can you be around?" Naruto pointed out.
"I'm no, I was a shinigami,"
"What's a shine-game?" Naruto struggled to pronounce the name.
"When you die, you either pass on peacefully to the next world, or you stay in your world as a ghost, a harmless ghost that does your everyday ghost thing. There's something called the chain of fate, it binds you're soul to your body, when it's cut, you die. But the chain of fate is where your heart is, if the chain drops away, you'll have a hole in your chest and then you become a hollow. Now hollows eat human souls and other spirits, they are extremely dangerous. It's a shinigami's job to get rid of hollows and any spirits who have lingered for the chance they may become a hollow in the future," Ikasu let the information sink in.
"Oh," Naruto thought about it, "What do you mean, you were a shinigami?" Naruto prodded.
"I died in a battle against a hollow as a shinigami," Ikasu stated blandly.
"You died again? How do you die twice and keep coming back?!" Naruto clutched his head, his brain trying to process this insane information.
"I dunno, it's fate? Destiny? Luck? There's a loophole in death?" Ikasu suggested.
"You're insane," Naruto muttered.
"Yes I'm insane, anyways, you can chat with sensei later, right now we're going back," Ikasu dragged Naruto over to a wall and drew a circle in mid-air. The circle shimmered and widened, forming a portal. "See ya sensei!" an they were gone.
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Tensai-san: Merry Christmas and see you in 2009!
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