An: Shcribble Donamarine: Hello It's me again! I'm updating again so here's your chapter.
Oh and by the way, Sakura fans don't be angry at me if there is something somewhat mean is said in this chapter about her. I think Sakura is an entertaining character and I especially like her AFTER the time skip. But in this fic, Kyubbi doesn't have much respect for her yet so he will have some not so nice things to say about her. For you Sakura haters out there, don't worry, she won't be the ultra cool Sakura or something like that, I plan on doing some character development with her (Well, with everybody) and she will probably stay as in character as I can make her. But if you have any comments on how I portray ANY of the characters, please let me know.
On another note; Kakashi fans, if you don't like how I portray him either, Please tell me how to write him I practically wrote this chapter with a Naruto manga in my hand so that way he stays in character! Sigh, if anyone out there has successfully written Kakashi could you please give me tips on how to write him with using a manga for reference?
If you guys haven't noticed, I am alone again in the Author's notes... And my sister and I don't own Naruto. No little birdies were harmed in the making of this fic!
Chapter 4
Genin
"Where is our sensei?"
I bit back a groan, trying not to express the same irritation as the rest of my teammates. Yes our sensei's late, but I will not act like a twelve year old genin brat and whine. I am much too mature and we kitsune do not whine like small children.
Dark-and-brooding is well, brooding, while the rude-pinky-fan-girl was swooning over him, and tail-brat seemed to be plotting something... Then he stood up and grabbed an eraser off of the chalk board in the now empty class room, all the other teams of genin had left already with their senseis.
Gah.
Naruto chuckled as he grabbed a stool and climbed on top to wedge the eraser in the sliding door.
Pinky scolded him, but I didn't put any effort in to paying any attention to what she was saying. I don't care at all.
Brood boy mentioned something about jounin never falling for such pranks like that.
"Shut up! I'm sure that you can't come up with a better trap!" Naruto responded.
I believe I'm experiencing a new emotion, I believe it's called Boredom. I fight the urge to roll my eyes, I shouldn't really rely on sarcasm; it's the weapon of the weak.
"I bet this is the best trap ever!" Naruto bragged. I looked at him, then the "trap"... pathetic.
Better show this brat how's it's done.
I worked on setting up a carefully constructed, complex, snare complete with rope, kunai, shuriken, and to my personal approval, a bear trap. To hide the trap, I casted a low chakra genjutsu that would have been perfectly hidden it if I had plenty of demon chakra; smirking and rolling my tongue over my upper canines on my teeth, a habit I had developed from my demon days. My fellow genin look at each other before looking at me like I was insane.
Once done, I decided to design a new jutsu, something the damn-jutsu-stealer won't copy.
Slowly I sketched out a form of myself and a red chakra fox that swirled around me, ready to shred my enemies to gory bits.
I paused as I heard footsteps come down the hallway... A young male in his mid-twenties, tall, well trained, and he's right out side our door. I looked up to greet this new victim.
A hand pushed the door aside and as Naruto had estimated, had the eraser land on his head.
Amazing...One trap down and...
He sidestepped my trap looking at if as if I had painted it bright pink on purpose, before disabling it with a kunai, ignoring Pinky's sayings about her immature teammates and how she was innocent in all this.
How did he dodge a trap that caught kages?! Was there something wrong with the genjutsu? It worked perfectly back when I had my nine tails... my nine tails... not enough chakra damn it! And secondly...
Well what do you know, Pinky's a brown-noser.
(An: Once again, my apologies to all you Sakura fans out there!)
"Well, from my first impression of all four of you." The silver haired one eyed man with a black face mask said, pausing for an effect before continuing, "I hate you all."
...You've got to be kidding...
"Well then, let's meet in the roof for proper introductions shall we?" The sensei remarked.
What a strange man, a strange, frustrating, irritating, confusing enigma.
Once we settled on the roof our sensei... still don't know his damn name damn it, said that it might be best to introduce ourselves.
"Like what?" Pinky asked. I listened; he might give out some vital information after all.
"... You know the usual, your likes, dislikes, dreams, ambitions, hobbies. Things like that." the bored eyed man replied.
"How about you go first?" The blonde haired nuisance, carrier of my tails asked. "Show us how it's done."
'Show us how it's done?' Good grief, those damn villagers should have at least instructed him on how to say hello at least!
"That's right," Pinky agreed with dumb and sheltered here. "You're a stranger to us."
"Oh...Me?" Bored eye seemed to realize before speaking again. "My name is Hatake Kakashi. I don't feel like talking about my interests or dislikes. My dreams are none of your business, but I have a lot of hobbies."
A regular loose lipped chatterbox aren't' you Bored eye?
"Alright let's hear about you redhead." it said to me.
"Kitsu Kyumaru, I like darts and..." I paused bearing my teeth menacingly and rolled my tongue over my canines before continuing. "Revenge. My dislikes are ramen," I can hear the tail brat squeak in protest, "and a certain collection of morons I would rather not mention. My only goals so far are to get something back that's mine, and to achieve enlightenment in order to escape a certain fate."
Silence.
"I believe your next." I said turning to the tail brat.
This snapped Naruto out of the daze I seemed to place them in and smiled. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto, I like ramen, and hate the three minute wait for when the noodles are ready," for crying out loud this kid needs to be introduced to better foods. I know I'm not feeding him. Plus Naruto has to learn the hard way; experience is the best teacher after all. " My hobbies are pulling pranks and training, and my dream is to become a great and respected acknowledged shinobi!"
Huh, some dream.
"Alright how about you?" Bored eye asked Broody.
"Uchiha Sasuke." Broody said quietly but his words seemed to travel. "I don't like many things, and dislike many things. I don't have a dream, but an ambition, to kill a certain someone."
Broody here seems to live up to his 'it's always the quiet ones' stereotype quite perfectly.
"Haruno Sakura, my likes..." she blushed and burst in to giggles sneeking a peek at Dark and Broody. " My dreams..." more giggles, they make me shudder and hurt my ears, "... and..." more giggles, shoot me now!
"... And your dislikes?" Bored eye-sensei asked. Brave man Bored eye, brave man. I prepared to cover my ears to Pinky's giggles.
Pinky's face dropped the stupid dumb broad act and picked up the five year old with cooties look. "Naruto."
The damn tail brat nearly had a heart attack.
I felt tempted to either; laugh, sigh, roll my eyes, pat Naruto on the back, or make a comment on the general immaturity all of my teammates displayed and ask Bored eye-sensei for a different team. On second thought, havoc wreaking, massacring, and throwing darts sounds much more interesting now.
"Now that we understand each other, formal training starts tomorrow." Bored eye-sensei replied breaking me out of my sweet morbid thoughts.
"Yes! Finally, so what kind of training is it?" Tail brat asked excitedly.
Finally, after all these years, my chakra coils can now grow strong enough to handle this shinobi training and I'll be one step closer to getting my tails back!
"Survival training." Kaskashi-sensei explained.
I smirked remembering the days of a kitsune; this will be easy, too easy... "What's the catch?" I inquired.
Bored eye looked at me and answered. "You will survive against me."
"Sounds good to me." I smirked, I a kitsune, I've survived worse, with my repulsive... training buddy, yeah that's what she was. Tongue roll over canines again.
And with that I got up to leave. "Wait," Sensei called.
I paused.
"Here are the details to your assignment." He explained handing me the assignment on a sheet of paper. I took it and left.
The next morning I waited at the training grounds with my weapons, few extra darts, incase I get bored, and my hair tied up in a braid so that way it won't get in my way.
My teammates waited with me from dawn to ten o'clock.
By then Tardy Bored eye arrived. Forget all the times I called him sensei.
"Morning class!" He called.
"You're late!" Pinky and Tail brat yelled.
Why do I have feeling this will become routine?
Bored eye reached in to a pocket in his vest and pulled out three bells. "The survival exam is a timed one," He began as he reached in to his back pack and pulled out an alarm clock set to noon, and placed on a nearby stump. "This alarm clock will go off at noon, before the alarm rings you need to steal a bell from me to pass. Come at me as to kill me if you are serious about passing this test."
I remember reading about this test, it suddenly makes sense, it appears that the loser gets tied to a stump, has lunch eaten before them, and then is shipped to the academy.
"Ready, Set, Go!" Bored eye said as all four students sprang in to action, hiding from site like predator stalking prey.
I found a large tree that suited my hiding needs and leapt in to the branches, years of being a Kitsune made this skill elementary, same as thievery. This test is going to be a sinc—what the hell is the tail brat doing out in the open challenging our sensei with those loud words...What is this a match up in a tournament?
Naruto yelled although I couldn't hear, I think I know what he's saying. He thinks this way is a fight between warriors.
I can barely contain myself when I say, what a moron... those villagers must be rubbing off on him.
Naruto yelled, Kakashi said something, and then he pulled out a bright orange book, and opened it. The Tail-brat yelled in shock and pulled out his kunai ready to fight in blind rage when I did something that I find out of character for myself... I ran out on to the battle field and dragged the Tail-brat off of it and bonked him on the head.
"You idiot, what kind of ninja fights in a blind rage?" I asked once we got to the shelter of the trees. "My father taught me that if I ran out on to a battle field with out a proper plan or let an enemy provoke me in to an attack like that I would die instantly!" Then I left before the kit would question me.
Bored Eye was standing out side of the trees, he's expecting something…. I think it's time I trying a battle against a jounin.
I crouched in a taijustsu stance and began to plan, analyzing my opponent. Adrenaline pumped in my system as my inner demon started demanding a kill… one I shall gladly do. My tongue rolled over my canines and I began to pounce. I remembered the days I fought in kitusne form and remembered what I learned in the academy, adjusting each move to suit my body. I charged.
Bored eye was expecting a full on charge so I veered off to the side and turned to attack his side, he expected this and caught my kunai as I pulled it in a claw like motion.
I abandoned the kunai before he grabbed a hold of me and leap to the side, wishing I still had my tails.
We battle, he'd block all my attacks with ease, the bells were calling, but I needed to find out what his strengths and weaknesses were before I went after them. But what kind of jutsus did this guy have?
Time to find out and test this new jutsu I read about in the academy.
Hare, tiger, ram, dog, bird, ram, tiger, ox, boar, rat, dragon, hare, horse, and dragon again!
"Art of Yokai summoning; Kitsune Hi!" I yelled and threw my palms at Bored eye as he prepared for the attack. Out of my palms came one tiny spark before the jutsu died.
………………………………………………………………………………………….
What the hell?
Bored eye looked at the spark then at me, and seemed to analyze something.
From the numb shock and humiliation came the frustration.
DAMN IT ALL, I STILL DON'T HAVE ENOUGH CHAKRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I charged at my sensei using my emotion to charge my movements like I used to as a kitsune, not letting my frustration blind me, and once he dodged I took my frustration on the mindless destruction of the foliage before me.
A wire tied here, and Kunai thrown here, a ripped branch here, it being torn like cloth in my hands, feet and mouth, and a Shrunken there, and an exploding that there… ah the expulsion is a nice touch to that tree…
I few miniatures later I spat bark and leaves out of my mouth feeling better about the destruction my inner demon wanted and disappeared in to the foliage, I'll have to wait and hid until the time is right.
Time passed and by noon, I hadn't had much luck, Broody, Pinky, and Tail-brat didn't either. Bored eye seemed to have encountered some traps I set for him at one point; I noticed that he didn't get caught by them.
Broody spent some time brooding in the ground before noon, Pinky fainted twice, and the Tail-brat was tied to a stump. Or at least that what I think happened.
Bored eye was unimpressed.
"All four of you fail this test, and I don't think any more schooling would improve anything either." He said. "None of you will ever become Shinobi."
WHAT! You mean after all that crap I had been dealt with I don't have material to be come a shinobi, what kind of sick person is fate?!
"But Sensei, why do we fail!" Pinky protested.
"Sakura, have you even considered why you were put in to teams?" Bored eye asked. "That is the bases of shinobi work, teamwork!" Every one but me gasped. There is no why I'm going to act as a team with those idiots. "Sasuke, you felt that the other team mates were beneath you as you ignored them.
"Sakura, you focused everything on Sasuke and ignored Naruto who was right in front of you, and you doubted yourself in doing anything.
"Naruto, you tried to do the work of three or four by yourself.
"Kyumaru…. I'd like to know what you were thinking."
"What do you think?" I snapped back.
"I don't know Kyumaru"—"Kitsu!" that man shouldn't call me by first name!—"I'm not a physic. For a minute I thought you were going to help Naruto, then you run off on him to try your skill against mine, and then once you fail a jutsu, you threw a fit (?) or a very clever ruse and those traps, would have been brutal if I didn't' notice them. So what were you thinking?"
"And why should I tell you?" it's not like it's going to matter? It's not like they earned my respect.
Bored eye sighed. "Alright, I'll give you all one more try after lunch, so eat up, except Naruto, he goes hungry. And remember my word is law for this test." And with that he left.
My word is law, what kind of crap is that?
We eat some of the bento with the growl of Naruto filling our ears, despite his reassurances to not feed him. You know it's moments like this you can't help but feel a little sorr—NO No No! I will not become a weak human, if he snoozes he loses!
Broody rolled his eyes and wordlessly offered Naruto his lunch.
Pinky gasped. "But Sasuke! What if Kakashi-sensei finds out!"
Broody glanced at her; that seemed to shut her up. "He has to be miles away from here, and if Naruto goes hungry, he will be weak, and no use to us."
Broody has a point there. I tried to take another bite when dull pain filled all my nerves and I was reminded of my promise to Iruka-sensei... damn you Iruka….so I gave my lunch to the tail brat.
"You too?" Pinky asked.
I glanced at her. "I don't have to worry about feeding myself." I threw a kunai up in to the air, and held my hand out to catch a bird that flew a little too low for safety with my kunai lodged in its breast.
Pinky, Broody, and even the tail brat looked at me flabbergasted as I removed the kunai, plucked off some feathers and bit off the head and began feeding on its meat.
"Ew! Here Naruto, you need to eat right?" Pinky protested and shoved her bento to the tail brat.
"No thanks Sakura-chan, I'm not hungry anymore." Tail brat muttered, and I heard Broody drop his bento box in shock. I looked up, all three were staring at me, each a sickly shade of green, each expressing a 'how can you eat that?' look on their face.
"Look there may come a time where you will have to eat raw meat, even human meat, just to survive." I explained tired of the expressions they were giving me. I don't see what the big deal is? It's just a bird.
Amazing how they hold back vomit.
Then the atmosphere grew tense as our sensei, now looking like an angered god approached us. "YOU!"
The tail brat and Pinky panicked, Broody got his kunai ready for an attack, as I took another bite of bird, but had the bird killing kunai in my hand for safety.
"Pass." He stood up straight and seemed to beam with is one eye.
"What?"
"While it's true that those who break the rules are scum in the shinobi world, but those who ignore the needs of their teammates are lower than scum in my opinion." Bored eye seemed proud of us. Then he noticed something red.
"Is that a bird?" He asked me.
"It's my lunch." I retorted.
"Any way, you all can go home now. Except you Kyumaru, I need to speak to you."
Broody and Pinky walked away and Tail-brat protested when they left him tied up.
"Tail-brat, if you can remember the rope unbinding Jutsu, I'll buy you something edible." I bribed, or more as my promise made me bribe, but the brat needed to figure out how to get himself out of these situations, and the food would just be an incentive to get out.
"Fine, but you better pay up when I'm out Baka-kitsune!" I don't know why I'm even doing this…
Then he started thinking and I walked away from him to meet up with our sensei. This had better not be about the bird…
"So, what do you think about Konoha, now that you lived like a human for twelve years?" Bored eye asked me.
"Irritating and frustrating." I said with out thinking. "I don't even know why you humans deal with this stuff all your lives."
"Well, I suppose that this type of life would be frustrating to the nine tailed biju." Bored eye replied.
"How did you know I was the…"
"Kyuubi? The Yondaime was my sensei. I saw and heard every thing when he defeated you. I'm here to make sure you learn my Sensei's final lesson."
I was about to retort about what I felt about his sensei when I felt a presence, one I did not wish to feel, not now, not ever, creeping closer and closer.
My heart started pumping, I fought my own instincts to move and run, knowing that in this state, and it's the only thing I can do to survive three seconds longer then staying still.
I felt the presence come closer, and Bored eye-sensei seemed to notice too.
Then I felt the heat on my back and a mouth move to my ear in a sickly sweet whisper of my worst enemy.
"Hi, honey."
"T-Tomoko?" I stuttered looking at the blue haired woman who had been my life long rival in power, the one who aspired to kill me just so she could hang my pelt on the wall. Her kitsune ears, blue eyes, long sharp fangs, pale skin, familiar black skimpy one piece suit with a low cleavage cut found in Bored eye's Icha Icha Paradise with fish nets for half sleeves and carpi leggings. Her sole blue tail was only an illusion to her real unknown number of tails.
"I missed you honey bunny." Her high soft voice whispered. Bored eye looked interested with the picture he seemed to interpret... only someone who knew Tomoko would know that something was wrong.
"Missed me huh? I was under the impression you hated be with your very being like I do." I replied coldly. Who was she and what did she do to the real Tomoko?
"But I do hate you, Kyuubi sweetie," She muttered just as sweetly picking up a giant battle ax with a blade half her size and a thick handle that she held behind her back, "and it's time for you to die!" She lifted her weapon and swung.
Omake Theater
Reality vs. Hope
We were waiting in the Hokage tower for our first team mission when we heard a loud bang coming from the window right by us. At first I assumed Tomoko was attacking so I jumped and watched as my younger teammates looked out the window and looked down.
"We have to hurry or we won't save the bird!" Pinky yelled as she dragged Tail-brat and Broody after her in a hurry. Intrigued I followed them.
On the cement on the ground a few stories below the window laid a common small brown bird, rocking back and forth in agony on it's back, blood coming from it's broken beak, even if the bird survived it's injuries, there was no way it could eat properly again. Its feet struggled as it to grip some thin air that didn't offer a way to pull itself up.
Pinky seemed to have snapped when she saw it because she leapt in to action. "Sasuke, Naruto, Kyumaru! Don't stand there like idiots get the first aid kit or a box with a blanket or something!" She yelled.
"I know small animal first aid." I said; being a kitsune I knew one way to save it if it didn't die already.
"Alright, Naruto, get a box and something soft to line it! Sasuke, get the first aid kit, I'll get the hot water to sterilize things, Kyumaru, look at the bird!" And with that Pinky pushed the boys in to work.
I knelt next to the bird and looked at it, its wings, beak, and skull were broken, its vertebra was questionable, but it was clear it was still in agony. Top Medic Nins would have difficulty in successfully saving this little bird. Its eyes looked at me with the plea for mercy.
I myself, being a predator, know exactly what to do in this situation. I gently scooped up the bird, stroked it gently and once it calmed said "You don't have to worry any more, I'll ease your suffering."
With a quick hand jerk of a skilled ninja, I broke its neck between my hands and felt its life fade away, knowing that it should be grateful that it didn't have to suffer any more.
I looked up and saw my teammates standing a few feet way, with all the supplies Pinky had demanded, all three had seen what I had done, and were in shock.
"Kyumaru... you... you..." She began.
"Life is cruel, it was the only way I could ease the bird's sufferings was to kill it." I justified. "It should be grateful it's not in pain any more." I looked in to her eyes as if I was talking about the weather.
"You... you... you asshole! You killed the bird!" Pinky was suddenly held back by the Tail-brat and Broody although I could tell that they wanted a go at me too.
Then Bored eye sensei came reading his orange smut and looked at the scene before him. "What did I miss?" He asked.
An: Once again; No little birdies were killed in the making of this fic, they were really good actors. Thanks for the 1000 Hits! Wow and in just three chapters!
Another Important point is we can now go off the Manga plot line and use the plot we were planning this whole time! So no more having this fic copy the story line the creator of Naruto intended for his story.
About the Kyuubi's "fit." I felt that he Kyuubi has been under a lot of frustration for twelve years so I figured that he was about due for an eruption. So it's not just about him failing in the Jutsu, it's about every thing that frustrated him, and I've seen adults throw temper tantrums like small children. I know when I lose my temper (which is rarely thank god!) I've been told it's not pretty.
Any way here are some questions I would like to ask:
Does any one have any tips on how to write Kakashi? I think I need help, and some tips would be nice.
How did I do with the interpretation of each of the characters?
Does any one have any new jutsu ideas for Kyumaru? All I have for him is Sexy-no-Jutsu (not any more thanks to Naruto) The Fox fire one, and the Chakra fox one. Any Justus for the other characters?
