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"I'm back!" School has ended for today. Honestly, I'm so tired. All I wanted to do is go straight to my bed and forget everything I've done today.

Helping Sakura to move things from the clinic, the basketball practice, coach's demands over this and that, the incoming exams, the absurd lessons that I still have to catch up, that surprise quiz in math which I have no idea why I have to bother myself finding X's Y. The hellish teachers and that cold ramen they served from the cafeteria.

That was the saddest salt ramen I've ever had.

An exhausted sigh escaped from my mouth as I sluggishly placed my shoes inside the shoe rack mulling over things that kept on pilling themselves in my plate.

There's also that Additional Regional Tournament. We have to practice more if we wanted to win the tournament in order to enter the Autumn Cup.

As a senior, this will be my last shot to enter the tournament before graduating. If we can't win this thing, the club might get in trouble on getting new recruits next year. Although we're really not short on the members. The club needs more good members to survive.

Not only that, the highschool I choose was an expensive private school. They've got a good basketball varsity club and that got me attracted to it. The only problem was the amount I have to pay for the tuition. It was ridiculously expensive. There's no way I would pay something that expensive. But I still wanted to enter. Since I was left without parents and Nee-san doesn't really count yet, I needed some stuff for me get into that school.

Its not like I was left by the court without a guardian. No. I have a Godfather. Who's currently... not here. In this country. For the moment. The last time I had contact with him was 3 weeks ago. He's currently somewhere in Carnation something village situated in the Green Valley country. On the verge of having a writer steak he added before I heard multiple women on the background giggling and saying something I don't wanna remember. Honestly, I don't care about his porn book series.

Moving on!

We need to focus more into practicing if we wanted to win this whole thing. It's been a while since I've visited that nearby basketball court. I wonder if I could make some time to have some self practice there?

Also, taking nee-san along with me sounds exciting. I wonder if she would like the idea? She rarely goes out saying she doesn't want to create memories without me. Which is kinda heartwarming and the same time embarassing. But thinking about it, everything about about Onee-san centering me in her plans is embarrassing me to the core. Nee-san might be family but her antics are making me hard to think of her as a sister.

"Nee-san! I'm home!"

There was no response. No melodic voice who call out my name excitedly beford a faint sound of footsteps rushing towards my location with a verry happy face.

I blinked owly and looked around the hallway. Is she asleep? Curiously, I went and search for her. I started in the kitchen. But I was met with sparkly clean counters and shiny kitchenwares. There was no sign of dust and it looked like it was thoroughly clean. They were alot cleanier when my mom was still here. I bet she'll be amazed on how the kitchen looks like now. Onee-san is amazing.

Hmn... no I'm getting distracted. I shake my head to focus on finding Nee-san and headed to the next room. She was in the laundry room. The backyard was full of organised clipped damped clothes in the drying rack. She must have done the laundry while I was away. But where is she?

I turned back to the hallway and searched for her. I don't think she's in the comfort room or upstairs. I doubt she'll be in the study room. If she is, there would be noises and humming resonating the entire floor down to the lower floor. Nee-san isn't a quiet person. That's way it's so strange not to hear a response from her.

It's impossible for her to loose track of me too. After all, nee-san has an amazing hearing. She could hear me arriving from any part of the house. She would not miss me after I close the front door and attack me in a tight embrace. She would not let go until she's satisfied. I had to wiggle out of her iron tight hug in order to free myself to breathe. She always do this every single day I come home from practice or school.

But today is different. There was no Onee-san who quickly made her way from where she was and greet me.

I stopped from my tracks when I felt a wave of a strong cold chill. The air suddenly felt cold and uninviting that it made me stop in the middle of the hallway. My senses are telling me to stay away. Like it was hunting me down. It was everywhere making me umcomfortable. Did something happened?

Was there a burglar? Intruder? Perverts? Though I'm worried if its really the case, all I could do is helplessly pray for their souls.

Onee-san does not like trespassers. I have experienced it at first hand after all. Thinking about that day when we met it was an out of the world experience. Something that I will never forget. Wriggling tails of demise in the air and gleaming red eyes looking right through me as if I was a target.

...

Like that...

From the open door of the living room ahead, Onee-san stood there unmoving. Red eyes glowed filled with animosity. She was looking around the room not noticing me standing not far from the room.

She was looking for something. She looked really angry and was about to burst. It isn't like her to get angry this much. 9 golden tails with white tips up in the air swaying in their own pattern and her fluffy fox ears twitches as she looked around the room with knives in her hand. Sharp knives.

"Onee-san?"

She didn't responded. I gulped and tried to approach her but I stopped as she swiftly turn to my direction and hurled one of the knives passing the side of my face with only a few centimeters away.

She stared at me wide eyed. I was still frozen in my place as the a crushed sound with a bit of splat resonated in the hallway.

I looked back slowly and saw a cockroach imbedded on the wall with the thrown gleaming knife. It's body juices splattered all around it's body as it's legs twitched several times before the poor insect lost it's life.

"Naruuu-!"

Before I could even turn back, nee-san tackled me into a hug. I was met with two pairs of soft mounds squishing my face as she tried to tighting her embrace and fluffy tails wrapped around my body.

I could not breathe.

"Naruuuu! That was too dangerous! What if you're a bit closer to my aim! You could have got yourself killed!" She freed my head from her chest and started nuzzling the side of my face. I was too shock to react and too flushed to push her away. " Naruto can't dieee-!"

Nee-san. If you keep on squeezing me any further, I'm about to die.

"Nee-san...too...tight..."

"Ah."

Slowly her tails unwrapped themselves from anywhere in my body. They were strong and fluffy as I remembered.

"I'm sorry. Nee-san didn't noticed you're already home."

"Ah don't worry...anyway..." I looked back at my sister's latest victim.

"Hmn?Ah! about that!"

Onee-san skipped her way to the knife and took it off effortlessly.

"You know Nee-san was doing laundry when this lowlife excuse of an insect decided to crawl itself inside one of your underwears. "

"My what?"

"So you know..." for a moment nee-san's eyes turned cold all of the sudden. Her voice strangely got lower as she stared at the dead cockroach still stuck at the tip of the sharp blade.

"For a lowlife trash it has some guts to try and contaminate your clothes...and to think it'll be 'that' piece of clothing too."

she kept looking at the cockroach and continued with her voice unshaken. "He was really, really hard to find you know? Hiding around the corners... invading every inch of this house. The nerve of an intruder..."

"Nee-san, if that's the case wouldn't the bug spray be enough?"

Nee-san blinked and paused before it melted into a disgusted look on her face." Nooo! That thing messed up my nose from the last time! It smells terrible! Honestly! How can humans handle such demonic foul thing?! So I banished it from out territory!"

"So you threw it away?"

"Hmn! Knifes are much easier!" Nee-san proclaimed smugly while crossing her arms with her nose sticking in the air. As if a naive child has done a good deed for the world to see. "They're sleek, thin, easy and it doesn't smell Horrible! Also death garantee to the enemies!"

"...right." it can't be help. At moments like this. Nee-san's cute side is unwavering. "But still, knives are not tools to eliminate pests. Especially not kitchen knives."

"Uwa!" Her ears twitches as her tails stiffened. Nee-san began to pout guiltyly as her ears limped. "I-It'll be o-okay! Nee-san will surely disenfect the knife!"

"Nee-san."

"Fuu...Okay!Okay! Onee-san is sorry! I will never use kitchen knife again!" Tear-eyed nee-san looked at me holding the knife in her chest. Her ears limply twitch as her tails swayed slowly behind her.

"Also. Hand over the knife."

Without fighting back, nee-san extended her arm and hand over the knife. "Hmn."

"Naruto are you still angry?"

I blinked. I wasn't angry at all. Did I look like I was? "I wasn't." I opened the drawer to place the knife temporarly in it then closed it back. " but you know nee-san."

She stiffened. "Yes?"

I looked over at her tails and ears. It's been a while since I've saw them. She rarely lets them out. "You let your ears and tails out."

"Do they...do they bother you?"

"No. Not at all." I always thought they were pretty cool. After all not all people in the world have the privilage to meet a fox woman in their life. I consider myself lucky enough to meet her. "I think their pretty actually."

Nee-san blinked and giggled. "Naru...only you would say that."

"Ah... I would?"

Nee-san nodded. She walked towards the sofa and sat diagonally for her tails to be comfortable. One of her tail tapped the space beside her. She wanted me to sit with her.

So I did. I sat comfortable beside her. Before I could make myself comfortable, some of her tails wrapped themselves across my stomach and brought me closer to Nee-san.

She snuggled beside me. She took my hand and entwine our hands together looking down before she said something."You know. Nee-san was a very sinful person."

I looked at her. Is she going to tell me about her past?

"Nee-san has always thought the tails were bad luck and are always behind me to tell everyone how a monster I am. And because of these tails Nee-san has always hated herself. So Nee-san also hated the tails."

"..."

"They won't go away. They are always there to remind me. "

I remembered the look she has on that night. She looked sad and regretful. But the look she had right now was mixed with hurt and nostalgia. Seeing her like this wasn't normal for me. It was always happiness and warmth. I have no clue on what to say to her. After all, I have no idea what kind of past she has.

"I don't know about that nee-san." I thighten my grip on her hand. " I also don't know what to say to you right now."

"Naru-"

"But all I know is Nee-san isn't a monster. To me, your more precious than anyone else. I don't know what kind of past you have or how many wrong doings you made. I didn't matter to me. You're with me now so, you don't have to worry."

I tried to give her a reassuring smile but she beat me out of it when I felt something warm in my cheek. I looked at my side and saw her with a very happy smile. She was too close. Way too close.

"Naru...your so cheeky." She said before retracting her tails back and ears until they were no longer there. Nee-san is back from her human form.

She stood up and stretched before waking over to the drawer to pick up the knife. "Yosh!Since Naru is home early! Onee-san is going to give it all!"

She didn't look back at me before walking out of the living room.

There was a strange silence in the room. Unconciously, I held the cheek that was kissed.

What the hell just happened?!