Itachi's POV:
So Sasuke was angry with Kyuubi. Or so Kakashi told me. Though why was beyond me. Whatever it was, Kyuubi ended up taking it out on my pack. If it wasn't so amusing, I'd stop him. "If you allow him to continue like this, the pack will definitely turn on him." Kakashi advised, but I waved him away. "Kyuubi can hold his own against them." He nodded in agreement as we watched the fiery tempered fox take down two wolves at once.
The fox hadn't smiled since Sasuke declared that he was angry with him. It was slightly disturbing, since that was all the fox seemed to do whenever Sasuke was near. Now it was a pained grimace, and his frustration was evident on my limping wolves that dared to mess with him. His eyes were constantly glowing yellow in irritation, and he wouldn't stay in the cave anymore.
Of course I had wanted him to get out more, but I didn't want him out day and night just staring blankly at the trees. The weather had been getting nasty, and it had rained yesterday night, but even then he stayed outside, not even noticing that his fur was getting soaked. He hadn't been eating either.
His funk was worse than Sasuke's had been when he found out Fugaku and Mikoto were dead. Maybe I should have let him visit his family and friends for a little while. It had been a long time since he had seen them. But... Something about him going back home for a little while made me hesitant. I didn't want him to go.
He would obviously come back, I knew that much. That wasn't what I was worried about. I wasn't worried at all in fact, no. It was something much bigger. It was more like I hated the fact that he would be out of my sight for a couple of hours. He would be fine. He would get over his sadness in time, just like Sasuke did.
~Time Skip~
I was correct when I figured he'd get over his sadness in time. But I hadn't realized that it meant he would be bonding with the wolves that he had once been fighting with. His irritation had died down after a while, and when it did, the wolves began to see his calm side and they liked it.
They were all amused by the fox's friendly nature once he wasn't tearing their throats out. I should have been satisfied that things were becoming better, but I wasn't. I didn't want Kyuubi getting so close to those wolves. He was my fucking mate. I couldn't shake off the fact that he was with other wolves, talking to other wolves, touching other wolves.
"You seem tense." "Fuck off Kakashi." I growled, still watching with hatred in my eyes as Kyuubi talked to Kisame, a light blue wolf that I had once been friends with. "You know, jealousy isn't very good." I gave him a sideways glance, "don't you have a dolphin to pursue." He sighed, "normally yes, but he's currently teaching a little blond fox life basics."
I wasn't listening to his words anymore. Fury rose up in me as I watched Kyuubi play with the wolves; he was dangerously getting too close to a certain wolf. How dare he fucking touch others! I would have to teach him a lesson, but would it stick? He was so damn defiant that it would take more than a beating to get it through his damn head. No, it would have to be something much worse, something that would remind him of who he belonged to. "Kakashi, keep Sasuke with you in your cave tonight. I have to punish a certain fox."
Kyuubi's POV:
I stretched on the ground, trying to ease my tired limbs. I wanted to go back to my own territory with my family and friends. I wanted to see Tsunade, see how she was holding up as new alpha of the foxes. But I especially wanted to check on Naruto. He must have been angry with me too. I had promised to never leave him, and now here I was, being held captive by a bastard of a wolf who didn't even let me say goodbye to anyone.
It had taken sometime, but I managed to make friends with some of the wolves here. But Sasuke had drifted from me. He would have nothing to do with me, and never spoke to me since that day he had insisted that I was taking Itachi from him. Pft, he could have Itachi back. I sure as hell didn't want him.
"Speak of the devil," I grumbled as Itachi stormed into the cave. "You have a lot of nerve, you know that?" He did not sound happy, but when did he ever? "What are you talking about?" I ask boredly, not interested in his rant. "You know what I'm talking about." "I honestly don't." I sigh. I swear he could be quite childish sometimes.
He was sitting in front of me, glaring down at me, contempt in his eyes. "Why are you here?" He growled menacingly. "That's easy. I'm here because you're being a PMsing bastard." I shrank back slightly when a snarl ripped from his throat, "quit fucking around! Why are you here?" I frowned at his behavior. Something wasn't right. "I'm here to be your mate, is that what you want to hear?"
He leaned closer to me, "I see you do know. Then don't you think you have a certain obligation as my mate?" What was he talking about? "And what obligation would that be?" He was standing over me now, "don't play coy Kyuubi. What obligation do mates have towards each other?" My mind processed what he was saying, and my eyes widened a fraction. He couldn't mean...? His jaws latched onto the scruff on my neck, and fear rose in my stomach.
"Get off Itachi," I growled warningly, my voice somehow calm despite the anxiety swelling up in me. He didn't answer, and instead ignored me, his paws wrapping around my waist. I tried to toss him off, but he was heavy! I stiffened when I felt his arousal against my back, and all hell broke loose. "Get the fuck off me!" I twisted my body wildly, and managing to get onto my back. I kicked at him hard with my hind legs, getting him in the stomach. He hissed in pain, and his grip on me loosened. I took that chance to bite him, making him release me completely.
I backed into my corner, facing him so he couldn't jump me. "What the hell is your problem?" I hissed, wrapping my tails around me. His eyes were turning red again, and I could tell he was really pissed. "You belong to me; I believe I have the right to do whatever I please with you."
"I don't like you, and you don't like me. So that is out of the question bastard!" I growl, wrapping my tails tighter around me. "This isn't a matter of like or not, it is a matter of me being able to do whatever the hell I want." If his face wasn't so serious, I would think he was joking.
"That isn't a good reason, so get the hell away from me." I flattened my ears against my head when he stepped closer, "you don't get a say in this unfortunately." "It's my fucking body, so I think I do." He was right, this wasn't a matter of like, this was a fucking matter of him dominating me. "Quit being difficult. If you keep resisting, then I'll have to hurt one of your fox friends." This made me freeze; did he really just say that?
He leaned in close to my ear, "you'll let me. Won't you?" I feel his smirk radiating off of him. "You're a cold manipulative bastard." I growl lowly, unhappy that he had threatened me like that. "You and I both know that I'm capable of doing it, so why test me?" My whole body tensed as he spoke the truth, he definitely was capable of being that cruel. Still...
"If you hurt anybody, I swear you'll regret it! You're not going to fucking use me like that!" He frowned, but I could tell that he was seething inside. "You're going to defy me again?" His voice had become quiet, but the anger was there, waiting to come out. "If your request is that, then yes."
I flinched as he bit my neck again, growling fiercely. "What's it going to take to make you listen to me?" "Not violence." I mumbled, and his grip tightened. I allowed him to take his anger out on me, only flinching slightly as he continually bit into me. I felt blood trickle down from the bites, but still I kept still. Better this than the other thing. He suddenly stopped, and I felt relief when he stepped away from me.
"We're leaving." I looked up in surprise. "We're what?" He turned towards the opening of the cave. "Leaving. Now get up and let's go." He sounded pissed, but I didn't understand what he was saying. I just wanted to lick my wounds in peace, fucking heartless bastard. When I still hadn't moved, he stalked towards me and pulled me by the scruff of my neck. "Ow! Let go!" I growled, trying to get loose.
He dragged me out of the cave and out of the wolf territory. I was thankful that the other wolves weren't awake to see this. Once we reached to lake, he threw next to it and backed away. "You have an hour to clean yourself up and say goodbye to all your little friends. Forever. Then go back to the cave so we can leave, and you better not make me wait." He was generally pissed off, what had made him so angry?
Itachi's POV:
"And you're sure of this, right? You don't think you will change your mind?" I stared hard at Kakashi, "I'm sure. You're alpha of the pack until Sasuke is able to." He had worry in his eyes, "but you'll come back, right?" Shaking my head, I looked out towards the fox territory. What was taking Kyuubi so damn long? "I won't be coming back. Ever." Finally I spotted red fur emerging from the forest, "this is goodbye Kakashi." I say walking towards Kyuubi.
"You're not going to tell Sasuke bye?" I shake my head, "he'll want to come along. This isn't a trip for pups." I leave him and go with the fox, "let's go." He doesn't say anything, and instead follows me silently. This was the only thing I could come up with to ensure that he wouldn't be touchy feely with other animals. He was mine, and I would not have him dirtied by the paws of others.
We traveled in silence, and it was beginning to grind on my nerves. "You're quiet for once." I say. "Isn't that how you like it?" I hear him grumble, lowly. "Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy the silence for once. It's just unbecoming of you." "Fuck off; I'm not in the mood for your games." He growled, not even looking at me. Something was definitely bothering him, but I wouldn't pry. Not because I respected his personal space, but because I didn't care.
Continuing our walk, I looked for a suitable place to rest for now since it was getting dark. Finally spotting a good clear area, I stopped and Kyuubi did the same. "We'll stop here tonight and travel more tomorrow when there's more sunlight." I tell him lying next to a tree. "And where exactly are we traveling to?" He asks, lying down as far away as possible as he can while still being within my sight.
"Nowhere in particular. We're just traveling." He looked as if he wanted to say more, but thought better of it and lay down. I watched as he fell asleep, his body relaxing somewhat. Tomorrow would be a day of aimlessly wandering with no set destination. As would be the rest of our lives.
~Time Skip~
Morning light shining in my eyes woke me up, and I growled irritated. If we had been in a cave this wouldn't have been a problem. I got off the ground and stretched, shaking off the dirt from my fur. I spotted Kyuubi still asleep and curled up in a ball, his tails wrapped around his lithe form to keep him warm.
I supposed I could let him sleep for a while longer. For now, I would go hunt for something to eat. Hopefully he'd know enough to not take off, but instead wait here for me. Setting off into dense forest trees, the sounds of animals was everywhere. I had never traveled this deep into the forest before, and it was completely different from the areas around the fox and wolf territories.
I heard the sound of a bird close by, and when I peered out behind a tree, I could see that this bird was larger than what I was used to. I had never seen a bird this big; it had a pink head with brown feathers. The noises that it made were weird too. Oh well, food was food, I wasn't going to complain.
I crouched low, crawling closer to it quietly. It still hadn't noticed me, but instead was preoccupied with pecking at the ground. Once I was close enough, I pounced onto it, breaking its fragile neck as it gave out a surprised squawk. It kicked despite its broken neck for a bit, before stilling.
Dragging my new prize back to my fox, I could hear the sound of water nearby. I would have to remember to look for it later once we were going to move once again. Reaching my destination, I saw Kyuubi had woken up and was sitting as patiently as he could, his tails twitching irritated.
Kyuubi's POV:
Damn bastard. Leaving me here while he went God knows where. I glare at him, my tails stopping their twitching and falling heavily to the ground. "You could have told me you were leaving." He places down the thing in his mouth, and I cock my head at it. What the hell was it?
I looked to him for some indication to what is was, but he didn't give any response. Well whatever. I settled back onto the ground, turning my back to him. "What are you doing? Eat." I heard him say. "Not hungry." I grumble. And I was being honest. I didn't' have much of an appetite since yesterday.
How long had I been gone that he had forgotten about me? I should have been happy that Naruto had moved on, but I felt more sad if anything. I guess I was more depressed now that he didn't need me anymore. I wanted to always be there for him, but no matter what I had done, I couldn't break him out of his funk.
Then the moment I return after being gone, he was happily playing with other animals. When he saw me, he hid behind Tsunade, afraid of me. I couldn't have been gone that long, could I? "Hurry up and eat. As soon as you're done we will continue." I got up off the floor, "then let's go. I'm not eating." He glares at me, but instead of saying anything else, he picks up the weird bird and walks away.
I follow him obviously, not having a choice. Where did Itachi think he was going? He said there was no set destination, so what the hell were we doing? He had said to say good bye forever to everyone, so did that mean we weren't going to return? Somehow that made me anxious.
Leaving the place where I had lived my whole life, leaving the people that I had grown to love and all because this selfish wolf demanded it. Well this was nobody's fault but my own. I should have maintained the border better. Maybe then the fox wouldn't have crossed it, causing me to be in this situation.
Itachi led us to a small stream, and at once he put the bird onto the ground in front of me. "We're not going any farther until you eat and drink. We have a long journey ahead of us, and I don't want you slowing us down." I glare at him. "I won't slow us down. Let's just go." He settled on the ground, "no. Now hurry up. Every second you waste here is a second of wasted daylight." This wolf could be really childish.
~Time Skip~
Day after day of long traveling, days of finding nothing. Traveling with no place in mind was a bad idea. I didn't know where the hell we were, and I doubted that Itachi did. He rarely spoke the whole time, and when he did, it was to reprimand me for something I did wrong. Really now. He was beginning to get on my nerves.
We had found spot after spot to settle for the night, and it was almost always a large opened space. This definitely wasn't the safest place to sleep. What if the lions had moved to these areas? They definitely would not hesitate to tear us apart, especially that lion leader that I had released.
I watched as Itachi sniffed the air, and his eyes seemed to light up. "Want to see something interesting?" I looked at him curiously, "and what would that be?" "Just come on." I watched as he walked out of the clearing, getting up to catch up with him moments later. The smell of smoke was in the air as we walked closer and closer to where Itachi was taking us. Was there a fire somewhere?
The last time I had seen a fire was when that big storm hit the forest and lightening had caused a tree to fall and burn. I hope that everyone was alright if there was a fire close by. Itachi stopped, "look." Looking through the brush I saw three creatures, two sitting, one walking around.
"Those are humans." I looked at them closer, and they were strange creatures. They walked on two legs, like a bird would, but they didn't have wings. "They're strange." I mumbled. "And do you smell that?" I sniffed the air, "smoke from the fire?" They humans were surrounding a small fire, and smoke came up from it.
Shaking his head, he spoke, "not that smell. I'm talking about the food." I saw that there was food next to one of the sitting humans. "Yea what about it?" "We're going to steal it." "What?" He didn't answer me, and continued his lecture, "humans are extremely dangerous. See those long silver things in their hands?" I sighed and saw what he was talking about, "yea. What are they?"
"Those are called guns. They shoot out 'bullets,' which can kill you in one hit. When humans have those, they are called hunters. So be wary of them." "If they're so dangerous, then why are we trying to steal their food?" He chuckled, "because it'll be fun. What? Are you scared?" He growled, "of course not. I just think it's a really stupid idea."
"Fine. Just sit there and I'll have all the fun." He creeped slowly to the three humans sitting around the bright light coming out of the logs, and I felt a nagging feeling in my head. Once Itachi was close enough, he carefully grabbed a piece of meat, none of the humans noticing him. He came back, a victorious smirk on his face. "See. Was that so hard?"
"You're an idiot, what if they caught you! They'll be really angry when they find out that some of their food is missing." He chuckled, "don't be such a sourpuss, you big chicken." My fur rose immediately, "I'm not a chicken!" "Then why don't you try next?" "Maybe I will." I turned away from him, annoyed, but scared about what I had just agreed to.
The humans were scary, but taking a deep breath, I crawled out of the brush and towards them. I wanted to retreat each time they made noise, and when they moved, I flinched thinking they had spotted me. I made it to the raw meat, and as carefully as I could, I bit into a piece, pulling it off the log and then I tried to turn back, but the human turned around, spotting me.
My heart beated fast when the human started yelling in a weird language, and I almost died on the spot when he pulled out what Itachi had called a gun and aimed it at me. I was frozen to the spot, unsure of what to do. "Run, dumbass," I heard Itachi hiss from the brush, and I immediately complied.
A loud noise filled my ears, mimicking the sound of thunder, and something hit shoulder. I stumbled from the pain, but I tried to ignore the pain as best as I could and concentrated on getting the hell out of there. More shots rang out, hitting the trees around me. A few had gotten close to me, but luckily I wasn't hit again.
Finally figuring I had run far enough, I stopped to catch my breath. "I give you a C on stealth, but an A on escaping." I heard Itachi say as he appeared next to me. I dropped the meat that I hadn't known I still had from my mouth. "You're an asshole, you know that?" He chuckled, but didn't say more.
I licked at my wound, trying to stop the bleeding. It definitely hurt, but I was still lucky that it was just my shoulder that got hit. "Really now, you are the most pathetic thing I've ever seen." I ignored him, still cleaning my wound.
Poor Kyuubi! That must have been a bitch, getting caught and shot. DX
