(A/N) Hey, everyone! I feel so utterly loved! This story has gotten more recognition than any other story I've written, including Run Away, the kingdom hearts Yaoi I've been working on for a little over five months! I'm so proud of my little brain child! AND!! I've gotten FLAMES!!! YEAH!
A warning to all flamers: I enjoy hearing people criticise my work, and my ideas on life, so that I can argue it with them. So, go on. Keep sending me flames, because they'll only make me want to write more. I enjoy messing with your little minds, and expanding your world, so go on, egg me on. I enjoy it, and I know you'll have fun with it too.
Now, for a mini-rant: All right, I doubt any of you actually know about my personal views on life. Well, you can summarise it in one word: CHOICE!! I believe everyone should have a choice as to who they are allowed to marry, who they are allowed to love, what they are allowed to do. If a man loves a man, and they want to be married, I believe we should let them, just because, the heart wants what it wants, and no one can change that! The same goes for a man and woman, or two women, or two women and a man, or any other combination of people. I watched an episode of startrek once, where there was a species in which everyone had three husbands and/or wives, and everyone was intermarried. I think that that is a wonderful way to be! I think that if you love someone, you should be happy with them.
Now for the part I know all you flamers(not meaning gays, I kinda like that term for gays actually, cuz it reminds me of Axel...) are going to be shouting at me: Well, if we break down all conventional rules what's to stop pedophiles from marrying little kids, or whats to stop a man from marrying ten women and then leaving them?!
Here's the thing: About the pedophiles, if they truly loved the child that way, they'd wait until the child grew. They'd wait until that child was old enough to understand and make their own descision. If they aren't willing to do that, then they don't truly love the child, and they don't need to be around that child any longer.
About the moron marrying a bunch of women and then leaving them? That's choice hun, and we can't change that. Those women chose to marry the bastard, and then he chose to leave. Free will cannot be tampered with, and no matter what, it will shine through. Those women made a bad choice, and they must learn to live with the consequences.
Now, my mini-rant is over. I think it turned into an actual rant...oops...Tee hee, oh well. On with the story!
Kits
Pairings: We've got a full monty here, with a Sasu/Naru/Kyuu/Gaa/Shuu in the works, and some Kaka/Iruka, Sakura/? (I'd like a vote on who y'all think Sakura should be paired with, yuri and het are allowed), Tohru(oc)/Shino (what, the bug-guy deserves some love too!) and some Zabu/Haku(does this pairing really count as Yaoi? I mean, Haku is a bishounen(pretty boy) to the extreme!...This is making me wonder...)
Warnings: Plotting, Alive!Zabuza-ness, as well as Alive!Haku-ness, and some real weirdness insuing, so please pay attention...
Description: Okay, so we're going to have the bridge standoff here, as well as several key plot-points, so I really want you to pay attention here, all right?
Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, Kyuubi would have a chain around his neck and I would be petting his head as he sits at my feet. I would be Queen of all I surveyed, and Naruto would be a very pretty boy who attended me. (tee hee, a girl can dream...)
Kits Chapter 6 - Where the Raindrops
Kyuubi sat on the bed, marvelling at the spartan glamour of the tree-built house. Haku squirmed a bit, whimpering in his 'sleep', trying to be convincing. Kyuubi looked at the boy with a raised eyebrow.
"Get up, kit, there's no reason for you not to be protecting your master from me."
Haku slammed up, flipping out of the bed as fast as ninja-ly possible, and standing in front of Zabuza. Kyuubi's eyes widened in surprise. It was the village-'girl', from earlier that day. That was a surprise, and a welcome one at that. Naru-chan already liked the 'girl' and therefore...
"I'd like to hire you."
If Zabuza hadn't been a trained killer, his jaw would have dropped. He had no idea what this man was up too, but this couldn't be good.
"Whatever your current employer is paying you, I can multiply it by any percentage you wish. Money is no object." Kyuubi's crimson eyes danced, as he took in their surprised expressions. The boy was an interesting specimen, Kyuubi could smell the faint demon blood from here. (from my understanding, the bloodline limits come from an intermarriage with a demon, somewhere down the line, and it just gets passed along.-Otaku)
"Why?" Zabuza said, leaning back against the doorjam, trying to look relaxed and off-gaurd. Kyuubi grinned.
"I have a pregnant mate to protect, and you guys were set to kill me earlier. I want that bridge built, I've put too much sweat and blood into it already. On top of that, the whelp of yours needs a good home, and a friend besides the man who taught him to kill. I've got quite a collection of my own growing, and I could always use some help. So, what do you say?"
Haku glanced in the direction of Zabuza, wondering what his master would say to this. He knew that Zabuza needed money, for some unknown reason, he assumed revenge, but other than that, Zabuza never told him anything. Would his master take it, and turn his back on Gato? Haku would much prefer that. He had a bad feeling about fighting for Gato. The man didn't seem the type to part with money very easily. (yes, Haku has a woman's intuition!! Tee hee! -Otaku)
Zabuza looked at the man before him. He was a red-head obviously, but those crimson eyes...They weren't natural. They seemed, demonic. Then he noticed it. The slight taint of demonic Chakra that he had obtained all those years ago in the academy, was NOTHING compared to what this man contained. He gently shook at the realization, and the man's smirk grew wider.
"Yes, Zabuza, I am not human. I am a demon, the Kyuubi no Kitsune, that attacked and nearly destroyed Konoha fourteen years ago." Kyuubi tilted his head, grinning a fox-grin, "And now, I and my mates are returning home. You, as I have said, are welcome to come with me, so long as you serve me. You and your charge will have the protection of serving the lord of the kitsune's, and you will be able to learn things Ningen have been dying to get their hands on for millenia. So, how's it sounding so far?"
Zabuza looked at Kyuubi again. He seemed sincere. And obviously desperate. He had revealed that he had a pregnant mate, which was either weakness on his part, as it was an easy way to attack what was dearest to him, or he was absolutely confident in his ability to protect her. Either one was potentially deadly to Haku and himself. Wait, had the demon said 'Mates' as in plural? This was getting confusing. He was almost drooling at the money, however. But how would he know if it was real?
"How do I know you won't pull a foxes trick once your done with us, and leave us without even the clothes on our back?" Zabuza demanded, his voice calm.
"Simple. I am forced by my very nature to keep a promise I make. Hence the reason you won't see me promising to save some damn chicken or anything retarded like that." Kyuubi said, looking slightly miffed. He apperantly hadn't wanted to give up this tidbit of information. Zabuza smiled behind his dark mask.
"Promise, pay me in real coins, and you've got yourself some new bodyguards."
Kyuubi smirked.
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Naruto woke up cold. He was alone, in a futon, and it was dark. He was scared. He had had a dream again, a dream that started out just like this. Where it was dark, and cold, and he was alone, and then he wasn't anymore, because his window had been forced open and he was held down, and he started whimpering, and he was being touched, and prodded, and cut and hurt. He had been ripped open, by the dark shadows with glowing red eyes, and he didn't want it! He didn't want it.
He started sobbing, curling into the futon covers, wide, frightened blue eyes searching frantically around, looking for any threat. He was alone in the room, and his sobs grew louder, as he tried to stifle the fear, but it was huge, it hurt, and he didn't want it! He didn't want it, and it was coming to get him...
A noise!
A door sliding back, his door, to the room he was in sliding open, someone was coming in! NO! It was going to happen again. He laid still, fear silencing his sobs, and he waited, fear overriding any of his training, he was so scared. There was a shadow, a shadow just like in his dream, moving towards him, it was coming for him. He sobbed again, trying to stay silent, but he was so afraid, so afraid.
The shadow was by his bed now, it was reaching down, it was going to hurt him!!
"NO!!" Naruto screamed, launching himself on the shadow, attacking with everything he had, clawing, biting, kicking, pleading and screaming. The shadow fought back, pinning him to the ground, and he fought, screaming and crying. The black shadow above him leaned down, he knew it, he knew it was going to happen again!
He struggled, harder than ever, turning his head away from it, turning away from the awful creature trying to break him, consume him, tear him apart again.
"Dobe, shhh, shhh, it's alright, I'm here, shhh, you're safe now." The voice was calm, soothing, Sasuke's voice, but Sasuke wasn't here, he was at that damned mansion, all alone, just like him, he wasn't here, this thing was trying to trick him! But still...
"Sasuke?" The former-blonde whimpered, still sobbing.
"That's right, dobe, I'm right here, nothing's going to hurt you." The kind words melted the fear, his heart stopped clenching, started beating again, not quivvering inside his chest.
"I was all alone, and it was so dark, and I was so scared, Sasuke, so scared!" He sobbed, clutching onto the no-longer pinnning him Sasuke. The dark-haried avenger growled a bit, rubbing circles on the blonde's back. This was what the brave, courageous blonde had been reduced too, all by those morons stupidity. How he loathed his village right now. This was not what the adorable blonde deserved.
"You're alright now, you don't have to be afraid, Kyuubi and I will protect you, there's no one here who'll hurt you." He kept whispering these things to the dobe, but he kept denying them.
"Konoha hates me, they'll do anything to hurt me, Sasuke, anything, we have to get away!" He whimpered into Sasuke's shirt. Sasuke lifted the tear-stained face in both hands, onyx eyes gazing into those bright blue orbs, and spoke, calmly, gently.
"Naruto, we are away from Konoha. We're not there any more, we're in the Mist.You are safe, and Kyuubi will make sure you STAY that way." He smiled down at the quivvering jinchurikii, hoping to see that smile again, the smile he had longed for while he was trapped in Konohagakure, awaiting this very mission.
"I'm...I'm safe. THey can't get me. Right? They can't get me, right?" Naruto said, looking hopefully at Sasuke. The black-eyed avenger smiled, a rare sight, and nodded. The beauty in his arms smiled a wide, happy smile, and clutched to him again
"Why are you holding Naru-chan?" A confused voice called from the doorway. Naruto froze in Sasuke's arms, and Sasuke nearly cursed. All his work in calming the blonde might be for nothing now. He turned to face the interloper, finding a shock of turqoise hair, and bright, inquisitive green eyes were looking at them strangely. Tohru had been awoken by the screams of the earstwhile Naru-chan.
"I-I had a nightmare, and my husband isn't here, and Sasuke-san was trying to comfort me." 'She' moved away from the black-haired boy, smiling her fake, happy smile at the blunette. "Everythings alright now, though, so you all can go back to bed. I'm sure my husband will return from where ever he went soon enough."
Sasuke frowned, but nodded, moving to leave. Naruto watched as his Avenger left with the blunette, and he tried desperately to lay back down and sleep. All he could do was lay there, and stare at the moonlight shining on the paper-door.
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Tohru was no longer suspicious. He was sure. There was something going on between Naru-chan and Sasuke-kun. And he was going to find out what was going on.
They were walking down the hallway that led to their room, the one that was open to the garden, because it had been such a nice night. Tohru completely missed the flash of red fur, as he pinned Sasuke to a wall with a suspicious stare.
"What the fuck, Tohru!?" Sasuke growled.
"What is going on, Sasuke-kun, and don't lie to me." Tohru said, in a calm voice that the children in his class at the academy had learned to fear. Tohru had made it to top of his class for his ability to shut off any and all emotions, and when he did, he was cold, ruthless and efficient.
"There's nothing going on, Tohru!" Sasuke whispered feircely. He was abruptly slammed into the wall again, causing him to hiss in pain, as that cold-faced blunette looked him in the eyes again.
"I said don't lie to me, Sasuke-kun. There is something between you and Naru-chan. What is it? Where do you know her from?!" Tohru's voice was strange, a mixture of calm and fury, almost as if two people were speaking at once.
"I-I can't tell you! It'd put him in danger!" Sasuke choked out, his hands clutching at the deathgrip the other boy had on his shirt.
"'Him'? I had sensed a Henge, but I didn't expect a full sex-change. The only one to ever successfully complete a henge that had that kind of effect was Uzumaki Naruto, the missing nin from Konoha." Tohru's eyes narrowed. This was certainly an unexpected revalation.
"Naru-chan is Naruto-san, isn't he?" Tohru said, a calm smile on his face. Sasuke growled, narrowing his own eyes. He had no choice, he couldn't breath any longer, the other boy was holding his throat closed, he nodded.
"Alright, you are going to explain everything to me, Sasuke-kun, and then I'm going to decide what I should do with our little missing-nin." the cruel ninja released him, causing him to fall to the floor, coughing and sputtering.
Sasuke only nodded, trying to get his breath back, as Tohru grilled him for the information. He answered truthfully, still a little unsure what this psychopath had planned. The boy was almost like a second Itachi. He had been calm one minute and psychotic the next. It seriously freaked the Uchiha out.
Once the explanation was done, Tohru nodded, speaking.
"Alright, I understand. Now, listen here, Sasuke-kun. I'm going to help you, because I know for a fact that the villagers CAN be that cruel." Tohru looked forlorn and a little distubed, but he continued, "But, in return, you have to convince Kyuubi-sama to take me with you. I want power, and he can give it to me. So, we have a deal?" Tohru's eyes glinted in a strange light, and Sasuke was beginning to wonder if perhaps this boy was just a little too crazy to be trained as a Ninja.
"Fine, but Kyuubi makes all the final descisions. After all, it's his place we're going to." Sasuke whispered, standing to go back to bed. Tohru nodded, following. The two settled back into their futons, slipping into sleep quickly, never noticing that after a few hours, Kakashi sat up, and muttered, "So, that's how it is..."
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Kyuubi returned to an awake, shivvering, hiccuping Naruto, and immediately realised what had happened. He cooed to the boy, pulling him into his arms, hugging him. The nightmares that Kyuubi had been hiding from the boy must have slipped through while he was preoccupied with the Zabuza thing. He had let Naruto down. Naruto buried his head into Kyuubi's chest, feeling week and useless.
"Naru-chan, you know you are useful to me. I need you, I couldn't live without you, so don't you even think like that, okay?" Naruto nodded, sighing. Kyuubi continued to speak, but whispered it into the boy's ear, that way they wouldn't be overheard. "Tommorrow, there is going to be an attack on the bridge. Before you leave here, be sure to tell Inari and Tsunami goodbye. You will see them again, when it is safe, but until then, it is goodbye. Then you will come to the bridge, and we will 'fight' with Zabuza and Haku. They are good fighters, and wise Ninja. We're going to take them with us to the hidden village. Alright?" Another sleepy nod, and Kyuubi placed a tender kiss in the mop of brown hair.
"Go to sleep little one, and all will be well in the morning." Naruto slipped into sleep, and as soon as Kyuubi was sure he was deep in the realm of dreams, pleasant ones, of ramen and babies, he slipped away from the pretty former-blonde. Opening the sliding door that was essentially a patio, he stepped outside. Taking one last look at the little male sleeping in the futon, he turned to the moon, and muttering some growling syllables, he slit his thumb open on his increasingly sharp canines. Letting the blood pool and drop onto the dew-splattered earth, he waited.
He did not wait long however. Slinking out of the shadows and the brush, came three shapes, three blurs of fur and teeth. They stopped before him, and bowed, low and humbly. These were Kitsune, each of three tails or more. He growled, and they snapped their heads up.
"In two days time, I will arrive in my city. Prepare my chambers, for I bear with me a pregnant mate, a second mate, and a group of three ningens. They are my honored guests and servants, no harm is to befall them. Now go, and let it be known that Kyuubi no Kitsune comes home in two cycles of the sun."
The foxes yipped softly and ran off, leaving a grinning Kyuubi behind. All was in place now, and nothing could go wrong.
He returned to his little mate, snuggling around him, his henge'd tails curling around the two, and he fell asleep, peaceful, and proud that his precious mates would soon be safe.
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The fateful day arrived, the sun peaking in on Tazuna getting ready to go, and Kyuubi leaving his sleeping mate to resume his disguise as Kyuuto the bridge-builder's apprentice. The four ninja awoke, getting ready to accompany Tazuna and Kyuuto to the bridge, two newly enlightened on the situation, and one still clueless. Naruto and Tsubasa-kun slept peacefully unaware, while Inari helped his mother cook breakfast.
The bridge-bound group headed off, and a few hours later, a groggy, confused Naru-chan awoke. As always her first instinct was to put a hand to her womb, checking to make sure it was real, alive, and still with her. It was and she sighed a sigh of relief. Then, she dressed, going out to enjoy breakfast, and then going out for her 'walk', with Tsubasa-kun. Naruto knew something had gone wrong, when he found a mutilated pig-corpse in the woods. He raced back, just in time to save Inari with a Kawarimi no Jutsu (Art of substitution), and knock out two potential kidnappers.
"What's going on?!" Tsunami screeched, clutching Inari to her.
"I don't know, but I assume this is Gato's doing. I have to go warn the others. Go get help from the villagers, they should be able to provide some backup!" Naruto called, racing off towards the bridge. He hoped he'd make it in time, hoped nothing had gone wrong and he was just paranoid.
But as soon as he arrived on the bridge he knew he was wrong. Sasuke and Tohru were trapped in a huge feild of Ice-Mirrors, with Haku pelting him with Senbon (little metal needle thingys). Sakura was covering Tazuna, protecting him from something, but he couldn't see what. He also couldn't see Kakashi or Zabuza, because the fog was rising. This wasn't good, and WHERE THE FUCK WAS KYUUBI?! Knocked out, apperantly, atleast, that's what it looked like with him laying off to the side of the bridge.
I'm fine kit, but this was necessary to keep their attention off of me. Don't worry.
Naruto breathed a mental sigh of relief, and, letting go of the Henge, prepared to fight. Slipping into the Ice-mirrors, he surprised Haku, who didn't know who he was. Haku settled on throwing Senbon at this newcomer, dodging to the next mirror, watching as most of the senbon was deflected.
"Dobe, what the hell!? We had a chance as long as you were OUTSIDE!" Sasuke growled, cursing his blonde's stupidity.
"Hey, first fight in a little over two months, ok? 'Scuse me for being rusty!" Naruto huffed. Haku actually stood there in the mirror, and behind his mask had a face on like, 'what the hell?!' Then he showered them with Senbon needles again, out of pure frustration.
Meanwhile, Kakashi was having a tough time in his fight against Zabuza. He was worried though, because, now that Naruto had shown up, Kyuubi would probably awaken from his 'faint', and they'd all be dead.
He pulled out a scroll, and zipped a slit thumb across it, searing blood into the seal within it, summoning his dogs to hold Zabuza in place. This would end it.
Or so he thought, however, at that exact moment, Haku scored on Sasuke with a dozen senbon all precisely aimed to simulate death. The dark-haired boy collapsed in Naruto's lap after protecting the blonde. Tohru went into his cold-state, as his teachers had called it, watching the dark-haired Ice-master's movements. Naruto, in a rage, a turmoil of loss and pain, called upon Kyuubi's chakra, creating aswirling vortex of the red-flame substance. He proceeded to pummel the living hell out of the now-near-defenseless Haku.
Tohru, meanwhile, was analysing Sasuke's injuries, and, being a Senbon-user himself, noticed that it was only a death-like state. He quickly pulled the black-haired boy out of it, while the normally-sunny blonde beat the holy shit out of Haku. He moved Sasuke closer to where Kyuubi was, watching as the red-head awoke to a state of absolute alert, the minute Naruto tapped into the chakra.
Kakashi was about to deliver the final blow, as the kyuubi chakra diminished a bit, suddenly, to find, his blow hadn't touched Zabuza. Instead, he had just ripped the heart out of a gently smiling black-haired boy-child. Kakashi's eyes widened, as Haku fell, still smiling gently.
Zabuza was utterly lost. He had just lost the dearest thing he had. He had just lost his only reason for living.
"Well, well, what do we have here?" Gato's voice rang out through the clearing mist. Behind him stood a large group of thugs, all looking for a fight. While the adults were preoccupied with talking to the idiot Gato, Tohru pulled Haku's 'corpse' over to Kyuubi. The red-head quickly placed him into a coma-like suspended animation.
"That should save him until we get to the village." Kyuubi said, holding up Naruto, who was near exhausted, stamina freak that he was, due to the strain of the child.
Zabuza was about to attack Gato, when an arrow fired by, none other than Inari, stopped everyone in their tracks, and Kyuubi decided that THEN was the time. He stepped in front of the group of villagers, turning to Gato, and grinned, as his face, slowly, surely, turned into that of a giant fox. Bones crunched, shifted, tails appeared, and his eyes stained a yellow with crimson iris.
Before them all, stood the great Kyuubi no Kitsune, and the thugs ran.
The giant fox turned towards Kakashi, who was still trying to figure out what to do. Attacking would be kinda stupid, and running could get him killed, or worse, his students. The fox chuckled.
"Do not worry, Kakashi, I will not harm your students, nor the villagers who have been kind to Naruto and I. However, I have a message for you and Sakura to deliver. Tell your Hokage, 'Find the reason for our departure in the foundation of your village. We will return for the chuunin exams, and Naruto will be healed.'"
Kakashi nodded, as the giant fox lay down on the bridge. Kakashi was surprised as Tohru helped gather Sasuke, and Zabuza pushed Haku aboard the fox demon. Naruto stood infront of the red-furred creature, the green-eyed child on his hip. The blonde turned soft eyes on the two, the pink-haired kunoichi, and the silver-haired teacher-nin.
"You know, I don't blame Konoha. I never did. I thank them, actually, because now I have a chance at a family of my own." Here, his hand strayed to his stomach again, in a gesture Kakashi remembered, and now, his eyes widened at what it meant. "I really never understood why they did all that to me, but...well, I'm going to have some trouble trusting anyone, now. I mean, that's what happens when you're attacked in your own home. Maybe...Maybe after the child's born, I'll bring it to the village to see where it SHOULD have grown up."
With that, the blonde got on the giant creatures back, and bounded away.
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Otaku: Wow! I hardly believe I wrote that! Ah!
Naruto: Wow...I've really become emotional...surprised stare
Otaku: Well, Naruto, that's because, though you have support, and you seem okay, no one is ever "fine" after a rape. It seriously messes with a person's head to be used that way, and it messes with their perception, as well. There's likely to be more of those kind of scenes later on too, becuase I am trying to make this as realistic as possible.
Kyuubi: But don't worry, Naru-chan!! We're here to help you!
Sasuke: That's right!
Otaku: Now, Stay tuned for the next chapter, mkay?
See you next time!