"This is gonna suck." Kitsune says as Team 7 stand in front of their gate. Naruto looks at her strangely and she shakes her head. Anko calls out, "Begin!"
Their gate opens and they walk inside. After a few minutes, Naruto says, "Hey guys, can we stop? I gotta go." He makes his way to a nearby bush and Sakura hits him. Well, tries to. Kitsune stopped her before she could.
"You don't get it do you? Every other team is out to get us specifically. Well, not the Suna trio, but still. The other teams are after us because they think Naruto is a weak link. We can't let any of the others out of our sight, or even say each other's names. It would only take a simple henge to replace one of us and then slit our throats when we weren't looking." she said.
Sakura lost all the blood in her face as everything sunk in. "Just walk over there and let him do his business." Sakura did, and Kitsune turned her attention to the surrounding forest. Sasuke watched her look at every tree carefully, searching for something unknown.
"Are you expecting someone to attack us this early off?" he asks. Kitsune glances at him briefly before saying, "Well, there is that guy that's watching us now. If Pinky had made Blondie go off into the trees to pee, then he would have bound and gagged him then used a henge to waltz right in and wait for an opportunity. Oh, there he goes, I wonder if I scared him?"
She grins like a maniac then continued, "We should get going. I want this over with quickly." She walks on, the other three pausing to exchange glances before following her lead. After about an hour, Kitsune stops and tilts her head a little.
"Did you guys hear that?" she asks. The others were immediately on alert, but they were too late. An earth jutsu blasted them apart, Kitsune and Naruto flying far away from Sakura and Sasuke.
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Kitsune woke slowly, lying on the ground. She put a hand to her throbbing head and tried to get her blurry sight back to normal. Her side hurt; probably from where she hit that tree, so she lay still until the pain was bearable. She got on her hands and knees, panting and looking around.
She knew Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura would be alright, but she was a new addition so she had no idea what she would throw in the mix. She heard a light tap, and before she could respond, a kunai blade was pressed to her throat. Someone was pressed to her back.
"Well, aren't you a pretty little thing?" a voice whispered in her ear. She shivered and looked up to see one of the Grass ninja. Not the one Orochimaru was disguised as, but a different one. The tag on his hat said 'crime'.
Kitsune groaned in frustration. She would much rather get eaten by a snake than have to deal with some horny dude. "Listen, I've got things to do, so how about you take the easy way out. Get the hell away from me, and I might let you live." she said, looking over her shoulder at him.
He tensed slightly at her red eyes, but he just grinned evilly. "A feisty one. I like that."
Kitsune rolled her eyes. "All the guys say that. Can't you people get some new pickup lines?"
The boy chuckled darkly then pulled a second kunai out and made a slight cut on her side. She bit her lip to keep from crying out but couldn't hold it in when he cut deeper.
"You're in no position to get sassy." he said, using his weight to try to pin her to the ground. This time Kitsune grinned evilly. "Aren't I?" she asks, her tone making the Grass ninja pause. She used this time wisely.
In less time than a heartbeat, she head butted him, grabbed the kunai in her teeth, kicked him in the groin, then rolled him off of her. Without a second thought, she swung her head around and slit his throat. She stood quiet as the grave as his body fell to the ground, a pool of red forming around it.
She stood stock still, waiting for it, waiting for the shock of a first kill. But nothing came. She didn't feel like she had blood on her hands, and she didn't feel guilty. Shaking the curiosity from her head, she focused on getting back to the others.
She ran through the treetops, speeding even faster than usual from chakra in her feet. All around her there was nothing but green blurs, until she heard a scream.
Quickly, she ran towards it. She sped even faster as the sounds of fighting reached her ears. "Damn this keen hearing. I think the fight's right in front of me and it turns out it's a mile away."
She kept following her hearing, finally reaching the others as Orochimaru made his escape. "Dammit!" she yelled. She ran to the tree Naruto was pinned to then carried him to the ground carefully, Sakura doing the same for Sasuke.
They laid the boys down under the giant roots of a tree and started to work. Kitsune set traps and Sakura gathered food and water. Kitsune had to manuver Sakura through all the traps then started working on more. When she was done, she carefully walked back to Sakura to help with Sasuke and Naruto.
"Don't worry Sakura, they'll be fine." she said. Sakura exhaled in relief but continued tending to them.
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I'm not going through the Sound fight. You all know what happens, just throw Kitsune into the mix.
A few days later, Team 7 walked up to their door, Kabuto meeting with his team members as well. "Bye Kabuto. Thanks for the help." Naruto says. Kabuto smiles and nods then turns to leave.
"Oh Kabuto." Kitsune called. Kabuto turned around and looked at her questioningly. "If you drop out of the exam, I'll spill your guts. Whether figuratively, or literally has yet to be decided."
Something flashed in Kabuto's eyes, but he nodded and continued with his team. "C'mon." Kitsune sighs, pushing open their doors and storming into the room. "Sasuke, Naruto, open the scrolls. Tell Iruka I said hey. I'll be over here asleep."
Naruto and Sasuke watch as she walks to a wall, then slides down it and closes her eyes. They do as they were told and open the scrolls, Iruka being summoned from them.
After he talked to them, he left the tower and they waited.
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Final exam prelims, yada yada yada, Kabuto didn't drop out and now the final battle is between him and Kitsune.
Kitsune stared at Kabuto, grinning insanely and said, "Oooo, I am soooo going to enjoy this." she said. Kabuto gulped slightly and Gekko, the proctor, eyed Kitsune warily. Apparently he knew enough of Uzukai to fear them.
"Begin." he said, then jumped back out of the way. Good thing he did too, because Kitsune was on the offensive. She threw a single kunai and Kabuto smirked. "One little blade isn't going to do anything." he said as he dodged it. Kitsune smirked and twitched her fingers.
The kunai changed direction and was aimed at Kabuto again. He dodged it a second time, only to have it follow him. Kitsune started doing hand signs, then shouted, "Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Instantly, the one kunai became hundreds. And they were all following Kabuto.
From the sidelines, Shikamaru asks, "How is she doing that?" Kakashi pulls up his hitai-ate to see with the Sharingan.
"Hmm. The Sharingan is having difficulty tracking it, but it seems that she's using very fine chakra threads to control the kunai. Just how much has she been training behind our backs I wonder? And since when did she learn the Shuriken Kage Bunshin?"
Kurenai looks up. "You mean you didn't teach it to her?"
Kakashi shakes his head, focused only on the fight. A kunai flew into a wall. "It appears she can't keep doing what she is for very long though." he said.
More kunai flew out and embedded into the walls. When the very last one had stopped chasing Kabuto, they both faced each other panting like dogs.
"It seems you're jutsu has worn out. Too bad." Kabuto said. Kitsune just grinned, and it was a grin so evil shivers ran up everyone's spine, and Gaara's sand formed armor around him.
"Worn out? Oh no, no, no, no. My jutsu's only just getting started." she said, biteing down on her thumb to draw blood. She smeared the blood on a seal that had just appeared on the floor, and shouted, "Secret Blood Style Jutsu! Red Rain!"
The blood on the seal glowed, and shot out to all of the kunai, wrapping around their handles. Then, it formed something like chakra strings made of blood and using the kunai as a base, shot out towards Kabuto. And seeing as the kunai were everywhere in the room, he had nowhere to run.
The blood strings cut Kabuto to pieces, but a puff of smoke signalled a substitution. Kabuto appeared on the ceiling, having knocked away some of the kunai there and said, "So that's what you were up to huh? It still didn't work."
Kitsune sighs. "Would you just stop thinking my jutsu is over? It's called Red Rain for a reason, and that reason should come into play in five...four...three...two...one." On cue, all of the blood strings flew up to the ceiling and started forming a whirlpool of blood.
Kabuto immediately dropped and eyed it suspiciously. After it formed, Kitsune made one last sign and shouted, "Uzukai!"
Blood droplets covered the area like rain, and almost everything was covered. But as soon as Kabuto was hit, every last drop converged on him, leaving the others looking like nothing happened.
Once Kabuto was covered, Kitsune said, "Finish." The audible cracks of bones rang through the air, and Kabuto slumped, no life in his eyes.
Everyone stared in silence. Kitsune simply waited. Naruto regained his senses first and shouted, "Why did you kill him? You didn't have to kill him!"
Kitsune turned to him slowly and looked up with apologizing eyes. "I'm sorry Naruto, but he deserved it. The bastard was a spy for Orochimaru. Besides, that's not really Kabuto. When he used substitution, he switched places with an already dead body. I would have stopped my jutsu earlier, but it's so strong I had to continue it."
She walks to stand in front of the Hokage and whispered something then left, leaving everyone to their grim and silent thoughts.
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Ooo, badass chick in the house! I would've killed Kabuto right there, but he comes in too often in the future. (casts Genjutsu in final exam, heals Orochimaru until he changes bodies the sick bastard, tricks Kimimaru to go after his 'masters' new body, and well, you get it)
that one was long. (and for you smart alecks that have seen longer, i meant long for one of MY chapters) Later dudes and dudettes.