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To chrono-crusader: No, he mimicked Lee's taijutsu, to fight like him. He still actually had to train like anyone else to get that fast.


Chapter 8
Girl Problems. In More Ways Than One.

Naruto and his toad stood across from Kiba and Akamaru. "So Naruto, whats going on?" the toad asked

"Well Gamakichi, I need your help to keep Kiba's dog busy while we fight." Naruto replied.

"Thats it? Doesn't seem all that hard."

"Hey! Don't underestimate Akamaru!" Kiba protested, obviously not liking what the toad thought of Akamaru. "He went through the same training I did, so hes just as tough as me!"

"Whatever." Naruto said. "Just do you best to keep Akamaru out of the way, Gamakichi."

"No problem." the toad responded. The two of them rushed at their opponents.

"This'll be a piece of cake for us Akamaru." Kiba said, and Akamaru barked in agreement. The two then ran to meet Naruto and Gamakichi head on. Once he was in range, Naruto attempted to punch his opponent, who dodge by stepping to the side, then threw a kick at Naruto in retaliation. Naruto jumped over the kick, and responded by throwing another punch aimed for Kiba's face. Kiba ducked away from the hit and dropped to the ground, but landed on a hand. His foot flew up towards Naruto's face, but the blonde deflected the kick with one of his own. Kiba spun his body around as he planted his second hand on the ground and his other foot connected against Naruto's chest.

Akamaru was coming in to follow up his master's attack, but was thrown off his course when he was knocked away by Gamakichi firing a ball of water from his mouth. The jutsu packed enough force to knock the dog away a few feet. Naruto got to his feet and dodged back as Kiba swiped at his face, and responded with a punch that Kiba tried to dodge, but still managed to connect with his opponent's shoulder.

Kiba got some distance from Naruto after the blow connected. 'Ow, that hurt a bit more than I thought it would.' he thought to himself as he rubbed the spot where he had been hit briefly. 'But not enough to put me out of the fight. Too bad for you Naruto, but that will be the only time you'll hit me.'

Naruto quickly closed the distance between the two, and threw another punch, with Kiba stepping back to avoid it. Not wanting to give his opponent an opening, Naruto followed up by throwing several more punches, with Kiba avoiding each by stepping back. The crowd watched as Kiba backed closer and closer to the wooden fence that surround the accademy's training field. As Kiba backed into it, Naruto smirked as he threw another punch, positive that it would connect. However, Kiba proved faster than Naruto anticipated, and stepped to the side as Naruto's fist went through the fence. Not wasting the opening, Kiba kicked Naruto in side, knocking him from the fence.

"Ha! You didn't seriously think a trick like that would work on me, did ya?" Kiba taunted as he dashed at Naruto while he was still on the ground, and jumped at the boy. Naruto rolled to the side just in time to avoid the kick that came down where his chest had just been, and quickly got to his feet. He jump back to avoid the Inuzuka swipe his nails at his face.

"Huh. Kiba is a lot better than I would have given him credit for." Ranma commented. "I hadn't thought there would be anyone else here that could give me or Naruto a challenge besides each other."

"You think so?" Chouji asked.

"Yeah. I can tell Naruto isn't holding back, and Kiba is still able to keep up with him and land his hits."

"So then who do you think is going to win?"

"Naruto, obviously. Hes not holding back, but trust me, hes still got a few tricks up his sleeve."

'Hey, I think I'm figure out how he fights.' Naruto thought to himself. 'He mostly fights with kicks, and uses his hands more as claws than fists.'

The two continued their fight, eventually finding their way onto the wall of the academy grounds, standing across from eachother briefly as they waited for the other to make a move, but both quickly grew tired of waiting and charged at eachother at almost the same time.

"Hey! Where do you two think you're going!" Iruka called out to them, though they ignored it. Having gotten so caught up in the fight, they had forgotten that they were in the middle of class.

Wanting to see how the fight went, Ranma prepared to pursue the boys, but was halted as a hand grabbed his shirt collar. "Oh no you don't, Saotome." the classes other chunin instructor, Mizuki, said. "You're not ditching class again. Maybe we should just proceed with the lesson without those two, Iruka."

Iruka sighed. "We don't really have much choice. If we try to pursue them , Ranma or some of the others might try to sneak off. We'll just have to deal with them when we see them next." Iruka said. "Alight then. Since you seem so eager Ranma, will have you in the next match."


Meanwhile with Naruto and Kiba, the two were joined by their respective animal partners leaping onto their heads. They ran down a street side-by-side for a bit, watching the other before the charged at eachother again. Naruto threw a punch, which was caught by Kiba. The Inuzuka boy's hand came up as he prepared to swipe his nails at the Namikaze boy's face, but his hand was caught by Naruto. Akamaru was about to leap from his master's head at Naruto while he grappled with Kiba, but Gamakichi shot another ball of water at the dog. As the liquid released from his mouth, Naruto and Kiba released eachother's hands to avoid the water, and stepped to the side, though still keeping their eyes on their opponent.

"C'mon, bring it on, ya dirty mutt!" Gamakichi taunted.

'"Hey! Don't you call Akamaru a dirty mutt, you damn taod!" Kiba replied angrily as said dog let out a bark as he jumped back onto his master's head.

'So, he doesn't like it when people insult his dog, huh? Perfect.' Naruto thought. "Hey Gamakichi, I got an idea. remember that one time when I got revenge on the old pervert while we were taking a break at those hot springs?"

"Yeah, I remember alright!" the toad replied with a laugh. "So you want to try that?"

"Yeah." he said with a nod.

"Whatever you're planning, it won't work!" Kiba said as he was in front of him and threw a kick, though Naruto dodged it by leaping up. Kiba got down on his hands, watching Naruto as he came down a several feet away, then dashed at him. Just before Naruto landed, Kiba came at Naruto with a kick, which connected with his chest, sending Naruto flying back several more feet back. Naruto recovered quickly, and got to his feet. He charged at Kiba, getting ready to throw a punch. The Inuzuka got ready to defend himself from the Namikaze's attack, but was caught off guard as Naruto quickly changed directions and went to the side instead. Behind where Naruto had been comin from was Gamakichi who fired off another water bullet at Kiba, who dodged by leaping to the side. Naruto chose this opportunity to rush at Kiba again.

Kiba easily leapped over Naruto, who spun around to get ready to charge at the Inuzuka boy again, but it didn't look like he would be fast enough, so Kiba got ready to exploit this opening as he was about to attack the blonde. However, he was cut off as he heard Gamakichi call out the name of a jutsu from behind him, and leaped to the side and saw a small liquid bullet fly past him, and impact against Naruto's chest, knocking him back. Lucky for Naruto, the bullet hadn't been large, so he didn't get any water on him, but the front of his jacket was still wet from the attack. "Dammit! Sorry Naruto!" Gamakichi apologized.

Kiba looked over at the Namikaze as he got up. He looked a bit weakened, so he figured that the bullet probably had quite a bit of force behind it, so that added up with the blows he had given the blonde were probably adding up. He figured another good hit would finish this. "So much for your little trick. Doesn't do much good if it ends up backfiring on you." The Inuzuka boy taunted.

"Don't get cocky! This fight isn't over yet!" Naruto said back.

"Yeah, but it'll be over soon. You take care of that toad Akamaru. And I'll just finish off Naruto there." Kiba said as his dog leapt from his head at Gamakichi. He then ran at Naruto, who leaped back quickly to avoid his opponent's attack. Kiba didn't let up with his assault as he charged at him again. Naruto continued to dodge Kiba's kicks and swipes for a few minute. Eventually, the Inuzuka finally managed to connect when he saw that the blonde looked like he was growing weary, so he rushed at the other boy and leaped off the ground, with both of his feet impacting against the Namikaze's chest. The Inuzuka boy bounced off of his opponents chest, and landed several feet back near a wall. He watched Naruto fall back, and waited a minute for Naruto to get up, but he didn't stir. Figuring it was over, Kiba placed his hand on the wall to lean a bit. He laughed a bit before saying "You were pretty tough Naruto, but it looks like I'm the stonger of us in the end! So much for the Hokage's son!"

"I wouldn't be so sure of that if I were you." Kiba heard, before he saw Naruto stand up without any trouble. "You were right before, this fight was gonna end soon. Its over and it looks like I just won!"

"Thats pretty big talk considering I'm still standing! You haven't beat me yet!" Kiba said. He then was going to charge at Naruto again, but then noticed something strange. He couldn't lift his feet off the ground! "What the hell! My feet won't move!" he he said as he looked down. He then saw that there was a liquid substance on the bottom of his sandals.

"That stuff might look familiar. Its the same stuff on my jacket." Naruto said as he pointed to his wet jacket. "It looks like water at first, but its really some special toad oil that Gamakichi developed. And as you've just noticed, its super sticky!"

"Why you..." Kiba growled.

"You're pretty fast Kiba, maybe just a bit faster than me, so instead of me trying to hit you and having you dodge, I figured I'd just make sure you couldn't move." Naruto explained with a grin. "Now, since you hit me several times already, I think I should pay you back as I finish this fight." he said as he cracked his knuckles. He then ran at Kiba who closed his eyes and braced himself for the impact.

Fortunately for him, something prevented Naruto's fist from connecting with his face. Unfotunately...

Seconds before Naruto's fist struck Kiba's face, they were drenched as someone in the building above dumped a bucket of water out their window. The now female Naruto stumbled as her fist met Kiba's empty clothes. "What the hell!" she gasped in shock. She looked down and saw some movement coming from his clothes. "No way, it couldn't be..."

Sure enough, as she looked into his clothes, she found Kiba, or rather, what had been Kiba. She reached in and pulled out what appeared to be a brown puppy that looked to be just a bit smaller than Akamaru. "Kiba?" she asked, and the puppy nodded it head. She also noted the confused expression on its face. "Yeah, its me. I'm Naruto." she said with a sigh. "C'mon. lets head back to the academy and get some hot water." she said as she collected his clothes. She had Gamakichi was off the oil from her jacket and Kiba's sandals before the toad dissappeared in a cloud of smoke.


In another part of of the Fire Country, far from Konoha, a dark haired boy wearing a blue shirt with a red and white fan-like design on his back, was sitting in a clearing in the forest. He had a large traveling pack near by, and a fire he had set up to cook his lunch. He was alone.

"Excuse me," a voice said, and he saw a boy wearing a yellow shirt, with a yellow bandana with black spots, and carried large pack and red umbrella. "Can you tell me how to get to Konoha from here?"

The first boy looked over other. "Its that way." he said as he motioned in one direction. He himself was on his way there, but he didn't really want any company on way there. He'd just finish his lunch then be on his own way.

"Thank you." The boy said beforing going in the direction.


Naruto made her way back to the accademy with Kiba and Akamaaru walking alongside him. "So Kiba, I see you turn into a dog." Naruto asked. Kiba shook his head. "No? Then what are you?" Kiba let out a small howl. "A wolf?" Kiba nodded. "I see. Well, it looks like we're back at the accademy." she said as she leaped up to the top of wall, followed by Kiba and Akamaru. She then noticed some people, one of them being someone she recognized. Sakura was with three girls that Naruto didn't recognize.

"Well if it isn't Sakura." one of the girls said. She had purple hair.

"What do you want, Ami?" Sakura asked, sounding a bit hostile.

"Me? I just wanted to talk." the girl replied, with the two other girls snickering. "So I've heard that you're engaged to the Hokage's son."

"Our parents arranged it." Sakura replied as she clenched her fist.

"Yeah, I heard that too. Figures you'd have to have your parents arrange a marrige for you. With that forehead of yours, you wouldn't be able to get a husband otherwise." Ami said, and the other two girls laughed some more.

"What do you know?" they heard someone ask, and looked behind them to see Naruto jump down from the top of the wall. "Besides, you act pretty big considering you have talk to Sakura while shes all alone, while you've got your two little friends there to back you up."

"Who are you? Why don't you mind your own business? This doesn't concern you." Ami said.

"It sure does concern me. I see a bunch of cowards trying to gang up on someone because they're to afraid to face her alone. People like you really piss me off. Trust me, Sakura could take you out with one punch."

"Why you-! Fuki. Kasumi. Teach her a lesson!" Ami ordered her two cohorts.

Naruto easily dodged the two girl's attacks. "So one of you is named Kasumi, huh? Neither of you are anything like the Kasumi I know. You're both a lot uglier than her, too." she taunted.

"Why you-!" one of the girls, who had her hair in an afro let out angrily before Naruto knocked her to the ground. He then sent the other girl flying into the wall with a kick.

"There we go. Now that the trash is taken care of, why don't you continue your conversation with Sakura. That is, if you still want to without your goons to back you up."

Ami looked a bit nervous. She briefly considered running away, but that thought didn't last long. In fact, she stopped thinking entirely...

"SHANNAROOO!"

...the moment Sakura's fist connected with her face, knocking her unconscious on impact. Ami flew into the wall, and landed right next to the other girl.

"Like I said: One punch." Naruto commented. The girl with the afro got up and looked scared. She got up to run, but Naruto stopped her. "Don't leave your friends behind. Because we sure don't want them here." She collected her friends and ran off dragging them.

"I didn't need your help, Naruto." Sakura said as soon as the girl was gone.

"Whatever." Naruto said as she put her hands behind her head, and Kiba and Akamaru leaped down from the wall, having watched everything from atop it. "Do they bother you often?"

Naruto expected her to say something like "Why do you care?" but was a bit surprised when she actually answered him. "Ocassionally. And every time, they always make sure I'm alone, because they're too afraid to pick on me when Ino, Akane, or Naruko are around. Like you said, I can beat them one-on-one no problem, but its always the three of them together. The other will usually jump me while I'm busy with one of them."

"Then why don't you make sure Naruko or the others are around so that they can back you up?"

"They don't even know about it."

"Why?"

"Because I haven't told them. I don't want to be weak and always have to rely on others to protect me. I'm not weak. I don't want to be." Sakura said, before turning away. "When I was younger, I always used to be picked on for my forehead. Then I met Ino, and she helpped protect me, and not long after that, I met Akane, and then Naruko. They would always protect me, without me having to do anything. I'm really grateful for that, but at the same time, I hated it. Ami and her friends never really stopped bullying me, though when I was younger, they were stopped by Ino scarring them off with a poisonous flower, Akane beating the crap out of them, and Naruko threatening to have the Anbu take them out." Sakura said. She then recalled a few of the incidents.

"Sorry, I must have mistaken that mouth of yours for a vase. It may be weak, but that flower is poisonous. You might want to spit that out." Ino said as she held a flower.

"No one hurts my friends! I'm Akane Tendo, heir to the Tendo School of Anything Goes Taijutsu, and if I ever catch you bullying Sakura again, I'll make sure I actually break something next time!" Akane said as she held her fist in front of her.

"As the Hokage's daughter, I can have my daddy order the Anbu to assassinate anybody I want. So if I ever see you mess with Sakura again, I'l make sure your names are at the top of the list." Naruko said as she smiled innocently.

"The stopped for a while, but then they eventually started again, always making sure to get me when I was alone. I never told them, because I wanted to handle things myself for a change. Unfortunately, it never worked out well each time for me."

"Well after today, I think they'll finally learn not to mess with you. I've got a feeling that that Ami girl won't be waking up any time soon." she said as she rubbed her cheek. "Sure, I helped a bit, but you definitely showed her that Sakura Haruno isn't weak at all." she said as she started to walk away. "Just get them with another punch like that, and even those idiots will finally get smart enough not to mess with you ever again."

Sakura stood there for a bit looking down. "Hey, Naruto." she said, and the girl turned around.

"...Thanks." she said as she ran to catch up with her. "This really meant a lot too me." she said with a smile.


Not long after the whole incident, Naruto finally managed to get some hot water. She poured some water on herself to revert back to a boy, then poured the rest over Kiba, and he reverted back to a human. And to Sakura's annoyance, a still naked human.

"Put some clothes on. Quickly." she said as she turned away.

"Oh yes, my queen. Whatever you say." Kiba said sarcastically as he rubbed the bump on his head that he now possessed. As soon as he was dressed, he turned to Naruto. "So that really was you that I saw the other day."

"Yeah. I fell into the Spring of Drowned Girl at Jusenkyo." Naruto said.

"'Jusenkyo?' Is that where the water comes from?" Kiba asked.

"Huh? You mean you've never been to Jusenkyo? Then how did you even get cursed in the first place?: Sakura asked.

"Yeah. Me, my dad, and the others all got our curses there. How did you get one without even going there in the first place?"

"Well, it happened about a month ago...

-flashback-

"And here we are!" Kiba's mother, Tsume Inuzuka proclaimed. "Welcome to the Inuzuka clan's private land!" she said she opened her arms wide to present it all.

Kiba looked around at where they were. It was a building with "Inuzuka" written on the door. Behind it was a small mountain.

"I don't see why you had to come, Hana." Kiba said.

"I came because I don't trust our mother to show any self-restraint. Someone has to make sure that you actually are able to see tomorrow." his sister, Hana Inuzuka, said. Kiba laughed a bit at what she said. "I'm serious. Our mother's training is brutal. She takes the saying "What doesn't kill you can only make you stronger" to the extreme. Without me here to heal you and Akamaru, theres a 90% chance that you'll die." she said with the utmost seriousness. Kiba gulped. "Hey, you're the one who asked her for training to get stronger. You loaded the revolver, so now you got to pul the trigger and see if you get the bullet."

"H-how ba-ad could it r-really be-e?" Kiba said.

Unfortunately for him, he didn't have to wait to get his answer. "Hey Kiba! Sorry, but I forgot the the 100 pound weights, so you have to go straight the 200 pound weights!" Tsume said

"I have to climb up that mountain with 200 pounds tied around my legs!"

"Of course not!" Tsume said, and Kiba heaved a sigh of refief. Hana sighed too, though not in relief. "You have to do it with 200 pounds around your legs, and arms! C'mon! I'll show you the cliff that goes stright up! Thats the best place to start!"

A few hours later...

"Four tries and you only made it up about a fourth of the way up the cliff." Tsume said, sounding a bit disappointed. She entered the building back on the grounds. She was followed by Hana, who was then followed slowly by Kiba.

"Only a fourth of the way!" Kiba yelled. "Are you completely ignoring how much a fourth of the way was!" He had several bruises covering his body. He held Akamaru in his arm, who wimpered a bit.

"Yeah, but that cliff is the easy part. You'll never make it past the ravine if you can't make it up that cliff."

"Ravine?" Kiba asked.

"Yep. And after that, theres the second cliff."

"Second cliff?"

"Uh-huh! Then we're a third of the way up the mountain! Thats when the hard stuff starts!" Tssume continued, oblivious to the fear on her son's face. She then looked around the room. "Man, I forgot that we haven't been here in a few years. Training can wait, we should clean up this place first."

They spent the next next hour cleaning the house. Eventually, they came to the Inuzuka clan's storage room. There were many scrolls and other objects around the room. Kiba looked around the room, eventually coming to a shelf. He looked at the stuff on the shelf, evetually looking at a barrel that was on the top shelf. He saw that on it was written "Wolf Water". Curious about it, he called over to his mom and sister. "Hey, whats that stuff?" he asked as he pointed at it.

Tsume came over and looked at what he was pointing at. "Hm? Oh, that stuff. That there is magic water."

"Magic water?" Kiba repeated, sounding more than a bit skeptical.

"Hard as it might sound to believe, its true. I've seen its effects on my grandpa." she said.

"So then what does it do?"

"Whoever that water drenches gets a special power: The ability to turn into a wolf using cold water. Not a mere transformartion jutsy trick, an actual wolf."

"Really?"

"Yep. A long time ago, some members of the Inuzuka clan came to plave with many springs of water with similar powers, not all changing people into wolves, though. Anyway, after using the springs power on himself, he took some with him to use on other members of the clan. Not all was used, and they saved the leftovers. Occansionally, some of the clan uses it such as your great-grandpa."

"Turning into a wolf, huh? Sounds pretty cool." Kiba said.

"Of course, you need permission from the head of the clan to use it, and as the head of the Inuzuka clan, I say no." she said as she slapped Kiba in the back. This caused Kiba to stumble, knocking right into the shelf, causing one of the barrels to fall down, landing right on time of him, breaking open and emptying its contents on him.

"Oh no! Look what you did, mom!" Hana said. "Are you alright Kiba?" she asked as she ran over. When she got there, she saw only his empty clothes. "Kiba? Where are you?" she asked. She then saw his clothes rustle, and then saw what was now his wolf form poke its head out of his jacket.

Several minutes later, Tsume told him how to change back, and they used hot water to revert him to a human. Now that everything was alright, Tsume was laughing. "You were just so adorable! I never knew that one could end up so cute using the water!"

"Cut it out mom..." Kiba complained.

"But you really were so cute. Look at this." she said as she handed a book his way. He flipped through it, seeing pictures thoughout it. On each page, it would have a picture a member of the Inuzuka clan, and a picture of a wolf next to them. "Thats a record of everybody that used the water. It has a picture of their normal form, and a picture of their wolf form. No one else in there is a cute as you." Indeed, all of the wolves in there were fully grown, some even a bit larger than average. "And those pictures are of them right when they use it. Which reminds me..." she wasted no time in throwing the contents of a glass of water she had been drinking from at him causing him to change. She somehow managed to instantly obtain a camera with which she used to obtain a picture of him.

-end flashback-

"And thats how it happened." Kiba explained.

"I see." Naruto said. "Yeah, I guess it would suck to have your curse be like that. I'd hate to emd up a small animal."

"Shut up!" Kiba yelled.

"Whats wrong? Can't handle the truth? Runt!" Naruto said as he stuck out his tongue.

"Why you-I gonna kick your ass!" Kiba said as he leaped at Naruto who stepped to the side to avoid him.

Before their fight could continue, someone else entered the shed. "Here you two are!" Naruko said as she walked in. "Oh, hey Kiba." she said with a wave. "Hey you two, the accademy day is over, and everyone else went home. Lets go get some ramen at Ichraku!" she said, and Naruto quickly agreed, running out of the shed with his sister, and Sakura following.

"Hey! Get back here, Naruto!" Kiba called out. Unfortunately for him, as soon as he turned the corner, water came down from above and drenched him.

"Hey, you should look before you dump that." A boy said.

"Oh, who cares." A girl replied.


"Really? Kiba has a curse, too?" Naruko asked as they were about to enter Ichiraku.

"Yeah, we saw it today." Naruto said.

"Its-" he was about to tell her, when suddenly they saw a very strange sight. Dr Tofu ran past them giving his skeleton, Betty, a piggyback ride. Without stopping, he pulled Betty from his back, spun it over his head by its hands, then placed it back.

Sakura and Naruko sighed. "Kasumi..." they said simultaneously

"...I don't want to know." Naruto said.


It was the next day, and with a day off from the accademy, and Minato finally caught up on all of his paperwork, the Namikazes, the Harunos, The Saotomes, the Tendos, and Jiraiya were all on their way to enjoy a nice get together in a nearby village. Minato had told them that the place they were going to had good service, and the food was great. And since he told everybody that it was on him, he expected his wallet to be empty tonight.

When they got to the village, they found that a small festival was going on. "Why don't you kids go ahead without us. I need to talk about something with the others first. And don't worry, Naruto knows where it is." Minato said.

"Is that supposed to reasure us?" Sakura commented.

"Alright dad." Naruto said as he shot a glare at Sakura.

"So Naruto, I heard you had a pretty tough fight with that Inuzuka boy, yesterday. How did it go?" Nabiki asked, needing to know this for bets on any of their future fights.

"Oh, I beat him alright. Wasn't any problem at all." he bragged.

"Yeah, I figured as much." Ranma said. "So what happened after you beat him? You two never came back to class."

Naruto cast a quick glance at Sakura, who looked away to hide a very slight blush as she remembered yesterday. "Nothing much. I came back to get some hot water, then classes had already ended and I went to get some ramen." he said. As they continued walking, Naruto suddenly bumped into another boy as he turned a corner without paying attention. "Hey, why don't you watch-" Naruto stopped in surprise as he saw that he had bumped into a boy with raven hair, one he knew all too well.

"Well, look who it is. Didn't expect to run into you here, Naruto." the boy said with a smirk.

"Oh my. Is this a friend of yours, Naruto?" Kasumi asked.

"I wouldn't really use the word 'friends' to describe them, Kasumi." Naruko told her.

"So then who is this guy?" Ranma asked.

"Haven't seen you for a while, Sasuke." Naruto said, not paying much attention to the others.

"Thas not surprising. Like you, I've been away from the village training. I was just on my way back." Sasuke said.

"Training, huh? Wonder if it did you any good. I know that my training definitely helped me out. My dad, whos kinda the Hokage and all, has said my skills are at least chunin level." Naruto said,

"Chunin, huh? Well then, I guess that would make me jonin." Sasuke retorted.

"Yeah right. Care to test that?" Naruto said as he fell into a fighting stance.

"Won't be much of a test." Sasuke commented as he took off his pack and fell into his own.

However, before their fight could start, Naruto was drenched as a bucket fell onto him, now her. "Crap..." she let out as she removed the bucket.

Sasuke smirked as he saw this. "Well, what is this we have here? Looks like the idiot here has turned into a little girl. I know its not right to hit a girl, but foy you-" he was cut off as another bucket came down, this time on his head. As he slowly removed the bucket, they noticed that he seemed slightly different. They found out exactly why when he had removed the bucket to reveal the face of a girl with bright blue hair. The

"HAHAHAH! What were you just saying?" Naruto laughed at what she had just seen.

"Shut it, Namikaze! You've got no room to talk since you're in the exact same boat as me!"

"That didn't stop you from saying anything before I found out you've got the same problem as me!" she said as she stuck her tongue out at Sasuke. "Now, stop whining like a little girl!"

"Thats it! I'll show you whose a little girl! I'm gonna kill you!"

"Not before I've killed you!" Naruto returned as the to ran at each other, both intent on spilling the other's blood.

"Break it up you two. You'll have plenty of time to maim eachother after dinner." Kushina said as she appeared btween them and held them appart. "Hello Sasuke. My, you sure have changed in the past three years." she teased, having seen the earlier exchange between Naruto and her. "Would you like join us for dinner?" she 'asked' as she grabbed her by the collar, not really giving him a choice. "I'd love to hear about your training."

Sasuke sighed. 'She never actually gives me a choice." she thought.

...

Hmm... I feel like I'm forgetting something...

Oh! Thats right!

Just as he was about to follow Kushina, Ranma felt a third bucket come come down, landing on his head, changing him into a girl as had happened with Naruto and Sasuke. "Aw, dammit." she said.

There we go! Can't have Ranma escape misfortune, now can we?


The four families, plus Jiraiya and Sasuke all sat down at a large table in a resturant. Naruto and Sasuke both glared at eachother as they tried to out-eat the other girl. Neither of them, nor Ranma had gotten a chance to change back yet. After having consumed quite a bit, the girls seem to start choking a bit, then gulped down some water.

"So Sasuke, how has your training been? I've heard from Mikoto that shes gotten a few letters from you saying that it was going good, but she never mentioned that you would be returning soon." Kushina said.

"I was going to surprise them." was all she said.

"So Sasuke, I see you've got a curse like Naruto, Ranma, Genma, and myself." Minato commented.

"Since you already know about Jusenkyo, short story is that I went there, and got into a fight with some girl. We ended up knocking eachother into a spring. She ended up turning into some bird, while I ended up a girl myself." she explained.

"What kind of a bird?" Naruko asked.

"I think it was a falcon."

"What did she look like?" Naruto asked, having a good feeling about what he would say.

"Brown hair, tied up into two buns. Wore a shirt like Ranma's there, though hers was pink."

'HA! Go Tenten!' Naruto thought with a snicker.

"Well, its certainly nice ot see you again, Sasuke." Mebuki commented. "And I remember that Mikoto said something about always wanting a girl." she added, which caused Sasuke to seemingly radiate his anger from his body. Naruto chuckled at the other girl's suffering. Misery loves company, as they say.

Before any conversation continued, a nearby wall suddenly had a large hole as it was knocked down. Standing there was a girl with pink hair, though much darker than Sakura's, wearing a hat. She wore a tan uniform with a white tin-yang symbol near the botom, and a purple rope-like belt tied around her waste. Standing around her were three large ogres.

"OH CRAP, SHE FOUND ME!" Naruto yelled out in fear.

"I'm gonna kill you this time, bitch!" she said as she pointed at Naruto.


And theres the eighth chapter. So now Kiba's curse has finally been revealed. As you might be able to guess, Kiba hates his curse more for being considered small or a runt, than the curse itself. While he thought that being able to turn into a wolf would be cool, the actual result wounds his pride. As for the circumstances of him recieving his curse, I wanted to have someone get their curse without going to Jusenkyo, and I found Kiba the easiest to make that happen. And I have to ask how I handled the fight. Was it good? Fight choreography is a bit difficult for me, so I want to know how I did. Anyway, a lot going on this chapter. Action, drama, humor.

And Sasuke has appeared! And with the same curse as Naruto and Ranma! I had considered several curses for him, but eventually decides on a girl curse for him as well, since I found that I had more ideas with how to work with this one. Also if you've noticed, Sasuke's parents were mentioned. I had orignially planned to have the entire clan murdered by Itachi since we found out that Sasuke's father was the mastermind of the planned coup, but since I've found myself to be pissed off at the guy in the manga lately, I want to make him less of a douchebag, and I figure at least having his parents would reduce the rage. So now Sasuke's parents weren't involved, and they remain just fine.

And of course, theres the surprise charcter I mentioned has appeared. Its none other than Tayuya! I threw in that Ryouga appearance earlier to throw off your guard for the end there. Since the start of this story, I've intended to have her, plus the rest of the Sound 5 be regular characters. I've always been fond of most of them, so since this story is blatantly an AU, I figure I'd make the Sound village not evil so I could have them appear without any trouble.

Now, please review.