Chapter 10
"So your giant fox has the ability to change his form?", Kiyo asked Naruko with his arms folded.
She nodded her head. "Well obviously. I mean, is did you not just see him became bigger? It's not hard to miss."
"Ok then, why does he have nine tails?".
Naruko froze as she took a moment to think about an answer. "He has nine tails because…". She looked at Kurama for an answer but he only shrugged. Then a partly true answer clicked into her head. "Because it makes him look more intimidating!"
Her answer made Kiyo look at the fox curiously. He did sort of look more scary when his multiple tails wagged in different directions. "I guess that makes sense."
But Nia didn't want to think that her furry friend only pretended to be nice. So up to Kurama and asked, "But is he still the playful cute little fox that we all know and love?"
Kurama answered her question with a caring nuzzle and licks. That seemed to do the trick as she giggled happily.
"Ok ok I get", she said to him, motioning for him to stop licking her. "I love you too."
Kurama drew back and smiled at the happiness he was giving to his friend Nia. However, his smile faltered when he heard Kiyo say, "This is great! We have a really powerful weapon by our side! No ninja will be brave enough to mess with us!"
Fear was placed in Kurama's body as his eyes widened. Kiyo was exactly what Kurama was afraid of; humans that would only think of him as a weapon of death and not a living being with real dreams and emotion. Teeth bared and a fierce growl, he towered over Kiyo to give him a frightful glare, his red eyes glowing dimly.
Taking a step back with arms raised in defense, Kiyo asked desperately, "Hey Naruko, can you ask your weapon to back off?"
Kurama raised his hand to strike him with his claws at being called a weapon again, but was beaten to it by when a punch to the head came from Naruko.
Angrily, she yelled at him, "He's not a weapon you asshole! He's our best friend and comrade that saved our lives from those jerk ninja. And so that makes you think he's a weapon? Think about it more next time you moron."
Kiyo put his head down in shame. "Sorry Kurama," he apologized.
A form of a smirk appeared on Kurama's lips as he gave Kiyo a pat on the head and transforming into his smaller fox body with normal paws and one tail. He hopped onto Naruko's shoulder and got a scratching behind his ear. The wonderful sensation made his tail wag in bliss.
After Nia healed Kiyo's injuries, Team Obito was about to leave the scene until Nia remembered, "Hey guys I just remembered, do those dead guys have an earth scroll?".
Kiyo's face was in disgust as he took a look at two bodies with a pool of blood around them and one body with his entrails splattered all over the floor. "I'm not going near any of them. I prefer keeping my hands clean," he stated.
Nia and Naruko scoffed at him. "Sissy", they said while heading towards the dead ninja. The girls looked through the bodies that had a pool of blood around them while Kurama was looking at the one whose entrails were on the ground.
Kurama soon found the scroll that was inside the ninja's stomach. "What kind of idiot would desperate enough to eat a scroll?",he muttered to himself. His eyes looked at the dead ninja's face. "Oh that's right, you", he added.
His jaws clenched around the scroll and ran up to Naruko, who was busy looking through a dead ninja's pouch. Kurama's furry head rubbed against her leg as he said with his voice muffled, "Found it."
She stood up and turned around as Kurama jumped onto her shoulder again. With a hand grabbing the scroll and waving it in the air for her friends to see, "Hey guys, Kurama found the scroll!"
A sigh left Kiyo's mouth and stated, "Yeah that's great. Let's just get out this forest already so we don't find another crazy group like them".
Everybody agreed; even Kurama. He didn't want another scene of his best friend dying to be stuck in his head.
A/N: I'm wondering if I should make Kurama have a human form or an anthro form or just be the way he is right now; having him to be his 8 foot tall form. Review!