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Maelstrom on the Lot

"Goodnight everybody!" –Talking/yelling

'I'm hungry!' –Thinking/thoughts

"HELLO NURSE" –Singing

"GO AWAY!" –Shouting

Chapter 11: While the Fox is Away

Last time on Maelstrom on the Lot; So Squit did just that, he was quiet. His mind was running at a thousand thoughts per second, going over his life up until this point. 'All these year of abuse, and it's a broken wing that gets me a real friend…' he smirked to himself, 'yeah, I can live with that.'

Time seemed to move quickly after Squit was added to the family. After an awkward first meeting between him and Rita (He freaked out because he thought she was going to eat him. She just smirked and mumbled, "I still got it.") The four of them began living together. It was at the end of that week, and more unsuccessful job hunts, that the studio sent a check for five thousand dollars to a surprised Naruto. After laughing at his stunned face, Rita explained about how the Warner's adventures are filmed. She earned three days without a Naruto cooked breakfast tm.

Days turned to weeks and weeks became a month, and it was this first month after moving in that Naruto finally found a job. He became a celebrity bodyguard, escorting the celebrities that seemingly lived on the lot. It paid enough so that he could feed everyone and kept the apartment in order, (oddly enough, he was paid extra by the women he protected so long as he did his job without a shirt on) so on the days that he worked he left his roommates/pets to their own devices.

Now

Naruto looked back into the apartment and yelled, "I'll be back later guys! Don't burn anything down while I'm gone!" With a chuckle he closed the door and was on his way to his next job with some Schwarzenegger guy. Squit stretched from on the couch, his wings having healed a few weeks ago, and flipped the TV on. "So, what we gonna do today Ms. Rita?"

Rita, who was on a sleeping Runt's back, smirked and said, "I was thinking we all just go for a walk or something. Watching TV is great and all, but," she stood up and stretched her back, "it gets boring after a while." She reached down and tapped Runt's head, waking him up slowly.

Runt blinked and smiled at Rita, "oh! Good morning Rita! We going to have fun today?" seeing her smile and nod he gained a giant grin and slowly stood up, careful of Rita on his back. "Oh boy! This will be fun, oh definitely, definitely." He walked to the door, Squit jumping onto his head as Rita stayed on Runt's back. Rita go the door open and they were off on their first 'Family' adventure.

Studio Park

The three had been walking for the past hour, eventually reaching the park. Here, they settled down and just enjoyed the natural beauty of nature. Squit looked around with a smile as he thought, 'if you told me a few months ago that I'd be living in a home, with a cat, and be eating every day instead of every other day…I'd have laughed in your face.' He chuckled to himself as he kept looking around.

He stopped as he heard something off to the left, turning his gaze there to see what it was. He gasped as he saw his old friends and another pigeon, who Squit recognized as the Godpigeon. He looked towards a sleeping Rita and Runt, wondering if he should wake them up. He decided against it and flew up to the tree closest to the three, listening in.

Below Squit

Pesto and Bobby were scared. Not of the usual things, like cats and people trying to get rid of them, but of the bird before them. The Godpigeon, a fat bird who forced other birds to get him food by means of threats and blackmail. Right now this powerful bird was angry because they had let that fox guy take Squit, one of the birds he had control over.

The Godpigeon glared at the two before him, "you two numbskulls went and lost me a bird?" He stepped forward and smacked both Pesto and Bobby in the head, getting a loud "OUCH!" as a reply. "You lost me a valuable resource! If I didn't still need you useless bags of feathers I'd have you taken out!" he ranted, causing the birds on the ground to cower and the one up above to narrow his eyes and his ever present grin to disappear.

Pesto looked to the Godpigeon and mumbled, "I…I'm sorry your grace. We didn't realize that someone was watching." Bobby nodded, inside thinking about all the fights between Pesto and Squit and feeling ashamed to have laughed at them. Since Squit had left, Bobby had taken the time to look over their past friendship. By doing this he discovered something, he was a horrible friend to Squit.

He'd vowed to make up for it when they finally found the runaway goodfeather, but right now he was focused on cowering for his life. The Godpigeon sighed before asking, "so, just to be clear, you two get that moron back or else…" he drug a feather/finger across his throat, sending the silent threat before waddling off. Pesto and Bobby sighed in relief, happy to still be alive.

Bobby looked to Pesto, "so how do we find Squit, he could be anywhere in the city."

Pesto grunted, "I don't know, stupid fox could've eaten the idiot for all we know." Bobby slapped him upside the back of his head, getting him to cry out, "GEEZ! What the flock was that for?!"

Bobby glared at Pesto, who looked shocked at the glare, "you numbskull, Squit wasn't an idiot. You just took everything outta context." He sighed and mumbled to himself, "not like I helped much." Shaking his head, Bobby spoke louder, "now where do we start looking?"

"How 'bout up?" Squit called out from above them, making them whip their heads up quickly and cry, "SQUIT!" Bobby and Pesto flew up to the branch Squit was on and smiled at the third goodfeather. Squit gave them a small smile, still confused on how to treat them. "Hey guys, how ya been?" he asked them.

Pesto looked at him angrily, "how've we been? Did you NOT just see the Godpigeon threaten us?!" he shouted the last part in Squit's face before being pushed back by the same bird. This surprised him and Bobby, considering Squit had never stood up to Pesto before.

"Knock it off Pesto, you did enough damage last time when you broke my wing," Squit said in an unnaturally serious voice, further surprising Bobby and Pesto. He sighed and ran his wing over his head feathers before saying, "listen. I'm sorry to tell you guys this but…I'm quitting the goodfeathers."

Pesto and Bobby were shocked. Beyond shocked really, here was the bird who had BEGGED to join the goodfeathers and he was now quitting! Pesto began sputtering," wha-but you-What the heck?!" Bobby just stared at Squit, unable to process what he just said.

Squit sighed and shook his wings, "yeah. I'm sorry about this guys but…after lookin' at my life before now and how it is living with Naruto, I just can't go back to tryin' to please that old featherbag 'Godpigeon.'" He turned around and started walking away, "I hope you guys can come visit some time, I'd still like to be friends. Anyways, have a nice life guys." He flapped his wings and took off to find Rita and Runt again.

Bobby and Pesto just stood there, staring at where Squit had just left. Finally, Pesto couldn't stand it anymore and shouted, "WHAT THE #%$^ JUST $%^#ING HAPPENED?!"

When Squit found Rita and Runt, they were just waking up from their nap. Rita looked at him and asked, "Squit? Where you been?" Runt looked at him too, mostly because he didn't have anything else to do.

Squit just sighed, "nothin' much, just saying goodbye to some friends." He yawned and flew up to Runts head. "Come on, let's get home before Naruto gets back and starts worrying about us." Rita and Runt looked at him, but eventually just shrugged and started home.

Up Above the Three

Flying high above our three friends was none other than the Godpigeon. His beady eyes narrowed in anger as he looked at Squit, having known he was there when he talked to those other two idiots. 'So, you think you can just leave the goodfeathers eh?' he smirked cruelly and said out loud, "I'll show you what happens to quitters, so watch your back you little piece of crap." He then flew off, back to the city to get some of his boys. Unknown to anyone, he'd be bringing the wrath of a demon upon the lot.

Chapter 11 END

After note: for those of you who have asked, YES Naruto will be using ninjutsu he just hasn't had a reason to use one so far. He'll also have something like his Kyuubi cloak: Tailless mode, which will be seen either next chapter or the one after that, it depends on how I decide to do it. :P anyways, END!