A/N: See, told ya I'd be back with another chapter shortly! But you didn't believe me, did ya? Enjoy!
One week after the last chapter...
Jack, Amanda, and Ryu dashed acrossed the roof tops in pursuit of their target. It has alluded them well for something as small and harmless looking as it was, but they were closing the gap.
Their target: a small cat, with grey fur, and a bow on it's head.
"This is the cat from hell," said Jack, panting slightly. "I mean, come ON! Naruto's team was chasing it just yesterday, and it already escaped again!"
"When they finally caught it, Naruto was covered in scratch marks, as were Sasuke and Sakura," said Ryu. "We should be careful not to underestimate this kitty,"
The cat suddenly stopped on the building right next to the one they were on, and turned to face them, as if daring them to come after it.
"Looks like in finally gave up," said Jack, grinning as he jumped acrossed the gap between the buildings. Suddenly, Ryu and Amanda's eyes widened.
"Jack, no!" yelled Ryu.
"Don't do it!" yelled Amanda.
But it was too late. Jack's eyes widened as he too realized his error; moments before he landed, the cat dashed off, leaving Jack a nice little suprise: Jack's foot landed in a pile of cat droppings.
"Damned cat," said Jack, clenching his fist. "THESE WERE MY NEW SHOES!"
Jack dashed off after the cat, enraged.
The cat looked back, and Jack swore he saw it grin malovently. It suddenly jumped over the edge of the building, and ran down the fire escape.
Jack, however, did not have such good timing. He jumped over the gap before he could stop himself, and looked back at the fire escape as he jumped, causing him to become distracted. His feet suddenly hit the ledge of the other building, and before he could balance himself, he fell off, his head hitting a windowsill, and the edge of the fire escape on the way down. He landed in a pile of garbage.
The cat walked up and meowed, innocently.
"Hello kitty...you're about to do something cartoonishly evil that causes me tons of pain right now, aren't you?" said Jack, groaning.
He swore he saw the cat nod...right before the garbage truck came by, and he was lifted up and throw into the back with the pile of garbage he was on.
"Help..." he said, before he was dumped in the back of the truck, and sealed inside with about a ton of garbage. He looked around, but everything was dark, and he could barely see. However, he suddenly saw a light above him.
"I'm free!" he said...right before even more garbage fell upon him and the doors above him closed again. He felt the truck start to move.
"Damn this mission, damn the Hokage for letting that stupid woman hire shinobi for this mission, damn that stupid woman for letting that stupid cat run away, and DAMN THAT STUPID CAT FOR DUMPING ME INTO THIS STUPID GARBAGE TRUCK!" he yelled, angrily. "SUMMONING NO JUTSU!"
--
The cat watched with satisfaction as the garbage truck drove away, and raised it's paw to wave at the foolish shinobi that had tried to bring it back to the crazy lady, though it knew he probably wouldn't see it mocking him. It started to walk away, when it heard a loud puff of smoke, followed by the sound of metal being ripped open! It turned around to see something that made it make another pile of cat crap on the ground behind it!
A HUGE dinosaur that resembled the summon that had made the Williams clan famous, officially named Gojira by the first person to summon him, also known as Godzilla by the people that for some reason couldn't pronounce Gojira.
This summon wasn't anywhere near Gojira's height, but was still fairly large, as the top half of him was sticking out of the top of the garbage truck, as if it had exploded into existance inside the vehical that had been too small to contain him. However, that wasn't what made the cat involuntarilly release it's bowels; standing on top of the summon, looking pissed, was the shinobi it had tricked into the truck, and he looked pissed.
"Hello kitty," said Jack. "Ya miss me?"
"So, what do ya need, boss?" said the huge summon.
"Oh, I just needed to break out of that dump truck, Gonzilla, you can go home now," said Jack, jumping off the summon and landing in front of the cat.
"Oh, alright, I'll see you later then," said Gonzilla, disappearing in a puff of smoke.
"I have plenty more where he came from," said Jack.
The cat involuntarily made another brick on the sidewalk, before running away like hell.
And Jack ran after it...
--
"Jack, you ok? we heard you yelling for help on the radio, but then the signal was cut off as if you were encased in metal or something. Do you copy, over?" said Rama's voice on the radio.
"Yeah, tango was able to trick me into getting trapped in a dump truck, but I managed to get out.I'm in pursuit; tango is heading down mainstreet, over," said Jack into the radio as he ran.
"Roger that, we'll try to head it off, over and out," said Rama's voice.
Suddenly, Amanda and Ryu landed on the ground several feet ahead of the cat. Amanda prepared to trap the cat in a genjutsu, while Ryu used his bloodline to create what looked like a straw made of bamboo, but both Jack and the cat seemed to recognize that the straw was in fact a blow dart gun.
Before they could catch the cat, however, it ran into an narrow alley, narrowly avoiding a tranq dart.
Jack, who was closest, ran into the alley after it.
"You're not getting away this time!" said Jack, who was gaining on the animal.
--
"Come on, after it!" said Ryu, running towards the alley, before Amanda stopped him.
"If that cat gets past Jack somehow, then we should stay here to catch it when it comes out," she said. "Besides, Jack can probably handle the cat on his own..."
"I wouldn't bet on it," said Rama, from behind them. "This may sound stupid, and crazy, but that cat's owner...enrolled it in a martial arts dojo...for cats,"
"Wait, do they even have those?" said Ryu, perplexed.
"Ryu, some people thing that pets deserve to be treated like people, and that they WANT to be treated like people, though some of the things they make their pets do is unintentionally cruel and the pet suffers," said Rama. "There are pet clothes, pet weddings, pet schools, and even pet weddings. It was only a matter of time before some idiot made a pet martial arts dojo,"
"So? It's not like the cat actually learned anything that'll help it against a trained shinobi..." said Amanda.
"Did you see Naruto after he tried to grab the cat?" said Rama. "Or seen a cornered stray cat claw the hell out of someone? Cats and dogs have adaptations that give them certain advangates over humans, and all animals fight when they're cornered,"
"And at the moment, that cat is between Jack and a dead end!" said Amanda. "But still, Jack is a shinobi, he could kill that cat if he wanted to..."
"Could he, Amanda, could he?" said Rama. "In fact, could YOU kill a cat for that matter?"
Amanda opened her mouth to respond, but stopped, and shook her head.
"I didn't think so," said Rama. "And the mission requires Jack to capture the cat alive, so he couldn't kill it even if he could ignore his conscience... but like you said, he IS a shinobi,"
Rama pulled out a scroll.
"...but every shinobi could use a little back up now and then, though he'll be fine if he doesn't try to approach while it's terrified..."
--
Jack walked towards the cat, smirking as he saw that there was no where for it to go, and nothing for it to jump onto. It stretched out it's back, unsheathed it's claws, wagged it's tail, and mewed in warning; all things that a cat does to tell you that it is NOT a good idea to get closer to it. Most people, even if they'd never had a cat, could recognize those signs, as we all have a part of our brain that tells us to back the hell away from something. Jack, however, was too pissed to listen to that part of his brain.
"Ok, be a good kitty...I'm not going to hurt you..." he said, slowly closing in, and trying to hide the fact that he WANTED to wring the cat's little neck for all the trouble it caused him, though he could never bring himself to do it.
His voice seemed to calm the cat down a bit, assuring it that the idiotic shinobi didn't want to hurt it, though it still showed it's teeth and claws. If Jack had been smarter, he would have continued this, and kept a safe distance; then called his teamates on the radio for back up.
Well, maybe that was his plan, but what Jack said next kinda ruined that for him.
"I'm just gonna bring you back to your mommy, who I'm sure is VERY worried about you..."
That was when the cat hissed, and lunged forward, viciously latching onto Jack's leg with it's claws. The idiot genin tried to pry the cat off his leg, but it managed to climb up, and somehow got on his back, where it held on with it's front claws, and made several claw marks on his back with the other two legs.
Jack bent over, and managed to grab the cat, and throw it off him, causing it to land in front of him.
"Listen kitty, you don't wanna do this!" he said. "It's not easy being a stray! And you don't wanna murder a human, or animal control will hunt you down like an animal! you're making a mistake!" Jack pleaded, but the cat was too enraged to listen.
It leapt back up at Jack, but this time he caught it's two front legs with his hands, and held it back.
"ooh, now who's got the advantage?" said Jack. "Sorry, you missed out on something called thumbs...ow, stop that! not my face!"
The cat had begun using it's hind legs to pimp slap Jack's face, making several parallel claw marks. The cat then used its hind legs to grab Jack's throat, preparing to slash it!
However, it's attention was redirected by an annoyingly confident voice.
"Let the kid go...or taste the roundhouse kick!" yelled Chuck Norris.
The cat squirmed away from Jack, and turned to the celebrity, glaring at him with it's beady little eyes.
"Oh no...not you..." said Chuck, before screaming like a little girl and turning his back.
However, the cat used that opportunity to jump onto Chuck's back, knocking him to the ground, causing him to scream like a little girl and tremble with fear.
--
Rama sighed as he heard the sound of a disturbingly femanin scream followed by a lound puff of smoke.
"Why do I even bother summoning that idiot?" he said, sighing. "Get ready, it's probably heading this way,"
--
The cat completely forgot about Jack, and ran towards the other end of the alley, and towards it's freedom... right before getting grabbed from behind by a small, puppy sized flying reptile with three horns coming out of it's head.
"Summons," said Jack, grinning. "What can't they do?"
Suddenly, he frowned.
"Wait a second, why didn't i just summon Nador in the first place? Damn it, I always think of these things after I try to do things the hard way," he said, sweatdropping.
--
Ryu smiled as one of Jack's summons, the chibi version of Rodan that Jack called Nador, flew towards them, and tossed the troublesome cat into the cage.
Amanda quickly closed said cage, and locked it. She then looked in at the cat.
"You caused us ALOT of trouble," she said to the cat...which she SWORE stuck it's tounge out at her.
She then saw the chibi pterranodan in her face, and jumped back.
"The hell is that thing?!" she said, pointing at Nador. "It looks like a midgit pteradactyl!"
"My name is Nador," said the small dinosaur, as if offended. "And I'm a pterranodan! Not a pterradactyl! There's a difference!"
"He's one of Jack's summons," said Rama. "Though I have to say, I didn't expect Jack to have masted the summoning jutsu just yet,"
"It was easy," said Jack. "All I had to do was sign three scrolls in blood, and summon the three boss summons...well, I also had to go through tests with two of them, though the first one was satisfied with just being summoned..."
"Wait, three scrolls?" said Amanda. "that would be...three different types of summons...what can you summon?"
Ryu rolled his eyes and sighed, knowing how much Jack liked to talk about his summons.
"Oh, well, the first one I got was the Mothra scroll," said Jack. "She was hard to summon, but not as hard as the other two,"
"Really?" said Amanda, now genuinely interested.
"Yeah, the second one was Rodan...he was not only difficult to summon, but he had a rather hard test to pass before he'd serve me," said Jack. "I had to hold on to his back while he flew really fast... I fell off when he increased his speed to mach 5..."
"Wait, you failed the test?" said Amanda.
"no, but I thought i did," said Jack. "but he told me afterward that the Mach 5 portion of the test was just for fun... Rodan can be a real arsehole when he wants to... and he always wants to..."
Rama laughed, having met the ornery pterranodan himself back when he was Ash's teammate.
"Yeah, that describes him alright," he said.
Jack stared at him for a moment, then sighed.
"I keep forgetting you knew my dad," he said, shaking his head.
Rama laughed.
"I've your dad AND your mom AND most of your dad's summons for YEARS kid," he said.
"What's the last summon?" said Amanda, curiously.
"Gojira, also known as Godzilla amoung people that for some reason can't pronounce Gojira," said Jack. "His test was easier than Rodan's, but he was EXTREMELY hard to summon, as I could only make a few tries at a time before I had to rest cause it took alot of chakra to summon him. After that, I just had to survive for an hour in one of his stomachs and I was done,"
"Wait, you had to survive an hour inside one of his stomachs?" said Amanda. "That sounds...gross,"
"It is," said Ryu. "Jack once had me spend a day in Gonzilla's stomach after I lost a bet... of course, I kinda deserved it after that prank I pulled on him..."
Jack was completely silent for a moment, as if waiting for a flashback to happen, then spoke.
"Yeah, but you were in no real danger; Gojira, along with all of his sons that are large enough to swallow a human being, have complete control over their metabolism, meaning..." he started to say.
"They can control exactly how acidic their digestive fluids are and whether or not they're hungry?" said Amanda.
"Um...yeah..." said Jack, not expecting her to figure it out on her own that easily.
"Heh heh, she's smarter than you two boys thought, isn't she?" said Rama, grinning. "Well, this pointless dialouge has gone on long enough, lets get to the Hokage's office with the cat before it escapes again..."
--
The four shinobi watched as the morbidly obese woman hugged the cat...or tried to squeeze the life out of it; they couldn't really tell which.
"Heh heh, that's what that damned cat gets for using me as a cat-rack," said Jack, under his breath to his teammates.
"To be honest, I feel sorry for the damned thing," said Ryu.
"Have some sympathy Jack," said Amanda. "If you were that cat, you wouldn't want to go back either,"
"True...but it's not the one covered in claw marks right now," said Jack.
--
"Hokage-sama, I believe my team is ready for a higher ranked mission," said Rama, after his team had been payed, and his students and the cat lady had left. "We've completed the required amount of D-ranked missions, and Team Kakashi was just given a C-rank yesterday,"
"Well, it just happens that I have a mission that's perfect for your team!" said the Sandaime, handing Rama a scroll. "You are to escort a wealthy bandit and his daughter from here to their home village; it should be about a week's worth of travel,"
"Thank you, Hokage-sama, we won't let you down," said Rama bowing.
"I just hope those three genin of yours are ready for this mission," said the Sandaime. "Personally, I'd rather they do a few more D-ranked missions, but that's up to you,"
Rama smiled, and bowed.
"Don't worry, my genin are definately prepared for this mission," he said, walking out. "It's only C-ranked, what could go wrong?"
Those were famous last words...
A/N: Well, that wraps up this chapter! R&R