Snow Leopard Uchiha, Kagome
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Inuyasha, and therefore, claim no rights toward it. The only thing I own is my creativity.
To my readers: I have already written this out and the story is finished, I am typing it late. Therefore, there will be no voting on pairings, because if I change anything now, it will screw up the entire story. I will not post any of the pairings yet, as I am sure you would like it to be a surprise. If you really wish to know, leave a review with the request and I will send it to you personally. If you are anonymous, I am sorry, there is nothing I can do, as I don't reply to those. If I tell anyone the final pairings now, then I am sure I will be chewed off again, as the pairings hint in different places, but the outcome is the same. Thank you.
Ages:
Kagome – 15
Sasuke and the nine rookies – 16
Itachi – 22
Neji, Lee, and Tenten – 17
Kakashi – about 26, give or take a few years (probably shouldn't though, he might sick his ninken on you for making him seem old. )
Chapter 13
The teams all stood before the forest of death the next day. Kagome looked up as Gaara's team approached hers.
"Our teams should pair up," the redhead stated and Sasuke stepped forward.
"Why?"
The redhead glanced at him before turning to Kagome, dismissing him.
"Yesterday, your prey smelled of Orochimaru. The male was one of his lackeys obviously, if you felt it necessary to hunt him. There's a good chance he will show up soon, so I think it would be best to stick together, since he's after your team and I," Gaara said and Kagome nodded.
She wore loose, black jeans, a tight black shirt that had cut off sleeves and was made of leather, along with black sandals identical to Sasuke's. Over everything, she wore a black leather trench coat that went to her knees, sporting the Uchiha fan on the back. She had French braided her long hair tightly, making sure it wouldn't get in the way.
Sasuke had the earth scroll in his possession so that Kagome couldn't freeze it accidentally, and Naruto couldn't open it. Each team when to separate gates after Kagome told Gaara's team to meet them at the clearing first off. It was the only place the sand knew how to get to.
Team 7 got there first, Naruto and Sasuke, having accompanied Kagome on many hunts, easily moved with quiet grace through the familiar forest. They were lucky that they were on the same team, having wonderful teamwork, despite attacking Kakashi separately. They were in lone hunter mode against the Jounin, instead of group hunt mode.
As they lounged in the clearing, a group appeared. A leaf group. Kagome smirked and walked closer to the group.
"Which scroll do you guys have?" she asked cheerfully.
"Heaven, how about you?" the twenty hear old Genin asked.
Kagome's smirk disappeared and her eyes hardened.
"My, how sad for you," she stated, before the three men were knocked to the ground by 3 large identical snow leopards.
Each leopard quickly froze the Nin's arms and legs to the ground before melting. Sasuke walked forward and took the heaven scroll from the Nin's belt.
"What the hell! We're from the leaf too!" one of the down Nin hissed.
"Nothing personal, I don't know you. It helps to eliminate the competition. If we don't immobilize you now, it will come back to bit us as you can be our opponent in the third exam," Kagome answered, feeling Gaara enter the clearing.
"Were you stalled?" she asked him and he nodded.
"We've both scrolls," Temari said and Kagome smiled.
"Let's head to the tower then," she said and they all nodded.
After two hours of nonstop running through the trees, they came upon a stream, where both Kagome and Gaara's teammates collapsed or panted.
"Can you continue?" Kagome questioned and Kankuro groaned.
"Are you kidding me? I thought Gaara was a slave driver! You're ten times worse!" The male exclaimed, causing Gaara to glare and Kagome to smirk, while Naruto and Sasuke scoffed.
"Try living with her!" the blond growled and Sasuke nodded.
Kagome sighed, before shifting to her leopard form and lowering her body to the ground.
"Whoever is too tired to continue, climb on," she said in a bored tone.
"I…you're joking right?"
Kagome simply scoffed at Kankuro's question, before Sasuke climbed onto her back with out hesitation, Naruto behind him.
"Oy! Sasuke-Teme! I want to be in front!"
"So you would rather I have my arms around you, Dobe?"
Kagome chuckled at the dark tone underlying his words, nearly unseating her Pard members. She knew that Sasuke had feelings for Naruto other than brotherly the moment he refused to call the blond his brother, a blush marring his face. She also knew Naruto was oblivious to the Uchiha's feelings, though he felt the same way toward him. Kagome had long since decided to let them work things out.
But it was going on four years now, and both were still oblivious to the other's feelings. She would break is somebody didn't confess soon. She glanced back to see that Naruto had a dumbfounded expression, before it turned shy.
"Rather you than a stranger," he hissed at her brother, and Kagome had to restrain herself from rolling on the ground with laughter as her brother quickly switched the blond places.
She watched Kankuro and Temari hesitantly climb onto her back. She was glad that her body was long. She looked over at Gaara, who nodded that he was ready.
"Hold on tightly," she said and started at a walk, quickly accelerating to a faster speed that Gaara could keep up with.
I can't believe you're reducing us to petty transportation. I feel like a lama, Shimiru griped.Damere, Shimiru, Kagome snapped and the leopard whimpered, before falling back to sleep.
Wish I could do that, Gaara's voice rumbled through her mind.
Try hunting, she suggested.
I find the idea of drinking blood from an animal that might have a disease disgusting, he answered.
Kagome halted as she caught a familiar scent. Gaara stopped also, sniffing the air. Kagome strained her ears.
"We won't be able to take her at full power. Add to that the fact that she's with the Shukaku vessel, and he's alert to my Jutsu now, she's practically unstoppable. We will try later."
Kagome growled at the familiar voice before the scent was gone. She let out a loud warning growl that echoed through the forest and felt a hand tap the back of her neck.
"You just gave our position away 'Gome," Naruto pointed out and she scoffed.
"Only the stupid would head toward a sound like that," Kankuro said.
"Besides, we're only a mile away from the tower. It's impossible for anyone to have beaten our time," Gaara said.
"Shouldn't we knock out some of the competition?" Temari asked and Kagome chuckled softly.
"From what I've observed of Kouga, he's probably obliterating any competition not from the leaf," she said as they started moving again.
"On the first day!"
Kurenai was currently fanning Anko with a stack of papers, trying to stop the female from fainting.
"Seems you're losing your touch Anko," Kakashi teased.
"I'm going to kill the snots!"
Kagome smirked as she watched the woman struggle against Kakashi and Asuma. Stepping forward, she turned to the Hokage.
"Have you decided?" the old man asked and she nodded.
"I accept your offer," she stated and the man smiled
"Wonderful!" he exclaimed and everyone save Kagome and Gaara looked at him blankly.
"What Hokage-sama?" Anko asked, stopping her struggle.
"Meet our newest Aisu ANBU member," the Hokage said.
Iruka, Anko, Kurenai, Asuma, and Kakashi all looked stunned.
"So…she's not my student anymore?" Kakashi asked, hope shining in his eye.
"Correct Kakashi. However, she is still a part of team 7," the Hokage quickly washed away the hopeful look on Kakashi's face.
"Ero-Teme, buck up! You wont see me as much! There is a plus side to this, after all," Kagome added and the Jounin looked at her.
"What?" he asked.
Kagome got an evil look in her eyes as she smirked.
"You can't order me to not kill anymore," she said and he sweat dropped.
"Who is this a plus side for?" he asked nervously.
Kagome ignored the question and turned back to the Hokage.
"As an Aisu member, it is required that you have the kanji for 'ice' tattooed behind your left ear, as a way of identifying you," the Hokage informed her and she nodded, expecting it.
"Why the left ear old man?" Naruto asked.
It's a place you can't usually see Naru. The Aisu are…mercenaries of a sort. They are wanted by many. The tattoo is so that they can tell if it's really their member, or a person with a Henge on," Kagome explained and Naruto blinked.
"If they are on a missing-Nin hit list or whatever, then why are you joining?" the blond asked.
"It is considered a great honor to even be asked Naru. And this is the second time I've been asked," Kagome said quietly, shocking everyone save herself and the Hokage.
"When…was the first time?" Sasuke asked.
"When I was ten, and you eleven," she said calmly, and Naruto started counting.
"But…that's the year it was formed!" the blond gasped and Kagome nodded.
"So, the cub is finally joining us?"
Kagome turned to face the owner of the smooth voice and smiled. The male was a tall Taiyoukai, much like herself. He, however, was the original, like Shimiru. The man had silver hair almost to his ankles, and light golden eyes. Inhaling his scent, she found that he was Inu Taiyoukai. She then saw that he was regarding her the same way.
"Which should this Sesshomaru address you by, Kagome-sama or…Shimiru-sama?" he asked quietly, his voice like a ripple in the water throughout the room.
"We both prefer you call me by Kagome, Sesshomaru-sama," she said in a smooth, polite voice.
He looked at her for a moment, before smirking.
"Then you mustn't use the honorific with this Sesshomaru as well," he bargained and she nodded, smiling a bit.
"I am glad to see that you get along well with you squad leader, Kagome-sama," the Hokage said in a surprised voice.
"She'll be the first one in the world to be able to get along well with this Bakayarou," a woman said quietly as she strode into the room, a shorter girl and boy about Naruto's height following at a slower pace.
The woman had black hair and red eyes and was wearing a loose red and hot-pink kimono with a black obi. The girl and boy both had white hair to their ankles, thought the girls had a blue tint, while the boy's had a lilac tint. The girl carried a round mirror and wore a white kimono. Her irises were black.
The boy had violet eye and wore a baggy pair of black jeans and a loose black leather jacket with a white shirt barely visible underneath. Kagome chuckled softly, behind a hand.
"So this rumor was true," she said under her breath.
"What rumor?" the boy asked curiously, and she smiled at him gently.
"I'll tell you later, when there aren't many prying ears," she answered.
"You're that Uchiha, the one that runs around the village as a cat?" the woman demanded and Kagome nodded.
"You're stupid," the woman stated.
Kagome remained calm as she touched Gaara's arm to keep him in place and reached out to catch Naruto and Sasuke by the backs of their colors as they started to run at the woman. She easily held them both back as they fought against her hold.
"I expect this sudden action from Naru, but not you Sas. Ero-Teme, come get them and take them to train until they're calm," Kagome instructed and the Jounin sighed before complying.
"I'm taking orders from a 15 year old girl," he mumbled as he threw the two cursing males over his shoulders like sacks of potatoes.
"It's not as bad as taking orders from you Kashi-kun. At least mine are logical, unlike your ordering me not to hunt," Kagome said, a bit of venom in her cheerful tone.
"Right…I haven't apologized for that, have I?" he asked nervously.
"Nope," she answered.
"Good, cause I'm not gonna!" he said quickly before 'poof'ing away.
"Baka," she growled, before turning to the woman.
"Why am I stupid?" she demanded emotionlessly.
"Because you run around in your true form everywhere," the woman answered.
"What is wrong with that?" Gaara growled and Kagome brushed her shoulder against his.
"It will get her killed, the villagers will turn against her," the woman said.
"Everyone loves Kagome-sama," Gai said, making his presence known.
"Shut up you spandex wearing freak," the woman snapped.
"And you think Sesshomaru is the one with the attitude problem?" Kagome demanded and saw said Taiyoukai smirk.
"You insolent little Ikeike!"
Sesshomaru caught the woman's wrist as she brought her open fan up as if to strike her.
"She is a member of Aisu, and is my new beta. You shouldn't strike her if you are smart," he growled and the woman frowned at him.
"I am your beta! Not this little…"
"I will not tolerate you calling Kagome that name again you common Gaishou."
Everyone save Sesshomaru looked at Gaara in shock. Kagome then smirked at the name he had called the woman. She didn't think he would ever call somebody such a name. She thought he would merely kill them or tell them to shut up. She had a feeling that Shukaku had influenced the insult a bit. The female merely screeched in indignation and stomped out of the room.
"Crap, it's another Pinky," Kagome said in mortification.
Gaara glanced at her, silently demanding an explanation.
"All talk, no action," she sighed, before turning to the somewhat stunned Hokage.
"Who will do the tattoo?" she asked.
"This Sesshomaru will be doing your tattoo," the Taiyoukai said before cursing.
"After I retrieve my students," he added, before disappearing.
"A third team on the first day Anko? You are loosing your touch," Iruka said and the female hit her head against the wall.
"See ya in a few," Gai and Asuma said cheerfully, before, they too, disappeared.
"Run me through with a kunai," Anko groaned and Iruka chuckled.