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[Dedictaed for Reviwer Dark nemesis 7]

Kabuto grumbled under his breath as he, and about 4 other chuunins, were sent to work on one of the buildings that had suffered a collapsed roof. He sat perched idly on top of the roof, the sun was starting shine now, and he was bored.

Sadly though, his daydream was interrupted by a wooden plank coming flying at him and whacking him upside the head. "whoops, sorry Kabuto!" one of them yelled. The dizzy man sat up "urgh...no.."winces "problem..." rubbing his sore head he picked up a hammer and resumed his work.

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Out in the forest, more and more animals were beguinning to be affected by the power disruption. One,an ordinary bat, got so disorientated it managed to fly a long distance away from the forest. Right to konoha...

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Kabuto sighed as he stood up, his back was aching, and that wallop on the head he had recieved earleir wasnt helping. He snapped out his day as he turned, only to be attacked by a craeture which flapped about is his face "urgk!" he swiped at it, but the little &$£-er sank its teeth into his hand.

No sooner had he flung it away then he began to feel sick. He pressed his hands to his ears, the noise seemd so unbearable...

Dizzy, he staggered towards the eroofs edge, slumping over into unconiousness...

Luckily for him, one of the chuunins turned round and spied the dizzy ninja about to fall off. He ran over quickly and grabbed Kabuto's arm, pulling him backwrads "what the?"

What he was staring at was very strange.

Painful, very. That was all he could think. Opening his eyes he saw someone standing above him, bright light shining in the window. He gave a pained squeak, grabbing the cover and yanking it over his head again. Only that seemed to ease the pain....

He heard the person's voice, very loud to his ears "sir hokage..its another one.." "what?" we think its a rare species of bat this time..." he curled up even tighter into the cover, wishing theyd just stop talking. He heard them walking away to the doorway, whispering to themselves.

But with barely any effort he could hear their words "Why is he hiding under the blanket? is he ok?" "well, it seems he doesn't like the light sir..bats are night creatures..." "oh dear..." grumpily he sat up, draping the blanket over his head as a shade "i can.." he grouched "hear you ya know..." two sweatdrops. "good hearing.." the hokage said

"Bats have sir.." Kabuto sighed and drew the blankets around himself, feeling dizzy in the afternoon light. Tired in fact. He quickly curled up on one side, wrapping the cover around himself. The hokage and the doctor blinked "he wont be able to stay awake for long in the day, hell be mostly up at night...of course it wont be exactly like a bats, he is still human, but it willl cause a few problems..."

Kabuto shifted, the cover slipping back from his head. They could see, like on neji and jiriraiya, a pair of ears poking up from the pale hair. "hm...whats going on, there must be a reason this is all happeneing..."

Kabuto sqeaked and pulled it back over his head, looking a little despondent and irratated. The doc made to examine the ears again, talkign about something, but Kabuto shrank back, able to hear the voice a litttle too loudly, to his ears it sounded like shouting.

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It wasnt until early that evening Kabuto finally awoke, he sat up, the evening dusk a comfort...hearing noises beyond and humans hearing. He slipped down from the bed, opening the window he stuck his head out, feeling a cool breeze stir his hair...

"what're you doing?!" he gave a squawk, falling off the windowsill and onto his butt "oww..." He stood up, seeing a shinobi standing behind him "the hokages orders are that your to go out and meet the other cross-overs..." he blinked "why..?" "because, they're the same as you, and hiding will not help...the third was adament about that."

Kabuto nodded, but not before picking up his leaf headband. He tied it like sakura did, as if using it to hold his hair back, but he tied it in a way so that it sovered the ears, blocked out his hearing a little...but made it easer. The nin sighed, then vanished. Kabuto toddled, rather wobbily he noted, outside and to the streets beyond....

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"WAHAAH!!" naruto doubled up laughing. Jiraiya smiled -tell the kid a good dirty joke and he's off his rocker..- he chuckled, neji was plopped on the other side of him, also in stitches over the sennins jokes. Asuma was still in the hospital undergoing a few checks after the gaara incident...

Speaking of which...Gaara was sulking, like itachi, in his apartment all day. Jiraiya sighed inwardly, but then shrugged, let them sulk. His attention was caught by the sight of someone sitting just a few seats down from them. A pale guy with light greyish hair and glasses.

-isnt that kabuto?- Jiraiya stared, his ears twitched. Something was odd about the guy, he had tied his headband so it was the same way as sakura haruno often had hers. -whys he got it like that, how can he hear?-

Kabuto sighed, resting his chin on his hands, his hearing was distinctly off, but he didnt feel like having it on show...He glanced to one side, seeing two of the 'cross-overs' were right there. He gulped, looking down at his food. -oh god...they're the ones the ninja was on about..- he recognised the sannin right off, and one of the hyuuga kids...

He sighed resignedly, then blinked. he had a weird feeling. he tried to listen to the nosie aroudn him, but wasn't able to pick anything up. Without thinking about the others there he pulled the headband free...also pulling his hair-tie out as well. Now sounds came to him as clear as crystal. Something was headed towards them.

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Jiraiya blinked as he took another glance at the silent kabuto, seeing the bat ears amidst the long hair. -what the?! h-hes a cross-over?- he stared in even more confusion, naruto and neji too, as the man somehow managed to grab a flyign kunai that some kid had thrown by mistake. He turned, hearing the kids voice and chucked it to him. This done, he made to walk off, but jiraiya, recovering enough, stood up and tapped his shoulder.

Kabuto whipped round, a few silvery strands of hair sticking up cos of the ears. "uhm?" he asked. Jiraiya nodded at the ears "i see whats happened, did the hokage send u out to find teh rest of us?" kabuto nodded "uh..y-yeah...." Naji peered over "hey, sit with us, asuma said he'd be along soon.." kabuto looked confused, a bit baffled by how friendly they were. No sooner had he plonked himself down, then anotehr figure appeared in a puff of smoke on the seat besid ehim.

"sheesh, damn hospitals..." Asuma Sarutobi complained. Jiraiya smiled "so you keep saying.." Asuma blinked, spying the newest accident. "ah, 'nother one eh?" The lil ears twitched while kabuto merely stared absently at the far wall.

"whats his cross-over?" "i dunno..ask 'im.." The next second, poor kabuto got a poke upside the ehad "hey, whatd you tangle with?" he blinked "they sdsaid..it was a bat..." Asuam blinekd "ah, thatd explain.." "the ears..." jiriaya finsihed.

The the sannin paused "hold on..ears...." he sweatdropped, asuma opened his mouth to ask what he meant, but it was explained seconds later. Kakashi appeared put of nowhere, and, seeing the new mix-up, had to tweak the ears. Everyone else sweatdropped "he -always- does that now!!" they wailed, kakashi just grinned. Cheeky bugger. Poor Kabuto just looked gormless.

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Author: =P One new chapter recovered, i thought i'd lost this one, turned out it was still on one of my server accounts....more soon! and ty for the Birthday greeting, Kitsune-Kyuubi!