Roar of the Dragon: We're going to have some flashbacks from Kimiko's previous year in school that explain how she met Ryeka, Akira, and Miyuki. Side note: If Naruto is aired on Tsunami, it will be aimed at little kids. This means all the good stuff that we love like the blood and possibly Sexy no Jutsu will be removed. To prevent this go to http : www (dot) thepetitionsite (dot) com / takeaction / 105379428 and sign the petition to get it put on Adult swim.
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Toshiro stared at Naruto for a moment then shrugged. "Eh, why not? The training will be difficult and requires very good chakra control, so you might want to change to the form in which you have the best control of your chakra." Naruto nodded and turned into Naruko. Toshiro smiled and said, "This training will be very hard, perhaps even harder than learning the Rasengan. I still find it hard to believe that you learned the jutsu that took me three years to complete in a single week." Naruko grinned her infamous grin and was about to reply but was interrupted by a massive yawn. Seeing that Hanabi was starting to nod off, Hinata stepped forward.
"I think it would be best if we continued this conversation in the morning, Toshiro-san. We'll see you then," said Hinata as she guided her sister towards the stairs up to the bedrooms. The others started to follow them, saying "good night" to Kyuubi and Toshiro. Finally, the two were the only ones left in the library.
"Hokage-sama, I need to ask if your wife and you are happy with me calling Naruto my kit. I know you two missed the chance to really show him your love and I hope you won't be offended by my trying to raise him in your stead," said Kyuubi. Toshiro shook his head and smiled gently.
"Hikari was extremely happy to see you adopt Naruto as your own kit when he found out about you. While we both wish we could have been there for him we are glad your rage over Akemi left you after I sealed you and you were able to watch over Naruto. I know how many times you tweaked his senses without him knowing so he could sense when someone was stalking him in order to save his life. For that you have my gratitude and Hikari's thanks. Without you, Naruto would have been killed many times over. We're proud to have one of the strongest kitsune to ever exist raise our son…or daughter given the current situation and bet with Hinata. Speaking of the bet, has Naruko ever had a period before?"
Kyuubi grinned, and this grin was not her normal foxy grin or a happy grin. This was the grin that she wore when she had watched someone get their just desserts for an evil act against Naruto in the form of a prank that had the neighborhood talking about it for a week. Toshiro was glad he was already dead or that grin would have had his heart pounding so loud that a normal human would have heard it. "Nope, I fully expect her to wake up screaming that she is bleeding to death in the next two weeks. I happen to know that my cycle matches with hers, with maybe a day's difference in between them," said Kyuubi. Toshiro sweat dropped, knowing that his son who was currently his daughter would panic and likely wake up the whole house with her screams.
Naruko smiled as she looked at Hanabi snuggling up to Hinata. The blond kitsune girl had decided to watch the night sky for a short time before going back to bed and left the two sisters in the bed alone. Hanabi had murmured, "Naruko-nee-chan," and tried to snuggle up to Naruko. Naruko had whispered that she was going to the bathroom and kissed Hanabi and Hinata good night before quietly slipping out the door. Naruko walked to a large room on the top floor that had a giant window for the walls and ceiling. Plants lined the room to take advantage of the almost constant sunlight and several comfy chairs and couches made it a great place to watch the sunrise and sunset. Naruko chose a chair and sat down, arranging her robe to make sure she wouldn't offend anyone if she fell asleep and spent the night on the chair.
"Couldn't sleep either?" asked a voice behind Naruko. She turned to see Kimiko dressed in a sleeping robe and holding a glass of water. Naruko nodded, gesturing for the hanyou girl to join her. Kimiko sat down on a second arm chair and placed her glass on a small table beside the chair. "Ramen noodle for your thoughts?" asked Kimiko. Naruko grinned at the idea, since Sasuke always called her Dobe and implied she didn't think. Naruko's face then settled into a light frown.
"It's just… my life has changed so much in these past few weeks," said Naruko. "Meeting you and your friends, freeing Oka-san from inside me, getting to know Akemi, finding out I was betrothed to Hinata and realizing that I love her, bringing back Sasuke, Hinata becoming a kitsune hybrid like me, and now my dad coming back as a ghost. I just have a head ache from trying to digest it all."
Kimiko grinned and said, "Listen, go get back in bed and tomorrow we can go and eat enough ramen to keep Ichiraku in business for the next two years. Just think of ramen and your headache will go away." Naruko grinned and stood up to leave with Kimiko following. The two girls walked down stairs to the bedrooms and separated when they reached Naruko's room. Downstairs, Kyuubi had fallen asleep on the couch with her face buried in her book while Toshiro was floating in mid-air fast asleep and snoring gently.
The next day started out with a surprise for Naruko, Hinata, and Hanabi. The whole house was awakened by the shrieks of 'Pervert' from all three girls and the sounds of projectiles of various sizes hitting the wall and flesh. It appeared Jiraiya had decided to see how his students reacted to being woken up by an enemy. Unfortuneatly, he had missed the fact that Naruto was currently Naruko since he had been out cold for most of the afternoon the previous day and left without seeing Naruko or knowing that Hanabi and Naruko had bunked in Hinata's room. So when he found Naruko and Hinata curled around Hanabi, he started drooling as blood trickled out of his nose. A drop of his drool hit Hinata's tail and caused her to wake up. Immediately assaulted by the scent of Jiraiya's cologne, she knew what was happening due to the high arousal she smelled. Jiraiya's face met Hinata's fist and the crack of his nose woke Naruko and Hanabi. The younger girl screamed and somehow managed to crawl behind Hinata in less than a second. Naruko on the other hand gathered fox fire around her fists and delivered a Tsunade strength blow to Jiraiya's gut. That's when the barrage of weapons, ranging from kunai and shuriken to hair brushes and scrolls, started raining down on the perverted senin. Jiraiya managed to escape the room, only to crash face first into what felt like two pillows since he had his eyes closed to avoid being blinded by a fist of foxfire. Jiraiya automatically grabbed at the 'pillows' and found that they were two globes.
'Oh crap!' was Jiraiya's last thought before a frying pan, a mallet, a bow, a fist, a dog tail, and a bunch of fox tails started beating him to death. By the time Kyuubi, Miyuki, Kimiko, Ryeka, Rin, and Akemi were done, Jiraiya was a moaning pile of bruises and bumps that could barely be called alive. Then Shippo, Hiryuu, and Akira had the honor of tying him up and dragging him to Tsunade's office. The Hokage was not in yet, so they stuffed Jiraiya's mouth and left him hanging from the ceiling of her office.
Breakfast was a little tense, since Naruko was still upset about her sensei drooling over her. Finally, the blond kitsune girl broke the awkward silence. "Otou-san, old man Sarutobi trained Ero-senin, Ero-senin trained you, and you trained Kakashi-sensei. Since it seems that a perverted teacher equals perverted student, are you a pervert?" It was a good thing for Toshiro that he couldn't eat or drink anything, since the contents of his mouth would have ended up all over the table.
"No Naruko, I'm not a pervert, unless liking to look at my wife and snuggle with her makes me a pervert. Jiraiya-sensei tried to get me to help with his research, but I always screamed bloody murder and scared all the girls away to annoy him. His wedding present was a collection of his entire book series so far, each volume autographed. I promptly threw all the books in the trash that evening and saw Kakashi steal them and run off giggling," said Toshiro with a faint blush. Naruko gave a sigh of relief and continued eating her breakfast happily.
The next two weeks passed quickly. Naruko trained with her father to learn the Shunshin no Jutsu, while Hinata and Akemi perfected their teamwork by engaging in sparing matches against Kimiko, Hiryuu, Miyuki, Akira, Ryeka, Rin, and Shippo as a group. This was the first time the two kunoichi had fought a non-shinobi trained person who could hold their own against them. Kakashi was seen around the Uzumaki house talking with Kyuubi several times each day when he wasn't on missions.
"Hey Kimiko, how did you all become friends?" asked Hinata. It was a week after Toshiro's return as a ghost and it was to hot to train. Everyone was relaxing in the pool and Hinata had been struck by the diversity of their friends from another world.
Kimiko glanced up from her manga and smiled slightly. "Well, I've know Hiryuu since we were little kids, Shippo and Rin were there before I was born, but I didn't know the others until I started high school in our world. I still remember it like it was yesterday..."
(AN: This was the original first chapter of this story, but I didn't really want to write about school a lot and decided to do this crossover just imagine that Kimiko is telling the story, even though it doesn't look that way, I'm to lazy to rewrite the whole thing.)
Kimiko was woken up by the annoying buzz of her alarm clock. Groaning, the fourteen year old hanyou girl reached over and pushed the off button for the clock. Sitting up and stretching, Kimiko yawned and stumbled into the bathroom to brush her teeth and hair. After finishing her grooming, Kimiko changed into her underwear and school uniform. 'I still don't see why I have to attend school since my family is living in Oka-san's time now. Just because Jii-chan had to move to that retirement home and Oka-san decided to take his place as caretaker of the shrine. I miss our home in Outo-san's time. At least I get to see Grandma every day now and I can visit my other friends through the well after I get home from school or on the weekends' As Kimiko finished getting dressed, Kagome knocked on and opened the door to her daughter's room. Kimiko had grown a lot over the past thirteen years and was as tall as her mother.
"Good, you're up. I don't want you being late for your first day at school," said Kagome as Kimiko slipped her concealing spell necklace on.
"I still don't see why I have to go to school Oka-san," said Kimiko.
"It's because you're not old enough to legally not go to school in this time. I've home schooled you to your current level, so you shouldn't have any trouble. At least you're starting on the first day of school and not the middle of the year," said Kagome as the two walked down stairs to find Souta eating a bowl of cornflakes while Inuyasha munched on a piece of toast and Shippo was drinking a big glass of orange juice as he got ready to head back through the well to help Sango, Mirouku, Hiyruu, and Kagome's two student mikos, Botan and Momiji, in defending the village. Inuyasha was dressed in a set of sweatpants and a sweatshirt for his job as a Karate instructor. Inuyasha had decided he would need a way to keep his fighting skills in shape in Kagome's time and since he had learned self defense so well over the years, he had gotten a job teaching young children how to defend themselves at a dojo. The school of Anything-Goes Martial Arts was the perfect style for Inuyasha and he got along well with the head instructor Ranma Satome and his wife Akane.
Shippo was dressed in the typical blue version of Inuyasha's outfit with a hole for his nine tails. At age fifth teen in youkai years, Shippo came up to Inuyasha's shoulder and had discarded his old bow for a simple hair tie that kept his hair in a Kenshin look. Souta was dressed in a pair of pants that could be converted to shorts in hot weather and a tee shirt that said 'I'm not a slacker I'm just conserving energy' on the front. Kagome served up some eggs and bacon she had cooking for everyone and Kimiko eagerly gobbled down her food. Shippo ate at a less rapid pace, since he just needed to walk to and jump through the well to get to the warring states era. Souta was eating a bit faster than Shippo since he had to drive himself to the college campus. Mrs. Higurashi came down dressed in her robe and sat down for her morning cup of coffee that Kagome handed her. Kimiko finished her breakfast and put her dishes in the sink before kissing her parents and grandmother good bye.
"See you after School gets out!" yelled Kimiko as she pulled on her trusty rollerblades, slipped on her backpack, and zipped out of the house, across the yard of the shrine, and grinded down the handrail that had been put in on the shrine steps when her great grandpa had developed a bad knee and needed some help up the stairs to make sure he didn't fall. Leaping off the hand rail, Kimiko zipped down the street, heading out for her first day of high school.
Kimiko was attending Furinkan High, mainly because people were used to strange things happening around the school. Kimiko entered the front door of the school, relieved she had twenty minutes to find the office and get her schedule. "At least I won't be late," she sighed as she walked through the doors and followed a series of signs to the office. "Excuse me Mamm, I'm Kimiko Taishio and this is my first day here," said Kimiko politely to the secretary.
The young woman looked up and smiled at Kimiko, then her eyes widened. "I didn't know we would be getting such a cute hanyou this year," she said with a smile.
Kimiko blinked and sniffed the air, then grinned. "For a rabbit youkai, you have a good nose Mamm," she said as she wiggled her ears.
The secretary smiled and said, "Thank you dear. My name is Ms. Tibbar, if you have any troubles with some of the youkai students here, please speak to me. Now lets see, Taishio... Taishio, ah ha! Here you are. You're in room A-5, just turn right outside the door and you'll find your class a few doors down. Your locker is on your way, so put your skates there."
"Arigato Ms. Tibbar, I hope you have a pleasant day!" said Kimiko as she bowed and exited the room. The rabbit youkai waved good bye and returned to her work.
"Lets see, A-1 and I'm looking for A-5," muttered Kimiko as she followed Ms. Tibbar's directions. "Aha, found it," she said. Kimiko quietly opened the door to find a few students already in the room chatting and the teacher sitting at the desk. Kimiko walked up to the teacher and handed her paperwork over.
"Everything seems in order Ms. Taishio, just stay up here and I'll introduce you to the rest of the class. My name is Miss Miyuu," said the brown haired woman. Kimiko smiled and sat down in the chair the teacher pointed to beside the desk and waited for ten minutes as the class slowly filled up with boys and girls of her age. Finally the bell rang and Ms. Miyyuu stood up as the class quieted down. "Class, we have a new student this year, Kimiko Taishio. Kimiko, please tell us a little about yourself."
Kimiko stood up and bowed to the class before speaking. "My mother is the miko in charge of the Sunset Shrine where my family lives. I have one adopted older brother in college and my father is an instructor at the Anything-goes Martial Arts school. I like archery, camping, and playing video games with my brother," said Kimiko.
"Very nice. Hmm, Kimiko, why don't you sit next to Ryeka. Ms. Masaki, please raise your hand." said Ms. Miyuu. A tall girl with long spiky cyan hair sitting at the back of the room raised her hand and Kimiko moved to take the empty seat next to her. Turning to look at her neighbor, Kimiko was surprised to see yellow eyes almost like a cat's regarding her curiosly. Kimiko couldn't smell any trace of cat youkai, but she could sense immense power in this young girl.
"My name is Ryeka Misaki, it's nice to meet you," said the black haired girl pleasantly as she held out her hand.
"Kimiko Taishio, thank you," said Kimiko as she shook Ryeka's hand.
Ryeka's eyes widened slightly and after quickly making sure Ms. Miyuu wasn't looking at them she said, "Can we talk during lunch by the big tree outside?" Kimiko nodded and turned her attention to Ms. Miyuu introducing the class to their first topic in class, English.
At lunch, Kimiko ignored all the picnic tables and benches and walked to the biggest tree she could find on the playground. Making sure no one was looking in her direction; Kimiko jumped up to the first branch of the tree and sat down in the shade provided by the leafy bows. A second later, Ryeka popped out of thin air onto the branch across from Kimiko. Kimiko let out a small yelp and instinctively bared her teeth. Ryeka sweat dropped and sighed. "Sorry," she said, "I didn't realize you would be up here. I will not ask how you got up here, but you're not exactly human are you?"
Kimiko nodded and said, "And after seeing you teleport up here, you're not a normal human either." Ryeka grinned and Kimiko saw a small fang in her mouth as a shimmer seemed to pass over Ryeka and left her with yellow cat eyes and funny shaped ears. Kimiko blinked for a second then deactivated the necklace's spell, revealing her ears and untucked her tail from under her skirt. Ryeka's eyes widened then both girls started laughing before resuming their human appearances.
"Me first," said Ryeka. After Kimiko nodded, she continued saying, "My dad Tenchi is half human and half Jurarian, a powerful race from a distant planet. My mother Ryoko is another alien and is extremely powerful also. I can fly, teleport, shoot energy blasts, form an energy sword, and phase through things."
Kimiko nodded and said, "My mother Kagome is a miko and was once a normal girl. Then she fell through the well on the shrine grounds where we live and met my dad, an Inu hanyou named Inuyasha in the Warring States Era. She fell in love and accidentally became a hanyou like him after some of his blood got mixed with her own. I'm thus an Inu hanyou like both of them. My brother Shippo is a Kitsune, and I have a pet dragon named Flamie. I have a dog's heightened sense of smell and hearing, can run really fast, and I'm pretty strong."
"Cool, I have a neat pet to, she is a half rabbit half cat creature called a cabbit named Ren-oh-ki. My Aunt Ayeka is the queen of Jurai and my Aunt Sasami is also known as the goddess of Jurai, Tsunami," said Ryeka. Both girls grinned and it was from that moment that they were best friends for life.
Ryeka and Kimiko both pulled out their lunches and started eating after jumping down to sit on the ground under the tree. Ryeka had a bento box while Kimiko had several cups of instant ramen, an apple, carrots, and a pack of Pocky sticks for lunch. Both girls were eating and chatting happily when a shadow fell over them. Kimiko looked up to find several older boys and girls standing around them. "Can we help you with something?" asked Kimiko as her nose told her these kids were youkai in human for with their ears and eyes hidden by magic.
"Yeah, you can get your filthy half-breed self out of here!" snarled one of the bigger boys who had a broken nose and numerous scars on his face and hands. Kimiko's eyes narrowed and a low growl rumbled in her throat. Now that Ryeka knew about her hanyou features, the other girl could see Kimiko's tail thrashing with anger and her ears laid back.
"And just why should she do that? This is a public school, not your private little world," said Ryeka with what her mother jokingly called her 'Aunt Aeyka' voice.
The youkai kid's eyes flicked to her and he snorted again before replying. "This doesn't concern you freak. I don't know what kind of youkai you are, but unless you want to go home crying to mommy I suggest you stay out of this!" Ryeka schooled her face into a bored expression and used one hand to place a piece of sushi in her mouth with her chopsticks while the other grabbed the boy and easily lifted him over her head.
"I suggest you apologize for that remark before I have to hurt you," said Ryeka as she continued eating her lunch before tossing the youkai boy off to the side. One of the other boys charged Ryeka, only to find himself kicked in the face by Kimiko as she leapt into the air and spun around in a whirlwind kick.
"Sheesh, you guys are bad, my nigen(human) friend could give me a harder fight and he's smaller than me," said Kimiko as she landed in a combat stance. One of the few girls in the group aimed her hand at Kimiko and an energy blast started forming in her palm.
"I doubt you can block thisssss tramp!" she hissed, her forked tongue revealing that she was a snake youkai. A sudden streak of red flew over Kimiko's shoulder and blasted the gathering energy ball.
"She may not be able to, but I can!" said Ryeka with a smirk as she held up a hand with a second energy blast ready. One of the other boys swung a fist at Ryeka from behind and watched dumb founded as his fist passed right through her. "Isn't being able to phase neat?" asked Ryeka with a twinkle in her eye before Kimiko punched the guy in the stomach and he bent over winded. After that, the fight quickly went out of the remaining youkai kids and they grabbed their fallen comrades and fled.
Kimiko grinned at Ryeka and resumed eating her ramen. "So how come no one is acting like we just pulled some amazing moves or were firing energy blasts over here?" she asked.
"I don't know, but my mom tried to kill my dad at his high school when they first met and people thought all the damage was from a gas pipe exploding," said Ryeka.
"You're going to have to explain that to me in more detail," said Kimiko before offering some Pocky to the other girl. Ryeka accepted the snack and the two happily munched away on Pocky sticks as Ryeka told Kimiko the events of how her father released her mother from the cave she was sealed in and about how all these other alien girls showed up at her father's house after that and how the villain Kagato came and was defeated and her grandmother was rescued in the process. "So your grandma is some kind of inventor?" asked Kimiko after throwing away the trash from their lunches and laying down in the sun under the tree.
Ryeka nodded and grinned saying, "Grandma Washu is the 'Greatest Scientific Genius in the Universe!' In fact, she created my mom Ryoko using one of her ova and a creature called a Mass that used the ova and Grandma's phycic imprint to make my mom. Grandma Washu also made Ryo-oh-ki and Ken-oh-ki, the parents of my cabbit Ren-oh-ki."
"She sounds really neat, I'd like to meet her some day as well as your family," said Kimiko.
"You can meet my mom today after school, she's picking me up in the car to do some shopping this afternoon," said Ryeka.
After school got out, Kimiko and Ryeka walked out to the front of the school. Kimiko noticed some kids who were youkai judging by their scents giving them nasty glares and was glad she had reported the lunch incident to Mrs. Just then, a car horn beeped as a woman called, "Ryeka, time to go!"
Ryeka ran up to a minivan and hugged the spiky cyan haired woman who got out of the car to catch her in a hug. "Mom, I want to introduce you to my new friend Kimiko," said Ryeka.
Kimiko stepped foreword and bowed to the woman. "It is a pleasure to meet you Ms. Masaki, Ryeka has told me a lot about you," she said as she deactivated her amulet temporarily then turned it back on.
Ryoko Masaki's eyes widened and then she grinned before saying, "I see some youkai survived from the past. Oh yes, I doubt Ryeka told you, but I'm over seven hundred years old. I know all about youkai and hanyou. It was a pleasure meeting you, I'm sure Ryeka can come over some time or you can visit our house over the weekend." said Ryoko as Ryeka climbed into the car.
"See you tomorrow Kimiko!" said Ryeka.
"Right, see you in class!" replied Kimiko as Ryoko drove off.
That evening, Kimiko eagerly told her parents all about Ryeka and how they had dealt with the bullies. Inuyasha glanced up when Kimiko mentioned which class she was in. "A-5? Ranma's son and daughter are in that class, they had a doctor's appointment today and weren't able to attend school. They'll be showing up tomorrow. Their names are Akira and Miyuki Satome. Akira has black hair that he wears in a short pony tail and he's just over your height. Miyuki is a little shorter since she skipped a grade a few years ago and is a year younger than her brother. I'm sure you'll get along well with them. They're transferring to your school after an incident at their old one," he said.
"What kind of incident?" asked Kimiko. "Ranma said something about Miyuki being bullied and Akira beating the crud out of the kids who picked on her," said Inuyasha. "Also, their family knows about me being a hanyou, something about they can sense my chi and tell I'm not human, so don't worry if they ask about your youkai features," he continued. Kimiko nodded and spent the rest of dinner wondering about what Akira and Miyuki would be like. After dinner, she did the small bit of homework she had that was mainly filling in medical forms with her parents before going to bed.
Kimiko smiled as she felt Flamie curl up on top of her in his small form, the events of the day going through her head. 'I made a new friend, she helped me fight off some bullies, and found out some more kids whose parents are friends of dad's will be in my class tomorrow. I think I'm going to like living in this era and going to school' she said to herself before snuggling into her covers and slowly drifting off to sleep and dreaming of ramen noodles.
"… and that is how I met Ryeka. She was my first friend in modern Japan and we've been friends ever since," said Kimiko.
Ryeka grinned as she remembered the fight with the bullies and said, "The youkai at the school don't know what to make of me, I'm like nothing they're ever encountered before."
Naruko sighed, she wished she had had a friend in school. Even though she now had friends and family, back then she hadn't had anyone. "Your world sounds so much more simple than ours. I bet I would have fit in well there," she said.
Kimiko shook her head and said, "No, there are no shinobi in our world. In this world I can reveal my ears and tail and say they're part of a bloodline, but in my world I have to be in the past or at home to do that. The grass may seem greener on the other side of the fence, but it is just your imagination. You were meant to be born in this world, not ours. You just have to make the best of life that you can." Naruko nodded, not knowing that the next morning would be the start of a week of torture for her.
And with that, I'll leave you. Please take the time to read Naruto the Kitsune Hanyou and review it. I'll update this story after a while, don't worry. I don't plan to leave this half finished. Expect updates to resume after about a month.