Kitsune Legends

Ugh...this heat is getting to my brain...Forgive me for not updating any sooner (summer vacation shock and all that junk). Anyways, it took me a while to think up of the meeting, but I have the gist of what I want now, -smiles-.

Okay, let's get some things straight. Shang, thank you for the critique, you actually pointed some things out that I didn't see. Their first mission is more like...well, let's call it a preparation test for real life as a Genin. And as for the test and the Mizu Bunshin thing, I'm changing that now (don't worry everyone, only slight changes...it won't affect the chapter itself).

Oh yeah, and Reiko? Yonbi is the bijuu, and Kane is the jinchuuriki. Just felt like mentioning that.

Err...also, a couple more things. Hanyou is the real term for half-demon. -sweatdrops- Meh. I shall be using that term instead of kitsune in this story. All will be explained later on in the chapter. And...I changed Mikiko and Tsuki's last name. I thought it was too common. They are now Hakumei Mikiko and Hakumei Tsuki.

Anyways, on with the chapter!

Key: "Talking"

'Thinking'

'Demons thinking to themselves'

"Demons talking/Demon language"

'Demons talking to their vessels telepathically'

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, but I own the OCs so no touchy! Rofl.

Filler: Divine Punishment!

Mikiko sighed for what felt like the 10th time that day as she and Riku wandered around the village, despite the curious stares they were attracting.

After being dropping off their stuff at their hotel room, Riku suggested looking around saying that they might as well sight-see while they were there.

By sunset, Mikiko's wrist was sore from being dragged all over Konoha and she was getting a headache from how much Riku was talking. Tearing her gaze at the sky, she looked back at her teammate in curiosity. He had stopped suddenly, and had a slightly sinister expression on.

'I don't think I like that look on his face...' A feeling of dread washed over her as she followed his line of sight. It was one of the hot springs, one of many in the Fire Country. She eyed Riku in suspicion and tried to pry her wrist out of his grip.

'Nope, no luck. He ain't letting go.' Sighing in defeat, she let herself be dragged up to the front desk to pay for an hour of relaxation in the public bathes. But before they went their separate ways, she gave him a warning, eyes narrowing dangerously.

"I better not catch you peeking, Riku. Remember what happened last time?" Gulping, Riku quickly nodded and scrambled towards the dressing room. 'Scary!'

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About 10 minutes later, the silver haired girl eased into the soothing hot water. Sighing happily, she leaned against the edge of the bath, pointedly ignoring all gossiping females that were around her.

'Finally...some peace...' she thought, closing her eyes and letting her tense muscles relax. Letting her mind wander, her thoughts eventually drifted towards her vision. She scowled. One week wasn't that much time to prepare for an attack, especially if it was from a fellow demon vessel and most likely an army of Cloud-nin.

Gobi no Hoko. The five-tailed forest dog. 'Yurei-sensei? Can you give me any information on this demon dog?' In response, she got a low growl. Apparently, the ghost wolf did not like him.

'Gobi no Hoko, a foolish gaki from the Eastern continent's Hayashi clan. The same Gobi that teamed up with several other bijuu and escaped to the Ningenkai the day before his punishment was to be decided. Coward.'

She raised a mental eyebrow. 'What did he do?'

'Tch. That idiot went on a killing spree after a few of our guardians caught his precious mate/accomplice after they robbed a rare artifact from one of Seiryu's draclings.'

'Seiryu?'

'The Guardian of the East.'

Just as Mikiko was about to respond, a pink haired woman waded towards her and interrupted her internal conversation.

"Uhm...excuse me, you are Hakumei-san, correct?" Opening a single purple eye, she looked at the person who greeted her.

"Yes."

Smiling, the woman who looked to be in her early thirties sat down next to her in the water.

"I am Hyuuga Sakura, wife of the Hyuuga clan head."

Opening both eyes, a look of recognition crossed her face. The Hyuuga were well known in the elemental countries. Especially in recent times now that the Branch house members' Caged Bird seals have been banned.

"Hakumei Mikiko."

Nodding, Sakura sized the girl up. She looked healthy enough at her age, unlike Naruto when he was younger. It looked like she was actually cared for. After learning of Naruto's 'tenant' and his life, she couldn't help but feel a little pity towards jinchuuriki. Especially after she heard that more were being born, and she was informed by Neji that this girl was also one, along with her twin.

Eventually her gaze moved towards Mikiko's right wrist. It looked a little swollen and red. Sakura raised an eyebrow.

"Mikiko-san, why is your wrist like that?"

Sighing, she raised her arm out of the water and looked at her wrist. She frowned slightly.

"My teammate wouldn't let go of me while he dragged me all over the village, sight-seeing."

Sakura stifled a giggle with her hand. "Would you like me to heal it?"

The younger female looked at her in slight surprise, before realizing just who she was talking to. Hyuuga Sakura. The new Toad Sannin, and currently Konoha's Grand Healer, who surpassed even Tsunade, her sensei. She's also, Mikiko noted, a person that her sister wanted to rival in the healing arts.

"As you wish, Hyuuga-san."

Nodding, Sakura made a few hand seals, causing her hands to glow with a green aura. Several heads turned to watch as she healed her wrist. The glow eventually receded. Offering the woman a small smile, she took her wrist back.

"Thank you Hyuuga-san. It feels much better now. However, I have a question for you." Mikiko had been wondering about this for the last few minutes. Sakura tilted her head a little to show her confusion.

"Why is it you wished to speak to me?" She blinked a few times, dully wondering the same thing. Then it hit her.

"Oh! I just wanted to meet you, and tell you that Hyuuga-sama has agreed to attend the meeting that you requested. The Nara's, Akimichi's, and Yamanaka's are the only ones yet to agree or reply. They are currently out of the village."

Mikiko nodded once. "Arigatou, Hyuuga-san. That's good to know."

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Meanwhile, on the other side of the hot springs, Riku was bored out of his mind. Groaning, he sank all the way into the water and blew bubbles. The other guys sent him funny looks. 'It's so boring here...nothing to do...' he popped his head out of the water and stared at the wall separating the two public bathes. An idea started to form in his head. Riku grinned, his red eyes glinting mischievously.

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Genjutsu hidden wolf ears twitched, listening in on all of the conversations taking place in the hot springs. The feeling of impending doom rushed up Mikiko's spine, causing her to suppress a shiver.

Closing her eyes, the young hanyou searched for a certain boy's chakra signature. A vein popped up on her head.

He was right next to the bamboo wall.

Sakura eyed the young Genin when she sensed something move underneath that strange genjutsu. Something didn't feel right about it. What could she be hiding under there?

Mikiko stood abruptly and got out of the water. Immediately after doing so, she smelled blood and heard muffled giggling. She wrapped her towel around her wet body, the vein on her head got bigger. A little killer intent leaked out of her.

Frowning, the Sannin tilted her head at the blood lust.

"Mikiko-san? What are you doing?"

"I'm going to go give my dear teammate his punishment."

She blinked, then scowled.

"Would you like some help, Mikiko-san?"

The girl smirked slyly. "I'd be insulted if you didn't."

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"Hehehe..." Riku muffled his perverted giggling with his fist and tried to wipe away his slight nosebleed.

The plan was perfect. Mikiko would never suspect Riku to try peeping again so soon after getting caught. And besides, he was getting better in repressing his chakra and sneaking around.

Riku once again poked his head out of the tree he was in and took out his binoculars to get a closer look.

"Hehehe..."

'Hmm? Where did Mikiko-chan go?'

A faint rustle behind him alerted him to another's presence. He turned around with his binoculars still up on his eyes . . .

and met face to face with very angry, flaming purple eyes belonging to one Hakumei Mikiko.

Riku shrieked before falling out of the tree in an undignified pile. Mikiko dropped out of the tree after him, landing with more grace. She crossed her arms and tapped her foot.

'Uh oh…'

But before she can open her mouth to severely scold her teammate and possibly beat him within an inch of death, more perverted giggling came from the same tree that Riku just 'left'. Narrowing her eyes, she glared up at the head of long, spiky white hair that was sticking out of the tree.

Sakura then made her appearance (trying to hold back her obvious anger at a certain perverted ex-Sannin, if the dangerously twitching eyebrow and clenched fists were any clue).

"Jiraiya-sama? What do you think you're doing?" hissed the pissed woman through gritted teeth. Riku paused in his thanks to kami for surviving so far to blink stupidly at her, before looking at the man in a new light.

"Did…Did you just say Jiraiya-sama? You mean the Jiraiya-sama, author of Iccha Iccha Paradise?"

Said perverted Sannin turned around at the mention of his famous series of books, completely ignoring Sakura.

"Ehhhh? Are you a young fan?" Riku nodded his head frantically.

"YEAH! I've read all of your books so far...but my all-time favorite is Iccha Iccha Paradise: Christmas Special, Gold Edition! I especially liked the use of mistletoe and the whipped cream!"

((AN: -coughs a little- I won't be going any farther than that, seeing that this is T-rated, and that certain…people will smack me for writing more, not that I would want to.))

Sakura gaped, horrified that Jiraiya's corruption has spread out as far as young boys in Kiri. The young half-demon who had been watching the scene, now let out a low, slightly animalistic growl at the two perverts. The three stared at her, eyes widened at the growl that can so far only be compared to the Inuzukas.

"Perverts." She turned to Sakura. "Hyuuga-san, would you please punish them? I cannot, due to the fact that this is not my village."

She smiled sweetly at the guys and let out some killer intent, causing them to back away slowly.

"Ah. Please call me Sakura-san, Mikiko-san. Hyuuga-san makes me feel old. And as for these guys, I'd be glad to." She cracked her knuckles and grinned maliciously. "You two are lucky that we're in times such as these. Or else I'd beat you up more for peeping in the bathhouses."

She jumped in front of them and cocked back her fist. Riku and Jiraiya cringed and got ready for a very hard impact (being perverts, they had to know who gave the worst punishments for their 'research' and 'enlightenment' as they call it). But right when they cringed, she pulled back and formed several hand seals and poked them both in the head.

"Tenrai Keigoku (Divine Punishment)!"

They screamed and fell to the floor, twitching horribly and for some reason covering their crotches. Sakura turned around with a satisfied smile.

"You…have experience with this." It was more of a statement than a question.

"Of course! After years of dealing with perverts, I had enough. I made a genjutsu especially for these cases! Isn't it wonderful? Do you want me to teach it to you?"

Mikiko nodded immediately. It would come in handy if she caught Riku peeping again, which would most likely happen in the next week or so. Curiosity took over her.

"Sakura-san…what exactly does Tenrai Keigoku do?" Mikiko was almost afraid of the answer that she would get.

"Oh. Well, it's a genjutsu that involves some very uncomfortable things shoved up where the sun don't shine, and some of the ladies they peeked on, fully clothed, kicking and beating them on their –"

"Ah. Divine Punishment. How fitting."

Sakura's smile widened in response. She was really starting to like this girl.

"I can teach it to you right now if you want. I don't have any appointments today and Tsunade-sama is in charge of the hospital today.

The rest of the day was spent teaching and mastering this genjutsu. Jiraiya and Riku, meanwhile, were on the ground where they were left, recovering from the horrifying (and painful) illusion.

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The next day, a chuunin knocked on their hotel room door and opened it to find Riku in the corner of the room, muttering about the abuse of kunai and Mikiko on the bed, sharpening the said weapons.

He sweat dropped. "Uhm…am I interrupting something?"

Mikiko smiled softly and shook her head. "No. Is there something Hokage-sama needs?"

"Ah. Well, the meeting that you requested will be in two hours. He wants you to prepare and be at the Hokage Tower fifteen minutes before the meeting."

"Hai."

Nodding, the chuunin left.

As his teammate was getting ready for the meeting, Riku was pondering over what he should do while waiting. He still had mental scars from the genjutsu he had put up with the day before.

'Ah, screw it. I'm going to another hot spring later. Hehehehe…'

End Chapter

I already have most of the next chapter out (I didn't realize I typed so much!), but I figured since this barely has anything to do with the actual plot, I made it a filler.

Anyways, please review! Oh, and if you have any suggestions that have to do with -ahem- 'punishing' perverts, feel free to say so. I'll gladly consider it.