Fullmoon Chapter 8: Survival Training, a naruto fanfic

Why did this chapter take me so long to write when it's so crappy? I blame school, Satan, and term papers which are, incidentally, the same thing...

Dragon Man 180 is in the lead for figuring out what Mitsuki is. He's almost got it, but not quite. Hurry up and beat him before he gets the title of 'Master!'

This chapter is dedicated to all those that don't know what the Karma Sutra is. Stay that way for the sake of the world's innocence.

Chapter 7: Survival Training, Pt 1

He loved the way they looked at him just before they died. Their eyes wide in surprise, the almost pleading looks on their faces... They had meant the world to him moments before, and now he was killing them? How... unfair...

Fair? The golden man knew nothing of this. All he knew was the unjustifiable unfairness of the world. How anything warm and wonderful was always torn away leaving one cold and empty. He knew what unfairness was like, had known ever since he had been thrown away and sent to live in this forsaken place. It was no wonder he had taken to women and death. They were the only things that brought him near to what he remembered of the warmth... the light... the peace...

"You done?"

The low female voice broke his thought, causing him to gaze down at the beauty he had been strangling for the last hour. Kissing the dead girl softly on the lips he nodded, pulling on a robe and leaving the room. She was instantly by his side nodding at a servant to take care of the body. Silently, she followed him out to the koi pond and watched him throw bread to the fish in the water.

"How have I been failed?" the golden man finally asked, looking up at her, his eyes piercing. He knew he had been failed by the simple fact that the girl hadn't been brought to him. She wasn't screaming at his feet for mercy, bleeding from the thousand wounds he would give her. "Well?"

"I dispatched three oni to capture her. They were unsuccessful."

The golden man frowned. "I did not feel her power. How did she escape?"

"She was saved... A village of shinobi seems to have taken her in."

"Do they know what she is?"

"Doubtful. If they did they would have dismissed her from the village. You know how distrustful humans are."

The golden man nodded, his yellow hair blowing gracefully in the breeze. "Unless they wanted it for themselves... Tell the lord that the girl defeated the oni using her own power and escaped undetected."

"Sir?"

"You honestly didn't expect me to share, did you Beloved?"

The woman smiled slightly and bowed, brown hair fluttering in the breeze. "I will bring any further updates solely to you," she swore turning to go.

"Beloved," the golden man called after her, smiling ever so disarmingly. "I will wait for you to join me tonight."

The woman shook her head. "Wait all night then... I value my life."

The golden man smiled, watching her leave. Sighing heavily he turned back to the fish in the pond, thinking of how his Beloved and the girl would scream when he had no further use for them.

Kakashi dropped his pack to the ground after surveying the clearing. "We set up camp here," he said turning to his team and grinning at them. "I'd recommend building your shelters first, then searching for food."

"Hai," all three genin sighed (Well, Naruto shouted it) before disappearing into the surrounding forest.

Sighing, Kakashi carefully unpacked his bag, organizing his gear. When doing survival training, one had to keep careful track of one's tools. Who knew when one could tell the difference between life and freezing to death? Picking up a small hatchet turned and noticed the third wheel of the mission, Mitsuki, standing at the edge of the clearing, carefully studying a huge tree. He mentally sighed. Tsunade had insisted the girl come along, muttering something dark about her speculations and refusing to make eye contact. Kakashi assumed this had meant that the blond woman had found something out, but her refusal to share silently worried him. So instead of focusing on his team like he should, he'd be babysitting the girl, making sure she was warm, well-fed, all the things that his team would be striving to get for themselves.

"Mitsuki-chan, do you need any help setting up your tent?" he asked, seeing her do nothing but stare at the tree.

Mitsuki turned slowly, smiling weakly. "No, I've got it," she said softly, sitting down slowly.

Kakashi frowned, studying her pale face. She had been strangely silent the entire journey here, only speaking when she was asked a direct question. In fact, several times on the journey Kakashi had to double back and find the girl as she had been walking so slowly that she had been left behind. Each time he had found her, she had been resting beside worn rocks, eyes slightly glazed as she studied the area silently. However, every time he had asked her if something was wrong she had insisted it was nothing, blushing slightly and suddenly energetic, slowing down once she thought his attention was off her. He was actually a bit worried about her, training would last a week and if she wasn't feeling well her illness would only get worse in the cold night air.

"Well, if you need anything feel free to ask," he said after a moment.

Mitsuki nodded, still smiling. "Arigatou, Kakashi-san."

Kakashi smiled at her before leaving the camp in search of materials to build his shelter. He'd need to keep a close eye on the girl, something seemed to be wrong with her.

Alone in the camp, Mitsuki sighed and removed her backpack mentally planning what was to be done next. Kakashi had offered to help her with her tent, but the fact was she had left it back in Konoha along with the extra food and clothes Tsunade had insisted she bring along. She had almost left everything behind, the empty backpack itself feeling too heavy for her. Instead she had suffered through carrying a light sleeping bag, a small first aid kit, and an extra set of clothes, even that causing her to need to rest repeatedly on their journey through the forest.

The forest was part of the problem too. She had stopped at the stone structures for a reason, they had tugged at her memory like nothing had before, making her realize that they marked something important. But what? She couldn't remember, and even thinking about it made her feel tired. Sighing again, Mitsuki struggled to her feet feeling thirsty. She needed to find a river and somewhere to sleep before she could focus on anything else. Slowly walking out of the clearing, picked a direction and started walking, not aware of the playful eyes upon her.

"Ano... Naruto..." The shelter collapsed with a crash causing Kakashi to sigh and shake his head. "Nevermind," he muttered seeing Naruto freak out over his creation's demise. Giving his own shelter a final look over, he nodded, satisfied with it. While it wasn't a bed, or even a sleeping bag, he'd be kept dry and out of the wind. Looking around he noticed that Sakura and Sasuke were also done, their shelters looking fragile but good, impressive for their first try. He frowned, noticing that Mitsuki still wasn't back. Had she gotten lost?

"Has anyone seen Mitsuki lately?" he asked, packing away his leftover rope and hatchet.. "And don't use such heavy branches for the roof, Naruto," he added, pulling out Make-Out Violence.

Naruto cursed as his shelter collapsed again. "Sakura-chan..." he whined turning to the pink haired girl.

"Iie," Sasuke said, looking annoyed if anything.

"No, Kakashi-sensei," Sakura said as she walked over to help the blond boy. "Start with the thickest logs for the bottom," she ordered, refusing to actually touch the wet and slimy looking logs. Where had Naruto found his supplies anyway?

Kakashi frowned, sitting down at the base of a tree and opening his book. Really, Mitsuki didn't seem like the type to wonder off... but she hadn't been acting like herself lately, had she?

"Konni-chiwa!" a cheerful voice called. Smiling brightly, Mitsuki nearly bounced out of the bushes, grinning at everyone in the clearing. "It's me! Mitsuki!" She looked around the clearing, green eyes sparkling as she clasped her hands behind her back. "Ne, ne, what cha all doin'!?"

Mentally sighing in relief, Kakashi smiled up at the girl. She was back, and she seemed much more energetic, that was good. "Just waiting for my traps to go off."

Mitsuki pranced over to him, smiling at him slyly. "Traps? For food?" she asked sweetly, a curious look on her face. "But how do you know if you've caught anything Kakashi-sensei?"

Kakashi turned the page of his book. "You know you can call me Kakashi-kun, Mitsuki-chan."

Mitsuki laughed nervously, smiling widely. "Hai! Hai! I forgot!" she giggled. Kakashi blinked as she suddenly was at his side, flushing a bit as she pressed herself up against him. "So..." she said smiling softly and playing with the fabric of his sleeve. "How do you know if you've caught anything, Kakashi-kun?"

Kakashi stared at her. She was pressed tightly to his arm looking at him so intensely... And the way she'd said his name... He coughed, deciding not to look at her and realizing that his students were staring at him. Smiling he pointed up, laughing weakly. "I attached these strings to the ropes and put a bell at the end. When I catch something, they'll ring."

"Wai!" Mitsuki squealed, throwing her arms around Kakashi, his book going flying as she fell into his lap. She giggled as he stiffened, her face an inch away from his neck. "Kakashi-kun is so smart," she cooed, reaching up to touch his mask.

Kakashi laughed weakly again, his brain shutting down once Mitsuki cupped her hands around his face and kissed him slowly on the nose. It had been awhile since he'd had someone so close, hell, it had been practically forever since he'd allowed it. And his students were staring at them as if they were both mad... "Ano... Mitsuki-chan," he said gently nudging Mitsuki's hand away from his ear.

"Hai?" Mitsuki asked sweetly, curling up on him and leaning her head on his shoulder.

She smelled nice, Kakashi realized, his entire body uncomfortably warm. She smelled like the forest, woody, with the hint of fresh dirt. Grinning like a fool, Kakashi tried to pry her fingers from his shirt, blocking any and all images from his mind. She was an A-rank mission, nothing else! "What are you doing?"

Mitsuki smiled at him, a sultry look in her green eyes. "Nothing," she cooed.

Suddenly she was gone, his book shoved back in his hand as she ran across the clearing. Kakashi stayed where he was, frozen in shock. "Naruto-kun!" she called, smiling at the gaping boy. "What'cha doing?"

Naruto looked as if he was unsure wether to run or embrace her as she approached. Instead he inched away a wide-eyed look on his face. "Noth... err... wha?" he stammered, in shock over how the nice lady who made him lunches had been all over Kakashi-sensei.

Mitsuki giggled, studying Naruto closely. "You're so funny, Naruto-kun!"

Naruto laughed weakly, smiling widely. "Ano... Thanks... I guess."

Mitsuki giggled again, leaning over to brush the back of her hand against his forehead protector (giving him a good view straight down her shirt in the process). "You know," she cooed, smiling brightly at him. "I've never really looked at the head protector of Konoha... It makes you look soooo handsome..."

Naruto opened and closed his mouth several times trying to form a reply, his mind completely blank. "Ah... You.... I...."

"Are you feeling alright, Mitsuki-chan?" Sakura asked, looking at the older woman, concerned. She sure was acting weird... Hitting on Kakashi-sensei and then Naruto... She could sort of understand Kakashi-sensei since they were both old, but Naruto? Talk about weird!

Her attention now on the pink haired girl, Mitsuki smiled before enveloping her in a hug. "Awww, Sakura-chan, you're soooooo sweet!" she said, her hand resting on Sakura's hip bag. Releasing her she smiled coyly at her. "I'll teach you how, later," she whispered, winking at her younger girl.

Turning to the last member of the small group she smiled at Sasuke, her hands clutched behind her back. "Aww... Poor guy... Feel left out?" she asked sweetly, seeing the glare Sasuke was giving everyone.

"No," Sasuke deadpanned, folding his arms over his chest. Something was wrong with Mitsuki. Even if she was wasn't so fuzzy looking in his eyes, he knew something was up solely by the way she was acting. While she'd only been around for a few of their training sessions, Sasuke knew she had never been anything but friendly to Kakashi and she'd treated him and Naruto like little brothers. But now seducing them all in the forest? At the same time? Something was weird.

Mitsuki pouted, approaching Sasuke slowly. "Aww... Don't you like me..." she faltered, her face going blank as she tried to remember something. Suddenly looking nervous, she threw her arms around Kakashi again, running one finger along his vest. "Miss me?" she cooed, seemingly forgetting all about Sasuke although she glanced at him often out of the corner of her eye.

"N-no," Kakashi stammered, his face slowly turning red as Mitsuki leaned closer and closer to him, her face steadily getting nearer to his own. His brain shut down as he realized she was going to kiss him again, this time on the lips, although his mask was still on. Why was she...

"I'm back," a second Mitsuki said, smiling weakly as she entered the clearing. "Sorry, I met a..." she trailed off never getting to finish her story of the shoji game with the kappa of the river she had met and how she'd learned some very interesting information from him. Instead, she stared at the frozen clearing. A shell-shocked Naruto, a curious looking Sakura, Sasuke glaring at... herself, her own arms wrapped around Kakashi who was looking rather red underneath his mask. She blinked twice, staring at herself.

Naruto was the first to break the silence. "There's TWO of them!" he shouted one hand pointing at the each of them.

Leaping up and away the first Mitsuki smiled brightly at everyone. "Bye-bye!" she said and vanished away in a puff of smoke and leaves.

The second Mitsuki stared at them all confusion written in her grey eyes. "What's going on?" she asked blushing slightly.

Kakashi coughed, holding his book in a death grip as he tried to compose his thoughts. Mitsuki almost kissed me! But Mitsuki was standing across the clearing, looking at them like they were all mad. She almost kissed me! But that Mitsuki had vanished in a puff of smoke. Kakashi coughed again, covering his mouth with his hand. "Actually-" Poof!

The rest of that sentence was lost to time as Kakashi's mask vanished in a puff of smoke, the jounin clamping his hand over his face in surprise. What had happened!?

Poof! Poof! Poof! In a flash his book turned into leaves, Naruto's forehead protector became a daisy chain, and Sakura's hip bag had became a dead squirrel tied onto her with a string. "What the!?" Naruto shouted, pulling the daisy chain off his head while Sakura shrieked, ripping the dead squirrel away from her and tossing it into the woods. "Where's my forehead protector!?"

"My bag!" Sakura shouted, a panicked look on her face. "Where's my bag!?"

Kakashi growled something impolite as he grabbed a towel out from his pack and tied it around his face. "Where's. My. Mask?" he growled, looking around the clearing. "And my book!?"

Seeing their eyes coming to her, Mitsuki took a step back. "I didn't do it!" she protested, holding up both hands quickly.

However, the ninja's attention wasn't on her as they noticed a giggling shadow move through the trees, quickly getting farther and farther away. "AFTER HER!!" Naruto shouted, pointing at the disappearing figure and running out of the clearing. Sakura ran after him, a determined look on her face while Kakashi simply vanished, reappearing in the treetops as he gave chase.

Finding herself alone in the clearing with Sasuke, Mitsuki smiled at the younger boy. "Sasuke-kun... Do you think you can help me with something?"

The Mitsuki look alike giggled again from her perch on top of a skinny pine tree. Stupid humans... So easy to trick, but so fun too! She rummaged through the stolen goods she'd collected, smiling at the treasures she'd gotten. She'd trade the forehead protector to the crow for the map he'd found, the piece of metal shiny enough to become a must-have for the overgrown bat. She'd keep the pouch... it was nice leather, with plenty of interesting looking items inside. Then there was the mask... She shrugged, really, she'd stolen it just because she could. People didn't wear masks for no reason. She'd wanted to see what sort of horrible scars the stupid ninja had. Lastly the book... She gazed at the cover, grinning from ear to ear. A shoujo manga! Giggling she flipped through it's pages, her smile somehow widening. Ooh, even better. A porn manga! Oh she'd be able to sell this for a pretty penny! Once she was done reading it of course...

"GOT YA!" an excited voice shouted.

She looked up just in time for Naruto's fist to connect with her forehead, going through it as she vanished in a swirl of leaves to appear three tree tops away. She grinned at the boy, dangling the forehead protector from one hand. "Ha!" she said, sticking out her tongue. "You want this back? I'd like to see you try!"

Sakura's slim hands grabbed the woman by the ankles as Kakashi suddenly appeared in front of her, his arms crossed. "Return everything," he growled, glaring at him.

The woman pouted, holding the book to her chest. "Aww... but I wanted to keep-" She was instantly gone again, appearing several yards away on the forest floor, laughing as she ran.

"Wing formation!" Kakashi ordered. "Naruto right, Sakura center!"

The two genin nodded, dropping down to the forest floor and giving chase.

"Can you see it now, Sasuke-kun?" Mitsuki called, looking up the tree. Sasuke was getting pretty high up now, she could barely see him through the tree branches.

"No," Sasuke shouted back down. "Are you sure this is the right tree?"

"Kappa-dono said it was the tiger tail west tree! This is the only tree that fits that description."

Sasuke sweatdropped, climbing higher. Tiger tail west? He didn't even know what that meant... 1 He was about to ask her if she was sure when he saw something glint in the crook of two branches. Grabbing the small object he jumped down and held it out to Mitsuki. "This it?"

Mitsuki took the pure white orb from him, smiling softly. "Do you think we'll be able to catch up?"

Sasuke nodded.

It was infuriating. Why couldn't two genin and a jounin catch one girl? A girl who was singing as she skipped through the forest, no less. Even when Naruto had created close to fifty clones, they hadn't been able to lay a finger on her, a mysterious blue fire appearing out of nowhere and destroying the clones seconds after they'd been made. He needed a new plan. Well, going ahead and ambushing her hadn't worked, laying traps hadn't worked (he caught Naruto instead), she'd avoided his kunai, dodged his grabs, kicked his hand when he'd tried to pull her underground...

A scant ten feet in front of him, the girl grinned breaking out in her third song as she skipped playfully, while avoiding Naruto's fifth shadow clone.

Kitsune sugoi de!

Kitsune tanoshi!

Kitsune, atama ga ii!

Kitsune utsukushii!

Akai shippo, tsuyoi!

Sutairasshuna Kitsune!!

Ikutsuka hito, Kitsune ga kirai.

Doshite desu ka?

Wakaranai.

Minna-san, hito no atama wo kerimashou!

Hito, shinde kureru.

Retsu GO!!

Kitsune, kamina!

Kitsune, mutekino!

Kitsune... Retsu GO!2

As she finished she fell straight down. She'd jumped off a small cliff, Kakashi recognized seeing the break of the land. Judging by the trees the cliff wasn't that high... He nodded to his team, giving them the okay to follow. They jumped off the edge of the cliff...

...and landed at the edge of a natural hot-spring. Where'd this come from? Kakashi thought to himself, puzzled. None of the maps of the area had shown this... And why was is so misty? He could barely see anything.

"Eek!" several voices shreiked at once as many more gasped in surprise and pleasure. "A man!" someone cooed from within the mist.

They all blinked as several women dressed in nothing but towels appeared in the mist, the fog clearing enough to reveal that there were probably ten or twenty more of them still lounging in the hot-spring.

"Naruto! Don't look!" Sakura shrieked, grabbing the blond and forcefully covering his eyes. It wasn't right for him to look at girls while they were bathing...

Grinning from ear to ear, Kakashi waved at the staring girls. "Sorry to disturb! Please continue!"

Then again on second thought, maybe she should have grabbed Kakashi-sensei...

"Hi there," a dark haired, busty beauty said waving at Kakashi seductively. She slowly walked up to him, flanked by four others, the towels accenting their every curve. "I'm Yukimi... What's you're name?"

"Hatake Kakashi!"

The girls squealed, eyeing Kakashi with a predatory look. "Such a cute name," a blond woman cooed coming up and grabbing his arm.

"And the goods are so cute too!" another sighed, draping her arms around his neck

"Aww, but Kashi-kun, why are you wearing that towel as a mask?" a big breasted brunette asked, reaching up to undo the ties.

Kakashi smiled, but stopped her, redirecting her hands to his chest. "Sorry, ladies, but I don't kiss until the end of the first date."

The girls squealed again, pressing themselves closer to the jounin. This is disgusting, Sakura thought to herself. I don't know what's worse, them hanging all over Kakashi-sensei or him enjoying it...

"Ne, Sakura-chan, what's going on!?"

"Shut up, Naruto!"

"Oh, he's as funny as Master!" one of them giggled, snuggling forward so her breasts were tightly pressed up against him.

"Master?" Kakashi asked, looking interested.

The girls nodded. "We're all miko between the ages of 18 and 22," Yumiki said, her towel slipping so Kakashi could see more of her ample chest. "But there's not much to do here. Bathing, massages, whipping them out to see who's are larger... (Kakashi rubbed his nose, was he starting to get a nosebleed?) Not to mention studying the sacred book and practicing with Master."

"Oh, but Master's getting so old now!" the blond lamented, her hand dropping down to rest just below his belt. "He has trouble getting up to train with us."

"That's sad," Kakashi agreed, having the feeling that he was about to be groped. That hadn't happened in a while... "So what sort of jutsus do you study here?"

"Master only has us study and prefect the techniques of one book," Yumiki said smiling. "The wonderful jutsu of the Karma Sutra. Have you heard of it?"

Kakashi nodded, too shocked to speak. An entire convent of beautiful women with an old master... who studied the Karma Sutra all day? I'm in heaven....

Naruto pulled at Sakura's hands, trying to see. "Ne, what's going on!? What's a Carpa Sunda or whatever!?

Kakashi glanced at the scantily clad women surrounding him and decided that this was as good a time as any to inform the boy about the facts of life. Carefully, he pulled away from them, smiling brightly. "Hold that thought." He then grabbed Naruto by the shoulder, released him from Sakura's grasp, and plopped him down on a boulder. Looking at the boy intensely he began to tell him about the birds and the bees. "You see, Naruto... When a ninja sees a girl who has a really great body and doesn't seem connected to anyone else in any way..." He frowned he was giving the kid the wrong idea... "Well, she can be connected, but you'll have to be able to convince her to drop the guy... Oh, threesomes with lesbians rock! And I suppose guy-guy could be fun too, but you'll have to talk to Gai to get all the details and..."

Sakura hit her teacher on the back of the head, glaring at him. "What the hell are you talking about!?" she shrieked. Not waiting for an answer she glared at Naruto. "Naruto, the Karma Sutra's a very bad book, and if I see you even look at it I will kill you."

"A bad book?" Yukimi said, shocked. "If the Karma Sutra's such a bad book, where else would we learn a position like this!?"

"Don't look! Don't look!" Sakura shrieked, covering Kakashi and Naruto's eyes as the girls showed off some of their 'moves.'

Sasuke appeared at the top of the small cliff. "Oi, Sakura! What's going..." he trailed off, his eyes on the hot spring then collapsed, clutching a gushing nosebleed and blushing magenta.

"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura shouted, abandoning Naruto and Kakashi to check up on the fallen Uchiha. "Are you alright!?"

"Oi, Kaka-sensei," Naruto said pointing to the women. "What sort of jutsu are they doing?"

Kakashi crossed his arms looking solemn. "A particularly effective one called the lotus blossom," he said grinning madly underneath his temporary mask. "Very powerful."3

"Honto ni!? Are you going to teach us that one, Kaka-sensei?"

Kakashi smiled patting Naruto on the head. "Maybe when you're older," he promised, making a mental note to buy all three of his genin that book for their eighteenth birthdays. Hey, they'd be legal then and their future flings would thank him for it! But wait... If Sasuke was here then where had Mitsuki gone off th-

"Naruto close your eyes this instant or you will never live to see another day!" a familiar female voice shouted from behind them. Naruto obeyed instantly, covering his eyes with his hands and curling into the fetal position as extra precaution

Kakashi glanced back. Enraged female with flames swirling around her? Check. Hands in fists? Check. Look of righteous justice in her eyes? Check. His fun was over...

Scrambling down the cliff Mitsuki made a beeline for Kakashi. "You-You!" she sputtered, her finger rising to point at him, a disbelieving look in her eyes. "How could you!?" she finally shrieked pointing at Naruto. "How could you let an innocent boy into this den of harpies!!!???"

"Harpies!?" a DD-cup red head demanded. "We're miko!"

"Slutty miko!" Mitsuki shrieked, glaring at them.

Kakashi stepped aside. Maybe this was a chance to escape... or watch one hell of a cat fight... He'd better hang around to see if Mitsuki needed any help once they had fallen into the mud, towels falling off, hair being pulled, clothes ripped... He rubbed his nose again. Was he getting a nosebleed?

"How dare you call us sluts!" Yumiko shouted, glaring at her. "We're not the one traveling around with three men!"

Mitsuki opened her mouth to scream a retort when she froze noticing something. There were five girls glaring at her, each looking rather fuzzy through the mist, but there were many more in the hot- spring itself. None of the girls in the hot-spring were paying attention to anything, just bathing, splashing each other, talking... But there wasn't any sound. Mitsuki smiled, crossing her arms over her chest. "Joke's over Kitsune-dono."

Yumiki opened her mouth ro protest then closed it, glaring. Instantly the hot-springs with everyone in it was gone leaving behind only the raven haired woman in a towel. "I bet you think you're so smart seeing through my illusion!" the kitsune growled, her green eyes narrowed. "Well, you're not! And I'm not giving anything back!" She stuck her tongue out and turned to go.

"Kitsune-dono," Mitsuki said dryly, pulling a white orb out of her pocket and waving it.

The kitsune shrieked, running forward and jumping, trying to grab the orb. Mitsuki yanked it up, out of her reach as the kitsune shrank, changing shape until she looked like a five year old. "That's mine! Mine!" she whined, the orb still out of reach. "Ne-chan, gimmie it back!"

"First you have to return everything you stole."

The kitsune pouted. "Everything? That'll take years!!!"

"Then just return what you stole from us," Mitsuki said sighing.

Kakashi barely managed to dodge as his book came hurtling towards him, nearly striking him in the head. Instead it whizzed past him and embedded itself into a tree, his mask tied onto it.

Naruto yelped as his head protector was slammed onto his head, opening his eyes. Damn... All the beautiful women are gone...

"Everything better be in it," Sakura growled, grabbing her bag from the kitsune and putting it back on.

"It's all there," the kitsune said looking sorry. She brightened an instant later. "Except this!" she shouted, holding up a small wallet. Opening it so that a picture of Sasuke could be seen, she shoved the wallet into the boy's hands. "This must be yours!"

Sakura shrieked as Sasuke blinked at his picture, grabbing the wallet away a second later. "YOU BITCH!" she shouted, pointing at the kitsune.

Laughing the kitsune vanished to reappear in front of Mitsuki, her hands cupped. "Ne-chan, Ne- chan!" she whined jumping up and down. "I returned everything! Can I have my orb back? Can I, can I, can I?"

Mitsuki smiled, placing the white orb gently into the girl's hands. "Here you go," she said cheerfully.

The kitsune blinked, looking from Mitsuki to the orb and then back. "You... gave it to me."

"Hai, now if you don't mind, we need to get going back to our camp." Mitsuki turned to go only to see the kitsune in front of her again in the exact image of herself.

"You gave it back to me," the Mitsuki twin said in disbelief, staring at the orb.

Mitsuki smiled again. "Ano... Kitsune-dono... could you please not walk around in my form?"

In a flash the kitsune changed forms so she looked like Kakashi, grabbing Mitsuki in a bear hug. "Oh Ne-chan! Thank you ever so much!!!" she squealed in Kakashi's voice. Loosening her grip a bit she leaned over, and kissed Mitsuki full on the lips.

Mitsuki shrieked (as did Naruto (he hadn't been paying attention and thought that Kakashi had really kissed her)) and leaped back, falling on her rear. Slightly dazed she touched her lips, blushing. Did this mean she'd been kissed by Kakashi or the fox?

"I like you, Ne-chan!" the kitsune said, still in Kakashi's form. "If you like, I'll turn into this form whenever you like and do kinky things to you!"

Kakashi bobbed his twin on the head, glaring murderously. "No."

"Like you have any say in the matter!" the kitsune shrieked, round house kicking the jounin away from her.

Mitsuki blinked as the kitsune grinned down at her. "You're a girl," she finally said, blushing.

The kitsune shrugged. "I'm a fox. I don't have any of your human restraints." She closed her eyes grinning. "Besides! When I'm in this form I'm a man! Wanna make-out?"

Mitsuki smiled back, warily. "No... thank you..."

"You don't think he's very cute either, huh?" the kitsune said nodding understandingly. "How about a younger model?" she asked turning into Sasuke.

"NO!" Sakura shouted.

"Really Kitsune-dono, I-"

"An older one?" the kitsune offered turning into a crotchety looking old man. "A girl?" she asked turning into Sakura.

Mitsuki closed her eyes and slowly stood. "Kakashi-san?" she called looking towards the pissed off looking jounin. "Can we go back to camp now?"

Kakashi nodded, giving the kitsune a wary look. "Yeah, let's go."

Kakashi sighed and gently set a sleeping Mitsuki down by the side of a tree, leaning her against it so she wouldn't fall down. It had taken an hour and a half for him to get back to camp, the bloody fox stopping every five feet to introduce them all to different animals or plants that were supposedly her friends. He probably would have still been out there and being introduced to a pair of rabbits if Mitsuki hadn't abruptly fallen over. She'd apparently fallen asleep while standing up and since he'd been unable to find a dart or anything on her he assumed the cause had been pure exhaustion. Bidding farewell to his team and the fox, he'd picked her up and run back to camp, glad for the excuse.

Double checking that she wouldn't fall if he left her, Kakashi walked over to Mitsuki's discarded bag and rummaged through it. Strange, he thought. All that was in there was an extra set of clothes and a first aid kit. He had thought for sure that Tsunade-sama had packed a robe for her, not to mention pajamas... In fact he was sure she had, remembering the huge bag she had brought into his apartment.

He shrugged. Oh well, she would just have to sleep in her clothes for a while. He unattached the sleeping bag from the backpack's frame and grabbed the tent to do the same only to find that the tent bag was unusually light. Opening it, he found that somehow the tent had been replaced with two pillows. He sighed. Okay, now that was going to be a problem. He'd either have to make her a shelter of her own or make his larger, neither of which seemed to be all that of an exciting prospect.

He spread the sleeping bag out in his shelter placing it on top of a large pile of leaves in hopes that it would make the bed softer. Unzipping the bag halfway, he walked back to the tree, got Mitsuki, and slipped her into the sleeping bag, zipping it back up. After a moment's thought he grabbed on of the tent bag pillows and put it underneath her head. There. No one could say that he didn't take care of his responsibilities now.

"You know, if you took off that mask and grew a beard you might look cute," a female voice said in his ear.

To his credit, Kakashi didn't jump, he just turned around and gazed at the kitsune. "What's your name?" he asked after a moment.

"Kajika!" the kitsune said smiling. "My father named me after a manga character!"

Kakashi nodded, not really caring. "Kajika... where's the rest of my team?"

"Why?" Kajika asked, poofing into Mitsuki's form. "You wanna do something while their gone?"

"Where's my team?"

Kajika pouted. It wasn't fair. Why wasn't he rising to her taunts? "I got 'em lost and then ditched 'em," she said smiling. "They should figure it out eventually."

Kakashi sighed shaking his head. He should probably go find them so he could teach them to fish without tackle... "Can I trust you to watch Mitsuki while I'm gone?"

"Yes sir!" Kajika said saluting, poofing into the form of a red haired woman. "She's in safe hands!"

Kakashi gazed at her a moment. "That's what I thought," he sighed, grabbing the sticks from Naruto's shelter to make a fire. Maybe they would find their own way back...

(5 hours later...)

"Dammit Naruto! This is the third time we passed this river!"

"No it's not! This is a new one!"

"(sigh) Dobe..."

"Take that back Sasuk-"

"WILL YOU ALL JUST SHUT UP!!!!!!??????"

"AAAAAHHHHH!!! SCARY KAPPA!!!!"

"GET BACK HERE SO I CAN EAT YOU BRATS!"

"RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!"

Kitsunes are really overly used in Japanese culture, sort of like tanuki and oni. So, they can easily become anything you want them to become. Kitsune's having orbs is a part of their mythology though... Can't remember which story though... Maybe Kitsune and the Brothel? Dunno. Kitsunes can change form though, and they don't have any problems with being 'free spirited' so to say.

For example, The Good Fortune Kettle... An old dude saves a fox from being killed. In thanks the fox changes into the old dude's 'daughter' and he sells her into a house of prostitution. And the entire time that they describe the fox they make it sound like a guy!!! (How can you tell, the fox says 'boku' for 'I') Those trans-gendered foxes man... You've got to watch out for them!

1- I don't know what it means either. Just seemed like a good strange description.

2- The literal translation of Kajika's song is as follows (why literal? It's more fun 'cause it don't make sense!):

Kitsune, amazing!

Kitsune, fun!

Kitsune, head is good!

Kitsune, beautiful!

Red tails, strong!

Stylish Kitsune!

Some people hate Kitsunes

Why?

I don't know

Everyone, kick a human's head

Person, please die.

Let's GO!

Kitsune, god-like!

Kitsune, undefeatable!

Kitsune, let's GO!

3- I don't know if the lotus blossom is a real Karma Sutra move. I've never actually seen a copy of that book. Just heard about it so I know that I don't want to see it.

Elle- Yeah, she is rather childish. There is a pretty good reason for it though... If I don't get the chance/don't remember to put it in later I'll tell you why.

Yipster54- I was glad too... Couldn't find your name on Fanfiction... What's your story called/going to be called?

sna- Thanks. Don't really have much else to say so I'll ask you a question. Does your pen-name stand for 'Super Normal Aardvarks' or 'Singing Nutmeg Anonymous'?

kodomo- I would recommend searching for the site 'Big in Japan.' So far I've found really good summaries on Kappa and Tengu from them which it great 'cause those aren't really story creatures. They're more of a 'if you go into the mountains the Tengu will get you' sort of monsters. If you want anything more specific I'd say just type in the name of the creature you want and add Japan after that.

Lady Light- Yeah, she hit her head, lost her memories, is living with a complete stranger... But this is fiction! It always turns out happy! I'd like to see her try this in real life...

Anko-san - I think it still needs more Kakashi. Or at the very least Jiraiya... Jiraiya is sexy too!

Dragon Man 180- Nope... Well... Sorta... When you look at it as a general description of 'not human, but close' she is, but she's not an animal of any sort. You're the closest though...