Infernal Fox
Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma 1/2 or Naruto. The only thing I own is myself and my characters that I put into this. It's kinda nice to see that people like this story. It warms my ice-cold heart to think about people loving my work. I like the cold. My sister doesn't so the girl always sets our heating on the Sahara setting as I've called it. She is really irritating me with those damn speeches about heat getting to your brain and melting it.
Enough crazy babble. You are here to read a story by me, Demon God of Chaos and I shall plague you no more.
Sunagakure! Battle between Demons!
He felt something shaking the tree and he fell out of it with a rather loud thud. He glared at the one who had shaken the tree and let him drop out of his sleeping place and watched the infuriating grin on the Inuzuka's face. Oh how he wanted to just cave in the brat's face. He was the great Kyuubi no Kitsune's container and he shouldn't take this mockery of a Shinobi into a battle or the foolish childe would die before he even got ready. The dog was just another irritant to Ranma as it barked gleefully at seeing a person fall out of a tree.
He had slept for a few moments until disturbed and then had gotten into the tree again after a small scene with a certain redheaded woman.
Flashback
Ranma had just rested his head on one of the branches when he was rudely awoken by a certain voice which came from the base of the tree. "Naruto-kun! Come on out of the tree. It's cold tonight so come and sleep with me." Thinking about how to act like a normal kid to keep up the pretence that he wasn't some homicidal Demon king out to destroy the village after raping several pretty women and killing off all men, he did what he thought was best. His face flushed red and in some attempt to sound like a young guy he said: "Nodoka-san…That wouldn't be proper." She just grinned at him in a grin that faintly seemed familiar to him: "No worries Naruto-kun. I'll keep you safe from any pervert's that might peek on us." Ranma gulped and slowly climbed out of the tree and walked up to Nodoka with a frightened expression on his face. After all who wouldn't be frightened if an older woman was wearing such an expression on her face that made you go all icy on the inside? The want in her eyes was enough to make him shudder. Not because of lust but because it was simply inexhaustible.
She took his hand gently and led him to the tent she was sleeping in. He looked inside and gulped. He saw the katana lying to the side with several things he didn't even want to know about lying to the same side. They were slightly phallic in shape and he gulped quite audibly. He felt a slight push in his back and he went inside further just to look at the woman as she entered and closed the tent. She looked at him with a shark like grin on her face: "Naruto-kun…" "Hai Nodoka-san." "Let me give you a small present from me for pleasuring Haku-chan. After all I have seen what a BIG boy you are I just wanted to see it for myself and feel it. It is rather large to be stowed within your pants all the time. Why not release some tension?"
A very audible gasp came from Ranma as the woman he had once thought to be his mother advanced on him. Suddenly a thought shot through his head: The Pheromones! He had forgotten all about them enhancing his attractiveness to the fair sex. It still bugged him a little. He was torn between either giving in to lust or let his hatred for humanity take over. He knew that he couldn't hurt her but did the lust part o him need to keep an erection at all times? It really bugged him that since he had blacked out he was always so hard down there. His pants hid it well since he got pockets in it with several items in it that were either Kunai or scrolls which could easily make his erection seem like a Kunai or Scroll.
She slowly advanced on him while he backed away. He looked at her with eyes full of fear. "Haku might have given you some pleasure but it was rather rough wasn't it Naru-kun? Do you mind if I call you Naru-kun?" She looked directly into his eyes and then reached out and put her arms on the rather visible bulge in his pants. A startled gasp was the answer to her laying a hand on it. "It's large isn't it Naru-kun? Shall I help you release some tension?"
He paled as she stroked the material currently covering his crotch. This was definitively NOT what he was expecting at the moment. Without a second passing by he was out of the tent with a strangled cry. Nodoka just pouted in reaction of the strange behaviour. "All I wanted was to have a little fun…" was spoken by the woman and a shiver went over Ranma's back as he ran up the tree by using his feet to stick to the bark.
End Flashback
Ranma got up and unsheathed his ANBU sword:"I'd run if I were you. My patience is wearing thin Kiba. One more stupid act from you and I'll use this to make a nice hole in your body by ramming it right through your body and then twisting it rapidly." Kiba looked at the insane looking Genin whose blonde hair had gained a slight amount of black streaks through it. The black streaks began to widen until the hair was almost black and Kiba retreated with his dog.
Ranma looked around and saw Hinata coming out of the tent she shared with Kurenai. She took one look at him and a blush came to her face. He hated it when people blushed around him. It was a sign that they still had human emotions and weren't like him. "Did you expect anyone to be like you? With one Demon sealed within their stomach and a craving for blood?" "Well no but still they are weak and fragile and not worthy of my attention." "That's true…But I think you should use the summoning contract I let you sign sometimes. I want to feel the air once again through my fur. I want to feel and enjoy the feeling of it before I am put back on your stomach."
Ranma just grinned weakly at Hinata whose blush increased until it encompassed her entire face making her look like a tomato. With a devilish grin on his face he walked up to her and decided he'd play with her a bit: "Hinata-chan…" "Y-y-yes Naruto-kun?" She replied and became even redder then before. It looked like a red aura was radiating from her head. "I like you Hinata-chan." "N-n-n-naruto-kun…….." he watched as the girl slumped to the floor with cheeks flaming and clearly unconscious. A dark grin came on his face and he faintly heard a scream of anguish. Kakashi came running out of his tent without his pants, an act that was slightly hilarious until Ranma sniffed one scent on the man and his left eye twitched.
"Kakashi-san!" The redheaded woman came out of the tent with a smile on her face that looked exactly like the one Ranma currently sported but was slightly different because it held the air of a prankster. The embarrassed Jounin had run out of the tent after a small prank from Nodoka and right into another tent which Hinata had just vacated.
She had snuck into the tent immediately after she awoke and had stripped the twenty-seven year old until he only wore his underpants and his mask. Then she had gently shook him and said: "Care to go for another round Kakashi-chan?" The eye of the Jounin had enlarged so much that it was funny to look at. The man had stumbled out of the tent instead of staying there. Even though he was a major pervert he still had his wits and he definitively knew that he didn't have sex with Miss Yami. First there was no Stamina loss nor could he remember ever agreeing with her that she sleep with him.
She just giggled at the young man. She had wanted to do worse then that little joke with the Jounin ever since Naru-kun had ran out of the tent like the hounds of hell itself were after him but if she overdid it he might stop her lessons in Kenjutsu. That would be a bad thing because she was just getting the hang of the style he was teaching her. The sword swings were relatively easy for her to accomplish. She grinned as she remembered her first mastery of a style. It was a variation of a style she had learned while in her own dimension and thus it was easily learned. She took some stamina from herself and pumped it into the blade and thus moulding it through the blade and then released it generating a Chakra wave which would cut anything in its path.
She and Naruto were being trained in the same style and while Naruto would use a ANBU sword she used a regular Katana the ANBU blade was slightly different from the normal katana's because they had a special substance coating the blade that would render anyone who has been cut by it paralysed for a few seconds. That's why the ANBU normally handed S rank missions for the Hokage and the village. They had 2 divisions: Normal ANBU and Hunter-nin. The sword Naruto was currently using was one of the normal ANBU captain swords she had been told by Kakashi since he had admitted that it was his sword being used. Not that the guy minded that his student took his blade. After all Kakashi could handle himself perfectly even without a blade. The only thing that Kakashi currently was doing was trying to plead for his to an angry Kurenai who didn't like a half naked man storming inside a tent just to get away from the chilly morning air.
Especially when she was just sleeping and having weird dreams. Dreams about chocolate and a gorgeous young man present in it. A foot to the face can do such things to a woman. The pleas for mercy were justified because the cracking of knuckles was heard and the pervert who stormed inside a tent without checking whose tent it was got a sound beating. Nodoka just giggled like some schoolgirl and Ranma just raised one eyebrow but said nothing. His experiences with her had told him that she was absolutely fiendish in bed given her treatment of him last night. "You could have accepted. That would be easy to get us some good stress relief." "Shut up you baka Kitsune. It was enough that you sent me those dreams of her doing that with me. It's not as if I reacted to them." "Yes you did. Look at your boxers."
With a small groan he knew exactly what the damned Demon Fox meant. After having a wet dream while he was around 11 Genma had pressed some pressure points to ensure that he didn't have those anymore. Those also made him totally not interested in sex as the hormones were stopped from being released from the brain by touching several points around the cranium.
Ranma's face looked to be neutral at the moment but a throbbing vein on his forehead told most sane people that he was angry. Kiba not being the most sane person of the bunch decided that he'd go and pester the kid a little because he was so short. "Yo blondie finally awake? Short guys like you should get up earlier. Maybe then you'd grow some inches." Ranma looked at the ignorant human and was about to go and rip out the boy's throat but something held him back. The urge was strong and he had the time for it but something compelled him to stop his attacking thoughts. "Look at that. Doesn't that make you want to just go and grab her tits?"
Ranma's POV
I looked at the direction pointed by Kyuubi to see Kurenai standing there before a cowering Kakashi who was making a warding sign and she looked gorgeous in what little clothing she had on her. I noticed the thin fabric immediately and how her nipples had hardened due to the cool morning air. I somehow doubt that Kakashi has seen it but the glare she was currently giving him was possibly one of the coldest glares I have ever seen on a woman's face. The man was fearing for his life there and I did nothing to stop it. Let him suffer under her wrath. He IS a human after all. "Well spoken Kit. After all he is still frail and mortal like the rest of the species. Not used to grand bloodshed like we, the Kitsune Youkai. It is rather nice feeling the fear from that mortal. Finally he is fearful of female wrath." "You like seeing a guy getting beaten by a woman?"
No reply came and I noticed the lack of sounds of violence. I looked at Kakashi who had seemed to convince Kurenai of something. I didn't know what exactly he had said but I knew that at least the woman had been calmed down. I looked at Hinata who was still knock-out on the floor. I gently lifted her head thinking about how nice it would make as I crushed the skull and saw the brain matter stream out from the ruined remains of said skull. Oh she opened her eyes. That's good because I don't wanna be seen like this because it looks like I like the girl. That'd be so unnatural. Know that I don't discriminate against women in general. The only thing that unnerved me about Hinata was that she had such weird eyes. Totally white and kinda looked like the eyes of the dead. And the shy attitude made me totally creeped out. Was she abused at home or something? Or did she just have a prick for a father or sensei? From the little things I have heard is that Hinata is the Heir of the Hyuuga clan and thus there must be more with the freaky eyes.
"Awake again Hinata-chan?" Well that got a reaction. Once again she is in blush mode with it powered up to full capacity. I like toying with these humans. Though I should kill them all like any normal Youkai would do I think I should try to make some things happen. It would be no fun if I just killed all of them. If I can just get one of these humans to do my bidding then I have slightly won. Maybe I should try hypnosis to see if there is a person who would like to play with me for a while. Maybe getting some bloody wounds on the plaything would be nice. Maybe I can get Kurenai-chan to go and give me a small Genjutsu Lesson. Maybe even spar with her. That'd be nice. If I get the chance I'll think I'll go all-out. I wanna see the power of the Kyuubi no Kitsune to its full limit. "Kit there is no limit to my power. Be glad that you can now summon my brethren and as I am the ruling Leader of the Youkai, I can order them to obey your orders. But if we see that Tanuki-teme then I think I'll take over. I got a score to settle with the bastard for abandoning me and going after the Sand. It's not like I like to be imprisoned within you."
"What are you talking about? I think I'll become a farmer then and never kill anything if you keep on talking about my unworthiness. There is nothing wrong with my body and if you want blood then I'll give you blood. I'll go and rip my first opponent apart if it pleases you. Even if that damn person is Kakashi then I will rip him apart with these two hands and lick the blood off my hands. Then you can see that I am a person worthy of wielding the greatest of Youkai that ever lived." "Flattery doesn't get you anywhere with me. But of course if you somehow killed one human then I might look favourably on you and give you another chance. After all it would be easy for me to take over if not for this seal."
I muttered something about possessive and maniacal demons that were out to massacre entire villages without abandon and then go and screw every woman in sight even if there were Genjutsu layered over their faces to make them young or bestowing youth to them through other means.
In a gambling den Tsunade sneezed and once again lost a bet with some old geezer who had Yen signs in his eyes. She grumbled and excused herself to the bathroom where she transformed into a young girl and made it the hell out of the gambling den
Haku was at the moment busy with some new adjustments to the outfit she was dressed in. the mask was over her head with the Konoha emblem on it. She looked in the mirror and decided that she looked perfect like the Hunter-nin she had been assigned as. It didn't really matter. She was just to kill some irritating Nukenin who had been bothering caravans for a few weeks.
She was now jumping from tree to tree and looking around for the nukenin while keeping an eye on the trees and the road for signs of ambush. She had to be prepared for anything. She looked around and saw a hint of a Chuunin vest. She looked around and spotted her target, the Nukenin Maragoshi Uriko, Chuunin rank Nukenin. With a few seals she let one of the Demonic Ice mirrors appear and she slipped into one. It would be easy getting to the Nukenin because the Demonic Ice mirrors allowed travelling at speeds almost unseen to the naked eye.
As Ice mirrors suddenly appeared all above the Nukenin she could only stare as in each of them a hunter-nin appeared. She knew that this was going to be a hell of a fight with the hunter-nin probably out to kill her. She readied her hands to make seals but it was futile. Three ice senbon imbedded themselves in the chest area and she could feel them piercing right into the heart. Another senbon flew at her and imbedded itself right through her forehead. Darkness was all that remained for Maragoshi Uriko as she fell to the floor dead.
Haku sighed as the corpse fell to the floor. She walked out of an ice mirror and then got out the sword she had with her and cut off the head slowly. Then she opened a small bag and placed the head inside. Then she did a Jutsu which caused the body to freeze and then shattered it by kicking it making it turn into fine ice dust which would melt soon. A grim smile was on her lips as she once again jumped into the trees and went back to the village with the head in the bag.
Ranma's POV
Well it seems that we are getting some training done now. Shino is over there training with his bugs which looks like some sort of blurry cloud all around him which is buzzing and looks like it has something to do with a dust cloud. Hmm it would seem that Hinata is gaining confidence or something. I never saw her attack Kiba with such resolve. Maybe she could be of use to me in my plans. Those weird eyes look odd to me but if they help her fight that well.
And look at the bastard. He looks like he has a stick up his ass. Damn why girls like him I'll never know. I think his blood will taste good. Still he looks like a girl to me. "His mother was an ANBU." Hmm so the fox has graced me with his presence once again. "How do you know that Kyuu? Killed her or something?" "Well I can only tell because he has the same scent then her but mixed with something else. I don't know exactly what the hell happened to the kid but I can tell that he's either crazy and hiding it well or he's an Avenger." "Yeah Sasuke told us something about wanting to kill a certain guy when he introduced himself to us all. Maybe I should have added something to my likes and dislikes." "Let me hazard a quick guess kid." The Kyuubi took on a voice that was eerily reminiscent of Ranma's: "I like to tear people apart and watch them die screaming and I dislike the way people scream if they are continuously being tortured. That'd be a nice scene if it ever happened."
Ranma's eyes unfocused as if they were looking at something that was only visible to him. His mind was wandering and he felt like he was seeing the future. He was standing on a wasteland with burning trees all around him. Blood was dripping from his claws and he brought them to his mouth and licked off the ruby fluid. It tasted nice and he looked as a group of shinobi came at him. He could briefly hear the sounds of combat all around him and then he looked at where they came from while sending out his tails to kill the shinobi. Anguished cries of pain and horror came from the shinobi as the tails took on the shape of the elements and destroyed them.
He looked at the scene of the battle and he noticed a giant snake slithering around with a woman dressed in black Shinobi gear on top of the snake's head. The black hair was in disarray and it looked like the woman had some eerie yellow eyes with slits in them. Ranma looked at the generous curves and watched as the snake killed several shinobi buy whipping them with its tail.
He turned around and heard something that sounded strange. Music was coming from one side of the battle and he noticed a red-haired woman standing there playing a flute while Oni were slaughtering the shinobi that dared attack the woman. She seemed to be around eighteen or something like that. There were horns growing from her head and Ranma stared in fascination as the woman made shinobi scream with just a small music note.
He turned around after hearing the lovely sound of breaking bones and looked as a blonde woman stood there apparently fighting against some shinobi who seemed to be deathly afraid of her. He watched as she sent one of them crashing into the ground with one punch. Apparently she used raw power to kill her opponents and Ranma grinned. The sounds of pain were enough for his mind and suddenly he began making strange hand seals and he cried out:
Youkai Kuchiyose no Jutsu
Smoke billowed beneath him and he felt lifted into the air as a menacing fox appeared beneath him and he stood on it. The nine tails whirled behind the Youkai and it laughed: "This looks nice Kit. I wonder how they are going to take the return of the greatest of Youkai." Then Kyuubi let out a ferocious growl which was heard throughout the entire battle field and the women and Shinobi turned towards its creator and noticed the big Kyuubi no Kitsune stand there with its nine tails swinging in the air.
Ranma watched as the shinobi's eyes went wide and they all screamed at the sight of the greatest Demon ever to walk the land. Out of a corner of his eye he noticed a woman with long black hair kill some Shinobi with a few hand motions. She was being assisted by another black haired woman who was killing them by conjuring up ice senbon and throwing them at the shinobi killing them by hitting them in their vital areas.
He revelled in the thrill of battle and he looked around to see the women fighting with the shinobi and he jumped off the Kyuubi's back and said: "Have fun!" The massive demon immediately started on the carnage and blood and screams began to mingle on the battlefield as the Demon began its massacre.
A sudden gust of wind jerked him off balance and he looked around to see a massive war fan being wielded by a young woman who had blonde hair. He briefly noted that he'd better hang onto something or else he'd get blown away from the fight and didn't have any fun killing anymore. He looked as the wind rushed several shinobi that were hiding behind a tree and the tree was blown back by the wind thus smashing the shinobi to bits.
He looked at the battlefield and a laugh issued from his mouth: "Kukukukuku. Feel the might of us. Feel the might of the true rulers of the world!" Then he felt nothing but darkness as his gaze was drawn to a female fighting several ANBU. The last thing he saw was black hair and a lovely face looking at him…
"That was a prophetical dream. Youkai get those when they are in the mortal world and they can predict things or be rubbish. It's all on the interpretation. Kit I think you should wake up. That Jounin of yours is walking towards you." Ranma opened his eyes and immediately closed them as they took in the colours since they had been closed for some time. He faintly registered Kakashi crouching down next to him and heard the man say: "Naruto I'd like you to train with me for some time. I want to gauge your current skill level."
Ranma got up groggily and stared at the people that were now resting. Kakashi was standing a few meters away and Ranma note with some amount of glee that Hinata had a blush on her face.
With an impish grin he pulled off the jacket and deposited on the ground. The black material lay there on the grass and Ranma pulled the t-shirt he had on him off his body and threw it on the jacket. Then he grabbed the ANBU sword and got into a ready position: "Prepare to get your ass whipped Kakashi-sensei. Fear my power!"
With that said he charged with a battle cry and immediately Kakashi blocked the sword with a kunai. Ranma grinned and said: "Can you beat my style? Go all out and you'll see how much damage I can do." Then Ranma straightened himself and said: "By the way… Do you have a summoning contract for dogs Kakashi-sensei?" At a nod Ranma grinned and said: "Well then that's all the information I need. Here I come!"
He pulled back the sword and got into a stance that was totally unfamiliar with anything Kakashi had ever seen. Ranma only knew it because Kyuubi had been so 'generous' as to make him watch how the massive fox did it by making a replica of Ranma and transferring his spirit into it and then showing him the style in his dreams. It was one of the styles that caused massive damage even when it was blocked. With a savage grin on his face he looked menacing to everyone in the clearing. Then he blurred in notion and Kakashi was forced to block with a kunai but the vibrations of the style Ranma was using were enough to slightly numb the arm. Ranma grinned and said: "Nobody defeats this style. This is a mere taste of the true power that the style has to offer. Feel it Kakashi and let it burn through your bones, the sweet pain shall be your mistress."
Then the sword lashed out once again and the kunai blocked it which sent vibrations through the arms and numbing them. Ranma's eyes turned into wicked red slits and blood red chakra began to grow visible around his arms and body. The feral look on his face screamed to the world that something was amiss. The sheer bloodlust on the face was unnatural to be seen on Naruto's face and it seems that Kakashi noticed because he suddenly got into a serious stance and attacked with blinding speed which was blocked by the sword Ranma wielded. "Think you can beat me Kakashi? I'll give you one free shot and then you are up against me."
The red eyes were uncomfortable and Hinata used her Byakugan to see if something was wrong with the Inner Coils. Her eyes widened as a cluster of red shone from the Inner Coils and it flowed in a spiral, pattern just like some Inner Coils. Her eyes widened and fright was etched on her face as she saw the red chakra take a monstrous form which could only be described as evil. It chilled her blood when she got a clearer image and it looked like some giant thing that was imprisoned within Naruto.
Ranma lowered the sword and exposed his body to the Jounin: "Remember one free hit." Kakashi nodded and began making seals. The rat and tiger seal came within the order and then Kakashi looked sad as he said:
"Katon: Ryuugo no Jutsu" a dragon made of fire appeared right besides him and slammed into the Kyuubi child in a blinding flash of fire and a wave of heat being expelled.
Ranma felt himself burning within the heat and then absorbed the Jutsu and pretended to pass out. It wouldn't do very much to alleviate suspicion from him if he beat his sensei who was a well renowned Jounin. The last thing he heard was Kakashi sighing as he shut down his consciousness.
Kakashi sighed. The Fire Dragon technique had a high chakra requirement which he could supply but two were his limit. Blood was dipping from one arm but he didn't know why it was bleeding. With a mere flash as identifying signature he was with Ranma and picked the smaller kid up. He grinned underneath the facemask and said: "Yes you showed me that power that you possess Naruto. Just don't get possessed by it." Then he walked over to Nodoka and asked her to care for Naruto. "Would you please try to care for him Yami-san?"
She looked him in the eye and said: "Call me Nodoka, Kakashi-san. No need to be formal." He just nodded and deposited the child into Nodoka's arms. Nodoka was almost giddy with excitement of finally being able to care for a child even if he was well endowed.
He awoke by something stroking his hair and he briefly noted that the soft female hands were currently busy trying to trace a path over his cheekbones. He opened his eyes and looked directly at Nodoka's face.
"Thank you for caring about such an unfortunate soul like me." "Nonsense Naruto-kun. I love to take care of people. Why do you think I let Haku-chan stay with me?" Ranma just looked at the woman and sighed. It didn't do much for him except to gain the attention of the woman who was taking care of him. It only made her lift an eyebrow and she began to stroke his blonde-black hair. He had opted to make one side blonde and one side black to make him look like some bizarre version of Ying and Yang.
Suddenly he felt a stinging pain into his eyes and lost his vision for a bare second. "Your bloodline has been awakened Kit. Have fun with it. I can't wait until you summon me in battle so I can go and slaughter a few people to sate my thirst for blood." "I thought you were talking about my supposed bloodline limit or something. How can you switch the topics like that? Are you insane or something? No wait don't answer me. I know that we are both one and that you often get carried away. So we both must be insane. ""You said it kit. Just remember that a nice bloodbath would be nice to slake our thirst."
Ranma grumbled something about damn bloodthirsty foxes and then he rolled onto his back. He looked so cute and it probably wouldn't hurt to just take a swift jab at him. It's the look on his face that makes me yearn to tease him more. "Naruto-kun? Please let me do something for you." This is actually funny to see the kid pale when I let my hands slide over his body down towards his equipment. Damn he's gone now. I'll have to wait until another opportunity appears.
Ranma felt her hand slide over his body and he heard the voice within his head laugh and felt a stinging pain in his abdomen. Suddenly he felt like he needed to get out and he was out within mere seconds. The speed he had he used to get away from the woman that he had thought that had given birth to him. He darted through the trees and the rest of the forest until he got to a desert. His clothing was now tattered due to the speed that he had run at. Little cuts had appeared onto his skin as branches had hit the skin while he was running through the forest. He ran into the desert without stopping until he got to a plain that was littered with sand dunes. He looked around and saw a lone figure standing atop one of the dunes. He looked at it and then saw red hair and sand whirling around the person.
"Seems like we found one of my loyal subjects. Shukaku was always a fool when he served under me. He was always going to rush into the battle without even observing the enemy. But his use of the sand is masterful. Let's confront him." "Alright. He seems like a guy who I can relate to." "Just don't do that in a literal sense Kit." "What do you mean in a literal sense?"" To put it bluntly: I don't want you to go and get into a relation with Shukaku in the way lovers do. First of all I like women over men and would never be caught dead kissing a man or doing anything remotely sexual with them…""Damn you! You are just making me think bad thoughts. I will never love a guy. That's just wrong. Give me a nice woman with nice breasts that are soft and firm at the same time and I'll be happy." I can't agree more with that statement. Especially what you can do with a woman's breasts. You can go and put them around your di…" "A BIT MORE CHAKRA OR ELSE WE'LL BE TOAST BY THAT PSYCHOTIC SERVANT OF YOURS!"
The container of Shukaku had noticed Ranma standing on a dune and had caused the sand of the dune to form into a quicksand like mass that was now sucking Ranma down into it. The fact that the container was standing there emotionless made Ranma's eye twitch a little and he had shouted that last thing to the Youkai within him because he somehow knew that the only way to escape was to let the Chakra lift him.
The Chakra surrounded his form and he got out of the sand effortless as his features changed. Ranma briefly noted that the container of Shukaku seemed to be slightly stunned by seeing a guy avoid his technique. Ranma's nine tails ripped out of the skin as the tailbone had grown them. The black fur made him look like a demon straight out of hell which the claws also accentuated. The last part that finished the Demon-from-Hell look was the blood red eyes with slits in them. A fierce growl came from Ranma's throat as the Chakra whipped around him and the container of Shukaku stepped back a few steps being awed by the sheer malicious intent Ranma was emanating.
He had never felt anything like this. The sheer frightening presence that that man emanating was enough to make mother worried. "DON'T ATTACK HIM AGAIN!" "Hai mother." He looked at the man again and shivered. The nine tails looked so much like that monster he had dreamt of the rare times he had slept. The walls under his eyes spoke volumes as he hadn't slept within two years.
It seems that the kid must have someone conversing with him. He's not attacking me. That's a relief. I'd hate to kill one of Kyuubi's servants. "Many of my servants were banished here. After all I am the great Kyuubi no Kitsune, Demon King of a great part of Hell." "Hmm does that mean that I'm a Demon King too because we merged?" "Yes, technically we should both have the same status."
Ranma walked towards the container of Shukaku and he looked at the boy. The kid seemed to be struggling with the demon as was seen in the pained look the kid had on his face. Ranma briefly entertained the notion of maybe even getting to spar with Shukaku to improve. After all the Chakra that he possessed was great but his ability to tap into that was severely limited. He could access the large portion of Kyuubi's Chakra but only for a few seconds or else the physical aspects would kill him. There was such a thing like overuse and Ranma didn't want his Chakra Coils to burst from the sheer pressure of the Demonic Chakra being forced through them.
"Shall we fight Shukaku? I might be the container of your master but since we merged I have almost complete control over Kyuubi's power or none at all. It varies often but is triggered by emotions I have. When fully transformed into my normal state like I am now I have almost no control because I'm still pretty new to controlling this amount of power. So lets test my strength in battle shall we Shukaku?" Ranma briefly noted that there were no people in the area for almost 90 kilometres in all directions which was good. Apparently they feared the container of Shukaku so badly that they left the child to train on his own. It didn't matter because he might finally be able to summon up Kyuubi or do something to test his physical power. "Try to test your physical power now. I think it is better to keep the fact that you can summon me a secret because when I am summon ed most people would know because of the sheer killer intent I leak even while not focusing. Literally as one of the most powerful Youkai I leak it because everything alive is so frightened of the Demon King Kyuubi that they hide out of fear. Not to mention that my chakra would also appear and would be felt all over this world." "Alright the physical battle it is. I think I might be close to trying to match Kakashi's speed on just a physical base. I have enough stamina to do so, don't I?"
"A little more physical training wouldn't hurt Kit. There will always be someone that will be faster but with your true speed you'll have to be careful that you don't kill them too fast. That takes all the fun out of killing. I think that you'd like the enemy to suffer." "Well yes I'd like any enemy of mine to suffer. I want to cut out strips of flesh and eat them in front of them while the victim looks at me devouring the flesh. I want to hear them scream in fear as I rake my claws over their skin after making it hypersensitive. I want to look in their yes and see their fear." Ranma stopped in front of the kid and said: "Shall we begin the battle Shukaku?" "My name isn't Shukaku. It's Sabaku no Gaara." said the redhead."Gaara of the Desert… How appropriate for the container of the Sand Demon. Let's fight."
Ranma blurred and slammed a fist into the barrier made of sand that had appeared. A psychotic look came upon Gaara's face and he summoned the sand from the gourd all around him and Ranma jumped back and began to run away to find a better vantage point.
The sand beneath his feet began to form waves as they were manipulated by the Sand Demon. Ranma grinned as he remembered something form Kyuubi's memories that had been given to him at the first moment that they had merged partially. His nine tails began to glow and one slammed into the ground and the sand quieted. Then a geyser of dirt sprang up beneath Gaara who was launched into the air and Ranma couldn't help but make a remark: "Seems that the ground is also mine to obey. I just want a spar and not want myself getting killed."
The warring Chakra was felt by the group that Ranma had left in the forest as well as in Sunagakure. In the camp Kakashi and Kurenai wondered what could generate such an amount of power while in Sunagakure they knew that the Demon was loose once again.
Ranma just dashed from a wave of sand coming right at him and a tail glowed and a last of water appeared form the ground soaking the sand all around Gaara and making it harder for the container to use it. Ranma grinned and two tails lit up:
Doton/Suiton Combination: Mizu Tsuchi Bakuha no Jutsu!
A blast of water accompanied by a large stream of rocks was sent at Gaara and they hit the boy and sent him crashing back into a sand dune. Blood was now flowing from the wound that had been inflicted by a jagged edge of a rock and Ranma knew that he should stop using Jutsu to do the damage for him and instead focus on the physical aspect. He looked at the kid and began to run at him with his fangs and claws bared for attack. He looked and saw a wall of sand coming at him. Ranma grinned and slammed his claws into the barrier and slashed right through it. Then he continued to go and get to the Shukaku container and soon he was within range and he slashed his claws in a downward arc and hit the boy on the right side of the face and his claws ripped through the armour of sand that Gaara had on his face and all over his body at all times.
Blood was flung into the air as deep gashes were made into Gaara's face that dripped with blood falling onto the sand. Gaara was looking at the Demon that had wounded him. For the first time he saw his own blood drip onto the sand. For the first time he was hit by something that made him bleed. Shukaku was cowering within him by the presence of the Demon who stood a few centimetres from him.
"PLEASE MASTER FORGIVE ME, YOUR LOYAL SERVANT!" Ranma looked as Gaara's face suddenly changed and the cold look was wiped off his face as the Demon within took over. A confident smirk came onto Ranma's face as he let his inner beast AKA Kyuubi take over. "Hmm so it seems that you were imprisoned within this child. I expected you to be still ravaging this country. With all your power you were still imprisoned. I'm a little disappointed with you Shukaku." "MASTER PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR MY FAILURE!" "Silence! You shall cooperate with my wishes or be destroyed immediately. The human who I was sealed inside has given in to his darkest urges like he should. He is a worthy container of me and I have granted him the honour of merging with me." "Yes master… I shall obey with whatever wish you or your container gives me."
Ranma's red eyes looked back at the redhead and a savage smirk came onto his face and he said: "Make your host deathly afraid of me. I want to see the fear in his eyes every time he looks at me. I want to taste it and smell it hanging all around him. You think you can do that?" "Hai Kyuubi-sama." "You may call me master." "Hai Master."
Ranma then turned around and said: "Until we meet again Shukaku!" Then he was gone with a huge gust of wind trailing behind him. He ran through the desert for about ten minutes until he got back to the forest from which he came from. He looked around to see if anything was in the surroundings or maybe even Kakashi who might have gone out to finds his missing student. He looked at himself and saw that there was some sand on his body. He didn't know why but he knew that the sand was pretty hard to get off. He would need to take a bath soon or else it would get all sticky.
He slowly transformed back into a human form and he conjured up a small pool of water, just enough to let him look at his reflection in it. He had opted for his black hair to see if he looked different in his usual form then he did in his eighteen year old form. And indeed there were some changes. The eyes were a total ruby red and they seemed to contain within them a glitter of untold tortures and other things that nobody would like to know about. He studied his face and came to the conclusion that he had a pretty good-looking face. Nothing out of the ordinary but if he turned off the pheromones somehow he'd be acknowledged as incredibly handsome by the women wherever he went. He looked over his build and noticed that it didn't change much. He looked like some guy who worked out regularly and would probably counted as prime beefcake by girls wherever he went. It didn't matter to him because there was nothing that would be useful.
The fact that the build looked like nothing out of the ordinary was that Ranma had been subconsciously focusing on his appearance before he met Kyuubi. "You are doing it wrong Kit. You need to go of that previous self-image and then you'll see your true self. This is just something that that bastard made to make everyone believe you were his son."
In Konoha a fat man sneezed while he was training the rivals of Ranma and he ordered Ryoga to start working on his speed by making the boy run a course while being chased by several rabid dogs he had managed to get.
Ranma looked at the reflection and noted that it looked like the boyish man he had been while in Nerima. He let go of that image of himself that he had in mind and instead focused now on his personality as it was now. Suddenly the image changed and the eyes changed. They were still a blood red colour but suddenly gained more intensity and were adorned by slits in them. The body looked more powerful with muscles all over it. The clothing seemed to be fitting snug around the body and made him look like some sort of serious Shinobi. The face was in one word gorgeous. Long black hair fell around his head and he had a look in his eyes that would immediately make a man scream for mercy. The face was gorgeous in most aspects of it. The nose was nicely proportioned and not overly large while the mouth seemed small but could easily take in a lot of food. the whisker marks were still there but were almost unnoticeable.A smirk was etched onto the mouth making Ranma look dashingly handsome. He looked into the water and looked at his reflection for a few seconds and then turned away letting the water disappear with a small gesture.
Then with the sound of snapping bones and flesh being rend and torn he began to change back to his twelve year old body. He disliked it but he knew that he just couldn't appear like he truly was. That'd cause one hell of a lot suspicion. Sand was still sticking to his body and he felt it getting into a little wound that had come from the fight with Shukaku. He had opted not to heal his wounds and let them appear like the results of training on his own. That would make sense since he just couldn't go and tell them about him meeting up with a demon and having a chat with it and then fighting it. He snorted at what he'd tell them if that were to happen: "Oh yeah Sakura-chan, Sasuke-teme I got one big pissed off Kitsune living in my stomach after being sealed by the Yondaime. That's why I keep outdoing you." Like they would take that silently. He could already hear their outraged screams at not being told they were being teamed up with a demon. Sasuke would demand he hand the power over to him so he could finally kill that guy he wanted to kill.
In Lightning Country Itachi sneezed and looked at Kisame irritated because the man had raised an eyebrow and had made a small comment about the sneezing: "Itachi-san you should probably go and see a doctor or something because you keep on sneezing like that." Itachi just sent him a glare that said that Kisame better shut up or land on the other side of a Tsukiyomi. Then he continued to eat his Miso Ramen which was accompanied by a glass of Sake. Itachi liked Sake by his Ramen because it helped him calm down from a long day of working. Killing several high ranked Shinobi always made him want to take a little time for himself so he could loosen up a little. What was happening now was too stressful. After all he was still seventeen so he should try and enjoy life. That's one thing that is above all the things he has on his to-do list. Above getting Sasuke to see something very important about his clan and not letting the kid wallow in his own sadness and hatred. A small sigh escaped his lips as a waitress looked at him with a seductive look in her eyes. He grinned at the girl with a roguish tint to the grin and she walked up to him.
"Can I take your order Sir?" she said and Itachi noted that the top two buttons of her waitress uniform had miraculously become undone. Still smiling at her he said: "Yes. My friend and I are looking for comfortable lodgings. Would you please inform us if any lodgings are within this area?" The waitress blushed a little and Itachi smiled at her making the blush worsen. He was really good with women and he liked to play with them.
Kisame noted that his partner was once about to break another woman's heart and shook his head. He had watched this game so many times that he could anticipate the next move of Itachi which was going in for the kill. "Yes I think I know a place where you two could stay. Do you object to sleeping in the same bed as your friend?" Itachi smiled at her and said: "Not at all. We usually sleep together. We are very intimate friends." Immediately a look came on her face and her mood swung and she walked away after giving them an address where they could stay for the night. She had caught the implied hint of the two of them being lovers or something like that and was now licking her wounds by chatting with a handsome guy.
Kisame bowed his head to Itachi and said: "You really broke that girl's heart Itachi. You are so mean to women." "Let's go Kisame." The Uchiha stood up from his seat and then walked out oft eh establishment without even paying. Without much thought Kisame made a few hand seals and within a few seconds a mist formed where he was and covered the entire room with the mist. Kisame made his escape swiftly and knew that they would get out of the town as fast as possible. He left some money on the table which was just enough to cover Itachi's meal while paying for about half of the fish dishes he himself had eaten.
They met up on the edge of the town and Itachi looked like some asshole with a huge stick up his ass and he said: "Let's go. They don't approve of us slacking on the job." Within a flash both Shinobi were gone with only the slight amount of grass being disturbed the only sign that they were ever there.
Ranma got back to the camp and saw that Kakashi had begun training Sasuke in the use of Chakra by making him do some hand seals and some faint chirping was heard from Sasuke's palm accompanied by a slight bluish glow. It didn't make him lift an eyebrow and he almost fell over Sakura who had been staring intently at the training Sasuke while not lifting a single finger in her own training. She looked at the boy with all her attention focused on him and frankly it made Ranma all the more determined to kill the girl in some sort of accident where the Kyuubi's chakra would come out.
"WATCH WHERE YOU ARE GOING YOU BAKA!" The reply almost deafened him and he grabbed his ears to keep the sound from breaking his eardrums. He sent her a scathing look with his eyes briefly turning red and the Kyuubi's chakra flowing through his coils faster then before fuelled by the rage he felt. The change in the eye colour wasn't noticed by everyone but Sakura felt a brief chill go through her spine. She shrugged it off and went back to looking at her Sasuke-kun.
Ranma threw off his shirt and stepped inside the cool water of the pool. He began to swim a lap and felt the dirt and sand being washed off of him. It felt so good being able to clean himself in this cool water. It made him feel like he was in a tranquil area with no humans around. He felt the cool water all over his skin and he dove to the bottom of the pool. He opened his eyes and let them adjust to the water. Genma had forced him to see under water for some time without closing his eyes. Probably because the old guy wanted him to look for treasure. And Ranma had done that while believing that old fool to be his father. He had also learned how to keep in his breath for a long time. He could keep submerged for over half and hour which was extraordinary by human standards. "That's probably because I could control the elements with my tails. After all the tales that were made from my attack on that pathetic human dwelling stated that I could level a mountain with my tails or create Tsunami's from a swing of one tail. Try staying submerged for over an hour." "Why over an hour?" "I want to test a theory." "Alright then."
Ranma grabbed a stone from the bottom and held onto it making it so that he was anchored to the ground with the stone keeping him under water. His blonde hair was floating in the water as his eyes turned a shining azure colour. He let his mind wander while he was submerged in the water and thus didn't notice that several of his senses were telling him that someone was approaching the pool.
She looked at the pool of water which lay there undisturbed and slipped out of her robe. Naruto was nowhere is sigh so he probably had left and the only thing she had to worry about were perverted Jounin who were peeking on a fellow female Jounin or a perverted student.
The robe fell to the ground with a slight sound and she stepped into the water making a circle go from her foot entering the water. She felt the cold water around her foot and briefly shivered at the coolness of it. Then she stepped further into the water and Goosebumps were on her skin. She looked at the sky and noticed that it was getting rather dark.
A few stars could be seen and she walked farther into the water until her entire body was submerged. Then she looked at the sky once again and thought back ton her own situation. She was an unmarried Jounin who didn't seem to be able to get a decent guy to go on a date with since most guys her age were either perverted and were reading a certain book or wearing clothes that made people scream by just looking at the greenness of it while it showed the body off to the world. And the fact that she absolutely hated smoking was also a big deciding factor in her current status.
Suddenly she found something beneath her feet and it felt like she had stepped on something soft with some hard ridges on it. She looked down at the thing she had stood on and her eyes widened. She looked as her feet were placed on the back of a human person who was in the water. She got off Ranma's back and then dove down and got him off the rock he had been clinging to. Immediately she got him up to the surface only to look at the pale face which seemed devoid of life. The thought of the child who had seemingly become something of a precious person to her dieing or already dead frightened her and she got him to shore and looked at the almost lifeless body. She checked for a pulse and sighed in relief when she found one. She went to look at his other vital things when his eyes opened and then a grin made its way on his face: "Hello Kurenai-san…" she looked at him "Don't you ever do something like that to me again! I thought you were dead you brat! I saw you lying in the water seemingly lifeless. Now you go and scare me like that."
"I was just doing something that my 'guardian' trained me in." The word guardian was spat with such venom that Kurenai briefly looked shocked but regained her posture immediately. "He used me to go and dive to great depths so I could find treasure amongst the sunken ships for him to sell and only got beaten when I told him that there was nothing in it."
Ranma looked at the water for a moment and then said without even looking at her: "Kurenai-san… Ever since we first met do you have felt some attraction to me?" she looked at him and blinked once. Then after thinking it over for a bit she answered: "I don't know about my friend Anko but there is indeed some attraction between you and me. I can't explain it but somehow I get the feeling that you are more then you let other people know. You've got a certain air of mystery around you that makes people interested in you."
"Interested indeed. Over thirty people have come to kill me when I was still with my guardian and I spared their life out of pity. Now I realise that if I had killed them they wouldn't bother me. After all it was a wise man who had said that a Shinobi should ill their opponent lest they know your moves and can defeat you the next time. I'm tired of being around everyone who sends me those looks Kurenai-san. If not for the Sandaime who has shown me kindness by letting me stay in the village I'd have razed it to the ground and be done with it a long time ago. Kukukuku if not for that man you'd be dead a long time ago."
She was confused by his words why would she be dead if Hokage-sama hadn't allowed him entrance into Konohagakure? "Explain yourself! Why would I be dead if Hokage-sama hadn't allowed you into the village."
Ranma raised his head and looked her in the eyes. His eyes were a bloody crimson almost the same like hers but his held more intense the killing intent of a true monster. "Because I would have unleashed Kyuubi on Konoha the moment I was sent away. Can you love a Demon Kurenai? Can you love the monster that has killed thousands of people? The answer is no. nobody would ever love a Demon who destroyed the lives of so many and do you know why I held back from killing the entire village other then the Sandaime's offer?" He looked at her with those intense blood-red eyes and she shivered at seeing the eyes. Those were the eyes that had looked at her for a brief moment while she had been instructed to give ranged support by her sensei that had died in the battle with the Kyuubi. She was still a Genin then and had been promoted to Chuunin three years after that. "No…" A smile came onto his lips and he chuckled darkly: "Because I saw the love he held for me even though I had been away. The love like a father has for his child. That moment I decided that I would wait with destroying the entire village. It was the first time I had been given a look which resembled anything like love. Your Sandaime Hokage truly is a man who can change the life of many people. I think he even instated a law that nobody was to tell of the Kyuubi being sealed into a mortal shell was it?" at her nod he continued: "Well that mortal called Mizuki told me in the presence of Iruka that I carried the Demon Fox and afterwards it got a little bit bloody. Those forehead protectors aren't that good for eating but it didn't matter very much. Human meat always tastes good whenever it is torn from the bones while the victim is still alive. You should try it sometimes. The meat around the calves is delicious on females. With males the meat around the upper arms is kinda tasting like rubber. You should go for the stomach because it has some fat that's quite tasty."
By that time Kurenai had gone pretty pale to Ranma's opinion. Maybe he should have kept the topic onto the Kyuubi and not on the taste of the meat he had eaten. He just gave her a sheepish grin and said: "Would you please keep this a secret? I don't want people to know that I'm actually planning to kill them. That would ruin the surprise."
To her abject horror she found herself agreeing with the kid's reasoning. While it might not seem like she cared for anyone other then herself at times she also had a caring side and when she had heard some of the insults aimed at Naruto she had kept quiet but had waited making comments about the kid. She had seen him walk around the village like he were some hotshot ninja and she felt slightly uncomfortable whenever close to him. The fact that they had slept in the same bed did also make her uncomfortable. No man had ever slept with her in the same bed. Anko must have dragged the kid into bed after stripping him bare like she usually did to people who she wanted to sleep and cuddle with.
She knew how it was not to be liked. She was called a cold-hearted bitch by some of the Jounin because she had turned them down for dates. But then again the WERE jerks in her opinion bragging about all the kills they had done. She wasn't al that enamoured with their normal behaviour so she kept out of their way. Arrogant Jounin who only bragged about the kills they had done while on a mission were in her opinion worthless. She needed someone to rely on, to always be there for her. Was Naruto that person? She didn't know. Was there someone out there for her to love and him to love her back?"
Ranma sneezed rather loud at that moment and he wiped his nose and thought: "Someone must be talking about me." He looked at the woman who was wearing a contemplative lo0ok on her face and Ranma closed his eyes.
She opened her eyes and looked at him. The body might be that of a child but the intelligence he had shown and the sheer stance he was in showed that he was more mature then the kids of his age. The fact that he also had something within his stance that made her see something strange. The stance he usually took was that of an experienced warrior but to her knowledge he had only become a Genin this year. Could it be that the Kyuubi had taught him to fight. Or maybe that guardian of his? "Who taught you to fight Naruto-kun?"
Ranma just smiled bitterly and said: "My guardian did. I want to kill the man for all the things he has done to me but somehow I think that a few people would like to do that to him too."
The Hokage, Nodoka, Kakashi, Iruka and several other people sneezed simultaneously. They wiped their nose and suddenly thought about Genma's predicament.
Said waste of space was currently teaching Ryouga to become faster then Ranma ever was when Genma had known him. Genma did that by attaching weights to Ryouga and letting him run laps. A cord was tied to his neck so the boy wouldn't wander off. "Ungrateful boy! You shall come back and marry Akane. I as your parent decide what's best for you." The ranting within his mind wasn't even shown on his face as he began to instruct Mousse on how to use his martial skills to his advantage instead of attacking with chains and blades.
Ranma felt a slight shiver run up his spine and a smile blossomed on his face. So Genma was thinking about him again? Well then let the man think all he wants about me. Never I shall even listen to that fool and I won't rest until his corpse lies before my feet.
The sinister chuckles that escaped his mouth were enough indications to Kurenai that Naruto was distracted and as he suddenly focused on her she looked at him and sighed: "Can I continue my bath now Naruto-kun? I'd like to get ready for bed." Ranma absently noted that it had gotten dark and that the stars were now shining.
Ranma got out of the pool and looked at Kurenai while standing there in his full unclothed state. His eyes turned a burning red and he grew a few feet and became his eighteen year old self and said to her: "This is how I used to look before I went back to Konoha. Think about keeping silent but if you do tell anyone you'll be slaughtered like the rest of your pitiful species."
Then a wave of killing intent was sent at Kurenai which made her freeze. She had felt that killing intent once before and it had come from the monster that had attacked Konoha and was sealed in the man standing before her with his red eyes.
Ranma took one last look at the woman before he jumped intoa tree naked as the day he was born. With a slight hand gesture his clothes appeared onto his form and he looked at her with those piercing red eyes as if telling her not to tell a living soul about what she had just seen.
She looked at the place where Naruto had stood only moments before. She could sympathise with him. When he showed her that adult form of his she felt a brief flash of recognition but then it sank away again. The question on her mind was one tat she had trouble answering. She turned around when she heard a sound and saw Hinata approaching the pool with a towel around her waist. Managing to conjure up a smile for the girl she looked at the girl and said: "Please join me Hinata-chan. I'd like some company because I don't like bathing alone. And it's nice to talk to someone."
The pale girl just nodded and let the towel fall onto the ground and she straightened it out and then folded it. Then she dipped a foot into the water and then let herself be submerged into the water.
She swam towards her sensei and sat on a rock next to her sensei. She looked at her with her pale eyes and said: "G-g-gomen Kurenai-s-s-sensei. D-d-do y-y-you h-have a p-problem w-w-with s-someone?"
The girls stuttering was getting irritating. After that conversation with the Kyuubi's container and apparently the one who was about to deal justice to Konoha she was irritated beyond belief and she snapped at the girl: "Would you please stop stuttering? It's getting irritating and it's not as if I'm going to attack you and rip out you throat or something?" at seeing the already pale girl pale even more Kurenai knew that she had made a mistake and said: "Sorry Hinata-chan I shouldn't have snapped at you like that. It's only because I'm frustrated about something that I reacted so extremely towards you. Can you forgive me?"
Hinata looked at her teacher and in a voice which was for once not shaking or stuttering she answered: "Sensei I forgive you. It's alright because now I realise that you were under some stress. After all it must be hard for a Jounin like you to teach Genin like me." "Hinata I didn't mean to threaten you or anything. The thing I said about ripping your throat wasn't appropriate I would never do something like that."
"No, ripping out the throat ofhumans would be my job Kurenai-san." Both woman and girl turned around to look at the speaker who seemed to be hidden in the shadows as only a blurry figure could be see: "You shouldn't speak like you know how to rip out throats Kurenai-san. It's not very safe to say something like that while in the territory of a Kitsune. I heard your little chat with that strange kid a while ago and I couldn't help but notice one thing. You humans aren't that powerful like the kid made you out to be."
A three-tailed Kitsune stepped from the shadows with his three tails whipping in the air behind him. "It seems like I got two women to carry my offspring. Which one of you would like to be the first to get to bear the child of a Kitsune?"
"I don't think they would like anything to do with you." A man stepped from a shadow to stand in another shadow a few metres away from the Kitsune. The man's eyes were hidden by the shadows which also blocked the women from seeing what he looked likje. The only thing they could see was that he seemed to be tall. "You dare interrupt me mortal? It's not every day that mortals get offered to carry my offspring."
An amused smile could be seen on the man's face which had temporarily become lighted by the moon which peeked through the trees. The man opened his eyes and they could be seen even if they were hidden by the shadows: "Your time here is done Kitsune. Return to your lair or else I will need to dispose of you." The man got into a fighting stance, ready to attack at any movement."You dare think you can take me on mortal? Face my might then and perish!"
The three tails shot at the man who just watched them come at him and then was slammed through a tree with the tails puncturing his body. Blood was flying in all directions as the man hung directly above Kurenai and Hinata dripping blood in the once pristine pool.
"That's the fate of those foolish enough to oppose me. Now woman you shall be the first to bear a child for me." The Kitsune advanced towards Kurenai while he ripped the tails out of the man's torso and other points where the tails had hit and let the bloody tails swirl behind him and the man's body had fallen into the water with a splash. "Even if you scream nobody will hear you. This area is sealed in a way only known to Kitsune and only a Kitsune can destroy the seal I mad eon this place."
As the Kitsune came closer to the pool the water started to boil where the man had fallen in. the blood was spread over the entirety of the pool and suddenly a geyser of water erupted from where the man had been only moments before. The Kitsune looked at it unfazed thinking it to be some cheap trick used by the woman to let him believe that that man had returned to life once again. "Your mortal tricks won't work on my woman. I am the one who is in control here and you SHALL carry my child."
"Think again…" then a form shot out of the boiling water where the man had once sunk under the water and the Kitsune was rammed into a tree. The man stood there with blood red eyes and a fiery red Chakra whirling around him with nine tails coming out of his tailbone. Claws were on his hands and a crazed look was on his face. The blood red chakra began to increase and the man spoek: "YOU DARE HIT ME? I AM THE GREAT KYUUBI NO KITSUNE! NOW DIE FOR YOUR CRIMES AGAINST THE LORD OF HELL!" "What crimes, oh great Kyuubi-sama?" "ALMOST RAPING MY MATE!"
Ranma was now identified as the man and he delivered a slashing attack with his claws onto the Kitsune's body and blood flew into the air and onto the ground a piercing howl was heard from the Kitsune and Ranma knew that the barrier that thing had set up had failed. Now others would come and it was in his best interest and for his chance of surviving that he'd kill the thing soon.
Ranma jumped at the Kitsune who was unable to defend itself from the stinging pain of Ranma's claws which had been poisoned by some poison that caused numbness. It had been a recent acquisition by Ranma who found that it should prove useful in combat situations.
Ranma wasted no time and ripped open the belly of the Kitsune letting its entrails spill out of the cavity he had created. Then he looked the Kitsune in the eyes and said: "Goodbye…" then he cocked back his hand and then slammed it forward making the skull of the Kitsune explode in a shower of blood covering the trees in the surroundings. A generous amount was now coating him along with a lot of brain matter on his claws.
Without much further ado he jumped into the pool and then jumped out and hoped that most of the blood had been washed away by his swift dip into the water. Then he jumped towards the trees in hopes to get away before Kakashi got there.
The Jounin appeared only moments after Ranma had made it out of sight and he stared at the remains of the Kitsune. Then he looked at the pool and got a glare from Kurenai who was covering her breasts and her vagina while motioning him out of the area.
After waiting a few moments to let the women get dressed Kakashi returned and promptly went back to studying the corpse. Then he turned to Kurenai who just nodded and said:
"Hinata and I were bathing at the moment when that Kitsune appeared. He said that he wanted us to bear his children and that he had to comply because we were completely helpless due to something that beast had set up. Then a guy appeared and challenged that beast to a fight or something like that. I couldn't hear the talk between them very well." She paused to take a few breaths and look at Hinata who just looked at the ground and then she continued: "I saw that guy getting impaled on the three tails that thing had. He fell into the water at the point where we sat and the water turned red from the blood. I don't know if the Kitsune had taken into account that the guy might be another Kitsune but when the water started to boil I knew that there was something wrong with the picture. Then suddenly that guy comes flying out of the water and landed in front of the Kitsune. Then that guy shouted something about doing something to him. Kakashi he called himself the Kyuubi no Kitsune and if there was one thing I saw then it were the Nine tails that that guy had. After Kyuubi had made that statement he went on and ranted something about the Kitsune doing a crime against it and then hen that beast asked what it had done wrong Kyuubi just answered it with: "One is my mate." Can you understand that Kakashi? Either me or Hinata-chan are looked upon as a mate by that creature."
Kakashi just looked at Kurenai and then sighed beneath his facemask. He hadn't seen Naruto for a while and he had a sneaking suspicion that the Kyuubi must have taken over when he had sensed that other Kitsune. From the deduction his genius mind made became clear that the Kyuubi had acted like any normal predator would by defending its territory or mate in a vicious manner. The fact that it did talk like a normal human was something that worried him how much of humanity was still left when Kyuubi took possession of Naruto's body?
"I got to go find someone. Please wait here" with that the man jumped into the tree line in the direction where Ranma had gone too. Ranma hadn't taken then time to erase the traces of something wet jumping from tree to tree so it was rather easy for Kakashi to find Ranma.
Kakashi looked upon the scene as he found a youth clad in clothes that Naruto had worn. The kid seemed to be around eighteen and had whisker like scars on his face. Then a change happened and he found himself looking at a blonde kid around twelve years in age. Kakashi realised that if the Kyuubi had used an older body then the form that he had just seen must have been the form that had protected the women from that Kitsune. So the Kyuubi or Naruto must have some feelings for one of the two women. But the only one who Naruto had been in contact with for some time was Kurenai and Hinata seemed to have a crush on him but it wasn't noticed by Naruto. Might the Kyuubi have selected Kurenai to be its mate?
With that older body nobody would dare object to them having a relationship even if he seemed to be younger then her. And the fact that it was black hair that adorned the head and not the blonde that the Kyuubi's carrier was often associated with helped a lot in disguising from the villagers and Shinobi. Kakashi would know because he was a member of the ANBU for some time. The time he had been a captain of his own squad had made him more perceptive to the looks of a person and give him some insight in the human psyche. If they didn't know how Naruto looked like when in adult form then they probably wouldn't curse him behind his back and that way the kid could be safe. But somehow Kakashi got the feeling that he didn't know some things about his young roommate and decided just to wait until the kid woke up and then ask him some questions.
He stirred a few times before he opened his eyelids. What the hell had happened to him? One moment he was busy with trying to get back to the camp and then suddenly he had felt some pressure on the back of his head and then he saw only darkness until he awoke here. He put one hand on the ground and shakily got up. What the hell was wrong with him? His body hurt like it had been stabbed by a thousand needles over and over again. He groaned as his eyes adjusted to the surroundings. "Fuck I must have been out of it longer then I thought I would normally after I black out I wake up within a few minutes. Why the hell do I even bother with their fucking comments?" He looked around and saw Kakashi standing close to him with his eyes smiling and the facemask being slightly warped.
"Come Naruto let's go back to camp. You have had a rough night and need sleep." Ranma nodded as he was feeling tired and aching. "Kukukuku it seems that my actions haven't gone unnoticed Kit. Apparently Kakashi thinks that I took over for a moment to guard our mate from that Kitsune." "What Kitsune?" he asked and the Kyuubi replied:"The one we ripped apart but you weren't in possession of your body at then moment." "You took possession of my body?" "Well yes. Or would you rather have your black-haired mate get raped by a Kitsune and be forced to give birth to its Kits?"
A growl came from Ranma's throat that managed to scare off several woodland beings. Kakashi took note of it before he got a hold on Ranma's body and lifted him effortless onto his shoulders. "It seems that in would need to take care of you once again Naruto. I want to thank you for saving my fellow Jounin from that Kitsune." Kakashi said while he jumped from a tree to another tree. "It was nothing. Kyuubi said something about its mate being in danger and taking possession of my body to protect her so I don't think I'll feel much if I killed it." A dark chuckle came from Ranma's mouth and a rather cruel smirk came to his face: "Do you really think that it will stop here Kakashi-sensei? Do you really think that it will be peaceful for the rest of the trip? I radiate chaos from every pore in my body. Genma has shown me that I shouldn't trust humanity because if they managed to produce one such as he the entire race is doomed. Join me and together we shall wipe out the ones that befoul civilisation be they Demon or human. Do you accept this offer?"
Kakashi just looked at Ranma and a small frown could be seen. "Are you alright Naruto? I think you might be having some after-effects of the Kyuubi within your body. This isn't like you. You mentioned something about a bloodline awakening so maybe this is just a phase but forgive me." Then with a small poke in the neck Ranma's world went black and the Jounin got back to the camp and gently put Ranma down. Then he looked at Sasuke and aid: "Sasuke please go and put Naruto into bed. I think he has been through too much today."
"I'll take care of him." Nodoka Saotome stood up from her polishing of the sword she wielded and strolled over to Ranma while looking at him: "I accidentally scared him a little so I guess I should repay him by letting him sleep with me in my tent. After all from what I've heard he is an orphan and probably never has slept next to a woman." With that she gently cradled Ranma's form into her arms and disappeared into her tent.
Inside she put Ranma into her bed and then sat next to him and looked at his face. "I wonder if he's still alive." Thoughts of her son came to her mind as she looked at the childlike face that was now sleeping peacefully. She remembered how she had cried in joy when she had heard that she had given birth to him. Then her thoughts went to the day that Genma took him away for training. She should never have given in to Genma's demand to train their son. For all she knew he could have been killed by a shinobi when he had arrived here. After all he looked like a demon according to the descriptions gotten from his friends.
A low moan from the boy took her attention away from her musings and she looked as sweat began to come onto his brow and he mumbled something inaudible.
She leaned in closer and heard his mutterings clearer: "No… mother please don't leave me with this man… mother why aren't you helping me? Why don't you save me from all this pain? Mother…" the small muttering for his mother to come and save him continued and tears slid from her eyes. Had this child been so disturbed by something that he actually cried out for his mother? No child should grow up without a mother. She looked at Ranma and a reserved look came onto her face. She might be a little bit interested in the carnal affairs of people but she knew how to be a mother. Now this child needed something to comfort him and she would provide that comfort.
She leaned in and hugged the boy who instinctively grabbed her and immediately quieted down. She whispered in his ear: "Don't be scared anymore Naruto-kun. Mommy's here and shall take a good care of her little boy." "Okaasan… I love you…"
Kakashi's head peeked into the tent two hours later when the man was about to go to bed after doing his round of guarding the camp and his eye widened as he saw the position those two were in. Nodoka would be a little sore the next morning since the position she was in didn't exactly allow someone to get away without some back pains. But the most startling change was Naruto to him. The boy laid calm in the arms of the older woman, seemingly sleeping without nightmares. A smile came upon Kakashi's face. He decided he had enough and went into bed after waking up Kurenai and getting a kunai thrown at him for looking at her while still in her sleeping clothes.
The next day was uneventful. Kakashi woke up Ranma and Nodoka who looked sleepily at each other before Ranma's face turned into a brief scowl that was quickly replaced with a smile. The scowl was probably because he had been rudely awakened by his sensei and the smile was probably because he realised he had slept without any nightmares, was Nodoka's reasoning.
Ranma got out of the tent and felt a brief sense of disgust wash over him as he looked at Kiba yawning loudly and showing off his hideous face to everyone. "You aren't much of a morning person aren't you?" "you aren't one too Kyuubi. Or else you wouldn't be so grumpy every time you begin to whine about the next time when we'll kill someone. Now let's meet with Shukaku in Sunagakure and then we'll be off. That Tanuki should know that his master is coming for him.
"Sasuke looks horrible. I wonder if he has dreamt of someone killing off his parents or something like that. Anyways Pinky looks at you and it's not exactly one of the most appreciative looks. Seems like she hates you for some strange reason Kit." "Let her hate me. No wait let her fear and hate me for we are far above her level of skill."
"HOW DARE HE BE LOOKING AT SASUKE-KUN LIKE THAT!" Inner Sakura raged at the blonde kid that seemingly glared at her precious boyfriend who wouldn't acknowledge that he was her boyfriend because he was shy. She went over to Ranma and then hit him on the head and said: "Come on Naruto-kun let's go."
"Rip her apart! Tear her flesh into ribbons and roast them above a fire! Eat her bones! Kill her for trying to hurt us!" "Sounds like a good idea. Do you have any idea how we could pull this off without getting killed by Kakashi or Kurenai not to mention the Hokage when we get back in Konoha if we even return to that village?" "Just summon me and I'll flatten her." "Nah I'd like to keep it a secret that I can summon you. I'll have to wait with that until I really need you."
Ranma brought up his fist and he hit Sakura in the back of her head making her slump unconscious to the floor thanks to the knockout punch he gave her. A sadistic grin was on his face as he grabbed her unconscious form and slung it over his shoulder and said: "I'm ready to go and pinky is also ready. Anyone still busy trying to get their stuff together? Yami-san let me help you with that."
He threw Sakura into a tree which she connected to with a rather audible crunch. Ranma walked over to Nodoka and helped her pack her pack. Then when they had finished he took the pack and went to the still knocked out Sakura and grabbed her. Then he walked to Kakashi and Kurenai who stood close to each other and said: "I want to try something out which should be beneficial to us all. Kakashi-sensei do you have a pass for me to enter Sunagakure?" At Kakashi's nod Ranma continued: "Alright then I propose we do a small exercise to work on the stamina of the group. I suggest that I go and wake up pinky here and then we can all go and run as fast as we can towards Sunagakure because even though we need to run through a desert I know that it will be a good muscle building exercise even though you really shouldn't run through a desert." Kakashi nodded and said: "Yes actually I had to do that once while evading the enemy. It's pretty hard but it manages to get your speed up a lot due to the sand slowing you down. Not to mention that the muscles in the legs will develop faster. "
"I remember that my guardian did something similar to that to me. He tied me to a chair and had me run from wolves while keeping the chair away from the wolves. The fat bastard sat on the chair fanning himself while I had to run from those creatures which were intent on eating the both of us. If that wasn't something that could strengthen the muscles in the legs then I don't know what will do that." Ranma looked at the girl who he had dubbed pinky and threw her onto the ground roughly and then searched into his pack and grabbed a small bottle of water and then unscrewed the lid and poured the water over the girl's face.
"Wake up. We're leaving." With that said Ranma grabbed the pack that belonged to himself and Nodoka and then went to stand next to the woman. "Yami-san please hold onto me. I'm going to carry you to Sunagakure. You just hold onto me and you will get to Sunagakure faster then if we were walking at a moderate pace. What we are going to attempt is taxing on the body and since my special 'condition' involving my 'tenant' and me I can run for hours without tiring even when carrying heavy loads like your ex-husband made me do. Especially when he was tired he let the two of us carry his useless hide to the closest place we could rest.."
After ten minutes Kakashi gave the sign that they were ready to go and Ranma grabbed Nodoka in his arms and said: " Try not to touch anything else then my body. With the speed we might be going at I don't think you'd like to lose a limb if it were ripped off by hitting something." Then Ranma took off as he watched the rest already into the trees and heading towards where he knew that Sunagakure lay.
Without looking back he jumped off the forest floor and the ground was ripped where he had stood only moments ago due to the force he exerted upon the ground when he had jumped off it.
Ranma jumped to a tree and bounded off it as the bark was blasted apart by the violent Chakra that was now flowing thorough him. Apparently while he had good control he still had a taint of Chaos around him and it showed due to his merging with Kyuubi that the power of the Kyuubi was also shown within his tree jumping as the mere contact with the tree made the bark be blasted apart. Hat the hell are you doing?" "Allowing you some more freedom with my power. Since we are merged we share power equally. Since your body can't handle the power I have yet I will add more power until you are at your peak and then you'll receive a load of Chakra. But don't worry I'll always be there for you." "You are like a father to me. You've always been within me even if I didn't know you were there." "You actually would accept me as a father even though we are both despicable creatures?" "Sure why not. Now please stop adding more of you power to me. I think they are getting g suspicious of me."
With that the Chakra stabilised and Kyuubi had stopped adding its chakra to Ranma and Ranma increased his speed easily shooting past Kakashi and into the desert. They were now approaching Mack 1 speed and Ranma could see a village lying in the middle of the desert. Within mere seconds he was there and the only thing he had to do was wait for his team and the rest to come.
He set Nodoka down and sat on the sand to await the teams. It didn't take long for him to grow bored and he said: "Tell me something about your son Miss Yami. I heard he's a Shinobi too or something like that." She looked at him and a smile came to her face and she said: "In our world we don't have any ninja anymore. But there are martial artists or what you call Taijutsu specialists. They are in harmony with the world around them. They protect the weak and defend their honour through honourable combat." "Aha, do they kill their opponents?" Ranma asked although he knew the answer. "No they don't. They defeat them and then train to achieve harmony or to atone from their sin of defeating an enemy."
Ranma nodded and said: "Thanks for explaining that to me. Do you think Ranma is still alive? This is a rather cruel world where everyone kills without regret. One who would only defeat without killing wouldn't survive very long here." "I'm sure that he has survived."
Then Kakashi and the rest arrived and Ranma briefly lifted an eyebrow as he saw Sakura being carried by Sasuke who looked put out that he had to carry his fan girl. Kakashi looked at the pair who sat on the sand while looking at him. He noted the cool Chakra all around Naruto and couldn't help but make a remark out of that phenomenon: "Maa Naruto-kun where did you learn that trick." Ranma thought up something quickly: "Haku-chan told me. She explained it rather thoroughly."
Kakashi accepted that as a reasonable explanation and then looked at Kurenai and said: "We should go to the Kazekage and deliver this scroll fast then we can be on our way within two hours.
Ranma was walking through the village of the Hidden Sand and looked at the houses seemingly built from clay or something else which looked like cement or something. It didn't matter since knowing whaqt the houses were made of was not important. He studied the people and noticed they shied away forma certain area. Rnama looked at the area and saw a blonde girl sitting there with something on her back which looked like a huge stick of some kind. Next to her sat a guy who had facepaint on hiss face and between them sat the container from the Shukaku, Sabaku no Gaara. Who was currently in the process of talking to the blonde girl about something that seemed to put the girl off balance if you judged it by the shocked look on her face.
"Excuse me Kakashi-sense but can I go and explore on my own? I think I need to see the sights and maybe make some friends." At the nod he began to walk away from the group and faintly he heard Kurenai and Kakashi tell the rest to have some fun. For now he was intent on at least trying to talk to Shukaku to tell him some things that he has got planned for the next upcoming event that would require the power of a Demon. If he wasn't mistaken then such an event would happen soon.
He looked Gaara straight into the eyes from his position and during the time he had locked eyes with Gaara he sent a mental thought strain towards the Shukaku: "Shukaku let your container act like he usually does around me. I'm going to come up like some dumb child who wants to make friends or something like that. Let your container act like he usually does and then we can talk later." At getting a mental reply that it was okay he saw Gaara briefly close his eyes as if he were in pain and Ranma took that as his cue and he began to make his way through the crowd until he got to Gaara and his friends.
"Hello." He plastered a happy smile on his face and made his eyes seem filled with happiness instead of its usual hatred for anything remotely human. Gaara just looked at him and replied in an emotionless tone: "Hello. Are you here to kill me?" Ranma blinked one for effect and said: "Kill you? No I'm kinda visiting Sunagakure and I'd like to make some friends. You look kinda lonely with your friends here." Then the blonde girl spoke up: "We are his siblings. " Ranma just shrugged and said: "Siblings then. My name's Uzumaki Naruto and I'd like to become your friend. " Gaara just looked at him with cold eyes and said: "Why should I trust you? You might want to get close to me and then kill me." "Who'd like to kill you? You look like a normal kid." Sand started to swirl around Gaara's feet but Ranma pretended like he didn't notice it. "Come on be my friend. I'm sure we could have lots of fun." Gaara was still looking at him and then the boy spoke once again: "Why would I need friends? They are only in the way of my goal."
Kakuro's thoughts on this moment were erratic. His little brother was talking to a kid that was around Gaara's age without killing him with the sand. He knew that he should bolt from the area soon lest he be killed too. Temari seemed to be the only one who could calm Gaara to a certain extent.
Ranma bowed to Gaara slightly and said: "Uzumaki Naruto." Gaara stood up and bowed very lightly only making it look like he nodded and spoke softly without a hint of anger or killing intent in his voice: "Sabaku no Gaara. Pleased to meet you."
The sound of two people's mouth's falling open and hitting the floor was heard and Kankuro and Temari couldn't believe what they had just seen. Their little brother had just acted courteously to a complete stranger and had even stated his name in a manner that nobody had ever seen from him.
When Ranma began to make hand seals the sand began to swirl once again as it had come to a halt only a few moments ago when Gaara had acknowledged him.
"Memory Wipe no jutsu!"
The memory wipe Jutsu would wipe the memories of the selected people so they would only remember what had happened 5 minutes ago instead of having watched the strange encounter between Demon and Demon. Ranma had selected to wipe the memory of everyone around him except for Gaara but by Gaara he made a block in that specific memory and Gaara stood there looking at him.
Ranma smiled cheerfully and said when everyone was getting back their senses again: "Thanks for the help." Then he made off without the Sand siblings ever knowing that he had met them before. Only Gaara found that he recognised the boy faintly as if he had seen him before. It would only take a few moments for Ranma to make a seal which would restore the memories for Gaara whenever they met again.
With that he made his way out of Sunagakure with Kakashi and the rest following him. He appeared to be cheerful bit managed to do the acrobatic feats to travel as fast as possible to Konoha. He wanted to go back because he felt that something horrible had happened to Konoha. Actually he didn't care for Konoha one thing but if they allowed the NWC members into their Ninja ranks then it could get a little bit tricky for him to execute his master plan to destroy a large part of Konoha before one of them could either face him.
I'll be damned if I let that fat bastard try to mess up my plans like he usually does. If that man tries to enter Mousse, Ryouga and Kuno into the ranks of the Shinobi then I'll rip out his throat. I know that they have the skill to be a shinobi but with their idiocy all could be ruined since they would single me and my team out the moment they hear about me insulting Akane. And if the girls participate then I don't think I'll be able to manage my self-restraint any further. I keep thinking about the confrontation I need to have with them.
With his rage still boiling inside he released a great deal of killing intent so heavily that it scared most of the people in the vicinity. Kakashi was worried about his student succumbing to the Kyuubi while Sasuke and Sakurea were both looking frightened at that mass amount of killing intent. Akamaru slipped into Kiba's coat as if to hide from the massive killing intent. Hinata just paled at it and Shino just gave no response but felt fear slip within his heart and the bugs that lived all through her body were buzzing in fear. Kurenai just watched the blonde kid speed through the desert at a pace that was insane because it made him look like a blur to her trained eyes. With that speed the kid could be back in Konoha within half an hour.
Ranma just sped through the desert and his fellow travellers and shinobi could just barely keep up. Groaning about evil students Kakashi made his way as sand was kicked up by the blonde Genin and appeared right in front of Ranma and caught him with a hand outstretched making the both of them crash into a sand dune three meters away.
Ranma grumbled as he spat out some sand that got in his mouth. He looked at Kakashi and saw that the man was brushing the sand out of his hair: " WHY THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT?" The screamed protest almost deafened Kakashi and it took him a few seconds to get back his hearing and he answered: " You were going a little bit too fast for us to keep up with. Sorry but it had to be done."
Ranma reluctantly nodded and said: " I think I'm going to kill that fucking idiot whenever I see him. That waste of space has lived the last day of his mortal days. Saotome Genma is going to die if what I'm thinking is true. If he teaches those retards some of his moves then they can use them without much trouble…" That got Kakashi's attention. Genma teaching those guys some of his techniques and Naruto getting all worked up about it. If the feeling he got was correct then Genma possessed some techniques which would be quite deadly.
"Why would he teach them his techniques?" Kakashi said and Ranma answered:" Because he's a retard of course and wants Ranma back into his paws so he can let him get married to some bitch who deserves to get killed in several of the most gruesome ways like roasting her on a fire or letting bugs inhabit her body and eat her alive from the inside out. That must be one of the most funny things to see Akane's stomach bulging while bugs come out of holes they made and the screams in the air would lighten his mood intensely.
With the dark grin in place Ranma got up and said: "I'll carry Hinata and Sakura. You take Sasuke and Kiba. Kurenai can carry the bug user. This way we'll get to Konoha fast. I need to go back soon or else we won't have time to prepare for the horror of those guys…"
With that he dashed at Hinata and as the girl saw him come at her she let out a shriek as he picked her up and then said: "Kernai- san please get Shino and Nodoka-san and follow me. Kakashi will get Sasuke and Kiba. We're gonna go back to Konoha within a day!"
With that he grabbed Sakura quite roughly and waited for Kurenai and Kakashi to grab their respective targets. Being Jounin they were able to lift the guys easily. Then Ranma´s grin increased and he said: Well then lets GO!" with that he began to run and soon the wind was whipping through the girl's hair as Ranma set a good pace and how disgusted he was to carry the two girls he didn't show it.
The land blurred around them and Ranma was dodging trees now as the desert had turned into a forest and soon they passed the place where they had set up camp a few days ago and had only left this morning. Sakura marvelled at the speed the Genin used but then ignored it as she saw Kakashi and Kurenai running next to Naruto at the same pace with kakashi looking bored. Kurenai was slightly exhausted which showed at the sheen of sweat that was on her forehead. Ranma briefly considered just going into his adult form and grabbing Kurenai since he knew that he could carry them all at the same time but decided not to. This was a good thing for both Jounin to train a little.
They got to the gate and Ranma decided to let the girls test their reaction speed as he suddenly threw them off him while standing still within a mere second. The reason Kurenai and Kakashi were darting through the trees all time and getting so fast to Konoha was because Ranma moulded some of his chakra to make them all travel faster then should be possible. The joys of being a Demon container were endless. Travelling was a lot easier if you knew how to bend space to your will and allow a small group consisting of a maximum of five persons with some baggage to travel at insane speeds with the user.
Hinata did some acrobatics and landed on her feet while Sakura slammed into the wall that was around Konoha and was knocked out. A brief chuckle came from Rnama's mouth as he looked at the pink haired girl and grinned and just left her there.
Kakashi looked at the fallen student of his and sighed. Naruto wasn't very kind to the girl since he met her. Ah well that was to be reviewed at a later date. Now he needed to report to the Hokage that the mission was a success.
Kakashi did his report to the Hokage and the Hokage showed some interest in the way they had travelled. When they had asked Ranma about it he just answered cryptically: "A friend of mine told me about a Jutsu which allows fast travel through terrain familiar to the user." The Hokage had known who exactly that friend was and had bade him to be careful not to get under the influence of his friend. Ranma had just laughed it off and said that he'd threaten to lock him into a cell without much room to move before he let that guy take over his body.
The Hokage didn't need to know that essentially the two of them were one. And thus Ranma sat on his couch with Haku in his lap looking at Nodoka who had just proposed they do something that was in the category of NC-17 and was absolutely not received well by Akane.
His mood had darkened when he had asked whether the new arrivals were in a Genin team and when informed that Genma was now a Jounin he cursed like a drunken sailor in a whorehouse. He had stormed back to Kakashi's and his apartment and there he had met Haku who looked excited to see him again. He had bade her to enter his apartment something which she had done without hesitating and as he had sat on the couch she had sat down on his lap which led the redheaded woman to cry in excitement about how many children Haku could get from Ranma.
After much persuasion Nodoka managed to calm down and after a suggestion that they'd lock her with her ex-husband in a nudist camp she quieted down. A naked Genma would make anyone to commit Hara-kiri. The rest of the evening Haku just snuggled up with Ranma who just sat there content with her in his lap and he, Nodoka and Haku were talking about ordinary things like the things they had done while being away on a mission. Haku told them about her success and Ranma smiled as he heard her tell about how she had killed. Nodoka told them about how she had learned a style that focused on powerful blows coupled with speed attacks to go through most defences. Ranma also told Haku that he had been trained in the same style at the same time by Kakashi and that he and Nodoka had sparred several times.
Then the time for bed came and without thinking very much Ranam just threw off his clothes and wandered into his bedroom without even having noticed the women looking at him the moment he threw his clothing to the side. Only dressed in boxers he walked into his room not noticing a young woman following him and he turned around briefly and he looked at her and then sleepily grabbed her and threw himself and her on the bed and was asleep within moments.
Haku on the other hand looked shocked as she was thrown on the bed and was literally used as some sort of cushion but it didn't matter. The fact that he was comfortable around her to sleep with her in the same bed made her feel less empty then she had before since her master had died. Slowly she drifted off into the land of dreams.
Unknown to the both of them Nodoka looked at the sleeping pair for a few minutes before smiling and closing the door softly and telling Kakashi that Haku would stay the night in Naruto's room. Kakashi just opened his eye a little and said good night and he went into his own room to dream about him and a few naked women. Nodoka just giggled as she went out of the door and entered her own apartment.
She sank down on her futon and sleep claimed her like the rest of the people she had met today.
A new chapter for you people. Almost thirty pages and I hope that you liked it. Next time a loyal servant will meet its master again and a blonde girl will come into the picture as well as the Chuunin Exam preparations.
Reviews as always will be appreciated…
Preread by Silverscale who broke his arm. I'd like to thank him for reading this for me and wish him well and that his arm heals fast.