Disclaimer: I do not own anything pertaining to Rumiko Takashi's work. Nor do I own anything by Masashi Kashimoto. Ok I do own this story and characters not in any of the series by the authors of said stories. Anything that sounds like someone else's work is purely coincidental.
The Fox Siblings Ch 17
"Talking"
Shouting
*Sound Affects*
[Written Words]
{ Memory }
The Kazekage was panting after ranting at the two genin in front of him. Gaara for one still had a neutral expression. Naruto on the other hand had a goofy grin on her face as she was rubbing the back of her head.
The other occupants of the room stood by listening. Gaara's siblings Kankuro and Temari were staring in disbelief at the girl no boy forget they still had a headache from trying to figure that one out.
"How can you still look so happy after all that?" The Kazekage asked fixing Naruto with a glare.
"It's not my fault my little brother over here decided to pick a fight he couldn't win." Naruto stated nodding toward Gaara.
"He isn't... Oh ok. So which one are you?" The Kazekage said thinking that by now he was prepared for anything.
"Nobody to important just number nine." Naruto answered off handedly getting a look of shock from the Suna nin sans Gaara as the Kazekage collapsed into his chair.
"Gaara did you really think you would win?" He asked his youngest son still in shock.
"They didn't quiver from my presence." Gaara said blandly.
"Really you're expecting the strongest of the jinchuriki to bow to you the weakest?" Temari asked in disbelief as she took a few steps closer to the Kazekage's desk.
"Kurama Is that you?" A slightly unstable sounding voice came from Gaara.
"Yes I'm here." The younger of the two red heads said from where she stood against the wall.
"Brother?" The one tails asked confused as he appraised her. "When did you turn female?"
"I was given a second chance Shukaku and this is the form I chose." Kurama answered as she walked over to Naruto. "You don't have to destroy everything you come into contact with." Gaara or rather Shukaku looked at the pair as Naruto shifted to his dominate male form. "At this time we are connected at a deeper level than Biju and jinchuriki. As your strongest sibling I ask that you stop trying to take over your host body and coexist with him."
Shukaku didn't answer verbally instead Gaara collapsed from exhaustion into the first sleep he had had in seven years. When he fell unconscious the seal on his stomach began spinning and morphing with the sound of scraping metal before it stopped with a click as the new seal array faded.
"Well that was... different." The Kazekage said after a minute of contemplation.
OOooOO
I smiled as I reminisced about my brothers antics as it was told to me. The feeling I've been having for the last few weeks has been getting stronger something seemed to be off. Were my hands fading?
OOooOO
Ryoga Hibiki entered his home in the Uzumaki district seeing as his wife was a high ranking Uzumaki.
"Daddy." A little red haired torpedo called as she launched herself at him.
"Hey how's my little Kurashi?" Ryoga asked tossing her in the air much the little girls delight. Ryoga himself couldn't understand why Ranma named her that but she insisted. Personally he thought that it had something to do with the fox tail and ears she acquired whenever she was excited like right now.
Ryoga smiled though listening to her babbling because the sounds from her mouth couldn't be considered coherent speech as yet especially when she was hyper.
"Now Kurashi slow down you can't expect him to understand you like that." Ranma admonished as she came in giving her husband a kiss before continuing. "You're gone for a week on a mission and she falls over herself to tell you everything the second you get home."
"Just like her beautiful mother." Ryoga answered earning a kiss from her. Ah yes because of their past you could say the honeymoon period was over before it even began. But they worked through it. And thanks to his lack of direction being cured he was able to spend more time actually getting to know Ranma as Ranma not the image that had been built while she was male but the true person beneath the mask.
'And cue mister stoic.' Ryoga thought as his son came in and latched on to his legs. Now his son 'for of the two twins he knew that was definitely his' well he was a mystery he had many physical characteristics from Ryoga, most prominent being the extra long canines, but his attitude reminded him of someone he knew in his other life because that's what he truly thought of his life in japan now.
"Ichigo over here has been hiding things up his sleeves for the last two days if you would believe it." Ranma stated with a conspiratorial look on her face. "Does that remind you of anybody?"
A light seemed to go on behind Ryoga's eye's. "Do you think?"
"It's possible considering everybody else that's someone else we knew that wouldn't surprise me. I swear that Haruno girl is Akane especially how she acts around me." Ranma said as she had taken over the combat side for kunoichi training. Since the first day she started teaching that one girl seemed to share a similar fighting style that Ranma was still working on correcting.
"The Irony wouldn't be lost though for a number of reasons." Ryoga said smiling.
"My point exactly." Ranma replied as she followed Ryoga into the kitchen to see what he was going to be cooking tonight as it was his turn.
A short time after dinner found the four sitting at the table for a family discussion. Ranma and Ryoga sitting across from their currently identical twins. Kurashi fidgeting while Ichigo sat still as usual.
"So first thing is you only have to verbally answer if your vocal chords are ready for full sentences." Ranma stated looking at the pair. Getting a nod from the pair Ryoga just came right out and asked.
"Mousse are you in there?" Ryoga asked Ichigo.
Sighing the girl began speaking slowly and surprisingly very well. "I found it a little disconcerting when I looked up after I could open my eyes to find my self looking at Ranma who happened to be my mother in this world. But there are worse things to change into other than a female me."
"Well that answers that." Ranma looking toward Kurashi. "And what do you remember young lady?" Receiving a confused look in response she sighed. "And you truly reverted to being a child. At least I was able to save you."
"Can I go now mama?" Kurashi asked expectantly.
"Yep go on." Ranma answered with a smile as Kurashi bolted with a squeal.
"So Ichigo or would you rather Mu Tsu?" Ranma asked turning serious.
"Because of how I entered this world Mu Tsu is no more I am your son and daughter Ichigo. But as I remember my other life I can add my knowledge to the Uzumaki's clan techniques." Ichigo answered her upper lip beginning to quiver. Sensing the emotions that where welling up in the little girl Ranma walked around the table and brought the younger red head into a hug as Ichigo began crying. "I'll never be able to see my younger sisters again they were the only ones that excepted me for me without the Amazon prejudice against males." She said between sobs as she buried her face into Ranma's shoulder followed by the two of them being enveloped in Ryoga's arms.
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Meanwhile within the borders of the land of whirlpools a swath of forest became silent before a six foot diameter sphere that looked very much like a maelstrom of chakra appeared with flashes of lightning scattering all of the local wildlife. The odd thing about this sphere was that after is dissipated it revealed a white haired young girl in her early teens. "Man that hurts ojisan could have warned me about the lightning especially that anything resembling clothes would be incinerated." The girl sat up shaking her head before looking around. "Surrounded by trees none too big. Signs of fighting about 15 years ago. First analysis says I'm north of the land of fire probably before I'm born. Well first things first clothes."
Two hours of sneaking around later found the girl outside of a village where she found freshly hung clothes she relieved the line of a pair of pants and a shirt before she entered the village dressed enough to be descent and entered the roadside inn. "Excuse me can you tell me where I am and the direction of Konoha?"
Looking her over the Proprietor answered. "You're in the land of whirlpools right across the border from the land of fire."
"Thank you for the information." The girl said bowing before quickly vacating the premises.
"What's up with her?" the Proprietor asked himself before he got back to his work..
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'Finally this day is done. I'm just glad I'll be able to graduate shortly.' Sasuke a she layed her head on her desk just as the bell rang. 'I wonder how Naruto is doing?' She asked herself as she left the classroom. "So you busy?"She as she passed Hinata.
"Not really. Why?" Hinata asked as she fell into step by her best friend.
"I want to see if we can incorporate some of what Ranma-sensei has been showing us into our own fighting styles."
"You want to try that this close to graduation?"
"Hey better late than never." Sasuke answered as Ino caught up to them.
"Why not we give the ANBU something do?" Ino asked as she shrank into her cursed form before climbing onto Sasuke's shoulder.
"What did you do Ferret?" Sasuke asked using her nickname for Ino.
"Hey I'm an ermine not a ferret." Ino shot back indignantly as she crossed her forelimbs.
"Says the girl that turns into a ferocious weasel." Hinata added smiling.
"Somebodies got to stave off the monotony around here till Naruto returns." Ino mumbled.
"How Troublesome. But then there's a reason our ANBU and hunter-nin are some of the best among the villages." Shikamaru the deer said as he trotted by heading home.
"What he said." Kiba in wolf form added as he ran out the door his nin dog partner close behind.
"Are you trying to say that Shikamaru has the end of year prank already planned out?" Hinata asked.
"He does and you'll get your parts shortly." Choji answered as he left.
"So basically I wasted a perfectly good prank on the council." Ino said depressed.
"Again what did you do?" Sasuke asked pointedly.
Meanwhile in the council room of Hokage tower Minato was trying to figure out how to return the clan heads and himself to full size mumbling incoherently the whole time as there wasn't much you could do while five inches tall.
"Nothing permanent." Ino replied shrugging as she settled into Sasuke's hair.
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Not much to say this time just that hmm this is getting weird.
Oh come on Shane you've been weird from day one.
Chris quiet the weirdness is your input.
I don't think so. This one is all you.
Any ways we got this one done in fairly short order so I hope you enjoyed it the please comment on it. And kudos to the people that can figure out the movie reference.
