Short I know. Muse is still on vacation.

Are you sure it's not the other plot bunnies that have been sprouting up?

You moron I want that story to be farther along before I post it.

Whatever you say buddy.

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 20

"Talking"

Shouting

*Sound Affects*

[Written Words]

{ Memory }

"Pull." A voice called over a training ground within the walls of Konoha. If you looked hard enough you could probably just see what appeared to be a few small fruit become airborne. *Twang, Whoosh, Thunk*. Only for them to be impaled by arrows that embedded themselves in trees.

"Nice shooting Tayuya." Naruto called to his girlfriend. "That was ten that time."

"Still not good enough." Tayuya mumbled looking toward the other variously sized pieces of fruit.

"Your still miles ahead of other ninja that wouldn't know what to do with a bow if it bit them." Rin said as she finished setting up an obstacle course for her three students complete with targets for their preferred weapons.

OOooOO

Ino groaned bemoaning her bad luck. Sure Shikamaru could be motivated when he wanted to be and Choji was ok to be around but as a whole they were so hard to get motivated to do anything it was infuriating.

"Will you get a move on I would like to get some training done today." Ino said with a growl. "And you're not helping anything sensei." She yelled at Asuma Sarutobi their jonin sensei.

Asuma sighed as he felt a headache coming on. He recalled that it had been observed that the people whom were cursed by the springs started bleeding over personality traits with whatever they turned into. Prime example was Ino who turns into an ermine and cannot sit still for a minute and always eating something and still thin as a rail. Shikamaru on the other hand really didn't change all that much because he shared a lot of traits with deer to begin with. Choji was a conundrum it was unknown what his curse was rightly. The weird thing was that Choji's eating habits where changing as he was starting lower his food intake but he stayed physically stagnant. That of course was his team and the only one that concerned him for the most part.

OOooOO

Kurenai sat watching her new team as they interacted after a day of d ranks and training. Shino was the one that made the most sense because of him being an Aburame. Kiba even with his curse wasn't hard to figure out seeing as he was still able to function in his capacity as a clan heir. The real wild card in her opinion was Hinata seeing she was raised by the Uzumaki instead of her own clan.

OOooOO

"Get back here and take your medicine." Sasuke yelled as she chased Sakura around the training ground after a scathing comment from the girl.

Tatsumi for one just stood there watching trying to determine what set off this chain of events.

"So what brought this on?" Kakashi asked the lone boy in the team as he showed up an hour to noon.

"Not sure. All I know is that girls are weird." Tatsumi answered.

"No comment." Kakashi said as he pulled out a familiar orange book.

OOooOO

Minato for one sat in his office looking through the eye of Urna to determine the progress of the different rookie teams. Well to be fair one of the teams technically couldn't be classified as rookies but the general populace didn't need to know that.

OOooOO

"Kitsune here I'm in position." A voice called over the radio.

"Hawk in position." Another voice called.

"Ghost here target in sight." A third stated.

"How did you ever talk us into letting you use that code name?" Hawk asked sighing.

"Because I'm awesome." Ghost declared.

"Yes you're awesome. But not that awesome. Yet." Kitsune shot back.

"This is Wolf. Quit clogging up the airwaves with useless chatter and do your jobs." An older voice said with a calm menace.

"Yes ma'am." Three scared voiced squeaked over the radio.

"Ok I'm going in." Ghost said before a flash of black shot out grabbing a brown streak.

"Rrrraaaawwwrrr." A pained shriek came from an inhuman throat as the creature lashed out at it's captor.

"Operation capture Tora has been completed." Naruto as he held the thrashing cat at arms length.

"Geez I thought it would be harder based on what I've heard." Tayuya said in disappointment.

"I know. I'm awesome." Naruto said giving a victory sign with his unoccupied hand.

"Then would you be willing to show a couple of girls a good time later to prove it?" Kurama asked as she rubbed the top of her head on Naruto's cheek while taking Tora from him calming the cat immediately.

"Hhmmm. What to do. What to do." Naruto mumbled before adding. "We could always go over and help Shikamaru."

"We could." Tayuya said as she started heading towards the Hokage tower the other two trailing behind.

OOooOO

"You do realize that I have no need for your brand of ki absorption." Jiraiya said as he sat in his mindscape across from a very small yet powerful individual.

"Yes I'm aware of this and I acknowledge that you're powerful in your own right but old habits die hard." The midget said.

"Really this forced partnership shouldn't be looked at as a completely bad thing I've learned a lot from you. Unfortunately it seems most of your techniques are just cheep tricks Happosai."

"I can see why you would call them that seeing what you can do with chakra." Happosai added.

"Let this partnership have many successes." Jiraiya said lifting a sake cup.

"I'll second that." Happosai said in answer.

OOooOO

Jiraiya came out of his meditation when he felt someone approaching. "You can come out."

"Lord Jiraiya we have a missive for you from the Hokage." The black masked messenger nin said as he handed over a scroll.

"Does it need a reply?" Jiraiya asked.

"Not written." The messenger nin answered.

"You're dismissed." Jiraiya said with an nod as the messenger vanished. "Let's see what he has to say. Hey Happosai looks like we're headed for home."

'Well youngster let's get going. This'll be fun.' Happosai said.

"Personally I wouldn't call have to prepare for a visit from a certain old friend fun." Jiraiya mumbled.

OOooOO

You may think that they would have run into each other by now but you would be wrong as they had failed to be in the same vicinity where they would see one another. Such is the problem with living in a village with thousands of other ninja.

Kakashi entered the mission room with his team for their first assignment of the day just as another team was dropping off their completed mission. This wouldn't be all that unusual normally but the leader of the other team was.

"Rin?" Kakashi asked quietly when he saw the long purple hair though other people had purple hair none but her had that particular shade and luster.

Hearing her name she looked behind her noticing him asked. "Hey Kakashi been awhile hasn't it?"

OOooOOooOO

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(Typing is heard in the background)

There can you understand me now?

What difference does that make? You didn't have much to say anyways.

Nice talking to you to.