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The Fox Siblings Ch 21

"Talking"

Shouting

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[Written Words]

{ Memory }

"So Rin-sensei dumps us for the day so that she can reconnect with her old teammate?" Naruto asked tiredly as he and the two girls on his team found themselves alone at training ground 18.

"Well give her a break she hasn't seen him in years besides you're one to talk. You have the two of us." Tayuya said as she lay her head on his shoulder. She would have tried harder but Kurama, the little vixen, was currently occupying his lap getting her ears petted, as they and a tail were out.

"Yeah that's true." Naruto said before a mischievous grin spread across his face. "Who wants to see if we can't catch Kakashi in a prank?"

"I'm game." Kurama chirped from her seat. "Move that hand over an inch first." She said moaning in pleasure as her eyes crossed involuntarily as Naruto scratched behind her ears. "Oh that feels good."

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"I'm going to go find Naruto seeing as Kakashi-sensei is off with Rin-sensei." Sasuke declared seemingly out of the blue to her two other teammates.

"Why bother it's not like he's alone." Sakura snarked.

"Now girls please don't fight." Tatsumi said nervously having seen the beginnings of a cat fight often enough.

"Stay out of this!" Both girls yelled as they rounded on him.

"Ok, I'm going that way." Tatsumi said as he turned and left the training ground headed back to the village.

It took a little while before the two teammates calmed down enough to speak without yelling at each other. Sasuke quickly removed herself from the training area to track down her oldest friend. Sakura not quite getting what it meant to be a ninja yet began heading for the shopping district to relax.

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"Explain to me why we're here again." Tayuya demanded in a whisper while Naruto and Kurama were on a tree branch looking into the window of the Akamichi restaurant.

"If I were to take a guess, I would have to say that y'all just wanted to know about my sensei." Sasuke answered as she appeared in the branch above the trio.

"Hey Sasuke how's it hangin'?" Naruto asked.

"Just putting up with two very odd teammates." Sasuke answered.

"Oh is that all?" Tayuya asked sarcastically. "It's not like you've been fighting bandits."

"No that's not supposed to be on the books for another few weeks." Sasuke stated. "I wish that Kakashi-sensei would take our training seriously."

"Oh?" The three other Genin asked in sync.

"Yeah, it's like he's just there because he has to be." Sasuke said in exasperation.

"We wouldn't mind to much if your team trained with us." Tayuya stated as she kept an eye on the two senseis.

"At least it'll be better than doin' nothing." Sasuke drawled.

"Oh look, they're leaving." Kurama declared in a whisper as Rin and Kakashi left the restaurant.

"Say, have you seen under Kakashi's mask yet?" Naruto asked turning to Sasuke with a thoughtful look on his face.

"No." Sasuke said. "Why?"

"Cause we're gonna find out what he keeps under that mask." Naruto had a conspiratorial look on his face.

"He has a face." Sasuke said flatly.

"Yeah, but why would he hide his face, unless." Naruto trailed off.

Sasuke leaned down.

"Like blimp lips." Naruto said.

Sasuke anime-faulted to the ground, out of the tree. "Are you serious." She mumbled into the ground.

"Or how bout, buck teeth?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke sighed as she got up. "Let's go then."

Tayuya and Kurama began hopping away. "You know I don't think I've ever seen him without that mask on." Kurama stated as they followed.

"And how would you have known him?" Tayuya asked pointedly.

"As a Kyubi I was sealed in those of the Uzumaki bloodline." Kurama answered.

"Yeah, we made the best jugs to hold the Kyubi." Naruto said off-handedly.

"And that was the most annoying part. My two previous hosts thought I needed to be restrained." Kurama muttered.

"Yeah, but that's because you were tired, and everyone's cranky when they're tired." Naruto stated waving her off. "So you can hardly blame them."

"Cranky?" Kurama asked in shock. "I'll show you cranky!" Kurama yelled angrily as she leapt at Naruto.

"Ack!" Naruto squeaked as he leapt away.

"And there they go." Sasuke said watching them leave.

"Don't worry they do this every now and then." Tayuya stated waving the other girl off.

"So, what do we do while the married couple sorts out their differences." Sasuke said turning to Tayuya.

Tayuya didn't answer because she wasn't there to do so.

"Where'd she go?" Sasuke mumbled looking around. Sasuke cried out in surprise as she was grabbed from behind by Tayuya in the bushes.

"Quiet they're coming by." Tayuya whispered as Rin and Kakashi walked by.

Rin stopped as the pair passed the hidden genin. "Tayuya you and Sasuke can come out now. Me and Kakashi have something to say to you two."

"Is it something along the lines of the two of you have declared your undieing love for each other?" Tayuya asked with a look of anticipation on her face, Sasuke wearing an identical look beside her.

"Nah. Sorry to burst yer bubble. We decided to reward my team with a C-rank mission to Wave." Kakashi said monotone.

"By which he means he was tired of hearing us complaining bout the useless D-ranks." Sasuke stated.

"Your observations are neither here nor there." Rin said as she slashed a hand in front of her causing Tayuya to turn red in embarrassment while she covered certain bits as her clothes fell away.

"Sensei quit doing that!" A red Tayuya yelled in frustration as steam rose from her head.

"Can you teach me to do that?" Sasuke asked expectantly, just before her own clothes fell off, causing the pair to run off, shrieking, to obtain new garments.

"Now that the disturbance is gone." Kakashi stated enveloping Rin in a hug. "That gives us bout thirty-three minutes and forty-two seconds."

"Hmm a lot can happen in that time. What do you propose?" Rin asked with a sultry tone.

"We'll see where the road of life takes us." Kakashi answered as they disappeared in a cloud of leaves.

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An hour later Kakashi and Rin could be found at the gates out of Konoha with their client Tazuna, waiting for the last two of their group.

"Sorry we're late Rin-sensei we just got our clothing stockpile replenished." Tayuya called out of breath as she and Sasuke ran up to the group.

"I'm tellin' you, Tayuya, it's a conspiracy. Believe me, the Clans are out to get us." Sasuke said as she looked at the back of her outfit. It was a short miko outfit in blue with the Uchiha fan on the back.

"Quit your whining, that shop keeper took one look at us and said that these were all that she'd part with." Tayuya answered as she looked down her red miko outfit that was the same cut as Sasuke's with the Uzumaki swirl on it.

"I don't believe it, obviously you didn't catch the look-." Sasuke began before she was interrupted.

"You two know what's missing?" Kurama asked giving Naruto a pointed look before he sighed and dumped water over his head.

"What could we possibly be missing?" Tayuya asked sarcastically as Kurama started building chakra as the Kitsune walked toward the pair.

"Kai." Kurama called as she released a burst of Chakra toward her teammate and temporary teammate.

Sasuke felt her ears grow and shift as her tail-bone stretched and lifted. Turning, she quickly patted the rear of her skirt seeing a black tail tipped in white. Fearfully, Sasuke reached for her ears, feeling furry, triangular ears. Holding her ears down, she turned to Kurama with tears in her eyes. "What did you do?"

"Oh, don't worry the effects will wear off in a few hours." Kurama said placatingly as she turned Sasuke so that she could see Tayuya whom looked resigned.

"Are you sure?" Sasuke pleaded.

"Yep I've done it with Naruto before. Just look." Kurama said prompting Sasuke to look towards the blond gender swapping ninja.

Sasuke looked over at a waving Naruto, who was currently a girl wearing twin-tails, also had fox ears.

"You're not helping your case." Kakashi told Kurama.

"Who cares what you think, we are now Team Miko." Kurama called triumphantly throwing a fist in the air.

"There's a few flaws with that. First being that there are two guys, second, you four are the only ones dressed as miko." Kakashi said flatly.

"Eh semantics." Kurama said waving him off before marching out the gate calling. "And we're off."

"Forgive my team, they're oddities, most ninja are very different." Kakashi said apologetically to Tazuna as he rubbed the back of his head after they had been walking for about a half hour.

"So I'm being protected by a freak show, is that what you're saying?" The drunk bridge builder asked rudely.

"Hey, we're more than capable shinobi!" Naruto exclaimed her ears and tail twitching indignantly.

"I might have been better off going elsewhere for protection." Tazuna groused keeping on walking.

"If you didn't come here then our friend in wave wouldn't help you at all." Rin answered as they walked.

"Friend?" Kakashi looked questioningly at Rin.

"Why yes, you might have heard of him. He's quite well known." Rin answered giggling at the four Kitsune's antics in front of them.

"Really." Kakashi stated.

"You'll know him when we get there." Rin declared as she tossed a rock with a note attached to it into the puddle that was on the side of the road.

Kakashi watched her curiously as they passed, when nothing happened he shrugged and continued walking.

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After the Konoha nin passed out of sight the puddle rippled as two missing-nin emerged. "This is not good. Just what did we agree to?" Gozu asked his younger brother.

"The boss is going to want to know about this." Mezu answered worried as the pair shunshined away.

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Later in the day halfway between Konoha and the edge of fire country.

"They're not vanishing! What am I going to do! They're not vanishing!" Sasuke cried with tears in her eyes as she shook Kurama.

"Quit shaking me, so that I can examine you then." Kurama said as her head was almost whipped around from the shaking. Sasuke stopped shaking Kurama. While waiting for Kurama to make her verdict she was nervously fidgeting. "Ok, I have good news and bad news."

"What's the bad news?" Sasuke asked fearfully.

"Why is it nobody ever wants the good news first?" Kurama mumbled shaking her head. "The bad news is that I used the wrong illusion spell."

"Meaning?" Sasuke asked.

"That we're going on to the good news." Kurama answered with a strained smile. "Congratulations, you and Tayuya are now a two tailed kitsune."

"What!" Sasuke shrieked as she started freaking out. "You mean I'm stuck like this!"

"There, there, it'll be alright." Tatsumi said trying to comfort the distraught black kitsune.

"Are you sure?" Sasuke turned to him with tears in her eyes.

"Don't worry yourself into the ground because it mars that pretty face of yours." Tatsumi answered smiling as he wrapped Sasuke in a hug.

"Besides, I half expected something like this would happen eventually." Tayuya chimed in her two tails swaying behind her.

After a few minutes, Sasuke had calmed down enough to separate herself from Tatsumi.

"Now that the team bonding event is over, why don't we continue on our way." Kakashi said.

"I think that this would be as good a place as any to camp for the night." Rin answered looking towards the sunset.

"Oh, it's that late already?" Sakura asked in surprise still trying to process what had happened throughout the day starting with how Sasuke and Tayuya were dressed when they started the mission.

"It's drama central and I don't have anything left to drink to dull it." Tazuna mumbled as in his opinion he was unfortunately sober.

Kakashi looked at him before ordering his team to set up camp.

"Now Tazuna don't worry yourself to much they are still children after all." Rin told the bridge builder.

Tazuna grunted in response as the ninjas scurried around setting up camp.

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