"Kankuro and Fu, please come down!" Genma's voice was loud and clear, echoing through the stadium.
Fu's mouth widened into a huge smile, and her wings began flapping behind her back, lifting her up, and over the railing, before steadily lowering her into the arena. She looked around, ready to battle. Ready to make friends. Ready to make her village proud.
She was younger than all the other participants but just as skilled. If she was doing her math correctly, Kankuro was two or three years older than her, while the youngest in the current battles was only a year older than her. She looked up to the stands and stared at the blonde haired boy with whiskers. Her opponent was still making his way down to the ground arena.
And edgy feeling had been pricking her about the red-haired jinchuriki. The blonde-haired one... Not so much. Except, Naruto did frighten her a little considering his tailed beast still wasn't under control. At least not fully... He was friendly though! Naruto, that's his name, right? Not Naruko... Maybe it was Naraku. She didn't know.
"Begin!"
Fu jolted alert, pulling all her thoughts from space. It was time to focus. 'Fu, be careful, he's a puppet master.' Her "teammate" spoke inside her mind.
Kankuro dashed forward, kunai in hand. Throwing it at her, he growled slightly. "You'll be turned into mincing meat."
Fu back-bent, using her wings to stay levitated, and her hands to grab the kunai. But there was an explosion tag on it and thew it away quickly.
Kankuro smirked and made the tiger symbol, and the kunai exploded, but so did a kunai he had thrown after she avoided the first, and Fu was tossed aside. Fu coughed but quickly got back up.
Fu could hear the buzzing of insects, and she smirked. "Chomei... Can you ask them for help?"
Kankuro's eyes widened. Gaara generally didn't talk, but when he did, most of the time it was scolding him and Temari, or to Shukaku. That freakin' sand demon! He knew that this girl was jinchuriki. That's why he told him to stay away from her.
"Sure Fu!" said Chomei happily in Fu's mind. Fu could practically feel Chomei bouncing around and dancing inside her seal.
Suddenly, thousands of bugs came from everywhere. Trees, the stands... and Even people... Fu almost shuddered when she remembered that those people were the same as her. A host for a bug. She purred.
Suddenly, the bugs went to work, blocking Kankuro's sight of view... Some of them somehow even started to eat his chakra! Suddenly, Kankuro fell straight on his face, and the sack on his back began to squirm.
This trick again? Though Fu, fiddling with a strand of her mint hair.
Fu glanced at the insect all over. Chomei had told the bugs to keep eating his chakra as she started to approach him. When she did, he'd just managed to get out the sack, almost chakra exhausted due to all the parasites.
Punching him in the nuts, Kankuro groans, and then she knocked him out by a chop of the neck.
Shino
Shino was absolutely astounded. Somehow, that girl was able to control his insects! It didn't even drain him of chakra! He fainted on spot, and the other Aburame clan members had similar reactions as he had.
Omake
Naruto drooled at the feast before him. Turkey and stuffing, ham and sweet delicious pineapple sauce... Mashed potatoes, gravy, peas... His saliva dripped down his chin. The most important thing on the table... Pork flavored ramen. Naruto promptly ignored all the veggies on the table; minus the peas. No mashed potatoes with complete without peas.
On the other hand; Sakura was taking huge slices of pie and dango and putting those on her plate first. Even if she generally ate healthy, nothing was going to get in her way of dutch apple pie with cinnamon. Taking a huge bite, her mouth watered, and she hummed in delight.
Sasuke had taken all the food that had tomato in it. Or just took the tomato right out of the salad. His eyes gleamed in hidden tomato foodie pleasure as Sasuke shoved it in his mouth; cheek puffing up just like a chipmunk before swallowing. Yes, you heard right. Sasuke was secretly a foodie. Of tomatoes.
Kakashi just stared at the food, taking some meat, some vegetables (excluding the tomatoes because Sasuke smacked his hand when he tried). For the most part, however, he munched on dog food and treats. How he ate through his mask, no one knew. Other than Kakashi. The answer was simple; Kamui!
Minato just stared at the kids as they ate away the Thanksgiving meal. He chuckled and said a silent prayer. Thank you, Kami for this food. This wasn't how he imagined his life going, but it was quite interesting to see them each mainly only eat one specific thing. Kakashi and inu food, Sasuke and tomato, Sakura with her sweets, and... He sighed mentally as he tried prompting Naruto to eat some salad, but it wasn't happening. When Naruto looked up his face was covered in ramen soup and a few strands of noddles.
Eating a small morsel of his food; he smiled. But Minato has his own little thing. He had to have at least a little bit of everything on the table. Including the tomatoes. No food could be touching another food on his plate unless it was meant to. He smiled as he stared at the single tomato he was able to get. He picked it up with his chopsticks and took a bite of it.
Sasuke stared in horror as his precious tomato was being eaten. He quickly grabbed it from Minato and ate it, bitten and all. Minato just stared. The tomato! He sighed and looked at Sasuke's hair. It'd grown out a bit, but the ends were still colored purple and pink. He smirked.
"That was my tomato Sasuke. Now you're gonna get a fun little prank..." Minato made eye contact with Naruto, sharing devious smiles.
And that was the end of the peaceful thanksgiving; because there was a prank later that night which caused Sasuke to cry for an entire week.