Well…here's chapter fifteen.
Disclaimer: I definitely don't own Naruto, if I did own it I would have to be a really rich person just to buy it.
"Ugh…………." Koto was slouching and dragged his legs across the ground. Bags were forming under his eyes; he was starting to turn pale and had a sour face on. Luckily he wasn't part vampire, if he was he would have screamed the moment the sun came out of the ground; he wished that he brought his sunglasses with him.
"Kyuubi…" whined Koto; "Can I take a break now? I didn't get any sleep yet, and I'm tired…" he rubbed his left eye and yawned. Kyuubi continued to walk as if he didn't hear Koto; being the kid he is, he pouted and continued to walk slowly.
'If I had my skateboard-' all of a sudden he perked up and stopped pouting.
"What happened to my skateboard?" (1)
'You left it back home.'
"But I could have sworn I brought it with me…" he scratched his head and looked at the sky with his bottom lip sticking out.
"But I thought that I brought it on the train."
'You left it at home.'
"But I remember bringing it with me when I left."
'You left it back in that little village.'
"But-"
'YOU LEFT IT BACK HOME!' Kyuubi growled at him and gave him a deadly glare; he was getting impatient.
…
"Are you sure?" Koto took at few steps back when Kyuubi glared at him again; he could have sworn that he saw flames in his eyes. "I'll be quiet now…"
'And you better stay like that…'
"…"
They continued to go down the silent road; there wasn't really much but a road, dirt, grass, and a few trees here and there (2). Koto stuck his hands into his pockets, he wanted to break the silence but somehow couldn't. He would have talked to himself in his mind, but since Kyuubi could hear, he decided to start biting his bottom lip so that he could he could think about how long it'll take till his lip started to bleed.
'(sighs) you should start eating some of the food; it's going to spoil under the sun,' hearing that, Koto dropped his backpack onto the ground, kneeling down he started to pull out an apple and a bottle of water. He took a bite out of an apple, unscrewed the cap to the bottle and drank some water; he turned to look at Kyuubi.
"Want some?" he stuck the half eaten apple in front of the fox's face, when he received a blank stare for a reply he took it back and started to finish it off. He capped off the bottle and put it back into the bag.
"Yosh, back to walking," he through the backpack over his shoulder and continued to follow Kyuubi. Now that there was food in his stomach, his brain started to work again; thus he found something to think about without annoying Kyuubi (well…maybe if Kyuubi didn't like calculations).
"Hm…we have to walk twenty-five miles, and it took use (looks at watch)…" he sighed, it was completely obvious to both of them that it'll take them at least a day to reach the next city. Unless…
"Kyuubi… is it ok if I hitchhike?" the small fox gave him a strange look.
'Well…I doubt that anyone would be out here, but I guess you could…' Koto stopped, he turned around and look back at the direction that they came from; there was a cloud of dust coming towards them. Blinking and staring at the growing cloud of dust, Kyuubi started to regret letting him hitchhike. He watched annoyingly as the kid stuck out his thumb as the figure of a truck grew bigger.
'This has to be the biggest miracle that could happen to me!' absentmindedly, a smile creped onto his face; this was the first miracle that he had in years. When the truck started to slow down, he dropped his arm and walked over to the driver's side. The person driving the truck blinked at him in surprise.
"What are you doing all the way out here?" a middle-aged female with short, layered black hair and sunglasses stuck her head out of the open window. "But first of all, are you an acquaintance of a boy named Shigeki (3)?"
"…?" his right eyebrow raised and he gave her a look that literally said who-are-you-talking-about? She a small smile appeared on her face.
"I'm kind of surprised that you don't know him; I'll tell you about him later, so you need a ride to Honjo?" a smile appeared on the ten-year-olds' face.
"Of course; Kyuubi, heel," several veins popped at the back of the kisune's head, but being the brat's so-called pet he obediently did what he said. Koto went to the passenger side of the truck and jumped in; Kyuubi jumped on to his lap and curled up like a cat.
'I'll take a nap…'
'Whatever…' he yawned and turned to the driver.
"What's your name? Mines Kotomaru but everybody calls me Koto."
"Kari, Kari Mabuchi," she stuck her hand sideways towards him as she kept her eyes on the road; Koto took her hand and shook it.
"So…Who's this Shigeki person?"
Koto woke up to find something fuzzy/furry in his face, he tried to brush it off but it kept reattaching itself to his face. When he sat up the furry thing plopped onto his lap.
"Unh?" he rubbed the sleep from his eyes, yawned, then took a better look at the furry fuzz ball on his lap; there sat an annoyed Kyuubi. He looked around, realizing that the engine was off and the driver's seat was empty.
"Where's Kari?" he yawned again; 'And I still feel sleepy…'
'(Sighs) she left to buy some food,' he pointed his tail at the fast-food restaurant that Koto never would have noticed until he pointed it out. Koto stared out the window lazily; a small frown appeared on his face.
"…she should have woken me up so that I could choose what I wanted to eat," he grumbled under his breath. Looking out the window, he stared out the window and waited for the driver. While he did that, Kyuubi gave him a glum stare and mumbled something under his breath; by the sounds of it he was still regretting letting him hitchhike.
"Hey, Kyuubi? I've got a question."
"Hn?" Koto turned his attention to the kitsune and picked him up till he was eye level, then he asked…
"Were burgers invented when shinobi were around?"
…
'WHAT GAVE YOU THAT IDEA?' Kyuubi hissed, scratched, and bit at Koto, forcing him to drop him. He sighed and looked at the very annoyed fox; he could see veins popping at the back of his head and could have sworn he saw a dark aura form around him.
"If there was ramen back then, then wouldn't there be burgers or something that's modern?" the dark aura around Kyuubi disappeared as surprise crossed the fox, he had a confused look on his face.
'I guess that makes sense; anyways there weren't any burgers back then, just traditional food and ramen.'
'Hm…' a glum expression appeared on his face as he stared at the fox; sighing, he turned his attention to the window. 'I wonder what Kari bought,' he thought as he stared at the gigantic bag that covered most of Kari's body; the only part of her body that was showing was her legs.
'Gahk…' Kyuubi's mouth hanged open and he turned pale.
(Sighs) Apparently, I haven't updated anything in a long time so I'm just going to finish off this chapter like this for now.
(1)I kind of went back to the first few chapters and realized that I left his skateboard somewhere, but just for the heck of it I'll show you what I was about to put in there:
"What happened to my skateboard?"
'You left it back home'
"But I could have sworn I brought it with me."
'Maybe Kitsune-chan forgot all about it.'
"But she never forgets about anything (pouts).' (Shamefully, that isn't all that true)
'Maybe she was helping me train you by taking away one of your ways of transportat- YOOOOOWWWWWW! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?' (Koto 'accidentally' stepped on his tail as he continued to walk down the road.)
"I doubt that's true…or is it? (Glares at Kitsune)'
(This wasn't originally what I thought of, the first one was funnier but I forgot how it went…)
(2)Like I said in the earlier chapters, I've never been to Japan; thus, the setting of this story is very inaccurate
(3)If you've read Whistle before, then you would know what I mean. If you haven't read it I'll give you a rough explanation; there's this person who's in the soccer team and when he was in sixth grade, he ran away from home and started hitchhiking. I'm still not sure why I added something that wasn't really necessary, but it still kind of makes sense.