It took me a little while to do this chapter because I had to figure out what animals some of the characters will be cursed to be, there are only 5 people that can change into animals whenever they want to and you will find out who they are either in this chapter or the next, who knows.
Oh yeah I did tell someone that there were a few animals I wont use, I ended up changing my mind. Now some of the characters will become animals that they kinda take after and some that they don't take after... After all I can't exactly have Iruka become a dolphin now can I and well I don't think I should make Shino an insect. You will find out who changes into what in this chapter.
This chapter took a little longer then what I expected it took me four days instead of the usual three or two day's that is why I have decided to put this chapter up earlier then when I normally do I mean it only seems fair.
Hope you enjoy this chapter since this was actually meant to be apart of the prelude though I just got to lazy and I had to think of what animals to make them into. Just a small WARNING there is some Sakura bashing in here so sorry if you like her.
Description:
A snakes deception leads to the fall of a kingdom after he kills the King and places a curse upon the princess and other people in her kingdom, forcing her to turn into a fox with nine tails while also turning a few of her friends into animals as well, only allowing them to be human at night. Sasu/Naru one sided Oro/Naru, Kaka/Iru
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Previously:
Kabuto watches Orochimaru before bowing again "Yes master Orochimaru, I will inform them right away" with that said the silver haired male leaves his masters chaimbers the same way he had entered them. Leaving his master to watch the blonde princess through the large crystal that was set into the centre of a stone pedestal as he runs his fingers over what appears to be a lock of soft golden hair that he had managed to cut from the princesses hair while she was asleep.
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Bright golden locks bouncing slightly, as the female looks up almost everyone's breath catches in their throats including the stoic Uchiha brothers once a pair of slanted azure eyes open, eyes that could rival the very sky, pink pouty lips slowly stretching into a bright smile. No marks marring her skin apart from the three whisker like marks on either side of her cheeks.
It was clear to all of them that this was no longer the little girl that would pull pranks on unsuspecting people, now she was clearly a beautiful young woman.
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The Fox Princess
Chapter 1: A Nights Curse
Thin see through green curtains could be seen catching in the small breeze coming through an open balcony. A few black candles of various shapes and sizes were spread about the room, the wax slowly sliding down the sides of them, only to pool at the bottom of some candles until the liquid would cool down and harden once more.
A large four poster bed was set in the centre, placed on top of a round platform, the emerald green curtains on one side were tied to the posts that had snakes wrapped around them that had been carved from the wood used to make the bed to look like they were real. The green and purple blankets on the bed were neatly made no crease or bump could be seen. The room had darkened more since the sun had finally set.
A large silver bird that looked strangely like and eagle entered the bed chaimber, fluttering it's wings slightly as it slowly down before transforming itself into a silver haired male. Brushing himself off a pair of glasses catches a bit of light from a candle as they slide down the bridge of his nose slightly before he pushes them back up into place with his index finger.
The hissing of a snake could be herd in the dimly lit bed chamber as a tall dark haired man steps away from a small wooden stand with a large thick black leather bound book, closing it's pages once he turns around. A black snake slightly wrapped around his neck, a pink forked tongue darting out to taste the air every now and then as pale long slender fingers gently hold onto the snakes head while the thumb runs over the smooth black scales on its head.
"Ah... Kabuto, everything is set in place I hope" the taller male asks with a slight his to his voice, his yellow slitted eyes looking from the black snake to the silver haired male that had entered his bed chaimber.
"Lord Arashi arrived at the Uchiha castle on time, none of them suspect a thing. Orochimaru-sama, are you sure it's wise to allow Anko to keep an eye on them on her own?" he asks as he watches the taller male.
"Of course, she wont disobey my orders, not while she carry's a curse seal like the others" he says to Kabuto as he places the black snake inside a glass case before walking over to a table covered in labelled jars, potions and medium sized bowel, slowly he makes sure that they are all in order so that it would be easier to get to the items once he is ready to prepare the potion needed for the curse. "All I need is demons breath for the curse potion, though hopefully I wont need to use it, though I doubt Naru-hime will accept my offer straight away"
Kabuto looks down a the floor for a few minutes before he speaks "I over heard Lord Arashi and Lord Fugaku speaking together after they had arrived, it seems as though he has promised Naru-hime to Lord Fugaku's younger son Sasuke. It seems they want them to be wed after the princesses birthday." the silver haired male says as he watches his masters back, looking for any movement to indicate his anger.
The long black haired man's eyes glow brightly as his hands become fists, his knuckles turning white while his nails dig into the palms of his hands, drawing blood. "Well we will have to sort that out... We will attack them while they are travelling back..." he says as he turns around to face the shorter male "I want you to keep an eye on them with Anko, make sure neither Naru or Sasuke get close enough to one another. When the time comes you will know"
With that said Kabuto bows slightly to his master before turning around and walking out onto the balcony before turning back into a large silver bird once more and taking flight, disappearing into the night sky and heading of in the direction of the Sharingan Kingdom.
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The day had been uneventful for Naru, though she did notice that both the Uchiha princes's would look at her whenever they would think that she would never spot them. Both of them appeared to be busy either sparing or just practising with weapons, they would only have a few minute breaks and they used them to talk to their friends though during one of Sasuke's breaks he had a pink haired girl latch onto his arm that Naru had never seen before and it was clearly noticeable that he didn't like the pink haired banshee as Naru called her since she didn't learn her name that day.
Naru didn't mind that no one had walked up to her besides the maids, it just meant that she got to spend more time with Kyuubi, playing with him, watching as he sniffed around, smelling some of the flowers and trying to catch come of the butterflies which only caused her to laugh as one had landed on the kitsune's black wet nose causing him to look cross eyed at it, as it fluttered its blue and black wings slightly before fluttering away to fly around the flowers with the other butterflies.
Kakashi and Iruka were sitting out in the garden, the silver haired masked guard was sitting up on a sturdy tree branch ready his orange leather bound book. Iruka on the other hand was sitting in the shade leaning against the same tree that Kakashi was in though he was looking over some work that he had Naru do yesterday, though the princess was only 19 there were still some things that she still hadn't finished learning. In most kingdoms it wasn't normal for a princess to continue learning most would only be taught things until they are 13 though in the Resengan Kingdom all the females born within the Uzumaki family were taught the same amount of things as their male counterparts. Though Naru was the first female Uzumaki born in almost 150 years which meant that she was allowed to learn how to protect herself incase someone dumb enough were to try and kidnap her.
Every now and then Kakashi would look around though he would make it so that it wasn't noticeable he couldn't shake the feeling that someone was watching them though he couldn't see any signs of someone being their that shouldn't. There were times where he would look down at Iruka and watch him, other times he would giggle perversely though you couldn't really tell if he was blushing or not.
Sasuke looked over towards the target that was attached to a tree while placing his bow down on a table behind him, Neji was standing beside him holding onto a longbow pulling the sting back slightly and making sure that it was tight enough. Shikamaru, another of Sasuke's friends was over at the target pulling the arrows that had been shot into it before walking back over to Neji and Sasuke and putting the arrows in their quiver.
Every now and then Sasuke would look over towards Naru and watch her playing with her pet fox, he couldn't believe how much she had changed since last time he had seen her, he could tell that most of the guards patrolling couldn't help but look at her, he even caught glimpses of his friends looking at her. He could clearly see that no male around the area couldn't help but look at her, hell he almost laughed when he noticed his brother Itachi and his weird friends staring at her while they were talking. He couldn't believe his eyes after all his brother was more asexual then what he himself was, well though now that he thought about it he did find himself attracted to one person in particular though he never paid and heed to it always blaming it on hormones which only happened whenever he was around said person.
It wasn't long before he heard the screaming of what could only be called a banshee, which caused him and everyone around him to cringe, while it caused those from the Resengan Kingdom to look over towards the source of the noise. The source of the noise came from none other then a pink haired woman who was clearly dressed as a noble, as soon as she had gotten close to the stoic Uchiha she latched herself onto his arm. It seems as though the only thing the pink haired girl had noticed was Sasuke and no one else, she didn't notice the looks she was getting from others, she didn't even notice the slight twitch to the stoic Uchiha's eye or when he would glare at banshee and pry her off of his arm.
Itachi and four of his friends were sitting around a small table, each of them having something in their hands while they were talking to about random things. Itachi was holding onto a brown leather bound book with small gold details on the spine and front cover, Kisami had a large sword which looked like it had scales on its blade while a cloth in his other hand to clean it with, beside Kisami was a tall male with long pale blonde hair up in a pony tail, his bangs covering his right eye, in his hands was a bird made out of what looked to be white clay. Beside him was a shorter male with red hair, a small wooden puppet was in his hands as thin pale fingers run over the clothes on it. Beside him was another though one could not see his face since he always hid it behind an orange mask with a large black spiral painted on it and one hole for his left eye to see, out of all of them he was the only one with nothing in his hand, he was the one making the conversations with the others.
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Arashi had followed both Fugaku and Mikoto into Lord Fugaku's study when the others all went out into the court yard. Mikoto had closed the white double doors once they had entered the study, none of them paying attention to the large silver feathered bird sitting outside the open window watching them and listening in on their conversation. Mikoto then shifted a seat over to her husband while Arashi sat down on the opposite side of the desk and Fugaku sat down on the black leather seat, shifting through the papers on his desk looking for a rolled up parchment for their agreement.
"I already have the papers ready for the wedding, though we need to agree on where it's to be held. As soon as Sasuke and Naru marry they will be declared as the new King and Queen of the Resengan Kingdom and both our kingdoms will become greater allies" Arashi says as he leans back into the chair.
"While they are here we will have to get the two closer together. Hopefully they wont act the same way around one another like they did when they were younger." Mikoto says as she brushes some dirt off of the lap of her dress.
Fugaku finally manages to find the parchment and unrolls it, "The wedding will be held in the Resengan Kingdom, Mikoto has already been planning the details, it seems as though ever since we had agreed she has been planning it." he says as he picks up a black feathered quill and dips it into a jar of ink before signing his name on one of the lines at the bottom of the paper before handing it over to Arashi to sign.
The long black haired queen stands up and walks around the room, tapping her chin lightly as she paces about the study. After awhile she eventually stops once she comes up with a way to get the two young adults closer together "Alright Tomorrow we lock them both in the same room and leave them their for a whole day, letting neither of them out of the room until we know that they are showing feelings for one another" she says to the two kings as she clasps her hands together in front of herself, a large smile on her face.
At this both men sweat drop at the queens plan, Arashi then turns away and signs the line under Fugaku's name before placing the quill back in its stand and handing the rolled up parchment to the Uchiha king "That's a great plan Mikoto though they will need food and water as well as a bathroom, though we can't lock them together in a bedroom"
Mikoto's smile fades as she hears this "Well they can be locked in one of the tea rooms, someone who is really sneaking can bring food and drinks to them without them getting out of the room and that damned Haruno girl wont be allowed to know. I'm tired of that pink haired girls disgusting mother pestering and trying to convince me to allow her to marry Sasuke. Ha like I would let some plain noble to marry one of my sons" she says with a slight growl to her tone.
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Naru walked out into the main court yard, her long dark blue dress dragging on the ground slightly as she walked, a gold chain was loosely wrapped around her waist, two long parts of it that were hooked onto a large circle link to the chain dangling down the front of her dress with two light blue gems hanging from the last link. Her long golden hair was loose, cascading down her back in waves and slight curls reaching just past the back on her knees. Scattered amongst the golden locks of hair were small blue clips attached in various places of the golden tresses. Snuggled within her arms was none other then her orange and black fox Kyuubi who's head was leaning against a tanned forearm as he was looking out at the scenery that was passing by.
Today she had wanted to wake up early to head out into the court yard, knowing that Sasuke and his friends had left their bows and the arrows they were using in the same place she wanted to just get their before anyone else did so that she could just practice for a few minutes on her own. However once she got there she never expected to see one of the boys there that was with Sasuke the other day. Slowly she walked over to him and watched as he pulled the rope of the bow back as his fingers gripped at the red feathers loosely before letting it go, the arrow spinning through the air as it headed for the centre of the target.
The arrow hit the centre of the target, almost dead centre, just as he was turning around to grab another arrow he was startled slightly, not even knowing that the blonde haired princess was standing a few feet away from him and watching him. The slight mumbling of 'troublesome' could be heard from him as he looked at the beautiful woman before him.
Naru giggled slightly as she heard him, the fox in her arms yipping as she lets it jump out of her arms and onto the soft grass "Heh... Sorry for startling you, I didn't think that anyone would be up this early. Oh my name is Naru by the way and this little ball of fluff down at my feet is Kyuubi" she says to him as she does a slight curtsy, at the sound of being called a fluff ball Kyuubi yips at the blonde girl, as though her was telling her off, this only caused the blonde princess to giggle more.
A slight smile forms on the bored male's face as he watches both the princess and the Kitsune "It's a pleasure to meet you Naru-hime and Kyuubi" he says to them as he bows slightly "I'm Shikamaru, I'm not normally out here this early, I'm normally in the library playing shogi with Asuma-sensei but he isn't here at the moment" he adds as he places the bow on the table before walking over to the target and pulling the arrows out that he had shot into the red and white target.
"Oh no that's fine, you don't mind if I call you Shika-kun do you? If you want later on I can play shogi with you, though it's been awhile since I last played it." she asks him as she picks up one of the black feathered arrows from it's quiver and run one of her tanned slender finger fingers over the soft feather.
Shikamaru picked up the bow from the table and handed it over to the princess "No, it's fine, everyone else calls me that. I wouldn't mind playing against a different person for a change, it gets too troublesome after awhile playing against the same person all the time." he says to her as he moves away from in front of the target to allow her to have a try.
The blonde haired girl moves over to where her was standing and smiles brightly at him "Thanks" she says to him as she places the arrow against the wood of the bow, holding it in place with her fingers at the feathered end of the arrow where it meets the rope. Just as she was about to bring the bow up as she pulled the rope back, she was interrupted by the voice of another girl that sounded like nails against a chalkboard.
"Shikamaru have you seen Sasuke-sama?" the shrill voiced, pink haired woman asks as she walks over to them. That was when she noticed the other girl standing beside him holding onto the bow and arrow. Her once happy face turned into a scowl noticing that the blonde haired woman was more beautiful the what she was 'I can't believe it, she looks beautiful... I'm the one that's meant to be beautiful. No matter she has no chance of taking Sasuke-sama from me, after all he loves me not her' her inner self was enraged at this, causing her to glare at the blonde haired girl "Oh, Shika-kin who's your friend here?" she asks him as she try's to make her voice sound nice
"Troublesome... Sakura this is Uzumaki Naru-hime, Naru-hime this is Haruno Sakura. Naru-hime and her father were invited to spend a few days here. As for Sasuke, no I haven't seen him" he says as he then sits down on the ground beside Naru and lets the kitsune curl up on his lap, without paying attention he lets his fingers run through the soft orange fur of the fox.
Naru looks down at Kyuubi and giggles slightly "Looks like you made yourself a new friend Shika-kun, he seems to like you." She then looks up at Sakura and smiles brightly "It's nice to meet you Sakura, I have to admit I've never seen you around here before, I was surprised you were able to get that close to Sasuke-sama since he doesn't normally allow girls to touch him."
Upon hearing that the blonde haired girl was none other then a princess from the Resengan kingdom, Sakura was in shock after all the Uzumaki's were more well known amongst other royalty an nobles, more well known then the Uchiha's. Once she snaps out of her stupa she looks down at the large orange rodent that Shikamaru had allowed to sit on his lap, her face contorted to that of disgust before she looked up at the blonde princess once more "How disgusting, the only thing that is good for is a fox fur scarf. Besides a lady such as yourself shouldn't be handling any sort of weapon, only men are trained to use them"
Now Naru never normally got angry at people but whenever she did it would never turn out good, after all last time it was prince Sasuke who had angered her and she ended up breaking his nose and giving him a black eye. At the sight of the princess growing angry, Shikamaru slowly backed far enough away from her, and unknowingly a few other people were now in the court yard, which were none other then, Itachi, Kisami, Neji, Kakashi, Sasuke and Kabuto and Anko who had the appearance of a silver feathered bird and a purple snake now they all were far enough away from the princess and they knew the consequences of angering her and they had heard everything that Sakura had said though none of them had tried to stop the idiotic pink haired girl. Hell even Kyuubi knew not to go near her, the only person that had seen her like this but wasn't afraid was Orochimaru.(But then again we all no he isn't right in the head)
As Naru glared at the girl standing before her, her azure eyes grew darker, it almost looked as though they were changing into a blood red colour with a black slit pupal's "First of all I am of Uzumaki blood, any female born into our royal bloodline if permitted to learn how to fight and handle weapons" and as a point she drew the bow and arrow and aimed it at the centre of the target before letting the black feathered arrow sail through the air before it hit dead centre of the target. She then turned her attention back towards the shocked pink haired girl once more "Second, if you ever call Kyuubi a rodent and say that his pelt should be made into a scarf once more I will break your legs tie you to a tree in the dark forests of Sound kingdom and let the carnivorous animals eat you alive. Do I make myself clear?" she asks the now shaking girl.
Neither girl noticed Lord Arashi, Lord Fugaku and Lady Mikoto walk into the court yard, all three of them only catching the last part of the threat and seeing the angered princess and the cowering Haruno. Sakura shrinks back at the threat knowing that by the way the princess sounded she would carry it out without a problem. It was strange how a beautiful girl could look like an innocent angel one minute and a demon the next.
"Hai, I...I wont speak ill of you, your family or Kyuubi again. I'm sorry to have angered you Hime" she says as she bows deeply before running home to cry to her mother.
Once the pink haired girl had run off the blonde princess finally took notice of the people around her, immediately her mood changed. She looked at everyone sheepishly and slightly rubbed the back of her head. The sound of a woman's laughter broke the silence that was surrounding everyone, everyone's attention was drawn to Lady Mikoto, it seemed as though she was really happy about what had happened.
"Finally someone stood up to that nuisance, maybe now she will stop turning up here." Mikoto says as she walks up to Naru and clasping bother her hands into her own.
'Hn.. Maybe now that banshee wont bother me' Sasuke thinks to himself as he watches Naru, his lips forming into a smirk.
Arashi smiles slightly at his daughter "She shouldn't have said things about someone she doesn't know anything about, especially if that person is of royalty" he says before her looks over at Fugaku.
Fugaku shares a look with Arashi and turns to look at Sasuke "Sasuke, could you please come with me and Arashi?, we would like to speak to you about something" he asks, though not waiting to hear the answer both Arashi and himself start walking back inside the castle. Sasuke following them both without saying anything.
Mikoto keeps a hold of Naru's hand "How about you and me spend some time together hm?... you can bring Kyuubi if you would like" she says though she never gave the blonde haired princess any time to answer her, instead she started pulling the girl along, Kyuubi following close behind, not wanting to let the blonde haired girl out of his sight.
Shikamaru watches everything and shakes his head, instantly catching on to what was going on "Troublesome" he mutters as he watches both the prince and princess walk and get dragged off.
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Sasuke had followed both his father and Lord Arashi into one of the many tea rooms, however once he had walked into the room he didn't see neither his father or Lord Arashi in the room. Unknown to him both men were standing behind the two doors that were open that Sasuke had walked into. Quickly they moved around the doors, the gold handles in their grasp, both of them closing them. Sasuke heard the sound of a door closing and he turned around just in time to see both kings closing the doors on him, moving to the door quickly he turned the handles only for them to stop in mid turn, making it clear that his father had locked him into the room.
Sighing to himself he walked around the room, knowing that the doors on the other side were locked as well. Only two minutes had passed and he heard the click of a lock, though before he could move towards the door her noticed someone being pushed into the room though they were putting up a struggle.
Naru watched as Lady Mikoto unlocked the doors to what she could only guess as one of the tea rooms, though as the Uchiha Queen stepped away the blonde haired princess felt two people grab her and push her into the room. As soon as she was close to the door she started to struggle against the two people pushing her, though it was clearly no use since both men pushing her were stronger. In the end she was pushed all the way into the room, though her back was facing the other occupant of the room she looked at the two men and glared at them after seeing that it was her father and Lord Fugaku who had forced her into the room, Kyuubi quickly entered the room just as the doors were closed and locked.
"Those three are up to something..." Naru says as she looks down at Kyuubi.
Sasuke walks around and sits down on one of the navy satin covered lounge "Hn... Wouldn't be a first" he says loud enough to startle the blonde princess.
Naru jumps slightly as she hears Sasuke's voice, not paying attention to what Kyuubi was doing she didn't notice the orange and black kitsune run over to the stoic raven and jump up onto his lap. "I see they got you as well..." It wasn't long before she noticed where the kitsune was "Sorry about that, he isn't normally friendly to strangers"
Sasuke doesn't bother to move the fox that had now curled up on his lap, without realising it his pale fingers run through the soft orange fur "That's alright, it doesn't look like they will be letting us out anytime soon so it might have been bound to happen." he says to her as his onyx coloured eyes lock with the azure coloured eyes of the blonde princess. 'Not that I have any problems with it' he thinks to himself as he smirks slightly causing a light blush to dust across the blonde's face making her look cute.
Slowly Naru walks around and sits down on the same lounge as sasuke though she sits at the other end "I think that want us to get along with each other..." after awhile she groans softly "I just remembered I promised Shika-kun that I would play shogi with him"
"Dobe..." the raven mumbles under his breath.
"Teme, what did you say?" the blonde asks as she glares at the stoic raven.
The corner of his lips twitch slightly as he smirks at her "You know your really cute when you glare like that"
Her glare softens to that of surprise as she looks at the stoic Uchiha as though he had grown another head. She could feel warmth spread across her face which could only mean that she was blushing "Eh...?!" it seemed as though she couldn't say anything to him, after all it wasn't every day you hear an Uchiha confess how they think a girl looks since they appear to be asexual to everyone else.
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Half the day had gone by and neither one of them was sure what time it was, already some of the food that was in the room was gone and now the two occupants within the room had grown quiet, those on the outside of the door were trying to listen for any sounds coming from within the room and so far they hadn't heard any arguing from neither of the two in the room, everything was just quiet.
Within the room was another story, the windows were slightly open to allow the light breeze to enter the room, both the prince and the princess were still sitting on the navy satin covered lounge though Naru was laying down, her head resting on Sasuke's lap, her eye lids were growing heavy as the raven haired male kept stroking her long blonde hair as he looks down at her, a small smile on his face. Kyuubi had long since moved off of the ravens lap and was now curled up along side Naru.
"You know, I have to admit that you have become more beautiful" he says to her softly as he brushes a few stray strands of golden hair out of her face.
At this Naru blushes slightly from the comment, pink pouty lips turning up into a small smile "Hmm...and you've become more handsome" she says to him as she turns her body and head slightly so that she could now look up at him without disturbing the sleeping kitsune beside her.
"Your even more beautiful when you blush" he whispers softly, causing light blush dusting her cheeks to darken more which only makes him laugh slightly.
Sky blue eyes lock together with onyx eyes, neither one of them looking away from the other, slowly a tanned hand moves up towards the other's face, soft warm fingers gently running over smooth pale skin as she brushes her fingers over his cheek lightly, it wasn't long before a pale hand came up to meet the other, pale fingers lightly touching the tanned flesh of the others hand before their fingers interlock with one another's. Neither one of them letting go as Sasuke brings their hands back down to rest on the soft fabric of the lounge.
"You should go to sleep your tired, don't worry I'll wake you once we can get out of here" he says to her softly as his free hand begins to stoke her hair, gently lulling her to sleep.
Nodding her head slightly she turns her head back to the side once more, her eyes lids growing more heavy every passing minute until they finally close, her breathing slowly becoming even, showing that she was finally sleeping peacefully. A small smirk crosses he stoic Uchiha's lip as he watches her, she looked more innocent and fragile while she slept then what she was when she was awake.
Unfortunately neither of them once noticed the silver haired man who had entered the room through the window, nor did they notice him cast a sleeping spell which had caused Naru to fall asleep though it seemed to take longer for it to take effect on Sasuke. Gradually though the raven haired Uchiha finally fell asleep, his head lolled to the side slightly as his eyes closed, his breathing becoming even, indicating that he was now asleep.
"Orochimaru-sama isn't going to like this" he says quietly as he pushes his glasses back up the bridge of his nose with his index finger.
Slowly he then walks around so that he was now standing in front of the two, though before he could do anything about the situation he heard the sound of clicking, it seemed as though someone was unlocking the doors to the room now. Growling slightly in his mind he quickly made it out of the window just in time as the doors to the room were opened, though he never stayed there long enough to find out who it was that had entered the room.
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The sound of bottles breaking could be heard coming from within Orochimaru's hidden chaimber that was behind his bed chaimber. The normally calm man was now angered by th turn of events that he had witnessed through a large crystal sphere that was in the centre of a marble pedestal. Not long after he moved away from the crystal sphere the images within it began to cloud over once more as a purple cloud swirled around within it awaiting for the next time it would be used to watch whomever the pale man needed to watch.
Oh how he loathed Arashi and the Uchiha's, unknowingly they had caused a large problem im his plans, though now it didn't matter soon one of his problems would be dealt with and he would personally see to it that the person who caused it would die.
It wasn't long before he finally calmed down, after all half of his plan had gone through perfectly without any problems, those who were close to the princess were taken to the castle ruins on the boarder of the Resengan and the Sound kingdom, no one would be able to find them there. It was after all the perfect place to hide people, and that's exactly where the princess and her friends would stay until she accepts his offer all he had to do now was intercept the carriage she would be travelling in and carry out the rest of his plans without there being any interferences from anyone.
Walking over to the wooden table in the room he picks up one of the three vials of purple liquid as he looked over at the two men standing in the room with him, one who's hair was a light shade of blue while the other's who's long white hair was tied into a low ponytail at the nape of his neck. "Kimimaru, Mizuki both of you are to help intercept the Kings carriage, you two will both force that imbecile guard and Naru-hime's sensei to drink these so that when I say the right words the curse will take effect upon all of them, once that happens you are to help me take them to the old castle ruins on the boarder" he says as he hands both of them a vial each.
"Orochimaru-sama what about the King and the Princess?" Kimimaru asks as he takes the small vial of purple liquid from the snake like mans hands.
A large twisted smile spreads across the paler mans face as he looks at his two servants "I will deal with the King personally, the Princess is not to be harmed, I will be the one to give her the potion after all once they drink it they will be easy to handle until we can get them to the castle ruins. I would like it if you two could keep an eye on them once the curse has been placed upon them, after all I can't have any of them trying to run away especially Naru-hime" he says to them as his yellow slitted eyes glow slightly in anticipation.
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It wasn't long ago that the brown carriage carrying Kakashi, Iruka, King Arashi and Princess Naru had left the Uchiha castle, by now the sun had sunk into the horizon all traces of the bright light leaving the darkening sky, the only visible things in the sky now were the twinkling stars and the bright blood moon, which was a very rare occurrence. Awhile ago the carriage had stopped so that the driver could light the two lanterns beside his seat and the small lantern within the carriage.
Within the carriage both Kakashi and Iruka were speaking to one another though the silver haired guard was still reading the orange novel in his hands, both of them were making sure that their voices were quiet enough so as not to disturb the sleeping blonde haired beauty who was leaning against her father. His arm was wrapped around her slightly as he absentmindedly stroked some of her long blonde tresses, her head was leaning against his shoulder, there was also a slight smile on her calm face which would only be there because she was thinking about a certain Uchiha whom she had grown to love in only a matter of two days. Her right hand was resting on the sleeping kitsune who was curled up on her lap, its fluffy orange and black tipped tail laying over it's legs, the tip of its tail tucked under his chin, her left hand facing palm up as it rested on her lap.
Outside the carriage both Anko and Kabuto were following closely within the tree's, using some of the powers their master had given them to jump from tree branch to tree branch at fast speeds so that they could easily keep up with a carriage or anyone trying to run from them. They were growing closer to the spot where the carriage would be intercepted and now it was only a matter of minutes.
A large animal jumped out into the road, startling both the horses and the driver who had tried to pull the carriage to a halt, though before the carriage could fully stop the sound of a loud roar which sounded strangely familiar to that of a tigers, the driver was attacked by the large cat. The harness holding the horses to the carriage snapped allowing the horses to flee. By now everyone within the carriage was on alert, even the princess who was asleep was now awake. The rocking of the carriage finally stopped as though whatever was on top of it was now finally off, the sound of a body hitting the ground was the only thing to break the silence.
On the outside of the carriage three figures descended from the tree's, each of them hiding in the dark shadows while the forth slowly transformed from a tiger into a human once more. The fifth and final figure stood in the middle of the road, though he was still shrouded within the dark shadows, moments after he appeared the sound of both glass lanterns shattering rung through the quiet forest, the lights within them going out as soon as the glass shattered. A thick mist spread throughout the area to make it hard for anyone to see where they were going.
In an instant the carriage was knocked over onto its left side, Arashi held onto Naru tightly as he shielded her from getting hurt, Kakashi had done the same with Iruka. Slowly Naru pulled away from her father and pulled Kyuubi closer to herself, the little fox within her arms, kept squirming around and growling, he could smell the people around them and he didn't like any of them at all.
"Naru I want you to stay in here... No buts!." he says as he notices that she was going to protest "If anything happens I want you to run back to the Uchiha castle and tell them what happened. No matter what happens you got that" Arashi says to her as he holds onto her arm firmly and waves his finger at her to get his point across, hesitating slightly the blonde haired princess slowly nods her head to indicate that she understood.
Looking over at Kakashi they both nod as the silver haired guard pushes the carriage door open, standing up he looks around outside but he could barely see a thing due to the thick fog, after a few minutes he pulls himself out of the carriage and climbs off of it, walking around he looks for any signs of what had caused it though he couldn't see anyone or anything. Arashi climbed out of the carriage not long after Kakashi did, walking around to the front of it, the blonde haired man notices the body of the driver not far from them. Walking over to the corpse he crouched down only to see that the mans body was torn to shreds, the reason why he didn't scream was because his throat was ripped out when he was first attacked.
Iruka slowly climbed out of the carriage though he stayed sitting on it, not long after he had climbed out the four figures hiding amongst the tree's rushed out onto the road and instantly started attaching the three men from the carriage. Both Mizuki attacked Kakashi while both Kabuto and Anko attacked Arashi on his own and Kimimaru attacked Iruka, though none of them had any weapons. The four that had attacked were slowly drawing Arashi, Kakashi and Iruka away from one another and away from the carriage.
Gradually Orochimaru slowly walked towards Kabuto and Anko as the silver haired man stopped attaching the blonde haired king. As soon as Arashi saw Orochimaru standing in between Kabuto and Anko his eyes widened. "Kukuku, you should see your face Arashi-sama... though I wonder what it will look like when you watch as I take your lovely daughter from you."
Arashi's eyes narrow as he looks at tall pale man in disgust "You wouldn't dare, I will kill you before you get a chance to, and if I don't the Uchiha's surly will. You traitorous teme"
"Kukuku... neither you nor the Uchiha's will get a chance to especially if you are dead" the snake like man says as he walks closer to Arashi, a sword appearing in his hand, a green gem embedded within the hilt, snakes wrapped around the handle, some of the looking as though they have slithered up the blade.
While they were talking neither of them noticed that both Kakashi and Iruka had been forced to drink the potion while they were talking, now they were laying on the ground unconscious. Now Mizuki and Kimimaru were walking up behind Arashi, knowing that the king would put up a fight against their master they quickly grab either of his arms and try to hold him into place as Orochimaru stands close enough to the blonde haired man.
Naru stood up after awhile, everything had become quiet again, lifting Kyuubi up she places him on the outside of the carriage before she holds onto either side of the door a lifts herself out. Looking around she couldn't see anyone due to the fog that was still covering the area, though she didn't need to be able to see through the fog to know that something was wrong. It was a feeling she had within her mind that was telling her to run even if her father and sensei's were in trouble. Her instincts were telling her that what ever had caused this had the air of evil around it, it was similar to the feeling she always got around her fathers adviser Orochimaru, she never could stand being alone in the same room as that man, he always seemed to be more like a snake then a human.
Quickly Naru climbed off of the carriage making sure that she was quiet, she had no idea if the people who had attacked were still there or not and she didn't want to alert them to what she was doing if they were. Once on the ground she picks up the front of her skirt so as not to step on it and trip, taking another look around she starts running in the direction of the Uchiha's castle, making sure to follow the road instead of cutting through the forest. Not once did she look back to see if she was being followed, nor did she look down to see if Kyuubi was following her since she already knew the kitsune would follow her no mater what.
Orochimaru looked towards the direction of the carriage, in some strange way he could tell that Naru was no longer anywhere near the carriage "It seems as though Naru has run off. It doesn't matter though I can easily find her, she wont get to far" he says letting Arashi know that she couldn't escape no mater where she went. "You on the other hand wont get the luxury of being alive to witness what I have planned for your beautiful daughter" he says to the blonde haired king as he turns his attention back to look into his blue eyes though his eyes were the same azure colour as his daughters they didn't seem to have the same kind of light within them that the princess did.
Though before he could finish blood had splattered on the ground from both the wound in his stomach and the blood he had coughed up. Looking down he see's the sword sticking through his stomach, his gaze then shifts up to the man holding the sword, the last thing he saw was the sinister smile on his face before his head finally dropped. Orochimaru pulled the sword back out and cleaned the blood off on Arashi's shirt. Mizuki and Kimimaru then let go of his arms, allowing the former king to fall to the ground face first, his body no longer moving since the breath had left his body not long after the sword had entered through him.
Naru wasn't sure how long she had been running for, she wanted to slow down though her mind kept forcing her to run no mater how much her body protested against it, no mater how far she ran she was still stuck within the thick fog. Upon hearing a few noises as though someone was following her she stops and looks around, though she couldn't see anyone and as soon as she stoped it seemed as though the noises had stoped as well.
Slowly emerging from the ground a large pile of mud started to rise up and slowly take on a shape of a tall man, slowly the mud started to disappear and Orochimaru now stood in it's place a few feet behind Naru. The blond haired girl slowly took a few steps back though just as she turned around Orochimaru had grabbed a hold of her neck causing her to gasp as her eyes widen in fear.
"Hello little Hime" he hisses as his grip on her throat tighten slightly.
Naru looks up at him, her fingers tightly gripping onto his hand an wrist, trying to pry his fingers from her neck though the effort seemed futile since his grip wouldn't give.
"Kukuku... Don't worry little Hime I wont hurt you, I just want to give you a little something"
His hand reaches into his pocket before it finally emerges with a vial of purple liquid, taking a hold of the cork in it with his teeth he then spits it out before bringing his hand up to her opened mouth and pouring the liquid into her mouth until the vial was empty. Tossing the small glass vial away he then covers her mouth with his free hand before she could spit it out into his face. As soon as it hit her tongue she started struggling more to get out of his grip, wanting to spit the disgusting liquid in his face.
"Shhh...It's not going to kill you just relax and swallow it" he says to her softly in her ear.
He then moves his hand away from her neck and brings her body closer to his until her body is pressing up against him, his now free arm circling her waist so that it was harder for her to get away. With his hand covering her mouth he then moves it up slightly to block her nose, stopping her from breathing and forcing her to swallow. Once he knows that he had swallowed it he moves his hand from her mouth and around her shoulders. Looking up at the snake like man Naru frowns slightly as she starts to feel light headed, her vision becoming blurry as she try's to blink which only causes her eye lids to grow heavy. Groaning softly she brings her hand up to her head in an attempt to steady herself even though she wasn't moving, after a few seconds she finally passes out, her body becoming limp in Orochimaru's arms as he picks her up bridal style and disappears into the thick fog along with Anko, Mizuki, Kimimaru, Kabuto and the two others that had been both drugged and partially cursed.
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Orochimaru looks at the blonde haired girl standing before him, he looked at her with a hurt expression as he walks around her, ignoring the looks of disgust he was getting from her friends that were standing near the lake, though there was nothing that they could do to him, it seems as though while the potion was in their systems it stopped them from attacking the person who made it. Ever since the snake had told her that he had killed her father she didn't look at him, instead her head was bowed slightly as to hid the tears that she was trying to stop from showing.
"I really didn't want to upset you" he says to her softly as he stands close enough to her to brush a few of her bangs away from her face before he gently brushes his cold fingers across her cheek, resting them under her chin as he slowly brings her face up so that she would look at him.
After a few minutes a single tear slowly slides down her right cheek "It breaks my heart so see you like this... Maybe I could find a way to bring him back for you... that is if you agree to marry me" he says to her softly as he brushes the tear from her cheek.
The blonde haired girl looks up at him in anger "Heart... what heart, you're a cold heartless teme, I'd sooner die then marry a snake like you" she says to him as she smacks his hand away from her face and takes a few steps back away from him.
"I really wish that I didn't have to do this but you have left me with no other option." gradually he starts forming a numerous amount of hand seals before finally stopping on the last seal he casts the curse. (I really couldn't think up a name for it so it's now a curse with no name)
Surrounding each and every person standing near the lake they become shrouded in purple smoke, not long after that the smoke slowly dissipates showing that each and every one of them have now changed into animals. Kakashi had changed into a silver wolf, Iruka had now become a brown tabby cat, Kiba a brown dog, Ino a rabbit, Hinata a mouse, Shino a bat (I had to think of something), Lee a frog and Gai had become a turtle. The one who had changed more then the others was Naru herself, through the thin wisps of the purple smoke a large fox the size of a wolf could be seen, though the difference between this fox and a normal one apart from its size were the nine black tipped tails that fanned out and its sky blue eyes.
Orochimaru looks down at the princess in surprise "My, my, well this is certainly unexpected, I never thought you would look like an animal that is very rare, a fox yes but not one with nine tails. Until you accept my offer both you and your friends here will stay cursed to be animals by day and humans by night, there is a slight catch to this curse though, you can only become human at night if you stay here near these caste ruins. If you are anywhere else then you will stay looking like an animal for that night"
Naru looks up at the snake and growls at him before turning around so that her back was facing him, sitting down on her hind she fans her tails out once again so that he couldn't look at her.
Orochimaru looks at her and laughs "No I never expected you to agree straight up, but you will eventually even if I have to force you, after all only I know how to take the curse off of you, I'll keep checking on you every night and ask you if you have changed you mind or not. Until then Hime I will be watching closely." he says to her as his body starts to dissolve into mud before sinking into the ground.
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I can't believe that this is the longest chapter that I have done out of any of my stories and to tell you the truth I found that writing something this long is a pain the the arse and I hope that none of my other chapters take this long ever again.
Ok there is a time skip near the end because well I only needed to cover the main things that happened while they were staying there but because Naru and Sasuke got along so well with one another when they were locked in a room together I decided that Arashi, Naru, Kakashi and Iruka had to go back home earlier then what they planned.
Till next chapter... Ja Ne.