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And Naruto won't meet Shadow again until the next chappie, so be paitient. But Kyuu meets him in this one.
Hehe, Kyuubi has a dirty mouth in this one.
Chapter 2
Naruto sat at his desk in the Hokage Tower, staring at the team of genin in front of him. Kyuubi, Chika, Daisuke, and Hayato were curently waiting for their next mission. They reminded him so much of himself and his team when they were genin. Daisuke was like him, loud and hard nosed, Chika was like Sakura, a possesive fan girl, then Hayato was like Sasuke, quite and proud. And of course that meant that Kyuubi was like Kakashi, strong, a pervert, and laid back. The young Hokage smirked inwardly and started to explain a mission that he was sure was going to keep them busy.
"Now then, your next mission is to catch the Daimyo's (sp? But if not its that fat lady with the cat.) cat, Tora, again. He ran away—again—and you need to bring him back safely." 'Three... two... one...'
"NO!!! NO, NO!!! NO WAY IN HELL!!!" screemed Daisuke. No suprise, and Naruto supressed a sigh. "Why do we have to get such boring missions?!"
"Because that's the mission that I gave you. Now leave, and this time, try to bring the damned cat back by sundown." the genin filed out and Kyuubi stayed behind breifly.
"You do relise that Daisuke has said that he wants to kill you on several occasions, right."
"I'm aware of that Kyuubi."
"Just making sure Naruto." said the crimson haired fox demon over his shoulder as he left. Naruto chuckled and turned to his crystal ball to watch the genin team. They had already located the cat—that was fast-- and were chasing after it. Then he noticed a shadowed figure in the corner of the crystal ball. He focased on it, and noticed that it was the same kitsune as the day before. Its eyes were following the cat, and Naruto raised and eyebrow as it bunched its mucles and leaped at it, successfully catching it by the scruff of the neck. The cat howled and yowled, clawing at the kitsune's muzzle. The kitsune just gave it a violent shake, and it fell limp like a kitten. Then, the kitsune deposited it in the arms of Kyuubi, who was quite supprised.
"H-how did you know how to catch the cat?" stammered Kyuubi. The kitsune barked out a reply that was translated into: 'I had to help a genin team catch it on several occations years ago, so I know the tricks of the trade.' Kyuubi quirked an eyebrow at this, but shook it off, and thanked the kitsune, who nodded and sped off into the forest.
The team of genin and Kyuubi were back in Naruto's office in no time, and poor Tora was being strangled—er, hugged—by his owner. Everyone in the room was thinking the same thing. 'Poor thing, no wonder it keeps running away.' and Naruto could have sworn it was crying. When the cat and woman were gone, Naruto turned back to the other inhabitants in the room. Daisuke was busy telling them a story about when he pulled a prank on Naruto himself.
"Hey! Pay attention!" yelled the blonde. They turned their attention back to him, and he cleared his throught. "Now then, this one will be a little more challenging. There have been reports of a strange creature roaming around the forest, and you have to catch it, or find evidence of it, enough so that I can judge its streagth, and send out the proper ninja. This is a B-rank mission." Daisuke jumped for joy, and Chika and Hayato smacked him on the head. Daisuke was nothing like his father, Shikamaru, which was a good thing and a bad thing. A good thing because it meant that he would turn out to be stronger than his father, and a bad thing because—his endless enthusiasm and energy meant that he drove everyone in the village crazy. In fact, many of the villagers called him a second Naruto.
The team filed out again, Daisuke complaining about Chika's taste in men—he had a crush on her, and she had a crush on Hayato—and Chika was retaliating by either hiting him or yelling, and Kyuubi was trying to get them to calm down, as for Hayato, he was just walking and rolling his eyes at his team mate's and sensei's actions.
-----------With the kitsune----------
The kitsune smirked when it heard that Naruto was going to have people looking for it. It had been perched on his windowseil, in a position that hid it from view, but allowed it to listen. It jumped down when Naruto turned his chair around to look out the window, and ran out into the village to give the genin and Kyuubi a wild goose chase.
It caught up to them in no time and purposefully landed on Daisuke to get him riled up. It worked, and the genin was after the kitsune as soon as he was on his feet. All of a sudden, the kitsune was stopped in its tracks. It looked down to see its shadow extended, and looked behind it to see Daisuke crouched down, his hands in the position for a shadow posession. It smirked and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"A shadow clone?! How did it do that!?" cried Kyuubi. He descretly sniffed the air—his team dosen't know who and what he is—and sped off in the direction the kitsune's scent was coming from. He met it in a wooded area, it was hangging upside down on the underside of a branch.
"Hi there! Supprised to see me?" it called down.
"I have no idea what you mean by that. Do I know you?"
"Why Kyuu, I'm wounded. I can't belive you don't recognize your own brother!" it said with fake hurt in its voice.
"Huh?" the kitsune snorted and leaped down from the tree, landing neatly infront of Kyuubi. It sat down, and waited for its appearance to click in Kyuubi's mind. It smirked when Kyuubi's eyes widened. "S-Shadow?! I... how... what?!"
"Don't strain yourself." cut in Shadow blandly. "I'll explain everything next time we meet. But in the mean time, do not let Naruto, or anyone else know that you saw me. As for evidence on how strong I am..." he smirked and leaped at Kyuubi, scoring claws across his torso and face, not to give him mortal wounds, but to give the evidence that Naruto asked for.
"Ouch! What was that for asshole?!"
"You wanted proof that I was stronger then your team could handle, and I gave it. Ja!" he said, and disappeared in a puff of smoke. No sooner had he disappeared, Daisuke, Chika, and Hayato appered beside him.
"Are you alright Kyuubi-sensei?" asked Chika in a worried voice.
"I'm fine." he grunted. "It was a kitsune that attacked, and I have a feeling that it is what we're looking for, but it was too fast, and got past my guard. Let's report back to Naruto, and get this mess straitened out."
----------With Naruto--------
"What the hell happened to you!?" screamed the blonde Hokage.
"Shut up will you and give me a chance to tell the story you impatient asshole!" shot back Kyuubi. Naruto took a deep breath to calm himself, and sat back down—he had gotten up, ready to strangle Kyuubi for getting him self wounded like that on such a simple mission. "Now then. It is a kitsune that we're looking for. It attacked me, and got past my guard with amazing speed, I couldn't fight it because it ran away. I think that we walked up on it and startled it." he said, stomping on Daisuke's foot when he opened his mouth to correct him.
Naruto looked at the nine-tails suspiciously, but didn't press him, telling him to go home and get some rest. Chika asked woridly about his wounds, but Kyuubi reassured her that he would be fine by morning. The team plodded out, and dispersed to go to their respective houses, while Naruto turned back to his mountain of paperwork. He groaned at the size of it.
"Looks like I'll have to be late for dinner again." he muttered.
-----------Back with Shadow--------
Shadow snickered when he heard Naruto complain. He knew just how the blonde felt as far as paper work, and decided to give the blonde a break. So, creating a kage bunshin, he henged it into a chunin ninja, and had it tell Naruto to leave with some phony excuse. When the blode was gone, he carefuly opened the window and slipped in. He padded up to the desk, and leaped into the chair. Henging into his human form, he cracked his knuckles and started to sign the papers in Naruto's name with practiced ease.
He was able to get all of the paper work signed by morning, and slipped back out of the window, closing it behind him.
Naruto walked in about an hour later. He looked at his... empty desk. Not a piece of paper was left. "What the hell?" he muttered in confusion. Then he noticed large pawprints on the window, and went to investigate. They looked like kitsune pawprints, but were bigger than a regular kitsune's. He also noticed that the window was unlocked, but he distinctly remembered locking it before he left. What ever or who ever it was, was an expert at infiltrating. But he was thankful to whoever signed his paper work, and smiled when he relized that that meant he would get the day off to spend with Atsuko and Hinata.
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