Shadow meets Naruto again in this chappie.
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Chapter 3
Naruto shot up in his bed the next day to a loud howling and yowling. Hinata was already up, looking at the door as though she expected what ever it was to burst through it. They got up and proceeded to throw some clothes on. There was a knock on the front door that could be heard over the howling, and Naruto went to open it.
When he looked through the door, he saw a very tired and pissed looking Sasuke and Itachi glaring at him with the full effect of the Sharingan.
"Uh... can I help you?"
"Is Kyuubi constipated again or something?"
"Not that I know of."
"Well then, what is that noise?! We can hear it two streets over!" exclaimed Itachi.
"Naruto-kun! Come in here!" called Hinata from the direction of the kitchen.
"I think that Hinata-chan found the howler." said Naruto leading the Uchiha brothers into the kitchen. There was Atsuko pulling persistantly on the tail of a large black kitsune. Said kitsune was clutching at the door frame for dear life, howling and yowling. It scrabbled to get away, only to tear off some sheetrock on the wall to the side of the kitchen door. Atsuko gave a sharp tug, and the kitsune was pulled off of the door frame. Correction, the door frame was pulled off, the kitsune let go of that and grabbed the wall, howling the whole time.
Hinata meanwhile, was standing over to the side watching the whole thing, trying to hold back laughter. Atsuko finally gave up and let go of the kitsune's tail, only to have it shoot away and hide somewhere in the living room. Sasuke looked confused while Itachi seemed to be trying to remember something, and Naruto just looked lost. He went in the direction that the kitsune had run, and heard a whimpering coming from behind the couch. Then he heard a bit of laughter then a voice.
"You know, your kid has quite a bit of strength. He almost took my tail off." the kitsune's head poked up over the back of the couch, and it grinned at the blonde.
"Um, do I know you?"
"Ten years can do a lot to your memory, can't it kit?" replied the kitsune. "You should still remember me, I mean, didn't you belive that I wasn't dead, when I really was up until three days ago." it grinned at him again and climbed over the back of the couch and plopped down in the middle of it. Naruto walked up to it and gave it a good once over, he even tried to remember its scent by sniffing it. His eyes widened and he stepped back a couple of steps.
"S-S-Shadow? How did you... what...?" poor Naruto passed out then and there on the floor. Shadow just stared at him for a second, that is, until Hinata walked in and saw the blonde sprawled out on the floor, with a large black furred kitsune looking down at him with a confused look on his face.
"Well, didn't expect that reaction." said the fox demon. He then looked at Hinata and smiled. "Hi! Happy to see an old friend? Eh, have any idea on how to wake him up?" Hinata, who already knew that Shadow was alive and well, shook her head. "Is there any ramen in the vacinity?"
"Yes, let me see if I can get some fixed up."she replied. Shadow preceded to shake the blonde Hokage to try and wake him up. Hinata came back in a little bit later, and waved the ramed under Naruto's sensitve nose. That got him up fast. Naruto was up, slurping at the ramen hugrily.
"Looks like you still have that obsetion with ramen, eh kit?" asked the black fox. Naruto stared at him, then promptly chocked on his ramen. "Oh no you don't! You're not gonna faint on us again." he sighed and shook his head. "So, aren't you wondering how I'm alive or something like that?"
"Yes, I am. But first, lets get teme and Itachi in here so you don't have to explain three times." replied Naruto shakely. Hinata left to go into the kitchen and came back with Sasuke and Itachi trailing behind her. Sasuke stopped short when he saw Shadow, but Itachi kept walking. The elder Uchiha had suspected that the howling black kitsune from earlier had been Shadow, he just never placed it in the right place in his mind. "Back to what you were saying."
Shadow cleared his throught and started weaving the tale of his grand escape from the firey pit. Then he told about when Naruto attacked him, and when he helped Kyuubi catch Tora, and then when he took care of Naruto's paperwork. When he said that, he glared pointedly at the blonde hanyou, who looked sheepish, but didn't say anything. "So, any questions?" he said when he finished. He looked around the room, Sasuke and Naruto seemed to be trying to connect the dots, Itachi and Hinata looked like they had been told they were going to die in an hour and they had to do everything that they ever wanted to in that short time, Atsuko looked lost. "Uh, you guys ok?"
"So, how did you get in the house?" asked Naruto
"Your kid found me in the back yard and dragged me by the tail inside, that's why I was howling and yowling like a constipated Kyuubi." he deadpanned. Naruto nodded his head and smiled at Atsuko. "And how... never mind, I know the answer already."
"What?"
"Well, I was going to ask how you got so many tail in such a short amout of time, then I remembered that hanyous mature faster than full blooded demons."
"Yeah, Kyuubi explained that to me when I got two at one time." replied Naruto sheepishly.
"Speeking of whom, where is Kyuubi. I haven't seen him."
"He's still asleep. He can sleep through any thing."
"True, very true. Any way, since its still early, why don't you guys get back to bed, I won't keep ya." Naruto nodded and prodded Itachi—who had fallen asleep—awake, and walked with Hinata and Atsuko back to their rooms. Shadow bid the Uchiha brothers farewell, and curled up on the couch to get some long needed rest.
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