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Chapter 9
All Shadow could think at this particular moment was: 'Why me?' Naruto had managed to activate the Kitsunegan and now, the black fox had to figure out a way to get the blond to shut up for a grand total of five minutes and listen... that and hold still long enough to see anything that the kitsune had to show him. Unfourtunatly, the Kitsunegan could only be used when one was in his or her demon form, so... lets just say that Shadow was in for a wild time.
Infact, he had already placed an order for reinforced chains and pills that were supposed to help one focas on what the other was saying. He was just praying that they would work... the chains that is... though, he had little faith in the pills as well. Now he had to wait the 'two to four work days' as the overly cheery lady over the phone said for them to arrive. Until then, regular chains would have to suffice.
All Shadow had to do now was plan his own funeral. A second funeral that is, and he was not looking forward to it at all.
Plugging his ears and trying to block out Naruto's excessive chatter, the fox bit back a snarl as his head throbbed in one of the many places that the blond had hit him. Poor Shadow was just about ready to go back to the gorge in the demon relm and fling himself off of it again. This time, he wouldn't come back, deepest pits of Hell or not.
Just as Naruto was about to ask another pointless question, Shadow started to growl in a low, threatening tone, his red eyes practicly glowing with annoyance. The blond shrunk back and laughed nervosly, his golden ears folded back.
"Now that you're quiet." the black fox gritted out, "Let me explain how to use the Kitsunegan." and that started a long speech that Shadow could have sworn Naruto only half heard. In fact, the blond looked like he was ready to fall asleep, and the black fox couldn't blame him. He was in the same situation when Fear, his father, had explained it to him. Only, Shadow had actualy fallen asleep, earning a smack on his head from his father and mother, Heather-eyes.
Once he finished, Naruto was suporting his head with his hand and his eye lids were drooping over his bright blue eyes. Snickering, the fox thought up a way to scare Naruto out of his pants. Pop. Quiz! So, the fox started dishing out questions, about ¾ of which Naruto missed.
"I give you... 40 percent. That was pathetic, even for you." the fox comented. "Here's a book that has the basic properties of the Kitsunegan. Read it, learn it, love it. I'll come in tomorrow to see what you know." he said, slamming down a huge, and man, do I mean huge, book infront of the horrified blond. Trotting out of the room, Shadow just barely managed to hold back a laugh until he reached the front door of the Uzumaki complex, then, he lost it, laughing all the way to Ichiraku, where he was meeting Kyuubi for lunch.
"So? How did he do?" he asked a hystarical Shadow.
"Not very well, even for him. Signing all that paper work tends to sap your know-how until you're an empty eyed zombie with a pen in hand." the black kitsune remarked, managing to hold back another fit of laughter. Their ramen was placed infront of them, making Shadow make a face. "I swear. The brat rubbed off on you in the how ever many years it was you were sealed in him." he growled in disgust. Kyuubi just laughed and slurrped his ramen up, while Shadow picked slowly at his, as though he thought it would come alive and attack him. The black fox wouldn't be surprised if it actualy did.
He smirked when Kyuubi nearly fell out of his chair when an ANBU in a cat mask poofed behind them. "Hey Sasuke." he said, slidding his half empty bowl infront of his brother.
"Yo. What're you doing here? I thought you hated ramen." the raven commented, taking his mask off.
"I do." Shadow deadpanned. "Mister 'I got sealed twenty times in my very short but at the same time too long for his poor brother's sake' over here won a bet that allowed one of us to choose where we eat for the next month."
"What did you bet on?" he heard Shadow grumble something inchoharent. "I'm sorry, what was that?" he said with a smirk. If it was something to get Shadow this ruffled, it must be either very good, or very stupid.
"Which ever one of us could go the longest with out swearing or using any other form of profanity. I lost with in ten damn minutes. And of course he has to pick the one place where I can't eat anything that I like, other than rice balls, but those aren't very filling to me."
"And don't forget Shadow, you have to finish a whole plate." Kyuubi remarked, slidding the bowl back in front of the black fox, much to said fox's displeasure.
"Kyuubi! For the sake of me!" he protested.
"Sorry bro. There's no getting out of this deal." the nine-tails said with a large smirk.
"Some deal. You god damned knew that I couldn't go very long without swearing, cursing, or using profaninty."
"Ah... but I never said that you couldn't swear in different languages."
"You... YOU BASTARD!!!" Shadow snarled, lunging at Kyuubi, making them disappear in a cloud of dust, random limbs and heads appearing now and then before Shadow gave a mighty heave and flung the crimson kitsune across the street and through a wall into someone else's kitchen, making the people there scream and run. But Shadow wasn't done there. Oh no. He leaped at his brother and started to claw and bite at various parts of the other fox's body, before taking out one of his daggers and trying to make sure that Kyuubi never had kids.
Sasuke being the honorable person that he is—who had also just sat back and watched up until now—decided that enough was enough. He grabbed Shadow's scruff and wrenched him off of Kyuubi, not even a second before the dagger met its mark. The raven began to drag the black kitsune to Naruto's place, leaving inch deep rutts from said fox's claws in the ground as he tried to get back over to Kyuubi to finish his 'job.' And he was winning, crawling slowly back to his brother so he could remove his reason for being called a man.
"Aw hell." Sasuke muttered, before whistling high and long. Several other ANBU, Lee and Kiba among them appeared next to him and started to tug at Shadow's legs and tail to force him away from Kyuubi. The only thing that they did was make him stop moving, though Shadow was still clawing at the ground.
"What the hell made him this mad?!" Kiba huffed out, yanking on the fox's tail persistantly.
"Kyuubi-san said something unyouthful didn't he?!" Lee demanded. Sasuke could only nodd and continue pulling. They finaly managed to start the slow process of dragging the fox home—taking a grand total of four hours for the otherwise five minutes trip. So, you can kind of say that Kyuubi would have to go into hiding for a week or so... like he had to do several time before now, and avoid Shadow for about a month.
So? Sorry it took so long. I got grounded because I got an unusualy low grade on my progress report last week and couldn't get on the computer before today. Reveiw! Ja!