Ryu: Ok, sorry sorry. So we're a bit late updating.
Mech: It's not my fault. I'm cheap and can't really afford internet.
Gaara: You know that's not the reason. Don't lie.
Mech: Looks away guiltily
Ryu: Fine, fine. I'll tell them. He's been too busy drawing hentai.
Mech: Damn you, evil Desert Dragon!
Ryu: Bite me. They deserve to know.
Mech: Fine! Then what's your excuse for not having updated in...oh, wait...HOW long has it been?
Ryu: Growls That is privileged information.
Gaara: Don't lie.
Mech: It's a need-to-know, and they need to know.
Sumomo: She's just lazy and has writer's block!
Ryu: Hides under desk Go away!
Squall: Whatever...
Chapter 6: Possession
"Damn it Riso, I told you to stay in bed… Naruto! Get in here, there's something wrong with our son"
I woke up on the floor, mom standing over me with a look of utter horror on her face. I felt like i had just gotten run over by a herd of Sasukes chasing a Dango Mochi vendor. I leaned on mom as I rose. The whole world looked different, as if I had on tinted sunglasses. A voice was bouncing around in my head, telling me about how this came to be.
"Your father has sealed away in him a demon, a nine tailed fox spirit. When your father created new life, so did his inner demon. Thus I was born into your body. For some unknown reason, I cannot escape from this shell I have been cast in, but now I don't want to. We can do many things together you and I. There are many out there who we can hurt, who deserve pain for the suffering they cause others. And now we are perfectly melded , two parts of the same whole!"
As my vision started to fade, Naruto picked me up and laid me back on my bed. As he did so, I felt a strange lump on my rear end. It started to grow, so I said so to my father. He checked and called out the hallway to my mother.
"Hinata, honey, there is something growing out of our son's deriere." Getting no answer, he went out to find her.
I felt behind me, finding a rather large and bushy fox tail. I couldnt help it, I started screaming. I mean, it can't be normal to sprout animal body parts, right? Then, it twitched. I panicked. I literally flipped out. I started running around the room, screaming. The sound woke Ikari, who had fussed at the medical staff until they let him stay in the room with Nami.
"What's going on?" he asked, slightly sleepily. Suddenly, he saw my tail and his eyes widened. Then, there were two people flipping out. "What is it? What happened? Did they do something to you? Is it contagious?" He backed up to the wall next to Nami's head. "Stay back! Whatever it is, I don't want it too!"
The room didn't have quite enough floor space in my opinion, so when I hit a wall, I attempted to climb it. Suprisingly, it worked. I ran on all fours up the wall to the ceiling, raced along the ceiling, down the opposite wall and across the floor. Wash, rinse, repeat. I finally decided to stay clinging to the ceiling, eyes roving the room. Ikari was attempting to meld himself into Nami's bed. Suddenly, the door crashed open and Hinata and Naruto burst in.
"Riso! Riso, where are you?" Hinata scanned the room quickly. She stood at the foot of my bed, looking around. Naruto stood in the doorway, looking confused.
I dropped down from the ceiling, landing on my hands and feet on my bed. Hinata jumped a good three feet and whipped around to face my dad.
"What is going on?"
He looked startled. "Um, that's why I got you. I have no idea. All I know is that Riso now seems to have a tail."
She whipped around again, and her eyes widened at the sight of my new tail, thrashing violently. I was confused, scared and quite pissed off at the lack of answers for why I had suddenly grown a tail. Hinata glanced over the rest of me, and when she looked into my eyes, she stopped and stared. I was beginning to get what that meant, and ran to the mirror. My eyes had turned red and my pupils were foxlike!! I managed to keep from flying off the handle again, up until the point that my hand went to mirror and I realized why I had been able to cling to the walls and ceiling. Then, I proceeded to flip out again. Finally, when I was flying from one side of the room to the other, Naruto managed to catch me and hold me down until I had calmed.
I looked up into my fathers eyes, fear tightening my stomach. "Dad, what's going on? Why do I have claws and a tail and weird eyes?"
Naruto looked at me with a deadly serious expression on his unusually pale face. "Son, I want you to focus deep inside yourself, and tell me if you hear a strange voice."
My lips began to move on their own and a voice that definately wasn't mine came out. "No need to look deep, I'm right here at the surface.I am your son's demon, and we are almost perfectly melded into one being. Don't worry, I have no intention of stealing control, just giving him the power that rightfully belongs to him." At that, images flashed through my mind, explaining in an instant what would have otherwise taken hours. Though it seemed that these new features would be permanent, they lost significance in the face of what I was now capable of.
Then I passed out again.
Three days later...
"Mom, I'm going out to train!" I yelled, walking towards the door.
"Alright, but don't over do it!" Hinata shouted at me as I left.
"Yeah, yeah," I muttered as I left. That's all I'd heard since I'd gotten out of the hospital.
I caught up with Suisaiga on my way out, and asked him if he wanted to train with me, but he just shook his head and walked away. I sighed and watched him go.
"He's been weird for a while. Ah, well. Who can I train with? Nami's still in the hospital, so that rules out her and Ikari. Suisaiga's all distracted, and Ryuko's busy with his clan." I sagged as I realized that the list of people I could train with was getting small. Then I thought of something.
"That's alright, I guess I'll go train with Kama."
I began my trek to Kama's place, my new ears that sprouted out of the top of my head picking up conversations as I walked by.
"Hey, that's the Hokage's kid!" one guy whispered.
"Yeah, he's even more of a freak than his father was!" someone else replied.
Greaaat, now I'm being made into an outcast, what a wonderful life this is turning out to be. Now I kind of understand what Nami's life must be like. Further down the street, the cuddle squad caught sight of me. It seems that furry ears and a tail were enough to pull Ikari's fan club away, and now they were always trying to pet me whenever they saw me.
They started running towards me, with screams of 'Riso-chan' and 'Riso-sama'. That was my cue to run. Well, I did say I wanted to train today...
Mech: Once again, I apologize for being so late, but I had a few problems. This will continue to get even more demented, so please look forward to the next one!
Ryu: Yeah, just hope that at some point in time we regain the ability to update on a regular basis. Raises an eyebrow at Mech
Mech: What? Just because I damn near forgot I had this going is no reason to look at me like that.