The Kinkou of the Yajuu
I don't own Naruto and Animorphs!
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
-telepathy-
XD Scene change
/ Different point of view
):P Flash back
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Chapter 2
Glancing around the aviary part of the zoo, he takes his time since he's not in a large rush to get this done and over with. He glances at the information on display in front of one of the windows. What gets him is that the picture has a bird with red eyes.
He grins and reads more about the Northern Goshawk. Once he's done skimming through it, he glances at the bird itself. He judges that bird on display is a male and he meets the bird's steady gaze, he found it slightly ironic that there's a bird with about the same red eyes that the Kyuubi has, but what gets him is the how fiercely defensive the Goshawk was of it's nest, something that kind of reminds him of himself.
He sighs and stands as close as he can to the window, he then summons a shadow clone and switches places with it since it was in the exhibit. The bird ruffles his feathers and glares at him, daring him to come closers. He smiles slightly, once more it reminds him of himself. He moves quickly and takes a gentle hold of the bird, he focuses on the fierceness of the bird, of the Goshawk's red eyes, and of the power he can feel from the muscles.
He sighs as he feels something give and he feels the bird relax. He lets go of the Goshawk and is careful to put the bird down. He once more is close to the window and does the replacement jutsu with his shadow clone. His clone vanishes within moments of being within the exhibit.
He spares the Goshawk a parting glance before he heads out to check on the large mammals. He didn't want a canine morph, which means that he should grab a feline morph and he doesn't know if he should acquire a third one at the moment, especially since he can always come back for more later on.
'It not like I'm needing a whole lot muscle at the moment. I wouldn't mind getting use to this morphing first, I really don't want to rush things. Besides, I shouldn't linger any longer then I have to, even though I'm secure in my ability to evade my presence being detected.' He thinks as he walks pass an exhibit of hyenas and of lions.
He pauses and glances at the lions before deciding to try for a more local animal, like a puma or grizzly bear or wolverine. After about thirty minutes, he stands before the exhibit that houses a puma. He can't seem to spy the large feline, but he knows it's in there. He presses his lips together as he ponders how to approach this, he doesn't want his clone attack right off the bat nor does he want to be attacked himself.
He decides to create a least three clones, he stands before the glass as he had with the Goshawk and creates three shadow clones. He switches out with one of them, he notices how edgy his clones were and he glances around at the scenery. "Boss!" The one to his left shouts before it poofs out of existence.
He leaps towards the grey feline with his other clone following his example within seconds. The beast snarls, clearly displeased about the treatment that it's receiving. He groans and increases his strength using chakra; he also begins to focus on the feline that's attempting to maim him.
He mimics what he did with the Goshawk, trying to focus on the strength of the grey fury that he's holding down. He imagines the raw emotions of the cat, concentrating on it's claws and fanged mouth. Like the hawk, something gives and the puma seems to stop and relax, his clone lets go as he maintains connect with the grey feline.
Once he feels that the processes was over, he lets go and backs away from the great cat. He nods at his clone and the clone returns the nod, he switches out as the clone in the exhibit with him vanishes. Soon he's once more out of the exhibit and the remaining clone vanishes.
He watches as the grey feline recovers and snarls at him, clearly angry with the turn of events. He sighs and relaxes as he notices that the great cat was fine, no worst for wear. He checks the time on his watch and he bites his lip, trying to decide whether to try acquiring another beast or leave.
His shoulders sag as he admits he's willing to try another beast, to acquire another dangerous morph. He also knows which to go for, while it's not a bear common to his land, he does want to do something in tribute to Gaara, who has kind of looks like a panda. He heads off to where the grizzly bear exhibit is, he had walked pass it as he headed in this direction.
The grizzly was still sleeping when he arrived back at the exhibit. He sighs, guessing that this one will be easier then acquiring the puma. Within minutes he's within the exhibit, he moves softly towards the bear, he pauses when the bear moves into a more comfortable position.
He smiles at this action, it's not long before he's done with the bear and is making his way out of the zoo. He evades the few patrols and heads back to his base; he's hungry from all of the excitement. He sighs as he puts his arms behind his head; his thoughts go back to a problem that truly worries him, his inability to summon toads.
He's been tried summoning them three days after he found himself in this world and everytime after that for about a month. It was kind of frustrating as well as frightening, it means he's totally cut off from his friends, his teacher, and finally… from the only home he's ever known. He can't help but wonder if he's been listed as a missing nin, while he knows that on principle the Hokage has the final word on all things, he just worries if they some how found a way to override the old woman.
And if they had, what kind of future will he have when, or if, he returns to his home. "I wonder how everyone is, I mean, it's getting to be about a year since I arrived here…" He muses out loud, in a wistful tone.
He knows he's changed, he's become cautious and he doesn't trust easily, not with alien slugs trying to infest human bodies, metal dogs doing who knows what, and a group of six fighting against the alien slugs. While he could attempt to contact those freedom fighters, he just couldn't bring himself to try and make the effort. Plus he doesn't know how they'll react to the fact that he's from some kind of parallel dimension to this one, he doesn't want to get involved in this war, he just wants to find a way to go home again…
XD
He glances around the forest, it's been about three days since he's acquired those three beasts and he finally decided to try them out. He kind of decided on the puma as his first morph, he doesn't know what to expect and he currently would prefer to stay on the ground if something goes wrong. He had been leaning towards the puma more then the grizzly, he wants something stealthy, again just in case something goes wrong.
If things go fine, he can make it home by night fall, by flying home in the body of a Goshawk. He smiles slightly as he watches a pair of sparrows fly through the air, the fact that he might be in the air, like that pair makes him want to get on with it. He summons about five shadow clones and they position themselves in the surrounding trees.
He nods in satisfaction and he brings up the image of the fury in grey, of the feel of those muscles that he remembers the cat processing. He remembers the look in those amber eyes for that split second before he tackled the beast to the ground. Once the image is in his mind, he slowly gathers chakra, sending it to the places he wants transformed first.
He opens his eyes and he feels his muscles and then his very bones begin to shift, to shrink, to grow. He then allows fur to come out; he hears the sounds as his bones finally begin to relocate into their new positions. He falls forwards onto a pair of padded paws. His senses of smell, hearing, and, oddly, touch increase. His eyesight alters, becoming a world of black, blue, green, white, and shades of grey which his brain registers in different colours.
He cocks his head to the side as he feels a new mind come forth, a mind that knows how the body works and how to operate it. The puma within his mind roars as it attempts to take over, but fails. He blinks his new eyes and glances towards his rear; he wags the long tail a few times. He stretches and allows his claws to come out.
He feels the cat's impatience in his mind, he grins slightly and allows the cat to take control of the body, mentally watching and feeling how the body moves, how the cat sees the world. He prompts the body to run, he grins mentally as he feels how the muscles move, the wind ruffling his whiskers, and of the new sights and sounds of the world around him.
His body becomes exhausted at running at top speed for so long and soon he's moving through the forest at a slower pace. He turns to the right and heads back to the place where he morphed; the cat in him seems satisfied about something and didn't give him any trouble. He pauses and glances up to check out one of his shadow clones, the clone waves and nods, he lets out a sigh, which must sound odd coming from a cat.
He walks to where he can smell his human scent. The cat sulks and snarls at the scent, he rolls his mental eyes and focuses on returning to his human form, since he now know kind of what to expect he focuses on speeding up the changes as well as controlling them. Soon he's kneeling on the ground; he beams as he glances around. "Well, that wasn't so bad." He says out loud.
"Time for the next one." One of his clones says and he nods as he waves it off. He stands up once more and takes a deep calming breathe, he mentally begins to construct the image of the bear he acquired. Like he did with the puma, he focuses on the feel of the muscles, the beast's weapons, and on the brown coat, remembering what it felt like under his touch.
Instead of having the muscles and bone change first, he decides to do the fur, his eyes, and his ears. He focuses on having his head transform and then slowly working from there. He didn't speed it up, but just trying to see how much control he has on which body part he wants to transform.
The animal's mind comes forward; he notices the differences between the puma and the bear. He falls forward, the bear was much easier going then the puma had been when it came forward, he shakes his head and with the bear's help, he moves about the area he had chosen. He notices how much the grizzly depended on smells
He notices that the bear was more of a power house then the cat, but didn't have the cat's grace, though the bear's surprisingly agile. He stands up and let's loose a roar, he chuckles mentally as he hears his clone complain and curse. He snorts in amusement and allows himself to fall forward once more.
He cocks his head as a thought comes to him. He sighs and decides to give it a go. He summons chakra and soon he's surrounded by a few shadow clones in bear form. –Well now, that's interesting.- He thinks out loud. "Tell us about it, I almost let go of my hold on this tree when you did that." One of his human clones said. He blinks and asks –You can hear this?- The bears replied mentally as the human clones acknowledge verbally.
He nods and the shadow clones in the form of the bear vanish and he transforms back into his birth from. A thoughtful look on his face, he gazes off into space as his mind speeds through what he just did and what it could mean for him in the future. Slowly he returns from the recess of his own mind and glances at his watch.
His stomach growls and he smiles slightly. The remaining shadow clones drops from their trees and nod to him before vanishing. He climbs up a tree before he begins morphing into the Goshawk. Like with the other two, he controls the changes that occur in his body, he makes sure that his feet were the first part to be transform as he also does his arms and head.
His body shrinks as the rest of his body becomes covered in feathers, his eye sight alters and he loses his sense of smell. His hearing increases and soon the mind of the hawk comes forward, he notices how alert and edgy the bird was, from what he gathers from going through the hawk's mind, the bird wants to mark out a territory of his own.
He shrugs at that desire as a picture of Hidden Leaf flashes in his mind. He ruffles his feathers, beginning to get nervous with what he's about to do. He moves the Goshawk's mind into the pilot seat and the bird launches them off the branch. He gives it a direction of their 'territory' and he settles in, learning what he can from the bird that's in control.
A fear of falling flashes in front of his eyes but he mentally shakes himself, remembering other times when his fear attempted to over come his mind. If he could, he would smile as he begins to accept the fact that he's actually flying through the air. He's not going to try any aerial stunts until he's fully comfortable with his ability to fly about in this body.
He notices the red-tail hawk that seems to hang about Marco, he suddenly feels slightly better knowing that he's not alone in the air, even if the sighting of the other hawk put his hawk's mind more on edge then it was before. The Goshawk ascends higher into the air, just in case the other hawk decides to pick a fight with him. He sighs and gets the hawk's mind back on the task of heading back to his apartment. He feels the bird's reluctance since they spotted the other hawk, but the Goshawk complies with his demands. It's not long before they're close to his base and they land in an alley once he feels out the area using chakra, he transforms back into his human body and heads towards the run down building on foot, his mind going over everything he did in his three new forms.
/ Loren/
She pauses, something isn't right. She jerks as a familiar voice says, "Ok, I get the slugs and I get the transforming teens, what I don't get is you metal dogs." She turns and finds Whisker leaning of her front door.
She couldn't help but stare at the blond teenager, and then what he said sunk in. "You say that like you expect us to be doing something wrong." She says and Whisker replies, "I don't get your guys' angle, is all. I mean look at you! I know you're not human and that you're using some kind of projector to make yourself appear as one. I just don't get why you're here is all."
'Well, that actually seems logical.' She muses to herself, but before she says anything, she listens to a news cast on the collective Chee 'internet' about how the rebel fighters had made contact with one of their own, a Chee named Erek King. She knows what Erek and some of his fellow Chee were doing, pretending to be controllers in order to keep track of what the Yeerks were doing.
She notices that Whisker raised an eyebrow and she gives him a weak grin. "It seems you're not the only one inquiring about us. Those rebels found out about one of the Chee that are spying on the Yeerks." She says and Whisker groans, she can only guess that he didn't want anything to do with the war that's raging on this planet.
"I knew I should have done this sooner." Whisker curses to himself out loud. She had to admit, it was definitely an amusing situation going about lately. "Well, as you have guessed, Chee is the name of our race. Our creators were called the Pemalites…" She begins and informs Whisker of what's she is and how they came to be on this world.
/ Naruto/
He had to admit that the Chee were kind of like Kiba's clan, especially since they did work with dogs, but in the Chee's case, those dogs were living reminders of their creators, the Pemalites. He kind of has to take the Chee's word on their non-violate programming since he didn't feel like testing it out.
He's more then a little relieved when the Chee promised to keep his existence secret from the Animorphs, the name of the rebel humans that Marco is a part of. He kind of shakes his head about the irony of the fact that when he finally decides to confront the Chee, the Animorphs stumble upon them about the same time. The Chee will leave him alone and he's leave them alone, it kind of amused him that the Chee had decided to call him Whisker because of his whisker like scars on his face. He didn't give them his correct name, deciding not to ruins it for them, especially since he's been tricking them by the time he realised that they existed.
To be continued …