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 3
Glancing around the air, confused as to why he's in this part of the forest. He notices an eagle and that Red-tailed Hawk to his far right. He aims for a tree and lands on a branch, his mind trying to figure out what's going on. He takes notice of people on dirt bikes and jeeps; he also spies the guns that they're carrying as well.
He glances to where he last saw the eagle and the other hawk before launching himself into the air, allowing the Goshawk's mind to fly as he begins to think of reasons why there would be people tearing through the forest on vehicles with guns. The Goshawk sticks to flying through the forest, something which he approves of since he doesn't want to be spotted by those two Animorphs.
He then spies the prey that they're after, if he could, he would scowl as he watches the bladed herbivore races off. He pauses and begins to scout around; something about this was off, way off. It takes him about an hour but he locates another Hork-Bajir.
He rests on a branch, contemplating what to do. As he thinks about it, he watches as the Hork-Bajir stands up with what he thinks is a dazed look on its face. He makes a quick decision and says, -Don't make a sound. Just nod your head if you can hear me.-
The Hork-Bajir nods as it looks alert and looks around, hoping to spot him. He sighs and launches himself from the branch. –Ok, you're on the run and I'm guessing the other one I saw is your mate, again, just nod if this is correct.- He says and the Hork-Bajir nods as it follows him. –Ok, follow me but don't say anything. We can't afford someone hearing you and you'll need your breathe for running.- He tells the bladed alien and he flies off in a different direction then the one the other Hork-Bajir and them had taken.
They pause by a stream, he tells the Hork-Bajir to rest and he finds a spot to de-morph. He sighs and checks his watch, he groans slightly at the time. 'And here I thought I could get home in time to watch the latest episodes of that 70's Show.' He thinks to himself. He sighs and decides to do puma; since he gets this feeling he'll need it.
He moves towards the stream, the Hork-Bajir looks startled and he says, -It's just me. So, you're rested?- The Hork-Bajir nods and he sighs, soon he's leading the alien towards the mountains, figuring that it's where the Animorphs are headed.
XD
He watches as the two 'dead' Hork-Bajir get eaten by 'wolves.' He has to admit, that plan they came up with was pretty clever. He watches as the Visser Three and the controllers leave. He sighs as the Animorphs transform back into their true bodies.
Then the memory of what the Kyuubi said came back to him, the part about a two hour limit. He's tempted to head back home, but a part of him really wants to see this through, especially since he had been involved. 'That and I don't have a night flier in my inventory of morphs.' He muses to himself.
So he trails behind the group, following them to this hide a way that he figures was to serve as the pair's new home. He pays a great deal of mind to how they go about getting into that valley. He waits until the Animorphs were done before sneaking into the valley in his puma form.
"Friend!" Ket shouts and he sits down, the other Hork-Bajir name Jara glances at him with at he hopes is a smile. –So, what are you plans now that your safe?- He asks the pair, he notices a slightly startled look on Jara's face while Ket pats her abdomen. "Have family." Ket says and he chuckles, he then asks, -How many kids do you plan on having?- "One now, other later." Ket answers and he nods. –Well, that's good to know and hopefully it'll work out for you two.- He says and Ket nods rapidly.
"You go now?" Jara asks and he replies, -Yea, I do. I'll come and visit, if neither of you minds. Hope you enjoy your freedom, Ket. Jara.- He turns away as the pair say bye to him. Once he's out of the valley, he transforms back into his birth form and then into his Goshawk morph. Soon he's flying through the air, leaving the hawk portion of his mind takes them to his home on this world.
'One day I'll find a way back to Hidden Leaf, that's a promise.' He thinks firmly. Though a part of him couldn't help but wonder about how those two Hork-Bajir escaped from the Yeerk Pool, but he decides that it doesn't really matter in the end, what did was there were two Hork-Bajir that will soon become parents. He prays to whatever deity out there that those two remain free.
XD
He stands in the construction site, the blue cube in his back pack and some incense burning at the spot he figures where the Andalite that gave those five teens the ability to morph once lay. By his reckoning the Andalite died a good year and a half ago. He sighs as he remembers the Third's funeral.
He had noticed that none of the Animorphs had shown up to pay their respects to the Andalite and so he kind of decided to do something about it. While he missed out on doing it in time that marked the year, he decided to way until six months to that night of the landing. His mind replaying what happened that night, he kind of wished that he knew the guy's name, but he's still reluctant to get involved with this war that's going on below the surface.
He sighs and on looking at his watch, he notices that about thirty minutes has passed. He picks up his pack and walks away, leaving the incense to burn itself out. He can't help but wonder what else to do today. He moves his bag as some punk kid attempts to steal it, he keeps walking, not bothering to see who the kid was.
"Hey! I'll pay for that blue box you have!" He pauses and checks his pack; he curses mentally and closes the zipper. "Not for sale." He informs the blond teen. He can feel the other teenager's eyes on him as he walks away, his mind cursing the fact he didn't check to see if he zipped up his pack all the way.
He decides to head home since he didn't really feel like socializing. Plus he didn't have to worry about a lot of stuff since it'll be a while before he needs money for groceries. 'Too bad I don't have any more scrolls to read.' He thinks to himself, sighing at the fact that he doesn't dare try and perform those jutsu out in the forest, he really doesn't want to attract any attention, well, any more then what he has.
XD
His eyebrow twitches as he finds a raccoon attempting to take off with the blue cube. He balls his fist and using chakra to make him move quickly, slams the fist on top of the raccoon's head. "Damn it! I'm not asking for much here! I just want to be alone and here you are, disrupting that! Geeze, I knew I should have targeted other animals other then rats, mice, and snakes!" He snarls as he picks up the cube from where the raccoon dropped it.
-What are you?- The raccoon asks, he sighs and counters, "You're the one with the nose, what do I smell like?" -Like a human…- The Animorph says. "I am human. I just so happen to be able to come from a parallel world is all. I knew I should have waited 'til night to burn that incense." He says, he notices that the raccoon seems to be puzzled since the head is cocked to one side.
-How do I know you come from a parallel world?- The raccoon asks. He sighs and two shadow clones appear, the raccoon's jaw drops and his clone snicker at the raccoon before they vanish. –There were and then they just… What the hell?!- The raccoon shouts, then he watches with interest as the raccoon becomes a Red-tailed Hawk.
"I come from a world that using a form of energy manipulation, we call it chakra. The village I call home has a school to train people in the usage of it. Those that graduate go on to become Genin and part of a cell with a Jonin being the cell leader. I've been a Genin since I was twelve years old, hell; I even participated in a Chuunin exam in hopes of advancing through the military ranks." He says, leaning on the banister at the bottom of the stairs. –Then how did you end up here?- The hawk asks and he shrugs. "One minute I was training with one of my teachers and then I wake up to find myself this an unknown forest. Hell, I saw my first car as I was following a road into town." He answers.
-How did you come across it? The blue cube?- The hawk asks. "I was there that night, you know. I watched everything that transpired, even if I couldn't see everything from where I was sitting or listening to whatever the Andalite was saying. I felt what the cube was doing with you five and decided to find it." He pauses to let that sink before continuing.
"It took me a whole month to find it; I even used my shadow clones to help speed up the search. Once I had it, it didn't take me too long to figure out how to trigger how to activate it. But since nobody explained how to use the ability, I couldn't use it for the longest time. I knew something of your activities and that you guys did need to go to the zoo, why I didn't know but it did finally click on how it worked. It's like scanning a beast's blue prints and storing them within your cells until you call them up." He looks thoughtful as he adds, "It's an odd kind of way to transform, but I know it works better then any transformation jutsus where I come from. It's also hard to detect naturally."
The hawk ruffles his feathers and he can tell that the hawk is talking with someone. He waits patiently for the silent conversation to conclude. –Why didn't you contact us? I mean, you did seem to know about us…- The hawk says. "I never bothered to get your names, I do know Marco's though, I saw him semi transform to heal a large scratch. I've trailed him a few times, but I kept my distance since I don't want to get caught up in this war going on around me." He tells the hawk, being honest about his reluctance to be part of this war.
-Ok, but that doesn't give you the right to keep that cube.- The hawk replies. "How about the fact that I have made this place secure? The Chee can't even get in here." He reasons, he chuckles at the hawk's reaction. "I've known about them from the moment I set eyes on my first one, which was when I first arrived into town. They use to try and tail me around, not that I blamed them, I knew that they weren't human and they couldn't figure out how I knew. Sadly, they never could tell the difference between me and a shadow clone though." He says.
The hawk just shakes his head, clearly finding this way too much for his mind. –I don't suppose you mind if a friend comes in to question you? I'm Tobias by the way.- Tobias says, he cocks his head and says, "So you're the one they named Toby after, huh." He turns away, a slight smiles on his face since he found surprising Tobias to be amusing.
He cocks an eyebrow as he notices pretty boy at his door. He waves the kid in and the guy does. He closes the door and he watches as the pretty boy transforms into an Andalite. He sighs as he notices that the whole progress looks something worthy of a horror film.
-I am Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, but you can call me Ax.- Aximili, or Ax, says. "Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki. Genin of Hidden Leaf." He says, adding his title to the introduction. He leaves out the part of being the next Hokage. Ax nods slightly, he figures it's something the blue deer picked up from humans that surrounds him. "Well, I quote, 'this is troublesome.'" He says with a slight smiles on his face as he quotes Shikamaru.
He heads into the living room, Ax following with Tobias riding on Ax's back. He puts the blue cube onto a book shelf before he sits down on the lazy boy. He notices Ax's second pair of eyes scan the DVD titles he has, he waits for a minute and then says, "So, what do you want to know?"
/ Loren/
She's slightly surprise to find two of the Animorphs standing at her door. "What do I own this meeting?" She asks and the blond one, who she guesses is Tobias, says, "We're here about Whisker and to confirm what he's told us about." She nods, mixed feelings occurring within her as she motions them inside.
"He told us that you had been watching him since he arrived." Ax says in a serious tone. She nods as she replies, "We have, we didn't know how but he could always tell where a Chee is, it was uncanny. Which is why we attempted a 24/7 watch on him, not that it seem to work. He usually gave us the slip and we wouldn't be able to locate him until he returned home. There were times I think he could be bothered to slip out of our surveillance, but then, when he allowed us to trail him, he never did a whole lot. Mostly he was buying groceries or at the library reading various books." The pair see to have mixed feelings about her answer.
It's not long before the pair leaves, though she's slightly amused on seeing the Andalite try and eat the plastic fruit from a bowl she has on the coffee table. She sighs and muses how the Animorphs will react to learning that Whisker is a professional thief. 'Not my problem at any rate.' Thinks to herself as she starts doing her usual routine once the pair have left.
/ Naruto/
He sighs as he notices a news cast about what happened two days ago, he's still surprised at how much damage those explosion tags of his caused. Sure he had a few left from the last bunch he bought and with Ax's help he had made those explosion tags that they set around the rest, he sighs, nobody had been injured since they had sent a bomb warning to the owners of the hotel. They kind of dentate when one of the bomb squad's robots poked one of the tags, since they had been setting up for over four days time, most of the basement and parts of the first floor had tags.
Surprisingly, the whole building kind of imploded, which just plain stunned him since he knows that they're not suppose to be that powerful. The whole thing had remained quiet for a whole day before there was an information leak, one of them tipped the media about it, and it's been written off as a terrorist attack. He can only guess how much of a rage Visser Three is in; he wondered how many heads rolled since the hotel had been imploded.
He sighs and glances over to Tobias, he finds the teenager sleeping, perched on this wooden coat rack that seemed to suit Tobias' tastes. Oddly enough, Tobias kind of wanted to spend the previous night watching his anime collection, he approved and left the Animorph in his living room while he headed up stairs to sleep. He wonders if Tobias just wanted the experience of being a normal kid again, he wouldn't blame the teenage hawk. If he could, he would give it a go, but he's never been normal and that's a hard truth that he has to live with.
He gets up off his chair to make something for lunch. When he returns he notices that Tobias is awake. –You must miss your parents.- Tobias says softly. He sighs and he glances at the muted TV. "I never knew them, nobody ever told me who they were either." He says, he knows that most likely surprised Tobias.
-Uncles? Aunts?- Tobias asks. "The Third had raised me, until I was about three. I was kick out of the orphanage under a week. The old man paid for my apartment and bills until I became a Genin, then the old man's hands were tied and I had to pay for such things on my own. From the missions I got." He admits, his thoughts returning to the nightmare that was his childhood.
-One might say that's the perfect life.- Tobias comments. "Not really, I was pretty much on my own; few parents want their kids being friendly with me. I didn't know why, but that was how most of my life was. Few shops would let me shop in them and those that did overcharged me. Funny thing is, the very first jutsu I ever mastered was the Henge jutsu. I use to use it to buy what I need, it was better then stealing." He says. –It must have been hard, but I gather it changed.- Tobias says softly.
"It started to, once I ended up on team 7. Sakura was my crush and I was excited to be on the same team as her. Kakashi… is a plain pervert and all around weird man. Sasuke… I don't want to talk about that Teme." He says the last bit bitterly. "We got close, you know? But things changed during the Chuunin examine. That bastard immortality seeking snake changed it, he broke up my team for no better reason then he's a power hungry maniac!" He snarls, his eyes flickering red for a second, he regains control over his chakra.
He forces himself to relax, even though the memories of Sasuke's transformation and the feel of that ball of lightning entering into his body. –He sounds pretty evil.- Tobias comments. He sighs and nods as he says, "He's kind of like a Yeerk, you know? He's a parasitic soul moving from one body to another, trying to find the 'perfect' body, trying to find a way to be an immortal."
-Sorry for bring it up.- Tobias says. He waves it off, saying, "Not your fault, you didn't know." Then he cocks his head and glances at Tobias. "What's with all the questions about family, all of a sudden?" He asks. –Just thinking about what it would like to be a normal teen.- Tobias answers and he nods. "I've daydreamed about that when I was younger. It has the ability to drive you crazy too. Just remember that they're just dreams and are only exist in your head. Reality is bitter and unfair, but it's all we got and we're the only ones with the ability to change it." He says and they silently decide to leave it at that.
He returns to eating his lunch as he watches TV. After about fifteen minutes, he opens the window and Tobias flies out of his house. He sighs as he closes the window and locks it before returning to his chair. His mind swimming with memories of the past, he didn't blame Tobias for starting the conversation; it was bounded to happen at one point. 'It just …' He couldn't finish that thought, it just wasn't in him to finish it.
To be continued …