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 13
He holds the kunai at Arbat's throat. He appears relax as he does so. –You primative ape.- The clearly unhappy and furious Andilite commander says. "Funny, I was thinking 'you arrogant blue chimera.' You want to try again?" He says in a cheerful voice that he knows aggravate this type of person, he's had enough experience with this type to last a life time.
The tail-blade descends and in a flash, his other hand comes into play with another kunai in it. A stunned look appears on Arbat's face, it seems that the Andalite hadn't expected that he'd be that quick to react to the incoming blade, which is why he volunteered to confront the mastermind in germ warfare. The look vanishes and the Andalite tries adding more force to his tail, he lets that happen for about two minutes before he moves quickly and cuts the tip of the blade off by empowering the weapon with a bit of his chakra.
The tail is withdrawn and he puts the kunai back into his pouch since he doubts that Arbat will try that again. He gives the guy his trade mark grin as he says, "My blade was sharper then your's, it seems." The Andalite looks furious by these turn of events.
-Who are you?- Arbat asks, trying to stall. "Name's Naruto Uzumake, genin ninja of Hidden Leaf village and one day will be the sixth Hokage." He says, waiting for Arbat to attempt to make physical contact so that he could 'acquire' him, something which he doubts the Kyuubi will let happen.
It's within seconds, the tail comes towards him as he expected. He grins as Kyuubi's chakra zaps Arbat. He moves quickly and hit the Andalite at the spot where the head and spin connect, thus rendering Arbat out cool.
It wasn't long before the others arrive; he notices Estrid arrived with the group. Estrid just stares at him, clearly stunned to find him fine and unharmed with Arbat knocked out and the tip of Arbat's tail blade on the floor. –How did you… He's just…- Estrid says, not able to complete her sentences. He shrugs as he says, "He underestimated me and paid the price."
"So, he's alright?" Blue asks, clearly making sure. "I just knocked him out with a quick blow to the back of his head. He did what I expected him to do." He says. –What's that?- Estrid asks and he smirks as he replies, "He thought he was faster then me." Estrid seems to be at a loss for words.
It's not long before they've done tying Arbat up, Gonrod has the fighter ready to go. He turns to Estrid and asks, "Did Ax warn you about this part?" Estrid replies, clearly doubtful of his abilities, -Yes, he has. Are you sure he wouldn't get out of those bonds once you've done this?- "It will and he also told you how to undo it?" He asks and Estrid replies, -He has and I'm ready.-
He nods and takes out a small scroll he has prepared for this very reason. Once he's unrolled it, Estrid cuts her hand with her blade, and drips some of her blood onto the scroll. The scroll glows and he then wraps the scroll on the rope connecting the bindings. He does the jutsu and soon the blood seal is complete.
Soon Ax and Estrid finish having their private moment and they stood back to watch the ship take off. He sighs and Cassie says to Ax, "You'll see her again, Ax." Ax just nods in reply; he sighs and glances over to a crashed car that's been in an accident. He glances at Ax and then at the car, a plan forming to help take Ax's mind off of Estrid, but first, he's got to explain how chakra effects morphing. He plans on explaining it them after supper.
XD
He glances at the new recruits that were going through training exercise, there's a total of six young teenage girls and four teenage boys. Once more the Chee helped out by pointing the ten teens out. They were sitting around, listening to Jake and Ax, who's in his human morph, as they describe what roles they're going to play before they're allowed to help out in battles. This was mostly to get them use to the idea that they're one day going to end up killing not just Hork-Bajir and Taxxons, but humans as well.
Oddly enough, one of Blue's 'crew' was among those chosen, Timothy Neal or to use his nick name, Grey. He glances through the collection one last time, he starts off with Amanda Jarvis who's of African-American descent, Elisabeth Greathorn, or Gem as she prefers, is of Native American descent with Cody Flight and Kathie Longvision. May Kobayashi and Ray Kobayashi were cousins with their father's being brothers. Ben Moon sits by Ruth Conner and his girlfriend, Alexandria Tate, or to use her nick name, Lex.
They all have a crow morph, they also got a chance to decide if they wanted a fox or coyote morph, a boreal owl morph, and finally a battle morph. Amanda's battle morph is a cape buffalo, as Gem's battle morph is a grizzly bear, Kathie's battle morph is a wolf, May's battle morph is a tiger, Ruth's battle morph is a rhino, Lex's battle morph is a hyena, Ben's battle morph is a lion, Grey's battle morph is a lynx, Ray's battle morph is a leopard, and Cody's battle morph is a puma.
He shrugs and continues on his way inside, they're already beginning to furnishing the other family rooms which is why he's also been furnishing his apartment encase they need an emergency bolt hole for the families. He left about thirty shadow clones back at his apartment to work on the upper levels while he finish delivering that last bit of furniture that he's been asked to buy for the base. It's not long before the wives and ex-wife descend on him to spirit him off to one of the rooms so he can unseal furniture from the storage scrolls.
Once he's done unpacking the furniture, the grown men were recruited to move the furniture about, allowing him to head back to his apartment to help out with the repairs and rewiring of the building. It's been a slow month since those Andalites left, he's been able to get Ax interested in repairing and improving that ruin car that a member of that group of Andalites had attempted to learn how to drive but ended up crashing it close to where the ship had been hidden.
He nods to a pair of Hork-Bajir as he moves to the side to allow the two to enter into the building. They smile and wave at him as they walk pass them, he notices that they're carrying large bundles of bark. He guesses that there's always room for more food as he exits out of the doors. It's not long before he's soaring through the sky in his goshawk morph.
As he enters into the building, he hears a yowl and out comes Soul, he chuckles as Soul sits by his feet looking up at him with a slight glare, not happy about the fact he wasn't around when the cub woke. He tells the dark grey feline canine cross, "You'd think I was trying to abandon you." The spotted cub still called Soul cocks his head to the left side with an interested look on his face. He reaches down and scratches Soul behind one of his ears, Soul sighs and he picks up the cub without much resistance about being picked up.
Soul growls softly, voicing his displeasement of being held but that's about all. He heads off up stairs with Soul; he hopes to find out how things are proceeding. Soul moves to look over his shoulder and then begins to examine his hear, he stifles a laugh as Soul begins to sniff his ear. Then Soul tries to bite it, but can't seem to get a good grip on it. He sighs mentally and hopes that after this, Soul will no longer be interested his ears the next time he holds the cub.
/ Soul/
He watches as his papa makes sounds with the fake papas. He knows that those sounds were important and it frustrates him that he barely understands what those sounds mean. He knows that papa is often called Naruto; he knows the sounds names of his papa's pack and often times, babysitters, though he does understand the voices that seem to pop into his head, he really prefers those times since they're easier to understand then the sounds that papa and the other strange beings that interact with his papa make when they talk between each other.
He watches from his perch, he watches as his papa begins to help out the fake papas. His focus were on his papa's flexible and nimble paws, it really amazes him what papa could do with his paws and he glances down at his own paws and attempts to mimic the same movements with his paws. He scowls as his claws flex out and how his paw doesn't seem to be able to mimic such movements once again.
He glances at his papa and yowls, his papa turns and looks at him. He climbs up onto his feet and mews at his papa as he moves his right paw in the air. His papa comes and he sniffs his papa's paw, he nudges it and bites it lightly. He studies the long flexible extensions that were tipped with blunt tiny claws. He pulls the paw closer to his face and notices the odd dewclaw like extension. He claps down on said extension; he looks up at his papa, wishing he could ask his papa why he doesn't have paws like he does.
His papa looks at him and has a slight happy expression on his face. He lets go as his papa scratch him behind one of his ears. He lets out a sigh and soon his papa is back to helping out the fake papas. He glances at his paws, his mind going over his detailed examination of papa's paws. He pictures the long extensions that make the paw so nimble and flexible; he includes that odd dewclaw as well.
He blinks as some odd sensation happens with his forepaws. He sits and holds them up. He then slowly begins to experiment with his changed paws. He balls them like he's seen his papa do with his. He scowls as he finds he can't move them in the same way as his papa's, he concludes that they're more to the flexible paws then just how the forepaws was built. He blinks as he finds his papa standing before him, with what he thinks is an interesting look on his face.
He holds up his changed paws, proud that he's able to have paws similar to his papa's own paws. His papa gently examines his paws, he hisses slightly as his papa tries to make his paw turn in a direction that's unnatural, only he notices that his papa's forelimbs can move into that position without any problems. He cocks his head and watches intently as his papa moves his forelimbs about. Something clicks as he realises that his papa's wrist seems to what he lacks since his forelimbs seem to be of similar build at the rest of his papa's forelimbs.
He once more focusing on his wrists changing, mimicking the build he's seen with his papa's wrist. Soon he begins to mimic the twisting and rotating his paws about without feeling pain. He growls and looks up into his papa's face, he remembers an action he's seen his papa's pack use. He waves his right hand and he watches as his papa's mouth opens up and his eyes seem to pop out of his sockets. He cocks his head to the side since he's confused as to why his papa is looking at him like that.
/ Naruto/
He couldn't believe what Soul's been doing with his forelimbs. He sensed the chakra being gathered and then released. He even watched as Soul altered his own wrists into something that mimics a primate's wrist. He almost fainted when Soul waved at him, he could tell that Soul looks very proud with himself.
It takes him a few minutes to recover and he runs his hand through his bright blond hair, trying to warp his mind around what he just watched Soul do to his own body. He really has to wonder why Soul's doing this now of all times and what's the reason why Soul's mimicking human hands instead of leaving them the way they were. He sighs and says out loud while glancing at Soul, "I wonder what brought this on. This would be so much easier if you can speak." Soul only blinks at him and he's at a loss at what to do with the yellow spotted cub.
XD
Soul falls asleep on his stomach; his thoughts were going over what the Animorphs told him about their latest encounter with a pair of Andalites that survived the space battle that Ax had survived by remaining in the dome part of the ship. He had been busy at the base during the whole time; he had been busy going through the Chee memory bank to view this world's past history. Oddly enough, he found a really unusual recording that even the Chee hadn't realised was there.
'I don't think I'll ever look at Tobias's mother the same way ever again, it's just too bad Loren doesn't remember…' He frowns as a thought comes to the for front of his mind. He sighs and replays the memory of how he found and played a memory bank, or to use his words, hirac delest belonging to one Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul.
):P
He grew bored with viewing the home lives of some rich Egyptians and building of large stone monuments. It hadn't help that he doesn't know understand what they're saying, but if he's to judge from their tones he could piece it out what they're talking about. He glances to the door as Erek enters the room with some strange helmet.
He gives the robot dog a questioning glance and Erek answers his unspoken question, "I was able to recreate the Iskoort memory device. Perhaps you'd like to try it out?" He takes the head set and studies it, he glances down to where Soul is laying by his feet, he's kind of glad that Soul hadn't the control to keep his forelimbs mimicking that of a primate. He hadn't told anyone about that odd incident.
He nods his thanks and returns to moving out of the memory playing out on the screen before him. He puts the head set on the terminal and goes through the odd 3D menu that is the Chee memory bank. He perks up as he notices this odd memory sphere that doesn't seem to be connected to anything. "What's this?" He asks Erek. "What's what?" Erek asks and comes to stand behind him.
"Oh, that, we don't know, it just kind of ended up being recorded some years back. You want to play it?" Erek asks and he thinks about it before he nods. "Might as well, since none of you guys want to check it out." He says and he moves to the side to allow Erek to do whatever it was the android had to do to allow the file to be played on the memory player that the Iskoort had to play their paid for memories.
"It's ready." Erek says and he nods. He picks up the head set and Erek presses the play button since he doesn't know how to use the head set. He doesn't have time to say thanks to Erek as his surroundings change and he's hearing a voice introduce himself. –My name is Elfangor. I am an Andalite prince. And I'm about to die…-
):P
He feels tears trailing down his face as the memories he witnessed finish playing out in his head. He has mixed feelings about keeping the hirac delest of Prince Elfangor a secret from the rest of the Animorphs. He hadn't told Erek what was in that memory bank and also had asked to borrow the head set for a time; he already knows that the Chee had erased the memory network from the base's computers, something which he doesn't mind since in a way, he found a great treasure.
He sighs and uses his sleeve to whip away the tears. He sighs and he soon finds that he as a visitor. "Ellimist?" He asks since the being standing before him wasn't something you normally see. A large horse like being was standing before him, what's so odd was that the horse seems to be skeleton with flames framing said skeleton. "What's with the new look?" He asks. He swears the bony muzzle smiled at that question. –I've come to tell you that you have eight hours before I take you back to your reality like I promised you Hokage.- The Ellimist said.
He nods and the Ellimist vanishes. He glances at Soul and sighs. He thinks about something and gentle moves Soul so he can get up. He puts the growing cub on the couch, he grabs a fleece blanket and puts it over Soul to keep the cub warm.
He heads up stairs so he doesn't wake Soul by opening a window down here. Once he has a window open, he morphs into his crow morph and launches himself out of the window. He's first stop is to the Chee Loren's house to inform her of him leaving and then to visit Jara, Ket, and young Naru. He also wants to pick up a Hork-Bajir morph while he's there. He plans on acquiring at least five Hork-Bajir to come up with a unique body, he doesn't want to mimic anybody's individual body.
To be continued …