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 14
He glances around at the scenery. He glances down at Soul as the cub sniffs the air, he notices the way Soul's ears were rotating around, and the way the tip of Soul's tail was twitching. He sighs and starts down the path to Hidden Leaf, Soul following in his wake.
He makes sure his forehead protector was secure, he's nervous to be walking to Hidden Leaf without any body with him. He watches at the gates come into view. He pauses and glances down at Soul. Soul is sitting about three feet away, looking tired from all that walking. He heads back and picks up the young cub; Soul nudges him with his fuzzy muzzle. He scratches Soul behind his ear as he heads to the gate.
"Naruto!" He hears Sakura shout, Soul makes a protesting noise as Sakura takes the cub from him. Soul looks very unhappy about Sakura holding him, he really doesn't blame him since Sakura is speaking like you would to a baby, something which none of the Animorphs have done. Soul keeps mewing and wiggling as Sakura holds Soul on his back, cradling him like a baby.
It's not long before Soul to figure out a way to get the pink haired teen to let go and Soul then lands on his feet, racing behind his legs. He shakes his head when Sakura glances at him. "He doesn't like strangers." He says and Sakura says, "But I'm not a stranger!" "To him, you are." He replies and holds up his hand to keep Sakura from saying anything. "It's true, Sakura. He's spent more time with the Animorphs then with Leaf nins." He says, giving her a pointed look. Sakura looks surprise at the way he cut her down.
He picks up Soul and motions for Sakura to lead the way. The pink haired nin recovers from her shock and leads him to the tower. He just doesn't feel in the mood to try and act like he hasn't changed over the years he's been in that other reality. Soul nudges his neck as Soul climbs to look over his shoulder.
Soul yowls and he stops to look at what catch the cub's attention. He finds Hinata coming out of a store. He calls to her and wave, Hinata smiles timidly as she waves. Soul attempts to wave at her as well as the cub moves to face the Hyuuga heiress. He could tell that Hinata seems surprised by Soul's attempts at waving; she smiles softly at Soul's attempts. He waves bye to her and turns around to catch up with Sakura, Soul returns to looking over his shoulder.
It's not long before he's standing before Tsunade, he puts Soul down on one of the chairs. Soul sits back and watches him chat with Tsunade. He updated Tsunade on what's been going on with the Animorphs and then Tsunade then updates him on what's been going on.
Soon silence descends in the room as he wraps his mind around what Tsunade had told him. "I think I have something for you to watch, if you want to." He says after a few minutes, remembering that he packed the memory playing head set. "Oh?" Old lady Tsunade asks.
"It's the final statement of the Andalite prince named Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, the one who gave the original Animorphs their ability to morph." He says as he digs into his pack, he notices how interested Tsunade looks on hearing that. He hands over the head set, he also says, "Just press the triangle to play it." He says as Tsunade examines the memory player.
After about an hour the final statement of Elfangor ends, he's already given Soul his bottle and the cub's resting by his leg as he lies on the couch, waiting for the memory to finish playing. Tsunade gently takes the head set off and puts it on the desk. He couldn't tell what feelings the Fifth was currently feeling, but it seems that even someone as experienced as Tsunade was affected by the final statement of a brave being warrior named Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, elder brother of one Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, or Ax for short.
"Do you mind if I hold on to this?" Tsunade asks and he shrugs. "Just as long as I get it back before I leave, I want to show Tobias, Loren, and Ax." He says and then asks, "What do you plan on doing with it?" He picks up Soul as he gets up. Tsunade just waves the question away, but she does say, "The mansion is still there for you to use. I'll try and keep them from bothering you until this evening." He's then dismissed, he sighs and heads out of the office.
He roof hops all the way to the mansion that seems to be reserved for him and the visiting Animorphs and co. Once he's there, he takes off his pack and creates ten clones. Within the hour, the mansion once more contains items from the other reality. Soul's up and moving about the mansion on steady legs, a change from when Soul was first here.
He smiles as Soul moves up the stairs with his tail wagging, showing off the canine characteristics. He smiles as he watches as Soul vanishes from view. "I wonder just how large he'll get when he's full grown." He muses to himself out loud. He sighs and heads to the kitchen to put the frozen food stuff into the freezer, once that's done, he then does the dry food stuffs, and the fridge items.
He hears Soul yowl and heads out of the kitchen only to find some plain looking teen holding Soul by the scruff of his neck. "You must be that bitch of a man, Sai. The newest member of team seven." He says as he watches the teen give him a fake smile. "So, you're the dickless wonder." Sai says in a bland voice. He snorts and replies, "Unlike you, my dick isn't in my brain."
He punches Sai once he as Soul in his arms. "Also, gutter brain, touch the cub and I'll castrate you and turn your dick into a vagina." He says, he had moved before Sai could respond. Sai wipes the tail of blood coming from his mouth, Soul hisses at Sai as Sai stands up. He gives the guy a hard look and says, "I believe you know your way out of here." He turns his back on the guy and heads back into the kitchen carrying Soul in his arms.
He pauses and says, "Put that kunai back into your pouch unless you want to be half a man." He then enters into the kitchen, not even sparing the teen a look.
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"Look how big he's grown!" Ino says as the blond looks down at Soul. Soul stares up at Ino, one of his ears flickering back as Tenten joins Ino in looking at the cub. Soul glances his way and he shrugs to the cub, Soul perks up and races between their legs, heading straight to Hinata.
Soul mews at the heiress and Hinata kneels down to scratch Soul behind the ear. He notices Akamaru looking at the cub; Soul's played around with Loren's dog, Champ, so Soul doesn't mind dogs. He motions for everyone to follow him into the living room as he says, "I brought some different DVDs this time."
"You better have…" Ino says in a threatening manner. He chuckles and asks, "Didn't you guys invite Sakura?" For the life of him, he can't remember Sakura ever visiting him at this mansion. "We had, but she said she's busy at the hospital." Kiba says, Akamaru barking in agreement. "Oh." He says before shrugging it off. He watches as Ino and Tenten head straight to the rack of DVDs he brought, the majority of them were anime.
Soon enough Ino picks out Rurouni Kenshin. Within a minute, the DVD is inside of machine, the lights were turned off, and he makes sure that the surround sound is working. He finds a spot to sit; oddly enough that spot was by Hinata. He notices that Soul's over by Akamaru, resting on top of the large canine's back. He notices that Akamaru doesn't seem to mind Soul sitting on top of him.
He soon presses the play opinion on the menu screen and soon the show starts. He settles into the couch and relaxes by being around his friends. 'I wonder how they're going to react to the way ninja's were portrayed.' He muses as he recalls what this series was like.
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He left Soul with Hinata, he also left Shikamaru and Neji keys to the mansion as well as told them where the manual for the electronic stuff that he brought along. He didn't leave his laptop with them though, he wants to see if the adjustments the Chee made to it works. 'Besides, I don't want them breaking it by playing the games that Marco and Blue downloaded on it.' He muses since he does enjoy playing them.
He glances over to their temporary jonin instructor. Tsunade dubbed him Yamato and it seems that even Yamato is having trouble with Sai's attitude, though Sai does seem slightly scared of him and hasn't really focused on taunting him a whole lot. 'Besides, it seems that Sakura rising to the bait without much prompting.' He muses to himself as yet again, Sai is sent flying into a tree, curtsy of Sakura's smoking fist.
He's kind of glad that he's about eight feet in the air; he really doesn't want to be near Sakura when she's in a bad mood. His black wings dip as he flaps his wings; he blinks his eyes as he climbs higher into the air. The crow in him caws out a greeting as he notices some other crows perched along the road. They caw out their greetings as he passes by the flock of juvenile crows.
He grows tired of flying about and descends towards Yamato. –Mind if I rest on your shoulder?- He asks the ex-ANBU captain. Yamato glances at him before nodding. He lands on Yamato's right shoulder, Sai comments, "That's one ugly parrot you got there, sensei." He doesn't respond to the comment and neither does Yamato.
He's about ready to take off into the air with Sai says after some about thirty minutes, "I guess Sasuke was the man in the relationship, seeing that the blond's more feminine then the pink hair." He blinks and glances over his right wing to see Sakura's pink hair seems to be on fire and the fact that some how, Sakura's eyes were now glowing white with thick black lines appearing around her eyes. He takes off and flaps like there's no tomorrow, Yamato too speeds up.
He swears that Sakura's now glowing a clear yellowish orange as she balls her fist. The crow's mind that's existing along side of his own mind wants to get the hell out of the area, he settles for flying higher into the sky. The only one that's not trying to fleeing from Sakura was, unsurprisingly, Sai. He winces within his mind at the brutal beating that Sakura gives Sai, he highly doubts that a man's suppose to be able to do that with his dick, let alone be able to be able to flex their body like that.
-You poor ignorant bastard. I almost feel for you, the key word in this is, almost. Maybe I should have castrated you while I had the chance, that would have hurt less if I had.- He says to Sai privately. Then he says to Yamato, -She's done sir, though I highly doubt Sai's going to be in any shape to do anything but breathe.- He finds a spot to land and de-morphs.
Sakura looks stubborn as she says, "I don't regret it one bit." He chuckles and says, "Thanks for not castrating him or else my threats would be meaningless." "Do you even know how to do that?" Sakura asks. "I've read enough biology text books to know how not only castrate, but how to make his penis a vagina." He says and Sakura's eyes flash. "You can do that with a penis?" Sakura asks and he nods. "There are men out there that think that they were born the wrong gender and want to become as feminine as possible." He replies and Sakura asks, "I don't suppose you could lend me that book?" He doesn't reply since Yamato appears before he could answer.
"I guess we're camping here tonight." Yamato says, shaking his head at as the man studies what Sakura did to the ex-ANBU. "I'm not sorry, he deserved this beating." Sakura says as she crosses her arms over her chest. "I think you need to start repairing him, Sakura." He says as he notices how shallow Sai's breathing is becoming. Sakura notices and looks startled, but does begin to attend to Sai.
"I'll catch us something for supper." He says as he takes off his knapsack. The scroll holding his laptop computer has a blood seal on it so he's not worried about anyone unsealing it. Within seconds, his in his coyote morph, the mind of the coyote is interested in exploring around this forest.
He catches three hares; he makes a note to remember to thank Tobias for that little competition focused on hunting in animal bodies. The fresh meat that they had ended up with was a welcome change to the frozen items they have in the freezers at the base. It had been a tie between Marco partnered with Rachel using their wolf morphs and himself using his puma morph, they caught two deer between them, since the others caught either some vermin or a rabbit.
He returns to the camp with the hares. Once he's by the fire, he takes out a kunai and proceeds with skinning and gutting his catches. Yamato finishes setting up the tents and once he's done with the hares, he heads back to get the forest to get fire wood. It takes him about five trips but soon they have enough fire wood.
Sakura's still busy trying to heal Sai, he checks to see Yamato busy by the fire, so he takes the time to go through Sai's belongings; he remembers Tsunade's orders concerning the teen. He goes through Sai's knapsack with caution, knowing that there has to be traps to keep the teen's items secure. He remembers the ink beasts that Sai can create, so he's less then happy to notice the number of scrolls Sai has. Then he notices the sketch book that he's seen Sai use.
He sighs as he skims through the contains of the book. He stops at a picture of a faceless ninja. 'Why would he draw that?' He wonders as he begins to put the stuff back into the pack. He doesn't want to get caught going through Sai's stuff. He glances towards the trail that's about ten feet from their camp site.
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Sasuke's left hand touches his chest through a hole in his shirt. He doesn't say anything but look into Sasuke's emotional blank eyes. He could tell that Sasuke doesn't remember their previous meeting on that alien planet. If anything, he figures that Sasuke's body is beginning to decay like Tsunade theorised from her examining of the Sound Four's dead bodies.
His chakra sense feels how vile Sasuke's chakra feels, he couldn't help but wonder what Sasuke's chakra's suppose to feel like without being influenced by the cursed seal. He also finds it ironic that he's now taller then Sasuke is. 'Either it's in his genes or it's once more the work of the curse seal. Too bad it has to come to this.' He thinks, regret evidently easy to see from his eyes.
Sasuke's eyes narrow, he doesn't really pay too much attention to the conversation going on between Sakura and the twisted teen standing before him, practically touching him. 'I can't believe I'm going to be made a jonin because of this.' He thinks as he switches out with a piece of rubble as Sasuke attempts to use impale him. "Weak minded prick." He mutters and he feels Sasuke's chakra perks on hearing that and he evades a sword slash, he'll admit that Sasuke's quick, but he's just plain faster. 'Most likely because of something the fox did…' He thinks sourly.
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He's once more pulling a cart, only this time, Sai's the cargo that's riding on the cart. When Sakura attempted to apologies to Sai about the beating she gave him before, Sai made a remark about Sai letting her beat him up. To say that within five minutes, Sai was once more in no shape to do much except to breathe. He still can't believe that the teen's stupid enough to make that kind of mistake.
'How the hell did he ever survive being an ANBU?' He wonders as he keeps a steady pace to keep the cart from jerking about. He's just glad that Yamato had sent that bird on ahead to explain why they're taking so long.
Sakura and Yamato were also riding on the cart, he's glad that he's chakra control is practically perfect since it's allowing him to move such a heavy cart down the path. He's still amazed by Yamato's wood jutsus, but he's content with the jutsus he has memorised from those scrolls, even if he hasn't used the majority of them. He's also so tempted to switch out with a shadow clone, but decides that this could be looked at as a form of endurance training, that and Yamato does kind of creep him out so he figures he's safe from the jonin's odd faces by pulling the cart home.
The only consolation was the fact that he finished the mission Tsunade assigned him. Sure it would have been nice to have Sasuke bounded and gagged, but he knows what would happen once they brought Sasuke through the gates of Hidden Leaf. The council would charge Ero-sennin with the job of improving the seal over the curse seal and then Sasuke would get a slap on the wrists since the council still wants access to the Sharingan.
He knows that in the end, Sasuke's a rabid dog and shouldn't be allowed to live but to be put down before Sasuke is allowed to harm others. 'You don't try and tame a rabid dog, you shoot it and burn the carcass. You definitely don't try and help arm it as well.' He muses to himself, knowing that's what the council will try, they'll try to appeal to Sasuke's hunger for power, not giving a rat's ass on the fact that once Sasuke gets what he wants that he'll just take off. In the end, Sasuke sealed his fate the moment he gave into the curse seal that Orochimaru put on him.
'In a way though, I have kept my promise…' He muses, thinking about his promise to Sakura that he made so long ago.
To be continued …