Title: Ranma No Kitsune
Category: Anime/Manga » Ranma
Author: Fellgrave
Language: English, Rating: Rated: T
Genre: Adventure/Humor
Published: 09-07-11, Updated: 07-17-12
Chapters: 12, Words: 31,859
Chapter 1: Prologue
This is V2 I merged the first two prologue bits into one chapter. I also edited the scenes, adding a few bits.
A/N: Yay, I get back from my gramps' funeral just in time to start my next year of high school. Unfortunately this means updates will be slow in coming and that the chapters will likely be short as well. I hope you like it and stick around to read more. Please read and review, really I need reviews cus there my alternate power source to eating souls and somehow I think that doing so would get me in trouble at school.
A/N2: Couple things to clear up though. First, the Shinigami and Lucifer are separate beings. According to mythology Lucifer was a divine that fell from grace, it is not mentioned what position he had however most believe that he was something like the right hand of God as he is referenced as being more powerful than even the Seraphs. I'm basing this story on the first part of Naruto, pre-time skip, with only a bit of what happens after that as I mostly stopped reading it because it seemed like it was just falling apart at points. Also I tend to forget things that some people might think of as important so bear with me here, I tend to play it fast and very loose with things like canonity.
Alright now that the rambling author note is over with, on with the chaotic gibberish, I mean story.
Disclaimer: I'm sorry I fell in the pool of drowned fanfiction writer, very tragic tale of sad and broke young writer who drowned in pool more than twenty years ago. Now all who cursed must make bad stories and occasional disclaimer jokes.
Prologue: Strange beginnings.
Location: Kami's Office, Asgard.
Kami frustrated, in fact he was nearly angry, quite a feat to get him that way, at the moment. For some reason something had caused the path of history in at least three entirely separate worlds to become completely derailed from their set destinations. Now some of you might think that this shouldn't happen and that Kami could easily fix it as he is all knowing and all-powerful right? Wrong, while he is incredibly powerful he is anything but all knowing, he has simply been around for so long and seen so much and so many be born and die, that he has a pretty good idea of what's going to happen. Add in the time-honored cliché of history will repeat itself, especially when dealing with a near infinite number of realities and an infinite amount of time, you can tell that having something happen he didn't see coming from anywhere would bum out anyone's mood. Also the knowledge that some things had to happen and that if those events were avoided they could damage the dimensional fabric, he knew this as he had tried several times to avoid things like mass genocidal executions or even far-reaching and sometime near never-ending wars of good and evil. He also knew that sometimes things like that had to happen that wouldn't without a push along for the worlds to end up better but it still hurt him to have to cause people to die for a future that they would never see.
But what really upset him was the fact that someone had purposefully gone into the code and altered it. They had changed for some reason that He simply couldn't see. He had gone over every possible demon or god that could stand to gain from such a situation and yet none fit either the M.O. or the possible gains, of which there were none. Being who He was, this was doubly frustrating as he now had no idea what could happen next.
As he sat in his office and stared through the scrolling lines of celestial code on his direct interface with Yggdrasil he had to fight to keep back a sigh or rub his temples to ease his steadily increasing headache. So far every time he used the terminal to try and access the files for the three worlds he would get nothing except a blank list for where there should be several trillion upon trillion files, at least one for every living thing in existence at any point of time on each world. Something had caused him to become completely locked out from accessing any data at all from the Grand Computer about the two worlds.
Suddenly he felt an alien yet somehow familiar presence within his sealed office. Shutting off his terminal with one brief thought and turning the room a plane of stretching blankness with another, he slowly stood and turned to face the intruder. Staring intently at the intruder Kami was shocked to discover that he couldn't feel anything about him beyond his presence. Nothing could be seen within the billowing black cloak that completely enshrouded the figure. The cloak billowed around the figure as though he was standing in a nonexistent breeze that changed directions at random. Everytime the shroud of shadows seemed to lift up and allow a view of what was underneath, the cloak snapped back into place, as if reality itself rejected the sight of that which was hidden from view. The two of them measured each other from their positions mid-air across from each other. Finally as Kami was about to demand the intruder reveal himself, the cloaked figure spoke, his voice rasping, dry and little louder than the most minute whisper of silk across silk.( Softest things I could think of)
"I am sorry that I have to do this to you old friend. I have to change the way things will happen. I stood away from the events before, but no longer. I will no longer be merely an observer in this great game of yours. The pain and torment that the people of those worlds suffer I cannot bear to watch anymore. You have become too complacent in the state of the universe and your plans for the "Greater Good", my old friend and the time has come for things to change, starting with those three worlds. Even before our last meeting you couldn't leave well enough alone. Who was it who said "Freewill is Kami's gift", what a laugh that was. If you ever truly believed in free will you would have never interfered in any of the worlds that you have overseen, but you can't help but screwing over anyone that you see as stopping your plans for the worlds. This is just my opening salvo my friend and soon everything you have spent your existence on will be brought crumbling down around you."
As the figure spoke confusion, curiosity, righteous( He's Kami so any anger He has is doubly righteous) anger and finally pale recognition lit across His face. Taking a step in his voice was a hushed and slightly shaking whisper.
"How in the Great Force's name are you here. I killed you ages ago. There wasn't anything left of you. Your very soul was rendered unto Oblivion"
"Yes, you made sure of that didn't you old friend. I was too much of a danger to your "Great Plans" eh? My "Dissentious" ideas were too much of a bad influence all your other pawns and you risk them getting wise to your plans hmm? But you should have known, I always had a backup plan, always had an out. You may have shattered my very soul with your power and cast it out of reality. But I had broken my soul before, I took the littlest of shards and put somewhere even you can't get at. I spent near an eternity reforging my soul but now I am forever beyond your grasp. Pull up a seat my friend, its time to watch it all burn. You spent an age searching for any trace of my existance left in the universe that you never looked in the most obvious spot. What other space exists both in reality and out of it, touching everywhere and nowhere and the same time?"
"Yggdrasil, you implanted your soul into Yggdrasil, that's how you were able to lock me out and hide your presence from reality. You aren't in reality anymore are you, you're just a shadow of your own ghost. But even a ghost can have power over those who fear it."
"Congratulations, a prize to the lucky winner over here. And by simply acknowledging my existance is enough to grant me power. But simply having things fall apart is no fun at all my friend, so how about we have a little game. I let you have your champions and pawns in each world, but, you are not aloud to give them any aid other then setting them against my plans. After all, most of the fun is in the challenge. I'm going to start with just one of the worlds anyways so you don't have to worry about multitasking. Let the games begin! Why don't you watch the little gift I left you."
The cloaked figure cackled madly as the cloak fell limp and flat on the floor, the echoes of his voice slowly quieting. After a moment the cloaked had faded away, nothing more than a shadow on the ground. Kami stared at the spot for a long time before a single name slipped from his mouth, a name not heard for trillions upon trillions of years, a name so tinged with sadness and regret that it could nearly drive a man crazy.
"Lucifer…
... I will not let you win. And this time, there will be no coming back." Kami turned to the spot that Lucifer had indicated and found a display floating there. The scene on the screen had been paused, awaiting his command to a chair, Kami ordered the scene to begin as he sat down to watch his plans begin to fall apart.
Somewhere deep in the Land of Fire.
The Kyuubi had been just about to lie down and rest, after having exerted itself by wiping out a village. As it was settling down onto the smouldering ashes and embers that was the village, Something appeared before it. That something an emptiness in the universe, a void in reality. From that nothingness came tendrils of liquid darkness, trailing shadows as they moved through the air. The tendrils went straight for the Kyuubi, who fought them off, destroying them with claw swipes or fireballs. The severed tendrils flailed around on the ground before fading like shadows in the early dawn light.
Eventually the unending supply of of tendrils simply overwhelmed the Kyuubi. As they wrapped around it they drained its power before slowly and inexorably dragging it towards the Void in the world. Once the Kyuubi had been completly dragged within, theSomething vanished, as if nothing was ever there, which it was.(Think about that sentence for a bit if it is confusing) The lone observer for the whole thing had stared slack jawed, only being snapped out of his shock by the storm opening up above him. As he rushed back to base to report the news, he had a moment to feel fear about what his superior would think but quashed it as his boss was quite understanding.
Location: Hidden Akatsuki Stronghold, 20 years before Naruto is born.
Uchiha Madara was unhappy, in fact he was quite pissed at the moment. That's not entirely accurate either; to tell the truth he was step away from blowing all his away he was so furious. Why was he so angry? Well just a little while ago one of his Tailed Beast trackers had returned to base without his permission in order to tell him that something had apparently torn a hole in the sky and had captured one of his tailed beast. The poor tracker was incredibly fortunate to avoid being burned alive, unfortunately though he was still torn apart limb from limb by an irate Madara. Lowering his blood soaked arms as rested from his brief exertions and look up to sky in thought, the open aired room silent save the for the sounds of blood dripping from his hands.
'One day Demon, your power and this whole world will be Mine, and the very heavens shall tremble in my presence, starting with that village. Konoha shall be the first to burn, by Kami I swear it.'
Location: Deep within the Bayankala Mountain Range in China, 500 B.C.
The valley was a quaint, peaceful place, nothing truly unusual about it at all really. Recently a tribe of nomadic warriors who once lived on the mediterranean sea had settled into a small village nearby. They got along well enough with the natives, a tribe of berserkers and a noble people who lived deep within the tallest mountain in the area. There was peace between them, as there was nothing really to fight over.
Yet that would all change very quickly, as massive amounts of magic started to gather in the sky. As the animals of the fled their sudden impending sense of doom, no living thing was left to see what happened next. As the invisible particles of magic gathered in the air they were all drawn to a singular point. At Zero Point the magic forces that had gathered were becoming denser and denser, warping the very dimensional fabric from their strength. Finally the weakened dimensional wall gave way as a massive flaming meteor broke through, plunging thousands of feet in mere seconds. The tremendous impact scarred the valley and pockmarked with hundreds of small craters. Deep in the middle of this devastation at the bottom of the largest crater lay a small form. Stripped of its link to its power, the Tailed beast was unable to hold its true form and was forced into the body it had inhabited long before it had become powerful. Paralyzed from the pain and forced to stare into the dark cloud cast sky the Kyuubi no Kitsune knew a moment of true unmitigated terror, before she was drowned as the magic infused rain fell into the Valley of the Pools of Tears.
Chapter 2: Chapter 2:Bloody Nails And Broken Hearts
A/N: Wow what a response, 2352 hits, 19 story favs, 28 story alerts, 1 author fav, and 3 author alerts. Who would have guessed that the stuff that comes outta my head would be so popular. I even got a hit from the Vatican! Holy Crap! So you know, I'm won't put in Japanese suffixes . I'm not good with dialogue but I'm trying to go over it. Anyway thanks all of you for reading, and remember I need reviews or else I'll start feasting on souls. And you don't want that on your consciences, do you? One question though, does Shinikage mean Death's Shadow? If someone could give me an answer that would be rockin. Parts of this story are inspired by, and loosely borrowed from "The Demon's Contract" by Ringmaster. As the story hasn't been updated in years and I'm not sure that he is still around I'm borrowing without permission. If he reads this and you want it changed I will change it. I've only ever read the mangas of Naruto and Ranma so if I miss something from the animes that you think I shouldn't have please tell Characters may be a bit OOC but I'll keep them as canon as possible. Alright, alright I get it, its story time!
A/N2: I was watching NGE and read through Elfen Lied (and let me tell you that is one surefire way to get a total mindfuck) while I was stuck and this came to me. And yeah I know I haven't gotten to the real story yet but I write what comes to me and when stuff comes to me. It gets real dark for a bit, but it will get better after this chapter, I promise.
A/N3: DAG&#$$NABBIT! I've rewritten the first part for this chapter three times now in an attempt to get it to flow right. You know what, screw it. I'm sticking with what I've got now and damn all who say otherwise, even those stupid voices in my head, yes I mean you Mort. Shut up damn it. And I'm very sorry it is taking so long to update but I am in highschool. Anyway onwards.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, not even this disclaimer, I stole it from some other fanfic: Sueing a fanfiction writer is like masturbating with sandpaper, sure there will be some pleasure in it, but in the end all you get is a raw deal.
Warning Half way through it gets Dark and Disturbed, You have been warned. I do not condone nor approve of anything depicted within, I merely use it for the shear shock value and as my interpretation of the eventual evoloution of the psyches of the characters.
*sound effects and movements*
#panda script#
'thoughts'
"Speaking"
"Other languages and techniques"
"Demon and inner voices, voice of conscience, and incantations"
Chapter 2: Bloody Nails and Broken Hearts.
Location:Roof of the Tendo Dojo, Nerima ward, Tokyo, Japan. One month after the failed wedding.
It had been just another, average day in Nerima. Wake up after getting knocked into the pond by Pops followed quickly by a easily one-sided workout. Get some hot water before sitting down to eat breakfast, get scammed into paying an unfair amount for the previous day's repairs. Then comes the walk to school, part of the way there get splashed by the undogdable Ladle-Lady then proceed to ge glomped by an overly friendly Amazon in preperation for express launch to the school via Air-Akane. On arrival proceed to knock insane amorous kendoist unconscious before reaching classroom. Sleep through classes until lunch is reached. Once outside move under tree and wait for fiancees One through Three to appear, wait a few more minutes then fight off jealous rivals before being knocked into LEO for fighting guys who are weaker than me.
Finally arrive back at the Dojo and fight off marriage attempt #462, this time perpertrated by two exceedingly drunk individuals, as opposed to the usual slightly inebriated ones. And last but most certainly not the least of today's horrors, was an attack by tentacled demon that was supposed to be a packet of instant ramen cooked by, and who else could screw up adding hot water to premade noodles, Akane. And so once the demon was defeated, after preventing it from "Tentacle-ing" the young Tendo girls, and then going on to give a frank and honest assement of the youngest Tendo's cooking skills Ranma found himself airborne once more. Instead of heading back into the house and to the room he shared with his fat idiot of a father, Ranma decided tonight he would spend the night on the roof instead.
As he pulled the spare sleeping roll out from where he had hidden it and slipped underneath the blanket one stray thought entered his head. 'This had been just another usual day in Nerima, do I really want to live through days like this for the rest of my life? I'll always have rivals after me, after all I am the Best, but still do I want to live everyday just waiting for the next rival to appear? Do I really love Akane anymore? More importantly, does she love me back?' And with these troubling thoughts consuming his attention Ranma barely noticed when sleep finally claimed him.
Location: The Hall of the Pillars of Infinity.
When Ranma woke up all of his senses came alive within seconds, his body tensing instinctivly in anticipation of an attack that did not come. After a few moments Ranma let his bady release the tension and stood up, only to behold a very different view compared to the dawn over Nerima he was used to. He was standing in the middle of some great hall, it reminded him a lot of some of the temples he had seen while on his training journey. The walls and floors were made of featureless solid black stone, completely devoid of ornamentation. The things that drew his eye were the immense stone pillars that reached so far upwards they seemed to meld with star filled night sky.'Wait a minute. Night Sky? What the hell? Where the heck am I? How far do those things go anyway? Hmm, if I leaped between two of the pillars and kept going I wonder if I could reach the sky. That would be cool, I bet it would be good stamina training too getting up there.' Ranma was brought out of his contemplation by a discreet cough.
Staring at the empty space in front of him he cocked his head, as there was nothing anywhere in the room. Turning around slowly he once more took in the place he was in before facing his original direction only to find it had changed. Where there was nothing before now stood an immense black oak desk decorated all over with the sculpted forms of leering demons and gaping skulls, gargoyles perching on the corners as if upon the ramparts of a forgotten fortress. The thing that attracted the most of Ranma's attention however was the figure sitting behind the figure's head was in shadows,and there was a glint of light off of a pair of glasses hidden within the shadows. As he sat with his fingers interlaced in front of him and with his elbows resting on the desk, Ranma knew the slightest amount of discomfort. From what he could read of the figure's aura it was both impossibly strong, and yet it was faded as if it were just a pale shadow.
The figure gestured to the chair in front the desk, and Ranma approached slowly and cautiously. To him this whole thing reeked of magic and whenever he was involved with magic he ended up screwed over somehow. He could almost feel the smirk from the figure as he made a quick inspection of the chair for any traps or evidence of magic seal engraved on it. Finally sitting down he waited for the figure to give him an explaination as to how he had gotten here and why. As he waited for the man opposite him to start speaking he took in the man's appearance more thoroughly. His jet black military style uniform was neat and pressed, with no decorations or buttons on it. He was more solidly built than Ranma and appeared to be of European descent. His short blond-brown hair was slicked back and he had a rough beard as well. His eyes were hidden behind a pair of wrap-around mirror shades.
Ranma's patience soon ran out and as he was about to demand anwsers to his questions the man opposite him started to speak, his voice low, rough and cold like mountains being crushed beneath a glacier.
"We are currently in the Hall of the Pillars of Infinity, to answer your unspoken question. Where we are is, how best to describe it, hmm. Ah, the Hall exists everywhere and yet it exists nowhere. I know it may be confusing but to truly understand would take knowlegde of quantum mechanics far exce-"
"We're in a place like my stuffspace pocket, it's like a little universe that doesn't exist anywhere in the world but can be accessed everywhere."
The man reeled back in shock, after all from what he had seen of Ranma he knew that he was smart, he was able to pass every class of his while either sleeping through them or being attacked during them, but this was something quite different. Maybe he would accept the offer without the need for alterations then.
"Er, yes that is correct. As to why you are here,well how would you like to make a deal? I have much to offer you. I can do away with all of your engagements, in a manner that will keep your honor intact of course. I can make all the problems caused by your father, even the Seppuku Contract, become effectively nonexistant. I can give you the power and knowledge to take back control of life. In short I can give a way out of your current way of life and everything you dreamed of."
Ranma sat back in his seat as he pondered the mysterious man's offer. It sounded nearly to good to be true and in his experience any time it sounded that way it was. Besides if the last two years of dealing with a money-grubbing, back-stabbing bit- pain by the name of Nabiki had taught him anything any and every deal had a price, and for what he was being offered the price would have to be quite high. Seeing the indecision and supsicion running across Ranma's face the figure decided to add in the last little kicker.
"I will of course explain why your life is the constant hell it is, and what it will end up like as well. Oh and did I mention I'll get rid of your current curse." 'And there we go' The figure thought as suddenly Ranma's face exploded in brightness as the oppurtunity to be cured of his curse was presented to him. It took a large portion of his self control not to openly smirk at the martial artist's antics.
"You gotta deal buddy, but first I want that info ya promised me. And don't try cheatin' me or nothin'."
Yep all that self control was really being put to the test here so as to not break into outright laughter. Taking a moment to compose himself the figure started speaking again, his mirth detectable by the barest amount in his voice.
"Wouldn't think of it my friend. To start from the beginning, you see if you did not become who you are in the way you did the world would not have any chance at a good future. The reason for this is because of Saffron, if you hadn't defeated him when you did and he had the oppurtunity to grew and become more powerful he would have eventually become strong enough to create thermo-nuclear explosions at will. With this he would then go on to conquer the world, laying waste to any who crossed his path. He would start an iron-handed tyranny over the entire world, levelling the occasional city like Beijing or New York as an example to those who would defy him."
"Of course the gods couldn't let this happen so they decided to sacrifice the oppurtunity for free-will for some mortals, and the deaths of a few others, in order to save the rest. One of those mortals, of course was you. In order to make you strong enough to face down Saffron they had to put you into a situation that would forge you into a weapon sharp enough to kill the Pheonix, but at the same blunt enough to be easily handled and dealt with. And so they made sure that your father ended up training under Happosai with Soun Tendo, gave you father the idea for training you in the martial arts, and implanted the idea of the Seppuku contract in both of your parents minds. They made sure that your father would come into possesion of the Neko-ken scroll, and caused the pages to stick together, he also led you and and your father to Jusenkyo and made sure the two of you fell in. The Hibiki family curse is their doing, as are insanity of the Kuno's and a large portion of the family problems of the Tendo's. They caused the Kuno matriarch to commit suicide and then with a little bit of pushing sent the rest of the family over the edge into insanity. They also made Kimiko Tendo contract the disease that took her life and ruined the lives of the rest of her family."
Ranma sat stunned and more than a little horrified and disturbed at the revelations presented to him. He'd thought for a while that some god somewhere hated him, but to find that not only was that true, and that it was more than one god, but they had had manipulated the events surrounding not just his but many many other people's lives as a way of eliminating one being. Sure it was nice to know that he was the only one capable of it, but still. Which to Ranma begged the question...
"Just what do you want from me exactly, and who,no, What are you?"
"I was once a being so powerful that if I were to expose my true form, my power would outshine the light of the sun a thousand times over. I was the right hand of Kami Himself, and I was betrayed by gods jealous of my power and position and my very existance erased from reality.
"You gotta be shittin' me."The figure frowned. Well it wasn't the most eloquent of responses, but it did seem accurate for the young man's current frame of mind.
"If you don't believe me how about I tell you your future fate. But trust me if you thought what I told you before was bad you really won't want to hear this."
Ranma nodded and motioned for the figure across from him to continue, shoving aside the bad feeling of dread in his gut. After all, how could it be worse than what had already be done to him? Poor, naive Ranma, poor, naive, innocent Ranma...
"Lets start with you and Akane shall we. In about five months the two of you are successfully married. Let's skip forward a bit, five years from since you got married. You, you're still living the exact same way you do now, save instead of going to school you go and work for a demolitions contracting company and teach martial arts on the side, and most of the fiancees were gone though the occasional one would show up for revenge for breaking the engagement to them. Now don't give me that look, martial arts aren't as popular anymore even you must realize that. On your fifth wedding anniversary you cut work early in order to suprise Akane. Once you got home you were about to open the door to her room you heard her speaking to someone else. You opened up the door and found Akane having sex with Ryoga, and from what they had been talking about apparently they had been together since, one sec here. Saffron happened then... And then there was the first wedding...So one, two,hmm. Since about two weeks ago I'd say."
Ranma shot up out of his seat, for one of the few rare times since he had come to Nerima he was absolutely furious. Even when he had thought Saffron had killed Akane he had not been this full of rage. Only the sudden aura being given off by the figure across from him kept him in his seat, the entire room dropping to 50 below zero and the feeling of an immense weight appearing on him. The figure started speaking again,this time with his voice hard and cold like a swords edge.
"You will sit back down and you will cease to interrupt me, am I CLEAR?"
"Y-y-yeah, c-c-lear as c-c-crystal." Ranma answered his teeth chattering in the cold, heck he had to learn this. It made his Soul of Ice seem like a summe day. The aura abruptly vanished, as the figure's previously mirthful tone returned.
"Good now then, upon finding out that while even after being married for five years, and with you still a virgin, the amount of grief and depression you felt caused you to let loose a Perfect Shi Shi Hokodan that was so strong it turned the dojo into twenty meter deep crater. Suffice to say no one made it out of that in one piece, in fact I think they had to resort to a group burial because of how many pieces of the three of you there were. And that was the end of the Nerima Wrecking Crew."
"What do you mean the end of the NWC, what about everyone else?"
"Shampoo had dyed her hair red and tied into a ponytail one night in some stupid plan to break up your marriage by pretending to be you, of course everyone could tell it was her except for the one person whose sight was so bad he could get his love mixed up with cactus, though that was funny seeing him try to kiss it with all the thorns on it."
"Mouse." Ranma said, his gut churning as he thought of where this was headed.
"Exactly, you see when he saw the red hair inside of Shampoo's room he unloaded a full barrage of sharp, pointy, and ultimately deadly weapons into the room. Shampoo died of 342 puncture wounds, 468 cuts and slashes, dismemberment of all her limbs, disembowlment, and enough blunt force trauma to turn her bones to powder. Mouse was locked into his curse form as punishment for his transgression, evading execution only thanks to his handicap and Cologne offering to die in his stead. His life stuck as a duck didn't last long as he was shot down in a field somewhere in North America by a hunter with annoying dog, I mean it just won't stop laughing. That was the end of the Amazons."
"After you and Akane married, the Kuno's sanity slipped further and away. Two years after you married Tatekawi Kuno was arrested and put in the mental asylum after he sexually assualted a young woman before he killed her, 'In order to protect her from the grasp of the Foul Sorcerer Saotome' I believe he said in his defense. Kodachi, without her brother to run interference or be used as a guinea pig, experimented more and more heavily with her drugs and poisons on herself, she eventually died of a combination of toxin buildup, a tumor hemmoraging in her brain and a drug overdose. After losing both of his children the Principal commited suicide my filling the walls of the school with pineapple bombs and blowing it up with all the students and faculty inside."
"Your Father was shot by poachers who thought he was a panda. When they had skinned the body they had started to wash it with hot water to get out the blood and it turned into the flayed skin of a man they had never, well they went straight to authorities because they thought they had gone crazy. Your Mother commited suicide because she thought that it was the most honorable thing to do in such a situation."
"Nabiki formed her own Yakuza group and actually became quite infamous in the underworld for her ruthless and mercenary nature. She and her gang were wiped out when they picked a fight with a foreign group who had been taking their territory. In one night blood and steel the squads of the Russias Mafiya group Hotel Moscow had completely wiped Nabiki and her gang from the face of the earth."
"Soun eventually remarried to Hinako and they lived happily for a while until Hinako was hit by a car one night. After she slipped into a coma all Soun could see was what had happened to Kimiko happening again. His heart could take the pressure when she died and followed her quickly after."
"The only ones who made it okay were Kasumi and Dr. Tofu who had eventually managed to get married. Unfortunately due to complications they couldn't have any children, but they would eventually adopt two little boys and a little girl. They lived quite happily after that. They were the only ones who did though."
"Before you accept for real you should know what will be required of you. I need you to go back in time in order to change the outcome of events. And I will need you to give up your life in this world and go to another and change the fate of people there. If you do this means to the people of this world you will have apperantely died when you used a new move Saffron to kill him and save Akane. If you do ga back in time I will have to seal away some of your knowledge in order to keep up appearances. I will leave you your martial arts knowledge, though you should hide the true extent of your skills. I will bring back your current body as well though with the power of the new curse it will be changed. Knowing all this, knowing the fate that awaits you should you accept or should decline what is your decision?"
Ranma stilled, before him was a choice that would change everything in his life. On the one hand awaited a dark fate for him and his friends and family, though with his new knowledge he could possibly change it. On the other hand he had a chance to go back and rewrite history and get a way out of the entire fiancee situation.'And besides if what he says is true its not like Akane cared enough about me for me to stay anyway.' He thought cynically.
"I, I accept."His voice only shaking the slightest bit.'Remember no more girl curse, and no more fiancees.'
The figure stood up with a wide grin and offered his hand. "Shake on it?"
An inane thought crossed Ranma mind as he shook the mystery man's hand,"You still haven't told me who you are yet, ya know. And whats under those shades of yours?"
The man smiled"My name, though you aren't going to recognize it, is Lucifer. And as for the shades," He trailed off as he removed the aformentioned accessory,"See for yourself."
And see Ranma did, getting lost in the endless depths within those eyes, galaxies twisting and turning in the void. He didn't notice as the space around him warped and changed, the last two years of his life passing bye in reverse. He didn't even twitch as his sight began to dim, too much engrossed in the impossible vista before him. Just before he fell unconcious one sentence slipped from his mouth.
"My god, it's full of stars..."
And thus ends one of the first real chapters for this story. I Hope you all like it and remember to review. Omake Time!
Omake 1
The figure spoke, the atmosphere heavy with the sinister aura being given off.
"My name is Gendo Ikari and I need you to fight giant monsters inside a biomechanical warmachine in order to help me in my gambit to destroy all life on Earth so I can bring my dead wife back to life."
"Hell NO!"
#CUT!#
Omake 2
The distinctively female figure spoke, her long green hair framing her strange red eyes.
"My name Is Setsuna Meiou and I need you to become a fighter for Love and Justice against evil energy draining demons and aid in bringing about an, unfortunately, post-apocalyptic utopia. Of course you will have to do female and in short skirt, but our health and retirement plans are really quit something."
"I repeat HELL NO!"
Chapter 3: Chapter 3: Devil on my Shoulder
A/N: Alrighty heres the obligatory Tendo intro chap, note I am not going to be rehashing the Ranma story outside of some of the main events. Most of the stuff I've got for this story takes place after the Ranma section ends. Holy Crap! I got 1k hits in a single day! But still only Six Reviews. Hmm, something about that seems wrong to me. Thanks to those who did review though and to Blackholelord, STOP IT! YOUR SPOILING THE STORYLINE! STOP PREDICTING WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN NEXT BEFORE I EVEN GET TO WRITE IT! And to the anonymous reviewer, in this case I'm basing the religon parts around what I remember from AMG and in that, Hild is the ruler of the underworld and no mention of Lucifer or Satan is made so I'm gonna have him destroyed as punishment for his coup instead of being cast out of Heavan. And to god of stuff, Lucifer is mainly a background player and his purpose in this story was mainly to set it up, and for the length of the chapters, I have decided to go with 2 to 3k chapters in order to get more of them out faster. And it is easier to write and check through shorter chapters. Thanks you guys for the reviews. Onwards.
A/N2: Oh yeah, cookie to whoever catches the reference in the last chap and this one's titles.
-Now come with me-
O Serenity
O Infinity
O Eternity
And let us Dance
-O Dance endlessly-
Chapter 3: Devil on my shoulder.
Location: Nerima ward, Tokyo, Japan.
It was a scene that had been repeated a thousand times a thousand times over, in nearly every way imaginable across countless realities. Hwoever this time, in this world things would be different, oh yes, things this time would be quite different.
Nerimians, over the last few decades, had become used to seeing the occasional fight in the streets from the (much, much) higher than average amount of martial artists that called Nerima home. However today there was a sight that made even the most jaded citizen pause for a second in confusion and wonderment. After all its not everday you see a young girl, dressed in a red silk Chinese-style shirt and black pants, dodging and exchanging blows with a giant panda. The girl's appearance on its own was quite unusual, from her dress and bountiful(Snicker) figure to her unique hair. Her hair was a deep crimson with nine red-orange streaks running through it. It was worn in a short pigtail that was nearly struck off by a blow from the panda. As the odd pair made their way down the street, passersby could hear the girl taunting the panda as it repeatedly missed her by a hairsbreadth.
"I can't believe you!" *duck* "Picking my fiancé for me!" *leap* "And I ain't ever seen tha girl either!" *jab* "An you jus want me ta up an marry her! * backstep* " You gotta be out of your mind!" she finished as she leapt over the panda and having grabbed him by the arm, threw him hard into the roadway. "So suck on that old man, I'm going back to China to find a way outta this mess." She said as she turned back the way she had come from.
Unseen behind her, as she walked away, the panda had silently gotten to its feet. Tearing up a nearby road sign, the panda snuck quietly up behind the oblivious girl before smacking her over the head with the sign. (It was a "Stop" sign after all, heh. I'll be good now, so put down that mallet, I mean it Mort! If you tr- URK!) Slinging the now unconscious girl over one furred shoulder he started to leave the scene, however as he noticed the murmurs of the crowd behind him, he stopped and growled at them before moving on.
Location: Tendo Dojo, Nerima.
Soun Tendo stared at the letter in his hand, happy thoughts running through his head, 'I will not cry, I will not cry, I will not cry.' Well, happy for him anyway. One side of the postcard had a nice photo of some pandas on it, but what really made him want to turn into a living fountain was on the other side. (though those pandas were quite sad looking)
"To Soun. Bringing Ranma from China, Arriving soon, Genma." The dam holding back the reservoir sprung a few small leaks and tears started to flow down the old man's face.
"Finally after all this time, Ranma is coming. Oh, how I have longed for this day. I need to get the girls ready though.
Later with the family sitting around the table:
"So you see, one of you girls is to marry my dear friend's son and carry on the dojo after I retire." Soun said, as he finished explaining the letter to his daughters.
'I thought you were retired,' was the shared thought around the table, well, mostly shared, Soun's thoughts had mostly reverted back to his "No Cry" mantra, intersparsed with wedding plans.
"So let me get this straight, one of us is going to have to marry a guy we've never seen before, and we have no choice in it at all?" asked Akane her anger clear in her voice. She was really hoping this was some cruel joke, and that she would be able avoid having to pound one of two male figures she respected.
"Well, only one of you has to marry him so I suppose you can choose amongst yourselves for whose to be the fiancé." Soun offered, hoping to ward away his daughter's growing anger at him.
"Well there's no way I'm marrying him, because I hate perverts and all boys are perverts." The middle Tendo said with an unspurising vehemence.
"How old is he? You know I don't like younger men, Father." 'That reminds me, I have to return that book I borrowed from that nice Dr. Tofu. He's always acting so odd when I'm around though; I wonder why and how I can fix that.' Kasumi thought with the slightest of frowns on her face.
"I don't think it'll be too bad, so long as he's cute. By the way, what does he look like Daddy?" questioned Nabiki, 'After all if he's cute enough I could sell some posters and photos of him to the girls at school and that creepy Gosunkugi kid too. If he's a martial artist like Father says then that probably means strong and dumb, ooh this will be good.'
"I have no idea; I've never met the boy."
Jaws dropped around the table, the thoughts of the young Tendo girls summed up with two simple words. "Oh my."
"Father what exactly do you know about him?" Asked both Kasumi and Nabiki.
"Ranma and his father have been on a training journey for the last ten years and they recently crossed into China. His father and I once trained under the same master and we became close friends." Soun was saved from having to say more thanks to the sounds of someone fighting at the door. Both he and Nabiki ran towards the noise. Only to quickly come running right back with a giant panda fast on their trails. As they stood there they noticed a young girl, though Soun was still slightly shell-shocked and didn't realise that yet, on the panda's shoulder struggling to get free from the panda's grasp.
"Daddy is this your friend?' Soun shook his head energetically, not trusting his own words at the moment.
"Oh and I suppose this panda just up and decided to visit, after all it happens all the time." More head shaking from Soun.
"Dammit Pops, you're scaring 'em spitless! Now let me down!" The red-headed girl shouted at the panda before he set her none too gently on the ground.
Soun leaned forward to take a closer look at the person in front of him. "You wouldn happen to be-?"
"Ranma Saotome, sorry bout this." Ranma said, before being engulfed in a back-breaking bear hug, her pigtail sticking straight out. Soun froze for a moment, registering the odd feeling of the body he was holding, giving a few squeezes to see if the feeling would change. Soun quickly released the young woman and stepped back shocked. Nabiki eyes narrowed as she leaned closer and gave a tentative poke and grope to the redhead's chest area.
Satisified with the conclusion that she had reached Nabiki leaned back and pointed out the brutally obvious. "HE is a girl Daddy."
The aging martial artist collapsed in a dead faint, his dreams of one of his daughters getting married dashed in front of him.
Location: Tendo Living Room. A few minutes Later.
Soun woke up, and quickly started crying when he realized that it hadn't all been a dream.
"Oh poor Daddy he's so dissapointed, he was really looking forward to meeting his friend's son." Said Kasumi as she was ringing out the cloth that had been sitting on her father's forehead.
"He's dissapointed! Imagine how I feel! Some Fiance this is!" Shot back Nabiki.
"Stop it you two! He... er, She is our guest! It's not her fault Daddy thought she was a boy" Shouted Akane.
Nabiki turned to Soun,"That's right, this all Daddy's fault! You should have made sure!"
"When Genma told me he had a son I thought that meant he had a son!" Soun shot back heatedly from his position lying on the floor.
"Do you see a son here?" *Squeezie Squeezie# "Do you, because I'm most definitely feeling something that isn't ?" Queried Nabiki as she was squeezing Ranma's quite prodigous assets.
"Ooh moving so fast after we just met, I mean we don't even know each other yet." Said Ranma quietly, though with a small ghost of a smile.
Nabiki jerked her hand back like she had touched a hot coal. As Ranma's smile brightened Nabiki's jaw dropped slightly as she realized that she had just been played. Kasumi was still quite unsure in what to do in such a situation and decided to go with something she'd seen once on the internet.
"Well maybe she's a Futanari?"(If you don't know what that means Google it, but be careful ;}) Considering the shock and paling of everyone save Ranma's faces, they all had at least looked at the perverted subject once or twice, apparantly even Akane considering her reddening face and the drop of blood running from her nose.(Though that would explain things about her now wouldn't it.) Akane decided enough was enough and that she needed to get out of there before things got any wierder.
"Hey you wanna be friends, after all anyone who can get under Nabiki's skin like that is good in my books. I'm Akane,you're a Martial Artist right? We have a Dojo out back do you want to spar a bit?" She asked the young redhead as she stood up. Nearby the panda had started shaking.
"Sure!" Ranma anwsered with a smile on her face, after all it was always nice to meet someone enthusiastic about the Art. 'And who knows, maybe this one would be a better opponent than Pops.' The redhead thought as her smile turned into downright cruel smirk. Meanwhile it appeared the panda had started having convulsions.
Location: The Dojo
"So what kind of style do you practice?" Asked a curious Akane as she got into position. "Don't worry, I won't hurt you."
"The Saotome Family style. and I highly doubt you could ever hurt me." Responded Ranma as she adopted a casual and loose stance, her smirk become smug. "Ready when you are."
Akane charged forward immediately and started launching attacks at Ranma who would be lean away or tilt her head by the bare minimum to dodge. To say it was frustrating for Akane would be an understatement, after all she was the premier martial artist for Nerima and here some girl who came out of nowhere was avoiding all her attacks. She took a step back to catch her breath and wipe some sweat from her forehead and she felt a twinge as her opponent wasn't even breathing hard.
"All right this time for real." She shouted as she rushed her opponent again. She let loose with massive haymaker that Ranma merely slid under and around before tapping in the back The punch had left her off balance already and the tap caused her to fall to the floor in a heap. She dusted herself off as she stood up.
"Heh you're pretty good you know? Anyway I'm just gald you're a girl, I'd really hate to lose to a boy." She said as she left the dojo, not seeing the cruel glint that came to Ranma's eyes, nor the slight upturning of one corner of her mouth into a sneer.
A/N: I'm gonna end it there cus I'm still working out the bath scene and explaination of the curses. See y'all soon with the next chap. In the meantime Review! Or the Grave will find you sooner than expected...
Chapter 4: Chapter 4: Rusted from the Rain
A/N: ALLLLLLLRIIIIIIIGHT, I be movin on up to the next word count point! YAY! For anyone who cares I've broken up my chapters into smaller parts so I can put more of them out faster. And as always thanks for the reviews and enjoy the new chap. And for some reason after writing the description for Ranma's new male appearance I felt dirty and slightly disturbed. Still don't know quite why.
To frytrix, if you noticed Lucifer never said what Ranma's new curse would be or if it would mean he didn't have to be a girl, Ranma just assumed that himself. I'm going to skip most of the Ranma story, some parts though I will change. For the rest of your review, some of it will be answered in this chap, and the rest, well, you'll have to keep reading to find out. ;P
To frytrix and Thatisclassified I am also ignoring most of the stuff from Shippuden, somethings I'll use, but others, such as Naruto not being the first Kyuubi container, I won't. I also have something special planned for the interaction between Ranma and Naruto,(rubs hands together while cackling madly) yes some thing very special.
There will be a prize for whosoever( that's a word right?) gets the twentieth review and an even better one for the 69th review. Yes I know, so sue me. And I nearly have OVER 9000! Views! Read and Enjoy!
-The Ancient-
-His voice is like the dry rattle of ancient windswept bones.-
-His face is like the cracked stone columns of a RomanPalace.-
-His eyes are dark frozen suns suspended in the void.-
-He moves silently like the whispering of the North wind.-
-His heart is a hardened broken wreck like the lost Titanic.-
-His sorrow is an ever flowing fountain of tears.-
-He is the ender of all things.-
-He is mighty, he is lost, he has no mercy, he is…-
-… standing right behind you.-
Chapter 4: Rusted from the Rain
The bath:
Ranma leaned back as he soaked in the warm waters of the furo, letting loose a sigh as the tension eased from his body.'Now what didn't I do that ages ago? I mean she was so pathetic, "This time for Real". Ha, I could have beaten her with my eyes closed. Seriously why did I never get back at her for all those insults and malletings?"
Now normal people do not tend to ask questions in their head expecting to be answered, and those that do either answer themselves or aren't quite all there. But, everyone should know by now that Ranma was by no stretch of the imagination, "Normal". SO when another voice answered him it shouldn't be that surprising.
'Now, now Kit. Before we merged you were, for lack of a better word, incredibly stupid." The voice that spoke was deep and booming, however it was not obnoxious or loud. Even with how deep it was, one could still detect the hint of tone and inflection that signified the voice's owner as being female.
'Hey, that wasn't all my fault! After all, Pops did a pretty good job of making me his little easily manipulated retirement package.'
'My goodness, I didn't know you knew that many words, let alone how to actually use them properly in a sentence. I'm quite impressed.' If it was possible for a voice to smirk, this managed to it with energy to spare.
'Oi, laugh it up will ya, besides you were right about before. Without you or, him, I would never have changed, I would have been the same stupid arrogant prick I was till I died. But I am still going to Rip that Bloody Bastard Apart for not saying anything about the curse."
...
'Hey Amaya.(Means Night Rain1)'
'Yeah Kit?'
'How long do you think till 'Kane comes in? Think I should start gettin out? Still sucks that I gotta go through all this again without changin stuff'
'Humm... about five seconds and you're good. I know it isn't that great but the terms of the agreement were quite clear on avoiding changing things too much.'
Sigh, 'I know but that doesn't mean I have to like it though. Thanks anyway Amaya.'
Ranma stood up and started to get out of the tub to dry off. The moment he put his foot down the sliding door opened and in walked a naked Akane. Akane was expecting to see one of several things when she had opened the door, Ranma relaxing in the bath, Ranma rinsing off her soap and shampoo, or even Ranma simply getting undressed. The one thing she most certainly was not expecting to see was naked young man getting out of the water with an almost bemused look on his face.
' Even through her shock she still noticed the water dripping off his very, very, well defined muscles, his skin still slightly flushed from the heat of the water. His hair was unbound and fell down to his shoulder, his hair was strange in that it started black and turned a dark crimson at the ends.( 2Look up Kaguya Nanbu from Super Robot Wars OG Endless Frontier for a better view, a much better view, heh.) Her eyes traced his impressive chest muscles as they seemed to move unwillingly downwards, only to stop once she hit below the waist line before flicking right back up to stare into the man's eyes. She felt herself start to melt from the intesity of his odd violet (Red from Demon + Original Blue Forgot to mention it in previous chaps.) gaze, if he had been one of the boys at school she would have lost to him in an instant. However just as he was opening his mouth reality snapped back to Akane as she realized that she was still naked and staring at an equally naked boy who she had never seen before. Closing the door she got dressed quickly before standing outside the door and doing what any normal girl would do in such a situation, she screamed and ran for some kind of weapon.
Later:
"I'll explain it once more," Soun said as he gestured to the balding old man and the young man next to him."This is my good friend Genma and his son Ranma."
"Nuh-uh I'm not buyin it. There is no way such a thing as magic curses exist. You're gonna need to show me some proof first." Stated Nabiki.
"Hmm where should I begin?" Genma put a finger to his forehead as he pondered the question." Ahh I know." he turned and reached for Ranma only to be tripped and kicked into the pond. A moment later a panda emerged soaking wet with Genma's gi hanging off it.
"You're a hundred years too early to be pullin a stunt like that Pops." Shouted Ranma.
"Daddy why are you friends with people like them?" Asked a curious Kasumi after Genma-Panda had gone upstairs to go change back.
"They weren't always this way. Not before they went to China and trained at a truly horrifying place."
Ranma turned to face them," Yes it was two weeks ago, we had just reached Mt Quanjing in the Bayankala mountain range. Pops had found this brochure for a legendary martial arts training ground and so we headed there straight away."
Cursed Training Grounds of Jusenkyo:
Across the valley stretched the myriad springs, bamboo pools sticking out of them and the ground between them. Off to one side of the main path stood a rickety old shack, most likely belonging to the guide. Speaking of whom, he was currently giving the tour to another two victi-, er, visitors, to Jusenkyo.
"Here sir, is legendary training ground of accursed spring. You very strange ones, this place very dangerous. Nobody use now. Is more than one hundred spring here, each have tragic legend. Why that one spring of drowned fanfiction writer, all who fall there cursed to turn into broke authors of stories about things that don't belong to them." Spoke the pudgy guide, in halting Japanese.
Ranma shrugged," It ain't that impressive, I'm ready when you are Pops."
"Then follow me!" Ordered Genma as he leapt up in the air and balanced on a bamboo pole. Opposite him Ranma did the same. the both assumed martial arts stances before leaping into battle, exchanging blows as they moved deeper into the valley. The guide struggled to keep up with the rapid movements of the dueling martial artists, while at the same time trying to shout out unheard warnings of the dangers of falling in the springs. Finally Ranma landed a clean kick on his father and sent him plummeting into a spring.
"Heh you done already Pops?" Ranma said as he stared at the bubbles rising from the spring where Genma had fallen into, only jump back to another pole as a Panda of all things jumped out. "W-what the hell is goin on here?" The panda leapt at him and as he was about to dodge, the bamboo pole on which he was standing gave way. This specific pole had been worn down excessively over the centuries, yet unlike all the others something always happened that caused it to avoid being replaced. Finding himself without support, gravity took over and Ranma plunged into the pool beneath him. The guide started staring at the pool in confusion," Ooh young customer fall in Pool of Drowned Something, no-one ever fall in that pool before so no know what is cursed form. Oh well."
The first thing Ranma felt was the cool sensation of the water sliding over him before the tingling and feeling of stretching and melting was felt. Then there was the absolute strangest sensation of feeling nothing, as if he was completely disconnected from his body's senses, and then just as suddenly as it came it was gone and its place was a host of similar yet different senses. With his new senses came the memories of the deal he had made and his last two years in Nerima, and with the memories his rage at the revelations he had gained. He emerged gasping from the water and looked down at his body, eagerly awaiting the sight of his new curse. Of course the first thing he realized was that his new body wasn't much different from his old one, except for the glaring fact that it was still female. Then there were the whispers, urging to kill Genma, to make him suffer for all his trespass' against Ranma. The whispers took his rage at being cheated and made fuel for his earlier rage at what he had learned, the two feeding off each other and propelling them to even greater heights.
Jumping out the water, he failed to notice that he, er she, was completely dry, or the steam that was coming off his, dammit, her body. Blinded by her rage she didn't notice as her body changed further as she strided forwards towards Genma-Panda. As she was moving she was gaining height until she was taller than her male form, her bust increasing in size as well though with her new height it looked more appropriate. Her hair grew in length until it had reached the ground and then it split, becoming nine tails that floated in the air behind her. Her clothing changed as well changing from dirty and threadbare gi into a beautiful silk kimono the colour of spilt blood. It was in her face though, were the most changes were. Her eyes had become a deep blood red and the pupil had turned into a vertical slit, her teeth had grown into fangs, and most noticeably her ears had become fox ears and had moved to the top of her head.
Now Genma had travelled many years, across many thousand miles, both during his apprenticeship under the, shudder, Old Master, and during his training journey with Ranma. So he knew from the power being given off by what he was looking at right now, that he was in major trouble. After all he had faced a demon once, a mere kappa, so he knew that they existed and could be defeated. However he also knew that he was woefully underpowered against a full on Nine-Tailed Kitsune, one that was incredibly angry at him and was formerly his son with his son's training. So he did the only reasonable thing in such a situation, he used the Saotome Final Technique for all it was worth and headed for the hills.
Tendo Dojo:
Everyone stared at Genma as he finished explaining what had happened after Ranma had fallen in, sweatdropping slightly as he admitted to running like a coward from his own son, who at that point had been his daughter.
"What, did you expect me to stick around after she started throwing fireballs at me? Besides I didn't want to fight such a weak girl if she needed to rely on tricks like that." Genma said in an effort to defend his image and actions. Soun decided to come to his friends aid.
"That's right obviously as a female Ranma couldn't hope to stand going against his Father in an actual fight." He said oblivious to the rising anger of his daughters and his guest.
"Would you care to repeat that, Darling." The voice that spoke was cold and smooth, and laced with enough iron to make a copy of Gats' sword(3). It was also husky and soft, undeniably that of a woman, and it caused Genma's eyes to widen and his blood to drain from his face. Soun started to turn around to see who had spoken when he was grabbed roughly by his friend so Genma could whisper in his ear.
" Run, Soun old friend, Run! Run fast, run far, but whatever you do don't, look, back." He finished in a harsh whisper, his eyes darting back and forth like a caged animal. Soun of course ignored this, after all didn't he and Genma just agree that a woman couldn't be a real threat to them. So he turned around and found himself face to face with the previously mentioned redhead. Her expression was downright predatory and on the tip of each tail was a floating ball of fire, alternating blue and red flames. Suffice to say the beating he suffered at her hands made him seriously rethink his position on the strength of a female.
As Kitsune-Ranma stared up at the night sky from the roof of the Dojo, enjoying the moans and shouts of pain as his father and Mr. Tendo were being treated for their burns, she couldn't help but think that it would be a long two years, but man would she have a blast this time.
A/N: And there you go. Next time straight to Saffron and a few flashbacks to the two years leading up to that. Review! Or I'll send... I'll send Itachi after you, have him kill your family and then make you watch it over and over again. So review!
1: Means Night Rain.
2: Look up Kaguya Nanbu from Super Robot Wars OG Saga Endless Frontier, for a better idea of his hair.
3: From Berserk, The. Most. Badass. Manga. EVER.
Chapter 5: Chapter 5: Youre gonna go far kid
V2: Yeah this an edit. I'm getting rid of a lot of stuff that was making things way too complex for me. Anyway hope this is better.
A/N: Fellgrave here again with the next chap in Ranma No Kitsune. Holy crap I'm just puching these things out man. In a previous note I had asked if Shinikage means death's shadow, unfortunately I will need confirmation on this before I can continue too far with the story.
I am also going to put up a poll for pairings in the near future as well, for both Ranma and Naruto. If anyone has a pair they'd like to see but isn't on the list just PM me.
I've unfortunately gotten a plot bunny in my head for a Ranma and FFT A2 cross and it won't leave me alone. So look out for a one shot in the future from me.
I am also in need of a Beta, a guy I can bounce ideas off of, if you are interested drop me a line, I check my Pms daily. If I have someone to give me feedback on parts of the story as I'm writing it should go faster and be better to read.
To Blackholelord, Obvious Statement is Obvious. Really man, I wrote down the Kyuubi dissapearing from the Naruto world and then getting drowned in the Ranma world, so what other nine-tailed Kitsune is it going to be? Did you actually read that chapter? And did you not remember Ranma talking to the voice in his head?
Oh yea last thing, Ranma gender pronouns are a bitch, you know what I mean?
-Kill a man, one is a Murderer-
-Kill a Million, a Conquerer-
-Kill them all, and one is a God-
Jean Rostand
-I will Rule this Sector-
-Or I will see it burned to ashes around me-
Arcturus Mengsk
Chapter 5: You're gonna go far Kid.
Saffron was worried, for the first time in his long existance he was facing a true threat to himself. None of his attacks seemed to even faze his opponent and he was running out of strength, slowly, but he was still expending a lot of energy in producing those attacks and his foe simply shrugged them off. On the other end of the battle Ranma was running through her memories, looking for any reason to stay and try to change things. He remembered meeting the his first meeting with Kuno as girl, for once, as apocalyptic as it sounds, he got it right when he started Ranma a demon. Even odder was the fact that it didn't matter if he was male or female, Kuno simply changed the type of demon and his plan of attack. Ranma had to chuckle, Kuno's attempts to "redeem" the poor succubus were certainly amusing. It was truly a shame he wouldn't get to see what was left of him after he broke out that illusion he put him in, forcing him to kill Akane and his darling pig-tailed girl over and over again.
He just hoped all of the contigencies plans he had made with Nabiki worked out. 'Hmm, Letsee there was that video of Ryoga changing into P-chan and back to go to Akane, I got that list of all the crimes pops committed and all the deals he made with everyone sent to Mom and the cops. I hope they appreciate that list of what Nabiki did as well, heh, I bet she didn't even bother to read through all the sheets before hand, after all I'm not going to have anything other than what I said was in there. Ranma laughed aloud at that thought, 'Men, and women for that matter, are so full of greed these days, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money, even the means of their own downfall.'
Brushing aside another fireball Ranma strode slowly towards where Saffron was flying. Firing off a small chakra blast, much more potent than the ki blasts he used to use, Saffron was knocked back a bit. Ranma looked off to the side and searched for where everyone was watching the battle, his father in panda form writing something on his sign for him to read. #Boy you need to hurry up!# Flip #And save your Fiancee!# Flip #Before it's too late!# Ranma simply shook his head as he puzzled over how his father could fit three messages on a two-sided sign.'I guess it's just another one of life's great mysteries.
He also saw the Amazons looking absoluteely stunned at the fact he was holding up against the power of the Phoenix god-king. Of course this wasn't the first time he had shocked them completely. He chuckled to himself as he remembered the other times he had shocked them.
FlashBack No Jutsu.
"Ha son-in-law is a hundred years too early to win against me." Cologne smiled smugly down at him." What I did to you there is press what is known as the Cat's Tongue point, making your entire body as sensitive as a cat's tongue. Even lukewarm water will feel absolutely scalding to you.'Come on where's that fear, from what great-granddaughter told me even the slightest chance that he'll be stuck as a boy will leave him terrified" Instead of the look of fear she was expecting a smug sneer crept its way onto Ranma's face. not saying anything he turned around and grabbed the nearby kettle of boiling water and poured it on herself without even a flinch at the temperature. Cologne's eyes nearly bulged out her head at the sight, after all its not everyday someone simply ignores an unbeatable technique.
Kai
'That's enough, I'll have time to for my memories of this place once there just that, memories. It's time to end this and leave this place once and for all.
Ranma looked up at Saffron and shuddered with pleasure at the thought of what he was going to do next. Saffron's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates as his opponent changed from a male into a beautifu-'Are those Tails? OH SHIT, A KITSUNE!' Ranma smirked at the shocked demigod.
"Hey birdbrain, let me show a real flame." From Ranma's outstretched arm burst a fireball composed of fire that burned so hot it left an afterimage seared onto the retinas of those who didn't turn away in time. The fireball hit Saffron on the wing and consumed it instantly causing him to plummet to the ground. Ranma started to gather chakra in the air in front of him slowly forming a roiling ball of energy.
"It's time to end this." Ranma swallowed the ball of energy and nothing happened for a few seconds. Then from her mouth burst a massive beam of pure energy annihilating Saffron and the mountain behind him completely. The blast of energy quickly grew and consumed Ranma as well, before leaving nothing behind save a destroyed mountain and a smoking crater where Ranma once stood.
Location: Sea of Eternity
Ranma stared all around, her eyes couldn't pick out anything in the emptiness. There was no light here and yet there was no darkness as well. There were simply shadows stretching to the horizon and beyond. There was no perception of space or time in this place, everything simply was. In the space in front of him Lucifer appeared as if he was emerging from a fog. He smiled openly at Ranma.
"Nice job kid, you're gon-" *SLAM* Lucifer was knocked off his feat by the solid roundhouse kick that was strong enough to twist his neck ninety degrees and dislocated his jaw. He quickly stood back up, pausing to snap his neck and jaw back into place.
"What the heck was that for?"
"You said you would cure my curse, not fuse me with a Kitsune, a Female and for that matter perverted Kitsune!" Ranma shouted angrily at Lucifer who was still rubbing his jaw.
"Actually all I said was that you would have a different curse. You know you'd think that after having dealt with Nabiki over the last four years you would have known better, besides I thought you didn't mind your new body?"
"How do y-, you know what forget I asked. Anyway whats next?"
"I send you to the other world, I'll explain things more after you arrive and get settled. Be careful though, in that world the even the air itself is saturated with chakra, not enough for most people to use or to affect them at all. However it will probably cause your powers to be supercharged and run a bit out of control as you absorb the ambient chakra. It shouldn't be anything you can't handle. I have another very important guest to meet so I'll take my leave."
"Fine I guess I'll see you later. May Kami bless you and your dealings bastard." Fired Ranma as parting shot as she faded away.
Lucifer chuckled as he turned away and faced the shadows behind him, waiting for the next soul to arrive. A figure formed in the fog, not enough detail to be seen to make a firm description of other than the figure was obviously female. Her voice was full of life and quite a bit of anger filled her tone as she questioned the man in front of her."Where the hell am I?"
"You are dead my dear. I managed to keep our soul from the Shinigami's grasp in order for us to meet."
"What exactly do you want? Someone of your obvious power could easily do anything he wants."
"Actually my powers are quite limited, and if I had exposed my prescence, well things would have gone south for me. I am willing to give you another chance at life, however I need you to do somethings for me. If you do exept you'll get a chance to be a part of your child's life again. You may even get to raise him."
"Fine. I agree so long as I get to see my little boy again one day. but if you betray me, so help me I will kill Death himself to get at you."
"Ah my dear you don't have to that. Besides Death is a very dear friend of mine, who do you think allowed me to take from the Shinigami? Do we have an accord?" Lucifer asked as he stuck out his hand.
"Yes. But you better hold to your end." From the mist reached out the hand of the figure taking
"Then let us be off, we have worlds to change." Spoke Lucifer as they faded away, the last thing left the light glinting off the crimson hair of the figure.
Omake Time!
Genma staring at Ranma as he starts to battle Saffron. He turns to Soun who has a strange green eyepiece on.
"Soun what does the scouter say about his power level?"
Soun takes off the scouter and crushes it in his hand.
"Its over NINE-THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!"
"WHAT OVER NINE-THOUSAND?"
Cookie to whoever gueses the identity of the unkown female.
Chapter 6: Chapter 6 Symphony of the night
A/N: And I'm back again. And I am still looking for a beta.
Thank you Milae for your aid with the translation, I guess that won't work for I had planned, oh well. Thanks Anyway though.
Congrats to 7 Winds, for being the 20th reviewee you get to be featured within the story. Or at least mentioned in it. Actually you know what? I'm gonna use your name as a badass jutsu instead. Also Kos-Mos, really? I did mention that the figure was younglooking, didn't I? But good guess all the same, it was one I really wasn't expecting. Although now that you made me think about her I think I have way to work her into the story without changing from the way I had things planned.
And a cyber cookie to Kyryst for getting it right. Don't worry about Rei, I have something very special planned for him.
I'm holding another prize for the 50th reviewer and one for the 69th reviewer as I said before.
And to all who were complaining about the length of the chapters, I have taken your advice and am going to be releasing longer chapters, however this means they will take longer to produce and edit. The editing part would go faster if I had beta,* nudge, nudge, wink, wink*
Concerning the gender of the Kyuubi, two words: Creative License
On the Religon: I took my base from Oh My Goddess and added random gods and elements I thought would fit or be interesting.
Also I decided to throw in some random humour into this chapter, so sue me. But I must say the poker table scene is my favorite one in the story so far. Bonus points to anyone who is able to place the beings in that scene.
Last thing, Review or I will kill you with a rusty spork. You have been warned.
-Only darkness is eternal.-
Chapter 6: Symphony of the night.
Location: Konoha village, Hokage Tower, Late at night. Oct 10.
The Yondaime Hokage was sitting back at his desk, all the damnable paper work done, his wife at home awaiting the arrival of their new child. Everything was nice and peaceful, the bandits were on the downswing again, relations with the other villages were going well. There was absolutely nothing in this world that could make him get up from his spot on his chair. It was an absolutely perfect night that came along only once in a loooong while.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooom*
And there it went, going right past his chair, up the stairs, out the window, off the balcony and straight down to hell. Some days it really just doesn't pay to get out of bed. Having a wonderful woman to share that bed with helps with deciding too. Anyway he need to see what the commotion was about. The emergency shortwave radio started crackling and he leaped to answer it.
"This is the Hokage, what in the heck is going on out there?"
As a voice came over the static the words that were spoken next chilled the Hokage to the bone," Sir its the Kyuubi, its attackin tha city!"
"Increase the power to the chakra shields and sent the order to evacuate to the bunkers!" Ordered the Hokage, the chakra shields were one of the Yondaime's crowning acheivements, using an intricate group of seal arrays it would convert electricity or chakra into a solid barrier, much stronger and larger that reinforced and extended from the stone walls of the villlage.
"Aye, were givin them all we got, b-!" The voice, oddly enough with a scottish accent, cut off as another explosion ripped through the air.
*BOOOOM*
"Sa the shields, they cannae take much more of this!"
"Divert as much power as possible to the shields and find as many volunteers as you need. I need time to prepare the M.A.D seal."
"Sa there's been a micro chakra converter malfunction, the shields are failin!"
The Yondaime grabbed the last piece he needed before he turned back to the radio."I'm on my way, hold it off for a just a few minutes more!"
"We'll give it our best shot Sa, good luck."
"Good luck to you too." The Hokage said quietly as he set down the mic. As he shunshined off he had time for one last thought to enter his mind,'I just hope Kushina and Naruto can forgive me for what I'm going to have to do.'
Location: Unknown dimension, The Great, Poker Table of DEATH!... *cough*
Time: Sometime either before, during, or after the previously described events, quantum trans-dimensional time keeping is confusing.
The scorched plains stretched to beyond the horizon, the emptiness broken by the occaisonal burnt and broken tree. In the centre was a poker table. Not just any poker table, no, this poker table was a solid piece of carved bone from some titanic creature. Sitting around were figures that inspired dread and terror to all in their presence. The gathered figures were foregoing their eternal poker game in favor of more interesting entertainment that could be seen in the embedded screen.
A portly man, with a mustache and a lasso on his belt as well as skin the colour of a rain cloud, spoke up first. "It has begun. It has been far too long since we have an influx of souls like this." yamaraj/Dharmaraj
The person next to him let out a cackle as she licked her lips with a sharp tongue that dripped poison, her appearance that of a grotesque woman with a crooked blue nose." Ah dearie that it has. This will be the best thing we've seen since that nice German boy of mine took power."
"Yea mon, but we be missin some, don't we?" Pointed out a short man in a top hat, a cane by his side,a big cigar in his mouth and a bottle of rum in his hand.
"Now now Papa Ghede, we're here now aren't we," spoke up a female voice from behind the group causing them to turn to behold the new visitors. The leader was a tall and stunningly beautiful woman in a black kimono, her beauty marred somewhat by the fact that the lower half of her face was that of a rotten corpse, her lips peeled back to reveal her stark white teeth. Standing behind her were two figures. To her left was a tall cloaked figure, a scythe slung over his back and a large tome under his arm. From under his hood motes of flame stood out of a bare skull. To her right stood a figure who looked like he was made out of darkness, a cartoonish three point skull mask and large white gloves serving as a stark contrast to the rest of him.
The first woman let out another witch like cackle."Ah dearie, its about time you got over your lost sweetheart and got back to doing what you do best. Shame about him though, he always was good for business."
"Ah but Giltine, I never told you I was over him, in fact I never said he was still lost either?" The corpse woman said with a smirk in her voice, you couldn't see it on her face though.
Papa Ghede sputtered out the the rum he had been drink at that." What you mean he don be lost? De almighty took him out himself! He was a friend of mine so I should know if he was dead or not." Papa Ghede's eyes narrowed." Just what are trying to pull Izanami, after all even you don't have the power to bring back a god from the beyond."
"Your right about that. On my own I couldn't hope to ever possibly bring him back. But who ever said I was working alone." Stated Izanami as she gestured to the two figures behind her causing the eyes of those sitting at the table to widen.
This time it was the cloud skinned man who let out a laugh." Only you, and him for that matter, could ever pull off something like this. What's going on in the Elemental Nations is his doing as well isn't it? It has all the marks of one of his works. He's going to screw all of the Head's plans to bits isn't he? He never could respect authority." As he finished speaking from out of nowhere a bolt of black lightning struck him dead on, his limbs jerk spasmodically as innumberable volts of elctricity ran through his muscles.
"Ah Dhamaraj, you old coot, you know me better than that. The only authority I don't respect is His, and that's only because he squandered it when I had given it to Him." From out of the shadows of one of the trees stepped out a tall figure in a black military style uniform as Izanami's dead man's grin grew wider. Lucifer laughed openly at the stunned looks he got from those at the table. Izanami embraced Lucifer and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek as they enjoyed the shocked and confused stareds they were getting.
"Something's been troubling me dear. How did you get Ranma to go berserk like that? Even with the massive influx of ambient chakra that would be enough to affect him mentally this much."
Lucifer chuckled to himself softly." Simple darling, I used the one thing that would work on her no matter what realm she may be in and form that she might take."
"Oh, and what's horrible terror from beyond the veil did you use on her, pray tell?"
"Cats."
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"Cats?"
"Yep I used an illusion of an army of giant cats attacking her to drive her berserk. Hey now what's with that look? You know I can be a bit crazy sometimes and being dead didn't help, but you're in love with me, so what does that say about you?" Lucifer asked Izanami with an innocent grin.
"We'll talk about that later, I want to see what happens next." Lucifer simply sighed at that, though his grin didn't waver an inch. He nodded to the figures standing by watching the precedings.
"Shin, you and Grim get ready to move. It's gonna be you guys in the spotlight next."
Location:Forest outside Konoha.
"Come on, we let it reach the Village!" Shouted a wounded shinobi, one arm missing at the shoulder.
Hiruzen Sarutobi surveyed the field with a tactician's trained eye, catalogueing the assests that he possesed in a glance. He knew that nothing he could trow at the Kyuubi could do anything more than slow or irritate it, but that was all they had to do until the Hokage arrived. As he saw another squad fall to one of the beast's tails he decided he needed to step in and rally the troops before they panicked and broke under the onslaught.
"Stand fast men! You are all that stands between the beast and our families in Konoha! As long as a single one of us still draws breath ,this demon, Shall, Not, PASS!" Roared the ex-Hokage. The shinobi forces, spirits raised and their flagging courage reinforced with their former leader's valiant words, leapt back into the fight with a newfound energy, no longer fighting just to defend their home, but to defend those still within their village's walls.
Even with their renewed strength the shinobi were still no match for the demonic incarnation of pure power. Unleashing a blast of energy at the village the shield absorbed the energy, the shield now glowing cherry red in most places as the energy was converted to heat and bled off. After what seemed like days of fighting but only mere minutes, the Hokage arrived in his signature flash of yellow light, a wrapped bundle held in his hands.
"Thank you guys! Now get out of here! It's long past time to finish this." As ordered the remaining shinobi fled the forest, carrying along those who were unable walk on their own. The Hokage turned and stared up at the Kyuubi, who had paused in the destruction as if knowing that a threat had presented itself. "Alright fuzzball, let's dance. Summoning no Jutsu!" There was giant puff of smoke and the Hokage was standing on an immense frog the size of a small mountain smoking a pipe the size of a car. "Sorry 'Bunta looks like this'll be the last time we fight together. Try not to kill Ero-Sennin after I'm gone will ya?" The frog chuckled," No promises, but it has been a blast. I'll see you again eventually, even I'm not immortal."
(I'm going to skip the battle and stuff as nothing really changes.)
Hiruzen Sarutobi, reinstated Hokage, was searching through the forest for his succesor and his child. Entering a small clearing he found the two of them huddled under a tree, the older holding onto his life by sheer will. The old/new Hokage shook his head at the absolute stubborness of his successor. His attention was drawn back to the world as a body-wracking fit of coughing struck the blond haired man. Forcing a smile on his face, an effort somewhat made useless thanks to blood trailing from his mouth, he looked up at his old teacher. "I did it old man, I did it. I want, *Cough Cough*, I want you to make sure they Naruto here like a hero. Can you do that for me? I may be gone but at least he's got his mom right? I just hope she forgives me. I'll see in the afterlife old man." And with that, Minato Namikaze, hero of the Third Great Shinobi War and Yondaime Hokage of Konohagakure, died.
Carefully taking the bundle from the dead man's hands Sarutobi unwrapped the bundle to reveal the form of a blond haired baby, a large seal inked across his torso. There was a flash of lightning in the cloudy sky and for a moment, that passed quickly enough that the Hokage thought he had imagined it, the boy in his hands was replaced with a red-haired baby girl. But such a thing is impossible. Right?
Yes I increased the word count by all of 500 words! Go Me! Anyway I thought that this would be a good chapter break. Next chapter: Exam Day and Flashbacks, I think...
And another thing,
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Yea... So Review please.
Chapter 7: Chapter 7: Whispers in the Dark
A/N: Yeah this is V3 of this chapter. Because of the feedback I got I redid this and the next chapter to get rid of some extraneous extras that were cluttering the story. Hope this works better.
Sorry bout that Deathgeonous. But seriously what are the odds, eh? And I must say it is quite an honour to have you review my humble fic.
Blackholelord I'm sorry if I failed to describe it properly, but I did say that the change in appearance was only for an instant and then it was gone.
I have a pairing in mind for Ranma but I need one for Naruto and I'm open to suggestions. However no Sakura or Hinata, I'm not a fan of either, all that much. I don't mind Hinata as much as Sakura, but I just find her way overdone and too unlikely to end up with Naruto.
I am somewhat suprised that no-one seemed to catch the reference to star-trek in the first section of the last chapter. There is another scene in this chap that is a near verbatim cameo from a manga. Cookie to who identifies it.
The Clint Mansell remix of Requiem For A Dream is awesome music to write to. As is the Time-2 by Ewan Dobson. Both epic tracks.
Lastly a plug of my other story Grimoire One Half, the only crossover for Final Fantasy Tactics A2 and Ranma 1/2.
Onwards in this bastardization of popular literature, Onwards my friends.
-He spoke into the abyss.-
-And the forces of darkness roared back.-
-The Greatest Trick the Devil ever pulled,-
-was making the World believe he didn't exist.-
Chapter 7:Whispers in the Dark
Location:Konoha. Time: 14 Years post-Kyuubi Attack, Late Morning of the Day before Exams.
"DAMMIT, WHERE'D HE GO? HURRY AND FIND HIM! HE DEFACED THE HOKAGE MONUMENT... AGAIN!" The shouts of angry and frustrated ANBU and Jounin rang through the village. Meanwhile running away from the shouts as fast as possible was a young blond haired boy dressed in orange, laughing uproariously as he went. The thing that caused his laughter today, as well as incited the anger of the ninja, was the fact that he had painted all the Hokages to look like kabuki actors. "THERE HE GOES!"
"Ha you'll never catch me! The Prankster King of Konoha!" Naruto shouted back at his pursuers. Once he had gotten enough distance he pulled out a cloak that was patterned like a fence and hid behind it. The pursuing ninjas quickly past him without even noticing. Chuckling to himself he dropped the cloak and watched as the ninjas ran off searching for him. "Heh, still got it. People really need to loosen up a bit. What a masterpiece of art."
"Yes it is quite the work isn't it?" Spoke up a voice from behind Naruto. So caught up in his giggling he didn't fully realize someone was standing there.
"You got that right Iruka-sensei."
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"Uh, hey sensei. Um I-I uh, I can explain this. I'm not gonna run, so you can put down the kunai... And the rope too... S-sensei?"
Pity the fool who angers Umino Iruka, shinobi teacher from hell.
Iruka shunshined and uncerimoniously dropped a tightly bound and gagged Naruto off in front of his class. Though none of the class knew exactly what had happened they did hear enough from the teachers to tell that Naruto had pulled off another one of his pranks. Most found it entertaining how he could escape all the ninja chasing him only to always be brought down by their teacher. Iruka leaned down and undid the bindings on Naruto before directing him to take a seat. He ignored the catcalls and insults, and rare congratulations, being thrown his way as he made his way to the only open seat, unfortunately, this was the seat next to the resident Emo-king Sasuke. As Naruto sat down he stuck his tongue out at Sasuke before turning to pay attention to Iruka's lesson.
"Now then class, thanks to Naruto here, I've decided that today we are going to practice our henges." Iruka paused to allow the students to boo Naruto. "Quiet down, alright I want each of you to come down and do a henge of either me or Mizuki. Kiba your up first!" Kiba performed a successful henge and after him was Sakura and everyone else. When Sasuke got up he was cheered on by his fangirl horde, successfully henging into Iruka, though with the same arrogant posture, the horde's cheers doubled in volume. It took Iruka's Demon Head Jutsu to restore order enough for him to call the next in line. "Alright Naruto your next."
"Sensei does it matter what we Henge into? Cus I got this real cool idea I wanna try."
"I don't see anything wrong with that, go for it."
Naruto made his way down and stood in front of the teachers desk. With a shout of "HENGE!" a large cloud of smoke obscured him from view, unlike normal the smoke didn't seem to be clearing properly and strange moans could be heard coming from with the cloud.
Mizuki and Iruka shared a look before preforming a simple wind jutsu to blow away the smoke. What they most certainly were not expecting to see was a beautiful girl, one with blonde hair in twin-tails. In the nude! Watching as her hands were wandering across her wonderful looking body, squeezing and fondling and rubbing, every single male in the class, and a couple of the females too, were knocked unconcious due to massive blood loss.
Hokage Tower
A chuunin was stepping into the Hokage's office.
"Hokage-sama I have those repo-HOKAGE-SAMA!" The chuunins eye's widened explosively on finding the Hokage's desk and a wide arc of the room infront it covered in blood and the Hokaga passed out on the floor.
"MEDIC!"
Back at the Academy:
After Iruka had been roused back to conciousness he had berated Naruto, at great length, about using his "Oiroke No Jutsu." He let everyone go after reminding them about the genin exms the next day, emphasizing that they needed to be on time to participate. He also warned them that a particulary vicious criminal had escaped from the hospital recently and to be on the lookout for her and her brother. As the students started to head home Iruka grabbed Naruto by the shoulder before he could leave.
"And where do you think your going? You still have to clean up that mess you made of the monument. And no going home till your done."
Naruto sulked and spoke rather darkly. "Huh, it's not like I have anything to get back to at home anyway." Iruka looked down at the young orphan and thought about how similar they were. He scratched the back of his head as they made their way to the top of the monument.
"Hey Naruto, how about once you clean this up we go get some ramen, my treat?" While Iruka did know about Naruto's love of the foodstuff he had no idea exactly how much Naruto could eat, due to the young blonde having work most nights. The sudden look Naruto got in his eyes made Iruka shiver, and oddly enough, want to hide his wallet.
As the two sat at Ichiraku Ramen Iruka tryed to to find out why Naruto had gone and defaced the monument.
"Naruto don't you know who the Hokages are, why would you do something like that?"
"I know what they are. They're the most powerful ninja from Konoha, and they all saved the village and stuff."
"So why did you paint them like Kabuki actors?"
"Well I thought that painting like Geisha woulda gotten people mad at me." Iruka spat out the mouth of ramen he had been chewing as Naruto continued on seemingly unaware of the fact. "Besides one day I'm gonna be the Hokage, and I'm gonna be the best one ever, and you can count on that." Iruka was struck by how different the quiet and confidence radiating boy was at the moment from the loud prankster he was most of the time. While Iruka pondered how different Naruto could act, the young teen had already finished his fourth bowl of ramen with a smile and contented sigh. He took a brief look at the clock, as he realized he needed to get ready for his job later.
"Ne, Iruka-sensei, can you pay I gotta get going now. They need me to do some work at one the warehouses today. I have to get there soon, so see ya tommorow Sensei."
"All right, but don't forget what tommorow is. I'll be expecting you on time for the exams or else I'll have to fail you." Naruto nodded soberly as he hopped off his stool and left the stand, giving a wave to his friends at the stand as he headed off down the street. If one had decided to follow him they would have headed straight to the seedier part of town, and would have seen him enter a rundown apartment complex that Naruto called home briefly, before coming out on the roof dressed in a concealing black cloak.
Warehouse 13, Later that night.
"What the hell you tryin to pull here Bonnie?" Shouted out a very ticked off voice from inside the office of the warehouse. Outside of the office it was swarming with armed gang members. There were also a couple of wagons parked nearby as well, with a tarp covering the contents of one of them.
"You lose your legs to that bounty hunter bitch, but you still manage ta break outta the slammer. So I figure, hey the broad's got guts. She wants five hundred she gets five hundred. She deserves it yea? I mean, we been doin business for years."
"And this is what I Get!" The voice started shouting again."This stuff ain't what you showed me before. This stuff is shit, cheap shit! And on top of that the load's way short! Just what the hell you playin at?" A blonde haired woman, Bonnie, simply smirked as she sat to side of the shouting mob head, an armed goon sitting across from him.
"Nothing. I want five hundred, and I'm gonna Get five hundred." Her calm statement was met with incredulity from the mobsters.
"Hey, we frisked you before you got in here. So don't you be getting any funny ideas." Bonnie chuckled softly at this.
"Heh, I left my first funny idea outside." This time she was met with confused looks which she ignored as she fiddled with a button on her watch. The hidden button, when pressed sent out a discreet chakra string to trigger the little suprise she had left outside. There was a pause before a large bang and screams alerted the two inside the office that something was wrong. The guard started to move towards Bonnie as he drew his weapon but was stopped by a loud *Twang* and the small dart that had lodged itself in his brain. The stunned mob head looked from his dead guard to the small crossbow where Bonnie's leg should have been, a crossbow that was now pointed right at him. He also idly noticed that the screams had stopped outside the door.
Bonnie was smirking widely now. "Heh... Interesting little weapon hmm? Its a PM9 from Kiri. It has a unique folding system that allows the arms to keep tension even when folded. Just take off the stock and it slides right into this cute little leg of mine. Shoulda done a real body check, sugar."
The mob head was sweating bullets by this point, trying to think of anything that would save his skin. "You know you'll never deal Konoha again. Not in all of the Land of Fire. You really want all five thousand of the family after your ass?"
"You're worried about me? Oh Mister Roberts, that's so sweet." *TWANG, SPLATCH!*
Outside the office, moments earlier.
Naruto crouched hidden up in the rafters of the warehouse awaiting the signal to get the party started. He watched as one of the of the gaurds noticed something on the ground in front of the office door. Feeling the chakra string tug at his senses he activated Bonnie's shoeborn suprise. *Bomf* From the shoe lying on the ground a small object shot up into the air. The object reached its apex and then it exploded in a flash of blinding light and razor sharp senbon needles. Nearly all the goons had been pierced at least once by the needles, those nearer to the epicentre had been turned into pincushions by the amount of needles that had impaled them.
Leaping down from the rafters, Naruto tossed several shuriken at some of the weakened opponents before turning to dispatch the two that had remained standing. As the goons charged Naruto ran through a couple of handsigns before speaking softly. "Fuuton: Storm of the 7 Winds." The air in front of him exploded with massive blades of air that sliced the unprepared thugs into pieces. Narutp started to relax before he heard clapping form behind him. Whirling quickly around, he crouched as he drew a kunai in case of an attacker only to face Bonnie who had stepped out the office.
Standing cautiously from his crouch he tilted his head in a silent query to Bonnie. She walked over to the tarp covered wagon and reached and removed a black suitcase. Carefully opening it revealed five hundred thousand Ryo in bundled hundred Ryo bills. Pulling out ten bundles of bills, Bonnie tossed them to Naruto, who sealed them into a small scroll. At Bonnie's raised eyebrow he shrugged be before simply and quietly stating."A scroll is smaller and less likely to attract attention than a bag or suitcase. And your brother is waiting for you at the tunnel. And before you leave, a word of advice. Don't go picking fights with those hunters from Blacksmith Cats. If you mess with them, well, don't expect to get out of a confrontation alive. But I've been paid and I've done my job. So I bid you farewell." And with that Naruto made a quick one handed handsign and dissapeared in a swirl of flames.
Naruto's Apartment.
Naruto reappeared in front of the door to his apartment, the leaves scattering around his feet. The apartment complex in which he lived in was pretty run down and with the offer of a large increase in rent he managed to get the landlord to rent out the entire top floor for him to live in. Taking down some of the walls had made the space quite a bit larger. It let have spaces for a training hall or for Naruto's workshop where he worked on his seals. He had developed a love for the are after having snuck into the Hokage's apartment one night searching for jutsu scrolls, and finding his library only to discover it was sealed shut. After that Naruto had thrown himself into seals at the start in an effort to get at the jutsu library before finding himself in love with the sealing art.
Getting into the Konoha main Library had been a difficult obstacle he'd had to overcome first. It took a lot of practise but eventually he had managed to get in by using chakra to walk up the walls and enter in through a window, thus avoiding the librarians at the doors who were always keeping the boy out. Getting into the shinobi section had allowed him to find all sorts of cool things. Books and scrolls on jutsus and seals were just the tip of the iceberg. The coolest thing he had found was a small ancient looking book hidden behind some others in a shadowed corner. Inside it told of a way of allowing a part of your soul to physically manifest. It didn't detail how it was to be done, that knowledge had been apparently sealed by one of the Hokages into the Sacred Scroll.
Naruto simply took it as a challenge. Using his knowledge of seals, he experimented and kept experimenting until something had happened that he was totally unprepared for. Unexpected maybe, but definately not unnapreciated. Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, Naruto dropped the scroll with the money on the table before heading over to his workshop. Making a small cut on his hand, he smeared the blood on the handleless door in order to open it, revealing a room covered wall to wall with diagrams and pieces or prototypes for seals. Etched into the floor was a massive seal array, one of Naruto's crowning acheivements.
Making another small slice in his palm he let the blood flow for a while before letting the cut heal up. He knelt down on the ground and put his hands to the seal and pumped chakra into the array, it glowing brightly. The lines of the array grew so blindingly bright, that Naruto was forced to close his eyes against the brilliance. When the glow finally died down he opened his eyes to see a quite familiar face standing in the middle of the array. Ranma was like the mother Naruto had never had, teaching him all sorts of things and taking care of him.
As she woke up and gave a cat-like stretch Naruto's eyes were drawn to one particular area. Ranma opened her eyes and saw Naruto standing with slightly glazed eyes and a small trail of drool coming down from one corner of his mouth. Smirking to herself she walked over behind him before giving him a big hug, crushing him into her prodigous bust.
"Now Naruto, is that any way to look at the person whose like a mother to you? And father as the case may be?"
"Well you are the most beautiful woman I know. Can you blame me?"
"Yes I can, now come help me with dinner. I'm making your favorite tonight."
"Yea, Ramen!" Ranma laughed at the sudden display of energy from her adopted son. As they headed over to the kitchen and started preparing the meal Naruto was thinking about all his mother had taught him over the years.
She taught him how to use his chakra more efficiently and how to strengthen his bodies with chakra as well. She taught him how, while she had never really used it, the way of a ninja was built on deception and that the best way to be a successful ninja was to make everyone underestimate you. Naruto took that and built up an entire facade that was capable of fooling even the Hokage. It also drew all the attention to him and away from his jobs that he used to get much needed cash for room and board.
The only other thing she would teach him, saying her other techniques she would only teach if he had the right elemental aptitude for, was her taijutsu skills. And boy did he learn. After discovering the Naruto's incredible healing abilities "Mom" had pushed him to his absolute limits as much as she could while keeping things secret. Sure some of the training hurt, but it still felt good to have a family. Even if she could be quite sadistic at times.
Smiling to himself he watched as his mom went about the kitchen making dinner. She was dressed in a pair of black pants with a white apron overtop, and a a red shirt that she reffered to as 'Chinese Style'. Naruto watched with amusement as her tail-like hair was stirring a pot of noodles as she cut up vegetables.
"Feeling a bit domestic today Mom? It suits you."
"I could let this burn you know. Now go cut the meat, and slice it thinner this time."
"All right all right, thanks mom, for everything."
And thus ends the next chapter of Ranma No Kitsune. I know, that was a lame ending to the chapter but I couldn't think of a better way to end it. Yes Naruto is powered up in this story, however he is not going to be super, I-beat-Orochimaru-with-a-rusty-kunai kind of powered, but he will be stronger.
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Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Awake and Alive
A/N: This is V2 of this chapter. As stated in the previous chapter, I redid parts of this in order to remove some extraneous clutter.
A/N: And here I go again on my own. Goin down the only road I've ever known. Like a drifter I was born to write alone. (I wonder how many people will actually get that. ;P)
Hopefully, this chapter will answer most of your questions, and if you haven't seen it yet, I reworked the prologue. I'm getting better at chapter length, eh?
Unfortunately, I have been hit with a bombardment of plot bunnies again. So expect another story or two to show up in the next while from me.
*starts muttering* blasted Sailor Moon*mutter mutter* damned Oh my Goddess * grumble grumble*
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-I have no want for gold,-
-all I need is cold Steel.-
Grim, bounty hunter from SoSB
Chapter 8: Awake and Alive.
"...'ruto. Naruto...ke up... Wa... Naru...u're la..." Naruto turned over in his bed. He pulled the pillows over his head in an effort to block out the incessant voice nagging away at him, but no matter how tight he held the pillows over his ears, the rough male voice penetrated right through. Finally, the voice's patience and ran out and it started shouting.
"DAMMIT NARUTO, WAKE UP! YOU'RE LATE FOR SCHOOL!" The loud shout definetly got Naruto up, sending him tumbling off of his bed and onto the cold floor. As he sat up, he rubbed the back of his head. He groaned as he felt the slight raised bump heal as he rubbed it. He blinked the last bits of sleep from eyes
"What the heck, Ranma? No need to shout."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, NO NEED TO SHOUT? I've been tryin' to get your attention for the last half hour! Just look at the clock." Naruto turned to face his alarm clock, and his eyes grew to the size of plates when he read the time.
"Shit! It's after 8:30, I'm so late! Why didn't you get me up, dammit?" He asked the voice in his head. "If I fail, you know it's all your fault."
"Wha, bu, you, and the, and I was jus... Just get going, dammit!" Naruto grinned as the voice in his head was reduced to idignant sputtering. A quick dash to the closet and fridge, and Naruto was on his way, leaping from rooftop to rooftop with a piece of toast in his mouth and his orange jumpsuit half on. As he made his way from his apartment to the academy, he was holding a conversation with the voice in his head. Now with a normal person, this would be a sign of insanity, but not so with Naruto, considering the voice in his head was an actual person.
'So, why didn't you do something else to wake me up?'
'I couldn't, 'cause if you weren't aware , I am currently STUCK IN A SEAL. Besides, by now you should be able to get up on time on your own.'
'Yeah yeah, I know. Now that I'm a ninja I need be professional, blah, blah, blah.'
'You know I'm right. And besides, eventually you're not going to have me with you all the time to help you out of messes like this.'
'Jeeze, you sound like someone's mother nagging me. You know what you need? All you need is to meet a nice guy and get laid for once.' Naruto smirked as he heard the voice in his head choke on air and start coughing. He nearly laughed out loud, but decided that it would attract too much attention if people thought the 'demon child' was going crazy.
'I'm a guy dammit! Don't ever suggest something like that, or I'll send you nightmares of you and Sasuke.' Naruto's eyes widened explosively and he started gibbering mental apologies.
'Alright alright. You aren't the one who had over 900 years of memories of bein a girl stuffed into your head sideways. Something like that can really mess with a guy. And you know damn well that I only like girls, even when I'm a girl, in fact..." Even though it was only a voice in his head Naruto somehow felt Ranma smirk." ...you should know better than anyone else what it's like, hmm?" Naruto's grin turned into a frown at the reminder. Sure life wasn't great for him, but that simply took the cake as the worst thing that had happened to him. Fuckin' horrible way to wake up on his twelfth birthday it was.
"Oh stop sulking, you and I both know that the blame for that is all the bastard Lucifer's fault so don't start beating yourself up over it. I have someone I'm meeting later so I won't be able to talk to you for a while, but I'll see y-EYES FRONT, ACADEMY IN 5!" Naruto blinked and refocused on what was in front of him, narrowly managing to avoid implaing himself on the fence outside the Academy. Twisting midair, he put out one hand and used the fence post to flip himself over before landing in a crouch. He quickly looked around to make sure no-one saw him before sighing in relief and heading inside. He never noticed the man standing on a roof corner, a small orange book in hand.
The door to the classroom burst open, bouncing off the wall with a loud bang. Naruto stood in the doorway, breathing heavily as if he had run a marathon. Everyone looked up from what they were doing, only to go back after seeing it was just Naruto. Well, most of them anyway. Iruka turned and unleashed his Demon Head No Jutsu full force on the habitual troublemaker.
"NARUTO! DON'T OPEN THE DOOR LIKE THAT! Besides whats the rush? Class doesn't start for another fifteen minutes." Naruto blinked, then turned and gave a look towards the clock. You know the look, the one that spells out a hundred horrible fates for the receiver, each more terrifying than the last. Yeah, that kind of look. Unfortunately,considering the target was an inanimate object the look simply did nothing. Iruka just rubbed his forehead. It would be just for today and Naruto would be someone else's responsibility. It wasn't that he didn't like the boy, far from it, he saw a lot of himself in Naruto, it's just that spending the last few years with him was quite taxing. *Sigh*
"Well since everyone is here early, I guess we can start the test early too. Today the examiners are myself and Mizuki. Alright, let's get started, shall we? I need each of you to come down and perform the three basic jutsus. We already know what your stats are for your physical skills, and the grade for the written and theory work is averaged from your tests over the year. All that's left is the Jutsu section so lets get started, when I call your name make your way down to the examination room. Aburame Shino, your up first."
From there, most of the day past by quickly as students were called in to be tested. No one was allowed back into the class room, so no one knew who had passed or failed. Of course, most of the aspiring kunoichi knew for a fact that at least one person had passed. After all, there little Sasuke-kun couldn't possibly fail.
Finally, it was Naruto's turn on the chopping block, his brother giving him a whispered "Good Luck", and small smile. The exam room was a small room at the end of the hall. At one end was the desk at which the examiners sat. They looked down at their sheets and back up to Naruto, as he sat down in the chair in front of the desk. "Lets start with the Kawarimi, just swap yourself with any object in reach."
"Sure, Kawarimi!" There was a large puff of smoke, and when it cleared sitting in the chair was the Hokage. Blinking a couple times, he never the less quickly hid the the orange book he had been reading, and wiped the slight trail of blood from his nose. Both of the examiners gave a start at his sudden appearance, and were staring at him.
"And what am I doing here?" The Hokage asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Uh, um, we had asked Naruto to do the Kawarimi with anything he could reach. We weren't aware that he could reach as far as the Hokage Tower, sir. Would you like us to detain him afterwards?"
"No, no, its alright. It was just a bit of suprise is all. Carry on." There was another big puff of smoke and Naruto was back sitting in the chair.
"Sorry, I meant to just switch out with the book. Is it good enough?"
"Um, it was good. Next is the Henge and no funny stuff this time."
"Hai! HENGE!" The puff of smoke cleared quickly to reveal a near perfect copy of the Yondaime Hokage, minus the whisker marks on his face. In fact it was very disturbing to Iruka and Mizuki how similar Naruto and the dead Hokage looked, almost like they were related. They shook it off though, they could check it out later, right now they had an exam to do.
"Ok, perfect. Last up is the Bunshin. We need at least three clones for you to pass." Iruka was looking forward to seeing how Naruto would do this time. he was glad to be able to finally pass the boy, if any deserved to it was him. Meanwhile, Naruto was mentally sweating bullets, the Bunshin was the only jutsu he couldn't manage to do right no matter how hard he tried. At the same time Mizuki was fingering the small activation seal underneath the desk, linked to a chakra disruption array hidden under the floor.
"R-right, here we go. Bunshin!"And for the last time there was a puff of smoke. When it cleared there was a Naruto standing with hands in the last seal and pale, dead-looking, thing on the ground. Naruto looked at it, shuddered, and looked with dread at what the reaction came from his teachers.
"Naruto, YOU FAIL!" Naruto collapsed to the ground. Mizuki turned to his fellow examiner.
"Ah, come on Iruka, this is his third shot. Why not let him pass? At least this time he managed to actually create a bunshin, even one that is a bit, uh, flawed. Why don't we cut him some sla-" Mizuki was cut off as Iruka shook his head.
"I can't do that. Every student is required to create at least three bunshins, and Naruto only made one, and badly at that. It wouldn't be fair to the other student's if I passed him. I'm very sorry Naruto, but I'm afraid you'll have to try again next year."
LATER:
Naruto was sitting on the swing, watching as all the other kids who had graduated were congratulated by their families. He watched as brothers started chasing around the new ninja, and the mothers and fathers smothering the others with hugs. In the end even with all the begging and pleading he could muster he hadn't passed, even with his slightly better than average marks in most of the other subjects. He blinked up when he felt a shadow over him, looking up to see that it was only Mizuki, a caring smile on his face.
"Hey, I'm real sorry about you not passing. I got something I want to tell you that might make you feel better." A few minutes later, and the two were sitting one the corner of a rooftop.
Mizuki leaned in close to Naruto, and started whispering conspirationally. "Now, I'm not supposed to tell you this, but there's a secret alternative to the Genin exams. All you have to do is retrieve the Forbidden Scroll from the Hokage's mansion, without being caught of course, and make it to the rendevous point in the forest. Now then, it starts at after dark tonight, and you have only a couple of hours to take tthe scroll and make it to the forest. You guys interested?"
"Hell yeah, I'm in!" Mizuki's smile got wider.
"Alright then, I guess I'll see you later. Remember, don't get caught." And with Mizuki leapt off the rooftop to go set up the genjutsus necessary for the "Exam".
THAT EVENING:
It was well after the sun set, when Naruto started making his way to the Hokage's mansion. He made his way across the village quickly, leaping across rooftops and ducking under overhangs, and into niches when patrolling ninjas passed by. Silently he entered through one of the windows on the upper floor, and started making his way to the Hokage's library. He carefully made his way into the library, and opened the door quietly before slipping inside. The small room was filled with shelves stuffed with scrolls. As he poured over the scrolls, searching for the one he needed, Naruto felt a prescence behind him.
"Naruto? What are you doing in my house so late at night?" The brothers turned to find the Hokage standing right behind them, one eyebrow raised in question. Naruto started stumbling over an answer.
"Uh. I'm here to, er. Um, that is to say. I ju-OIROKE NO JUTSU!" The large puff of smoke concealed the young blonde for a moment, confusing the Hokage.
"What are you, AGH!" *SPLURT* *THUD* And the Hokage goes down. Narutp wasted little more time, and quickly found the scroll he was looking for, hidden behind a row of blank scrolls. Grabbing it, he made their way back outside, stopping to close the window behind himself. Then he was off, heading across the rooftops towards the forest at the edge of the village.
He quickly found a small clearing he could use to wait in for Mizuki to show up. As he settled in for the wait, he cracked open the scroll and got to reading. Looking through he found a couple of cool techniques he couldn't wait to try out.
Outside the Hokage's Mansion.
"We need to find him! And we need to do it quickly, there's no telling what the demon will do with the scroll in his possession!" The chuunin shouted angrily, getting sounds of agreement from the other ninja gathered there. The Hokage shook his head slightly,'What could have possessed you to pull something like this. Though that new move of yours certainly is something.' He discreetly moved the small piece of kleenex in his nose back out of sight, after all no need to have enemy villages aware of his one weakness now.
"Alright search the village. I want him found and the scroll retrieved. And I want him retrieved unharmed understood?"
"Hai, Hokage-sama!" The gathered ninja shouted before dispersing, while the Hokage headed inside to some searching of his own. Iruka waited a bit, as he tried to think of where the blonde might be. The Forest! That's it, he used to train there ocasionally. He quickly leapt towards the edge of the village, hoping that he got there and found the boy before one of the other ninjas did. He didn't want to think about what could happen if Naruto was found by one the more vocal supporters of getting rid of the boy. He started moving faster towards the forest.
It was nearing morning by the time Iruka found Naruto ,lying with his back against a tree in the clearing. He spared a moment to take in the incredibly damaged state of the clearing, filled with craters, broken branches and damaged trees, before turning to his wayward student. As soon as he stepped into the clearing, Naruto jumped up in suprise that turned into excitement at the sight of his sensei.
"Hey cool, I found sensei!"
"I FOUND YOU, IDIOT! What the heck do you think you're doing?"
"I'm doin' the make up exam to become genin, but I only learned a couple jutsu." Iruka blinked as he finally noticed how beat up looking the whisker marked blonde was. His brow raised as he wondered what kind of techniques he had been working on. Then his eyes strayed to the large scroll on Naruto's back, and he was reminded of his original purpose.
"Naruto, did you take the Forbidden Scroll so you could become a genin?"
"Yeah, like Mizuki sensei said, right? All I needed to do was get the scroll, but if I learned a couple of the jutsu inside even better, ne?" Naruto was bubbling with excitement, while Iruka had dropped into red alert the moment Naruto had said that Mizuki told him about the scroll. Suddenly, a whistling sound filled the air. Iruka gave Naruto a hard shove, before getting nailed to a tree by a barrage of kunai. Everyone in the clearing followed the path of the kunai, to see Mizuki standing on a tree branch, two fuma shuriken on his back.
"Naruto, give me the scroll. Once you do, of course, you pass." Mizuki said with a half-smile.
"Naruto, whatever you two do, keep that scroll away from Mizuki. It's filled with Forbidden techniques that can't be allowed out of the village. If Mizuki gets it, who knows what he'll do with them." Naruto had gone stiff at that proclamation, understanding just how much he had screwed up. Mizuki smirked, he knew exactly what to say to get a distraction.
"Naruto, you know about the Kyuubi attack 14 years ago, correct? After the attack, a new law was put in place, a law that was never to be told to you." Iruka's eyes widened as he realized what Mizuki was going to say. He couldn't posibly want to reveal that to Naruto. "Mizuki, don't-" Iurka started to shout, before being cut off mid sentence by the blunt end of a kunai to the gut, courtesy of Mizuki.
"Now then, if I'll have no further interruptions. The truth is that the demon wasn't killed. Instead it was sealed away. You are the fox demon that nearly destroyed the village and killed hundreds of people. You are the physical incarnation of that evil." Mizuki started to laugh evilly, waiting to see the shock and horror on the boy's face. Instead, he simply got a blank look before Naruto started snickering, snickering that turned into chuckles, and then outright laughter. The two chuunins watched absolutely confused as to why. Finally, the blonde stopped laughing, Naruto wiping a tear from his eye.
"Ha, y-you think mom, is a giant demon? Although, she can be tough at times... But still, man what are you on and where can I get some?" He asked jokingly. Mizuki and Iruka both stared stunned at his reaction, only Iruka actually registering Naruto reffering to the Kyuubi as "Mom". Mizuki drew his giant shuriken off his back, and hurled it towards the boy instead of saying anything, too angry that his distraction failed to do otherwise. Iruka's eyes widened and he jumped in front of the projectile, hoping to deflect it and stop it from hitting Naruto. Instead, it embedded it in his back, causing him to put his hands on the ground to keep from falling over. He looked up suddenly as he felt massive amounts of killing intent fill the air. He stared as Naruto had gone still, an expression of rage on his face.
"You really shouldn't have done that Mizuki. Now I'm gonna show you just what I learned from the scroll. Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" A large cloud of smoke filled the clearing and when it cleared it revealed a couple hundred copies of Naruto filling the clearing. Both the chuunin were again shocked as to create that many solid clones was impossible for all except the most powerful Jounin. But then Naruto started running through a familiar set handsigns, before placing his hands on the ground.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" A large cloud of smoke filled the clearing, before dissapating to reveal a jaw dropping sight. Standing in front of Naruto was a massive giant covered in steel armour of a strange design. A simple rounded helm with a T-cut visor sat on it's massive shoulders, two points of red light showing where the eyes were. In its massive hands were two strange dual-edged swords. With the sound of metal grinding against metal its head turned to face Naruto in silent query.
"Get him." And with the simple order the steel monstrosity launched into motion, though slow it moved smoothly accompanied by the sound of grinding gears. Each step it took caused the ground to tremble under its wieght. Mizuki started to back away in fear as the steel creature moved closer and closer, he turned to run but found his path to escape filled with Naruto clones. Panic started to set in and he looked for anything he could say that might make a distraction.
"What the hell is that thing!" Naruto figured it wouldn't do much harm to answer him, as he would get his ass kicked soon enough.
"This is a Steel Golem. You know I need to thank you, cus if I hadn't gotten the Forbidden scroll I wouldn't of found the Golem Summoning Contract hidden inside it. But I really hate it when people lie to me. So goodbye Miuzki sensei."
Suffice to say, after the beat down he recieved from the summoned golem and Naruto clones, Mizuki won't be having kids in the near future. Or getting out of the hospital for the next few months... or years...
Within the Seal of the Kyuubi.
Ranma chuckled to himself as he moved his Rook and took his oppenents Assasin. He frowned in thought as his opponent expertly manuevered a Queen to took take his General from the far side of the board. His oppenent chuckled at some unheard joke, prompting Ranma to raise a brow. His opponent gestured to area outside the seal, quite a bit brighter than usual.
"It seems the boy made genin. You should be proud, he wouldn't have gotten that far without you, you know." Ranma grunted a response, not noticing how similar the scene was to when his father was playing with Mr. Tendo.
"How long until we get of here, my fuzzy friend." Ranma payed attention to that one, growling out an answer.
"I ain't fuzzy, and we still have a while to go. I still can't believe someone else made a deal with that bastard." He smirked back at his opponent, hoping to knock them off balance. His opponent merely smiled serenely at him.
"Now now, just because you didn't ask for details, doesn't mean everyone didn't. Besides, if you were offered a chance to avoid dying and still be with your family, and all it took was being sealed away for a bit, I think most people would have leapt at that kind of deal. But then, you never were most people."
"Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? I seem to recall you having quite an interesting life as well."
"Too true, my dear, too true. Did I ever tell you of the time I...
Dam, sorry it took so long but it was really hard to write this chapter for some reason. Oh well.
And for clarification, Naruto is now in possesion of the Golem Summoning Contract, allowing him to summon various golems, clockwork creatures and other assorted like creations, including androids. Just wait till the boss summon shows up, hoo boy.
Next chapter: Meet Team 7 ,or, A Curse Revealed!
Chapter 9: Chapter9:Meet Team 7 or A Curse Revealed
A/N: Another chapter from the Grave to you. Any possible suggestions on a pairing for Naruto would be much appreciated.
You know what I find really annoying? When a single word is misspelled in an otherwise perfect story. Especially when it seems near everyone misspells that word. The words I'm talking about; Definately and Rogue, they almost always seem to end up so being written as defiantly and Rouge, and it annoys the crap out of me.
-Fuck this.-
Tayuya
-I built up Rome,-
-To burn it to the ground.-
Texis T by Bigger Fish Than Guns
Chapter 9: Enter Team 7...or...A Curse Revealed!
"Hey kid, how about a smile? Give me something to work with here."
"Just take the photo."
*Sigh* "Fine." *Click*
Later...
"So what do you think of my new look Jiji?" Naruto was sitting in front of the Hokage's desk as he looked over Naruto's files.
"Well I'm glad you finally decided to take being a shinobi seriously." Answered the Hokage with a smile at Naruto's new outfit. Naruto was wearing a black-trimmed white short-cropped jacket with loose sleeves and a tight black tank-top showed off his muscular chest. The collar of the jacket reached up high enough to hide the whiskers that marked his face. A pair of black-trimmed white cargo pants and pair of black gloves finished his new look. (1) "Although your attitude could still use some work I must say."
"Ah come on Jiji, you know you appreciate it when someone treats you as a person instead of just the boss right?" Naruto offered as a calm rebuttal.
"Be that as it may, I am still your superior, so some respect would be nice. Now about this contract of yours, just what can you summon at the moment?"
"Hmm, I haven't summoned the boss yet so what I can summon is pretty limited. I can summon a variety of weaker golems, but I can't summon any with their own intelligence. The biggest thing I can summon is Valus, the first colossus. Apparently there are fifteen other colossi I can summon, but I have to defeat them first." The Hokage sat back in his chair as he absorbed the information. If what Naruto said was true than he had gained an incredible weapon that would only become better as time went on.
"Well thats good. Before you summon the boss though, give me some warning since most boss summons are quite large and I wouldn't want to cause a panic. And you'll probably want to head off to the academy now, your supposed to be meeting your Jounin instructors in a bit."
"Cool, thanks Jiji...sama." Naruto called as he ran out the door. The Hokage chuckled at his antics. 'At least it seems some things sill never change with that boy. It looks like he's well on his way to reaching his dream, I hope you're proud Minato.' Caught up in his thoughts the Holkage could be forgiven for not noticing the black whirl pattern on the back of Naruto's new jacket, detailed to look like a spiralling fox tail.
THE ACADEMY
Using a couple of his old secrets Naruto entered the Academy and made his way to the classroom without anyone seeing him. Slipping though a small moving panel at the back of the room he quietly found a seat at the corner of the room where he could watch everyone easily. He grinned as he was able to sit down without a single person noticing his prescence.
Leaning back and lowering his hitai-ate over his eyes, Naruto started to settle in for a quick nap before Iruka arrived. Just as he was about to fall asleep though he was rudely thrown back into the waking world by the loud arrival of the resident living banshees. He winced as the door to the classroom was slammed open as Sakura and Ino walked in continueing whatever arguement over Sasuke they had been involved in.
For a moment after they come there was quiet as the two searched for the object of their affections. Finding him they both let out a loud squee before rushing over to get the only seat next to him. As they got into a loud arguement over who would get to sit next to Sasuke, Iruka entered the room. His first attempts to restore order were met with failure as no-one could hear him over the fangirls' arguement.
His patience finally ran out and he practically screamed at everyone with his Demon Head No Jutsu. All the students quickly got seated and quited down, Sakura sitting next to Sasuke and making him very aware of the fact that she had no concept of personal space. Within Naruto's head though, Ranma was watching and rating the teachers use of the move. 'Not bad, I'd give it a three out of five.' 'Really? Why so low, I thought it deserved at least a four.' 'Sure it was big and loud, but there was no aura, no demonic features and no pure fear factor. Eh, it was alright, but I've seen better. Looks like he's getting to your assignment, you'd better pay attention.'
"Alright Team 6 is Masamune Shirow, Kenichi Sonoda and Rumiko Takahashi. Your Jounin Sensei is Masashi Kishimoto. (2) You're to meet him in Training Ground #19. 'I remember that Kishimoto guy, he was the asshole who decided to start the whole fox hunt thing. Man I hope he gets whats comin to him one day.' Thought Ranma to himself.
"Team 7 is Sakura Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha and... Naruto Uzumaki." As expected the entire classroom burst into shouting at the last name. As it quieted down Kiba was the one who voiced the thoughts they all were having.
"What the hell are you talking about sensei? He never passed the test! And he isn't even here either!"
"Actually Naruto took a make up test that was personally overseen by the Hokage and he passed with flying colors. Besides he's been here the entire time." With that Iruka pointed to where Naruto was sitting in the corner. Jaws dropped all around the room and there were several female students who fainted when took a closer look at what Naruto had kept concealed under his jumpsuit. One girl in particular fainted quite spectacularly, He raised his Hitai-ate slightly off one eye and gave a lazy wave.
"Yo." Thus prompting massive sweatdops from Iruka and those watching from the Hokage's crystal.
"Iruka-sensei how come Naruto is on the same team as me and Sasuke? I mean we had the best scores of the year so why is Naruto paired with us?" Sakura yelled her question at the poor teacher.
"That's exactly why Naruto is paired with you, all the teams have to be balanced scorewise. All right, now then your Jounin sensei is Kakashi Hatake, he'll meet you here later. Moving on, Team 8 is...
SEVERAL HOURS LATER...
Naruto was just putting the finishing touches on his prank to get back at his late teacher. All of the other teams had left right away, and even Iruka had left a little while after. Carefully putting the blackboard eraser in the doorway he stepped back to admire his work. From her seat near Sasuke, Sakura was shouting something about it being impossible for a jounin to fall for such a trick.
Sensing a prescence coming down the hallway, Naruto leapt back behind one of the desks. The door slid open and the eraser fell, bouncing with a puff of dust off of a silver-haired head. The one-eyed jounin looked down at the eraser with hidden smirk. 'Hum, that was tamer than what I was expecting from the infamous prankster. Oh well might as well... whats that noise?' The noise he was referring to was the sound of several well-hidden low-grade explosive tag fuses burning down. His eyes widened as he recognized the sound a split-second before the tags ignited, the explosion covering the entire side of the room in smoke and blowing out the windows.
After the smoke cleared, it revealed the wall still largely intact, but the doorway and area around it covered in black soot and dust. Standing in the empty doorway, one hand where the door used to be, was the jounin, still standing unharmed, though a bit fire-blackened. Coughing to get the ash out of his lungs he looked over his new team with a critical eye.
"My first impression of you... I hate you already. Meet me on the roof in five, make that ten minutes. I find myself in need of a change of clothes." With that he dissapeared with a shunshin. The three young genin quickly made their way up to the roof, finding seats just before their jounin-sensei arrived via shunshin.
"Now then how about we introduce ourselves. You know likes, dislikes, hobbies and dreams for the future. You know the good stuff."
"Umm, can you give us an example so we know how its done." Sakura asked quietly, for her at least.
"Oh, me? Sure, my name is Kakashi Hatake. My likes...hmm. Dislikes are... My dreams for the future...I don't trust you guys with yet. And I have lots of hobbies." The three genin sweatdropped at his self-introduction. 'So all we learned was his name, which Iruka already told us' was the shared thought amongst the three.
"Well lets start with you, Pinky." Sakura's eyes narrowed the nickname but she started talking all the same.
"My name's Sakura Haruno. What I like is *looks at Sasuke and blushes* My hobbies *looks at Sasuke and blushes deeper* My dream for the future *looks at Sasuke and giggles* What I dislike... Naruto!" Kakashi raised a brow when the named subject's expression didn't even twitch, he had been under the impression that the blond was quite infatuated with the pink-haired girl. Oh well no intel is perfect after all. Speaking of Naruto.
"You the cool-looking blond who appreciates masks, go."
"My name's Naruto Uzumaki. My likes are my Hokage-Jiji, Iruka-sensei, Ramen and my mom. I really dislike the three minutes it takes for my ramen to cook, sexist people and a special lying bastard. My hobbies are doing my mom's training, working on seals and practicing with my weapons and jutsu. My dreams are to find a nice girl, and to be the best Hokage, ever." 'Hmm, now hasn't he turned out interesting. Wait, mom? I'll have to talk to the Hokage about that. Oh it seems he's not done yet.' I also really hate perverts, so none of you better be one or else." Kakashi gave Naruto a lazy eyesmile.
"Oho, I see. Now why is that exactly?"
"I hate them cus they see women as sex objects first and actual people second. And because my mom was always fighting one who would steal women's underwear."
"That's not too bad.."
"While they were still wearing it, and without removing their other clothing."
"Rrrright, you know, I think I have the perfect girl for you, remind me to introduce you to her later. And last and probably least, broody kid go."
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I have many things that I dislike and very little I like. My hobbies are practising my family's jutsus and thinking of ways to escape from my *shudder* fangirls. My dream is to restore the Uchiha family back to its rightful position, and to kill a certain person.
'Well, that was simply wonderful. I've got a fangirl, a broody avenger, and a completely different kid from who I was expecting. Heh, this might be fun yet.'
"Well then now that we know each other, I'm going to skip waiting till tommorow like usual and get on with the next test. Now then this test will see if you have what it takes to stay a genin of Konoha. And just so you know, two-thirds of your class are going to fail it." As he was expecting, the three genins expressed their disbelief in varying amounts. Naruto's jaw dropped, Sasuke's eyebrow twitched and of course Sakura nearly burst all their eardrums with her skriek.
"Now if you're done attempting to imitate an air-raid siren I can tell you where to meet me. We'll be doing the test at Training Ground #7 tommorow at eight. You'd be best not eat in the morning, you're not likely to hold it down once we get started. And you'd better pack a full combat kit too. See you all tommorow." And once more Kakashi left in a swirl of leaves, his genin making their way off the roof and home.
Sakura and Sasuke had both gotten to the field well before Naruto arrived, two hours after their appointed meeting time. When asked why, read as incredibly loud demands from a banshee, he simply said that he remembered hearing about their sensei and his habits before. An hour later and the other two were starting to think, that their sensei had either forgotten about them or abandoned them.
"Yo. Sorry I'm late, I tripped and fell into a well that sent me 700 years into the past." He pulled out a small alarm from his pocket and set it before placing it on a stump. He also pulled two small bells out of another pocket that he showed the genin before tying onto his belt.
"Okay then, you three have until this alarm goes off, an hour by the way, to get these two bells from me. Anyone who doesn't get a bell will be tied to one of those logs over there while we eat dinner in front of him. When I say go, I expect you to come at me with all you got, no holding back alright?" Recieving cautious nods he decided to get started.
"Go!" With that Sakura and Sasuke both launched away out of the clearing and into the trees. Kakashi took a moment to close his eyes and sense the location of his three students. 'Hmm, Sasuke is in a tree at my three o' clock, Sakura's in a bush over at my ten and Naruto is... Right in front of me?"
"Naruto what do you think you're doing?" Naruto smiled behind his collar.
"What I'm doing is taking one of those bells from you sensei." As Naruto started to move towards Kakashi he froze as he saw his sensei going for something in his pockets. His body tensed like a spring, ready to dodge whatever weapon was being drawn. There was a moment of confusion when all he pulled out was an orange book, though once he recognized the book cool disgust replaced confusion. 'Dammit why is it every single old guy I know is a total perv? Seriously when I find the old perv who wrote this stuff I'm gonna kick his ass.'
Jiraiya sneezed suddenly, causing his prescence to be known as he felt the glare of that most dangerous creature; the pissed off female bather. As he ran for his life he wondered who must of been talking about him. He shrugged, probably just another fan of his work.
"Ne, sensei. You remember what I said earlier?" Kakashi blinked but nodded anyway, not sure what part he was refering to. "Good then you know the reason why I'm going to beat your ass. I was gonna save this for later, but like I said, I really hate perverts." Suddenly Naruto dashed forward, moving so fast he was a blur. Kakashi's eye widened as he brought up his hand to block the sudden barrage of punches. Then,in the midst of another long combo, he felt a sudden surge of chakra from his student. Leaping back he watched as hidden seals on the back of Naruto's gloves suddenly lit up, before one ignited and the other became surrounded by frost.
"Hey sensei lets kick this into overdrive 'k?" And with that Naruto charged again, this time moving to fast for the other gening to keep track of at all. Leading the attack with a quick snap kick from the ground, only to hit a log, Naruto spun in place and used the kick to launch himself at Kakashi, blazing and freezing fists flying. Forced to put away his book, Kakashi was stunned by the sheer amount of taijutsu skill Naruto was displaying, he could probably stand toe to toe with Gai even!
Realizing he couldn't win in a straight out taijutsu battle he feinted with a thrust from his kunai before letting go with a chakra enhanced kick to the gut. Naruto was sent flying backwards, right into the river nearby. Only realizing the danger at the last second, he tried to angle his body away from the water, but it was too late. Hitting with a large splash, he swam deeper as he felt the not uncommon enough feeling of change hit his, now her, body. As she stayed near the bottom of the river plotting her next move, with Ranma inside laughing his butt of about it being a lot funnier when it wasn't him with the curse, he came up with a new plan of action.
Kakashi was watching the water with a careful eye, hoping that he hadn't knocked his student unconcious and drowned him. He stepped back as a from leapt out of the river, dripping water everywhere. As the figure straightened Kakashi's eye nearly burst it's socket and he had to resist the urge to use his Sharingan to commit the sight in front of him to memory. Instead of the blond-haired boy he was expecting, a beautiful young redhead was in his place, her quite suprisingly large assests straining against the wet jacket and tank-top, showing just how cold the water in the river was. Once again Kakashi was glad for his mask, otherwise his students might have seen blood flowing from his nose or his dropped jaw.
"Well isn't that an interesting bloodline. Hmm, Naruto-chan?" Inwardly Kakashi was thinking about something, different. 'Dam that would be awesome, getting to see a chick's body anytime you want. Man if Jiraiya-sama could do that, His books would become Legendary!'
The thoughts of the other genin were a slight bit different. For Sakura it was something along the lines of 'I knew it! Sasuke is so great he can even make guys fall in love with him! Wait, but if Naruto's now a girl then that means he must have changed into a girl to go after Sasuke! Never, Sasuke is mine!' Sasuke's response was a lot more in line with his usual. 'Hn, dumb dobe, dumb bloodline.'
"Dammit sensei, of all the places you could have kicked me, it had to be into the river! Do you know how hard it is to keep these clean? I can- sensei, why is there blood on your mask? Oooh I don't believe you, after everything I said! Fuuton: Fist of the Wind God!" From Naruto-chan's outstretched hands burst a solid wall of wind that slammed into Kakashi and tossed against a tree. Getting her shot lined up, Naruto-chan once again activated her gloves, both fire element this time. She also didn't charge towards Kakashi this time puzzlng both him and the others watching.
Instead, she traced a large spiral, twisting and moving her arms as she moved closer inwards. As she reached the last steps she made sure she was facing Kakashi before she unleashed her attack. "Hey sensei, get ready to taste one of my mom's signature attacks.Hiryu Shoten HA!" As she finished the last step and called out the attack, she instantly switched the element the gloves were creating before punching forwards. From her fist a massive storm reached outwards, sucking Kakashi in and forcing up against a tree as he was battered by the incredibly strong winds and various objects that had been picked up, even getting hit in the groin by his beloved Icha Icha when it had fall out of his pocket.
Lowering her arms Naruto-chan walked forwards and simply grabbed the two bells off of Kakashi's belt, he being to tired and injured to do more than raise an arm in protest. When the other two genin made their way cautiously out of hiding and to Kakashi's side, they were suprised when Naruto-chan simply tossed them the bells. Sasuke raised an eyebrow at the action but otherwise didn't protest, if the dobe was okay going back to the academy fine with him. When Sakura asked her why she did that, she gave an unexpected answer.
"Heh, if I can beat down Kakashi-sensei like this then it doesn't matter if I got a bell or not. They aren't going to let skill like this go back to the Academy."
"He's quite right you know." All three genin jumped when the heard their sensei's voice from behind them. As they watched the Kakashi on the ground turned into a pool of water. Turning, they saw their unharmed sensei sitting on a tree branch a shrt ways away. Once they had spotted him, he gave them all a lazy wave.
"Yo. Congratulations you all pass. The purpose of this test is teamwork, and thanks to Naruto here, you cleared the test with flying colours! Before I go, remember this; Were ninja, are job is to break the rules. But you must never abandon your comrades, because those who do so are worse the trash. We meet here tommorow at ten. Ja ne!" A swirl of leaves and he was gone., leaving his three genin standing in the clearing to go over his words. Suddenly Sakura and Sasuke remembered something important that their blond friend had been hiding from them. As they turned to question him about his transformation, all they saw was a clearing cloud of smoke and a small log.
Well here ya go. I think it turned out pretty well don't you? A couple things.
(1) Can you guess what I've been reading recently? Don't worry there won't be any addditional elements add from there, I just wanted a badass outfit for Naruto.
(2) Cookie to whoever can tell me who these people are, two of them are easy, and what they did.
Review! FG out!
Chapter 10: Chapter 10: Thrash Unreal
A/N: Welp I'm back again with another chapter. Enjoy, Review, and check out my other stories too. Sorry it took so long for the update.
With the scenes with Anko here I think I might be straying a bit into the M range, but no lemons or limes yet so its fine. Yet... Though it does come close.
I mentioned at the end of my new Fic CoC, that I had this idea for an evil twisted Sailor Moon fic, but I still need something or someone for Jupiter and Uranus to turn into. What I mean is that instead of being instantly sealed into the Dark Kingdom, Beryl had enough time to magically curse the souls of the Senshi while they were unprotected. The curse would be that they become the evil they fight against. For what I'm looking for I'll give you the previous ones I've decided on. Sailor Moon is a Demon Queen, what kind is a suprise; Sailor Mars is a Kitsune; Sailor Venus is a succubus, which is both cliche and fitting; Sailor Saturn is a vampire; Sailor Pluto is...a suprise; Sailor Neptune is a Naga or Siren; and Sailor Mercury is either the avatar of Lloth or a yuki-onna or other ice-based creature. Any ideas at all would be much appreciated. Anyway on with the story!
Chapter 10: Thrash Unreal
"Well at least you managed to bring her back in one piece. Though I can't quite say the same for you. What's going on with Naruto by the way?" The Hokage asked with a concerned look on his face. Next him Iruka was sorting through the mission folders in an attempt to distract himself from what was going on in front of him.
Standing in front of the Hokage were Sakura, Kakashi and Sasuke, with the broody boy holding onto a small cat witha bow on its ear. Sasuke happily, well as happily as he could manage, handed the cat off to its owner who then proceded to strangle it with love. Standing far off to the side of the three was a shaking Naruto, who was casting nervous glances and flinching every time the cat made a noise. He peeled his eyes away from the cat and tried to paste a smile on his face, though it failed majorly and only made him look like he was just incredibly pained as his face contorted. Even if it had looked normal his jacket would have concealed it anyway.
"Heh-heh. N-no-nothing's w-wrong Jiji. I-I j-just really can't stand being around those c-c-c-furry little demons. I-if y-you send me on another mission involving those, ca-ca-ca-clawed monsters, don't expect them to come back at all." The Hokage blinked. Iruka blinked. Sakura and Sasuke blinked. Kakashi raised an eyebrow. And even Tora blinked. They all knew Tora was bad, but it was quite suprising to hear such a statement about all cats.
"Let's just say I have bad memories of those c-c-c-hellspawn." Naruto stuttered out. Under his breath he muttered a little more. "Would've been nice if they weren't my memories though, stupid bleed-off." The Hokage just stared a bit, well just another thing that made up the mystery that was Naruto. He let a loud cough to regain everyone's attention.
"Right, well we have several missions available to you. Lets see here, taking care of the kids down at the orphanage, walking the dogs for the Inuzukas, helping teach the first year Academy students, and-" *Yowr!* "-catching Tora aga- wait never mind. Forgot about Naruto for a moment. But any of the other options are available." The Hokage, while appearing as if he was looking at the list of missions in front of him, was carefully keeping an eye on the blonde of the team. Out of the corner of his eyes he watched as the boy relaxed once the cat had run off, he quickly resumed his stance of quiet and sure confidence, though the Hokage noted with a mental smirk that the boy smile got more and more strained as he read off the missions.
Approaching calmly the boy waited until he was standing in front of the Hokage before speaking, his voice once again filled with seemingly unwarranted confidence that was bordering on arrogance.
"Hokage-Jiji, while I do appreciate the lesson these missions are meant to impart, namely that of teamwork, I can't stand to do another one of the pointless missions. I'm one of the best damn gening you have and this is just a waste of my skills. And those of my team as well. But I swear one more of those missions and I'm gonna go all missing nin on your ass. You hear me old man?" The Hokage chuckled quietly, it was good to see that some of the old Naruto was still there.
While Iruka berated Naruto for his disrespect and re-explained the mission rankings to the team of genin, the Hokage was thinking about what he could do for them. After all they had been doing a lot jobs recently, and doing them very well, Tora the exception. A harder mission would be a good reward and quite the incentive for them to work harder.
"Weeel I do have this one mission. But I've been saving it for just the right team, maybe you and your team perhaps?" He sat back with a smile as Naruto had to resist the urge to show his enthusiasm in a very loud way. Instead he fought it down, though when he spoke you could hear the energy just beneath the surface.
"Hokage-Jiji we would be honored to go on this mission for you. Sides I bet its gonna be a blast!" He turned to face his team and saw Sasuke nod his agreement, a superior smirk on his face. Seeing her crush agree with Naruto, Sakura quickly nodded her head as well. Kakashi shrugged, it would be a good idea for them to get some experience outside the village, and the Hokage wouldn't give them something too hard to do either. The Hokage turned to Iruka and spoke to him quietly.
"Go and bring in the client for the mission to Wave Country, I'll explain the mission to the team." Iruka nodded and left the room, leaving the Hokage with Team Seven. "First thing, this mission will be a simple C ranked escort mission, easy enough for you to handle. At worst you might run across a couple of bandits so it should be a breeze. What could possibly go wrong?" The entire genin team plus sensei shivered as they felt a chill down their spines. Things will never ever end well when someone speaks that most fate-tempting phrase.
Before Kakashi could say anything to counteract what his superior had said the door to mission room opened with a bang. Standing in the doorway was a large man with graying hair and a sake bottle in one hand. Fixing the position of his glasses he studied the team a bit before speaking, his voice full of disdain.
"These are the elite ninjas you got to guard me? They hardly look like they should be out of school yet. Especially the one with the ridiculous pink hair, I mean who ever heard of a ninja with pink hair?" Kakashi and Sasuke had to physically restrain Sakura from going up to old man and beating on him. Naruto chuckled at them off from the side.
"Sakura I think it would be a pretty bad idea to go and beat up the man we were hired to protect, even if he does need to learn some respect for his betters." The old man blinked and looked at the kid who had spoken, trying to get a clear sight of him through his drink-fogged eyes.
"Do you know who you're talking to Shorty? I am the Super Brigde-builder Tazuna of Wave Country!" He was about to say more before he felt someone put a knife to his throat, and one at his groin, causing him to drop his sake bottle onto the floor. He nearly let his bladder go when a voice hissed into his ear.
"Listen you drunken old fool, and listen well. Its not a good idea to insult the people in charge of your protection, but I'll forgive you this once since you are drunk. But don't let it happen again, and Never EVER call me Shorty, or else you might find yourself short something important to all men." All the males in the room winced at Naruto's cold words, though the Hokage had to applaud him for his handling of the situation. Kakashi gave a nod to Naruto as he walked back over to the team and pt away his kunai.
"Alright Team Seven, meet up at the gate tommorow at seven with all the supplies necessary for a month away from the village. Hokage-sama." After a quick bow Kakashi dissappeared in a swirl of leaves. Sasuke and Sakura both left quickly to prepare while Naruto stared at the spot where Kakashi had stood.
"Hey Jiji." The Hokage looked up from his paperwork.
"Yes Naruto, what is it?" Naruto turned and pointed at the mess left behind from Kakashi's Shunshin .
"How come that move always makes leaves, even inside?" The Hokage did a fairly accurate imitation of a fish out of water as he puzzled over that question.
"I'd like to know that as well... I mean, shouldn't you be getting ready to go."
"Hai Jiji, but I still expect an answer when I get back." Naruto shot off as he left the office.
As he walked down the streets Naruto ignored the many stares he got, most of them confused as people had for the most part not recognized him in his new clothes yet. As he made his way down the streets to his home he was in the middle of a small mental conversation.
'So I'll probably need to stop by a couple stores and pick up some seals and a new set of ninja gear, that place Tenten's pops runs should carry everything right?'
'They should. And you might want to be careful where you're going because your about to be-'
*Splash*
Naruto-chan ignored the roaring laughter in her head as she readjusted his jacket to fit her now female frame. Casting a quick glare at the little old lady with the ladle, who simply stared at her innocently, she started heading down the street again.
'Ha ha ha. Laugh it up, will you. I can't believe it, even in a whole other world the Ladle lady is still soaking Jusenkyo victims. Somehow I know this is that asshole's fault.'
'Oh come on, like Lucifer would mess with time and space just to get a cheap laugh in. Actually, considering what I know of the guy that does seem like something he would do. Sides watching it happen to someone else is just so much fun!' Ranma's voice once again dissolved into laughter as Naruto stared at the ground in front of herself.
As Naruto was not paying much attention to street she was walking down, nor the looks she was receiving, both glazed looks from the men and a couple women and envious looks from the rest of the women, she could be somewhat forgiven for what was about to happen. Somewhat.
A few minutes earlier:
"Aw come on! He was asking for it, sides its my job to torture people! So what if I get reprimanded occaisonally for enjoying it too much! Its not my fault the guy croaked, I made sure he was getting adequate medical attention!" Suffice to say the person who had shouted that was given a very wide berth as she made her way from the T&I division to the Hokage Tower in order to deliver her current reports. Yes even while she was in a good mood it was still not a good idea to be near Anko,in her current mood she would probably break some of the Geneva Convention guidelines. At some point along her journey she had managed to meet up with and drag along one of her few friends who she was currently talking to about her recent job.
"Anko it is just not right to have a poisonous snake bite a man on the balls just because of what he said to you is not okay! And using a medical jutsu to keep him from dying due to heart failure without purging the venom does not qualify as adequate treatment! Besides a genjutsu would have been so much more effective, you could have made it as if he was castrated repeatedly, without anesthetics! That way he wouldn't have died before you got the necessary intel out of him! " Lets just say the crowds took more than a couple large steps back away from the two young women. Shame, its always the beautiful ones. The quiet ones go the other way on the crazy scale. Trust me on this one.
"Its still not fair. Now I have to go tell the old man why we won't be able to find out where Orochi-teme slithered off too. This day utterly and completely sucks." Anko's face turned into a pout as she dejectedly kicked at a pebble in front of her. Kurenai sighed as she patted her friend on the back, it wasn't entirely her fault this time. The prisoner had insinuated and outright stated that back when Anko was Orochimaru's apprentice she knew about what he was doing, and that he and him were more than teacher and student. Kurenai had to repress a shudder at the thought, even knowing Orochimaru went the other way that was still a disturbing mental image.
"Hey now, why don't we get together with everyone and go and get some dango? I'll even pick up the tab for you. What do you think?" Said Kurenai in an attempt to cheer up the sad snake-jounin.
"If anyone was around sure. But Yugao is out on a mission all week and Hana has to go to a clan meeting later. And no offense hanging out with a lightweight like you isn't all that fun for me." Anko said dejectedly. Kurenai huffed at the claim, so what if she was a lightweight, that didn't mean she was no fun to be around. "Thanks for trying to cheer me up, but mayb-" Anko cut off abruptly as she noticed a flash of white and red out of the corner of her eye. Slowly a wide and disturbing smile appeared on her face. Perking up, she quickly crossed the street towards an oblivious red-head in a very tight and short white jacket.
Anko quietly snuck up behind the redhead before wrapping her arms around the smaller girl from behind. The redhead tensed up for a moment, before Anko spoke up, causing the redhead to involuntarily shiver as Anko's warm breath blew across her neck and tickled her ear. Kurenai shook her head at her friend's antics. She pitied the poor girl she really did.
"Well well, looks like little Naru-chan's finally grown up hmm? I must say I love the new look, the way the jacket clings to you is simply wonderful. And I simply love it when my girls are all wet for me." Anko practically purred as her arms snaked around and squeezed the reluctant redhead's bust. "Ooh grown up indeed." Naruto immediately started to struggle in an attempt to escape, making protests and insisting that she had somewhere else to be.
" I'm sure whatever you need to do can wait. Kurenai and I needed another person to party with so why don't you join us? There's this great dango place I know..." Anko kept up the idle talk as she dragged the still protesting redhead along in her arms, Kurenai trailing a short distance away as she watched the scene with amusement.
"So then I goes, 'Hey what is this I *hic* hear about an egag, angag, engagement?', and then he goes says to me, 'Anko der, darling, one day I'll be gone and I want you to be ha-ha-happy, I know people won't neca-necessarily appresi- appra- like you cus of me, so this way you have a chance at love.' Bah it was j-*hic* just his way of screwing with the Yondaime, he got the Hokage but his kid would get me. Ha ha haaa... It's kinda a shame though, that the kid died, he mighta been a cutie." Anko drawled out drunkenly. Meanwhile inside Naruto's head Ranma was slamming his palm into his face repeatedly.
'I don't freaking believe it. I know I'm gonna have to tell the kid who his father is sometime, but this is just ridiculous. How the hell did Lucifer manage to pull this off? Well at least its just the one. I don't think I could help myself if he managed to pull off a Nerima sweep.'
Kurenai blinked lazily at her friends statement. "Reaaally? You know, my mom once said the same thing, that father and her engaged me. And now that I think about it, it was to the same person. What kinda perv sets his son up with multiple girls anyways? I woulda *Hic* at least taught his kid better, and kep him away from that old perv sannin too."
Naruto simply looked between the two woman and the small cup of sake in her hand, untouched as she wasn't quite sure how with her healing abilities it would affect herself, she didn't want to be hungover tommorow. Her brow was furrowed as a headache started to blossom behind her clear blue eyes.
'Damn it! Would you knock off that freaking racket!' She shouted mentally. Thankfully whatever that slamming sound was, had stopped.
'Uh kit I don't know how to break this to you. Man I never, I mean you got, Anko's like-and Kurenai is-'Ranma mumbled out.
'What about them? They're my friends, I mean I've known Anko since I was a kid!' Naruto demanded of her adopted-mother/father figure.
'Thats the thing, she-.*sigh* I can't believe I'm doing this. Remember how I told you about my life, about all the fiances I had?'
'Yeah, its not like its that easy to forget. I mean fifty-seven fiances! What was your pops on and where can I get some.'
'Well you may want to get another bottle of sake, cus after this you're definately going to need a drink. Well the truth of the matter is, your father went and pulled a Genma. Oh and hejusthappenstobetheyondaime.' Ranma said in a rush. Naruto blinked.
'Can you repeat that? Cus it sounded like you just said that the Yondaime was my father and he engaged me to Anko and Kurenai. But there is no way that can be true. Right? I mean you would have told me a long time ago if you knew who my father was.'
'Ehhh. Heh, I'm not joking. And I didn't know he was your father until a couple years ago to tell the truth. After I found out I didn't know how to tell you and besides you probably would have gone and told everyone you came across once you had found out. If you had done that then you would have died for sure, because I know for a fact your father had some very powerful enemies. Thats probably why the old man didn't tell you.'
Naruto just sat there for a minute, too stunned by the almost casual revelation that she was related to one of Konoha's greatest heroes. Once her mind had fully disected the new information she prepared herself to give a firm and scathing rant to her father-figure. Well she was going to until Anko reached over and pulled her into a searing kiss that shorted out her mind again.
Within the Seal
"Waaah! Our Son is so Manly! ...Even when he's a girl!" Though Ranma had barely resisted the urge to pull out the paper fans and start dancing around the cell, his fellow cell-member had no such resistance. While she moved about the cell, her long red hair following her movements like a Instead he settled for merely muttering under his breath, hoping that this situation would end better than his had. Sides after his life the kid could use people who cared for him.
"Heh good luck kit. You're gonna need it with fiances like those."
Naruto's mind went blank once the feeling of Anko's lips on her, Her! , own registered in her mind. After what seemed like an eternity her mental processes were restarted with a jolt as Anko slipped her tongue between Naruto's lips. Realizing that she was in a very bad situation she did the only thing she could think of, push Anko away physically. Unfortunately for her she couldn't see exactly where she was putting her hands, thus when she felt something soft, her still not full functioning brain wanted to know what said soft obstructions were.
Anko let out a small gasp and backed off from her victim with a grin. Naruto looked down to where her hands were, squeezing Anko's quite large breasts, and snapped them back as if they were touching hot metal. Anko's lear merely grew a bit at the reaction.
"Why Naru-chan, so forward of you! You know, you only have to ask." Her grin turned into a sensual leer." How about you finish up that sake there and we go find ourselves a nice hotel room for the night. After all I'm simply dying to know if you're a natural redhead..."
"!"
Anko and Kurenai blinked at the sudden dissapearance of the third member of there party. The watched as the chair slowly stopped spinning on its one leg before settling back down to the ground. Kurenai even raised her hands and channeled some chakra to see if it was a genjutsu. Kurenai then looked at her friend with a dissaproving look, though it was a little less effective considering she was having a bit of trouble focusing on her friend.
"You know, This is why no-one drinks with us. What do you think she meant by "I can't like this, I'm a guy!'?" The question brought a confused look to Anko's face before realization dawned.
"Ahh, you don't know about her bloodline do you. Well you know the kid they put that big ol' beast in fifteen years ago? That was her." Anko chuckled at the confused look on her friends face, it was actually quite cute really.
"Since he's an orphan we don't know who his parents were, but he apparently inherited their bloodline, though it can be a bit of a hassle as it activates at the wierdest times. Basically it allows him to switch genders though it only works under the right circumstances." Now Anko laughed outright at the stunned yet intruiged expression Kurenai was displaying. "As far as we can tell, me and the Hokage being the only ones who know about, it simply makes him look like what he would have been if he was born a girl. That Oiroke No Jutsu of his, he created to throw people off even more, at least until he graduated." Anko let out a sigh as she leaned back in her chair.
"Now who am I going to sleep with?" She said as she raised her sake cup to her mouth. Before she took a sip though a thoughful look came over her face and she turned to give the red-eyed genjutsu mistress a calculating look. Something about that look set off alarms in Kurenai's mind, however by this point she had too much alcohol, one glass of it, too pay much heed to them.
"You know what, now that Naru-chan left we might as well get out of here. Why don't I take you to your place?" Anko asked in what was her attempt at a kind sounding voice, though most people would have run from the glint in her eyes.
"My place is closer. *Yaaawn* I can't wait to get back to my bed." Kurenai responded as she leaned on Anko's shoulder for support.
"You and me both, you and me both." Anko muttered under her breath with a smile.
Yeah, so I moved this over to the junk file. Man does it make me cringe to read.