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Rikimaru quickly jumped from branch to branch of the tall trees as he searched for anything of interest. He jumped to the ground after realizing the leaves were to thick in the darkness to actually see anything. He looked all around for anything, broken branches, foot prints in the dirt, broken plants but found nothing.
"Where are you?" He whispered to himself. He walked by a bush and heard a rustling from within it. Rikimaru stopped in his tracks and drew is soard, ready for a fight. Only to see Kiba walk out of the plant. The cat sat down and looked up at the ninja. Rikimaru sheathed his sword and knelt down to the cat.
"Did you fallow me?" To his surprise the cat answered his question with a nod. The ninja scratched behind the kitten's ears making him purr. "You should go back to the castle" The cat shook his head, nuzzling into the ninja's pale hand. The silky feeling of his fur was somehow familiar to the ninja, but couldn't place it. Rikimaru stood up and turned to walked away. The cat let out a whimper and began to dig his claws into Rikimaru's paint leg. The wight haired man knelt back down "You wist to help?" The little nekomata nodded."What could you do?" Kiba wiggled his ears, telling the ninja he could hear them. He pointed to his blood red eyes with his paw, to say he could see much better that him. The ninja thought about it for awhile "Alright" Rikimaru put his fist out, allowing the feline to walk up his arm and sit on his shoulder. Rikimaru rolled his eyes and began to continue his search.
Rikimaru had been searching for around a hour, even with the cat's help. it was difficult to find the enemy ninja. Kiba's ears perked up suddenly, Rikimaru looked around to see Ayame walk up to him.
"Anything?" She asked. Rikimaru shook his head. She notest Kiba "Do you realize you have Koga's cat on your shoulder?" Rikimaru sighed
"He wishes to help us" He walked past her to keep searching. As he passed, the nekomata and the kunoichi locked eyes for a moment.
"For something so cute, there's something off about him"
"He's a demon, we should just be happy he is on our side" the cat let out a meow
The three walked a short way before coming a abandoned village. It was in complete disrepair, some houses were burnt to the ground. They were about to leave until Kiba's ears perked up, both ninja sees this
"Do you hear something little guy?" Ayame asked. The feline nodded before jumping off Rikimaru's shoulder, he walked to the entrance of the village then turned around and put his paw up and bringing it towards him, moshing the two to fallow him.
"Smart kitty" Ayame said satirically. They fowled the feline into the desolate place. They walked up to a huge house in the middle of the village which was in the best shape out of anything there and went inside. The entire house was ransacked, dead plants and broken cermacks laid about. The cat led them to a large, decorative door; the feline began to scratch at it, telling them to open the door. They did to find the enemy ninja Jaken and the wizard Myōga waiting for them on the other side. The ninja stood up and smiled at the three on the other side of the room. Myōga Was middle aged and in good health with meany pieces of jewelry on him. His elaborate robes flowed as he stood from the floor.
"Ah so you finally found us" he said evilly. The fox demon Akamaru went up the side of his master. The other two ninja drew their weapons; going into a fighting stance.
"Your going to pay for trying to hurt the princess!" Ayame yelled. Kiba ran to the front of them and got into a pouncing position
Jaken laughed.
"You seriously think you two and your tiny flea bag are going to stop me?!" The wizard said "Jaken, take care of this. I'll be waiting for you. And teleported before anyone could do anything else. He drew his sword "Akamaru, get the cat!" Kiba hissed and stuck his tails straight out. The large fox demon pounced on the cat, just when his claws could get to him, a vortex of fire surrounded them both and, standing in Kiba's place was a giant cat. It still had the same fur pattern and tails as Kiba, indicating it was still him, just much bigger with larger fangs and claws. Both demons were standing up on their hind legs, ho;ding each other back with their paws. He pushed him back and let out a roar like a mountain loin before swiping at the fox with his claws. The enemy ninja charged at the other two. Rikimaru jumped out of the way and Ayame blocked the strike. He them sung at Rikimaru who also blocked him. He them spun around to strike Ayame in the leg which landed. Ayame screamed in pain and crumpled to the ground. Rikimaru got even more anger and brought his sword down hard, into a lock with the sharp steal. The fox demon tried to slash at Rikimaru, but was stopped my Kiba tackling him. Rikimaru pushed the enemy back, making him stammer to the ground. Rikimaru stood before him, ready to strike. But again the fox demon tried to attack. He was pulled back by Kiba who inhaled sharply, he breathed out and the air was replaced by a stream of fire. The fox was greatly damaged by the heat, he manged to get away and ran to his partner, who grabbed the fox and ran off on it's back. Rikimaru wanted to run after him but he had to focuses on his partner. he walked up to her; Kiba did the same, he went up to Rikimaru's shoulder on all fours. He crouched slightly and nuzzled the Ninja's chest and purred, the ninja ran his hand down the cat's neck.
"Are you alright?" Rikimaru asked
"I've been better" she said trying to get up
"Don't try to get up, your hurt." That wasn't Rikimaru who asked
"Who, said that?" Kiba got down to Ayame's eye level
"I did" The giant cat said. Ayame jumped back "Oh don't act so surprised, I can shape shift into a kitten and breath fire, talking is not a stretch" The kunoichi giggled and again tried to stand. The cat wrapped one of his tails around her waist and lifted her on his back. "Let me carry you back to the castel, Koga can heal you, it's the least I can do for letting them get away" His ears went down
"Do not worry about it Kiba, they will pay" Rikimaru said as he walked away. Kiba tilted his head as he folwed him
"Oh I know. Not with Koga tracking the three. That boy never gives up on anything" He sighed "It gets exhausting sometimes"
Kiku and Koga were in the caste's library
"Why would Kiba be here?" Kiku asked
"He likes to read romance novels" Kiku giggled
"He can read?"
"He can"
"Why dose he read romance novels?"
"I have no idea, but who am I to judge a cat" Kiku giggled again "Where the hell is he?"
"Koga?" A voice came from behind them to see Kiba in the door way. Kiku screamed at the sight of him
"A monster! Koga kill it!" She said hiding behind him him
"Why would I do that? Kiba where have you been?" The cat wanked into the room showing the injerd ayame
"He was with me and Rikimaru"
"That's Kiba?" Kiku asked
"Nekomanta have a lot of abilities my dear, But right now can you help with this?" He showed the prince the gash on the ninja's leg
"Did you find them?"
"Yes, but they got away" Koga knelt down to look at the wound
"That's alright, it will will take a few days for them to resurface" He pressed his palm to the cut, a light flashed around the palm and it was gone when his hand was removed.
"Thanks" Ayame said Jumping off the cat. Kiba walked to the shelves of books, looking them over. He took one off the shelves with his mouth and gave it to his owner. Koga looked at it
"Why do you like these romance stories?"
"So what? I enjoy them, put it in your bag for me"
"What's the magic word?"
"I will bite you"
"That's not it" Kiba sighed
"Please?" Koga scratched behind his pet's ears
"That's better" He put the book into his bag
"Now that I have something to read for latter, we should join Rikimaru in the throne room, Saskue is back." Kiba said
Sasuke was standing before Goda
"I'm sorry lord goda, I tried. But there was no sine of them"
"That is fine, Saskue. It's better to wait than have you waste your energy"
"I should have used better judgement in the first place"
"That is not your fault, my daughter is safe in under your brother's watch"
"What shall I do?"
"Right now we should rest" Koga said walking into the room "It will take a few w=days to resurface"
"Agreed, I want you two to be at peak form to fight"
"Oh don't worry, Goda. Their father trained them to be able to take down a entire army by themselves" Kiba said
"Fine, you are all dismissed" Goda stood up and left. Saskue walked over to his brother
"Koga..."
"Saskue w-" Koga was cut off by Saskue lifting him up for a crushing hug
"I missed you!"
"AAHHH! your crushing me!" Kiba reverted back to his kitten form to get in to the hug. Saskue dropped his brother and immediately turned his attention to the cat.
"HI kitty!" He picked him up and hugged him as well. Koga sat up "You shure you missed me?" Saskue laughed
"Of course I did, I haven't see eater of you in five years, I almost didn't recognise you"
"Yes, have you met Rikimaru and Ayame?" Rikimaru walked up to them
"Yes 'prince Saskue'" Rikimaru said darkly. Saskue could read his mind, knowing what was wrong
"He told you?"
"Yes, but why didn't you"
"I thought it wouldn't matter" Rikimaru crossed his arms
"Ugh, Why don't I show you where you can sleep Koga" Kiku said
"Thanks. Kiba, come!" The cat jumped from Saskue to koga and the three walked off leaving Rikimaru and Saskue alone
"It's who you are of course it would matter"
"Riki, if I told you befor Koga did. would you think different of me?"
"No"
"Would you love me any less?"
"There's nothing you can do to make that happen" Saskue blushed at those words
"Then it doesn't matter"
"Were you banished?" Rikimaru's body language relaxed
"No, remember I wanted to travel, not be a feudal lord. Our parents is never to strict on what we want to do with out lives, as long as were happy. I'm happy with
you" Rikimaru pulled Saskue into a hug. He pulled down his mask and gave Saskue a kiss on the forehead, Saskue blushed, he held on to the ninja tighter
"I always feel so safe in your arms" He felt rikimaru run his hand through his hair.
"Come on we should rest" The ninja said as he put a arm around his lover's shoulders on the way to their bedroom. Rikimaru took Saskue by the chin and kissed him full on the lips. Saskue always loved when the ninja was like this. He had a extremely romantic side to him...but only when the two were alone. He would flurt with him, give him things, and kiss him. He adored the attention, but was sad the others would never let the dark ninja live it down when they saw him do those things. They entered their room and got changed into something they could sleep in, stealing glances of each other.
"Why do you think of my brother Riki?"
"Is everyone in your family crazy?"
"Yes" Rikimaru rolled his eyes
"Wonderful"
"Hey, be happy your in love with the saner of the three, you should meet my sister" Rikimaru got on the futon on the ground
"No thank you" Saskue chuckled, getting on the futon with him. They got under the covers and layed down
"I'm so tired" Saskue yawned
"Come here" The ninja wrapped his arms around Saskue, holding him close. "Let me hold you, i can't sleep without you near" Saskue blushed and let Rikimaru's heartbeat lull him to sleep