Chapter 8: Tails and ears… and dragon swords?

Me: I'M SOOORRRRYYYY~~~~~! (".") I WAS REALLY BUSY BECAUSE THESE IDEAS KEPT PASSING MY HEAD AND I COULDN'T GET THEM OUT UNLESS I PUT THEM DOWN IN STORY MODE!

Kiba: Why are you yelling?

Shikamaru: Troublesome.

Me: DON'T BE SO MEAN TO ME SHIKAMARUUU~~~!

Gaara: Guess we have to tell you the disclaimer… Hidan you do it.

Hidan: Why me?

Gaara: Because the Peru said so.

Hidan: I didn't hear her say that you fuckin' twerp!

Gaara: You picking a fight, huh?

*Hidan and Gaara starts arguing*

Sai: Oh well, Peru doesn't own anything of this only her OC character; Kuro.

Kuro: Somebody call me?

Kiba: Enjoy the story.

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"Will you tell us now, Mr. Tazuna?" Kakashi questioned Tazuna. We were on a boat that was headed to the land of Waves, in the land hidden by mist. We were lucky that I was a speedy runner otherwise we would have missed the boat leading to the land of Waves. I was on the rim of the boat, looking at the waves. It helped pass time really well, but I swear I could feel a piercing gaze but I was too nauseaus to investigate. I don't know when I caught this fever but it came along anyway. 'It'll go off soon.'

"About what?" Tazuna asked Kakashi, clearly confused. I looked up from the waves.

"Kakashi-sensei, we didn't tell him about the ninjas', I think that it would be better if you explained what happened, he would know." I put my head down once again, my fever getting worse with every passing minute. I didn't hear anything else, and a few minutes later I slipped into unconsciousness.

Later

I opened my eyes and winced. My head was hurting bad. Voices didn't materialize until five minutes later. We seemed to be on a boat. 'They finished about the talk of the story.' I dozed off again and woke up again to hear nothing, we reached the dock. I jolted awake and sat straight up, I seemed to scare everyone. A small dizziness came but I shook it off.

"You alright kid?" Tazuna asked, a hint of worry in his voice.

"Fine." I replied as a fit of coughs shook my body. I got up and stepped out of the boat.

*SPLASH*

I came out gasping for air. I looked around and everyone was on land; they seemed to stare at me. I stared back at them.

"What?" Is there seaweed on my hair?" I swam to land and climbed out. I didn't bother to dry myself. What was the point?

We were walking along when Naruto randomly threw a kunai in one direction and then Sakura screamed at him for almost killing a snow rabbit. He hugged it and apologized for throwing a kunai at it. Of course this rabbit was suspicious, Kakashi noticed it too but didn't say anything.

We kept walking when we were stopped by the guy on the tree, I think his name his name was Zabuza or something. He kept on going on and on about how Kakashi had the nickname of 'copy-cat nin' and how he copied over a thousand jutsu's and so on.

Man this was tiring, ever since I woke up I've had this headache. Not to mention my head seemed heavier than usual. It sorta felt funny.

"Hey copy-cat nin! Why do you have a demon with ya?" Zabuza sneered at us, but it was mostly pointed at me.

"He's not a demon. He's my student." Kakashi replied calmly.

"He looks like he was an abandoned fox pup. With ears like those!" He laughed at his own joke. 'Wait did he just say I had ears!"

I felt the top of my head, there were these furry little mountains. The more I felt them the more they felt like ears. I felt something swish at my feet, I dragged my eyes to see what it was.

I saw a silver tail swish by my legs, and I stared at it as it twitched back and forth. 'NO FREAKING WAY! I HAVE A TAIL AND A PAIR OF EXTRA EARS!'

I STUMBLED AS FOG ENCASED US. The battle had gone this far while I was spacing out! I frantically turned around and spotted Zabuza, but it didn't feel like him at all. 'Must be a doppelganger.'

I sent out doppelgangers of myself to search for them. Ione of my copies spotted them near the riverbank… and Kakashi was trapped in a water tight bubble! I rushed over there as fast as I could. Luckily I reached in time and yelled at him.

"Yo! Zabuza dude! Come and take on the demon you hate so much! Ya?" I successfully caught his attention. He seemed to sneer at me.

"Fine, I'll get rid of the annoying pest first." He started towards me with his sword out. I just stood there, my fox ears twitched and my tail swished back and forth. Just a bit more.

When Zabuza got to where I wanted him, I did a hand sign and started my attack. This one ran through my head and I did it in a breeze. The result? I grew into a full mature body (male of course), about same height as Kakashi. Just a tad higher. While I ran towards him I picked up a stick and it transformed into a sword. I don't think I saw it anywhere before but it was pretty.

It was broad but it came into a curve and a sharp point. Almost looked like a dragon's claw, except it was silver. There was a design of a dragon in the color of red. The hilt was like a dragon's wings spread out, like a smaller version of it. I admired the sword but also needed to get Zabuza.

I jumped and brought down the sword, Zabuza fell not by my sword but a needle? Then I remembered Sai. He enters here and takes the body away. I throw the sword away and it turns into a stick again. Then I start shrinking back into my original self with the fox ears and tail.

I turned carefully around to look at the others. Kakashi was out of the bubble now and joined the others. They all seemed to stare at me in disbelief. I flattered my ears and ran up a tree. Hidden from view.

The rest of the scenario went with the script. Kakashi and Sai had a conversation. Then he went and checked if Zabuza was alive or not. Once he assumed his conclusions and Sai took him away. Kakashi put his headband back on his eye, and seemed to stare at the tree that I climbed. He sighed and told Naruto something then left with the others, leaving Naruto behind.

Naruto looked as the others left, then he looked at the tree I was in. He came towards the tree and looked up.

"Heeeey! You there Kuro?" He yelled.

"What are you staying here for? Go with Kakashi and them. You don't need a demon with you." I pouted as I tried to tell him to leave.

"That's not the Kuro I know! Now come down here or I'll make you come down!" He threatened but it didn't seem threatening at all.

"I'm not going as a demon. I won't go down." I shot back at him.

Naruto's POV

I sighed as Kuro, yet againg refused to come down. I looked at him and saw his lean figure leaning against the trunk of the tree. His newly sprouted ears and tail were drooping.

I tried to tell him to come down again. But it didn't work. Then it hit me.

"Hey! Kuro! Is there a way for you to turn back?" I saw his ears prick at the question. He turned to look at me, his usual fog-blue eyes were now changed into feral. His ears twitched occasionally as he thought about it.

"I don't know if you'd call this a cure…" He drifted off in the middle of his sentence.

"What is the cure?" I snapped him back to the present.

"The book." His tail twitched. "The book I always carry with me, that's the cure."

'That old book I saw in his treehouse?' I thought about it before saying anything. "You mean this one?"

I took out the old book, I sweeped from his tree house, from my backpack. Kuro's eyes widened at the sight of his book. I thought he would get mad, but instead he hopped down from the tree, happy.

"Naruto! You're the best!" He flipped through the book I was amazed at what was inside. There were notes upon notes on jutsu's I haven't seen at all! Kuro stopped at a page where writing was just appearing.

Kuro's POV

I flipped through the book that Naruto, thankfully, swiped. I stopped at a page where writing was just appearing. This is how the book seemed to work. But I didn't really know on how it really worked, sometimes a blank page would be filled with writing the next day. But other times when you expect it to be written it would be blank.

I waited patiently for the writing to appear. Once it did I scanned on what it said. Sometimes it would have a new jutsu, other times it would seem to have a short stanza on it. I only use the jutsu's that appear, I never touch the stanza's at all. For some I do, when I know what it does. For others I do research on it to know its history background.

I did the hand sign given in the book. Then I was encased inside a purple cube for fifteen minutes. After it disappeared I felt lighter.

"They're gone Kuro! They're gone! Believe it!" Naruto exclaimed in excitement.

"That's great! Ya! Now all I have to do is to wrap this book up. "I made a second hand sign and two square white spreads appeared. I wrapped the book in one and made the other hold it while I slinged it on my shoulder. "There! Now we can go. Ya."

We started going to the direction of where the others went, when I abruptly said something. "Thanks Naruto."

He looked at me confused. "For what?"

"For helping me. Ya?" I smiled at him.

Me: Wow… what a boring chapter…

Naruto: When did you grow ears Kuro?

Kuro: Somewhere in the middle of this chapter.

Me: Okay! I've decided on what I should do to the genre!

Sai: And that is?

Me: To make it fantasy!

*cricket chirping*

Me: What?

Shikamaru: Troublesome.

Kiba: You really want to make it into a fantasy?

Me: Ya, why?

Kiba: Well the question here is why should you make this into a fantasy anyway?

Me: Duh! Who is going to sprout ears and a tail and make a sword out of a stick, plus grow up into adulthood with a jutsu?

Kuro: Uhhh… me?

Me: *points at Kuro* Of course you are! That's why I intend to make this into a fantasy! *looks around * By the way where is Gaara and Hidan?

Sai: They're still fighting over the earlier problem.

Me: Seriously?

Kakashi: Seriously.

Me: *whips around* When did you get here?

Kakashi: From the path life has given me.

Shikamaru: Well its time to go, don't forget to review!