Authors note-
Hello! Welcome to Copy Cat chapter 1.
This story took a while for me to get back to with work and the makings of another story (Skyrim/Naruto crossover.) very sorry for wait.
I have decided to make the first 5 or 6 chapters be about Mosspaws apprentice days. And the prologue skipped through his kit days because I couldn't find anything interesting to put in there. I have a few points to make about each chapter and how this story differs from the cannon, also a few things about cannon characters.
-Firepaw becomes an apprentice a little bit before Mosspaw does.
-Firepaw was not a kittypet. But a rouge, because of the lack of two-legs.
-Each clan has roughly 100 cats in it each. I wanted to make them larger due to ideas that require larger clans.
-The territory's are about 4 times larger than in the books. The camps are about 2 times larger with the dens being 4 times as large.
-There have been roughly 20 leaders for each clan after wind, thunder, shadow and river started them, making the history longer.
-The metal plates that each warrior/apprentice has for each clan are made by cutting metal (With lets say, chakra scalpels or chakra enhanced claws.) which is found in the abandoned two-leg place.
And now that that's done, I can start the chapter.
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Chapter 1.
The eyes that copy.
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"Oi, Mosspaw, get up"
"What-?"
Mosspaw opened his eyes to the face of Webpaw, his only friend in a sea of jealous apprentices. He had been an apprentice for a week officially, and all the apprentices still hated him.
"Mudclaw and Swiftheart wanted to talk to us about something important today."
"Alright, ill get up."
Mosspaw got out of his nest and stretched, feeling his bones pop into place, he followed Webpaw out of the den and towards the training ground that Mudclaw and Swiftheart had been training them at since the day they became apprentices.
The reason they did this together is that they could see that Mosspaw did not get along with the rest of the apprentices. Probably because he is said to be a prodigy in every right, although this is due to his eyes (Which he still hasn't told anyone).
Webpaw though, has become a prodigy of his own. Showing near flawless chakra control with larger than normal reserves, making him an oddity. Also making a few other apprentices jealous. Since there are two major flaws for any warrior. Good chakra control with small reserves, or large reserves with terrible chakra control. Webpaw has both with neither con.
Reaching the clearing, they noticed their mentors already there. Deep in their own private conversation. But that isn't what caught Mosspaws attention, it was the ferns lying in front of them.
Those ferns, they look like there laced with chakra? Thought Mosspaw as he and Webpaw stopped in front of their mentors.
A few days ago, Mosspaw had discovered something new about his eyes. When he was being teased about his small size and feminine voice, he grew angry and stormed off. After leaving, his eyes started to sting. Reaching a puddle he looked into his reflection, and saw that instead of one black mark in his eyes, slowly circling. He had two in each eye.
Ever since then he was able to predict what people were about to do, in a spar with Swiftheart, he noticed that as his mentor drew his paw back for a horizontal swipe, reflex told him to jump backwards. As his mentor pulled of a feint and smashed his paw downwards.
Another thing he noticed was that he could faintly see the chakra of other things, like rabbits or other cats. He immediately deemed this the greatest tool of a hunter ever. Along with that, his eyesight became more tuned. He could make out more detail in things, and see things clearer farther away.
Mosspaw had wondered if there were any more black marks he could unlock but was snapped back to the present when Swiftheart started to talk to him and Webpaw.
"Ah, Mosspaw, Webpaw. Me and Mudclaw have something to tell you." Swiftheart said as he took notice to the two apprentices.
Mudclaw spoke after Swiftheart said this, "Since Webpaw has flawless chakra control with large reserves, and Mosspaw has larger reserves, but falls back in physical combat due to his size." At the mention of his size, Mosspaw scowled, "We have decided to start your elemental manipulation training much sooner."
"Our what?" Webpaw asked, not knowing what elemental manipulation was, Mosspaw being on the same page as him.
"Elemental training, " Swiftheart explained as he picked up a fern. "Will help you learn and fine tune your elemental affinity."
As Swiftheart explained this he lifted up the fern to the apprentices, "This, " he said, "is a chakra fern, it will tell us your natural affinity." At this, he channelled chakra into the fern, making it set on fire.
"All you have to do is channel chakra to the fern, if you have Katon, it will set on fire. If you have Fuuton, it will shred to pieces. If you have Raiton, it will shrivel up towards your paw. If you have Doton, it will crumble, and lastly, if you have Suiton, it will become damp." Swiftheart explained as he gave out the two ferns to the apprentices.
"Alright, ill go first." Webpaw said. As everyone looked at Webpaw, he channelled his chakra into the fern, causing it to crumble.
"Ah, it seems you have Doton. A good thing since it is what I have" said Mudclaw as the fern turned to dust and fell to the ground.
"Now your turn, Mosspaw." Swiftheart said.
Mosspaw then nodded and turned his attention to the fern. When he channelled his chakra into the fern, the fern immediately set ablaze, causing him to drop it due to the heat of it.
Swiftheart looked on with a smile on his face, "Congratulations, Mosspaw. You are now the fourth cat in the clans to have Katon chakra."
"Wait, Swiftheart." Mosspaw looked at Webpaw, whose face showed confusion.
"Yes Webpaw?"
"I thought that you and Tigerclaw of Thunderclan were the only ones with Katon chakra. Whose the fourth?" Webpaw asked, intriguing Mosspaw.
"Yes well, me, Tigerclaw and now Mosspaw, are the only natural users of Katon. But Bluestar of Thunderclan has trained herself in all five affinities. Allowing her to use all five manipulations." Swiftheart explained.
PERFECT! Mosspaw had a chibi version of himself doing back flips in his mind. That means i can still copy other elemental jutsu!
"Now then." Mudclaw said as he walked up to the two apprentices. "Let's start training."
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After a moon of training. Mosspaw had easily become an amazing elemental specialist. After two days, Mosspaw broke down and told Swiftheart about his eyes so he could stop the elemental exercises and just show him the jutsu.
To say Swiftheart was shocked would be putting it mildly. After having Mosspaw demonstrate his ability, Swiftheart proceeded to drop his jaw to the ground. Fail to speak to doing back flips about how easy it will to teach him. Making Mosspaw sweat-drop larger than his head.
So far, Mosspaw has been able to learn five Katon, seven Fuuton, three Raiton, two Doton and four Suiton. Along with that, Mosspaw now had the chakra reserves and control to water walk for one hour on the river that bordered Riverclan and Windclan.
Once again, being called such a prodigy was a double edged claw. On one hand, you had all these people tell you your amazing and that you'll do great thing in the future. On the other hand, you have a sea of jealousy constantly trying to drown you because they think there better than you and constantly try to spar with you to prove it.
On that note. Many jealous apprentices have tried to spar with Mosspaw, then got their asses completely handed to them.
As of now, Mosspaw was one of the best elemental fighters, but lacked in physical strength. He was fast and able to catch prey easily, but due to his size, he wasn't able to bring down large prey.
Right now though, Mosspaw was just tired from a week of straight patrols. He just wanted to sleep.
Was it mentioned yet that Mosspaw had terrible luck?
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Screams echoed throughout the night, many coming from the east entrance to Windclans camp.
The reason?
Shadowclan.
"The fuck is going on?" One of the older apprentices said as he ran up to the entrance of the apprentice den. Immediately getting a shocked expression and running out, along with the rest of the apprentices.
As Mosspaw ran out. He was greeted by a shocking scene. Shadowclan had managed to come into their camp through the east entrance and started to attack any and all nearby cats. As Mosspaw countered an incoming Fuuton attack with Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu. He noticed that the Shadowclan cats were not trying to kill them in a sense. They were trying to get them out of the camp.
So that's how it is, Mosspaw thought with a scowl. There taking over the territory by driving us out.
After this revelation for Mosspaw, he decided to take on their main forces. These most prominently being Shadowclan cats with Doton.
Mosspaw charged into their forces with a Raijū Hashiri no Jutsu, coating his body completely in Raiton chakra, showing the form of a wolf-like beast, in a sense, protecting Mosspaw as he cut down five cats that were attacking two of the elders.
This continued for a short while, while Mosspaw used his jutsu to protect the elders, he ushered them outside, where they were safe.
As he made the elders flee a ways up north so he could turn around and help the rest of the forces. He noticed that the Shadowclan cats had successfully taken the fight out of their camp, and continued pushing on.
Shit, looks like fathers taking on Brokenstar. He thought as he saw his father in a tight paw-to-paw combat situation with the Shadowclan leader.
Noting this he looked on to a small tabby with the Shadowclan headband tied around his waist like Mosspaws was, defeating one of the other apprentices.
As Mosspaw ran up to attack the cat, he flew through paw-signs which Mosspaw didn't recognize, a large mud wall blocked him from getting to the tabby.
Felling the regular click in the back of his mind, signalling that he had copied the jutsu, Mosspaw ran around the wall to find his opponent in the same position.
"A sensor?" Mosspaw thought aloud.
"Not quite." The cat responded, whilst chuckling. "Think of it as a Doujutsu, like yours."
Mosspaws breath hitched. Eye technique? He knows about my eyes? How?
"Ah, my names Littlecloud, by the way." The now identified Littlecloud turned around, showing pale white eyes, with veins bulging around it. And a strange circular bulge where the pupil should be.
Mosspaw narrowed his eyes, as he looked on to the strange sight before him. His chakra drains to his eyes. Meaning he can deactivate them and they are like mine in a sense. Mosspaw found out a while ago that if he concentrated and stopped the chakra flow to his eyes, he could deactivate them. But this actually took concentration. He found it easier to keep them active all the time. I need to be wary, if he knows my eyes are like his, he can sense chakra, judging from the way he was able to stop me while looking the other direction means he can see possibly all around him.
"Being quiet are we?" Littlecloud asked as he stared at Mosspaw. "He, you know. You can stop thinking of ways to battle me."
Mosspaw, for the second time, narrowed his eyes.
"Hm, well, to tell you the truth. I despise Brokenstar, and i would like to see him dead. Since i have found another Doujutsu wielder, i shall depart, hopefully, no one will notice. As i have no intention of fighting you." Littlecloud explained as he took off, running far away from the battle.
Odd. Mosspaw thought as he saw Littlecloud run off back to Shadowclan territory.
Shit, there are still a lot of Shadowclan cats here. Mosspaw thought as he helped more elders get away. I cant stick around here, ill get the elders away from the fight. At that, Mosspaw protected the rest of the elders as he ran North-east, where he sent the first group of elders.
I just hope father can hold ground against Brokenstar.