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The Fox, The Raven, and The Cat raise hell

chapter 4 - hell in the council

konoha woods, same day

"so, tell me, why did you never summon me to ask your questions sooner, that's why I left you with the contract." eitounigu asked rather annoyed.

"I wasn't that interested in relying on anyone else to do my fighting for me," rikou began, "I was more intersted in practicing the powers I still needed to perfect."

"um, excuse me, eitouingu?" hinata asked not sure if that was her name or her title.

"by now you three must know that there's a difference between the names humans know us by, and our actual names, right?" eitouingu asked earning nods from the three of them. "my name is Ayane, now, if you'll excuse me for a second we need to go for- I mean- convince, this villages council to let me stay."

"can we mess with their heads? I really wanna see what they would to after a visit from mugen junjou." naruto said with a cruel-ish grin.

"yeah, can I show up as hinara shinta?" hinata asked with a devious grin.

"that reminds me, mom, I need to start being able to hunt my food down, since I've pranked the marketers so much they don't trust me, so, what's my name when I'm in raven form?" rikou asked.

"hmm, I would say, rayko trecta. but, I'm really glad these are your friends, they're kind when the situation calls for it, serious when they need to get a point across, and as devious a pair of pranksters as their predeccessors were, back when we went around terrorizing our different clans." ayane said before kind of shifting into a human form. she had long purple hair, the same shade as rikou's, only, she didn't have the black lines. she wore a purple sleeveless shirt, silver arm-guards, a purple handled zanbatou in it's sheath on her back, black samurai pants, and her eyes were as silver and sharp as rikou's.

"hm, so I'm not the only one with silver eyes." rikou said happily.

"nope." ayane said, "that's hereditary, of course, it is going to become a kekkei genkai if you're children are mortal-spawn, as you were."

"trust me, the odds of that happening are very strong in favor of mortal-spawn." rikou said as they began walking towards the hokage tower.

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hokage tower, 5 minutes later

knock, knock, knock

"come in" the third said to whoever was at the door.

"OLD MAN!" rikou naruto and hinata all shouted happily as they popped into the room leaving ayane there with her eyebrow cocked.

"well, is that a normal greeting to one of your authority figures?" she asked taking a seat.

"yes it is miss," sandaime said curiously not knowing who she was, "might I ask what you're doing here? or who you are?"

"ah yes, forgive me, I'm here to request permission to remain here in konoha," she said with a smile, "oh, here's the fun part kids, my name is ayane, the eitounigu no karasu." when she said this the sandaime practically choked on his pipe. "now, why did you not tell my son who I was?"

"damnit! I knew I was forgetting something important!" the sandaime yelled hitting his head on the desk.

"whatever," rikou said, "so, can mom stay or am I leaving with her?"

"hmm, if you two leave, the villagers will have field day, with one of the three number one pranksters gone, no way in hell I'm letting you two leave here!" the sandaime decided. "those villagers have been mistreating these three, and I'll be damned if these kids don't get to keep punishing their sorry asses!"

"thanks old man!" rikou said giving the sandaime a hug, sticking something to his back. when he let go, the sandaime reached behind him and swiped the envelope. he opened it andconfetti popped out with a card saying thank you springing into his face.

"waaah!" the hokage cried falling backwards in his chair.

"I knew it! I knew I could find a way to prank you without getting in trouble!" rikou said pointing his finger as naruto, hinata, and ayane laughed. the sandaime stood back up with a smile on his face.

"okay, you got me, but the council is going to go into canniptions or something." the sandaime said already trying to soothe the headache he was going to get from the council.

"could you take a picture? they're like, the only people in the village we don't have dirt on." naruto said, the other two nodding in agreement.

"I'll see what I can do." the sandaime said with a warm grin.

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konoha residential district, 10 minutes later

"so, mom, if you want I could pay for the house until you get accepted for a job, I got paid one hell of alot of money just to stay away from this one place." rikou said as he, naruto, hinata, and ayane all walked away from the hokage tower to the residential district.

"hey," hinata said getting everyones attention, "why don't you guys stay at that house over their?" hinata asked pointing to a sign in front of a house. the sign said it had three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a sparring gym, and a kitchen.

"hmm, only 75,000 ryo? deal, where's the owner?" rikou asked as some guy walked up from behind the house.

"hello, are you interested in buying this house?" he asked, paying no heed to the fact he was scared shitless.

"yeah, how long would it be after the payment before we could move in?" ayane asked.

"one day."

"I'll pay 125,000 ryo if we can move in today." rikou said quickly.

"deal!" the man said handing ayane the keys to the house. "y'know, for the rumors going around about you guys, you're real nice, if you need any weapons, contact me, the first three are free of charge, and the rest are 25 off!" he said with a warm smile giving them the name of the weapons shop and walking away.

"well, that was lucky." ayane said watching him walk away, "come on, let's give this a special touch to see if we can't make this place a bit more comfortable.

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inside rikou & ayane's new house, 30 seconds later

"hmm, not bad, I don't think we're gonna have to do anything with this place." ayane said noting the walls were painted a deep purple.

"I have an idea." rikou said dashing upstairs to the bedrooms, he had already decided his mother would get the master bedroom, so he went to the two other bedrooms. they were obviously made for teens, which was good, because each room had two beds. rikou took out a sealing scroll and sealed the two beds inside and went to the other room, and then released them. he arranged themso they were in a box shape, and in the middle he had put some cushions, so they could just sorta hang around and talk with each other, without falling asleep. he went back to the other rom and painted the wall on the left a deep purple, the wall in the middle a reddish orange, and the one on the right a deep blue. "all done, whew, that was easier than I thought it'd be."

"rikou!" hinata shouted up the stairs, "you're mom wants to go out to eat tonight! come on!"

"I'm coming!" rikou yelled dashing down the stairs.