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The Fox, The Raven, and The Cat raise hell

chapter 5 - the ninja academy, year one

konoha ninja academy, second day of class

on the second day of school at the konoha ninja academy, naruto, hinata, and rikou, were heading off to the academy to start their first day of school.

"I can't believe we forgot we had school yesterday." naruto said.

"dude, a lot of stuf happened yesterday, what are you gonna do? pretend it didn't happen? the whole academy knows I'm half-demon, they already know how strong we are, and, we're just a little bit on the intimidating side considering most of the village has been subject to our pranks." rikou said to his friend as they aproached the academy.

"true, but still, we can at least hope things won't be insane around here," hinata said cheerfully, "or we can hope things will be insane around here."

"yeah, seriously, this is gonna be fun." rikou said as a kid in a gray jacket walked up to them with a small dog on his head.

"hey there!" the boy said, his cheeks had a red, fang-like marking on each cheek as he grinned. "I'm kiba! and this is akamaru! I'm from the inuzuka clan, what're your names?" kiba asked, gesturing to the small dog when he said akamaru.

"I'm naruto uzumaki! one of konoha's three number one pranksters!" naruto said with a huge grin on his face.

"I'm rikou karasu! another one of konoha's three number one pranksters!" rikou said with a smirk.

"I'm hinata hyuuga, also one of konoha's three number one prankster!" hinata said with a grin.

"cool! hey, most of the kids here don't like me, and insult me all the time, do you guys wanna be friends?" kiba asked a hopeful look in his eye.

"sure! we could always use more friends!" naruto said to kiba as his face lit up and he grinned again.

"cool! thanks guys! come on, I don't want to see what would happen if we're late for class!" kiba said jogging inside with his new friends following.

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konoha ninja academy room 103, 3 minutes later

ring, ring, ring

"okay, everyone, stop talking and get in your seats!" a man in a chuunin vest with a scarred nose yelled, quieting the class. "okay, you were excused yesterday do to the uchiha fiasco, but today, you're going to learn something, and I'm going to be the one to teach it to you! my name is Iruka Umino, and I'm going to be you're sensei until you graduate from this academy!" iruka said. "now then if any of you know any jutsu, come to the front of the class now!" iruka said causing naruto, hinata, rikou, kiba, some lazy kid, some blonde sasuke-fangirl, sasuke, and some red-headed girl with an uninterested look on her face. "you, purple-hair, hwo are you, and what jutsu do you know?"

"alright since you didn't know my name, I'll let the purple hair thing go, but if you ever insult me that way again, you're gonna have my mother to answer to, my name is rikou karasu, and I know several forms of karasu gihou, as well as katachi koutai no jutsu my friend developed." rikou said causing iruka to look at him curiously.

"can you give us an example of this, 'karasu gihou', as you called it?" iruka asked thinking that there was no such technique in existence.

"sure, no problem, KARASU GIHOU! SHADOW RAVEN GUN!" rikou called out going through his arcaic-divine handseals ending on one that meant shadow as he pulled his right arm back with his right hand open and thrust it forward while pulling back his left in the same fashion. his right hand had released a raven made of shadow that made a whole in the wall, and then he thrust his left hand forward pulling his right hand back, his left hand releasing an identical raven, and repeated the process ten times rapidly. "sorry about the wall, maybe we should go outside to demonstrate the rest of the jutsus, otherwise, this building's comin' down." rikou suggested walking through the hole in the wall, naruto, hinata, and kiba following.

"okay, class we're going outside to see the rest of the jutsu demonstrations!" iruka yelled going through the hole in the wall, the rest of the students following. once they were all outside iruka turned his attention to naruto. "okay, you're turn."

"I'm naruto uzumaki, my specialties are, kitsunepou, and katachi koutai no jutsu, my own creation." naruto said with a small grin.

"can you give us an example of kitsunepou?" iruka asked, not liking the idea of the kyuubi's container being able to use fox-type jutsus.

"of course! KITSUNEPOU! BURNING FOX ATTACK!" naruto yelled going through demonic seals ending on one that meant burn, getting into a position where he held his hands out like claws, then he quickly swiped his right hand light a claw, and where his nails flew through the air fire appeared, and out of the inferno came a three-foot tall fox made of fire that ran swiftly at a group of trees, incinerating them on conatact. "took me two months to perfect that one, but I finally got it perfect!" naruto said triumphantly.

"wow, alright, um, your turn." iruka said gesturing towards hinata.

"okay, I'm hinata hyuuga, I specialize in neko gigei, and can perform katachi koutai no jutsu." hinata said politely.

"sigh can you give an example of neko gigei?" iruka said catching the pattern.

"yes, NEKO GIGEI! ELECTRIC CAT CLAW!" hinata shouted going through a set of demonic handseals ending on one meaning shock. hinata stood sideways, her left side facing forward, and then she quickly swiped her right hand down like naruto had, only instead of burning, the air gave off powerful electrical discharges, and out of it came a three-foot tall cat made of electricity that ran quickly at the trees next to where naruto had burnt through half the forest. and the trees caught fire and burnt to the ground.

"wow, that's pretty impressive, all right, you, name, jutsu." iruka said pointing to kiba.

"my name is kiba inuzuka! my specialty jutsu is currently beast mimicry!" kiba said with a toothy grin revealing sharp canine teeth.

"demonstrate please." iruka said.

"no problem! BEAST MIMICRY! MAN-BEAST CLONE!" kiba shouted as akamaru jumped on his back and akamaru transformed into a second kiba, both looking feral and ferocious.

"very good kiba, okay, you, name, jutsu now." iruka said pointing to sasuke.

"got it! KATON! GOUKYAKKU NO JUTSU!" sasuke said breathing in deeply his chest puffing out and blasting out a huge fireball. "I'm sasuke uchiha, and I'm going to prove that the name of uchiha means more than a clan who lost their kekkei genkai!"

"good luck with that thief!" rikou said cruelly with venom soaking his words.

"enough, save it for sparring, okay, your turn." iruka said turning to the lazy boy.

"troublesome, I'm shikamaru nara, I'm proficient in the use of my family's shadow manipulation jutsus." shikamaru said lazily as ever.

"example please." iruka said.

"KAGE MANE NO JUTSU!" shikamaru said forming an odd handseal. his shadow connected with shikamaru's, and shikamaru walked forward, making iruka walk forward as well. shikamaru promptly punched iruka in the gut, and being that shikamaru was a fair deal shorter, when iruka was forced to punch as well, he missed. "that's for not letting me take a nap."

"cough, cough whatever, alright, you're the last one who knows any jutsu, what's your name?" iruka asked the red-head as shikamaru released him. she wore a mask over her mouth and nose, and her head band covered her left eye, her hair was long, and reached her mid-back in a braid, she wore a white T-shirt, long black pants, instead of ninja sandals she wore tennis shoes, and she had a rather lonely look in her visible eye.

"Rika Nanashi." she said unemotionally.

"what jutsus do you know?"

"fear genjutsu." she said unemotionally as before.

"care to give an exam-

"no, I don't." she said firmly.

"little harsh don't you think?" rikou said in a mocking tone.

"I could care less." she said insultingly.

"no duh, point is, why don't you care, these eyes don't miss a beat, why are you so lonely?" rikou asked actually concerned for once, causing naruto and hinata to look at him strangely, seriousness was rare, but concern just wasn't there to begin with, he was a joker by blood, at heart, and through action, he just never cares.

"why does it concern you?" she asked suspiciously.

"does the title, eitouingu no karasu ring any bells?" rikou said with a smirk as her visible eye widened in surprise, "I knew it, nanashi, no name, the title donned by those disowned from a demon clan for being half human, care to tell me which clan you come from?" rikou asked in such a way that it just got under your skin.

"grrrrrrrr, what's it to you?!" she yelled at rikou angrily.

"the fact that I'm not one to abandon a fellow bird, however, I'm not one to ask twice for something either, who banished you?!" rikou demanded.

"THE PHOENIXES! OKAY?! I'M A DISOWNED PHOENIX HANYOU OKAY?!" she yelled with her eye starting to tear blood.

"god dammit! y'know, that's the one thing I can't stand! for the life of me I can't sit there and watch a girl cry." rikou said walking over to her. "naruto, hinata, come on, we're leaving! we have to talk to mom!" rikou shouted taking rika's hand in his, "come on, mom can help, one way or another."

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rikou & ayane's house, 10 minutes later

door opening

"rikou? what the hell are you doing here? school isn't over yet, and you promised not to kill your teachers." ayane said as rikou, naruto, hinata, and rika walked in.

"I also promised to help any hanyous in distress, I just so happened to find one." rikou said bringing rika over to the couch having her sit down as he went to make some tea to calm her down.

"um, rikou, who is this?" rika asked not feeling very safe having him out of the room.

"that's my mom, don't worry, she wouldn't hurt anyone without a reason." rikou said putting the kettle on and walking back into the room.

"care to tell me which clan she was disowned from?" ayane asked politely.

"phoenix." rikou said calmly.

"hmm, I see, so, they actually disowned their heir huh? how foolish. don't worry, our home is always open to you." ayane said warmly, calming rika down a great deal.

"th-th-thank you." rika said gratefully as she began tearing more blood.

"dammit stop crying I already told you I can't stand it!" rikou yelled, making rika look at him with a look he couldn't place, which worried him. "uh, what's that look?" rikou asked nervously.

he soon found out why that look worried him. in two seconds he was brought to the ground in a hug, being drenched in rika's bloody tears, as she cried happily, thanking him repeatedly.