Getting to know Mashiro

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Naruto slowly woke up, he felt exhausted. "Strange dream" he mumbled to himself.

"What was with that gate? It was huge! And why would you need a gate that big in sewers? Anyway, and why is the sun so high? Did I really go to bed that late…"

Then what he did last night rushed back to him "Mashiro!" Naruto bolted up and did a quick scan of the room, and what he saw made his blood run cold, the window was open.

"nonononono, how could I be so stupid!"

He said as he stumbled over to his table and put his hands on his face as he sat down.

"He must have left some time in the night, I guess he wasn't my friend…"

Naruto felt something wet touch his hand which was holding his head up.

"WHAAAAA!" Naruto yelled as he shot back so hard he knocked the chair he was sitting on over and with a CRASH he landed on the floor, still sitting in his chair. He looked between his legs and siting on his chair, was a very smug looking white fox.

"Mashiro, you stayed! You didn't leave me!" Naruto stood up as fast as he could for someone in his position could and looked at Mashiro, who actually looked great for a fox that was on deaths door a few hours ago.

"Well you look like you're doing well! I guess I'll heat you up some chicken so you have something to eat!"

Naruto turned to where he left the chicken last night and saw what looked like the last few pieces of gnawed on bone. He slowly turned back to the VERY smug looking fox that was in the process of licking his paws.

"Well he looks way to proud of himself, and how did he eat a full chicken! I would have trouble eating that much if I was his size!"

Naruto sighed and walked over to his cupboard and grabbed the one true food of the gods, ramen! As he started heating the water for the ramen he kept an eye on Mashiro.

"He's so relaxed; I thought he would be way more nervous around humans. After what he's been through, he's only keeping half an eye on me, but does he already trust me that much?"

As Naruto poured his boiling water on his instant ramen and set it on the table across from where Mashiro was sitting. With Naruto now within arm's reach of Mashiro, the fox was now watching him intently. Naruto paused for a second when he finished of his first bowl of ramen and looked at Mashiro.

"Does he already trust me this much? Well hope he doesn't bite me this time."

Naruto started to reach out towards Mashiro, who stood up and looked at Naruto's hand. When Naruto's hand was a foot away he stopped and just held it there, closing his eyes and waiting for Moshiro's next move.

For what felt like eternity, nothing happened…then something touched his hand. He thought he would feel Mashiro bite him again, but all he felt was something soft against his hand and slowly, he opened his eyes.

Mashiro was gently rubbing his head against Naruto's hand; he had no more of the tension that was there a few seconds ago. Mashiro paused for a second then started to lick his hand gently.

"It almost feels like a small dogs…" was all Naruto could think to himself.

Slowly Naruto moved his hand over Mashiro's head and started to pet him. "He's so soft…silk should be jealous" Naruto thought with a smile as he continued petting him.

Mashiro really seemed to enjoy the attention as he rubbed his head into Naruto's arm. While petting him Naruto looked around the room and noticed that above the fridge was a small pile of his clothes, it looked like Mashiro made himself a bed. When he realized what that meant, it brought a huge smile to his face.

"Moshiro's here to stay." Was all Naruto could think to himself, and for the first time Naruto could remember, he wasn't completely alone.

"Well looks like we might as well introduce our selves. Moshiro, my name is Naruto Uzumaki and this." He said as he waved his arm in an ark at his room "is OUR house." He said with a fox's grin plastered on his face.


In the shadows, a lone figure was hiding in his target's room. in front of him he saw Naruto Uzumaki petting a fox he had apparently named Moshiro,

"I did not expect something like this to happen, I must tell him about this as soon as I can…there is no telling what this could mean."

Suddenly one of the foxes ears twitched and he looked at the area he was hiding in, like he was looking for something.

"That fox has scary good senses, I'll have to find a better spot if I don't want to be caught, but one thing's for sure, this was not the relaxing shift I was promised, and on top of all that, it looks like we were lied to."

He thought to himself as he bled into the shadows.

"Someone will pay for that."


Naruto and Moshiro spent most of the day relaxing and getting to know each other, but every once in a while they would play a little game. The only way to describe the game would be a strange game of tag, where Naruto would try to catch the fox. But one thing was painfully obvious; Naruto was not good at this game.

"How are you so fast!?"

Was all Naruto could say as he tried to catch what must have been the quickest fox in existence.

"How is he moving so quickly? Half the time he moves before I do! And every time I don't touch him he bites me! The BEST I can do is graze him with my hand, and that's IF I get lucky!"

But as the day moved on, Naruto was starting to get the hang of it.

"Almost got him that time! Just got to watch which way he moves before he jumps off…did he just bounce off the wall?! Okay, it's on!"

Every time Naruto was getting better at keeping up with Moshiro, he would step up his game. By the final round they were bouncing of the walls in this crazy dance. As the sun was about to set, Naruto caught his chance, Moshiro moved right where he wanted him to, right in front of the table. As Naruto dove for Moshiro he smirked and yelled

"Yes! I got you- AAAH!"

Naruto did catch the fox, but also took out the table in the process. As they lay in a heap on the ground, Naruto saw Moshiro looking up at him, with a happy glint in his eyes.

"I did it…"

He stood up slowly as a huge fox grin spread across his face,

"I did it I caught the great fox ninja!"

He yelled as he ran around his small room, too happy to care about anything else. After a few laps he set Moshiro on the table and ran to his drawers and threw them open.

"This deserves a celebration…ramen!"

He said as he hurriedly got the instant food of the gods ready.

After a few minutes Naruto brought two still steaming bowls of instant ramen to the table, one full bowl for him and one half filled one for Moshiro.

"All right, let's eat!"

Naruto said as he brought the bowl of ramen to his lips, as he did he looked across the table to Moshiro, who did not look impressed.

"What? You're smaller, so you get less ramen!"

He brought the bowl up again, paused for a second, and then put it down again.

"Look, my food my rules, this stuff is expensive and I did catch you…and this is MY celebration…"

Naruto said to Moshiro, neither breaking eye contact. This lasted for what felt like an eternity, until finally Naruto stood up.

"Fine you dam fox! If I have another one we will make it even, but ONLY if I have another one!"

"Dam fox is going to eat me out of house and home" Naruto mumbled to himself as he opened one of the drawers.

"See, no more ramen…or any food, see no more ramen for you-" he said as he turned back to the table and froze. Moshiro was sitting on the table with two very empty bowls of ramen in front of him and a huge grin on his face.

On that fateful night everyone in Konoha heard words full of such grief and sorrow. Dogs howled, children cried and a cook and his daughter wept for that poor fool, for those words where "NOOOO! NOT THE RAMEN!"


Naruto woke up in a bad mood, not only was he out of food, but someone stole the last of his emergency ramen! Not only that, but that person was sleeping on his chest.

"Well good morning to you to." Naruto grumbled as he looked down on Moshiro who was looking back with pleading eyes.

"Don't give me that look, you're not the one that had the best food in existence stolen from right under your nose, and it's not like you could get me more"

He mumbled as he broke eye contact and looked out his open window at the rising sun. He felt the weight in his chest disappear and the sound of something jumping on his kitchen table, and then he felt a pair of eyes boring into the back of his head. After a few moments Naruto sat up and turned towards the table.

"OK, what is it! You won't make me forgive you so quickly…"

Siting on the table was a pile of instant ramen packs. Naruto stood up and walked to the table he whispered,

"How did you get all of this? It must have taken you all night!"

He then took a closer look at Moshiro, he looked exhausted. He was barely able to stand and was looking at him with hopeful eyes. With a sigh, Naruto walked over and started petting Moshiro, "you didn't have to do this much…" Naruto said with a smile "go to sleep buddy just... please don't eat all the food again".

Moshiro promptly ran to his bed and was asleep before his head hit the bed. Shaking his head Naruto started to look around his room.

"well I can't go shopping, the only stores open on a Sunday won't sell me anything…"

As his eyes scanned the room he saw something in the corner beside his bed. Some first aid supplies and two books, one already open and left there after Moshiro had started to recover.

"right those! I almost forgot about my haul from the library!"

Naruto said as he rushed to them.

"Let's see… "Fūinjutsu basis"…what the heck is that? Never heard of it, must be some super cool hidden technique!"

Naruto said as he opened the book and started reading.

"OOK…let's see…bla bla bla, very dangerous… bla bla not for the faint of heart… aaaaand here we got, the good stuff!"

A couple of minutes later Naruto scratched his head.

"OK, so this is some kind of sealing art? You either put something in, or "unseal" to get it back out? Looks like you can basically seal anything. Doesn't sound too hard…but most of the later pages are blank; except for "too far for a beginner like you" What is wrong with this writer!"

As he turned the book over and looked at the back, what he saw was a little strange, where the writers name should be, was covered with black ink and "PERVERT" written above it. After pausing for a second, Naruto had a huge grin on his face,

"Well I guess I'll call you perv sensei then!"


Unbeknownst to Naruto, several nations away, hiding in a tree above a hot spring, a certain white haired pervert felt a shiver run up spine

"I feel a great disturbance in the perv force, as if someone saw me as nothing more than a simple pervert…I am no simple pervert."

He whispered to himself before proudly yelling out, "For I am a super pervert!"

Then he heard the women in the bath go quiet, before one of them held out.

"HE'S IN THE TREE!"

Knowing he's been found out, the white haired man made a mad break for the wall and freedom.

"Just got to break line of sight and hide, should be able to ex-"

His thoughts where instantly cut of when we ran into ninja wire and pulled to the ground. He then remembered one very important reason why he went to this hot spring in particular. It was for female ninja only, commonly known as, Kunoichi. Sure it was riskier, but they tended to have better… "assets". One of the more particularly well-endowed Kunoichi, who reminded him of someone he knew very well, screamed out.

"Alright girls, let's make this pervert WISH he had never been born a boy!"

As the throng of angry ninjas descended upon him, he had an epiphany…that this was not going to be fun.


"All right…if you use this array it should…oh, hey Moshiro that was a short nap."Naruto said as the fox came into view.

"So what do you want to do for the rest of the day? Hey…when did it get so cloudy out?"

As Naruto looked out at the setting sun he realized that he had spent the whole day… reading. After pausing at the window a few more seconds letting that fact sink in he looked back at Moshiro and mumbled.

"Dam you for making me like books, last week this never would have happened, not in a million years."

Moshiro looked as innocent as ever, but if you looked at them just right, his eyes did hold a soft twinkle.

"Ok, so you can't follow me or go outside, you have all the food and water you need wright hear so no madder what you do STAY IN SIDE." Naruto said as he tried to convince Moshiro not to follow him to school. Which apparently was easier said than done, and with the look Moshiro was giving him was any indication, he was not convinced. After a few seconds of just glaring at each other, Naruto sighed, shook his head and said.

"Look, if you're good we'll go hiking in the woods."

That got a reaction, instantly Moshiro perked up and started prancing around the room before jumping at Naruto and licking his face. As he tried to stay on his feet as he burst out laughing, he still managed to giggle out,

"I'll take that as a yes."

Naruto had a feeling this was going to be a great week.


Several days later, in a hidden base somewhere in Konoha a ninja was kneeling in front of a man shrouded in darkness. The man who sat in the chair that was behind him said

"You better have a good reason for demanding this meeting be secret, it has been a long couple of days."

The figure kneeling on the floor nodded and calmly said

"the only reason I asked for this meeting to be private was that it has to do with my target, Naruto Uzumaki. Much has changed and things are not as we thought they were, we have been lied to."

The figure in the shadows leaned forward and, in a voice that almost made the ninja shiver said.

"if that's true, someone will pay for this."


Who is the man in the shadows?

and whats next for our two whiskered friends?

find out next time.

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