Okay, I'm sorry I haven't updated, but I lost my flash-drive and everything in it, including the old chapter.

So, I had to start all over again. Now, enjoy!

If I owned Naruto, he really would have a sexy demon girl like Akyo after him.

Shishi raised an eyebrow at what he just heard, while Akyo looked sad and hugged Naruto now that she was in her human form. To make her feel a little better, Naruto started stroking her tail, earning purrs from the vixen sitting on his lap. Shishi was surprised humans were like that. He never knew humans would do such things to another human, a younger one at that. And Naruto was a fucking kid the first time they attacked him as a two-year-old, running a sword through a lung. A lung, goddammit! He was starting to desire the destruction of Konohagakure, but Naruto said he was being hated less and less at a slow pace. Shishi looked up at the sky for a moment, thinking of how to put it then deciding to be blunt about it, and returned his attention to Naruto and asked, "Is it okay if I stay with you guys? It's getting bored in the demon world. And if you show that you can be trusted, I'll give you a little present, fishcakes."

Naruto quirked an eyebrow at this. He was a bit excited that a demon would give him a present, but he was still a bit cautious about the young demon before him. According to Shishi, the demons could look as old as they wanted to, so long as they were able to keep moving. No use having a demon who looked like an old man and couldn't walk, right? Naruto put a hand on his chin and thought for a moment. Akyo seemed to be whimpering, and she was using her puppy-eyes to make him say yes. He looked at her for three seconds before turning to Shishi and quickly saying, "Yes!"

Shishi sighed. "You can't resist it either, can you?" Naruto shook his head sadly while Shishi placed a hand on his shoulder and said, "If you find a way resist it, you are more worthy than me, my friend."

With that, he turned into a fox with just one tail and walked next to Naruto, who had Akyo in her fox form around his neck like a scarf.

(Tazuna's House)

As Naruto got close to Tazuna's house, he wondered what happened to the Haku girl. He knew there was something familiar about her, mainly her voice. He was sure he heard it somewhere, but couldn't place a finger on it. He shrugged and entered the house to find that Sakura and Tsunami were the only ones there. Sakura was reading her healing scroll peacefully while Tsunami was cleaning up the kitchen.

"Where's Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked the pink-haired girl. She looked up from her scroll and said, "They went to the bridge to protect Tazuna while I stayed here learning this new jutsu. I already have three of the seven you gave me done, so there's not much left." Naruto nodded, happy that she was progressing in her training. He found an old healing jutsu scroll one night and rewrote everything onto a new blank scroll before giving it to Sakura for her to learn.

Sakura suddenly saw movement to Naruto's left and looked next to his leg to find a large fox standing there, it's tail wagging. It was pitch-black, just like Akyo, and surprisingly also had Akyo's amber-yellow eyes, tough it was big enough to reach Naruto's waist. She didn't know why, but she had a strange feeling that the fox's eyes were checking her out. It sent a chill up her spine, but it wasn't really of disgust. Before she could say anything else, Naruto noticed she was staring at his new companion.

"Oh, and this is Shishi. He's Akyo's older brother, so don't worry about him hurting you. He's actually alot more playful than Akyo, and I think he likes you." said Naruto. He was right, Shishi liked Sakura. She looked cute, she seemed strong, and she smelled nice as well, like berries and forest. He eye-smiled and barked at her, making her blush. She didn't know why, she just did.

She looked back at Naruto and said, "Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke should be returning soon, so don't worry."

"But... I wasn't." Naruto mumbled under his breath. Seriously, he could care less about the Uchiha. But as long as the idiot didn't bother him, he's okay with him being out of the house for as long as possible. And Kakashi... well, he was slightly worried about him, but not so much. After all, the man was a jonin, so he could take care of himself. Then again, it only took time before he himself snapped because of the annoying Uchiha. And when that happened, Naruto hoped he would be there to have a piece in beating the crap of that brat.

He shook his head and said, "Anyway, keep up the good work Sakura. Hope you'll be strong enough for what's coming up. I don't want to have to keep saving you, no matter how much fun it is." He smiled at her, making a smile of her own appear. She was always happy when Naruto was around.

Being an only child, she didn't know what it was like to have any younger or older brothers/sisters. Naruto was the closest she ever got to a brother, and she was glad she was lucky enough to have him on her team. She almost had the urge to call him 'nii-san' every now and then (AN: If you still don't like Sakura, well too fucking bad for you. Most of you didn't want her to be in Naruto's harem, so she'll be his surrogate little sister. 'nough said.).

Naruto sighed and began walking to the kitchen to see if he could help out in anything. On his way, he saw Inari at the dock next to his house through a window, looking at the sea quietly. Naruto felt bad for snapping at the little guy, so he walked outside and sat next to him.

"Hey Inari. How've you been?" he asked, trying to be polite.

The boy didn't say anything for a minute, then mumbled, "I'm sorry, Naruto-san. I shouldn't have said those things, and I'm sorry if I made you remember something you'd rather not have." Naruto smiled and ruffled Inari's head through his hat.

"Don't worry about it Inari. I guess loosing a father and lacking one are different, but are also equally painful. So tell me... what happened exactly?"

Inari looked at him for a moment, not sure if he should tell the blond or not, but then decided Naruto deserved to know. He told him everything, from how his father taught him many things (AN: Kaiza really is Inari's father in this story.), how they would sometimes fish, and how his father wanted to protect the small town with his own bare hands. He did, but at a horrible cost.

When Gato found out, Kaiza was killed in front of the whole town for his actions. At this point, Inari started crying and Naruto placed an arm around the young boy as he sobbed into Naruto's side. Akyo and Shishi were watching from the house, both happy to have Naruto as a friend.

Once Inari recomposed himself, he finished that he no longer believed in heroes after his father's death. Naruto made a silent vow to kill Gato, and soon.

After that, Naruto began telling him about his own life, seeing as Inari opened up to him. He tried to keep it all to a minimum, since he didn't want to tell Inari too much of the horrible things. Still, Inari remembered from the previous day what the village tried doing to Naruto. After a while, they started to just talk about the things they did. The pranks Naruto did, the times Inari and his mom would have fun every now and then. Pretty soon, they were laughing and the sun was up, meaning it was around noon.

"Time for dinner!" Tsunami called out to the two boys. In unison, two voices shouted, "Hai!" before the two boys were in the kitchen in a blur, Inari wearing a smile for once at the table. Naruto's smile faltered slightly when he saw the Uchiha glaring at the wall. Seriously, he glares at everything now. Akyo and Shishi began hunting when they heard it was dinner time, so they left the house in a hurry to hopefully find a small critter or something.

(A Few Days Later)

Each day, the genin and the one jonin would take turns guarding Tazuna. Naruto and Sakura would guard him one day and Sasuke and Kakashi would watch him the next. It was about six days since the encounter with Zabuza, and they were ready to fight.

That night, dinner was relatively peaceful, with Kakashi getting either raised eyebrows or glares for reading his little orange book. The raised eyebrows from Tazuna and Naruto, while the glares came from Tsunami and Sakura. After a while, there was a knock at the door.

"I wonder who would it be." thought Tsunami as she got up to get it. Just as it opened slightly, Naruto heard the sound of a sword exiting its scabbard. With a single hand sign, he instantly made a substitution with himself and Tsunami, just as a sword went right through the door and into the blond's stomach. Kakashi, at first surprised when Naruto was replaced by Tsunami, got into action when he heard the familiar sound of a blade cutting into flesh.

Naruto hit the ground, clutching his stomach as blood pooled out of the wound, and the man behind the door grinned as he pulled the sword out of the door and cleaned it before putting it back in its sheath. He was in panic when he found a man with white hair and almost all his face hidden by his headband and mask behind the door, next to the blond one he just stabbed. Kakashi's eye widened in anger as he took out a kunai to attack. The man, scared when he realized he was looking at the legendary Kakashi no Sharingan, turned around and ran into the night. Kakashi tightened his grip on his kunai and pursued the attacker.

Sakura ran to Naruto's side and began to heal him with what little she knew of medical jutsu. Akyo was next to him as well, opposite of Sakura, and placed her paws next to Naruto's wound, sending her youki into Naruto without hurting him. Sakura was surprised when Naruto's wound was healing, though it was very slow and he was still in pain and barely alive. His eyes were shut tight in pain and he was gritting his teeth. Sakura expected a scream or something, but she was impressed Naruto made no noise, just breathed more ragged. She remembered what he said the village did to him, about how he was beaten alot as a child. She had a sad look on her face as she tried her best to heal the blond boy.

Meanwhile, Sasuke went to follow Kakashi, and Shishi was a blur as he was already out the door, following the bandit who attacked someone he instantly considered a friend.

The bandit was scared shitless. He knew he didn't stand a chance against the legendary Kakashi no Sharingan. As said scarecrow ran after the bandit, who was almost within his grasp, a black fox the size of a horse jumped over his head and pounced on the man. Sasuke appeared next to him, just in time to see the man be bitten and clawed by the giant fox on him. What was the most frightening part of all was that the fox had five tails all having their hair standing on end, looking very feral. The man didn't even scream as he was killed in a matter of seconds by the fox once his throat was sliced. Sasuke hadn't seen anything as bloody and merciless since the day his clan was slaughtered, and it brought unwanted memories back.

Now, one of Naruto's pets was destroying a man without even stopping. To make it worse, the giant fox began to eat the corpse of the dead man. Shishi, on the other hand, was happy. He was slightly worried about Naruto, but knew with two demons, one in his gut and another near him all the time, he would be okay. After all, Akyo's healing skills were on par with the Kyuubi's, so no worries for now. And he got a meal, what better luck!

He returned to eating his meal, but realized he was being watched. He turned his head slightly to the left and saw the Uchiha boy with a sick look on his face and the scarecrow looking quite shocked. He grinned as the Uchiha fainted and the scarecrow just kept looking at him with his widened eye. Until he talked, scaring the crap out of Kakashi.

"You know, it's not nice to stare at someone when they're eating, ningen. Now let me eat in peace." said Shishi to Kakashi in a demonic tone. Kakashi did just that and fainted next to Sasuke. Shishi shook his head and finished up his food and walked to the two bodies on the ground. He picked both with one of his tails and began his walk back to the bridge builder's house.

Both Sakura and Akyo let out a sigh of relief when Naruto was all patched up with bandages on his torso. He was okay, but even with healing slowly would need to rest up a bit. He was barely able to stay awake, and the last thing he saw before blacking out was Shishi in a giant form, Kakashi and Sasuke being carried by his tails.

As Naruto lost consciousness, Sakura almost screamed when she saw Naruto's second fox squeeze in through the door. Her mouth hung open, as did everyone else in the room. Shishi placed both Kakashi and the brat on separate couches and barked at them before returning to his regular size. They were still shocked, but were taken out of their freezing state when Naruto groaned. They turned back to the blond to see him still there, though he was still in pain. Walking over, Shishi used his tail and carefully wrapped it around Naruto before picking him up as slowly lifting him up and placing him on his back. Now secure in Shishi's back, Naruto was taken up the stairs to where he would be staying for the night. Once settled in, Shishi left and went back downstairs.

He walked over to Akyo and asked, "Will he be okay, nee-san?"

Akyo sighed and said, "Yes, but it'll take some time for his wound to completely heal. Even Kyuubi-sama's chakra isn't fast enough, and if it weren't for the fact the me, Kyuubi-sama and the Haruno girl were there to help him, he could've died." Shishi let out a breath he didn't know he was holding. If Naruto died, he and Akyo would be forced to return to the demon world and not have any fun. No adventure, no fighting, no eating like crazy... nothing. And if he had to, he'd go straight up to the Shinigami, thrust his fist into said god's stomach, and take out Naruto and Kyuubi's soul just to have someone to befriend.

(Somewhere Under The Crust Of The Earth)

A creature was about to chomp down on another one of his souls before it suddenly sneezed, getting snot all over the soul of the scared assassin who killed many families.

"Damn mortals complaining about death." it grumbled, before continuing on with his lunch.

After a few minutes, Kakashi returned to the real world. When he woke up, he found two large amber eyes looking at him with mirth, before his whole face was licked by a large wet tongue. He quickly pushed the giant fox of his face and backed away from it like a little girl who saw a monster. Kakashi noticed he was the only one in the living room, since Shishi took Sasuke up to the room they would be sharing with his team, leaving Kakashi all alone... Kinda...

When Kakashi looked scared, Shishi chuckled and whispered, "Don't worry ningen, I wont kill you. However, it will be better to talk about this in a much more private place." Shishi wrapped a tail around Kakashi before they both disappeared in a blaze of black flames. Akyo looked on from where she was resting and sighed.

'Brother, I can only hope you wont break the poor man. I don't wish to tell Naruto-sama why his sensei has lost his mind.' she thought, before silently returning to sleep.

(With Kakashi And Shishi)

Kakashi and Shishi appeared outside the house, Kakashi was still on his butt looking at Shishi in fear. Then Shishi exploded in black fire that almost made Kakashi faint again. Suddenly there was smoke where Shishi the fox once stood, and a large figure of a man was there, stalking towards him. It reared its head back, as if about to attack.

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh-CHOO!" the creature sneezed. In Shishi's place was a boy around seventeen with platinum-blond hair like Ino's, and he was wearing a large black cloak. Those were the minor features. What really caught Kakashi's attention were the eyes that stayed the same, the ears on his head and the five tails poking out from the bottom of his cloak. He made a peace sign with his middle and index fingers, smiled and said, "Yo!"

DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN...

Well, sorry it's short, but I kinda was in a hurry. And I don't want to dispapoint you guys, but the chapters will have to be slightly shorter.

Kinda like this one...

Ahem, anyway, please review, and don't flame!

Until next time!