Me: well lookie here! a new chapter! Isn't everyone happy now? sorry, I got a hold of some sugar and am now feeling hyper. Anyway, new chappie! And I will try to put in the fluff and/or lemon.

Disclaimer: if I owned Naruto, I wouldn't be writing a fanfiction! And Arashi would be alive! And with an unsealed Kyuubi! And certain characters will be alive! I'm done.

Confess? Not confess. Confess? Not confess. Why do girls do these things anyway? It's not like a flower petal determines everything! Kyuu would think I'm an absolute idiot doing something like this. So why am I bothering with it? Geez, I should just go ahead and confess to him. Now where could he have gone? He said he would be right back, but he's been gone for ten minutes. He sticks around an hour after we get to Yoshiro's village and then he leaves. What is that fox up to?

Arashi sighed, slumping against the tree closest to him. He had been trying to contact Kyuubi through the mind link, but Kyuubi blocked him out. That usually meant only one thing: Kyuubi didn't want to talk. He wanted to be left alone to think about something. Though Arashi couldn't help but wonder about what the fox was thinking about. Kyuubi rarely ever blocked him out. When the blond decided to go ahead and go inside of the Lord's mansion, Kyuubi appeared out of thin air in front of him. "Geez!" Arashi gasped. "Give me a heart attack, why don't you?"

"Sorry," the fox said with a small smirk. "I didn't think I would startle you.'

"Well, you did! Congratulations!" The two laughed for a minute before the blond teen looked at Kyuubi's face. "Something wrong?" he asked, stepping a little closer.

"Just bothersome thoughts, that's all," the red-head replied. "Nothing much. Did Yoshiro summon those hunters yet?"

"He's still refusing."

"He'll get Konu really pissed off if he doesn't obey," Kyuubi sighed, scratching the back of his head. "I managed to track down the furs he wanted and put them in the room you'll be staying in. I wouldn't put them anywhere else that people would wonder in and take them back."

"You think they won't try to go into my room and take the furs why?" Arashi asked, crossing his arms over his chest as he raised an eyebrow, leaning towards the fox a little bit.

"Because I'm going to be in your room tonight," the kitsune replied with a smirk on his lips as he copied the same action as Arashi, only without the confused look. "Any problem, Ara-kun?"

"No," Arashi replied, shaking his head as he leaned away from the fox. "I'm used to you slipping in and sleeping with me back home."

"Watching over!"

"You call 'watching over' staying in my bed, under the covers, and practically putting yourself against me?"

"Making sure no one snatches you in the middle of the night," Kyuubi defended with a shrug.

"Kyuubi, I know you better than that. When I was younger, you just sat on the window sill or in a chair or somewhere else other than the bed! Ever since I turned fourteen, you've been sleeping with me in my bed."

"Really?" the kitsune innocently asked before putting on a thoughtful face and giving a small hum. "I haven't really noticed."

"Yeah right. Besides, I don't think you sleeping in my bed with me tonight wouldn't be a good idea incase Jiraiya-sensei checks in and sees us."

"You may have a point there. But I would be able to sense him coming from down the hallway, so I can get out of the bed without him ever knowing."

"I can't convince you otherwise, can I?" the blond asked, staring incredulously at the grinning kitsune, who shook his head. "Figured," Arashi sighed. "Alright. I'll stop trying to convince you to stay out of the bed. Even if I somehow did, you would get in, anyway. Wouldn't you?"

"Being around you as a child really was a bad mistake."

"Why?"

"Because you know me all too well."

"Best to when it comes down to you."

"You make it sound like I'm so…untrustworthy."

"Sometimes, you kind of are. To others, though. Never to me."

"You won't believe how many times I have tried to lie to you and yet, I can't!"

"Why can't you lie to me, Kyuu?" Arashi asked, staring at the kitsune with a confused look again. "You lie to everyone else just fine, but you can't lie to me."

"Hard to, I guess," Kyuubi replied with a shoulder shrug. "Come on. Sun will be setting soon. I'll track down those hunters tomorrow. Maybe you could help me out, Arashi."

"Sure!" the blond replied with a smile. "How soon do we start?"

"After you eat some breakfast. I'll hunt down mine if there are any other animals around besides than wolves."

"But wouldn't you be hunting in their territory? So wouldn't they go after you?"

"Smart kid, Arashi. But no wolf is dumb enough to attack a Bijou other than another Bijou. So let's go ahead, get some food in you, then send you off to bed."

"I'm not a little kid anymore, Kyuubi," Arashi stated as he followed the red-headed fox back into the mansion.

Kyuubi stayed up, staring out the window to the clear night sky, glancing towards the slumbering blond from time to time. Arashi fell asleep about an hour after dinner, curled up on the futon with the blanket covering him balled up under his chin because of his fist. The fox couldn't help but admit that the teen looked cute like that. He looked completely at peace and calm. His fox ears twitched whenever he heard Arashi mumbling something in his sleep. It was entertaining. The funniest line so far was 'The penguins ran away with my money and clothes!'

It was hard for the kitsune not to laugh at that. He actually stuffed his fist into his mouth so he wouldn't burst into fits of laughter and wake the blond. And once Arashi was up, he stayed up. It was hard to put him back to sleep. "Penguins have fish cannons!" Arashi nearly yelled. Kyuubi gave a small snort before hiding his laughter behind his hands, as quiet as he could stay. "Give me back my pants! Evil penguins!" He won't be able to hold back his laughter if Arashi kept going. "Hey! Stupid penguins! That's my wallet! Stay out of it!"

The kitsune couldn't hold it in any longer. He burst into a large fit of laughter, falling onto the ground as he clutched his sides, trying to breathe past the laughs. Arashi snapped awake from the sudden noise. "Kyuu?" he groggily called, seeing the laughing fox on the floor. "What's with you?"

"Got your clothes back from the penguins yet?" Kyuubi joked, laughing a little harder when he saw Arashi blushing with embarrassment. "Watch out! That one's spending all your money on more fish cannons!" He kept laughing, but he stopped joking…when Arashi threw the pillow at you. "Seriously, Arashi. How do you even know what a penguin is?"

"Television showing crazy videos of penguins," Arashi replied. "I think I saw a video of a penguin attacking someone."

"Stay off the TV," the fox advised through laughs as he sat up a little bit.

"Stop laughing!"

"But it's too funny!"

Arashi growled before launching at the kitsune, knocking him to the ground. Kyuubi fell back onto the floor, landing on his back with Arashi straddling his stomach. The fox was holding both of Arashi's arms up so the blond wouldn't hit him or anything. "Hm, I always thought of someone sitting on me like that," Kyuubi joked. "But not trying to hit me."

"Stop saying things like that!" the human teen warned through clenched teeth.

"Seriously, Arashi. What if your sensei walked in right now? How would this look to him? You sitting on me and I'm holding onto your wrist. Think about this for a minute." The blond blinked a couple times before leaping off of the fox. "Thought so," Kyuubi said in a victorious tone as he sat back up. He smirked when he saw the blush on Arashi's cheeks appear again. "Come now, Ara-kun. What has you blushing like a female who just gave herself up and is too shy to admit it?"

"No reason!" Arashi replied. "I just really wish you would quit saying things like that!"

"Hey, I'm a fox," the red-head pointed out when a smirk.

"I thought you hated perverts as much as I do."

'When a pervert hits on you, I do,' Kyuubi thought to himself. "Yeah, I do," he replied out loud. "Because compared to other perverts, I'm mild."

"I highly doubt that."

"Compare me to your sensei! Who is more perverted? He spies on girls in the tub and I just say things."

"You're right. He's more perverted than you. But you're still not mild."

"Geez, not my fault you blush like someone asked you to spend a night with them every time you hear something that sounds perverted," the fox muttered loud enough for Arashi to hear him.

"I do not!" the blond nearly yelled.

"Arashi, you're blushing right now."

"Because I'm mad at you!"

"Why are you mad at me?" Kyuubi innocently asked, chewing on his bottom lip. "I haven't done anything that I shouldn't…I think." Arashi growled under his breath before turning his head away. "Arashi?" No response. "Alright, I'll quit acting like a pervert if it will make you talk to me!"

"Thank you," the teen said, turning back towards Kyuubi with a victorious smirk. "I knew you couldn't stand me ignoring you." Kyuubi snorted with a faint glare towards the blond, who just shrugged it off. "Let me guess. Another reason why it was a bad idea to know you as a child? Because I know just what to do with you to get my way."

"Yes," the kitsune growled. "I really should hurt you, you know that, Ara-kun?"

"Stop calling me that!"

"Why? I like the way it sounds."

"Why not just call me Ara or something like that?"

"Because 'Ara' sounds too feminine. Then again, you look too feminine for a male human anyway."

"I do not!" Arashi yelled

"Yes you do. And maybe you shouldn't yell. You might wake others up. Then again, you should go back to sleep."

"I can't," Arashi mumbled. "I'm too awake to go back to sleep. What time is it?"

Kyuubi looked back out the window. "About two in the morning," he replied, looking back to the blond. "Still enough time to go back to sleep."

"I can't get back to sleep, Kyuu! You know that I'm just that way."

"Then I guess I have to do something to put you back to sleep," the fox sighed.

"Like what?" Arashi asked in a challenging tone.

"Oh, I don't know," Kyuubi replied in a thoughtful way, staring up at the ceiling, and unknowing to Arashi, inching closer to the blond. "I guess I could always try making you pass out."

"How can you make me pass out?" Arashi cockily asked with a smirk on his face. Then, faster than Arashi could think, Kyuubi's lips were on his. Arashi's eyes went wide in shock. He couldn't believe what the fox just did! What the fox was still doing! Kyuubi was kissing him! But before Arashi could respond to it, the kitsune pulled away. "Um, what was that about?" the blond asked as soon as he was able to.

"You didn't pass out," Kyuubi pointed out with a smirk. "Oh well."

"Kyuubi? What was that about?"

The red-head sighed. "If you want me to leave after I tell you, then I will. Amana was right. I do care for you, more than you think. I've been trying so hard to not tackle you to the ground and have my way with you. Trust me. I have been. With you, I just can't think of anything else. No one but you appeals to me." He gave another small sigh. "I'll leave you alone now if you want me to." As he rose to his feet, Arashi grabbed his arm.

"Don't leave," the blond whispered. "Please?" Kyuubi stared at Arashi with wide eyes before he smiled softly, sitting back down, nuzzling into the teen's neck. He nipped at it playfully, smirking when he heard Arashi give a small gasp, before he pulled away. He was pulled back, though, when Arashi grabbed his shirt and pulled his closer, connected their lips again. The fox nipped at Arashi's lower lip, asking for entrance, which Arashi granted with a faint moan. The blond wrapped his arms around Kyuubi's shoulders as the fox pulled him onto his lap.

They broke apart when Arashi pulled away, taking in gasps for air, but Kyuubi just started to butterfly kiss the teen's neck. He gave a small sigh of content before pulling away. "You should get some more sleep," the red-head stated. "After all, who knows how much trouble those hunters will give us once we find them tomorrow."

"Ok," Arashi agreed with a nod of his head. "I'll try to get some sleep."

"Where are you two going?" Jiraiya asked the next morning when Kyuubi was about to leave and Arashi followed after him.

"We're holding up my end of the bargain," Kyuubi replied. "I'm going to find those hunters that killed the wolves. Arashi agreed to help me out. We already have the furs. If we can get both to Konu by the end of the day, we'll have a happy wolf." He turned and headed for the door. "Coming, Ara-kun?"

"Yes," Arashi replied as Kyuubi opened the door, turning around when he was on the porch. "And stop calling me that!"

"Never!" the kitsune dramatically yelled, raising a hand into the air with a smile on his face before the blond chased after him.

"He's pretty immature for a demon," Hiashi commented.

"Notice how he's only like that with Arashi?" Amana asked. "I mean, around us, he's all business. With Arashi, he's laughing and acting like a child."

"That demon is really strange," Jiraiya muttered under his breath.

-Now tuning into Kyuubi and Arashi-

"So do you have any clues as to where the hunters might be?" Arashi asked, crossing his arms over his chest.

"If I had something with their scent, then yeah," the kitsune muttered under his breath before sighing. "Guess we ask around, then. And if we can't find them, we're in trouble."

"How do we even know how many hunters there were?"

"Stop asking me questions that I don't know the answer to, Arashi."

"Maybe you would know the answer to this one. If you don't, then I'm going to have to look at you weird. Where did you find those furs?"

Kyuubi gave a small hum of thought, rubbing his chin slightly with his index finger. "Well, kind of obvious," Kyuubi replied. "At a fur stand."

"We found our first inspection place, then," the blond stated. "Because, come on. The hunters have to go there to give it to the fur stand, so the people working there must have seen the hunters. They can give us a description and other stuff so it will make finding the hunters easier!"

Kyuubi smirked. "I guess another reason why I love you so much has to be your brains," he stated before whispering into Arashi's ears. "Most humans don't have one. Or they do and they just don't use it." Arashi laughed into his hand.

"Come on," the blond said through his laugh. "Let's jut get to the stand."

It took Kyuubi a few minutes, but he eventually remembered where the fur stand that he stole the wolf skin from was. The two people that worked there were shocked to see Kyuubi again, and showed it in more than expressions. "What do you want here?" the woman asked in a frightened tone. "We already gave you all the wolf furs we had."

Arashi looked up at the red-headed fox with a certain look that demanded an explanation. "What did you do?" he questioned the kitsune.

"Nothing other than threaten their lives if they didn't give me the wolf furs," Kyuubi replied. "It worked."

"You're unbelievable," Arashi sighed, shaking his head, before he went closer to the stand. "Sorry if whatever he did yesterday frightened you. He's just that way. We came here to ask if you know anything about the hunters that got the wolf furs."

"Let's see," the man spoke, thinking a little bit. "I believe that there were four of them. Three of them were fairly large. The third was a little skinnier and shorter. They looked like brothers. Each of them had a marking somewhere on their body. One had his on his cheek, another had his on his arm, the third had one on his wrist, and the last one, the skinny one, had his mark right above his left eye."

"What did the marks look like?"

"Come on, Arashi," Kyuubi sighed. "A group of four humans that look like brothers with marks on their bodies. Yeah, like they're not easy enough to find."

"It never hurts, Kyuu," Arashi stated, looking over his shoulder to the fox before looking back at the two people.

"Well, the marks looked like paw prints of some sort," the man replied when Arashi looked back towards him.

"Paw prints?" the blond repeated.

"Yes."

"Paw print marks?" Kyuubi said to himself, going into a thinking trance again before looking over to Arashi, who turned towards him when he heard the fox. "The only kind of humans that have those kind of marks are demon hunters. They stick together in their own little village. Why these four are here, I don't know." He looked back at the couple that were staring at him and Arashi. "Hey, you. Do you know if they're still in this village?"

"We saw them just an hour ago," the woman replied. "They went that way," she added, pointing behind the two.

"Thanks a lot!" Arashi yelled as he ran off after Kyuubi. "Hey! Kyuubi!" The kitsune jumped onto a roof before he finally stopped, crouching down as his red-gold eyes looked around. "What was up with running off like that?" Arashi asked after he jumped onto the roof, landing right next to the fox.

"Best to find them before we lose them," Kyuubi stated.

"Hard to lose what we haven't even found," the blond muttered, crossing his arms over his chest.

"I found them," the kitsune said, pointing towards a group of laughing men. They fit the description that the man from the stand gave them. "Figured. They're demon hunters alright. A team. That's why they left their village. They never do unless they're working in a team. Where the marks are normally tell what the individual is a specialist at. Cheek is the one who draws in the demons with plenty of noise. Arm is muscle. Wrist is the one who pretty much ties down the demon before killing. And forehead means he's the strategist – the thinker of the group."

"All brains and no brawn," Arashi said in a joking way, leaning against the perfectly balance fox so he could see the group better. "Unlike those other three."

"We still need to be careful with them," Kyuubi pointed out as the blond got off of him. "They can take down almost any kind of demon they find."

"Bet they can't take you down." The fox smirked at the confidence in Arashi's voice. "So what's the plan?"

Kyuubi gave a small thoughtful hum, looking up to the sky while Arashi kept an eye on the four. "If I could contact Konu or track him down, we can lure those four to them. You could get the furs really quick and we can have this deal over and done with in less than an hour."

"Why do I feel a 'but' coming on?"

"But I have no way of contacting Konu and who knows how long it will take me to track him down. Ookamis are the best tracker there are, so they would know how to cover their own tracks."

Now it was Arashi's time to think for a minute. "I can keep an eye on these guys," he said after a minute. "And you can find Konu or another wolf demon to tell him to meet up somewhere so you can give him the hunters and the furs. Then you can meet back up with me and lure these guys to that spot."

"Stop surprising me with all these ideas, Arashi," Kyuubi chuckled, rising to his feet. "You're going to go too fast for me to keep up one of these days." Arashi just smirked, crossing his arms back over his chest. "I better get going, then." When he was about to turn, Arashi grabbed his arm like last night, making the kitsune look back at him, before the blond pecked him on the lips. "Defiantly going to hurry up now," Kyuubi stated with a smirk before pecking Arashi's back. "Don't lose track of them."

"Hello," Arashi sighed, earning a chuckle from Kyuubi. "I'm the Yellow Flash!" The kitsune shook his head before disappearing in a split second. "Ok, maybe I can't outrun a demon if all of them are that fast," the teen muttered to himself before he went back to watching the group of demon hunters.

-An hour and a half later-

Currently, Arashi was in a tea house, still watching the four hunters. Kyuubi contacted him not too long ago, saying that he found the wolves, delivered the message and furs, (so that took less time) and was heading back. "Hey," a husky voice whispered into the blonde's ear before he jumped, snapping around to see a grinning brunet with blue eyes. "It's me. I put an illusion on so those hunters won't recognize me as a demon."

"Think you could not sneak up on me?" Arashi asked through clenched teeth, which just made the disguised Kyuubi's grin wider. "So what's the plan now? You change or something?"

"No," Kyuubi replied. "You go over to them and tell them that a friend of yours mention a very rare kind of demon in the forest, and they won't get into trouble for attempting to catch it. I'll pretend to be the rare demon."

"You are rare," the blond pointed out in a whisper. "All I have to say is that there's a nine-tailed fox demon in the woods. Where do I lead them?"

Kyuubi glanced over to the group, who looked like they were watching. "About three miles east of the village is a lake," he whispered back. "Take them there. I'll be waiting for them in my fox form and when they chase after me, I'll lead them to Konu. You should head back to the village."

"No way! What if they actually catch you? And if you're going to go slow enough for some guys to chase after you, then I can defiantly keep up."

"Alright," the kitsune sighed. "I'll go ahead and get to the lake. Try to get them there within the hour."

Arashi nodded before Kyuubi stood up straight and walked out of the tea house. The blond gave a small sigh before looking over to the group, who were still watching him. How to approach them, he was still figuring out. Be blunt or what? Oh well. He'll just go along with it. He stood from his spot and walked over to the four. "Hey," he greeted. "I noticed those marks on you four. You're demon hunters, right?"

"What's it to you, kid?" the one with the mark on his cheek asked.

"Nothing much, but my friend that just came in here mentioned seeing a rare fox out in the forest near the lake."

"How rare?" the shorter one asked this time, obviously interested.

"A nine-tailed fox."

"Imagine how much money we can rake in with furs of that!" the one with the mark on his arm stated.

"You want something, don't you?" the skinny one asked in suspicion.

"Fifteen percent and I'm good," Arashi replied. "That's all I want. So, what do you say?"

The four started to talk amongst themselves before the younger-looking one leaned away from the larger three and nodded. "We'll bring you the money you want after we sell the furs."

"I'm coming with you," the blond stubbornly said.

"You'll only get in the way, gaki," the fourth one, the one with the wrist mark, stated.

"I can handle myself and I'll stay out of the way. But I am coming with you guys."

"Fine," the skinny one sighed. "Name's Yashi. That's Goku," he motioned towards the one with the arm mark, "Coru," the one with the wrist mark, "and Aku," the one with the cheek mark. "And you are?"

"Arashi."

Me: next chapter, the wolves get what they want and mayb a lemon…ok, I'll try and put a lemon in the next chapter if I get enough reviews. ok?