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Disclaimer: if I owned Naruto, Kyuubi would b unsealed, Arashi alive, male pregnancies everywhere, and lots and lots of yaoi. Need I say more?
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"Alright," Arashi sighed, glaring up at the smirking kitsune. "So if we, I don't know, somehow say the wrong thing, then your dad will attempt an attack?"
"Yep, pretty much," Kyuubi replied with a nod of his head. "Kitsunes are a very timid species."
"You don't act timid," Amana pointed out. "If anything, you act the total opposite."
"Hey, what can I say? I'm relaxed, thank you very much!"
"So how will we know if anyone we see is a part of your old pack or not?" Jiraiya asked. "Because, judging from your current appearance, demons can look just like a human."
"You're right, we can," the red-head agreed. "But no worries. Demons normally try to avoid humans. I'm an exception because I'm weird that way. Anyway, if you do see someone from my old pack, don't worry about it. They'll probably glance and then just keep on walking if they look like humans. Unless they see me, then one of them might try to fight me. There's only one that stupid, but hey, Shinta is just that stupid."
"Shinta?" Arashi repeated.
"Younger brother that's always trying to prove how strong he is. I'm actually supposed to take over the pack when my dad dies, but I prefer acting alone. Shinta is next in line after me, but he's always trying to prove how strong he is to dad. Old Scar Face doesn't really know if he can trust Shinta with the pack when he passes on."
"Why hasn't he made his own pack, then?" Hiashi asked. "So he wouldn't have to prove himself to anyone."
"First off, because generally, the first two never run off to start packs of their own," Kyuubi explained. "Incase something happens to the first born, then there's still someone that is qualified to take over the pack. Second, even if you start a pack of your own, you still need to prove yourself to everyone in your pack. After all, demons won't stand to have a weak leader."
"That's pretty understandable, considering how confusing demons are," Jiraiya commented.
"Not all demons are confusing," the kitsune said with a smirk. "Just me!"
"Or the way you explain things," Arashi muttered. "You never explain things to where everyone can understand them. Just enough to where I can understand what you're saying."
"Because I could care less if anyone else understood or not," the red-head stated, still smirking. The blond teen just sighed. "What?" Kyuubi innocently asked.
"Nothing," the blond sighed before giving a flinch.
Kyuubi noticed it. 'It's nothing to worry about, right?' he asked himself. 'Arashi's not old enough. His body isn't mature enough to sustain a kit.' "You alright?" he asked out loud.
"Yes, Mr. Pain-In-The-Ass," Arashi replied with a smirk.
"You sure?"
"Want me to hurt you?" the blond asked with a smirk.
"He's alright!" Kyuubi joked, acting like he was yelling it to the world. "Arashi will live another day!"
"Will you quit acting dramatic?" Arashi yelled, playfully punching the kitsune's arm. Kyuubi did a mocking howl of pain, clutching his arm, proclaiming he was about to die. "You are insane," the blond commented with a blank face.
"I know!" the red-head cheerfully said. "Isn't it fun?"
"With you, sometimes. Other times, not one measly bit."
"He's more confusing then fun," Hiashi commented blankly. "Not to mention very random. How are you able to deal with this fox, Arashi?"
"Simple," the blond replied. "I've been around him since I was eight. Pretty much, I'm used to it. Though he was a lot funnier when I was younger."
"You grew up and found me more annoying than funny," the kitsune stated.
"That part is true," Arashi agreed with a slight nod of his head.
"Arashi grew up?" Amana asked in a playful startled tone before the blond turned and glared at her. "Well, I've never really noticed. He's always acted the same way. Immature and a bit of a show off."
"I am not!"
Amana just smirked. "Look at me!" she started to flail her arms around. "I'm Arashi! I'm so fast that I'm also known as the Yellow Flash! My best friend is a fox demon! The strongest one there is! Ain't I just the most annoying thing in the world? That's because I never grew up!"
"You're right," Arashi snickered. "You never did." Amana glared at her, mocking him before throwing a rock towards his head. Kyuubi caught it though and crumbled it in his hand. "Yeah, he'll do that a lot."
"You mean he ruins fun like that a lot or he destroys rocks a lot?"
Arashi thought for a few seconds. "Both," he finally said. Kyuubi did a sarcastic laugh. "Admit it. That is you."
"I'm also the cause of fun, remember that, Ara-kun," Kyuubi said with a smirk. "After all, you weren't complaining about how much fun I can be." Arashi glared at the kitsune, catching the under-meaning of the red-head's words. "What?" he innocently asked. "It's the truth and you know it."
'Stop talking about that, Kyuu!' Arashi snapped through the mind link. Kyuubi just smirked slightly. 'I mean it! What if Jiraiya-sensei puts the pieces together?'
'Then let him,' Kyuubi replied. 'Then I could take you away and keep you all to myself!'
'You're weird.'
'But you love me anyways! You told me you did.'
'No denial,' Arashi said, a small smirk on his face, which Kyuubi returned.
"Mental conversation?" Amana asked, leaning a little closer to Hiashi.
"Maybe," the Hyuuga replied with a shrug. "Can't tell with them."
"Main sign that we are mentally talking to each other is when you see us do facial expressions and we never said a word out loud," Kyuubi stated over his shoulder. "Just look for that and you'll know."
"Hey, why do you follow us around everywhere?" Jiraiya asked in an annoyed tone.
"Because where Arashi goes, I go," the kitsune replied with a shrug of his shoulder. "He gets into trouble all the time and sometimes, I need to bail him out. Like this one time, he tried to perfect his Teleportation technique with his kunais and stopped on top of a waterfall. Boy, that was funny!" he started to laugh before Arashi punched his arm with a red face. "Come on, Ara-kun, it was! And admit it, if I was not around, that waterfall would have taken you over the edge and you would have plummeted to a painful and horrible death." Arashi just glared at him. "Thought so."
"I hate you," the blond said through clenched teeth.
"No you don't," Kyuubi said with a smirk, one of his canines poking out of his mouth.
"And what is this?" a voice asked, sounding like it came from all directions. "Kyuubi, have you decided to be a disgrace to demon kind?"
"Relax," Kyuubi calmly spoke when the other four tensed up and looked around. "It's just the Annoyance. Shinta himself." As if taking his introduction as a cue, a man jumped down from the trees, landing in front of Kyuubi. His hair was short and spiked, pointing everywhere on his head, with orange bangs that hung limp over his mischievous yellow-green eyes. "Long time, no see, otouto," Kyuubi said, crossing his arms over his chest. "What brought you so far from the pack?"
"The pack isn't that far away," Shinta said with a shrug of his shoulders. "Actually, father settles the pack just beyond the hill to the north. What brought you so close to the pack? Last thing I remember you saying was 'This pack doesn't need me. I don't need anyone. I'm going out on my own.' So what? You changed your mind or something? Finally realized that foxes get so very lonely when alone and have a harder time surviving when they are one or two?"
"No," Kyuubi blankly replied. "I have been fairing very well by myself. I just refuse to leave someone because he has a habit of getting into trouble all the time." Arashi hit the kitsune's arm in annoyance. "Ow," Kyuubi mockingly whined, looking down at Arashi. "I was kidding, Arashi."
As if finally noticing them, Shinta looked at the other four that were with Kyuubi. "Humans?" he questioned. "Did you just chose to make a new pack and took in humans?"
"Only one human is mine," Kyuubi sternly said. "The others are merely companions of my human."
"Here we go with the 'my human' crap again," Arashi sighed, walking over to Jiraiya and the other two.
"You have become quite the disgrace to demon kind, haven't you, onii-san?" Shinta asked, looking from each face of the four humans before back at the older fox with a smirk on his face, both canines in plain sight. "Never, Kyuubi, have I thought that you, Mr. I-Like-Being-Alone, staying around humans. Do they even know what you are?"
Simultaneously, all four replied, "Yes."
Shinta looked at them incredulously. "Well, that is something." Then he took a couple sniffs of the air. "One of them has your scent clinging onto them like a male's would to a female. Have you taken one as your mate, Kyuubi?"
"No, I've just been around him since he was eight, so my scent stays on him," Kyuubi stated, inspecting the top of his claws before popping his knuckles with a tight clench of his fist. "What brought you here, though? Is father moving the pack from the Mist?"
"No, but we are taking precautions," Shinta replied. "A couple humans spotted little Alina, so father moved the pack a bit further from the village incase humans come looking around for us."
"That's one thing about a pack," the red-head sighed. "It's large enough for humans to come across. I do hope that you don't end up destroying everyone when you take charge." Shinta growled at him. "Then again, every time you play the leader of something, it ends up with your followers caught or in danger and father has to come and save your asses all the time." Shinta's growling grew louder. "Seriously, as soon as father passes on to the next world, the pack might as well go with him since you can't even take care of a stick."
Having enough of the taunting, Shinta shot forward and attempted to tackle Kyuubi, but the older fox stepped to the side before bringing his elbow down on Shinta's back, forcing the other kitsune to the ground. "And you act so irrational about things, Shinta," Kyuubi continued. "You keep running into things, never thinking about the consequences." Shinta got up, jumping a few feet back, before swinging a kick to Kyuubi's stomach. The red-head caught it before pulling Shinta to him and punching him in the gut. Shina fell to the ground, wind knocked out of him.
"Enough!" a gruff voice yelled out before both demons and the four humans looked down the trail. Four men stood straight with their arms crossed over their chests. The one up front had yellowish-orange hair with red bangs and yellow eyes. The left side of his face looked like he was slashed by a creature with large claws, and the scar sealed his left eye up. "Shinta, back down," he commanded before Shinta rose and went to stand behind the demon. "Kyuubi," he greeted with a nod of his head.
"Old Scar Face," Kyuubi greeted back with a joking smirk. The demon glared at him.
"Still no respect for your elders, eh, Kyuubi?"
"I don't give my respect to anyone unless they deserve it. You are the same way, father." Arashi blinked a couple times. He could barely see any similarities between 'Old Scar Face' and Kyuubi other then the yellow eyes and the small amount of red hair that the older demon had.
"Why are you around humans?" he asked.
"One is a trusted friend of mine who desperately need a bodyguard since he gets into situations that end up with him upside-down, captured, and–" He stopped talking when Arashi came over and elbowed him in the rib with a heavy glare. "Just saying," Kyuubi muttered, rubbing his ribs. "Geez, you keep hitting me and I'll be black and blue before the end of the day."
"Stop saying things that embarrass me and I won't hit you," Arashi pointed out through clenched teeth. Kyuubi just scoffed with a playful smirk.
"On a leash with a human holding onto the rope," the demon said, narrowing his eyes. "Disgraceful."
"Incase you have yet to notice, but lately, I have been quite a disgrace in your eyes," Kyuubi sighed.
"I think I sense a family feud going on here," Amana whispered into Hiashi's ear. The Hyuuga heir just nodded in agreement. "Hey, Arashi," she called out in a whisper before the blond turned and looked at her. She signaled him to her. He walked over at a reasonable pace to not let the demons think they were going to plan something. He knew the way to behave around demons, unlike the other three. "Does Kyuubi not get along with his family very much?" she asked the blond.
"Don't know," Arashi replied with a shrug of his shoulders, looking behind him to Kyuubi, who was still talking with the other fox demons. "He never tells me much about his old pack other then he left it since he preferred being alone."
"Doesn't act like he prefers being alone from what I've seen," Jiraiya stated.
"That's only because he's around me. If he was out on his own, he would be different."
"I seriously doubt that," Amana sighed, crossing her arms over her chest.
"We're just passing through and I assure these humans will do nothing to pose as threats," Kyuubi said, nudging his head towards the other four, but kept his gaze on his father. "They are from Konohagakure, Village Hidden in the Leaves. They are shinobi there and have a mission in the Mist Country. That is our only business here."
The older fox looked back and forth between Kyuubi and the small group of humans. He growled slightly, the corner of his top lip pulling back to show some of his teeth. "This trusted friend of yours? Is he the one we spoke of yesterday?" Kyuubi nodded once. With a sigh, the fox demon turned and walked back into the surrounding area.
"Father!" Shinta called out, but silenced himself when he heard a harsh bark. He looked at the other fox demons, then at Kyuubi with a glare, before following after his father with the other demons into the woods.
Kyuubi smirked, turning around to look at Jiraiya. "Won't run into any demons, huh?" he joked. Arashi just shook his head, throwing a pebble at Kyuubi, who ducked down to evade the small rock. "Playing, just playing," the kitsune laughed. "Best to deal with my old man before anyone else. Gets him out of the way. Mom's a lot well-mannered."
"You make it sound like you plan on inviting us to one of your family reunions," Jiraiya pointed out before Kyuubi shrugged.
"Demons don't have family reunions since a pack is basically the entire family. Unless a male runs off, finds and mates with a female, and starts his own pack. But a pack basically is filled with parents, sons, daughters, cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents. Name it." He smirked slightly. "So, you guys going to stand there or try and finish your mission before the end of the century?"
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"Arashi, are you alright?" Kyuubi asked, laying down next to his blond mate. The fire slowly shrunk, trying to grow repeatedly, but failed. Arashi and Jiraiya were keeping watch, but the gama-sannin was scouting around to make sure no one was around that could attempt an attack. Arashi just sat near the fire, knees tucked into his chest. And lately, Arashi had been giving small groans of pain.
"I'm fine," Arashi assured. "I just get a cramp or two sometimes."
Unconvinced until he was proven that the human was alright, Kyuubi nuzzled his face into Arashi's side, breathing in his scent. The blond didn't know what Kyuubi was doing and was hoping that the fox would back off before Jiraiya came back into the campsite. The red-head nudged Arashi's side for a second before pulled back and sitting up straight. He was convinced that Arashi was fine now. He didn't catch anything in his scent. 'Thank Kami-sama,' the kitsune thought to himself. 'I knew he wouldn't get in that condition. Not right now, anyway.'
"I should ask if you're the one that's alright," Arashi said, laying his head on the kitsune's shoulder. "You've been acting a tad bit paranoid. What's up?"
Kyuubi sighed slightly. "I'll tell you some other time," he replied. "And you won't get me talking until I think I should tell you what's bothering me." Arashi just gave him a small pout. Kyuubi chuckled. "That's not going to work on me tonight, Arashi." Arashi just huffed before giving out a loud yawn, shaking his head a little bit. "You're tired," the kitsune pointed out.
"Maybe," Arashi replied, rubbing some sleep out of his eye.
The fox chuckled slightly, wrapping a tail around Arashi's waist and an arm over the blonde's shoulder, pulling the teen closer to his form. Arashi sighed contently, nuzzling his face into Kyuubi's clothed chest. His eyes slowly slid close and did not open. That was the scene that Jiraiya came back to.
"He's that exhausted?" the gama-sannin asked, looking at the blond in Kyuubi's arms. The kitsune just nodded as Jiraiya sat down with a small sigh. "You barely talk unless you're talking to him," the white-haired man pointed out. Kyuubi just shrugged slightly. "Hey, fox. How close are you to Arashi?" Kyuubi wasn't sure whether to answer that question or not. Jiraiya might mess up his response and figure out just how close the two actually were. So Kyuubi chose to stay silent. Jiraiya sighed, seeing that making conversation with the kitsune was a waste of time.
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Me: end of that chapter. Next chapter, small time skip. Just by a year, so no worries. Kyuubi just tells Arashi what's been bothering him this chapter and the mpreg thing is explained. Nothing too special or important. Anyway, review! or I shall cry!