Whaz up ladies, gents and other! Sorry I haven't updated A fox's life in a while, I'm caught up in my new story, Fairy Tail's Lost Dragon. I'm gonna try an' make it up to y'all by postin' this chapter, an' if anyone's read Ichigo's Hollow Life, I'll do the same there. I don't own Naruto Shippuden or the original series. Spoiler alert: Naruto's gonna meet his old teachers, and acquaintances. Someone asked if I was, or am, an orphan. I'm gonna dispel any doubts, I'm not an orphan or a neglected child, I'm just depressant and emotionally quirky.
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The old ramen stand was still standing after four years without its best customer. The first year was when Naruto 'went missing' and the other three were what gave Naruto his daughter/student. Now he just needed to get some ramen into his flask and then find some foxnip, if any still grew in Konoha, "Hey, Ayame-neechan! I need you to fill my flask with ramen, please. I can't stay for a bowl or nine, I have to get reacquainted with everyone...again!"
Ayame looked over the counter, tears in her eyes at how much Naruto had changed, "Where is he?! Give him back!" The confused look he gave brought a sad smile to her face, "Where's the little boy we miss so much? Give him back..." She came around the counter and caught Naruto in a hug, "Please, bring back that knucklehead we miss..."
Naruto wrapped his muscular arms around the ramen chef with a soft smile, "That boy rests peacefully," Ayame's eyes widened and her pupils shrank, "Don't disturb the departed and let the dead rest..." Ayame began to cry into his shoulder, "Why did he have to die, why?! What killed him?! Who killed him?!" Her sobs were heard by Teuchi, who had overheard everything said, "The villagers and their stupidity."
Naruto nodded to the old chef and patted Ayame on the back, subliminally telling her to let go, but she just tightened her grip on him like he wouldn't be there when she let go. Taking matters into his own hands, Teuchi walked around the counter and pulled his daughter off of the blonde jinchuuriki before them, "What can I do for you, Uzumaki-san?" Naruto visibly winced, "Couple things. First: don't call me 'Uzumaki-san', it makes me sound like an old man and I'm your favorite costumer. I just...grew up! Secondly: I need some ramen, but I need it to fill my flask, my student decided to make me fight my addiction and drank my foxnip and ramen combination."
Ayame was still trying to stop tears from falling, but hearing Naruto had grown up made it harder. Teuchi nodded with a nostalgic smile on his face as he saw Naruto drool slightly at the smell of ramen, "You still can't control your salivary glands at the prospect of eating your favorite food, hehehe..." Naruto laughed heartily, "Ye-haha-ah! It was, and still is, my favorite food! Even though I should've lost my stomach for it, having eaten it almost everyday, I still can't stop loving it, Datteboyo!"
(Cue: Daughtry-Waiting for Superman. It fits the emotional atmosphere)Ayame sniffled and smiled at the sound of Naruto's old catchphrase, "Let's get to it, for old times sake! You'll come here whenever you need a refill, won't you?!" Naruto's laughter grew as he nodded happily and crossed his heart with a clawed hand, "Couldn't stop me if you tried, Ayame-neechan! Just try and stop me, it won't end well for anyone, but it would be hilariou-HAHAHA!" They all began to smile like old times, when Naruto was innocent and a total dunce, when days were brighter and the village wasn't sitting on a time bomb of rage. When the village was constantly being pranked for being stupid, when no one was killed for attacking the occasional oversized fox.
(Uncue music) The sound of a pair of uncontrollable, feminine giggles was heard behind the seated Uzumaki, getting the three to turn and see, "Yamanaka-san, Temari-san. What a surprise!" Temari and Ino glared at Naruto's smug face, seeing that he was trying to piss them off, "You knew we were there the whole time didn't you?!"
"...maybeeeeee..." The way he lengthened that word was all the incentive they needed to punch him, before their punches were caught in his palms, "I'm a Jonin, remember? The title ain't just for show. It's kinda sad that my genin student took down a group of eleven chuunin, with a pulse of killer intent..."
They stared into his slitted, blue eyes in confusion, "That wasn't killer intent, that was a genjutsu! How would killer intent be used as a genjutsu?!" Naruto slapped his knee and began to bust a gut, the ramen chefs were cooking and listening offhandedly, "Killer intent isn't just killer intent, Temari-san! If that were the case, I'd've been killed by the entire village's hatred, let alone the other nine which includes your brother..." Temari's eyes widened, "If it were only killer intent, it would've been used to kill the jinchuuriki. Have you ever seen a civilian use killer intent? No? Exactly my point! I learned things in my time away from the village, and in the village. Killer intent is the willingness or desire to kill, it wouldn't be killer intent if it wasn't, but it has chakra in it which is what makes it so powerful."
He let them process before continuing, "I can't use genjutsu, therefore I can't teach it and Ero-Sennin isn't proficient in it, because our chakra reserves are too large and too powerful. So I use a close second, can you guess what it is?!" He waited for the two kunoichi to try, when Ino asked, "Killer intent?" "Is that an answer or a question?" Everyone but Naruto facefaulted, his way of teaching was difficult to understand, "Killer intent!"
"Ding-ding-ding! Give the chick a prize! I use my killer intent as a genjutsu, Isaribi does the same and Ero-Sennin is learning to do it as a second nature. I've perfected it, and you saw my genin student's skill in 'kiragen'. That's trademarked, by the way!" Naruto then went silent, the smell of ramen filling his nose and his mouth open, drooling. Temari and Ino exchanged a glance while Naruto was 'preoccupied', Temari glared at Ino which confused the platinum-blonde.
"...Could you teach me, Naruto-kun?" Temari's hesitant question brought Naruto out of his daze to look at her with a deadpan, "If I taught you, you'd be dead. Isaribi can handle my style and training regiment, while the Konoha no Juichinin were easily beaten by a mere genin!" Naruto's words made a clatter resound in the kitchen, while Ino and Temari were staring at the ground with clouds over their heads.
"You two've a fighting style and ninja orientation, that I'd interfere with if I trained you and you survived! Plus, does it look like I'm going to be taking in just anybody?!" Temari made a snarky comment of, "You took in that girl..." And she was then being held above the ground by her throat, "Insulting something you've no prior, or any, knowledge of...just like the arrogant civilians and shinobi who've tried to kill the jinchuuriki! Your own brother was subjected to comments and treatment like that! Are you no different than those who've harmed your family?!" Temari looked into Naruto's slitted, red eyes in fear for her life.
"Naruto-kun, please put Dusty Tails down. We don't want this to become an international incident!" Naruto chuckled darkly, "Temari, here's a Konoha shinobi! I remember the mission she told me the Suna council sent her here for, and she also wears your home's emblem." Ino looked at Naruto with scared eyes, if his demonic voice had scared her when he fought the Sandaime, it terrified her now as a young woman.
"Why...do you talk as if...you're not from Konoha?! You were born here! It's...your home..." Naruto looked back to the woman who's throat was in his clawed grasp, "I'm not home here! This place abused me since I was born...How would you feel about the village that tried to kill you on several occasions, just for living?! Oh, wait! You already do, or rather, your brother does..." Naruto let go of Temari's throat and sat back down, his eyes returning to their first stage, "This place isn't my home. It's nowhere near my home, the only reason this village yet stands is because those I hold precious live here still!"
Naruto gave Ayame's outstretched hand his flask, which was then filled with a bowl of ramen and handed back, "Thank you, Ayame-neechan! Here's for the flask..." He placed down some money and left the stand, a calm step in his stride as he walked into the forest. Ino and Temari looked to a giggling Ayame, "What/What?"
"Hehe-He likes you two. He just won't admit it and can't figure out what he feels, just like a guy! Hehehe!" They blushed and turned away from an outright laughing Ayame, "That was..." "Awkward!" They exchanged a glance once more and gave chase to where they last saw Naruto, both for different reasons.
Ino was looking for the little boy she'd made friends with in her parents' shop. Temari was just trying to complete her mission for her home, not Konoha but her real home, Suna.
Training Ground 7
Naruto strolled leisurely into the training ground, when he was attacked by a man with gravity defying, silver hair. "Inu! Nice to see you're not as slow as when I was a Gaiden!" Kakashi looked his former student in the eye seriously, "And it's good to see you can block my punch. Jesus!" Kakashi pulled his fist back from Naruto's blocking arm, "What are you wearing under your jacket? That stuff isn't meant to be hit by a weak punch like that! Jesus, that's uncomfortable! I think I popped something..."
Naruto began to laugh heartily, "Yeah! I came here looking for foxnip, but I get a man who pops his wrist when he hits a cloak of chakra-hahaha!" Kakashi looked confused now and Naruto explained, "My chakra is poured into the spot being targeted when an attack is about to hit me. It's a subconscious thing now. Doesn't mean I don't have to dodge, nothing is indestructible, but I'm closer than those without the Koton Kekkai Genkai. I'm a sensei, by the way!"
Kakashi facefaulted at Naruto's sudden change of topic, "Back up. Koton? Don't think I've heard of that one..." Naruto nodded knowingly, "I came across a guy who used it once in a fight, he's an ex-Konoha shinobi. Couldn't kill him without biting off more than I could chew, so he's still out there." The Kitsunin began walking around the training ground and picking foxnip leaves, before pushing them into his flask and shaking it vigorously after closing the cap.
"And that is?" Friend Killer's question was met with a smirk, "A 'yes-behind-a-no'...I'm fighting off a ramen and foxnip addiction, and this stuff helps prevent withdrawal! It's ingenious and a backfiring...my student drank it and she's now stuck in the hospital, which she absolutely abhors!" Kakashi chuckled at his former student's new life, He's growing up faster than I can get older! If this keeps up, I won't be chosen for Hokage...THANK YOU, SWEET MERCIFUL GOD!
Catching onto the contemplative silence, Naruto snapped his fingers in his former sensei's face, "No sleeping on our feet! That's bad for blood flow, and if you're thinking about trading places with me for something...Don't!" Kakashi shook his head and nodded, "I wasn't thinking about something like that, Naruto. Just contemplating how your student acts, since she was taught by you..."
"Is there something wrong with that?!" His head was looking to the ground, but the dark aura he gave off made Kakashi's skin crawl and shudder, "No no no! I just, thought that she might be, well...You know." Naruto looked to his sensei, his slitted eyes a warning sign, "No, I don't! Please, indulge me..."
Inu was sweating with the danger flowing out of the glare Naruto was sending his way, "Is she, uh, liable to attack people randomly?" Naruto let up on the glare, "No. She's actually very polite, something I've been trying to explain to her is pointless when you're a ninja! But she doesn't listen and keeps telling me that if I offend someone stronger than me, it's because I kept to that policy. She's also very good at Kiragen, my own creation of a jutsu style, and she took down the Konoha no Juichinin like they were Gaiden...Have they been slacking the whole time I was away?!" Kakashi looked at Naruto with a deadpan and a sweatdrop, "No. They've been training to the point that they're basically dead the whole time, how large are her reserves?!"
Naruto looked to him with an honestly confused face, "Not that large, why?" Kakashi's eyes were wide with horror and his entire body went rigid and pale, Oh, please dear god, don't let her get pissed! "Compared to me, she's got small reserves. But...She's at least how strong you were when you were a genin! And, if I remember what Ero-Sennin said, you were able to cause a couple of Jonin a bit of trouble with how much you learned from them. She's like a sponge, in a few more aspects than metaphorically. She learns what I teach her and she's figuring out several similar jutsu! Sorta like Ero-Sennin and the Yondaime, really."
Kakashi looked at Naruto in surprise, "So she's a genius. That must make you feel inferior sometimes." The answer was a shake of the head, "Nope. I'm actually fine with it, as I'm better the way I am without having a high IQ. If my IQ was high or if I learned any other way, I wouldn't be me and I'd be a threat to the world, hehe!" Kakashi's eyes went as wide as saucers when he thought of what would become of the world if Naruto was a genius, getting him in a corner, whimpering.
They both took a few whiffs of the air suddenly, making them jump into the air. Naruto transformed and channeled youki to his feet, not enough for a normal sensor to detect but enough to remain in the air. His vulpine form was now at five tails. Each tail was about as thick as Kakashi's forearms and just as strong. His legs were more muscular, not body builder sized but very muscular for a fox. His fur was no longer just orange and white underneath, there were a few other colors. The fur he 'wore' was orange, red, yellow, white, and black which made it look like he was a creature made of fire.
His entire body was the size of a Dartmoor pony and that made him larger than Akamaru, who was as big as a Shetland pony. (That's an achievement for canines, people, cut 'em some slack) As soon as Kakashi had leapt into the treetops and Naruto had held himself aloft above the trees, the clearing had three kunoichi in it. Ino, Temari and Anko looked around the clearing, clearingly confused(That sucked) about where their targets went.
"Where the Hell'd Kashi-kun go? And I know I saw Gaki come this way, so where the Hell're they?!" She suddenly saw a lock of fire-colored fur in a tree branch, making Naruto and Kakashi tense in fear that they'd been had, DAMNIT! HE'S/I'M SHEDDING! The time Naruto had come back was clearly not the right time to be hiding, as Anko took the clump of fur in her hand like a scientist does to a newly discovered sample of flora.
"...Gaki, you came at a horrible time to hide..." Her whispered words weren't heard, but it was clear that Anko had Naruto and Kakashi caught. And they were right! Because as soon as she whispered her thoughts, she leaped into the tree Naruto was above and grabbed him around the hips, dragging him down with a loud and deep yelp.
"GOTCHA, FUCKER! Oh, Kashi-kun..." Anko's 'sweet' tone of voice made Kakashi's visible eye widen to the size of saucers, She wouldn't! "If you want to keep talking to Gaki, you're going to have to come out, or the girls are going to be keeping him..." Naruto was then being dog piled by Ino, and a reluctant Temari. He began to get up, when Ino gathered her chakra into the arm she made in the 'genjutsu'. The Vines of chakra encased Ino for a second before forming a few vertebrae and ribs that went up to an arm that held Naruto down. Temari bit her thumb, went through the necessary seals and slammed her hand on the ground, calling out, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
The cloud of smoke revealed her large weasel, which looked to her and nodded. It went over to Naruto and placed the sickle's blade in the ground right next to the fox's head, "You're not going anywhere, fast, fucker!" Naruto growled lowly, making Temari stare into his red eyes, fear overtaking her. The growl deepened and became louder, before he yowled (Cue: Rise Against-Savior)and sent the weasel and its sickle flying away, breaking Ino's concentration which made the arm and ribcage disintegrate as petals of chakra.
Naruto leapt off the ground and took off running to Kakashi, yowling at the man. Anko, Temari and her weasel gave chase to the enlarged vulpine, who jumped into the air and opened his mouth, charging a small ball of chakra. Closing his mouth on the baseball-sized orb of chakra, his cheeks puffed up before he opened his mouth and shot the blast at the three kunoichi and weasel.
Kakashi leapt out of the treetops, his hitae-ate no longer covering his Sharingan as it seemed to get larger, before he landed on the ground and ran at the 'invaders'.(The reason it seemed to get bigger is that this story is subliminally in second person. Whenever something seems like it makes no sense, physics-wise, it's really y'all seein' it) The training ground seem to spin around Kakashi as he ran to the fight, when Naruto landed next to him, 'handing' a fox that came out of his fur. Inu and Naruto charged, the fox on the silver-haired man's shoulder charged a ball of chakra in its mouth before firing, creating a crater in the center of the 'invading force's team.
Naruto's rabbit-like ears bounced in his loping, when he he made another ball of chakra in his mouth that his tails took and spun. The attack was surprising, as the Bijuu Dangan was transformed into a youki/chakra Rasengan. The Rasengan got placed at the center of Naruto's vulpine brow and held by perfected chakra control, making a killer headbutt a possibility as he loped towards them with his snout pointing to the ground, ready to ram any of them. He homed in on was the weasel, who swung his sickle at the fox, Naruto leapt over the swing with amazing speed and fell like a meteor on the weasel headfirst. A puff of smoke announced, 'the weasel has left the building', and made Temari Naruto's next victim-to-be.
Opening her fan, she readied for the headbutt, when the orb of chakra and youki began to change shape as the tails started spinning it. Her body tensed with worry, This fox isn't a genin, or chunin, anymore. He's a Jonin for a reason, that means anything he does has a very high chance of causing severe damage... Naruto's Rasengan started to gather air from the area around him, getting it to cause his shedding fur to be sucked in.
Kakashi's fox hopped off his shoulder and transformed, "Kegawa no Yona Rasengan!" It reverted back to its fox state and returned to Inu's shoulder, while Naruto charged at Temari with the improvised attack. Ino's eyes went wide, HAIR! She sent chakra to her scalp, giving her hair a unique quality with her Suiton affinity, "Surudoi Ke!" Ino swung her ponytail at Naruto, her hair was shining like a blade, and the fox hopped on it like he would a sword before it grabbed him by the paws.
The sharpened hair left his paws bleeding, but he then headbutt the ponytail before it could mummify him, "GODDAMNIT! CAN'T YOU WOO HIM TO OUR SIDE, FLOOZY?!" Temari was then rammed by the literal furball of chakra, which encased most of her body in his fur and restrained her. His Rasengan then dissipated and left him in a shiny, new coat that gave off a sheen, making it look like it was a raging fire.
Turning to Ino, he placed his front right paw and back left paw in specific points, leaving him crouched as his voice was heard in the wind, "Kitsune no..." He lowered his head to the ground, a growl starting in his throat, "KOE!" (Like in Digimon, the attack's name is heard being called in the user's voice, but their mouth isn't always open. Same concept)He raised his head to look at the sky with closed eyes after a loud and short yowl, but the shockwave he made from his yowl made the ground crumble and created a wave of sorts. The combatants were being watched by the rest of the Konoha no Juichinin, Tsunade, Shizune, Jiraiya in a tree and Iruka from the woods. Everyone who was watching the fight was, in a word, dumbstruck.
The Konoha Eleven had been training for three years to keep up with Naruto, knowing that he was going to get stronger, but they now saw that he was in a league all his own. Iruka was the one most uneffected, "It was bound to happen eventually..." He said this with his head downcast in sad pride, everyone staring at him shock, "You knew he was this strong?!" Sakura's question made Jiraiya facepalm, "No, you dumb hussy, he means that he knew that Naruto would become a great shinobi! Naruto's potential was always wasted in the Academy, they purposefully hindered his learning, and he can't learn like you. He's a 'hands on' learner, trial-and-error, and see-and-do, that's the way he learns. He can't be just told how to do something, how it works, or why something does what it does. I'm his godfather, he took after me even though we'd never met when he was young, the only difference between us is that...I had family and my education wasn't being sabotaged! Team 7 has its own curse, of a sort, and it's being demonstrated as we speak..."
Before Sakura could attack the old pervert for the hussy remark, and before anyone could ask what he meant about 'the curse of Team 7', Naruto was thrown by snakes into Sakura. When he saw his old teammate, he grabbed her by the waist with his tails and launched her into the air, where she spun like crazy. Naruto opened his mouth, charged up another baseball sized ball of chakra, and would have fire it had a very angry Tsunade not punched his head into the ground. The Bijuu Dangan became unstable and since Naruto's maw hadn't been completely closed, he was sent rocketing into the sky alongside a falling Haruno Sakura.
Stopping his ascent, he stood in the air underneath and to the back of where Sakura would be, and caught her by the shirt collar in his mouth. She was shaken, and when she saw Naruto's eyes, her heart stopped for three beats before he tossed her onto his back and let himself drop. Sakura was on his back now, his tails holding her so she wouldn't attack him, and the landing made a deep crater in front of Tsunade. When the dust cleared, Naruto had tossed Sakura back to being held by her collar in his mouth already and was staring at Tsunade with a snarl. Placing the scared Haruno down, he loped back into the fray.
Naruto tried to eat several snakes, making them disappear in smoke before he could bite down on them, when a fox jumped out of his fur and transformed so that it was a perfect replica of a young Naruto, "HEY, RO FUJIN!" Tsunade grimaced at his feral smirk, "CHECK THIS OUT! KAGE SHURIKEN BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" The original Naruto-in-fox-form sent foxes from his fur as the clone threw three shuriken that became over a hundred, getting the foxes to jump into the air and bounce off of them in a display similar to seeing a dance between two beautiful creatures. The show made Tsunade's breath hitch in her throat, as the foxes were making the outlines of her dead fiance and brother in the ground with the shuriken. Most of the shinobi younger than the two Sannin, Shizune and Tonton were beyond confused before they got a good look above the battlefield, seeing the shapes of two 'random' guys standing beside Tsunade with her arms around both of them.
Naruto and his foxes were nowhere near finished, as more shuriken began to appear and the foxes kept bouncing on and off them. The addition to the 'portrait' was an image of a young Tsunade, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and not-so-senile Hiruzen standing together. The sight made Tsunade tear up on the treetop she stood on, Shizune was no better, while Jiraiya was staring compassionately at his godson-in-fox-clothing. Tsunade stuttered out, "H-He's incredible!" Jiraiya chuckled and pointed to the fight, "You haven't seen anything yet, Tsunade-hime!"
Naruto's clone stopped throwing shuriken and making new ones. The other three senseis walked in on the scene in surprise at the sight of Naruto holding off Ino, Temari and Anko all at once back-to-back with Kakashi. Anko sent snakes at them wile Naruto transformed into his fusion state, but the number of tails was five instead of four. He had a ribcage around his chest and upper back, his fox skull 'mask' fully surrounded his head and was attached to a set of vertebrae that connected the ribcage to the skull. His chest and down was covered in youki while his head and face were unseen, he was truly an intimidating sight to behold as he rushed the kunoichi who'd interrupted the reacquainting of former sensei and former student.
Anko was rammed in the stomach, her legs kicked out from underneath her and Naruto slammed his combined fists down on her midsection. He was in front of Temari in an instant, her raised fan was used as leverage to slam his feet on her shoulders after he flipped over her fan, the fan had been used to catapult him on her shoulders and that's when he rolled down her back, kicking her knees in, and headbutting her back. Ino sent her chakra-vines as a large arm at Naruto, almost catching him, when he jumped out of the closing fist and ran up the arm and threw her into the air out of the ribcage.
In the air, Naruto launched himself after Ino, and he stared her in the eye when they began their descent. Naruto, seeing the approaching ground, wrapped his tails of youki around Ino and held her close to his chest where she snuggled closer to him as a sign of trust. His hold and wrapping of her tightened, trying to act as a cushion for the fall they were taking. They passed through a low cloud, getting them both wet before gravity kicked in and they turned to a position where they were falling headfirst to the cold, hard ground. Naruto opened the fox skull's mouth so that Ino could see his face, "We'll be fine, Ino-chan. Don't worry!" She smiled at him softly, "I'm not worried, Naruto-kun. You're going to be the one who tears the sky asunder, burn down the armies of your enemies, but you're going to be my friend first! And I trust you too much to worry..."
She nuzzled herself into his lightly furred, youki-covered skin, feeling the warmth in him and sensing the great maliciousness within but making no mind of it. Naruto had tears of joy in his eyes, any thought of the height they were at forgotten, as he held her closer and placing his cheek atop her head. A fox purr escaped his throat, "Thank you, Ino-chan! Thank you!" She smiled into the light amount of fur over his youki covered skin, "I know it's late, but I'm sorry for not being there even after I said I would be. So, let's redo it! Uzumaki Naruto, will you be my friend?!"
Naruto's eyes widened as he looked into her eyes one, last time before they touched the ground, "Of course, I'll be your friend, Yamanaka Ino! And you're forgiven, it's never too late for a moment with a pretty girl!" Ino returned to nuzzling into his chest, trying to hide the blush on her cheeks, when they hit the ground. (Uncue music)The crater they made was deeper than the one Naruto made with Sakura on his back, the height they'd traveled was higher than the other one, and the entire group ran to make sure they were okay.
All that the group saw was a ball of blood red youki in the center of a crater. When the ball began to unwind, one tail at a time, they took on defensive stances. The ball of youki unwrapped itself to reveal one Yamanaka Ino nuzzling into the chest and neck of one Uzumaki Naruto using Yugo Fomu: Suteji Yon. When Ino was pulled of the slightly bruised jinchuuriki, everyone noticed the blush she sported, until their attention was directed towards the exhausted Naruto. Even though his friends didn't know it, he was restricted from using youki to heal by Kyuubi as a training exercise.
His body reverted to its natural state as a human, in only his skintight-fishnet undershirt, but natural nonetheless. Being in only his fishnet undershirt left his lean and muscular torso to the view of everyone there. Most of the girls were then suffering from major nosebleeds, while Tsunade checked over his vitals, "He's fine, but where'd his-?!" Before she could finish, Naruto's hair grew and took the shape and color of his flak vest. What appeared to be hair rollers revealed themselves to be the scrolls Naruto held his foxes in. The hair separated from his scalp and became the vest that they all knew, while the shirt he'd worn underneath had been shredded by the youki that had been flowing over his skin.
Seeing that he was out cold, they left him to his own devices until he woke up later...
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That's a wrap ladies, gents, and other! I'm sorry that this chap took so damned long, but I got caught up in Fairy Tail's Lost Dragon. I don't have much to say, so as always: R&R, no flamin' my ass, constructive criticism, and SEE YE-GOOD NIGHT!