Fox Hunt!
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Author: Ashrey
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Pairingsclass=GramE>: ???Naru.style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Rating:style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> M for safetystyle='mso-spacerun:yes'> --
Chapter Rating: M
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Beta:style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Lexx
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Warnings:style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
class=GramE>Yaoi ----
MalexMale relationship.
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>M-class=SpellE>Preg
---- Mentioning of Male Pregnant.
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Heterostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> ----- MalexFemale relationship.
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Rapestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> ---- Mentioning of rape attempt.
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Languagestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> --- Cursing, retarded tenses and grammar.
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>AUstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> ---- They’re not ninjas here guys.
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OoCstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> ---- They do tend to slip sometimes
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Disclaimer:style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> I believe you guys still see Naruto (and
co) at the manga and anime don’t you? That’s why he (and co) isn’t mine. Naruto
won’t be there if he’s mine –pout-
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>A/N:style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Sorry, but no 3somes here guys. Even though
I did read some of them, I’m not a fan of it, and I don’t have the confidence
to write a 3somes anyway –grin- thx for the suggestion though! Oh and Happy
Easter holiday for you guys who celebrating! Happy reading!
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>This
chapter term(s):
class=GramE>Futon :style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Mattress
class=GramE>Oyasumi :style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> G’night (usually said when want to sleep,
or bid a person who want to go sleep)
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Shougi: Japanese’s traditional chess.
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class=GramE>XxXxXxX – scene change.style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
class=GramE>:blahstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> blah: – thinking
class=GramE>blahstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> blah -- Flashback.
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Note(s):style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> From now on, I’ll explain my AU setting per
chapter by recapping the already mentioned settings in previous chapters. class=GramE>KibaNaru-ness ahead.
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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>AU
Setting Explanation:
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Narrow";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>-style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>The time setting is an almost mix between
the original Naruto series and Inuyasha’s world.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Narrow";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>-style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>The already mentioned Naruto characters are
spirits, in this case animal spirits, which being honored by mere/normal human
because they keep the nature in balance, etc.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Narrow";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>-style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Yes, some of them got animals ear and tail
(like Sasuke, Kiba and Neji – for now) and some of them are not (Naruto, Sai,
Gaara etc), the reason why will be explained in further chapters.
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Character’s spirit:
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Uzumaki clan: Foxes, Uchiha clan: Wolves,
Hyuuga clan: Panthers, Sabakus: Raccoons, Inuzuka clan: Dogs, Sai’s: Hawk. The
others that are not mentioned yet will be explained latter.
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“They won’t get any
easy points from Konoha’s number one prankster.” The blue eyes style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>werestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> now sparkling with mirth.
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Chapter 3 – Fox Plan
Uchihastyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Sasuke threw
another glass that he had been drinking,
fuming the whole time. He seethed and
slammed his pale fist to the table. “That’s the third glass you’ve broken
today, Sasuke.” Someone reprimanded the
now almost drunken young man. “Your mother won’t be happy when she style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>finds out about style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>this, those are
her favorite cups.”
The older man style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>earned style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>a venomous growl and nasty glare. He sighed
and took a seat beside the younger wolf, pouring a cup for himself. He sniffstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>edstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> it a little bit before drinking it in one
gulp. He shuddered when the heavy taste of alcohol hit his taste buds; well, he
was never a man of alcohol anyway. “She’s that nasty, huh?”
“He.”style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> The younger Uchiha snorted.
“Huh?”
“It’s a He.” Sasuke
shrugged and fill his cup before gulping it like normal water.
“Oh.” Obito
blinked. :Well that’s interesting: he mused. “So?” He
asked again, tapping his fingers style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>onstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> the table, making some sort style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>of style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>musical
rhythm with it. Sasuke glared at the unwanted additional noise. His uncle’s
shrill voice was already enough to give
him a headache.
“Do you have to do
that, uncle?” He glared at the suspected fingers, style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>and class=SpellE>Obitostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> gave him a sheepish smile before stopping
his tappingstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>. :At last, some peace: The younger wolf sighed and fillstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>edstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> another cup full of sake. His grayish ears were
twitching happily at the silence. Well, it was silence
until his uncle decided to get his attention by incessantlystyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> poking his arm.
Sasuke style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>chosestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> to ignore his uncle until the poke startstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>ed to style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>become an elbow jab. He groaned, knowing
that the older raven-haired man would not stop annoystyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>ingstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> him until he tstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>oldstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> him what he want to know, in Obito’s case,
all of it.
Sasuke
gulped the sake straight from the bottle, deciding that the drunker he was, the
more
freely he could speak without
killing his uncle during the process.
“Well….”
Obito smirked in
triumph.
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“No! Go away!” The petite boy hugged his
body tighter.
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>The older man stepped closer to the
frightened boy, smiling somewhat creepily as style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>he
extended his hand, wanting to drag the now hiding boy from the small pit in the
dark cave. “It’s ok, we won’t hurt you. We will treat you nicely, boy.”style='mso-spacerun:yes'> The man reached a tanned arm.
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“NO!!” the frightened boy screamed, slapping
the hand away and scrambled into the depth of the pit. The man cursed and
started to grope angrily and blindly as far as his hand allowed inside the pit.
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“Oi! Taro! Don’t leave any visible
scar at his body! We can’t sell him with high price then!” Another man shouted
from the outside of the cave. The man called Taro grumbled, muttering curses
under his breath.
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>And that’s when his big hand reached
something, or more exactly someone.
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>With a style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>happy
grin he pulled out that somestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>onestyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
with all his might. His face curled into
gleefullystyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> malicious smile when he saw his catch. class=GramE>“Oi guys! I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>gotstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> him!!” He announced and headed outside the
cave, where his three friends waiting and guarding the place, a pricey style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>prizestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> in hand.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“No! Let me go! LET ME GO!” The small boy
screamed again, his legstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
were kicking and tstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>hstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>rashing
wildly. His supposed-to-be-expensive kimono was torn and ripped style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>in a few places. Some red almost brownish spots
stained the rips,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> and style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>his
flawed skin style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>wasstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
covered in light scars.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>The man had the audacity to snicker at the style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>boy’s style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>futile attempts, “style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Do we have to sell him untouched? I really want to try
him out, can I use him once?” He grinned, “I wonder how tight he is.”
The boy’s eyes widened in horror, while the other three snickered, “Mine
wouldn’t style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>even style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>fit
betweenstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> those tiny lips of his.” He said while
cradling the boy shocked face with his rough hand.
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>The man with brown spiky hair grinned, “So I
guess we should really try, eh?” He piped up, making the otherstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> grin feraly.
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“NO! GO AWAY! DON’T TOUCH ME!!” The boy
screamed before his vision turnstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>edstyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> to
darkness.
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“Check mate.” Nara
Shikamaru let out an irritated grunt when his father succeeded to defeat him in
shougi for the third time that evening. Collecting the pieces, he let out
another soft grumble, making his father arch his eyebrow.
“Is something
bothering you?” The older Nara asked his son; the latter having released another tired yet
annoyed sigh, “Is it the competition?”
At the mention of
the courting, Shikamaru paused his task and stared at his father, “It’s too troublesome.”
He took one of the pieces and played with it in his
hand, rolling and flipping it with his fingers, slowly but surely.
“Is that so?” A
small almost smirk accompanied the question. Thinking about his father’s question, style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>the younger deer spirit’style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>s turned into style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>a meaningful smile.
“Yes, it is.” He
placed the piece on the chessboard, “But it’s definitely an interesting
troublesome.” He style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>stoodstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> up from his seat, a confident smirk in his
lips, and with that the young style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Narastyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> left his father alone with the chessboard.
Shikaku just eyed
the Queen piece that Shikamaru placed in the chessboard.
“Well, well… he’s
serious now.” A full smirk bloomed in his lips.
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“How is it going?”
Temari asked her brother that evening when the redhead was reading scrolls style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>in style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>his study room. Gaara glanced from his
scroll and heaved a small sigh, making
the older blonde grimace. She knew that this would happen, but nooo, her
brother had insisted that he just
had to do it. “I told you so.” She decide to say style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>astyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>loud, Gaara just
shrugged and went back to reading his
scroll.
“You should know
than anyone else that Naruto loathes being treated like that.” She frowned at
her brother’s lack of attention.
“I know that,”style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>was his curt reply.
Temari’s browstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> scrunched at his answer, but before she style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>could decidestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> to ask another question Gaara chose to cut
her, “I did this for his own good.” His lips curled into style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>an style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>almost soft smile before his face style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>reverted style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>back to his normal blank look and continuestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> his reading.
And with thatstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Temari knew that
the conversation had ended.
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“Naru!style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Naruto, wake up!” Someone was shaking his
body rather violently, “Naru-chan!” The voice became louder. The fox spirit
opened his azure eyes, only to be
met with a worried face.
The dog spirit’s
face is filled with worry and concern, “Kiba?” style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>Narutostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> asked as hestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> blinked, and slowly rose up from his futon.
He glanced around, noticing the familiar surroundings. The blond released a
breath that he was unconsciously holding. class=SpellE>Kiba’sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> tstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>anned hand caressed class=SpellE>Naruto’sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> sweaty face, tucking his wet and disheveled
hair back to its place.
“Are you alright,
Naru-chan? You’ve been thrashing
and trembling in your sleep.” He asked and embraced the panting blond in
protective manner. Naruto’s fingers grasped Kiba’s night kimono, pulling the
taller brunette closer. “Are you all right?” style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>Kibastyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> asked again.
Despite his
weariness, Naruto nodded slowly and solemnly, “I’m fine. Sorry for making you
worried.” He released his grip on Kiba’s clothesstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>, but Kiba didn’t
look convinced. Naruto heaved a sigh, “Kiba… Do you…”
The blond stopped in mid-sentence.
The older boy
hugged the younger even tighter, reassuring and urging him to continue.
“Do you remember style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>how we first metstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>?” Naruto asked.style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Realization hit the Dog spiritstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> and style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>Kibastyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>eyed the now glum boy. His protective class=GramE>embrace become even more protective, pressing the blond’s
head closer to his chest.
“Its okay
Naru-chan, I’m here.” He whispered softly into Naruto’s
ear, making the boy in his arms
smile softly. “Just go to sleep, I’ll be here.” And he releasestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> his embrace after kissing the tanned
forehead softly, tucking him back into his futon, and watchstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>ing style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>the young fox drift back to sleep.
“Kiba…” He muttered
sleepily. Kiba
cocked his head and brushed some blond strands away from Naruto’s
face, “Thank you,” he smiled,
“Oyasumi.” The last word was almost a whisper because Naruto style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>was style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>lulled back to sleep.
Kiba smiled rather
bitterly, eyeing the purity in front of his eyes, “Oyasumi, Naruto; don’t
worry, I’ll protect you with my life ito-...” class=SpellE>Kiba bit his bottom lip at the almost slip, and spend the
night watching the bright fox spirit sleep.
The last word of
his sentence was left unsaid.
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“And they listened
to every single word he said without protesting at all!!” The younger wolf in
the room snarled, baring his teeth in process. His eyes shifted from onyx to deep red unconsciously, style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>revealingstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> his family blood limit, Sharingan.
“Temper, Sasuke.”
Obito chided. Sasuke
just snarled at him, while his hand gripped the cup ferociously, “You wouldn’t
want to break another set of your mother favorite cups.” He smiled when the
grip loosened noticeably, and the red irises bled
back to black.
The younger Uchiha
sighed, and gulped down another cup of sake. “Was he that bad?” His uncle
asked, playing his finger on the trim of the sake’s bottle. Sasuke snorted, and
furrowed his black eyebrows together, thinking.
“He’s fuckable
actually.”
Obito’s jaw almost
dropped at his nephew’s not-so-innocent
description of the son of the strongest
she-demon in Fire country, Kyuubi no Kitsune.
Even Sasuke
himself was taken aback by his own description of
Naruto; it just flew right from his
mouth! Damn libido. There’s no way he was attracted with that class=SpellE>dobe, yep. It was a
big no-no.
Sasuke’sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> brows furrowed tighter, re-thinking his
comment while imagining his earlier encounter with the obnoxious, grumpy and style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>ill-manneredstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> blond that had style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>an style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>unruly mop of hair that jutted in every
direction. The blood looked like he
had just been fucked senseless. style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>Narutostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'> had style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>plump rosy cheeks with those whisker markstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> that begged to be traced by his tongue, class=SpellE>pouty pink heart shaped lips that screamed to be kissed,
slender figure that was made just to be humped, and most of all, the most
beautiful pair of sparkling azure eyes that he’d ever seen.
“Very,
very fuckable.” Sasuke unconsciously licked his
lips; an eerie atmosphere formed in the room. Yep, his brain officially
concluded that at least the blond would
make a good bedmate.
A
VERY good one.
The older man
almost jumped from his chair when the younger Uchiha
chuckled in menacing way before promptly passing out and slamming his face straight on the table.
Obitostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> groaned at his nephew’s drunken yet honest
reaction, if Sasuke did manage to get hold of the
blond, the Uchiha clan could say goodbye to their
peaceful sleep at night.
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Kibastyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> groggily opened his eyes style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>as he heardstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> someone calling his name. His brown almost
black ears twitched when the familiar
voice calling his name again, “Kibaaa!” There it went again. Rubbing his sleepy eyes, the brunette eyed the blob of
blond that was skipping his way to the
Sakura tree he had climbed up.
“Aha! There you
are!” The blond pointed a finger to the biggest branch where the dog spirit was
taking a little nap. With a wide grin Naruto jumped and seated himself
comfortably in Kiba’s lap.
The brunette sighed
at the familiar action, “You’re not light, y’know?”
he teased, patting the blond mop at the same time. Naruto just ignored the
comment and snuggled closer.
“I’m comfy.” He
murmured between his soft breaths,
voice slurred. Kiba arched his eyebrow, looking down to his chest to see a
sleeping and almost drooling Naruto laying on his
chest. Grinning, he pinched both side of the Uzumakistyle='mso-fareast-language:KO'>’s plump and whiskered cheeks,
earning a sharp yelp and dark glare from the younger spirit.
Kiba just laughed
and poked the fox heir’style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>s style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>forehead, “What is it?” he asked to younger
fox. Naruto’s
head tilted to the side, an imaginable
question mark hovering behind his head. “You’re not looking for me just to take
a nap with me, are you?” The blond blinked some more, “Are you?” this time was class=SpellE>Kiba who blinked. He was now
confused.
Naruto class=GramE>squinted his
eyes, thinking for a few seconds. “Oh yeah! Weren’t
you supposed to see Hinata-chan now?”
At that reminder class=SpellE>Kiba’s head snapped, banging his head rather hard to the
tree trunk behind him. He groaned at loud, making delicate blond eyebrows
scrunch in confusion “Kiba…… Don’t tell me that you forgot?”
Kiba’s face was the
epitome of horror at the accusation, “I’ve overslept, it’s not like I forgot
about it,” he said as he tried to
defend himself while blushing hard. class=SpellE>Naruto snickered at that. “Well, I’ve got to go then.” He
gave the young fox a soft smile and ruffled his hair lovingly before jumping
off the tree.
But when the
brunette tried to jump from the
tree, he felt something tugging at his kimono sleeve. He looked back and found
two rather large blue orbs eyeing him.
Naruto was giving
him his best puppy look.
Kiba knew that
look. It appeared everytime the blond wanted Kiba to do
or get something forbidden.
“class=SpellE>Kiba,” the blond gave him the best smile he could muster,
noticing that beads of cold sweat started to
trickle from the older boy’s forehead.
:Gahstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>! Must not lose! Ignore that look! Ign--:
“Can I come with
you? Pleaseeee.” He whined and popped up his reddish
golden brown fox ears and flattened them to his skull, style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>his style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>eyes growing wider and watery, much like a kicked puppy.
“Allright.”style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> He sighed in defeat, Naruto
glomped him in return.
Narutoclass=GramE>:139 Kiba:0
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“Shino-kun, you’ve
got a guest.” Shino glanced from his scroll, eyebrow rising at his mother
information, “He’s waiting at the main room.” His mother smiled, and
disappeared from his door.
The bug lover
sighed and padded his way to the main room of Aburame
ground. Who would visit him this early in the morning anyway? It was not like
he had many friends that frequently visited him, especially in morning like
this.
But he had a hunch
that anyone that was visiting him would have
a style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>connection to yesterday event. His lips
tugged upwards remembering said event. Who would have foreseen that
Naruto was
the Uzumaki heir?
Well, it did seem a
certain sand wielder knew, but he had to
admit that he was not excepting that information.
And
Naruto…
He had style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>changed, quite drastically actually. Even
though Shino was nowhere in a close
relationship with the blond in his childhood, he still remembered how the blond
lookedstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> and acted back then. That time Naruto was a
master prankster, loud, bright and happy, well that was Naruto in his opinion
anyway.
Shino’s eyebrow
scrunched up remembering his relationship with Naruto back then. In realitystyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> he had even
barely talked to the blond. He knew Naruto just as a
mere schoolmate,
that was all. He wasn’t in the blond bad side either, not like a certain
Uchiha and Hyuuga.
The class=SpellE>Sabaku seemed to be in
good terms with him, seeing the fact that he knew that Naruto
was the Uzumaki heir, but the raccoon spirit seemed
to have done something that upset the
blond, if Naruto foul mood towards them, Gaara
especially, indicated anything.
Shino was indeed
quiet, but it didn’t mean his brain
function was in the same condition as his mouth. Aburame
Shino was a smart guy, not as smart as Shikamaru
though, but he was not near stupid category either. He knew that the onestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> that stood in the blond’s
safe position was he
and Nara Shikamaru.
And he wanted to
use that position to his advantage.
What? Of course he
was serious to win this battle. An Aburame never
backed out after deciding
something, and not to mention the astonishing additional prize that he style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>wouldstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> acquire in the form of Uzumaki
Naruto.
With a confident
almost smile, Shino opened the paper door to his house main room and spotted
someone familiar sitting on the futon there.
“Well, it’s nice to
see you this morning, Hyuuga-san.”
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Hinatastyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> giggled happily when the small fox nuzzled
her hand cheerfully. She scratched behind the reddish golden brown ear and
smiledstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> when the fox purred in happiness. “I’m glad
you’re happy now, Naruto-kun.” She stated as class=SpellE>Kiba snorted and
earned a sour glare from the young fox. Hinata let
out another small giggle, “You shouldn’t tease Naruto-kun,
Kiba-kun. I kinda
understand his feelings.”
She smiled sadly, “Being engaged with someone you don’t love is kind of…. sad.”
She frowned. She didn’t really know what
word to use to describe the feeling.
Narutostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> sighed in
his fox form, glancing at his female friend. Hinata
was really a nice girl, worrying about his condition and all, when she already
had problems of her own. “If I can do anything to help you, you should tell me,
Naruto-kun.” She said, and Naruto
yipped again.
“class=SpellE>Naruto said he’ll tell you, Hinata-chan.
After all you’re one of few people outside Uzumaki
clan that Naruto trusts,”
Kiba said, translating the yipping sound that class=SpellE>Naruto shouted. Hinata nodded and
patted the now grinning fox.
Kibastyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> smiled while
watching the scene and he shifted his seat
and style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>lay down in the green grass. Even though class=SpellE>Kiba was infamous because of his boisterous attitude, in realitystyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> he always cherished moments like this, when
he couldstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> spend his time with style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>the style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>person that he carestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> and loved.
Even though the love part only came from his side. “Hey Hinata-chan,
is it okay for you to spend all day
with us? Usually you go training with your
cousin, Neji.” The dog sprit style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>remindedstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> her for it was already
middaystyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>.
“No, it’s fine; class=SpellE>Neji-niisan said he had
something to do…” She trailed off, and suddenly Hinata
gasped, remembering something, “Now that you mention it, this morning class=SpellE>Neji-niisan said that it was something
that was
involvestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> with Naruto-kun’s
test….”
That got both of class=SpellE>Naruto and Kiba’s fullest
attention.
Feeling the
attention directed towards her, the female
panther spirit furrowed her dark blue eyebrows together, thinking. “I think he
said something about a battle between the participants to arrange a schedule or
something…”
“Do you mind
telling me the details, Hinata-chan?” A royally
pissed familiar voice with an equally pissed blue eyes stared at a shocked class=SpellE>Kiba and Hinata.
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Saistyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> was torn between calming class=SpellE>Naruto down or just running to safestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>tystyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> himself until the blond’s
rage was over.
When he saw that
the blond came back from his ‘stroll’ with Kiba, he
didn’t except to see a very enraged blond. Usually Naruto
always came home in a better mood after he went out on his ‘stroll’. It was
Naruto’s excuse to everyone else, but class=SpellE>Sai knew that Naruto followed class=SpellE>Kiba to see the Hyuuga heiress, class=SpellE>Hinata.
What mastyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>destyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> him pissed that much anyway? He doubted
that it was Hinata’s doing, she was way too nice to
make anyonestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> angry, especially Naruto
who she considered as her close friend… The raven shot a questioning glance at
the dog spirit who just shrugged and mouthed ‘later’.style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>
Really, anyone that
dared to make Naruto really pissed like this sure style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>did style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>have balls to do it. They never knew how
frightening the blond could be or how nasty his pranks style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>were style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>when he was pissed, and Sai
himself would make sure that person
would pay with everything that he had for making him the person who had to
comfort a very very pissed Naruto.
Narutostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> cackled evilly.
Yesstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Sai was going style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>to style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>make sure that person paid for this dearly.
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The sand wielder
eyed the people that already gathered in the Hyuuga
training field. It seemed that every
participant already there, except Naruto himself.
Even the lazy Narastyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> was already
present, even if he seemed half asleep.
Gaarastyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> raised a nonexistent eyebrow. style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>The class=SpellE>Narutostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> he knew wouldn’t pass such a good chance
for pranking like this, and he believestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>dstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> that Naruto
would get sick so suddenly. The bouncy blond was blessed with healthy body
since he knew him…
Which
concluded to one possibility.style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
A
very bad one that is.
“class=SpellE>Hyuuga.”
He called the one who arranged
their little meeting. The said man just raised
a questioning eyebrow towards him.
“Did you inform Naruto about this?” class=SpellE>Gaara already knew the answer from the blank face that he
got in response.
“Why should I? It’s
a problem between us and I believe we can play fair and square without any
woman beside us, Sabaku.” He replied. If class=SpellE>Gaara was a person who showed his emotion on his face, he
would have
bestyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>enstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> wearing an expression between astonishment
and pity toward the Hyuuga now.
Neji dared
not to inform the blond, and above all he dared to call Naruto
a woman! If Naruto was here, Gaara
would make sure he was the first person who walked away before a blood bath
started.
“He’s not a female,
Hyuuga, and I believe this is a matter that involves
him too.” Despite his usual silent behavior, Gaara
found himself defending the blond. He sighed inwardly; Naruto
does do that wonder to people.
The panther spirit
hissed, finding it offending that someone dared
to correct him, “If I recall, he was the one we court. What make him less
female, Sabaku?” This time Gaara
let out a small sigh, the Hyuuga sure was digging his
own grave. Assuming Gaara’s sigh as style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>on ofstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> defeat, Neji
continued his words, “He should thank me for all the work I’ve done and---”
“And prepare my ass
like a nice female for whoever wins the battle, Hyuuga?”
a voice snarled, and all style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>the style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>occupants in the Hyuuga’s
training ground except Gaara were shocked style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>to style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>see Naruto
suddenly standing in the middle of the training ground, a dark aura looming
around
him and his not so happy
bodyguards.
“class=SpellE>Wha-?
Naruto?
How?” Neji was
flabbergasted, well not just him, all of them were flabbergasted (except class=SpellE>Gaara of course). They
didn’t even feel the class=SpellE>blond’s spirit!
“How?”style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Naruto let out a
small rich yet eerie laugh, tanned hands on
his hips. Within a few secondsstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> a pair of fox earstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>sstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> jutted from Naruto
blond mop of hair, nine fox tails
swished calmly from his firm behind, his usually blue eyes were now blood red,
his thin whisker marks darkened and thickened, style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>and style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>a red string of spirit lashed every time his
tails swayed.
“Well…. I’mstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> after all… the Uzumaki
heir… don’t you forget about that.” He hissed those words to everyone that style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>was style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>present, “And if I played soft before, it
doesn’t mean you can underestimate me, Hyuuga.” He
clicked his tongue while shaking his head in a disappointed manner.
“And—because nostyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>tstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> one of you was kind enough to inform
me about this little gathering, all of you wouldn’t mind if we playstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>edstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> by my rules would you?” The fox spirit
grinned.
Everyone was just
too stunned to retort to Naruto’s
statement. Gaara was silent because he already had a
good guess to where this was going.
“Well, since all of
you wanted to settle the schedule for courting me by fighting against each
other….”
Yesstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>,style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Gaara did know
where this was going.
“Why don’t we
settle it by fighting me instead?” And if it’s possible Naruto
smirk grewstyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> wider.
Gaarastyle='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> sighed. He knew he should style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-fareast-language:KO'>have style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>declined the class=SpellE>Hyuuga’s idea yesterday.
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>--------- To Be Continued ------
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style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>A/N: sorry for the long update, with work and all, I must admit
that I was neglecting my fic projects, but I hope you
guys still enjoy this chapter anyway. I’ll try to update sooner, but don’t hope
too much, coz I cannot promise.
And for all of you
who already spent their time on reviewing this, there’s nothing much I can say
aside from
thank you for your support and
critics toward this fic and me. Although I can’t reply
all of it, I still read all of them and answered some question for you who get
confused over this fic.
Well, I guess
that’s all, and see you in next chapter.
Love and thanks,
Ash
