The Elemental Fox COMPLETED

Chapter 4

Oh and thank you Rin for beta'ing this chapter! *glomps Rin*

"Why, another elemental fox!" the male said in shock as he bent down and scratched Naru's ear, "What are you doing here? Don't you have an owner?"

Just then Zabuza entered the clearing, "Haku what's taking you and that damn fox so long?" Zabuza then spotted Naru, "What the hell is a chibi version of Kyuubi doing here?"

Before Haku could answer, Sauske, Sakura and Kakashi-sensei entered the clearing.

"Let them go Zabuza," Kakashi said as he pulled out a kunai and stop in front of Sakura and Sauske in case the missing nin's attacked.

Zabuza glared and pulled out his sword, "What have I done this time? We were just gathering herbs is all."

"Is this chibi kitsune yours?" Haku said suddenly, he had both Yuki and Naru wrapped around him. The two foxes seemed to be getting along great.

Said foxes were busy having a wrestling match with their tails only while their heads inched towards Haku's neck.

"Give us Naruto!" Sakura yelled, even though they didn't really get along she would never give Naruto over to these two missing nins.

Zabuza smirked, "So the loud mouth brat set off one of Gato's traps then?"

"Traps?" Kakashi said with narrowed eyes "Tell me!"

"Gato has traps dotted around this land, he has a phobia of the tailed beast in a sort of twisted way, so if one of the holders stepped into a certain area then the trap would be set off, making it so there would be a human mind in an animal's body," Haku said as he ignored what was going on and played with the two foxes that was wrapped around them.

"W-wait, you mean Naruto has a demon inside of him?" Sakura asked, "Wait, that night, the Kyuubi attacked…is the Kyuubi sealed inside of Naruto?"

"Forget that, the dobe's the dobe still, but I have one important question," Sasuke said as he glared at Haku, "Why the hell do the dobe and that other fox seem to want to eat you so much?"

Haku blushed, "I've been picking herbs that have the same effect to foxes that cat nip does to cats."

Suddenly Haku let out a shocked squeak as both foxes licked his neck.

"Alright Naru," Sakura said, bending down so she was on her knees with her arms open, "Come to Sakura and away from the horrible missing nin's, she has ramen on her."

In a flash Naruto was within Sakura causing the others to laugh.

"Guess there's something that you can't take away," Kakashi said with his one eyed smile as Naruto started to sniff Sakura as he looked for ramen.

"Right, we're out of here," Zabuza said as he, Haku and Yuki turned to go, "We'll battle and kill you some other time."

"Wait!" Sakura said causing everyone to pause, "You're not evil, you're just doing this to get by, Gato's being maladaptive."

Haku ignored them and petted Yuki on the ears, his fringe covering his eyes.

It was Zabuza that answered, "Yeah, you're right kid. We're doing it for the money, not that we want to do these things but that's the way life is. You'll soon learn that life isn't how it seems in the academy or in books now that you're a shinobi and gaining battle field experience."

"It doesn't have to be," Kakashi suddenly said, "Why not come back to our village with us and you can become fellow leaf ninjas?"

Zabuza and Haku shared a look before Haku asked, "But you have forgotten that we are missing nin's. We are murders, I am sure your village will not accept us with open arms."

"You won't be if we talk to the Hokage and get him on our side," Sauske muttered as refused to look at Haku, "If we do things right then you'll be ninja's of our village before next week."

Kakashi tried not to laugh at what was an obvious crush that Sasuke had on Haku, "So will you come with us? No one in this village has seen your faces so you're innocent here."

"Fine," Zabuza said, through he and Haku was working for Gato they would do anything to get away from the man and others like him, "But we have the right to make our own decisions, just because where missing nin's doesn't mean we'll be begging for forgiveness and doing whatever you tell us to do."

Suddenly loud fox calls could be heard, Yuki jumped off of Haku and Naruto jumped out of Sakura's lap. They began to mock fight in the middle of the clearing.

"Seems that we have two foxes that are happy with this news," Sakura said with a smile as they watched the cute scene.

"How did you get him?" Kakashi asked as he pointed at the black fox that was playing with Naru, "I thought that elemental foxes were supposed to be extremely rare, extinct almost."

"They are but Gato had Yuki here brought in from a far away country," Haku said, then he bent down and played with the Yuki's collar, "But we don't know what this is for, we think it's a sort of collar to keep his powers under control until we need them for a mission."

Sakura looked closely, "It doesn't have any marks or anything, and it's just a plain collar for a fox."

"Better safe than sorry," Kakashi said as he used his Sharingan eye to check for any traps on the collar, "There's a strange energy, it's like a sort of lock more than anything else."

"I remember that Gato put his hand into Yuki's cage when Yuki first arrived, Yuki tried to bite Gato but couldn't," Zabuza said as he placed his sword back in its holder through he still kept one hand next to a hidden weapon, "Think it's just something to stop the animal from hurting Gato?"

"If the idiot is so scared of the tailed beasts then it's a good bet it is," Sauske said as he leant against a tree.

"So cool! Sauske knows everything! Boo ya!" Inner Sakura yelled while Sakura said, "I agree Sasuke, unless were attacked or something we should just continue on home."

"Right then, lets head back to that bridge builder's house and sort things out from there," Kakashi said as he pulled out an orange book and started to walk away.

***Later that night while the others are asleep in the forest near Gato's mansion***

*That was so cool* Naru said as they ran back to the house through the woods.

*I know, that idiots going to get it* Yuki replied with a pleased smirk *Maybe I should start a new club? People who is similar to Dumbledore*

*I don't care but the results should be good* Naru said, not really knowing who this 'Dumbledore' person was *But we should do this more often, especially if where going to be together for sometime*

A scream that sent shivers down your back was heard.

*Looks like Gato's found his 'surprise'* Harry said as they got closer to the house they was staying in.

***With Gato in his bedroom***

"WHO'S PLACED A STORM IN MY BEDROOM?" Gato yelled only to get hit by lightning and collapse on the floor unmoving.

"Is he dead?" a minion asked as he roughly touched Gato with his foot.

The other minion gave him a 'what do you think' look "He was hit by lightning while totally drenched through with water, what do you think?"

"So he IS dead!" the first minion said causing the second minion to groan.

To be continued…