Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Fox and The Phoenix ❯ Control ( Chapter 10 )

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The Fox and The Phoenix
(Sono Kitsune Oyobi Sono Fenikusu)

Key

S.S = Sick Shit (is more than likely NC-17 and etc.)

*thinking*

"talking"

*thoughts progressing into speech"

'substitute for italics' (Kyuubi or Soriyu at times)

//telepathy//

::scene change:: (more for my reference than anything else)

~POV~
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Summary: Naruto's 6 years old, his caretaker, Iruka, was killed by bandits, and he was left orphaned. Well, until a mysterious wanderer appeared...


A/n: I'm on a roll! :)


Chapter Ten: Control


::Tazuna's house::


~Author~


Well, Naruto was sleeping peacefully in a guest room in the house, the others gathered around the table for tea and to talk.


"Why were you pretending to be dead?" Sasuke asks, not wanting to skip around the subject as he looks to Sanziya.


"Who was pretending? I was "dead". It was a foolish mistake on my part, I let him catch me and I couldn't get out of his grip, then I "died". Soriyu helped me regain consciousness though." she replies, downing her tea as Sasuke frowns slightly.


"But if you were dead, how are you here now?" Sakura asks, sipping her tea.


Sanziya's eyes quirk up as she grins a sneaky grin, reaching up to her neck, she unclasps a thin strip of what looks like skin.


"Ewww!" Sakura screeches, backing up from the table as Sanziya holds it out.


"Oh calm down, you silly girl." she tells her, the "skin" in her hand turning a nice shade of ice blue as she lays it on the table.


Tazuna and Tsunami look on in awe as well as shock.


"You ninja have some fancy protection." Tazuna says, picking up the necklace and turning it around in his hands. "It's really hard, how'd you change it to your skin?"


"This is a 'body sheath', it's like armor in the sense that it protects you indefinitely. It can be as small as a ring, or as big as my body depending on how much chakra you feed into it. It's also good in the sense that once you feed it chakra it takes on the exact shape and color of your skin, and whatever you're wearing as well if you expand it to cover the whole of your body." she sips at her tea again, sighing.


Tazuna and Tsunami just kind of look on blankly, Sanziya sighing.


"Ano sa...one of you give it a bit of chakra and you'll see what I mean." she tells them, waving her hand at the necklace disinterestedly. Sakura, albeit hesitantly, leans forward, touching the necklace and sending a light bolt of chakra to her fingertips.


The necklace immediately softens, taking on Sakura's skin tone as well as texture, and then shrinking to the size of a bracelet.


"Sugoi! (Amazing!)" Tsunami exclaims, watching as Sakura withdraws her hand and the body sheath reverts to it's hard state. Sanziya picks it up, clasping it onto her wrist, the blue disappearing into nothing as it blends with her skin.


"The other reason I'm alive..." she folds her hands over each other as a soft smile crosses her face. "...is because of a nice bird."


~Naruto~


I lay in the bed with my eyes closed, listening to their exclamations as kaa-san showed them her armor. You know, it was funny, because when she first showed me I asked her where she got it, she said some far off place called Yarnis across the sea, and I'd asked her if she could get any more. At that, her face took on that far away look and she didn't talk to me for three days. I'd never asked her about it again. However, on to more pressing matters. I had spoken, I hadn't spoken in six years and my voice was fine, like I had never stopped talking. Chalk it up to Kyuu-san for not letting my vocal cords rot I guess. Well, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to talk again, but...no, I'm not going to even think about that.


*Hey, Kyuu-san?*


'Yes?' she replies sleepily, yawning.


*Why'd you tell me kaa-san was dead? Did you know she was alive?*


'Well...um...'


"Naruto! Get up!" a slightly gruff voice yells in my ear, I jump about a foot in the air and Kyuu-san sighs, glad she was able to avoid my question.


I look around, bewildered, to see kaa-san smirking at me with that annoying 'i scared the fucking shit outta you' smirk. I also noticed she had a pair of scissors in her hand.


"Kaa-san? What're you doing with scissors?" I ask, looking at her, my face neutral.


"Ah, I'm not your kaa-san for one Naru-chan, and I'm just acting on Foxy's wishes."


"Huh?" I ask, and he points up at my head, I rush over to the mirror and gasp. My hair is trimmed, actually hanging down straight for once without the aid of gel.


*Kyuubi nee-san, is this really your doing?* I ask ominously.


'Eh...heh-heh...' she replies nervously, sweatdropping.


I mentally hug her.


*This is awesome! Thank you!*


As for Soriyu, he just sits in the chair and smirks.


"You look almost as pretty as me Naru-chan." he says, Kyuubi snorting and replying in my head.


'Damn narcissistic bird.'


I snicker.


He gives control back to kaa-san and we both walk back downstairs together.


~Sanziya~


He wasn't asking any questions, so I could only assume he heard the explanation of why I wasn't dead. I could tell he liked his new hairstyle too, which made me wonder what he'd do if I told him about his f-


No, I couldn't do that to the man. After all, I suppose for now, Naruto is better off not knowing. It could cause many problems if he knew exactly who that man was to him...to us.


"Ne Naru-chan, Tazuna's daughter made lunch for us all!"


I watch as he flashes me a toothy grin, nodding inwardly to myself, yes, it was best he didn't know.


'Keep telling yourself that, you cannot deny his heritage, the facts are going to be clear soon. He'll start showing signs of the multi-bloodlines in a few days, even you know this, he's come of age.'


*Shut up Soriyu!* I reply to him, trying not to cry inside. *I know alright...you don't need to tell me that...dammit...*


I must have been doing something on the outside to show my anger, because next I knew something had nailed me in the side.


"Itai! What the hell?!" I growl out as I clutch my side and try not to double over, only to see Naruto and everyone else staring at me. "Nani?"


"Oh nothing, only that I've been trying to get your attention for twenty minutes since we got here, ne? Take a glance at your hair, fingernails and eyes." Naruto says, thrusting a mirror at me, I thought I already knew what I'd see, as this had happened many times, but what I did see totally shocked me.


~Sakura~


What is she? Our sub-sensei looked so scary right now, and the killing intent radiating from her was just horrible. It's like she wasn't even 'trying' to frighten us, that it was just something that came naturally with that terrifying orange aura of the Fenikusu.


It had to be, because when it first started, so did the changes. It was odd, her hair was now spiking up towards the ceiling and glowing golden, her eyes were...green? Odd, and I don't know if it's just me but are those three white teardrops in her eyes...connected by a... white dotted ring? Even her pupil had turned white, weird, was it a bloodline?


Her nails were also weird, they were red, and long. Almost the length of a pocketknife...


~Sasuke~


Who is she?


It's undeniable, she has the Mangekyou Sharingan, the only other questions were: Why are the dots white? Why don't her eyes turn red? And...is she an Uchiha?


I will find out more about this woman, I swear it!


~Sanziya~


Damn, damn, damn! How could I mess this up that bad, how could I get that angry, how...


'Dear, you may want to disengage my chakra before the questions-'


"What's with all the multicoloration?" Tazuna's grandson, Inari, asks as he descends the stairs.


Soriyu sighs, puffing up his feathers.


'...start. Too late.'


I laugh it off, feeling my body reverting to normal as I allow Soriyu's chakra to fade.


"Nothing, nothing, experimenting with new techniques."


I watch warily as Inari frowns, coming to sit at the table as Tsunami begins to serve lunch.


"You're all gonna die." he says, frowning more as he looks down at his food. "There's no point in you trying to help, Gatou's men will just tear you apart!"


At this he slams his fist onto the table, startling the lot.


Tsunami turns to him.


"Inari! You know that isn't nice!"


Inari scoffs, turning to go upstairs.


"It's the truth, they'll just end up dead! Just like everyone else!" he yells, tears streaming down his face as he races upstairs.


Tazuna sighs, looking around the table at genin and (supposed) jounin, apologizing for Inari's rudeness as Tsunami heads upstairs. The old man sighs, launching into the story about Inari's dad. (Can't remember his name. ^.^;)


After he finishes Sakura is crying again, and even I'm teary. Naruto looks slightly pissed, as does Sasuke.


"What right did they have for that?" I ask, shaking my head. What right did I have to argue? I had killed more people than scum like Gatou had killed in a month. Granted, 'they' deserved it, but still...the guilt was there. What right did someone who tried to kill themselves have to kill another?


"Ahem...well, thank you for telling us, now, Tazuna-san, Tsunami-chan, if you'll excuse us."


I bow, motioning for Naruto and the others to follow as I head for the door. They bow as well, hurrying after me.


::Forest::


We head out into the nearby forest, coming to rest in a grove of trees, and I decide this is a good of place as any to practice the training exercise Kakashi suggested. I grin to myself, only...I'd do it my way.


"We're going to be doing an exercise in chakra control today, Kakashi gave me the simple version, which is this." I place my hands together in a seal, gathering chakra to my feet, and walking up the tree to a high branch. 'Too' fucking easy. "But that's retarded, so you're going to do something else along with it."


I hop off the limb, quite brave considering I was about twenty feet in the air, and go through another seal as gasps are heard from below. Probably Sakura and Sasuke, I didn't surprise Naruto with many of the things I did now. Not to mention I'd taught him this already. Instead of falling like a lead weight as gravity intended, I hung there, upside down, waiting for a reaction as I looked down at two stunned genin and my unfazed 'surrogate' son.


~Sakura~


She may be a bitch, Naruto's mother, and a demon, but I'll admit...she knew some awesome stuff. I couldn't help being impressed.


"Sugoi, sugoi! How are you doing that Sensei?" I ask, shielding my eyes slightly from the glare of sunlight. "I didn't know you could hang onto 'air' with your chakra!"


She kinda gives me a look, shaking her head.


"Iie (No), I can, but for either of you it's utterly impossible. It takes years of training, and large chakra reserves for that. I'm doing something simpler." she says and goes through a handseal, throwing down a...blue rope? I catch it, awed, it's a rope of chakra. "I'm hanging on by strings of chakra, commonly used in medical jutsu, they cannot be cut by normal methods. Only the casters of the string, or a kunai with a special charm can destroy these, including that rope you have in...-."


She breaks off and yawns, the rope in my hands disappearing as she starts to fall, so I assume her chakra is depleted.


I look over to Sasuke, seeing what he'll do. He seems to look stunned, his eyes locked on Sanziya. Naruto, on the other hand, was calm. I didn't see how he could be so calm when his mother was falling to certain death, he was such an icy bastard.


~Naruto~


Well, this was certainly a pain in the ass, how the hell are you gonna teach someone when you know how much making 'ropes' out of your chakra, maintaining such a thin string to hang on, 'and' applying enough chakra to your feet to 'stick' to aforementioned string would drain you?


*Kaa-san...is such a baka.* I think, sighing and shaking my head.


'Eh? Kit? You are aware that she's falling from twenty feet in the air?'


*So?*


'Shouldn't we...oh I don't know, do something?'


*I fail to see your logic.* I reply, I felt like being an ass today, it was fun! Now I could see how Sasuke could keep it up.


Kyuu-san didn't find it as amusing as I, there was a 'big' vien throbbing in her forehead, aw hell...


'Dammit Kit, you better do something right now or I'll dream up so many fluffy bunnies that you won't sleep for a week!'


That got me.


*Eh, not those again, okay, okay...Wind Element: Gentle Capture Jutsu.* I think, grumbling as I mentally go through the handseals.


~Sasuke~


What in the thirteen layers of hell was that? One minute I was about to try and catch Sanziya, the next I was looking at some giant puffy ball of wind as it came out of nowhere to save her.


None of us had done any handseals, so how in the hell...wait, I remembered something from a while back when I was talking with Naruto.


::Flashback::


~Author~


A big ball of water came out of nowhere, hitting Sasuke in the back of his duck-shaped hairdo, as a disembodied laugh resounded throughout the compund.


"Usuratonkachi, you're gonna pay for that." Sasuke growled, turning around to face the window where a certain blonde ninja was currently snickering to himself.


//Come catch me teme.// he replies, another water ball coming out of nowhere and hitting him. //Unlike you, I need no seals.//


At that he jumped out of the window, leaving Sasuke to chase him down.


::End Flashback::


~Sasuke~


Yeah, I remebered now, I'd asked him later and he said it took no more chakra than normal, and since he owed me for helping him on the bridge that he'd teach me someday.


Today was that day.


I watched as the puffy wind lay Sanziya down underneath a tree, then I watched as Naruto prepared himself to go up a tree, but I stopped him.


"Hey, dobe."


He sent me a glare, but came over.


"What?"


"Remember what you promised to teach me?"


He took on a thoughtful look, nodding as it came back to him.


"Think them in your mind while sending the correct amount of chakra mentally as well. It may take you days, weeks, months, maybe even years, but you'll eventually get it."


I groan, yeah, that was real helpful, but how hard could it be?


::Two hours later::


Okay, so it was a pain in the ass, I had to start with small jutsus, but utilizing that tactic, I did manage to get up the tree, just had to form the chakra strings now. I had stopped awhile ago and started using visible handseals again.


Meanwhile, Naruto had already made it into the air, even higher than Sanziya had, and was currently sitting crosslegged on what was probably multiple connected strings of chakra. He was looking down, watching over us all I suppose, and being somewhat wary of Sakura. She too had made it up the tree, and was molding her chakra into strings hesitantly as she walked off the tree branch. Almost at once, her control faltered, and she fell towards the ground.


Naruto was too high up, or lazy, or uncaring...to do anything, and I was almost out of chakra so I couldn't do anything either. However, something completely unexpected happened. A girl in a pink kimono came out of the woods at an ungodly pace, catching Sakura about five feet from the ground, and setting her right. Sanziya sleeps on.


Sakura thanks the girl, who nods, going back into the woods.


She seemed familiar, where had I seen her before?


~Naruto~


Sakura was falling, but I didn't really care, not to mention I'd already sensed there was someone in the woods, watching. My suspicions were confirmed when the girl caught her a few minutes later, hm...that girl...she's odd.


I look over to kaa-san, resisting the urge to roll my eyes when I see she is now feigning asleep. I know Soriyu has already restored the chakra that she's lost, and that she 'woke up' thirty minutes ago. I suppose she was just keeping an eye on us, and that she sensed the girl too, because a smile flitted across her face when the girl appeared.


'Get her up Naru-chan.'


*Okay, and ideas?*


'How about a...Earth Element: Stone Throw?'


*Are we trying to kill her or scare her?*


Kyuubi frowns, pouting.


'Fine, fine, how about genjutsu, enter her dreams?'


*Once again, are we trying to kill her or-*


'FINE! Then you think of something, spoilsport...'


I smile, dropping the water ball I had hovering in my hands onto kaa-san, then forming a ball of lightning and dropping it along behind the water ball. As suspected she lets the water hit her, then blurs out as the lightning comes down, and is soon behind Sasuke, much to his dismay and shock.


"Ne, Naruto! You trying to murder me?!"


I snicker.


"Should've fricasseed you! BBQ'ed Phoenix Woman, yummy!"


"You're dead Naru!" she yells, jumping off the tree branch to get up to me and smirks. "Ninpou: Tickle Attack!"


~Author~


As the insane woman ascends upon Naruto in a bout of good natured tickling, the rest of Team Seven sweatdrop.


And this was the woman who was going to get them through a B-rank mission....


A puff indicating sighs came out of the Uchiha's mouth, and the sweatdrop on Haruno's head grew bigger as Naruto came back at Sanziya with 'Ninpou: Fluffy Bunnies!' and the spiky haired Phoenix vessel falls back onto the chakra strings, swirly eyed. Along with one thought for this mission:


They were screwed.
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Anaki: Haha, F.O.F, fear of fluff!


RC#16: Ugh, bunnies...

Anaki: -gives bunny-

RC#16: The horror! Ahh!-runs and screams like a little schoolgirl -

Anaki: -smiles evilly-

RC#17: -roflmao- Can't breathe, haha! Review!