Fur Raising Switch

Chapter Four

 

 

          “Hinata!”   Inoichi Yamanaka shouted at his daughter.   Hinata fell right outside of the family florist shop.   “Are you okay?”   He asks as he rushes over to her side.   She had tears in her eyes.

          “I’m okay, Tou-san.”   She said looking up into the blue eyes.   “I fell from running too fast.”   She says as she smiles up at him.

          “Fell again?”   Sakura asked as she ran from her families shop.   “You’re so clumsy.”   Hinata giggles as Sakura helps her up.   They hear shouts and angry footsteps down the road.

          “Sai, Shin!”   Some ninja’s were running after two small boys.   Said boys were giggling as they held lizards by their tails.

          “They are at it again.”   Shikaku said as him and his son Kiba stopped besides them.   “Though, I cannot say everything about them is bad.   After all, Kiba wouldn’t have Akamaru if they didn’t save him then, he would have died.”   Said pup barked happily, at what the man said.   He smiled and patted the pups head as he sat on top of Kiba’s head.

          “Hello, Kiba.”   Hinata says shyly.   She then freezes as a blond head catches her attention.   Itachi Uchiha was walking down the middle with two small boys running after him.   “Naruto-kun.”   She says then her cheeks turn pink.   Kiba eyed her.

          “Girls.”   He mutters as he walks off to the playground.

 

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          “You should eat more, Shino.”   Choza said as they were eating dango in an outside café.

          “Tou-san, I’m not like you.   I cannot eat that much.”   Shino states.

          “What’s with you?”   Choza asks.   Nothing like me or your mother, the chubby man asks himself, which in turn shook his head.   Hiashi walks by long enough to gather everyone’s attention.   His two daughters walking behind him.

          “So, Ino.   How has school been?”   He asks the blond girl as her and her younger half sister Hanabi Hyuga looked up with the trademark Hyuga eyes directed straight at her with indifference.

          “It’s great father.”   She says with a huge grin.   “We’ve even started learning more jutsu’s now.”   She says as she looks up at him.   They hear dogs behind them and saw Hana stop to look at the spiky haired boy.

          “Shikimaru, will you hurry up with those crates?   You are so lazy.”   She grabs one of the medicine crates.   “Now, I know why the dogs don’t like you.”   He pouts up at his sister.

          “Yeah, yeah, so troublesome.”   He grabs up another box and carries it as they walk to the animal hospital.   Unknown to everyone Kakashi is watching all of them.

 

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          “You two, hurry up!”   Itachi says to the two inseparable boys.   Sasuke and Naruto look up from the neat lines of marching ants to the older boy.   “It’s time to practice our kunai training.”   He pulls Sasuke to stand at one spot while he pulled Naruto to another.   “You two can start from these points.   And hit those targets over there.”   He points to the targets that were hanging from a couple of the trees.   “You guys think you can do it?”   He asks.

          “Well, we can do our best, Big brother.”   Naruto’s voice says enthusiastically.   “Right, Sasuke?”   He asks looking at the quiet dark haired boy at his side.   Sasuke smiles one of his rare smiles he only uses on a select few of the people around them.

          “Yeah, we can try, big brother.”   Both boys get ready to throw their kunai.

          “Go!”   Itachi shouts.   They threw them.   Sasuke’s hit really close to the center of the target where Naruto’s closer to the outer parts.

          “Aww, I suck.”   Naruto whines.   Sasuke looks at him.   Itachi shook his head as he listened to the boy.

          “Naruto, Naruto.”   Itachi stood in front of him and put his hands on his shoulders.   “Look at me.”   Naruto did and his blue eyes widen at the angry tone in Itachi’s voice.   “Stop putting yourself down.   This is your first time.   No one including myself hit the target straight on on their first time.”   He pauses as he drew Sasuke closer and smiled at both boys.   “You guys are doing great and it is only your first time.   Most don’t even hit the target.   You guys will better yourself.”   He talks to them as someone walks into the clearing.   He turned to look at him.   It was Shisui Uchiha one of his closest friends.   “Okay, you two go play and have fun.”   The boys grin and run off but not before they heard what Shisui said.

          “Aww, look at the Uchiha prodigy.   Playing big brother to two monsters.”   The boys pause and look back.   Itachi motioned for them to leave.   As they ran off Itachi let a punch fly and it landed square on to hit the other man in the face.   Shisui hit the floor.   He glares at Itachi with his sharingan activated.   Itachi activates his own.

          “You were told by the others to not even think like that.   Just because of what may happen when they get older.   You and the others will be stopped.”   He says as he walks away.

          “You will find not everyone thinks like you freak lovers.”   Shisui calls out making Itachi pause.

          “I would watch it, Shisui.   These were the Hokage’s orders.   They are to live an innocent childhood.   All ten of them.”   He said, as he didn’t even bother to turn around.   “You were once my best friend.   Do not let me regret the decision on keeping you alive.   The Hokage would have you killed.”

 

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          “Hokage, is there a chance at all that some of these children were given to the wrong family?”   Kakashi asked as they talked alone in the huge spacious office.   The Hokage was facing the row of windows as they both stared outside.

          “I thought of that as soon as the father’s took them.   We cannot do anything about it because they would reject that thought.”   He turned to look at Kakashi.   “We will just have to let them go around their real fathers and develop their true Keikei Ginkai’s.”

 

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          “What did you find, Kimimaru?”   Orochimaru asked as the teen knelt down.   The teen looked over his shoulder.

          “Look, a young boy.”   He moves aside to show a boy of ten with white hair and broken glasses on his face.

          “Oh.”   Orochimaru’s smile widens. “Wonder if we could use him?”   As he said this the boy opened his eyes to reveal black eyes that stared up at Kimimaru.

          “What is your name, young one?’   Kimimaru asked the boy as gently as he could so not to startle him.

          “Kabuto…”   The boy said as he passed out yet again.   Kimimaru looked at Orochimaru.

          “He is just skin and bones.”   He says as he picked the boy up.

 

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