The Kinkou of the Yajuu

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"Talking"

'Thoughts'

-telepathy-

XD Scene change

/ Different point of view

):P Flash back

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Chapter 17

He studies the name on the stone; he carved it himself, with his bare claws. He glances around the ruins; he still can't believe what the Akatsuki released fifteen years ago. He's just glad that the Ellimist had allowed the majority of Hidden Leaf to leave this world behind, since the thing the Akatsuki unleashed came after the demon within him, after the Kyuubi.

Oddly enough, the beast never could locate him when he was either morphing or already in a morph, it's what's allowing him to visit Kakashi's grave. He's currently in his uritso morph, the one he acquired about seventeen years ago. He still doesn't know his feelings when it comes to Kakashi and he's come to accept the fact that he might never come to terms with his emotions about the man.

He closes both sets of eyes as he recalls what was released six months after members of the rookie nine and team Gai showed up at his apartment complex. About a week after they've dealt with the remnants of Hidden Sound army and the Hidden Cloud army.

):P

He stands before the council, he's glad that Soul's been spirited away by Ellimist, he doesn't want the young chimera to be put to death by a bunch of hypocrite claiming to know what's 'best' for the village. He wonders vaguely who informed the council about Soul, and, perhaps, why it took them so long to find out. He also couldn't help but find it funny that they believe that his bonds would keep him secure, to keep him from escaping.

'They're so closed minded, so secure in the knowledge that they're so fucking 'right.' It's ironic, really, that they charging me for 'hiding' the Kyuubi and the fox's heir.' He muses as one of the old farts read his 'charges' for 'aiding' and 'abiding' the demon Kyuubi and protecting the beast's heir.

He's kind of glad that his friends on his home reality pieced together the reason he was hated, it just made him feel guilty for not telling them himself though, but it was just plain harder telling people he's grown up with, teens he worked with, how he'd risk his life for that he's the container of the nine-tail demon that attempted to destroy Hidden Leaf on the day he was born.

He continues to stare straight ahead, he keeps his head held high, refusing to acknowledge the gathering of clan heads that stand before him. He knows that he's done nothing wrong and that if it were Sasuke standing in his place, that the council would pretty much bend over backwards to try and get him off the hook and back into the fold. A voice whispers in his head, -You could kill them, you know. They couldn't even touch you without a ten foot stick unless you wanted them to.-

-I may not know the extent you've altered my body, but let me remind you that this is my body and my life. I will decide how I'll handle this, fox.- He replies and he feels the fox snort before the fox retreats out of his mind. He notices that the charges were done and that the 'trail' was about to begin, or it would if not for alarms going off and ANBU racing into the camber advising that they deal with some gigantic beast that attacking the village.

The pair of ANBU drags him away as the council begins to debate their course of action. He finds it funny that they're not even trying to head out to get a look at the beast that's attacking, that they think that they've got the easement of what's going on outside. –Fools.- He thinks and he feels that the fox agrees.

):P

He snorts, he learnt later from Hinata's father, Hiashi, how Danzou attempted to bar Tsunade from leaving the council camber. Of how Danzou attempted to cause a lock down of the room, he snorts as he recalls old lady's Tsunade answer to that. 'I wonder, did Danzou piss his pants when she did that or when she punched him in the face?' He wonders before he continues on with his memories of that day.

):P

He's tossed into a room and they're about to close the door and seal it when Shino's bugs drain the pair of their chakra. He's surprised by Shino's action and just gasps at the teen. "You're needed." Was Shino's answer to his unspoken questioned, he just morphs into his otter morph to escape from his bonds.

He de-morphs after that and follows Shino through the building, as they pass a window, he gasps at the size of the beast, even though the beast was on the outskirts of the village. "Just how large is that thing?" He wonders out loud before he races after Shino, trying to ignore the temptation of asking Shino questions about what's going on.

They make it out of the building, he finds Neji waiting for them. He follows the pair as they move through the village, totally unnoticed since people were been evacuated, most likely when the beast had been spotted. His thoughts turn to those he knows and if they're out there, confronting the unknown breast.

XD

He blinks as he studies the latest form the Ellimist has chosen to visit them in. The Ellimist wear a traditional komodo and around the waist were a pair of katanna swords, silvery hair stopped about mid-length at the back, and what appear to be slippers on his feet. Like before, that's where the similarities of humanity started at and ended with. Three horns come out of the Ellimist's forehead, the head reminds her of a hyena's in shape and both sets of canine teeth jet out of the mouth, and the skin looks like scaly hide with orange strips decorating the Ellimist's face. Two sets of eyes watch them, a set were totally black while the others were totally green, and even he had trouble staring into either set of eyes.

"Is he an Oni?" Konohamaru asks. "No, he's just using that form is all." He says to the young teen, remembering that this was most likely the second time the young teen's dealt with the being.

"Whatever you want, I'm sure it's troublesome." Shikamaru says to the Ellimist. The Ellimist smiles at that and once everyone has been gathered the 'higher' being then begins to explain the reason why he's here, the Ellimist even explains why he found himself was sent to the Animorphs' universe. He's not the only one to stare in total amazement at the Ellimist, he couldn't believe not only how the Ellimist was able to by pass the deal between Crayak and himself.

Once all that was explained, they all look out the closest window. He frowns as he notices that everyone began to look at him. He glances at them each in turn, even Temari of Hidden Sand was looking at him. It's then did he realise that Tsunade wasn't here, nor their old jonin instructor, with the exception of Konohamaru's teacher, the closet pervert Ebisu. But then, even Ebisu was looking at him.

He realises that everyone's in agreement that he's going to be their leader in this little revolt. "We'll take you up on your offer. We'll gather up those that'll listen to us and direct them to the site of the portal." He says, the last part was instructions for the ninjas gathered around. Konokamaru and his team mates cheered and the others smile slightly before they began making plans on how to approach those that they find. He notices that the Ellimist has already left, not that it really bothered him.

XD

The great beast towers over him, looking for him, the human him. He's currently in his Hork-Bajir, escaping from the beast's tracking ability which was focused totally on his human body. He glances to the group of young genin, they weren't moving and he shouts at them, "Move! Get out of here! Are you blind? It's right there!" The young teens stare at him before they scamper off, he notices that the movement attracted the beast's attention.

He creates thirty shadow clones and proceeds on attacking the beast, giving the group time to get away. The beast roars and spats in out rage as his attacks cause the giant beast to bleed, in one swipe two thirds of his clones vanish. He just summons more clones and attacks the beast once more.

He uses chakra to lengthen his wrist blades as he slashes at the beast with his wrist blades. His clones mimic his success and the beast's cries of pain increase as the beast becomes covered in scratches from the clones' and his blades. Even as the beast destroys his clones, he just keeps summoning more.

It soon became an endless cycle between the beast and himself, him and his clones attack and slice through the beast's protective hide, the beast would destroy a bunch of his clones, he'd just create more, and then they would attack once more, the cycle beginning again. About five hours pass before the beast finally decides to ignore his attacks. Once that happened, he left off and headed to check up on the portal, he remembers not to de-morph and just roof hops around in his Hork-Bajir morph.

XD

In just a few minutes, the portal will close and those that hadn't heated their words will soon be stuck here, in this reality, with the beast trying to find him. He stiffens as a group lead by some old guy heads towards the portal. He glances at the portal and then back at the group, he just knows that letting them through wasn't an opinion. He just knows that they'll destroy relations between the ninjas and those races of the Animorphs' reality.

He says to the group, "You had your chance and you spat on it. Therefore, you shall not pass!" He crosses his bladed arms over his chest and stares at them with a stony look on his face. They sneer at him, clearly doubting his ability to keep them from their goal. "Like you'll be able to stand a chance, demon scum!" The elder says and the group advances.

He battles the group, he slices at his attackers. He does manage to kill two of them within three minutes. He feels Kakashi's chakra signature as he continues to battle the twenty odd ninjas. He manages to behead a nin, he turns and stares as Kakashi's body falls to the ground. He stares at the jonin's body, he slowly looks at the old man.

He growls and he grabs a hold of a 'fist' full of Kyuubi's chakra. His body under goes a slight transformation as the demon's chakra races through his veins. His vision goes red and it only takes five minutes before the group is slaughtered.

He recovers and glances around him, exhausted from using the fox's chakra. He picks up Kakashi's body and heads off to bury his first jonin instructor. He finds some rubble and uses it as a tome stone. He even craves Kakashi's name on the stone's surface.

He notices the time and heads back to the portal. He enters it and watches as it close. He de-morphs out of his Hork-Bajir morph, he glances to where Sakura was and then over towards Tsunade. "I would like to report that jonin Kakashi Hatake as killed in action in defence of the portal." He says to the Fifth Hokage.

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He sighs and turns to the odd bird being that's hovering behind him. –I'm ready to go.- He informs the being and within seconds he's back at his office. He de-morphs and sits behind the desk once more, just as he's about to get back to signing documents.

His office door opens and his two year old grand child races into the office, the cub leaps onto his desk and then into his arms. "Taka, what are you up too?" He asks the striped cub and Taka's father, Soul, comes into the office. "It's his bath time, dad." Soul says and Taka tries to bury himself into his chest.

He chuckles and holds the young cub at eye level; he stares into Taka's green eyes. "Behave, cub. It's just a bath; I take one every other day. Besides, you know you're granddad wouldn't steer you wrong, now would I?" He says to the brown striped cub. Taka sighs and says, "But it's the soap I don't like." He hands the cub to his adopted son, Soul smiles at his son and nods at him before heading out of the office.

It's not long before his daughter enters in; she has a soft smile on her face as she watches her elder brother head off with his first grand child. "Mom wants to know if you remember what today is." Mai says. "I haven't forgotten kiddo. I just finished coming back from visiting the ruins." He says. His ten year old daughter gives him a sceptical look, he still can't believe that Hinata's and his daughter could turn out to be a mini Ino or Temari.

Mai studies him for a moment, the eyes she inherited from her mother unreadable. Then Mai sighs and heads out of his office, most likely heading off to keep an eye on the twins, they're most likely off with Rachel and Tobias's son, Crow, playing with Ax and Estrid's elder daughter, Zynd and their younger son Tswana. He's just glad that Kouji and Kouichi haven't received the ability to morph or else they'd be ever more 'troublesome.'

He still can't believe how everybody has grown. Like how Tom and Toby have two children of their own, how Kiba ended up with Ino, of the kids Cassie and Jake were beginning to have, and especially how the new village has grown to include Chee, Andalites, and even Hork-Bajir. It's just plain weird how Tsunade and a bunch of other med-nins were able to alter the Hork-Bajir DNA to keep them from aging as fast as they use to and increasing their intelligence.

'Let's not forget about Soul's children and mate. I'm still finding it odd how Soul managed that one.' He muses to himself as he goes back to doing his paperwork. A slight smile on his face as he glances at the latest family picture, he shakes his head as he studies Taka's four other siblings. Taka's currently his only grandson, the rest were Taka's sisters.

Jewel is the cub that has a tortoise shell coat; Hisui is the one with the white coat with bluish grey rosette spots along the back and jade colour eyes, Kari is the gingered coloured one with white socks, and Yolei was the one with grey coat with orange stripes. Their mother, Star, use to be a cheetah that Soul modified to be what he was, it worked and you can see that Star's feline linage despite the fusing of coyote DNA and modified human DNA.

His eyes went to Hinata, his beautiful wife of eleven years. It drifts to their daughter, Mai, and their twin boys, Kouji and Kouichi. The Kouji inherited his blond hair while Kouichi inherited Hinata's bluish black hair. Both boys have his eyes, they lack Hinata's Bloodline Limit but they make up for it by inheriting his large reserve of chakra. He doesn't doubt that they'll be able to pull off the shadow clone jutsu when they're ready to be genin.

Soon enough, the clock chimes and he's work day is almost over. Tonight they celebrate the crossing from their old reality to this one, of their alliances with other races, and of Kakashi's sacrifice to keep Donzou and his followers from entering this reality. He grabs his hat before heading out of his office, he's robe was in the closet, he just doesn't feel fine with wearing the robe of his position, that of Hokage.

Once he's done getting dressed, he heads to where the new monument stone rests. He arrive ahead of most of the crowd, he nods his greetings to the young genin cell that has slaving away on clearing the giant stone. He watches as scrolls are unrolled and large tables appear over the now blank scrolls.

As darkness falls, people begin to arrive. The lights that had been set up were turned on. The food will arrive after his speech, Hinata's in charge of supper this year and she's been in a twiddle a week before the event. He chuckles softly as he watches Mai arrive with the twins; she's holding an ear each. Crow and the two young Andalites that were Ax's children follow behind Mai, clearly amused about the twin's plight. It's clear from where he stands that the pair were whining about their treatment, but Mai only scowls and lectures them.

Soon enough the twins get away from their elder sister and sit with their friends. Mai throws her hands up and stalks to her own friends, his family know that their parents weren't going to be able to sit with them as a family for this festival. He shakes hands with some guests, they murmur pleasantries before the guests head off to one of the two tables reserved for guests.

Soon everyone's standing and are waiting for him to begin. He waits for total silence before he begins to speak. As he waits, he looks around at those below; he manages to make out some familiar faces of old. He steps forward to begin. All around him, he can see a mixture of the past, present, and, hopefully, a bright future.

To Readers:

So ends my oddest crossover yet! I hope you all like it and I would like to thank Maverick Hunter Phoenix and Ant Crown for their reviews. Who'd have thought that this idea could have turned out to be so consuming? I sure didn't… I thought it was just some random impulse and would have faded before I got around to four chapters… boy was I wrong. Well, thanks for reading this, though I'm kind of sad that I didn't get many reviews but I do believe it was a worthwhile story to type and to post. Bye and hopefully you'll find my other stories enjoyable.