[Lord English]

A light began to go off in the kitchen with a silent intercom fuzzing over, “We are to evacuate important staff at this time, please place down what you are doing and head immediately for the nearest exit. A body has been found in the city, anbu will escort you home.” The intercom fuzzed off then the cooks and Janitor dropped what they were doing and turned everything off. They picked up their personal items and were leaving swiftly and in a panic. They didn’t want to be next.

[Lord English]

The chefs and the janitor were unaware of the on-goings in the ventilation. They were getting more boxes prepared. The Janitor decided to prop his feet up and take a break from staring at the food boxes. The chefs started to mutter to each other orders of who needed to do what where.

[Lord English]

Mr Haruno looked at them heading in, smiling knowing it wouldn’t be too easy.
The cooks were putting together lunches as best they could in hopes that the lock down would finish up. They left some of them unattended but there was a janitor locked in with them as well. He was watching the food on the table. This was their challenge.

Tsukiakari spread all of her tails and they wagged back and forth. She said, “I know do!” She skittered from under the robe and backed up from the wall then ran at it and bounced off the wall to do back-flip after back-flip. She seemed to not know how to stop until she landed on her face in the pile of mud she had accidentally created herself. She tried to pull her face out of it but it was sticking so she whimpered.

Kurama looked at the knocked out boy he gave some chakra to help him be replenished. He looked at the robed figure and said, “I leave him in your capable hands.”
He nodded and watched Kurama take off, turning back to Haruso and kneeling to his side. He pulled him up onto his back and took off through the trees, heading towards a secret hidden base. He made sure to use top speed, assuring that they would be firmly locked in the cold caverns of his base before he would wake up. It was only a side base connected through tunnels to the real one and it would be easy to get lost. He set Haruso down on a makeshift bed of hay and leaves. Then he stood there waiting.

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Ryū ran as far as she could, her getting weaker as she neared the end of her stamina. She forced herself to keep going though, up until a misstep where she nearly fell off the branch. Orochimaru caught her and pulled her up back onto his back. She was shaking from being so weak at the moment and gasped for her breath through the mask. She was starting to hear voices in her head, “She will be fine, just ration it out.” “But what if she pushes too hard?” “Yeah, we’ll all starve!” “Just relax and let her be, she knows what she’s doing.” She really thought she was going crazy and tried to grip onto Orochimaru but she more slumped on him, unable to move her arms or legs. He held onto her tight, making sure she wouldn’t fall off. He carried her for a distance before she wanted back down again, this time, he wouldn’t let her. He knew it’d be too big of a push for her as she was and did not wish to lose his future opportunity.

[Lord English]

Mr Haruno finished his own rep but stood up to watch the class. Some of the other students were back to lazing around so instead of correcting them, he gained a smirk. He walked over to the few students that were doing nothing and picked them up by the back of their shirts. He pulled them out of their chairs and drug them to the door and threw them out. After he said, “Good luck with the psycho.” He slammed the door shut and locked it. He then looked at the two who did it immediately with a smile and also to the students who started after. There was now only about fourteen students in the class from a class of fifty. He then looked at the vent, knowing he couldn’t slip through it then looked at the students and said, “Extra credit goes to whoever can crawl through and bring back lunches for everyone without the cooks knowing!” He smirked.

Kurama’s daughter shivered in the new hiding spot but the words seemed to comfort her. She looked up at the woman’s face and managed to speak to her, “Daddy wiwl protects us bof!” Her tails puffed out and she yipped at her instead. She seemed rather excited all of the sudden.

Kurama looked down at the boy and his ears flopped back, the one comment made him mad but he brushed it off. A slow chortle escaped until it was a full out laugh. The robed figure also laughed with the fox, him going around Haruso’s body and petting Kurama on the head. Kurama didn’t seem to mind it and looked back at Haruso as he spoke, “Listen… He is the one that could train you the best. Do you trust me?”
The robed figure smirked beneath his mask, unseen to the boy unless he read his chakra, which was muddled to begin with. He looked at Kurama and said, “He will have to one day. Even if he doesn’t now.”

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Ryū held onto Orochimaru still but as they were getting closer to the border, she tugged on his top. He stopped and looked back over his shoulder at her as he spoke, “What is it?”
“I want to run…” She said to him, wiggling to try to get down.
He sighed and let her down, him looking at her as he said, “This will slow us down, you know.”
Ryū nodded and said, “It’s better to get some training in, even if we have nothing to keep us going. I want to be able to defend myself, thank you.” She took off at just 35 miles per hour, making sure she’d push herself this time even if she got tired.
Orochimaru had a smirk, he thought he was going to enjoy training this girl. He kept up with her and guided her to where they needed to go.

[Lord English]

Kurama’s daughter whimpered at the lightening and tried to hide under Jane’s legs. She folded her front legs over her eyes and shivered, she wanted to be held or to follow her father but it was a bad idea.

The robed figure made the clones go away as he walked over to him from where he had been. He loomed over Haruso and looked up as he heard something going through the trees. Kurama had sprinted there and looked at the figure in his fox form and sat there when he got close enough, perfectly relaxed, “Oh, it’s just you. What were you doing with him?”
The robed figure moved his head up and said, “I was trying to help him and he ran off like I was a stranger handing out candy in a white van.”
Kurama cocked his head then thought about it and got it. He waved his tails and said, “Perhaps you should take him now…”
The robed figure nodded and said, “Thank you, Kurama-san. Meet me back at headquarters when you are ready.”
Kurama nodded and said, “Soon.” He stood back up, waiting for questions from Haruso first.

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Sometime during the night, Ryū had gotten into Orochimaru’s arms. For some reason, he hadn’t woken up when it happened but he did wake up first. He looked at her and carefully moved away from her, picking her up onto his back and starting to continue the long run. She woke up in the first few steps, her not knowing how far they had gone. She held onto his neck. They were both hungry, neither had brought food. She was more hungry than he was. He would still continue running and wouldn’t stop until they would need to.

[Lord English]

Kurama padded towards the gate keeping a slow walk and said, “I will be handing you to someone I trust that can help you progress further faster than I can.” He looked at the gate far ahead of them and said, “When we reach the gate, stay there. Do not get run over by one of those rolley electric things. I will go after him.” His tails twitched behind him. His daughter looked up at Jane and was transfixed on her dots, tripping over her own paws but still keeping up. She looked at them still and yipped at her.

The robed figure watched him transform and run towards the forest of death. He couldn’t have this. He sped until he was in front of the forest of death, standing in the gate way of the door nearest but using his clones to watch him carefully. They came from out of the trees as one tackled at him to make sure he didn’t make it there. If he were to struggle as any clone grabbed him, they’d poof.

Ryū held onto Orochimaru and he went until he got worn out. He climbed high into a tree and placed her down on a thick branch. She leaned against the branch as she was already out and had fallen asleep on his back. He watched her for a bit and then relaxed on the branch. He would watch her until he would fall into a light sleep, still highly aware.

[Lord English]

Kurama padded out of the room, his daughter toting right behind him. He walked slow so she could keep up and so Jane could follow. He’d lead out of the academy and say to Jane, “I can feel your friend running around like a mouse being chased by foxes… He will be with us shortly. You may speak freely to me until I get you somewhere more suitable.” He would sniff at her and say, “Earth?”

The cloaked figure was about to answer but the boy started to move away. If one could see below the mask, the eyebrows furrowed in a way that stated he was ready for the chase and was going to torture the poor boy’s sudden moment of intellect. He sped in nearly the blink of an eye to nearly being behind him then would stop, throwing needles so they would land in front of the poor frightened boy. Then he would make clones, the symbols so swift and the movement of the clones swift enough to make it seem like he was in every tree the whole way back to the gate.

Ryū eventually regained herself once more and this time, silently ran with Orochimaru to get as far as they could. They still wouldn’t even make it out of the village but she did make it further. She sat down and huffed then said, “Running will just nake this so nuch harder…”
Orochimaru sighed and said, “For you…” He moved over to her and grabbed onto her arms, pulling her up onto his back. Her kikaichu were about to attack but then realized they were acting out of sorts due to him helping. He began moving at about half his speed, carrying her to attempt to cut down the time to get out of the Land of Fire.

[Lord English]

Kurama nodded to him and said, “Make is quick.” The Mizukage left with the couple of anbu as they walked out.
Mr Haruno said, “for the rest of the class, We’ll be doing some Taijutsu stuff now!” He smiled and rubbed his hands together. “On the floor! SIT UPS!” He even joined them and started doing some.

The cloaked figure near the entrance saw the male in trouble and took out his tiny list. He checked something on it then placed it away. He watched the anbu get in close to the male before he took out a single needle and threw it. The needle would fly right past Haruso, most likely he would feel it nab some hair or hear it right next to his ear. It would land direct center of the Anbu’s throat, in a place that wouldn’t kill him unless it was removed. This would stop him. The figure motioned for Haruso to follow him, leaping up into a tree then taking off for a decent distance away from the gate, about fifty feet. He’d then stop and turn to the boy, if he followed and speak in an obviously distorted deep voice, “Jentokasai… Student of Kurama… You are now mine.”

Ryū managed to catch her breath after several minutes of sitting, standing up as Orochimaru did so as well. He lead the way at her top speed, her following as she decided to talk while they ran. “Why do we have to train at your ‘illage?”
Orochimaru spoke without missing a beat, “It is safer.”
Ryū paused in her thoughts, running from branch to branch as best as she could, then she asked, “What do you nean saher?”
He moved with such ease ahead of her that he paused to say to her, “Let’s just say some things I do are not exactly legal. Oh, and get rid of all your electronics… Unless you don’t want to be a true ninja.”
Ryū stopped on a branch and took out a cell phone from her pocket, she had several missed texts and calls from her mother. She threw it at the ground and it shattered. She then went back to her top speed to follow him and took out the only other piece of technology she had, a tracker that she was told to always have to make sure she was safe. She crushed it in her hand and dropped it, receiving a small shock. She ran until she got tired again, sitting to rest on another branch as they had ran quite far. He would come and be near her, watching her.

[Lord English]

Kyuubi watched them still and to the ones who would show him respect, he would bow in respect to. He was thoroughly impressed and pointed first to Haruso and said, “You… Will be coming with me.” He looked then to Jane, pointing at her as well and saying, “You as well…” He looked at the rest of the class as his form faded into the true form of the tailed beast that he was. His tails bounced back and forth as he said, “Others who wish to follow, may. I would not suggest it unless you fully intend to train hard.”
Mr Haruno turned back to himself and bowed deeply to Kurama as he said, “Train them well.”
Riri eyed the Kyuubi and then turned to herself once more, she heard Anbu finally coming. She opened the door and went with them. The one had blood running down his leg and a kunai in his crotch, just hanging there. She ripped it out and dropped the kunai on the ground, “Disgusting…”

Ryū continued to follow Orochimaru out of the village, them passing by a cloaked figure about thirty paces out from the front gate. Orochimaru looked like he was shaking hands with him, passing a small sheet of paper nearly unnoticed. Ryū saw the person’s hand appeared green and scaled, as if a giant lizard was underneath the cloaks. The being took off into the trees, the only other feature she was able to define was an oni mask that her ears heard his deterred breathing. She then resumed following Orochimaru, her asking, “Where are we going?”
Orochimaru spoke out to her, “To my village.”
“You have a village?” Ryū was a bit excited but also confused. “What are we going to do there?”
He smirked, she was unable to see it as he began to move faster, hopping up into the trees to get off the road. She followed him up and tried to keep up, not used to this. He said to her, “We’re going to train you to be better than any leaf ninja.” He went a bit faster seeing how fast she could go.
She followed him, her topping out at thirty-five miles per hour. She could only run so far at this speed before they had left the outskirts and she needed to stop, placing her back against a tree and taking deep breaths. Orochimaru would come back to her and set himself on the same branch, his legs making a diamond beneath him as he balanced on the branch. She huffed, “How… nuch… huther…?”
Orochimaru smirked and placed a hand on her shoulder, “At this rate, a few days. Two to get to the edge of the land of fire, one to get to my place.”
Ryū sighed as she huffed, sitting still until she could fully catch her breath.

[Lord English]

Kurama looked at the students, a pair of them didn’t listen to him at all and he snarled. Then he looked at the pairing that seemed to have listened. He smirked at the female of that pair trying. When the respectful male changed into a nude version of the woman before him, he could not contain his laughter. He had a large grin come across his face as his eyes narrowed in on him. He gave a release of chakra a small amount to replenish their expended chakra in the room. His chakra would feel hot as fire, but would not burn them.
Mr. Haruno smiled and was watching but ended up having a slight nosebleed to the nude female body. He placed his hand up onto his nose in an attempt to hide it.
The Mizukage looked at them and as she saw the nude form, she growled. She sighed and calmed herself and simply said, “That is disrespectful…”
Kurama’s daughter got curious, tiliting her head to the side, and padded up to the now nude womanly form, sniffing at the crotch.

Ryū managed the whole way down then saw Moriachuro come down with great speed, agility, and stealth. She was in awe and then it clicked. “You aren’t a student… are you?”
Moriachuro smirked, “No.” He placed his hand to face and pulled off the layer of skin, revealing his true self as the form came out. He even took off the clothes to show his own hidden underneath as Orochimaru continued, “Those kikaichu were yours… I suggest we leave before they find that out.”
Ryū shivered but followed him to a grate that lead out. He kicked it out, thank god cause her arms hurt from lowering herself down several floors. She followed him out into the light and she watched him use the transformation jutsu to look more Ryū’s skin tone and with a hood and black clothes. He even put on sunglasses and made it look as if there were holes in his neck to pass off as an Aburame. He walked towards the way out of the leaf, Ryū following him close as she looked up at him wondering why he did all of that, her curiosity getting the better of her.

[Lord English]

Kurama was taken at the fact a select group had the gall to speak up to him, impressed in them wanting him to teach. He smirked and said, “So… Transformation right?”
Mr Haruno nodded and said, “Yeah.” Then he gave a smile to the girl before she turned away. He was happy she said that but he knew that the entity before them was a much better source.
Kurama showed them the hand signs even though he could choose his form. His feet became covered with a black shoe that looked like a boot with missing toes and his claws gone in them to human toenails. His puffy orange pants became a black pair of dress paints, the top of the pants unseen by the shirt that had formed. The top was a button down with the collar up, not high enough to cover his chin, though. The base of the shirt was orange, the bottom of the shirt and the sleeves having two black lines around them. A cape came out from him that was white, his long red hair sucking up to his head as it turned blonde. His red eyes changed to reveal a stunning blue, his hands gaining normal nails, the right hand forming wraps over it. He looked at the class and said, “You will learn at least this before I take some of you with me. With the transformation jutsu, you can become anything. A fox, a chair, a person you meet, and even a person you have only heard of. I want each of you to first try whoever you were going to work with, then I will give you a test. If anyone needs chakra help, I got that covered.” He smiled, his teeth seemingly normal.
Mr Haruno and even the Mizukage were impressed. Kurama’s daughter was still hanging from her arm but released and tried to manipulate her chakra to look like her father but it only made her look like a tiny red wolf with too many tails. Mr Haruno got into it and transformed once more into Sakura. The Mizukage sighed, she didn’t want left out but she would have to pick something good. She decided to do her hand signs to change herself from female to male, white hair on her and a covered eye. She had on a nearly all navy outfit beneath a jounin jacket. She then stood there with the others and just seemed angry with herself from submitting to peer pressure but was happy with her choice.

Moriachuro managed to get the grate open silently, pulling it off and motioning for Ryū to go first. She nodded and slipped in, crawling as silently as she could into the vent. Moriachuro followed her in and carefully closed the grate behind them and whispered, “Go to the right up here then down the shaft…”
Ryū nodded and when the right turn came and she looked at the way, it was a straight down shot. She thought about how to get down it and she reached out and placed her hand on the other side and lowered her legs into it as she held onto the edge and the wall, resulting in her sliding off it and nearly slamming into the vent rather loudly but her insects came out and pushed her away. She smiled and then got her legs open and started slowly sliding down the vent as carefully as she could, insects helping her not fall.
Moriachuro was getting impatient but he waited until she could get to the bottom to go down more quickly. It was sixteen floors after all, and he could move much faster than her.

[Lord English]

Kurama flicked his ear to the girl now behind him. He got off of the Mizukage and looked right at her as he tiled his head. “If this place is teaching incorrectly, why don’t I just stay?” He looked to Mr Haruno for approval.
Mr Haruno said, “Go ahead, I am already fired as it stands.”
Kurama’s ears flattened against his head as it tilted to the side, “Why?”
“I was teaching the Transformation technique instead of just doing the book basics,” He shrugged and waved for Kyuubi to do as he pleased.
Kurama’s ears flopped back up again and he looked at the class, his eyes locking onto the corner until he was distracted yet again by his pup. His little girl had bit onto the Mizukage’s arm and was locked onto it. The Mizukage just let her, not even trying to get her off. The pup was growling and flopping around as she was biting hold.
Moriachuro looked back at Haruso and mouthed back without sound, “Retired.” Then he moved back to holding onto the girl under her arm and felt eyes on him. He checked his peripheral vision to see Kurama was looking right at him but then the pup was acting up. That was close. He hid his face against Ryū and she was turning bright red again. He smiled a bit but stopped himself, he couldn’t allow something like that to get to him, he required her and more perhaps in the room.
Ryū made sure her insects remained inside of herself, she didn’t want them coming out at the moment. Then she whispered, “I hate people…”
He then smiled genuinely and whispered back, “I know how to get out of here…” He kept low and took out a kunai, using it to unscrew the nearby vent where his snake had gone through. Ryū just watched through the sounds, her realizing what he was doing but keeping silent.

[Lord English]

Kurama looked at the boy who spoke his name, his eyes sharpening to his form as a smirk pulled onto his face. He was about to answer when the girl gave a bow to him and her. Kurama bowed his head back then looked back to the boy. He spoke in a half snarled voice, “I am willing to teach if you are willing to learn.” His tails twitched and as the Mizukage, who also did a head bow back, tried to get up, he slammed her back down. His ear then twitched. There was a loud thumping in the vent as a little purple wolf pup with shining markings as if kissed by moonlight leaped out and landed on her face. She got herself up onto all fours and shook herself off as nineteen tails flared out in random directions and she walked in a drunken fashion to Kurama then sat down to be, in general, behind him. Kurama turned his attention to the Mizukage and said, “Stop hunting her. If I so much as smell you near my territory again and near my girl I will rip your throat out…”
The Mizukage glared behind her mask as her voice spoke out, “I was just passing through, not hunting her… This time…”
Kurama growled at her and the fur on his ears and tails stood on end. The little wolf beside him raised her tails as if she was dominant and began barking.

Mr Haruso tried to look up at the on goings while keeping his attention on the female before him. He sighed and said, “I am not allowed to teach again until the school is back out of lock down. I am not even allowed to teach how to do but I had started doing so any way. Once the door is locked and the vent is resealed, we’ll continue. Find a seat or even a partner to work with later. Either way, once the chaos settles, we will resume.” He pointed to the signs on the board so she could see.

Moriachu still was close to Ryū and just hovering, he saw the dots and a smirk came to him more openly but he hid it quick and carefully placed his arm over Ryū and resumed whispering to her, this time so quiet to make sure even Kurama couldn’t hear, “Things will be better soon…”
Ryū stayed in her curled up and said, “Won’t be…”
He sighed and whispered more prevalently, “Will be…”
Ryū wanted to move away but instead she reached her hand up and grabbed hold of his, pulling him closer. This made him uncomfortable but it was clear from their body language that neither of the two were comfortable.

[Lord English]

Soft sounds of paws go unnoticed in the ventilation. The Mizukage was infuriated by one just plain ignoring her but more so by the child correcting her. She drew a kunai and was about to throw it at the one, but a red ball of fur came flying out of the vent, shifting into a human form, then tackled the Mizukage into the door, shutting it again. The being had long red hair, red ears sticking out. On his cheeks were lines, making his hunters’ eyes look more intense. He was wearing an orange jumpsuit bottom and his claws peeked out beneath, his hands holding the Mizukage down as he snarled at her. The Mizukage looked back up at him and said, “Get… the fuck… off of me… I want to teach the respect into those insolent childrens.”
The being shook his head and stayed basically sitting on her, nine tails flaring behind himself.

Mr. Haruno looked to the girl first, the new guest startling him a moment then he refocused. He took the message and opened it, reading it swiftly then closed it. He smiled, “Good to have you in our class. Just don’t be disrespectful to a kage ever again. Unless it’s the current Hokage… He’s an ass.” He decided to store the scroll away.

Ryū’s immediate response to the quiet voice was as if she were to speak on her own for a moment, almost as if continuing, “I was born like this…” She stayed curled up.
Moriachuro looked up at her and said, “She feels like she is being assaulted… Can’t you tell? Also, I am not her boyfriend.” Then he looked as the door opened, Ryū not noticing as her head was between her legs. He eyed them over and a firm smile came to his face as if he had something up his sleeves. The sudden appearance of the entity caught him off guard, though, and he knew he’d need to get out of there.

[Lord English]

Mr Haruno jumped at the door but was not half about to answer it. The Mizukage shook her head and walked to the door, a second pound assaulting its frame. She tapped the lock to unclick it and slowly opened the door. She peeked out as her hair fell down and she noted the tiny one and the other now there. She looked back at the tiny one and a smile formed unseen behind her mask. She opened the door and said, “Children should not be in hall. Either home or in a room. Someone brutally murdered a kid and rendered them completely unrecognizable.” Her eyes seemed so friendly while she was saying this.

Moriachoru whispered to Ryū, “And don’t listen to him either, he is an impure mutt.”
Ryū sighed and whispered back, “Just another bully, so what does it matter?” She wouldn’t move from that point on. She directed her head up as the door was answered and managed to scoot a little closer to Moriachoru, which was odd to her as she seeked comfort in corners. Her mind went back to waiting for the closer bully to respond to her, placing her head back down.
Moriachoru whispered once more, “If you hate them so much, why not just have them killed…?”
Ryū actually contemplated it but didn’t respond. She didn’t want to.