Thoth sighed as he heard the maniacal laughter of the Chaos Kitty himself, Toltiir. The cat seemed to be losing it lately, if the recent news reports from the human realms were any indication.
Then again, most of that was pretty standard for humans. It was very possible that the Elder God of Mischief wasn’t involved in any of it.
Yeah, he didn’t buy that either.
“What now?” asked Thoth, as he made his way to the one bar patron that just wouldn’t leave well enough alone.
“I did it again!” yelled the cat, dancing a merry little jig ... well, as merry as a half-drunk feline could dance.
“Did what?”
“I devised a new Bet universe!” cried the inebriated cat.
Thoth sighed. “The Bet’s been over for years.”
“I know that!” slurred Toltiir. “But no one has ever had this one before!”
“Is this the same idea you had last week?”
“Idea?” the cat asked, confused.
“The one where you took Shinji Ikari, gave him the Sharingan, dropped him in a Naruto universe for fifty years of training, and then returned him to his world as a young boy; that idea.”
The cat blinked for a bit. “Oh yeah. Hey, it was pretty funny to see him kill an Angel using Shadow Clones and Chidori.”
Thoth sighed. “And when Unit 01 developed it as well.”
“What can I say: I’m just that damn good.”
Sighing, he moved on. “And what about changing the history so that Keitaro Urashima was related to Miko Mido, and thus a Shikima demon?”
“I didn’t see those girls complaining.”
“They had tentacles in their mouths!” yelled the bartender.
“Still counts.”
“Fine then,” said Thoth, “what did you do this time? And why is that damned pool still in my bar?” he yelled out.
“Well, the last one is because I can’t get a hold of the movers,” said the cat, rubbing the back of his head.
“You don’t need movers.”
Toltiir blinked. “Wow, I wish someone would have told me.”
Thoth growled, as he promised to call in the cat’s bar tab in a few minutes ... and then cut the kitty off.
“And for the former, I wanted to try a Naruto-only mix.”
“And what prêt ell, did you do.”
“Just watch,” said the cat, as the pool began to form an image.
The Third Hokage could only stare at what he was seeing. It had begun as a standard repair. A water mane had broken, and collapsed a street. No one had been hurt, and the repair teams were sent in.
No one had expected to discover a forgotten lab that had once belonged to Konoha’s only nukenin of the Legendary Three: Orochimaru.
And he certainly didn’t expect to see what was before him.
They look like the ones I remember, he thought fondly, as he saw the large tubes, three young bodies floating in them. “What do we know?” he asked a Medic ANBU agent.
“The tubes are still active,” said the boar-masked agent. “From what we can tell, there were no personality additions in the programming sequence he initiated. But they have been educated on several jutsu styles.”
Sarutobi nodded. No personality programming was good. It meant all three were true innocents. They may know how, but not why. “Can they be released?”
“Hokage-sama?” asked the agent, as several others turned towards them.
“They are innocents, despite who brought them into this world and how,” said the Hokage. “Besides, it would be best if we could salvage something out of this.”
“Yes sir,” said the ANBU Board. “I believe we can release them. There don’t seem to be any traps, but we will make certain before proceeding.”
“Very well,” said the Hokage as he turned around. “Keep me apprised.”
Before he left the room, he took one last look at the tubes, smiling a bit as the memories came back to him of when he last saw those same faces. It had been when he had trained them a bit later.
After all, it should be familiar to him. The tubes did contain young clones ... of the Legendary Sannin.
Thoth sighed. “Clones?”
“Clones,” smirked the cat.
“You altered it so Orochimaru started to create clones of his team for his immortality research?”
“Of course, and it is completely canon,” said Toltiir.
“Why?” Thoth asked. “Why would you do that?”
“Guess.”
The tall man sighed. “I don’t want to know,” he said, as he went to calculate the cat’s bar tab.
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