It was supposed to be a relatively easy C-ranked mission. Get the scrolls back from the thief. It wasn't a particularly skilled thief, nor was the thief very powerful. So, they sent Team 7, with Kakashi's assurances that he'd make sure the Genin didn't engage the thief in one on one battle. Personally, Kakashi thought that he could just stick Sasuke or Naruto on the thief, and he'd be dead in half a minute, but orders were orders, and the village preferred it's jinchuriki intact, thank you very much.

"This'll be no problem!" Naruto decided, linking his fingers behind his head.

"It very well could be a problem," Kakashi admonished gently. "Keep a lookout."

"Remember what happened on our last C-rank mission?" Sakura scolded.

"Like that would happen again," Naruto muttered, then was rewarded by a good thump on the head from Sakura. "Oww," he complained.

"It very well might," Sakura continued scolding Naruto as they made their way through the forest surrounding Konoha.

"Quiet," Kakashi snapped, looking around. "We're getting close. You three will hang back while I take care of him."

"But Kakashi-Sensei," Naruto whined. "We could take him."

"I'd rather not subject the poor man to you three," Kakashi deadpanned. "He's a criminal, but I'm not that mean."

"Hn," Sasuke grunted.

"Stay here," Kakashi ordered, surging ahead.

"Like heck we will!" Naruto said, attempting to keep his voice down, and charging after his Sensei. Sasuke charged after him, Sakura following after a moment of hesitation. Kakashi internally facepalmed, but continued, allowing the genin to charge after him quietly.

"I know you're there!" The thief shouted, standing in the middle of the clearing, his hands in a dog hand sign.

Kakashi walked out of the brush, hands where the thief could see them. "Don't want to do anything we'd regret, do we?"

The thief barked a laugh. "They sent Copy-Cat Kakashi after me? I suppose I should be flattered."

"They sent us too!" Naruto barked, jumping out of their hiding place, and thoroughly blowing it.

Kakashi resisted the urge to whack his head against the nearest hard object, and sighed. "Naruto, what did I tell you?"

"Not to jump into battle," Sakura lectured, stepping out of the bush and hitting Naruto on the head.

"Hand over the scrolls, and they might consider not killing you," Kakashi said calmly.

"Au contraire," The thief said, grinning wolfishly. "Go back to Konoha, and we won't find out what these scrolls can do."

"You wouldn't," Kakashi growled. "You don't have the chakra to do such a large jutsu."

"What could you know?" He scoffed.

"I can sense your chakra, and you don't have enough of it to make two shadow clones, let alone a big jutsu like that," Kakashi's voice remained without emotion, and the small part of his face that was visible showed no emotion either.

"I'm not listening to you!" He announced.

"I can see that," Kakashi said mildly. "But if you die from chakra exaustion, it's not our fault."

Naruto opened his mouth to ask a question, but Kakashi slapped a hand over his mouth before he could say anything. Kakashi leveled a glare at him, and Naruto sighed slightly, slumping.

"Shinwa-jō no hen'yō jutsu!" The thief cried, making the snake hand sign.

Another voice from behind them called, "Chakurasuitchi jutsu!"

All four shinobi covered their eyes, the bright flashes from both jutsu searing their eyes, even eliminating Sasuke's sharingan. All four experienced extreme pain, bringing even Kakashi down. Sakura passed out first, followed by Sasuke, Naruto, then Kakashi. While the four of them lay unconscious, the two thieves escaped, both of them nearly exhausted from the massive drain on their chakra, and knowing they couldn't take on a single genin in their state.

Naruto came around first, the healing of the Kyuubi coming into play. Ninja skills jumping in, he jumped up, looking around, then he nearly fell over due to his center of balance shifting. Something was very wrong with his back. He leaned against a tree, rubbing his aching lower back, and encountering something fluffy and soft. He let out a rather strangled squeaking noise, twisting around to try and get a look at whatever it was. Nine fluffy tails. He had nine fluffy tails! WHAT?!

After he'd panicked for a couple seconds, he realized how cool it was. HE HAD NINE TAILS.

After he'd finished freaking out about how cool it was to have nine fluffy tails, he glanced over to his sensei and the two others on his team. Kakashi and Sakura had tails too, but only one. Kakashi had what looked like a pair of ears on his head, and Naruto carefully worked his way over to Kakashi to poke at them. Sure, Sakura had them too, but hers were smaller. Kakashi's were all tall and pointy.

Kakashi awoke to a weird sensation of someone poking his ears. He caught the hand, startling Naruto, who'd been crouching by his head. Kakashi mock glared at him, then noticed the pair of kinda fluffy ears almost hidden in Naruto's blond hair. He decided not to comment on it and instead glanced at Sasuke, who wasn't really visible except for his feet and a bit of his hair, which poked out of a burrito of feathers. Sakura had a tail, he noted, and a pair of pink ears lying neatly against her head, almost blending in with her hair.

"Naruto, what's going on?" Kakashi asked, as soon as he was sure his voice wasn't going to crack.

Naruto rubbed the back of his head. "I dunno, I woke up with nine tails! You have one too!"

Kakashi twisted around to try and look at his back and spotted it. It vaguely resembled a wolf's tail, a sweeping plumb of light grey fur, the same color as his hair. It twitched, and Kakashi nearly jumped. Oh dear Kami, it moved. It was attached to him.

"Dunno where Sasuke-teme went, all I see is you, Sakura, and that bundle of feathers," Naruto continued chattering as he went over to the bundle of feathers, his nine tails dragging behind him.

(A/N) Fun, isn't it? Anyway, the first jutsu: Shinwa-jō no hen'yō jutsu. It translates to Mythical transformation jutsu. The Second one: Chakurasuitchi jutsu. It translates to Chakra switch jutsu. You'll see just what it did in two weeks. Boy, I'm mean. BYE!