Rowan woke up to the sound of rustling next to him. He saw the small Kurama trying to get into the bag that he used to store the red crystal of the bear. Curious to see why Kurama wanted the crystal, he took it out of the bag but suddenly Steve's voice appeared in his mind.
'Pour some chakra into the crystal before you give it to the little fox. You might be really surprised by what will happen,' Steve said. Having been right till now, Rowan decided to trust Steve and poured chakra into the crystal. The crystal started turning from red to blue.
After the crystal turned blue completely, Rowan placed the crystal before Kurama. Kurama swallowed the crystal whole without a second thought. As soon as he ate the crystal, Kurama started growing visibly. It went from a small baby to the size of an adult fox.
After the sudden growth spurt, Kurama's tail shifted slightly to the right before another tail grew out. Rowan could feel the chakra coming from the original tail of Kurama but new one had close to none. Still, seeing the two-tailed fox in front of him, Rowan couldn't help but give a wide grin.
Kurama gave Rowan a small bark before curling up to sleep. Rowan petted the fox while it slept and fell asleep too.
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Waking up again, Rowan saw Kurama chasing around his two tails and couldn't help laughing at the scene. Kurama looked at the laughing Rowan and jumped up against him. He then sniffed the air before going to scratch on the bedroom door.
'Breakfast must be almost done,' Rowan thought before putting on some clothes and heading out. As Rowan got out of the room, Angelique did the same. Looking at her, Rowan could see her clothes were all over the place.
Angelique looked at Rowan for a while before her face turned blood red. She turned around, entered her room before a blood curling scream echoed off the walls of the house.
Rowan took Kurama in his arms and moved towards the kitchen as quick as possible. Breakfast was bacon and eggs with tomato slices and sausages. Everyone ate including the red-faced Angelique before going out leaving Rowan with the dishes.
Rowan finished the dishes quickly before heading out. His goal today was clear, retrieve the Kusanagi Sword and get as much red crystals for Kurama as possible. With his objectives in mind, Rowan left the house.
He first headed to the weapons shop since his sword broke. When he got there, a new guy was at the counter. Rowan grabbed two short swords just in case one broke while he is searching for the Kusanagi Sword.
Rowan paid the guy two silvers from the bag of coins he got from the previous guy. He went to the gate and was off the forest. As Rowan got into the forest, he started asking Steve for directions but Steve only told him to go in deeper first.
Rowan held Kurama in his arms as he jumped from tree to tree. He looked around for any animal that might look like it has a red crystal before scanning it with the sharingan. Unfortunately, it looked like he used too much luck the previous day.
He passed by some normal wolves, wild cats and a dead corpse of some sort. Finally, Rowan heard Steve say to turn right. He immediately changed directions and rushed to the right. He got deeper and deeper into the forest till he could barely hear anything make a sound.
He could even hear Kurama whining. He must have entered the territory of a strong demon beast otherwise it wouldn't have been this quiet. Rowan travelled a little further before finding the sword on his wanted list.
Unfortunately, the sword was surrounded by gorillas. Each of them had clear demon beast energy inside of them. In the middle was a bigger gorilla and the energy inside of it was far stronger than the surrounding gorillas.
Rowan started thinking of a plan. This was going to be far harder than he thought but looking at all the gorillas made him think of a movie from his past life. It's name was Tarzan and in the movie a tiger challenged one of the gorillas.
All the gorillas then looked on as the tiger and gorilla fought without interfering. Rowan left Kurama at the tree he used to scout the place and walked towards the gorillas. He picked up a rock and threw it at the biggest one.
As the big gorilla looked at him, he looked the big gorilla straight in the eyes without fear. After seeing it's gaze having no effect on his foe, the gorilla roared into the air. The gorillas made way for Rowan to move to the centre.
Rowan was happy to oblige and headed to the centre of the gorillas. They immediately encircled both Rowan and the big gorilla before slamming their fists on their chests. Looking at the gorilla from a closer range he finally realised how big this thing really is.
Rowan took out one of the short swords and got ready. He then rushed at the gorilla whilst screaming. The gorilla punched towards him but the fist made contact with nothing but air. The gorilla looked confused at the place he just saw the human.
Rowan appeared behind the gorilla and slashed at the gorilla's back but as soon as the sword connected with it's back, it broke in half. The gorilla turned around and slapped him with enough force that he could feel his bones starting to break.
The gorilla roared to the sky and slammed it's fists on it's chest. The other gorillas imitated the big gorilla and slammed their fists on their chests. Rowan laid on the ground not too far away and looked at the gorilla whilst trying to think of a plan.
His situation suddenly felt familiar, like he had seen it somewhere before. Rowan gave a huge grin before casting the shadowclone jutsu.