Chapter 11 The Sound

It had taken the better part of a day but now they could see the ruins of the sound village. "Do you see anything?" asked Naruto

"No." said Choji as he looked at the strangely empty ground around the destroyed village, well in truth it was more of a military base but it was the last and largest base of Orochimaru. "I see a few snakes, a couple wolves and a tiger."

"Great I hate snakes." said Sakura

"Me too." said Naruto "However I though Tsunade would of sent forces after us."

"Ya, she wants us back." said Ino "Well probably just you and Sakura because you are canines."

"Ok what do we do?" asked Sakura "We have to spread out to find the lab but if we spread out too much we will be weakened."

"We split up by species." said Ino "Choji and I will search the northern area and you guys will search the south and center."

"Why don't you guys split up some more, Naruto and Saito in a pair and Sakura and Katara in the other." said Choji "If anyone asks we are looking for food or something."

"That sounds good to me." said Naruto

"Alright." said Sakura as they split up.

"Neji why don't we take them?" whispered Tenten as they hid in the bushes down wind of the people they were after.

"Because we want them to get the Lab." said Neji as Tenten looked at him. "That way we can destroy it and make sure that no one can change this world."

"Alright." said Tenten "It will also give time for reinforcements to get here."

"That too." said Neji

Sakura and Katara searched though the remains of a warehouse, the roof was crashed in and crates were smashed all over the place. "Anything?" asked Sakura

"No, sorry." said Katara

"You don't have anything to say sorry for Katara." said Sakura "If you don't have anything you don't have anything."

"It is just I want to find this lab and find a cure." said Katara with a slight worry in her voice.

"Is something wrong Katara?" asked Sakura

"It is just I am worried I am starting to like being this way." said Katara as she looked at herself "I mean I feel so strong, I could never run as fast or as long as what we were doing to get here. I find myself eating more meat and for a while I thought about being a vegetarian. Also if I turn out to look anything like you I will look great."

"You like someone don't you?" asked Sakura

"There is a boy in my class Reiji that I like." Said Katara as she moved her tail in front of her body she would have been blushing if she hadn't have fur over her body. "While that is if he is still alive and has not turned into something like a snake or a cat. I figure that dogs, wolves and foxes can all be together right I mean we are all human/canines."

"Well." said Sakura as she thought about it; they hadn't bothered researching cross spies mating however it was clear that retiles like snakes and lizards couldn't mate with mammals. The other thing was that mammals couldn't mate with different spies. However they never bothered to test if a human-wolf and a human-dog could mate. "I am not sure but from a medical science point of view it is highly possible."

"I see." said Katara with a slight smile "However our best bet is to find a cure right?"

"Correct because then everyone will be human and you and Reiji can go out and maybe in time live happy ever after." Said Sakura

"Sort of like you and Naruto?" said Katara as Sakura blinked.

"What?" asked Sakura

"I though you and Naruto were a couple, you looked like it when you were asleep last night in each other arms." said Katara as Sakura eyes widened as she moved her tail in front of herself just like Katara did when she talked about the Reiji boy in the class. "Aren't you?"

"I don't know." said Sakura as she remembered how she brushed her face across his "However I would like if that happened."

"I would find out." said Katara as she lowered her head and spoke with an age far beyond her nine years of life "I mean you two seam almost made for each other and you never know when you will lose someone. I mean I never thought I would lose my Dad and my mom in just a little bit over a month."

"I am sorry about your lost." said Sakura

"Thank you but Saito was the one hit the hardest, he was really close to Dad and he saw Mom get killed." said Katara

"Where were you?" asked Sakura

"I had my face pressed into Naruto's smelly cloths crying I couldn't watch. Like Saito." said Katara "I think he blames himself for the death of mom."

"It isn't his fault." said Sakura

"Try convincing him that." said Katara as they went back to searching the place.

"Find anything yet?" asked Naruto as he tossed over the remains a column that once supported the roof of Orochimaru command center.

"This place is a mess." said Saito as he looked though a file cadent looking for anything important. "What happened here?"

"Well that is partly my fault, I used a Rasengan on one of Orochimaru's commanders named Kabuto on the roof of this building." said Naruto as he rubbed the back of his head "It caused the roof to come crashing down and almost brought the entire building crashing down."

"So this is your mess." said Saito

"Ok, that is it Saito." said Naruto "What is your problem?"

"My problem is the fact that I am a fox boy and I don't believe there is a cure for this thing." said Saito before he put his face in his hands and started crying "I am going to spend my life as a monster."

"You are not a monster and don't give up hope, we will find a cure." said Naruto as he knelt down in front of Saito, he placed his hands on Saito's shoulders. "Saito I don't really know what I can say to tell you it will be alright apart from just saying it will be. I was never good with words."

Naruto's eyes widened as Saito moved forward and hugged Naruto burying his face into Naruto's chest and just cried. Naruto could hear him say different things about all the problems he had to deal with during the month from hell.

"First….my Dad died…then the virus was found." cried Saito as he gripped onto Naruto fur. In returned Naruto wrapped Saito in his arm and just let him cry.

"It will be alright, Saito just let it go." Naruto had cried allot in his young life to know it was better to just let it out, holding it in did nothing. Without Naruto even noticing his tail had moved around to Saito's back and was used like another arm to hold onto to Saito and make him feel safe as he cried.

"Naruto seams good with kids forehead." said Ino as she and the others stood on the roof of the destroyed building after searching their sectors and finding nothing.

"Ya." said Sakura as Saito kept crying about his parents.

"Saito needed this." said Katara "I cried the night I lost our Dad Saito tried to stay strong."

"The whole boys don't cry thing." said Choji as he stood beside Ino.

"I never understood that." said Ino "Boys are just a likely to cry as girls."

"It is a macho thing." said Choji as the three others shook their heads. Suddenly a crash brought the four of them back to reality, they looked to where Naruto and Saito were suppose to be only to find a hole.

"Naruto!" yelled Sakura

"Down here the floor must of given out." coughed Naruto "Saito are you alright?"

"Ya, apart from my face." said Saito as he forced himself up.

Naruto sat up in the dust filled air. He looked around to see he was in a lab of some kind. In the corner stood a wolf kind only he was dead and his insides spread out over a table "Sakura I think we found it?"

"What?" asked Sakura

"We where looking for a hidden panel in a wall when it was in the floor." said Naruto as Sakura and the others jumped down into the poorly light horror room.

"Ya, this looks like a place where the snake would set up shop." said Ino as looked around the room, suddenly she stopped moving as her eyes widened. "Guys."

"What?" asked Naruto as he walked forward and his eyes widened as he saw what Ino was looking at.

"Hello Naruto." said a voice as Sakura's blood turned to Ice as she turned and looked toward where Naruto and Ino stood. In the darkness was a pair of red eyes, Sharingan eyes.

"Looks like they found it." said Tenten "Shall we move in?"

"Hold on Tenten." said Neji as he graded Tenten's arm "We want them to gather things together and then it will be easier to destroy."

"So they found it?" asked Kiba as he and Hinata appeared beside them along with eight other wolf kinds.

"Yes, now we need to surround them and then we can take them and destroy the lab in the same moment." said Neji

"You look surprised to see me." said Sasuke's voice from the darkness. They couldn't see anything except for Sasuke's eyes.

"Ya." said Naruto

"Then you should turn on the lights and you can see what really has become of me." said Sasuke "The switch is on the wall next to Ino."

Slowly Ino reached out toward the panel and the lights turned on to show a continent cell. Every ones eyes widened as they noticed what was before them on the other side of the clear wall. Like them Sasuke had changed. He was now a giant cobra.

His legs were gone in his place a long tail had formed so that he could slither around. His entire body was covered with scales with a black and purple pattern on his back, arms and face. He had a lighter shade that ran from the base of his neck down to the tip of his tail. His hair was gone replaced with the classic cobra hood that went out from the top sides of his head to his shoulder blades. His arms now looked like a body builders and the scales came to points at the tip of each finger.

"A snake why am I not surprised." said Naruto

"A fox why am I not surprised." hissed Sasuke as a forked tongue came out of his mouth and he deactivated his Sharingan.

"So do I want to know why aren't you out here trying to kill me?" asked Naruto as he crossed his arms.

"Look around you idiot." said Sasuke as Naruto looked around to see that the door was sealed with a fallen piece of roof

"You're trapped." said Naruto with a smile

"We should just leave you hear until after we find a cure." said Sakura as she crossed her arms and glared at Sasuke.

"You won't find one." said a new voice as they noticed another person in the containment cell. Slowly a woman slither up. She too was a snake unlike Sasuke she didn't have the classic cobra hood. However the general set up was the same scale covered body with a pattern on the back and tan running from her neck to the tip of her tail. Unlike Sasuke she had a red with black stripes running down her back and arms. The only hair she had was on the top of her head. It was strange because it was red but one side was straight while the other side a mess, her red eyes looked out of the cells at the new comers.

"Karin." said Sakura as she remember running into one of Orochimaru's medical ninjas in the opening days of the war.

"Yes…Sakura is it?" asked Karin as Sakura nodded her head "Well you will never find a cure."

"How do you know that?" snapped Ino "We found the protein to keep our humans mind when we turn."

"That is easily to do, I made it easy to find." said Karin

"What you made this virus?" asked Sakura

"No, I was Orochimaru main lab worker and apart from him I knew the most and since I think you guys killed him a month ago I know the most." said Karin "So if you want a cure then you will let us out and you two can help me in getting a cure."

Ino and Sakura both barred their teeth as Karin grinned. "As much as it pains me to say this Naruto at the moment we are each others only hope." said Sasuke "Karin knows the virus, the virus is needed for you guys to make a cure and we are trapped in here."

"How did you get trapped in there?" asked Choji "Also how can you two have human minds?"

"First I made sure the protein marker that allows people who turned to keep their mind could be found naturally in myself and in Sasuke-kun." said Karin

"Looks like two snakes found each other." said Sakura with a grin

"Karin has her uses unlike you or any of the other girls from the Leaf." said Sasuke before he glared at Karin "Now as for how we got in this place it was all because of Karin."

"How?" asked Ino

"Well Lord Orochimaru sent Sasuke and me to get his transformation potion the one that would allow him to control the turned people when he turned but then the building started to shake and we had to take cover." said Karin

"She forced me into this cell and a piece of ceiling blocked our exit." Hissed Sasuke "Orochimaru's potion was destroyed by the falling roof and worst was that infected water was leaking into the room."

It was only then that the others noticed the good inch of water that covered the floor of the containment room. "So you turned." said Naruto

"yes." said Karin "And if you want a cure you will let us out because I am the only one alive who knows how the virus works."

"Then we know who to kill." said a voice as they turned to see Neji, Tenten, Kiba and Hinata standing there.

"So I am guessing you guys are on the run from them?" asked Sasuke

"Yes." said Naruto as he looked at Sasuke.

"We have a common goal, we need each other." said Sasuke as his and Naruto's eyes locked.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." said Naruto

"Correct." said Sasuke

"Just do it already Naruto!" yelled Sakura got into a stance just like Ino and Choji. Saito and Katara had gone off to hide.

"Alright." said Naruto and with one punch he shattered the concrete holding the door shut. Sasuke pushed the door opened and slithered out.

"Once the cure is found and delivered we can go back to killing each other understood." said Sasuke as they locked eyes again.

"Understood." said Naruto

Well I am sorry for the lateness of this chapter but all my friends where home from school/military so I have been spending a lot of time with them. Well I hope you liked this chapter. Also if I can pull it off I will have a Christmas gift for you all starting on Monday. Each day I will update one of my three stories and on Thursday I will update them all again before I go away for Christmas. Think of it as my Christmas gift to you. Thank you all for the reviews and I would ask that you keep on reading in reviewing. Thanks Wilkins75