1Chapter Fifteen: The howls of war/ Hoist the colors
Arashi turned his gaze from the village to the reflection of the Akatsuki in the window. "Arashi-sama…" Alrye had walked in, soaked from head to toe in blood, her men behind her. "And so it begins…" He turned to them and said in an even voice, "I want all those strong and able to take up positions in the village, all the shinobi I want them to follow the plans Sasuke laid out and attack from the forest. Anyone who is pregnant or weak, take them to the mountain's stronghold."
"Sir, you know very well that Kyuubi will protest and that Naruto will too." Alrye said, her normally polite tone and titles locked away with her emotions as the others nodded. "Alrye, I am counting on you to sound the alarm... What of your litter?" her mask cracked for a moment when a loving small smile graced her lips, but quickly faded as she said, "I have Nikki and Nelson watching the newborns and Naruto... He's due."
Arashi nodded his head, pulling the robes off to reveal a skin tight cameo suit. It was all kinds of blue and white, the sides of his body exposed a bit, pulling out an equally colored Anbu mask, and putting it on he nodded and they all vanished... Shukaku leaned on the wall of the strong hold as he slowly made his way inside, Yashamaru, his sister-in-law, helping him to the spot that Kyuubi laid; after he was seated she left to attend to Naruto's needs. "Little brother?" He called softly as the fox looked from his hands to his brother, a blush shooting to his cheeks. "H-hai?"
"I'm sorry... I had no other choice. If I hadn't--" He was cut off by Kyuubi laughing as he said, "You don't have to worry about it, Shi-chan didn't kill, so it's all good, besides that he was only pissed he couldn't join in." It was Shukaku's turn to blush; sometimes Arashi just scared him for no reason. "So it's begun, huh?" Kyuubi asked, looking at his hands again. "Yes, they have set up very good defenses, but the question is will this be enough... We are going to lose many, I know that much."
"No, Arashi and the Konoha Shinobi are strong; this war will end with about 5 deaths on our side and their heads on silver platters." Kyuubi said his eyes distant for a moment before shaking his head as he said, "When the moment arrives hoist the colors………" Shukaku made to ask, but passed out as Kyuubi hit a pressure point in his neck and left a letter on the table before vanishing…
Everyone stood ready, Itachi and Sasuke stood behind Akumu as she looked up at the sky, her bangs covering her green eyes. "Shit, it's going to start raining soon… Damn it." Kyuki was still in Sound's hands, they most likely tortured him or he's driving them crazy. Definitely the latter, he drove her nuts as well. "Itachi, Sasuke, be careful out there, the rest of you, if you die, don't bitch about it to me later when I bring you back…."
They all nod as they take off, she looked up at the sky again, her eyes slitting as her fangs grew as eight wolf tails shot out of her body. She dropped down to her hands and knees as she turned into her wolf form. "Itachi, I want to be there when the babies are born, can you guys handle this with out me?" The wolf and Itachi nodded their heads as Sai walked up to them and smirked, "I just got word that a certain fox demon left. Mother dearest is between worrying and killing him... Sasuke, you might want to hurry to the strong hold, he's in labor."
Sasuke puffed out of there as Akumu rolled her eyes and left the two lovers to have a glare down, Itachi losing big time. Itachi finally slumped over a bit as Sai smiled and patted his head much like what Deidara does to Tobi. They both kiss briefly and vanish... Arashi was antsy, Kyuubi left, Naruto was in labor and Shukaku was still weak...
"DID I DO SOMETHING WRONG!?" He yelled in frustration scaring his Anbu and Tobi who was standing next to him. "Shi-chan-sama? Did Tobi do something wrong?" Arashi looked at the masked young man, the teen was only 19, but because of a traumatic incident when he was younger, so his mentality level was that of a toddler. "No, Tobi's a good boy. Shi-chan's just very worried about his baby." Tobi nodded, his masked face hidden from view, but Arashi could tell that the young boy was smiling warmly at him.
Tobi, much like Akumu and Itachi, was like an older brother to Naruto. He sighed, Tobi had the right idea, and there was no use worrying about things when there was a war starting. "It's okay if Shi-chan-sama is worried. Shi-chan-sama, wants to protect everyone! Sempai told Tobi to be a good boy and to do as told so Shi-chan-sama doesn't cry later! So Tobi will be a good boy and punish the bad ones!" He smiled again as he let Arashi pet his head. "Yes Tobi is a very good boy! Thank you for making me feel better, Tobi…"
Tobi just purred when his wolf-like ears suddenly arched in an alerted manner as he looked up at the sky. All of a sudden he jumped on Arashi and yelling out, "BADIES!!" The Anbu stood in a rank around Arashi as kunai, shuriken, and arrows filled the air. Tobi's eyes widened behind his mask as a flash of his family all murdered before his eyes. He cried and clutched his head as Arashi's eyes shot wide with a beastly snarl. He grabbed a cloak that was not too far from him and swung it up over the group as the weapons hit it. Tobi was rocking back and forth crying and muttering in a low voice for the bad people to go away.
"Mommy… Tobi's a good boy, please make them go away! Tobi's a good boy! Tobi's a good boy!! Mommy? Why won't you make them go away? No bad people made-made mommy go away…" His eyes shot wide as he grabbed Arashi about the waist and pulled him from the group as sound Anbu pooped up and locked arms with the Konoha Anbu. Arashi groaned as he heard a snarl above him. Tobi snarled at the advancing men, his tail was erect and his hand slowly reached up to his face, his clawed hands clutched the orange mask. He put pressure on it to make it crack and he pulled it way to reveal onyx black eyes.
"Tobi?" Arashi asked a little unsettled by the sudden change in one of his men. "Yes, Arashi-sama?" Tobi asked glancing back at him and then at the men as his black eyes turned read with the Sharigan. "You bastards murdered my family, you killed my mother!!" He yelled in a clear savage, but still humane voice. "Tobi, think clearly, kill them, but think clearly." Arashi ordered as the wolf dove forward and the wolf like body parts turned to large leathery wings as his canine turned to elongated fangs.
Meanwhile, in other parts of the village, Akumu was killing Sound shinobi and demons one after another as they all tried to tie her down. Her biggest problem was Kabuto; the fucker kept jumping on her back and stabbing her with syringes filled with strange yellowish-green liquids in them. 'Son of a bitch… I have to kill him before he injects me with more of that shit! Kyuki… where are you?' She was panting heavily as she stood over the dead body of a Raptor demon that she had bit out the guts and then slashed his throat when he grabbed one of her tails.
"Heh, heh, heh… Try as you might, little Uchiha. Naruto-kun will be Orochimaru-sama's by sun down to day." She snarled viciously at him and dove at him. He went to kick her, but was hit with fireball from his back, forcing him into her, but when she bit his throat he vanished into a puff of smoke. "Damn…" Sai said as Alrye took her human body again. "He's been playing from the distance, where the hell is—shit I was so stupid!! Sai, tell Arashi that Naruto is in danger!! Hurry!" Sai wasted not even a molecule air as he went to tell the Hokage and former Hokage…
Naruto screamed in pain as he tried to push out the first of two. Sakura was wiping sweat off his forehead as Yashamaru got the first child out, the baby was wrapped up in its wings, but it had Naruto's blonde hair and blue eyes. "Tenten, bath him and wrap him up in a blue blanket… Naruto-sama one more baby to go, okay?" Naruto nodded as he squeezed Sasuke's hand and screamed as the last of the two came out fairly fast. This one was a massive ball of black fur with streaks of gold in the fur and had blue eyes like Naruto with four faint whisker marks on the checks. "Ah, another boy!" Yashamaru exclaimed. Sasuke caught Naruto as he slumped back with a sigh, he was wiped of strength.
Once both babies were clean and suckling at Naruto's breast, Sasuke nuzzled his mate and smiled warmly at his family. "What shall you two be named?" he thought aloud as Naruto smiled and said, "Akaitsuki and Aoitenpi." Sasuke smiled the names suited them. "Red moon and Blue sun… Like their beautiful mother, my white sun…" He nuzzled him as Naruto smile, "Well, my black moon you should be fighting, shouldn't you? Or do you want to breast feed and I fight?" Sasuke laughed as he kissed them and left.
Yashamaru left them be as Naruto curled up, after his sons fell asleep, into a protective ball, his tails covering them from the cold air. Shukaku slowly sat up and panicked, Kyuubi was gone, but he stopped when he tried to remember what Kyuubi had said before he vanished, but he stopped that as well when screams filled the halls of the strong hold. He transformed and with the Chunin and Genin, he defended the entrance to the strong hold as the submissives who were well enough, moved the others down further toward the under ground tunnels that led to the kitsune estate.
"Yashamaru! Get Naruto, Neji and their kittens to safety, hurry!" She left and did as told… Naruto awoke to someone shaking his shoulder and he looked up to see one of the Anbu and sat up. "What, did they get to the stronghold?" The Anbu nodded as Naruto wrapped the babies up in a blanket and set them in a basket before letting the Anbu transport him to what he thought was another safe house…
Arashi snarled, the sound causing everyone and everything to freeze. Tobi jumped clear of Arashi's now clawed hands as he killed the enemy in one swing. 'Shit, if he can clear 15ft when he's calm, I hate to find out how far I jumped just to avoid getting my tail ripped off…' Tobi sighed in his mind as he hung from the flag pole near the tower. "OTOKU!!!!" his voice carried far as Alrye and Itachi looked up, Sasuke's fangs elongated as his Sharigan turned to pure black with silver slits for pupils as he looked about the area. His instincts telling him his mate and his pups were in grave danger, severe grave danger.
"OTOKU!!!" Arashi was pissed off big time. The sound all backed off, nothing was scarier than a pissed off mother, and Arashi was the scariest person next to Itachi and Sasuke's mother. He turned as said snake finally showed up and he lunged at him. Otoku swung, missing the blond as his legendary speed boosted with his inhuman cells.
"WHERE IS HE!! WHERE IS NARUTO!?" He kept Otoku on the defense as he tried to claw him to death. Otoku had no other choice but to stab him in the back with a kunai and then kicked Tobi in the side of the head before vanishing, but not before saying, "If Kyuubi and those Uchiha brats come to Sound, I'll return Naruto to you…assuming that I don't claim you first." Arashi snarled darkly as he tried to get up to kill the bastard, but they all vanished. Arashi let out an agonized scream to the heavens causing Kami to shake on his throne. He let out more screams that were followed by Sasuke's when said Uchiha found his mate and babies missing.
"NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!" His howl was loud enough to wake up the dead…
In Sound, Orochimaru nuzzled Naruto's neck as he hissed in his ear, "Now, now Naru-chan, don't be cold… Come on and give me a kiss." Naruto snarled and snapped his jaws at the sickly pale face. Orochimaru jumped back and smirked. "If you are going to be stubborn, then I'll have Kabuto experiment on your little parasites." Naruto gasped and let his head hang as Orochimaru cupped his chin and forced a kiss on the blond. Naruto whimpered at the nasty slimly feel of his long tongue in his mouth.
"There was that so hard?" He let Naruto go as the blond spit on the floor as Kabuto came in holding to wailing and struggling babies. "SIR!! GET THEM TO STOP!! THEY ARE DRIVING ME TO DRINK!!" Kabuto yelled making them wail even louder than before. Naruto grabbed them both and instantly they quieted down, although they were still crying. The two snakes leave as Naruto sat down on the window seat and began to sing lowly.
"Yo, ho, haul together, hoist the colors high. Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die." The babies seemed to calm down at the sound of their mother's voice…
Back in Konoha, the skies were dark as a fierce storm began, but the village was silent as Arashi sang quietly on top of Hokage Mountain. "The king and his men stole the queen from her bed and bound her in her Bones. The seas be ours and by the powers where we will we'll roam." He scoffed at the verse, but he could hear low rumbling hum. He smirked as Itachi and Sai took several flags and were tying them the Tower flag poles as they sang softly:
"Yo, ho, all hands hoist the colors high. Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never say we die." He looked up at the sky as it spilt open with brilliant lightning and let out a waterfall of water over the village.
Sasuke stood on the bridge that Kakashi had team 7 meet, he looked at the water with soulless eyes. He looked up at the water fell on him, it felt like Naruto was there calming him down. He smirked at the sky as he sang clearly, "Some men have died and some are alive and others sail on the sea– with the keys to the cage... and the Devil to pay we lay to Fiddler's Green!" He then ran to find Arashi standing by a lake in Konoha park, Kiba and Shino were helping Lee and Gaara pull a large bell out, it was hung in the square where Arashi struck it with Rasengan after Rasengan, its deep soothing sound alerting all of Fire nation and beyond…
Naruto smiled at his little kits as they climbed about his tails and lap, he could hear the deep bell and asked his kits, "The bell has been raised from its watery grave... Do you hear its sepulchral tone? We are a call to all, pay head the squall and turn your sail toward home!" They yipped at him and snuggled close as suddenly all of the Allies sang in a full chorus, "Yo, ho, haul together; hoist the colors high. Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die." Naruto closed his eyes as he felt all his power leave him. The babies were asleep so he couldn't hold his seal, he just collapsed…