Chapter 29 Finds can be Good or Bad

"Are you sure about this?" asked Naruto as he looked at Sasuke.

"Just get out of the way." said Sasuke as he jumped down into the bunker grabbing the ladder with his arms. With his body builder like arms holding up his entire mass he started down the ladder and into the bunker. Slowly he lowered himself down. "Told you it would work."

"Whatever Karin your up." said Naruto as the second snake started down the ladder. Like Sasuke she lowered herself down using only her arm muscles however she wasn't as strong as Sasuke and she fell down the last five feet right into Sasuke's arm.

"Look prince snake charming." laughed Temari as Sasuke lowered Karin to the ground.

"Can we please move on we have work to do." stated Karin as everyone else started down the ladder and into the bunker. Temari was the last one down and she closed the door. The hidden door quickly blended back into the rock face making it all but invisible.

Naruto looked around the poorly light room. It was a simple room made out of the rock, the only way out was a sloped tunnel that led deeper into the bunker.

"So what was this place made for?" asked Sakura as they started down the tunnel

"Well it wasn't built for the virus; it was actually a smuggling point for weapons and other supplies during the 3rd ninja war." explained Temari "It was abandoned until the virus when Gaara ordered it be prepared as a backup medical site incase the Sand fell."

"What about supplies we don't know how long we will be down here?" asked Katara

"Well we don't have to worry about water, we are over a natural spring so we have an unlimited supply of pure drinking water, same goes for power there is a geothermal power plant in the lowest level." said Temari as they reached the main level. The hallway was just the tunnel leveling out. There were just seven doors. Naruto quickly read the writing over the doors. Medical lab, supplies, kitchen and bathroom hung over four doors the other three must be bedrooms.

Sakura and Karin instantly walked into the small dimly light lab, a fine layer of dust lined ever inch of the medical supplies. "And I though the stuff in the Sand was substandard before." said Karin as she lied out her scroll and started unsealing the fresh medical supplies they brought from the Sand.

"It will have to do." said Sakura as she did the same.

Meanwhile Temari walked over to the room marked supplies and looked at the lines of sealed food; they would have to check to make sure the food was good before they did anything with them. However the first thing she did was go over to the generator and turned the power to normal. Instantly the dimly lit rooms became bright as their lights turned fully on.

"Much better." said Temari as she looked at the wall. There was a line of screens showing the outer areas around the mountain through hidden cameras. "That should give us some warning however this place is a death trap, there is only one way in or out. If we get trapped down here they will have us."

"So how do you want to divide this up?" asked Naruto as he, Sasuke and Shikamaru stood by the three bedrooms. They where small they where just able to lay down in them.

"Well, we divided by species." said Sasuke "Karin and I have a room by ourselves, same goes for the wolves and then you foxes will just have to fit into the last one."

"I have to agree with Sasuke on this." said Shikamaru before whispering "We don't know when Temari will go into heat like Sakura did and do you really want the kids to be there if that happens."

"No, I don't want that but…"

"You and Sakura will just have to control yourselves." said Sasuke

"If it gets bad we can switch spots, and you and Sakura can have your own room for a night." said Shikamaru

"I guess that will work and I don't think Sakura will be in the mood a lot, we need to find a cure not have fun." said Naruto

"Ya, we need to find a cure." said Shikamaru

"So how do you want to do this?" asked Sakura as Karin looked at her. "We can't really stop to rest, someone has to be working on this none stop."

"I agree so we will have to run on less sleep but still enoth sleep as not to affect the quality of the work, how about this, one of us will get six hours of sleep and then when they get up the other gets her turn." said Karin as she set up her station.

"Works for me." said Sakura "I just wish Ino was here to help."

"Well she isn't so stop crying about it." hissed Karin as she began another experiment.

Near sunset in the Leaf Matsuri threw up as her teeth fell out as new fangs appeared. She already had her claws on both her feet and on her hands. Also two cat ears poked out of her hair line. Hours ago her body had expended to it's new height and muscle mass and her face had changed to that of a cat. She still her human mind remained as she used her ruined cloths to cover herself. At the moment she was a furless tailless cat person.

Slowly she stood back up a little unsure on her feet; her head was spinning because of the virus doing its work on her brain. She could already feel the pure power of her animal building inside her and it didn't scare her as much.

"Matsuri?" asked Gaara as he looked at her fearing she had lost her mind to the virus.

"I am still here Gaara." said Matsuri "I still don't like this but it isn't freaking me out as much."

"The virus is running its course faster then I though all that is left is your fur and your tail to grow in and your mind to be set right." said Shizune as she looked up from her microscope on the other side of the wall. "You will probably finish turning late tonight."

Before they could say anything Tsunade walked into the room. "Shizune how are things down here?" asked Tsunade

"Good, actually very good the data you brought back on the texts done by Sakura, Ino and Karin in the sand have saved me a lot of time." said Shizune with a smile.

'Good, about how far away are you from a cure?" asked Tsunade

"That is hard to say, but we are closer now because of the data." Explained Shizune

"Ok, keep at it; also have Jiraiya taken to my room." whispered Tsunade with a grin as Shizune rolled her eyes.

"Fine just don't kill him." said Shizune as she looked at the white wolf in the holding cell.

Hours later Sakura slowly exited the bedroom, Naruto, Saito and Katara still sat in there sound asleep. Sakura slowly made her way into the kitchen and to the pot of coffee. "At least that hasn't changed." Thought Sakura as she poured herself an extra large cup of coffee. "Human or animal I am addicted to Coffee."

Karin had gotten the first shift of working in the lab and now it was time for them to trade spots. Naruto would be getting up soon to trade off with Sasuke for watching the cameras. However Sakura always needed her coffee and Naruto didn't.

"Naruto-kun on coffee, that would like Lee when he drank shake." said Inner Sakura causing both Sakuras to laugh.

As she finished her coffee Naruto staggered into the kitchen and got himself a glass of water. "Morning Naruto-kun." said Sakura

"Morning." yawned Naruto as he quickly downed the water before pouring another one. "We really needed bigger glasses."

"Well we are bigger now." said Sakura as she looked at the clock on the wall. "I better go trade off with Karin before gets pissed."

"Ya, I'll go trade off with Sasuke." said Naruto as they both went off to do their jobs.

"It's strange how normal we acted there." Thought Sakura as she crossed the hall and into the lab. "If I didn't know better I would say we where human."

"About time you get here." said Karin as she leaned over a table looking at a print out of another experiment.

"Find something?" asked Sakura as she walked over to Karin.

"Nothing good." said Karin as she handed the paper over. Sakura was wrong it wasn't a print out of an experiment for a cure it as a test of their own DNA. "I ran a text to see how much time we have until we lost ourselves to our animal sides."

"How long?" asked Sakura worried

"Naruto has a little over 2 weeks left before he sub comes, a week later you, followed a day or two later by Katara and then Saito." said Karin

"I see, that is less time then I thought and Ino's time is lower because she was going to sub come before Naruto-kun." said Sakura "What about Sasuke and you?"

"A week after Saito is Sasuke followed by me." said Karin "Shikamaru and Temari still have two months left because they just turned."

"Have you confirmed this?" asked Sakura

"No, the tests are running now they will be done within two hours, I also started another blood test to make sure I had the protein level right." Said Karin

"I'll check it when they finish you get some sleep." said Sakura as Karin nodded her head before slithering out of the room.

"We just can't get a damn break." yelled Sakura to herself before beginning yet another test toward finding a cure. The sound of the ticking clock rang in her head like a thunderstorm, with each tick her humanity was disappearing.

Meanwhile in the Leaf Matsuri shook in Gaara's arms as fur started to grow in rapidly all over her body. Only an hour ago her tail had grown in as an extraction of her spin. She was now covered with orange fur and black spots. White fur ran from her moth to her belly button.

"Gaara." said Matsuri weakly as Gaara looked at his leopard human girlfriend.

"Yes." said Gaara as he looked into her eyes.

"I love you." said Matsuri as she closed her eyes.

"I love you too Matsuri." said Gaara as Matsuri gave off a pure.

"Good." said Matsuri as she reopened her eyes. Gaara's eyes widened as he looked into her eyes they where different, they had a more animal look to them.

"You lost your mind haven't you?" asked Gaara

"Lost? No." said Matsuri with a grin "Liberated yes."

Gaara lowered his head but didn't push her away. "You seam disappointed? What you don't like how I look now?" asked Matsuri

"No, I don't." said Gaara

"Is it because I am a cat now?" asked Matsuri as Gaara nodded his head. "That is only because of your human mind problem, what does your inner animal say?"

"I don't know." said Gaara

"I do." said Matsuri "First you didn't push me away and second you have your tail wrapped around my hip."

Gaara noticed that she was telling the truth his tail ran under her before resting on her hip. "Your inner animal likes my new form." said Matsuri "Now Gaara-kun do you want our kitten to be a leopard, a mountain lion or some other cat because Shizune said it could turn into almost any cat?"

"How about a human?" asked Gaara as Matsuri laughed.

"Not an option anymore." said Matsuri "Well maybe after they cure you, you will have something to say on the matter."

"Maybe." said Gaara

"Oh, I almost forgot." said Matsuri as he moved Gaara's head to one side. She planted a few kisses on his neck before biting down where the shoulder meets the neck. He could actually feel his girlfriend's fangs pierce his skin ever so much. Suddenly she stopped and kissed the spot again.

"What was that for?" asked Gaara as he felt the wound already starting to heal.

"I marked you as my mate, I couldn't have you go running off to another cat could I?" said Matsuri as she turned showing her neck to Gaara "Normally this happens during the first time a pair mates but since we already have a kitten coming it will have to do, Mark me Gaara-kun, let's become a true family."

Before Gaara even knew what he was really doing his fangs where pressed into his girlfriend turned mate skin. As he marked her one of his hands was rubbing her back and his tail was now rubbing her leg causing her to pure. Slowly he pulled back realizing what he had just done.

"Well the animal pent up inside you sure does like the new me." purred Matsuri as she nuzzled into Gaara's chest her wound already scaring over a warning to everyone that she was taken. "Now let's get some rest."

With that Matsuri closed her eyes and started to fall asleep as Gaara just lied their watching her sleep

An hour before wake up the tests finished up. Instead of waiting for Karin Sakura decided to check the numbers and the news was not good. All the numbers where matching confirming Karin's findings, they had only two weeks before they would start losing their minds. "This is horrible, how am I going to tell Naruto that he will lose his humanity in just two weeks." though Sakura

"He will probably more worry about us then himself." said Inner Sakura

"Ya, he may not show it but I can tell he is extremely worried about everything right now." said Sakura back as she flipped over to her blood test printout "Wait a second something isn't right, those levels are way too high."

"What is it?" asked Inner Sakura as Sakura ran though the possibilities of why those hormones would be so high, her eyes widened as she realized what it meant. The clipboard hit the floor as Sakura ran her hand though her hair suddenly explaining to Naruto that he was losing his humanity was the last thing on her mind.

"Are you going to tell me what has you so spooked? Why are those hormones so high?" said Inner Sakura

"Because I am pregnant." said Sakura back

Across the world Shizune looked up from her microscope and smiled. "I have it. I have a way to remove the human mind."

I just had to do it, yes Sakura is pregnant. Also the race for the cure is over Shizune and the infected have a cure for human minds and now it is a race for Sakura/Karin to find their cure before they are found and turned all the way. Well I hope you liked this chapter, now I am working on the Who are you story because most people seam to want that story and I may actually post it after this week. I am also brainstorming/Working on three other stories including the orginal idea for this story. Now please keep on reading and reviewing. Thanks Wilkins75.