Alternate Chapter 34 The Pink Fox
Naruto's head was spinning like it had never had before as he lied on a hard stone surface in the early morning sun. Slowly he inhaled a flood of smells filled his nose. He could smell all his friends even the ones who were currently his enemies. He tried to move his arms to stand up only to notice his hands where bound and he couldn't call up any chakra.
"You're finally up." said a voice as Naruto opened his eyes. He looked up to see Tsunade standing over him. Before Naruto could say anything a pair of hands came down pulling him to his feet. Naruto didn't even have to look he could smell it was Kakashi and Jiraiya who where holding him.
"Where is Sakura-Chan?" demanded Naruto as he glared at Tsunade.
"I am here Naruto." said Sakura from behind Tsunade. She stepped aside so that Naruto could see that Sakura was in the same state. Her hands where bound by chakra suppressing rope and Kiba and Hinata where holding her.
"Sakura are you ok?" asked Naruto
"As ok as all of us." said Sasuke as Naruto looked down the line all his friends where in the same states. Hands tied up and two people holding them, well one for Saito and Katara.
"So what now?" asked Naruto
"We cure you just like we cured the others." said Tsunade as Naruto eyes widened. "However because of the slim chance of you choosing to die, we have brought things to show you."
"To bad it is pointless." Stated Sakura as Tsunade turned and looked at her.
"I don't see it that way." said Tsunade "It will help with the cure."
"Your cure is useless now." said Sakura with a grin. He had seen that grin before. It was the grin he seen a moment before she beat him in training, it was the same grin she gave when she knew something and that someone else didn't. It was the grin she gave him every time they had sex.
"What did you do?" asked Tsunade
"I found a cure of my own." Said Sakura
"You couldn't have you are still a fox." Said Tsunade
"I know and I will always be one." said Sakura "I am not talking about a cure for the body but a cure for the mind."
"What?" asked Tsunade
"I am afraid this time neither one of us win Lady Tsunade." said Sakura
"What do you mean?" asked Tsunade "What did you do?"
"We knew we couldn't beat the virus." said Karin with a grin "So when you can't beat it change it."
"What?" asked Jiraiya
"They modified the virus." said Tsunade
"Yes, but didn't just change the original virus, we changed the virus Orochimaru made to kill off the infected if they ever got out of his control." Said Karin
"What is the difference?" asked Ino
"Orochimaru's virus is air born." said Karin "You are already breathing it in."
"What did you do to us?" asked Tsunade
"Restored your minds." said Sakura "Like I said Tsunade we are going to tie, basically instead of us becoming like you, you are going to become like us."
"Yes, imagine a scale." stated Karin "In you the animal side of the brain has more weight we are changing the scale so that the human mind is more dominate."
"True their will still be a strong animal natural in all of us." said Sakura "However there will be more human then animal now."
"We tied." said Karin as Tsunade's rage began to build to unknown heights.
"I should kill you!!!!!" yelled Tsunade as she grabbed Sakura and held her to her face.
"But you won't." said Sakura "I can already see it in your eyes, they don't look as wild anymore the virus is running its course."
Tsunade's eyes blinked she was right she fleet a slight head ache and she was starting to feel bad about what she did in the sand and to her friends.
"I only have two regrets; one is that I couldn't find a total cure before it was too late." Said Sakura before looking straight at Naruto "the other is not telling you this the moment I found out. Naruto-kun."
"Ya."
"You're going to be a dad." said Sakura as Naruto's eyes widened to a size no one thought possible.
"A….a…..a…..dad?" asked Naruto
"Ya, remember that smell you smelled was actually just telling you I am pregnant." said Sakura "I was scared that you would be angry because our child is going to be a fox instead human. Also that you would think I would be an unfit mother."
"Sakura-Chan….how can you think I would be angry?" asked Naruto "Fox or human, boy or girl who cares it's our child, I would love it now matter what."
"This time I was the Baka Naruto-kun." said Sakura
"You are going to make a great mother." stated Naruto with a smile "if anything I would be the unfit father."
Sakura just shook her head and smiled. "Actually I know you are going to make a great father." said Sakura
"Well congratulation forehead but I have a question how are you going to spread this cure of yours?" asked Ino like everyone else around she had a slight head ache as her old human mind started to regain control but the animal still had some control. "An airborne virus can't cover the globe you didn't have the material in the bunker to spread it across the world."
"Like any good virus it uses the people it infects." said Sakura "Once it gets into someone it starts reproducing and then with each breath the virus is releases in time the entire world will be cured."
"Well looks like you win Sakura." Said Tsunade as her human mind started to gain more control over her body. Tsunade cut Sakura free.
"No we both lose." said Sakura before she rushed toward Naruto.
"So a kid?" asked Naruto
"Yaw, a kid." said Sakura with a smile.
"I though you didn't want a kid so soon?" asked Naruto
"Ya, a little earlier then I would of liked but differently the right man to be the father." said Sakura
"Boy or girl?" asked Naruto
"It's a little early too know." said Sakura with a laugh.
"Just one question?"
"Just one?" asked Sakura
"For the moment." said Naruto "Don't foxes have litters?"
Sakura's eyes she hadn't thought of the chances that she could be carrying more then one babies.
A little bit over a year later everything had changed and Sakura new it, she could smell it. She could smell her husband/mate sleeping beside her and she could feel the heartbeat of her son though her fur covered hand. She could hear the breath of her daughter's breathing as she took in breaths beside her father. Slowly Sakura opened her eyes to see Naruto's sleeping fox face a year ago that image would have been a surprise but now it was normal. While Sakura's and Karin's cure worked as best as it could they still acted more animal like then a normal human would have been. She still had a strong animal side however her human mind was stronger.
"Morning Sakura-chan." said Naruto as he let out a deep yawn showing off his sharp teeth.
"Morning Naruto-kun." said Sakura as she sat up holding the young Minuto Namikaze in her arms. "When do you have to go to work?"
"Not until this after noon." said Naruto "I can't wait until the old hag is back."
"I though you would enjoy being in the Hokage's office?" asked Sakura
"I am not the Hokage so all I get to do is stand in for Tsunade in her meets." said Naruto "I don't even get the robes."
"Naruto those robes where designed for a human we wouldn't fit in them." said Sakura
"Still." said Naruto "I have to all the work of the Hokage without the title."
"Stop whining Naruto-kun." said Sakura as she rolled her eyes at her husband's complaining. "Your want the job once Tsunade steps down so consider this a dry run."
"Fine, how is Ino doing?" asked Naruto
"She is fine." said Sakura as she got up and walked toward the window. She looked out to see the strange mix of people or animal people to be more accurate. Since the cure was found the divides that had began forming where broken. Now all the race lived together, however there was still tension between the races. "She and Choji are expecting a child but you didn't hear it from me."
"Ino just found out?" asked Naruto
"Ya." said Sakura as she heard the sound of Katara and Saito coming from the kitchen, likely eating breakfast before heading off to school. They had adopted Katara and Saito into their family or pack.
"Ino will soon have a family." said Sakura with a smile as she looked at her still sleeping son.
"Just like us Sakura-chan." said Naruto as he suddenly appeared beside her holding their other pup in his arms.
"I love you Naruto-kun." said Sakura as she kissed Naruto
"I love you Sakura-chan." said Naruto back between a kiss. However suddenly their daughter Kushina let out a cry forcing Naruto and Sakura apart.
"Sounds like someone is hungry." said Sakura with a laugh as she gave Naruto their son and he gave her a hungry Kushina.
"Things sure have changed." said Naruto as he watched over his family.
"That is in understatement Naruto." said Sakura with a laugh "We were turned into fox people, we fell in love with each other and now we have a family together."
"Ya, I guess that is a lot of things that changed." said Naruto as he rubbed his still sleeping son's back.
"And the only thing I would change would be us turning into foxes." Said Sakura with a smile however she knew in time she wouldn't even mind that. She had Naruto, her family and her friends, her future looked good.
Well this is the end of the story. I hope you like it and those who didn't like the first ending I hope you like it better. Now I thank you all for the reviews and I hope you read my new stories when they come out. Thanks Wilkins75.