Note I went back and changed two items from last chapter. First you can stop complaining, I gave in Karin is no longer a snake she is a wolf but don't expect another change, I originally had her as a wolf but changed it a few hours before posting. Second I changed the name of the old royal harem guard turn gardener Lee to Saito so that people don't get confused between Lees. Thanks and enjoy the chapter.

Chapter 51 A New Life

The sun was rising over a long night in the Namikaze den; sleep hadn't come easily to Sakura she kept waking up after seeing her mom's cold glazed over dead eyes with flies landing around them. She had woken up almost every hour, if it wasn't for being wrapped in Naruto's arm she wouldn't have slept at all.

"Are you alright Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto as he rubbed the back of her neck, normally that would earn at the least a purr if not something more however it wasn't making her happy.

"I am fine." lied Sakura as she sat up.

"No you're not." answered Naruto "I know you're sad about your mom and I want to help you."

"Naruto-kun." said Sakura as she looked down "I know you want to help and I love you for that…but this is something I just have to settle on my own."

"I see." said Naruto "Sakura I hate to ask you to do this but even though they gave us the day off I think you should go to the hospital today."

"I don't need mental treatment if that is what you are thinking." snapped Sakura

"No...but you can check to see what is happening to our friends." explained Naruto as Sakura nodded her head.

"Sorry Naruto-kun, it's just when I am upset I tend to snap." explained Sakura as Naruto laughed a bit.

"Sakura-Chan, we have known each other since we where six years old, we have been teammates since we where 12 and we have faced down hell together." said Naruto "I think I know at least some of your mannerisms, just like you know mine."

"Thanks Naruto-kun." said Sakura as she turned around and kissed him. "By the way I think we meet when we where seven not six."

"We meet when where six…I remember the day." laughed Naruto "But we can have that argument later."

"Ya…we can." laughed Sakura as a knock at the door caused both of them to look toward the door.

"It's unlocked." said Sakura as the door opened to see Adria standing there.

"I think you guys should come upstairs." said Adria

"What for?" asked Naruto

"You have visitors." explained Adria as Naruto and Sakura looked at her. "Some of your friends."

"Who?" asked Sakura

"Come see." said Adria as she turned and walked out the door and upstairs followed only steps behind by Naruto and Sakura. When they reached the upstairs living room they found two new foxes standing in the living room, one was female almost totally blonde only with a tan strip that ran from her belly button to just under her muzzle. Beside her stood a male fox with deep brown fur up to his knees and elbow and black fur over the rest of his body apart from a strip of deep brown fur that ran from his privates to his Adams apple. For a moment Naruto wasn't sure they where, until it hit him.

"Shikamaru? Temari?" asked Naruto

"You were expecting someone else?" asked Temari

"They turned the two of you into foxes?" asked Sakura

"Ya." answered Shikamaru "Temari even helped lead the attack on the Leaf."

"Really." said Naruto as he lowered his head.

"Before you bite my head off I did it to save humanity." said Temari as she leaned against the fireplace her arms across her chest "When we turned the little boy we took some of the agent. Since I learned that they passed off a fake on to you, I thought it was the only way to get a pure sample to the humans."

"But we made a sample from my blood samples." said Sakura

"I didn't know about your samples." explained Temari

"Still the more samples out there the better." stated Naruto

"That is what I said." answered Shikamaru

"Doesn't matter now does it." answered Sakura "What happened to our friends?"

"Choji, Neji, Tenten, Kiba, Lee, Guy and Yamato should have made it out." stated Shikamaru "Not that I told the demon high commands about that."

"You don't know about the others?" asked Naruto "Lady Tsunade, Ino, Sai or Hinata?"

"Hinata was taken almost at once by the demon lions; she was escorted by one of their top female guards." explained Temari "I know that Ino was taken unhurt but Sai, Shino and Lady Tsunade where hurt."

"How bad?" asked Sakura

"Unknown but I don't think it is life threatening since they were moving them." said Temari "I don't know about your mom, Sakura."

"We already know what happened to my mother." answered Sakura as she looked down.

"What happened?" asked Temari

"Suicide." answered Sakura

"I am sorry Sakura." said Temari

"So is Gaara a fox?" asked Naruto

"No…" answered Temari as she lowered her head "He is a lion and Matsuri is currently being processed. Kankura is thankfully still out there fighting for humanity."

"My parents are becoming wolves." answered Shikamaru

"Sorry, your pack is being split apart." said Naruto

"It is happening to a lot of people." answered Temari "Families with traits that multiple demon races want are split up."

"So have they done anything to you guys for helping us?" asked Shikamaru

"Made it seem that we went on a mission to mislead you all and pass off a fake sample. Other than that no." answered Naruto

"Kind of smart, they wouldn't want a twelve tailed to be marked as a traitor." explained Temari

"What tail strength are you anyhow?" asked Sakura

"I am a seven and little boy is an eight." explained Temari

"If you guys are interested my dad and I are working on an idea that may end this war." said Naruto as Sakura's head snapped toward him.

"What idea?" asked Shikamaru

"I want to make sure it is doable before I say anything." said Naruto "But hopefully it will bring Peace."

"Alright." said Temari

"Where are they putting you two up?" asked Naruto

"A few streets over in one of the dens that has been empty since the war they waged." explained Shikamaru "They are already offering us jobs hunting down our friends and training the next generation."

"The vixen who showed us the place, told us our first job was to have kits so that the village would come back." explained Temari

"Well show it to Naruto and tonight we will meet there." said Sakura "Hopefully by then I know what happened to our other friends."

Meanwhile Hinata was sitting at the large table in her room with a plate full of eggs and bacon with some fresh strawberries on the side.

"Are you enjoying your breakfast?" asked Fay as she sat down across from Hinata.

"It's good." answered Hinata "But what am I suppose to do?"

"Normally the members of the harem spends their days either trying to make themselves look better or gossiping among themselves." explained Fay

"Like I am going to do that." said Hinata

"Well once your done turning I can take you to the training field and you can spar with the other guards." answered Fay as Hinata looked down at her hand, her figure nails had disappeared during the night and she could feel them inside her fingers, she focused a bit as her now cat like nails came out of small slits in her fingers. Apart from that and the same treatment on her toes and some fur on the back of her knees she was still human.

"Well we could do our nails?" offered Fay "It could help you later."

"How would that help me?" asked Hinata

"Sorry when I mean do our nails I mean this." said Fail as her own razor sharp claws came out of the shelves in her fingers "I mean sharpening them for combat, they are like your ninja kunai your basic go to weapon."

"I see." said Hinata as she looked at her new nails, they where sharp but clearly not as sharp as Fays.

"Why don't you finish your breakfast and I will get a whetstone for you." said Fay as she stood up and headed toward the door.

"A what?" asked Hinata

"It's a hardened stone that you put water on and you run you claws over in different patterns to sharpen your claws for combat." answered Fay "You know when you're done when you pass the paper test."

"Paper test?" asked Hinata

"If you can run your claws though a piece of paper cleanly with easy and no fraying then you're done." explained Fay as she walked out making sure that the door was closed and that the two guards where outside the door. She wasn't the head of the female guards but it was clear that in time she was likely to become the head of the female guard core.

"Any problems?" asked Fay to one of the other guards

"Nothing more than a few of the pompous bitches trying to get in." laughed a guard as she gestured toward one of the older harem lioness trying to get a look at Hinata.

"I hope you discouraged that." laughed Fay

"I threatened to cut her throat." laughed the guard

"Good." answered Fay

"So is this Hinata is she the same as the others lioness we have to deal with?" asked a tiger

"Let's just say she seems more interested in learning how to fight like a demon then how to make her claws more pretty." answered Fay as the two guards smiled.

"Finally a member of the harem who isn't a pain in the ass." said the guard

"Maybe." said Fay it was well known that members of the Harem tended not to like the guards. It was the guards that stopped them from getting to the Prince or King if he didn't want them. Also they were just from different classes, most of the guarders where either military felines from common ancestries or military prides with a long history of being in the military. All had worked hard and had proven themselves in order to get to this position. The members of the harem in contrasts didn't work apart from trying to make themselves look as beautiful as possible, they hardest work they ever did was a light workout to stay in shape. Being from such different worlds caused them to not get along.

Fay walked away from Hinata's door past the multiple doors which all had rooms almost the same as Hinata's. However they were all empty because the harem which was designed to hold up to a thousand lionesses had only fifty or fifty one if you counted Hinata. She walked past one of the many gardens where some of the other members of the harem gossiped and waited for the prince to come around. Finally she reached her destination one of the guard outposts where different supplies where stored.

"What can I do for you Fay?" asked a tiger guard

"I need two pairs of your whetstones, make sure it is your best pairs." stated Fay

"You trying to scare them?" asked the guard as she pulled two of the stones each about two times the size as a human nail file.

"No actually, I am going to teach Hinata how to sharpen her claws." said Fay

"Wouldn't one of those be a better choice to make her claws beautiful?" asked the guard as she tilted her head toward one of the lioness applying color to her claws making them a deep red.

"Well Hinata landed a blow on Yahiko as a human." stated Fay as the guard's eyes widened before she smiled.

"Finally someone who might make a good queen." laughed the guard

Inside the long term storage area Tsunade woke up in Jiriaya bed, however she was alone. There was only one bed in the area so he had taken the couch. She walked into the bathroom and after doing her business she did a quick visual check only to come up empty no sign of any change.

"Nothing yet." said Tsunade to herself as she noticed that her mouth felt different. She lifted up her lip to see that during the night her teeth had turned sharp full rows of canine teeth. A knock at the door caused her to turn around.

"It's me." said Jiriaya

"Who else would it be?" asked Tsunade "I'll be out in a moment."

"I don't need to use the restroom I just want to know if anything happened to you?" asked Jiriaya

"My teeth are sharper now." answered Tsunade "Anything for you?"

"Not that I found but when I got here they said I had generation three drug which means around ten days to turn." said Jiriaya "I just wanted to know if anything happened to you."

"Apart from the teeth no." answered Tsunade as she walked out of the bathroom

"Any idea what this experiment Orochimaru is doing?" asked Jiriaya

"Whatever it is, it can't be good." said Tsunade

"When is any experiment done by Orochimaru good?" asked Jiriaya "So you want to bet on what race we are becoming?"

"Well the row of sharp teeth mean I am not becoming a horse or an ant." Stated Tsunade

"You mean we?" asked Jiriaya

"We may not becoming the same thing." explained Tsunade

Meanwhile upstairs in the main area of the hospital Sakura was standing in front of a desk waiting for a nurse to come back with the records.

"Ah…yes, here it is." said the stallion "Sai, Ino Yamanaka and her herd were moved to wing five."

"wing five?" asked Sakura "Isn't that the wing for the ants?"

"Ya normally that is but we had a fire in wing 2, 4 and 6." stated the horse "We had to move humans around because of it."

"Three fires at once?" asked Sakura

"A couple of humans blew up some paper bombs after they were injected, they should really have checked them for weapons." stated the horse "Shino Aburame is in the same wing?"

"Did he get moved too?" asked Sakura

"No, he is becoming an Ant…poor human." laughed the horse "These other two Jiriaya and Tsunade are part of a special project."

"Special Project?" asked Sakura

"You will have to talk to Orochimaru about that Doctor Haruno." said the horse "Could be anything."

"Probably nothing good." said Sakura

"You never know, Orochimaru has been working on projects given by the combined demon council, he is working to help all the races." stated the horse with a smile

"We can have that debate later I want to see them." said Sakura

"You can see everyone on your list apart from Tsunade and Jiriaya." Said the horse "Just give me time to get everything together, with those fires we have everything mixed up. We don't even have the reports on what demons they are becoming."

"How long?" asked Sakura

"Maybe twenty minutes or so." explained the horse

"Alright." said Sakura as she went to sit down. She had lost her mother to her own hands, now she hoped the two other women in her life was safe. Ever since she and Ino had become friends she had become almost like a daughter to Ino's mom, Lys Yamanaka. She had been over at their house since she was seven years old, doing the same things any little girl would sleepovers, tea parties and talking about boys. Then there was her master and teacher Lady Tsunade, she was like a grandmother to her. All those life lessons she learned from Tsunade on top of the medical justus.

Meanwhile in fire country inside the large Nara woods a group of villagers where getting to work on their makeshift homes, mostly tree houses. They had settled on three houses because from what they had been told the demons didn't like moving through the trees so being up in the trees would help hid them. Combine that with the scent suppressing seals they had placed around there was a chance that the hundred people may not be found.

"Alright make sure those houses are high enough off the ground so that the canopy covers the house, we need to make this invisible to the naked eye." Ordered Choji

"Yes, sir." stated a Ninja as Choji lowered his head a bit, he was placed in charge of this unite. His mission wasn't to fight back against the demons, considering he only had seventeen ninjas he couldn't really launch an attack, he was to provide food for the attack groups and keep the civilians alive.

"Sir we have planted some of the crops." said a villager

"Just like I told you, this isn't like a normal farm field. We can't be found." Stated Choji

"Yes, sir." said the villager as he walked off as Choji lowered his head, ever since he left the village he had a headache maybe because he wasn't used to being in command.

It had taken almost half an hour for them to lead Sakura to the Wing five, as she walked into the wing her eyes widened a bit as she saw four levels of cells.

"You are in luck the humans you are after are located beside each other and in the same general area." said a horse "Room number 137."

"Thanks." said Sakura as she started walking down line looking at the numbers on top of the doors. Every once in a while she would look at the people inside the cells. Her eyes widened as she noticed that everyone had been stripped down to their underwear.

"Why would they do that?" thought Sakura

"Probably to make sure that there are no more paper bombs." answered Inner Sakura as they passed two people having sex.

"Also it may help people just do it." thought Sakura as she noticed the two were changing a lot faster.

"Sakura is that you Sakura?" asked a voice as Sakura turned around to look into another cell. Her eyes widened as she looked at the violet hair woman who had been the lead instructor for the second part of the chunin exams.

"Anko?" asked Sakura as she looked at what happened to her, from the waste up she looked almost perfectly normal, same short spiky pony tail, same light brown eyes however from the waist down everything was different. Her legs where gone replaced with a long snake tail with a series of patterns that looked like leafs in five or six different shades of brown with violet spots mixed in.

"Ya…they are turning me into a fucking snake because I used to work with Orochimaru." stated Anko "Get me out of here!"

"I can't." stated Sakura "Why are you changing so fast?"

"They are pumping something into this room, now get me out!" yelled Anko as her forked tongue poked out of her mouth "Before I am a snake."

"Sorry Anko." said Sakura as she kept walking down the line. She stopped again as she noticed Shino's cloths sitting outside of one of the cells, his dark sun glassed and Leaf ninja headband resting on top of the cloths. She looked up only to jump back a bit at what she saw. His arms had thinned out as his arms turned deep brown and hardened. His pointer and middle fingers had joined along with his pinky and index fingers together as his thumb grew so they where the same length. His mouth as also changed as two giant pincers where coming out of his checks, they clamped together on a piece of food guiding it toward his mouth. Coming out of his tail bone was massive tear drop shaped structure with growths coming off the sides near his hips.

"Shino?" asked Sakura as the demon ant Shino turned and looked at her before going back to eating.

"Shino…it's me Sakura." repeated Sakura but Shino paid her no mind.

"He will not talk to you forehead." stated a voice as Sakura walked two cells over only to come face to face with Ino. Like everyone else at first glance she had seen they had changed but not as much as Anko or Shino. Her blue eyes where silted and two blonde fox ears poked out of the top of her head. Sakura couldn't help but smile as she realized her best friend was becoming a fox. Like everyone else she had been stripped leaving her standing in front of her best friend in only a purple sports bra and a bikini bottom. She glanced into the room only to spy Sai sitting there in a pair of black boxers, everything seemed normal until Sakura realized that the boxers where really briefs, black fox fur made it seem like he had boxers on. The two of them where not alone either also sitting in the room was Ino's parents. Her father Inoichi face was pushing out into a muzzle and a blonde tail was already coming out of his tailbone , like everyone he had be stripped down to his underwear. Sitting beside him was his wife Lys Yamanaka, she looked like an older maybe a little heaver version of Ino only with deep brown hair and brown eyes. She had changed the most, her brown hair and transformed into fur of the same shade and had worked it way down to her white bra. Her face was totally fox with a lighter shade of brown running around the lower part of her cheeks to the mouth before going down her throat only to disappear when it hit her bra. The rest seemed perfectly normal.

"So what do you think forehead?" asked Ino

"Why are you changing so fast?" asked Sakura

"They are pumping sexual scents into the room, makes it hard to resist some of the more basic needs." explained Ino

"Well you seem to be doing good." said Sakura as Ino rolled her eyes before turning around to show her back. Running from right under her neck and covering almost all her back to the small of her back was blonde fur; Sakura could make out at least three bumps in the area around her tailbone. "I take it back."

"Well it could be worst we could be coming ants, they seem to be almost mindless." said Lys Yamanaka as she stood up and stood beside her daughter. "It's good to see you Sakura."

"Nice to see you alive Mrs. Yamanaka." said Sakura "I lost too much, I don't think I could stand having you guys lost too."

"What happened?" asked Sai

"My mom." said Sakura as she lowered her head "She committed suicide."

"I am sorry Sakura, she was a good woman and one of my best friends." said Lys "I am sure she is looking down on you."

"With hate maybe." answered Sakura

"What?" asked Lys

"She denounced me as her daughter and told me to die and burn in hell in her suicide note." explained Sakura

"I am so sorry Sakura." Said Ino

"It's ok, Naruto-kun and his pack is helping me though this." explained Sakura

"Ino told me you two where together, that is wonderful news." said Lys with a smile

"Sakura if you don't mind me asking any word on Shikaku, Choza, Choji and Shikamaru?" asked Inoichi as he asked about his best friends and teammate and their kids.

"Shikaku and his wife are becoming wolves, Shikamaru and Temari are already foxes, Choji made it out of the village and as for Choza I don't know." explained Sakura

"Thanks." said Inoichi

"Alright I have to ask aren't you embarrassed I mean you are all standing around in your underwear." said Sakura

"And you technically nude but you're not hiding are you forehead?" asked Ino as Sakura laughed a bit "Besides we are a family who's clan justu is walking though each other minds, we are a pretty open family."

"Sakura what is it like to be a demon fox?" asked Lys as Sakura blinked "They have videos telling us about it but still."

"I have only been a demon for a little bit over a month but I'll help the best I can." answered Sakura

It was already past lunch and Hinata looked down at her sharpened claws, she had a steep learning curve since doing claws wasn't the same as doing nails and she was never that good at that.

"Great…" said Fay "Those would past inspection by any commander."

"Thanks." said Hinata with a smile; they had talked almost the entire time mostly Fay filling her in on demon feline culture. The door slowly opened as Hinata and Fay looked expecting to see Gamba however instead there stood another lioness. She appeared in her mid forties but looked like she was on death's door; her deep purple fur wasn't growing at the same rate making her look even worst.

"Queen Oda." said Fay as she stood up and got down on one knee as Hinata just stood up, her white eyes locking onto Oda's greenish blue eyes.

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