Chapter 11 We Lost Him

Everyone walked out of the meeting room more depressed then every. They had just found out that they were all infected and had been for years. Sai and Captain Yamato had headed out to gather their supplies before heading out to find a new base for them to work out of. Temari had returned to the secretly office to watch the cameras for any sign of the infected. Hinata had gone off to some unknown place and Kakashi moved toward the guard post by the infected. That left Ino and Sakura to continue their work.

"So forehead what do we do now?" asked Ino as she gathered up some of the material they had brought with them to the meeting.

"Well, we need to finish the Physiology test." said Sakura

"How will that help us?" asked Ino

"Probably not much but it may let us know how the mind changes." said Sakura "Maybe we can find a way to cure their minds and return their humanity. That would allow us to get more time in finding a total cure."

"I suppose that would be good." said Ino "Also it will get me some time out of the lab, if I have to look down the scope of a microscope for another hour I may lose my mind."

"You have a mind?" asked Sakura with a grin as Ino shook her head.

"I am smarter then you." said Ino with a laugh as she walked out the door and headed toward the cells.

"We haven't seen Naruto-kun for a while." said Inner Sakura

"I know I just hope he is ok." though Sakura as she headed toward the medical lab to keep working on the cure.

Meanwhile Ino was walking down the hallway toward the cells, suddenly Sai came storming out of one of the doors.

"Ino…I am so glad that I ran into you before I headed out." said Sai with a smile, even though they had been friends since Sai had joined Naruto's and Sakura's team it was still weirld to see him smile. It was as if it wasn't nature for him to smile.

"Is something wrong?" asked Ino

"Just a quick question, I don't want to be spotted or attacked when we are flying are we sure they can't do justus?" asked Sai as Ino rubbed the back of her head.

"That is hard to say." said Ino "There is some evidence that those who turn can still physically do justus but yet apart from some reports from the leaf of ninjas using bloodline justus like the Byakugan there are no reports of them using regular justus."

"Any reason why?" asked Sai

"No real idea but I would guess it has to do with the fact that they forget parts of their lives. Training may be part of that." said Ino as Sai nodded his head "Just be careful out there."

"We will and in time we will find a new base." said Sai as he headed down the hallway and headed toward the surface. Where he and Captain Yamato would head out to find a new base for them. Ino kept walking down to the lowest level of the base to where Naruto, Shizune, Tenten and Neji were being held. She walked pass Kakashi toward the cells. The lights where out in Naruto's cell so she went to Shizune's cell. What she found surprised her, Shizune was hiding under the bed like a scared…bunny. Like Tenten and Neji she had stopped using the toilet for her waste and she was now going anywhere she wanted.

"We may of lost Shizune." thought Ino as she ran though hand signs before closing her eyes. "Mind probe justu."

Ino opened her eyes again to find herself in a long stone hallway, it was dimly light with only a dozen or so doors in the entire place. There where doors marked memoires, instincts, food, sex and many different others.

"Ok, this is strange…Shizune's mind should have a lot more doors in it." said Ino out load as an image of Shizune appeared, however it was an image of her bunny self.

"Who are you?" asked Shizune scared out of her mind.

"Shizune I am your friend…it is me Ino?" asked Ino as Shizune shook her head.

"I don't know you…please don't kill me." pleaded Shizune

"I am not going to hurt you, in fact we are inside your mind." said Ino "I can't hurt you."

"Ino?" asked Shizune

"You remember me now?" asked Ino

"Ya, I am losing my mind I don't know how long I can last." said Shizune

"Your mind is very different, it has less than a quarter of the average doors a human has." said Ino

"Doors?" asked Shizune

"Ya, the doors are sort of like programs on a computer. Different doors have different functions, there are doors for love, dreams and many different others. However in here doors like art and other higher human thoughts are gone." said Ino

"Have you learned anything?" asked Shizune

"Yes, but we need to find out as much as we can about the infected mind before you totally lose your mind to the animal side." said Ino

"Alright…I will try to stay as human as possible." said Shizune as they began looking though Shizune's mind.

Elsewhere Sakura was looking down the scope of a microscope at a sample of Naruto's blood.

"Naruto-kun's blood has an extremely high amount of the virus but yet he is changing slowly?" said Sakura out load to herself.

"Lady Tsunade always looked at you strange for talking to yourself." said Inner Sakura

"Ya, but it always helped me think." added Sakura as she went back to looking at the blood sample.

"Naruto-kun's test shows he has a high level of testosterone so he should be changing into something other than a fox. Also he should have finished changing a long time ago but hasn't" Said Sakura "Could the only reason why he would become a fox is because he had the Kyuubi in him for all that time? No there has to be another reason, maybe something in his blood is forcing the change to follow that path?"

"Tsunade always said that sometimes the simplest answers are the correct answers." thought Inner Sakura as Sakura rubbed her head.

"Maybe it is that simple, maybe Naruto-kun is becoming a fox because of his long time exposure to demon chakra." added Sakura "Maybe it is that same exposer that chakra is slowing down the rate of turn. But could the answer really be that simple?"

Outside the door to the medical lab, leaning against the wall was Hinata. Every time she had heard Sakura say the word Naruto-kun it felt like a knife going into her heart. She had to fight down tears so that Sakura didn't know she was there, on some levels she wanted Sakura to know she was there so she would have to explain why she was saying Kun for her boyfriend. It would have given her the perfect excuses to hurt her; however they needed a cure so she remained silent. Suddenly the sound of the computer beeping filled the air.

"I thought we had finished all the blood tests." Said Sakura as she stood up and headed toward the door. As Sakura neared the door, Hinata made a break for it so that she wasn't found by Sakura.

Meanwhile Ino slowly got back to her feet after returning to her body. The journey into Shizune mind had ended when Shizune had lost the rest of her human mind. Now she didn't seem as animal like as Tenten or Neji as she hid under the bed, but like them she was more animal then human.

"Ino is something up?"asked Kakashi as Ino headed toward Naruto's cell door.

"We lost Shizune…" explained Ino as Kakashi lowered his head.

"I see is she a threat?" asked Kakashi

"Not much more then she was before, a bunny can't really bust though a solid steal door." stated Ino as she reached Naruto's door. With a flick of a switch the lights turned on in Naruto's cell, it was originally designed to make keep prisoners up for integration. When the lights turned on it showed Naruto was lying on the bed in a large ball, his tail was near his face. More and more he was looking like a fox, from what she could see his face had bushed out into a short muzzle and was about halfway covered with blonde fur. The right side of his body was covered with fur down to his waste and from the waist down the left side of his body was covered. For a second Ino wondered if she should wake him before deciding she would get a better inside if she went in unannounced.

"Mind probe justu." said Ino as she closed her eyes again. When she opened her eyes again she found herself standing inside Naruto's mind. Like Shizune the number of doors were lower than normal but it was still it was brightly light and there were still more door then Shizune's mind. Because Naruto was still asleep he didn't appear in front of Ino like Shizune did when she went into her mind.

"Alright, might as well try to find out is on blonde idiot's mind." said Ino as she headed toward the nearest door. Her father had told her during training that the nearest door was the place to find the person, this was true because the nearest door is what the person is thinking about. Ino walked toward the door, the moment she touched it she found herself back in the Leaf.

"Naruto must be dreaming about the Leaf." thought Ino as she walked down the busy street. If there was one thing she hated about doing a mind probe was entering someone's dreams. Dreams where just too fucked up, anything could happen at any time. Right now she was walking down a street where the people had no faces and where all dressed in the same clothes. Finally she reached Naruto's apartment building. Finally she reached the Naruto's door, she slowly opened the door and entered Naruto's apartment. It was the same apartment that he had lived in since he was a kid, even after he learned he had inherited a small fortune of money from his father's clan he still lived in the same place. The main part of the apartment was empty but she could hear sounds coming from the bedroom.

"Great I have to walk in on Naruto and Hinata doing it." thought Ino as she opened the bedroom door and walked in. The first thing she saw was Naruto's coat on the floor and him kneeling on the bed, his back to her. Also on the bed, pinned by Naruto was a pair of legs that didn't belong to him. They were small and shapely, with red toenail polish on them.

"Hinata always uses blue not a red, so what is up with this?" asked Ino as she walked around the bed. What she found to her surprise it wasn't Hinata who was pinned under Naruto it was Sakura. Sakura was lying on the bed looking up at Naruto with a smile as he rested his forehead against hers as they just stared into each other's eyes.

"Naruto is dreaming about Sakura not Hinata?" asked Ino as she watched as one of Naruto's hand began pulling down a zipper on the front of Sakura's shirt, showing her skin and her red lacy bra.

"I love you Sakura-chan." said Naruto

"I love you Naruto-kun." said Sakura as she pulled Naruto into a kiss before trying to rip of his shirt.

"Naruto loves Sakura not Hinata?" asked Ino as she turned to leave, as she reached the door everything changed. No longer was she in the Leaf, she was in a grass field surrounded by a large forest. She turned around to see Naruto and Sakura, however Naruto was no longer human however they were in the same position. Naruto was a blonde fox however there on the ground was another moving tail, this one pink.

"Crap, Naruto is losing his mind." thought Ino as she left Naruto's dream only to find his mind had changed into the same as Shizune. Suddenly a wall of red chakra appeared in front of her, the heat so bad that is burned her skin. She quickly formed a hand sign to break the justu and send her back to her body.

"Ino what happened?" asked Kakashi as Ino sat up in a cold sweat.

"Some kind of mind barrier." said Ino

"Why are you in my mind." growled Naruto's voice as Kakashi and Ino looked into the cell. Naruto was on his feet growling, he was in a defensive stance with his claws ready. Ino's and Kakashi's eyes widened as Naruto's body began to be covered by blonde fur, it was growing in so fast that they could see it. Soon only a part of Naruto's face remained human a second later that too was covered as Naruto finished transforming into a blonde fur human fox.

"We were trying to help you." explained Ino

"If you want to help me, bring me Sakura-chan so that we can be together." Stated Naruto as licked his lips as his member came of a canine sheathe.

"I think we lost Naruto." said Kakashi

"You think?" asked Ino "I better tell Sakura what happened."

"You could just let Sakura-chan come down here?" said Naruto as he began walking across the ground on all fours. It was strange looking at him like an animal, the only piece of human clothing he had on was the 1st Hokage's necklace which was barely hanging on around Naruto's neck.

It took only a few minutes for Ino to walk back to the medical lab. She opened the door to find Sakura waiting for her.

"Where you planning to tell me?" asked Sakura as Ino just blinked

"What are you talking about forehead?" asked Ino

"This." said Sakura as she handed Ino a piece of paper. Ino's eyes widened as she read the paper.

"Does anyone else know?" asked Ino

"No." said Sakura

"Don't tell them." ordered Ino

"But…" said Sakura

"It is my personal business not yours or anyone else." stated Ino

"Alright." said Sakura

"Now let's get back to curing the virus and stop worrying about this." said Ino "Because we lost both Shizune and Naruto."

"Naruto-kun." said Sakura softly as she looked at the ground.

It was just before dawn and yet Temari had barley left the cameras room. Her eyes where bloodshot as she kept looking at those cameras.

"You need some rest." said Kakashi as he walked up to Temari.

"I know but without Captain Yamato and Sai to replace you and me we don't have the man power. Ino and Sakura are working on a cure and Hinata are busy making sure we have all the food and water we need." said Temari as she ran her hands though her hair.

"Still you can't stay up all the time, you need rest." said Kakashi "Let me take watch, I have two shadow clones downstairs guarding them."

"Alright." said Temari as she went to stand up only to have an alarm go off. "What the?"

She looked toward one of the cameras only to see a large male wolf's face. Temari's heart stopped as she realized it was Shikamaru.

"Hello Temari-chan I found you." said Shikamaru

"Crap." said both Kakashi and Temari

I hope you liked this chapter, I don't know when I will update next. I have a very busy week in front of me but I will update as soon as possible. Thanks Wilkins75