Chapter 17 A New World
The smell of wild flowers filled her nose as Sakura breathed deep. Her head was pounding "What a weirld up dream, I dreamed I turned into a fox human hybrid." Thought Sakura as she opened her eyes expecting to see her alarm clock but instead she saw a large concrete room. "What the?"
Slowly she stood up and looked around the room, two dirty matrus where lying on the ground covered with blonde and pink hair. Other the tables had been smashed to pieces and the floor was covered with dirt and grimed. The room also seamed uncomely small.
"What is going on?" asked Sakura as she headed toward the door, she reached out toward the door handle only to see her hand was covered with black hair. "My God."
Sakura looked down to see her body was covered with white fur across the chest, with black on his lower leg and arms and pink fur across the rest of her body. Sakura bolted toward the bathroom and slowly reached out toward the dirt covered mirror. She whipped away the dirt and saw her face. Instantly her eyes widened as her heart began to race, her nose had pushed out into a six inch muzzle full of sharp teeth and tipped with a cold wet nose. Two black pointed ears poked out of the top of her head and moved freely. Her sea green eyes where now silted and as winded as dinner plates. She pulled her hands over her face just feeling how much her face had changed as she pulled her ears back. Then with one massive burst she let out a load scream.
"It wasn't a dream." Thought Sakura as she tried to remember the last thing that happened to her, she remembered lying down with Naruto by the opening after she placed the note down. She saw flashes of different events but nothing made sense "But how did I end up here."
Slowly Sakura walked out of the bathroom and into the dirt covered hallway, doors where knocked down and everything was covered with dust. She passed by a room where the remains of a deer could be seen in place. Slowly she reached a large door, with one push the door opened to show what looked like the under part of a tree.
"Where am I?" asked Sakura as she pushed though a small opening between the ground and the tree to emerged in the middle of a woods.
Sakura looked around to see that the entrees to the base was under a large white bark tree by an even larger river, she knew that river from all the times she had crossed it over the river thousands of times as a ninja on missions. "That's the Feuer River so I am only about an hour away from the Leaf, but how do I find anyone?"
"Sniff the air of course." Said Inner Sakura
"What?" asked Sakura
"You're a vixen, that means you can find someone by using their scents." Answered Inner Sakura "You should of just stayed in the shadows."
"What are you talking about?" asked Sakura
"I will just let you figure it out." said Inner Sakura as she seemed to close herself off from Sakura.
"That is strange." thought Sakura as she sniffed the air, getting the smell of blood in the distance, a kill the smell of the blood and the idea of eating made her stomach growled hungrily. Without even thinking she started moving in the direction of the smell, she fallowed the smell though the woods until she finally reached a small clearing. What she saw was a large deer man who was dying from a large wound on the neck. His large antlers where snapped into pieces like it had been in a large fight. Slowly Sakura walked up the dying man, her eyes widened as she saw who it was.
"Iruka?" asked Sakura as her old teacher shook violently as he tired to attack Sakura with the remains of his antlers. "Iruka it's me Sakura."
"He will not understand you." Said a new voice as Sakura looked toward the other end of the clearing to see a large blonde dog woman walking toward her on all fours. "However I am glad to see that you a human minded."
"Ino?" asked Sakura as she started to walk toward her friend.
"It's me." Said Ino as she brushed past Sakura and walked toward Iruka. Sakura watched as she placed her foot on Iruka's neck. "Please forgive me, Iruka."
Before Sakura could say anything Ino's dug her claws though Iruka's neck piecing the artery and killing him.
"Ino what are you doing?" asked Sakura
"Keeping my cover and showing him some mercy." said Ino before walking up to Sakura and giving her a hug. Sakura eyes widened as she felt her friend hug her, it felt strange being hugged by a dog woman even if she was a fox woman. "I thought we had lost you."
"What are you talking about Ino what happened?" asked Sakura as Ino looked into her friend's silted green eyes.
"What was the last thing you remember?" asked Ino
"Turning into this." said Sakura as she gestured toward her fox body. "The next thing I knew I was lying in one of the sand's bunkers."
"Forehead I don't know how to tell you this but that was four years ago." said Ino
"What?" asked Sakura "four years?"
"At least." said Ino as Sakura moved to sit down on a log, however the moment she sat down she jumped up. "You sat on your tail didn't you?"
"Ya." said Sakura
"You get used to it." said Ino as she sat down beside her friend.
"So what is going on?" asked Sakura
"Maybe I should start with what happened to me." said Ino
Flashback
Ino opened her eyes to see the faded remains of a large family photo of Kiba, his sister and his mother. "I am at Kiba-kun house, when did I get here?" thought Ino as she slowly sat up and looked around, she felt like bolting toward the nearest door when she saw she was surrounded by a large pack of sleeping dog people. However she suddenly noticed that the base of her hands where covered with white fur. "My God, I am one of them."
"Ino what is going on?" asked Kiba as he lifted his head and looked at his mate.
"He might kill me if I do something wrong." Thought Ino "Nothing Kiba-kun just a bad dream."
Kiba nodded his head before lying back down.
"Well our son is hungry again." said Kiba as Ino noticed a small pup lying beside Kiba, the baby had bark brown fur over most of his body like in but with white fur like hers on his legs and arm.
"This is my son?" thought Ino as she naturally reached out toward the pup, she held the son in her arms and lifted her toward her breast. The baby latched on and started feeding on her mother's milk as Ino rubbed her son's back. She felt like crying as she looked down at her son. "Kadin, that is his name. Wait how do I know that?"
"Why are you feeding him like that?" asked Kiba
"Dogs don't hold their pups as they feed them, they just lie on their side and breast feed." Thought Ino as she tried to find an answer "I just want to hold him."
"Alright, just make sure to lie him down between us so we can keep him warm." Said Kiba as he lied his head back down and went back to sleep as Ino went back to looking at her son. She knew he was suppose to be human, with pink flesh but she loved him anyhow.
"He looks like his father, and he will grow up to be a wonderful man and pack leader." Thought Ino as her son kept feeding.
End Flashback
"For the first few weeks I was always on edge thinking that I would be discovered that I had human mind. They look for that in the Leaf now." said Ino "If you are discovered you are killed on the spot, however in time my memories of my life just after the turn came back, so I fit in now."
"What are you talking about? Who is looking for it?" asked Sakura
"You haven't noticed yet have you?" asked Ino as she pointed to her arm, Sakura's eyes widened as she saw a sound headband wrapped around Ino's arm.
"What the?" asked Sakura as she jumped to her feet "Why do you have a sound headband?"
"Calm down forehead, I may be part of their army but it isn't by choice." Said Ino
"What?" asked Sakura
"Tell me you remember the call that went out just after Naruto infected you?" asked Ino as Sakura thought back to the high pitch sound that filled the base and caused everyone to leave.
"Ya." said Sakura
"It was a justu calling all anthro's who are a level 4 and above back to the Leaf." Said Ino
"Level 4?" asked Sakura
"Level one, rabbits, mice and other small animals. Level two larger animals like deers and level three are low level predators like foxes, raccoons and small wild cats." explained Ino "Level four is dogs and cows, it goes all the way up to ten with large cats."
"So why do you have a sound headband on?" asked Sakura
"Well the justu called everyone there and we became part of Kabuto's new army." said Ino
"Kabuto is the one behind all this?" asked Sakura
"Ya, we form the base of his unstoppable army and the other nations are so afraid of him that they just surrendered to him." said Ino "He rules the new sound village."
"Where is that?" asked Sakura
"The Leaf." answered Ino "He even had his ugly face put into the Hokage mountain."
"That sun of a bitch." said Sakura
"Ya, but Sakura you need to know that there are a lot of people looking for you and Naruto." said Ino
"Why, we are just foxes why would they want us?" asked Sakura as she looked down at her body, she was still not used to seeing herself like this.
"It's because Naruto has large amounts of chakra and with the problems facing Kabuto he needs Naruto." said Ino
"What problems?" asked Sakura
"Turns out that the transformation isn't finished once the body changes over time people lose even more of their minds." said Ino "Sakura you don't know what it is like in the Leaf, people have started walking around on all fours all the time and some of them have stopped talking and only talk in barks and growls. The races have started to fight each other but it is only a matter of time until they lose all their humanity and they will be nothing but animals."
"My God." said Sakura
"Don't worry it isn't as bad for the lower level creatures, the higher up creatures mean the more drastic of changes." said Ino
"Then why did you kill Iruka?" asked Sakura
"I never said it was perfect." said Ino "Some species change faster than others, deer are the fastest to change, they are nothing but animals now."
"That still doesn't give you the right to kill them." said Sakura
"Forehead listen to you, we are humans trapped in an animal body. If we have act the part so that we don't get killed." said Ino "Besides I have seen you kill former members of the Leaf to feed you and your mate Naruto."
Sakura couldn't help but smile.
"Naruto is my husband?" asked Sakura
"Mate not husband, you like everyone else never had a wedding but if it makes you feel better yes, he is your husband." said Ino "Besides you have to worry about him having more than one mate."
"More than one?" asked Sakura
"Some animals don't mate for life, that panther Sasuke has an entire Harem of girls to breed with, however Hinata is his favorite. Nothing is stopping Naruto from having another one." said Ino as Sakura eyes widened as her blood boiled at the idea of Naruto being with another woman. Suddenly a howl filled the air causing Ino to look over her shoulder.
"Crap the pack is coming." said Ino as she stood up "Sakura run as fast as you can and head back to where ever your den is, meet back here in five days."
"Alright." said Sakura
"And please act like an animal, I don't know what Naruto would do if you act like a human in front of him." Explained Ino as Sakura took off back though the woods, to her amazement she wasn't fallowing the same path back toward the den. She rushed toward the water making sure to run though the water to hide her scent, finally she came stopped near the large white tree that hid the base. She rushed down the hole and into the base.
"That was close." said Sakura
"What was?" asked a voice from behind her as a pair of hands wrapped around her pulling her in. She instantly relaxed as she inhaled the scent, she knew who it was without even thinking.
"Naruto-kun." said Sakura as she leaned back into him.
"What happened Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto
"Think animal like." thought Sakura "I smelled a kill and I was hungry, so I went to see if I could grab some supper."
"You ran into one of their hunting groups?" asked Naruto
"Ya, just Ino I got away before she saw me." said Sakura
"Alright, I just wish you would stay in the den." said Naruto
"I am a vixen I can do the same thing as you." demanded Sakura as he turned around to look at Naruto for the first time. Even with in his new fox form he looked like Naruto. His deep blue eyes that she loved so much remained, he seemed a little bit taller and a bit more mature but he still seemed as kind as ever.
"I know." said Naruto as he placed a one of his fox hands on Sakura's stomach. "but I want to protect you and our unborn cub."
Sakura's eyes widened as she looked down at her stomach.
"I am pregnant?" asked a stunned Sakura as she looked at her stomach.
Well I hope you like this chapter and the time skip, I promise you will get Naruto/Sakura moments in the coming chapters including flashbacks about what happened when Sakura was totally animal minded. Now look for my next update on Christmas Eve. Until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75.