Chapter 35 A Cure?
The needle went into Kane's arm everyone gathered around and watched to see if anything would happen however nothing happened.
"Well that was kind of anti-climatic." said Kiba
"Ya." said Kane as he scratched his ear only to feel that something was different. Slowly Kane lowered his hand to see his long black claws where shrinking and turning from black back to their normal human color.
"It seems to be working." said Tsunade
Kane didn't say anything else he feel to the ground holding his stomach.
"This hurts." said Kane as he began to shrink in size and weight. Soon he had gone from being 6'8 back to his old height of 5'9. He dropped over a hundred pounds as his fur began to fall out in clumps.
"Your entire body is changing it isn't suppose to be easily." said Tsunade
"It's ok, Kane we are here." said Rin as she watch her husband go from a tall strong male fox with deep red hair to a hairless fox apart from the fur on the top of his head, his ears and his tail. Thinking fast Sakura threw a large towel over her father as the final changes took place as his teeth fell out as human teeth grew back in. Slowly his muzzle shrunk as his nose separated from his mouth. With the last turns coming Kane pulled the blanket over him blocking everyone from seeing him.
"Dad?" asked Sakura
"I think it is over." said Tsunade
"Why will he not answer?" asked Sakura as she looked at her master with worry in her silted eyes.
"He may have passed out." explained Tsunade "Now leave I don't think he wants his daughter seeing him nude."
"I am not leaving." snapped Rin
"You're his wife I don't think he minds you seeing him nude." laughed Kiba as they left the room closing the door behind them.
"Do you think this worked?" asked Sai
"I hope so." said Ino "However…."
"Don't worry, our kid will be fine." said Kiba as he pulled her close.
After what seemed like hours but was likely only half an hour the door opened.
"Come on in." said Tsunade as Sakura rushed though the door to find her Dad slipping on a pair of pants that was left over from when the Sand used the base.
"Dad?" asked Sakura
"It's me." Said Kane as he hugged his daughter however because of her massive size different between his daughter and himself he was swallowed up in her fur.
"You are fine?" asked Sakura
"Well mostly." said Kane as Sakura pulled out a bit to see that her father still had some fox traits. His eyes where silted and his figure nails while shorter where still pointed, just like Naruto's when he had the nine tails cloak around him.
"It seems that the cure isn't one hundred percent effective, some of the secondary traits remained." said Tsunade "However that is a small price to pay."
"At least he doesn't have a tail." Said Kiba
"I kind of do but the paints don't have a hole." said Kane as his wife rolled her eyes.
"Here" said Rin as she used her claws to cut a small hole in the pants letting a fox tail stick out of Kane's pants. While still as looking the same as it had when he was fox however it was portioned to his body.
"Well does it seems to have worked." said Ino
"Everything seams stable." said Tsunade "And all his vitals are good."
"Why didn't it turn him back all the way?" asked Sai
"Some of the changes must be irrevocable." said Tsunade "However his DNA test show that he has almost all human DNA in him."
"What does that mean?" asked Sakura
"I believe the cure has added a new strain to his DNA, that strand controls his animal traits." said Tsunade "It would be no different than hair color or another DNA related dieses."
"So our kid may be born with a tail if we do this cure?" asked Ino
"Likely, however other then that and some other side traits he or she would be totally human." Said Tsunade "And it is likely that people with different animal parts will be able to have kids who will have one of the animal traits of their parents."
"A world where people have animal parts, weird." said Naruto
"Is it any weirder then what we are now?" asked Sakura before slapping Naruto across the back of the head. "Baka."
"So what do we do now?" asked Kane
"I would say we wait and watch to see if anything happens but we don't have time." said Tsunade "For all we know Sasuke and his army is fighting the wolves and people are dieing."
"Alright, then who goes next?" asked Sakura
"I know who." said Rin "My younger children."
"Are you sure?" asked Tsunade
"If we don't turn them now they may get scared and run off." Said Rin
"Alright" stated Tsunade
"Ino will you help me." asked Rin
"Mom I will help." offered Sakura
"No you stay with your father." ordered Rin as she and Ino walked past the group and headed toward the room to pick up her sleeping kids.
"So Dad how do you feel?" asked Sakura
"It's kind of weird." said Kane as he touched his arm. "In some ways I miss my fur but it feels good to be back to human form."
"Give it time and it feel normal again." Explained Tsunade as Rin and Ino returned carrying the sleeping Abela and Davi.
"Should we wake them up?" asked Sakura
"No let them sleep, maybe it will make the turn easier." Added Tsunade as she put the needles into the two sleeping kids arms. To every ones amazement clumps of hairs came off the two kids bodies as they peacefully slept. Maybe it because they were asleep but their didn't seem to be any pain as became human apart from fox tails. There were some other difference like his father Davi's nails where sharpened however his sister Abela didn't have that sharp claws. Instead two fox ears poked out of her pink hair which instead of covering her entire body now only had it on her head.
"There can be some differences in traits." said Tsunade as Rin through a blanket on her sleeping kids.
"I wonder how they will react in the morning." said Sakura
"They will deal with it." said Rin as she looked at her children. "Davi looks like you as a kid Kane."
"Ya, he does." said Kane "And Abela looks like Sakura and you."
"Well apart from the hair, hers is a little darker." corrected Rin
"Rin if you are ready, we can change you." said Tsunade
"Alright." said Rin as she stood up and prepared for her shot. Soon Rin was back to being mostly human, however she still had her fox tail, ears and her eyes were still silted.
"Sakura do you want to go next?" asked Tsunade
"No." said Sakura as Naruto looked at her.
"Sakura-chan, you don't want to be human?" asked Naruto
"Yes, I want to be human but since you are going last I will wait until everyone else is done." Explained Sakura
"Alright then." said Tsunade
"I will go." offered Kiba
"No I will." said Ino
"Ino, I go." said Kiba as he placed his hand on Ino's stomach "If this goes wrong only I die not you and unborn child."
"Fine." Said Ino
"Don't worry Ino he will be fine." Reassured Tsunade as she switched to a different vile of cure, this one a deep shade of blue. "I only wish we had one cure for everyone and not this a different cure for different races."
"How do you plan to spread the cure?" asked Naruto
"I designed it to be airborne as well as injected." explained Tsunade "However Airborne will mean a slower change back?"
"How long?" asked Sakura
An hour maybe two, because in its gas form it isn't as concentrated." explained Tsunade as Tamaki walked in.
"Tamaki-chan is something wrong?" asked Sai
"No, your little boy is hungry." stated Tamaki as a cry went out as Sakura took her son into her arm.
"Forehead your children need you right now, I will see you once this is done." said Ino "That goes for you to Naruto."
"Alright." said Sakura as she and Naruto walked out of the room as they headed back to their bedroom for the past few years.
"Everything is going to change again." said Sakura as she feed her son.
"For the better I hope." said Naruto
"You are going to have a tough job in front of you." said Sakura as Naruto raised an eyebrow
"You were going to become the Hokage before this all happened." said Sakura with a smile "By all rights you should have been Hokage by now."
"I never thought of it." Said Naruto as Sakura raised an eyebrow
"You never thought of the Hokage's position?" asked Sakura
"Well, I had to take care of you and make sure Sasuke didn't find us." said Naruto "Truth be told I didn't really think we would have a chance to become Human again."
"So you gave up your dream?" asked Sakura
"I gave up part of my dream." corrected Naruto as he moved closer pulling her close. "I only cared about taking care of you."
"You sound like a father." said Sakura as they waited for the coming cure.
Less than a mile north of the door to the base Hinata along with a large group of cats gathered around a large fire.
"So my Lady we already searched to the North and East tomorrow will we head South or West?" asked a cheetah girl as she stood before Hinata.
"We will head south and check every place where they could possibly hide." ordered Hinata "Now get some sleep."
"Yes, my lady." said the Cheetah as she left Hinata alone.
Sakura had no idea when she fell asleep but sometime later she woke up to the human face of Ino standing in front of her.
"Hello forehead." said Ino as Sakura blinked her eyes. Her eyes focused as she studied Ino's face and body, she looked the same apart from her still dog like ears and what looked like her tail. Her blonde hair was short and her eyes were still the same shade of blue.
"Your human?" asked Sakura
"In a way, my toe nails are still sharp and the ears and tail." said Ino "Other than that I am good."
"Kiba, Sai and the others?" asked Sakura
"Everyone is cured apart from Naruto and your family." said Ino
"Your kid?" asked Sakura
"Fine along with Tamaki little boy." added Ino
"I just wish we had something else to wear apart from these old uniforms." said Ino as she looked at the gray ninja pants with a hole cut for the tail and Green jonnin jacket.
"Also be warned they didn't have much selection in the form of Undergarments." added Ino as she adjusted her bra "What I wouldn't give now for a nice bra."
"You can get better fashion once we are back to normal." said Sakura as she looked at the clock, somehow after all these years it was still going it was just after three in the morning.
"Then it is time." said Ino "Tsunade is waiting for you."
"Naruto?" asked Sakura as she looked and saw Naruto wasn't beside her only to see him coming out of the bathroom.
"I had to go." explained Naruto as the two of them gathered their kids before walking down toward the medical bay. What they found was Tsunade dressed similar to Ino, however her shirt was strained from her bust.
"Having trouble finding a shirt that fits old lady?" asked Naruto as Tsunade glared at him with her fox silted eyes. Like Ino she still had her tail however she didn't have her fox ears.
"I don't have time for your antics Naruto." said Tsunade as she prepared the vile. "I dropped a vile earlier so I am afraid that we will have to wait a little bit to become human Naruto."
"How long?" asked Sakura
"An hour at the moment." said Tsunade
"Go head Sakura-chan I will be fine." said Naruto as Sakura nodded her head as Tsunade put the needle in Sakura's arm. Sakura closed her eyes as it felt like her blood turned to ice; it was unlike when she was infected when her blood felt like it was on fire. Now it she felt like she was be clamped down as she looked at her hand. Her eyes widened as placed her hand on her fur; with the smallest tug hug clumps of fur came falling off. Naruto went to move forward to comfort her only to be stopped by Tsunade.
"Sai had back spasms when he changed, if you hold her then you may get hurt." explained Tsunade as Naruto looked on helpless to comfort Sakura as both her arms returned to their normal human form. Even her finger nails where back to human style not sharpened like her father's. For a moment nothing happened as Sakura stood their almost totally fox apart from totally human hands.
"I feel cold." said Sakura as she wrapped her arms around her to stay warm as she started to shiver. However with each shiver more and more pink fur fell off her body apart from her head. While the fur was falling off her muzzle pulled back into her body as he face returned to normal. She shrank down from over six, five to seven and from two hundred pounds to just over one hundred and twenty pounds. Finally it stopped as Sakura stood there; she brushed off the fur that had hung on her shoulders as she looked at her hand. In almost every way she looked human, like almost everyone she still had her pink tail which was tipped by a white patch of fur and her ears where pink.
"Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto
"I am alright." said Sakura as she cleared her throat "My voice sounds different…not as deep."
"I don't see any claws or anything secondary parts apart from the tail and ears." said Tsunade as she moved closer "Well I am mistaken your eyes are still silted."
"And these." said Sakura as she opened her mouth to show two pairs of elongated canines.
"Well those are minor." Said Tsunade as Sakura ran her hand though her hair over her ears and down her hair which stopped just a little bit shorter than it did when she was a chunin. "Your hair will start growing again like normal, if that is what you are worried about."
"I wasn't thinking about that." said Sakura as she picked out some cloths, however everything was just a little too small for her meaning it showed her midriff and hugged her breast. Which gave Naruto a huge smile.
"Sorry I had to explain that to Ino, the woman really wants her pony tail back." explained Tsunade as she prepared the medic for the kids.
"It will be alright Kushina." said Sakura as the needle into the sleeping child, like her mother her pink fur fell off as she turned back toward a baby human. She had her tail and ears still however she didn't have any claws or even sharpened nails. She didn't have teeth yet so it was impossible to know if they would be sharpened but her green eyes where silted.
"She looks like you." said Naruto as Sakura smiled.
"I am just glad we were able to fix the mistake we made when we turned them into animals." Said Sakura
"It was to keep them alive." said Naruto
"It was the lesser of two evils." correct Sakura as they turned to the only one of their children who was awake, their only boy Riki. Sakura picked her son up, for a moment it was if the child was confused by the change of his mother into a human however soon he realized that this was his mother. Tsunade put the needle into Riki's arm as he changed. Slowly he changed however unlike his sister, his nails where black and sharpened. He still had his red tail and ears and silted green eyes.
"At least he it isn't hurting them." said Naruto as Sakura passed Riki off to Naruto. Before picking up the sleeping Airi. Once again the needle went in without any problems as she too changed, she took an appears much like her sister only with her blonde hair and blue eyes. However her finger nails while human in color where sharpened to points.
"Naruto it will take an hour for your cure to be ready." said Tsunade "You are the last one to get the cure."
"Where is everyone else?" asked Sakura
"The cure takes a lot out of you, I would have fallen asleep a few times if it wasn't for the amount of coffee I have drank." said Tsunade as nodded her head as her head began to way. She felt like she had after she had given birth, all she wanted to do was sleep for days.
"Sakura-chan it is time for you to sleep." said Naruto
"No…" said Sakura like a little kid as she tried to fight off sleep. However it was something she lost as she closed her eyes. The next moment she was aware of she felt her head being turned. Slowly she opened her eyes to see a pair of deep silted blue eyes, the eyes she loved so much.
"Naruto-kun" said Sakura as she blinked a few times as she looked passed the eyes to see pink human flesh.
"Morning Sakura-chan." said Naruto with a smile as Sakura sat up only to find that she was back in their room, their kids sleeping beside her. Sakura eyes widened as she looked at Naruto he was back to his human form, well as human as people could be now. A long blonde tail moved behind him as Sakura looked down at the finger which was now under her chin. The nails while sharpened and blackened like his old claws. His face had changed a little, his cheek birth marks looked a little darker and he smiled showing his fangs. Two blonde fur ears poked out of the top of his head. He had a little more animal features then what seemed to be the normal must be because of the fox.
"Morning Naruto-kun, why didn't you wake me?" asked Sakura
"You look so peaceful, I couldn't do it." answered Naruto
"And why did you wake me now?" asked Sakura as she ran her hand down Naruto's shirt.
"Well I am not as tired as others." said Naruto as Sakura grinned before looking at her sleeping kids. Her parents and her siblings where not in the room. "And I was hoping you where in the mood."
Sakura smiled as she planted a kiss on Naruto's lips before pulling her down toward the bed.
"It will be nice to have a normal sex." said Sakura
"Who said anything about Normal?" asked Naruto as he planted kisses down Sakura's neck only to earn a moan from his mate. Naruto smiled as noticed as Sakura used the chakra which she had regained access to perform a birth control justu, three kids where enough for them…at the moment.
Well I hope you liked this chapter and the cure…I know some people may be upset that they didn't become totally human but after an event like this I believed some traces had to stay. Not until next time please keep reading. Also happy early Fourth of July. Thanks Wilkins75