Chapter 13 Face to Face Part 2

Naruto couldn't move he could hardly even breath as he looked down at the passing mass of trees, he was in the arms of some young woman with blood red hair who was wearing a purple top of some kind with black shorts and fish net stocking which went up to pass her knees. The only reason he did not know more was because of the gravity seal placed on him. Every so often he got a look down the girl's shirt to the red sports bra which would have made Jiraiya grin but Naruto had other things on his mind.

"I think we lost them." Said a voice as they jumped down onto the ground, the moment they reached the ground the woman tossed him over her shoulder. That is when he got his first good view of his rescuers. The woman had a strange mix of perfectly straight red hair on one side and a messy set of spikes on the other side. She had crimson red eyes behind a set of thin framed glasses. She had a large pack on her back and multiple ninja tools strapped to her legs. She was about 5 feet five inches and he would guess around a hundred pounds.

"We did." confirmed the woman as she rubbed her shoulder. "Next time you're carrying him."

"Well then you will have to carry my sword." Laughed a man as he came into Naruto's view, he was tall around five eleven with white hair and deep purple eyes. He wore a fish net purple shirt with black pants, sticking out of his back was the massive sword which Naruto recognized from his gennin mission to the land of wave, the Kubikirabocho sword. That was the same sword that belonged to the legendary swordsman of the Mist, Zabuza Momochi.

"Suigetsu, Karin stand down." ordered a voice as a man dressed all in black with a high button collar walked out of the darkness. He still wore the same purple rope belt and pants that he wore the last time they meat. There standing in front of him was his old teammate turned missing ninja Sasuke Uchiha. "Karin, break the seal."

"Ok." Said Karin as she bent down and started to work on the seal, which was placed on Naruto's chest.

"Better watch yourself idiot, the bitch is Sasuke's girl so keep your eyes off her." said the man who had to be Suigetsu.

"You really are an idiot, Suigetsu. The gravity seal stops all movement aside from breathing and blinking. He can't even look around." stated Karin as she worked on the seal.

"Sasuke why are we even dealing with this guy, you yourself said he is an idiot." inquired Suigetsu as Sasuke nodded his head.

"True, but if we are to make any process against this thing we need Sakura and any other medical ninjas we can get our hands on." explained Sasuke as he crossed his arms over his chest. "Also right now just being human is good enough."

"I think I have it," said Karin as she touched the seal again, almost instantly Naruto felt as if nothing had happened. He took a deep breath before reaching for his weapon pouch.

"You don't need your weapons dead last," ordered Sasuke as he stepped on Naruto's hand. "At least not against us, against those things yes but not us. Now I know you wouldn't leave the Leaf village as long as Sakura is alive, now where is she?"

"What are you going to do if I tell you where she is?" inquired Naruto

"Help her find a cure for this thing and hopefully stop these things," confirmed Sasuke as his dark eyes looked down into Naruto's blue eyes. He stepped off Naruto's arm and to the amazement of Naruto he offered him a hand up. "Now either we work together or we die separately and while Karin is a skilled medical ninja we need as many as we can get to fix this problem."

Back in the clearing Kushina Namikaze sat on a fallen log with her head in her hands, she just could not take it. She had been so close to holding her son again and it was taken away from her in the blink of an eye. Whatever they had dropped had covered up any trace of Naruto's scent which meant they couldn't follow him that way and whoever had taken him had covered their footsteps so well it was impossible to tell anyone was even there.

"Don't worry mom, we will find Naruto." reassured Meiko as she stood in front of her mother. "It…will just take longer to find him. Convincing him will certainly be harder than we thought but we do have time before the time runs out and the red flue comes back."

"We may not have that time." explained Kushina as Meiko raised an eyebrow. "Rin, told me that the Kyuubi died inside Naruto and that means he has gotten a deadly douse of demon chakra. If he doesn't change soon he may die."

"What?" inquired Meiko stunned at the news "Are you sure?"

"Doesn't matter, there is no way to know unless we find Naruto." confirmed Minato as he walked forward. "We will find him, believe me we will find him and bring him home."

The pain was still knifing up his leg even as he took another deep pull from the bottle of shake pouring it into the glass in front of him. He sat alone in the middle of an abounded bar, all the other tables where knocked over and covered with dust. He had taken the time to whip the table off and had even cleaned the glass. He heard sounds coming from outside the building which meant it was about time, so he poured himself another drink, this would be his last he lifted up his glass with one hand and moved the other to the seal under the table. With one quick movement he would set up all the charges he had placed around the bar, hopefully he would take a few of them with him.

The door to the bar swung open and Kakashi lifted the drink up to his mask and prepared to set off the charge when he stopped. She had walked in. His eyes moved to her face, yes she was older more mature but that was Rin's face. She even had the same old warm smile on her face that she always had even when the situation seamed hopeless.

"Kakashi." greeted Rin with a smile as she moved toward him; Kakashi did not say anything as she picked up a chair. He watched as she dusted it off and set it up; before she sat down, she went to the bar and got one of the dirty glasses. She moved to run it under the sink water but nothing came out.

"Cold still works." answered Kakashi as Rin nodded before turning on the cold water. Once she had a clean glass, she sat down across from her old teammate.

"You know I still remember the time you, Obito and I broke into the Uchiha liquor storeroom and stole a bottle of aged Whisky. I honestly think that was the first time I heard you laugh," said Rin as she reached into her pack and poured a bottle of whisky, the memory came flooding back to him. She had a bottle of the same brand and year in her hands. "I have been saving this for when we meet again, so if we are both about to die, might as open it."

"Might as well." answered Kakashi as downed his drink, Rin poured herself a glass and poured some into her teammate.

"Don't worry I haven't done anything to it," said Rin as she took her own drink. After she did Kakashi did the same and he poured the next round.

"Here I am having a drink with a woman who is supposed to be dead in a destroyed bar in a village which has been destroyed by the red flue." said Kakashi "How are you still alive, If you are Rin that is?"

"Well since the drink wasn't enough," said Rin as she stood back up, Kakashi watched as she took off her ninja vest before lifting up her shirt. Kakashi simply blinked as Rin stood there in a sports black bra, if that wasn't enough there was the scar where her heart should be. It was clearly a spot where a Chidori had gone through, she spun around to show the matching scar on her back. There was also another smaller scar above her hip from a training accident when he had hit her with an edged kunai. "Happy? How many people do you think know about that scar?"

"Not many." admitted Kakashi as Rin put her top back on and her ninja vest. "So Rin how are you alive?"

"They collected the jinchuriki to test out their virus to get everything right." explained Rin "Since I had the three tails in me, they took me and replaced me with a blood clone. I was still on death's door so they turned me right away, healed my heart short of."

"Short of?" inquired Kakashi as Rin took out some pills and took them.

"I have to take these damn things seven times a day," cursed Rin as she held up the pills. "That is how they controlled me and prevented me from warning you all, kept my access to the pills down and then once Minato sensei and his family arrived the add threat of killing them was enough to hold me back."

"Millions are dead!" said Kakashi as he took a drink. "You couldn't risk helping us?"

"I could have but I only had a day access to the pills at any one time and it was a three day journey to the leaf. Math does not work out and me dying wouldn't make a difference. I will have to live with what I did and you will have to live with your actions here," said Rin as she took a drink of her own as she looked at the walls, they were covered with paper bombs all of whom linked together. "You can blow us to hell and there will two more graves to be dug, Spirts know I deserve to die and your hands aren't clean either."

"True." admitted Kakashi "So is Minato-Sensei and Kushina are really alive."

"Yes, they daughter Meiko she is my student." explained Rin before laughing a bit "You trained Minato's-sensei son I trained his daughter. Do you know where their son has gone?"

"I told them to go on without me and not to tell me where they went." Said Kakashi as Rin lowered her head.

"I figured, but I still had to ask," said Rin as she took a drink "Will it make a difference if I tell you that Naruto is dying?"

"What?" inquired Kakashi

"I don't know without looking at him, but since the Kyuubi died within him his cells may be dying from the massive addition of demon chakra. Depending on the level he may only have weeks before it is too late." explained Rin "Only way to possible prevent this is to turn him as soon as possible."

"Even if I knew where he was, I wouldn't tell you." explained Kakashi "If it is true, then Sakura will find it and then Naruto will decided what to do."

"I see." said Rin "So we are at an impasse."

"Yes, we are. You could try to take me down but I would set off the bomb killing us both," said Kakashi as he took another drink.

"Yes, or you could surrender and they will turn you." countered Rin the look Kakashi gave her told her how likely that was.

"I could let you walk out and then blow the building. Only one of us will die that way." stated Kakashi as Rin shook her head.

"You could but I am not walking out of this building without you," stated Rin "We are still teammates and part of that is my need to save you if I can. If you turn soon you may have full function of your leg but at worse your be alive."

"What do you recommend?" inquired Kakashi "I don't want to kill you but I will if I have to and you can't kill me without killing yourself."

Rin let out a long breath as she thought about it for a moment, she looked out the frosted window, they could see multiple figures outside.

"First we finish this bottle," said Rin as she looked at the ¾ full bottle of whisky. "Then we beside what happen after that."

Kakashi pushed his glass forward as Rin poured both him and herself another shot glass full of whisky.

"So what are you? I know you're not human so what are you?" inquired Kakashi

"Why spoil the surprise," stated Rin as she took her own drink "Why don't we talk about something besides our current situation?"

"Such as?" inquired Kakashi as Rin tried to think of what to ask.

"I guess after so long apart there isn't really much to talk about beside what happened. You know Obito was alive until a few months ago," admitted Rin, this caused Kakashi's eyes to widen a bit at the news. "Sadly the man who saved his life made him unable to be turned and the flue was 100% deadly to him. I held him as he died; I want to bury him in the Leaf. The question is will you and I be beside him when he is buried."

"We will just have to wait and see," confirmed Kakashi as the two of them sat in the bar drinking without saying a word.

Back inside the Leaf village the 5th Hokage Lady Tsunade was leaning over a her desk in the Hokage's office. Four Kunai held down the map which covered half the desk, the map was one of the Leaf and it was covered with red marks. It mark showed where one of her ninja units had stopped reporting in, she had ordered a general pull out but she was still broadcasting information out on enemy location. She wanted to be out there fighting these things but as a leader, she knew she would be more help where she was. It was not just reporting enemy location over the radio in a hope that it would help anyone listening to avoid infested area but she had another task something she could not pass on to anyone else. Sitting on the corner of her desk was an item, which had been placed in as an afterthought by the now dead member of the council Danzo. It was a box maybe 18 inches by 12 inches with a cord running out of the back. On the front of the box was a multitude of switches with neighborhood names on it.

"I tried so hard to talk the council out of this but I am the one using it." Said Tsunade as she flipped up a switch, within moments there was a giant boom outside as another natural gas line went up.

Flashback

"This is a crazy idea you want to rig our own natural gas lines to blow up?" inquired Tsuande as she sat in one on the council meetings. Normally a closed-door meeting like this one was focused on ninja missions however this time where talking about the massive public works program, which was going to update all the power and gas lines.

"Yes." confirmed Danzo "It is no different than the already agreed upon plan of blowing up buildings to slow down an enemy advance, only this way we don't have to risk putting ninjas in harm's way."

"And what if one of your preset bombs goes off by accident?" inquired Tsunade

"Lady Tsunade you know as I do, that paper bombs are rather stable until they are triggered." countered another council member "We have even come across paper bomb land mines left over from the first ninja war almost fifty years ago. They were perfectly intact and didn't go off and those where primitive by modern paper bombs. We will be totally safe."

"And beside if it does go off, it can easily explained as an accident and no one will know about the bombs." explained Danzo as Tsunade felt like punching the man in the face.

End Flashback

"God forgive me if there is anyone left alive there," said Tsunade as she flipped another switch as another large boom filed the air. She looked down at her map and realized that she had not heard any reports from an nearby neighborhood.

"If anyone is in the Hakumaru neighborhood respond now." ordered Tsunade as she moved her hand to another switch, she waited for a while before flipping the switch. She closed her eyes and waited for the boom but it did not happen. She tried again, and once again, nothing happened. She moved to the next switch and just like the first nothing happened.

"Well looks like I lost that." said Tsunade as the sound of fighting could be heard outside her door. Knowing that there was nothing that be done she sat down and poured herself a drink. She sat down just as the large double doors leading into her office flew open. Two creatures rushed in, one looked to be a bull like creature and carried a large double bladed ax while the other was a thin delicate looking fairy like creature with long almost impossible thin.

Neither of them made a move toward her as another one of the creatures, walked into the room. This one had blueish white fur over his entire body, he had silver antlers coming out of the top of his head. He wore a simple light blue rob with a silver slash, on the top of his rob was a silver pin which showed a leaping buck.

"So you're the one who is killing my kind," said Tsunade as she took a drink. "So what is your name?"

"I am hurt Tsunade." said the creature in a voice which caused Tsunade's eyes to widen as the creature walked forward transforming with each step. The full rack of antlers shrank down and disappeared into his head as the fur disappeared into his skin. Only the top of his head remained covered and while shorter then the last time she saw him it was still the same shade of blue.

"Dan?" inquired Tsunade

"Tsunade." said Dan as he sat down across from his old lover. "Yes, I am alive."

"You son of a bitch." cursed Tsunade "I thought that Shizune's betrayal was bad enough but you? Is there another traitor I should be looking out for?"

"You don't have to worry about traitors your fight is over." explained Dan as he looked at the drink in Tsunade. "You know I still think about the days when we agreed to move in together."

"You have no right to bring that up." Cursed Tsunade "You faked your death and then lead the attack on my village, you are not the Dan I loved."

"You never loved me." snapped Dan in a burst of anger. "I loved you but you never loved me."

"Of course I loved you." snapped Tsunade back "You were the first man I slept with…well at least I thought you were a man then."

"And that night in the height of our love making do you remember what you called me?" inquired Dan "Because I remember you saying Jiraiya's name instead of mine."

"What?" inquired Tsunade stunned at the words.

"You heard me." said Dan "Luckily the next morning I got word from back home that they wanted me to sit on the council. So we quickly arranged my fake death."

"So you faked your death because you thought I said another man's name while we were having sex?" inquired Tsunade "So you killed millions of people because of the insult to…well I guess the best word is manhood not that your human."

"Think about it that way if you want to, what matters is that your fight is over." explained Dan "Now you have to decided what is going to give your people a future. From where I am sitting you have one of three choices."

"And what are those?" inquired Tsunade

"First you fall in line and help save your people by guiding them through this transition into one of our kind and help us do this peacefully. Second choice is you keep resisting the change until the last moment and you make everyone's lives just that much more difficult possibly costing people their lives. Lastly is that you kill yourself with that suicide pill you have in your mouth and die a pointless death." stated Dan as Tsunade grinned.

"Tell me something how do you intend to rule over all the people you turn, because people will rise up after they turn." explained Tsunade "Sounds to me like you have signed your own death sentence with this."

"Your right." confirmed Dan as Tsunade blinked. "All the members of the council including myself plan to be killed after the turn, luckily the change effects the brain of the person being changed. It fills it with some chemical that makes them nice and happy when they see themselves. It is kind of like how people get addicted to smoking or another drug. That being said it wears off in about four to six months, which is why we are moving ahead so fast. Unbelievably but you're the fifth nation we have hit. In the end the council will die and those purebloods will escape into the mass of new demons with new lives and names, thanks to the panic caused by the virus and then the change no one will be able to figure out who is a pure demon and who had been changed."

"There is no way you can turn all the humans in the world in six months," countered Tsunade

"Once again you are correct but see the red flue as you call it can't be cured, it sleeps only to reawaken in about the same time frame only worse. Even those who made it through an infection will die from it in the end." Explained Dan as Tsunade's eyes widened as she realized that if true all the people who made it through the flue, Sakura, Ino, Naruto and the others would die. "The only cure is to be turned and in the end we will do to humanity what they tried to do to our kind so many years ago. We will remove humanity from the world and pay you back for the massacres and the hunting down of our kind like beasts."

"So because of the sins of our ancestors you're going to kill humanity!" snapped Tsunade "You're not the same man I loved."

"I was never a man and you never loved me." explained Dan "Now will you come peacefully?"

"No." said Tsunade as she leaned back "See there is another option one that you didn't list."

"Yes, you could try to blow me up. I know that the office can be rigged to exploded." admitted Dan with a roll of his eyes. "You shared everything with Shizune and what she didn't know the 4th Hokage told us, having people in place to kill your only son makes even the strongest man come in line."

"Well I made a few changes that he wouldn't know and I didn't tell Shizune everything." Said Tsunade with a grin as a small amount of blood came out of the corner of her mouth. "Like did you know I had poison gas tanks added to the air-condition system?"

"What?" asked Dan as a small amount of blood started to come out of his mouth.

"I will never help you and most importantly you're dead along with everyone else in this building," laughed Tsunade seconds before her whole body started to shake and convulse. Dan stood up as fast as he could and rushed toward the window, he lowered his head and with all his strength smashed into the window antlers first. The glass broke into countless shards as one of his antlers snapped and he fell toward the hard pavement below. His body actually bounced off the pavement as people rushed to help him.

Miles away from the Leaf village Kakashi and Rin where still sitting in silence simply drinking, they kept up with each other. However in was becoming clear while larger then Rin it was clear that Kakashi was taking the blunt of the effects of the bottle.

"So your saying that we are all doomed to die from the flue?" inquired Kakashi as he slurred his voice as Rin downed another drink before pouring herself another. The large bottle was all but gone now, there was maybe enough left to fill Kakashi's glass back up.

"Yes, and you are very drunk." Said Rin

"Well I am about to die?" stated Kakashi as he began to sway a little bit in his chair before falling over hitting the dirty wood planked floor.

"No you're not Kakashi," answered Rin as she finished her drink before disabling the paper bombs. She then knelt down and placed her hand on Kakashi's cheek. "All clear!"

With that a team of demons which had been outside rushed in.

"Bring a medic, I am in no condition to work on his leg right now." ordered Rin as she rubbed her temples. "I am going to be hung over in the morning for sure."

"How did you do it?" inquired another demon "How can you be standing while he is passed out?"

"Well first he had started drinking before me, but most importantly he had lost a lot of blood from the leg wound." explained Rin "that made it easier to get him drunk."

Out in the woods Sakura Haruno was on the verge of punching her teammate Sai through the wall of the small roadside rest area that they were currently in. She was in the back corner of the room brooding so the other members of their team where keeping their distance.

"We should go out there and go find him," thought Sakura

"After we punish Sai for what he did," confirmed Inner Sakura

"Who knows what those things will do with him," added Sakura as she remembered how this man who claimed the be the 4th Hokage looked when he held Naruto at kunai point. "Could he really be Naruto's father?"

"Does it matter, we have to find him!" yelled Inner Sakura as Sakura scanned the room with her deep green eyes.

They had taken up settle inside the man's room since the women's bathroom had partly fallen down due to a tree falling on it. They had decided to take a short break and to gather themselves for the task ahead. Also and most importantly the six of them had to figure out where they would go. Neji, Shikamaru and Tenten where standing by sink with a map pressed against the glass. Ino stood behind them, like Sakura, she was scanning the room. The other member of their little group, Sai was standing against the far wall across from her near the door.

"I think our best bet will be to head to the Sand village," offered Shikamaru as Neji raised an eyebrow at the statement. "It likely has the best equipment and they are our allies."

"And they were hit just as bad as we were by this virus." countered Neji as he pointed toward some of the land locked nations on the map. "This nations where not as hit as bad as we were, they are our best bet."

"The Sand is our ally," restated Shikamaru

"Shikamaru." said Ino as she placed her hand on her teammate's shoulder. "I know you're worried about Temari but we need to think about humanity as a whole."

"Guys are you in there?" came a voice from outside the bathroom, as Sakura's head along with everyone's head turned toward the door. The door opened as Naruto walked through the door, he was dirty but he seamed no worse for the ware. Before anyone could move Sakura was on top of him pulling him into a deep hug which caught Naruto totally off guard. After the hug she pulled back and punched in him the chest.

"You baka!" yelled Sakura "You just had to take on those demons by yourself!"

"Sorry Sakura-chan." apologized Naruto

"How…how did you get away?" inquired Ino

"He didn't, he had to get saved." said a new voice as they turned to see a man with jet-black hair and dark almost cold eyes.

"Sasuke." said Sakura as a chill ran down her spin.

"Long time, what no hug for me Sakura?" laughed Sasuke as two more figures walked into the now crowed bathroom. "Now I think for the moment we should put our issues aside, because at the moment being human is more important than anything else."

"Agreed." confirmed Neji, for a while everyone just looked at each other without saying a word.

"Now shall we plan our next move or are we just going to keep looking at each other?" offered Sasuke.

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