Chapter 17 Standoff
The sun was high in the sky as a group of three figures stood in the center of a dirt road, in the distance they could see the smoke rising from the Leaf village but none of them cared. They had been the ones who had attacked the village in the first place and so seeing smoke was a good in their view.
"Why do we have to remain out here?" asked one of the demons his long bird like wings touching the dirt. "We have control of the village and of all their tunnels, no humans are going to escape."
"Our orders are to remain here." grumbled a different demon, this one with scales for skin but he too had wings only his had leather like membranes between them not feathers.
"We should either be airborne searching or at least helping turn the smaller outlining villages," added another, this one a woman with fairy wings on her back.
"I can keep saying it until the end of time but our orders are to remain…" started the scaly demon only to stop when a shadow passed overhead. They all knew what it was, with one last flap of his wings a new demon this one like the first one an air Kami landed.
"New orders from command, you are to head due west." reported the Air Kami as he handed a piece of paper to the dragon demon. "Last radio report was that the former 4th Hokage of this village was tracking a group of humans which may include his son. You are to assist him two other teams are already taking flight, meaning you will have 9 airborne searchers."
"Why all this for a single human?" asked the Dragon demon
"Because this Naruto contains the kyuubi and the high command wants him." explained the messenger "Now go."
"Alright." said the team as they took off heading due west while the massager headed back to the Leaf. Unknown to them all a small three person ninja team hiding in the brush had overhead them all.
"Hear that Naruto is still free," said Moegi
"Yes, but what was that about the 4th Hokage and the Kyuubi?" asked Udon
"We will worry about that later, let's get moving." ordered Konohamaru as the three genin moved away from their now destroyed human.
Minato Namikaze landed in the center of what had once been a thriving small farming town, now it was a ghost town. The streets where empty aside from wild animals looking for their next meal, a cold fall wind blew through the streets causing wind chimes which sat outside of homes to chime. The windows of shops where boarded up and there was no sign of human life.
"The trail heads to the west." Reported Minato as he knelt down and looked at a small broken branch which lied in the center of the road.
"Dad an animal could have broken that, there is no proof that a human caused that." countered Meiko "Yet alone that it could be Naruto."
"Have hope Meiko," reassured Minato to his daughter as he looked up to see that his wife was looking to the North. She had a stunned look on her face as if she could not believe what she was looking at. He turned his gaze to the North to see his son just sitting there in the remains of an outdoor dinner. He had a drink in his hand and while his eyes never left the three of them he didn't make any hostile moves. Minato watched as he took a drink from the glass and stood up. By this time Mieko had spotted her brother too, they all watched as stood up and picked up the cloak, which had sat on the back of the chair. Minato smiled as he realized it was a lot like his own, his son's cloak was red with black flames dancing around the bottom while his was white with red flames along the bottom. He moved out into the center of the street and just stood there with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Naruto." said Kushina with a huge smile on her face, however her son didn't return her smile.
"So you just don't know when to quit," said Naruto
"Naruto let us explain, I know this may be hard to believe but we are your parents." started Minato as Naruto raised his hand and stopped him there.
"Let me stop you there, see before we left the Leaf village we took the hard drives including the Hokage's personal computer drive." Explained Naruto "I now know that Minato Namikaze and a woman named Kushina Uzumaki is my real father and mother."
"Thank God." stated Kushina as she moved to hug her son only to stop when she saw her son's hand move toward his weapon pouch.
"The question is are you them or just some sick twisted demon trick." explained Naruto as Meiko slammed her palm against her forhead.
"You have got to be kidding me." Said Meiko
"Ah…I don't really know how we can prove who we are too you." admitted Minato as he thought about it. "Anything we tell you, you could claim is part of a trick. So the question is what can we do to prove who we are."
"Well you're in luck." reported a different voice as Minato's head snapped toward the source. There on top of the roof of the café Naruto had been sitting at stood the young woman he had seen earlier. Her short pink hair moved in the wind and her red top. A glove covered hand rested on her leg and her deep green eyes were locked on the three of them standing in the middle of the road. "See my name is…"
"Sakura Haruno." answered Minato as the young woman's eyes widened. "I saw your name in the Hokage's records about my son; I admit I don't know much about you outside the official reports. Highly skilled medical ninja trained by the 5th Hokage and a member of team 7 under Kakashi."
"Well maybe I can enlighten you." came a third voice as Minato looked toward the opposite rooftop, there sitting on the edge of the roof with a sword resting across his lap was a young man with jet black hair and even darker eyes. "Pink hair here is basically the person dead last down there believes the most. If you convince her that you are who you say you are then you basically have convinced your son."
"I see." said Minato "And you must be Sasuke Uchiha."
"I am, what of it." confirmed Sasuke
"I have read what you did to my son," growled Minato as his wife and daughter looked at him, that was the one file he had refused to share with his family. He did no want to break his wife's heart by hearing how close their son had come to death.
"What of it." stated Sasuke as took a cleaning cloth to his sword.
"Lucky for you, we have more important things to worry about," said Minato
"And how do you convince you?" asked Kushina as she looked at the young woman.
"I believe in hard evidence." reported Sakura
"You want DNA samples." said Minato as Sakura nodded her head. "I assume that since you took hard drives you also took medical supplies and equipment."
"Correct." confirmed Sakura "If you agree to it we will take samples from the three of you and compare it to the ones on record and Naruto's. You can't hide your DNA profile with a hedge it will tell who you are."
"Ok." Said Kushina "Whatever you need to prove who we are to our son."
With that Sakura jumped down from the rooftop and pulled three medical needles, they were still wrapped in their plastic seals to keep them free of germs. She was about to toss them to the three demons when Minato spoke up.
"I am sure, you want to take the blood yourself so you can't question it." advised Minato "None of us will make a move."
"I know you can place seals on people just by touching them." stated Sakura
"Only if I touch them with my hands, I can't do anything if you take it from my forearm." countered Minato
"He is right, that is what Jiriaya's notes say." admitted Naruto "But it is your call, Sakura-chan. Make a move and you will die."
"The truth matters more than anything else." explained Minato "We want our son to believe us, that is what matters."
"Wait." ordered Sasuke as everyone looked at him on his rooftop perch. "How do we know that the demon hedge isn't good enough to hide what they are in their blood sample."
"I have never heard of anything like that being possible," countered Sakura "A hedge only covers a person it doesn't change them."
"Who heard of demons turning people into their own kind?" countered Sasuke
"That isn't possible." Reassured Mieko
"Well sorry if we don't take the words of a demon." said Sasuke as Mieko glared at the dark haired man
"Drop your hedges." ordered Naruto as he looked at the three people who claimed to be his family."I can see through your hedges and what you really are. You might as well drop the act and show what you are."
The three Namikaze looked at each other for a moment, as if they where not sure what to do. Slowly Minato reached up and pulled a small silver ring off his hand. The ring helped make the hedge as perfect as possible and without it, his body changed. He was still dressed in his normal ninja gear with the white jacket with red flames along the bottom, however side from that he was totally different. His skin was replaced with blonde fur which covered his change face, he his face had pushed out into a short muzzle with a black nose. A streak of white fur ran under his muzzle and down the front of his neck before disappearing under his cloths. His hands had changed they still had five fingers but the palms had black pads on it and running up his fingers. His nails where black and slightly pointed, blonde fur also covered his hand. His feet where in shoes so they could not see how much it had changed. A tail moved under his cloak
Beside him, Kushina had gone through a similar change, only instead of blonde-haired person her fur was a deep blood red, this made the white fur under her muzzle and on her arms stand out even more. Her ears where slightly longer then her husbands and there was black fur around those ears. A long tail moved behind her. Standing beside her was her daughter and here was a difference, which jumped out to Sakura, while in human form mother and daughter had the same shade of hair color here the mother had a noticeably darker shade while the daughter remained the same bright red shade that her hair was as human.
"Now that the masquerade is over," said Naruto as he looked at Sakura. "Your call Sakura-chan if you don't want to do this you don't have too. We will find another way."
"I'll be fine Naruto." reassured Sakura as she moved forward and headed toward Minato. The demon didn't make a move as she moved around and rolled up his sleeve. As she did she did she noticed that while the fur on his arm appeared thick it was very soft. She found the vein on the first go and took more blood then she actually needed for the test but she wanted more for research. She moved onto Kushina and she repeated the process.
"If I may ask, if you really are Naruto's mother why is your…fur a different shade then your daughters." inquired Sakura as she took the sample.
"Because I had the Kyuubi sealed in me, or so they believe." explained Kushina as she looked at Sakura. "You're a medical ninja right, a skilled one."
"One of the bests, trained by Lady Tsunade herself." explained Sakura with pride in her voice.
"Then you should know that since the Kyuubi died in my son, he got a massive amount of demon chakra in him and that is deadly." explained Kushina as Sakura looked up at Kushina green silted eyes. "If you care any for my son, you should know that the any way to cure him is to turn him into a demon."
"I see." Said Sakura not sure what to think, she knew that Naruto would never go with becoming a demon but she did not want Naruto to die.
"Also just because your lived through the first wave of the red flue doesn't mean you are cured." added Kushina. "The flue comes back and it 100% deadly, the only cure is to be turned."
"No sickness is 100% deadly there is always at least a small percentage that is immune to it." countered Sakura.
"In nature at least." added Sakura to herself "Who knows what Shizune added to this bug to make the odds of death go up."
"I think your missing the point, if we are death's door do we choice death or becoming a demon?" inquired Inner Sakura
"It is pretty much the same question Naruto-kun is going to have to answer for himself only he may have the addition of a family to pull him toward the demon." Added Sakura
"What do we do if Naruto-kun decides to become a demon? To rejoin his family, would we do it if mom and dad where demons?" added Inner Sakura, Sakura forced her inner self into the back corner of her mind. She finished Kushina's sample and moved on, once she had Mieko's sample she moved back.
"Now what?" asked Kushina as Sakura moved away from the demon foxes.
"We wait; it will take between an hour and 90 minutes to run the test." explained Sakura as she looked toward Naruto. "Then who knows what will happen."
"Well can we maybe sit and talk?" asked Mieko as she looked at her brother.
"Ok." said Naruto as he looked toward the dinner. "But you sit at the far end; until the test comes back you are demons to me."
"We are your family," countered Mieko to her older brother. "Can't you see that?"
"I see three demons trying to hide what they are." Stated Naruto as he looked straight forward, his eyes where silted but remained their normal blue
Back in the Leaf village Kakashi had no idea what he was doing, he was looking at himself in a full body mirror in what had once been a changing room in a clothing store. He could smell the unflushed toilets nearby and he heard cries of fear as humans where being changed into demons by that plant on the other side of the wall. Maybe worse of all when he looked at his changed body in the mirror, horns, tails and different colored skin he did not hate himself. That is what scared him the most, he should try to rip these horns out of his scull but instead ran his hand over the ridges of the ram like horns.
"Kakashi you have to hurry up in there." came Rin's voice from the outside as Kakashi did one last look at himself before stepping out. He was dressed in a simple black shirt and pants, the mask over the lower part of his face had returned. The shirt and pants had zippers at the joints so that the spikes on his elbows and the top of his knee caps where free.
"Nice." stated Rin as she walked around him only to stop and bend down. Kakashi jumped a bit as he felt her hand on his ass. "You forgot that you have a button back her for where you slip your tail in. It is kind of like walking around with your fly down."
"I see." stated Kakashi as he looked around at the mounds of cloths all of which had been premade for newly turned people. "You have been planning this for a while."
"Generations from what I have been told, originally they were just going to kill every human but they realize turning was the only way to rebuild their population." explained Rin "They have been stocking up cloths designed for demons and other items for years."
Kakashi's mouth pulled back in a growl of anger, which actually made the copycat ninja happy, it showed that he could get angry at what had happened to him and so many others. They walked outside and moved down the street, it was horrible looking around at the remains of shop and homes. The smell of smoke was still in the air.
"The Leaf will rebuild it always has and it always will." reassured Rin
"This will not be the Leaf it will be some demon village, not the Leaf." countered Kakashi
"At first." agreed Rin as she stopped and looked at her teammate. "Let me guess you're wondering why you're not pulling at your horns and hair, why you're not seeing others do the same. Or at least why they aren't fighting back after they were turned."
"Yes." admitted Kakashi
"It's part of the change it effects your brain for a little bit." explained Rin "I was never a brain specialist but when you look at yourself instead of feeling rage the change instead releases pleasure inducing hormones which make you happy. It is kind of like the high people get when they take certain drugs but it wares off between six and eight months."
"And what happens after that?" inquired Kakashi as he forced some mature thoughts from his mind. "I am assuming the demons tested all this before launching this all."
"After so many months seeing a demon looking back at you in the mirror and on the streets you get used to it." admitted Rin with the air of a person who had got through the process. "It becomes the new normal and one thing this change doesn't do; it doesn't change the natural ability of the mind to adapt to changes. That was the real weapon of this change, human or rather demon nature to get used to changes and move on with life."
"Kind of like how people can get used to conditions in war." Added Kakashi as Rin nodded her head.
"There are other effects of the change which a lot of people will be experiencing in the next couple of months." added Rin "I am talking changes to how people live, I will tell you a lot of people will have a hard time adapting to it."
"Such as?" inquired Kakashi trying not to look at his old teammates, breast. He tried to stop from getting aroused, he didn't understand why it was happening, yes he thought Rin was cute when they were kids and she had grown into a beautiful woman but he never thought about her in the way he was thinking now.
"Well each race has their own different traits which people will have to adapt to. They actually printed books for people explaining all the differences, you are luckily I am explaining everything to you." explained Rin "I am talking about like how I can't really take showers and instead I use fire to clean myself, same with you only with electricity. The Nure, they are the snakes can't stand the cold and others like that."
"I see." confirmed Kakashi but not really seeing all the changes which would happen to the world if the demons won the world.
"However the major thing people will be dealing with at first is the hyper sex drive which comes from the change," explained Rin as Kakashi looked at her. "Yes, your likely feeling it already the need to jump on someone and fuck their brains out, it is part of the chemical unbalance in the brain. Doesn't affect kids under 17 and people over 55 but in between those ages are effective by it greatly."
"I see." said Kakashi thanking God there was a reason this was happening.
"It doesn't last long a week to ten days normally and it is something most people are able to control with no real issue." explained Rin as a group of demons dressed head to toe in thick black cloths and even thicker gloves came around the corner in the road.
Kakashi watched as the demons moved into the houses on either side of the street, for a moment he thought they were coming to pick up the dead but then he remembered this area had been cleaned of the dead a while ago. He watched in confusion as they came out carrying small sculptures and other items like vases, urns, music instruments and other items. The only thing that made some sense was when one of them came out with an old sword, which sat in a glass display case. They loaded the strange mix of items up into large crates which sat on carts, making sure they were sealed before moving down the road to the next group of houses.
"Looks like the cleaners are already at work." stated Rin with a shrug "I kind of wish they would wait to see if any of the owners are still alive but it is too risky."
"What are you talking about?" inquired Kakashi as Rin gave him a look that said he should have figured it out long ago.
"Ancient humans where able not only to fight but to massacre the demons, how do you think they were able to do this before they even knew how to mold chakra?" inquired Rin as she started to led Kakashi to the answer like a teacher would a student. "The Demons knew how, their society had been around far longer than humans and they were about equal in population. In fact if stories are to believe the demons had a much larger population then the humans but yet it was the humans who came out on top. Tell me how is this possible?"
"The demons where not unified and the humans where able…" started Kakashi only to stop, "No, the humans where likely not unified either. Wait a second."
"I think you got it." laughed Rin with a slight smile.
"Bronze, all those things where made out of bronze and some of our most ancient weapons were made out of Bronze." stated Kakashi
"Yes, and Bronze and to a slightly lesser extent Brass are more deadly to demons like us then even harden steel." explained Rin "When it touches skin, it causes 3rd degree burns on contact. A sword made out of bronze may as well be made out of fire."
"Even to you?" asked Kakashi
"In a way, it is as painful as a burn but I doesn't actually burn," explained Rin "Also a wound from a bronze weapon will not heal with the use of chakra."
"I see." confirmed Kakashi
"Every young demon grows up hearing the stories about the massacres that the ancient humans did to their kind once they learned what the effects Bronze had." explained Rin before a small sad laugh. "They are ones to talk, look at what we did to the humans only this time there will not be any human children left when it is done. No one to tell the stories, of the fall of the Leaf, the last stand of the Lightning or conquest of all the smaller villages. This is wrong and I know future generations will look back on it with shame."
"Your right." said a voice behind the two of them as they turned to see Shizune standing there. "We the pure bloods will have to pay for what we have done when the time comes and it will likely mean or lives. That being said to those in charge they see it as there will be at least future generations of demons."
"And what of the humans?" asked Kakashi
"Sadly the general thinking is one of two things, either that they will enjoy demon hood more." explained Shizune as she stood there in her own natural demon form "Or as a much larger percentage say, who the hell cares."
"And what do you think?" asked Kakashi pointing as Shizune. "Look around at the state of the Leaf village. The streets where a mess, the sound of screams as people are turned could be heard and the much softer sound of people crying could be heard under it all."
"That it was a shame that the council couldn't have found a middle of the road path. Maybe reveal what we are to the world and try to convince people to be turned, there will be some people who will naturally want to join us." explained Shizune "It has happened when humans fell in love with demons who were pretending to be human. Dan was thinking about convincing Lady Tsunade to be turned when something happened to make him change his mind. The council did not want to take the risk of humans simply killing us all so they went with this. What a waste, the world is big enough for both humans and the demon races."
"Why are you here?" asked Rin "Shouldn't you be trying to convince some group in another transformation station that it is safe to be turned?"
"I will be," admitted Shizune before looking at Kakashi. "However I want a favor from Kakashi."
"Why should I do anything to help you?" asked Kakashi as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"You shouldn't but you may be able to help Guy, he and we don't know how many others are held up in the basement of the hospital we want you to talk to him." explained Shizune
"Guy will never surrender, he will die before he is…" started Kakashi only to realize he had said basically the same thing himself and now he was standing on a street corner as a demon.
"I don't want him to surrender, well not totally," explained Shizune as Kakashi raised an eyebrow. "I want to offering him a chance to pull out, we will escort him to the main gate and give him and whoever else is down a head start. He will have a chance to fight on, outside the village and we can use the hospital."
"He will never believe you," countered Kakashi
"No, he will not but he may believe you." countered Shizune "Kakashi we think he has Lee down there and since Lee is in a coma he needs a feeding tube to stay alive, the people down there may have enough to keep themselves alive for a while but Lee needs a special formula and that wasn't kept down there. If you don't do this, Lee will likely die."
Kushina could not help but look at her son who was sitting only yards away, his eyes where closed and his hands where crossed over his chest. His feet where up on top of a nearby table and his back was against the wall of the cafe. Minutes where dragging on for hours and yet she held on to each second as she studied the young man her son had become.
"He looks so much like his father," thought Kushina as she wanted to stand up and take her son into her arms and never let go. Just than her daughter shifted in her seat causing the chair to move, at once Naruto's eyes snapped open and a chakra blade came up and to the ready.
"Sorry, just shifting in my seat." explained Mieko as Naruto lowered his weapon and returned to the same pose. "Ah…don't you want to talk?"
"You can talk all you want, but I am not going to believe anything you say until the DNA comes back." Countered Naruto "Even then I likely won't. Hard to believe my parents are traitors to the Leaf and the human race."
"Naruto I know your angry at what happened but we didn't have a choice." pleaded Kushina as she reached out, she knew she was far outside of arm reach but the need to touch her long lost son was almost overwhelming. She hoped that Naruto would reach out to her but he didn't instead his eyes remained close and his weapons at the ready.
"You are trying to remain still so that you can use sage chakra if the need arises." Said her husband as Naruto chuckled. "Problem is that is you can only gather chakra if you're not moving, Jiraiya-sensie used those old toads to gain chakra while he was moving. I am assuming that your demon chakra made that impossible."
"Your right." laughed Naruto as his eyes remained close.
"You're preparing to fight us? I thought we were making progress." said Mieko
"You're the ones who killed the people who called this place home and countless others across the world." countered Naruto "What makes you think there can be any progress."
"Naruto listen we had nothing to do with that." defended Kushina "Yes, we are demons now but we have only been demons for 48 hours. Until then we were prisoners, we did not make the red flue, we did not spread it and we have not even attacked any humans. We have been looking for you."
"Are you really going to try to tell me that some prison cell held the 4th Hokage for 17 years?" asked Naruto as he looked at his so called family. "I don't think so."
"We had seals placed on us. If one of us left the island then then everyone with a seal on them would die." explained Minato "I am good but I couldn't undo everyone's seal before we got away and that was on top of getting everyone out."
"So instead of sacrificing a handful of people you let millions die." laughed Sasuke as he remained on the opposite rooftop, the distance was small enough that he could hear and see everything happening between the four figures. "They must be your parents dead last, only someone like you wouldn't sacrifice a small group to save the larger. It is all or nothing for you."
Naruto fixed Sasuke with a look but said nothing. Sensing the tension Mieko decided to change the subject.
"So your Kakashi Hatake's student, my sensie is Rin Nohara they were both Dad's genin students," offered Mieko with a warm smile. "Isn't that kind of funny?"
"Kakashi-sensie said his teammates where dead." countered Naruto "How could this Rin be alive?"
"Well that is a long story, she had a demon sealed in her as part of an attack on the Leaf and Kakashi ran a chordi through her chest." explained Minato "Did a real number on her heart, the demons had to turn her right away but the damage was done. She has to take these pills ever so often or she dies, that is how they control her."
"I see, the thing is a Choridi to the heart means death." countered Naruto
"Well you made it when I ran my hand through your chest." countered Sasuke, this caused both Kushina and Meiko to turn toward the jet black haired ninjas on the rooftop. Minato lowered his head; he had hid that little fact from his wife and daughter.
"You did what?" demanded Kushina as anger built inside her as she looked at the young man who claimed to almost have killed her son. Instantly both Kushina and Meiko where on their feet and glaring at Sasuke, and for once Naruto was not making any move to stop them.
"Sasuke you may of thought you hit my heart but it was my lung and part of my liver." Corrected Naruto "It was a real pain you know. Not even the Kyuubi healed that totally, I still have a scar on my chest and back."
"Not as much of a pain as you are Naruto." countered Sasuke with a laugh "And a scar is better than death in your view."
"Why would you do that to my brother!" yelled Meiko as she showed the same temper which gave her mother her red-hot nickname.
"If you want to blame someone blame Sakura, Naruto had to make a promise to her to bring me back and how much have you give up for that stupid promise?" asked Sasuke as his sharingan eyes locked on Naruto. "How many years did you spend training away from your friends all to keep a promise to pink love to bring her another man. Most guys are not stupid enough to actually go out and find the girl they love another man, but you are Naruto."
While all eyes were on Sasuke, Minato was looking at his son. While his son had remained sitting still the air around him had changed, he was no longer calm no he was far from calm. The best words he could come up to describe his son's mood was that he was like a great predator ready to attack but holding back because of a greater threat. While the mood was important, what caught his eye was the change in his son, the physical change. It was not just his eyes, it was his whisker birth marks they were darker, his hair seamed longer, his nails where also pointed and when he opened his mouth he saw that he had sharpened teeth. Naruto took a couple of deep breaths then before his father's eyes the hair returned to normal, his nails and teeth too. His whisker marks remained dark but not as dark as they had been. Finally the whisker marks faded away back to their normal shade.
"What is going on with my son," thought Minato
"Sasuke that isn't important right now." growled Naruto "Besides if you hadn't decided to leave the Leaf to join with that snake none of that would have happened."
Sasuke rolled his eyes clearly not wanting to have the verbal fight with Naruto.
"Naruto can we please talk?" asked Kushina, she was rewarded with Naruto turning his gaze toward her. "Now I know you blame us for a lot of things but we love you and you have to know something very important."
"What is that?" asked Naruto
"That one of the best medical minds Rin believes that since the Kyuubi died in you, you got a massive douse of demon chakra and that will kill you." explained Kushina with a mother's worry in her voice.
"Even if it wasn't, the red flue will come back and kill everyone." explained Mieko "We are trying to save your life, we are trying to save everyone's life."
"I see." said Naruto calmly before looking away.
"Ok, what the hell!" yelled Mieko at the top of her lungs as she stood up. "Don't you give a damn, don't you care about your family, your friends or even your own God damn life!"
"Shut up you demon," cursed Naruto as he got to his own feet his rage building as he slammed his fist on the table. The wood of the table actually cracked under the force of the blow. "You have no right to say I don't care about my friends, I would lay down my life gladly for anyone of my friends, they are my family."
"No we are your family." countered Mieko as she leaned forward a bit. "One of your so called friends tried to kill you."
"And your trying to take away my humanity, and no you are not, my family." Said Naruto firmly "Even if the DNA comes back saying you are my sister, a family is more than blood it is a bond and my bond is with my friends. Tell me what did you think would happen? Did you think I would run into yours arms and embrace you as my sister?"
"Well…yes." admitted Mieko
"Two weeks ago, before I got sick I was part of teams throwing dead bodies into massive burning pits, a week before that I was pulling children away from sick parents and parents away from their dead children. I walked through knee high mounds of dead bodies and watched as people breathed their last painful breaths." explained Naruto before pointing at his so called sister. "What where you doing?"
"Well I was…"
"That was rhetorical." snapped Naruto as he showed his teeth in an angry snare, Minato didn't fail to note that his teeth where pointed. "What matter is that…"
"Naruto calm down." ordered a new voice as Naruto turned toward the voice to see Sakura standing there. "None of that matters until we learn if they are who they say they are."
"I guess." admitted Naruto as he crossed his arms over his chest. "Did you learn anything?"
"The blood types match but it will be a little while more before I can tell you more than that." reported Sakura "Five maybe ten minutes."
"I see, than we wait." Said Naruto as suddenly his head snapped away from all of them and he faced the east. Sakura thought for a moment that she actually saw Naruto's ears move like some animal trying to judge the source of sound. She was wondering if Naruto could always do that, some people where able to wiggle their ears but she did not remember Naruto ever doing it. The thoughts where quickly pushed from her mind as she heard it herself. Flapping wings in she looked to the East to see nine humanoid shapes flying their way.
"Shit." cursed Sakura as Naruto stood up and headed out into the road.
"Tell me Naruto did you have a plan for dealing with 12 demons?" inquired Sasuke as he pulled his sword as the demons came in for a landing down the road from where they saw three demon foxes sitting in what remained of a cafe while two humans stood in the road and another stood on the rooftop.
"What is going on?" asked one of the Air Kami as she pointed toward the humans "Why are you just sitting there, why aren't the humans restrained."
"Hold on a second." Ordered Minato as he stepped forward to stand between the newly arrive demons, they where evenly split between Air Kamis, Ryuus and Yoseis. "We are trying to convince our son that we are who we say we are and we are waiting on a DNA test to confirm."
"Worry about the damn test later," cursed one of the demons a Ryuu as he ran his hand signs. "Since your son has the Kyuubi in him this should be easy."
Naruto raised an eyebrow as the demon ran through hand signs. When he finished he opened his hands out toward Naruto in a manner similar to what Ino would do in her mind transfer Justus.
"There he should be paralyzed, the demon chakra will hold his human body trapped just like the other Jinnichini." laughed the demon "That just leaves…"
He moved so fast that even Minato had trouble seeing it, Naruto's hand dove into his weapon's pouch at the same moment he bolted forward running past his father toward the large group of newly arrived demons.
"What!" yelled the demon who believed he had paralyzed Naruto a half second before Naruto drove the kunai he had pulled out into the top of his skull. The kunai went straight through this eye so deep that Naruto's hand smashed against the natural scaly armor of the Ryuu. Just like everyone else the demons where stunned, and that would cost them. Naruto placed his hand on the now dead Ryuu and flipped himself over the body as it fell to the ground. While in the air Naruto delivered a powerful kick to the face of an air Kami. Naruto was now among the demons and he pulled out his favorite weapons, Chakra blades. With a series of quick moves he cut into the flesh of the air Kamis and the Yoseis mostly he aimed for the wings since he knew if they were to stand a chance this fight hat to remain on the ground.
By now, the demons had regained themselves and moved away from the threat. Leaving Naruto standing over the body of one of their own and with three wings cut off from other demons laying at his feet. Red demon chakra covered the chakra blades just blue human chakra would have done. A beeping sound filled the air as Sakura turned from her location she could see the computer screen through the window of the small hotel she had been using. The test was done, if she could reach it then Naruto would have his answer.
"Well that is a plan." said Sasuke with a grin.
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