Chapter 27 Breaking Trust Part 1

Kakashi and Rin moved through the Leaf or what it had become, the freshly turned demons where still trying to get a grip on the new world, they found themselves in. Some of them where still searching for loved ones and went around yelling names and holding up photos of those who they were looking for. Parents held up photos of their children and children held up photos of their parents, however all the photos where of humans but it did not matter, they still held the photos up.

There were pure demons yelling about meetings that would explain details about their new bodies and how the demons would change the society of the Leaf Village. There was very few people who had someone like Kakashi did with Rin who could explain everything about demons and the society that they where going to bring to this new world. There also teams of demons likely pure demons who where tearing down buildings and rebuilding them to better handle demons. The rooms had to be larger with higher ceilings to account for the extra height some demons had.

They passed by a park where the demons where busy trying to cover up that thousands of bodies of the dead had been burned there. The demons where removing the ash that had been built up and laying down grass sod and putting in mature trees trying to cover up what had been done there. Kakashi still remembered bring down those trees to use as fuel for the fires to burn the dead. As they neared the center of the village where the hospital was located, the situation changed and everything became a strange new normal. Maybe because this was the center of government or it had not been totally overrun by the virus but the situation here was normal. Aside from the fact that humans had been replaced by demons, the only difference was the sign of construction. Fresh paint was on the outer walls of many buildings and the signs about the virus had been taken down. As they passed by one of the places with fresh paint Kakashi could see red blood still slightly visible under the first coat of paint.

They walked into the hospital to see new floor tiles going down on the floor, all the photos on the wall that showed doctors treating people had been taken down and replaced with images of demon doctors treating demons. The Leaf symbol was still on the wall but that was one of the few symbols of humanity that was left. It was as if the demons where trying to remove the image of humanity to get people used to being demons.

"What room is Minato and Kushina Namikaze in?" inquired Rin to a female Rhyuu siting behind a reception desk trying to figure out what to do.

"Hold on…I am trying to figure this whole thing out," said the woman as she moved through some paperwork. "Yes, here they are, they have been released to their home."

"You released them?" inquired Kakashi "I thought they were badly injured."

"Demon healing ability and the skills of our doctors." stated the receptionist. "Also they want the hospital clear so that they can modify it."

"That is the main reason," stated Rin as she looked at Kakashi "Do you know where Minato-sensie's house is?"

"Yes." confirmed Kakashi as they headed out of the door. Kakashi and Rin through the village, until they reached the Yamanaka district, Minato had bought an old house in that district with plans to move his family there once Naruto was born. He had worked on the house to get it ready for his family and once that happened they would release the news to the village and the world that the legendary yellow flash had a wife and son. Kakashi knocked on the door and waited for a response.

"Enter." said his sensei's voice as they walked into to find the house similar to the state that he had seen so recently, however there was now signs of life instead of stillness.

The plastic covering over the new unused couch had been removed and photos had been placed on the fireplace. The carpet had been cleaned and the room had been dusted, multiple boxes sat out ready to be unpacked. Minato was standing in the kitchen with two large walking casts on his legs, a wooden cane rested by him. Beside him was Kushina, she had only a single walking cast but her arm was in a sling.

"Sensei, Kushina." greeted Kakashi as he and Rin walked up to the two Namikaze's who were unpacking as best as they could considering their injuries.

"You two should be in the hospital." advised Rin as she noticed that Kushina was putting away all the top of the line cooking utensil that had been left here when she was taken.

"So that we could sit around and think about how our children are missing and one of them may be dying because he will not become a demon and the other one may be killed because she became a demon." Said Kushina shaking her head as she unpacked some fine china and placed it in a small display case on the end of the kitchen. "No, since we can't go searching for them we will make their home ready."

"Well we wanted to put Obito to rest and I am sure it would mean a lot for you two to be there." Explained Rin

"We need to get's Naruto's stuff from his apartment, I don't want his stuff taken. People are searching through homes and taking whatever they want." said Kushina "And with our limited movement that will take some time to get there and back."

Kakashi and Rin shared a glace.

"We can help, we can get Naruto's stuff and get back here a lot faster than you can." Offered Kakashi

"I'll go with you, Rin can you help Kushina-chan around here while we are gone?" inquired Minato

"Oh course sensei," confirmed Rin as she moved to help her friend.

To the South East of the village hidden in the Leaves sat the boat club that was being used as their safe house not only smelled of mold but was actually visible on the ceiling panels. There was multiple tables and chairs all of them old and ripped apart, faded graffiti covered part of the wall.

"Well this place was horrible long before we got here," said Moegi as she looked at the abounded boat club.

"It has been for about seven years or so," explained Mebuki Haruno as she walked up to the young kids. They were resting on a broken coach by a stone fireplace which hadn't been used in years. "About that time a large storm pounded this area and flooded this place. The owners decided not to rebuild or spend the money to remove the buildings."

"Then why did all those ships gather here?" inquired Konohamaru

"Well the bay is surrounded by hills protecting it from waves and the larger ports where overrun by the virus. Problem is that once enough ships arrive a few where infected and they infected the others." explained Mebuki as she sat down across from them. "I am sure you three must have seen a lot things happening in the Leaf, well whatever you saw the coastal cities are even worse."

"I don't really know how that is possible." admitted Konohamaru

"And having an outbreak on a ship is even worse." stated Mebuki as she took a breath and began her story.

Flashback

The smell of blood and death filled the air of the cruise ship as Mebuki held a cloth to her mouth to try to keep herself from smelling the death. She pushed open the cabin door of the room she shared with her husband and stepped out into the hallway. The hallways which was perfectly clean when they boarded the ship for their second honeymoon was now full of trash, plastic bags full of human waste sat outside the doors of rooms that didn't have access to the water. She had to step over a bag which had broken only to almost trip over a dead body. It was a woman her body, her body had thick boils on it, she had just stepped over the body when she spoke up.

"Please help." pleaded the woman as she raised her hand up trying to get Mebuki to help her.

"I am sorry." answered Mebuki as she moved up into the grand lobby of the cruise ship, she looked down at the lobby from the second floor she was on. Down in the lobby were multiple cots, surprising there was only a few bodies because once someone had died they were simply tossed over the side. This worked until the captain died and then the ship fell into a fight, everyone for himself or herself.

The sound of a struggle up a head caused Mebuki to reach for a piece of wood she had tied a shard sharpen metal tied onto it with shoestring and wood glue. She and her husband had left their ninja tools at home and now they are regretting it. She moved forward toward the source only to see a dead man with a broken piece of glass in his neck.

She stepped over him, his blood still coming out of the wound, she looked into the room he had been in only to see a tiny woman who had her back to the door. She was maybe 100 pounds soaking wet but she had taken down a man two times her size and judging from the wrapper of peanut butter crackers. A man had died for a snake that used to so common in vending machines.

Mebuki moved past the woman, not wanting to fight someone whose blood was already up and ready for a fight. She moved down toward the area of the ship which had once been set aside by the crew when the first people started getting sick. Not many people would risk going into a place where they knew a sick person had been but Mebuki had caught enough medical knowledge from her daughter to know it was unlikely that a virus would live for long in a dead body. She pushed in a door to find a couple, maybe in their early twenties lying on the bed embraced in death. Judging from the bright wedding rings on their hands and the new wedding photo which sat on the nightstand told the story.

This couple had been on their honeymoon and now they were both dead they had died in each others arms and they would spend forever together in the afterlife. Mebuki bowed her head and prayed before going through their stuff, it took her some time but she found a small bottle of half used antibiotic cream.

End Flashback

"Once I found the cream I had to make it back to my husband, luckily he was able to overcome the infection that was festering in an open wound." explained Mebuki as she lowered her head. "On a boat you can't hid and you can't run and he had gotten himself cut by some mad women who had covered a shard of glass with human waste."

"I can believe it." stated Konohamaru as Mebuki as she hid the rest of what happened.

Flashback

She had just picked up her bottle of antibiotic when the sound of movement from the deck below her caused her to reach for her weapon. It was the sound of multiple doors being broken open caused her to think of a group of searchers. That was rare because aside from a few people moving in pairs there had not been any large groups since order had broken down since the Captain died. Then something she thought impossible happened the ship began to move.

"I have to get back." Said Mebuki to herself as she stepped out of the room and headed back toward the cabin where her husband was. She kept hearing movement below her as she reached the lobby; she stopped and looked at the main lobby area below her. What she saw were creatures, which could not possible be real. There were creatures with wings on their backs others with webbed hands and feet and yet another one which looked like humanoid crab.

"We need to search the ship and find anyone who is alive," ordered a women like creature with scales for skin and webbed hands and feet. Mebuki was about to move across the upper level when suddenly a voice yelled from down the hall at her.

"Stop!" yelled a creature, which had a similar look to the woman only the color of the scales was different. With no choice Mebuki bolted across the lobby being chased, she knew the ship and they did not so they tripped over the bags of waste and trash in the hallway. She disappeared around a corner and up another flight before taking another path down before finally reaching the door of the cabin where the love of her life would be waiting. She opened the door locking it behind her.

"We need to get out of here," said Mebuki as she turned to the bed where her husband lied with a gash on his arm only to see two of those creatures. One with a medical bag over his shoulder and another standing guard.

"Get away from my husband!" yelled Mebuki

"If I do then he will lose his arm," countered the fish like creature who was healing his arm. "We are not here to hurt you; we are here to save you."

"What are you?" inquired Mebuki as the door behind her opened up to show one of those crabs creatures in the doorway. She knew she was trapped there was no way out.

"We are what you will soon be." explained the fish creature standing guard by the doctor "Or at least one of our different kinds of demons."

End Flashback

"They promised us that we would get our daughter back," thought Mebuki with sadness "I want my daughter back."

"Where did that old man and that woman go?" inquired Moegi as Mebuki snapped out of her memory.

"I think she is getting something from the garden," explained Mebuki

"How did you get a garden? It takes a lot of time to grow food," stated Konohamaru with a raised eyebrow.

"When they left this place they left some Apple trees growing and it is better than nothing," explained Mebuki who knew what was really going on. "Give them some time, we don't want too many people outside incase demons fly over."

"Aright." confirmed Konohamaru the answer understandable to the young ninja not knowing what was really in the garden.

They were in the their second to last location, it was a higher end furniture store and normally they wouldn't mess with the place however their rooms back at the base was bare and they didn't know how long that they would be underground so they needed to personalize the place.

"It is mahogany." stated Meiko as she looked at her brother who was looking at a desk.

"What?" inquired Naruto not sure what his sister was talking about.

"It is a type of wood and that is what the desk is made out of," explained Meiko with a slight laugh. "Grandpa would be disappointed that you didn't know that."

"What are you talking about?" inquired Naruto as Meiko blinked.

"Sorry I forgot that you don't know the clan history." apologized Meiko as she took a breath. "Grandpa Namikaze wasn't a ninja in fact Dad was the first member of our clan to join the ninja core. He was a master carpenter and he taught Dad, more than a few times I came downstairs into the basement to find him working away on something. I was never that interested in it but I did pick up a few things."

"That wasn't in the books about him." Admitted Naruto as he looked around the show room, everyone was getting things ranging from bedsheets to full on beds. He saw Sasuke standing beside Karin with a look on his face that said he wanted to be somewhere else as Karin looked at a massive four-post bed with draping over it and a massive engraved headboard. Others were going the more sensible route but still getting things they normally would not. They only had one more stop and then they would go back to the base to stay underground for an unknown time.

"Well books can't cover everything," explained Meiko to her brother. "I am betting your books didn't cover mom."

"No, it didn't." admitted Naruto as he took a breath. "What is she like?"

"Mom, well that is hard to explain," said Meiko with a warm smile as she remembered times with her mother. "Well you know about her cooking skills but aside from that, she is caring and kind beyond belief. Yes, she can be hard head and impulsive from time to time but she is downright fun. One time when I was at school she painted part of my room white and got all these different color paints and let me go crazy painting a scene of whatever I wanted on the wall. She sat there the whole time I was painting watching me and talking to me."

"Sounds like a wonderful person." Said Naruto

"Yes, she loves her family beyond everything else." added Meiko before laughing "She would wait for me every day when I got out of school only when I asked her to stop did she stop, after some time. It was kind of embarrassing to have your mom waiting for you every day after school."

"You don't know how lucky you were." added Naruto to his sister as he took a breath. "Every day after school, I would sit on a swing and wait. I would wait and watch the other kids get picked up by their parents. I would watch them and wish that my parents would come and take me home."

Meiko looked at her brother; he had a look of pure sadness a look she saw every October 11th on the face of her father. That day, the day of her brother's birthday was a sad day around their home. Her father would always spend the day working on some project in the basement with a bottle of unopened whiskey nearby. He never opened the bottle but it there all the same; it was a look of sadness and regret now that look was on her brother's face. Her mother would keep her mind on something mostly trying to clean some room so that she did not have to think of the son she did not have.

"They would of if they could." defended Meiko "Mom and Dad love you and all they are doing is them trying to reunite our family."

"By destroying so many other families." countered Naruto

"No, it wasn't but they are just trying to make the best out the situation," explained Meiko "I don't know what it would be liked to not have mom and dad around. At least you had the villagers helping you right?"

"The villagers…" said Naruto with a shake of the head. "Yes, they helped me a lot."

"Ok, I have only been around you a while but I can tell that was you mocking that statement." Stated Meiko "I know you have been trying to hid what the villagers did but what could they have done?"

Naruto took a breath and paused for a moment.

"Are you sure you want to know?" inquired Naruto "It isn't something I would want other people to know."

"I am your sister, I need to know." countered Meiko as Naruto took a breath.

"I had a rough childhood, more than a few nights I went to bed hungry with multiple locks on my door. I couldn't be sure if the villagers would try to do something." explained Naruto "Once some drunk man busted in my door with a knife in his hand."

"What?" inquired Meiko

"I didn't know at the time but he wanted revenge for the loss of his son during the Kyuubi attack." Explained Naruto "An Anbu stopped him before he could do more than bust down my door but that was only a sample of what I got when I was growing up. You said you didn't have friends in school because you where a human well I had no friends in school because parents thought I was a demon and their kids stayed away from me."

"Why didn't the Hokage tell them to stop, tell them who you where?" inquired Meiko

"Because of who our father is, he had a lot of enemies and they would want to kill me for that." Explained Naruto before turning his gaze toward his friends, his eyes found their way to Sakura who was standing with Ino looking at blankets "Luckily I became a ninja, that almost didn't happen but when I got on a team I finally got friends and my friends became my family."

Meiko followed her brother's eyes toward Sakura.

"You love her don't you?" inquired Meiko as Naruto blushed a bit but he shook his head.

"Doesn't matter, she loves Sasuke not me." Countered Naruto

"Sasuke is kind with Karin." Countered Meiko not wanting to come out and say that Sakura had all but admitted she liked her brother.

"Not really by choice." Said Naruto

"What are you talking about?" inquired Meiko

"That Sasuke doesn't really have a choice about Karin, she is keeping him alive." explained Naruto as he crossed his arms over his chest. "I am surprised you haven't said anything about it. Take a look at him."

"What are you talking about, he looks fine to me." said Meiko as Naruto blinked and looked at Sasuke, he could see through the hedge which made him seam healthy, he could see the clear signs of the red flu but Meiko with her own demon eyes which could see through hedges couldn't see it.

"How come she can't see what Sasuke is but I can?" thought Naruto

"Will you at least give it a chance, you love her. I can see it, you act like dad around mom and she acts like mom." explained Meiko before laughing "Hell I have caught both of you checking the other out."

"She deserves someone better than me." stated Naruto "I am a demon."

Meiko rolled her eyes as she broke the hedge and appeared as her true demon form, she grew in height about an inch or so and her face grew out as a muzzle pushed out. Her ears moved up and poked out of the side of her hairline, they were pointed like a foxes. She turned her eyes and looked at her brother with silted eyes.

"No I am a demon, you are a human." countered Meiko

"For now, you want me to turn," said Naruto

"Yes." admitted Meiko "I want all of you to turn because I want you all to live."

"Tell me something how come our parents are going along with this. I can understand why they didn't escape but why aren't they fight back now?" inquired Naruto

"It has to do with the change, also they don't really see a way to stop what happened and they want our family to be together." explained Meiko "throw in the fact that the changes also effects the brain making people like the change."

"And you aren't affective by the change?" inquired Naruto

"Well I always knew that I would be a demon and that I would likely be a Kitsune so I knew what I would likely look like. So I can't really tell, I changed into what I expected to be." Explained Meiko "For everyone else in a couple of months everyone who changes generally start liking what they become. In the meantime there are the two basic needs that make people focus on other things."

"What?" asked Naruto

"Basically part of the change if you are old enough makes you want to have sex." said the 15 and a half year old Meiko to her 18 year old brother. "Luckily that doesn't affect the really young and I am on the edge of that so it hasn't effective me. But the other need has."

"And what is that?" inquired Naruto

"The need to be with family and loved ones." explained Meiko "It is how the council hopes to get more turned people to help them, the basic need to be with family and the only way to do that is to turn them."

"So because mom and dad loves me they want to turn me into a demon." said Naruto with a shake of his head.

"Kind of twisted but yes." confirmed Meiko "In the end it may be your only choice, it may be the only choice all of you have to be turned or die. The virus is not gone, it is only dominate and will come back.

"Well with Sakura-chan and others we will find a cure and find a way to turn everyone back to human." stated Naruto

"And how will that help you and Fu?" inquired Meiko "You have demon chakra in your body and that will kill you. Also if it comes down to it, if the choices are to give up humanity or die what do you think you will do?"

"I don't want to die," admitted Naruto "I will cross that bridge when I get there."

"Ok." said Meiko

Across the store, Ino had moved away from Sakura and had moved toward Sai who was talking quietly with Neji, Tenten and Shikamaru.

"I don't think we have anything to worry about." Stated Shikamaru as Ino walked up to the small group.

"I am not so sure." Stated Neji as they all suddenly they stopped talking when Ino walked up to them.

"What is going on?" inquired Ino as her four friends shared looks at each other before speaking.

"We are talking about the situation with Naruto," explained Shikamaru as Ino raised an eyebrow before looking back to see Naruto standing beside his sister, Meiko had turned back into her demon form which caused Ino to flinch a bit. Naruto didn't seem effective by the fact that he was standing next to a demon, it was to him as if he was standing next to a normal human instead of a demon.

"You mean the situation with Meiko not Naruto, right." Countered Ino as Neji shook his head.

"No, with Naruto." reassured Neji "We have to consider the possibility that he could betray us."

Ino blinked at idea of Naruto the boy who had gone off on a mission to keep a promise to Sakura to bring Sasuke back to the village betraying them. The idea of that even possible was laughable but yet the idea of a human containing a demon would have been laughable to her but Naruto had the Kyuubi in him for years.

"No, I don't see that happening." explained Ino "This is Naruto and we are his friends."

"Yes, it is and that is his sister and his parents are actively trying to get us." Countered Sai as Ino blinked, she would have expected Sai to be on the side of his teammate, for him to say that there is a threat said everything. "Naruto has always wanted a family and now he has one if he accepts to give up his humanity, we have to consider that as a possibility."

"This is Naruto." Restated Ino as if she could not understand why they were questioning him.

"It is." stated Neji "Naruto who has always wanted a family, who always wanted parents now have them but they are demons."

"We have to admit that it is a possibility that Naruto could sub come to the draw of family." admitted Tenten "We need to take steps to make sure Naruto stays loyal, if he should let Meiko escape or go with her then the demons would descend upon us and we would lose and humanity would likely lose as well. We have to take all things serious."

"I agree but the question is how do we do that without showing to Naruto that we don't trust him." stated Shikamaru as he placed his hand under his chin thinking. "If we put restraints on him then it may only push him to do something."

"We need to find a balance," confirmed Sai

"Maybe we can convince Karin to remove Naruto's pass code from the computer system so that he can't leave without us knowing." Offered Tenten

"And what happens if one of our parents show up here as a demon?" inquired Ino as the others shared a chance. She turned her eyes and fixed on Shikamaru, a man she considered her brother. "What happens if Temari would show, your parents, my Dad or anyone else loved ones shows up. We have to consider that all of them are demons now and we would have the same pull toward them as Naruto does."

"She has a point," admitted Sai "We need to find a way to make sure no single person can be tempted to leave. Maybe see if we can make sure the door leaving the base can't be open without three codes."

"That is more reasonable," said Ino as she looked at Sai with a loving smile.

Shizune looked down as Lee was rolled into the small courtyard park that was set up in the middle of hospital. The courtyard park had once had multiple shade trees but all those trees had been cut down to be used as firewood for the massive fires to burn all the victims of the flu, even the wooden benches and picnic table had been burned. These meant that the courtyard was now nothing more than bare grass it was a sad state for such a beautiful place to have become. Shizune shook her head before turning to Lee, he had lost weight and his arms and legs had lost so much muscles that he looked like a husk of his former well-built muscular self. He had been kept alive by a feeding tube that was attached to his gurney.

He was a medical mystery even to Shizune, there was no way he should have lived through the virus she had played a key part in designing. It feed on chakra and Lee had next to none and that meant that he should have been among the first to die, yet somehow he had lived. The best theory was that all his contact with Naruto had allowed him to observe enough demon chakra to live but that would not explain how he had lived through the 3rd stage and made it into an unknown 4th stage. Lee would have died due to pressure building in the brain but they had operated to release that pressure, they had taken out part of his skull to make this possible.

"Doctor we are ready." said a Bai Ze much like herself.

"Alright." confirmed Shizune as she turned to look at the instrument of the transformation from human to demon, the Furutsubaki-no-rei plant. Furutsubaki-no-rei translated basically into soul stealing plant and while it didn't take a person's soul it did take their humanity. It looked like a giant Venus fly trap, it had six massive leaves which had multiple colors, in the center was a large bulge which was semi transplant. Coming out from the top of that was a long neck which led up to what looked like a mouth made out of flowers. The neck moved back and forth like a snake, a Yosei walked past under the shadow of the neck and the Furutsubaki followed him but it did not snap down.

"Unstrap him," ordered Shizune as the feeding tube was removed, a team of nurses came up only to get waved off by Shizune. She reactive her hedge and turned back to human, the nurses and other doctors just watched as she picked up Lee and carried the limp young man toward the plant that would take away his humanity. As she walked toward it the mouth of the plant opened up to show the long needle like teeth which would open the body up to accept the infusion of demon chakra and the liquid which would change the very DNA of the person.

The Furutsubaki did not go for Lee since it sensed Shizune's demon chakra but it did lean in like a hungry animal. Shizune placed Lee down and backed away, at once; the plant snapped down and raised Lee up swallowing him headfirst. Lee did not put up any fight and Shizune watched him descend down into the belly of the plant. The transforming liquid started its work as it began to change Lee into a demon. It took longer than normal but in the end he came out.

Shizune moved forward and looked at him, he had changed he was still thin and weak looking but the transformation had caused some of his muscles to come back. His face had pushed out into a cat like muzzle with a black wet tip. His skin had been replaced with black hair which was thicker around the shoulders and neck had flecks of brown mixed in. His ears had become pointed like a cat and moved up from their original spot.

"Kind of thin for a Bakeneko." stated one of the other doctors as he tossed a blanket over Lee to hide his private parts.

"Well he was thin going in," countered Shizune as suddenly Lee started to groan. She smiled, the transformation generally healed all but the worse of the worse injuries and it appeared that when it came to Lee he was healed.

"Looks like he is coming back." stated the doctor

"Stand back." ordered Shizune as Lee opened his now silted eyes and saw a Shizune standing over him. His eyes where still new demon eyes so what he saw was a blurry image of Shizune both as a human and a demon. All he saw was a blurry image so he took a guess.

"Shizune?" inquired Lee with a dry cracking voice.

"Welcome back Lee, now rest there is much to talk about." stated Shizune as she looked to where lines of demon doctors where watching. Lee's eyes where already losing focus as he was on the edge of passing out. "A lot has changed."

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