Chapter 28 Breaking Trust Part 2

Minato Namikaze moved through the streets of the Leaf village, with the help of a cane and Kakashi he was able to walk without too much pain. Part of him should have been thankful to the demon chakra which provided healing abilities that a human could only dream of but looking around at the state of the village made him damn them. Some buildings where just above slums and somewhere slums, large piles of trash sat out and the smell of rot and death clung to the air like perfume. There was people starting the cleanup process, they were throwing trash into large carts which would take them to the massive fire which had been started a mile outside the village. A few people stopped and looked at him confused.

"The 4th Hokage?" inquired a man as Minato stopped and looked at the man.

"Ebisu right?" inquired Minato as he looked at the figure in front of him. He had become an Ushi-oni, since he had become a bull like creature he had grown in size and was now taller than Kakashi, two black shinny horns came out the side of his head.

"Yes, but how…how are you alive?" inquired Ebisu as his new demon eyes widened. "Wait are you one of the traitors like Shizune."

He made Shizune's name a curse which showed what had become of the standing of the aid to the 5th Hokage.

"No." snapped Minato "I was a prisoner, they held me and my wife hostage in their village all this time. They only turned us a day before their attack."

"Wait…wife?" inquired Ebisu

"Kushina Uzumaki." explained Kakashi as Ebisu tilted his head a bit. "She was container of the 9 tailed fox and they took her because of that."

"Oh…well that makes sense I guess." said Ebisu "But how come the 4th couldn't escape from their prison."

"Because they also held my son here." explained Minato "If I had tried anything then Naruto would have been killed."

"Naruto…Naruto Uzumaki is your son?" inquired Ebisu

"Naruto Namikaze." corrected Minato as he winced a bit in pain. "We were actually going to gather his things from his apartment to bring them to his true home."

"I heard he is on the run." Stated Ebisu as Minato nodded.

"He is and I will bring him home along with his sister that he captured home." explained Minato "Now excuses me."

"Yes, sir." said Ebisu as Minato and Kakashi moved down the road.

"He is going to tell everyone he sees." stated Kakashi

"Maybe that is for the best, it will tell the village about my son." explained Minato as they moved on down the road. The best path to Naruto's apartment meant they had to pass through the Nara clan compound. The Nara clan was one of the larger clans in the Leaf with only the Hyuga and the Uchiha clan being larger when Minato was Hokage. Their compound covered multiple blocks with low walls around some of the higher-ranking clan homes but the rest could have been regular middle class homes. The only thing that made them stand out was the Nara clan symbol on the mailboxes of each house and hanging from the street lamps was the Nara clan flag along with the Leaf symbol. Kakashi blinked as he saw multiple demons mostly Bai Zie's tearing those flags down and throwing them onto a large fire which was burning in the center of the street.

"What are they doing?" inquired Kakashi as a recently turned family returned home to find that their home had been torn apart and clan symbols which decorated the outside and inside of the house being torn apart and destroyed.

"Getting revenge." explained Minato as they turned a corner where the statue of the founder of the Nara clan, Shika stood. The marble statue, which showed the founder of the Nara clan sanding between two deer, was being hacked apart by teams of demons, in the distance the main clan compound was being burned down.

"Shika the great who founded the clan is considered a mass murder by the demons." Explained Minato "He massacred multiple Bai Zie cities, those he didn't kill he either forced to share information which became the base of the Nara clan Justus or he enslaved them. There are even some stories that said he rapped them and sold them as sex slaves."

"Oh." stated Kakashi as they walked past a newly turned man who was trying to save some of the clans items. Only to get pushed aside from a pure demon who threw the clan items onto the fire. "That isn't a way to get them to side with them."

"On some levels they don't care, they want revenge against the Nara clan for the actions of their ancestors and to a lesser extent the Inuzuka and Aburame clans." explained Minato as he looked into the distance toward where the Inuzuka and Aburame clan had their own smaller clan compounds. He could see smoke rising from the area where the Aburame clan houses where but he did not see any smoke coming from the Inuzuka clan area.

They walked the rest of the distance in silence. They reached the rundown apartment complex only to get hit with a so bad both men held back the need to gag. They had become used to the smell of death and trash but what was filling their noses now was the smell of raw sewage.

"The explosions nearby must have caused some pipes to break." explained Kakashi as he looked at the line of destroyed buildings only a few hundred yards away from them. "They had set the gas lines to exploded and that must have caused the break."

"Likely." Said Minato as he reached the destroyed door of his son's apartment, it was there that they discovered the true extent of the damage. There weren't just a few broken pipes, raw sewage sat across the floor of his son's apartment. The ceiling was dripping from the sewage that sat across the floor of the apartment above it.

"I take that back," reported Kakashi as he looked at the massive stain on the ceiling of the bathroom. "The pipes must have exploded everything up like a fountain."

"This isn't a safe place for my son." Stated Minato

"It isn't a safe spot for anyone with sewage." added Kakashi "They will have to knock it down."

"No, it wasn't safe before that," countered Minato as he stood in the doorway looking into the room with the eyes of the man who had spent a boyhood on jobsites with his father. "The paint is likely lead based, the wood is second rate at best and I can smell mold over the sewage. The 3rd let my son stay in a place like this?"

"Well, he didn't really have a choice," explained Kakashi as he came to the 3rd's defense. "He paid for Naruto's rent and other expensive himself, the village wouldn't put anything for him and this was the only building that would take him."

"Shameful, they had no right to treat him like this. The 3rd could have trusted the council and even then he didn't want to do that Kushina and I had money saved up. Naruto could have lived on that." growled Minato as they moved into the apartment. Their shoes swishing down on the brown liquid, which now covered the floor. The brown liquid was a quarter of an inch thick and had spread out across the kitchen, and most of the living room. They did not even look at the stuff in the kitchen, everything in there was either ruined or extremely cheap. The old coach and coffee table had sewerage around the bottom part of it and was ruined. The only item that did not seam touched by the sweage was the wooden desk in the far corner by the window and the only reason it was not was because the floor had a slight bow in it so water ran down toward the center.

"Come here, Minato-sensie there is something I want to show you." said Kakashi as Minato walked toward his student who was standing by the desk. "Do you recognize the desk?"

"No." admitted Minato as he looked at the desk, it was simple but well made with a total of six draws, one in the center with three smaller drawers on the right side with two larger ones on the left.

"I helped Naruto pick out this desk from a second hand store." explained Kakashi as he pulled out one of the draws and careful not to spill any of the papers, he flipped it over. Minato's eyes widened as he saw his father, Naruto's grandfather mark burned into the wood. "I made sure, he picked up something that his grandfather had made. I couldn't tell him when he bought it but had something from his clan with him."

"Thank you." said Minato with a smile as they sealed the desk away before moving into the bedroom, due the lip on the bottom of the door the bedroom was intact. Together they began the process of sealing up Naruto's items, there wasn't a lot. They didn't know that Naruto had already taken all the important items with him but they still gathered everything up.

As Minato pulled down some of the books, his son had on a shelf he couldn't help that the book with the most worn on it was about the lives of the Hokages. He looked at the pages and spotted which group had the most stains on them, when he opened it up he found that it was about himself. Minato fought down tears as he thought about his son reading about the life of his father, idolizing him without knowing who he really was, that he was the son of his hero.

"Kakashi, tell me what sort of man has my son become." inquired Minato "All I know is what the reports say about him and the brief moments I had with him and that was spent either in silence or fighting him."

"Naruto is simply amazing," explained Kakashi "He will never give up and he loves the Leaf and his friends with everything his has. He will take on any burden and he never gives up on his dreams. Given what he has had to gone through a lesser man would have been broken but not him. He will put himself at risk for the ones he loves."

Flashback

Naruto like the other ninjas in the front line where wearing biohazard war suits, they looked kind of like full body wet suits only they full face masks tied to two oxygen tanks strapped to his back. Over it all they wore standard ninja armor and flak jackets. Kakashi, Naruto and Choji where assigned to do a sweep and clear of an apartment complex. The ninja core was spread thin so the normally 20-man job had been assigned to the three of them.

"Clear." Said Naruto as he moved into an apartment followed by Kakashi and Choji. It appeared to be a normal apartment, like the countless others they had gone through. The living room was a mess and a dead body lied on the carpet staining it red with blood. It was a shirtless man which meant when the boils burst like they always did, the blood had spread everywhere instead of being contained by a shirt.

"Looks like he shit himself too." said Choji as he moved the man, "I'll get a bag ready."

"Alright." said Kakashi as he looked down at a clipboard. "Records show that his name is Tokuma Hyuuga and he is the only person who lives here."

"Alright." said Choji as he unsealed a body bag. "He kind of looks like Neji, must be pretty close relatives."

"Hard to tell, the Hyuuga clan is the largest in the Leaf." explained Kakashi as he began to write down the death record. Naruto was moving toward the main bedroom when suddenly secondary bedroom door burst open and a woman, her face covered with boils some of which were bursting infected blood came rushing out with a knife in hand. Moving fast and without thinking of the risks Naruto rushed to stand between the charging woman and his friend as he moved he reached for a weapon but the suit was bulky and he did not grab a kunai in time. The knife cut into Naruto's arm cutting the suit open and digging into his flesh. The woman slammed into him and due to the size of the apartment Naruto fell backward over the body and right into Choji who fell backwards his face plate smashing into the corner of a glass coffee table breaking open as it did.

End flashback

"The damage was done by then, Naruto had been cut and that would in time lead to the infection and when Choji fell his face visor broke and he fell face first into infect blood." explained Kakashi "I rushed them back to a medical quarantine area and Choji began to show signs of infection almost at once. Naruto actually seamed to luck out and was sent home to rest only to show signs there and put himself into quarantine."

"My son threw himself in front of a knife wielding woman to save his friend." said Minato with pride in his voice. "And what of his relationship with Sakura Haruno? Does he love her?"

"Yes, I think he does." confirmed Kakashi "The question is does she return his feelings, she kind of reminds me of Kushina."

"And if he believes her. That may be the biggest issue," added Kakashi to himself as they finished sealing away the different items.

Something did not seem right to Konohamaru, he had been watching the older ninjas who were talking among themselves in far corner of the boat club that was serving as the makeshift base. Things where not making sense, the older ninjas should be forcing on launching counter attacks on the demons or at the least gathering supplies. Instead, they were focused more on gathering more people, that was all well and good but that should be a side mission to launching attacks or supplies. That on itself was a little off putting but not enough to cause all the warning bells that where going off in Konohamaru's mind however what was really causing all the issues.

"They don't seem worried about the demons," whispered Konohamaru to his teammates.

"Well this place is pretty much out of the way and having people looking out may draw attention to this place," countered Udon

"But the ships in the bay would draw attention of the demons so having look outs is required so that they don't get taken by surprise." countered Konohamaru

"Also did you notice that the ninjas seem to be taking orders from Ayame," added Moegi as she looked toward where the adult ninjas where talking with the owner of a romon noddle stand. "Wouldn't Tsume be in command, she is the highest ninja of rank?"

"Actually Kizashi Haruno is the higher ranking ninja." informed Udon as he ran down the ranks in his mind. "He and his wife are co-heads of the supply force and they would slightly outrank Tsume who is second in command of the recon forces behind Shibi Aburame. Even so since they have more to do with supplies and not actual combat one would think they would hand over command to Tsume."

"And I have never even seen or heard of this Utakata man." Added Moegi as the three ninjas whispered before looking at the black haired man dressed in blue.

"Neither have I," admitted Konohamaru "Something is up for sure, we need to be ready for anything."

"Still these are our friends and allies." countered Udon

"Are they?" inquired Moegi as all three of them looked at each other. "They could be demons or humans that have been changed into demons."

"If that is the case, we have walked into a trap and we need to find a way out." Stated Konohamaru as he looked toward the nearest window, it was boarded over but it looked like it would not be hard to bust down. The problem was it was a window that faced the beach and on the beach, they would still be trapped because it limited options to run away from.

"What if this isn't a trap, what if we are just overthinking this and seeing things that aren't there." offered Udon "We just saw the Leaf, our home fall to inhuman monsters we could be jumping to conclusions. Do either of you know every ninja in the Leaf? I don't and Ayame doesn't she come from this area originally? I know she isn't native to the Leaf."

"She isn't and yes, I think she is from this area." confirmed Konohamaru who recalled some of the meals he had with Naruto at the romon stand.

"So she could know the area better than any of the ninjas and knowledge of the area is key." explained Udon

"We need to be ready for anything," stated Konohamaru "We could be dealing with inhuman monsters."

A knock at the door caused Rin to put down the paintbrush she had been using, since Minato and Kakashi had left she and Kushina had finished putting away the kitchen and had moved on to the next project. Now they were painting Meiko's room the red tone she had back in the demon village. Next they would paint Naruto's room before setting everything up.

"Coming." said Rin as she opened the door only to see a demon she had not seen before, she was a water kami for sure the smooth bluish skin and gills and webbed hands and feet told her that. Her hair was blonde but with highlights of neon blue now. Her stomach pushed out a bit showing that she was carrying a child but was not too far along yet. It took her a moment to realize who it was.

"Hotaru, it's good to see you. I haven't seen you after you turned," said Rin "I thought you would be settling in at some home in the land of water."

"Well Utakata-kun and I decided to wait until things get settled in that nation and of course after the baby comes," explained Hotaru as Kushina walked up as best as she could. "What happened to you?"

"Had a little run in with my son and it didn't go well," explained Kushina with sadness in her voice "He and Meiko are still out there."

"Well Utakata is out there searching for humans, he will find them." reassured Utakata

"I would offer you some wine but I know you don't want to drink." offered Kushina as Utakata rested her hands on her belly where her and Utakata child was growing. The baby had been turned into a demon along with his or her mother the only issue was that since Hotaru was a kami that meant the baby could come out as any of the five types of Kamis. It did raise the likelihood that it would be a water Kami because both Utakata and Hotaru where water kamis that the baby would be the same but it was not a guarantied, two water kamis could have a fire kami or any of the other elemental types.

"I will take some water and don't feel like you have to hold back the wine because of me," offered Hotaru as she was welcomed into the Namikaze home.

Elsewhere in the Leaf Village Rock Lee moved back and forth in the isolation room in the Leaf hospital. He kept looking at himself in the one-way mirror, which allowed the doctors on the other side of the door to look in without having Lee know about it. Lee stopped and looked at his body, it was now covered with black fur, his hands now had pads on it like a cat or a dog would have on their paws. With a flex of new muscles, sharp claws came out of slits located where his finger and toenails used to be. A long tail moved out from his backside with a growth of fur at the end. The hair around his shoulders and his head was thicker with flecks of brown mixed in. His eyes had become silted as well as his face pushed out into a muzzle which was full of sharp teeth.

"I am a freaking lion man," growled Lee as he felt like punching the mirror, he did have the decently to put on a pair of shorts. The white shorts clashed with the black fur of his body. The door to his room/cell opened up as a creature with black fur and a short muzzle. He could see two small horns pointing through the hairline, she had the looks of a deer.

"Shizune?" inquired Lee as the deer creature nodded her head and smiled at him.

"Welcome back to the land of the living, you have been sick for a while." said Shizune in a calm mother like voice. "I am sure you have a lot of questions."

"What the hell am I?" inquired Lee "What the hell are you?"

"We will go into more detail once you are rested but I will give you a short answer," explained Shizune "The red flu was a set up by a group of ancient demon races which once ruled the Earth until humans commented mass genocide and pushed them to the edge of extinction. This was their payback and the virus allowed them to easy turn humans into their kind, that is what happened to you."

"And you." stated Lee as Shizune took a breath.

"No, I was born like this but I was undercover," explained Shizune "The entire Leaf village and in fact a good part of the land of Fire, Lightening and Water has already been turned."

"Wait…you are a demon?" inquired Lee

"Yes, and so are you." answered Shizune

"You turned me into one of these monsters!" yelled Lee as he moved to attack Shizune only to have two more demons rush in and grab Lee before he could attack.

"What the hell is wrong with him!" yelled a bull like demon as he struggled to hold back Lee. "I thought the transformation makes them like being demons for a while."

"I will kill you for turning me into this monster, you betrayed us!" yelled Lee at the top of his lungs.

"It does." confirmed Shizune "But his is a strange case, we need to keep an eye on him and find out what is going on."

Their last stop was located just down the street from the restaurant and bar which was the entrees to old Orochimaru medical base. From the outside, it may look like two buildings but it actually a single building in the shape of block U with a garden sitting in the open space in the U. That guarden was overgrown and thick with large plants that actually hid the path from view. Luckily the two street doors showed what it was, it was a barber shop/beauty salon and the men and women split up according to their needs.

"I could use a haircut," admitted Tenten as she looked at some supplies which rested on the shelves. They did not plan to be there long, it was a last quick stop and more time would likely be spent picking out different scents.

"Well once we get back to the base, I'll give you one." offered Karui as she got a questioning look from Tenten. "My grandmother was a ran a place like this and I spent a lot of time in the shop she worked at when my parents where on missions. I picked up a few things beside it can't be worse then what anyone other person could do."

"Oh, ok." Said Tenten as Sakura grabbed some of the different soaps, shampoos and other items she wanted from a shelf in the back. She was about to call it done when she noticed Meiko standing in one of the corners looking at something. She sealed the last item away before walking over to see Meiko looking at a showcase which had multiple ear rings and other body piercings sitting behind glass.

"Something wrong?" inquired Sakura

"No." answered Meiko before looking back at the items. "Well not really, it may sound a little strange but I always wanted to get my ears pierced."

"Why didn't you? It isn't like that is that weird." inquired Sakura before laughing. "When Ino turned 14 she tried to get her belly button pierced let's say her parents didn't let that happen. It isn't like you wanted to price your nose or belly button that could upset your parents."

"No it has nothing to do with that, my mom had ear rings but it is against demon tradition to pierce ears." explained Meiko as Sakura looked at her. "Humans used to cut off the ears of demons and put them on a large chain as a sign of how many they killed. Since then it has been banded by the council."

"Oh…" said Sakura as she looked at the tools. "You know it wouldn't be hard to priece your ears. Also there is no demon council here to tell you no."

Meiko thought about it for a moment before smiling.

"Sure. Why the hell not, the council will not control forever." said Meiko as she moved into the process of picking out what she wanted. Sakura could not help but smile as Meiko picked out the four ear rings she wanted. She wanted two in each ear and she had to be in the top part of the ears.

Meiko sat down in the chair as Sakura read the instructions, it wasn't that hard.

"Do you think I need to release my hedge?" inquired Meiko

"Might as well." answered Sakura as Meiko transformed before her eyes into a demon, to her amazement it didn't surprise her it didn't even freak her out.

"Sakura, can I ask you something?" inquired Meiko

"Sure." answered Sakura as she picked up the first tool.

"My brother, considers himself a demon already why?" inquired Meiko as Sakura froze.

"How did this come up?" inquired Sakura

"I was kind of pushing him to ask you out and he said you deserve someone better than a demon." explained Meiko.

"That sounds like something Naruto-kun would say." Admitted Sakura to herself.

"Listen your brother has had a tough life…" started Sakura

"Naruto has explained how he didn't have friends and how some of the villagers treated him." Explained Meiko "Someone trying to stab him."

"No, he hasn't." said Sakura as she lowered her head. "Meiko, I have seen Naruto's medical records and believe me it was a lot worse then what he has told you. He grew up alone people call him demon constantly that has an effect on a person. If it wasn't for Iruka, the 3rd Hokage, Ayame and her father he would have grown up alone and hungry. Ayame and her father's romen noddle stand all but made sure Naruto had enough to eat. Iruka taught him when no one else would and the 3rd kept people from hurting him, mostly."

"Ayame…is her father named Teuchi?" inquired Meiko as Sakura blinked.

"How do you know that?" asked Sakura as Meiko shook her head.

"Teuchi and Ayame are two demons who were stationed in the Leaf." explained Meiko as Sakura's eyes widened as it hit her.

"Teuchi and Ayame are demons?" thought Sakura as she went to the next logical step. "The food they gave to Naruto-kun, they could have poisoned him at any moment. They where the insurance that Naruto-kun would die before his parents could get to him, if they escaped."

"Teuchi came by the house a month or two ago to rub it in my father's face that he knew my brother better than my father." growled Meiko as she showed her teeth. "I thought he was just a jerk lying and that he didn't know my brother that well."

"He wasn't." confirmed Sakura "I wonder how I will explain that to Naruto-kun."

Meiko smiled as Sakura added the Kun to her brother's name.

"Well first you will have to convince him that you want him." explained Meiko "He thinks you still want Sasuke."

"Karin is welcomed to him." answered Sakura at once, she flicked her wrist to show how little she cared for him. "I will have a talk to your brother when we get back to the base. Now let's get your ears done."

Across the store from the Samui kept an eye on the demon who was getting her ear pierced by the medical ninja from the Leaf, Sakura. The two of them where talking and even shared a small laugh, she did not like it.

"What is wrong?" inquired Karui to her teammate.

"Like I said I don't trust everything we are doing with this demon. All this time has been a waste, we should be in the bunker searching for a cure and a way to kill these demons." explained Samui as Karui nodded her head.

"I understand your point, but we are going to spend months underground and the supplies may not be enough," countered Karui

"Gathering food is one thing gathering shampoo and other items is useless," countered Samui "And that demon should be locked up."

"And she will be." countered Karui "She doesn't have a pass code to the computer and she will be imprisoned inside the base."

"She should be in cell under guard," explained Samui "That is the only sensible place to keep her."

"Maybe you are right but good luck trying to talk the others into doing that," explained Karui "She is this Naruto's sister and they know him a lot better than they know us. They will trust him more."

"Yes, you are right," confirmed Samui as she looked at the facts in front of her. "We do need to get better supplies, most of all Bronze if it burns demons we need as much as we can get."

"Alright." said Karui before yelling across the store. "Karin, you have been here before do you know any place we can find bronze weapons nearby."

"No." answered Karin back from across the store "The only place you can find bronze weapons is likely a museum and there aren't many around here and those that are aren't going to have them."

"What about statues and art galleries?" inquired Tenten "In a place like this I am sure some local artisan did some work in bronze."

"Yes, of course but unless you plan to throw statues at demons they will of no use." explained Karin

"Unless you can forge it," explained Ino "And Tenten's parents owned one of the best weapon forge in the Leaf."

"The best." countered Tenten "I did pick up a few things and with the right tools I should be able to forge the artwork into weapons."

"There is a possible place about five or six stores down," stated Karin "We can head there once we finish here."

"We can go now." stated Samui as she put her foot down.

"I am done here." Confirmed Tenten "And I can seal up everything we need. It shouldn't take long to get the tools we need."

"Ok, go." confirmed Karin with a wave of the hand before going back to picking out what she wanted from the shelves.

Samui as she moved to leave through the nearby side door which headed out into the garden and toward the road, Tenten followed. The two began to move through the overgrown leafs which covered the path.

"We should have gone through the front door," stated Tenten as she walked beside Samui pushing their way through the garden.

"Yes, but I needed to get out of there before I snap more." stated Samui as suddenly a shadow fell over both of them. They looked up to see that one of the trees was moving.

"What the hell?" yelled Tenten as the snake like plant snapped toward the two of them, Tenten which was on the opposite side of Samui jumped cleanly away however Samui wasn't so lucky as the mouth of the creature came down on the top of her body pinning her arms to her side. Reacting fast she pulled two kunai with paper bombs attached and threw it at the base of the neck of the thing. Like always she was pinpoint accrete but the explosives did nothing as Samui was lifted up.

The sound of battle caused everyone to come out.

"What the fuck is that?" yelled Kiba

"Samui!" yelled Karui as she watched the feet of her friend disappeared down the throat of the creature. She moved to attack only to be stopped by Meiko who grabbed her hand. "Let go demon!"

"I am saving your humanity!" yelled Meiko back "Everyone stay back, you can't help her now it is too late."

"Too late for what?" yelled Naruto back as Meiko moved forward unafraid of the plant.

"This is a Furutsubaki-no-rei." answered Meiko "It turns people into demons."

"You did this!" yelled Karui as she watched her teammate slide down into what looked into a potbelly of the plant. It was filled with a strange liquid, which began to spin around with Samui in it. "You set this up?"

"How could she?" inquired Fu "She has been with us the entire time."

"What can we do to stop this?" yelled Sakura

"Nothing, her chakra is being drained out before being transformed into demon chakra and put back in. If we do anything to stop it she will have no chakra and that means death." explained Meiko sadly "I just don't understand why one is here?"

"If it works by itself it may be a trap waiting for a human to come by," explained Sasuke coldly as Samui slammed her palm against the clear skin of the creature, which looked out. It was only a semi human hand, which slammed against the clear skin. "Kind of smart, set some of these on a roadway and wait for a human to pass by and you got them."

"What can we do?" inquired Karui again.

"We wait, nothing else we can do." answered Meiko as the spinning liquid began to slow before settling down. The plant began to throw up Samui, what came out was a bluish yellow pod. The pod landed with a thud, the plant turned toward Karui who was the closest human but it did not attempt to go after her, it instead moved like a snake waiting for its prey to come closer. It ignored Meiko who began to drag the pod out into the street and away from the plant, everyone moved into the street and away from the plant. Once it could no longer get to any humans the plant disappeared back into the brush only to move every so often as if it was waiting for its next meal.

"What the hell is that?" inquired Kiba as he looked at the blue and yellow cigar shaped pod. Meiko grabbed a break in the pod and pulled them apart. Everyone's eyes widened as they looked at what Samui had become and what the pod was. The outer part of the pods where actually folded armored bat like wings which had blue scales with occasional yellow scales the skin which ran between each wing also had a yellow tone. Her face still looked somewhat human, only with scales and her hair had been narrowed into what almost looked like a wide mow hawk with short yellow horns running down both sides of her hair. Aside from the wings Samui's skin had been transformed into blue scales with occasional yellows and darker navy blue scales mixed in. Starting under her chin and running down to the middle of her calf muscles where segmented armored skin plates which formed with the curves of her body.

"Looks like she is wearing armor." stated Sasuke studying the natural armor for weakness.

"Someone give me something to cover her," ordered Meiko as Sai handed her a towel which she trapped over the still out Samui.

"What the hell is she?" inquired Sakura

"A Rhyuu. A water or ice Rhyuu to be arcuate but that is hard to tell until she wakes up." answered Meiko "What used to be called a dragon. Lets get her into the base before she wakes up and tries something. The transformation process can mess with the mind most of all right after the transformation."

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