Important note
Before you all start reading the next chapter I have a slight announcement, I am going to do something I have never done before. Two of my coworkers whom I bounce stories ideas off have come up with two stories they want me to do. Now I tend to get a PM from a different person every week with a story idea that they want me to do. Generally refuse to take other people's stories because I want them to do it but I liked these ideas a lot. Since I am considering breaking this self-imposed rule, I decided to open the floor to multiple ideas. Now before anyone with ideas for stories they would want me to write rush to send me a message I do have some rules.
Any ideas must be sent in a PM not a review.
One story idea per person, you can be as detailed or as general of an idea as you want.
Crossovers are welcomed but I put a limit of two things being crossed over.
If you want one of my other stories rewritten send that in a PM and it will be considered as well.
If I don't know the show, book, cartoon, anime or anything else the idea will likely be rejected, sorry but it is hard to write about something I don't know.
Ideas will be accepted until the end of October 2016.
Early November 2016 I will pick 5 to 10 story ideas that I like and post them up in a poll so everyone can vote to see what they want. However I will have the final say and any winning story will not likely be started until 2017.
I hope you all understand what I am trying to say, now enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 33 Building Heaven on top of Hell
Minato Namikaze opened his eyes and looked up the ceiling, he had not had woken up to that view in a long time. It was not that the white painted ceiling was anything special, it was not, what was special was that it was the ceiling of the bedroom in their home back in the leaf. He had not woken up to see it in since the morning their son was born, that day should have been a wonderful day. He had planned to tell the council and the rest of the village after Naruto was born that he had a son.
"I should have told them before he war born, then they would have treated him better." thought Minato but he had listened to Jiraiya's advice on keeping his marriage to Kushina secret until Naruto was born. "The old man had points and they all made sense, but seeing what happened, how they treated my son…"
Minato forced that line of thought from his head and got out of bed, his arm and his leg where his son's chakra blast had hurt him the most felt better. He could still tell that he was injured but it was also clear that damages that would have taken weeks to heal where healing up in a faction of the time. He moved toward the bathroom leaving his wife sleeping on the bed on her side. He quickly got ready, taking a shower and brushing his teeth. He did not have to worry about shaving, not that he really ever had to.
"I couldn't grow a beard to save my life," stated Minato to himself as he rubbed the bottom of his new demon muzzle. He looked at himself in the mirror, maybe because he had been around demons for so long, maybe it was because of the change, maybe because of both reasons but he did not hate what he saw there. He hated that he did not have his son and that they had kept him from his son for so long but he would have hated humans who did the same thing. He looked at himself in the mirror; his face had changed a bit with a short muzzle growing out of his face and his ears moving higher up. He could turn each ear independently so that he could focus on sounds without moving his head. White fur ran down the bottom of his muzzle and disappearing under his shirt, the back fur around his ears and around his hands and feet where black as well. Each Kitsune had different fur patterns and shades, his daughter favored her mother's fur pattern and he imagined that his son would favored his.
He walked out of the bathroom and saw that his wife who had been resting peacefully on her side was now splayed out on the bed with one arm and a leg hanging off the side. He rolled his eyes at the sight, she had slept that way ever since she was a kid, the only time she did not do that was when he slept with her.
"Then she nuzzles up to me and sleeps like a normal person." thought Minato as he thought about if he should over should not wake her up.
Elsewhere in the house Kakashi walked into the kitchen of his sensie's house only to see that the smell that was it was not Kushina cooking but Rin. Her back was to him as she worked the stove, with her back turned his eyes ran up and down her body. She was wearing sleeping cloths, which was made out of a simple black shorts, which ended just above where her fingers would come to rest. She had on a tan tank top with two thin strings, which ran up to her shoulders. Her thin tail moved back and forth slowly in what his mind was telling him was a sexual way, part of him wanted to take off that top and sleep with her however, he knew that part of the reason why that animalist side of himself was going that strong was because of the transformation into a lightening kami demon.
"Morning Kakashi, you want something?" inquired Rin
"I want you?" thought Kakashi but he kept that to himself.
"What do we have for breakfast?" inquired Kakashi pushing the ideas in his head aside.
"We are luckily, Minato-sensie and Kushina had a fully stocked kitchen and they brought everything here." explained Rin as Kakashi walked forward and saw she was making an omit. "If they didn't we would have to go to one of the public kitchens and get something there from the demons that would be a long wait."
"I'll just have some eggs like yours." Said Kakashi as Rin laughed.
"You will not like that." stated Rin as she picked up a cut up pepper and held it up to him. "Have a taste; this is what I put in my breakfast."
Kakashi picked it up and popped the offered food into his mouth and instantly realized his mistake, his mouth was on fire and he rushed to pour himself a glass of water. He was about to drink it when he remembered he was basically living lightening.
"You can have water, but too much will hurt you like it hurts me." explained Rin with a laugh as Kakashi took a long deep drink, finally he was able to speak.
"What was that?" inquired Kakashi his mouth still on fire.
"Ghost peppers." explained Rin as she popped in a pepper as if it was a potato chip.
"Living fire Kakashi, hot and spicy food has no effect on her." explained a voice behind them as they saw Minato standing there. "If you want to get her back give her something sourer it tastes extremely bad to her."
"You didn't have to tell him that sensei." complained Rin before shaking her head. "Well I guess that had to come out sometime."
"What are you two going to do today?" inquired Minato as he looked at his arm in a sling. "Neither Kushina-chan nor myself can head out to find our children and no offense you all need your own place, because once our children come home this place will fill up."
"Understandable, we should find a settlement person somewhere in the center of the village." stated Rin as she put her eggs on a plate. "All yours."
Kakashi for himself made some simple eggs and just as he finished Kushina walked into the kitchen and began to show them how a truly master level chef could do. She was able to do things in the kitchen that none of them could ever hope to do, her knife skills cutting up some thankful mild peppers so fast that not even Kakashi could follow the cuts.
"We better get going Kakashi, if we want to get a place we would be best to get to the settlement center while everyone else is eating," stated Rin as Kakashi nodded his head and head out of the house and toward the center of the village. Most of the village was still in a sad state but it was clearly getting better the demons where doing their best to turn things into as normal as they could while still making changes to take in to account the new forms people found themselves in. Buildings were being modified so that taller demons could use it with ease. Teams of the spider like demons where actually climbing up vertical walls to hang electrical lines and repair the sides of houses. The village was filled with the sounds of construction.
Kakashi stopped and looked at the demons raising up the frame of a house with ease. Beside that job site was a massive stack of premade wood frames that would be used to make homes.
"How long have they been preparing this?" inquired Kakashi
"A long time, those frames where likely built five or six years ago and then sealed up until it was time." Said Rin as they walked past a park where a long line of people where getting free hot meals. One of those eating actually broke out in tears as she took a bite of a small breaded fish.
"Thank you." She said to a passing pure demon who had served them the breakfast.
"It is our pleasure." said the demon before moving on.
"Give people food, a place to stay and safety from all the death they have seen and they will take it no matter what." explained Rin "That woman likely lost everything she had, multiple family members but she is now thankful to the demons because of a simple breaded fish for breakfast."
"And they were the ones who caused her to loss everything." stated Kakashi "They should be angry and want to fight back."
"You aren't fighting." Countered Rin as Kakashi looked at her. "I am not fighting either, what does that say about me? I don't have the excuses you and almost everyone else does I have been a demon for a long time. I may actually be considered a pure demon by some people that will be a problem in the future."
"How so?" inquired Kakashi as they kept walking, Rin rolled her eyes at her teammate.
"What do you think will happen to the pure demons when the effects of the transformation wares off and people start getting angry at what they have become," explained Rin. "Right now when people look at themselves in the mirror they like what they see that is because of the change. Once that passes people will be angry but by them the entire world will be turned and the pure blooded demons will simply blend in the mass of transformed humans. No one will know who they are, only some of the more famous demons like the council will not be able to hide themselves. I could be one of them."
"No one could blame you." countered Kakashi as Rin smiled and placed a hand on his cheek, her burning palm felt so good against his skin and that smile.
"Nice try Kakashi, but someone will blame me just like someone will blame Minato Sensei, however he and Kushina can say they were transformed later, I can't." stated Rin as she tapped her chest, her wound there had forced her to stay loyal to the demons because they had the medicine that kept her alive. "It is harder to explain to people or for people to believe it. Some will blame but I am not going to hide like the others."
As Rin and Kakashi walked into the central market in the leaf only to find it packed as people formed up in a long line to speak to a couple of officials behind multiple desks at the far side of the open air market. Kakashi and Rin got in line right behind each other and waited; as they waited Kakashi let, his eyes scanned the market. On a normal day before the virus before everyone in the Leaf became demons this place would have been just as full as it was now. Only instead of people, buying fresh food brought in by farmers or arguing over prices with shop owners now they were standing in line for housing.
"How long will this take?" inquired Kakashi
"No idea." admitted Rin as they moved forward, it took until almost lunch time but they finally reached the front of the line. Sitting there behind a desk was a Kitsune with a stack of paper on one side of the desk and a map on the other side.
"Name?" inquired the worker
"Kakashi Hatake, lightning Kami." stated Kakashi, he had heard the first couple of questions while standing in line.
"Alright, single or married and do you have any kids?" inquired the Kitsune.
"Currently single, no kids." answered Kakashi as the worker made a tick on the clipboard in front of him.
"I must admit we aren't focusing on single people residences at the moment, families come first." explained the Kitsune "What makes it worse is that you are a kami and need special showers and that limits the apartments we have for you."
"I see." stated Kakashi
"So unless you have a family I don't have a place for you." explained the Kitsune. "Try again tomorrow, we are building pretty fast and should have something ready then."
"What if he and I share a place?" inquired Rin from behind him as she moved to stand beside him. "Rin Nohara, fire kami."
"I see." stated the Kitsune doing the paperwork. "I could put you down as a couple, that would be ok with my bosses but you have to understand you two will only have a single bed and other supplies given to a couple with no children."
"We understand." Said Rin as she looked at Kakashi and gave him a smile. "Beats living with our sensei."
"Alright, you two have apartment 9C in building 7 in former Aburme district," explained the Kitsune.
"Former Aburme district?" inquired Kakashi
"Let's just say, the Aburme no longer have a claim to most of that land after what their ancestorist did to the demons they are luckily they have any land at all." stated the Kitsune as he handed Kakashi and Rin a pair of keys and some paperwork. "You will get some other supplies at the local supply centers, report there and they will give you assignments to start rebuilding the village."
"Alright." said Rin as the two of them headed out of the line and toward the Aburme district. They walked past the hospital unaware of who was watching them from the isolation room.
Lee had no idea that he was looking down at Kakashi as he walked past a couple of stories below him. The hair gave him a hint that it could have been Kakashi but with so many people having to change so much he wasn't sure.
"How are you feeling today Lee?" inquired Shizune from behind a layer of shatter resistance glass.
Lee only growled like the giant cat he was now but it caused a chill to run down Shizune's spin.
"How do you think I am feeling traitor," growled Lee as he looked at Shizune with murderous intent in his now silted cat like eyes. While he retained his human mind, he was physically a demon now. His muscles where coming back after thinning out from lack of use after being in coma, everything had changed. He had been working out none stop and thanks for demon healing ability it was coming back at an unheard of rate. He looked as if he could crush her and he likely could.
"I understand that you are angry but this had to happen." stated Shizune "You had to become a demon or you would have died."
"And you had to release this virus to kill off or turn humanity? Why did that need to happen?" countered Lee "I wouldn't have been in the hospital if you hadn't released your virus in the first place? No one would have been dead if you hadn't released your virus. So why?"
"Because it was the only way to save races that would have died out if we hadn't turned humanity on mass." Countered Shizune "I personally didn't approve of the virus, I wanted to transforming willing people. We have done that in the past, demons who left the village and fell in love with humans bring them back and they become demons. My Grandmother was a human, I know this happens but the council could not risk it. You humans are just too warlike and murderous."
"We are murderous you have killed millions." countered Lee
"So has humanity but they did it in the past and you have all made it legends nothing more. Your stories of a great clan leader killing a dragon, was really a brute killing a Rhyuu. The Nara clan for example their great hero, the founder of their clan was a slaver and raped my kind of demons to almost the breaking point. The Inuzuka clan enslaved their demons and stole their children to be raised as if they were animals." snapped Shizune "The demon races you see now is only a faction of what used to be found around the world, their where over four dozen races but no more now only a handful remain. The rest have died out because of humans."
"And so because of this you return the favor?" inquired Lee "You kill off humanity to save yourself and get payback."
"Sadly yes, but you need to start thinking about yourself." stated Shizune "If we can't trust you not to go murderous on newly turned people then you will be locked in her for a long time. Maybe up to a year or longer."
"How are you getting so many people to go along with you?" inquired Lee
"It is part of the change, for a couple of months normally between 4 to 7 months whenever a person sees a demon the brain releases chemical which make it pleasurable. In time people get used to see and being a demon and the transition is so peaceful that most will not even want to go back to being human even if they had a chance." explained Shizune not adding that it would not stop them from getting revenge on the people who turned them in the first place. "With you this didn't happen."
"And you have no idea what to do with me and since none of my friends have come you haven't made any of them into these monsters." countered Lee "They are likely still fighting on and so will I."
"I see." said Shizune sadly with a shake of her head as she wondered what to do with the young ninja.
Naruto opened his eyes to find that he had fallen asleep flat on his stomach; one of his legs was off the edge of the bed while one of his hands brushed the bare concrete floor. Memories of what happened the night before came flooding back as he heard footsteps coming toward the door, the door to the bathroom. It opened with a slight moan of the hinges as he saw his sister standing there.
"Come on sleepy it is time to get moving," ordered Meiko with a slight laugh as Naruto rolled up and put both feet on the ground. "You know Mom sleeps like that whenever dad isn't around."
"Must run in the family." countered Naruto "What time is it?"
"9:30 but your friends want you up and going, you can't spend all day in bed," explained this sister
"Why don't the two of us have a sparring session sometime today?" offered Naruto as he stretched a bit.
"Alright, I'll beat your but I was trained by the 4th Hokage." laughed Meiko with a smile as she walked out of the room. Naruto moved into the shower and prepared for the day, he wasn't going to rush there wasn't much for him to do and he was still smiling about what had happened with Sakura last night.
When he was done he moved down into the dining area only to find that it was almost totally empty, everyone else had moved on to whatever they were doing leaving only Shikamaru and Sai in the cafeteria.
"Morning." greeted Naruto "Where is everyone?"
"Well Tenten is making weapons, Neji and Shino are watching the monitors and the others are spread out across the base doing their own business." explained Shikamaru as he took a bite of his dinner. "Once I am done here I am going to bed, I have been up all night."
"Well night duty will do that to you." confirmed Naruto "Did you see anything?"
"The highlight of the night was when a fawn and doe walked down main street." explained Shikamaru "Nothing else happened aside from that and a few stray animals, no demons, no humans and nothing else happened."
"Well that is good," stated Naruto "So who is on duty next?"
"You are, we already split up into pairs, you were taking your time getting here so you are stuck with that spot." explained a new voice as Naruto looked to see Kiba standing there. "We kind of assigned you a partner for guard duty."
"As long as it isn't Sasuke." said Naruto
"No, Sasuke is with Suigetsu." explained Kiba "But you do go on duty next, at 2 and you get off duty at 10."
"Sasuke and Suigetsu will replace you for 8 hours, next comes Neji and Tenten." explained Shikamaru
"Wait, I thought Tenten was to focus on making weapons?" inquired Naruto
"True, but she wants to carry some of the guard duty and unlike our three medical experts it will not hurt for her to take a post." explained Shikamaru "We have six teams and only one guard spot, so there is some time between duties."
"So basically after I finish my guard duty I will not to do it again for 40 hours." said Naruto "Not bad, I have done worse."
"Well we have six teams and only one guard spot." restated Kiba "And outside of that your major job will be to keep an eye on your sister."
"That works for me," confirmed Naruto
"You will be bored out of your mind so bring something to do while on duty. The cameras have motion alerts so it will tell you if anything happens." Advised Sai as he placed his hand on a notebook, one likely filled with different drawings.
"I got some of Jiriaya sensei's scrolls to look over." explained Naruto as he moved into the kitchen to get something to eat, he stopped at the door and looked back "Who is my duty partner anyhow? Sai is on duty now so it isn't him."
"Hinata." confirmed Kiba as Naruto shrugged not knowing that Kiba had arranged the whole thing to give Hinata some time alone with Naruto.
Rin and Kakashi moved through the streets of the Leaf village, as they passed through the village on their way to the Aburme district they passed through the Inuzuka district. As they moved down the street Kakashi noticed something, this part of the village was not sacked and there was no sign of any demons taking down buildings. In fact there was demons cleaning up the buildings and Inuzuka clan symbols hung outside of their homes, the only sign of anything changing was the taking down of a statue of the founder of the clan. The statue had not been pulled down by an angry mob this had been removed in an orally fashion.
"Something is wrong," stated Kakashi
"What do you mean?" inquired Rin as she looked around at the clean and orderly streets. "Everything is in its…right place, wait that is wrong. This place should be a mess, the demons hate the Inuzuka clan for what happened in the past."
"Yes." confirmed Kakashi as the smell of cooking meat filled the air and the sound of glass hitting glass filled the air. Then something neither of them had heard in a long time filled the air, music.
"What the?" inquired Kakashi as he moved toward the main Inuzuka house, to his amazement everything was well maintained and cleaned. Even the grass had been cut and the leaves racked, he noticed that Rin was moving behind him just as curious about the strange happy sounds. As they got closer voice began to be heard over the music. Kakashi moved toward the path which lead toward the backyard and the source of the sounds. He had just reached the gate when it opened. A large wolf like demon, a Inugami he reminded himself.
"Who the hell are you? This is a private party!" yelled the wolf in a booming voice.
"Wait a second." said a different voice from behind the wolf. "Kakashi is that you?"
"Yes, who are…" started Kakashi as he moved to one side to look around the large wolf, standing there in the backyard of the Inuzuka main house was another Inugami. Only this one was slightly thinner than the body builder like first one, he had thick reddish black fur over his body and in his clawed hands he held a bottle of beer. He wore a pair of long grey pants with a hole in the back for a tail and a thin black shirt with fur across the top. What stood out was the one red patch of fur in the shape of a thin trigonal under his right eye. "Kane…Kane Inuzuka?"
"Yes, long time no see, Kakashi." said Kane Inuzuka, the husband of Tsume Inuzuka and father of Hana and Kiba Inuzuka with a large smile. "Have a beer you and you are welcome to my coming home party."
Well I hope you liked this chapter, I hope that you all enjoyed this little view into the Leaf village. Now until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75.
