Chapter 35 Conflict in Family

"This is Yoshino Nara of the Leaf village calling out to any living humans." Said Yoshino Nara over an open channel, she looked away from the camera toward the power readings. She judged that she had maybe an hour worth of power left after that there would not be enough power to broadcast. She turned toward a black screen and seconds before she was able to speak into the microphone again the screen began to blur as an image started coming into the system.

"This is Yoshino Nara of the Leaf village…" started Yoshino Nara as suddenly the image of two young man and a young woman she knew well appeared.

"Yoshino Nara, this is Naruto…of the hidden Leaf do you read me," said Naruto into the broadcast system as he thank the spirits that Kiba has been as close to the guard room as he was. The system required three codes to open a communication channel and they needed him. He had also stopped from saying his last name, he wasn't sure himself if he should answer with Uzumaki or Namikaze.

"Naruto Uzumaki I read you." said Yoshino as the imagine stabilized.

"Little brother is that you?" inquired Hana as she moved into view of the camera.

"Hana, it is good to see you." said Kiba with a smile on his worn out face. "Were are you?"

Yoshino raised a hand telling the younger woman to be silent.

"Are you human?" inquired Yoshino

"Near enough." answered Naruto as Yoshino eyes narrowed a bit.

"I guess I better get it out of the way, I assume you know about the Kyuubi?" inquired Naruto as Hana Inuzuka looked at Naruto; she had been a very little girl the night the Kyuubi had been killed. All she remembered of that horrible night was screams and the images of the city in flames.

"Yes, the 4th Hokage sealed inside you," stated Yoshino before looking at Hana, "No real point keeping that a secret we are dealing with real demons now."

"Yes and the Kyuubi died within me and as such I guess the best way to put it is that I am human but I have demon chakra." Explained Naruto "It allows me to see through their little hedges, that is how I spotted Shizune."

"I see but how do we know that this isn't a trap?" inquired Yoshino

"Does this help?" inquired Kiba as he pulled out a bronze kunai. "Tenten just finished making a couple and I was bringing them up."

"It doesn't hurt." explained Yoshino as Kiba handed the kunai to Hinata, neither one of them burned touching the weapon but Naruto kept away from it.

"Hinata, we have your sister in our band along with Guy, Iruka, Kurenai and her daughter, Inoichi Yamanaka…"

"Ino is with us." said Naruto as he tried to think of the best way to say who was all in their little group. "We have all of Team Seven, Team Eight, Team Guy minus Lee, Team 10 minus Choji."

"Wait, my son you have my son with you?" inquired Yoshino

"Yes, he was on guard duty last night he should be on his way up soon." answered Kiba "Someone has to get him out of bed."

"Hopefully that doesn't take too long, it takes forever to get him moving in the morning." said Yoshino in a motherly tone.

"We also picked up Sasuke and his two teammates, two survivors from Lightning and a survivor from Takigakure." Added Naruto as he left out his sister, he didn't want to go into that but Hinata did.

"We also have your sister," added Hinata as Yoshino looked at him with fear of a trap in her eyes.

"Sister?" inquired Hana "You have no sister."

"My parents were taken and held by the demons and they had my sister, Meiko Namikaze while in captivity." explained Naruto

"Namikaze that is the clan name of the 4th Hokage." stated Yoshino

"My father." confirmed Naruto as Yoshino and Hana's eyes widened, Yoshino head slowly went up and down.

"I always thought you looked like him but blonde hair and blue eyes are common enough." admitted Yoshino.

"We need to find a way to get you to us." Said Naruto as the door behind him flew open and a shirtless Shikamaru entered the room. He shoved Naruto aside to get into the image of his mother.

"Mom?" inquired Shikamaru as a smile crossed his mother's face, even a handful of tears which was rare for the normally reserved woman.

"Still sleeping shirtless?" laughed Yoshino "Your dad does the same thing, even now."

"Dad is with you?" inquired Shikamaru

"So is Uncle Inoichi." added Yoshino, even though Inochi was not his uncle by blood he and Choza Akimichi had been around so much that they were considered basically family.

"Alright, we need to get you too us. We have Ino, Sakura and Karin, a woman that Sasuke picked up working on a cure so we can't really come to us." Said Shikamaru as his brain went into overdrive they both knew that they will have to speak around where we are in case someone else is listening. "The Sand village has fallen so no matter what do not head there."

"Damn that was our backup," stated Yoshino "Shikamaru do you remember our map game?"

"I do." said Shikamaru as he remembered the old game that he used to play with his mom, he would mimic his dad who would plan out ninja missions so he would do the same with his toys. His mom noticed this and got him a world map and then the game got more advance as different parts of the house became different parts of the world. So in his imagination when he sent his little toy ninjas on a mission to the kitchen, they were actually in the land of rice.

"Alright." Said Shikamaru as he remembered what each location was.

"I am in the living room by the Eastern window." said Yoshino as Shikamaru placed the location in his childhood mind.

"She is on the coast, eastern end of the Land of Fire." thought Shikamaru, she was actually closer then he thought.

"Meet us in the living room, by the fish bowl." Stated Shikamaru, it was not that much of a cloak. The lake they were under was the largest fresh body of water lake in the world and his six year old self had imagined a fishbowl was that lake.

"Alright, I know where you are and you know where we are." stated Yoshino

The door opened again as Sakura walked into the room and moved to stand beside Naruto, her hand glided down the side of his neck before coming to rest on his shoulder. Hinata's eyes narrowed as she saw what she was doing with Naruto.

"Yoshino, have you run into any demons?" inquired Sakura into the radio

"A handful but we have killed a few of them and made the others run." Explained Yoshino

"Ok, I am going to assume that you are coming to us, right?" inquired Sakura as the older woman nodded her head.

"Alright, if possible I need blood samples from any demons you come across." explained Sakura "We are working on a cure and I need more samples, but do not put yourself at any risks to get it."

"Understood, I know how to draw blood or at worse collect it from a weapon." explained Hana as a veterinary ninja she knew how to get blood samples. The door opened again only this time it was on Hana's and Yoshino end, not the one in the base.

"We need to go we have someone coming." said Hanabi to Yoshino before she noticed her sister on the screen. She simply nodded her head but showed no outward emotional sign at seeing her older sister alive and still human.

"Who?" inquired Hana

"Your mother but she is with a man I have never seen before but he has a Leaf uniform," explained Hanabi as Hana's eyes widened.

"Mom, my mom is coming?" said Hana with a huge smile that her brother shared from the underground base.

"She could be a demon in hiding, I don't know the other man and I know most of the important ninjas in the Leaf." Countered Hanabi

"Most but not all and he could be a minor ninja," countered Hana who did not want to think of the idea that her mom was a demon.

"We will have to make contact with them, but we need to do so in a way that would allow us to get the drop on them if they are demons," explained Yoshino "How much time do we have?"

"Minutes." explained Hanabi

"I have an idea." said a voice from behind Naruto as he turned to see his sister leaning against the doorway. "That is if you will trust me?"

"And who are you?" inquired Hanabi Hyuuga as she looked at the red headed woman who seamed to be of an age with her.

"Meiko Namikaze, daughter of the 4th Hokage Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzamaki Namikaze, little sister to Naruto Namikaze." Said Meiko as she looked toward Naruto "Who are you?"

For the first time that Kiba had ever seen, Hanabi was actually stunned for a moment. Hanabi's head turned slightly toward Naruto.

"Namikaze? Well that will change things in father's point of view," said Hanabi to his sister as Hinata gulp a bit.

Flashback

Hinata knelt before her father in the grand meeting hall of the Hyuuga clan, it was a massive room over fifty feet long with old oak colonnades on each side. Hanging in between each column was either a banner of the clan itself or the Leaf banner. Normally the hall would only be used for formal meetings with the whole clan. Currently there was only three people in the room, one was her younger sister who was kneeling beside her and her father who sat cross legged before a low table on a raised platform at the front of the hall. She had to look up at her father who glared down at her with cold stern eyes.

"Naruto Uzumaki, you really think a man like him is worthily of this clan," stated the head of the Hyuga clan Hiashi Hyuuga as he glared at his oldest daughter and heir. "He comes from a nothing clan, his clan wouldn't give us extra pull on the council, his clan has no history of strong ninjas which would give us pull in the military, he doesn't even come from a clan that would give us our clan own business more access to markets and there are other issues."

"Father…" stuttered Hinata only to get a glare from her father, he hatted when she stuttered and she was doing it now. She did not fully understand why he was so upset about Naruto, yes he didn't bring much to the clan if he was to marry her but there was cases similar in which he wasn't throwing a fit. Her own great grandmother had married a simple trader, minor clan members have married people of a lot lower rank and then there was the case of Neji. He was all but head of minor clans and would be a major player in clan issues he had started dating Tenten who's only benefit in the eyes of the clan was her families small weapon shop, yes they had the best custom made weapons in the village but that wouldn't be a huge benefit to the clan.

"There has to be another reason why he hates Naruto-kun." thought Hinata as she looked away from her father's glare.

"You will have no more contact with Naruto Uzumaki outside of any missions assigned to you by the Hokage herself." ordered Hiashi as he glared at his daughter. "Turn your attention to boys of better stock which can bring benefits to the clan. Same can be said about you Hanabi, however I don't feel I need to tell you what sort of men bring the most benefit to our clan."

"I understand father." Said Hanabi in a firm but respectful voice, a voice which caused Hiashi to nod his head in agreement.

"Now I need to see the Hokage about some issues facing the clan." Stated Hiashi as he stood up and still looking at Hinata. "I expect you to remember what I was said here."

End Flashback

There was no way her sister could have known she had just spilled out her feelings to her love only to find out Naruto had headphones on. However, she knew like her sister did that if their father had known that Naruto was not an Uzumaki but a Namikaze, the Namikaze clan was small but with the 4th Hokage, the hero of the last war being Naruto's father it would improve the clan's position something her father and the elders cared about above all others.

"So the question is will you trust me?" inquired Meiko

In the Leaf village technicians where busy working the damaged communication system, they had monitored the communication channels trying to listen into any communications coming out of areas that had not been transformed yet.

"We have a broadcast coming from the North west." Said an operator as he switched to the channels and got a broken static filled image of a man with blonde hair and whisker marks on his cheeks.

"That is Naruto Uzumaki." said one of the technicians a former human now turned demon. "Well I guess he would be Namikaze now."

"That doesn't matter right now, can we get their location?" inquired the head of the team, only to get a shake of the head from the technicians.

"They are using point to point broadcasts, we are only picking up the few random images." explained the technician. "We can get a general direction but not much more."

"But you can give us a general direction?" inquired the head of the team, as the technician nodded his head. "Show me."

The technician stood up and moved to a map of the world with a large piece of glass over the entire table. She pulled out a wax pencil and drew two lines coming out from the Leaf village and stretching out across the world to the coat of the land of Earth. It made a large V location, which covered a lot of ground, a lot of villages and a lot of places to hide.

"Somewhere within that area." stated the technician.

"We need another two points of reference to triangulate their location to an area that we can work with," said the technician "Same goes for the other person they are talking too."

She drew two more lines with a different color wax pencil, this area was smaller than the first one but that was because most of it was out at sea and the system they were using was land based.

"What about our forces in other villages?" inquired the leader

"They are down, fixing the system isn't that high on the list when compared to making sure everyone has food." Explained the technician as the leader cursed, he looked up to see an image of a young woman with bright red hair, through his demon eyes he could see that the human image was a false front and under it was actually a kitsune.

"And they have one of our own with them." Said the leader not sure what was going on. "We better report this to the higher ups."

Tsuma Inuzuka moved up toward the front door the Daimyo's beach house, it was a mess with broken glass and the smell of human waste coming from somewhere in the house. The only thing that did not make the smell unbearable to her enhanced demon nose was that the fresh sea breeze was mixing with the smell. She pushed open the door and moved into the house, she stopped for a moment and listened, her nose was not going to be much of a help for her here. Suddenly she heard a group of items fall into a pile, she was moving toward the sound when she smelled kerosene and heard the strike of a match. A few seconds later there was a whoosh as fire shot up, she turned to corner and her heart stopped. There separated from her by a couple of feet and a fire pit with leaping flames was her daughter.

"Hana?" inquired Tsuma as Hana's head snapped up with a look on her face which surprised her mother, because she didn't look surprised.

"Mom?" inquired Hana

"She must be stunned from everything that has happened people who see too much sometimes need time to process unexpected things." thought Tsuma as she moved toward the fire and her daughter.

"Looks like you found her Tsuma." said a voice behind her as Hana looked at the man dressed in blue robes with a Leaf jonnin vest on him.

"Who are you?" inquired Hana with a defensive tone as she stepped away from the fire and her mother.

"She is scared." Thought Tsuma

"His name is Utakata and he is a friend," explained Tsuma as suddenly she heard a voice which wasn't her daughter but came from her direction.

"Utakata is a demon, a water kami he can only use water Justus." Said a crackling static voice as Tsuma looked toward her daughter who moved her head a bit to show an earpiece. Then before she could do anything she heard movement from above her she rolled out of the way of a man coming down on her from the balcony. Utakata also moved but not fast enough; a flash of gold could be seen as the bronze sword cut into his arm. He screamed as the sword passed though the flesh of his outer arm and burned him at the same time. Tsuma growled as something hit her in the side of the face, it burned so much she felt as if hot boiling oil had fallen on one half of her cheek. She raised her hand to her face and looked down to see what looked to be a bronze piece of artwork lying on the ground.

"You're a demon!" yelled her daughter as she looked at her mother, who was holding her hand to her now burned face.

"Yes, now it is time to come home!" growled Tsuma as she used a stern voice that would have caused her children to fall in line when they were younger. "You have no idea, what your father and I have done to make sure you and your brother made it through this."

"What?" asked Hana as she glared at her mother as Guy moved to stand beside her a bronze sword raised. "You…you knew this was coming?"

"Yes, I knew." confirmed Tsuma as she held her hand to her face, she finally pulled it back to show that the human flesh was gone and instead the illusion was broken and they could see the brown fur of her form. Seeing that it was now pointless she broke the Justus and instantly changed, her flesh had been replaced with deep brown fur highlighted with black and lighter tan fur around her neck and down under her vest. Her hands changed as her finger nails turned into black claws and a tail moved back and forth behind her. Her red birthmarks under her eyes where still there only instead of flesh it was fur. "Why do you think so many of our clan made it through the flue, why you have an "allergy to bronze"? It was all set up and decided long ago, the "fish oil" supplements I forced you and your brother to take to make you heathy was all in preparation for this day."

Hana looked down toward her vest where she had a vile of fish oil supplements, it was something that her mom had always made her and her brother take every day. She had started it after she read about it some article and once it became a habit Hana had not thought about what it could actually be. It was just something she always did; she even took the pills on missions.

"You…you caused so many deaths, so many…why would you do that?" inquired Hana

"To save your children you will do anything now it is time to come home and together we can find your brother and we can come together." said Tsuma

"You think we can be a family after all this!" yelled Hana with a force that was normally seen in her mother not in her.

"It will be hard, most of all because your father has sacrificed 10 years of his life carrying out missions for the council but in time yes we can be a pack again." explained Tsuma as she stepped closer to her daughter. "Now it is time to come home and time to find your brother so we can explain this to him."

"He already knows." said Hana as she tapped her ear piece "He is receiving everything you have said, he knows like I do now that you and dad are traitors."

"What?" inquired Tsuma as she looked at her daughter.

Across the world, Kiba stood shell shock beside his friends as he listed to his mom's voice over the communication channel. He had been upset that she had become a demon, that had been bad but it could be lived with but to find out that his parents had been in on it.

"Mother…what did you do?" inquired Kiba outload as he lowered his head in shame.

"It's alright Kiba, it isn't your fault." said Hinata to her teammate as she placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Kiba, I hate to ask this but do you have these fish oil supplements?" inquired Sakura as Kiba nodded his head and reached for a pocket on his vest and pulled a vile a quarter full of golden pills.

Sakura took them and studied them quickly, they did look just like fish oil supplements and that was something a lot of people took. They even had a company logo stamped on the side and it was even a company she had heard off but there had to be something about them.

"I need to study these," stated Sakura

"Take it." said Kiba as he kept listening to his mother trying to explain herself to Hana, finally he could not take it anymore and left the room.

"Hinata why don't you go after him make sure he is ok." advised Shikamaru as Hinata looked at Naruto and Sakura for a moment before taking Shikamaru's advice to make sure her teammate was ok.

They all turned their attention back to the broadcast and listened as Tsuma kept trying to explain things to her daughter.

"You need to come home now," ordered Tsuma as her daughter pulled a short two-handed sword and pointed it at her mother.

"No." said Hana

"If you don't you will die, the flu will come back and kill you." explained Utakata "Do you want to die?"

"No, I would rather live." Admitted Hana "But as a human."

"That isn't a choice Hana, you can either become a demon or die as a human there is no other option." Explained her mother "That is what your father and I realized long ago and why we did all this. You can hate us for that, I understand that but we did it so that you and your brother could live."

"Was there any other people in on this?" inquired Guy, he was the more experienced fighter and he held the more dangerous weapon to the demons, a bronze sword.

"In the Leaf, no." explained Tsuma "Well not that I am aware of but they got a clan from each major village to help them, not sure which clans. Now where is your brother so that we can bring him home too?"

"No idea." Lied Hana

"You are lying." said her mother "I could always tell when you were lying, you can't keep a straight face."

"I am not lying, not all together the person who does know is getting away as we speak and now it is our turn. Goodbye mother." Said Hana as she tapped her wrist and moved it down to her elbow, suddenly a seal appeared on her skin. Before Tsuma could do anything the fire pit which had been between her and her daughter exploded outwards in a ball of fire which went out toward the two demons. Hana and Guy disappeared in the fireball as the demons moved to protect themselves. When the fireball cleared Hana and Guy where gone and the building was now engulfed in flames. Tsuma sniffed the air and tried to get her daughter's scent but the overwhelming smell of burning wood and now burning human waste made it next to impossible.

"I think I have her scent follow me," ordered Tsuma as they moved around the burning building and toward the forest where Hana and Guy had to go to because the other options where out in the open and lacked any cover. "Move."

A quarter of a mile away the smoke rising from the burning Daimyo beach house caused the rest of the human party to look toward it.

"Could something have happened?" inquired Iruka as suddenly Hanabi and Yoshino reached the small pile of rock which was being used as a marker for their meet up.

"We need to get going," said Yoshino Nara

"Where are we going?" inquired her husband

"We need to head to Nysa, that is where our son will meet up with us." explained Yoshino with a smile. "Guy and Hana will meet us a little bit down the road, we need to go because that smoke will bring a lot of demons down on us."

"Alright." said her husband as they began to move.

Yoshino Nara was correct, a couple of miles down the beach from the Daimyo beach house was a medium sized village. The demons had set up an outpost there to transform humans that they captured from nearby areas. The sight of black smoke rising to their east caused them to send forth some of their search parties.

Well I hope you liked this chapter, I would like to thank everyone who reviewed and I ask that you keep reading. If you have any ideas for stories which you would like me to do, I am still taking request until the end of this month and then I will post a pull for you the readers to tell me what you would like to see. Until next time thanks Wilkins75