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Chapter 36 Running

The communication line went dead leaving only the sound of static for the three leaf ninjas and Meiko to listen to. The other two leaf ninjas who had been listening, Kiba and Hinata had both walked out of the room, Kiba to find a place to process the information that his parents had been working with the demons for years and Hinata to help comfort her teammate. This left Naruto, Sakura, Shikamaru and Meiko alone in the communication room.

"So what do we do now?" inquired Naruto, he knew the answer but it was a question that still had to be asked.

"We have to wait, if they are where I believe they are which is by the ocean it should take them between two and three days to reach us here." explained Shikamaru

"And what of the demons could they have traced us back to here?" inquired Sakura as she realized that was something she should have worried about before all this had started, the human need to reach out to people had caused her to overlook that risk.

"We used a point to point transmitting so if they did get some of our communication systems it wasn't much and not enough to give a location without multiple points to triangulate a source." explained Shikamaru. "Besides from the area we know that the demons have control over they would only have two systems up that could do it. One of them would be in lightening country, out of range for us here. Best they have is a general area that we could be in."

"That could be enough," countered Naruto

"The area would be about a quarter of the size of the land of fire plus all the nations between the Leaf and the western coast of the Land of Earth." Stated Shikamaru "That area is so massive it is impossible for them to search it all and even if they guessed we broadcasted from Nysa, they wouldn't know about this base and they would assume that anyone with two working brain cells wouldn't bring people they aren't totally sure of directly too them. No they would meet at a 3rd neutral location."

"That does make sense," stated Meiko "However this place, seems to have been home to a least a few thousand people. I am sure that not all of them died and when they are turned they will come back to see what has happened to their homes."

For a moment Naruto looked at his sister, she had said when they are turned not if they are turned into demons. That showed to him that while she may not agree with what the demons had done and wasn't actively trying to betray them to the demons she wasn't totally on their side.

"I hadn't considered that." Admitted Shikamaru which caught both his friend's off guard. "I assumed that the demons would keep them in the population centers the better able to supply them with food and other basic needs."

"Yes, but they will still let people go home and get personal items." Stated Meiko

"Then we better get everything we can from the city above us." said Naruto "We don't know how much time we will be down here."

"A good plan." said Shikamaru "We should start at once…"

"Get some sleep, you were up all night on duty you are no use to anyone without some rest." ordered Sakura

"Like I can sleep now, my parents are running for their lives the woman I love is moving toward us through infected countryside and she may come across demons…" started Shikamaru

"And there is nothing you can do about that, so get some sleep." Ordered Sakura using her doctor voice, a voice that told everything that they better do as she said.

"If you can't sleep then go to the bar, have a couple of drinks and they will help you get some sleep." advised Naruto as Sakura rolled her eyes at the idea but didn't say anything against it either. "I can handle guard duty by myself for a little while until Hinata comes back."

"I can stay." offered Meiko only to see her brother shake his head.

"The others will not like that, Meiko." explained Sakura for Naruto. "They don't fully trust you even if you don't know all the personal codes they wouldn't want you near this place without others nearby."

"Fine." stated Meiko "But if I don't stay then you will have to stay, I don't think the others will want only one person watching all the monitors."

"I'll stay," offered Sakura "I can't really study these pills until Karin finishes what she is doing now and that will take another hour or so."

"Yes, that will be great." said Meiko as she gave Sakura a knowing smile as she walked out of the room followed by Shikamaru. She closed the door behind them so that the room was cut off sound wise from the outside world.

"I think Meiko knows about us." thought Sakura but pushed that aside for the moment to look at what looked to be fish oil pills but seemed to have some effect on people living through the flu.

"This could be a break through, if these pills helped Kiba make it through the flu it may help me understand how the flu works and maybe find a cure." Stated Sakura, she expected Naruto to ask a question but instead he remained quiet and thoughtful. "Naruto-kun?"

"Sorry, I was just thinking about what I am going to do about Hinata." explained Naruto "She told me she likes me."

"Oh…" said Sakura without adding anything to the conversation. "And what did you say?"

"Nothing, I had the headphones on listening for broadcasts," explained Naruto as he tilted his head toward the sound canceling headphones which sat on the table in front of him. "She thinks I didn't hear her."

"Well she is going to bring it up again." Stated Sakura

"Maybe we should tell everyone that we are together after…wait." said Naruto as he turned and looked at Sakura. "You knew she liked me didn't you? You weren't worried about my sister finding out you were worried about Hinata?"

Sakura closed her eyes for a moment before nodding her head.

"Yes, in my defense everyone from the Leaf kind of knew that she had a crush on you." Explained Sakura as Naruto shook his head in amazement.

"She never spoke up." said Naruto

"Too shy," explained Sakura with worry in her voice, Naruto heard her worry and smiled slightly before chuckling. "What is so funny?"

"I have always been so envious of Sasuke before of your crush on him, it is kind of nice to have you envious of Hinata for having a crush on me," explained Naruto as Sakura's eyes narrowed a bit. "However you have nothing to worry about, Hinata is…how can I say this she is nice but I just don't think about her in the same ways I think about you."

"Really you never thought of dating her?" inquired Sakura "I find that hard to believe."

"She is the heiress to the most powerful clan in the Leaf, I lived in a rundown apartment with hardly enough to eat some months." explained Naruto "She was always out of my class, hell even though I wanted you so bad I always thought you were out of my league. I was a nobody with only my dreams to really keep me going. You all had clan who were at least in the middle class if not the upper most class of the village. Whenever I thought about it in a realist way, I figured I would settle for some farmer's daughter or so shop worker. I couldn't afford the life style someone like Hinata or you Sakura-chan should have."

"I never thought about it that way," admitted Sakura

"Hinata is kind and loving and if I knew her better who knows." Started Naruto as Sakura wondered where this was going. "But that is part of the problem with me she is too shy too quiet too meek, if is kind of hard to talk to someone yet alone be with someone when they will pass out when they try to talk to you. I like strong women."

Sakura smiled at that as she bent down and kissed his cheek, she noticed that his eyes flicked ever so fast to look down the cleavage of her top.

"So you have never found Hinata attractive?" inquired Sakura

Naruto shifted a bit, which told her something.

"I will not lie to you Sakura-chan, I do find Hinata physically attractive and have I day dreamed about doing stuff with her…yes." admitted Naruto as Sakura's eyes narrowed. "In my defense, it was only day dreams and it was before were together and it is only human or are you going to tell me you haven't seen some model on a magazine and dreamed a little."

Sakura let out a resigned sigh.

"You aren't totally wrong." admitted Sakura "And hell with all the years I wasted as I chased after Sasuke and ignored you. Who am I to complain that you day dreamed about other women back then, you where Jiraiya's student after all. I shouldn't be surprised and after last night I can't really complain about everything you learned from that old pervert."

Naruto shrugged and laughed a little.

"What can I say, the old pervert had a habit of bouncing ideas for books off me and while I never had a chance to try any of the things he put out there," explained Naruto as Sakura gave him a playful smile.

"Until now, that is." answered Sakura

"Well the three way ideas would be kind of hard to pull off…well not unless one of us use shadow clones." Said Naruto before Sakura playfully punched him in the shoulder.

"We will worry about that tonight…maybe see how we feel." answered Sakura "I may just want to sleep."

"Same here." admitted Naruto "Also I want to have a sparing session with Meiko tomorrow, we couldn't fit one in today like I wanted because of my guard duty."

For a moment neither one of them said anything.

"We still haven't settled on a way to tell everyone about us?" inquired Naruto "The only thing I can think of is to just come out and say it."

"Maybe that would be the easiest way." stated Sakura as she imagined what the shy Hinata would do if she found that her lifelong dream was now out of reach. The one thing that kept coming to mind was her crying up a storm or even deciding to end her life. That idea likely wouldn't have crossed her mind but she had seen so many people end their lives once they got sick with the flu, she had actually considered it herself in the darkest days when she fighting the flu herself. Luckily, she had started to regain her strength but it was just then that everyone else started to get sick. "We shouldn't hide it."

"No we shouldn't." confirmed Naruto

Outside of the bubble of semi safety that Naruto and the rest of his friends where in, Hana and Guy where running for their lives. They where running from Hana Inuzuka's own mother Tsuma and every other demon, which was attracted by the smoke of the burning beach house. The two former ninjas where now demons and Tsuma was going after her daughter to turn her and rebuild her family. Luckily Hana and Guy both had a lead on the two demons and they had run out of the Daimyo's beach house before setting it ablaze. That put a barrier between them and the demons that they would have to get around, the scent from the smoke would also give them a slight advantage because it would mess with the tracking scents.

"You know your mother and you know tracking better than me." stated Guy "You take the led."

"I thought I knew my mother." grumbled Hana, she showed the slightly pointy teeth which was a trade mark in her clan. Her fangs where a lot smaller than the average in her clan but right now she looked more like a wild animal than ever before. "She is a traitor, I have half a mind to turn around and beat her senseless."

A shadow passing over a nearby clearing told them that was not a good idea, looking through the thick tree cover Guy could see one of those flying demons.

"We need to get away first," stated Guy as the demon turned and flew to the west away from them. The thick tree cover had shielded the two humans from the eyes of the demon but he wasn't the only demon now flying over, the sky was now full of demons. They had no idea how many humans where out there and where they taking no chances.

So far the only demons on the ground where Tsuma and Utakata, they where moving into the woods as fast as they could. In this case Utakata being a water kami was slowing down the much faster Inugami, what didn't help was the deep cut that Guy had done to Utakata arm with a bronze sword. Tsuma growled at having to slow down, she had her daughter's scent but it was thin and worse of all night was falling. Normally that wouldn't be much of an issue but the dark clouds rolling in concerned her a lot, her sharp hearing told her that was a thunderstorm and the rain would destroy any scents on the ground. Worse was the storm would ground the flying demons and stop all search efforts until the storm cleared the area.

"Damn it." cursed Tsuma as she turned and looked at Utakata who was lagging behind. On the surface Tsuma couldn't blame him, water Kami's weren't built to run fast on land and a bronze wound not only burned on contact but kept burning if it pierced the skin. She turned her head and saw a clearing and an idea came to her. "Why don't you stop there and get the attention of those fliers and I will keep on my daughter's trail."

"Alright." Said Utakata as he moved into the clearing and pulled a red flare from his belt and light it. Instantly two flying demons, one air kami and the other a wind rhyuu landed on the ground. An air rhyuu was kind of hard to tell the difference between an air Rhyuu and the other rhyuu types, they had no gills or could breathe fire like a fire like a fire rhyuu. Earth Rhyuus had no wings, which made them easy to spot but the only thing that made wind Rhyuu stand out was their oversized wings. It was those wings, which allowed them to fly higher, faster and longer than any other demon type. When they landed Utakata quickly explained what was going on and the general direction that the two humans went, with that they radioed to the other flying demons and those stuck on the ground heading in from the west.

Tsuma followed the weak scent that had been left behind by her daughter and Guy. The scent was getting stronger and stronger, as the smell of smoke and the salt smell of the sea began to dissipate. She heard the snapping of a branch up ahead as she made a turn around a tree and saw her daughter and Guy. She picked up her speed and reached behind her back and grabbed her flare.

She ran through hand signs and when she finished she got a bolt of speed and shot forward slamming into her daughter's back. She knew Guy was the bigger threat but if he got away, she didn't care as much. She slammed into her daughter knocking her to the ground as she pulled her flare. The red flare shot up and through the trees informing all the demons where she was. She knew she would have backup soon as she grabbed her daughter's arms restraining her.

"I am so sorry Hana but this is for your own good." stated Tsuma as she picked her daughter up and looked toward Guy. That is when she saw the pack hanging around Guy's neck; she looked at her daughter's neck and found a string holding on a similar pack, a scent pack. She ripped it off her daughter only to find that her daughter now did not smell like her daughter.

"Did you really think I had forgotten everything you taught me mom?" inquired the clone of her daughter as she and Guy disappeared in puffs of smoke leaving only the packs, which mimicked the human scents of Guy and Hana behind.

"Damn it." cursed Tsuma as some of the flying demons worked their way through the trees and landed beside her. "Decoys we need to move."

Guy and Hana jumped tree branch to tree branch heading North West away from the shore. The memories of the clones came to them in a flash when they where destroyed.

"Looks like they fell for our fakes." said Hana with a smile. "Mom should have known better, our clan is full of expert trackers."

"She was blinded by her need to get you," answered Guy as the sound of thunder filled the air. "It is mother desperate to get to her child."

Back in the Leaf Kakashi reached the assigned floor, the hallway was nothing to write home about just a normal looking hotel like hallway with bare tube lights in the ceiling and semi-tacky wallpaper on the wall. There was carpet on the ground but judging from the workers at the far end of the hall that was a recent addition. They reached their assigned apartment and opened to find a descendant sized studio apartment.

It was built in an L shape with a kitchen connect to a single living area. A bathroom shot off from the main area with mounts for a washer and dryer but no actual appliances, there was also a space for the dishwasher but that was missing as well. The walls where a solid white at first Kakashi thought it was paint but then he noticed that he smelled no paint smell. He looked closer and noticed that it was actually just concrete tinted white so that the builders would not have to paint it.

"Well this is nice." lied Rin from behind him before telling the truth. "I had a better place back in the village."

"So did I." confirmed Kakashi as he moved into the living area. It was about 12 by 12 by 12 and for a moment Kakashi was confused about why the ceiling was so high, it took him a moment to remember that some demons where taller than others which explained that.

Rin placed the handful of items that had been given to them at the supply center down in the lobby. It was not much, a couple of scrolls. Containing a handful of simple outfits, other scrolls contained items like a sofa, which folded out into a bed. Kakashi unsealed the sofa; it was a shade of pea soup green, which was unpleasing to the eye.

"That is ugly, but it will have to do." Said Rin as Kakashi unfolded the bed to see where it would end. With that done he refolded it and looked around the room, there was other items such as a table and two chairs in the scrolls but the bed would take up most of the room. There would not be much of a place for him to sleep, if Rin took the bed the best place for him may be the hallway.

"Looks like we will have to share the bed." stated Rin with a shrug before changing the topic. "I can't believe that the Inuzuka clan betrayed the village."

"I can't either." said Kakashi "It is one thing to not fight back after being turned, the mind changes and people have seen so much death and pain I can understand just accepting the new world but to actively work for it."

"I did." countered Rin

"That is different your heart." started Kakashi

"I could have risked my life and done it, I didn't have a hostage like Minato-sensei and Kushina." stated Rin as she tapped her chest. She sniffed a bit as small tears of fire ran down her cheeks. "I just didn't want to die, so I did nothing."

Kakashi did something he never thought he would do he wrapped Rin up in his arms and held her close. Rin seamed just as surprise by the move but did nothing to move away from his embrace. Instead, she leaned into his embrace and rested his head on his chest. Kakashi was fighting the need to rip Rin's cloths off and put her down on what they had for a bed. The lovely heat coming off her body of living flames was not making it easier. Then he did not have a choice as Rin pushed him backwards a bit until he sat down on the couch. She moved up so that she sat on his lap with one leg on either side of him.

"Rin?" inquired Kakashi, he never got a chance to say anything else as she placed her lips on his. He was stunned and Rin made her move moving her hands down to his belt. Kakashi stopped her causing her to break the kiss and look at him.

"Are you sure?" inquired Kakashi breathing fast as she looked at this hot woman in front of him. "Because if we start this, I don't think I could stop?"

Rin paused for a moment and reconsidered her actions.

"I am, if you are." stated Rin, with that it was Kakashi who moved to kiss her as she forced him down on the couch as he undid his belt.

Elsewhere in the village Minato and Kushina stepped off the elevator and was instantly greeted by a Yoseo, a demon fairy dressed in a modified leaf ninja nurse outfit. They had modified the uniform to fit the longer and narrow frame of a Yoseo and the back was heavily modified to allow her wings to fan out behind her. Even if they had just seen her from behind they would have known she was a woman because her wings where brighter in color with greens, red and yellows compared to men who had darker colors blues, marrons and blacks.

"Lord Hokage, Lady Namikaze welcome." greeted the nurse.

"I am not the Hokage," said Minato as he raised his hand in protest.

"Even if you don't retake the seat that Lady Tsunade left with her pointless death you where still the Hokage and earned the title." countered the Nurse before smiling "However we can debate your role in the future of the Leaf later, let's check you out to see when you can return to duty."

What followed was about an hour worth of checkups and x-rays; it told them what they already expected.

"Well good news you are both healing up very nicely and should be cleared to return to full duty in a day or two." said the nurse with a smile.

"Which one, a Day or two days?" inquired Kushina "Our children are out there and we need to find them."

"Judging from these, I would have to say give it another full day and you should be able to go first thing in the morning." Said a new voice as Shizune stood in the doorway of the examination room. "Sorry, I wanted to do this myself but I am working with Lee to get him adjusted to the new shape of the world."

"So we have about 36 hours before we can go find our children," said Kushina as she hated every moment of delay.

"Yes, and we may have helped you narrow down the search area." Said another new voice as a Dan walked into the room, he had to duck to allow his antlers to go through the door. "We intercepted a short communication broadcast and saw both your son and your daughter."

"Thank the spirits they are both alive." Said Kushina

"Where are they?" inquired Minato

"We only had a single point to triangulate their location so we know they are in the North Western." explained Dan "Anywhere from here to the coast of the Land of Earth, a large area for sure."

"A large area?" snapped Kushina "That is almost a quarter of the world?"

"Well the land area." corrected the nurse only to get a death glare from the mother who had spent so much time away from her children.

"We will have a team ready to go with you the moment you are ready to head out." reassured Dan with a smile trying to smooth over the Namikaze, he was used to it by now. People had been coming to him and other pure demons trying to find out what happened to loved ones. The capture of Naruto was more important than any other human; he had displayed the need for that with what he had done with the chakra blast.

A couple rooms away Rock Lee sat on a chair listening, he could hear Shizune talking to two people he didn't know but he heard information that knew was important. There was humans still alive somewhere in the North West, he knew that he would have to make his move soon. He studied the room again with his new demon eyes, eyes he hated but he could see things he would not have noticed as a human and he could hear things that would have been impossible with human ears.

The room was designed to contain a human, not a turned demon cat thing, Lee knew that there was name for the race he had become but he did not care. He stood up and looked himself in the one-way window which showed him what he had become and what he hated. He looked up toward the clock on the wall, it was nearing nightfall and that is when he would make his move. The black fur, which was, now covered his body would best help him in the blackness of night, he would use it to help cover him when he made his move. So until darkness fell he would have to wait.

Konohamaru and Moegi sat in a small hut in the land of swamps, the room was tiny not even large enough for a person to stretch but both of them where humans and so was everyone else outside. Aside from the villagers who called the swamps their home the only other people where ninjas from the mist.

"We need to do this Moegi." stated Konohamaru "We have to strike back against the demons."

"But how, we are Leaf ninjas we can't join up with ninjas from another nation without orders." explained Moegi "We could be considered traitors if we do that without orders from the Leaf command."

"There is no Leaf commanders left, we have to follow our own orders now." Countered Konohamaru as he looked at Moegi, they both knew that she knew that he was right but they both knew that she did not want him to go. "I am going now are you coming with me?"

Moegi thought about it before nodding her head.

"Alright." agreed Moegi

"If you two are coming then you better know what you will be getting into." said the Mizukage as she stood outside the door to their small hut. "May I come in?"

"Yes, Lady Misukage." confirmed Konohamaru as the woman ducked down and entered the small hut.

"If you come with us, you will have to follow our orders as if we were Leaf commanders." Stated Mei Terumi "You can wear your Leaf hand bands but you will follow our orders."

"We understand that." Stated Konohamaru

"The most important thing is that you will need to have your ninja vests modified." Explained Mei Terumi as she unzipped her vest and opened it up. The younger ninjas eyes widened, the inner lining of the vest was nothing but paper bombs.

"Why would you have paper bombs there?" inquired Moegi

"As a safe guard, if the vest is taken off without being disarmed like what happens when someone is changed the bombs will go off and there is a radio receiver so that if someone doesn't come back to the boat it can be set off." explained Mei Terumi. "We have to defend this location and if one of us is captured and turned it would be the end of us."

"Alright, I am fine with that," stated Konohamaru as hate burned in his eyes. Moegi looked down for a moment unsure but she nodded her head in agreement to stay with her teammate. "When do we leave?"

"In two hours, it will take all night to reach the demon village so we will hit them right at dawn tomorrow." explained Mei Terumi

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