Chapter 39 Morning of Blood

The morning sun was breaking bright giving the hope for a beautiful day, the weather was crystal clear with a gentle breeze coming out of the east. All over the small village demons where waking up and preparing for another normal day, bread was being baked in the local bakery filling the air with that wonderful smell. Birds were beginning to fill the air with their songs, as parents moved around their homes waking children to get them ready for school while getting ready for work themselves. On the surface it would have seemed like a normal day in a small seaside-fishing village, a wonderful and peaceful place to raise a family however instead of humans walking down the cobblestone streets it was demons.

No one attempted to hide anymore what they were, they were demons and soon the rest of the world would be like them as well. There would be no reason to hid and in fact there was no reason to do it now, humans where dying on mass and their army had already taken the nearby land of water and the coast line of the mainland even taking two of the major ninja villages down. There was no reason to hide and so they did not.

On the dock fisherman where preparing their boats to head out to sea to earn a living, the talk at the dock was all about how in the future they would have to leave the village to reclaim the world that the humans had stolen from them. Some of them complained that they would have to share the world with the turned humans but it was the only way.

It was one of the kitsune fishermen who was preparing his nets which heard it first, his ear twitched as he turned to face the rising sun and the source of the sound. At first, he could not see anything then slowly he made out a dozen small boats heading toward them. They were small no bigger than a 20 to 30 feet long and judging from its movement the boats where flat bottom.

"Is anyone due back from the mainland?" inquired the kitsune

"No." said a nearby water Kami as suddenly an arrow stroke him in the neck causing his blood to burst out covering the face of the nearby kitsune. For a moment the kitsune and the other demons who had seen what happened just stood there like idiots, these where fisherman not warriors so they had no idea what to do at first. This lack of response was all that was needed for five more arrows being fired from the other boats to hit five other fisherman, other arrows fell nearby but didn't hit the fishermen. Realizing that they were under attack finally reached their mind they turned and ran back toward the village screaming.

The flat bottom boats headed straight toward the sandy beach and ran themselves aground as the mist ninjas plus two leaf ninjas leaped over the side into ankle to knee high water.

"Fire those buildings!" yelled the Mizukage as two ninja archers sent arrows into the top and bottom floor windows. Seconds later paper bombs attached to the arrows went off causing the small seaside shop to explode into flames, which jumped to the nearby buildings. Screams filled the air as the unarmed and untrained demon civilians realized they were under attack. The Mist and Leaf ninjas ran up the beach with weapons in their hands, they moved up the streets killing everything that got in their way. Within moments, the entire beach side part of the village was engulfed in flames.

Moegi was in the middle of the assault, so far her bronze edged kunai was clean of any blood, she stood in the middle of a cobble stone street. All around her was a village which would have been beautiful, perfectly trimmed and up kept homes and a coziness that could be found in many small towns however now the entire village was engulfed in flames. She jumped back as a body of a demon with bird like wings fell into a nearby street cart with a crossbow bolt through the chest.

"Help…help…save my...baby" cried the female women with a baby in her arms, the baby was crying in her arms wrapped in a tight bundle. Moegi moved toward the woman only to have Konohamaru appear on the opposite side of the woman. She watched in horror as her friend, the young man she had a crush on run his kunai blade across the woman's throat killing her. He then spun the kunai around and brought it down onto the bundle in her arms. The baby let out an unearthly scream as Konohamaru ended its young life.

"That was just…a baby." stuttered Moegi as Konohamaru glared at her with hate and rage in his eyes. He looked at her for a moment before looking down at the dead baby in the arms of it's lifeless mother.

"I see no baby, I see only demon scum." Stated Konohamaru "These things took everything from us, our friends, our families our homes we are paying them back. Now either start attacking or head back to the boats."

Far to the west and underground Neji had to face the hardest choice in his life, he had woken up knowing that today would be the day he would ask the woman he loves to marry him, now he faced problem he had not expected. One of the two living relatives he had left, the only one he knew was currently still human had slit her wrist trying to end her life because the man she loves was with someone else. Sakura Haruno the most skilled medical ninja he knew was holding back the blood and healing the cut but Hinata had shallowed blood thinners and sleeping pills.

"You can't save her?" inquired Neji as he stood in a position so he did not have to see his cousin's nude body in the blood-filled bath. A towel had been thrown over her but he still did not want to see that. "Give her a blood transfusion"

"That would replace the blood she loss but the thinners would still kill her and the sleeping pills are slowing her heart too much. I am using my chakra to keep her heart going," stated Sakura "It is too late to pump her stomach, I am actually amazed she is still alive."

"What is going on?" inquired a new voice as the red haired woman dressed in a sleeping gown walked into the room. Her red eyes scanned the scene and instantly understood what was going on.

"Attempted suicide." stated Sakura as she moved her hand away from the cut wrist to show it now was healed, instantly she moved her head to just over Hinata's heart and using her chakra kept the heart going. "Cut her wrist and took blood thinners and sleeping pills."

"So she is as good as dead." stated Karin "Why are you keeping her alive."

"Because becoming a demon would likely save her life," explained Sakura before looking at Neji. "This is your choice, either Hinata becomes a demon and live or she stays a human and dies."

"It would be a risk to add another demon to this place." countered Karin "Let her die as a human, it will keep us safer."

"You would let her die?" countered Meiko who had come back from getting dressed.

"Yes, another demon is too much a risk to the safety of the base." stated Karin

"It would give you another sample to work with." Said a soft voice as they turned to see Hinata's own teammate Shino standing there in his trench coat with sunglasses on. "Wouldn't having Hinata become a demon give you more samples from demons to work with."

"That could…actually be worth the risk." admitted Karin

"Neji we need you to make a call." Stated Sakura as she wondered what to make of Shino being so cold but she forced that out of her mind because Hinata needed her to stay alive. Neji lowered his head and made the call.

"Do it, turn her." Stated Neji as Sakura went to work, she picked Hinata up and carried her to a stretcher which Naruto had been setting up in Hinata's bedroom. She put her down on it, making sure that the towel still covered Hinata before making sure she was strapped in before having two Naruto clones pick up the stretcher and moved her out of the room and headed out of the base. Sakura was actually sitting on the stretcher with her hands over Hinata's chest using her chakra to keep her heart going. By now the others had come out of their rooms aside from Kiba who was too drunk to be woken up.

"What is going on!" yelled Ino

"Suicide attempt, we have to turn her into a demon to save her." yelled Sakura to both Ino and everyone else. "Get dressed and armed."

Sakura thought for a moment about getting dressed herself, she didn't like going outside into a possible demon infected zone unarmed but if she stopped Hinata would die.

While Hinata was on death's door a knock at the apartment door shared by Kakashi and Rin, the sudden rapping sound caused both of them to wake up. Rin quickly grabbed a robe and pulled it over herself as Kakashi did the same, she looked through the peephole and opened the door to see a woman standing there. At first Kakashi did not recognize her with her fairy like wings, her longer narrower body and all the other differences.

"Ayame right?" inquired Rin who had only seen her a few times.

"Yes, the council wants to see you and your…friend." said the former Roman Noddle girl with a slight smile looking at Kakashi.

"When?" inquired Rin

"Now, turns out your little student Meiko may have turned traitor," stated Ayame as Rin looked at her for a moment. "I'll wait while you two get dressed."

"Alright, give us a moment." said Rin as she closed the door.

"What was that about?" inquired Kakashi

"No idea, but we better get going the council doesn't like to be kept waiting." answered Rin as she stripped the robe. At first Kakashi was taken aback but then he remembered what they had done together only the night before and quickly got over it, however he found himself watching Rin get dressed and wishing he could undress her again. Only when she was finished and he wasn't did she turn her attention back to him. A simple look told him to hurry up and within a few moments he was ready and the two of them headed out into the predawn light.

They were in luck when they opened the door which protected the entrees to the base, there were no demons on the police cameras or even within the range that Karin could sense. They had to rush through the restaurant and into the predawn light. They moved toward the plant that had turned Samui into a Rhyuu, as it sensed humans approaching it moved slightly among the overgrowth.

"Alright, I'll take her into the area to get turned." said Meiko as she moved to stand beside Sakura.

"The problem is that I am keeping her heart going. If I stop then she dies." said Sakura as an idea came to her. "Will that thing go after a clone?"

"I don't think so, maybe if it didn't have a real human it would attack it but not when it has a human it can get to." Admitted Meiko as Sakura pulled away for a moment and made a shadow clone. Unlike Naruto who could make thousands of Shadow clones with ease, it was not one of her primary Justus.

"Switch." ordered Sakura as the real one jumped off and the clone placed her hands on Hinata and used the limited amount of chakra that she had provided it to keep Hinata's heart going. With that Meiko struggled a bit to hold the older woman in her arms as Sakura walked beside her. Meiko moved toward the plant which head rose up like a snake as it sensed the human life inside Hinata. It snapped forward attacking Hinata leaving Sakura's clone alone.

"How long will it take to turn her?" inquired Naruto

"No long." Answered Meiko as she backed away as the seemly lifeless body of Hinata was taken head first down the long neck of the plant toward the stomach where it would turn Hinata from a human into a demon.

"Let's hope, her heart is currently stopped and if it doesn't restart then this is all for nothing." Added Sakura

"No, because if she comes out turned anyhow we will have samples and even a body to carry out an apostasy." explained Karin as Hinata fell into the main body of this plant creature and the strange liquid inside it began to spin.

Sakura focused her green eyes on the spinning movement, both looking for signs that Hinata was moving inside the twisting pool of liquid which was turning Hinata. She looked not only for signs of life but also for signs of how this plant could change humans into something else. Beside her Neji was holding his breath standing beside him was Tenten. By now Shino and Ino had come out with weapons ready if the need came up. For what seemed like forever Hinata twisted and turned inside the liquid.

"It shouldn't take this long," admitted Meiko and as a sense of dread fell over all of them the turning stopped and the liquid carrying Hinata moved up through the neck and with the sound of a man throwing up it spilled Hinata out onto the ground in a puddle of the liquid. Meiko moved forward and dragged Hinata out of the reach of the plant which would grab anyone who came close.

Sakura was the first at Hinata's side after Meiko had dragged her a safe distance, her eyes scanned the woman who had tried to kill herself. She was not a human woman anymore she was a kitsune like Meiko, Naruto's parents and likely Naruto if he would turn.

Her skin had been replaced with fur, thick raven color fur the same as her hair had been as a human. Snow white fur ran from her neck spreading out over her still large breasts before narrowing sharply again just past her bully button. Her left hand the one she had cut was now covered with the same white fur from elbow down but none of her other hands or feet had a different colored fur. Her ears had become fox like and where larger then Meiko's and seamed more pointed.

Sakura moved her hand toward Hinata's neck to see if she had a heartbeat only to have Hinata take in a huge breath of air before spinning around onto her hands and knees and throwing up a large amount of both blood, the turning liquid and what looked to be human teeth. The liquid stuck to her body making her looked like a drowned dog on all fours, even her tail, which seemed very long compared to Meiko's, hung limp. For a moment, her eyes opened to show that she now had a demon fox silted eye which was surrounded by the white byakugan eye. She lifted her head up and looked toward Naruto who was standing over her.

"Naruto…kun." said Hinata weakly as she fell down passed out from the change.

"Let's get her inside," ordered Meiko

"Alright." said Sakura before turning to Ino. "Ino do you have sample beakers?"

"Yes." confirmed Ino as she handed Sakura a scroll. Quickly Sakura pulled a small blood sample and then collected samples from both the liquid which clung to Hinata and what she had thrown up along with the teeth. When she was done she stood up to find, that Naruto and Ino where the only ones left everyone else had taken the now passed out Hinata inside.

"Damn a kitsune, I was hoping if you call it that for something else. It would have given us more samples we have a kitsune from Meiko," complained Ino "However we should be thankful she is still alive."

"All this because I turned her down." said Naruto with the shake of his head. "Maybe if I had let her down easier or maybe if I…"

"Naruto-kun the only way this wouldn't have happened would be if you had gone out with her." explained Sakura as Naruto looked at the ground thinking about it.

"And that is something I couldn't do." Stated Naruto "At least she is alive and when we find a way to turn her back it will be back to the way it should be."

"Let's hope." confirmed Sakura even as her head turned to look at the demon plant, it opened it's mouth to show rows of needle like teeth dripping with the liquid.

"Sakura-chan what are you thinking?" inquired Naruto

"That those teeth look a lot like medical needles to me." admitted Sakura as she took a half step closer only to have Naruto grab her arm, she spun to face him only to have the plant that transformed Hinata snap forward only to come short but only short by three or four steps. It was so close that some of the transforming liquid flicked onto Sakura's face.

"That was close." Said Naruto as he saw the marks he had put into Sakura's arm, he let go but made sure she didn't take another step. "Sorry Sakura-chan."

"No, that was my fault…I could have ended up a demon as well." said Sakura as she let out a deep breath. "Thanks Naruto-kun, I didn't realize how far that thing could stretch."

"Me neither but I know you would get too close, it is in your personality to get close to study something." explained Naruto

"That is all well and good." Said Ino as she reached up and pulled the liquid off Sakura's face and into its own small container. "However can we go inside before we get seen or someone gets too close to that thing,"

"Alright, lets get these samples down into the base and someone has to examine Hinata." Ordered Sakura

"Why?" inquired Ino

"Because I have an idea how this stupid thing works. Those teeth are needles and if they work like a snake they may inject this liquid into their victim that starts them transforming into demons." stated Sakura as she looked at Ino. "See if you can find multiple puncture marks on her body under her fur, you will have to hurry before demon healing seals them up. They may be small but you have to find them if they are there."

"You are the better doctor, you should do it." Advised Ino as her best friend shook her head.

"Would you want to wake up to find out you are a demon and have the woman who is with the man you tried to kill yourself over standing anywhere near you?" inquired Sakura as Ino nodded her head in understanding.

Rin and Kakashi walked into the Leaf council chamber only to find all the seats filled by the members of the demon council. The council wasn't the only demons in the room, standing there almost as awake as the two of them was Minato, Kushina and Kane Inuzuka

"Sorry to wake you up so early but we have some news." stated one of the council members "Yesterday one of our search teams came into contact with a group of humans from the Leaf."

"Naruto, Meiko you found our children?" inquired Kushina with a mother's hope in her voice.

"No, not fully however we did find Hana Inuzuka and Guy." Stated another council member "However they escaped and part of the reason they escape was because they were in radio contact with another group who ID them as demons."

"Meiko." stated Rin as everyone looked at her "She said Meiko was a traitor."

"Yes, we also spotted Naruto." stated the kitsune council member. "Now since three of you are so close to Meiko, can you possibly explain why she would do this?"

"You said Naruto was with her?" inquired Kakashi

"Yes, we will get to you about Naruto." stated the snake demon

"Then the answer is clear." stated Rin "Meiko is trying to gain her brother's trust, Naruto means so much to her she will do almost anything to gain his love as a brother."

"She would even betray her own kind," countered a council member.

"She loves her brother; she wants him to become a demon to save his life." explained Rin "It may be the only way to convince him and anyone else he is with that they are better off becoming demons."

"I admit that makes some sense." stated a kitsune council member "If helping a single pair of humans or even a small group escape for a moment brings him to our side willing then it is worth it."

"That was my daughter, she needs to be home." stated Kane with force.

"Kane, likely your son is with Naruto." explained Kakashi "If that is the case then they will be together soon and if you find them…"

"When we find them." corrected Kane "Yes, it would be best to bring them home at the same time. Do you know where they are?"

"No, but we know the general area and the communication system type they used." explained a council Member "We have narrowed it down to ten possible sites but most are far outside our current operation limit. Once we are more settled here we will move on to those area and soon they will be back home with their families."

"Now, Minato since you were the Hokage we want you to reclaim your seat and restore order to this village." stated a Kitsune member.

"No." answered Minato "I will not do anything until I have both my children home, you said most likely areas are outside of your area of operation, I will check them out and anywhere else I have to. I will bring my son and daughter home."

The council members closed their eyes for a moment.

"Very well, we are going to set up a staging area for the next phase in a couple of days in a town called Nysa you can stage your search out of there." explained the fairy demon, it was clear that he was going to say more when a knock on the council door caused everyone to turn toward it. A demon rushed in before snapping to attention.

"Sirs, ma'am's reports from home they are under attack." stated the cat like demon

"What?" inquired the entire council.

Moegi walked among death, the cobblestone streets where now covered with blood, she assumed that it was demon blood but it was just as red as human blood. She passed by bodies of different demons, somewhere intact others where in pieces, screams filled the air.

"They are just demons," said Moegi but a scream was a scream and it sounded as human as if it had come from the lungs of a human. The demons where unarmed aside from a handful of small makeshift weapons like wooden poles and that was not enough to stop well trained ninjas. She turned the corner to see a mist ninja sitting on top of a park bench eating a sandwich however behind him was the true horror. Another pair of mist ninjas with a line of captured demons, each one of them where bond and gaged, they were no threat to anyone yet the two of them where moving down the line cutting the throats of everyone they came across. They did not even cut deep enough to end it quickly instead they where cutting shallow and letting them bleed out.

"Leaf girl." said a mist ninja eating on the park bench before extending the second half of the sandwich "Care for a bite?"

Moegi said nothing, her eyes were locked on the two Mist ninjas moving down the line, they had just reached a cat like demon, it was a little girl not much older than she was. Bound beside her was a similar looking older demon, likely either her older sister or a maybe even her mother depending on age.

"Leaf Girl? Do you hear me?" inquired the Mist ninja as Moegi's hand dove for her ninja pack. She pulled three kunai and threw them careful. The mist ninjas never saw it coming as the kunias hit each of them in their necks. They looked at her stunned as blood began to pour down their bodies.

The two dozen demons who had been lined up to be executed all looked on stunned as Moegi walked over and pulled her kunai out of the Mist ninja who had been sitting on the bench. With one quick move she cut the cat like demon free from her restraints. For a moment the first demon had no idea what to do, she just looked at her freed hands before looking up at Moegi as if this was a trick. Instead Moegi spun the kunai around and handed it to the demon.

"I need help to cut the others free before more of the mist ninjas come back this way." Explained Moeji

"Why are you doing this?" inquired the demon

"Because you are civilians, if you were ninjas then this would have been a fair fight but this is just slaughter." explained Moegi as she cut the demon beside her free. The now freed older demon picked up the second kunai and began to cut the others free. They were about done when a voice caused Moegi to stop in her tracks.

"Moegi!" yelled Konohamaru as he and two more mist ninjas came back from the front lines. The demons she had been helped cut free turned and ran into the thick smoke, which filled the battle. "What are you doing!"

"These people are civilians!" yelled Moegi with force in her young voice "What made them our enemies?"

"They are demons!" yelled Konohamaru back "They took everything from us, they killed everyone, did you forget everyone who died? Did you forget that your family died from this plague?"

"NO!" yelled Moegi back "But this will not solve that! What does slaughtering civilians have…"

Moegi did not complete her sentence as she watched the man she loved, pull a kunai out of his vest and with practice skilled sent it flying at her. She was too stunned to move as she remembered that she had been the one that had helped him master his kunai throwing skills.

Konohamaru lowered his head as his kunai landing in Moegi's skull with a thud sending her stumbling backwards for a second. For what seemed to be the longest time but was in truth it was half a second she fell over blood pouring from the kunai strike to her head.

"I am surprised," said a voice from behind Konohamaru as he turned to see the Mizukage standing there. "I didn't think you had it in you to kill your teammate even if she had betrayed humanity."

"It…it…it had to be done." said Konohamaru

"Come on, we need to pull back to the boats we have done what we came here to do." explained the Mizukage.

"But ma'am there are still more demons out there." Stated one of her ninjas "We haven't breached that temple they are guarding."

"Yes but if we stay to long then we could be attacked ourselves." Countered the Mizukage "We are pulling out, bring our dead back with us."

"What about the traitor?" inquired a mist ninja as she pointed toward Moegi.

"Leave her to rot," said Konohamaru as the mist ninjas and Konohamaru head back to the boats, leaving a burning village and thousands of dead cilivians behind them. Watching the scene from a far where some of the Bakeneko that Moegi had saved, one of them the younger girl moved out among the burning wreck, which was their home.

"Mai get back here!" yelled her older sister from the semi safety of their hiding place among the burning remains of their home village.

Mai moved toward the human who had cut them free, she looked down at the human. She had only seen a few humans in her life mostly the handful that the council had as captives, one of them Meiko Namikaze had been in her class at school. She like all the other demons had grown up with the stories of humans coming out from under the bed to get them, then latter they learned the real reason why humans where hated. Today had proved that when these humans had come out from the sea killing everyone but then when she thought her life was going to end, a human had saved her.

She looked at the human; she was about her age and did not seem that different, she didn't look at her face. It was a horrible mess the kunai had hit her in the eye, it had not gone deep. It appeared to have hit the goggles she had on her forehead before being deflected into her eye. Even so, the blood was thick and as red as her own.

"Thank you for saving me." thanked Mai as suddenly the human took a breath of air. "By the spirits she is alive! We need help out here now."

"Is she alive?" inquired her sister as other demons who Moegi had saved came out from their hiding places.

"Yes, we need to save her!" yelled Mai

"Let her die look at what they did!" yelled a Heikegani, blood was pouring from where a human had ripped out one of its many crab like legs.

"But she saved us, we need to save her." Countered Mai as the older demons shared a look before coming to a wordless agreement.

"We need to get her to the temple." stated a Kitsune as they moved to pick her up.

"Vest…" moaned Moegi "Take off…"

"Don't worry about that." Said Mai

"Bomb." said a dazed Moegi

"Stop!" yelled a fire Kami as she moved forward and looked at the ninja vest. For the longest time she said nothing then she pointed toward a thin corner of a piece of paper sticking out from the human's vest. "They must have rigged this to explode."

"Then take it off." ordered Mai as she reached for the zipper and before anyone could stop her she pulled it down showing the paper bombs which lined the inside of the vest. Carefully they took it off and tossed the vest into a nearby pound so it would do as little harm as possible if it went off.

"Come on lets get her to the temple." Ordered the fire kami

Down at the shoreline the Mist ninjas where getting a final count of their numbers.

"We lost 7 men." Reported an aid to the Mizukage

"Six." countered Konohamaru as he sat nearby. "Moegi betrayed us."

"Do we have the others recovered?" inquired the Mizukage only to get a simple nod in response. "Good blow the traitors vest and head back to base."

"At once." said the aid as he moved to a small box and double-checking to make sure he had the right code, sent a wireless message to the paper bombs in Meogi's vest. Up in the village a boom caused the Mizukage to nod in approval.

"Head out!" yelled the Mizukage as the new sun finally broke free over the horizon to shine down a world that had once again changed.

Well I hope you liked this chapter, I was debating about what to turn Hinata into but I settled on a Kitsune. Now until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75.