Chapter 45 Fateful Choices
The rain was pouring down outside but inside Meiko Namikaze was reaching her boiling point. She had been having a verbal throw down with some of her brother's friends and the newly arrived adult humans. Finally she had stormed out of the room throwing her hand up in the air as she dropped the illusion justu and transformed into her true demon form. She marched down the hallway past Hinata's sister, Hanabi Hyuuga who glared at her as she walked away. She turned her head and glared at the young woman who was of age with her, on some level she would have wanted to be friends with her. She had never had a human friend of age with her and the pure demon semi friends she had she could count on one hand and have at least 3 fingers left over. Her silted violet eyes glared into the silver white eyes of the byakugan.
Neither of them said anything to each other as they each went their separate ways, Mieko stormed into the common room and into her brother's room. Only when she opened the door did she think that he could have been in there with Sakura, he was but the two of them where only talking not doing anything she didn't want to see. Instead her brother was sitting in a chair by the desk he had placed in the room and Sakura was sitting on the bed. Judging from the depression in the bed her brother had just moved. Both of them looked toward her wondering what brought her to them.
"Meiko?" inquired Naruto
"Have you seen that our parents are right above us?" inquired Meiko as she almost yelled at her brother and his girlfriend.
"I know." confirmed Naruto
"And do you know that our mom is crying her eyes out like I have never seen before over us." snapped Meiko as she showed the anger that her mother had from time to time. "We can solve this problem with one simple solution."
"Which is?" inquired Sakura
"We bring them down here, I am down here and I haven't tried to make you turn by force and I have done nothing but help you." stated Meiko as she looked at her brother. "Mom and Dad only want our family back together and I am sure that they will be…"
"Meiko, I understand where you are going and on some levels I agree with you." stated Naruto "Mom and Dad wouldn't try anything if we brought them down here…for a while."
"What does that mean?" inquired Mieko "What problems do you see?"
"What happens after the reunion, what happens when I refuse to get turned and mom or dad freaks out, they don't want to think about me dying from demon chakra." explained Naruto
"I am worried about that and I haven't done anything but talk to you." Countered Meiko as Naruto nodded his head in agreement.
"Very true, however and please take no offense but there is a huge difference between what you, I or anyone else can do and what the 4th Hokage can do." stated Naruto "Hell with the flying thunder god technique he could transport himself out of the base, tell the demons where we are and get back using the same methods."
Meiko crinkled her muzzle in a look that said she wanted to argue against her brother's point but couldn't find a reason yet.
"Meiko, do you think I want to make mom and dad cry, do you think I enjoy this?" inquired Naruto
"I…I just want this to be over…I want our family together for the first time." admitted Meiko
"So do I, but if we bring them down here then humanity will…"
"Fuck humanity." snapped Meiko as she turned on her brother. "Naruto, listen I know and I understand that you want to save humanity but it is over. The demons won, the red flu will kill every human that isn't turned and the demon chakra within you and Fuu will kill you both. It is over, time to end this no reason to keep hurting our parents."
"No it isn't." countered Naruto "Sakura-chan was just telling me that they learned something about the red flu how they may have found a cure."
"What?" inquired Meiko as her eyes widened before looking at Sakura. "A cure?"
"Not a cure, however we now know that stem cells can cancel the effectives of the flu for a brief time." explained Sakura "All we need to do is figure out how to make the effects last, right now the healing effects last a while only to have it come back and do the damage all over again."
"Ok." said Meiko "So you have basically found a stop gap that will work for a while for people with the flu but you haven't figured out how to turn demons into humans or cure Naruto from the demon chakra which is killing him."
"No." admitted Sakura "We have found out how humans are turned into demons and maybe even how the demons control what a person becomes, somewhat."
"Isn't it random?" inquired Naruto, he hadn't heard about that.
"Maybe if a person is turned with no history or outside influences like you with the Kyuubi but judging from how Tsume Inuzuka has been feeding her kids those wolf demon stem cells we believe it was all in an effort to get them to become those demons when the time came." explained Sakura
"The Priests do feed a demon who is going to become another demon a special holy drink but none of that helps." countered Meiko as she looked at her brother "If you become a demon, it will buy time for Sakura to find a cure, it will keep you alive and I am sure mom and dad will behave if we brought them down here."
"Meiko let's say for shake of argument that I would agree with you, how would we do that?" inquired Naruto "How would we get outside, I have only a single code and we need 3 to open those doors and there is no way that anyone would agree rightfully so that keeping the 4th Hokage plus an additional 3 demons since I would be one to is reasonable. They are already scared with you, Hinata and Samui and Samui seems to be focused more on staying to herself doing whatever she does. Adding three more is something the others will not accept."
Meiko threw her arms up in the air in frustration before shaking her head before finally sitting down on the bed between her brother and Sakura.
"There has to be a way, a way that we can get our family back together to end this once and for all?" inquired Meiko as Naruto lowered his head and extended his arm and placed it on his sister's shoulder.
"At the moment, there is nothing we can do." stated Naruto as Meiko suddenly jumped off the bed and rushed out of the room toward her own room through the connected bathroom. Naruto moved to follow her only to get waved off by Sakura.
"Let me talk to her." advised Sakura as she followed Meiko into her own room closing the doors behind her. She knew that with the additional sound canceling seals she had placed for her surpise for Naruto tonight he wouldn't hear her. Meiko had thrown herself on her bed, her face in her pillow.
"Idiot…he is an idiot." cried Meiko into her pillow like any human person would at her age.
"Meiko." said Sakura as she sat on the bed beside her placing her hand on her back. "I know this must be horrible for you, seeing your parents like that, I know I would if I saw my parents like that and I could do something to help them but I think you are missing something."
"What?" inquired Meiko as she turned her head slightly to look at Sakura.
"As much as you are hurting your brother is hurting even more." explained Sakura only to get a glare from Meiko. "Remember Naruto-kun has never had a family and that is what he has always wanted and I am sure that if there was a way he could get his parents down here he would."
"There is…" started Meiko only to stop.
"No, there isn't because even if Naruto-kun did talk the others into letting in his parents what happens if other friends and family members showed up as demons. How can we allow Naruto-kuns family in but anyone else."
"Who family would be left?" inquired Meiko "From what I can see everyone's family is down here, well aside from yours and Kiba."
"Yes." confirmed Sakura as she tried not to think about how here parents likely died on their second honeymoon. "And my parents are likely dead from the flu, Ino's mom died from the flu, Temari's brothers died from the flu and countless others have lost their loved ones to the flu caused by the demons. People naturally hate the demons and what they see is not your parents they see a threat to them."
"But my parents had nothing to do with that…" started Meiko
"And you have seen the mounds of dead bodies and you have heard the horror stories." countered Sakura "It would be impossible to get your parents down here, not unless we find a cure and a way to turn demons back into human."
"And what happens if you can't find a cure and people start getting sick." countered Meiko
"Naruto-kun and I have talked about that, and while we haven't settled on a for sure answer I would say we would rather become demons then die." explained Sakura as Meiko smiled at the news.
Night was fast approaching as the rain kept falling, however sleeping in a store wasn't the best option for Minato and Kushina Namikaze considering that only a three buildings over and connected by a covering was a hotel. Minato had to carry his wife, bridal style her grief of being so close to having her children back was just too much for her. He lifted her up and let her wrapped her arms around his neck as he carried her into the hotel. The hotel itself being located on the beach was nothing but the best with fine marble flooring with different colored inlays to make beautiful patterns. The woodwork along the walls and in the lobby, was nothing but the best. Behind the now abounded clerk desk was a golden statue of a rising sun with rays made out of gold. It took Minato a moment but he remembered seeing that statue before.
Flashback
The lobby was full of people in dressed in designer cloths, laugher could be heard coming from the bar and hotel workers and guests moved through the lobby with grace and ease.
"Here it is." said the clerk, a rather short woman with deep almost black hair. "I have a 10 night stay here in one of our honeymoon suits, Mr. and Mrs. Uzumaki."
"Yes, thank you." said Minato who was using a transformation justu to hide who he really was, it wasn't much of a transformation. He made himself slightly shorter and changed the lining of his jaw and his hair and eye color. The one thing he did add was a beard, something he had never been able to grow even past stubbles during the long months on the battlefield without shaving. Kushina looked as beautiful as ever as she stood there in a nice but not over the top green traveling dress. It wasn't as important that she remained hidden, she wasn't the soon to be Hokage of the Hidden Leaf village and a war hero. She didn't have the long list of enemies who would love to kill her or take someone she loved hostage, he did.
"Here you go, Mr. Uzumaki room 410." Said the clerk as she handed him two pairs of key cards. "We of course want to make sure our guests have the best stay possible most of all honeymooners. So if you need anything?"
"We will call if we require anything." said Kushina as the two of them headed toward the elevator. Once inside Kushina playfully put her elbow in his stomach. "Having fun Mr. Uzumaki."
"Of course, Mrs. Namikaze." said Minato, since they were alone there was no risk as they went up to their room and their honeymoon night.
End Flashback
"All this time and we are back here." said Minato to himself as he carried his wife up the stairs, the elevator was out and had been out for a while. The staircase which had been perfectly clean, so clean that the hardwood grand staircase shinned from all the oil was covered in a thick layer of dust. Minato had no idea why he went up to the 4th Floor, he just did any of the rooms on the lower floors would have worked would have even been better but he went up anyway. Maybe it was his subconscious but he soon found himself standing before room 410 holding his wife in the say way he had on their wedding night. Only stead of laugher and joy, she was in tears and neither of them where human anymore. He pushed open the door, the electric lock gave way with his push and he entered the room that hadn't changed much since the day the two of them left. The fine four poster bed sat at an angle in the room with silk curtains hanging from each post. The bed while new was in the same spot, the master bathroom was as large as it had been last time, and the view of the massive lake would have been breathtaking if it wasn't for the raging storm.
"This place." said Kushina as she finally got a grip of what was happening around her, "We are back here?"
"Yes." confirmed Minato as he put his wife down. "I don't really know why I my feet carried me here but it seemed right."
"Well at least there is no dead body and that is saying something now a days." said Kushina before giving him a smile which caused a shiver to run down his spin even after so many years of being husband and wife. "Remember all the fun we had here?"
"I do." said Minato with a grin "I really did enjoy that red number you had on our wedding night."
"So did I." said Kushina as she remembered that little surprise she had for him. "That was fun."
"Well we are alone now?" offered Minato with a perverted smirk only to get a kiss from his wife.
"Not tonight, when we get our family back together." Stated Kushina as Minato nodded his head and put a seal on the door so that they would have a layer of safety as they slept.
Only a couple of rooms away Shikamaru was showing Temari the room that would be hers, it was actually a second floor of the living area but it could have been the first. The only real difference being that the two stairs located across from each other in the circle common area went up and down instead of just down. The room was a copy of almost every other room with a single simple bed with a cheap desk in the corner.
"Sorry it isn't one of the suits, my parents claimed the only one down here but you have your own bathroom and no one in the adjourning room." said Shikamaru "I have to save one with Sasuke's…friends Suigetsu and you don't want to know what sort of blessing that is to have one to yourself."
"Having running water yet alone hot running water is rare right now." Stated Temari as she sat down on the bed and looked at her hands. They were covered in dirt and grin, scabs from old cuts covered her flesh and she smelled so bad she could smell herself.
"I will use that shower for sure, I haven't had one in weeks." stated Temari as she looked at her cloths, they were worn out and dirty with dirt and stains clearly visible.
"I wasn't going to say anything." Admitted Shikamaru with a slight chuckle before becoming serious. "I am just happy that you are here and safe, it was close for a moment. Naruto and his sister distracted a couple of demons to make sure you weren't seen."
"Well I must thank him for that." admitted Temari "So what is the plan, how do we fight back."
"First you get some sleep and rest and then you can either help me search for information about the demons." stated Shikamaru
"I thought you had access to a demon, Naruto's sister?" inquired Temari as Shikamaru nodded his head.
"Yes and while she may be a good source of information from the demon point of view, we shouldn't trust it totally." Stated Shikamaru
"It is from a single point of view, and we need to find out how the humans defeated the demons." stated Shikamaru "I find it hard to believe that humans who from what I have been able to discover was far more primitive then the demons defeated them. The simple fact that they had bronze and demon burn when they come into contact with bronze isn't enough. The demon population would have been greater than the human population at the time, the more advance civilization the greater the population number but yet the demons where defeated. Something isn't right, either the demons where far less populous then what a civilization should or the humans where far more advanced."
"And how will we figure that out?" inquired Temari
"You get some rest first and then when I was on the surface I got some books from the library and a rare book shop. Maybe they will have something." explained Shikamaru as Temari nodded her head as she stood up.
"I think I am going to take a bath before I get some rest." said Temari as Shikamaru nodded his head. As she walked past she placed a hand on his shoulder and let it linger for a moment before she headed toward the bathroom, Shikamaru turned his head and watched her go and even with the dirty cloths, layers of dirt and stains and her overall haggard look he still found himself checking her out. She closed the door leaving him in the room with only a couple of items.
"Troublesome woman." said Shikamaru even as a smile crossed his face.
Elsewhere in the base Ino, was taking a moment to relax, she was going to bed early so that she could get up extremely early to check some lab work. To relax she had decided to check out the hot springs, it was simple spring 10x10 with the only thing that made it above normal was small waterfall along one wall allowing a person to rest under the hot water. The rest of the place was covered with bad fake rocks.
Ino leaned back on one of the benches enjoying the steaming hot water, as he ran down from the top of the waterfall down to the top of her head, before going down her back to her shoulder blade where the roar of the water and calm it brought meant she never heard the door open. Only the sound of a splash caused her to open her eyes, across from her on the other side of the hot spring was a former human, now turned Ice Rhyuu.
"Samui." answered Ino in surprise as she noticed that the water around the former human wasn't steaming anymore. Infact the water was getting cooler even though she was right next to the heater. Samui eyes where still blue but they were now silted in a diamond like way, not the narrow ones she had seen from time to time on Naruto or now on Meiko and Hinata, this one was narrow with the appearance more of a snake. It sent a cold chill down her spin that had nothing to do with the temperature drop which came from the water.
"Ino." said Samui with a slight nod of her head, she had very little human hair left but it was as blonde as it was during the brief time she had known the older ninja. She now had more yellow spikes and her blue with yellow highlight scales. "How are you doing?"
"I have been warmer." stated Ino
"Sorry, but I can't just spend all day in my room planning." stated Samui with a grin showing off the sharpened teeth in her mouth. "Planning what I will do when we get out of here, what sort of life I will have because the ninja world is over."
"Well…I am not sure of that." said Ino as she looked at scaled covered woman across the pool from her. Ice was forming around her but it was thin but clearly visible, in fact all it did was highlight the silver bikini top she had on compared to the blue and golden yellow scales. "Once we find a cure and everything else will take some time but it will come back to normal."
"No it won't and you know it will not." stated Samui "Even if by some miracle you did find a way to cure the flu, there is no way you can stop the demons from winning. They are currently organized and humanity aren't, so even if you cure the flu the demons will just keep turning people into demons."
"Not unless we find a way to turn people back." stated Ino as Samui rolled her eyes.
"Even if you found a way to do that, you would have to organize humans to fight back and to capture demons to be turned, humanity if fighting itself for basics like food they would never come together in numbers needed to do more than slow down the demons." stated Samui "You may figure out a way, but for every demon you turn back to a human they will turn five or six humans to demons. At that rate you can't win and every day more demons are made from the humans that are still alive."
"And what would you recommend?" inquired Ino
"She will likely recommend that you become a demon or something like that." said a new voice as Ino and Samui turned to see Fuu standing there in a swim suit of her own. She had a sea green top and bottom with the only thing which made it stand out was an outline of silver butterfly on one of her breasts. "She just wants you to give up hope and so that you will not do your best work."
Ino smiled as Samui glared at the new comer as she got into the former hot spring which was now lukewarm by Ino and ice cold at Samui's end. Fuu found a spot for her located on the wall between Ino and Samui.
"Samui, I know you like it cold but Ino and I are still human so do you mind if we keep the water a little warmer." Inquired Fuu as she looked at Samui, Ino noticed that Fuu's eyes where not the normal human eyes or even the normal demon eyes that she had seen on Naruto and the kitsunes, or even the snake like eyes like Samui. Her eyes where more like two diamonds which where overlaid over each other in the center.
"Fine." said Samui "But if you two where smart you would be thinking about what your life will be like after this and most of all what demons you will likely become."
"I need to get going, there are things I need to do." Said Ino as she moved out of the spring, water running down her body as she grabbed a towel and moving as close to the wall as possible to avoid being any closer to Samui then she had to she headed out the door. When she was gone Samui and Fuu looked at each other.
"You have even more to think about, like Naruto you have demon chakra in you if you don't turn you will die." said Samui as Fuu shrugged.
"Whatever you say, but it seems to me that you are basing all this off some major assumptions." stated Fuu as Samui glared at the other woman. "You are assuming that the humans can't get organized, that they can't get back on their feet and those are only two things that you are assuming. I don't think you are seeing the big picture."
Samui who was one of the top ninjas in her village didn't like being insulted by someone she saw as her lesser and it showed as she pulled herself out of the hot spring and unfolding the wings on her back. With a couple flap of wings she dried herself off, and sent small ice chunks toward Fuu who ignored it. When Samui left the room, the water began to warm back up as Fuu went back to enjoying herself in the hot springs. With the ice dragon demon gone the water was back to its proper temperature and the room filled up with steam.
As night approached even down in the base people began to wonder off to do their own thing, some went to sleep, others went to the dining area to get a drink with friends and still others drank in their room. Naruto knew that Sakura had something planned for him and he had a general idea what it was, even if he didn't know what she would do. He paused in front of his door and waited for a moment, before taking a deep breath. He turned the door knob and entered the room to find that it had been redecorated somewhat, the bed sheets had been changed to an white silk and a table had been set up in the center of the room along with two chairs. The table had also been set up with plates, glasses and other dinner ware, a bottle of wine sat ready to be open.
"Naruto-kun." greeted Sakura as she stood by one of the chairs dressed an open back dress, the front ran up to a collar around her neck. It was blood red with highlights in white trip around the top and the collar and a white strap around her waist, the cut on the dress when up higher then he imagined that she would were it went to within a couple of inches of her waist line. Her legs had white fish net stockings which went down to the top of her high heal shoes. "You ready for a dinner date?
"Sakura-chan?" inquired Naruto "I hate to admit this I was thinking we would be doing something else?"
Sakura laughed a bit as she smiled at him, a smile that caused his heart to race.
"That part comes later, but we haven't had a real date yet and this is the best I can arrange." explained Sakura with a grin which caused a chill to run down Naruto's spin. "Now I may not be the best cook but chicken ramen with a hint of spicy seasoning and seasoned bread isn't that hard."
"Spicy chicken ramen is one of my favorites." said Naruto as Sakura smiled.
"It is your birthday after all." said Sakura as the two of them sat down across from each other and began to enjoy a private date.
Only a few rooms away Hinata had been working the oven all day and before her five different birthday cakes all of which were frosted perfectly and decorated with multiple different types. Some of the cakes where multiple layers and covered with sugar frosting. Her perfectly cooked dinner was almost ready and all she would have to do is get Naruto down to the dining room. The five-course meal was a sure-fire way to get Naruto to notice her and realize how much she knew about him. Spicy chicken ramen, red bean soup where just the start of the meal with the cake as the crown jewel. She had even baked fresh handmade bread and everything had to be perfect.
"Finally!" said Hinata as she looked at her master piece, a six different cakes where stacked together until it stood almost 6 feet high. "It's perfect. Naruto-kun will love it."
"Nice." Said Shino as he looked at the cake and then at the door. "You do realize that you made it wider than the door."
"What?" yelled Hinata as she turned and looked at the double door only to see Shino was pulling her leg, he didn't do that often but the joke about the door was something he would do.
"Tell me what do you hope to do with this?" inquired Shino as he looked at the cake, it had multiple fronted items which included a lot of hearts and other symbols of love.
"Well it's Naruto-kun birthday and this is…" started Hinata only to have Shino shake his head.
"What is the saying the quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach." stated Shino as Hinata nodded her head. "You do realize that he will not eat it."
"What?" inquired Hinata as she looked at her multiple hours of work. "Why wouldn't he eat it."
"It will not just be Naruto it will be every human down here." stated Shino as he looked at the cake and all the other food with a shake of his head. "Too worried that you would try to put something in the food to hurt them."
"But…I didn't." defended Hinata
"It will not matter." explained Shino as he left the room leaving Hinata alone with her work.
Back in the room Naruto and Sakura where laughing a joking as they enjoyed the simple meal that Sakura had prepared, she had even baked a cake. It was a simple cake with mix straight out of the box with premade frosting which was unevenly spread out over the cake. Eighteen candles glowed on top of the cake, Sakura moved out from her chair and moved to stand behind Naruto, she leaned forward and placed her chin on her shoulder.
"Blow out the candles and make a wish." purred Sakura as Naruto closed his eyes and made a wish, he blew out the candles. That is when they appeared, two more Sakura's stood on the other side of the table from where the 1st had come from. Both of them where dressed or rather undressed in two different kinds of lingerie. The one on the right was dressed in a white bra and pantie set which had seen through lace around the top with long solid stockings held to the bottom with silver clips. The one on the left was dressed in a black corset with lacing up the front and a bow on top. She wore stockings as well with no straps holding them to the bottom.
"Well Naruto-kun." said the 1st Sakura as she came around the front and stood between the two clones "I don't know if you wished for this but you are going to get it, now who do you want?"
A foxy grinned covered Naruto's face.
"How about all three?" inquired Naruto as the same smile crossed all three Sakura's.
"We were hoping you would say that." said the Sakura in white with a huge smile on her face.
"Well then I guess we better get our sister ready?" inquired the Sakura in black as she moved toward the fully dressed Sakura. Naruto pulled away from the table as the three Sakura's walked around to give him a full view of all of them.
Naruto watched closely as the two Sakura's got the first one ready, one started by undoing the neck strap and pulling it down. When she did it showed a smaller blood red neck strap with multiple small bands going down to a semi-see through lace bra top. It was highlighted with small jewels around the top of bra and a large one in the center. As the Sakura in white pulled the rest of the dress down, the one in black and began making out with the one in red. Naruto's heart was racing as he watched the scene unfold before him. As it was revealed the lingerie took on a sort of one piece swimsuit appearance only the center part was made from see through red lace. When Sakura stepped out of the dress as the white one began to feel up the one in red.
"So Naruto-kun, are you ready?" inquired the Sakura in red as she moved up to Naruto while the one in white moved to the right and the one in black moved to the left.
"Judging from the bulge in his pants he is more than ready." said the Sakura in black as she licked her lips.
"Let's see if he can keep up with us." added the Sakura in white.
While Naruto and Sakura where having a wonderful time, only a couple of rooms away Karin, Sasuke and Suigetsu where having a meeting in Sasuke's and Karin's room. Suigetsu was sitting in the room with his feet up on the coffee table which sat in the middle between four different armchairs.
"So now they know about your little secret." stated Suigetsu as he took a pull on the bottle of beer in his hands. "Well that was bound to happen sooner or later. The bitch's healing ability isn't working as well as it did when you started using it."
"Correct." confirmed Sasuke as he coughed into a napkin, he hacked up some blood but was unaffected by the sight. "Karin have you found anything that could be useful?"
"My work toward beating the flu has so far meet with no real progress, I have exposed the virus to everything I can think of and the only times I have been able to purge the virus from a living cell the cell dies from the treatment." stated Karin "Sakura has found that stem cells can heal a person for a short time but only for a short time."
"And it may be like the healing effect of your bloodline ability, it only works for a short time and then becomes less effective over time." stated Sasuke as Karin nodded her head. "So what are we going to do about this?"
"I think we all know what needs to be done, we have only two options left before us and neither one of them is good." stated Karin as she looked at the two men, one of which she hated but had come to depend on somewhat with the whole world burning and the other she loved blindly and would follow into the gates of hell itself. "Our first option is that we take one of the people we are less likely to need, like this Iruka and use him for some more intense medical experimentation or we do what we all don't want to do."
"How much time does our man here have anyhow?" inquired Suigetus
"Four…maybe five days." stated Karin sadly as Sasuke nodded his head in understanding.
"Then I think we need to start setting up for both possible outcomes." stated Sasuke
"Works for me, as long as they meet my demands I am good." stated Suigetsu
"Agreed." stated Karin
It was late, very late night had claimed the dead city above the base. The only light now came from the stars which filled the sky after the storm had cleared the clouds from it. With no clear sign of power there was no light but for the two sleeping kitsunes it didn't matter that there was no power. Kushina was snuggled into her husband's body as they let their body heat along with a blanket keep them warm from the cool October night. Suddenly the phone beside the bed started to ring, at first neither of them reacted to the sudden sound.
"Are you going to pick it up?" inquired a half asleep Kushina to her husband as Minato reached over toward the phone. That is when both of them to realized that there shouldn't have been any ringing phone. Minato grabbed the phone of the fifth ring lifting it to his ear.
"Hello?" inquired Minato unsure what was going on.
"Hello, 4th Hokage." Said a male voice that Minato knew from his brief time with him.
"Sasuke Uchiha." growled Minato "You must be channeling power through the line to get this to work, nice trick."
"Yes and thank you, but I am here to offer you a chance to get your kids back." Stated Sasuke "That is if you meet our reasonable demands."
"Anything." Stated Minato
"Good, then the 1st thing we need is a visible demonstration we have heard that a person deadly sick from the flu can be turned into a demon to save their life." stated Sasuke "We know there is one of those plants which turn humans into demons only four buildings down from you. We will be watching, if we see this done in the next three days and you meet our other two demands then I will tell you where we are and even open the door for you to get your children. Do we have a deal?"
"What is the other two demands?" inquired Minato
"Nothing hard, two of us want to stay together as the same type of demons and one of us, not your children want to remain human until he dies living in luxury." stated Sasuke "Easy to arrange."
"Should be." admitted Minato
"Alright then you have three days and make sure not to speak of this out in the open we will be watching." stated Sasuke as he hung up the phone cutting the line.
Back in the base, Sasuke looked at the other two in their group, placing the hidden phone back on the hanger and placed it back into hiding.
"The race is on, either we find a cure one way or we find a cure the other way." stated Sasuke "Either humanity will win or demons will win, it is only a matter of time until that is decided."
Well I hoped you liked this chapter and the interactions between the multiple different people in the base and above it. Now until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75.