Chapter 47 Breakdowns

Sakura's green eyes opened briefly as she scanned the semi darkened roomed, the only source of light came from a single nightlight which glowed in the bathroom. It took her a moment to remember where she was, a smile crossed her face as she lifted her head up from the pillow she was currently sharing with Naruto. She had her back to him but his body was pressed against hers and his arms where wrapped around her, one running under the pillow and out over the edge of the bed while the other was wrapped around her stomach. Her own hand was intertwined with his as her other hand rested out on the bed. She could feel his slow steading breathing on the back of her neck and she could feel the soft fabric of the blanket which covered them. She scanned the room first looking where the clock would be in her room before finding Naruto's own clock, it was just before 5am. If this was a normal day, well a normal day in the hellish times they were still in the Leaf trying to find a cure, at 5 am she would be waking up to get ready to go into work to find a cure. She had also done the same thing here in the bunker while trying to find a cure to the red flu and a way to turn demons back into humans. However this morning was different and she wasn't going to get up at this hour and instead she lowered her head again with the intention of letting sleep retake her. She was about to close her eyes when she felt Naruto stir beside her. He moved slightly as he woke up.

"What time is it?" inquired Naruto softly before kissing the back her neck, causing some electric to run down her spin.

"Early." answered Sakura

"When do you have to get up?" inquired Naruto, his answer came as she rolled over and kissed him.

"Whenever I want too." answered Sakura before she moved in for another kiss. The kiss became more and more passionate as Sakura ran her hands up to his face and as one they rotated so that Naruto was on top of her using one of his knees on the bed so that not all of his weight was on her. They shared a kiss as Naruto used one of his hands to brush her pink hair out of his way, she in turn held onto that hand by the wrist while the other was on the small of his back. They both started slow, passionately as Naruto's kiss moved down from her lips to her neck. She moaned a bit as Naruto's kisses moved down her neck, his hand which had been on her neck was now brushing over one of her breasts. She in turn had one of her hands on his side while the other had moved to the back of his head. She pushed herself up a bit and pulling Naruto toward her and placed a play bit on his ear.

She never noticed and neither did he that Naruto had changed a bit, his eyes flashed silted and his hair became slightly wilder in Sakura's hands. Part of his change was his teeth, they became elongated and with a slight wince of pain from Sakura he bit down slightly harder than normal on the base of her neck. As he pulled away, a small amount of demon chakra healed the wound, leaving two small marks that where almost impossible to see.

"Naruto-kun." moaned Sakura as Naruto pulled away for a moment she saw the silted blue eyes but her brain never noticed it. She instead grabbed his face again and pulled him into an even deeper kiss. Then as quickly as the changes happened they passed as the two of them became even intense as they became more and more focused on each other.

Only a few rooms over Ino Yamamaka was putting on her shoes and rubbing sleep from her eyes, she hated getting up early. Since doctors and nurses had a habit of going into the hospital early so that they could do whatever medical justu they had to do and watch how the person reacts to whatever they did. Ino hated getting up early which was one of the reasons why she had switched from the medical core to follow her father into the intelligence and counter intelligence, something her mother wasn't so happy about. Ino stopped tying her shoes and paused as she tried not to remember how her mother had died.

"Maybe if I had focused more on the medical front I could have saved her." thought Ino before pushing that idea out of her mind. She stood up and headed out the door, she needed to get to work on finding a cure not only to the red flue but to find a way to turn demons back into humans. She passed by Naruto's room, she couldn't hear anything but she knew that her friend had done the night before. She smiled at least some good thing did happen from all this, as she headed out the door she saw Sai coming out of his room.

"Sai…" said Ino as she ran forward to talk to the quiet young man. "Morning, what are you doing up?"

"Well I have nothing to do so I was hoping to get Naruto into a sparring match today." explained Sai as he moved toward Naruto's door. Ino stopped him and slipping her arm within his turned him around.

"Maybe you should wait." stated Ino as Sai raised an eyebrow not totally understanding. Ino laughed a bit, because he couldn't get a hit. "Let's say Sakura gave him a very special gift last night and if you interrupt them you wouldn't walk out alive."

"I see, I think." confirmed Sai

"I could use some company for breakfast." Offered Ino as Sai nodded before both of them headed out of the common area.

Neither of them noticed that Samui's door was slightly opened and they couldn't see that Hinata had her now much more sensitive demon ear pressed against the door. Both of them came out of the same time and with a strain of effort for Hinata not to rush into Naruto's room and claw out Sakura's eyes with her claws. She instead moved on past the door and headed toward the main entrees which would lead them out of the base.

Since the main threat to the base was outside the cameras where more focused on the outside of the base then inside the base itself. Add onto that Iruka and Hanabi Hyuuga had been assigned the night duty and both of them where at the end of the shift looking forward to when they would be relieved by Fu and Anko. Both of them had spent the night watching nothing happen and there was only so long a person could do that before they began to lose focus. Neither of them noticed a scaled cover hand on the edge of one of the camera's viewpoints typing in commands on a computer located just off from the main tunnel which lead to the hidden passage and out into freedom. With a few quick commands a feedback loop began as the monitors began to show the same images over and over again.

With that done the two demons rushed toward the door, it made out of solid steel reinforced with seals that would prevent them from busting though using only Justus. Along the side wall was a key pad if they entered 3 access codes the doors would open and they would be out of the base before anyone could reach them.

"Alright, go first." ordered Samui as she bent over and carefully but speedily typed in the code her teammate Karui used for almost everything. When she hit enter the light on the top turned green, the code had been accepted.

"Go put in the codes you know." stated Samui as she switched places with Hinata. The rush of oncoming victory spreading over them. They only needed to put in three correct codes and the doors would open. They knew that and that the program allowed only one wrong code to be put in. If a second incorrect code was used then the alarms would go off and their escape would be over.

Hinata took a deep breath and began to type in the first code.

"1018611" said Hinata before hitting enter, a red light turned on showing that a wrong code had been used but no alarms went off. "Shit, it must be the other one, 6111018."

"Alright." said Samui as she held her breath as Hinata pressed the enter button, a second light turned green. Two codes had been accepted now only a third one was needed. "Now put in Naruto's code and we will be done with this."

"Naruto-kun, we will be together soon." said Hinata dreamily as she began to put in Naruto's code. She had spent years watching him from afar, she knew his code number. It was the number he had memorized by heart and what he always kept track up. The price of a bowl of Ramen noodles and a glass of tea at the roman noddle stand. "1096."

Hinata pressed enter with a smile, her love of Naruto was about to pay off. In her mind she imagined the life they would have, her as Mrs. Uzumaki or Namikaze depending on what Naruto wanted to go by, the kids they would have at least two maybe more. It was a golden future and while they would be demons they would be together, then the light turned red and the alarms began going off.

"What?" inquired Samui as Hinata just stood there stunned as alarms kept blaring, with a snap they heard extra bolts move into place sealing the door even more then it had been.

"No…that can't be I put in Naruto-kun's code it is that." Stated Hinata as she typed in the code again, once again it was rejected. Maybe it was a slight delay or the second attempt at a failed code but more bolts where slid into place and judging from sounds coming from the other side of the door. More doors where moving into place as the base was sealed off even more.

"NO!" yelled Hinata as she tried again.

"I thought you knew the code!" yelled Samui

"I do!" yelled Hinata as she ran through the code multiple times even switching to old prices incase it had gone up or down without her noticing.

Down in the base Naruto and Sakura where sharing a kiss and in each other's embrace when suddenly blaring alarms began going off. The blaring alarms killed the mode as the lights in the room turned on automatically.

"What the?" inquired Naruto as Iruka's voice came over the load speaker.

"Alert at the main door, Hinata and Samui attempting to breakout!" reported Iruka as both Naruto and Sakura looked at each other before cursing as they prepared for battle.

Moments before the alarms went off Shikamaru lied awake after a rather long and sleepless night. It wasn't that he wasn't tiered he was, it was that he was afraid of what would happen if he closed his eyes. Sleeping beside him and somewhat on top of him was the woman who had found a very special place in his heart despite being as troublesome as she was, Temari. She had come to him in the middle of the night, something in itself sounds like it belonged in a story not real life and had asked to sleep with him. Then that is what she did, she got into bed and fell asleep her head on his chest and one of her arms draped over him. She had spent the rest of the night sleeping like that, while he had stayed awake not daring to move incase his hands went somewhere that would get him hurt come morning. He just kept looking down at her studying her as best he could from his limited point of view, he studied everything from the shape of her nose to the color of her finger nail polish. Every so often she would shift position and one time he got a good view down her shirt and that he studied very closely for an 18-year-old. He was about to let sleep take him when the alarms went off causing both him and Temari to sit up.

"Alert at the main door, Hinata and Samui attempting to break out!" reported Iruka over the load speakers as the lights turned up on the room.

"Shit!" cursed Shikamaru as both he and Temari looked at each other.

"Where are your weapons?" inquired Temari, mentally hitting herself for not bringing any weapons herself and since her room was on the second level of the base it was out of reach for her.

"Here." Said Shikamaru as he handed over one of his weapon pouches, as he strapped it to his leg, Temari did the same as both of them all but ran out of the door.

Before the alarms started going off Ino sat down across from Sai in the dining room with her breakfast in front of her which included all the food which she hadn't gotten much of for the weeks since the virus hit. Scrambled eggs, ham and fresh bread with butter, the meal before her was worth its weight in gold on the streets of the Leaf during the outbreak. Sai for himself was keeping his breakfast simple with some toast and tea.

"So…" started Ino not sure how to start. "Everything going good?"

"As well as I can expect however I do not know what my reasons for being here is anymore." Admitted Sai

"What?" inquired Ino "What the Hell are you talking about?"

"Since we are in a safe location, what is my real function anymore? I don't have one, a lot of people here don't. If it wasn't for that there are now demons above us, I would turn myself into a demon so that you could have another sample to work with." Admitted Sai as Ino just looked at him blankly for a moment.

"Are you crazy, we would never do that to you or any other of our friends." Stated Ino

"Then you would be in error, we can't focus on ourselves or any of our wants at the moment the world and humanity means more than that." Countered Sai "The future is more important right now."

"And don't you worry about your future?" countered Ino

"I know my future." Admitted Sai with such finality in his voice that Ino was taken aback for a moment. "I know everyone's future."

"What are you physic now?" laughed Ino as Sai shook his head.

"No, but the future is very simple to figure out. Have as many kids as possible and rebuild." Stated Sai as Ino looked at him. "The only question is will it be as a demon or a human but that on some levels is only a detail, either way the world has forever changed. The way of the ninja is gone at least for the moment, the only mission will be making babies to repopulate and build the world."

Before Ino could answer our counter his point the alarms began to go off.

Samui and Hinata where out of options, they knew they had been discovered so they turned to simply blasting down the door with the strongest Justus they had. Samui was the 1st to attempt as she ran through hand signs.

"Ice style, Ice Spears!" yelled Samui as she pulled out of the hand sign both of her hands became covered with ice which moved out into points. She leaped forward using her wings to help launch her forward, she slammed into the door with the harden ice points first. The justu was strong enough to cut into to 5 inches of harden steel however the tips broke off as the seal Orochimaru had put in to protect the doors meant that all she did was scratch off the paint. Samui spun around to see Hinata still trying to type in the same code repeatedly into the computer pad.

"Hinata snap the fuck out of it!" yelled Samui as the sound of approaching footsteps caused her to turn toward the entrees to see Iruka and Hanabi coming around the corner with weapons ready for a fight. Hinata didn't respond and instead she kept trying to put Naruto's code into the door hoping that she was wrong. Samui cursed her before running through hand signs a second time. This time when she finished she took a deep breath she breath came out ice cold. So cold that ice began to form between her and her attackers, the ice built up until a wall of ice separated the them. "Hinata you are useless!"

The sound of a justu slamming into the ice barrier caused her to turn and look at it, the ice held up against whatever justu they were trying.

Outside more people began to arrive at the ice barrier only to see that both Iruka and Hanabi where attempting to bust through the ice using fire Justus but the ice was hardly even melting.

"What the hell, why aren't you breaking through?" inquired Kiba as he arrived alongside Temari and Shikamaru.

"I don't know, it should have broken?" admitted Aruka just as Shikaku and Yoshino Nara arrived, they noticed the wall and also noticed that Temari had arrived before them. Yushino studied her for a second and on the surface everything looked normal, then she noticed that the leg weapon pouch had the Nara clan symbol pressed into the leather. Her eyes flicked between the young woman and her son but this wasn't the time nor the place to inquire about why this woman was wearing one of her son's weapon pouch.

"It isn't breaking!" cursed Hanabi as she studied the wall of ice with her byakugan, that is when she noticed that the wall had chakra running through it, demon chakra. "It has demon chakra in it?"

"Why?" inquired Ino as she and Sai arrived.

"Must be a reinforcement of some kind." stated Shikamaru "Since demon chakra is stronger than human, it is resisting our assault on it."

"Maybe not mine." said a new voice as everyone turned to see Fu standing there in a lime green tank top and a dark green pair of shorts. She moved toward the door, her eyes changing into something that is like a pair of diamonds which where overlie in the center. She ran through hand signs and slammed her hands onto the ice, before everyone's eyes green lines began to flow across the top of the ice reaching every point until it appeared that the ice wall had green cracks in it.

On the other side Samui was still attempting to break down the wall while Hinata had broken down mentally and was running though every set of numbers she could possible think of that related to her Naruto-kun. The computer had stopped accepting codes but she still tried to punch in the code, then the room was bathed in green light.

The two of them turned just in time to see that the wall burst apart raining ice chunks down on the two demons.

"Fuck!" cursed Samui as she turned to face the group of ninjas facing her down. Hinata was useless and she was outnumbered and she had her back against a wall. She knew when to call it quite, she was defeated and she knew it. She raised her hands up in surrender as the others moved in. All accept for Fuu who stood bent over with her hands on her knees and her head down. She was breathing hard and standing there behind her was Naruto and Sakura. Sakura had actually went down on one knee beside her and looked at her.

"That took a lot more chakra then I thought it would." Said Fuu as she took a few more breaths before standing back up and running one of her hands through her hair, for a second Ino noticed that the woman's figures where slightly longer and her nails had turned green. However as quickly as it appeared it disappeared and Fuu stood there as normal as she always had been.

"So that was interesting." Said Meiko as she stood behind Fuu, Sakura and her brother. "I guess there is no to guess what they tried."

"They tried to escaped, looks like they used Karui and Kurenai codes but the third one they tried failed." Explained Shikamaru as he looked at the computer code. "They actually got two right?"

"Whose?" inquired Karui as she and the rest of the group arrived in the hallway.

"The 1st code is 912456." Stated Shikamaru as Karui turned her golden eyes on her teammate. "Your code I assume?"

"Yes." cursed Karui

"The other code is yours Karenai, I recognize the dates." Added Shikamaru "Samui must have known what Karui would likely pick and Hinata must have known what Kurenai would likely use."

"Who was the third code? That they got wrong?" inquired Sakura

"They put in 1096." Stated Shikamaru "Not sure why or who's code that is close too."

"They tried to put in mine." answered Naruto as he looked toward Hinata who was still sitting on her ass unmoving, her will broke. "That is the price of romen noddle at the shop, $10.96."

"Yes, how…why didn't it work Naruto-kun that is the code you always use?" inquired Hinata

"No, the code I always use is 515328." Answered Naruto as Hinata just bulked at being so wrong about the man she loves. "I guess I will have to change that now."

"Why those numbers?" inquired Hinata "What makes them so special, you always knew the price of romen noddle."

"Because I was living on a tight budget and I didn't have much money to spare, I kept track of that because I needed to live." Explained Naruto with a surge "But team 7 formed on May 15th."

"515." Answered Sakura as she smiled at seeing Hinata face, then the rest of the likely meaning of the numbers hit her and her smile grew.

"But why 328, why those numbers they mean nothing to you?" inquired Hinata "Why those numbers."

"March 28th." Answered Naruto "That is Sakura-chan's birthday."

Hinata's eyes widened as she looked at the pink haired woman which stood beside the man she has loved since as long as she could remember. She could smell the scent of what they had done the night before, she could smell Naruto's scent on her and Sakura's scent on Naruto. Her heart was breaking as she realized just how beaten she was. Tears began to run down her fur covered face as she placed her head in her hands and just let the tears flow.

She didn't fight back as Anko and Guy placed restraints on her hands before dragged her up by the arms, Samui who was also restrained had the dignity to remain standing as she was lead away.

"We should just kill them and be done with it." stated Hanabi

"That is your sister." countered Naruto "She may be a demon and unstable but she is still your sister."

"No, she is just a threat now." Countered Hanabi

Unaware of the situation which was taking place only a short distance down from them Minato and Kushina Namikaze actually sat at the restaurant/bar which housed the entrees to Orochimaru's base. They were less than 150 yards away from their children but due to all the barriers placed in by Orochimaru they might as well have been miles away.

Kushina was preparing breakfast using the kitchen equipment in the 5 star restaurant to help take the cooking to the next level. Aside from drinks which looked like someone had raided it the placed was devoid of food. She was just finishing cooking when the rest of the group arrived, they entered to find Minato sitting at the bar with a plate of eggs, bacon and freshly made bread.

"I hope you have some for us." Said Kane as Kushina pulled plates for everyone else up, they all sat at the bar and began to eat. Not surprising Kane and Tsume being Inugami went straight toward the meat. While Rin placed hot sauce on her food to make it even more spicy.

"So no luck." Inquired Kane as Kushina and Minato shared a look between the two of them.

"No." answered Kushina as Rin raised an eyebrow she had been around the two of them long enough to know that they were hiding something.

"We have made a plan of attack for the search, after we eat we will go over it." Stated Minato

"Why not here?" inquired Kizashi Haruno as he took a bite of his toast and slowly chewed it like a cow would have done which made some sense considering her was now a bull demon called a Ushi-Oni.

"We worked on it last night." Explained Kushina

"Works for me." said Mebuki as she enjoyed her breakfast as well.

Down below the arrival of six more demons didn't go unnoticed for long, moments after Hinata and Samui where lead away the gang was gathered in the office watching the demons on the screen.

"Ok so this just got a lot worse." Said Sai as he looked at the demons enjoying their breakfast on their doorstep.

"The two wolf demons are our parents." Stated Hana Inuzuka as she watched her parents kiss each other, she had many childhood memories of the two of them sharing a kiss over breakfast which was why her father's leaving came as such a shock. Now she knew why he had done it and it made her hate both of her parents.

"The fire Kami, is Rin my sensei." Reported Meiko as she tapped her finger on her sensei's figure. "I don't know who the lightening Kami is beside her."

"That is Kakashi-sensie." said Naruto calmly before looking at Sakura. "Sakura-chan, I think the other two are your parents."

"What?" inquired Sakura as she looked at the two other demons. One was a bull like demon with long black horns and a faded red cloth fur over what part of the body she could see. As she looked at him, she did see her father's face in the demon face. Then she studied the cat like demon and saw her mother looking at her. "My God, they are alive and demons."

"A Ushi-Oni and a Bakeneko." Added Meiko

"So would that mean Sakura would become one of those if she turned?" inquired Ino as Sakura's mind filled with images of herself as a pick cat creature and a pick cow creature. It caused a chill to run down her spin.

"Likely one of the two but who knows for sure? I became a Kitsune like my mom and so did my dad." Explained Meiko "However nothing is for sure and everything can be changed."

"Yes." said Sakura as she ran her hands through her hair, wondering if she should be happy that her parents are alive or sad that her parents are now demons and not even the same demons of Naruto's parents.

"Well there is nothing we can do about that now. We need to reset the system and then get to work on a cure." stated Shikamaru "Sakura, since I don't think you're going back to bed can we talk about the origins of the demons."

"Sure." answered Sakura "Can I get dressed and something to eat."

"Of course we all need that." answered Shikamaru as he looked at the clock. "Why not we meet at 7:30?"

"Works." Answered Sakura as they all went their separate way.

Across the world Konohamaru and other Mist ninjas loaded up into boats and headed down the maze of waterways which were common in the land of swamps. They moved through the waterway under the cover of the thick tree cover, under the trees it was in an almost always twilight with beams of light coming through gaps in the trees. As they moved over the water they saw an alligator slip into the water, finally they made the turn and saw the gap in the trees which opened into the open ocean. The boat moved out into the ocean and headed toward their target, a transformation center that they knew had been there a few days earlier. They moved over the water and headed along the coast so that if they had to they could duck into the cover of the trees and the network of waterways in it. Their local guild was among the few who actually knew the ways through the maze. As they moved over the water the sun beat down on them warming them however they all knew that they had grim work.

With the bouncing waves, none of them noticed a head bobby up and down in the water. It wasn't a human head that was watching them, instead it was the eyes of a water kami. She watched the boat loaded with ninjas pass her blood boiled in rage but instead of getting angry she lowered her head into the water and let out a load yell. To a human it sounded more like a dolphin call or a whale singing, but to a either a water kami or a water/ice rhyuu demon it was totally understandable. The message was heard for miles and repeated, since radios tended not to work well in water they used this method.

A couple of miles away from the water kami who spotted the boat and out at sea was a group of ships with Dan standing by the edge of the ship. The other ships where loaded with demons waiting to strike back against the humans which had massacred the civilians in their home village. A water kami hung unto the boat with her whole body aside from an arm hanging onto a rope under the water. Since she had gills she was totally happy under the water, she popped her head up and looked up at Dan.

"Spotter 12 has spotted a ship heading west loaded with ninjas." Reported the water kami as Dan thanked her before moving over to the map. There on a map were green dots which showed the positions of the look outs or where they should have been. He put his finger on number 12 dot and looked, it was just to the west of his line of sentries and since number 11 didn't see anything it meant that they were likely coming to or returning to their base.

"Move spotters 1-11 to positions through here and up to 12." ordered Dan "I have a feeling they are heading out and that their base is somewhere in between 11 and 12, we need to tighten the net. I want the others to stay where they are in case they are heading back."

"Yes, sir." confirmed an aid as the orders where sent out using the same methods, in time they would have the location of those who had massacred their people. When they found them, they would give them what they gave the innocent civilians.

Back in Nysa in the same honeymoon room in which they had spent the night, Minato and Kushina Namikaze looked at the stunned members of their little team. They had just explained the offer to hand over their kids which came in the dead of night and how Minato had gone back to the Leaf and gotten confirmation that the council will honor the deal.

"So our children are here in this village?" inquired Mebuki Haruno

"They would be foolish to be in the city itself." Countered Kane "They likely are set up in some distance farm house or in one of the beach front homes which surrounds the lake."

"Maybe even the island in the center of the lake." Offered Rin

"No, they have Shikamaru and they will do the unexpected." advised Kakashi

"I knew Shikaku and if his son is anything like him then they are closer then we think." Said Minato "Sasuke was clearly has a line into the power line and maybe even the police cameras, which is why we are up here talking instead of on the street."

"Could they be moving in between the houses and shops, maybe cutting holes in walls to pass through without moving onto the streets." Inquired Kizashi Haruno

"If they are we can find their scents." Stated Tsume as she tapped her nose "If they spend most of their time inside then the scents will last longer than they would outside."

"The hospital, remember they came here for the hospital if they are anywhere they are there." Added Rin

"Maybe but do we know who is all in their group?" inquired Tsume "I hate to say this but we don't know if our son is among them, we need to find out. If he isn't here then we need to find him."

"How do you recommend we do that?" inquired Kushina "How do we get a message to Sasuke who is watching us that we want to know that? We can't afford to tip our hand or we will lose everyone else children."

"Maybe there is away, but we have a very careful." Said Minato as he looked at Tsume, part of him wanted to yell at the women but he couldn't. They didn't know for sure that their son was in the area, they knew that their daughter was but if he was in her shoes he may be pushing the same course.

"We need to find out anyhow so that we can know what we are dealing with." Added Minato "Now we will begin at the hospital but keep an eye out for anything out of place, if something is missing it may be key in locating them."

"Alright." confirmed the others

"Good, let's get started." ordered Minato

At that same moment, the war sunlight of a new day was coming down on Lee's own fur. Part of him wanted to rip off the fur and cut off his tail to make his appearance as human as possible but that would make him stand out and for the moment he wanted to blend in. He stopped at a sign on the road and quickly read it.

"Nysa 5 miles." Read Lee outload as the human minded but turned demon headed toward the city with the giant lake clearly visible in the distance.

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