Chapter 48 Discoveries of the Past
Sakura like everyone else was trying to enjoy her breakfast however she couldn't really bring herself to enjoy the food or the fine coffee taken from one of the stores above her. Her mind was racing even as she tried to process the events of the morning, her body was sore and the memories of why it was sore brought a smile to her face. She rubbed her sore muscles with chakra which allowed them to return to normal sooner however that wasn't what caused her mind to race. It was that she was now in the same boat as Naruto and Meiko as well as Kiba and Hana, her parents who she had thought dead were still alive. On the surface that should have caused a smile to cross her face at the least if not jumping for joy, however it only made things more complex. Her parents where indeed alive but they were no longer human, they were demons and not even the same demon or even the demon Naruto's family was.
She was so lost in thought that she didn't notice him until he brushed his hand on her shoulder as he passed her by before sitting across from her.
"Morning Naruto-kun." said Sakura "A hell of a morning."
"One could say that." Confirmed Naruto as he cut into his breakfast sausage. He paused for a moment without taking a bite. "Sakura-chan are you doing ok?"
"Just thinking, I am in the same boat as you and others now." Said Sakura with a sigh as she took a drink of her coffee. "I should be happy about my parents but it just raises so many personal issue, like what will happen if we should fail, Meiko said children generally become what their parents that would mean that I could become a…"
"If it comes to that, I will find out what it like to be a cat or to a bull." said Naruto with a shrug "I have been wondering how they can go through doorways and rooms without hitting things with those horns."
"Naruto-kun, that isn't something to joke about." stated Sakura
"I am not joking Sakura-chan." said Naruto "I told the same thing to Hinata when she was saying how becoming a kitsune meant she and me where meant to be together. If the worse should happen and we fail, then one of us will change it is as simple as that. Either I will change to one of those bulls or cats or you into a fox, we will decide that together, but I don't think we will come to that."
Sakura shook her head and smiled a bit.
"Let's just hope it doesn't come down to that." said Sakura
"If it does then we will cross that bridge if we get to it." stated Naruto as suddenly Meiko sat down beside her brother. Naruto didn't say anything and instead rubbed his sister's hair messing it up like any older brother would do to drive up his little sister up the wall. Meiko responded like most little sisters would by glaring at her brother and sticking out her tongue at him. Naruto responded by laughing at his sister like most brothers would.
Sakura smiled as she watched the two siblings interact with each other, even having spent so many years apart they did act like siblings and she could tell that they loved each other. She also knew that Meiko would be more than happy to let her parents down here and turn them all into demons and be done with it. She knew that Meiko's reasons where understandable, Naruto was dyeing the demon chakra which had saved him from the flu was killing him slowly just like it was doing with Fu. Then there was the fact that the red flu would strike every human in the bunker killing them and then there was the natural want to finally have her family reunited. The fact that Meiko didn't turn on them and help Hinata and Samui escape says everything and what made it stand out more was that Meiko had been outside the door when they put in the codes and with her demon hearing she heard all of their codes. She could have escaped all on her own.
"Sakura are you ready to start talking about what you have discovered about the demons?" inquired Shikamaru as he, Tamari and his parents sat down at the same table as the three of them.
"Really not that much to tell, from what I have discovered given the limited samples of Demon DNA we have that each Demon is actually closer to humans then it is to any other demons." Explained Sakura as she reached into her ninja leg pack and pulled out a small note pad with a pen stuck inside the metal rings around the top. She drew a circle before looking at Meiko.
"There are 12 demon types right?" inquired Sakura
"Well there are multiple demon types in the past but they were killed off by humans and the Rhyuu's and Kamis do have multiple different types based off chakra types but they are generally the same." Confirmed Meiko
"Ok, see take a look at this." Said Sakura as she wrote the word human in the center of the pad and then quickly shot out 12 lines out so that it looked like spokes on a wagon wheel. "Now all the demons are demons, they have demon chakra but a Rhyuu is closer DNA wise to humans then they are to Kitsunes, it even goes the same for the two closer demons we have Kitsunes and Inugamis."
"So all the demons are DNA wise closer to humans then each other?" inquired Temari
"We only have a few samples but judging from the samples we have yes." confirmed Sakura "That is one thing that is causing so much problem for me, they are all immune from the red flue but aside from demon chakra the demons DNA wise have nothing in common."
"Well not anything isn't that right Meiko?" inquired Yoshino as Meiko blinked. "You said last night that the creation stories of the demons are all basically the same?"
"Yes, they were born from the holy plant and then they went on to make a society until humans destroyed it." answered Meiko
"Wait a second, all the demon creation stories are the same?" inquired Naruto as he looked at Temari and the Nara's "Correct me if I am wrong but there are dozens if not hundreds of different creation stories among humans?"
"Correct, some faiths in the Land of Water say humans came from the sea and in the land of Earth the Gods made humans out of stone and breathed life into them." Explained Temari "However those stories all arose before scientific method and DNA testing which proved evolution."
"So, the demons must have evolved out of humans?" interjected Ino as she and Sai walked up and entered the conversation. "Isn't that right forehead, if demons all have a common ancestor in humans then they have to have come from humans?"
"For the most part." Confirmed Sakura
"But that doesn't explain how come we have no fossil evidence of demons evolving out humans, that would have taken long enough for fossil evidence." Stated Shikamaru "And then if the demons where more advanced they would have a larger population. That larger demon population would have been large enough to fight off humans even with bronze."
"Agreed, and demons have a lot of natural advantages like wings and stronger chakra so they should have had a massive advantage over primitive humans with swords." added Temari "That doesn't make any sense, we have many contradictions. The demons had to have evolved from humans but we have no evidence of that happening and then the population size along with natural advantages would have been enough to beat back humans armed with bronze."
"Maybe they didn't evolve." stated Naruto with a shrug as the doctors and military planners all looked at him with a look of a teacher getting a stupid question.
"Baka, I love him but…." Started Sakura to herself and then Naruto went on.
"I mean all the demon creation myths say they came from these planets that they are still using to turn people, could they actually be true?" inquired Naruto as Sakura and the others blinked. "Could the ancient demons have been humans?"
"Wait a second you are not saying…" started Sakura "Could it really be that simple?"
"My God." stated Temari "It answers a lot of our questions."
"What?" inquired Meiko it was clear she didn't follow.
"Imagine, some ancient human hunter gather stumbles upon one of the plants that turn people into demons and gets swallowed." stated Shikamaru as he laid out the situation to everyone. "That human would be turned into a demon, they turn the others in their group and you have a demon race within moments. No natural evolution needed."
"And plant fossils wouldn't be noticed as much as a humanoid fox or a humanoid dragon." added Temari
"Wait…your saying that the ancient demons where once humans?" inquired Meiko not fully believing it, she had grown up listening to lessons in school and from the Priests and Priestess of the Demon religious order talking about the origins of the demons.
"It makes sense, humans of that time where in small bands if they transformed every member of their group into demons you have the base of a society." stated Shikamaru
"And with their smaller population they couldn't stand up to the larger human populations when they rose up and came at them with bronze weapons." added his father
"Wait…wait…wait." ordered Meiko "If this is true then how come demon society was more advanced than humans when we fell, if we started out at the same point, they should be the same."
"Demons have natural advantages that would make securing food easier and that could help with population, healing factors would play a major role as well." added Temari
"Also didn't you say, that the transformation process did something with your mind?" inquired Naruto to his sister. "Could it make those who are transformed smarter?"
"Yes, but all that does is make you like being a demon for a while and by the time it wears off people are used to their new form." Added Meiko "I have never heard someone getting smarter."
"Still that is a possibility we need to consider that could have happened in the past." Added Shikamaru
"So the solution isn't found in the demons but the plants." Stated Sakura as her eyes widened.
"My God, I wasted a lot of time studying the demons when I should have been looking at the plant sample we took after Hinata was transformed." Thought Sakura only to lower her head a bit. "But I don't know much about plants, I know what sort of drugs I can get from certain plants but the actual biological of it, not so much."
"Finally something I can take the lead on." Said Ino as Sakura looked at her best friend, she had forgotten for a brief moment that her friend knew plants like the back of her hand.
"Good, now we may have the last piece of the puzzle." Said Sakura "If we can find out how the plant works then we can reverse it."
"Just reversing it isn't what we want." Corrected Sai "If we reverse it then we will be open to the flu again. Unless we have a cure we need to find a way to reverse the change without getting rid of that immunity."
"Maybe Karin will have something." Offered Ino "She has been working on that for a while, maybe it is time for an update."
At that moment, Karin was sitting behind a computer desk, but it wasn't in the medical bay and the images before her was not a blood samples or virus breakdowns. Instead she was sitting in the suite that she shared with Sasuke, it was the same suite that Orochimaru would stay in when he visited the base. It was where he had a backup computer terminal installed which had control over the entire base and could see everything in and outside of the base. It was also in the same spot where Orochimaru had placed one of the two secret escape tunnels that he had built. She had no idea where the second one was but that didn't matter, this one which was located in the floor led to a crawl space and after a while it opened up into a large tunnel which lead to a nearby hotel. Karin wasn't even dressed well not fully, instead she was dressed in a light laic bra and panty set. She leaned back a bit and let out a breath, the hidden microphone had picked up the whole conversion that the large group was having about the origins of demons.
"So, they still don't know anything." coughed Sasuke from behind her as she turned to see the man she had spent the night having sex with. He was a horrible sight to behold, his body was covered with bright red boils some of which had small amounts of smelling puss beginning to come out of. His weight was way down and he looked more like a walking corps than anything else. His eyes where sunk deep into his skull, part of his jet-black hair was coming off as boils grew under his hair.
"Sasuke-kun, no if anything they are even more behind we first estimated." Added Karin "We may have been too generous in giving the demons so long to give in to our demands."
"What do you recommend?" inquired Sasuke as he stood up from the bed, his boxers just hanging on to his body he had lost that much weight from the flue. "Unless we know that the transformation from the planet works on someone as sick as me, then this is pointless."
"It may be worth the risk you are on your death bed and my healing ability is helping less and less." Stated Karin as Sasuke coughed, his hand came away bloody.
"It is only two more days." stated Sasuke with firmness in his voice as Karin nodded her head.
"I think you need to be healed again." said Karin as she stood up and walked over to him, strutting her hips for him. Not that Sasuke really cared, she was keeping him alive and in return she wanted to have his child, a fair deal in his view. So she forced him to sit back down and then sat on his lap with either legs on either side of his hips. Sasuke knew what to do, he had done this before. He bite down on the base of her neck. Karin closed her eyes as she let the chakra flow out of her and into him, the neck had a major chakra line running up from the shoulder and into the brain. There was of course larger more powerful chakra lines but they were deeper in the body and was harder to reach. No if someone wanted to transfer chakra between each other the neck was the best spot. It actually felt good for Karin as she bit her hip in pleasure as she felt her chakra network mix with Sasuke, Sasuke for his mater could care less about feelings.
He felt his body healing as it sucked off healing ability like a leach from her finally it came to a stop and Sasuke was more or less back to where he was last night when they had sex. He still had boils but they were smaller and no longer leaking puss and he looked as if he had gained weight and strength. Karin for her part pulled away for a moment and before kissing him, a kiss which Sasuke returned but with no passion or love in it. To him this was business nothing more.
Karin was about to push Sasuke down and get some payment for healing him when she noticed something in the reflection in the posh snake pattern which was Orochimaru's headboard. She turned toward the row of monitors and saw that the demons moving around the city had spread out to search the city. She moved to turn it off only to stop when she saw the subtitles running across the bottom, she turned off the subtitles and turned up the volume.
"I wonder how many people are with our children." Said the female Kitsune, which was Naruto's mother and a distance cousin of Karin. "I would give anything to know that."
"So would I." confirmed Minato as Karin smiled before turning and looking at Sasuke, he was standing up and getting dressed, clearly the physical activity she had in mind was not happening now.
"Sounds like an invite to make a deal." said Sasuke coolly as he put on a ring and instantly the illusion justu which kept up the appearance of a normal human. It used a small amount of chakra to keep the image front stable and was the same method used by the demons to hid among humans for so many years. "So what do we want from them?"
Elsewhere in the base Hinata sat behind thick metal bars, in a different cell sat Samui however none of that mattered to her at the moment. The conditions in the cell was horrible, Orochimaru didn't design them to be nice in any way. There was a solid concreate bed which shot out from one wall and a toilet and sink both bolted to the wall. There was no privity or comfort and the entire area was tinny just large enough for Hinata to lie down, she knew that Samui who had become larger with the transformation was having a horrible time fitting into her cell. She also didn't care, she didn't care about the conditions or anything else all she cared about was that she was wrong. She was wrong about her Naruto-kun, she didn't know how she could have been wrong she had watched him from a distance for years and yet she didn't know the right code. She had spent the time since they put her in the cell cowering in the corner by the bare concrete bed with her head in her hands crying her eyes out. Her tail had subconscious wrapped around her like a wild animal to protect herself.
"Hinata." Said a cool voice outside her cell as she lifted her head up from her padded and clawed hands to look into her eyes of her sensei Kurenai.
"Kurenai-sensie." Said Hinata as she saw something she had never seen in the eyes of the woman who had become a second mother to her after her own mother died. In those red eyes where disappointment, disappointment in her.
"Hinata…" started Kurenai with a shake of her head. "I know you love Naruto, but still to do this…I didn't expect that but maybe I should have. I should have come to talk to you about everything but with my own daughter to look after I didn't look after you. I thought you were old enough to understand your actions."
"I did." Answered Hinata "I would get Naruto-kun…."
"That only shows that you didn't understand anything." snapped Kurenai with more force then Hinata had ever heard from her. "Did you think that you could snap your fingers and Naruto would love you? Did you think that he becoming a demon would make him love you? Or did you think that you could kill Sakura and he would love you?"
Hinata winced the most at the last charge which answered Kurenai questions.
"I see, so you are not only a traitor to humanity but an attempted murder of one of your own friends." accused Kurenai as Hinata jumped to her feet and ran toward the bars in anger. She grabbed the bars only to jump back in pain. Her hands where burning in pain as well as being actually burned. Her raven color fur around her hands were burned away and the flesh under it was blistered. "Tenten prepared a few cells with bronze bars, we had hoped that we wouldn't have to use them but we had them prepared."
"That pink haired whore is my enemy not my friend." stated Hinata with anger burning in her demon silted eyes. "She is standing in my way between Naruto-kun and me."
"No she isn't, not the way you think she is anyhow." countered Kurenai "She loves Naruto and Naruto loves her, even if she died do you think Naruto would give up on her to embrace you? Do you think we the snap of a finger you can forget the people you love? I will never stop loving Asuma-kun, do you think if Sakura died Naruto would stop loving her and move on to you the woman who murdered her?"
Hinata just stood there and looked at the women who had become like a mother to her after her own mother died and the horrible treatment her father and clan elders did to her.
"And did you even stop to think about what would happen to everyone else? What about Kiba and Shino? They are your teammates aren't they? Did you stop to think about what would happen to everyone down here? We would all become demons or we would die and if we die than any hopes of finding a cure to the flu and a way to turn you and everyone else back into human beings dies with us."
Once again Hinata said nothing as Kurenai lowered her head.
"Think about that." Said Kurenai as she turned her back on her student and walked away.
Up on the surface Minato and Kushina eyes widened as they neared the hospital, the smell was horrible and the scene before them caused both of them to horror. The scene outside the hospital was something either of them had seen, the two elder Namikazes had been imprisoned on the island during the worse of the flu. They had seen the mass graves in the Leaf and the horrors that came from that. However in the Leaf, Tsunade had ordered the bodies burned or dug into massive graves and covered up. Here they were all out in the open exposed to the elements. The bodies of men, women and children had begun to decompose, some of the bodies had bloated and had actually exploded from the gas built up inside the bodies. Mound of the dead was almost shoulder high in some places and wild animals had gone looking for food. As they neared the entrees to the hospital they found a bunch of rats eating from a decomposing body.
"Was it like this in the Leaf?" inquired Kushina as she looked toward Kakashi.
"If anything it was worse in the Leaf." Said Kakashi with a distance look in his eyes.
"How could this get any worse?" inquired Kushina looking around at the mound of bodies. "The smell, the bodies."
"Well maybe the smell was slightly better but instead of that you get to see ash from all the burning bodies falling down on the ground like a sick grey snow." added Kakashi in a distance quiet voice his mind seeing the darkened smoke filled sky and the ash from all the fires. "Then there is the sound of people crying and people breathing their last breaths, here we don't have that."
"And our son had to go through that?" inquired Minato with the shake of his head.
"Yes, and he was on the front lines, he volontered to go into the worse neighbors to search for survivors and to clear out the dead." added Kakashi "He along with so many others saw things that no one should ever see, people committing suicide and mercy killings and just man's inhumanity to man."
"That is horrible." said Kushina as she looked at her husband. "We need to find him, we have let him down in so many things but he shouldn't have to deal with all this on his own."
"We need to do that with all our kids." added Mrs. Haruno, it was her first time seeing it on land. "This…is just horrible and I thought it was bad at sea."
"It gets worse." said Kakashi as he opened the door into the hospital moving a dead body out of the way with his foot. "You could be throwing people you know and love into the fire or into a mass grave. Watching your friends body burn in the fire is something you see every night."
As they entered the lobby they found that there was no dead bodies in the lobby itself but it did show all the signs of having been a place of panic. Trash and medical waste lied on the floor, there was were countless stains on the floors ranging from dried blood to human waste.
"The smell." Said Tsuma Inuzuka as she coughed because of the horrible smell, outside there was at least some wind to move the air. In here there was none and the smells had only festered.
"Let's split up." said Rin as she walked over to the reception desk, the desk had been pushed against the wall and judging from the stains on the countertop it had been used as a place to lay down the sick. She wasn't interested in any of that, instead she looked at a laminated floor plan of the hospital. It was just a simple floor plan map which the respectiments would use to help guild visitors to where they needed to go.
"Looks like the main research center is on the top floor, I'll head there see if anything has been taken." ordered Rin, here as the only medical ninja in the group took command over the even the 4th Hokage. "Kakashi, you come with me. Everyone else search the hospital, look for any missing medical equipment.'
"Equipment, not supplies?" inquired Tsuma
"There would be no way to tell if any supplies are actually missing, I don't think they would be worried about keeping organized records when this place was going to hell." Stated Rin as she swept her hand over what remained of the lobby with all the medical trash. "But equipment is harder to misplace, if you see that then come and get me."
"Alright." agreed everyone, then suddenly the phone on the desk rung. Everyone looked at phone stunned for a moment. Rin was too stunned to do or say anything, the entire hospital was dark but for some reason the phone was ringing.
"Looks like you were right they can hear us." stated Kushina quietly to her husband as he moved over and picked up the phone, seeing that it was a speaker phone he hit the button.
"Hello." said Minato
"Hello 4th Hokage, I see you have company if I am not mistaken that is both Inuzuka's, the Harunos and my old sensei, Kakashi Hakate" stated Sasuke's voice as it came out of the speaker. "I admit, I don't know who the other women is."
"Strange considering we meet." Said Rin as everyone looked at her. Rin for herself was looking at the floor. "The day I killed Obito."
"Ah…yes, so that was you but I didn't know that you were a demon at the time." said Sasuke as he remembered a human walking into his sick room and letting him live. "But that is of no importance anymore. You said you want to know how many people you are dealing with and I am willing to make another deal and on good faith on top of it."
"What do you want?" inquired Minato
"Well as you can imagine if we make this trade with you, Dead last and his friends would be more than happy to end my life." stated Sasuke voice over the speaker. "As much as I would love to run my hand through his chest and end his worthless life, Karin wants to have a family and I can't spend my time looking over my shoulder."
"We will keep Naruto away from you." stated Kushina
"Trying to stop Naruto would be very hard if not impossible." admitted Kakashi as Kushina spun around and glared at him.
"True." admitted Sasuke "So I want to be set up comfortable life set up for me and Karin, Suigetsu who wants to remain human until he dies wants the same."
"That is easy to add on." admitted Kane who had spent so many years as the personal military aid to the demon council spoke better than most on the likelihood of the deal being accepted by the demon council. "So who is all in this group or is there anything else you want?"
"From everything I have been told you can't pick at first what you become correct?" inquired Sasuke
"Correct." answered Rin
"No point asking for that then." stated Sasuke before deciding to honor his side of the deal. "As for numbers, there are 26 of us not counting the baby."
That number caused every one of the demons eyes to widened, they had expected a small group but no more than 10 people it was over double what they had expected. If that number included a large part of or was made out entirely of highly trained ninjas then they would have a major problem bringing them in alive.
"Are our children in the group?" inquired Tsuma "Kiba and Hana?"
"Yes, both of them are here along with the pink haired weakling, dead last and his sister." confirmed Sasuke to the parents of the three people.
"Thank God, our little girl is nearby." Said Meiku Haruno as Sasuke laughed.
"Your little girl isn't so little or innocent anymore just talk to dead last." laughed Sasuke as the Harunos and the Namikaze shared a look between each other. It didn't take much to figure out what that meant and it meant a lot to Kushina. It meant that her oldest child, her little boy was not a little boy and was in fact a man. "Now if you want to see your children and the others in our group you need to meet my demands and if you do then you will have them all."
With that the phone line died leaving them all just to stand in the lobby.
"Well that was interesting." said Kakashi as he put his hands into his pocket, neither set of parents of his students where saying anything at the moment. They were trying to process the information that their children where together and judging from what Sasuke said they were already sleeping together.
"Why don't the four of you find a place to talk about this." offered Rin "While the rest of us search the hospital."
The two Kamis and the two Inuzuka left the lobby leaving the two Harunos and the two Namikazes alone.
"So if what we heard is true, our children are…" started Minato
"Sleeping together." added Kizashi Haruno as he went to the point.
"Yes." hissed Mebuki Haruno her voice hissing a bit like an angry cat and given that she was now a Bakeneko that made a lot of sense. "Let's talk about your boy."
"We heard you talking about him while we were heading up here." admitted Kushina as she glared into the other woman's eyes. "You think my boy has a bad influence on your daughter?"
Before his wife could answer, Kizashi did.
"We admit, that we were not happy to have her be on the same genin team as him." Admitted Kizashi as both Namikaze's glared at him. "It was because of the duel reasons, 1st it was because the fact that he had the Kyuubi in him. Looking back being so close to that source of demon chakra likely saved our daughter and maybe even us from the red flu. The other reason was because of his personality, his constant pulling of pranks and being immature, not the sort of person you want to have to trust your life with in battle."
"That is a truth." admitted Minato he didn't want to admit that considering it was it was his son.
"However, after a while, I came to like the boy and the stories of his bravery was discussed around the dinner table." explained Kizashi "And from what Kakashi has told me, he has matured a lot since those childhood days."
"People do change from childhood." stated Minato "I recommend that we focus on finding our children and then worry about if we approval of them dating each other."
"Alright." said Kizashi with a nod of his head, it was clear that his wife wasn't totally happy about it but neither was Kushina now.
While they were walking up the stairs Kakashi couldn't keep his eyes off how she was moving, he knew that they were on a mission and that his sensei and everyone else was counting on him to help find their children but he couldn't help himself. Luckily Rin was walking in front of him and seemed not to notice suddenly she stopped dead in her tracks and looked to her right. There was a large window which looked into another large room full of miniature beds. It took Kakashi a moment to realize that that was in nursery where newborn babies would sleep with multiple doctors watching over them until they went home with their parents. The room was darkened now but thanks to the slight glow which was coming off Rin because of being a fire kami they could see inside. The little bed where for the most part tossed aside and against the far wall, however one of them was right upfront in perfect view of the window. Rin's eyes visible widened as she looked at the white trash bag which was severing as a body bag.
"Rin…" said Kakashi as he put his hand on her shoulder. "Are you ok?"
"No." admitted Rin as she turned away and toward him. "Sometimes I wish that the demons had just let themselves die out, the plan is to build a world on top of this? It will be a world built upon hell."
Kakashi lowered his head, he didn't have an answer for that. He agreed with her but didn't really know what else to do. The demons had already started this, there was no going back. They were marching across the world and in time there would be no more humans left. Either they would be turned or the red flu which they had made would kill them. Maybe a small handful of tiny tribes would live on in the remote places of the world but for the most part the time of man was over.
"I guess all we can do is try to make it the best we can." stated Kakashi as his mind went back in time to something Minato had told him and Obito long ago after a bloody battle in the last ninja war.
Flashback
Smoke and the smell of death filled the air, as Kakashi stood in what remained of the battlefield. Dead bodies all of enemies covered the field, it wasn't that the Leaf had come out of the battle without anyone dying. It was because Leaf ninjas had removed their dead from the field, the dead enemies wasn't of any real concern. Most of the dead ninjas had come at the hands of the legendary yellow flash of the Leaf.
"You two alright?" inquired Minato as he put his hand on the Obito's shoulder. Kakashi looked up at him along with Obito. Like always Kakashi was cool and collected but Obito seamed shaken by the massive loss of life.
"How…how can we go forward after seeing this?" inquired Obito "How can we do anything good after this?"
Minato paused for a moment and looked at two of this three students. The yellow flash of the Leaf was also a mystery to Kakashi, he was a monster on the battlefield against his enemies but he was also strangely kind. He would let his enemies leave and he would treat the wounded and captured with gentleness. He was a strange mix of firmness and softness.
"We do the only thing we can do, we do the best we can to make a build that we and future generations can build upon to make something that we can be proud of." Stated Minato
End Flashback
"We do the only thing we can do, we do our best we can to build a future that we and future generations can build upon to make something that we can be proud of." repeated Kakashi as he repeated what Minato had told him all those years ago.
"The future." added Rin as she looked around at the state of the world now. Kakashi was wondering what she was thinking then she looked at him, then she said something that both didn't and did surprised him. "Kakashi do you want to have children?"
Kakashi blinked for a moment, as he thought about it in a way that he had never really thought about it in a long time. He already knew what Rin had always wanted a family, a large family at that. While some people wanted to be an ANBU ninja or a Doctor, Rin wanted to be a medical ninja and most of all a mother. That dream had died because of the condition that came from him running his chidori through her heart. The transformation into a demon had saved her but it hadn't healed her heart totally.
"Yes." admitted Kakashi "However what about your heart? Won't that kill you?"
"It is a risk but I am willing to take that risk." Said Rin as she placed her hand on his chest. "I wouldn't have said that earlier or to anyone else but I am for you."
Kakashi didn't know what to say so he didn't say anything. Instead he leaned down and kissed her, as he kissed her the entire building shook.
"What the hell?" inquired Rin as they broke apart, the sound of breaking glass filled the air. Both of them rushed toward the window just in time to see a dark figure stand up from a mound of broken glass.
"Did we find them?" inquired Rin until she realized that it wasn't a human that was there but a Bakeneko. The black fur cat like demon was dressed in a mix of ninja and civilian gear but that wasn't what jumped out to her. Instead it was the strange hair cut which jumped out to her, she couldn't place it but she had seen it before.
"Lee?" inquired Kakashi as suddenly Kushina appeared across from the just standing up Lee with a long naginata in her hand. "What the hell is going on?"
While Rin and Kakashi where having a moment together and unaware of what else was happening in the hospital, Rock Lee had entered the building from the back entrees.
"If there are humans in the area, this would be the best place to start." Stated Lee to himself as he moved down the hallways. As he passed through the hallways he saw his reflections in the polished metal walls, each time he saw the demon he had become anger built up within him.
"I should kill myself rather than be this." Growled Lee as he looked at his black fur covered face in the metal. "But no…not until I know I can't go back and not until I get revenge."
The sound of movement caused one of his ears to twitch as he moved down the hallways toward the stairs. The sound was coming from the second floor and passing under a hanging dead body he moved toward the source. As he did he reached into his pack and pulled out a short knife, he followed the source of the sound until he neared one of the doors leading into what appeared to be a small lab. He leaned forward and looked through the doorway only to see that it wasn't a human but a red fur covered female kitsune. Gripping his knife he moved into the room, the demon had her back to him and seemed to be focused on studying the paper in front of her. He moved in behind and was about to bring the knife down on her when she spun around and grabbing him by the back of the neck sent him flying forward and through the window.
"Kushina!" yelled a male voice nearby as Lee landed with a thump on the ground after dropping from the 2nd floor to the concrete pathway around the hospital. He jumped to his feet and moved back just as the demon jumped down, she had somehow produced a naginata in the time it took him to fall back. The weapon was taller than she was with a long pole of hard wood engraved with fine details he couldn't see with two foot long straight edge blade that curved slightly upward at the point.
"Who are you?" inquired the demon as Lee jumped to his feet and pulled got into a stance, his knife at the ready.
"I am Rock Lee, ninja of the Leaf village and I will avenge humanity for what you demons did." Stated Lee
"Have you looked in a mirror, Lee?" inquired another voice as Lee turned to see two of those wolf demons moved in, his eyes widened as he saw the red marks under the woman's eyes.
"Tsuma?" inquired Lee as the woman nodded before turning to the vixen who had been joined by a male Kitsune.
"Rock Lee, one of our children's friends." Explained Tsuma as Lee turned and looked at the blonde haired male kitsune and the red furred female Kitsune.
"I am Minato Namikaze and this is my wife Kushina, I believe you know our son Naruto?" inquired Minato as Lee's eyes widened. "Yes, I am the 4th Hokage."
"Lee, it's us the Harunos." said a new voice coming from Lee's right as two more demons a man and a woman appeared to the opposite side of the two wolf demons. "Now why don't you put that knife down and let's talk this out."
"That will not work." said yet another demon as a pair of them appeared, however this one spoke with Kakashi's voice. "Lee is like Guy he will go down swinging."
"Yes, I will." Confirmed Lee as he prepared to fight.
Well I hope you liked this chapter, I am so sorry for the long delay I had major writers block for this chapter. Either way I hope you liked this and how I explained the origins of Demons. Now I promise that you will not have to wait so long for the next chapter. Now today May 5th is my birthday so I am going to go enjoy the rest of the day and I hope that you keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75.