Chapter 51 A Night to Remember Part 1
The sound of metal striking metal filled the air, followed moments later by the sound of bodies slamming into concrete pillars or metal bars. Along the with sound of metal against metal there was the sound of pops. Finally it stopped and Naruto stood in the center of the training area with multiple shadow clones spread out all over the area, most where passed out on the ground with weapons ranging from kunias to spears. Naruto had even gone so far as to transform his shadow clones into copies of his parents to try to make the training as realist as he could possible make it. It didn't help and he knew it, he knew he was hesitating when it came to his parents, they where his parents even if they where working for the demons. He paused and let out a defeated sigh.
"Maybe it will never be enough, I am going to go up against the 4th Hokage. He best ninja in the history of the Leaf." Said Naruto out load to himself.
"Maybe in the entire history of the ninja world." Said a new voice as Naruto looked to see Fuu standing in the open door. She moved down toward him and looked around at the damage he had done during his training. "Having fun I see."
"Not really." Answered Naruto as he looked at the only other person he knew who was going through the same thing he was generally. She had contained a demon like him and because of that she had demon chakra merge with her like it had with him. That chakra had saved their lives from the red flu but both of them knew that time was short. "I used to have so much fun training with Kakashi-sensei, Sakura-chan and Sasuke back when we the three of us where genin on team 7 and later on when I was training with perverted sensei Jiraiya and then the new team 7 with Sai but not this."
Naruto smiled at the memories which filled his mind, memories of bright sunny days training. He knew he was romanticizing the days but he didn't care.
"Now, I know what I am likely going to face, I am training to possible fight and maybe even kill my own parents, Sakura-chan parents, Kakashi-sensei and any other demons in our way." Said Naruto as the smile disappeared from his face replaced with a solemn grim face. "What are you doing here?"
"Avoiding getting things set up for this surprise wedding." stated Fuu "Everyone aside from your girlfriend, her best friend, dog girl and the red haired fan girl are all setting up the wedding."
"You mean, Sakura, Ino, Hana and Karin?" inquired Naruto as Fuu nodded. "I don't believe Sasuke and Suigetsu are helping."
"Well that goes without saying." explained Fuu with a laugh as she turned and looked up at the door leading to the prison cell area which was being used as a training area. A matching cell area was being used as an actual prison for Hinata and Samui after their attempted defection to the demons. "I have to admit, I had expected them to turn on us. My home village did when they believed that I brought the flue and in a way they were right."
"My friends would never do that, they have known about the Kyuubi for a while…well Sakura-chan has at least." admitted Naruto "And right now we are all in the same boat together."
"Yes, and it is sinking." added Fuu as Naruto wished she hadn't added that last bit, worse of all he couldn't find a way to argue against it however Fuu did. "However the ship isn't sinking fast, the demons up there have no idea we are down here. The only thing we really have to worry about is either Samui or Hinata trying something again."
'Agreed, but aren't you concern about my sister trying something?" inquired Naruto
"No, not at all." said Fuu "I mean if push comes to shove I don't expect her to fight for us against the demons but she wants you to accept demon hood, that is what she wants and to force it on you is not something she wants to do."
"Accept demon hood." grumbled Naruto, as he showed his both of his canines where slightly elongated.
"Yes, Accept it." Added Fuu as she stretched a bit. "That leaves only Hinata and Samui to deal with and they are interesting. Samui is smart and cunning and Hinata is…well she is bat shit crazy."
Naruto chuckled at the phase used to describe Hinata.
"Yes, she has gone off the deep end for sure." Confirmed Naruto "She must have been totally obsessed with me or maybe the change into a demon effected her that much. Then again part of the change is making your sex drive go way up."
"It sure is." laughed Fuu before becoming more serious. "However that only adds to the levels that she will go. Maybe we should consider ending her and Samui, they are a threat and the longer they are down here the longer they have to plan their next move against humanity."
She had expected Naruto to jump on that threat to say he would never do such a thing. Instead he let out a sigh.
"I have considered that." admitted Naruto as he crossed his hands over his chest and lowered his chin thinking about the options before him. "But she is still my friend, even if she is off her rocker and she is the friend of Kiba and Shino, sister to Hanabi and besides when we find a way to turn demons back into humans we need people to test it on."
"That makes sense, the testing part the friendship and family part as well but that doesn't trump the fate of all humanity." admitted Fuu. "So what do you think the world will be like when this is all over?"
"Changed." stated Naruto "And not for the better, so many people are dead, so much is gone that it will take at least a generation if not two to rebuild. I would say that there would be no ninjas but there are sure to be power vacuums and in that situation small waring powers will rise and fight each other."
"I was actually going for what are you going to do once this is over." admitted Fuu
"Settle down with Sakura I assume and help rebuild what I can back in the Leaf." stated Naruto "You?"
"Maybe I'll join you." said Fuu with a shrug "My old village kicked me out, and I don't have anywhere else to go. Maybe I'll find someone like you have found Sakura."
"One can hope." admitted Naruto "After this is all over, I think everyone will want a rest to regain themselves."
"And have sex." Stated Fuu with a perverted grin. "After wars come baby booms."
"I am a little too young to think about that, maybe in the future but not now." stated Naruto as he turned his attention away from the distance future to the problems much closer in nature. "Now I get to have the pleasure of picking up all the weapons."
"Part of training." said Fuu with a shrug before looking at the weapons, a lot of them where edged with bronze. Bronze burned demons on contact which is why Tenten had taken so much time edging weapons in the metal and thanks to the demons that had once been sealed in them they where in the same boat as any normal demon. "Just be careful, you don't want to hurt yourself on those weapons."
"I know." Said Naruto as he moved to pick up the weapons, he sealed them all away and looked around the room double checking to make sure everything was away. Then he headed up the long flight of stairs which circled around the empty prison cells where the victims of Orochimaru's experiments. Now the same hell hole which had been hell for so many innocent victims of Orochimaru was now protecting him, he hated the idea but he had no better choice. He turned off the lights and headed back to his room, he had a wedding to get ready for.
He was walking past the medical area when he noticed a light on in a nearby room, which normally wasn't on. He opened it to find his sister sitting at a computer screen with her hands on her head, her demon fox ears folded back like an animal would be in danger. Her tail was tucked under her chair and even as he approached he could hear that she was crying.
He looked over her shoulder and saw a the image a still image of a figure tossing a large bag into a raging fire. He knew what was instantly, anyone who had to deal with the flu knew what that was.
"You are looking at images from the containment." said Naruto as Meiko almost jumped out of her chair, she hadn't heard him coming.
"Yes…" answered Meiko before looking at her brother.
"Who gave you access to that?" inquired Naruto before shaking his head. "I guess it doesn't really matter, not anymore at least."
"How…how could you deal with all this?" inquired Meiko as she looked at some of the images. "How could you deal with this, these images are straight out of some horror novel or the stories of demons being slaughtered by humans."
"I had to, like everyone else I had to do what I had to do." answered Naruto flatly.
"I watched as society broke down and everything was torn apart. Then I saw you, in this video you where pulling a dead baby from her mother and she went crazy and infected Sakura" said Meiko as Naruto's eyes darkened a bit. "The video cut off after you helped Sakura up and get her mask back on, what happened next?"
"I thought Tsunade got rid of that file, you didn't need to see that." said Naruto his tone became hard, it was a tone Meiko knew well but not from her brother but from her father. It was the same tone that he would use when he wanted to get a point across. "And you don't need to know what happened next."
"Yes, I do." answered Meiko as she stood up to her brother in a way she wasn't likely to stand up to her father when he used the same tone of voice. "I looked up the records, there was a report about Sakura's infection it says the baby was dead and the mother died of the flu shortly after but the video showed the mother was fine. The flu is horrible but it not a quick death, there is no way she could have died that fast. So what the fuck happened to here?"
"Do you want me to say I killed her? I didn't if that is what you think." stated Naruto "What I did was what I was ordered to do, I threw her dead baby into the fire and then once Lady Tsunade was done with her I tossed her in as well."
"What?" inquired Meiko as her brother went on.
"Believe me, Tsunade beat me to the punch, I never left Sakura-chan side, I sent clones to get my revenge for passing a death sentence on Sakura-chan. Back then in the early days no one had lived through the flu in the Leaf, she was as good as dead everything thought so. My clones arrived just as Lady Tsunade finished her off, snapping her neck." Said Naruto "Sakura-chan and Shizune were the daughters Tsunade never had a mother taking revenge, wrong I know but I didn't care and Sakura-chan doesn't need to know what she did when we all thought she was going to die."
"But I already knew." said a new voice as Naruto turned to see Sakura standing there in the doorway. "I didn't know you had tossed the body into the fire but I did know Lady Tsunade killed the woman. She admitted it to after I recovered, she wasn't even drunk at the time."
"Oh…I see." said Naruto
"Don't worry, I understand what Lady Tsunade did." said Sakura as she took a breath. "We have all done worse."
"Yes, we have." admitted Naruto
"One thing I don't understand in all of this is how…how do the council think this will all end?" inquired Meiko as she stood there before Naruto and Sakura as a demon. "How does the Council think this will end? They plan to turn all the humans and they expect to die themselves because of it but after they save demon kind what happens? The demon population blends into the newly turned humans but still what happens and I am sure there are some turned humans who don't like being demons."
"I am sure there are." confirmed Naruto
"Yes." added Sakura as she took a breath. "I actually question if the whole mental change thing that comes from becoming a demon is actually true, not fully anyhow."
"What do you mean?" inquired Meiko
"I am sure some changes happen to the human brain when they become a demon, there is no way their can't be. You are adding new limbs in a lot of cases, from wings, to tails and more legs. There has to be changes in the brain to allow the processing and moving of all those limbs." Explained Sakura "However the whole thing about a human liking a demon when they become one I am less sure about the full effects of that."
"How so?" inquired Naruto
"Maybe Ino or Inoichi would be better to explain it then me, however the basic idea is simple." stated Sakura "We as in humanity has all seen so much death, so much horror that when something comes along to take that evil away. To give us a warm place to sleep and food in our bellies and if it fills in all the other basic needs that we where lacking then it is simple for that person to accept that to get that they have to give up their humanity. They accept the trade of humanity for safety and basic comforts."
"I see." Said Naruto "Sadly that makes some sense, people have been through a horrible time they might accept demon hood to get out of it. Any progress on finding a cure?"
"Not really, we are making some advancements but we now think the answer is in the damn plant that turns humans into demons." Explained Sakura with a sigh. "Ino thinks she found a way to kill the plants with ease with some herbicide, however that is more of an end game weapon and it will not do anything to help us until we find a cure and a way to turn demons back into humans."
"What about the pure demons?" inquired Meiko as both Naruto and Sakura blinked, neither of them had thought about the pure demons. "Will any cure turn pure demons into humans?"
"Not sure, first we need a cure and to do that we need some more cell cultures to grow." Explained Sakura with a sigh. "That will take some time so at least I can enjoy the wedding and get back to it first thing in the morning."
"What wedding? Are you too getting married?" inquired Meiko as she looked at her brother and his girlfriend.
"Neji and Tenten are getting married in a few hours." explained Sakura "Why don't you get ready and Naruto-kun can go see if they need any more help setting up."
Naruto was about to say something but he remembered there was only a single bathroom that he and his sister shared so only one of them could use it at any one time. Also with his shadow clones he could do a lot of work really fast.
"Alright." said Meiko
Far from her part Moegi was actually enjoying her life for the 1st time in what seamed like forever. People or rather demons where all around her and she didn't feel that out of place. She looked around at the long table where multiple kinds of food where sitting in crockpots all of it warm and ready to be eaten. She had taken her full and was enjoying tastes of foods she hadn't seen in the market places back in the Leaf since shortly after the gates where sealed to help contained the virus. Here everyone was so kind and so helpful, she had not only food but a raging fire to keep warm with large communal tents where demons sat playing cards, talking and socializing. She was happy, so happy that she forgot for a while all the horror she had seen in her young life.
"You seam happy." said the religious sister which was her guardian as they rested on an island about half way between their starting point and their end point, the mainland.
"I am." answer Moegi as she saw the group of demons she had flown with all the way to the island. They where about her age and had all gathered around a small private fire and where socializing like any normal teenagers would. "I am going to go see my…new friends."
"Alright, have fun." said the sister as Moegi flapped her new wings and flew over the crowds to her friends. Some of the adults rolled their eyes at her for flying over the crowds but most shrugged it off, she was a teenager and that is what teenagers did. When she landed she was embraced by one of her new friends and the sound of load laughter could soon be heard coming from around that fire, Moegi's laughter among the loudest of them all.
They had kept their search up even after the short battle that had ended with Lee losing his life at the hands of the 4th Hokage of the Hidden leaf and the father of one of his friends, Minato Namikaze. The team had split up to better search the village, none of them expected to find anything they where putting on a show while they waited for the bulk of the demon forces to make their way to the village. The demons would be using it as a staging area to move into the Land of Earth and the other smaller nations which bordered the great ninja powers. It was nearing dinner time so they had all gathered in a bar located by the main cross point. It was well over the top with beautiful wood panels and a large stone fireplace.
"I remember the food here." said Kushina as she looked at her husband. "It was overpriced but good, I remember it mostly because it was our first dinner together as husband and wife."
"And now we are here again." Said Minato as everyone was enjoying a drink. "However I would rather have this dinner as a family."
"So would we." admitted Mr. Haruno as he and his wife, along with the two Inuzukas nodded their heads in agreement with the idea. They all just wanted their children back and they knew that their children all their children was somewhere nearby.
"I just want to take my daughter home and start our new lives together." said Mrs. Haruno
"And I want to see my children for the 1st time in years. I missed so much of their lives." added Mr. Inuzuka as his wife put a hand on his shoulder.
"Your sacrifice is what allowed our children to live, remember that." added Tsume Inuzuka as suddenly a phone behind the bar began to ring, all knew what that meant, it was Sasuke Uchiha calling.
Minato walked toward the phone.
"Be outside of the hotel at 2:30 a.m, all of you." said Sasuke's voice over the phone.
"Why?" inquired Minato
"Because I am dying and I can't wait for you to provide proof that people can live through a turn if they are sick." Stated Sasuke as he began to cough, it was a wet cough as if he had blood in his mouth. "So I am in the horrible position of having to trust you."
"Alright." Said Minato "How do you want to do it."
"I will be in the lobby at 2:30 a.m along with one other person." stated Sasuke "If I live through the turn, she will be turned as well and if we are both turned then a third person will come forward and lead you to our hiding place where your children will be hiding. He is to remain human and enjoy himself according to our deal. Is that still in place even if we are turning up the time rate."
"Yes, but why the wait?" inquired Minato
"Cover of darkness and Neji and Tenten are getting married today and everyone will be celebrating and getting drunk." stated Sasuke "It will make it all the easier for you all if a lot of people are drunk, asleep or embracing each other. That would make it all the easier for everyone do you not agree? Also in order for this to work once night falls you are to remain in the hotel do not go outside until the appointed time, that is key we have cameras and if you are seen by them then the whole plan falls apart. Do you understand?"
"I understand." Confirmed Minato
"Very well, be ready at 2:30 a.m to end this." stated Sasuke as the line went dead. With that Minato turned and looked at everyone.
"With luck we will be enjoying breakfast with our children." stated Minato as smiles grew over all their faces, they where so close to getting their families back.
Down in the bunker Sakura was getting ready to leave to get ready for the wedding, the plan was to leave Hana and Karin behind to work on finding a cure. Even a wedding wouldn't stop the work on saving humanity. Sakura had set up multiple experiments that would have to sit overnight to be ready for her to get some real work done in the morning. Ino had already set up her stuff and had taken off, both of them shared a bathroom so this allowed one of them to get ready without being in the other's way.
"Are you sure, you two will be fine taking care of the medical tests and everything else down here?" inquired Sakura as she looked at Hana and Karin, neither of them would be attending the actual wedding and instead they would be working on finding a cure.
"We will be fine, it is mostly monitoring all the experiments you all have already set up." stated Hana "Hell, I wouldn't even have to be here myself. Until we have more cell cultures grow there isn't much more you can do."
"And I have no interest in going, you might as go Hana." offered Karin as Sakura raised an eyebrow at the offer from the woman. "What?"
"Nothing, it is just you offering to let her go is kind of weird." said Sakura as Karin shrugged.
"Sasuke-kun isn't going to the wedding, why would I go then and I would rather be by myself then deal with her trying to talk to me about something that I don't care anything about." Explained Karin "Besides, this way when I want to have a private night alone with Sasuke-kun you all will owe me, that would be three nights off while you all do the work."
"I see." said Hana "It is just growing cell cultures and we can't really advance in our work until the samples are all done. If she is willing to let me go why the hell not?"
"Alright." said Sakura as both she and Hana left the room leaving Karin alone with all the data they had built up on the virus, all the samples and all the lab equipment. Karin waited until the two of them had left before going to the computer which contained all the digital records of their work. In the system was not only all the medical data from the Leaf, but the samples taken from Nysha hospital above them, the information on the sample from the plant and all the blood work on everyone in the bunker both human and demon. She typed in a few commands and started a file cleaning program. However she didn't start it right away, instead she set it on a delay that would start clearing the files out of the computer system starting at midnight. Not only would the files in the computer be deleted but the hard drives would be written over with random code multiple times to scrub everything. It was a program developed by Orochimaru to prevent his work from falling into the hands of people he didn't want knowing his work.
"That is done." Said Karin as she moved next to the backup emergency hard files which where sealed away in scrolls that could be grabbed in a moment. These had copies of all their data and was supposed to be grabbed if the base was breached and they had to pull out in a rush. Karin picked up the scrolls and replaced them with blank scrolls which from the outside looked the same. With all the backup scrolls in her hand she moved to the incinerator and dropped them down into the incinerator located below and to the right of the medical bay. The incinerator was designed to destroy whole bodies within a half an hour. Karin turned her eyes on all the medical equipment and work product spread out over the lab, she would wait to throw them down the incinerator until the wedding started and put that on a delay start as well. "Sakura, Ino, Hana nor anyone else for the matter will be down here once that starts and by the time they realize what has happened it will all be over. Goodbye humanity hello Mrs. Karin Uchiha."
With all that done Karin sat down and waited all the while dreaming of the new life awaiting her as Sasuke's wife and mother to his children. She knew what she was doing doom some of humanity to demon hood and the others to death but all she was thinking about the future before her. She began flipping through the information she had on the different demon types. All the while thinking about what type of demon she would want to be and what she would look like as that demon.
"Maybe a Bai Ze." said Karin as she imagined herself as a red furred demon deer like creature, she also imagined how Sasuke would look as a pure jet black version of that demon. "Or maybe a one of the elemental Kami's, that would be nice too. I could be a sexy fire or water kami and Sasuke-kun could be a bold lightning kami."
"Dreaming about what you will become." said Suigetsu voice from the doorway as Karin looked up at him. He had a yogurt in one of his hands and a spoon in the other.
"What if I am." Stated Karin "We all know what we are doing tonight."
"Actually tomorrow morning." Corrected Suigetsu with a shrug "However I understand your point, and while you and Sasuke enjoy whatever demons you become I will enjoy my last days of humanity on the beach with all the food I can eat, maybe I can also get them to give me a couple of hot women to enjoy myself before I die."
"No one would touch in that way." Countered Karin as Suigetsu shrugged.
"Maybe but remember Sasuke has a thing for snakes and there is a demon snake so maybe you should imagine yourself covered with scales, with no legs and a hissing forked tongue." countered Suigetsu as Karin's eyes narrowed. "However I am not sure what would happen with your strange hair style, would that become a scale pattern or something else."
"Did you come down here to drive me crazy?" inquired Karin
"No, I just edited the computer system so starting at 11 and going until 12 the cameras in the village will record everything and play it back so that those fools in the monitoring office will not get wind of us when we leave through the hidden exit." Said Suigetsu as Karin let out a sigh, the computer core was nearby so he would have to come by here. "Now I am going to go raid all the food they are making for the wedding, might as well enjoy the food."
Sakura walked into her room only to hear that the shower was already off. She was about to pop her head into the bathroom to see if she could use it.
"Bathroom is all yours." said Ino as she went to get ready herself. Sakura checked the time, she actually didn't have much time to get ready so she went to work. She was doing her hair and working on her makeup when she heard a knock coming from Ino's bedroom door. She knew who that was and smiled.
"Well I hope Sai likes what Ino took from that designer store." said Sakura to herself as she finished putting on some eye liner and her ear rings.
Sai stood before a simple door but waiting his heart was racing as if he was going into combat. He knew had been planning to go on a date with Ino before they got word that Neji and Tenten were going to get married that same day. Now they had a clearer reason to get dressed up and enjoy themselves. He had dressed in a black suit, with a white undershirt and a deep purple tie, since he knew Ino loved purple. He knocked on the door wishing he had brought flowers but there wouldn't even be flowers for the bride so he had nothing to give Ino. The door opened and Sai took in the sight before him.
Ino was dressed in a deep purple dress with highlights in silver, the dress wasn't even a full dress but split into two parts. She had a long dress which went down to her high heeled shoes, even her toe nails where painted her favorite color purple. The dress was almost skin tight as it ran up her legs and was semi see through until about shorts level and the it became hard to see through. Around her waste was a wide silver belt which held up the entire bottom part of the dress. At first he thought the silver was shinny just because of the color but then he noticed that around the front it actually had small diamonds in it. The front of the dress had an open midriff and an entire open back aside from a single strap around her breast line and her neck which connected together to hold them together. It was just as skin tight as the bottom if not more. Sai's blood rushed to his face and his manhood as he looked at the goddess in front of him.
"Like what you see?" inquired Ino as with a smile as she moved some of her long blonde hair away from her deep blue eyes. She had done her hair adding a few brads and to her traditional pony tail hair due. She had diamond studded ear rings in her ears and wore a large ring on her pinking finger and a silver bracelet on her forearm.
"Yes." Answered Sai as Ino took the lead and interlaced her arm in his and headed toward the wedding location which happened to be the cafeteria.
Sakura had just finished getting ready putting in pair of simple diamond ear rings when a knock at her door caused her to smile.
"Just in time." Said Sakura to herself as she slipped on her shoes, the high heel shoes where not over the top but it still added a little bit to her height. She was expecting to dance so she didn't wear some of the over the top shoes that she had seen in the shoe store. How someone could walk a few steps without falling over flat was something she didn't understand. She opened the door expecting to find Naruto standing there instead she found Meiko standing there in a simple dress of her own. It was a orange/red dress with a open back that went from the back of her neck to her the bottom of her shoulder blades. A golden band ran from the front of the sleeveless dress around her neck. It was simple but yet elegant.
"Meiko?" inquired Sakura surprised.
"I know you where expecting my brother." said Meiko "However he needs your help getting ready."
"I guess I know what it is." Said Sakura with a sigh but a slight laugh at the same time as she walked over to a table and grabbed a purse. "Why don't you head up to the cafeteria, Naruto-kun and I will up shortly."
"Alright." said Meiko as she looked at Sakura for a moment. "Hopefully my brother doesn't pass out when he sees you."
"That is part of the point." laughed Sakura
"Do I need to sleep in your room tonight so you can…have fun with my brother." chuckled Meiko
"I don't think that would be very useful, I wouldn't be surprised if Ino brings Sai back here." added Sakura, she knew how much her best friend loved her newest teammate. "If we do sleep together, we will do so here, you can enjoy sleeping in your bed tonight."
"Thanks." said Meiko as she moved off toward the wedding ceremony.
Sakura closed her door and walked across the common room to where Naruto's room was, she didn't even knock she just walked into the room. Naruto had his back to the door, he was wearing a black suit with a white shirt under it. The jacket was currently off and hanging on a nearby hanger, his hands where not visible.
"Let me guess a tie?" inquired Sakura as Naruto turned around, his head was down and his hands was messing with a bright orange tie.
"Whoever invited this damn thing is worse then…." Started Naruto as he finally looked up and instantly stopped talking as he took in his girlfriend. She wore a bright red strapless dress with highlights in silver. The dress was form fitting and ran all the way down to her ankles, a deep cut in the dress went up to just above her knees. Naruto could see she had put on a thin red fishnet stockings on her legs. The front of the dress had silver white edging around the top of her breast line and in the center cleavage the highlight shot down into a diamond shape cut out surrounded by silver, out of that center cut came four cutouts also highlighted in silver two on each side which ran around her midriff. A large diamond necklace rested around her neck, which was highlighted in something strange a fox. A bracelet also graced her arm and ear rings in each of her ears.
"How come, we women work so hard to look good for you men but yet you can't even figure out how to do a tie." stated Sakura as she put her red bag down and walked over and took Naruto's tie in her red finger nailed hand. She quickly took the orange tie, and began to work it gracefully in her hands. Within a couple of moments the tie was perfect.
"You look…stunning." answered Naruto in between breaths as his hands moved around Sakura's sides however when Sakura felt one of his hands move toward the hidden zipper on one side she forced the tie a little bit too tight.
"Naruto-kun, you can take this dress off me tonight but not until then ok." explained Sakura with a playful smile and a wink. "Now put on your jacket we have a wedding to go too."
Naruto put on his jacket and offered Sakura his hand, she took it and together they headed toward the wedding ceremonial.
It was as simple as anyone could have asked in such short of time, the cafeteria where they would eat their meals was where they would have the wedding ceremony along with what passed for a wedding reception. The chairs that normally sat at each of the long tables had been lined up into two groups with a walking path in between. The tables themselves had been pushed to the side but not too far since they would be eating off them.
"Seams like this was all kind of a rush job." said Karui as she sat beside Kiba, with a bottle of beer in her hands. Like everyone else she had dressed up as best she could, with cloths taken from some of the higher end stores they had raided when they first arrived in the city. For her it was a simple black dress with highlighted white.
"Lee was their friend, he was my friend too, I guess it is just a sign to them that life is short." Answered Kiba as Karui nodded her head. Kiba still wore something very similar to his normal cloths however the new fur lined jacket was of a quality and name brand he could have never afforded.
"I can't argue with that, hell I saw too people on their death beds from the red flu get married so that they could be married in the next world." answered Karui
"I have heard the same sort of stories." added Shino as he moved in behind them, to the slight discomfort of Karui, who wasn't a fan of bugs. "Still this will be good to see and I do think that while the ceremony itself may be rushed that the two of them are good for each other."
"I can't argue with you there." answered Kiba as he looked around the room, aside from the Temari who was in some cleaned day cloths everyone had dressed up in one way or another. Everything had been taken from the shops above them not that anyone would care, demons where turning people into demons and that was on top of millions dying from the red flu. No one carried about stealing cloths or other items.
There was no music to mark the start of the ceremony, there was no best men or any other groomsmen there was instead just a empty chair beside Neji to stand in for Lee. Neji for himself looked highly professional, with the traditional back robes with white undershirt. The back of the robes even had the traditional yin yang symbol of the Hyuga clan. Something quickly sewn on by Kurenai before the ceremony started. Standing beside him was Shikaku Nara, the head of the Nara clan was the highest ranking member of the Leaf in the bunker could officially make wedding licenses. There wasn't anyone who could officially make it religious in nature, but that didn't really matter to each of them at the moment.
There was music of sort to mark the official start but it wasn't much of anything, it was just some sound of nature CD that Fuu had brought down into the bunker to help her sleep. It did have a sound track with sing birds on it, so the sound of multiple song birds began to bounce off the concrete walls of the bunker.
All eyes turned and looked toward the hallway door, as Tenten turned the corner. Even Naruto who was sitting beside the woman he loves and who was dressed in a way that took his breath away couldn't help but admit that Tenten looked breathtaking. She wore semi traditional wedding kimono in deep bold green with golden vines and flowers running across the fabric. Strings of golden fabric wrapped around her midsection. The top of the kimono was tight that went up to a band at her neck, however there was a cut out to show some cleavage, just enough to be sexy yet tasteful. She also had a simple golden necklace, ear rings and a golden bracelet on her right hand.
Standing at her side dressed in a perfectly clean jonin uniform was Guy. He was acting as Tenten's father in this case and was giving away one of his student's hand in marriage to another one of his students. Everyone was smiling as Guy handed Tenten away, for her part Tenten smile light up the room. Even somber Neji was smiling as they both turned to Shikaku Nara.
"Neji, Tenten." started Shikaku as Tenten and Neji had eyes for each other not on anyone else in the room. "You two prove that even in the darkest hours of life with so much pain and death surrounding us all that love and light can be found. If that is not a testament to the human spirit nothing else I can think of can. You two have been friends for a long time, then that bond grew into something more, it turned into love. You two have been through a lot, both ups and downs, you went to school together, you went on missions on battlefields across the ninja world together and now you two will journey together on the mission of life. Now it is my great pleasure to bond the two of you together as husband and wife."
Shikaku took a deep breath, he was no priest so he didn't have religious rows.
"Neji do you have anything you would like to say to Tenten?" inquired Shikaku
"Tenten-chan, this isn't the situation I am sure either of us have dreamed about when it came to our wedding." Said Neji as Naruto's eyes scanned the concrete walls and folding chairs. One of the forlanis tub lights was flickering behind the happy couple. "However none of that matters what matters is that we are together and whatever we shall face in the future we will face it together."
Neji nodded to Shikaku, who turned to Tenten who had tears on her face and a smile that lit up the bare room around them.
"Tenten do you have anything you would like to say to Neji." Inquired Shikaku as Tenten took a deep breath and said something so simple but to the point.
"Neji-kun, I love you with all my heart and I can't wait to spend the rest of our lives together." Said Tenten with a smile and love in her voice.
"Alright, then it is with great pleasure that I name you husband and wife." said Shikaku as Tenten and Neji kissed right in front of him. While everyone was focused on the kiss he signed the form that would make the marriage official.
While everyone in the bunker was clapping and happy for the new couple the ship carrying Konahmaru and the other ninjas from the Mist made the turn down the narrow and hidden channel which lead deeper into the swamp. The channel would make multiple twists and turns before leading them back to the tiny fishing village which was their base of operation. None of them new that under the haul of their ship a water kami had followed them in. Other water demons had followed them in and was in position to guild the attack force on the ships just over the horizon. The demons now knew where they were and they would be coming for the group of humans which had attack their home island.
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