Chapter 54 Thunder
The rain which had been threatening for hours began to fall over the soon to be battlefield with such force that it caused the wall of fire Naruto had set up with a firebomb kunai quickly began to die. The howling wind and flashes of lightning filled the air but still Naruto Namikaze stood his ground, dressed in a black traveling cloak which was quickly become soaked and limp against his body. Less than fifty yards away from him, down the road was his own demon turned parents along with the parents of his girlfriend, Sakura Haruno and his friend Kiba's parents as well. He also saw his now demon sensei Kakashi Hatake but he didn't see the his sister's sensei, Rin or the traitors Sasuke, Karin and Suigetsu.
"Naruto." said his mother with a smile on her face, her demon face. Even as they faced down each other from across a battlefield they were blood and he was her son and she was his mother.
"Naruto…you can't win this fight." stated Kakashi as lighting filled the air causing the entire area to become bright in some parts but darker in others as the light made the shadows darker. "I know it is against your nature to believe that but you can't win."
"He isn't planning too." said his father as Kakashi looked at his sensei and then to slight grin on his student's face. "He isn't trying to run away, he is a stalling force to prevent us from following his friends."
"Well, not everyone." said Naruto as he moved his head slightly in the direction of the restaurant which contained the secret entrees to the sound base in its lowest levels. "Meiko, Hinata, Samui and Kurenai-sensei are all still in the bunker. Hinata and Samui where turned by that plant and Kurenai-sensei knew going on the run with a baby wasn't going to be helpful to anyone."
Naruto knew that talking only got him time, so he talked. With any luck maybe Kakashi would go down into the bunker, it would get him out of the fight and make Naruto's day better.
"Well Minato, you handle your kid while we go get our daughter and the rest." Said Mrs. Haruno as she and her husband, along with the Inuzuka moved to take a different route only to have another kunai land in front of them, this one went off but instead of causing a fireball it exploded in a cloud of fine dust.
"What the?" inquired Mr. Haruno as some of the dust landed on him and instantly his flesh began to burn. They pulled back away from the dust which now covered the path they where going to follow to get around Naruto.
"Bronze…a powered bronze dust." cursed Kane Inuzuka as he turned his demon wolf eyes on Naruto. "They know that we can be hurt by bronze."
"Not just dust, it is also a powder." said Naruto, it was in fact a lie the powder was basically tracking powder mixed with bronze which settled almost instantly onto the ground. "I wouldn't go through that area for a while bad for your lungs."
"Fine, once we get you and turn you, you will tell us where they went no matter what." Said Tsuma Inuzuka as she bared her teeth. "The turning makes everyone of a certain age hyper sexually active for a while, I am sure Naruto will want to be with the woman he loves after he turns for some fun."
Sakura's parents both glared at the Inuzuka but said nothing.
"Never going to happen." stated Naruto with sureness in his voice.
"You don't know where they are going, do you?" inquired Minato as his son gave him a small smirk. "I see, you aren't going to run because you have no were to run to, at least this ends tonight."
"Yes, yes it will." said Naruto as chakra began to dance around him covering his body and making him glow red against the darkness. Minato raised an eyebrow at this move by his son. It made no logical sense, all that chakra did was waste chakra that could be used for a justu of some kind. It also made him stand out against the dark background of everything else. While it was an impressive show but chakra as the heat from the red demon chakra caused any rain to hit it to hiss from the sudden heat, but it did nothing.
With a burst of speed Naruto rushed forward toward his father with his kunai in hand. Minato responded to the attack by rushing forward to stop his son, his plan was simple to disable his son. He grabbed his son's wrist and threw himself over his shoulder, so he was now behind his son. At the same moment he grabbed a sealing paper from his ninja pouch and placed it on the back of his son's neck. That would seal his chakra up and disable him. He landed and spun around expecting to see his son now on the ground with no chakra access. Instead he saw that his sealing paper had been burned away by Naruto's chakra.
"Shit." said Minato as he understood, with Naruto's chakra burning so hot it would burn away any seal he would attempt to put on his son within moment, including his thunder god technic seal. Naruto was likely burning through a lot of chakra to do that, but his son's goal was to buy time and by time alone. Naruto spun around with his own kunai in hand, seeing an opening Kushina moved in to attack her son unsealing one of her staff weapons. Wanting only to disable her son not harm she unsealed a hard wood boa staff. She brought it around to hit Naruto only to have him break off his attack from his father and raise a long knife, with a foot-long blade to block the attack. Nothing really stood out about it at first, then she noticed that one size of the blade had deep cut out parts in it. The staff went down into one of cut outs trapping the staff.
"What the?" inquired Kushina as the wooden staff exploded in a mass of splinters as Naruto flicked his wrist apply force broke the staff which disabled his mother's weapon and freed his own. She looked into her son's eyes and saw that like her eyes they were silted demon kitsune eyes. Naruto's foot came up as he kicked his own mother hard in the gut forcing her back.
Kakashi's turn was next as he came down with his own kunai only to have it be caught in Naruto's knife and broken apart. This time instead of a kick Naruto counter attacked with the same knife which ran across Kakashi's upper arm. The blade while sharp didn't cut as deep as Kakashi though but then the burning sensation reach him, and he saw that the blade edge was not regular metal but instead edged in bronze.
"Move!" yelled Kane Inuzuka as he rushed forward along with his wife and the Haruno's. Naruto threw his kunai and it stroke home hitting Kane Inuzuka in the back of the knee causing him to fall to the ground.
"Kane-kun!" yelled Tsuma as she glared at Naruto with hate in her eyes. It was that Inuzuka rage that Naruto was counting on as Tsuma charged him forgetting the opening that would have given her a chance to go after her children. Instead she was focused on him, just like he wanted. He dodged her attack before running though hand signs.
"Air style, air bullet." Yelled Naruto, but he wasn't aiming at anyone instead he was pointing into empty space, the force of the chakra enhanced wind sent him flying backwards toward the still rushing forward Mr. and Mrs. Haruno. He landed between the two supply specialist ninja and delivered a powerful punch first to Mr. Haruno's gut. His new muscled frame from becoming a Ushi-Oni, he was built like a bull which is what he was somewhat took the hit better then he would have as a human. Still the powerful blow to the center of his gut did force him to stop. Seeing her husband get hit did stop Mrs. Haruno for a moment as she turned and looked at her husband, which gave Naruto a chance to punch her in the face. She flew backwards crashing over discarded beach equipment and landing in the surf.
"You son of a bitch." cursed Mr. Haruno as a wave of water crashed over his feline wife, drenching her fur which now hung limp on her body. "And you love me daughter but punch her mother?"
"Sorry, but this is the only way and Sakura-chan will understand." apologized Naruto as he dodged the attack and moved back positioning himself between the demons and the people making their escape. He had won the 1st round but he wouldn't be able to hold them off forever and he knew it, he scanned the group deciding which one among the group he could afford to let get past him.
He was in the middle of weighing his options when his father counter attacked, he had just enough time to jump back as his father brought his own three-pointed kunai up in a disabling arch with the flat part of the kunai toward him. It would have hit the side of his face likely breaking his jaw from the force, the attack for the most part missed but the tip did cut into his flesh drawing a small amount of blood. Naruto fell back again raising his hand up to the cut which was bleeding far worse than the actual wound was.
"Naruto are you alright?" inquired his mother with a motherly concern in her voice as Naruto grinned as the blood ran down his one cheek, already the wound had been healed by his healing ability. Naruto responded by running through hand signs as fast as possible. With the flashes of light from the lightning and the distortion of the demon chakra around him, even Kakashi's Sharingan was having trouble reading the justu. He knew a moment before Naruto spoke the words.
"Air system, hurricane whip justu." said Naruto as the air became alive with demon chakra which formed into lines of whips each of which lashed out against the oncoming demons cutting into their flesh if it hit. The justu wasn't actually designed to kill and Naruto knew this, but it would be extremely painful if the blow strike and it kept them dodging the attack instead of advancing toward his friends. He knew his goal was to buy time and while he focused on keeping them back he also decided on who he had to focus his attacks on and which one he could afford to let get by him.
At first Shizune and the other demons had no idea what was really going on, they saw a figure standing in the middle of the road in front of them but facing away from them. Then they saw a bunch of figures run out of the building at the end of the street.
"Are those humans?" inquired a demon beside her as Shizune tired mind began to put the pieces together. The figure at the end of the row was about Naruto's height and while the cloak made it hard it looked to be his profile as well. Then he lowered his hood and she could see his blonde hair, which sealed it in her mind, that was Naruto. Then it meant that the group running away was likely the rest of the group that disappeared with Naruto.
"Move forward, we need to." Started Shizune as what looked to be a fire extinguisher landed in front of the column. "What the?"
Her answer came when a kunai hit the extinguisher, the compressed gas shot out of it turning it into a wild missile which stroke a nearby demon in the chest with enough force to send him crashing through the boarded window of a shop. The added bounce of the attack was filling the air with a thick cloud which somewhat blinded the nearby demons. In that cload a figure appeared, through the cloud of gas Shizune watched as the figure began to slash at the nearby demons with long slightly curved blades that was about her the length of her forearms. She slashed low at the nearest enemy knees which dropped them down a bit before attacking with another quick strike at the neck. The strike found home and the demon's head left its shoulders and fell backwards onto the ground.
"Get her!" yelled someone as Shizune blinked and got her first good look at the figure. It was a woman dressed in a white backless top and short combat skirt. She had sandals on her feet with fishnet stockings running up one leg to the knee. She had a belt which contained a few pouches a holder for each of her twin long knives. Her green hair seamed unnaturally bright and her eyes. Her eyes where orange in color but what stood out was that it was demon eyes looking out at her from a human head. Her mind quickly matched the demon type to the eyes but before she could process anything more than that, the figure did a back flip over her and trying to bring her blades in for a killing blow.
Reacting as fast as she could Shizune jumped back away from the attack, missing by inches as the twin blades cut through the empty air where her shoulders used to be. Their attacker's arms moved around in an unnaturally way as she brought her knives back into an attack position just in time to block a slash from an attack Kitsune and respond with a stab in her attacker's gut. Blood and rain water now filled the cobblestone streets as the single attacker pressed her attack into the heart of the demon column.
Fuu ripped one of her short sword out of the demon's gut in a side way motion, that way she was cutting into his gut making the wound that much more fatal than a simple stab. She ducked under a swing from a battle ax in the hands of the bull like Ushi-Oni, cutting into the back of one of her attacker's knees. She had to smile to herself, here she was fighting against what was likely the head of an army of demons and winning. For a moment, she paused as she remembered that the demons looked tired and she had surprised them and the surprise factor wouldn't last forever. It didn't as she dodged two kunai's before blocking a third with one of her short swords. In the middle of the block the same Ushi-oni she had cut the back of the knee grabbed her arm and with his massive strength sent her flying into a boarded-up window with such force she went crashing through the board and through the droop down metal gate and glass which had been hidden by the board.
She lied there for a moment among the broken shards of wood, metal, glass and the remains of what looked to be a jewelry store. Whoever had boarded the place up was also there, well his or her remains where at least, Fuu had landed on top of them and the rotten flesh had exploded outwards when everything had fallen on it. Fuu stood up with more than a few cuts on her from the metal and glass, her blood and blood and infected puss of the dead store owner now covered her white cloths.
"Get the human." Said a demon from outside as a wolf like Inugami came into the store through the window, followed behind by two of the vampirical Jorogumo. Fuu reached for her weapons only to find that one of her short swords was gone, mixed in somewhere with all the remains of the entrees to the shop. So down to a single sword she got into a stance and before the eyes of the attacking demons four insect style fairy wings shot out Fuu's back, two pairs of wings on each side one above the other. Parts of the wings where see through while other panels where bright neon green and orange.
"What the?" inquired the demon nearest to her.
"Surprise." Said Fuu with a grin as she got into a stance knife out and flapped her wings taking off from the ground. She paused for a moment and then shot forward cutting the throats of her three attackers before going outside into the pouring rain. Instantly she felt it as pain shot up her spin as the heavy rain fail hit her thin sensitive wings. Still she kept moving as she dove under one of the long-legged spider like Jorogumo cutting into the soft underbelly of the demon as she did spraying her with yet another demon's blood.
Sakura felt the rain pound down upon her as they ran toward the South, the plan was to head south for a couple of miles until they passed the southernmost point of the lake and then head West away from the Land of Fire and the area already fully under the control of the demons. Then everything was up in the air, they could head to one of a dozen or so hospitals to get more samples of the virus and equipment however all those places would have been the first place located when the villages they were in fell. It would also be the first place that demons would secure and they could fly while they were stuck on the ground.
"We could try animal centers and small local clinics and doctor's offices." offered Inner Sakura as she tried to think of where they could possibly find the supplies.
The sound of explosions filled the air as Sakura looked toward the source however the shore drive shops prevented her from seeing anything. But she knew that those explosions where Naruto and Fuu doing battle against the demons. She swallowed hard as she fought the need to turn around and fight alongside the man she loves even if it was against other people she loves. With some force, she turned her attention away from the sounds of battle and toward the road in front of her, they were nearing a large beach front home which blocked marked where the road turned to the South.
"Hanabi what do you see?" ordered Anko as they ran down the cobblestone street which ran beside the massive lake. The only main branch Hyuuga clan member who was still human closed her eyes for a moment before opening them again. Her eyes had changed slightly as the veins around them bulged out and she gained the ability to see through walls and almost everything else. It allowed the user to look deep into someone's body and see the chakra network within a body. Hanabi's eyes widened as they turned a corner and saw a line of tired looking demons heading down the road toward them.
For a moment both the demons and the humans looked at each other, both sides surprised to see the other. It wasn't just a small group of demons before, if it was small enough they could have possible for them to punch through them to freedom. That wasn't the case, the road was full of demons of all different kind.
"They have a second group coming up from the South." reported Hanabi as everyone understood what that meant. To the South was a column of demons, to the East was another column of demons and to the North was their demon turned parents which included the 4th Hokage, the strongest ninja in living memory. They were surrounded on three sides with the only way out being out over the lake which was a twisting mess of high waves in the storming weather hitting them now. To go that way, with no cover was asking to be cut down. It would be almost impossible to cross the lake but it was their only route, their only chance.
"GO!" yelled Guy as he charged forward along with Anko and Iruka, for a moment Inoichi Yamamaka turned and looked at his daughter as the Nara's did the same with their son and with sad smiles they charged into the battle.
"Get moving, we need to cross the lake!" yelled Neji as he took command.
"We need to help our parents!" countered Ino
"We can't." countered Sai as he grabbed her arm. "They are giving themselves to save us and they know it."
"We need to go." said Shikamaru as finally with one last glace as he father fought against one of those spider like demons so turned and headed toward the beach. The soft sand was kicked up as they ran toward the waves which was pounding against the beach.
"Maybe with the darkness and weather we can stand a chance." said Kauri as they hit the shoreline, with chakra on their feet they began to ran on top of the water instead of sinking down. Even so large waves would come toward them and crash into them forcing them onto hands and knees only to get pounded again by another wave. Within moments all of them where soaked to the bone and they had only gotten less than a 100 yards off the beach and still had 15 miles to go to reach the other side all the while fighting the waves.
The same waves which was pounding his friends was also crashing against the sand covered beach beside the road where Naruto was fighting his parents and the members of their teams. His mother was attacking him now as she unsealed a long Nagitata, the pole arm with a three-foot-long blade at the end kept her son at a distance. He blocked multiple attacks with his own knife but he was on the defensive until he saw her spin the blade around to deliver a blow to his middle. He smiled a bit, he had seen this before with Meiko and knew what was coming. His mom had the back unsharpened part of the blade coming at him, she was trying to disable him not hurt him. He smiled as he slides under the slash and with one quick movement he grabbed the pole part of the Nagitata to swing himself back up. His mom's eyes widened a bit as he kicked her in the gut. The force caused her to let go of her weapon as he took it from her. With one quick move, he spun the shaft around and hit Tsuma Inuzuka who was trying to jump him from behind.
His victory was short lived as Kakashi slammed into him and grabbed him by his shoulders. Since Kakashi was a lightning Kami he was living lightning and he used it now, without needed a hand sign he sent bolts of lightning down Naruto's body, causing him to scream in pain.
"Everyone go, let us handle it." Yelled Kakashi over the sounds of Naruto's screams of pain.
"GO!" yelled Minato as he looked at his son scream in pain; his heart was breaking but he was also amazed as Naruto remained standing under the attack. The Inuzuka and the Harunos turned to leave only to have Kakashi fly backwards as Naruto's demon chakra flung him away like a rag doll. Naruto spun around to look at the Haruno's and the Inuzuka which now had an opening to head down the road toward the path Sakura and his friends had gone.
The sight of buildings burning down the road and to the east made him pause for a moment, the fires to the East made sense because of Fuu but the south made no sense. Then he saw them, a group of figures heading out over the water.
"Fuck." Whispered Naruto as he moved to attack the Haruno's and the Inuzukas before they had a chance to notice that his friends where on the move over the water. He was too late; his dad saw the group of figures moving across the water.
"Kakashi head toward the restaurant and the bunker get everyone out." ordered Minato as Kakashi who was still recovering from the blow from Naruto's chakra looked at him. "The rest of them are out over the water, lightning and water not a good idea."
"Alright." said Kakashi as he headed toward the entrees to the bar where the bunker was located under. Naruto made no move to stop him instead moving to the water's edge so that the waves crashed against his back as he looked at his demon family and the family of his friends.
Kakashi ran down the road as fast as he could stop at the crossroads and looking down to see a battle raging down the road from them. He couldn't see how many people where fighting but whoever was fighting there was doing a good job of bottling up the demons. He looked back over the water and for a moment he thought he saw figures out in the lake but with the waves as high as they where he couldn't be sure. He turned away from the lake view and headed into the restaurant. He ran down the stairs and toward the lowest levels, to the amazement of the copycat ninja the door which lead into a hidden passage with a massive blast door at the end of the hall. They had made no attempt to hide the entrees and as he approached the door he found that even the blast door was open.
As he moved deeper and deeper into the base he passed by locations that would have been a death trap for anyone attacking the base. He moved into what had to be the guard office he found multiple tv screens which showed everything happening outside and inside the base. He saw a young woman with what looked to be Yosia wings on her back. He raised an eyebrow wondering how it was possible, how could a human have Yosia demon wings. His demon eyes could see through illusion justu so this woman was clearly human but she was clearly had demon wings as well. His eyes moved to the next screen which showed some of the ninjas of his generation fighting against a different column of demons. Dozens of dead demons covered the ground but it was clear they were on the edge of being overwhelmed. The next monitor showed a place in the base marked detention area 2 which showed Kurenia and Kistune demon. He checked a map of the base on the wall which told him where he had to go. Within moments he was at the door to detention area 2.
He pushed open the door to find Kurenia nursing her daughter at the bottom level of a massive detention area with a kitsune with red fur walking back and forth.
"Kakashi?" inquired Kurenia as Kakashi nodded his head.
"Kakashi-sensei you have to let us go!" yelled another voice as Kakashi looked to see another Kitsune behind bars. Her white eyes and lavender colored fur told him who it likely was.
"Hinata?" inquired Kakashi
"Yes, let us go I need to save Naruto-kun from that Pink haired whore." Said Hinata
"Pink haired whore?" inquired Kakashi, he knew who Hinata was talking about but he had never expected Hinata to say that about Sakura. "How was she turned?"
"She attempted suicide and the only way to save her was to turn her." Explained Meiko "Is it over, is everyone ok."
"It isn't over, Naruto is still fighting outside." explained Kakashi, Meiko didn't have to be told a second time as she took off heading toward the exit.
"Let me out!" yelled Hinata as Kakashi noticed madness burning in those normally calm eyes.
"Maybe we should wait, this is going to be a reunion of Naruto's family don't want to ruin it." Lied Kakashi, in truth he wanted Rin or another doctor to check out Hinata. She didn't seem right in the head.
"I will be his family in the future, so let me go!" yelled Hinata
"We think turning her in combination with Naruto being with Sakura sent her off the deep end?" explained Kurenia
"I see." Said Kakashi
"I am fine, can I go?" inquired Samui calmly.
"What about her? Who is she anyhow?" inquired Kakashi
"Samui and Kuria came from the land of lightning and she was turned so I was told by just walking past where some plant was in hiding and it attacked her." Explained Kurenia
"Alright, let her go." ordered Kakashi as Kurenia did what she was told and opened the cell letting the Ice Rhyuu Samui out of her cell.
"Where is Karui?" inquired Samui "She is my friend and I don't want her to die when she doesn't have too."
"Likely out on the lake, they are trying to cross." explained Kakashi as Samui headed out the door and out of the base.
"Let me go!" yelled Hinata again.
"No, we are going to stay down here until it is over." Explained Kakashi as Hinata glared at him with hate in her eyes, her fur was standing on end and her lips lifted to show long teeth.
Fuu was not doing well, she had been pushing the demons back for a while but the numbers of demons where forcing her back. As she went she used every justu she knew to burn down anything that could burn to form a barricade to slow down the advancing demon horde. Even so she was now standing in front of the point where she had started all those minutes ago, in front of the bar. She knew she couldn't burn down that building because of the possibility of trapping the people down in the bunker. She ducked under a kunai which had be thrown at her before she threw her own kunai in response, only she hit her mark unlike her attacker. She was breathing heavily, blood was pouring down her face from a cut and she had used so much of her chakra in her rampage it was healing slowly.
"Well they should be gone by now." said Fuu as she glanced down the road to see Naruto fighting just off shore, she could see six of the seven figures which meant one had gotten passed him. "They can handle one."
Then she heard the sound of battle coming from the other way and she saw a retreating group of humans. They were in an even worse state, Iruka's arm was clearly broken preventing him from doing justus. Guy was moving like a mad man striking demons left and right but he was clearly slowing down.
"I am out!" yelled Anko as Yoshino Nara tossed a paper bomb which contained fine powered form of bronze causing every demon in the blast area to cough as the bronze burned their lungs.
"It's my last one!" yelled Inoichi as he tossed a kunai to the woman who was now out of weapons.
"What the fuck are you doing here!" yelled Fuu as Shikaku looked at Fuu, he saw her wings and her brighter than normal hair. She knew he wanted to ask a question but he didn't have time to worry about her looks.
"Ran into a column coming up from the South." explained Shikaku as his eyes shifted toward the water. Fuu followed his eyes and saw a group of figures fighting the surf out on the lake. They were still clearly visible to the naked eye.
"Shit." cursed Fuu as she saw that some of the water demons had spotted them out on the water and had gone after them. She watched as the water demons dove into the water and since they could swim under the water they didn't have to deal with the waves. "We need to stop them!"
"Kind of busy!" yelled Yoshino Nara as she grabbed an ax dropped by a demon to use it as a weapon. Fuu's eyes scanned the area and locked onto Naruto.
"Naruto!" yelled Fuu as the sound of her voice was somehow heard over the rain and thunder. "THEY ARE GETTING PASSED US!"
Naruto followed her gaze all the while blocking a tornado like attack from Kiba's and Hana's parents. She watched as a clone appeared beside Naruto and a ball of red chakra began to form around his hand. Fuu didn't have time to help him as she had to hold off the demons which were advancing on their small ring of defenses. Then she heard the high pitch sound coming from Naruto's direction. She turned her gaze again and saw a spinning disk of chakra in Naruto's hand.
"What kind of justu is that?" inquired Fuu but no one heard her over the sound of Naruto's justu. Even the demons which had been attacking them stopped and looked at the spinning ball of chakra. With a mighty roar Naruto threw the ball of chakra out over the water, it was thrown in such a way that the edge of the disk was cutting into the water. Fuu like so many others followed the justu until it was just off shore and then in a single moment it exploded outwards cutting into the water and the demons swimming below it.
Naruto's attack ripped into those demons cutting into them and as the attack cleared the bodies of those water demons began to float up from below.
The sound of the attacked caused his friends on the lake to turn around to see that the entire city of Nysha was now on fire. They could see in the light of the lightning they could spot their friends and family surrounded by demons and some of those demons going after them.
"Shit, we need to get moving." ordered Neji as they picked up their speed in their impossible task of crossing the lake before the demons could get to them.
Meiko ran out of the bar and into a battlefield, she could see some of the same humans she had attended a wedding with only a couple of hours ago fighting in a circle against her own kind. She could see that they were losing and losing badly but they were taking demons down but numbers where overwhelming them. She tilted her head slightly as she saw Fuu fighting in the middle however she had demon wings and her image seamed to shimmer a bit. Something was wrong with her then she heard the sound and saw the light. She turned her gaze and saw down at the far end of the beach her brother was holding a ball of chakra in his hands.
"The Rasengan?" inquired Meiko but something was wrong, it was spinning way too fast and then before her eyes he threw the Rasengan out over the water. Then with a roar the Rasengan exploded outwards then as it faded Meiko saw the bodies of water type demons rising out of the water. She looked down for a moment, not sure how to feel about that. They were demons like she was but they had also killed so many humans. She forced that out of her mind as she moved around the battle to go toward where her brother and family was. The people fighting all mattered to her but what mattered most was her family and Sakura.
Moments after Meiko moved off toward her brother and parents Samui appeared and she had no intentions of moving away from the battle instead she moved toward it. With a single powerful flap of her demon rhyuu wings she rocketed herself forward toward Fuu. Fuu who was airborne herself didn't see her coming and with a powerful punch was sent out over the water.
"Fall back!" yelled Shikaku as the ninja force of the Leaf began to fall back onto a wooden pier which shot out over the water. Suddenly the mace in the hands of a kitsune came swinging around and caught his wife in the head.
"Yoshino-kun!" yelled Shikaku as his wife was knocked to the ground and pulled back into the swarm of oncoming demons, a trail of blood marked her path but in a rage he lunged forward only to be grabbed by the neck by an bull like demon and punched in the face.
"We lost the Naras." said Guy as they pulled back.
Naruto had his back to him and now was his chance, Minato appeared in a flash of light behind his son, this was his opening and he took it. Since he couldn't attach a seal to his son because of the chakra around him he grabbed him physically and transported them both in a flash of light.
"Minato's got him." Said Kushina as she turn and ran back toward where she knew her son and husband would be. "Go get your own children."
"Right." Said Mr. Haruno as they took off.
"MOM!" yelled Meiko as Kushina turned to see her daughter running toward her. She lifted her up and held her close tears running down her face.
"Meiko…Meiko, I missed you so much." Said Kushina as she put her daughter down. "Come, by the time we get there your brother may be turned."
A few hundred yards away Naruto and Minato reappeared in the middle of a small courtyard, around them on three sides was a large block U shaped building with the opening out toward the lake front.
"Sorry Son." Said Minato as he let his son go and kicked him deeper into the yard, he flipped as he did so for a moment he lost sight of his son. He expected to see his son stunned for a second before the plant that would turn him into a demon and save his life. He looked up to see his son standing in the middle of the court yard but he didn't look concern in fact he looked pleased. Then nothing happened the plant did come down and hover over his head for a moment but it never opened its mouth to begin the turning process. It sensed him but then moved away.
"Not what you expected was it?" inquired Naruto
"What in the world?" inquired Minato
Fuu was sent almost an impossible distance until she came down a couple yards to the right of where her friends where.
"What the?" inquired Ino as she looked at the figure which was rising from the water, it was dressed in the white and in the same cloths that Fuu had been in when she last saw them but it wasn't Fuu. It was female but it was taller than Fuu, it had wings like one of those Yosei demons with green and orange highlights in its wings. Her hair was bright almost lime green and the skin while still the same general shade of Fuu's had turned slightly green as a pattern which looked like a vine full of multiple colored flowers could be seen on her arms legs and neck. Each of her fingernails had turned bright orange the same orange that most of the flowers seemed to be and the color of her eyes.
"Fuu are you alright!" yelled Sakura as the demon turned and looked at her.
"I am fine, Keep going, we will hold them off!" ordered the demon in Fuu's voice as she flapped her wings and headed off toward battle and the rush of oncoming demons which now included their own parents.
"What the hell?" inquired Ino
"No time to explain keep going." ordered Sakura as they headed off across the lake
"Dad!" yelled Meiko as she saw her dad for the first time in a long time. He was standing looking into a courtyard, the same courtyard that the plant that turned Hinata and Samui was located.
"So it is finally done." thought Meiko "Now our family will be complete and maybe in time added to with Sakura."
"Is Naruto done yet?" yelled Kushina as she ran up to her stunned husband.
"Depends on what you mean?" said Naruto as Kushina turned her gaze and looked at it in amazement as her son just stood there under the still closed mouth of the plant. Her mouth along with Meiko's fell open as they tried to make sense of what was before them, it couldn't be a clone the plant would still have attacked and Minato had hit him hard enough to make a clone disappear so it was her son.
"How is that possible?" said Rin as she stood under cover with the still recovering Karin and Sasuke.
"You forgot one of the key rules of warfare." Said Naruto his tone getting somewhat darker. "You made assumptions and didn't consider that those assumptions where wrong. I wanted you to bring me here."
"To be turned?" inquired Rin "With your demon chakra in a human body it is killing you?"
"There is your assumption." Said Naruto as the thunder and lightning picked up. Between each flash of lightning the area was cast into a pitch blackness. Naruto turned and looked at his sister with a smile. "To tell you the truth Meiko, I was never really concerned about dying from demon chakra and neither was Fuu. You assumed that the chakra was killing us, it isn't."
"But a human body can't contain demon chakra, not without a demon within it to hold back the corrosive effects on human cells." said Rin as the darkness engulfed the field and for half a second the outline of Naruto changed. Then in the next flash of light from lightning Naruto was back to normal. The change wasn't missed by either of his parents who had if anything a better view. They saw it again when the darkness returned, their son's outline changed he was taller, his ears where on the top of his head, his face had a muzzle and a tail moved behind him. Then the light returned and Naruto turned back into a human but the shadow cast from the light was a kitsune's shadow.
"My God." said Meiko as it hit her. "Sasuke hid his sickness from my demon eyes you found a way to do it too didn't you?"
"I did, the demon chakra wasn't killing me it never was, it was turning me." said Naruto with a grin, he stood before them human even as the shadow he cast was a kitsune demon. "I am already a demon, so your little plan to turn me and then convince me that you are right while I am weakened is not going to work. This fight is far from over."
Well I hope you liked this chapter, the fight still is going on but now I can drop the mask. Naruto and Fuu are already demons and their minds are still their own. Now until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75.