Chapter 7 Family
Naruto's head was spinning, his entire body hurt almost as much as he did after his battle with Sasuke a few months ago. The smell of flowers filled his nose as he took a deep breath; the slight pressure on him told him he had a blanket on him. He could also feel the mattress below him move as a person sat on the bed beside him. He felt a soft hand on his cheek, it moved slowly and lovingly as if it was studying his face. Moving some of his hair aside before feeling the whisker marks. With one quick move his hand shot out grabbing the strange hand as his eyes slowly opened only to see a red blur. The hand didn't fight back instead the figure smiled.
'Morning, Naruto." said the woman's voice the figure became a little clear, he could make out she wore a blue top with light gray pants. Her long red hair framed her face as her blue eyes came into focus. Naruto's eyes widened as the face came into focus, his heart started to pick up as he realized who he was looking at, his hand instantly let go.
"Mom?" asked Naruto as Kushina smiled.
"Naruto." said Kushina as she looked at her lost son. Slowly Naruto pushed himself up so that his back was up against the bed base. "Take it easy, you have been though a lot."
"Doesn't matter does it I am dead aren't I?" asked Naruto as he held his side "I never thought being dead would hurt so much."
"You're not dead Naruto." said Kushina as Naruto looked at her.
"You're dead and I see and feel you so I must be dead." said Naruto
'Naruto…your father and I never died." said Kushina "We were taken just like you where."
"What?" asked Naruto as Kushina took a deep breath.
"I have been trying to figure out how to explain everything to you but it is just so hard to find a place to start." said Kushina "Basically Naruto we were kidnapped and our deaths where faked."
"Kidnapped?" asked Naruto
"Yes, we have been alive all this time." said Kushina
'The Kyuubi told me that before he did whatever he did to me but I didn't believe him." said Naruto as he ran his hand though his hair.
"It is true." said Kushina "You're in the demon world."
"The demon world?" asked Naruto as his head still kept spinning.
"Yes." answered Kushina "The demons have been spying on humanity and guiding it for their own means."
"What do they want?" asked Naruto
"Us." answered a new voice as Naruto looked toward the door to see a man with deep blonde hair and blue eyes, it was the face of the man he had looked up to so much as a kid. His blue eyes where full of kindness as they meet Naruto's own blue eyes. Slowly Naruto forced himself to his feet as he moved toward the man.
"Naruto, you need to rest" Said Kushina as her son moved forward until he was right in front of the man.
"Dad." said Naruto
"Son.' answered Minato as the two stood directly across from each other; they seemed almost the same apart from Naruto's whisker marks and the son being slightly taller than the father. Minato also seemed a little bit older but not much, only four years or so. With that Naruto passed out into his father's arms due to exhaustion instantly Kushina was at his side as the two of them lowered Naruto onto the soft carpet.
"He is exhausted." stated Kushina
"So where you when Madara ripped the Kyuubi out of you." said Minato as he felt another person in the room. Slowly he turned to see a small figure standing in the doorway. "Come on in Seth."
Slowly a humanoid fox with two tails walked into the room and looked down at his older brother, his blue eyes were surrounded by deep black fur. He was almost the same height as Naruto was when he was 12.
"So this is Naruto." said Seth
"Seth, please turn human." said Kushina as her son looked at her.
"Mom…why do I have to take that form?" asked Seth
"Because if your brother wakes up and sees a demon fox in its natural form then he will freak out." explained Kushina "We have to take this slowly."
"Besides you where the rat who turned me in.' said another voice as Seth turned to see a red female fox that he instantly knew belong to his sister. She took a few steps as she took human form and stood beside her younger brother.
"I did what was right, you're a traitor to our race." stated Seth "I only did what was right."
"Right do you think it is right to forcedly turn people into demons?" asked Adria
"We are improving their lives and making them better." stated Seth
"You are really that thick headed?" asked Adria "Why do you have to believe the crap that the council puts out?"
"Why do you put humanity before your own race and family?" asked Seth as he slowly started to turn into a human form, while he turned he took on more and more resemblance to his father and older brother when they where his age only with deep black hair. He had a simple black T-shirt on with shorts; it was well known that he hated wearing cloths just like most demons. In fact most demons didn't own cloths since they normally walked around in their fur. Only those who had close dealing with humans had them.
"This isn't the place to talk about that." said Minato as brother and sister looked away from each other, as they followed their father's orders.
"Because the council is right." stated Seth "Besides our pack is back together…if anyone wants me I will be in my room."
"Adria why don't you go check on the girl." said Kushina
"Her name is Sakura Haruno and apparently she is all but Naruto's girlfriend." added Adria as she walked away followed by Seth.
"So Naruto, has a girlfriend." said Minato as he noticed Kushina running her hand down her lost son's face.
"I just got my boy back I am not giving him to someone else." stated Kushina
"Kushina….I know you want to make up for all the time as his Mother which stolen from you but he is almost twenty years old." said Minato
"Your point?" asked Kushina
"It's just the first time we did it, it was your gift to me on my twenty-first birthday and we had been dating in secret for two and a half years before that." answered Minato as Kushina glared at her husband before he helped her carry their son back to the bed. In a nearby room Sakura Haruno was waking up, she had placed a chakra covered hand on her forehead to help with the dizziness but it still felt as if she had been hit square in the head by one of her sensei's fists.
"What the fuck happened?" asked Sakura out load as she ran her hands though her hair.
"They came." answered a voice as Sakura looked toward the door to see Adria standing there.
"They?" asked Sakura as she thought about it "The Demons."
"Yes." answered Adria as Sakura looked around to see a rather plain room, it reminded her of the guest room in her parents' house. A bed, a dresser, a small bathroom/shower and a nightstand with a cloak on it nothing more. "Where am I?"
"My house." said Adria "Naruto is in the other room."
"We were both take?" asked Sakura as she got to her feet only to stumble a little bit. "Man I feel like I have been hit by Tsunade."
"Well you did hit your head when they came bashing though the door." answered Adria "Then again it may be because of the chakra bomb going off within you."
"What?" asked Sakura as she looked at her hands only to see everything seemed normal. "I am not a demon."
"Not yet." answered Adria sadly as Sakura looked at her. "They injected you with demon chakra and combined with the transformation agent you have only a few days as a human left."
"What kind of demon?" asked Sakura as she feared the answer would be snake.
"Fox." answered Adria
"Oh…thank God." answered Sakura as Adria raised an eyebrow. "I didn't want to be a snake."
"Understandable." answered Adria "But aren't you worried about becoming a demon?"
"Of course I am but it is the lesser of the evils." explained Sakura as Adria looked somewhat insulted that she called her race evil. "So why am I in your house?"
"I can't be sure but…." answered Adria as she took a breath "But I think they want you to mate with my brother."
"Mate as in marry?" asked Sakura
'Sorry it is one of those interchangeable words here." said Adria "But yes, they want you to be my sister-in-law."
"Yes…now let's go nail the brains out of Naruto." snapped Inner Sakura as she jumped for joy at the idea of sleeping with her teammate.
"They would do that?" asked Sakura "Pick who they want to people to marry?"
"If they are a important enough for them, ya.' answered Adria "They wouldn't worry about it for everyone but I don't pretend to know what the council thinking is."
Sakura tried to answer however her head just kept spinning as she fell down on the bed.
"I think you should get some more rest." answered Adria as Sakura nodded her head before closing her eyes again. Adria walked out of the room and into the large living room, it appeared very similar to any house that human family would have. A family portrait over the stone fireplace an L shape couch with two arm chairs and a coffee table. The only real difference was the fact that like all demon foxes houses where partly underground, with the windows dug in. It was a tradition that dated back to their ancestors living in underground dens. It was also a tradition that the kits of any the head of the clan to live in the lower levels of the house. As she walked she turned back into her natural demon form her four tails moving behind her.
"Why do you get to walk around like that?" asked Seth as he sat at a small island in the kitchen holding a sandwich in his hands.
"Because as punishment for doing what is right when I am not around Naruto or Sakura I have to take this form." answered Adria as she sat across from her younger brother before pulling a piece of fruit from the bowl on the table.
"Some punishment they make you take the form you were born with." said Seth as his sister glared at him.
"Why do you believe the bull shit the council puts out?" asked Adria as Seth shock his head.
"How can't you?" asked Seth "We are trying to save our race."
"If it wasn't for their need to save the race we would be human." stated Adria
"And I thank God every day that didn't happen." Stated Seth "I mean humans live less than a hundred, they don't heal as fast as we do and physically they are a lot weaker than us."
"Why would that really matter?" asked Adria "Just compare our living standards to theirs….they are the same. We live so long but because of that we don't do as much as they do."
"What?" asked Seth as he raised an eyebrow wondering where is his sister was going.
"Look at our pack, the three of us, Naruto, you and me are the closest siblings when it comes to ages." said Adria "Most demons foxes before the war would have one kit when they are 24 million years old and their next one wouldn't be until they are around 28 million years old. That is four millions years difference between the kits."
"Your point?" asked Seth "That means the first kit is grown and has a mate of their own."
"That is the point; kits don't get to grow up together. I mean you and I grew up together and for all our differences I like to think we are close." said Adria "But humans they live so much more than we do in a shorter amount of time….ya they go though the same stages we do birth, young adulthood, adulthood and everything else. Why does the time matter?"
"Even if I gave you that…and I don't because who wants to die in 80 years when they can live 80 million years." stated Seth "However we are physically stronger and overall superior to humans….we are helping them by turning them."
"You are a fool." said Adria "We are equals."
"No we are not." Said Seth as his sister rubbed her forehead "All demon foxes and humans turned demon are equals."
"At least you don't buy into some of that crap about pure blood demons being superior to even the turned humans and their kits." said Adria "I guess I should be happy about that."
Just as she finished their father walked out of the room where their brother was lying down.
"How is he doing?" asked Adria as she looked at her father.
"He is up again." said Minato
Inside the room Naruto was sitting up his head was hurting but it wasn't from anything physical it was from what his mother was telling him.
"They want us because we unlike them can have kids because of the war they raged long before humans where even around." said Kushina as she looked at her son, who said nothing as he was processing the information which was given to him. "There plan is to turn people into demons and have them repopulate the demon world."
"Are you a demon?" asked Naruto as Kushina let out a deep breath.
"Yes…your father and I where turned, and they started it with you." Said Kushina as Naruto looked at himself in a nearby dresser mirror everything seemed normal. "It takes time but you are turning."
"And you wanted this?" asked Naruto
"No…God no." said Kushina "We kept trying to warn you, to stop them but they kept stopping us only yesterday Adria got out unseen."
"Adria?" asked Naruto as Kushina looked at her son before taking another deep breath.
"Naruto….Adria is your younger sister." stated Kushina as Naruto blinked before looking at his mom.
"I have a sister?" asked Naruto as Kushina nodded her head.
"Yes…and a younger brother." added Kushina as a nock came from the door as Minato poked his head in.
"Does he know?" asked the legendary yellow flash of the leaf.
"He knows." answered Adria as Naruto looked toward as the door a little bit more as a young woman maybe 16 years old with medium length red hair who looked scary like his mother Kushina. Standing a little bit back was a boy maybe 11 or 12 years old who looked like he did when he was a genin only he didn't have the whisker marks and he had black hair instead of blonde.
"Hello, brother." said Adria as Naruto just looked at them before suddenly his body got racked with pain as blue and red chakra leaked out.
"Everyone get back." ordered Minato as the blue and red chakra around Naruto did battle with each other with the red slowly winning. Suddenly he released of blue chakra went flying away from Naruto as the red took over. Naruto fell down to the bed his breathing rate high but not too high.
"What is going on?" asked Adria with fear in her voice "Did we do something wrong?"
"No, his human chakra is fighting back against the turn." explained Minato as he remembered when that happened to him. "It happened to your mom and me when we were turned."
"The first time we have our family together and this happens." said Kushina
"He should be up in a couple of hours." explained Minato
Well I hope you liked this chapter, I wanted to introduce Naruto to his family slowly. Also I believe some people may wonder why I have Naruto and Sakura passing out so much. Remember their chakra is turning from human to demon and Naruto lost the Kyuubi so that takes a lot out of him. I would like to thank everyone who reviewed and I ask that you keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75.
