Chapter 13 Escape
For what seemed like forever no one moved as the panther demon identified as Itachi Uchiha looked into the Sharingan eyes of his brother Sasuke who had become a demon snake. A demon fox who only a minute ago was the general of the samurai Mifune stood at the ready beside yet another demon panther.
"We had you under watch how did you escape?" asked the Panther
"Easily." answered Itachi as he looked at his fellow demon cat "I just went to the hot springs and let the young male tiger get distracted by a female."
The panther's eyes narrowed as he glared at Itachi who was still glaring at his brother.
"However I didn't plan for you to be here brother." said Itachi
"The Chancellor believed you or my former teammates would try something." stated Sasuke "And if it was any of them I would have no problem killing them."
"No…don't kill him." ordered the Panther
"He is a traitor why do you want him?" asked Sasuke as he thought about it for a moment "You want him to have kids since he is the only Uchiha you got."
"The only Uchiha?" asked Tsunade the first Kage to start speaking.
"Yes, human." said Mifune as he turned to face the Kages "Now just stay there and when we restrain him we will take you, if you resist it will get rough."
"I don't think so." stated Itachi as he suddenly moved between the Kages and the demons. As he stood there he began to change his tail shot back into the base of his spin as his fur fell off, his eyes turned back to their human form. As he transformed he formed a hand sign as a small scroll appeared out of a puff of smoke. Itachi quickly threw the scroll in the air, which exploded showing different kinds of cloths. Once again Itachi disappeared in a blink of an eye only to reappear fully dressed in a Leaf ANBU uniform minus the mask.
"Why fight as a human?" asked the panther
"Because even if you changed me I am still on their side." stated Itachi as he pulled an ANBU sword and pointed it toward the demons.
"Please Itachi do you really think you can hold off three demons, including two pure blood demons?" asked Mifune
"With ease." stated Itachi as he looked toward Tsunade, the look in his eye said everything. It was the same look she had seen so many times on the battlefield when a small group of ninjas where going to sacrifice themselves to allow the others to escape.
"We need to get moving." whispered Tsunade to Shikamaru.
"But we have the numbers we can take them." whispered Ino back
"No…we are out class and if we die or replaced by demons then the villages are sitting ducks." stated Shikamaru "Lady Tsunade can you make an exit."
"Easy." Stated Tsunade as she gathered Chakra around her fist, with one quick move she punched the back wall with all her enhanced strength. A giant hole opened up in the back wall, big enough for all the ninjas to make their escape with ease.
"Why run?" asked Mifune "The demons know everything about your villages defensives and military options you turned over your files when I took command of the combined forces during the war."
"You don't know everything." said Tsunade as Itachi looked at her before tossing her a scroll which she caught in midair.
"And now they know things about you." stated Itachi as the Kages and their guards made a move to escape. By now a group of Samurai had entered the room by the side doors only to see the demons standing there.
"What the?" asked one of the samurai as he looked toward one of the demons which looked like Mifune.
"Abounded the village and fall back to the ninja villages." yelled Tsunade as the samurai looked at her. "Your leader is a demon."
"Now why did you have to tell them that?" laughed Mifune "Now it will be so much harder to take them alive."
With that Mifune's tail multiplied, one quickly became three, than seven and finally ten tails moved behind him stunning the humans.
"Enough Talking." stated Sasuke as he slithered forward just a little slower then he could when he had feet. His mouth was opened wide showing two long dripping fangs. Itachi's sword was faster than his brother's slithering, the sword blade struck the dripping fangs stopping them from piecing Itachi's skin.
"Run." ordered Itachi as he looked toward the Kages.
"Thank you." said Ino as she and the other humans left, leaving only the demons and the samurai behind.
"Mifune follow them." ordered the panther only to have a samurai jump in front of him sword raised.
"Die demon!" yelled the samurai as he brought his chakra covered sword down as fast as he could toward the demon fox. To his amazement Mifune grabbed the sword with his open chakra covered palm.
"Fool." said Mifune as he used one of his tails to knock the samurai out with a hard blow across the face.
"You can't beat us all." stated another samurai as Mifune and the panther looked around the room.
"Looks like the Samurai fall today." stated Mifune
Meanwhile Lady Tsunade along with the other Kages had just ran out the main door heading out of the village.
"We should stand and fight." ordered A
"No…winning the war is more important than wining this battle." stated Onoki "We need to pull our forces back to the villages and other population centers if there target is us then we need to protect our people."
"Agreed." said Mei Terumi "I say we each send one of our guards and order our forces back from the occupied country."
"Agreed." stated Tsunade "Shikamaru are you in command."
The other Kages didn't say anything as they picked one of their own guards to go with Shikamaru toward the old sound country where the Akatsuki had made their stand against the Shinobi forces of the world.
Back in the meeting room Itachi had jumped back from his brother's attack as he tried to tail whip him. The other two demons where busy subduing the Samurai forces without killing them. They had thrown the knocked out Samurai onto the ground to be collected and turned at a later time.
"Why don't you just die." snapped Sasuke as he coiled up like a wild snake so that he could strike quickly in any direction.
"I fight for humanity." stated Itachi "Like you should be brother."
"Like I care about humanity, the snakes are more my style." stated Sasuke before he laughed "Besides I thought you would be happy you didn't kill our parents after all you killed clones. Hell most of our clan is alive but in turned into demons."
"But the demons split up the clan among themselves; there is no united Uchiha clan anymore." stated Itachi
"But they all hate the Leaf and humanity thanks to them knowing that the leaders of the Leaf ordered their execution at your hands." stated Sasuke as Itachi growled as his teeth changed from human back to their demon panther. "Even you have adapted to being a demon…didn't they offer you a position as a palace guard for your Royal family."
"They want to use me just like they want to use you and everyone else they take." stated Itachi as he threw ninja stars which Sasuke dodged with ease "They want you to have kids to make their race stronger."
"And in return I get power." stated Sasuke "Seams like a fair deal to me."
With that Sasuke lunged forward and once again Itachi dodge the attack however as he dodged the attack Sasuke's tail came up and smashed Itachi against the wall. Instantly Itachi raised his sword grabbing both ends of the blade to stopping Sasuke's fangs from reaching him. With both hands up to stop the poisonous fangs from breaking his skin which would mean instant death it gave Sasuke's free range to deliver body blow after body blow to Itachi.
"Enough!" yelled Itachi as black demon panther chakra covered his body; each demon race had different color chakra. The chakra built up as Itachi's skin quickly became covered with black fur as he returned to being a panther, his cloths breaking apart as his fur grew in and his tail shot out. Sasuke was forced back by the chakra but remained standing.
"See…your more of a demon now then human." said Sasuke as Itachi silted eyes narrowed, suddenly his eyes widened as he fell to the ground with a piece of paper on his back and Mifune hand coming out from the wall. A second punch opened a Tsunade like hole in the wall allowing Mifune to walk through the hole and toward the chakra bind Itachi. His eyes were still moving but he was unable to move his body.
"Who said I wanted your help!" hissed Sasuke
"If we had let you do what you wanted he would be dead." stated the panther as he threw the last samurai onto the ground. "He needs to be reeducated not killed."
"You are a fool." hissed Sasuke
"He is a cat so unless you want a war you will stand down." stated the panther as Sasuke pulled back. "Can we go after the Kages?"
"Can we?" asked Mifune "Of course we can but by the time we get the forces here to track them they will already be in their village so there is no real point. Better to gather the samurai we have here and get them processed and turned. Then the council will choose the path we go from there."
"Agreed." stated the panther as the wolf who was knocked out at the very beginning of the fight finally got up.
"Just like a wolf to take a nap during a battle." laughed Mifune
"Shut up you stupid fox, I saw everything and if that cat hadn't placed a seal on me I would have been able to do a far better job then you." stated the wolf "Your plan and it failed."
"No…it worked up until a rogue cat got in the way." stated Mifune "Now we have to fall back to the third option."
'What is that?" asked the Panther
"We take humanity by force." stated Mifune
Unaware of the situation in Iron Country Naruto and Sakura were going over how they would get back to the Leaf village. They had been joined by Naruto's sister Adria, it was strange neither Naruto or Sakura where freaking out seeing Adria in her fox form.
"So breaking out of the house isn't hard." said Adria as she helped Naruto and Sakura plan out how they were going to make it back to the human world. "The problem is that the human world and the demon world are linked by different chakra seal bridges. Which allows demons within the portal to transport themselves to the human world."
"Sort of like those wells the Toads used to transport themselves between Mount Myoboku and the Leaf." said Naruto
"Not really the portals are located in every demon race main village, this allows them to transport to one of many different spots in the human world. A portal which they can seal off in less than a minute." Explained Adria "That is heavy guarded; it took me years to find a way that would allow me to slip out unseen."
"I see a small hole in their defensives if they just have a single guard here, we would have to knock him out." said Sakura as she pointed toward a point on the map.
"The guards wear seals around their necks." explained Adria "If they get knocked out it sounds an alarm and the seal which transports demons to the human world deactivate in just over a minute."
"Making there in less than a minute would be next to impossible even without guards after us." Said Sakura "And if we did get though they would be on following us in to the human world almost right away."
"Yes." answered Adria
"What do you think Naruto?" asked Sakura
"Ya." answered Naruto however he seemed a little distracted.
"Is something wrong Naruto?" asked Sakura as Naruto looked at her.
"No…nothing." said Naruto as he stood up "I just have to ask my dad something."
"If your looking for dad he is down stairs in his workshop." answered Adria as Naruto walked downstairs leaving Sakura alone with his sister.
"Sakura I just have to say that I am sorry for not telling you about the whole sex speed up transformation thing." said Adria
"And I told you it was ok." said Sakura
"So any other changes?" asked Adria
"I think some of my senses has improved." answered Sakura "I could hear your mom leave a little bit ago."
"Not to mention the fact you can now smell Naruto's sweet sexy scent from even an even greater distance." added Inner Sakura
"Ya, she went to the market to get some food for supper." Explained Adria "That is just your human senses turning demon."
"I see, is there anything else that will change?" asked Sakura as Adria raised an eyebrow "I mean apart from the fur and tail, anything physical that I wouldn't think of at first."
"Well….." said Adria as she thought about it, what was different about being a fox then being a human. "Well we don't sweat because of the fur we pant."
"Like a dog." said Sakura "Makes sense anything else?"
"Nothing really comes to mind….oh there is that." said Adria
"What?" asked Sakura
"Well I guess it is good that Naruto left since this is a vixen issue." said Adria
"Vixen issue must be their way of saying woman issue." thought Sakura
"See once a year for a week to ten days vixens go though heat." said Adria
"Heat….means mating season and that means sex and you want only one man." said Inner Sakura with a grin "Naruto-kun."
"I mean it only happens once a year and once you get used to it, it is an inconvenience but you can fight your way through it." said Adria "And every vixen's time is different, I mean my mom is just getting out of her season and my season doesn't start for a few months."
"I see." said Sakura
Naruto walked down the staircase until he reached the third floor, it had the same general set up as the second story a large center room with staircases on either side with rooms radiating out from it. Unlike the other floors this one seamed cold and lifeless. The walls where empty and at least two of the side rooms Naruto could make out wooden boards stacked up with spacers between each board to allow air to flow between the boards. On the far side of the room was his dad working beside a makeshift workbench. He was currently on one knee sanding down what seemed to be a desk. Slowly Naruto moved forward until he could see what his dad was doing.
"Naruto can you hand me the Rasp?" asked Minato as he worked on a wooden desk.
"A what?" asked Naruto as Minato pointed toward a metal bar with rough edges. Naruto grabbed the rasp as he handed it to his dad "Isn't this a file?"
"It is when it isn't being on wood it is." answered Minato as he went to make the edges of the wood flushed against each other. For a while just stood there and watched his father work trying to figure out how he would start this talk, however his father must have known what he was thinking. "You want to ask it so just ask it."
"Alright." said Naruto as he took a deep breath "Even their so heightened security is tight but not unbeatable…..I spotted at least five holes in their defenses which would let someone like you could use and get to the seal and to the human world. That makes me wonder how many holes where in their normal security."
"Six." answered Minato calmly as he stood up and placed the rasp back on the workbench "There are six ways through their heightened security and ten in their normal one."
"That is my point. An average jonnin may see one or two ways that they could get out but know they couldn't make it." said Naruto as he looked at his Dad's back.
"And I was never an Average Jonnin." added Minato as he lowered his head placing his hands on the workbench, his tail wasn't moving. He had been preparing for this question for years but it didn't make it any easier.
"You could have escaped at any moment couldn't you?" asked Naruto
"Yes, I could have." answered Minato
"So why didn't you and come for me?" asked Naruto
I have been waiting a while to have Naruto ask this question since I felt it would be one of first questions Naruto would want to ask of his parents. Now I would like to thank everyone who reviewed and I ask that you keep on reading. Thanks Wilkins75.
