Chapter 16 One Hell of a Morning

It was almost three in the morning but still the Leaf army was on the move, they had no plan on stopping until they reached the leaf, village. While a lot of the ninjas where tired they kept going during the war forced matches where common place. To help move the armies a new technique was devolved surprising by Naruto. Whenever Naruto got tired he would create a shadow to carry him while he slept. Normally a shadow clone would disappear once a person fell asleep or was knocked out, maybe do to the fact that Naruto used shadow clone so much he was able to keep a shadow clone out even while he was asleep. The rest of the army had adopted the method a ninja would carry a fellow ninja for two hours allowing the other to sleep.

"Shikamaru we need to rest." stated Kiba

"We have to make to the Leaf as soon as possible." stated Shikamaru as they kept jumping from tree branch to as they crossed into fire country, they where at least five hours away from the Leaf village at full speed.

Seth Namikaze gowned as he got out of bed, he couldn't help but look at clock as he got into the shower before heading out into the main living area.

"I hate early morning training." said Seth as he rubbed sleep from his eyes; he had an hour before he had to be at the academy. The sound of the door opening caused Seth to look as his sister walked out of her own room, stretching as she walked out her door.

"So little brother are you ready to get back to training." laughed Adria as Seth glared at his sister, they both where not morning foxes in fact the only person who was a morning person was their father Minato.

"What do you think?" asked Seth

"What is it Dad always says I hate Mondays?" laughed Adria as Seth moved toward Naruto's door. "What are you doing? Naruto doesn't have to go to training like we do."

"I want to make sure he is there." Said Seth as he pushed the door open letting the light from the living room flow into the darkened bedroom. Seth's eyes widened as he closed the door almost instantly. Adria walked over and opened the door again and was greeted by the sight of a large mass near the center of the bed with four tails hanging over the bottom of the bed, three blonde and one pink every one of them slowly moving back in forth happily. The sound of a pair of slow breathing could be heard, the quick sniff told her nothing had happened but still she knew this wasn't faking. Slowly she closed the door trying not to wake her older brother and Sakura.

"Looks like big brother and Sakura got lonely last night." said Adria with a smile as she started up the stairs. She stopped half way up only to see Seth still standing in the second floor living area. "Seth it isn't that surprising."

"No…but Naruto had three tails now." said Seth

"Your point? So he has more tails then you now? He is older and better trained he will probably have eight or nine tails just like Dad when he is done turning." explained Adria

"It's just mom and dad said they grew one tail and the rest grew in on once they were done turning." said Seth

'They also said that different things turned first." said Adria "I mean Naruto and Sakura grew fur in different part of their bodies, things happen in different orders."

"I guess." Said Seth as the two Namikaze siblings went upstairs to grab their breakfast before going out for their morning training. They walked up into the kitchen to find their dad eating his own breakfast before heading out for his job as a high level instructor at the Military Academy. He had gotten the reputation among the trainers as being one of the best but also one of the least trust do to his human support.

"Morning." said Minato with a smile.

"Morning Dad are you going to be the one in charge of the morning training?" asked Seth hoping that his father would train him in front of his friends.

"No, they want me to have a meeting with the command." said Minato

"Want to know how the leaf would react to the news about demons do they?" asked Adria

"They can ask all they want but I am not telling them." said Minato

"Why not?" asked Seth "If you went along and told them everything then it will save lives."

"True, but when I joined the leaf ninja core and again when I became Hokage that I wouldn't betray the Leaf village or its people." stated Minato "Put that on top of the fact they shouldn't even turn humans then I can't tell them anything."

Seth was about to start arguing when his father started again.

'Seth, lets save this debate for another time when neither one of us is as tired or have to rush to get to where we need to be." said Minato "

"Alright." said Seth as the three of them headed out.

A little bit over an hour later Sakura Haruno's eyes fluttered a bit before closing again, she didn't want to wake up the bed was too warm and the sleep too good. She felt so safe and so at peace as if nothing else mattered. Then there was the smell the smell of the forest in spring mixed in with Ramon noodles…Naruto's smell.

"Naruto." said Sakura as she opened her eyes fully as she started to sense where her body was. She was lying on her side with her face pushed ever so softly against Naruto's chest. One of Naruto's hands had found its way to the back of her head while the other rested in between her shoulder blades. Her arms had moved to wrap itself around his arm holding him tight just like he was holding her. Judging from their position it was also clear that sometime during the night they had both moved to the center of the bed.

"This is heaven." said Inner Sakura as Sakura pushed her face deeper into Naruto's shirt, inhaling more of his scent.

"Yes." answered Sakura with a smile as she closed her eyes again. Maybe it was Sakura's movement as she pulled herself closer to him that woke Naruto up.

Naruto's blue eyes slowly opened only to widen as he saw the mound of pink hair resting just below his chin on the soft spot of his neck. Then there was the smell the scent of strawberries and wild flowers. He looked down to see the position his body had moved to in the night.

"Sakura-chan." thought Naruto with a smile as he looked down at something he always dreamed about. Sakura asleep in his arms, both of them in an embrace of the other. Naruto slowly pulled back to get a better look only to have Sakura pull him back.

"She is so beautiful." said Naruto to himself as he looked at Sakura, he could never explain why he loved her so much it wasn't just physical while that played a part, and it wasn't just her altitude a which was both forceful and yet gentle. No there was something else that mixed with those two. "No…she loves Sasuke…she can't possible love me…..this is just a trick we are doing….but"

Naruto couldn't control himself as he felt his manhood harden as it began to push against his shorts.

"Shit." whispered Naruto as he tried to think of a cold mountain stream but when the sleeping Sakura moved even closer to him, Naruto's member began pressing even more against the shorts until it was actually poking Sakura. Sakura's eyes began to open once again 'I have to get out of this before she wakes up."

Little did he know Sakura wasn't asleep.

"Come on lets tear off those shorts and let his rather big friend free." stated Inner Sakura with a perverted grin.

"No." stated Sakura back "I am not going to let his foxhood free no matter how much it wants to get out now."

"Foxhood?" asked Inner Sakura with a smile

"Manhood." corrected Sakura as Naruto finally slip free of her grasp and out of bed. The sound of Naruto moving against the wall meant Sakura couldn't fake being asleep anymore as opened her eyes and looked toward Naruto.

"Sakura-chan it was an accident." said Naruto "I didn't mean to get that close."

"It's ok Naruto." said Sakura "Judging from the fact that we both are in the center of the bed means we both moved….it was all an accident."

"The only accident wasn't jumping on him….pinning him down and having some fun." stated Inner Sakura

"Naruto…" said Sakura

"What?" asked Naruto

"You have two more tails." answered Sakura as Naruto looked behind him to see he now had three of the fur covered tails. The tails seamed to move on their own without much thought but when Naruto focused on them he could control them almost the same way a person breaths without thinking but a person could control their breathing.

"Another change." said Naruto as Sakura got out of bed.

"Alright we need to know how much we changed, so why don't you go into the bathroom and see if anything else had changed." said Sakura "I'll head to my room and take a look."

Sakura walked out the door leaving Naruto alone in his room; she started walking across the living room heading toward her room.

"So how did fake sleeping with my son go?" asked Kushina as she appeared only feet away from Sakura.

"Well if Adria stopped in to see us like we planned then it should be good." Said Sakura as she noticed Kushina wasn't looking that happy. She looked like a mix of pissed off and angry. Her seven tails where moving behind her, something Sakura had only seen a few times. Most of the time all the Namikaze clan members kept their multiple tails condensed to a single tail "Is something wrong?"

"No…however I have something to tell you." said Kushina as she stepped down the stairs until she was eye level with Sakura. The two vixens where very slimier in height with Sakura being a hair taller but for all purpose they were the same however Sakura could tell Kushina was in control of this talk "I wasn't there for my son while he was growing up to protect him from all the things a mother should."

"Your time with him was stolen from you." Said Sakura

"Yes." Answered Kushina "And I find myself in a difficult position, I know he is an adult but he is still my little boy. So know this if you hurt him you will deal with me."

"Well this is one thing we never thought of in the dreams about Naruto-kun." said Inner Sakura "Mother in law."

"I have no intention to hurt Naruto." said Sakura as she looked into Kushina's violet blue eyes with her own sea green eyes.

"Good, because if this fake relationship turns real and then you break my son's heart you will pay for it." said Kushina as she walked away from Sakura.

"Just think when we do mate with Naruto, we will be living with her." said Inner Sakura as Sakura walked into her own room locking the door behind her. She didn't even bother to head to the bathroom, as she pulled off her top and bottom to show what she already felt the itchiness, over the course of the night the fur around her body.

"Crap." said Sakura as she looked at herself, from her breast down to her privates was now covered with fur, in a way it reminded her of a one piece swim suit. White fur ran between her breasts spreading out around her stomach before stopping around her privates. The rest of her body was covered with pink fur the same shade as her hair; slowly she turned around checking her back in the small mirror. It was empty apart from her tail which moved behind her gracefully. She now looked more fox then human with fox like feet covered with black fur up to where here boots used to be and black fox ears.

"Just fucking great." stated Sakura as she reached under into her bag and grabbed a small scroll. She unsealed the scroll as a small amount of medical supplies appeared. "At least this will provide me with some information."

She quickly drew some blood placing it inside a vile alongside the other samples she had taken from herself. She could never tell Ino but one of the reasons why she wore bindings around her breast was the fact it allowed her to hide a small scroll in it. After taking the blood sample she placed it back in its hiding space. Sakura got dressed however her cloths minus the shoes and socks just felt itchy but she dealt with it all the same as she stepped out into the living room. Standing there was Naruto dressed in a black shirt with his orange pants.

"How bad?" asked Sakura

"Not bad." answered Naruto "Apart from these tails and my finger nails are now black nothing."

"I have fur over most of the central part of my body and it is already driving me up the wall." answered Sakura "You looking at the map."

"Ya…but I can't help but wonder why do we change more at night?" asked Naruto

"Well you do most of your growing when you're asleep so maybe the turn works like that." explained Sakura

"I wish we could see this place for ourselves it would make it so much easier." said Naruto as he leaned forward resting his hand on his forehead.

"Naruto-kun is stressed." Thought Sakura

"Well I know how we could relive that stress." said Inner Sakura

"You pervert." said Sakura back

"Actually I was thinking of a sparring session since Naruto has all this pent up energy that he needs to release." said Inner Sakura

"Oh…ya, that could work." said Sakura back

"But we can see where your mind is." added Inner Sakura with a grin.

"Naruto I have an idea….maybe a sparring session will help." said Sakura

"What?" asked Naruto "How will that help."

"Well we will have to fight like demons in order to reach the portal and we spent the past days inside we need to get out." explained Sakura

"I don't know if this place has a training field." said Naruto

"Naruto, this is like their version of the Hyuuga main house and that has an indoor and outdoor training field." explained Sakura

Meanwhile a tired but intact Leaf Shinobi army arrived at the main gates of the Leaf village.

"Welcome back Shikamaru." said Kakashi as he stood waiting for the ninjas to arrive.

"Thanks what is the condition here?" asked Shikamaru as the two of them started walking toward the Hokage building.

"No sign of any demons but that doesn't mean anything." explained Kakashi "Lady Tsunade wants you to report to the planning room at once."

"I figured as much." stated Shikamaru

"Any word on Naruto and Sakura?" asked Shikamaru

"Nothing good." said Kakashi "Tsunade has been looking over some of the files Itachi gave her, she thinks they are likely already showing demon traits and they may actually be siding with the demons."

"How so?" asked Shikamaru

"Something about the newer version of drug they use to turn people making them like it." explained Kakashi

"So we can't trust Sakura if she shows up but what of Naruto?" asked Shikamaru

"Maybe but I wouldn't." said Kakashi as Shikamaru stopped and looked at the leader of team seven.

"They are your students how could you not trust them?" asked Shikamaru

"Tell me what does Naruto want most of all?" asked Kakashi as Shikamaru thought about it for a moment.

"Marry Sakura and become Hokage." stated Shikamaru as Kakashi shock his head.

"No, he wants something more." stated Kakashi

"What?" asked Shikamaru

"A family." answered Kakashi as Shikamaru thought about it. "Yes…being Hokage is his dream job but he wants a family more than that, with Sakura and I would bet even to this day he dreams about being with his family. Having a father and a mother, siblings."

"And the demons can give him all that." said Shikamaru

"Yes, he mentally may not side with the demons but I would bet he likes having the family plus he probably has Sakura." said Kakashi "Those mean more to him then the Hokage chair."

Well I am back, hope you liked this chapter. I normally update on Fridays but I decided that if my Favorite NFL team, the Cincinnati Bengals wins on Saturday I will update again so you get an early chapter. I would like to thank everyone who reviewed and I ask that you keep reading, Thanks Wilkins75