Chapter 25 Not so Black and White

Sakura walked down a long stone hallway past long lines of demon fox guards as she followed another vixen deeper into Fox Mountain.

"So where is this hospital?" asked Sakura as the blue vixen turned and looked at her.

"Listen human, I was assigned to get you to the center but I don't want to talk to you." answered the vixen before turning back around and walked down the stairs until they reached a large wooden door with metal inlays. Standing by the door where guards who opened the door Sakura found herself in a huge room. It was by far the most massive single room that Sakura had ever seen; it had to cover at least half a mile with a huge dome made of solid stone which had to be at least a hundred feet above the flat mirror like stone floor. Dozens of guards where standing around watching everything.

"Wow." said Sakura

"Impressed Human…." laughed the vixen

"Why do you call me human? I am a demon just like you." asked Sakura as he eyes widened at what she had just said.

"No you are a sub species of demons and your over springs are just a step above your kind." stated the vixen "We should have let our kind die out instead of polluting our bloodlines with human crossovers. Now stand here."

"What is this?" asked Sakura as the two of them came to a stop.

"It's a transport seal." Stated the vixen as Sakura looked around what she thought was flat mirror smooth stone floor was really divided into sixteen different smaller circles each a different color. Deep red lines of chakra began to appear on the floor around them. "It will transport us to the matching seal located at the processing center."

"Kind of reminds me of Minato's flying thunder-god technique." stated Sakura as she remembered reading the reports from the third world war.

"Whatever that is….all that matters is that we can get there in a hurry." stated the vixen as a blinding flash of red flight filled the air as Sakura felt her feet leave the ground a second later they landed back on the ground. When the light faded Sakura looked around only to find herself in a totally different location, she was standing on top of compacted dirt. She looked around to see massive stone walls surrounded a court yard with an even larger building in front of them. It was at least seven times the size of the Hokage building but there was nothing friendly about this building. The windowless building was painted a dark grey with guard towers on the top. Sakura looked around to see that there where guards everywhere, they where all different races. It was the first time she had seen the races apart from foxes and snakes in real life, however because of the medical book she knew about the races.

"It's a prison." thought Sakura as she moved toward the heavy metal doors. The two guards by the door placed their hands on some seals as they unlocked the door letting the two demon foxes in. Waiting the moment they walked into the building was a white snake with deep yellow eyes.

"Well…Sakura Haruno it has been a while hasn't it." said the snake

"Orochimaru." growled Sakura as she showed her teeth.

"Now…there is no need for that now, considering we are on the same side now." stated Orochimaru "Considering I now have everything I want."

"Somehow I dough that." stated Sakura

"I am alive and I now have a life span of millions of years." stated Orochimaru "On top of that I have been promised that when my time is almost up I can use my living Corpse Reincarnation justu, so I will live even longer."

"You are a monster." stated Sakura

"In a way but I among my own kind." laughed Orochimaru as he looked at the other vixen "You can get to work I will handle our newest doctor."

It took all of Sakura's restraint not to attack Orochimaru as the two of them started down one of the long walkways.

"So how are you enjoying being a demon?" asked Orochimaru

"I will be better once you leave me alone." stated Sakura

"You know some of the snake higher ups wanted you to be Sasuke's mate." said Orochimaru as Sakura felt sick to her stomach as the idea of her as a snake. "I am glad that they didn't, you wouldn't have fitted in with us."

"I am fitting in fine with Naruto-kun's pack and being a demon." stated Sakura

"You like Naruto fit better with the foxes but you wouldn't fit into snake culture." Laughed Orochimaru

"What are you talking about?" asked Sakura

"Let's just say I get to study the dead bodies of the humans to study their justus I have learned a lot from Onoki's body. So many lovely justus both human and demons I will master them all." Stated Orochimaru "The chancellery supports in the open all the items I was thrown out of the Leaf for."

"You make me sick." stated Sakura

"I don't really care." stated Orochimaru as they came a stop by one of the doors "You will be working down this way."

"What is my job?" asked Sakura as they walked into the room to see lines of humans of both sexes, each one of them where locked up in cells with clear reinforced glass. Sakura could see some of them where yelling at the top of their lungs but thanks to sound proofing the demons didn't hear a sound. Others were attacking the glass but it stayed firm while others simply cried. "Am I working with them?"

"No…they are still being processed, you are working with another group." stated Orochimaru as they reached an evaluator at the end of the room "You will be working with the human orphans."

"The orphans?" asked Sakura

"Yes, did you think we saved every human who died in the war?" laughed Orochimaru "We have over a five hundred orphans from the villages we took. We expect over a hundred thousand war orphans alone by the time we finish taking the human world."

"Did you demons plan the war to make these orphans?" asked Sakura "They have been pulling the strings for a long time."

"They set the stage and let the humans play on it, the humans did it to themselves." stated Orochimaru as the elevator came to a stop on one of the floor. The doors opened to show a long hallway with a desk at the end. As the two of them walked/slithered toward the door Sakura could see that the doors which normally lead to hospital rooms lead to rooms each containing two kids of different ages. They looked afraid just like the adults downstairs. They neared the desk as Sakura spotted a nursery full of crying babies with demons trying to take care of them but they still kept crying. Seeing Orochimaru the four nurses came out a snake, a wolf, bear and a lion came out of different places and looked at Orochimaru and Sakura

"Please listen up." stated Orochimaru as the demon nurses looked at them "This is Sakura Haruno, a recently turned human she will be in charge of this department."

"What…in charge?" thought Sakura as the demons turned to look at her.

"You will follow here orders." stated Orochimaru without another word Orochimaru turned and slithered out of the area leaving Sakura alone with the nurses.

"So Sakura is it?" asked the female demon snake with the lime green and black diamond pattern "What do you want us to do?"

"What is going on?" asked Sakura

"Well the babies will not stop crying and they are refusing to feed." Stated the demon lion as Sakura looked toward the nursery where the babies where no longer crying but no demons were inside the room.

"Then there are the older humans who are fighting us every time we enter the room." stated the wolf

"They won't even let us talk to them." stated the bear

"I have an idea.' said Sakura as she moved toward the nursery door as her fur started to disappear as she turned back to human form.

"What are you doing?" asked the snake

"Testing an idea." said Sakura as she walked into the room but the babies didn't start crying. Slowly Sakura picked up the nearest one a girl and rocked her a bit.

"They would fight us when we tried to pick them up? How are you doing it?" asked the wolf

"These are human babies, they want to be held but by their own kind." explained Sakura "Demon form just scares them. The older kids are probably just as scared maybe walking around in human form will help."

"Alright." said the nurses

"What is the next problem?" asked Sakura

"The first families will arrive in a couple of hours to talk to the kids." said the snake "their files are in your office."

"I have an office?" asked Sakura

In the Leaf Tsunade wasn't looking forward to doing what had to be done. A knock at the door caused her to look up from her desk.

"Enter." ordered Tsunade as a woman with long black hair and deep red eyes entered the room.

"You wanted to see me Lady Tsunade." said one of the instructors at the ninja academy and former sensei of team eight, Kurenai Yuhi.

"Yes, Kurenai." said Tsunade "Please sit down."

"Is this about the demons?" asked Kurenai as she sat down across the 5th Hokage.

"Yes." answered Tsunade

"If you are looking for the evacuation plan we put in place for the academy we gave it to Shikamaru early this morning." explained Kurenai

"It isn't that." said Tsunade as she took a deep breath "Some of this information can't leave this room but from the intelligence we have it is likely that Asuma was taken by the demons."

Kurenai's eyes widened at the news that her lover and father of her three year old daughter could be alive. When Tsunade said that people had been taken she believed that the demons could only have taken the so many people, the best of the best and Asuma while a great ninja wasn't the best of the best.

"Asuma is alive?" asked Kurenai

"We don't know for sure." said Tsunade 'But his name is on a list of people they wanted to take. I thought you would want to know."

"Thank you Lady Tsunade." said Kurenai "Anything else?"

"Kurenai I know this is a lot to take in but I thought you should know." said Tsunade

"I am just wondering what Asuma became?" stated Kurenai "Did he move on to some demon woman since he hasn't seen me since before his daughter was born."

"I wish I had the answers for you Kurenai but I don't think Asuma would fall for another woman he isn't that sort of guy." said Tsunade "He is probably trying to escape at this very moment so he can get back to you and his daughter.'

"He doesn't even know he has a daughter." stated Kurenai

Hours later and a lot of paper work later Sakura was no closer to getting her hands on a sample of the transformation agent, in fact after looking over her duties it was to monitor the humans medical needs and make sure they go to good families. Sakura opened the door to one of the cell like rooms only to have the four girls in the room stand up. They relaxed a bit when they say Sakura in her human form.

"Hello." Said Sakura as she looked at the four girls, three seemed to be between eight and nine with the last girl being ten or eleven.

"Thank good a human not one of those things." said the older girls

"I am not going to lie to you." said Sakura "I am one of those things."

"What?" asked the older girl as she pushed the younger girls behind her to protect them.

"I understand you're scared, I was scared when I learned about the demons." said Sakura

"Is that what you are?" asked the older girl

"What is your name?" asked Sakura already knowing the answer.

"Dacia." stated the older girl "From Iwagakure."

"Well my name is Sakura Haruno from Konohagakure." Stated Sakura as the girl's eyes widened.

"But you're a demon?" asked Dacia

"Until a few days ago I was a human." Said Sakura "That is what the demons want, they want to turn humans into demons like them."

"Why would they do that?" asked Dacia

"Because they are dying and they are trying to save their races." said Sakura

"What going to happen to us?" asked one of the younger girls

"There are couples coming to adopt you." said Sakura

"No one wants us, we are too old….they only want younger cute kids." said one of the younger girls.

'Our they just have kids of their own." said yet another one of the girls as all four of them looked down.

"Natural born demons can't have kids of their own." explained Sakura "Couples don't care if they get a newborn or an older kid they just want to have a child. There is over a seventy five families trying to get each of you."

"So we will have a family?" asked the girl

"Yes." answered Sakura "But you will be demons."

"Do we get to pick what we become?" asked one of the younger girls as Sakura's eyes widened a bit.

"You aren't afraid of to lose humanity?" asked Sakura

"We will have a family." said another girl

"I always wanted a family, a mother….a father." said yet another girl

"So do we get to pick?" asked Dacia

"You will get to pick but they will look like I do now, human." said Sakura

"I don't want to be an insect." said one of the girls

"I don't want to be a snake but a family is a family." stated Dacia

"You don't have to worry about being an ant; they are the only race that doesn't want orphans unless they have a certain blood protein." said Sakura "And you all don't have it."

"Sakura you are needed outside." said a voice as Sakura turned to see the demon snake in the doorway.

"Alright." said Sakura as she stood up.

"When will we have our families?" asked Dacia

"We hope to everyone placed within a week." answered Sakura

"After 11 years without a family I can wait a week." said Dacia with a smile as Sakura left the room locking the door behind her.

"What is it?" asked Sakura

"We are about to change the babies I thought you would want to see it" said the nurse.

Sakura changed back to her demon form as they neared the nursery, there where lines of couples of all the demon races already waiting. The only race missing were the ants.

"Why are they here, even if you start the change it will take days for them children to turn." said Sakura

"Actually since the kids are under a year old they change almost instantly.' explained the nurse "Their bodies and chakra network are so early in their growth that the change is not resisted at all."

"I see." said Sakura as the both of them stopped in front of the glass. Sakura's eyes widened as she saw that the dozens of babies who were less than one years old were divided into six equal groups. "Shouldn't there be eight since there are eight races who want kids?"

"The Demon cats have to share a group." explained the snake as the demon nurses who had turned into human with a transformation justu moved and started to inject the babies with the transformation agent. Sakura watched as the kids started to change very fast. Almost instantly fur started to grow in on all of them apart from the future snakes who had their skin turn to scales. The most of the babies seamed to sleep right though it as they turned from being human to demon. Sakura turned to see one of the groups just as their tails grew in.

"Future foxes right there.' said the nurse as Sakura looked around, babies ears where moving and for the soon to be snakes their legs fused together into a tail. They would never walk on their natural human legs they would slither. Once the changes where done changing the nurses began to hand them out to the demon couples who had been waiting millions of years to have children.

"Thank you." said a lioness with tears in her eyes as she held her new son in her arms as her mate smiled. It took only a few minutes for the demon couples to clear out with their new children in hand.

"Well that is enough for today…tomorrow we start with the older kids." said the snake

"You never told me your name." said Sakura

"Caci." answered the Snake "I am Sasuke's future wife."

"I see." said Sakura "Does Sasuke know about it or is it your dream?"

"A dream that will become reality." stated Caci

"Great a fan girl, just what I need to deal with." thought Sakura as she looked back to the nurses inside the nursery who where locking up the transformation agent on a small medical cart. They then rolled the cart out of the room right past her before heading toward the elevator "I also need to get my paws on that transformation agent."

I hope you liked this chapter. A few people have asked if I was going to make this a harem story because I have it listed as Naruto/Sakura and others. I would like to explain that, the others mean other couples such as Minato/Kushina, Shikamaru/Temari, Sai/Ino and others which will be shown in later chapter. I would like to thank everyone who reviewed and I ask that you keep on reading. Thanks Wilkins75