Chapter 35 Breakout Part 3

In the demon village, true demons now stood along the defensive walls. The sun had set over the village as thousands of candles that lined a large courtyard outside the great shrine of the demon village where alight. The entire populous had crammed themselves into the courtyard. Each one of them holding a white wax candle. There were tears and prayers weather it be for their dead ancestors or for themselves it wasn't sure. Within sight of the people kneeling before statues of the dead head priestess including her own mother was Shion. She held no candle but all around her bright red candles glowed. She had a golden headdress on and a white flowing robes. Along the walls of the village and patrolling the streets where the demon armies, however a large group of demons had moved to watch the ceremony from nearby roofs. Only three demons took an active part in the ceremony, to the front right sitting on their knees watching the ceremony was Gamba, Fay and a tiger guard. Fay and the tiger guard didn't seem to like being there but Gamba watched with great interest, he had personally light eight candles for his father and siblings he had lost.

"This is pointless. It's a stupid human ceremony." stated Cade as the young fox sat on a rooftop overlooking the ceremony. His teammates sat beside him.

"I think it is actually quite nice and we honor our dead patch members this is just another way." said Vail with a smile as she looked at Seth "Don't you think so Seth?"

"It's ok." answered Seth as she remained quiet. Naruto stood behind leaning against a fireplace chimney watching, the citizens of sing songs about their ancestors. Slowly Shion stood up to read from one of the many scared scrolls which contained a prayer for those who had died in the past year. Even though she held the book in her hand she didn't look at it, she had memorized the prayer long ago. This freed up her pale lavender eyes scanned crowed, her eyes locked onto Naruto's more than a few times as she kept praying.

After the blessing she knelt back down for the traditional reading of those who had died in the past year.

"My Prince I think we have humored this humans long enough." stated the tiger

"No…I want to see this though." stated Gamba "Besides the other armies will need time to send their humans though processing, we can hold off a bit more."

The Kazekage of Sunagakure Gaara of the Desert was looking out over the remains of a large part of his village, it had been an hour but the demons hadn't pushed their attack. Instead they were checking for wounded and moving more solders into the village.

"Lord Kazekage we should attack." stated a young jonnin

"No…they would suicide." stated Kankura "They are still gathering their forces and the more time we give the villagers the better."

The villagers of the Sand where gathering around the Kazekage building and the main hospital. It was a state of ordered panic, everyone knew where to be but it didn't stop people from pannicing. They had been trained though village wide drills to head into the bunkers located around the Kazekage building however when they arrived the bunkers where still sealed.

"Alright listen up!" yelled Temari as she commanded the attention everyone gathered there look up at her as she stood on a small platform. "The enemy knows where the bunkers are located, so we are not going to use them."

"They are our protection!" yelled a villagers

"No…they are our decoy." stated Temari "See build by the first Kazekage is a series of four tunnels running two miles outside the village.

"We are abounding the village?" asked a villager

"It has to be done." stated Matsuri "It is either that or we are turned into demons."

That shut people up as the fear of become a demon overrode their want to stay in the village.

"Now we will move out of all four tunnels and the demons will try to get to us inside the bunkers and they will be surprised in for a surprise." stated Temari "We will be moving out in multiple teams and all head toward the Leaf hopefully Lady Tsunade has sent forces to the border to pick us up."

"Hopefully?"

"For all we know they are under attack too." stated Temari "But this is our only choice, now listen up and I will give you your tunnel and teams based off your village block."

Back in the demon village Shion had finished giving the final prayer. Technical the ceremony was over but Shion remained standing.

"My fellow citizens, this will likely be the last ceremony done in this building, we have chosen to surrender to the demons instead of fighting." said Shion as tears started to form in the corners of her eyes "I want to thank you all for allowing me to be your high priestess. It has been an honor."

Everyone lowered their heads, as the tears flowed.

"We are ready." said Shion as she looked toward Gamba, slowly he stood up and moved to stand in front of the villagers.

"Now, I understand that you are all frightened about the change from humanity to demon hood." said Gamba "I think you have the right to know why we are doing this. See millions of years ago a great war was fought between the fifteen different races, in the end only nine races came out of the war alive and they had lost their ability to have kids. Only about five out of a hundred demons can have kids, that is why we are turning you. We are trying to save ourselves and improve your lives."

"By taking away our lives!" yelled a person in the crowd

"No you will have your lives only changed." stated Gamba "I will try my best to make the transition as painless as possible, but you will becoming different races. Some off you be wolves, others horses and still others felines."

'Will we pick?" asked another person in the crowd

'You can ask the demons who process you but it is their call in the end." stated Gamba "Now you will have new neighbors, new homes and a new culture but things will be for the better however your culture will bleed into ours. Shion…that ceremony was beautiful and maybe in the race you will become you can share that with your new village. Now I ask you to calmly go pack a small bag with personal items you will want to take with you to your new home, no need to pack cloths since demons don't wear them. You have an hour."

Slowly the villagers moved out to pack their items.

"Thank you for letting us do this." said Shion as she looked at the temple "What will happen to this place?"

"Honestly it will be destroyed but if you want we can take the records and holy scrolls and books to our royal archives." stated Gamba "So the history of your people live on."

"I don't know what race I will be become." stated Shion "It may be useless to your people."

"No book is useless." stated Gamba as Shion walked off.

"My Prince you have gone too far." said the tiger

"Why?" asked Gamba "They will be getting processed within the hour and with a hundred percent captured rate with a zero lives lost. If sitting though a ceremony and giving them an hour to say goodbye to their homes and pick up photos is what that costs so be it."

"Those images will reminded them off their old life not their new life." stated the tiger

"If we take away their old life violently they will repay us with violence." stated Gamba "Now report this development to my mother and the other demons."

"Yes, sir." stated the tiger as he moved out leaving Gamba with Fay.

"You think I am crazy too?" asked Gamba

"No…my prince." stated Fay "Maybe you spent a little too much time with Itachi but that is far from a bad thing."

"Your mate is one of the few guards I truly trust." stated Gamba as he took a deep breath and rubbed his temples "My mom will not like what I did but I am not my father."

'Your father was a great king my prince but he focused on the military side of government, you don't have to worry about war as much you just have to bring multiple cultures together and bring the humans fully into the demon society." stated Fay "That is your job as our crowned prince and our future king."

"The way my mom makes it sound she just wants a grandkitten." stated Gamba

"Well as the last male of the main royal line that is your job too but your mother may be pushing for that since she lost all of her kittens but you." explained Fay

"Ya." answered Gamba "I just wish my mom realized some things mostly about the harem."

"If you are going to talk mating I recommend you talk to Itachi or another male." stated Fay as Gamba laughed a bit.

"Fine.' laughed Gamba "However I will tell you when it comes to mates I am not like my father, grandfather or any of my ancestors. I just want one girl who loves me not hundreds of girls who want to have my kitten so they can be queen."

"I understand my prince." stated Fay

The Sand ninjas knew it was only a matter of time, the demons had reformed their attack lines and where now preparing to attack again.

'Kankura I want you to take half our forces back to the defense line around the hospital." ordered Gaara as he kept his eyes locked on the gathering army, they where now spreading out around the remains of the village, stopping just outside of kunai range.

"But Gaara you can't hold this line if I take them." stated Kankura

'We can't hold this line anyhow." stated Gaara "Once you see our forces falling back I am ordering you to take the forces into the tunnels and out….head to the Leaf and fight for another day."

"You aren't planning to leave the village are you?" asked Kankura

"I am the Kazekage." answered Gaara, it was all the answer that was needed. A Kage never left the village when it was under attack, they die with the village.

"I understand." said Kankura sadly as half of the Sand Ninjas began to pull back heading to the four massive tunnels that lead out of the village.

The demon general in charge of the attack a snake named Lu, snarled his cold blood was running red hot with rage as he glared across the wasteland toward the Sand defenses.

"Are we ready?" asked Lu

"Yes, the unites that where hit had been moved to the back and we are still getting a detailed roll call, hundreds are missing believed dead." Stated a fox

"Those Damn humans." hissed Lu 'I want them dead."

"Sir our orders." started the fox

"I said I want them dead, I will settle with them replacing our armies." stated Lu "Do we think they will set more traps like the ones they placed?"

'Unknown but the wolves have put some of their best trackers up they can smell the paper bombs, we had planned to save them to hunt down the humans once we took the village." stated the fox

"Why weren't they in the lead to begin with?" asked Lu

"They are trained in tracking not combat and the wolves only have a handful." stated the Fox "However they can track you across any terrain."

"Alright, put them in front of our forces and make sure they are heavily guarded." ordered Lu

"Yes, sir."

To the south of the Sand village an old door hidden under layers of sand was forced open.

"We got it open." Whispered a Sand ANBU as Matsuri moved outside. She scanned the area in front of the entrees only to find it abounded.

"Alright you two follow me." ordered Matsuri as she moved up a large Sand dune that hid the tunnel exit from site from the village. As she and the two ninjas neared the top they got down so they wouldn't be spotted. A large group of demons less than a hundred yards away, most seamed wounded and where resting, no one eyes where looking toward them.

"My God." whispered the female ninja to her right

"We can hit them." stated the other ninja

"No." ordered Matsuri "The villagers are our objective and an attack will put that at risk." Stated Matsuri "Let's get them out of here…we can strike back later."

"Alright." stated the ninja as the three of them started down the sand dune.

"Let's get moving." ordered Matsuri as the villagers started to pour out of the southern tunnel "Keep it quite."

The villagers followed their orders as they kept the noise down as they where lead into the pitch dark desert. To the North and East villagers were also pouring out of the tunnels the demons none the wiser only the western exit remained closed.

Back in the center of the village Temari was still trying to get the villagers outside, the blast that had killed hundreds of demons had also caused a cave in, in one of the tunnels leading out of the village.

"We need to get that tunnel open!" yelled Temari as she ran the numbers though her head; it would take an extra two and a half hours to get the villagers out if they didn't get that tunnel open.

"Temari what is the situation!" yelled Kankura "I thought these people would be gone by now."

"The west tunnel fell in on itself we are working to open it up." explained Temari

"How long?" asked Kankura

"We are though!" yelled a voice as the crowd started moving into the Kazekage building basement, there in the lowest level was the entrees to the tunnels.

"There is your answer." stated Temari "You know what tunnel you are heading out from?"

"I got North and Gaara has East." stated Kankura as he looked at his older sister, he couldn't bring himself to say what both of them knew that Gaara had no plans to leave. He would seal the tunnels off before taking as many demons as he could down before dyeing himself.

"You should be going you are in charge of west tunnel." said Kankura as his sister hugged him.

"I know I don't say this enough but I love you Kankura." said Temari

"You have to maintain your tough girl self….kinds of reminds me of mother." said Kankura as he hugged her back. "Good luck."

"See you in the Leaf." stated Temari as she moved out.

Out in the field the demons where moving forward when suddenly one of the tracking wolves raised his hand.

"Stop." ordered the wolf as he placed his ear to the ground.

"What is?" asked a horse

"I hear footsteps, human footsteps." stated the wolf

"How could you its human?" asked a bear

"We don't wear shoes." stated the tracking wolf "They are moving underground."

"What?" asked another wolf

"I can hear them underground." stated the tracking wolf "We need to tell command."

It only took a few minutes for the information to get back to General Lu

"Sir one of the teams report hearing human movement underground." stated an aid

"Impossible we got the map of the village that they handed over to the samurai village during their war we have all the tunnels leading out from the village cover." stated Lu "Tell them to push the attack."

Underground Temari had pushed her way to the front of the rush of people. The west tunnel was the shortest of all the four tunnels that is why most of the forces who were using this tunnel was ninja, the civilians where funneled into the longer tunnels that took them away from the village. Temari reached the front just as they reached the exit.

"We are here." stated an ANBU as Temari nodded her head.

"Open it." Ordered Temari as they pushed the door opened. Her along with every ninjas eyes widened as they saw what was in front of them, their sitting down on what looked like camping stools eating and resting up was a large group of demons. The demons seamed more surprise then the humans a few dropped their forks with their food still on it.

"Humans!" yelled a horse as demons who hadn't noticed them before turned and look at them.

"Crap." answered Temari as she ran the situation though her head. It took only a few seconds to come up with the outcome, they were trapped it was either death or demon hood. Well she knew what her choice would be as she pulled her mother's war fan from her back. Behind her the other ninjas pulled their weapons.

Back in the sand village things where not looking good Gaara had already pulled back to the final defense line which was just a block away. The demons where moving fast but careful they didn't want to get caught in another trap.

"Sir we have to fall back!" yelled an ANBU only to get flung into the wall by a demon wind attack; he turned around to see the last villager moving into the Kazekage building and into the tunnels. He turned back to see demons pulling humans back toward their lines to become members of the demon army. They had been playing a game for time and he had given them the time to escape, it was time for the village bunkers to play their role. Hopefully it would take hours for the demons to break though the two foot thick steel doors that lead to the bunker network.

"Head into the tunnels." ordered Gaara, the remaining ANBU ran toward the tunnels. The original plan was for Gaara to head into his tunnel sealing the exit behind him but he had another plan. He would die with the Sand. He moved up the stairs of the Kazekage building, below he could hear the demons heading toward the bunkers located beside the hospital. He knew they would head there first before checking the other buildings thinking they now had the humans trapped. Finally he reached the top of the Kazekage building. He stopped for a moment looking at what had become the village, part of the village was gone, still other parts where burning from stoves, candles or some other source of heat left unattended. His thoughts turned to Matsuri a love he would never feel her touch again and his siblings who he had terrorized before he learned to love. His friends in the leaf, he would never see them again and his villagers.

"Goodbye." whispered Gaara as he channeled every bit of charka into the surrounding sand. The entire ground rocked as four monsters walls of sand rose up. The wall of sand rose up all around Sunagakure, there was no escape and the demons would die at his hands. He raised his hands to bring the sand as high as he could so it could crush the demons however he would never get the chance. As suddenly he felt his entire body get wrapped up, his hands where pulled to his sides not allowing him to finish the justu.

"Did you really think we would let you kill us and yourself." hissed a snake as Gaara looked around he had been wrapped up, the was caught like a prey enemy. Without Gaara controlling the attack the sand simply fell to earth hurting no one "You are ours now."

Outside the village a demons where moving the captured humans from the tunnel and putting them with the regular ones. They had already started processing the humans.

"Do we have an id for this one?" asked one of the doctors

"Yes…I know her." stated a new voice as an orange fox with black marks around the eyes and ears moved forward.

"Who is she Kado?" asked the doctor as Kado moved toward the knocked out human, some blood covered her face.

"That is Temari of the desert one of the smartest ninjas in the world." stated Kado "We need her processed right away, the sooner she is turned the sooner we know what Shikamaru is planning and therefore the Leaf."

"We will take her at once." stated the doctor

"Make sure they know it is a package deal, her and her mate-in-waiting Shikamaru Nara." stated Kado

"We will." stated the doctor "What race do you think she will be?"

"Unknown, the wolves, foxes, bears and horses are interested in her and Shikamaru." explained Kado as he looked at Temari wondering what race would get her, she was a top prize and worth a lot in trade.

In demon country the humans had been gathered in the village main street, they had small bags containing their personal items such as photos and family heirlooms.

"Alright let's take these humans out." Stated Fay as the humans where lead toward the transportation seals that would take them to the demon hospital to be processed.

"This mission was pointless we didn't do anything." stated Cade as the four of them walked past Fay.

"I wouldn't say that." stated Naruto as he looked at Fay. "Fay can I ask you to do me a favor?"

"Sure what?" asked Fay

"Make sure these two get home safe." stated Naruto as he looked at Cade and Vail.

"What are you talking about Naruto-sensie?" asked Vail

"You will see." said Naruto as he disappeared in a puff of smoke, Seth also disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Shadow clones." stated Fay as she looked east toward fire country "How far are you ahead of us?"

Miles away from the demon village Naruto was running as fast as he could across the forest floor, normally he would be jumping from tree branch to tree branch but he found he wanted to dig his toe claws into the branches which threw him off balance. He turned his head to see Seth knocked out on his back.

Flashback

"They are surrendering." laughed Seth as he stood beside his brother; his two teammates had gone to get their food from the mess.

"Yes, they are." said Naruto with a smile "Seth I just want you to know I love you."

'Thanks big brother." Said Seth with a smile as Naruto lowered his head as he pushed a needle containing the knock out drug Sakura had stolen into his brother's neck.

"Sorry Seth." Said Naruto as he picked up his brother leaving two shadow clones behind, one looking just like him the other like his brother.

End Flashback

"I hope you can forgive me Seth." stated Naruto as he jumped the river marking the boarder between demon and fire country in a single leap. He stopped for a moment as a scent crossed his nose, he turned around just in time to see the rest of his pack coming toward him.

"You made it." said Sakura as she hugged Naruto.

"Ya…shadow clone switch." explained Naruto as they walked into the woods to provide some cover as they took a rest, he placed Seth down so his parents could take a look at their youngest kit. "Good to see you all made it."

"We haven't made it yet, not yet." answered Adria "They can still chase us down and we still have to get to the Leaf."

"I don't think that will be a problem." stated Naruto as he suddenly moved his head just a bit to see an ANBU ninja standing there with a kunai in hand.

"Hello Hinata." said Naruto

"Demon where did you take my Naruto-kun?" demanded Hinata as she raised her sword; Sakura growled a bit as she called her mate, her own.

"I know it is dark but really?" laughed Naruto a bit as he slowly began to change back into a human form, each step caused Hinata's eyes to widened.

"Naruto-kun?" asked Hinata as she looked back to see the foxes changing, one was now Sakura others looked like the 4th Hokage, the other two looked like mother and daughter with deep red hair, only the smallest black fox remained a fox.

"Yes, Hinata it's me…now will you stop pointing that weapon at my pack?" asked Naruto

Well I hope you liked this chapter, I will away this weekend so I will likely not be able to update on Friday like I normally do and I may be late on my Monday's update. I would like to thank everyone who reviewed and I ask that you keep on reading. Thanks Wilkins75.