Chapter 40 Panic and Offers.
Tsunade was having a restless night as she looked out over the five massive fires which was filling the parts of the leaf.
"What is the situation out there?" asked Tsunade as she looked to the head jonnin. Normally this would be Kakashi but with him out preparing for the resistance it fell to Mighty Guy.
"We have put down the four of the five riots but the fifth is still outside of our control." stated Guy
"Have they done any real damage?" asked Tsunade as she looked to the head ANBU, this would have been Naruto but he was now a demon so the duty fell on to Sai.
"Three of the hidden entrees and exits out of the tunnel network where crushed under some of the burned buildings." stated Sai "We could have crushed the riots if you had let us go full out."
"Those people are just scared refugees if we use a hard hand we will lose all their corporation." stated Tsunade "The question is how did they find out about Naruto and the others?"
"Maybe some drunk ninja yet it slip but we can never know for sure." stated Guy
"Doesn't matter anyhow, we have more problem than that." stated Sai "Our scouts have reported that two large groups of people are heading our way."
"Why are they coming here their villages haven't been attacked?" asked Guy
"They are scared and they are looking for protection." explained Tsunade
"Our supplies are already at their limits." stated Sai
"If we use our youthful spirits we can make the sacrifices." stated Guy
"You can't eat youthfulness and we don't have places for them to sleep." stated Sai as he looked at Tsunade
"What about the other villages can we send them there?" asked Tsunade as Sai shock his head.
"They sealed their gates; they are not taking in any refuges." explained Sai "It is your call but we need to do the same or else we risk the village destroying itself before the demons arrive."
"We will betray everything the Leaf stands for if we do that." stated Guy
"We may not have a chose Daimyo is in the lead group." explained Sai as Tsunade groaned the last thing she needed was that weakling who couldn't make up with his mind unless there was either a long debate in which he never talked or the problem affect his personal luxury.
"We need those riots under control and cleaned up before he gets here." ordered Tsunade
Elsewhere in the Leaf Fay was resting her head on her sleeping mate's chest, the human lingerie she had bought earlier in the day lied on the ground. To Fay having sex as a human with human clothing was a kind of kinky but she admitted to herself that the humans sex life had one thing on demon sex life. Demons didn't have the ability to do what Itachi called a strip tease. She lifted her head up a bit to see Itachi's sleeping face, it had taken some time to convince him to do it in his old bed but it helped relax him. She was about to close her eyes when she noticed a picture on the nightstand it was a photo of him and his little brother on his shoulders as they walked through the streets. Both of them where smiling, that smiling Itachi was the one she loved the most but it was also among the hardest to bring out. When she had introduced Itachi to her parents they were not pleased that their only daughter was dating him, however after Itachi won a sparing section with her father they came around.
"I love you Itachi." whispered Fay as she snuggled even closer to Itachi, sleeping as a human always made her feel cold luckily her mate-in-waiting was there and hopefully soon she could drop the in waiting part and simply be mate.
Down the stairs Gamba sat in the living room looking out the window at the smoke and fire in the distance. One of his three guards were with him, the other two where upstairs and judging from the fact the sounds had come to a stop they had stopped having sex.
"Is something wrong Prince Gamba?" asked Kado as he pulled up a chair.
"Nothing." answered Gamba to the demon fox
"Nothing…ya right." answered Kado "I spent years inside a guy your age and you are thinking of something."
"Nothing just ran into one of Naruto's friends when I was eating." explained Gamba "They seem loyal to him."
"Naruto has a lot of friends from all over the world but he only has a few great friends, most of those are the kids he graduated from school with, plus their senseis, team Guy and the sand siblings." stated Kado "Can I ask who you talked too?"
"Hinata Hyuuga." answered Gamba
"Ah…her." said Kado "She is an interesting case."
"How so?" asked Gamba
"Well for the longest time she was Naruto's stalker, hiding in the corner watching and accidently running into him." explained Kado "When she got older and started hanging out with Naruto more, she gained more confidence but Naruto only really had eyes for Sakura."
"Why she seems like a nice person?" asked Gamba
"He just always loved her, at first it was the fact she was cute, then as he aged she became beautiful and he loved her attitude." explained Kado "Naruto likes someone who is strong and stand up to him, Hinata while strong loves him so much she would have let him get away with anything but this is just my personal opinion."
"I see." said Gamba "Can you tell me about Naruto's other friends?"
"Why would you want to know that?" asked Kado
"Because I don't really have friends, I have subjects I want to know what it is like." answered Gamba as Kado nodded his head and he started talking about Naruto's friends.
The sun was rising over the Leaf village as Tsunade along with Sai and Guy stood by the main gate.
"How long until he gets here?" asked Tsunade as suddenly the sound of a load trumpet filled the air. "Never mind."
Tsunade tried not to roll her eyes as the caravan of people walking their way. They held multiple colored flags in front of a large ornate carriage pulled by large white horses. Behind the carriage where carts full of clothing, art and other household items. Sitting on top of the large cart with a rather large headdress was the fire Daimyo. A large marching band was playing music so all around could hear him coming. Tsunade stood there and wait as the caravan came closer until it finally stopped as the Daimyo, the fire Daimyo was the largest land owner in Fire country and as such he was the defector ruler of fire country, however the Daimyos tended to spend most of their time relaxing and stayed out of government.
"Ah Lady Tsunade." said the Daimyo as he stepped down from his gold encrusted carriage, he stopped on the last step so that his silk shoes wouldn't get dirty. The Daimyo was a thin man with almost no muscles since he never had to work a day in his life. "It is great to return to the Leaf village, we seem to have a little problem."
"It isn't a little problem we are facing the possible extinction of the human race." Stated Tsunade as the Daimyo was taken aback by the tone of Tsunade voice, he wasn't used to people talking back to him.
"So aren't you going to let in me and give me the traditional parade and fest." Stated the Daimyo with a smile "Last time I was here I forgo the tradition because of the destruction caused by Pain so I am expecting quite a show from this visit."
"No." stated Tsunade as the Daimyo looked at her "We are in a desperate situation, our food stores are already stretched to the maximum and we can't do any of that."
"I am the Daimyo." stated the Daimyo as defiantly as he could but it sounded as weak as a scared five year old who had just been told no for the first time.
"That is why you may come in but all this crap you brought with you, your paintings, fur coats and everything else from your mansion has to stay outside. You are a refugee just like everyone else." stated Tsunade "And if you don't like it go somewhere else, we have enough problems to deal with."
"Well then, as Daimyo I hereby remove you as Hokage." stated the Daimyo before looking toward Guy "I order you to let me into the village."
"No." answered Guy "I will not follow that order and you will find no ninja will follow that order."
"See unlike you, Lady Tsunade is a leader the ninja core will follow." stated Sai "Now make your choice."
"You will regret this, I will pull all my money and all the food from my land to this village." stated the Daimyo with a grin
"Well all the food from your land as been seized in order to provide for the refugees and I don't think in the short term money will be a problem." Stated Tsunade
"You can't do that?" stated the Daimyo "The village councils will not allow it."
"The village council gave the order to me to carry it out." stated Tsunade as the Daimyo's eyes widened "And the reports from the other villages in fire country is worst then here."
"I will not forgive you and this village for these actions." stated the Daimyo as he walked back up and retook his seat onto of the carriage "Let's go."
To his amazement his massive group didn't move instead on by one everyone dropped their supplies and entered the village, soon a group of well over a hundred people was done to ten. The Daimyo looked stunned as the carriage turned around to find a place that would take him in.
"Nice job Lady Tsunade." said Sai
"Now I just have to explain it to the villagers." said Tsunade
A few hours later, Tsunade stood on a raised balcony overlooking the main street in the leaf. In order to reach everyplace in the Leaf, they had hocked up a microphone to the village wide alert speakers so everyone in the Leaf could hear Tsunade.
"Here we go." whispered Tsunade as she turned on the microphone.
"People of the Leaf village this is troubled times, we are facing the threat of demons and the possibility of losing our very humanity." stated Tsunade into the microphone as people on the street who had gathered to watch her in person. "The demons are coming to take away our humanity and our very lives. This may be the biggest threat we ever faced, but we are not facing it alone, we have our allies from the Sand beside us."
She gestured to Kankura who had taken over command of the remaining Sand forces.
"They will defend our village because for the moment this is their village too and in time we will retake the Sand village along with every nation that has fallen." lied Tsunade, there was almost no chance that they could hold the Leaf yet alone retake land "Now we have guest from every village nearby and we will protect them because that is what people with the will of fire does. To help protect us all, the government has taken the steps to take over the nearby farms and we will be placing as many refugees as we can with people with extra rooms."
"And what if those people are demons." said a new voice over the speaker as everyone looked around confused.
"What is going on?" asked Tsunade
"Attention humans, I am Kado of the Kettu pack." stated Kado as he spoke into a microphone which had been attached to the same system that Tsunade was using. "I am the son of the Malik leader on the high council of the demon foxes but you may know me better by my military rank….Kyuubi."
The word Kyuubi got every villagers attention as people started to freak out, a few screamed and the ninjas tried to track down Kado.
"Small teams of demons undercover as humans have entered your village." Stated Kado as the villagers looked at each other wondering if the refugee from the sand or another village wasn't really a demon. "In three days the combined armies of the demons will descend upon your village."
Screams filled the air as people began to panic.
"Now this doesn't have to be the end your lives, if you want to live, if you have loved ones such as Temari as the Sand or Gaara of the Desert which at this moment are becoming demons and joining our armies please either head to the wind country and we will take you or convince your leaders that resistance is pointless." stated Kado
"Temari." whispered Shikamaru as he felt a mix of joy and fear, she was alive but becoming a demon.
"If you surrender you will be treated with respect and if you are found unfit for transformation you will be allowed to live out your lives as humans." Stated Kado "for those you are transformed of the nine living demon races eight of them have lives in the millions of years. Your aging will slow so one year in human terms equal almost a million years. On top you will be given free houses, food, money and placed in a job as close to your old one as possible. The choice is simple either surrender and you all live but as a demon or fight and some will die but either way you will be transformed. The age of man is over now it is the choice between life or death."
Kado paused for a moment
"You have three days to make up your mind or we will make it up for you. Also if you should try to do anything to the Namikaze pack you are currently holding we will strike at once." stated Kado as he cut the line before moving out into the crowed who where all looking around scared fearing that demons where all around them.
"Crap." thought Tsunade as ninja rushed around trying to find the source and now dealing with people attacking refugees out of fear that they were really demons.
Unaware of what was going on outside of the base Sakura was having a good laugh with Ino as they waited for the computer to finish its chemical breakdown of the transformation agent and Sakura's blood. It was key to have those two things before they could start work on a cure.
"I mean sometimes I ask the simplest thing and Sai just looks at me confused for a second and I know he is going to go look it up in one of his book about women." laughed Ino as she sat across the table from Sakura, who was still in her demon form.
"Well at least it isn't one of the books that Jiraiya wrote." answered Sakura
"Who said it isn't." answered Ino with a grin as Sakura shook her head. "You may think I am crazy but give that old pervert some credit he thinks outside the box in some of his sex scenes."
"He fakes all the justus in his books, all those love making justus are just the product of his pervert mind." said Sakura
"So you have read his books?" asked Ino
"Naruto is my mate-in-waiting and Kakashi was my sensie how do you think I know about the stuff in his books?" asked Sakura
"Point taken." laughed Ino "But ya, some of his Justus are totally made up but I did find a few that are very possible."
"Don't tell me you created a pervert justu." said Sakura as she slammed her palm against her forehead.
"What a girl can't be perverted too?" laughed Ino "Besides Sai really likes them."
"I don't need to know this." said Sakura
"Come on forehead….Tenten, Temari and I talk about our love lives all the time." said Ino as Sakura looked at her best friend "We just didn't include you or Hinata since you didn't have boyfriends."
"You do that?" asked Sakura
"Guys talk about girls all the time, including the dirty details why not do the same?" asked Ino "Besides we try to keep it as tasteful as possible just sharing different ideas and subjections. The best places to buy the sexiest underwear, candles, which massage oils work best and some justus to spice up the fun."
"Wow…I can't believe you started that." said Sakura
"Actually it was Tenten who started it." Laughed Ino as Sakura's eyes widened "You may find it hard to believe but under that seemly calm clean woman, is one kinky person and judging from the stories so is Neji."
"I so didn't need to know any of that." said Sakura
"Tenten and the others want to visit you but apart from Tsunade and myself they aren't letting anyone in. They think it is too big of a risk." explained Ino as Sakura smiled it was nice to know that her friends wanted to talk to her.
"Do they know I am a demon?" asked Sakura as a hint of fear filled her voice.
"Do you think the fact that you and Naruto are demons really matter to us?" asked Ino
"It mattered to my mom." answered Sakura
"Give her time, she was just surprised and she isn't a ninja." explained Ino
Before Sakura answer a beeping on the computer caught both their attention as Sakura stood up and walked toward the printer just as the chemical breakdown of the transformation agent and Sakura's blood came out.
"My God…it can't be….that fucking snake knew, he knew" stated Sakura as she looked at the print out.
"What is it Sakura?" asked Ino, who had spent years training with Tsunade before changing carriers but she didn't see any problems with the samples.
"The small bit of transformation agent in my blood is totally different than the one I took from the hospital." said Sakura as she fell down into a chair and ran her hands though her fur "It's a fake…a fucking fake."
"What?" asked Ino as she looked at the print out, chemical the transformation agent was totally different the small samples inside Sakura's blood. The amount of agent left in Sakura's blood was too mixed up in blood to get a detailed amount of each chemical part but it was clear the two samples were totally different.
"The transformation agent is totally different, judging from these chemicals it is nothing ore then a cure for headaches." stated Sakura as she realized what had happened "It was a trap, Orochimaru set it up. What I thought was a lucky break was really a trap they probably set it up."
"But your blood samples?" asked Ino "Why would they knowing you could discover it was a fake."
"They didn't know I had those. They probably hoped that we would waste all our time trying to find a cure using that." added Sakura "And it will take at least a week to separate the agent from my blood, that is why we needed a pure sample."
"What are the chances of finding a defense without a pure sample?" asked Ino
"Almost the same as finding a way to turn those are already a demon into human." answered Sakura
Well I hope you liked this chapter and the little surprises I put in. The surprises with Kado speech along with Sakura/Ino's talk. Now I would like to thank everyone who reviewed and I ask that you keep on reading. Thanks Wilkins75
