Chapter 44 The Day it all Changes

Sleep came to no one within the walls of the Leaf village, both adults and kids couldn't sleep and those who could find sleep normally woke up more tired than when they had gone to bed. Still no matter how much they wish it didn't come the sun rose over the Leaf village marking the last day that the demons gave the leaf village before they would attack. Some spent their night caring for scared kids, while others spent their time making love. One of the couples who had spent the night together was Ino and her boyfriend Sai. The fall sun was just poking their way through the window as Ino turned her head just a bit to see Sai. She had to smile as she looked at him sound asleep, he seemed so peaceful like Naruto, Sai had rough childhood being raised by Root trained to be a killer with no remorse. Only after joining team seven did he start to develop a personality. For a moment Ino just smiled as she remembered what they did last night however her smile disappeared as she realized that this could easily be their last night together as humans or even alive for that matter.

"Is something wrong beautiful?" asked Sai

"Just worried about tonight, they can launch their attack at anytime and you and I both know we can't stop them." said Ino

"We can't stop them now but in time." said Sai "What group where you assigned too?"

Ino took a breath, it was something neither one of them had asked but it was so important. The ninjas had been assigned into different groups based on which wall and which section of the village they where suppose to defend. Unknown to most the higher number you where on the more likely you where to get out of the Leaf using the maze of dozens old underground river tunnels that ran almost ten miles underground before coming above ground.

"I was assigned to group 20 South." stated Ino "Right next to the Hokage building. I think you know what that means."

"They are having you work with Sakura until the end." said Sai "I was assigned to group one north."

"That is the main gate." stated Ino as Sai nodded his head. "That is where they will hit first."

"I know." answered Sai "It is also the place Naruto would be if he could be, I am ANBU commander now I have to be there."

"I know but it still doesn't make me happy." said Ino as the siren went off cause both of them to jump up both but naked. Only after listening for a moment did they realize it was the call for the evacuation into the bunkers of the civilians.

"I guess we are both on edge." laughed Ino as she started getting ready. Their apartment seemed a little empty because Ino had packed up most of their personal items into different sealing scrolls. The scrolls where very useful allowing a person to carry up to fifty small to median sized items in a single scroll. They had prepared three scrolls each, one set had weapons and different supplies, the second set had their clothing and the last one had personal items photos and the like.

"I guess." answered Sai as he got dressed.

"This could be our last day as humans." said Ino

"Yes…it could very well be." answered Sai

"Your suppose to say something to make me feel better." said Ino

"I would be lying and lying to the person you love the most is never right." explained Sai as the two of them sat on either side of the bed putting on their shoes. "Feel I have to tell you something Ino."

"What?" asked Ino

"No matter what happens, I will always love you." said Sai "Demon…human or in death it will not matter to me."

"I love you too Sai." answered Ino as she moved her head and pulled him into a deep kiss.

All over the Leaf village villagers where being moved though the streets toward the bunkers located in and around the Hokage mountain. They had started the evacuation with the people around the outer wall and working their way into the upper class parts of the village. Inside the Hyuuga main house Hinata woke up from a very long night, every time she went asleep she forced herself back awake because of her dreams about Gamba.

"I have to force that demon out of my head." ordered Hinata to herself as she walked toward her father's room. "He is an enemy no matter what happens."

She paused for a moment to gather her thoughts before knocking on the door.

"Enter." said Hiashi as Hinata walked into the room to find her father sitting up in his bed.

"Father, it is time for you and the elders to head to the bunkers." said Hinata as Hiashi nodded his head.

"Thank you." said Hiashi like most of the powerful clans the Hyuuga clan had a series of underground tunnels which ran under their massive clan compound. Inside the underground clan records and secrets could be stored and protected, also located underground was a series of five small bunkers which would be used by the Hyuuga elders and leaders. Hinata was about to turn and leave when her father spoke up again. "Hinata we don't stand a chance do we?"

"There is always a chance father, people thought we didn't stand a chance against Pain when he attack but we defeated him." stated Hinata

"We didn't defeat him, Naruto did." stated Hiashi "This time there will be no Naruto to save us, why I hated that boy for so long I never will understand."

"Physically Naruto will not be able to help us but he will help in spirit." said Hinata as her father raised an eyebrow.

"True, he has changed the Leaf ninja core but something else I find interesting you called him Naruto not your traditional Naruto-kun?" asked Hiashi as Hinata lowered her head. For years Hiashi looked down at her love for Naruto, considering him a demon on top of being from a low clan. Then came his battle against Pain and finding out he came from the Namikaze clan. The Namikaze clan wasn't an old or even that powerful clan but being a hero and the son of the 4th Hokage made up for that in her father's eyes. Over the years he had come to support his daughter's wish to become Naruto's girlfriend and later wife.

"He is with Sakura now father." explained Hinata as Haishi lowered his head a bit.

"I am sorry to hear that Hinata, how are you taking it?" asked Haishi

"Must be pretty good because she was saying a boys name in her sleep." stated her sister Hanabi as she stepped into the room "And it wasn't Naruto's."

"Hanabi, that is none of your business." said Hinata to her fifteen year old sister

"Sorry but you kept saying his name though the wall…Gamba I think." said Hanabi

"Gamba strange name, who is he?" asked Haishi "Is he a ninja from the Leaf?"

"Not one I know of." stated Hanabi

"He isn't from the Leaf." stated Hinata as she lowered her head "I was tricked father."

'How so?" asked Haishi

"He isn't even human, he is a demon pretending to be a human." said Hinata as her father's and sister's eyes widened a little bit. "I met him once by accident and had a dinner with him nothing more."

"I see, we all make mistakes." said Haishi

"So you fell for a demon?" laughed Hanabi "What was he a spy or something like that."

"You could call him that but it seems he is their prince." said Hinata as Hanabi stopped laughing as her father's eyes widened.

"They have a prince?" asked Hanabi

"Well according to Naruto and his family Gamba is the crowned prince of the demon lion royal family and rules over the three races of the demon cats." explained Hinata "Three of the nine races that are currently plotting to take us over."

"Oh…that is." said Hanabi only to be interrupted by a knock at the front door. Hinata looked at the clock.

"Crap, I am late for patrol." stated Hinata

"Hanabi will you make sure dad and the elders get into the bunkers?" asked Hinata

"Sure." sand Hanabi as Hinata left the house but not before stopping to look at her mother's photo near the door.

Meanwhile across the village Sakura looked out of her apartment window for the first time in a long time. All around the outside of the small apartment was ANBU guards to make sure they didn't escape. She had moved out from the apartment she used to share with Ino a few months ago when Sai had moved in.

"So this is where you lived?" asked Adria as she looked out window at the humans moving though the busy streets all heading toward the bunkers.

"Ya." answered Sakura as she looked at Adria, the council had to be convinced to let her out into the village and part of that condition was that Naruto and her couldn't go at the same time or together. Kushina had pointed out that Adria should go, to see the Leaf village. She didn't want to add before the leaf village fell but it was clear.

"I mean it isn't much." said Sakura as she walked past her one bedroom/living room area into the small kitchen. "However I found myself spending most of my time either at the hospital or away on missions."

"Trying to grow something?" asked Adria as she touched a hanging spider planet.

"Ya…I am not as good as my friend Ino but I try a bit." laughed Sakura as she started to place items inside the scrolls, normally she would have packed cloths first but she didn't think she would need much if any. She packed some cloths that meant something to her, a dress her mom had bought for the victory ball at the end of the war for one. Mostly she was packing away photos and other personal items.

"So this is team seven?" asked Adria as she picked up the photo of team seven when they were genin. Sakura looked at the image of herself, along with Naruto, Kakashi and Sasuke.

"The original team seven back when we were happy." said Sakura as she took the photo in her hands and looked at herself and her teammates "Hard to image then it would come to this."

"Kind of reminds me of my pack training photo." said Adria as she looked out the window toward the outer wall "They are probably out there right now."

"Nothing we can really do about that." said Sakura as she sealed the photo away inside the scroll.

"I always wanted to see the Leaf village like this." said Adria as she walked to the window "When they brought me here the first time and when we came together they used an ANBU tunnel entrees."

"Probably blown up now so the demons can't use it." said Sakura as she kept packing.

"I remember mom and dad telling me story about this place, the school where they met a park bench where they kissed for the first time. The Leaf village seemed like this wonderful place full of happy people living their lives." explained Adria "I used to dream about coming here, seeing my older brother and being a leaf ninja."

"And what do you think now?" asked Sakura

"It is nothing like I dreamed." said Adria as she looked down to see people pushing each other in the street and calling each other names. "This people seem so rude and then there is what they did to my brother."

"They are scared." answered Sakura

"Doesn't make it right." answered Adria "Also it just doesn't feel right. I mean take a look at the Hokage Mountain, when I see my father's human face I doesn't look right to me."

"You know him as he is now." explained Sakura

"Ya…but it still doesn't fit right." stated Adria "I know Seth would probably rub it in my face, but I am starting to think coming here was a mistake."

"You mean to the Leaf?" asked Sakura already knowing the answer

"Yes." answered Adria "What do you think?"

Sakura lowered her head telling Adria even she was having second thoughts.

"Nothing we can do about it now." explained Sakura as she packed away the last of the items she wanted. She had more items at her mom's house but she would send Ino to get them she didn't want to see her mom.

It was shortly after lunch when Naruto was allowed to go to his apartment; Sakura was back at work in the medical research room trying to find one last insight on the transformation process before the attack. Naruto walked up the flight of stairs toward his apartment his mom and younger brother a few steps behind him.

"This is where you lived?" asked Seth as he noticed several ANBU ninjas watching him from the rooftops.

"Ya, it was the only place that would take me after the orphanage and even though I could move I didn't. The Land lord took a risk by housing me for so long seems like I should return the favor." answered Naruto as he passed a doorway which had to have at least fifty empty bottles of shake just sitting by the door. The sound of crying children could be heard though the walls as they reached Naruto's door, he stopped for a moment as he looked at the door lock. "Maybe it would be better if you stay outside."

"If you are worried about a mess I don't care." said Kushina as she pushed open the door. Her eyes widened to see the entire apartment had been torn apart the walls had been spray painted with words like Die demon child and rot in hell.

"My God." said Kushina as she walked over the broken glass from every dish that Naruto had in his kitchen.

"Humans." stated Seth

"Well they never destroyed that before." said Naruto as he looked at the cabinets which had ripped off the walls before being broken into dozens of small pieces.

"This is normal?" asked Kushina

"It hasn't happen in nine years or so." explained Naruto as he kicked a piece of broken wood across the floor.

"How could you support the humans after they do this?" asked Seth "They are monsters."

"Nothing we can do about it now." answered Naruto as he pushed away the broken couch showing the wood panel floor under it.

"What are you doing?" asked Seth as he watched his brother pull up some of the floor boards.

"A habit I just couldn't stop." explained Naruto as he pulled out a few small tokens from his early childhood, a small blue blanket, a wooden toy kunai, the original photo of team seven. He had kept a copy out of his little makeshift safe, the original he kept safe.

"What is the point of all this crap?" asked Seth

"Well the blanket I had ever since I could remember." explained Naruto "I used to hold it close for protection."

Unaware to Naruto Kushina lowered her head, protection that was something she as his mother should have given him not some dirty piece of cloth which looked more like a dish rag.

"I found the kunai in the trash when I was six." said Naruto as he held the old wooden toy in his hands.

"Why where you the trash?" asked Seth

"I saw someone throw in an uneaten candy bar in the trash. It was my first piece of chocolate." explained Naruto more to himself then to his mother or brother as Kushina's guilt filled up hearing her son had to go though trash for a piece of candy. "I found it in the trash, I felt powerful like I one of the ninjas who jumped across the rooftops above my head. It was then I decided to be a ninja."

"Naruto." said Kushina weakly as Naruto turned to see tears filling his mom's eyes.

'Mom." said Naruto as he jumped to his feet and placed his hands on her shoulder "What is wrong?"

"I failed you." said Kushina "I am a horrible mother."

"No…no you are not." said Naruto

"Yes, I am what sort of mother lets their child eat out of the garage when they have full plates of food." stated Kushina

"It wasn't your fault mom." said Naruto as he pulled his mom into a hug "If you could have been here you would have."

"It's the human fault for how they treated Naruto mom." said Seth "They were the ones who miss treated Naruto and did this to his apartment."

Neither Naruto nor Kushina said anything as Naruto pulled away before grabbing the few small items and anything else in his room which hadn't been destroyed which wasn't much.

"Come on let's get out of here." said Naruto as the three of them started to leave; Naruto didn't even try to lock the door he had no plan to return.

"No offense Naruto but your den sucks." said Seth

"That isn't my den…not anymore." stated Naruto

It was almost super time as all the Leaf ninja in combination with the remaining Sand ninjas moved to their defenses positions. There were not expecting any attacks until at least midnight but it never hurt to be ready.

"How are you here?" asked Neji as he stopped by at one of the many weapon center spread out thought out the Leaf.

"We got over a thousand kunai, five boxes of throwing stars and a dozen boxes of paper bombs." stated a jonnin

"Good." stated Neji as he noticed a large group of people moving through the streets away from the safety of the bunkers.

"What in the world?" asked the jonnin as the people marched past; it was a mix of people of all different ages. "Are they heading to the main gate?"

"I have to inform the Hokage." stated Neji as he ran toward the Hokage who was by the main gate looking over the defenses.

Lady Tsunade had changed out of her normal cloths into something more befitting the coming battle. A simple black jonnin jacket and ninja pants with her rank on her shoulder. Like all her ninjas she wore a strong but light body armor which could stop an average thrown kunai from going into the skin. Some of her ninjas had put small steal strips inside the cloths for extra protection.

"We can hold them here for as long as you need us to lady Hokage." Stated a jonnin as Tsunade nodded her head, as she walked down the line of jonnin, chunin and ANBU. The genin had been assigned the job of protecting the bunkers and running supplies/messages around the battlefield.

"Good." said Tsunade

"We will summon our summoning animals once they attack." said the jonnin

"They will not come." said Tsunade "I already tried summoning the slugs and they didn't come."

"What of the other nations?" asked the Jonnin as Tsunade shock her head, working together had been their only real hope against the demons and the other nations said they couldn't help; they had to take care of their own people. Tsunade hated them for that but then again she had done the same basic thing when the Sand fell.

"Lady Tsunade." stated Neji as he landed beside his leader

"What is it?" asked Tsunade as she spotted the mob of people marching toward the main gate.

"That." answered Neji

"I thought all the civilians where moved into the bunkers or to the area around the Hokage building?" asked the jonnin

"I think they want to surrender to the demons." answered Neji as Tsunade lowered her head a bit.

"I'll get some ninja to round them up and send them back." stated the Jonnin

"No." answered Tsunade as the ninjas looked at her "They want to surrender let them, no point defending those who don't want to be defended."

"Lady Hokage?" asked Jonnin

"Hopefully the demons will be spending more time taking care of them before they attack us." stated Tsunade as the gates opened allowing those who wanted to surrender to the demons to walk right out of the leaf village. The moment the last one walked through the gates where sealed again. Tsunade and the others watched as the villagers and refugees who wanted to leave walked down the road only to be greeted by demons who escorted them to be processed.

"How many do you think just left?" asked Tsunade

"Just under a hundred and fifty." stated Neji "No members of the ninja core."

"Out of a village of hundreds of thousands only a hundred and fifty left." stated Tsunade "I consider that good."

"I think most are just too afraid to leave Lady Tsunade." whispered Neji "They may want to but think we would stop them."

"I know." answered Tsunade

It was almost midnight as Naruto sat in the cell watching the clock; Adria had joined Sakura in the medical center to help make sure nothing happened to either one of them. The past few days had shock Naruto to his core, the villagers had turned on him just because he was a demon now. All the hate he had thought was gone was back and now it wasn't just him it was his family. Now he had wished he hadn't allowed his mom and brother to come with him to his apartment, it just seemed to make his mom sad and prove to his brother that humans where the monsters.

"What is wrong Naruto?" asked Minato as he sat down beside his son.

"Nothing." answered Naruto

"Your mom told me what happened." Stated Minato

"I really thought they had changed but they hadn't." said Naruto "They want to kill us even though we are trying to help."

"They are scared." Said Minato

"Being scared doesn't cover it, they know I would have died for them." said Naruto

"Would have?" asked Minato

"I never thought I would say this Dad, but at the moment I don't really care what happens to most of the villagers." said Naruto as his father lowered his head a bit "I care about what happens to my pack and my friends but about the people who torn my old place apart, who threw a bottle at me and who want to kill my family I don't care what happens to them. Let them become demons, so they can't hate me as much."

"You agree with what they doing?" asked Minato "Attacking the leaf and turning humans."

"No." said Naruto "Of course not, what they are doing is wrong and it needs to be stopped. However if we stopped the demons here, what future would we have here? Sooner or later we will have to go back to the demon world."

"I know." said Minato "I think I always known but it never hit home until Sakura explained the chances of turning back to human."

"It was a multiple of things." said Naruto "Seeing the villagers call for not only my death but my pack and then there where the people I saw in the mob."

"What do you mean?" asked Minato

"I knew some of them. Like the baker where I buy some bread, the guy who cuts my hair and then their was Sakura-chan mother." said Naruto as Minato eyes widened

"That is what troubled you when you came back isn't it?" asked Minato

"Ya…she was calling for the death of her own daughter." said Naruto as he shook his head "All because her daughter is a demon now."

"Have you told Sakura?" asked Minato

"No…it would hurt her too much." said Naruto as Minato nodded his head.

"I guess Namikaze foxes will hide the truth to protect their vixens." said Minato as he looked up at the clock. "Sakura will stay in that medical room until the end?"

"Ya she will just like even now if given the chance I would fight for the leaf till the end." said Naruto as he looked at the clock. "Five minutes…five minutes until they attack."

Outside the cell the minutes turned into hours as the Leaf/Sand ninjas though out the village where on edge waiting for midnight, the deadline for their surrender. By the main gate Neji lowered his head as he prayed for a moment not only for his safety but for Tenten and everyone else. Beside him Sai had pulled out his tanto blade. About midway between the southern gate and the Hokage building Hinata Hyuuga and the same team she had with since she was a genin stood on a rooftop ready to reinforce the front when needed.

"This is going to be a long night." stated Kiba "But at least we get to send those demons back to the hell hole that they are from."

"I don't believe it will be as fun as you hit it to be." said Shino calmly as Hinata simply looked toward the woods. "Wondering where Gamba is?"

Hinata's head snapped toward Shino wondering if she was that easy to read.

"Why would she? He is a demon." growled Kiba "Unless she wants to kill him."

Down in the lab Sakura was finishing packing the last sample of the transformation agent that had been purified from samples taken from her own blood as she was turning.

"There that is the last bit I can get." said Sakura as she held up the vile for Ino to look at before sealing it inside a scroll.

"Are you sure this is pure?" asked Ino

"There will be some differences between the sample and a pure one, since I had to use multiple samples taken from different stages of my transformation but it is the best we have." said Sakura "Now how do you plan to get this out of the Leaf, massager hawk?"

"Yes and no." said Ino "The sample we going to Kirigakure is heading by hawk while, the sample going to Kumogakure and the Shizune are being hand delivered."

"Who are you going to give that job too?" asked Sakura

"Who do you think?" asked Ino

"Lee and Guy." said Sakura "Only two people who could out run demons in a foot race."

"Ya." answered Ino as the clock starting beeping.

"Midnight." said Sakura

Outside the ringing of bells marked midnight, each bell ring filled the air finally on the twelfth ring everything fell silent. For what seemed like forever nothing happened then suddenly four massive expositions rocked the Leaf village.

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