Chapter 48 Aftermath Part 1

Hinata's head was spinning as awareness started to return, the first thing she noticed was the fact she felt warm and she was resting on something soft. She could tell she was under a blanket of some kind. Slowly she opened her eyes to see everything had changed. She was resting in a large bed with white silk netting coming down from the rafters to surround the bed. The covers themselves were also made out of the same white silk.

"Where am I?" asked Hinata as she sat up in the bed and looked around the room, it was at least four times the size of her room, with sitting chairs, couches, hard wood tables. The walls where painted a deep blue.

"Ah you're up?" said a voice as Hinata turned her head to see the demon female panther she had seen before on the bridge. "How are you feeling Hinata Hyuuga?"

Hinata didn't say anything as she jumped out of bed and formed a hand sign only to find she couldn't mold her chakra, she looked down at her hands confused. "That will not work right now. Not until your done turning."

"What?" asked Hinata as she noticed a mark on her arm no bigger than one she got a few months ago during her medical checkup. Her eyes widened as she realized what that simple mark meant, the transformation agent was already flowing though her body.

"As for your question where you are, you are in the royal harem inside the inner palace of the demon feline royal city which is located inside the capital city itself." explained Fay "You have been injected with the transformation agent and you will be turning into a lioness."

"So Gamba-kun did this?" asked Hinata softly "He made me a member of his harem, another trophy?"

"You may see it that way from the outside but let me fill you in on the truth." said Fay

"I will never be some harem girl, I refuse to share anyone I love with someone else or else how can you call it love?" asked Hinata

"And Prince Gamba would agree with you." said Fay as Hinata just blinked "He is the first prince in our long history of over a hundred kings who doesn't want a harem."

"Then why does he have one?" asked Hinata

"Because of the one thing dominates almost everything in demon feline society tradition. Hinata we have traditions for everything and that means he has a harem however it never said he has to use it." explained Fay as Hinata looked at her "He hates that he has it and it's a safe bet that once he becomes King he will dissolve the Harem because only the King can remove traditions. It's his mother and the traditionist that keep it around as long as it has."

"So if Gamba doesn't use the harem why am I here?" asked Hinata

"To protect you, see Gamba's mother, Queen Oda and her supports may try something to get you once they learn Gamba likes you." said Fay

"Why?" asked Hinata

"Because there is a small minority and the Queen is among them who would love to consider human turned demons and their off spring as second class members of the kingdom." Said Fay "Having a turned human who may become Queen is something they can't stand. Gamba wants to protect you?"

"How does being in the Harem protect me?" asked Hinata

"If you are in the harem, they can't get to you. The traditions they love stated the King or Prince may have whomever they want in their harem, their own traditions are protecting you." Explained Fay

"I can protect myself." stated Hinata

"If you landed a blow on Yahiko I believe it, he is among the top ten guards and the guard core is made out only the best of the best however at the moment you are defenseless. You can't mold chakra and even if you could human chakra is weaker then demons so it would almost useless. See behind that door is fifty lioness who would love to tear you apart because you where picked by the crowned prince." said Fay "Your only defense right now is the female guards like myself and the seal on that door."

"Fifty demons?" asked Hinata

"Don't worry, the lioness who enter the harem are trained in the art of pleasure most wouldn't know how to throw to sharpen their claws for combat." Laughed Fay as Hinata simply looked at her slightly confused "Sorry, forgot you don't know how to do that yet….how would Itachi say it. Basically they wouldn't know how to hold a kunai without getting cut. Once you turn and get your new demon chakra you can defend yourself from all of them with ease."

"I see." said Hinata "What about my friends and my family?"

"I don't know their fate, the battle for the Leaf has just ended half an hour ago so I don't know." answered Fay "It will take a few hours for everything to be processed and then we will have a better idea who is captured and what they become."

"I have a father and a sister." Said Hinata "And my teammates Kiba and Shino, then there is all my friends?"

"I figured you would ask about them, your pride was on the list of humans we where after even before Gamba met you as for Kiba Inuzuka his pride is wanted by the Wolves and Foxes not sure which will win out in the end and Shino Aburame by the ants." explained Fay "I don't know your other friends, sorry."

The Sun was shining over the Leaf village as Ino sat on her knees in the remains of the market with her hands behind her back; her arms and legs where tired together. She turned her head a bit to see Sai right beside her, the demons had patched up his leg but Ino still wanted to look at it herself. There was only three people apart from herself that she would want to look after Sai. The people she trusted where Sakura, Tsunade and Shizune but none of them where around not even sure if forehead or Tsunade was even alive anymore.

"How are you doing Ino?" asked Sai as he put a smile on his face.

"I should be asking you that?" said Ino "I am not the one with a deep cut on my leg."

"I gone though worst." Said Sai as he looked around at the villagers, the demons where still pulling people out of the bunkers and out of the ANBU bases. They were still a small amount of fighting but for all intensive purpose the fighting was over. From what Sai could make out there was a hand full of class and most people fell into them. There were the people who were simply crying, others were simply to stunned and where just looking around. Others like himself and Ino where looking around trying to find loved ones in the mess of people. A small but growing group of seam to be embracing what they would soon be, asking questions to the demons.

"Sai…do you see any of our friends?" asked Ino

"Not since I saw Shino when they were treating my leg." explained Sai as he wished he could tell Ino that Kiba, Tenten and Neji where hopefully a long way away from the village however with demons walking around it was very easy for them to be heard.

"Kiba said Hinata was likely already taken." said Ino

"Wait…I think I see your father and mother." said Sai as he tried to get a better view though the crowed.

"Really?" asked Ino as the group Sai was looking at stood up to be lead away. That is when she saw her parents in the middle of the group.

"MOM! DAD!" yelled Ino at the top of her lungs but her parents didn't hear her as they where marched past.

"Don't worry you will see them again." Said Sai

"I hope, if we have to be demons I don't want my family broken apart. I want to be with you, my parents, forehead and as many of our friends as possible." explained Ino

"So a fox." said Sai

'Sorry if that is a problem but forehead is my best friend and Naruto is your best friend too." said Ino

"Like I said, as long as I am you I am happy." explained Sai

"Ya, I think I would be a sexy fox." Laughed Ino

"No." answered Sai as Ino looked at him before he grinned "Not a sexy fox, a sexy vixen."

"You jerk." laughed Ino "I wonder how forehead, Naruto and his pack are doing?"

"I don't know." answered Sai

Across town demons where doing sweeps for any sign of humans they missed, they had already cleared large sections of the Leaf village including the one Sakura was now standing in. She didn't know how long she stood there looking at the small house, somehow it had remained untouched though the entire battle, the flowers where still hanging in the window.

"You want to go in?" asked Naruto as he stood beside her.

"I know she isn't in there since they cleared this area but I am still scared of what I may find." Explained Sakura

"I'll go with you." offered Naruto as he took Sakura's hand.

"Thanks." said Sakura as she finally pushed open the door and walked into the house she had grown up in. Everything was quite, as she moved down the hallway her padded feet allowing her to move quietly across the fake wooden floor. She didn't know why she had wanted to come here, Ino had picked up the stuff from her mom before the attack but she wanted to be there. Everything was perfectly clean just the way her mom would make it before an important house guest. Slowly the two of them walked up the stairs toward the second floor.

"I am going to check my room." answered Sakura as she pushed opened her door only to find another figure in her room, hanging from the ceiling with a cloth cord wrapped around her neck. Sakura's eyes widened as it took a second to realize.

"MOM!" yelled Sakura as she ran forward lifting her mother's feet to take pressure off the neck. "Naruto cut her down!"

"Sakura." said Naruto

"What are you waiting for!" yelled Sakura

"Sakura." said Naruto again as Sakura finally looked up, her mother's face was cold just like her skin, her eyes where rolled over and flies where already landing on her and decomposition was well underway. She had died long ago, possibly a day before they had walked through the door.

"Mom…why mom?" cried Sakura as Naruto cut Rin Haruno down so she could lie flat on the ground. Sakura knelt over her mom with tears in her eyes as Naruto stood behind her; he waited for a moment before pulling Sakura up and into his chest. For the longest time Naruto just let Sakura cry as he wrapped her up not only in his arms but his tails.

"It will be alright Sakura-chan." said Naruto as he ran his hands from the top of her head to her back "She is with your father now."

"I know." said Sakura "It's just I hoped once she was a demon we could be a pack all of us. She would come over and get used to being a demon."

"I guess she wanted to die a human." said Naruto

"I want to put her to rest beside my Dad." said Sakura

"Of course." said Sakura as she pulled away from Naruto before kneeling beside her mom. "I love you mom."

"I am sure she regretted what she said to you in the bunker." said Naruto

"Ya." said Sakura as she noticed a note poking out of her mom's dress pocket. She pulled it out and instantly her eyes widened as she broke out in tears and started cursing at her mother.

"What is it?" asked Naruto as Sakura passed the note to Naruto

To whomever finds this my name is Rin Haruno and this is my house. You may do it as you wish but please put me to rest beside my husband Kane Haruno in the Leaf village cemetery. I had to take my life since I have lost everything, my husband died at the hand of demons and now my daughter has become a demon herself. If my former daughter has found me do not cry over me I do not want your demon scum tears touching me. Whatever you are you are not my daughter anymore, I have no daughter now. I am with the love of my life in the afterlife and my family which you are not. I hope you meet your end as soon as possible and burn in the fires of hell for all time.

Rin Haruno.

Naruto lowered his head as he let the letter drop, as Sakura fell to the ground with her back to the wall and simply cried. Naruto moved over and pulled Sakura to her feet.

"No leave me here." cried Sakura

"Sakura-chan, let's get out of here, seeing her will only upset you." explained Naruto as he led Sakura out of the room and out of the house. He sat her down on a bench across the road from her house, as he knelt in front of her.

"Are you alright?" asked Naruto

'No!" yelled Sakura as the tears flowed down her face sticking to her fur "My own mother told me to burn in hell in her suicide note, how can I possibly be ok, BAKA! Why would you ask that?"

"I know….it's just I didn't know what to ask, I seem to be getting everything back and you are losing it." explained Naruto "I never had a family, I have it now and you lost yours."

"My mom didn't love me." cried Sakura

"Yes…she did but she didn't give herself a chance to look past you becoming a demon to see you are still you." explained Naruto as Sakura noticed some Naruto clones carrying her mother out of the house wrapped in a white sheet.

"What are you doing?" asked Sakura

"You said you wanted her to be lied to rest beside your dad." answered Naruto

"Let her riot, if she doesn't want to call me her daughter why should we honor her wishes." snapped Sakura with tears and rage in her green eyes.

"I know you feel that way and I would want to snap her neck." said Naruto "But I also know it is what you need because she is still your mom."

Shikamaru Nara sat in the remains of his apartment; Asuma had brought him here instead of to be processed like the others. The demons had let him go inside but had not entered themselves. As he walked into living room he found a game of Go sitting out ready to be played. He walked over and sat down placing a white stone on the board. Almost instantly a female human hand he knew so well placed a black stone on the board.

"You played it well Temari." said Shikamaru as he placed another stone down as the two of them placed stones down as the two of them began to fight inside their minds, each trying to outdo the other.

"Well it wasn't exactly fair was it." said Temari as she placed another stone down "I had more soldiers each of whom was stronger than your forces and I used fear very well."

"That you did." answered Shikamaru as the game picked up speed as both of them began to rapidly place their stones on the board. "The question is why?"

"I could say, because I am a demon now or because I wanted to get my brother's girlfriend or even to save as many lives as I could but that would be a lie." said Temari

"So you where after me?" asked Shikamaru

"Yes, I was after you." answered Temari

"Temari you love the Leaf why would you betray it?" asked Shikamaru as he looked up to see Temari's dark green eyes, he knew the eyes he loved and which he was looking into now was just a hedge but he loved them and the woman they belonged to all the same.

"Love makes you do crazy things but I did have conditions that the demons meet." Stated Temari as Shikamaru noticed another demon in the room. Before he could even react he felt a needle go into his arm. He knew what it meant as the transformation agent entered his body. "I get to turn you here and now in our bed."

"Sex speeds up transformation so you want to take away my humanity faster." stated Shikamaru as the demon who injected him left the room. To his surprise the moment he and Temari where alone, Temari pulled out an empty needle herself.

"Quickly draw some blood right above where she injected you." Ordered Temari

"Why?"

"Little boy if there is a time to trust me this is it." ordered Temari as Shikamaru did what he was told. To his amazement what he pulled up wasn't his blood but almost totally a golden liquid; there was only a thin strip of blood which was mixed in with the transformation agent. The vile was only about a tenth the amount of transformation agent they had injected him with but it was almost totally pure.

"The transformation agent moves slowly, if you move fast enough you can pull an almost pure sample from the injection site." Explained Temari

"Why?" asked Shikamaru

"Because they told me about how they let the Namikaze's go with a fake agent and this was the only way to get a sample of the transformation agent without them knowing." explained Temari "Now we just have to get them to the people you go out though those underground river tunnels."

'You knew?" asked Shikamaru

"Of course." laughed Temari "I don't want the demons to win and having a sample is the only way to stop that."

"Sakura figures once you can go demon you can't change back." said Shikamaru

"I figured as much but there are a lot things worst then becoming a demon but still it has to be stop. They would have half the human population taken, a few hundred thousand more and our population is at safe levels." stated Temari

"Our population?" asked Shikamaru

"Sorry I had to think as a demon to keep my cover." answered Temari

"Sakura says there is something in the agent to make people like being demons, so how do I know this isn't a trick?" asked Shikamaru as Temari tilted her head a bit and as she glared at him.

"Little boy when have you known me to be controlled by anyone or anything?" asked Temari as Shikamaru smiled "However I do like being a demon and now I have you."

"The only problem is getting this sample out of the village." said Shikamaru

"Like I haven't thought of that." said Temari as she rolled her eyes "You can come out now."

Shikamaru turned to see the still human Konohamaru and Moegi hiding in the closest.

"Gaara found them when they tried to escape." explained Temari

"Gaara is in this too?" asked Shikamaru

"Yes, he is." answered Temari "However most of the sand people who are now demons embraced the enjoyment of demonhood."

"How will they get out?" asked Shikamaru

"I talked them into not destroying the Leaf but to abounded it and then use it as bait to lure humans who may have escaped in, they plan to return in a week to do a sweep for humans." explained Temari as Shikamaru nodded "However they will have to hide in the pantry for a while."

"Until the demons clear out of this area?" asked Shikamaru

"Yes, but first I need to make you into a demon." Explained Temari with a pervert grin as she moved across the board and put her face within inches of him "Because the way they speed up my transformation makes me wanted to jump on you a while ago."

"How?" asked Shikamaru as he looked into Temari's eyes.

"Let's just say they showed videos of us in bed." explained Temari "They have been spying on us for a long time."

"So what demon am I becoming?" asked Shikamaru

"What fun would that be, little boy?" asked Temari as Shikamaru simple looked at her "Fine."

Shikamaru's eyes widened a bit as Temari's green eyes turned silted as seven blonde tails poked out of the back.

"A fox then." said Shikamaru

"You will be a fox, I am a vixen." stated Temari as her eyes turned back to normal and the tails disappeared. "Now let's have sex before they come in and start asking questions."

Up on a small hill Naruto lowered Sakura's mother into a grave he had dug out, he had had been in luck there was already a spot saved for Rin beside her husband.

Sakura just watched as Naruto lied her mother down in the grave.

"Sakura-chan do you want to say anything?" asked Naruto as Sakura just shook her head, Naruto could still see the mix of anger and sadness on her face. Sadness of losing her mother and anger because of what her mom had wrote in her note.

"Well I'll say something, if it is ok with you Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto as Sakura nodded her head. "May you rest in Peace Rin Haruno, you are with your husband and your family and even though you may not have wanted to see it at the end but you raised a wonder loving woman turned vixen who is a lot like you and I am grateful to you for her."

"Thanks Naruto-kun." said Sakura as she looked at her mother's body which was still wrapped in a white cloth. Sakura formed a hand sign as she looked the woman who help gave her life, who had raised her and had severed as a role model the only thing Sakura had bad to say about her mother was her hatred of demons, a hate which had blinded her. "Rest in peace, Mom."

Sakura used an earth style justu to close her mom's grave at the same moment Naruto put his hand over Sakura's shoulder, as she rested her head on his shoulder.

"I want to go back home Naruto." said Sakura

"Let's go home." answered Naruto as they turned away from the Leaf and headed toward the transportation seal which would take them back to the demon fox village.

Well I hope you liked this chapter and the interaction between Temari and Shikamaru and Naruto and Sakura. I figured most would have expected Temari and Shikamaru would be turned into wolves but I wanted them as foxes this time. I would like to thank everyone who reviewed and I ask that you keep on reading. Thanks Wilkins75