Chapter 56 A New Reality

Hinata Hyuuga opened her white Byakugan eyes which was probably the only thing which hadn't changed during the past few hours. She had woke up the day before with mostly human skin and patches of lion fur now she had no pink skin only deep dark blue fur. The change had come because of the lion who now slept beside her. Slowly she sat up Gamba and her had fallen sleep lying across the bed instead of the normal way, luckily the bed was extra large so it didn't really didn't matter. The sheets where tossed all over the place. She looked down at the sleeping Gamba his main framed his smiling face.

"I should kill you." thought Hinata as she looked at the sleeping Gamba, he was totally defense…she could run her sharpened claws across his throat killing him. The last living male in the line of demon feline kings, she could throw the entire kingdom into causes and may help the anyone who was still human. "I can't…I love him and I want to spend my life with him."

Hinata lowered herself back down to so that she rested her head across from Gamba, so when he did wake up he would see her first.

Elsewhere in the palace Fay and Itachi where reporting in at the main guard station. They moved toward Yahiko who had be assigned as Night commander for the month.

"So how is Konan doing?" asked Fay

"Going a little stir crazy." answered Yahiko "The doctors won't let her work or do anything and it drives her crazy."

"She is only three months along why would they do that?" asked Itachi

"She is pregnant with twines two future members of the kingdom and the doctors are used to making sure that every pregnancy is as safe as possible." explained Fay as Itachi nodded her head.

"Anything we need to know?" asked Itachi

"Well only one thing of any importance." said Yahiko "Prince Gamba didn't leave Hinata's room last night and roars could be heard."

"I see." said Itachi as the three of them smiled.

"So does the Queen know yet?" asked Fay "Because if so we need to redouble the guards around the harem. Hinata may be a demon know and I know she could whip the floor with any of the lioness the Queen put in there but an assassin no…not until she is trained in how demons are different then humans."

"She doesn't but I have already assigned extra guards around the harem but Vachan is head of the guard during the day, he may open a hole in the line." stated Yahiko

"We will keep an eye open for any holes." stated Itachi

"Good, because the way I see we protect her like as if she is the Queen." stated Yahiko

Elsewhere in the Palace Queen Oda was walking down a wooden path which moved around the large Queen's Garden. Walking slightly behind her was the head of the Royal Guard Vachan, as per tradition no one should walk ahead of the ruler without permission. Other aids walked behind in case their ailing Queen needed them.

"Queen Oda I am worried about the Prince." said Vachan

"As do I Vachan." stated Oda "He didn't have the brothers growing up to sharpen his skills."

"If he wasn't the last of the male line I would recommend we call for a confidence vote and remove him from the line of succession." stated Vachan knowing that it had happened over a dozen times thought out the history of the royal line but almost always when the first born was either incompetence or didn't want to be the King. There was even one prince who called for a no confidence vote on himself so that he could join a religious order. The problem was without another male in the royal line no member of either the common Pride or the royal council would remove him.

"I think it is more of the fact that my son wants to rebel against me." stated Oda "I have seen this Hinata, she is good looking but the members I put in the harem will win my son over. They are trained in the art of pleasure…If anything him having this human will get him to spend more time in the harem and increase the chances of a true lioness winning him over.

"My Queen I fear for our ways when you are gone." stated Vachan "Prince Gamba may be the figure head of those who not stand for tradition but they grow in power every day. Mostly in the common pride."

"Well that is what happens when leaders are elected by the commoners. The hopefully the royal council which comes from pure demon blood will keep the traditions alive." stated Oda

"My Queen I think you are forgetting about the other council votes." stated Vachan as Oda blinked for a moment

"The appointed positions." stated Oda knowing that positions such as Head of the Royal Guard, Head of International relations, Head of Royal Affairs along with over a dozen positions was all were appointed by the Ruler to almost always members of the Royal Council, the only common exception was for military heros such as Padak.

"True that is worrisome." Stated Oda as an aid walked up from behind the two of them.

"Sir I have the guard reports from last night." stated the aid as he handed the file over to Vachan, who opened the file. Most of the time it was nothing much more than some members of the new media trying to get photos of the Royal family to published however the reports about the Prince caused him to stop.

"What is it Vachan." stated Oda

"Prince Gamba spent the night in the human's room." stated Vachan

"So my son finally mated." stated Oda "Too bad it is with a human filth. Maybe next week when he goes for the royal hunt with the representatives of the panthers he will realize the error."

"Hopefully." stated Vachan

In the human world a light early snow was falling as Kiba along with the eleven living members of the squad back into the old lumber camp, the area had been cleaned up a bit but Neji and the villagers had been careful so that if demons did enter the area they wouldn't notice anything out of the normal at the first glance. They walked into the camp as people rushed out of their new homes to great them. Kiba smiled as he had so many people pat him on the back or shake his hands. He moved into the center of the camp to find Neji standing there along with Tenten.

"Well I am back and ahead of plan." stated Kiba with grin as he tossed a stack of skinned demon pelts on the ground "And I brought something to keep us warm."

"Is that what I think it is?" asked Tenten

"Skinned demon hid?" asked Kiba "Yes…they want to use us we will use them and more will come every demon we kill be used."

A massive cheer rose up from the villagers as they started cheering Kiba's name.

"Kiba we need to talk." whispered Neji as he and Tenten moved toward the old saw mill which severed as the community store house and head quarters.

"Sure." said Kiba as he followed Neji and Tenten into the command center. The command center was nothing more than a couple of maps spread out over a hand full of tables and a couple of radios.

"Clear out." ordered Tenten to the ninjas manning the radio listening for any reports from the other groups. They followed orders leaving Kiba along with his ninja hound Akamaru, Neji and Tenten alone in the room.

"Kiba what the fuck are you thinking!" yelled Neji as Kiba moved back a bit taken back by the backlash.

"What are you talking about?" asked Kiba

"Cutting off their heads and putting them on pikes and now skinning them it isn't helping us win the war." stated Neji

"I am killing demons." stated Kiba "That is how we win this war."

"Kiba we don't have a problem with you killing them but the way we and by we I mean not just myself and Neji but Yamanto, Guy and Kakashi." stated Tenten as she listed the three commanders of the resistance.

"How is that?" asked Kiba

"There are only a few ways we win this fight and pissing off the demons by cutting off their heads isn't that." stated Neji

"How does the higher ups see us winning this war?" asked Kiba as he crossed his arms.

"We win it by killing enough of them and at the same time making a defense that means we can't be turned." stated Neji "then we talk peace with them."

"Peace?" asked Kiba "You want peace with them?"

"Peace is the best choice we have, we can't win in a straight out fight and we can't wait them out." stated Tenten "And if you cut off their heads and skin them that would make talks harder."

"You forget the other opinion we kill every demon we meet until they are so scared of us that they will never return." yelled Kiba "They took everyone from us we should take everyone from them!"

"Kiba that isn't going to work, they are going to put our own people in the field as demons." stated Tenten

"Then we kill them, better dead then a demon." stated Kiba as he turned and started walking away

"Would you kill Hinata?" asked Neji as Kiba stopped in his tracks as Akamaru looked up at his partner. "Because she is probably is or becoming a lioness right now."

For what seemed like the longest time no one said anything as Kiba finally opened the door and moved out into the snow without answering the question.

It was around ten thirdly in the morning when Gamba and Hinata finally decided it was time to get out of bed.

"So Hinata are you ready to leave this room?" asked Gamba as he looked at Hinata with a smile, she was so beautiful and there was her personality. She wasn't afraid to call him out on anything and she seemed to love him not his position as future king.

"As much as I love this room it would be nice to get out and see this place." said Hinata as she stood up and stretched a bit raising her hands over her head. She knew that Gamba's eyes where running up and down her body checking her out so she slowed down a bit to give Gamba a longer show. Only a month ago if anyone but Naruto looked her like Gamba was she would have hurt them. Gamba had taken Naruto's place and maybe that was a sign that the childhood crush was a crush but that didn't matter now.

"So shall we?" asked Hinata as she walked past Gamba toward the door, running her hand down his cheek which caused him to turn, he finally started after her when he felt her tail brush against his hip.

Outside the door the Guards came to attention as doors opened as a lioness with deep blue fur with patches of lighter blue and white eyes stepped out. The older guards looked at each other for a moment slightly confused as Gamba came out next. Tradition was that the King or Prince would leave the room first but this Lioness wasn't following them. The younger guards where smiling at the slight defiance against the seemly pointless tradition. Hinata wasn't paying attention to them she was around; the entire hall was massive with red stone floors polished to a smooth shine. Red pillars moved up the side with a ceiling that was made of what seemed to be green Jade ceiling panels. The hall was furnished with paintings, tapestries and stone statues. It was possibly the most ornate place she had ever been.

"This is just the hall?" asked Hinata

"Ya…kind of over the top." answered Gamba

"So this is you now." said Fay with a smile as she walked up to Hinata and Gamba, Hinata turned and looked at Fay. "So how are you liking Lion hood Hinata?"

"So far so good but I am still getting used to it." said Hinata

"You will." said Fay with a smile before turning to prince Gamba "My Prince I have a message from the hunt leadership."

"Hunt?" asked Hinata

"To help build uniting between the royal family and other government/military leaders every year hunts are done. One per race and a giant one with the leaders of all three races." explained Gamba "Next one is in a week."

"Well they wanted you to know they plan to move the hunt to someplace called the Burning Sun mountain Range." stated Fay

"That is in Fire country." said Hinata

"Yes." answered Fay

"You want to go?" asked Gamba

"What?" asked Hinata

"I think tradition allows the crowned prince to bring a member of the harem on the hunts." said Gamba "We can stop in the Leaf if you want."

Hinata looked down at the idea of seeing what had become of her home.

"I will think about it." said Hinata

"Now I'll get out of your way." said Fay as she stepped aside to let Prince Gamba and Hinata move down the hall four guards behind them making sure that they were both safe. The two of them walked hand in hand, Hinata's hand resting on Gamba shoulder as they just walked Gamba filling her in on some of the details about the palace. Suddenly they walk through a doorframe only to enter a large garden filled with flowers and perfectly manicured trees. That wasn't all there where at least twenty lioness all glaring at Hinata and Hinata was glaring right back. They were all different colors mostly browns and blondes, some appeared her and Gamba's age but others seamed in their forties.

"Crap." whispered Gamba as the two of them just kept walking.

"Ignore them." said Hinata as they kept walking placing her head on Gamba's shoulder which caused the other members of the harem to look on with even more hate.

"What makes that human so social?" said a voice from the harem member

"She doesn't even look that good." stated another

"She is ugly." said a third as Gamba and Hinata kept walking.

Meanwhile Sakura finally woke up in hers and Naruto's bed; she looked toward the clock only to see that it was nearing 11 in the morning. She felt Naruto's hand run down her back as she rolled over to find Naruto sitting on the bed watching her.

"How did you sleep?" asked Naruto as Sakura smiled

"You know how I slept." answered Sakura "I think this is the latest I ever slept in."

"Sleeping in?" laughed Naruto "I think the longest either of else slept was two hours."

"You complaining?" asked Sakura as Naruto grinned

"Well…maybe that mating season comes around only once a year." laughed Naruto as Sakura playfully slapped the back of her mates head with her own hand.

"Baka." laughed Sakura

"But it was fucking enjoyable." said Inner Sakura "And we have between five and seven days left in heat."

"This is going to be fun." responded Sakura as her stomach growled.

"I think it's time we get out of this room." Said Sakura

"Ya…I was going get you up soon, Shikamaru stopped by he wants all of us to talk over lunch." explained Naruto "They found something."

"What?" asked Sakura

"They talked to my sister not me; they want us at their place around noon." explained Naruto

"Noon then we have some time." said Sakura with a perverted grin as she pulled Naruto back down onto the bed and into a keep kiss.

An hour and a half later Naruto and Sakura walked into Shikamaru's and Temari's den to find them along with Sai and Ino waiting for them. The house was cleaner than it had been when they first came and there were a few more personal items.

"Sorry for being late." said Sakura with a smile as Ino rolled her eyes.

"I already told them about your condition forehead but sill you couldn't pull yourself off his cock for an hour or two." said Ino

"Wait till you go though heat piggy." stated Sakura

"I think you will need a new nickname for her, Sakura." laughed Temari as the guys simply smiled at each other.

"So what did you want to talk about?" asked Naruto

"Well we found out some things." explained Temari

"How?" asked Sakura

"They let some things drop when we were filling in the combined council." explained Shikamaru

"Like what?" asked Naruto

"We found out were Sasuke has been all this time." said Temari "Why he didn't make an appearance in battle until the attack on the Leaf."

"I thought that was odd." said Ino "So where was that snake?"

"Massacring every summoned creature who wanted to help." stated Shikamaru as everyone looked at him.

"What?" asked Naruto

"We thought they had abounded us when they hadn't." stated Temari "Turns out they hit the summoned first whipping them out. From what they were saying the toads and slugs where all but killed off."

"They are letting Sasuke run wild, killing anything in his path." stated Shikamaru

"Fukasaku, Gamabunta and Gamakichi?" asked Naruto

"All dead." said Temari

"Sorry Naruto-kun." Said Sakura

"Just another reason we need to end this war." Said Naruto

"So you guys want to end this war?" asked Sai as Naruto, Sakura, Shikamaru and Temari looked at Sai and Ino.

"And here we were worried that you had given up." laughed Ino with a smile "We want to end this too."

"How do we know that?" asked Sakura

"How do we know any of us isn't a spy." said Shikamaru

"We are all friends we have to trust each other or else we have already lost." said Naruto as everyone nodded their heads.

"So Naruto I am guessing with Sakura in heat you haven't been working on our plan?" asked Shikamaru

"Not really." answered Naruto as he placed his hand behind his head.

"I don't blame you." said Ino with a laugh "Sai and I had a nice night breaking in our new home and the bed room. Also judging from the shape of your bedroom Temari and her little boy had fun too."

"At least Ino hadn't changed much." said Sakura "Still the gossip Queen and perverted."

Meanwhile in the Long term storage Tsunade ate a salad with strips of grilled fish on top of it. It had been almost five days since they were taken which meant they where half way through their transformation. It had become clear on day four, what they where become, when both herself and Jiriaya grew a second tail, they where both becoming foxes however a question still remained why they were becoming foxes or why they where even being turned.

"It doesn't make sense." Said Tsunade as Jiriaya looked up from his own plate of fish, he had taken off his shirt on the fourth day due to the fact that the white and grey fur which now covered his chest and back drove him up the wall when he wore a shirt. "Why would Orochimaru turn us."

"Orochimaru must need us for an experiment." stated Jiriaya

"Actually the major part of the experiment is completed." Stated a voice as Tsunade and Jiriaya turned to see Orochimaru standing there in all his demon snake glory. "And now we wait, we where luckly that Tsunade has almost totally changed internally, the outer appearance doesn't matter yet."

"What are you talking about." Said Jiriyai

"That based on the scans we do every night when we fill this place with knock out gas while Tsunade out word appearance hasn't changed much inside she is almost totally demon." stated Orochimaru as Jiriaya looked at Tsunade, it was true apart from her teeth, some patches of blonde fur and the three tails she still seamed human. "It allowed us to begin next phase."

"What are you doing to us, which one of your sick experiments." growled Jiriaya

"Actually it isn't one of mine." said Orochimaru as he looked toward Tsunade "It's one of yours."

"What?" asked Tsunade

"Remember 17 years ago a Mrs. Yang." said Orochimaru as Tsunade searched her memories until she found it.

"What does that have to do with anything?" asked Tsunade slightly confused.

"What am I missing?" asked Jiriaya

"17 years ago, I did some private work for a family to pay back a gambling dept." explained Tsunade "But all I did was find a way to make a cream so the wife skin was more youthful. So unless you plan to make our skin smooth it is worthless."

"Nothing is worthless." Stated Orochimaru "The demons took your work and have been working on improving it for years and now thanks to me it has reached the goal they set."

"What is that?" asked Tsunade

"I found a way to rejuvenate the cells one at a time." said Orochimaru

"So you found the fountain of youth?" asked Jiriaya

"No…using it on the entire body would be impossible each cell has to be calibrated separately." laughed Orochimaru "However working on a smaller scale is very possible and you two are the test case."

"What do you mean?" asked Jiriaya

"What do the demons need?" asked Orochimaru as Tsunade's eyes widened "I see you figured it out Tsunade."

"But, that is impossible." said Tsunade

"It took a lot of work and we think only one in a hundred thousand effective rate but it works." said Orochimaru

"But I am too old." said Tsunade

"Your still of age for demon foxes, barely but of age." stated Orochimaru

"When?" asked Tsunade

"Last night." explained Orochimaru "Two were sent in and we the medic I slip in they should both work."

"My God." said Tsunade

"Will someone fill me in?" asked Jiriaya

"I will use little words so you understand, but the demons wanted me to develop a way so infertile demons could have off springs give hope to the civilians." Said Orochimaru "The infertility comes with the sex cells both male and female ageing at an extremely fast rate, so they had to be rejuvenate."

"What does that have to do with us?" asked Jiriaya

"You still don't get it?" laughed Orochimaru "You two are the first to get the treatment, I then took samples from both of you, turned the cells into their demon form in lab then combined them and injected the finished projects back into Tsunade."

"What?" asked Jiriaya

"I am pregnant." stated Tsunade as Jiriaya's eyes widened "And you're the father."

Well I hope you liked this chapter and the surprise at the end of the chapter and what Orochimaru's experiment was. I would like to thank everyone who reviewed. Thanks Wilkins75