Chapter 57 A Game Changer
"What?" asked Jiriaya as he sat down on the chair as he just tried to wrap his mind around what was just said.
"We took the few egg cells left in Tsunade and using samples of the transformation agent we turned them into demon fox eggs. Then the rejuvenate technique was applied to return them to viability." Stated Orochimaru "All that was needed was a sample from you, luckily sexually organs are among the first to turn. We put a needle in and drew a sample."
"Then you put them together in a lab?" asked Jiriaya
"Yes." Stated Orochimaru "Of the four eggs we were able to take from Tsunade only two made it but those two where strong. At the same time we started to prepare the field for implantation. Medic hidden in Tsunade's food and her drink. Then last night we put both eggs in her and it will only take a few days for them to attach to the womb and start growing, then around ten months from now they will be born."
"Wait ten months?" asked Jiriaya
"Demon foxes give birth in ten months, just like horses take almost a year to give birth. Different races different birth rates." stated Orochimaru
"Why us?" asked Tsunade
"First off the demons wanted you two to have kids believing they would be strong." stated Orochimaru "Second they wanted the turned humans to be the guinea pig so that they don't lose any pure demon."
"Lose?" asked Tsunade
"There is a fifty percent chance that one if not both kids will be lost and a fifteen percent chance of Tsunade dying." stated Orochimaru
"You're willing to risk Tsunade life?" asked Jiriaya before realizing who he was talking to.
"Why foxes? You would love to torture us by turning us into snakes or something else like that would have done that." asked Tsunade
"It was taken away from me, the Demon foxes are among the most trusted of the races in fact there only real enemy are the Wolves and the Ants." stated Orochimaru "The higher ups wanted a couple who they could hold up without causing much harm."
"There are still others you could have done this too?" asked Tsunade as she sat down beside Jiriaya.
"True, but your research helped with the creation of this and it was believed that the only living father you would accept was Jiriaya." explained Orochimaru before looking at Tsunade "They were considered using mine but it was believed that you would kill the offspring before they were born, Jiriaya was the only choice."
"What happens now?" asked Tsunade
"You finish turn, you give birth to the two off springs and then we show them off to the world." Explained Orochimaru
"If the demons have this why turn humans?" asked Jiriaya
"Only around one in a hundred and fifty thousand pure demons could benefit from the work not enough to make the difference but the higher ups wanted it." stated Orochimaru "But they hope to save a couple of the ancient demon families."
For once neither Tsunade nor Jiriaya had anything to say both where processing the information.
"I will leave you two to talk." stated Orochimaru as he slithered away leaving the two of them alone.
"You probably want something to drink." said Jiriaya as he stood up
"No." said Tsunade softly as Jiriaya looked at her; it wasn't like her to turn down a drink. Tsunade was just sitting there with her hands wrapped around her stomach protecting it. She seamed strangely weak, weaker than any time he had seen her, weaker then when her little brother Nawaki or when her lover Dan died.
"Tsunade I am sorry." said Jiriaya
"You didn't do this why are you sorry?" asked Tsunade
"I don't know it just felt like the right thing to say." said Jiriaya as sat back down. "Well this changes things."
"No shit." stated Tsunade
Unaware of what was happening with her sensei Sakura and her friends where gathered around a table enjoying a lunch together.
"So our plan is to disable the transportation seals stopping them from going to the human world?" asked Ino
"Ya." answered Sakura "Naruto is working on a seal that will disable it and buy around a thousand years for humanity."
"1000 years should be long enough for them to rebuild." said Ino
"And for them to forget about the demons." stated Sai as everyone looked at him "If they forget about the demons or think they are just a myth then it is pointless."
"It is also pointless if we leave demons in the human world after we disable the transportation seals, we need them all here." stated Shikamaru
"How do we do that?" asked Ino
"I have been looking into that, and it seems that every year they hold a massive celebration on the anniversary of the end of the demon war and during that time every demon should be here." stated Shikamaru
"The demons are already planning that date as their ceremonial end to the war against the humans and the turning of all the humans." stated Temari
"A big World Wide party?" asked Ino
"Yes, it perfect time to carry out the attack and cut the demon world off from the human world." said Sakura
"I sense a problem?" asked Naruto as Shikamaru and Temari lowered their heads.
"The celebration is on 1st of September." said Temari as Naruto and the others groaned.
"That is almost a year away." said Naruto
"We can't delay the army forever and I don't think any humans can make it almost a year without being found, yet alone enough to repopulate the world." stated Shikamaru
"I think we are underestimating the hiding abilities of humans, they know the terrain…" started Ino
"And as soon as they know the Hyuuga members who they turned are loyal they will use them, Byakugan eyes make it easier to find people." Stated Naruto
"They have the seals you developed the ones which fools the Byakugan." stated Shikamaru
"That may buy them some time but it won't last forever." stated Naruto as it seemed like every move they came up was easily countered.
"First let's worry about getting that radio controlled bomb because if we don't have that then we have nothing." stated Shikamaru
"How do we get that?" asked Ino
"It should still be located inside the Leaf; we just have to get to it." said Temari "Leave that to us."
"Alright so what are we suppose to do?" asked Ino
"Gather information and see if we can find others who can help us." said Naruto "A group of foxes can't take them down, we need help from every race."
"Gaara is a lion now he may be able to help us in there." stated Temari
"Foxes can go to the demon snake country without anyone thinking anything but the other nations will prove a problem." Said Naruto "According to my Dad the wolves don't just let foxes into their nation and the Ants don't let anyone onto their island nation."
"And from what I saw getting an ant to help us seem impossible." stated Ino
"I would have to agree to that." stated Sakura as she remembered how the ants acted when they were attacking the sand; they stood for hours in a battle columns without moving. They stood like statues and only acted when they received orders in the form of a pheromone from a head warrior who was responding to an order from the Queen. In the medical books it said that demon ants where missing large parts of the higher level brain parts, parts that controlled self preservation need and some research even hinted that Ants acted more like a hive mind, since a single ant would do nothing and just die from lack of food or water as long as it was cut off from outside orders.
"What do we even know about the ants?" asked Sai
"Not much." answered Sakura "According to the books there isn't a whole lot of medical information about them, they hardly leave the island they call home and only a few ants where captured during the war."
"Couldn't they study the bodies left on the battlefield?" asked Sai "It was reported that Orochimaru used to take the dead off battlefields to study."
"Ants eat their dead and their badly wounded." answered Sakura
"Ok, let's not talk about that anymore shall we." said Ino
"Agreed ." said Naruto "What do they have you doing?"
"A member of the military." answered Sai
"They want me interrogating humans before they turn for information." stated Ino "That and the standing order for all vixens?"
"What orders?" asked Naruto
"Have kits." answered Sakura as Naruto looked at her, "Don't worry I used birth control."
"I wasn't worried." answered Naruto with a smile
"Wait does that mean he wants to have kits soon or that he knew I would use birth control justus." thought Sakura
"My parents are already planning to restart their flower shop." said Ino "The government is giving them a space, start up money and supplies."
"Part of their plan to remove any hint of discontent." said Temari "Combined that with longer life, more power and whatever they put in the drug to make people like it."
"Well we know some people are strong enough to overcome that but still trying to find out who is on our side and who isn't will be very hard." stated Sakura
"Well we know we can trust Gaara and that will grant us access to the feline kingdom but we need more help than that." stated Temari
"Itachi." stated Naruto as everyone looked at him
"He didn't help us at the Leaf." stated Ino
"But he did earlier." said Sakura "What was different?"
"Fay…my money is on her." said Naruto
"How can you be sure?" asked Ino
"Love changes a person." stated Naruto
Meanwhile in another den, this one a den of one Sasuke Uchiha, he had been forced to take a day off which even though he didn't want it judging from how long he had slept in he needed it. Unlike almost all the demon races the den of a demon snake was Spartan compressed of only a few rooms, a living room, kitchen, bathroom and two bedrooms. Not that Sasuke needed the bedroom set aside for off springs, demon snakes only had one off spring at a time. One thing that stood out to anyone was the fact that demon snakes had no chairs instead they sat on their tails. He had just pulled out a late lunch which was a piece of raw boneless chicken breast when a knock at the door caused him to look up.
"Enter." stated Sasuke as the door opened as the High Chancellor of the Demon Snakes Val slithered into the house, his two guards remaining outside.
"Sorry for interrupting your lunch." stated Val as he looked at the cooked piece of chicken. It was somewhat unusual for demon snakes to cook things, most of the time they ate raw and with one bit.
"In case you're wondering I still prefer my meat cooked." explained Sasuke as he swallowed the chicken breast whole. "It feels better going down…now what do you want?"
"We need to discuss your next mission." stated Val as he placed a file on the table "It is time for you to take a mate and start making off springs."
"The humans and the summons are not yet defeated." stated Sasuke
"No…but it is only a matter of time until the humans fall and with the rearrangement of the Toad and Slug government the summons are in line." stated Val as Sasuke grinned knowing that rearrangement meant killing off most of the leadership and military forces. "We have received word that your brother and a fellow guard are going to be mated. We can't have the cats pull ahead of us in the number of Uchiha.'
"You don't worry about the number of Uchiha wolves, Bears or horses." stated Sasuke
"They are of weak stock, you and your brother are great stock we need more of those high level Uchiha if we are to rise in power and influence." stated Val knowing that in the world the snakes where alone with only one real allied, the Fox however the Foxes where also allied with the most powerful nation, the Feline Kingdom so their help was shaky at best. The other super power, the Wolves may allied with them if it meant hurting their sworn enemy the Feline Kingdom but they were just as likely to attack them. If the wolves Allie with the snakes the foxes would leave since they hate each other, having strong Uchiha may turn the tide of any attack and raise them in power. "We need you to start having off spring."
"Well you traded Hinata to the Lions." stated Sasuke "I remember giving up Sakura for Hinata."
"Why would you want her?" asked Val
"The Byakugan combined with the Sharingan would be a powerful addition and to stick it to Naruto." Stated Sasuke
"Well the trade was too good to pass up." stated Val
"And Karin is a wolf now." said Sasuke "I am guessing this file has names of mates."
"Yes, the best choice we feel is your neighbor Caci." stated Val
"Interesting but she seems like nothing more than a fan girl." stated Sasuke
"In some ways she is but that means she will be more willing to have off springs." stated Val "She comes from a strong line, her father was a commander of the Black Cobra Special Attack which her one of her ancestors actual founded and she is our top medical snake. We give her a rank of an eight out of ten and she is can have offspring."
"I see." stated Sasuke
"And she looks good too." stated Val as Sasuke nodded his head over so slightly.
"True." stated Sasuke
"Worst case if she gives you weak offspring you kill her and take another mate." stated Val as Sasuke grinned, he had been told that under demon snake law if weak offspring was born then mates could kill each other and the kid, this way the race remained strong. This hadn't happened since the great demon war since every offspring was seen as needed no matter how weak they were, that wasn't a problem anymore.
"Very well." stated Sasuke "Set it up."
While Sasuke was talking to his leader Gamba and Hinata where just walking and talking around one of the massive garden on the grounds of the palace. Four guards walked behind them for security and dozens of the harem members followed trying to figure out what she had done to make the Prince fall for her. They had just reached the far end where a high red sandstone wall marked the border between the harem and some of the public government areas. This was an area which most harem members didn't go it was an area mostly used by the guards to take a break and to do some training. The garden gave out to a training field of flat compacted dirt.
"Gamba I have an idea." said Hinata with a grin "How about a sparring session."
"You just turned; it would be kind of unfair." stated Gamba as she stood on her tippy toes so that she could whisper into Gamba's ear
"How about this, If you win I'll do that thing that made your purr" said Hinata
"The one with your tongue?" asked Gamba softly
"Yes."
And if you win?" asked Gamba
"I'll think of something but don't worry we will both enjoy it in the end." said Hinata
"You're on." said Gamba as he looked toward the head trainer who was moderating a sparring match between two guards.
"Is anyone up next?" asked Gamba
"No my prince." said the trainer who was more than a little surprised to see her future king by the private training field of the harem guards "Is there a reason you are asking."
"Yes, Hinata and I would like to have a little sparing match if that isn't too much trouble." said Gamba
"No my prince let me just call this match off." stated the trainer
"No we can wait let them finish their match." said Gamba as the two guards kept sparring. A couple minutes later the match came to an end at the same time the number of guards and Harem members had doubled. Not once in the long history of the royal family had a crowned Prince spared against a member of the harem, and for that matter the last member of the harem who sparred was a former guard and that was generations ago. Gamba and Hinata walked onto the field and took their positions twenty feet apart.
"The rules are simple first one to get into position of a killing blow wins." stated the trainer as she looked at Gamba, she knew as the crowned prince he had private trainers all of whom are the best fighters in the army but he had never had to fight outside of training, she didn't know much about the lioness only that she was a former human ninja of the Leaf, which probably meant she had combat experience.
"Understood." stated Gamba as he looked toward Hinata, his eyes widened a bit as he looked into her eyes, he could just make out veins in her eyes, she had taken a stance with her tail moving ever so slightly behind her "She has her bloodline ability on, the Byakugan which means she can target my chakra network.
"I am ready." said Hinata
"Begin." stated the trained as Hinata instantly lunged forward, Gamba was within strike range of her gentle fist style and a few hits would take him out. The gentle fist didn't work last time because her blue human chakra was too weak but now she had stronger yellow demon feline chakra. Hinata was within inches of hitting Gamba when a massive wall of earth shot up from the ground protecting him from Hinata's attack.
"He has earth type chakra." thought Hinata as she jumped back as the ground below her turned into mud. When she landed back on the ground she was amazed at how far jumped back, she was almost at the edge of the training field. She could still see Gamba behind the wall of earth as he started to run though hand signs for another earth style attack. "Time for me to go on the attack."
Without wasting another moment she channeled chakra into her legs and jumped up into the air just in time to avoided Gamba's attack. While in the air she channeled chakra into her claw tips before sending out ten chakra needles toward Gamba who didn't have any protection from above. The needles flew toward their target before hitting another barrier set up by Gamba. The needles hit the rock barrier only to exploded destroying the rock and breaking Gamba's defenses as the attack moved into close quarters. Here Hinata had speed, algidity and her gentle fist style however Gamba had great physical strength, familiarly with how to fight as a lion and earth justus coming at her from below.
The guards and the harem members watched on transfixed. The guards impressed at how well Hinata was doing and how she wasn't holding back holding back even though he was the crowned prince. The prince was doing great but it was clear he had no real combat experience. He had openings to hit Hinata but either because of lack of combat experience or because he didn't want to hurt her he didn't take the shots. Soon the guards where cheering like it was a sporting event and had turned their backs to the wall. The harem members felt disguised that she would fight the prince, when one of Hinata's claws starched Gamba's shoulder drawing a small amount of blood they freaked. They kept talking about how she was uncivilized and a brute, all of them wondering how she got his heart. Hinata and Gamba didn't hear them as they kept fighting. By now Hinata had a few cuts from Gamba and his right arm could hardly move from Hinata's gentle fist style. Hinata went in with a punch only to be grabbed by Gamba's right arm. With Hinata trapped he tried to punch her only to have his hand grabbed by Hinata. For a moment the two of them fought before finally both of them leaned forward and kissed, instantly both of them relaxed as Hinata wrapped her hands around the back of his neck and he wrapped his hand around her hips. The guards started to clap as the harem members just looked on in a rage.
"I guess this is a tie." whispered Gamba
"Then we will just have to do what both of us want." answered Hinata as the two of them kissed unaware that when the guards turned their back a pair lioness had scaled the outer walls with a camera.
"This is the money shot." said the reporter as she took one last photo of their prince kissing a lioness. Since the harem was sealed to outsiders photos of members of the harem was worth a lot of money to the multiple newspapers in the city which meant reporters often tried to get photos of them by scaling one of the walls adjuring the harem to the public parts of the royal city. Getting a shot of a member of the harem just sitting there was a good payday for the gossip page of any news papers but a photo of the crowned prince kissed a member of the harem was front page money.
"Now let's get out of here before they see us." stated another reporter as they moved down the wall.
"What was the lioness name?" asked the first reporter as they reached the ground.
"They called her Hinata, but did you hear what her, a human." said the second "This is the story of a lifetime."
"We may have just taken the first photos of the next Queen." stated the first reporter as they rushed out of the royal city, while Hinata and Gamba rushed back to the bedroom.
Well I hope you liked this chapter and the sparring session between Gamba and Hinata. I know some may be upset at how I had Tsunade seam so weak but I think that hearing what Orochimaru did would make anyone seam weak and upset. I would like to thanks everyone who reviewed and I ask that you keep on reading. Thanks Wilkins75.
