Chapter 59 Family
Crowned Prince Gamba walked down one of the halls of the royal city; he had left the harem for the first time in days. He really wanted to take Hinata out of the harem but until the rules changed the only places she was allowed to go was the harem, the joint garden and on official hunts. If she was Queen or even 1st lioness she could go anywhere she wanted but until that day she was restricted. He turned a corner and walked out of one of the buildings, after crossing a large grassy field which had giant stone statues of different warriors standing on top of stone platforms. At the other end of the field was a large red stone building with slopped tile roofs. He walked up the staircase past the stone pillars that made a outdoor walkway around the building. As he reached the large bronzes doors two members of the royal guard saluted their prince as he entered the headquarters of the Royal Guards. He entered the entrees hall to find it filled with guards most of whom he had never seen before. They were changing shifts; the night shift was getting off while the day shift was coming on.
"Attention!" yelled a guard behind the prince as everyone's head snapped toward the door, only to snap to attention when they saw their prince.
"As you where." ordered Gamba wishing the guard at the door hadn't brought attention to him "I need to see Itachi and Fay at once."
Once he had finished speaking Itachi and Fay moved out of the mass of guards and toward Gamba, the rest of the guards went back to their normal business.
"You wanted to see us?" asked Fay as Gamba looked toward Itachi
"Itachi I have some bad news." stated Gamba "The military high command got word from the wolves that there was an attack on a squad returning to an outpost in fire country. They believe Hidan was behind it."
"I thought Hidan was dead?" asked Fay
"We knew he was still alive but he had been lost also it was believed he couldn't be turned so we didn't put much effort into tracking him but now he is back." stated Gamba "And he has your sister."
"What?" asked Itachi
"There was a not stating if twenty five unturned ninjas where not released she would be killed." stated Gamba
"Are they going to do it?" asked Fay
"No." answered Gamba "It happened in an area controlled by the wolves so I have no say in the matter but they say they will not give in to the demands of the humans. They are standing tracking teams to find her."
"Sir, I need to go get her." stated Itachi
"I already ordered our best search teams to mobilize, they will be ready within the hour." stated Gamba "The wolves don't want our help but I told them they are getting it."
"So don't expect a warm welcome when we joined up." stated Fay
"Thank you sir." stated Itachi
"Itachi I could I would march the entire army into that area to save your sister, but I am not King yet and that area is controlled by the wolves." stated Gamba "If I sent in the army it would be war."
"We understand." stated Fay as she and Itachi rushed out of the building.
In the human world Raeni Uchiha opened her eyes as she tried to stand up only to find herself restrained.
"You're up." Stated a voice as the same fat human with the swirl marks stepped into a small light.
"You made the biggest mistake you could possibly make human." stated Raeni as her Sharingan activated before she snapped the restraints and grabbed Choji by the neck, her claws where about to slice open his throat when she felt a sharp pain in her arm. Reacting at once to the pain she let go of Choji before looking down at her arm, there was a huge gash on her arm.
"Hidan placed you under a justu that means if he hurts himself you get hurt." explained Choji as Raeni looked at her arm even more "If you try anything you will die, the range on the justu is as Hidan puts it he can kill you from across the world with ease."
"So no running away." said Raeni "What do you want human?"
"A trade, your demon kind will give us some of our people back and you will go back to them." stated Choji
"You could just surrender and join the other humans and become demons." offered Raeni "I am sure you have friends and family who are now demons."
"I don't plan to give up my humanity or let you steal it." stated Choji "You may not know what it like to have your humanity stolen."
"If it wasn't for the demons I would have died." stated Raeni as Choji looked at the black she wolf "I was born human, but I turned two days after I was born."
"So you where human once?" asked Choji as Raeni grinned the Uchiha grin.
"Yes Choji, I was but I am a demon and in time you and the rest of the humans who were taken will embrace demon hood." stated Raeni as she sat down on the chair
"How did you know my name?" asked Choji
"Took me some time to place your face but I remember the file." explained Raeni "I believe the bears wanted you but I don't know for sure."
"Do you know what happened to my friends?" asked Choji
"I know a lot of things." stated Raeni "Tell you what I'll do a trade some information on your friends for some food."
"Very well." stated Choji as he moved toward the door; he opened it as light flooded the room for the first time. The influx of light lit gave up enough light for Raeni to study the room, it was made out of freshly cut down barked wood which and to make it even better judging from the color it was green ash wood. The closing of the door cut off the light but inside Raeni was smiling part of being demon wolf was being surrounded by nature and the woods. Like all good wolves she could tell what type of tree it was just by the bark and the leaves. That also told her almost where she was, since green ash could be found in only two spots. The woods around the Village hidden in the Leaves and in the Nara woods and most of the trees around the Leaf where young and not the big since the older trees where used to rebuild after Pain attack, meant she was in the Nara woods.
"Now I just need to find a way to defeat this seal and get back." thought Raeni as her mind started to work at the problem.
In another village Sasuke Uchiha was dealing with things he never wanted to deal with in his life, a female to moving in. That was one thing about that demon snake marriages they was no long dating process which accomplished almost nothing when the goal was having offspring. Cene was moving in a few days and they would mate that night. Some movers where bringing in some of her personal stuff in.
"Sasuke we have a situation." stated a voice as Sasuke turned to see a massager from the government standing in the doorway.
"What now?" asked Sasuke
"We have a report that your sister has been taken by the humans." stated the massager
"What do they want me to do about it?" asked Sasuke
"They have a search team standing by if you want to go search for her." stated the aid as Sasuke rolled his snake eyes.
"Let her die for all I care." stated Sasuke
"Very well I will form high command." said the massager as he slithered away as Sasuke went back to dealing with the issues that came from having female in the house.
Naruto Namikaze sat in his backyard watching the birds eat from the multiple bird feeders; sitting beside him just enjoying being beside her mate was Sakura. Together they sat watching the birds and talked about whatever came to mind. Watching the two of them from the window was Naruto's parents.
"They look so happy." stated Kushina with a smile as she looked at her oldest son sitting beside the vixen he loves.
"Ya." answered Minato as he notice that Sakura and his son's tails where almost always touching.
"I just hope that when they have a kit, if it is a boy it doesn't have pink hair." laughed Kushina
"Don't worry from what I remember Pink hair was sort of like a minor bloodline ability that could only be passed down to female." said Minato "But it is only a matter of time until they do have kits."
"He will be a great father like you are." said Kushina as Minato lowered his head a bit before whispering to himself.
"Let's hope he is better than me." whispered Minato
"Minato-kun." said Kushina as she instantly got her husband's attention, she only add the kun to his name in two places the bed room and she was trying to comfort him on something. "You can't keep beating yourself up for the deal you made with the demons; you were trying to save both myself and Adria."
"You knew?" asked Minato
"Ya." answered Kushina as she nodded her head. "Minato you did what you had to protect your family and blaming yourself isn't going to help."
"How did you even find out?" asked Minato
"A nurse told me when I was carrying Adria." explained Kushina
"Why didn't you tell me that you knew?" asked Minato
"The same reason why you made the deal in the first place to protect someone I love." stated Kushina as Minato lowered his head "I know that you would want to carry that weight on your own and you wouldn't want Naruto to blame me for your choice. The thing is Naruto doesn't seem to blame you for it, he understands that you couldn't have left me or Adria behind, that you had to make a choice."
"Still." stated Minato
"Also I am already blaming myself for not being there for him, he had such a tough life because we were taken from him." Stated Kushina as she tried to image what her son had gone though "However what we have to worry about now to make up for the time we lost with him and you or I blaming ourselves isn't going to help."
"It still wasn't the right thing to do." Stated Minato
"You were give a lose, lose situation and even with that spot on your record you are a great father." Said Kushina as Minato smiled before laughing a bit. "What is so funny."
"I thought you were going to say you where pregnant, you said something along that line when you found out about Seth." explained Minato as Kushina laughed a bit.
"No…we agreed to wait for a while." explained Kushina
"Still, it can happen." stated Minato with a grin, Naruto and Sakura weren't the only two having fun at night.
"So what is our son's plan to save the human world?" asked Kushina.
"Sealing off the demon world from the human world." explained Minato "I thought about that myself but…."
"You couldn't stand the idea of never seeing your son again." said Kushina
"That and I had no way to get all the seals." stated Minato "I don't think Naruto knows how he is going to do that, but he is moving forward without a detailed plan sounds like someone I know."
"Ya." said Kushina as the door to the den opened as Adria walked in.
"Your home early, is something wrong?" asked Kushina to her daughter.
"You could say that." said Adria as she placed a paper on the table "I got this from a lioness who was visiting the council, I thought Naruto would want to see it."
"What is it about?" asked Kushina as she looked at the paper, it was from the Feline newspaper which the front page cover image of a blush lioness with the Prince Gamba.
"That is Hinata, one of Naruto's friends and she is probably going to be next Queen of the Feline Kingdom." said Adria
Meanwhile Hinata walked around the harem exploring the massive complex, it wasn't limited to just a single building and a few gardens. There where at least four dozen buildings some of them living quarters others library and a public bath for harem members. If she had to guess the entire complex was at least a tenth the size of the Leaf village. The harem members had no ninja skill so when they did try to follow it was easy enough to lose them and judging from the smiles on the guards faces they loved to see the harem members confused. She was walking down a row of bright red roses she turned the corner to see a figure kneeling on the ground tending to the flowers.
"You know I though as a ninja you could move quietly." stated the male voice as he manicured the flowers. Hinata still couldn't make out his face but he had a whitish grey fur, his main was thinner then Gamba's, his hands and feet like the rest of his body where thin but he handled the roses with care.
"Your Saito the old guard aren't you?" asked Hinata as the old lion laughed a bit as he grabbed an old wooden cane before standing up.
"Yes, I am." Stated the 112 million year old demon lion guard turned gardener. He had an face covered with both winkles and a few old scares, however when he smiled it was a smile of a kind old man which put everyone at ease "And you are Hinata Hyuuga."
"How do you know that?" asked Hinata to the old lion who hunched over a bit and relied on the cane to hold him up.
"I read the papers." explained Saito with a smile "You and the Prince where on the front page of a special edition last night and every one of the two dozen papers this morning. By now every member of the Kingdom and soon every living demon will know who you are."
"The whole world?" asked Hinata stunned that she could become that well known in a day.
"Yes." stated Saito
"I never wanted that." stated Hinata
"You better get used to it, judging from what I heard the public is falling in love with you." explained Saito
"They never met me, how could they love me?" asked Hinata
"Well they like the idea of you." explained Saito "They never had a Queen who wasn't a member of one of the noble prides and some of the turned humans have told stories about you to the papers like how you took part in rescue mission of some children from some village in the war."
"I remember that." stated Hinata as she recalled carrying out a little boy from the battlefield and back to his mother behind the lines.
"How you stood your ground against some attacker named pain and how you took down a mercury group." said Saito "And those are just some of the stories out there about your kindles and your actions during the war. To the subjects you are a kind gentle warrior lioness who lived a privage but regular life not someone who lived their lives shuttled from the world and a real day works. To them you are the people's princess. "
"I am not a princess." stated Hinata "I wasn't like the other little girls I never dreamed of marring a prince I just wanted to marry someone who I loved and who loved me."
"And that is why they the people will love you." explained Saito as he clipped a white rose from the steam. "Like it or not Hinata Hyuuga you are on the way to becoming Queen of this Kingdom."
"And that doesn't bother you, Gamba-kun said some of the older generation would hate having the idea of a former human as Queen." said Hinata
"I have severed three ruling Kings and a ruling Queen." said Saito "I have seen enough in my time that traditions while good can't dictate your life, life is full of changes and with the addition of turned humans our traditions must change."
Hinata didn't know what to say as Saito reached over and cut off a single pure snow white rose, he handed the rose to Hinata who took the white rose.
"I always loved white roses." said Hinata as Saito smiled
"One of the symbols of the royal family is two roses one red and one white." explained Saito as Hinata looked up at him "If I make it long enough I will sever Prince Gamba and yourself just like I severed every King and Queen who came before you."
In the human world teams of wolves moved though the woods on ground level as fast as possible but always with sight of at least five other wolves. They were fanning out from a single point heading to the east and the sea.
"Sir we have company coming." stated Asuma to his new commander as the wolf commander looked down the road where a group of almost a fifty members of the Feline Kingdom military.
"Looks like the pussy cats have come." stated the commander with a small laugh as Itachi and Fay walked up to them.
"Where do you want us?" asked Fay
"We want you gone." stated the commander
"Sir, having extra help never hurts." stated Asuma
"We don't need help from cats." stated the commander
"Listen, she is my sister I am helping weather you like it or not." stated Itachi
"She is no sister of yours." stated a voice as Itachi turned to see his father standing there his Sharingan glaring at his disowned son. "You are not a Uchiha and you need to leave now."
"Father." stated Itachi as he returned his father's Sharingan glare with his own.
"This is wolf land you are not welcomed here without our permission, so leave now." Stated the commander
"Very well." stated Itachi as Fay looked at her mate-in-waiting as he turned and leave leading the back down the road away from the wolves and his grinning father.
"Itachi what are you doing?" asked Fay "This isn't like you."
"The trail they are following isn't Hidan's it's a clone of someone else, the real trail leads toward the Nara woods." stated Itachi
"How can you know that?" asked Fay as Itachi turned on his Sharingan
"It was clear that Hidan went to the west into the Nara woods." stated Itachi "Let them keep looking to the east, we will find my sister somewhere in the Nara woods."
"And that area hasn't been given to anyone yet." said Fay with a smile "We can search there all we want."
"Yes." answered Itachi "I may have not saved my brother from his own hate but I am going to save my sister."
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