Chapter 60 Rescue
Raeni moved around the makeshift prison, judging from the type of food they were giving her they she would assume she had been here for almost five days. She had given them some information mostly who had become what but she had also feed them false information such as troop numbers and location, hopefully they would actually try and attack some positions where they believe only a dozen warriors are when in fact there was over a fifty. She was also digging out information from the humans, a slip of the tongue a whisper on the other side of the wooden walls. She was learning so much about the human command system. There where at least four dozen groups some only a few dozen people others a few hundred spread out across fire country and they took orders from five commanders, Kakashi Hatake was overall commander calling orders from someplace they called the nest. The next commander was Captain Yamanto, followed by Guy and the Sand commander Kankura and lastly Neji Hyuuga. All five commanders were separated so that that if one fell they would still have a commander.
"So why are you helping else like this?" asked Choji as he looked toward Raeni as she took a bit of squirrel meat
"I know I can make it a week without food but it would suck doing so." answered Raeni "Besides I am only telling you about your friends, nothing classified."
"Well in a couple of days we will do the trade and you will go back to your kind and we will have some of our back." said Choji as he stood up to leave.
"You know in the end you can't win." stated Raeni "We have you outnumbered now, we are more powerful and every battle we win we gain more fighters and we live millions of years compared to your short life, you may get your people for me but in the end you will be a demon."
"We shall see." stated Choji as he walked out of the building into the makeshift community. He knew he couldn't risk bring a captured demon back to the main community so he set up an outpost ten miles away from the main place. Here he had built a small cabin which he wired paper bombs to and a couple small tree houses where a handful of guards stood in over watch. Hidan was sitting down in one of those houses, his blood seal around him so at any moment he could kill Raeni. Choji walked over to another Leaf ninja who was standing watch.
"So what does it have to say?" asked the Leaf ninja
"She says we will not win." stated Choji
"Well once we get the people we kill her and every demon that shows up right?" asked the ninja
"I haven't made up my mind about that." stated Choji
"Sir we have to kill them." stated the ninja
"If we do that then we lose any chance of pulling a trade like this again." stated Choji "If we can get a hundred or more of our people back by just letting a few demons live I'll take that deal."
"What does high command say?" asked the ninja
"They want to go forward with the deal and they are sending Lee to pick up the samples we took off her, blood and such." Said Choji
"When is he suppose to get here?" asked the ninja
"Later today, tomorrow at the latest." explained Choji as he walked off unaware that he along with the others were being watched.
"I got twenty humans not counting Hidan in defendable locations; half are on duty at any one time and of that half of them looking in toward the hut and half looking out." Stated Fay as she and Itachi hid in the tree tops to Fay it was unnatural to be up this high but to Itachi it was natural.
"They have Raeni under that Jashin seal of Hidan's." explained Itachi as he looked toward Hidan who was sitting in a small hut up in a tree, the seal spread across the hut floor. He sat there cursing saying how he wanted to kill something.
"So how do you want to play this?" asked Fay
"Spread out and we strike when I take down Hidan." stated Itachi
"How are you going to do that?" asked Fay
"The seal while strong isn't unbeatable." explained Itachi "If he is outside of that seal then Raeni can get away. If the seal he is sitting on is totally destroyed then the link between is broken unless he has a new sample of her blood."
"So our first goal is to break that seal." stated Fay
"Yes, I'll take care of Hidan, you get my sister." stated Itachi "Have everyone else move to take the rest of them."
"I'll tell the others." stated Fay as she went to inform the other demon felines of the plan
Meanwhile Sakura walked off the elevator in the demon hospital for the first time since the attack on the Sand. The nurses looked at her with a mix of hate for taking so much time off, admiration for doing what they believed to be a top secret mission to bring down the Leaf and understanding that mating season came around for every female at different time and they would have time off when they entered heat.
"Welcome back Doctor Haruno." said a nurse as Sakura looked at the rooms which had been filled with orphans but now it was all but empty.
"So everything fine here?" asked Sakura to the bear nurse
"Ya everyone has already been processed and turned, we will have a few stragglers coming in from different search teams finding them." explained the nurse
"I see." said Sakura
"There is talk that the armies aren't planning another major attack till after the new years, that two months with almost no work." Laughed the nurse "Well Cene will not be back for a while."
"What is going on with her?" asked Sakura
"She is becoming Mrs. Uchiha next week." explained the nurse as Sakura looked at her.
"Isn't that a little fast, they weren't even dating?" asked Sakura
"In demon snake society dating isn't normally used, two snakes just mated and if they don't work out they either go their separate ways or they just kill each other." stated the bear
"They kill each other?" asked Sakura
"Ya, they can kill each other for almost anything, it is just their society." stated the bear "Just like Ants have Queens and horses share mates among each other."
"Ok, better her then me." said Sakura
"By the way I heard you know this Hinata Hyuuga?" asked the bear as Sakura nodded her head, she really didn't want to talk about Hinata or how she somehow was on her way to becoming Queen. Her salvation came from an unlikely source as Orochimaru slithered up behind her.
"Welcome back Sakura." stated Orochimaru
"What do you want?" asked Sakura
"I have a new job for you." stated Orochimaru
"What?" asked Sakura
"I need you to work with Tsunade." stated Orochimaru "I know she will only really trust you."
"What did you do to her?" asked Sakura
"I'll let her explain." said Orochimaru with a sick smile "She is in long term storage level five the guards are expecting you."
Sakura tried not to run toward the elevator but it was hard, the elevator moved so slowly before finally stopping, when it came to a stop there where two snake guards standing there.
"Ah…you must be Doctor Haruno." stated the one guard as Sakura nodded her head "Well your placation is in room three."
Sakura moved down the line of rooms until she reached the one marked with the number three. She opened the door to find a room set up like any medical exanimation room in the leaf. A scale, medical station and a padded table. Sitting on that table was a blonde vixen with white fur covering almost her entire front; her deep brown eyes were not looking at the door but at the ground. The Yin seal which had always appeared as violet diamond on her forehead now appeared as the same spot only in fur. Nine tails grew out of her tail bone.
"Lady Tsunade." said Sakura as Tsunade looked up and smiled.
"Hello Sakura." said Tsunade
"How are you doing Tsunade?" asked Sakura
"I have been better." said Tsunade
"What did Orochimaru do to you and Jiraiya?" asked Sakura as Tsunade took a breath.
"Basically he artificially inseminated me." said Tsunade as Sakura's eyes widened "I am pregnant and Jiriaya is the father."
"Oh…wasn't expecting that." admitted Sakura "Doesn't sound like something Orochimaru would do."
"He said the governments wanted it so they could have pure demons give birth." explained Tsunade
"Sorry it happened to you Lady Tsunade." said Sakura as she took a deep breath "I don't really like this but I could try to get something to end it."
The look on Tsunade's face said everything as she looked like she both wanted to punch Sakura and cry; the idea of losing what she now had was beyond unbearable. She may have not wanted it to come like this but she wasn't going to end it.
"I am sorry Lady Tsunade but I had to ask." said Sakura "You taught me that."
"I know." answered Tsunade "The strange thing is I am happy it happened."
"How is Jiriaya handling the news?" asked Sakura
"He is stunned like I am." Explained Tsunade "I thought I was too old but they say that demon foxes are fertile until they are 60 and I am 58."
"Ya." said Sakura "I guess my job is to make sure the kit your carrying makes it."
"Kits." answered Tsunade as Sakura's eyes widened again "Orochimaru put two fertilized eggs in me."
Night was fast approaching as Choji Akimichi was walking toward the cabin with a tray full of food, Lee was running a little late but it was now better to be late and unseen then on time and discovered. He could see ten of the twenty guards sitting around a small fire cooking their own meals, some of the other guards were eating at their posts. Everything seemed normal until suddenly the forest birds stopped singing as everything seemed to stop in place. Before Choji even say anything the tree where Hidan's hut was exploded around the base and the bottom of the hut fell off in a controlled fall. The tree fell to the ground partly on top of the still stunned Leaf ninjas
"We are under attack!" yelled a guard as he reached for his sword only to get tackled by a lunging lion. The Leaf ninjas where caught almost totally flatfooted. Most had mouthfuls of food and were relaxed not expecting a fight. Choji was the fastest as he dropped the food and pulled a kunai, a demon tiger lunged toward him reacting as fast as he could he stabbed the tiger in the heart killing her instantly. Inside the cabin Raeni smiled as she heard the sound of battle outside.
"My pack has come for me." said Raeni as the door blew open, however instead of seeing her father or another wolf standing in the doorway. Instead standing in the doorway was a female demon panther, one she had seen before.
"Fay?" asked Raeni
"Can you move?" asked Fay
"Yes, why are you here?" asked Raeni
"Your brother is here to save you." explained Fay
Outside the hut a bleeding and wounded Hidan was moving out from under the tree, pieces of branches had gone though his body. The seal that linked him to the young demon wolf had fallen out from under him and had been destroyed in the fall, that meant that the wounds to him didn't go on to her. Even with all this Hidan was smiling, because now he had targets and judging how the Leaf ninjas were moving most if not all were about to be captured, he could kill them all.
"Hello Hidan." said a voice behind him as he turned his face only to punch in the face by a black panther with red Sharingan. The punch sent Hidan falling to the ground with a broken tooth.
"Why hello Itachi." stated Hidan as he looked toward the pissed off Uchiha. Itachi's fur stood on end as a look of pure hate filled his eyes, he looked more like a wild animal then either a human or a demon, a small amount of blood was dripping off his fist "Long time no see."
"You dare hurt my sister?" asked Itachi with rage in his voice
"Come on Itachi you killed your entire clan and now you are worried about someone dyeing?" laughed Hidan as he made a new seal of Jashin in his own blood.
"That won't help you Hidan, the seal was broken you can't hurt my sister." stated Itachi
"No." laughed Hidan as he licked the blood beside his mouth, instantly his body turned black with white marks in the shape of bones. "But thanks to your rage….I now have you."
Itachi looked down at the small amount of blood from the punch he had given Hidan.
Yards away from Hidan Choji was in the fight of his life, he had already downed two of the three colored chakra pills that turned his body fat into chakra however even with that he was nearing his limits. The felines had struck with perfect timing he was the only one apart from Hidan who wasn't either captured or pin under the tree Itachi had dropped on them.
"I will not fall today." stated Choji to himself as a lion jumped onto his back sinking his claws into him. Choji screamed in pain before throwing the lion over his shoulder and onto the ground. His fist grew in size as he punched the lion in the face crushing his skull. He tried to run though hand signs but any time he tried to he would be interrupted by yet another attack. He looked up to see a tiger coming in with chakra covered claws, there was no time to dodge a second before it hit the tiger fell to the ground from a blow to his back. Choji's eyes widened as he saw Lee standing there in his green training suit.
"Sorry for being late." stated Lee
"Lee we need to get out of here." Ordered Choji
"What about the others?" asked Lee as he punched a panther in the throat.
"We can't save them." stated Choji "And we need to move the other people."
"Understood." stated Lee as he sent a tiger flying with a roundhouse kick to the face. "I see an opening to the left."
"Let's move." ordered Choji as suddenly three lions blocked the path, the two leaf ninjas looked around to see themselves surrounded by twenty felines.
"Not good." Stated Lee
"Lee….we can't win." stated Choji
"But we can take some down with us." Stated Lee as the felines seemed to enjoy watching the humans try to find a way out.
"Someone has to get out and warn Kakashi and the people under my command." stated Choji as the felines moved closer
"I will hold them off." whispered Lee
"No…you know the location of all the hideouts and headquarters, you need to get out." Stated Choji as Lee looked at his friend. "No time to argue we are doing it."
"Your youthfulness will shine on." Stated Lee as he started running toward the tree line which had been cut off by six demon cat however behind him Choji was forming hand signs.
"Now!" yelled Choji as Lee jumped up as a large mound of earth flew up hitting the bottom of Lee's feet sending him flying up and over the demons and into the woods.
Across the field Hidan was smiling as he pulled a long metal rod from his cloak.
"I will do what no one else has done and kill the great Itachi Uchiha." Stated Hidan as he stabbed his heart expecting to see Itachi fall down dead however Itachi just laughed as blood came out of Hidan's mouth.
"Did you not think it was strange I let you have some of my blood?" asked Itachi as his Sharingan deactivated as the blood on his hand disappeared, which meant the blood Hidan had taken for the seal was his own.
"It was a genjustu?" asked Hidan
"Yes, and I know your dark secret Hidan, including the only way to kill you." Stated Itachi as Hidan's eyes widened "The only way to kill you, is to have you kill yourself…which you just did."
Hidan began coughing blood as his limbs began to turn cold as he felt death coming. He fell to the ground as his blood began to cover the ground.
"I killed you Hidan." stated Itachi as he walked past the body of Hidan. As Itachi moved away from the body a young lion ran up and cut off Hidan's head.
"Let's put his head up on a pike like they did to us." yelled the lion as he held Hidan's head up high.
"Put that down, don't lower yourself to that level." ordered Itachi as he rolled his eyes as he moved toward were his sister. He stopped in front of his sister, she didn't look hurt but he had to ask.
"Are you ok?" asked Itachi as suddenly Raeni hugged him.
"Thanks big brother." Said Raeni as Itachi smiled.
"No problem, now let's get you back to mom and dad, they are probably worried sick." Said Itachi
"Itachi, two humans got away should we track them down?" asked Fay
"No, we will get them in time." said Itachi as the demon felines, Raeni and the captured humans left the battlefield.
"What?" asked a confused Naruto Namikaze as the six of them sat around the dining room table.
"Tsunade is pregnant." Repeated Sakura "That was the experiment that Orochimaru was doing, finding a way for infertile demons to give birth."
"Jiriaya a father, that is a frightening thought." laughed Minato as he took a bit of roasted rabbit.
"Still to have it done without her choice isn't right." Said Kushina
"She will be an old mother." stated Adria
"But a good mother I feel." said Sakura before looking at Naruto and Seth "How was your first training session as a team since the fall of the sand."
"Weird." answered Seth shutting down the conversation before it started.
"But we have been given our first mission." said Naruto "We are part of force heading into the Leaf village to check for humans coming back."
"When?" asked Sakura as she fought back the need to tell him to grab the radio detonator which they needed to carry out their plans.
"Next week." answered Naruto
Hinata Hyuuga walked though the outmost garden of the harem, called the rose garden since it has massive amounts of roses from all different colors. This garden was also the only place where she could meet others who were not either the guards, Gamba or harem members. She turned the corner to see an older all black lion with the same deep white Byakugan eyes.
"Father." said Hinata with a smile as the now transformed Hiashi Hyuuga stood up.
"Hinata." said Hiashi with a smile as the normally reserved man hugged his daughter. Then he pulled back and looked at his daughter. "It's good to see you even though both of us have changed."
"In more ways than one I assume." said Hinata as the two of them started to walk around the garden.
"They let me see the papers while they waited to turn me." stated Hiashi "It seems that the people love you. They call you the people's princess"
"I know but they don't even know me." said Hinata "I am not that special."
"I may have not have seen it for a long time but yes you are special daughter." explained Hiashi "Don't worry the other elders and I will handle things political."
"Father, don't." stated Hinata
"Don't worry, we are only telling them the truth about you." stated Hiashi "Giving them background information that sort of thing."
"Well I guess that can't hurt but please nothing more than that." said Hinata "Heard anything about Hanabi?"
"Last I heard she and a team lead by Iruka where trying to hold a position near the east market during the attack." explained Hiashi "That area was hit very hard during the fall of the Leaf, almost every building was destroyed."
"So she is likely dead." said Hinata sadly
"We must face that likely hood." Said Hiashi
"In a few days I am going on some hunt with Gamba-kun in fire country, he said we can stop in the Leaf maybe my Byakugan eyes will find her…."said Hinata as she found she couldn't finish the sentence.
"We can put her to rest with honor." said Hiashi "Now we tell me about this Gamba? How did you two meet?"
Hours later the wolves searching for Raeni where about to call it a night, the wolves had been searching for days but hadn't found a trace of Raeni. Through all the shifts and all the different teams that moved though two wolves remained, those were Raeni's parents Fugaku and Mikoto Uchiha. The two Uchihas were in a tent located beside the command center.
"Why haven't they found her?" asked Mikoto as she worried about her only daughter.
"Don't worry she will be fine." said Fugaku knowing that his wife was more protective of Raeni because of the fact she had lost her other two pups. Before she could respond the tent flapped opened as their daughter walked in.
"Raeni." cried Mikoto as she hugged her daughter and cried "Oh thank God you're safe."
"Our teams found you." said Fugaku
"No they didn't." said Raeni as she looked toward the tent flap where Itachi was standing
"Itachi?" asked Mikoto
"Get out of here!" yelled Fugaku
"He and his team saved me." explained Raeni "Even though he is a panther he saved a packmate."
"He isn't family and he isn't part of this pack!" yelled Fugaku
"Fugaku." stated Mikoto "He saved our daughter."
"He almost killed us." stated Fugaku
"I did what I had to, in order to keep the peace I tried to find another way but there wasn't." stated Itachi
"Son, I may never forgive you for what you did that night but thank you for bring back your sister." said Mikoto with a smile.
Hours later Lee returned to the now abounded camp with a handful of leaf ninjas who had originally been under Choji's command, Kakashi had ordered them to move and to change the codes. Lee was ordered back to check for any information. What he found was everyone gone and everything distoryed.
"They took them all." stated a leaf ninja
"Choji sacrificed himself to get the message out." Stated Lee as he kicked over a log
"At least they didn't find everyone else." stated another Leaf ninja
"Will you get me down!" yelled a voice Lee and the other Leaf ninjas turned to see Hidan's head on the ground.
"I thought they killed you?" asked Lee
"They would have but they cut my head off before I died; now put my head back on my body." ordered Hidan
Well I hope you liked this chapter, I know some may have wanted a longer fight between Hidan and Itachi but I feel as a spy in the Akatsuki he would have a plan to take them down in a fight. Now until next time I would like to thank everyone who reviewed and I ask that you keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75
