Chapter 66 The Situation

It was a cold new year's day on the hills of the burning sun mountain, the humans under Kiba new command were huddled in the log cabins and the saw mill of the logging camp turned base. Cut off from the other members of the human resistance they were short on supplies. The only thing that they had plenty off was the fur pelts made from skinned demons, there food supplies were low and their medical supplies were all but gone. Even with all the problems they had hope, they had killed almost fifty demons and had only lost ten people to combat.

Inside the logging mill Kiba tried to reach Kakashi over the radio.

"Sir they are not talking to us." stated an ANBU radioman "All we are getting is the confirmation number that they are still human and then telling us that unless we fall in line and stop cutting off the heads, skinning demons and put Neji back in command they will not talk to us."

"Those fools!" yelled Kiba he had hoped that after a while they would accept that he and not Neji was in command of this part of the resistance however they refused to even talk to them. They sent radio messages reporting their actions and how they were fighting to the other commands hoping that they would side with them but they got nothing but static back, they had changed their codes.

"Why are they doing this?" asked an ANBU "We are fighting the demons?"

"Because they want us to follow their orders in the hopes that they can have peace with the demons." stated Kiba

"Sir how do we know that they all haven't been taken and turned into demons?" asked an ANBU "Maybe we should send massagers to make contact with them to make sure."

"We can't." said Kiba

"Neji and Tenten took or destroyed all the maps and radio codes, we are lucky that you two stayed with us." explained Kiba to the two radio operators who knew the codes.

"Sir, we need to make the demons pay for everything they took." said the radio operator

"But it would be nice if we had some food other then can baked beans and wild boar meat." said the second operator

"True." laughed Kiba

While the humans were celebrating news years with meat and beans the demon felines were hosting a massive party both inside and outside of the palace. Inside the palace it was a massive formal dinner party out in the city it was normal citizilians holding parties in bars and in homes. The largest and most formal party was being held in the grand dining hall of the palace. There inside the massive halls hung ancient tapestries and paintings dating back millions of years. The ceiling was encrusted gold, silver, diamonds and other rare jewels and medals. In a hundred out coves which lined the walls were life size marble statues of the past 100 kings of the Kingdom with two giant statues at either end these two in gold. One of the 1st King of the Demon Felines Abel who brought the three feline races together in a single kingdom and at the other end was the King Alexandra who made them all equal. There was a massive table that ran the entire distance with Gamba and the head with Hinata on his right and an empty seat on the left for his mother who was still stuck in bed.

Blood red table spreads covered the hard wood table which was covered with pure gold dishes along with all the silverware. There was every possible food on the table from raw chicken and beef for the snakes to freshly boiled vegetables for the vegetarian horses.

"This is one nice place." said Sakura as she ate a fresh salad with roasted swordfish on it. She had to admit ever since she became a fox she tended to have fish more often chalk it up to the transformation. Naruto sat beside her with a plate of grilled carp. Not everyone was sitting down and eating others were moving around with drinks in their hands as they chatted. They could see down the table to see that Hinata and Gamba were moving around talking with the guest they had to separate in order to reach everyone on the guest list. Hinata was the one moving toward them.

"So enjoying the food?" asked Hinata as she came up to her two friends

"Yes, great food." said Sakura with a smile

"So what is the plan?" whispered Hinata

"We are planting seals to cut off the demon world from the human world." explained Naruto "Can you take care of the two other in the feline kingdom?"

"You means the one in two fortresses outside of the city?" asked Hinata one of the facts she learned that before the demon war there were three major cities in the Feline Kingdom, one in the colder north which was home to a large proportion of panthers and one in the jungles of south which was home to a large portion of tigers with the Lion royal city in the center. Each city had its own massive fortress which had a transportation seals. The cities where now totally empty apart from a small staff to maintain the buildings and groups of soldiers to maintain the fortress.

"Can you handle it?" asked Sakura

"Of course." said Hinata "Just get me the seals."

"Here, keep them safe and hidden." said Naruto as he handed her a scroll to Hinata, something that didn't go unnoticed by other demons "This is from us and your friends."

"Thanks for the gift Naruto." said Hinata as others bought the reason since gifts were common but it mostly went to the King not his mate-in-waiting but it wasn't unheard of, so they paid it no mind. With that Hinata left to talk to the other guest, the attention left with her.

"So we all but have the feline kingdom seal, our seal and the one that is at the hospital which was demon turtle country before they were killed. We can get to the snake village since they are our allies" noted Sakura "Now how do we get in contact with Choji in the bear country so we can get that taken care of."

"The problem isn't that it is the fact that we have no one we know we can trust in the wolves or the horses." stated Naruto "The wolves' control three seals since they took over one that was controlled by the worms until they were killed and they don't like foxes."

"And that isn't before we get to the try to get the two the demon ants control." said Sakura with a grin "And here I thought it was going to be easy."

Across the room King Gamba was moving though the crowds of guests all of whom who wanted to speak with him. Finally Gamba reached the person he wanted to find.

"Excuse me Mr. Hyuuga." said Gamba as Hiashi Hyuuga who was busy talking with other Hyuuga elders turned and faced him. The Hyuuga clan had been split up do the transformation into demons, most had become felines of one sort but a part of the clan had become wolves. The branch that had become felines was now called the Hyuuga pride and was already making political waves. They had opened business in the areas were large numbers of turned humans were and they already had candidates pushing to take seats in the general pride in the next elections. The Hyuuga pride was rebuilding its power in a new village and power structure.

"King Gamba." said Hiashi as he bowed his head to Gamba

"Can I have a word with you, alone please." said Gamba as Hiashi and him walked away and into a side hallway which was almost totally cleared out. "I have to ask you something Mr. Hyuuga."

"What is that?" asked Hiashi

"Itachi told me it is a human tradition to ask the father before you ask the daughter." explained Gamba

"You're asking permission to marry my daughter?" asked Hiashi

"Yes…I am." said Gamba

"You're the King now why ask me?" asked Hiashi

"You are still her father." stated Gamba

"Of course if you make her happy, however Hinata will not want it done tonight in front of all these guests." said Hiashi he knew it would be great political gain for his pride if it happened tonight but the happiest of what he believed to be his only living daughter came first.

"I wasn't planning on it." explained Gamba "But I will be extremely busy putting in my government and dealing with issues. This may be the last time I see you before I plan to ask her."

Hidden behind a waterfall inside a cave was the command center Kakashi was sitting at a small folding table across from Shizune. On the table was two small plates which was covered with basic food rations.

"So what are you going to do about Kiba?" Shizune as she took a bit into her dry piece of bread.

"Not sure." admitted Kakashi "We can't leave them alone since they are part of the resistance but we can't have them doing what they are doing. Some want me to make an example of Kiba by killing him."

"You won't do that." said Shizune as Kakashi looked at her "You're too good of a man for that."

"Thanks." said Kakashi "I have an idea I want to run past you."

"Sure, what is it?" asked Shizune

"I am going to offer Kiba a deal." said Kakashi

"What sort of a deal?" asked Shizune

"In return for letting the civilians move to a separate camp under Neji's control we will give them supplies and let Hidan join them." stated Kakashi

"That won't stop them from attacking the demons and cutting off their heads." said Shizune

"No…but when the demons come for them and if I was their commander I would come in force we will save some of the people." said Kakashi as he lowered his head "It is better to lose 45 people then to lose 200 people."

"I see." said Shizune

"I taught my students that, those who break the rules are trash but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash and now I am doing just that." stated Kakashi "Abandoning some of my comrades to save others."

"We all had to make tough choices." said Shizune as she placed her hand on top of Kakashi's. "But we do it so that we can all have a future that isn't as a demon or hiding in a hole."

Back in the palace of the demon felines the nine tailed fox who had attacked the Leaf years ago stood amongst some of the other demons.

"So how is the situation in Kumogakure?" asked a bear to Kado

"Good." said Kado "We have a deal with their leader."

"Really the human made a deal?" asked the bear

"Yes, we promised him that his village would be the last to fall and returned his brother free of demons ." said Kado "In return we get groups of human every week and the sample of the transformation agent they had."

"How did they get that?" asked the bear

"They would only say they got it from the Leaf ninja Guy." stated Kado

"Guy…I heard that name." said the bear "Yes, we considered turning him into one of us but the horses wanted him and his student….I can't remember the name."

"Probably Lee." stated Kado

"Yes, that is the one." stated the bear as Kado noticed someone else.

"Excuse me I have to go." said Kado as he moved off, neither one of them noticing the panther a few yards away.

"So they have A under their control." thought Itachi as he looked across the room toward Naruto and Sakura who were still eating. "I'll let Naruto decide what he wants to do with it, since he gave those seals to Hinata."

The sound of a bell called everyone back to the table as the next course of food came out of the massive kitchens of the feline kingdom.

Elsewhere dinner was also being served in the demon wolf country. Inside their capital city two men and a woman sat around a table while a young girl played with a ball.

"So Shikaku what do you think?" asked Asuma as he looked at Shikamaru's parents who had both become wolves.

"It's an idea but we don't know if Naruto is on the side of helping humanity anymore." Answered Shikaku's wife Yoshino "And if you can't trust your own wife with this plan how can we trust someone else."

"It isn't that I don't trust her, it's just she wants to thank the demons who brought me here and kept me locked up and away from my daughter." explained Asuma before looking at his daughter "Besides if something does happen to us, who will look after her."

"We have to act as soon as possible, this break can only last so long and once they start full scale attacks it is nine months max until they have total domination of every human." stated Shikaku

"That is why making contact with as many other races as possible." said Asuma "And our best chance to contact Naruto is by talking to Shikamaru when you meet for Yoshino's birthday in February."

"That is if they let us met him." said Yoshino as the normally hardened woman showed weakness at not seeing or hearing from her son in months. They had to petition their new government to have him and Temari come to the wolf village to celebrate her birthday as a family like they always had.

"It's the best chance we have." Said Asuma

In the demon snake village Sasuke Uchiha was study battle plans for the planned attack on the Rain village, Grass Village and the dozens of small villages spread out Forest and Wood countries. These center countries where always the battleground for four of the five major ninja nations that surrounded them. When they took them in a few weeks they would have taken over most of the human world. This operation was small compared to the attacks on Earth, Sand and Leaf villages but it was a key to take the area before moving on Lightening country and the Cloud village. If they moved on the Cloud village first they would risk an attack from the center counties and wave which could cut their lines in half.

"Sasuke-kun." hissed a voice from the bedroom as Sasuke rolled his silted snake eyes, he knew what Caci wanted was to fall asleep next to him.

"Why did I agree to mate with her?" asked Sasuke

Flashback

"Now just sign here." Stated a local judge as Sasuke signed the piece of paper, followed quickly by Cena. The two of them stood in a court house in the center of the village, unlike other demon races who throw a huge celebration at an official mating service demon snakes just sign some papers and do a small ceremony and it is done with.

"Isn't this wonderful." said Caci with a smile on her snake face as Sasuke just looked at her.

"Now that the paper work is set aside there is only one thing left to do." said the judge as he pulled out two small silver goblets and one large one. Sasuke knew what was needed in the ceremony he lifted one of the smaller goblets to his right fang releasing some of the deadly venom into the goblet. Beside him Cena was doing the same thing. Once the goblet was full he handed back to the judge who poured both of their venom into the large goblet mixing them together.

"Venom is our strongest weapon it is what makes us stronger than any of the other races. Venom can kill with a single strike." said the judge as the venoms mixed in the goblet, Sasuke's black venom mixing with Caci's dark blood red venom. "Every venom is different and dealt however when we combine venom from another snake our own and drink it we become immune to that venom."

Sasuke took a breath, he had been told about this it was a suppose to be a bond between the two of them, like wedding rings are to humans but it was still a pain to deal with. Sasuke watched as the judge poured the combined venom in the goblets.

"Now drink and become a mated pair." stated the judge as Sasuke lifted his goblet up and took a drink of the venom. When he finished he felt Caci pull him down into a kiss, she poured all the love she had into that kiss while he faked it.

"Congratulation Mr. and Mrs. Uchiha….may you have many strong and deadly off springs." stated the judge

End Flashback

"Ya, I need her to have kids with." thought Sasuke before he thought about it some more before admitting it to himself "And she isn't as much as a weakling as I thought and she is fun in the bedroom at least."

"Coming." said Sasuke as he slithered into the bedroom to find Caci resting on her side of the bed. He lied down as Caci wrapped her arms around Sasuke's neck while her tail coiled around him. He had to admit that while he found her a pain, he had become accustomed to her.

"Night Sasuke." said Caci as the lights turned off. The room was almost totally black the only source of light came in the form of a heat lamp in the corner of the room by Caci. Under that heat lamp was a blackish gray egg about 18 inches tall and 8 inches wide. Inside the egg protected by the harden shell and warmed by the heating lamps was the first of his new clan. Caci didn't waste any time in having a child within a month she had laid the egg in which the child would grow until it was born. Per the law if the child was weak it could be killed along with the weak parent, this was done so that demon snake race could stay strong. For a while the law had been ended do to the lack of birth do to infertility but it was coming back. So that if Caci and the child were weak he could kill them and find a stronger candidate.

"At least I don't have to deal with pregnancy problems." thought Sasuke "My child grows in an egg then comes out in nine months."

Well I hope you liked this chapter and the different little surprises I put in it, I consider this a transition chapter where I am setting up different items which will happen in later chapters. I also have news I have posted on my profile four different story clips of upcoming stories and you can vote on which one you like the most. Now until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75