Chapter 68 More Options Part 1

The sun wasn't even up over the demon fox country as Ino Yamanaka moved though the streets, she was tired beyond tired. She had been given a job as a military police intelligence officer on loan with the local police force. She had spent most of the night using her interrogation skills to try to figure out if a pure demon was behind a robbery of a newly set up grocery store. In the end the fox had confessed but it still had spent most of the night. Then there was the fact that her parents had restarted a flower shop and they expected her to help them like she had for years.

Then there was the fact that the high command of the fox military had assigned Sai as a temporary military guard outside of general assembly meeting hall until he could become a pack trainer or what she would still call a jonnin instructor when the next graduating class came. It was strange unlike in the Leaf which had their ninja start each year in September and ended in June the foxes had their school beginning in March and ending in October. The story was because the winter was too harsh to hold school and it was better to be home. The fact her boyfriend of five years was working days while she worked nights meaning both of them slept alone without really seeing each other.

She walked through the door into the house the demons had given Sai and her, it wasn't as large as Shikamaru's and Temari's place and no were close to the Namikaze den. The law was that the vixen moves into the male's den and the den size meant how highly rank the pack was in society. Shikamaru came from the Nara pack which the demons considered a strong pack and while Sai was strong he didn't have a pack so he had received a middle class den. It was still a lot bigger than the apartment they shared in the leaf.

She looked around the darkened living room, on the small fireplace was a photo of the two of them which they had saved from the Leaf, and beside it was a portrait of the two of them as foxes. Ino couldn't help but smile as she looked at the photo; demon or not she was with the man she loves. As she moved past the couch toward the bathroom and shower a hand came out of no were before pulling her over the couch.

"What the?" yelled Ino as she found herself on her back on the couch. She went into combat mode searching for targets however a soft hand against her cheek and a scent she knew all too well caused her to relax.

"Morning Ino-chan." said the black fox Sai as he rested his hand on Ino's cheek and another hand holding the back of her head. Ino smiled as she placed her hands on the back of Sai's neck and the other on the small of his back just above his tail.

"Morning Sai." said Ino with a smile "I thought you had already left for work."

"I took the day off." explained Sai "And I got you off from work with your parents and with the police."

"How did you do that?" asked Ino

"I talked to the head of the police." said Sai

"Ok…that explained the how but the why?" asked Ino

"Did you forget what today is?" asked Sai as Ino searched her memories, Sai was always better at remembering dates but she was better at knowing what to do with those dates.

"It's the anniversary of our fourth date and our first real kiss after a breakfast date before work." answered Ino with a smile, before kissing him "I almost forgot but you didn't have to take off work, it's the anniversary of our first kiss not our real anniversary."

"Yes." said Sai as he took a deep breath "But I think you will not want to go to sleep any time soon."

"Why is that?" asked Ino as she prepared for some mating however Sai wasn't looking at her instead he was looking toward the coffee table. Ino followed her eyes only to see an open ring box with the Leaf symbol on it and a golden ring in it. Her eyes became as wide as dinner plates as she just looked at the ring. It was golden with a single diamond in the center with two small red jewels on the side. Silver bands moved away from the jewels making it look like her favorite flower, a rose.

"I know Demons don't wear rings but it felt like a shame to waste it." explained Sai as Ino was a lost of words. "Ino Yamanaka will you do me the honor and marry me?"

"Sai….." said Ino in between tears as she pulled him down into a kiss

"Yes…Yes…Yes…" she added in between kisses.

In another den the legendary pervert sage Jiriaya was up but not out of bed, he was too focused the sleeping figure on his chest. The mass of blonde hair which was laying beside him, He was still not used to waking up to find his old teammate, Tsunade asleep either on him or beside him. This morning she was asleep beside him. When the demons had given him the house or what they called a den Jiriaya had offered to sleep in another room so that Tsunade could be alone. To his amazement Tsunade refused insisting they shared a bed. He had kept his distance but she always seen to find him. Jiriaya moved his only remaining hand which had been resting around Tsunade up to her side before going down her rib cage before coming to a stop on her growing belly.

"My God, how many things had changed." thought Jiriaya to himself as he remembered how over night Tsunade had quite drinking and gambling all because of some experiment by Orochimaru that had impregnated the 58 year old Tsunade with his children. His greatest fear was the only reason why Tsunade was acting so affectionate toward him was because of the kids only. That it was a show, he knew that Tsunade's parents had separated after the birth of her brother and when they were younger she had said it was because her parents never really loved each other.

Jiriaya closed his eyes again, as he prepared to let sleep take him again. Unlike the younger generation he didn't have a job in the military instead the demons had given him a different assignment. The population of the demon world was just as perverted as the human world his famous book series Icha Icha was now being made for a demon world. Publishers form every race apart from the ants had contacted him wanting their own versions of the stories. The book deals were making him money hand over foot which he had planned to use for his kids.

It was nearing ten in the morning as Guy walked through the slums outside of the hidden ninja village of Kumogakure. The slums was filled with the refuges which had made it out from the countries under demon control, in all the population of Kumograkura had grown by almost five times in four months. The slums was made out of scraps of wood and metal which was taken off wagons that had brought them to the village and it spread out almost five miles outside of the walls of the village all the way around. The slums was a complex weave of roads with multiple turns and dead ends. Guy stepped over some deep brown water whether that be mud or something more foul he didn't know.

"Are you lost?" asked a voice as Guy turned to see the head of the village ANBU core Samui and her two teammates Karui and Omoi standing behind her.

"I got word that there is a metal worker out here and I was hoping to talk him into heading into a secure location in fire country." Lied Guy

"Why we are supplying weapons?" asked Karui

"Yes, but it is only a matter of time until the demons move out of fire country and you're a big target." explained Guy "It is wise to have a way to make weapons and other things outside of the major cities for when they are attacked."

"It does make sense." said Omoi

"Alright carry on." Said Samui as she moved off as Guy kept walking toward the last known location of a family of five from Northern Fire Country had disappeared only days ago. The official report said that they probably moved either to a new place in the slums or like thousands of people had taken to the hills hoping to find someplace deep enough for the demons can't find them. He hoped that the police report was right, he didn't want to believe that A had betrayed them but he had to find out.

In Demon bear country Choji sat in a small open air hall with a huge plate of food in front of him.

"Eat up Brother Choji." said another demon bear as Choji looked down at the massive plate, there was an entire grilled Salmon with two baked potatoes and fresh vegetables. The building looked like something out of a camp site instead of a real city. The building was a large wooden beams holding up a wooden roof with no sides. The village itself was located in the foothills of the sleeping bear mountain range with all the homes located inside one of the many hills. A small concrete damn provide power for the villages with fields of crops growing with on and around the grassy rolling hills. It was tradition to call everyone brother or sister and all the old retired bears elders.

"Thanks." Said Choji as the female bear smiled and stayed a little longer than normal before moving on.

"Looks like someone want to mate with the new member." laughed an older bear down the table as Choji watched the woman walk away. Unlike most demon races which had condensed into a single or a handful of cities after the depopulation caused by the demon war the Demon bears like the Demon horses had spread out into small into multiple different small communities. After he was turned he had been processed though the demon bear capital which was probably only half the size as the leaf village before being sent out to his new home a farming village in the foothills of the sleeping bear mountains. There was only around three hundred people here and that was up from a hundred before the turned humans came.

As Choji ate his meal he looked down into the refection coming off the plate, this was the new him. Unlike others transformation a demon bear was probably the most tame transformation. There was no changing of joints or mergers of the legs into a single tail. No instead a new layer of thick muscles grew over his entire body along with his deep brown fur. His ears became rounded as they moved to the top of his head. A short muzzle had pushed out from his face and filled with teeth, short black claws had grown out of his normal nails. The layers of extra muscles gave made all the bears look fat when compared to other races but they came in all different body sizes.

"Eat up we have to plant the next crop." said the elder of the village as Choji finished eating and stood back up. The community always ate lunch together and then they went back to work planting the next field of crops by hand or something thing. The way of life for the demon bears was a simple, live peacefully and simply in nature's majesty. Choji's job in the village was as part of the village defense group and to work on planting the crops. One by one everyone apart from the cooks headed out to do their work. The children went back to school, the elders went to talk about the day's events and everyone else went back to their job

"I am actually enjoyed it here." thought Choji as he took a deep breath of cool mountain air "Now the problem is to stop all of humanity from transforming."

Thousands of miles away in a huge city a meeting was being held in the royal city of the Feline kingdom.

"As you can see King Gamba the population of the city has almost reached the height it was before the war with the lizards." said a Tiger who was head of the city local needs on the royal council.

"I see…but we are still far away from the level we should be." Said Gamba as he sat at the head of the table, to his right was Hinata. In a unprecedented move Gamba had placed Hinata on the royal council; a minority believed that her spot shouldn't be in the government but making babies for the royal line. While she didn't have a vote in the government had become clear that she held one of the strongest positions.

"No…but the city is almost as full population." explained the tiger

"Gamba people are worried." said Hinata

"Lady Hinata you will address King Gamba as King." growled Vachan, even though he had been removed as head of the royal guard his pride was still a full vote member of the royal council. Gamba had only taken away the two votes he had from his duel positions, he had done this to all prides who held two voting positions.

"Please go on Hinata." said Gamba as he looked at Hinata with a smile.

"When I was visiting a school to in the 14th district some of the parents told be about attacks on recently transformed humans." explained Hinata "Some stores refusing to sell to them or housing areas which stop them from getting a home in."

"That is well within their right." stated Vachan

"Was it right when the lions did it to us before the reforms of Alexander?" asked a pure demon panther who was head of the health department.

"Crime against turned humans is up." Stated the head of the police

"My mate and I were told to leave when we went out to eat last week." said Yahiko "I didn't tell them who I was and that I was head of the royal guard. Right across the street they welcomed us with open arms."

"How wide spread is this problem?" asked Gamba

"It's isn't rampant but it isn't that hard to find either." explained Yahiko "The funny thing is that those business who do it seem to be getting almost no business."

"Then we should just let them learn by going out of business." said the Economic advisor

"No…we have to make a stance against this." said Gamba as he turned to an aid "I want a law drafted for a vote that would make any business, club or organization which discriminates against any member of the kingdom for their backroom as either a former human, born to human parents or pure demon lose their business license."

"That would send a strong message to them." said the Economic advisor "But how do we get it though the general pride."

"It's an election year and turned humans are a huge voting block it would be suicide not to vote for it." explained a tiger as others nodded in agreement.

"Maybe there is a way to solve the problem." said Hinata as Gamba looked at her "Maybe everyone just needs a new start."

"What do you mean?" asked Vachan

"I mean in your history the Capital was the largest city followed by the Panther city in the North and the Tiger village in the south." explained Hinata "The cities are still there and everything is working."

"You want to reopen those cities?" asked an aid

"They have to open up sometime and maybe a fresh start for everyone will help make everyone realize that we are equal." explained Hinata

"I know my pride would love to reopen the panther village." said a member of the council

"Well we can't do it overnight we would have to get the cities ready." said the economic advisor "But it would boost trade with our neighboring nations."

"I like the idea." said Vachan knowing that his family was traditionally the leaders of the Tiger village so he could run the day to day operations of the tiger village without having to deal with King Gamba. For a moment everyone's eyes were on King Gamba knowing that he had the final say.

"Prepare the Panther village for resettlement after the snow melts in April." ordered Gamba

"What about the Tiger village?" asked Vachan

"Spreading the population out over three cities isn't wise at the moment once our population goes up some more." explained Gamba "Also we want to build more trading links with the Foxes and the Panther village is closer."

"Why worry about the foxes?" asked Vachan

"Vachan the King has spoken." stated a Panther

"No…I want to explain." said Gamba as he glared at Vachan "The Foxes are the only other nation on this continent and they have vast supplies of minerals in the mountains they control, also the Snakes have always wanted war against us and wolves will pounce on any chance to attack us. The foxes fought the wolves and the Jackals to a stalemate in their war of independence I would want them on our side."

"A wise idea." said a general

"Very well." growled Vachan

"To help with that I am going to send a request to the Fox village for their top namely Doctor Sakura Haruno to see what she can do to help my mother regain some of her functions." said Gamba as Vachan eyes narrowed.

"King Gamba, your mother ordered no outside medical help." said Vachan

"She hasn't been able to talk for months if getting outside doctors, helps her then I am going to use it." explained Gamba "Or would you rather have my mother the former Queen lie in her bed unable to commutate with the outside world?"

Vachan didn't really have an answer, he knew that former Queen Oda wouldn't want outside help but he knew that if she regained her voice she would become a powerful voice in containing Gamba and Hinata. To protect traditions he would have to destroy one.

"I have already talked it over with my sisters and we all agree to get outside up." Said Gamba

"Very well King Gamba." said Vachan

"This meeting is adjourned." stated Gamba as he stood up as he and Hinata took off down a hallway.

"Your stressed." said Hinata

"Yes." admitted Gamba as the two of them moved down the hallway "And I am supposed to have a meeting with Yahiko about some upcoming royal guard ceremony."

"When is the ceremony?" asked Hinata

"Late May." answered Gamba as Hinata grinned before wrapping her hand within his.

"Then it can wait one day, you need a break." explained Hinata with a grin as she lead him away.

In the Mountain range that had become Kiba and his fighters base of operation there was no such thing as a break. As Kiba along with Hidan and some top aides stood near the top of the largest mountain. They could see smoke rising from nine locations spread out across all 360 degrees around them.

"Those are demon camps." said Kiba as he looked at the demons who were moving toward them, he didn't even need binoculars to see the mass of bodies moving toward them. Through binoculars he could see groups of demon heading away from them. All the demon teams were moving out in all directions looking for humans.

"Sir we are surrounded on all sides." stated an aid

"Well then we have a lot of demons to kill." stated Hidan as Kiba nodded in agreement.

"Sir…I hate to say this but maybe we should go to ground and wait for them to pass us by." said an aid "There has to be several thousand demons out there."

"Defeatist." growled Kiba before turning toward a radio operator. "Send a message to Kakashi tell them we are about to win a great victory against the demons."

"Victory?" asked the aid

"Yes, they don't know that we are here and we know the land." stated Kiba

Half an hour later Gamba lied on his stomach on a low wooden table with Hinata on top of him, her legs on either side of his hips. They were inside a private room with scented candles and music playing from some speakers.

"Lower." said Gamba as his head rested on a soft pillow.

"Here?" said Hinata as she applied some chakra and force to a point just above Gamba's tail.

"Yes….that feels good." said Gamba as Hinata kept messaging his back. "You always know which spot."

"Byakugan." explained Hinata as she looked at her boyfriend's chakra network "It shows me were you have some jams in your system, applying some of my chakra opens them and also helps relax your muscles. Is it helping?"

"Yes…" said Gamba

"Gamba you have to take things easier I mean you don't get to sleep till after midnight and you are up by five." explained Hinata "You can't do everything."

"But I am trying to form a legacy on the throne." explained Gamba as Hinata rubbed his shoulders.

"Your legacy isn't based on some laws written down in some book." explained Hinata "It's how you live your life and how you are role model to people, your friends, your family and most importantly your kids."

"Kids?" asked Gamba as he turned and looked at Hinata who already knew what he was going to ask.

"No…I am not pregnant." added Hinata knowing that him and her want clubs even it Gamba wasn't the last male in the direct line of kings.

"Ok….you know I was kind of hoping this was your way of telling me." explained Gamba

"No…" said Hinata knowing that on multiple times she had "forgotten" to use the birth control justu "Not yet at least."

Well I hope you liked this chapter. I have some news I have some news I am taking a short vacation from writing because I am busy with putting in a new deck for my parents and other items which take most of my time at the moment. Sorry you will probably have to wait about two weeks for the next update. Sorry but I hope you can forgive me since I update a lot faster than most writers. Thanks Wilkins75