Chapter 70 Queen
It was after ten in the morning over the demon feline kingdom the news from the battlefield had yet to arrive as Hinata Hyuga walked down a hallway with Fay at her side.
"So this morning you have an interview with one of the local papers and the rest of your day is free." said Fay as Hinata nodded her head, it was one of her easiest days if only Gamba had light days but he was king. "Also…"
"An old friend is coming by." said a voice as Hinata turned to see a pink vixen walking toward her.
"Sakura." said Hinata with a smile as the two of them hugged. "I thought you weren't going to be here until afternoon."
"Well I kind of insisted." Said a second voice as Hinata looked to see a blonde female vixen walk up being escorted by some guards.
"Ino?" asked Hinata "I didn't know you were coming."
"Ya…she kind of invited herself along and the guards didn't really like it." explained Sakura as she looked at the four guards around Ino compared to her two.
"It's alright." Said Hinata
"Yes, Lady Hinata." stated the guard as the guards left.
"Lady Hinata." said Ino with a laugh "And this from the girl who fainted whenever the person namely Naruto came around."
"I was a little girl." laughed Hinata "and It's great to see you Ino."
"Likewise, it's been months." said Ino as she hugged Hinata as they started walking down the hallway.
"Ino's it's great to see you but why are you here?" asked Hinata "You gave up being a healer so you are not here to help Sakura out."
"True…I could help her but I am not here for that." said Ino "I wanted to ask you in person."
"Ask me what?" asked Hinata as she noticed that Ino had a golden ring hanging off a thin golden necklace around her neck.
"Sai asked to marry me." Explained Ino
"Congratulation." Said Hinata
"Thanks that is why I wanted you to be my second bridesmaid." Said Ino
"Bridesmaids?" asked Fay
"They stand beside the bride and help plan everything." explained Hinata as Fay nodded her head.
"Ah you mean the mate guards." said Fay as Hinata and the other former humans looked at her. "In the past there job was to protect the to be mated female incase of attack. Now they mainly help out with planning the mating ceremony and the parties that takes place before it."
"Same basic thing." said Hinata "So let me guess Sakura is the maid of honor?"
"Well forehead has been my best friend since we were six or seven." said Ino
"I understand." said Hinata with a smile "Of course I will be."
"Doctor Haruno." stated a voice as they turned to see one of the healers who had been looking after Gamba's mother Oba.
"Yes." said Sakura
"I have the files you wanted." said the healer "And the blood test you asked for is running, should be ready in an hour."
"Good." said Sakura "Come get me when the tests are done."
"I thought you would want to see the patient now." said the healer
"From my understanding having me inside your inner royal city is against your traditions, so I should limit my time inside the inner city." Explained Sakura as she looked at a file mostly the CAT scan of the queen's brain "Besides I will not know anything until that blood test is in, only then will I know if I can do what I think needs to be done."
"And what is that?" asked a voice they turned to see a female tiger
"Who are you?" asked Hinata
"I am the reporter here to interview you." said the tiger
"Oh looks like you have other things to do." said Ino
"Actually I would love to have an interview with all three of you." said the tiger "It would get a better background information."
"I am ok with it as long as you two are." said Ino
"I need to look over this file." explained Sakura
"I can try to limit my questions to you to give you time." said the report as Sakura nodded her head before Fay lead them into the a side room. They took a seat across from the report.
"Alright so your Ino Yamanaka and Sakura Haruno correct and you were friends with Lady Hinata." said the reporter
"Are, just because we are demons now doesn't mean we can't be friends." Said Ino "I just asked Hinata to be my second of what you call the mate guard."
"What you call, do you not feel yourself as a demon?" asked the report
"No." said Hinata "You have to understand we spent twenty or more years as humans and they have different words for different things that can't change overnight. It's part of integration of the former human population into the natural born demon. We all have to change a bit, some human traditions and word names will integration into the lexicon of everyone until they are interchangeable."
"I see so I am going to ask you Lady Hinata given the chance would you become human again?" asked the report
"No, never." said Hinata
"How about you two?" asked the reporter
"Well I do miss my fashion magazine and going shopping for clothes, no I think not." said Ino
"No." answered Sakura without looking up from the file "I am with Naruto-kun and his pack."
"Lady Hinata it's known you loved Naruto Namikaze while you were a kid." Said the reporter "So do you love him still."
"Do I love Naruto? Not in a romantic way no." said Hinata "I love all my friends and my family."
"So you love Kiba Inzukania the terroirest who was cutting off the heads of your future subjects?" asked the reporter
"Was?" asked Hinata
"You haven't heard, they killed him last night." Said the reporter as Hinata lowered her head.
"No I haven't." said Hinata
"Are you sad that he is gone?" asked the reporter
"I am sad about what he became." said Hinata "The Kiba I knew who was my teammate for over a decade wasn't the same person who did those things, I think the lost of his home and family took him hard."
Far away from the interview Kiba Inuzuka opened his eyes to find himself lying on a bed looking up at a stone ceiling. Instantly he tried to move only to releaze that his arms and legs were restrained.
"Calm down son." Said a voice as Kiba turned to see a see she wolf with spiky deep brown fur which was a shade lighter around the chest and arms. She had two deep red fur markings under each of her eyes.
"Get away from me Demon bitch!" yelled Kiba to his own mother.
"Kiba calm down we just saved your life." said Hana Inuzuka, she looked almost like a perfect match to her mother only with a lighter shade of brown and less aggressive features.
"I will kill you all." said Kiba
"I just want our pack back together." said Tsume
"I will kill you all?" yelled Kiba again as he pulled against the restraints, he tried forming chakra but the restraints held his chakra back.
"You want to kill demons, what if we gave you that chance." Said a new voice as Kiba turned to see a wolf with deep blue almost black fur covering his entire body.
"Who are you?" asked Kiba
"I am Caden head pack leader of the canine grand pack." said Caden "And I would like to offer you a chance to kill demons."
"How about I start with you all, I can kill the head of the wolves and free my family of demon hood." said Kiba
"How would you like a chance to kill the lion who took the woman you love and calmed her for himself." said Caden
"What are you offering?" asked Kiba
"Sooner or later the feline kingdom will fall to us and when it does we will need a warrior who the felines fear to lead the charge." said Caden "You can be that warrior. You could kill King Gamba."
"I am listening." said Kiba as he calmed down as Caden grinned.
"Yes, you will become a demon wolf but it gives you the best chance to kill the one who took Hinata." said Vachan
"Turn me into a lion I will cut his throat open." said Kiba
"Then we can't be a pack." said Hana as Kiba glared at her.
"As much as that plan would work, we can't get a hold of the transformation agent with feline chakra in it to turn you into a feline, so you will just have to deal will killing them as a wolf." explained Caden
"So I give up my humanity and you let me kill Gamba and free Hinata from demon hood." said Kiba
"Yes, we will give you a team and your own command." said Caden "You fought us for months with only a handful of fighters and little supplies, imagine what you can do with a top special team and an army following you into battle."
"When…when can I kill them?" asked Kiba
"That is the thing, we signed a treating at the end of the last war and if we attack them before five million years after the end of human conflict."
"Five million years?" asked Kiba
"If we attack sooner than all the nations even those who wouldn't attack us like the horse and the bears would attack us. That is part of the treaty." said Caden "That is basically five years to human terms, you would only be 28 years old."
"The sooner you take over the humans the sooner I can kill Gamba?" asked Kiba
"Yes." answered Caden wondering where this was going.
"Do you want to know where most of the civilians are hiding in Fire country?" asked Kiba as Caden smiled.
Meanwhile the reporter was finishing up her interview; she had gotten a lot of information about Hinata's background including some stories of her younger days as a human. She also got information about Hinata's friends Sakura and Ino.
"Only a few more questions." said the reporter "Lady Hinata what have you found to be the most difficult thing about become the first lioness?"
"The hardest thing is learning is the history of the royal line." explained Hinata knowing that she was expected to know the entire history of the royal line all the way back to the first King and that included knowing all Queens, and since most of the Kings had multiple Queens who lost their place either because of the death of their son which caused the next oldest son who was likely from another lioness to become crowned Prince or the Queen being replaced by royal orders. One of the nightmares that took away sleep was the idea of Gamba replacing her years later. "Also learning the names and remembering all the faces of Gamba's sisters and half sisters and their clubs."
"How many does he have?" asked Sakura
"Four living biological sisters and fifty five half sisters still alive. That isn't counting the every member of his family which was lost in the war" said Hinata as she cursed the harem system "And most of them have mates and multiple clubs, some of the clubs have clubs. I think I got most of his sisters down but I tend to mix some of them up."
"Well that is understandable." said the reporter "Do you young females want to have clubs someday and if what do you want?"
"Well since I am getting mated I'll go first." said Ino "Personally I can't wait to be a mother and I think Sai can't wait to have a family, as for when and what gender the kit will be that is in the hands of the spirits but I personally want a daughter first."
"So another gossip Queen." laughed Sakura as the reporter turned to her.
"And how about you?" asked the reporter
"I don't really know." answered Sakura "Truth be told Naruto-kun and I have been busy with our lives but yes, I want to have kits sometime maybe even soon."
"So forehead boy or girl?" asked Ino
"Well I personally would want a son first." explained Sakura
"And you Lady Hinata?" asked the report "When can we expect to see the next in line for the throne."
"Well it's in my pride's tradition no to have clubs outside of mated." Explained Hinata
"So we will have a mating ceremony before a birth?" asked the reporter knowing that almost every past Queen had only become Queen because they were the first to pop out a son or the first son died or joined a holy order.
"Well no planned births." said Hinata with a grin.
"And when your first cub is born what do you want a boy who would mark your place as Queen or a Girl who would leave the door open for another member of the harem to become Queen?" asked the reporter
"I know Gamba wants a son and I want a daughter." asked Hinata as the reporter wrote down everything she said "The simple answer is whichever one comes first we will love."
"First, so that means you want to have multiple clubs?" asked the reporter as suddenly the door opened as the massager carrying the blood test returned. He handed it to Sakura who quickly looked over the report.
"Alright, I am ready to see the patient." said Sakura
"I am sorry but I have issues that need to be attended to." said Hinata "I hope we can pick this up later."
"Oh…thank you, Queen Hinata." said the reporter
"I am not Queen." said Hinata
"Not yet but hopefully soon." said the reporter as she left the room "Fay will you make sure Ino is somewhere safe."
"I will." Said Fay as Hinata and Sakura and a few guards walked away.
"So Hinata anything I should know?" asked Sakura
"Gamba's mother is a traditionalist who would love to see me dead." whispered Hinata "However she is the mother of the lion I love and he hates seeing her like that, so please help her."
"I will try my best." said Sakura
Sakura walked down the halls of the demon feline royal city, she was going in the central part of the city were the royal family's private quarters was located. No member from a demon race other then felines had entered this part of the city. As she neared the large red doors she pasted several guards. Coming down a separate hallway surrounded by his own guards and Vachan
"Open the doors." Ordered Gamba as they and Queen's bedchamber, traditionally this was where the current Queen slept and was the King would come to mate with her, if he didn't want to any of his harem members. Now Gamba's mother Oda lied in the bed surrounded by nurses and healers. Since she no longer ruled as Queen, her title had changed from Queen to Queen Mother, showing that her son was King and had the power of the throne but she was to be honored.
"Nice place." thought Inner Sakura as she walked toward the bed.
"Hello Queen mother Oda, I am doctor Haruno and I hope to get you back to normal." said Sakura
"So what did you find out?" asked the lead healer believing that this young formal human demon fox couldn't know anything more than he did.
"Well first off your dinieses of a stroke is wrong." said Sakura as she looked up at the doctor. "You reached that opinion by simply looking at the effects on the body instead of the patient herself."
"She complained of numbness on her side and lost all control on her right side." said the healer "A classic sign of a stroke."
"All true however explain how she had the ability to speak for five hours after the stroke but lost it?" asked Sakura as the healer glared at her "If you had run a total blood test you would have seen that she has a protein marker in her blood which is a clear sign of the true cause of her condition."
"What is it?" asked Gamba
"I am sorry King Gamba your mother has a brain tumor which is putting pressure on her brain." said Sakura "The tumor is messing with the control center of her right side of her body and the speech center."
"You can do something can't you?" asked Hinata
"For the tumor we can remove most of it without causing harm but if it is the type of tumor I think it is, it will grow back and eventually it will grow too deep into her brain and kill her." said Sakura "However when this happened to a human he lasted four years before it claimed him."
"So she may have four million years of life?" asked Gamba
"Maybe, depends on how fast the tumor grows back and how wide spread it already is." explained Sakura
"How could we miss that?" asked Vachan
"Simple your healers treated her with the traditional ways with herbs instead of modern medicine." explained Sakura "If she had been brought to a hospital right away she would likely already recovered, I thought you have a hospital inside the royal city."
"We do but they don't look after the royal family, normally it is just a traditions healer." said Gamba as he crossed his arms
"I understand the need to keep traditions but what is wrong with adding modern medicine to that?" asked Sakura "It saves lives."
"Can you do the surgery?" asked Hinata
"Any skilled doctor can do it but we need to go to a hospital and it will take a few hours to cut the tumor out." explained Sakura
"Prepare to move her." ordered Gamba as he looked at Sakura "I want you to lead the operation."
Hours later Gamba and Hinata along with many of the leadership of the government were in the hospital on the palace ground.
"Any word?" asked Vachan as he hoped the return of the Queen mother would help counteract Hinata's public applied.
"Yes." said a voice as Sakura walked out of the operating room. Instantly all the government members and royal family stood up.
"What happened in there Sakura?" asked Hinata
"It went great, the tumor was where I thought it was and we removed it. She is stable and resting." said Sakura "It will take a while and because of the delay she may not regain everything but she should be better then she was before."
Before anyone could speak some of the nurses pushed a bed carrying Queen Mother Oda out of the surgery room to the amazement of most she was still awake.
"Why is she awake?" asked Vachan
"It was needed so that we could tell which was her brain and what was the tumor." stated Sakura "The medical justu to tell them apart only works if the brain is not sedated."
"Mother." said Gamba as Queen Mother Oda turned her head and looked at her son
"Thank you." whispered Oda as she lifted her right hand.
"I know your used to giving orders but you must rest." ordered Sakura the drugs kicked in allowing Oda to rest.
"Thank you." said Gamba as he turned to Sakura.
"No problem but she isn't out of the woods yet and she will need to have monthly checkups to make sure it isn't coming back." said Sakura
Well I hope you liked this chapter, I know some people may be upset about what Kiba is doing but my Kiba wants to kill Gamba for taking Hinata away from him. Now until next time I ask that you keep on reading. Thanks Wilkins75
