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Chapter 74 Two Steps forward One step back Part 3
In the demon hospital Orochimaru and the demon horse was looking at Ino.
"The Dranka swamp has a huge supply of high grade Natural gas right at the surface." explained Ino knowing that she couldn't lie because the highest members of three clans knew about the natural gas.
"How do you know that?" asked the horse
"Because it was discovered during the war and my parents along with Choji's and Shikamaru's parents were going to go in together to start a drilling company." explained Ino "They estimated once it was tapped it would provide enough natural gas for all of fire country for the next hundred years."
"And it is highly explosive. That is why before heading anywhere we pass though that trap." stated Lee from the other side of the cell "And once they got word of the explosion all groups move to new locations."
"Locations you know?" asked the horse
"No…each command has their own backup locations known only to the commander." stated Lee
"Send a message to the wolves tell them to stay away from the Dranka swamp." ordered Orochimaru not knowing that it was already too late.
In the human world the massive fireball had just started to fade into the wind leaving the destruction behind. Over twenty miles away from the center of explosion the remains of the 3rd, 5th and the 11th company of the demon wolf army were just getting back to their feet.
"Report!" yelled an aid who had stayed behind as he looked around to see that out of the 225 wolves from the 3rd company alone that less than twenty were on their feet and most of those were badly wounded. Maybe another dozen were wounded on the ground while the rest were dead.
"What was that?" asked another wolf
"I have no idea." answered the aid as he looked toward the blast source what had been a thick forest swamp was now a massive blast creator that stretched on seemly forever. The closer you got to the epicenter the more destruction it was, the aid instantly knew that if the general he had been severing along with the entire army was dead. He looked around again double checking to see if there was a higher living officer so that he could get some direction but he was the only one standing.
"Sir what are your orders?" asked another wolf as she held her badly bloody arm.
"Gather all of the living wounded and head back to base." stated the aid in a shakily weak voice.
"Yes, sir." said the wolf as she moved off to carry out the order
"How are we going to explain this?" asked the aid as he looked out, an entire demon wolf army had been destroyed in only a few minutes and there was no way to hide this defeat.
Unaware of the huge defeat of the wolves Sakura was going through a normal day, now that the transformation center had only a few dozen humans at a time most of the staff had been moved to different installations. Sakura herself had been transferred to the main hospital of the demon fox village. If it wasn't for the fact it was demons instead of humans it was pretty much the same thing broken bones, sick kids and worried parents. She was meeting former humans from all the nations that had been taken by the demons, people she would have never met as a human she met as a demon.
"Doctor Haruno your 2:30 is here." said a nurse as Sakura smiled as she took a file from the nurse and moved toward one of the medical examination room. She opened the door to find her master Tsunade and Naruto's master Jiriaya waiting for her. Sakura just had to smile as she looked at her master and her pregnant stomach. She looked like she was more than five months along and since demon fox pregnancies lasted ten months instead of nine.
"So how are you feeling today Lady Tsunade?" asked Sakura
"Like crap." explained Tsunade as she lied back on a reclined table.
"If I didn't know better I would think you were hung over." laughed Jiriaya only to get a death glare from Tsunade which instantly shut up the legendary sannin.
"They act like an old married couple." laughed Inner Sakura as she moved toward the machine in the corner.
"Morning sickness." explained Sakura as she prepared the ultrasound. "It should past in time but first let's find out how your kits are doing."
Sakura couldn't help but notice that Jiriaya was holding Tsunade's hand as they both watched the screen as the black and white ultrasound, two shapes appeared. Sakura didn't even have to say the words they both knew that they were looking at the first images of their kits.
"Do you want to know the sex of the kits?" asked Sakura, she had read the file and knew that Orochimaru had picked the genders of the kits when he had made them in the lab but she hadn't told anyone else.
"I pretty much know what they are judging from the images." said Tsunade "It's up to you if you want to know."
"Why not." said Jiriaya
"Well looks like you have little boy and a little girl on the way." said Sakura as her heart warmed just from the smiles on Tsunade's and Jiriaya's face, she let her mind wonder into a dream as she mentally switched herself with Tsunade and Jiriaya with Naruto.
"Sakura how would you like to be the good mother to one of the kits?" asked Tsunade as Sakura snapped back to reality.
"I would be honored." said Sakura
"I plan to ask Naruto the next time I see him." said Jiraiya
"I thought you would ask Minato." said Sakura
"We do have two kits Sakura." explained Tsunade
Word of the massive defeat had yet to reach the combined meeting but the grand demon council had been recalled in.
"So you got word from your forces?" asked Val as the demon snake supreme chancellor.
"Not yet but we still need to talk about the grand tournament." explained Caden with a grin as he fought back the need to laugh at the glares coming from the feline delegation. "Now I believe that the grand tournament is being held by the feline kingdom this year. I can see by the confused looks on the form human faces they don't know about the tournament. Care to explain it to them King Gamba or should I?"
Gamba took a breath as he began to speak.
"Starting back to the formation of the demon civilization all the way to the second king of the demon felines a grand tournament was held every twenty thousand years. The best male and female from each species compete in one on one tournament duels." explained Gamba "The location of the tournament is rotated among the different nations."
"And it is our turn." said Hinata
"Yes." answered Gamba "It is suppose to build bridges in between the races but it is more of a show."
"But a show with purpose." stated Caden "Now since you know that there is eight spots in the tournament and nine races, we need to decide which races will be in the tournament."
"We all know that the ants has never join the tournament." stated Vachan
"Actually we have a warrior we wish to enter the tournament." Stated the queen of the ants Adeer
"A warrior?" asked Gamba
"Yes, on the male side of the tournament." stated Adeer "I believe the rules are that you as the demon felines must give up one of your spots so that you have only two of the three races. We will not enter a female fighter."
"I see." stated Gamba
"Also if I can make a recommendation." stated Cadan "Since we have so many former humans that we select only fighters who used to be human."
"A great idea." said Val as he turned to Sasuke with a grin
"That would be interesting." stated Malik "It would allow everyone to see just how strong the new members of our races are."
"I believe we should vote on the issue then." said Val as the president of the meeting the horse representative Achak as one by one all the demons raised this hands. "The issue passes."
Just then a knock at the door caused everyone's attention to change as a wolf entered the great meeting hall.
"Ah you must have brought news of our great victory." Said Caden with a smile as the wolf looked down at the piece of paper in his hands.
"Sir you will want to see this." Stated the wolf
"Please read it out load, I want everyone to know of our victory tell us how many humans have we taken?" asked Caden as he looked toward Gamba with a cocky grin.
"None." answered the wolf as his leader's head snapped toward him.
"None?" asked Caden
"Sir…it was a trap." said the wolf "There was an explosion of some kind and reports are still coming in but it seems like the 7th army along with part of the 8th is totally gone."
"What?" asked Caden as he fell back in his chair stunned at the news. He knew that the seventh army was the largest army group in their military they accounted for over a quarter of their entire military strength, they were the best trained the most experienced. The 7th army had decimated three whole armies of the lizards during the Great War during the holding action at the rising star pass. They were legendary and now they were gone. Even with the addition of former humans it would take millions of years to replace those soldiers, all of the humans needed to be trained in the wolf military thinking and they had to get some experience if they wanted to go up against the armies of the feline kingdom. Depending on the amount of lives lost this could set back the invasion plans for at least a generation if not more.
"How unfortunate" stated Vachan as for once he, Gamba and even Hinata were sharing the same happy grin.
"There is more." said the wolf "We have reports that our deal with the human Raikage has fallen though and the humans now violence if not civil war has broken out in the land of lightening."
"I believe we have a plan should this have happened do we not?" asked Vachan "I believe the plan was to move in at once and take the city along with the refuges."
"It is." said Caden knowing that the 7th army was key part of those plan and that meant that the feline army would take over their role another blow to the honor of the wolves. "I request that with the lost of a large part of our forces because of the humans we get a larger part of the turned humans."
"If you had worked with this council instead of around it your people would have been entitled to that but you went ahead without the council which means the fault rest totally on you." stated Gamba with a smile "You want all of us to give up our rights because of your mistakes."
"I agree." stated Malik as all but the demon snakes nodded their heads in agreement, the wolves wouldn't get the humans they needed to replace the ones they lost.
Plumes of smoke were rising from the flames that were busy engulfing Kumogakure rioting, looting and disorder ruled the day. When word had gotten out of the deal that their Kage had made and how he had killed the Daimoyo people started to panic, even the ninja core fell into disorder as some ninjas sided against their Kages actions. Ninja was fighting ninja as some of refuges who had been kept for so long in slums outside the city walls began to move in trying to find more food and revenge for making them live in slums outside the village. Other refugees were rushing out of the camps trying to get away from the village they were joined by members of the ninja core and normal citizens. Standing on the balcony of the Raikage building watching his village burn was the Raikage.
"You have to stop this." stated A as he looked at Kado
"We are going to." stated the demon fox
"How?" asked Samui as she glared at the back of the demon who was standing to the side of her Kage.
"We will take over the village and turn everyone." explained Kado as A's eyes widened.
"That wasn't part of our deal." stated A
"Foolish human did you really think we would leave you alone forever." explained Kado "If everything goes according to plan the armies should be here within an hour."
"I will not allow you to do this!" yelled A as he went in for a punch only to be stopped by Kado's open hand. Kado's fingers dug into the Raikage's hand demon chakra began pouring out of Kado and over the Kage. As the chakra covered A arm the skin itself began to blister and burn.
"Do you really think you stand any chance against us?" asked Kado with a grin as Samui came in for an attack from behind only to knocked away only to be knocked aside by one of Kado's tails. The Anbu was sent flying against the Raikage desk breaking it in two. Blood poured from a head wound as she tried to stand up only to pass out from the blow. The pain from the demon chakra burning A's skin caused him to pass out, Kado let go of A who fell to the ground.
"You two will make great demons when the army gets here." stated Kado as he looked out over the burning village.
Forty five minutes later deep under the Raikage office in the ANBU prison the mighty Guy Lee sat with his hands and legs bound in chain. The turning of the cell door lock caused him to look up only to see an ANBU standing there.
"So it's time for me to go." said Guy
"Yes." said the guard as he moved toward the restraints and unlocked Guy's arm and legs. "Time to get out of the village."
"And to the demons?" asked Guys
"No…war has broken out in the village. The demons have showed up they are already surrounding the village they are already moving into the slums." explained the guard as Guy looked at him "We have opened a small path and are trying to get as many villagers as we can out, we have to get you out."
"Why?" asked Guy as he stood up.
"Because you're our contact with the Leaf resistance if we are to stand any chance at all we need to work together." explained the guard as Guy nodded his head.
"Lead the way." added Guy
Hours later in the demon fox village Naruto and his friends were gathered around the bar in the Namikaze den.
"So an entire wolf army is gone?" asked Shikamaru with worry in his voice.
"So it would seem." Said Naruto as he took a drink the meeting of the demon races had gone all day with reports about the massive defeat that the wolves had suffered. Then there was the reports of the conquest of the Lightning village. With the lost of the wolf army it had taken more time for forces to arrive which allowed more humans to escape but still most were taken. The fighting between the two sides had weakened the defenses of the village and because of it there was no real fight. The forces had all but marched in without any real organized fight. "Your parents are fine."
"How do you know?" asked Shikamaru
"Because Cade sent an aid to find out what they knew about the swamp were their army was defeated." explained Naruto "Turns out it had some huge amount of natural gas."
"I don't know of anyone else we may know." Said Naruto "The sad thing is that on some level I am happy that the wolves suffered that defeat and it isn't because the humans won but because the wolves lost."
"Ya." said Sakura as she took her own drink. "What is the situation on our plan?"
"Well since I made contact with Lee we now have a contact in the horse." Said Ino
"How is Lee?" asked Sai to his soon to be mate.
Ino closed her eyes trying to get the images of Lee lying on the floor screaming in pain as Orochimaru's new transformation agent changed him way to fast. She watched as his feet changed into a hooves so fast that the skin peeled off. That was even before his bones started to grow faster than his skin.
"Not well…" answered Ino "He is luckily to be alive after what Orochimaru did to him."
"Well with the horses, my parents getting the seals in demon wolf country and Choji in Bear County that leaves only the seals in snakes, ants and ape country." explained Shikamaru
"Well cross the snakes off the list my dad is going to a meeting with the snake commanders in a month to talk about the alliance." said Naruto "However I am not sure that the alliance will last long, the wolves are itching for a war with the felines and the snakes want to join them."
"The question is which side will we be one when that comes." said Temari
"The money at the moment is on the felines." Said Naruto "And I would rather be fighting alongside Hinata then with Sasuke."
"I'll agree to that." said Sakura "However back to the question at hand how do we get to the seal in the land of the demon apes and the ants?"
"I don't know but we have a while to find out." answered Naruto
