Chapter 76 Training

It was early morning in the demon feline kingdom as Former Queen Oda took her traditional early morning walk around the garden. Following her was the former head of the royal guards Vachan.

"I still don't like idea that Lady Hinata is going to be in the tournament." said Vachan "It isn't the place of the royal family to take such risks."

"If I remember correctly my mate's brothers took part in the tournament before they died in the war." explained Oda as they walked though the gardens

"True but if she finally decides to follow tradition and mate with King Gamba when tradition demands she will not just be a member of the royal family when she is in the tournament she will be Queen." said Vachan

"I am aware of that." stated Oda as they kept walking though the gardens, both of them knew just like all demon lions knew that a new Queen must be crowned on certain days namely the first of July, and it had to be done at the first opportunity. Which meant if Hinata followed the tradition the ceremony was just under a two away, already the nation was preparing for a royal wedding by cleaning the city streets so that they were as clean as possible among other things.

"So will you stop her?" asked Vachan

"Even if I wanted to I wouldn't." explained Oda as Vachan grin

"Your hoping she gets killed." said Vachan only to have Oda spin around and glared at him

"No, I do not wish harm on her at all, I respect her." explained Oda

"But she is destroying the traditions, how can you respect her?" asked Vachan

"We have come to an understanding." explained Oda as they kept walking "Yes, she is changing some traditions but some traditions will stand. For example I know she has agreed to have the mating ceremony as per tradition but she wants her sister to be her first mate guard instead of one of Gamba's sisters. I see no problem in changing that."

"You can't support the changing of traditions." stated Vachan

"I can do as I believe." stated Oda "In fact I am going with her and her sister to a function today."

"But…" started Vachan only to get a glare from the former Queen which instantly shut him up as they keep walking.

The weather had turned warmer as winter turned to spring and even warmer as spring started to turn to summer. The sun wasn't even up yet as Naruto ran across the ground as fast as he could, his silted blue eyes scanning for any signs of the targets. He stopped for a moment as he sniffed the air; one of the good things about being a demon was that his sent of smell had increased. His eyes widened a bit as he ducked down only to barely miss being hit by a fist which had suddenly appeared behind him in a flash of light. He spun around to try and punch his attacker only to have him disappear again in a flash of light. Naruto stood up his eyes scanning the area as he prepared for the next attack; he spun around only to grab the fist of his own father.

"Nice one dad." said Naruto as the legendary yellow flash sent another punch toward his oldest son, like the first one Naruto grabbed it in mid air.

"Well I try." stated Minato with a grin as both Namikaze men loved this early morning sparing session.

"So do I." answered Naruto as two of his clones came running toward his father with Rasengan in their hands. The rasengan found their mark as they slammed into Minato's sides only to have Minato disappear in a puff of smoke.

"You're not the only one who knows how to do shadow clones, son." answered Minato as he stood in a nearby tree.

"I know." said Naruto as he and the two other shadow clones looked up at his father "However I am the master of it."

With that all three Naruto's disappeared in puffs of smoke as Minato's eyes widened a bit as he jumped back just in time to avoid getting hit by his son's fist however he did get side swiped by one of the 12 tails. The blow sent the fourth Hokage falling toward the ground, the moment he hit the ground all the color faded away from Minato as he turned to a black and white outline of himself. Naruto looked down as the Ink clone of his father disappeared. He jumped up barely avoiding the dark lines which had been moving across the trees in an attempt to get him. However the moment he was airborne a gust of chakra lanced wind sent him flying end over end backwards. He landed on the ground his claws digging into the soft dirt.

"Why did I have to agree to go up against all of them at once?" thought Naruto as suddenly two wind attacks came at him from his right and from his left. Of the tornado likes attacks the one of his left was clearly larger and stronger which meant he knew who had sent each attack. He lunged forward avoiding the two attacks as he ran though hand signs.

"Air bullet!" yelled Naruto as he sent the jet of air flying into the combined wind attack canceling it out. For a second everything was calm then suddenly five spears made out of pure ice came flying at him from the front. Naruto channeled chakra into his hands and simply punched the ice spears out of the way.

"So you have been learning some things from forehead." laughed Ino's voice as Naruto scanned the woods.

"I need to get moving." thought Naruto as he moved into the woods trying to get away from whatever trap they had set up for him. He took off at full speed and for a moment he believed he had escaped however at that very moment fist came flying out from behind a tree, hitting him square in the jaw which sent him flying to the ground. Blood came flowing out of his broken muzzle as he looked up to see Sakura standing there.

"I wondered where you were." said Naruto as he stood up and took a defensive stance as Sakura began to circle him like a predator moving around her prey, even as she moved around Naruto couldn't help but look at her body. She moved so gracefully and powerful it turned him on like no other to make it even better she was all his. His mind was going to a lot of different perverted placed as he imagined kissing her neck while his hands played with her breasts.

"I sure hope you don't look at Sasuke like that during your fight." said Sakura with a grin as she looked at her mate. He was smiling even though he had a broken muzzle which she would heal after they finished, that ability to smile though everything was just one of the reasons she loved him. She could see all those muscles under his fur which was part of what seemed to her to be a perfect sexy body

"You know I won't." said Naruto as Sakura smiled a bit before attacking. She knew in a close quarter fight she had the avenged all she had to do was keep Naruto from making Shadow clones or forming hand signs. She sent a punch flying toward Naruto only to have him raise his arm, to her amazement Naruto formed a sort of shield of chakra around his arm. The chakra took most of blow stopping her from delivering a major body blow. Naruto threw back a punch which Sakura caught then she took a page out of his own book by head butting Naruto. He stumbled backwards holding his head.

"I thought that was my move." said Naruto with a smile

"Well looks like you rubbed off on me, Naruto-kun. Now if you stop holding back." said Sakura knowing that Naruto was holding back.

"It's kind of hard for me not to protect you." explained Naruto as he channeled chakra into his fist the same way Sakura does. "But I will try."

With that Naruto threw a punch with his physical strength backed up by his chakra, to Sakura's amazement his punch while not as strong as her now it was the equal to her when she was sixteen, one of his fist hit a nearby tree breaking it in two.

"How did you learn to do that?" asked Sakura knowing that she none of Naruto's sensie's knew how to do that move.

"Well looks like you rubbed off on me, Sakura-chan." said Naruto as they started to trade blows, all around them the trees and earth was breaking apart from each missed attack. After a while Naruto sent a fist toward Sakura which she stopped, Naruto wasn't so luckily as Sakura dodged his punch however the punch threw him off balance and to the ground, since Sakura was holding on to his fist she fell down under him. Sakura reacted first by wrapping both arms around the back of Naruto's neck, the positions of her arms meant she could snap Naruto's neck in an instant.

"I win." said Sakura "You can't escape."

"You think so don't you?" answered Naruto as he kissed the top of her right breast, that is when Sakura realized that Naruto had fallen on her chest and she was now holding him down. The next moment she felt Naruto's hands on her side, the slowly ran down. Sakura purred as she loosened her grip on Naruto so that he could kiss her neck. Sakura placed her hand under Naruto's chin lifting his head so that she could see his face. She paced her hand on Naruto's muzzle as healing chakra covered it, the wound was quickly healed.

"You know we have never done it in the woods before." said Sakura

"Well you will have to hold off on that." said a voice as Naruto and Sakura looked to see all their friends and family standing there.

"Well I guess this training session is over." said Adria

"Well for us at least." said Ino "I am sure those two will have a private session the moment you get home."

In another village across the world the streets were filled with people, the flags were still at half staff and black banners hung from the massive marble buildings that made up the main government forum all in honor of those they had lost. The forum had large statues dedicated to the empire they used to have and one they believed they would have again. The massive government complex and meeting area was only half the size of the Demon feline royal city but it was the second largest government complex in the demon world. It was the beating heart of the demon wolf nation. Down one of the four major causeways that ran out of the forum within sight of the western stone gate which was topped by large bronze statues sat a local dinner.(Think the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin)

"Hard to believe its May already." said Hana Inuzuka as the 23 year old former leaf village veterinary medical ninja now she wolf sat in the outside sitting area of a local dinner. All over the food stand other wolves were looking not at her but of the wolf sitting across from her, his deep dark brown fur was spiky and wild looking. It gave him the appearance that he had spent months in the woods even though he hadn't.

"Kiba you know a conversation normally involves two or more people talking not just one." said Hana as her now wolf brother simply looked at her.

"Why did you want us to come here in the first place?" asked Kiba

"You spent almost every moment since you turned at home or in the wolf pack." said Hana as Kiba rolled his eyes at his sister using the nickname for the large military training center which was located near the center of the city. "You have to get out and have a life."

"I have a life." Stated Kiba as the plates of food arrived.

"Training around the clock so that you can kill two people?" asked Hanna "Kiba you have to let Hinata go, now woman is worth throwing your life away."

Kiba simply glared at his sister

"I mean there are tones of other she wolves and you're a legend for what you did killing all those lions." stated Hana "You don't have to go chasing after someone who is now another race then you and who is going to be marrying someone else."

"Maybe after I see her free of demon hood." stated Kiba as Hana rolled her eyes a bit

"I guess that is a start." said Hana as they kept eating.

A little bit over an hour later in the demon feline village a high ranking meeting of the Demon Feline government was underway; the topic of the meeting was to discuss future military operations in the human world.

"So we marched into the center nations such as the land of Grass and land of Rain without a fight." stated a General as he gave a report to a room full of military and political leaders. "However they planned for us to come in unopposed. The cities were abounded and we believe they have followed the leadership in the Leaf resistance and have gone to ground."

"So we now control most of the world?" asked a government official

"Yes, only the land of water which is located among dozens of large islands and some small island nations remain to be taken." said the General

"And the number of humans taken?" asked Gamba

"We got just over 600 million with only around 30 million humans left unturned." said the general

"If I remember correctly our goal was 580 million humans split up among the nine races or around 65 million new members each." said Gamba

"You are correct; we have finally reached a safe population level sir." Said the General as Gamba nodded his head.

"Good." said Gamba

"Now sir, if I was to get the rest the forces I requested we can round up the rest of the humans." said the General as he looked toward his young King.

"No." said Gamba as the General looked at him.

"Sir without these soldiers the collect with the humans will go on longer." said the General

"Let me finish General." said Gamba as the general along with other leaders looked at him "At the moment we are still training the former ninjas in our way of fighting, and with the grand tourimiment coming up I want extra guards around. On top of that two weeks ago we started resettling of the Panther village we are already thinking about resettling the Tiger village by late summer. That means reestablishing bases on top of rebuilding the cities themselves. That will take a lot of forces for the moment once some of those tasks are done I will order more forces to end this conflict."

"I hadn't thought of that." admitted the General

"I understand General, the thing is we have the humans pinned down and attacks on our patrols are down to less than once a week." said Gamba "So we are not in any real danger, it is time to focus for the moment on rebuilding our cities."

"Also there is the threat from the wolves." stated a panther "We need most of our forces at home in case they cross the border."

In a city very different then either the Demon feline capital or the Wolf capital city, the city had no buildings over five stories high. Most of the buildings weren't even permanent they were tents so that the people who owned them could move quickly to one of the other cities. Walking down the road which was nothing more than a small grass covered path which was just wide enough for five walking side by side. Even though he had only been a demon for a few months the famous Rock Lee was still getting used to life as a Demon Horse. There society was so different compared to every human society he was aware of. Instead of living in a single place the society was divided up into herds ranging in size as large as a thousand or as small as two hundred and they would move together about once every six or seven months between the different cities. The capital was the largest of these cities capable of holding over a seven hundred thousand demon horses. Another thing was the fact that none of the demon horse ate meat, the entire race are vegiterranean their stomachs couldn't process meat it would physically make them sick.

"Green Tea." ordered Lee as the owner placed a glass cup filled with hot green tea in front of the deep black with dark brown spots.

"Thanks." said Lee as he paid for his drink, he wasn't even paying attention as someone sat down beside him.

"Black tea." ordered the other horse "Your Rock Lee aren't you?"

"Ya." said Lee as he looked at the mare, who had deep pure black hair with some white around her hooves and a small spot on her right side near her ass "Do I know you?"

"I know I look different but we worked together in the war." said the mare

"Kurotsuchi?" asked Lee as the granddaughter of the third Tsuchikage nodded her head "Well you look different but I guess we all do now."

"That goes without saying." said Kurotsuchi "I made it though the fall of three villages only to get caught in lightening when it fell."

"Well your luck has to run out sometime." said Lee

"Well maybe my luck is changing." said Kurotsuchi with a grin as she placed a hand on Lee's arm.

"Are you flirting with me?" asked Lee

"Well I always thought you were hot and that was even before I saw you shirtless during the war." Explained Kurotsuchi with a grin "And besides it would nice to talk to someone I actually know, I was assigned to kana herd and no one from my former village is assigned to this herd."

"I am assigned to that herd." said Lee

"Well my luck is just getting better and better." said Kurotsuchi

In the Demon feline Capital Hinata, Hanabi and Oda sat in a covered carrier being carried though the streets by a team of soldiers and with royal guards surrounding them. Hinata looked at Oda and her sister; this was her first trip out with Hana and former Queen Oda. Over the months since she had been turned Hanabi had stayed in the palace, the last photo the public had seen of her was before she turned. Now Hanabi had become a beautiful lioness who looked a lot like her older sister apart from the fact that instead of the dark blue fur that her sister had she had a deep almost black fur. Over her time in the palace she had gotten used to being a lioness and learning how to fight as one.

Flashback

"This kind of reminds me of those days we used to train in the backyard." said Hanabi as she sat down beside her sister in one of the training fields in the palace.

"Well this is different." said Hinata as one of the aids brought up two glasses of water both of them took the water and thanked the aid.

"Kind of." said Hanabi

"Have you thought about what you want to do?" asked Hinata "I mean we have lots of room here, but I don't think you want to spend your life living with your sister."

"Well I was told since you're going to be Queen I can't serve as a front line fighter like I have been all my life." Said Hanabi as Hinata lowered her head a bit.

"I am sorry Hanabi but that isn't just a tradition, that is a law so it would take a vote of the whole government to change it." explained Hinata

"Well I was thinking instead of being a royal guard so at least I can use some of my training. I was also thinking about getting my own place away from you and Dad" said Hanabi as Hinata smiled

"I think I can arrange for your entrees to the royal guard training school." laughed Hinata

End Flashback

The carrier came to a stop as the three lionesses turned and looked toward the curtain that separated them from the news media which was waiting for what they expected to be a normal visit for Lady Hinata to a local school; however they were in for a surprise as first Hanabi stepped out. The news reports expecting Hinata started taking photos at once only to stop when they realize that it wasn't Hinata.

"Who are you?" asked a reporter

"This is my younger sister Hanabi." Answered Hinata as both she and former Queen Oda stepped out when the reports saw that it wasn't just Hinata but for the first time in public Hinata's sister Hanabi and former Queen Oda. Instantly the cameras where flashing again.

"Now if you excuse us the students are waiting for us." said Hinata as they walked into the elementary school. They were greeted by the headmaster of the school who lead them into one of the classrooms which was filled with little kids most of whom were former humans. Instantly the teacher stood up and welcomed their three visitors.

"Lady Hinata I welcome you to our classroom." Started the teacher while she bowed to her until she noticed Queen Oda and Hanabi

"I hope it is alright that I brought my sister and Queen Mother Oda along with me." Said Hinata as the teacher bowed

"Queen Mother Oda it is an honor to have you here as well." said the teacher "And Lady Hanabi, we are honored to have you as well."

Oda herself couldn't help but smile as she looked out over the crowed of happy cubs who were looking at the three of them. The small camera crew in the back of the room were taking photo's like crazy.

"We were going to have you read a book to the students." said the teacher

"Actually Lady Oda why don't you take a shot at it." said Hinata as Oda looked at her before taking a seat at the front of the classroom, instantly the students gathered around her as Oda reached for a children book.

"Red Riding Hood." said Oda "I have never heard of this story before."

"It's a human fairy tale." explained Hinata as Oda nodded her head before opening the book and started reading to the room full of small clubs who were listening to her intently. With each passing page Oda just kept smiling as she found herself enjoying the time with the young clubs.

Three hours later after visiting most of the school and taking part in a assembly were some students sang songs to their former and future Queen the three of them got back into the carrier.

"Well Oda what did you think?" asked Hinata "Wasn't this enjoyable?"

"Yes." admitted Oda "When is your next visit to one of these places."

"Well I have to stop for a bit while I plan the matting ceremony and I have to train for the tournament." said Hinata

"If it is alright with you, I will take your place in these events." said Oda, Hinata simply nodded her head "I found this very enjoyable."

Well I hope you liked this chapter, I would like to thank everyone who reviewed and I ask that you keep reading. I would also ask you to go read another one of my stories called Into the North it may have gone unnoticed by some since I didn't announce like I normally do, so some may not know about it. Now until next time please keep on reading, Thanks Wilkins75