Chapter 83 Preparations

Night was falling and all the streets in the giant demon feline capital were being cleaned for the second time in as many weeks and they would be cleaned again the day before the event. All over the giant city the citizens where heading to bed early since tomorrow they would begin partying ending with the grand event at the end of the week. For months they had been busy getting their homes in perfect shape, home improvement stores were running out of paint and flower stores had long ago ran out of flowers. On every light post hung either the royal standard flag or the flag representing the different feline races. The civilians moved though the darkening streets with a spring in their steps as they knew that in one week a royal wedding would take place. Inside the royal city located in the center of the capital city almost everyone was rushing around preparing for the series of massive ceremonies which dated back hundreds of millions of years that had to be done. The traditionalist where more than happy with the fact that Hinata had committed to honoring almost all of the old traditions. Strangely the only two not missing their sleep because of preparing everything was the two felines who were going to be married.

"So there are four days of street parties every night and that is even before the wedding day?" asked Hinata as she looked at the late night news paper which like always was sitting out for her when she was about to go to bed.

"Yes that is the tradition." said Gamba as he walked behind his future mate and queen. He rubbed her shoulders a bit earning a purr from Hinata.

"Still seems a bit over the top." said Hinata before she laughed a bit "Then again what isn't over the top with the ceremony."

"Welcome to the royal family dear." answered Gamba

"That isn't for another week." answered Hinata as she looked at the small stack of paper located beside her. They where letters from some of the citizens had sent to her. She knew that every day the palace received between one and three mailbags full of letters address to her. They sear range of questions they were asking stunned her they ranged from asking what was her favorite food to predictions about her role as Queen. Everyday a team of people searched read them and brought ten of the best ones to her. She would pick five of them and she would personally write back an answer.

"What are they asking this time?" asked Gamba

"Well one is asking what is my favorite food growing up, another is asking how I keep my fur so smooth and shinning and yet another one is asking if I would want a girl or a boy first." answered Hinata

"What did you answer to the last one?" asked Gamba

"That I don't think about if I want one or the other first." answered Hinata "Only that I personally want a large family."

"Same here." answered Gamba as he kissed the top of her head. "I am going to miss sleeping beside you."

"And I you." answered Hinata knowing that starting tomorrow night she had to sleep alone, it was a tradition that the future Queen slept apart from the King until the wedding night. "But it will just make wedding night even more special."

"And the weeklong honeymoon hunt." stated Gamba as Hinata smiled. "So how is your old Hokage doing?"

"According to the letters they are going well." answered Hinata "But they said they don't want to travel with such young clubs. But they are sending gifts."

"Just as long as it isn't food." answered Gamba he knew just like Hinata knew that all food that they received as gifts was thrown away because of the fear of poisonings. It had happened long ago when a young prince had been killed when he drank poison wine ever since then unless it was grown on the palace garden all food was bought by fake companies so that no one knew that they were selling food to the royal family.

"Well we better head to bed we have many appearance over the next few days." said Gamba knowing that per tradition they had to appear before the public at least a dozen times before the wedding date. Hinata slowly stood up and looked into Gamba's light blue eyes.

"Yes, we better." Said Hinata as she suddenly grabbed Gamba by the back of the main and pulled him forward onto her who. They both lay partly on top of the table. "Or we could have a little bit of fun before we have to wait until the wedding night."

Gamba laughed a bit, he knew that he was the only one to ever the kinky side of his soon to be Queen. She wasn't beyond doing things that would have caused a huge uproar among the traditions, things such as having sex in areas outside of the bedroom or even in human form.

"I am game for whatever you want my Queen." laughed Gamba as he kissed her.

Thousands of miles away a heavy rain was falling over the demon ape capital city as a ten heavy transports each carrying over two hundred passengers approached the airport on autopilot. The advanced AI control system had no problems flying the ten giant planes in two perfect V formations of five planes each. As they neared the military airport the runway lights activated as the planes landed their wheels screeching to a stop on the runway as the fix powerful engines roared before they began to die down. These giant transport plans was designed to fly massive numbers of troops or supplies as fast as possible not for quiet entries. The ten plans moved passed strange flying wing plans and other aircraft capable reaching the edge of space however none of these plans had as advance an autopilot as the cargo plans. The plans came to a stop under the protective cover of massive hangers. Once the engines died the large ramps located in the rear of the plane and a smaller ramp located in the front lowered as figures began walking off the planes. First off the ramp of the first plane was Kakashi Hatake and Shizune.

"Wow." stated Shizune as she looked out the giant hanger doors at some of the smaller skyscrapers which marked the edges of the main city.

"You haven't seen anything yet." said Dr. Winters as he walked up to the massive numbers of humans who were stepping off the cargo plans which had taken them from an area where Dr. Winters had set up a transportation seal. The main seal where it was currently located was too small to bring in the massive numbers of people that were needed. "Did you have a nice flight?"

"Never flew before so I don't know." answered Shizune as the people began gathering around, over the past few weeks demon ape drones which hadn't been used in years had searched the human world which had fallen into demon hands for human. To his amazement there were larger numbers then even he thought, a lot of the humans were living in groups of two or three people in the middle of the woods.

"How many people are coming?" asked Kakashi as he looked around at number of people.

"We have five more flights coming in tonight alone." explained Dr. Winters "For over five thousand people total and that is from the areas under demon control."

"That many?" asked Shizune

"Yes, my drones found hundreds of small groups not part of your resistance who were hiding in the woods." explained Dr. Winters "It took a little convincing to get them here but they all came."

"Any word from the Mist?" asked Kakashi

"There leadership turned down the aid however planes carrying the populations from the smaller nation such as Land of Moon and Land of the Sea should arrive within a few days." explained Dr. Winters "When they arrive you can all decide how you want to want to do."

"A straight up vote on what they want to do. Isn't that a little simple?" asked Shizune

"Should it be complex?" asked Dr. Winters "I am following one of the key believes of my race, majority rule. Whatever they decide I will respect."

"But you will not let us use your weapons." stated an ANBU as he looked at row after row of advance attack aircraft which could turn the tide of the human demon war in moments sitting in hangers.

"No I will not grant you access to the advanced weapons." stated Dr. Winters "Because I know if I give you the controls to the weapon of mass destruction you would use it against the other demons."

Kakashi tried not to lower his head but he didn't want to admit it but he knew that if given the chance that at the moment most would launch the attack.

"Are we going to sleep in a refugee camp or somewhere else?" asked Shizune

"If by camp you mean a series of five star hotels that I have set up an area located around the main tower then yes." said Dr. Winters with a smile.

"So the Mist isn't coming?" asked Kakashi

"No, they don't trust me and in fact they plan to carry out the attack on the feline base." explained Dr. Winters "Even though I informed them that they will be walking into a trap."

"Can't you save them?" asked Shizune as Dr. Winters lowered his head.

"They have chosen their fate." stated Dr. Winters "I can only help save those who want to be saved."

The rain which was falling over the demon ape city was also falling over the demon wolf capital as Kiba sat in a bar with a half empty glass of whiskey in one hand and an empty bottle of whiskey on the bar. The bar was almost totally empty apart from the bar tender and a few other wolves most of whom were passed out drunk.

"Another bottle." ordered Kiba as the bar tender looked at him.

"I am cutting you off." stated the bartender "You have already drank eight beers and a full bottle of whiskey."

"I will tell you when I am done." growled Kiba as the door to the bar opened again and a she wolf entered the darkened smoke filled bar. She moved toward the bar only to place her hand one Kiba's shoulder.

"What do you want Hana?" asked Kiba as he turned around to see a pair of deep red eyes.

"I am not your sister." answered Karin

"What do you want?" asked Kiba

"First to get you out of this bar before you drink yourself to death." explained Karin "Or did you forget that we have a training excises tomorrow morning."

"I can do that hung over." stated Kiba as he slurred his words. Before Karin could say anything Kiba turned to a newspaper which was party covered with food and drink stains. Karin followed Kiba's eyes to the front page of the paper which showed an image of Hinata standing beside Gamba.

"Are you going to the wedding?" asked Karin knowing full well that that Kiba had been invited to join the wolf delegation but he hadn't said if he was going.

"Would you want to go to the wedding if the person who was meant to be with you was marrying someone else?" explained Kiba as more than a few tears ran down his face.

"Crying over a pussy cat how weak." laughed the bar tender only to have Kiba grab him by the neck and pull him down hard against the bar top, so hard that he broke his muzzle on the bar. The wolves all over the bar instantly started moving to attack Kiba for what he did to the bar tender. However all of them were so drunk that they could hardly stand. They were so drunk that soon they started fighting with each other forgetting about why they were fighting. This allowed sober Karin to half carry Kiba past the drunk wolves and into the cold night air.

"You just had to do that." said Karin as she let Kiba use her as a crutch as they moved down the street.

"You didn't have to save me." stated Kiba

"Then I would have to explain to your sister and high command why you where in the hospital." explained Karin as she took Kiba to the closest place she could think of, her place. She carried Kiba though the apartment door before throwing him onto the couch.

"I loved her…I loved her and she betrayed me." cried Kiba before he coughed a bit like he was about to throw up. He stood up as Karin pointed toward the bathroom as he ran into the room closing the door behind him. She just stood in her living room trying to think of a way to explain to high command why their commander was throwing up in her bathroom. She came up with the only excuse that would pass by the higher ups because high command didn't like having their commanders so drunk that they couldn't work. When that happened the commander who was drunk normally lost their command or even sent to a hard labor camp. There was only one excuse she should think of which would let Kiba escape untouched. She would have to tell command that the reason why neither one of them had reported to the training session was because they were sleeping together. To them the chance of having more offspring was worth missing a training session.

The sun was rising over the demon feline capital city as massive celebrations began, the population didn't have to find an excuse to celebrate as street parties covered almost the entire city. All none critical business were either closed or working on limited schedules. The streets where packed with people and every street had a slightly different feel. On one street partiers could find a bunch of elder daemons sitting together playing cards and talking to each other while the next street over was filled with young people dancing in the streets. Walking up and down the streets guarded by a dozens of Royal Guards were Gamba and Hinata, there was no way for them to go unnoticed with the guards and the lion walking behind them carrying the royal standard for all to see. The subjects gathered around them to shake their hands and talk to them. Hinata had never shaken so many hands in her life, as they walked down one of the streets filled with elders she noticed a single elder female tiger who remained seated.

Slowly Hinata moved toward the tiger who was sitting with a cup of tea in front of her. Hinata pushed her way until she came up to the tiger.

"Hello there." said Hinata as the crowed looked at her stunned that she had moved to talk to someone while there was so many others around.

'Why are you talking to me?" asked the tiger "I heard that the future Queen is near."

Hinata blinked a little bit before she noticed that a long white stick by the tiger and the fact that her eyes where partly glazed over.

"Your blind?" asked Hinata

"Not totally, I can still see shapes." said the tiger "Like I said you should see if you can talk to the King and the future Queen, I am just an old tiger."

"With age comes great wisdom." said Hinata as the crowd became silent as they watched, even Gamba was watching. The only sound came from the snapping of photos which would be destined for the front of the newspapers. "So do you think you could share some wisdom with a young lioness?"

"Sure if you want to waste your time instead of meeting with the King and the future Queen." said the Tiger "Chances like that only comes around once in a while."

"I am sure I will have a chance to see King Gamba again." said Hinata "However I have a question, see I am about to become mated. Do you have advice?"

"Well I was mated since I was twenty five and I am now 92 million years old so I have been though it all." stated the Tiger "And though it all I have learned one thing is key for a successful mating, remember why you love them in the first place. Because there will be days when all you want to do is rip his head off for something he did. On those days remember why you love him. That is the key to a successful mating."

"I thank you." said Hinata "Please forgive me I never asked your name?"

"Fran." answered the tiger as she lifted a cup of tea to her lips "And who are you?"

"Hinata Hyuuga." Answered Hinata as Fran almost choked on her drink.

"Hinata Hyuuga the…Hinata Hyuuga the one who will be Queen?" asked Fran

"Yes." said Hinata as fan jumped out of her chair and kowtow to Hinata

"Please forgive me my Queen I had no idea that it was you." said Fran as Hinata stood up and placed her hand on Fran's shoulder.

"Please stand up." said Hinata as she helped Fran to her feet "I was the one who stopped to ask you for advice."

"Why would you ask me for advice?" asked Fran "I have nothing to offer someone as great as you?"

"I am not great; I am just a lioness like anyone else." stated Hinata "While it is true that I will play a role in shaping this kingdom it is true that so have you and you keep shaping this kingdom."

"How did I shape it, I worked in a factory and I was a homemaker nothing more." said Fran

"You shaped the kingdom just now when you answered some questions that a young lioness had about mating and you have done it with everyone you have ever helped." said Hinata "That is what makes this kingdom great, it isn't because of the fact we have the strongest military or anything else. It is because we are willing to stop and help each other even if it is as something as simple as giving advice."

The civilians started clapping as she finished her short speech as Hinata moved back to Gamba who quickly kissed her.

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