Chapter 87 The Opening Moments

It was just after lunch in demon wolf control as a platoon of sixty highly trained wolves stood on their side of the border with Demon Ape country. Before them stood the giant seemly unending jungles of the forbidden nation, even before the great break up when the foxes won their independence this nation was a no go for anyone. Any army that went in never came back out, however these wolves are members of the elite search and destroyed groups. They where the best of the best that the demon wolves had to offer.

"Alright listen up!" yelled a voice as their commander walked up to the six lines of ten wolves each. "Inside this land is the key for not only bringing those rebel foxes in line but to sending those pussy cats running in fear."

All the wolves smiled at the idea that they would be the key to reversing the only major war that their nation had ever truth lost. Yes they had signed peace treaties ending wars with the felines over thirty times and other wars with the other nations.

"Alright this is the plan we will enter the area in a V formation. Six squads of ten each." explained the commander "Squad one will be point with Squad two and three on their left and right. Then on the wings will be squad four and five. The sixth Squad will be behind Squad one and support any squad which runs into something interesting."

He paused for a moment looking at the wolves gathered in front of him, none of them where former humans since none of humans had the time to reach the rank and experience needed for to become members of the advance groups.

"Now, let's get moving." ordered the commander as the first squad headed out across the river believing that they where unseen by anyone however above their heads a small drone kept watch.

Hours the sun was setting over the demon feline capital hundreds of thousands of demons filed into the massive stadium located near the center of the capital city. From the outside the stadium matched the surrounding government buildings with its red sandstone coverings however under enough it all was all steal and concrete because stone was unable to create a stadium capable of holding 150,000 fans in the area required.

"This is so cool!" yelled Seth Namikaze as he looked around at the thousands of demons gathered from all but one of the demon races. The ants never used their seats only their leadership ever showed up.

"I have to admit it is cool." said Adria as she looked up though the air stadium where the flags of the nine demon races taking part and the royal pride standard hung by wires. Kushina wasn't looking at the massive crowed she was too worried about her son and his mate were going to fight for their new nation. While there hasn't been a death in such events in millions of years there was one thing which caused her heart to race and his name was Sasuke Uchiha.

"It's going to be alright." reassured Minato as he placed his hand on top of hers. Across the Stadium Gamba sat in his throne preparing to watch the opening ceremony, beside him was the empty throne of the Queen. He could tell that a lot of the people where upset that Hinata wasn't sitting there beside him however quickly a theory had spread about the reason.

"So your new Queen is having a talk with her sister before the fight?" asked Val as the snake leader sat in his own chair. The other leaders of the different nations gathered sat in their own chairs with two guards standing behind them.

"You will just have to wait." stated Queen Mother Oda as she sat of her son's left, knowing that it was tradition for a family member stand with the fighter during the opening ceremony. The papers had put Hinata's sister Hanabi as the head's on favorite to stand in for the lioness in a grand tournament were all those in it had to be former humans. "Son it is time."

"Thank you mother." said Gamba as he stood up and moved to a out so that everyone could see him and those who had trouble seeing him could see him on the large TV screen located in the stadium and TVs across the world.

"It is my great honor to welcome you all to the Feline Kingdom and the Grand Demon Tournament." stated Gamba "These games were first created to build a spirit of unity among the nations gathered here. All those who are taking part in this tournament were born human and have now become part of the nations they now stand for. It is a sign that where once we where separate races on separate worlds we are now all demons. Now without any more delays let the ceremony begin."

With that a grand show began bands, acts and lots of fireworks which all had to take place before the introduction of those taking place. While millions watched the ceremony thousands of humans where gathered around the TV however what they were watching was the live broadcast showing a group of sixty demon wolves who were moving though demon ape country unaware that they were being watching. Among those watching them was the current Mizukage Mei Terumi.

"I would like to thank you again for coming." said Dr. Winters as he sat in his office/home near the top of the demon ape tower.

"Like I had a choice, we are running out a supplies and since you destroyed our last chance of stopping them." growled Mei Terumi

"You couldn't have stopped them, not the way you are now." stated Dr. Winters "You know in many ways humans and demon apes are the same."

"What are you talking about?" asked Mei Terumi

"Apart from our long life span we are very different then the other demons my chakra strength is probably less then you and I had strong chakra for my race." explained Dr. Winters "However we had technology which turned us into what the others nations called the silent empire."

"Technology like that bomb you dropped on us?" asked Mei Terumi "You would give us that?"

"No, not to the current generation of humans you would use the weapons to strike back and that would lead to war." explained Dr. Winters "However using some of the other weapons defend and form a new nation here is highly possible."

"You want to bring my people here?" asked Mei Terumi

"This city along was designed to hold 70 million people and there are five other cities only a little smaller in this nation not counting the other smaller cities. Your population has enough room to grow." explained Dr. Winters "That is if the people vote for it."

"Vote?" asked Mei Terumi

"Tomorrow the humans are going to have a vote on what they want to do, either go back to the human world on their own, stay here as humans, stay here as demon apes or turn into whatever demon they want." explained Dr. Winters

"And what about those who choice something outside of the majority. Would you turn humans into demons if they didn't want to for force them to stay?" asked Mei Terumi

"I admit the vote is more symbolic than anything else if some choices to become a demon I will let them become that, if they want to leave I will also allow it but I hope the follow the will of the majority and respect it even if they themselves don't like the outcome." explained Dr. Winters "However maybe this little demonstration will allow them to see what humans are capable of."

"But the weapons you are going to use was made by demons, so we are just using your things." stated Mei Terumi

"But at one time our level technology was the same as yours now, only in time did we reach this level." explained Dr. Winters "And it is my hope that if those humans stay here that they will reach advancements far beyond my wildest dreams."

"We have contact." said a voice over from the TV as Dr. Winters and Mei Terumi turned to the TV which showed a smaller clearing before moving to an overhead view, 25 green boxes appeared on the screen along with sixty red boxes in six groups of ten.

"Is that Kakashi?" asked Mei Terumi as she recognized the voice.

"Yes, he and a group of 25 former ninjas are going to engaged 60 demon wolfs in combat." explained Dr. Winters

Out in demon ape country a the first of the demon wolf squads entered a small clearing near a stream.

"We have been walking all day and haven't seen anything." complained one of the wolves

"I know." responded another wolf as a wet thud filled the air. "Did someone drop something in the water?"

"Commander." said a stunned wolf as the commander turned to see the wolf who had just finished complaining about not finding anything with a strange hole in his head.

"What the?" asked the Commander as suddenly the far tree line erupted with fire. The demons had no idea what had happened as all a heavy machine gun and two rifle men opened up on them. The demons never stood a chance as bullets ripped though them before they could move and within 30 seconds they were all dead.

"Group one is down." stated a former Sand ANBU into his radio. The TV screen only saw flashes of light from the tracer rounds in the bullets from above.

"Understood." stated Kakashi's voice over the radio "Group two is up, make sure you active your cameras."

"Roger." said a third voice, a few hundred yards away the second squad of demon wolves stopped when they heard the gunshots.

"What was that?" asked a wolf in the second group their eyes searching the darkened woods for any sign of a threat.

What the second squad failed to see was the two former Leaf ANBU hiding above them in the tree tops, their advance night vision goggles turned night into day.

"Activating camera." whispered one of them as she tapped a small camera located on the side of her helmet. The image of the wolves as seen from directly above, the barrel of the former Leaf ANBU filled the screen as she opened up on the demons from above. Like the first group the demons had no time to react as the humans could pull the trigger faster than they could do hand signs. The first person view of the battle was broadcasted live to the human population in the demon ape capital.

"Group 2 is down move on to Group 3." radioed the ANBU as she stopped firing.

The third group responded to the sound of gun fire by moving toward the sound as they ran through the woods they walked into the trap a series of trip wires all attached to high explosive charges hidden in the brush. The humans just had to stand back and watched as they killed themselves. In less than three minutes thirty demons where dead with thirty more to go.

On the far left of the demon wolf line the fourth squad commander had formed his team into a circle so that they could see everything coming toward them.

"Get on the radio to command!" yelled the squad commander as he and the others scanned the darkened woods trying to figure out what was happening.

"Sir the radio are dead." explained the radio operator not knowing that above them was a radio jammer.

"Sir what is going on?" asked another wolf

"I don't know." answered the commander as suddenly three small objects flew out of the darkness and landed beside them. They had no time to react before the objects exploded killing them all leaving the demons with only twenty demons left.

"Forty demons dead in less than a minute." stated Mei Terumi stunned

"Only twenty left." Said Dr. Winters as the TV screen changed to show a group of humans loading a giant gun behind the line.

"Section D4." Yelled one of the humans on the screen as the gun turned.

"Loaded!" yelled another human

"Fire!" yelled yet another one as the massive gun fired sending a shell flying though the air.

On the far right of the demon line squad five was in a state of confusion and had started doing the only thing that they could think of. They started sending attacks into the darkness trying to hit the unseen enemy. They didn't even hear the round screech though the air, the round exploded above the demons sending hundreds of ball barreling size balls filled with what a substance called black napalm. It turned the whole area including the demons into a single giant black fireball.

The last group demon group standing was the ten demons which had only come along to study anything they found. These where not the most hardened soldiers and the strange sounds and large explosions caused fear to run though them worst then any enemy could.

"Run!" yelled the commander as they turned to run only to see four figures standing there. They were dressed head to toe in black. They each had a silver vest on along with a black helmet with a pull down visor which covered their faces. Suddenly the area right in front of them shimmered as a fifth figure appeared out of nowhere.

"What the?" asked a she wolf as the five figures raised strange weapons red beams of light shot out the ends of the weapons landing harmlessly on the demon's chests. As they raised their weapons the visors lifted up showing five human faces.

"Humans?" asked another wolf stunned to see them here.

"Not so fun when you're the one being hunted." stated Kakashi as he pulled the trigger, the bullet flew out of the chamber and hit where the laser had settled on. When he opened up the others followed and in the span of less than two minutes the demon attack force was killed.

Not aware of the battle which was just ending in demon ape country the ceremony marking the opening of the grand tournament was reaching its peak with the announcement of who was fighting and which round.

After the final firework shot into the air the whole stadium went dark as a booming voice filled the air.

"Tomorrow will mark the first day of competition of this tournament there will be eight male demons fighting in four different matches whom will end with decide who moves on, the next day will see eight more demons fight in the woman's tournament. They will fight for seven days until only one remains standing. We will now announce those dare fighters and the positions which their leaders have drawn for them in their lots." said the voice as a hush came over the stadium "Starting us off in match one of group A. Standing for the demon wolves will be Kiba Inuzuka."

Load cheers from the wolf section of the stadium as Kiba walked out from a hidden door on the field. A spot light fell on him as he waved at the crowed as boos filled the air as the felines looked at the person they believed to be a war criminal.

"Facing off against him, making their return to the grand tournament is Shino Aburame." stated the voice as Kiba looked across the field only to see a black demon ant.

"Shino?" asked Kiba as he saw the black alien like creature that his teammate had become. With two extra arms and legs, he also had two pincers on his face. The crowd was a little taken aback at the sight of the demon ants in the tournament, they hadn't been in it for years and their spot normally went to one of the three feline races with them in that meant either a lion, tiger or panther had to sit out. It was likely going to be either the tigers or Panthers since the lions had never sat out a tournament and held the record for most grand champions.

"In the second match of group A will see the Captain of the Royal Guard the demon tiger Yahiko." stated the announcer as Yahiko walked out of the demon tiger tunnel and out to the cheering stadium.

"And going up against him in the second match will Naruto Namikaze for the demon foxes." stated the announcer as Naruto walked out of the tunnel as the crowd cheered.

"Wow." said Naruto as he looked up at the thousands of faces before waving toward the demon fox section located right behind him. He could just make out his families faces though the crowd.

"I give you the four demons in male group one, one of these four will stand in the championship round in seven days." explained the announce.

"Now for the first match of the female tournament which will begin on the second day of the tournament. Match one of group one will see the doctor who helped save the Queen Mother Sakura Haruno for the demon foxes." said the announcer as Sakura walked out of the tunnel.

"Wow." said Sakura as she looked up at the faces before walking toward Naruto. "This is amazing."

"I know." resounded Naruto as he kissed Sakura which earned a cheer from the crowd.

"Going up against her is Mai from the demon bear country." said the announcer as a large pure white female demon bear walked out from the tunnel.

"Who is Mai?" asked Naruto as Sakura shrugged

"I never heard of her." added Sakura as she looked at her competition "Which makes her an unknown and that could be the most dangerous."

"In match two of group one will see the granddaughter of a human Kage now standing for her new nation the grand herd of the demon horses, Kurotsuchi." stated the announcer as Kurotsuchi walked out from her tunnel "And taking her on will be Samui fighting for the demon panthers."

The crowd roared as one of their own walked out of the tunnel.

"Now in group two of the male tournament, in match one of group B." said the announcer "Taking a stand for the horses is the wild stallion Rock Lee."

Naruto and Sakura looked toward the horses to see a dark brown horse walk out of the tunnel before waving toward the crowed, they watched as Lee stood close to Kurotsuchi placing his hand on her hip and pulling her close.

"Looks like those two are together." stated Naruto

"Good for them." added Sakura

"And taking him on in a rematch of a human tournament called the chunin exams, Sasuke Uchiha." Stated the announcer as a black snake slithered out of a tunnel. Naruto's and Sakura's blood turned to ice as they looked across the stadium at Sasuke who instead of looking at Lee was glaring at Naruto.

"In the last match we will see the personal guard of King Gamba himself Itachi Uchiha take on the demon bear Choji Akimichi." Stated the announcer as the crowd cheered but a little lack luster then normal, they were expecting to see a lion in the male tournament and their wasn't one.

"Now for the female tournament in match one of group two we will see the youngest member of this tournament, she has two brothers fighting for different nations. Please welcome for the demon wolves Raeni Uchiha." stated the voice as the young 16 year old who had spent only a few hours as a human when she was born walked out.

"Going against her will be Karui standing proudly for the demon tigers." said the announcer

"The final match will see the snake fighter Lin Lee." stated the announcer as a deep purple and red snake slithered out from the tunnel.

"Who is she?" asked Naruto

"Another unknown." added Sakura

"And finally for the first time in history there is only lion in the tournament and she needs no introduction." said the announcer as a figure walked out of the tunnel causing everyone became silent for a brief moment. "Queen Hinata."

The crowd roared as they realized that their Queen would be fighting for them in the tournament.

Well I hope you liked this chapter including the battle between the humans and the demons and the start of the tournament. Now if you lost track those fighting are group A Male Match 1 (Kiba vs. Shino) Match 2 (Naruto vs. Yahiko) Group B Male Match 1 (Sasuke vs. Lee) Match 2 (Itachi vs. Choji). Group A Female Match 1 (Sakura vs. Mai (OC) )Match 2 (Kurotsuki vs. Samui) Group B Female Match 1 (Karui vs. Raeni Uchiha) Match 2 (Hinata vs. Lin Lee (OC)) Those are the matches I hope you like them. Now I would like to thank everyone who reviewed and I ask that you keep reading Thanks Wilkins75