Chapter 3 One Hell of a Morning Part 3
Ino walked up the empty staircase toward the apartment that she shared with Sakura, the streets had been even more abandoned then even then she thought. Maybe it was the heat which was already approaching 90 degrees at nine thirdly in the morning or it was the fact that she was taking back roads but she hadn't crossed a single soul. As she entered her apartment she couldn't help but close her eyes as she felt the blast of cold air coming from the air conditioner. As she headed toward her room she tossed her hand bag onto the couch causing a small head to poke out from behind a small pile of pillows.
"I am sorry Isis I didn't see you there." said Ino her pure white cat looked at her for a moment before stretching a bit before moving to lie down in the warm sun light.
"Glad to see one of us had a normal night." added Ino as she headed to take a shower before thinking of her next move.
Meanwhile across town Sakura was already was walking though some of the back streets toward the hospital. She had decided to avoid the main market which would still have people in it no matter how hot it was outside. Instead she choice to walk down a narrow side street which ran parallel to the main market and lead almost straight to the hospital.
'Are you wearing strawberries scented body perfume?" asked Aella
"Ya, I love strawberries." answered Sakura as she made a small turn as the hospital came into view. "Do you like them or something?"
"I love them.' added Aella 'most of all when they are covered with fresh warm white chocolate."
"I personally prefer dark chocolate covering but white is still amazing." added Sakura as suddenly a young boy maybe nine or ten years old came stumbling down a nearby ally way. Sakura stopped in her tracks as the boy fell to his knees before throwing up.
"He is too young to be drunk.' thought Sakura 'Then again it was a massive party last night, he could have stolen some form his parents."
Sakura's question was answered as deep red chakra began leaking from every pour on the boy's body.
"Crap." stated Sakura as the chakra began to leak out uncontrollably, the pure force of the chakra caused the nearby shop wall to gave way and another building wooden roof to caught fire. "Shit what is going on?"
"His body is building new chakra network for whatever demon is joining with him." explained Aella
"This didn't happen to us." added Sakura as she covered her face as the wind picked up from the boy's chakra.
"Because you and other ninjas have worked with chakra before and developed you chakra network, if someone hasn't this must be what happens to them." stated Aella "If you want to help him follow my instructions to the letter."
Sakura moved though the whipping stings of chakra as she ran though hand signs following Aella's instructions as she gathered red demon chakra around her hands.
"Help me!" yelled the Boy at the top of his lungs
"Don't worry." reassured Sakura as she placed her now chakra covered hand on the boys head. "Seal!"
To her amazement the chakra which had once been whipping around pulled back into the boy who fell to the ground.
'Thank the spirits that is over." stated Sakura as she suddenly heard some feet landing behind her. The next moment she felt a sword blade touch the back of her neck.
"It's alright, I am a leaf ninja, Doctor Sakura Haruno third in command of the Leaf medical core." stated Sakura as she raised her hands before turning around to face the squad of ANBU
"What did you do to the boy?" asked the ANBU as he moved his sword so the tip touched to Sakura's throat.
"I did nothing to him, he was leaking demon chakra and I sealed it back inside of him." Explained Sakura
"Take them both they are infected and report to the medical core that we may have found how this thing is spreading." Ordered the ANBU
"Just great, now they think we are infecting people." Thought Sakura as the ANBU put plastic restraints on her hands before heading toward the hospital.
At the same time Ino was finishing up her quick shower, she quickly put on her standard outfit which hadn't changed much in since she was sixteen years old but why mess with the perfect style. Her only real change was the Jonnin vest which hung on a hanger on the back of the bathroom door. Her green Jonnin jacket had been replaced years ago with a deep red one. During the war a new standard ad been created between the different allied nations to allow quicker identification of the skills each ninja had and their rank. Now there were seven colors of jonnin jackets based in total now. She deep red marked that she had followed her father into the intelligence branch. Naruto's was black because of his ANBU rank and Sakura's was white marking her as a medical ninja. Her teammate Shikamaru now a wore a tan jacket since he was a member of the Leafs military planning and control group and Choji wore a orange marking him as a support ninja. Suddenly she heard a faint sound of breathing coming from the other side of the bathroom door.
"Alright am I imagining things?" asked Ino
"No, there is someone on the other side of that door." answered Lydia as Ino reached under the sink, pulling a kunai which she had hidden under it with a strand of duck tape however the moment she had got the kunai ready the door bust opened as three female ANBU entered with their weapons at the ready.
"Drop the kunai!" yelled the lead ANBU as Ino looked at the three of them. "And come with us."
"We could take them." stated Lydia "However it may cause more harm than good."
"Alright." answered Ino as she dropped the kunai
"Can I at least finish doing my hair?" asked Ino
Within minutes Ino was walking down a long hospital corridor flanked by four ANBU ninjas. Even though she had left the medical core when she was seventeen she knew all the faces however she had never seen them as scared as they looked now.
"We have another one." Stated the ANBU as a doctor walked up.
"Ino…" said the doctor as he shook his head "I had hoped that you would have remained cleaned of whatever has caused this infection, we could use you."
"It isn't an infection." Added Ino as the doctor jammed a needle into her arm taking a blood sample. "Could you have been more gentle?"
"I will be gentle when I cure this infection." stated the doctor "Put her in the air lock."
"Air lock, you actually broke that out?" laughed Ino as she remembered the hospital wide drill for dealing with an air born infection, the standard producer was to seal off a part of the hospital with the only entrees being though and pressurized air lock.
"And make sure to get yourself checked out." ordered the doctor as Ino kept walking until they reached a large plastic airlock which covered the only door into the eastern wing of the hospital. The ANBU said nothing as they pushed Ino though the door locking it behind her. Leaving her standing alone in the middle of a small makeshift room set up in what used to be a hallway.
"They really need to learn some manors." said Lydia as Ino's ear popped as the air pressure went up, the pressure was to prevent infected air from getting out.
'Right now I am more worried about what is other side of this airlock door." Thought Ino as the door opened as Ino couldn't help but smile as she saw Sakura standing there surrounded by doctors who where all dressed large white plastic suit with air tanks attached their backs. Behind them was the entire eastern wing of the hospital which had been made into a giant isolation chamber.
"They are really pulling out all the stops aren't they four head?" asked Ino as she walked up to her friend.
"Ya, but at least they let me take a shower and change into my normal cloths." added Sakura as she looked down at her white jonnin jacket. "But they aren't letting me help."
"There really isn't anything to help is there?" asked Ino "I mean they will find out the truth and then let us get back to our lives."
"They know the truth, but they want to know if it is true or not." added another voice, the voice caused a shiver to run down Ino's and Sakura's back as they turned toward a side door to see Naruto stepped out. He was followed a second later by a doctor carrying a cart full of viles of blood. "I am surprised that I have any blood left after everything they took."
"So you told Lady Tsunade about the demons joining with us?" asked Sakura
"Yes." answered Naruto
"And nothing more?" asked Ino as Naruto placed his hand behind his head as both women lowered their heads placing their hands in their hands. "I'll take that as a No.'
"She kind of forced it out of me." answered Naruto
"And you didn't feel any joy telling them about what happened?" asked Sakura
"No." answered Naruto
"I believe him." said Ino "Besides Lady Tsunade is more likely to send him though a wall. Besides he may wait until he is around the guys."
"That I believe." laughed Sakura before turning to Naruto "Don't say a word."
"Oh, let him have his fun forehead we are going to tell our friends." added Ino
"Mostly Hinata." laughed Inner Sakura
"Fine, but no details." added Sakura as she put her finger on Naruto's chest.
"Has anyone else notice that the doctors around us haven't asked us anything?" asked Ino as the three of them looked at the doctors who were simply looking at them confused.
"What?" asked Naruto
"What language where you speaking?" asked one of the nurses who was in the biohazard suit.
"What are you talking about?" asked Naruto
"You where speaking in the language of the demons." Explained Kyuubi "Since this was a private conversion between the three of you, you switched to our language."
"But I don't know any language of demons." added Naruto
"I do, along with Aella and Lydia so now you know it to." explained Kyuubi
"I am assuming Kyuubi just told you about the demon language?" asked Sakura as she looked at Naruto and Ino.
"Ya." said Ino "The question is how do we know if we are talk normal now?"
'What are you three talking about?" asked a doctor
"There is your answer." stated Sakura as suddenly an alarm went off as small flashing red lights located airlock.
"Get out of here, we have yet another case coming in." ordered the doctor
"Wait how many people are in here?" asked Sakura
"Ino was the 316st person to come in this morning." stated the doctor as the three of them headed into the eastern wing of the hospital. The Eastern wing was the oldest wing in the hospital but it had just finished going though renovations.
"If there is 316 people in this wing where are they?" asked Naruto as he walked down the strangely empty halls with Ino on his right and Sakura on his left.
"I am betting in one of the two lecture halls or maybe the cafeteria." added Sakura as she moved to the front "Follow Me."
"Why wouldn't the people already know what is going on, I mean they have demons within them now like we do." asked Ino
"If their chakra network isn't used as much and if they are not used to demon chakra it could take a while for full integration." explained Lydia "You and Sakura have been around Naruto so much that you got used to demon chakra which allowed us to fully integrated faster."
"Here." said Sakura as they stopped in front of a large door; all three of them could hear the sound of voice coming in from the other side.
"Any idea what to tell them?" asked Sakura
"The truth." Answered Naruto
"But how?" asked Ino
"That part I haven't figured out yet." admitted Naruto as he pushed open the door only to find a large lecture hall with stairs heading down toward a stage. All round people where rushing around talking to each other trying to figure out what was going on. Most of them where dressed in either sleeping cloths or in hospital gowns.
"Bose." yelled a voice as Naruto turned to see one of his youngest friends the seventeen year old Konohamaru Sarutobi ran up to Naruto. Naruto looked into the silted eyes of the young chunin.
"Konohamaru what is the situation here?" asked Naruto
"Truth be told no one has a clue what is going on." explained Konohamaru "Do you think we will get out of here soon, my Jonnin exam is this afternoon."
"I highly dough that we are going to get out of here by then." added Sakura
"But….I have waited forever to take them!" yelled Konohamaru as everyone turned and looked at Naruto.
"Mr. Namikaze what is going on!" yelled a female voice everyone began to gather around the three of them.
'Doctor Haruno do you have a cure?" asked a male voice as the crowed pushed ever closer.
"Alright everyone just back up!" yelled Ino as everyone looked at her "And sit down and we will explain everything that we know."
"Sit down now!" yelled a voice that the three of them knew well as a women dressed in a black rob pushed her way through the crowd. The older light brown hair jonnin pushed walked up to them before turning to face the people with her silted eyes "NOW or will I have to force you."
Almost instantly everyone headed to find a seat.
"Anko haven't seen you around lately." stated Sakura
"I just got back yesterday and then I woke up this morning and everything changed." explained Anko "Now answer our questions."
"Alright." said Naruto as the three of them moved down the stairs toward the podium and the microphone which was originally designed to be used to teach medical students. Naruto paused for a moment as he touched the mic to make sure it worked.
"Now, I am sure you are all very confused and scared but you have nothing to worry about." added Naruto "This isn't an infection."
"Then what is it?" asked a voice from the crowd
"Um…" started Naruto as he scratched his chin trying to figure out how to break the news.
"Demons, we are all jinchuriki now." finished Sakura as everyone looked at her before the crowed breaking out into hundreds of voices all asking the same question in different ways.
"We will answer your questions if you calm down." Ordered Ino as slowly everyone calmed down "Good, now we don't know how about the demons within all of us sealed themselves in something called the ark, when that opened they got released and they joined with us."
"How do you know all that?" asked another voice
"Because the demons which joined with us, told us." explained Naruto
"Then how come we can't hear them?" asked a women
"Give it time." stated a male voice as everyone looked toward the top of the lecture hall to see a man with deep black hair pulled back into a short pony tail standing there. He was dressed in his tan Jonnin uniform which marked his as a member of the Leaf intelligence and planning team, a team in which he was second only to his father in rank.
"Shikamaru." said Naruto with a smile as Shikamaru held onto a long stainless steal cane in his left arm. "How's the leg?"
"As well as I can hope considering." stated Shikamaru as he held the cane before moving forward down the stairs toward his friends as fast as he could.
"It is amazing you can even walk considering you almost had your leg cut off by a sword." Stated Sakura as she remembered when Shikamaru came into the field hospital with his leg hanging on by the skin alone.
"Well I will have to use this to walk for the rest of my life, which is going to be a lot longer now." explained Shikamaru as he held up his cane. "Well is if what Nanuk says is true.'
"Nanuk?" asked Ino "Your demon right?"
'Yes." answered Shikamaru as he looked into Ino's silted eyes with his own "I think we should talk privately. Everyone else is in the cafeteria"
"But we have more questions?" yelled the people
"And we will be better able to answer your questions in a little bit, now everyone remain calm and we will figure this out in a few moments." explained Naruto as the four of them walked out a side exit and headed toward the cafeteria as fast as Shikamaru could move.
"What is going on here?" asked Naruto
"We are still trying to piece that all together." explained Shikamaru "Too many pieces are missing but we are starting to get a feel about what is happening, however we will not know for sure until we know who all made it though the ark. Nanuk says that since the demons where sealed so long that some of them may have died in it."
'Wait let's start with who is Nanuk?" asked Naruto
"I could ask you know the same thing?" asked Shikamaru 'I mean I know that Naruto has the Kyuubi which according to Nanuk means he is the Hokage of the demons but I don't know which one of you got which one of his girlfriends."
"Lydia." Answered Ino
"So that means Sakura has Aella." said Shikamaru as the pink haired ninja nodded her head."Makes sense considering.'
"And who is Nanuk?" asked Ino
"From what he has shown me, he is a five tailed demon dog in the same race as the one tail that Gaara used to have." explained Shikamaru as they kept moving down a hallway toward the meeting "He says he was the chief architect for the Kyuubi and was the head of the science and technology council."
"Fits, I remember how you used to play with blocks for hours when we were kids." Explained Ino as she remembered how the two of them plus Choji used to be babysat by one of their mothers.
"After my injury I considered leaving the ninja core and becoming an architect." added Shikamaru
"So how did you know something was up?" asked Ino "I mean Temari is in the sand so it wasn't looking into her eyes that tipped you off, so what was it?"
"Don't tell me you woke up with another women, because if that is true Temari will kill you." stated Sakura as Shikamaru shook his head.
Shikamaru stopped for a moment before looking down at his leg.
Flashback two hours earlier
Shikamaru Nara opened his eyes as he rolled over in his bed, his hand brushing over the empty side of the bed which was normally occupied by his girlfriend of four and a half years Temari. She had left just the other day for a meeting with her brother Gaara back in the Sand village. Officially the meeting was to discuss relations between the Leaf and the Sand and as the ambassador from the Sand to the Leaf she was needed. In reality it was her handing in her resignation papers and start the paper work needed for her to become a leaf ninja. He turned his head a bit only to see the empty ring box sitting on her night stand.
"At least she decided to wear the thing this time, after how much it cost." said Shikamaru as he remembered his fiancées objection to the ring, not to having one but to putting it on before she became a member of the Leaf.
"I am a ninja from another village and even being engaged to anyone from another ninja village is punishable by banishment and death." said Temari's voice in his memories
"I have Gaara's permission and Lady Tsunade it will be fine." said his own voice back as he recalled the conversation.
"I would rather wait the three days to settle, play it safe." answered Temari
"Troublesome woman." stated Shikamaru as he sat up in bed throwing the covers aside. He looked down at his nearly useless leg which would cost him his spot in the ninja core. He looked at the long scar which ran almost totally around his knee, from the back to his knee cap. He knew that if the sword strike had been only a millimeter larger he would have lost his leg. The blow had cost him all feeling and moment below the knee. He began to move to grab his cane like he had down for countless mornings since the injury only to stop as he felt something on his leg. He looked down to see that the blanket which he had thrown off had landed on his leg.
"That can't be." said Shikamaru as he placed his hand on his leg, a leg which was suppose to have no feeling. His eyes widened as he felt his own hand on his leg.
End Flashback
"I could feel my leg." answered Shikamaru
"But all the nerve endings died when you almost lost your leg." answered Sakura as Shikamaru lifted up and flexed his foot.
'How?" asked Ino
"Demon healing chakra." added Naruto "It has healed me multiple times."
"It must be slowly healing you." added Ino
"We will worry about that later, first we need to talk to the others." stated Shikamaru as they kept walking.
Meanwhile in the Hokage building Lady Tsunade threw open a set of double doors as she entered a large meeting room. The room was dominated by a long wooden table with four TV screens which were built into the far wall.
"Do we have contact yet?" asked Lady Tsunade
"Yes, Lady Hokage." Answered an aid as the TV screens turned on to show the faces of her other four Kages. During the war the Kages had installed the same TV communication system that the Daimyos use.
"I am assuming you all have similar situations happening in your villages?" asked lady Tsunade as she sat down.
"We have over a hundred cases in our hospital." stated the youngest Kage the red haired Kazekage Gaara.
"We have fifteen." stated the oldest member Onoki as the other Kage looked at him "However we have multiple reports from outlining farming villages of people being infected."
"Eighty seven." Stated the Raikage A
"Fifty even." stated the only other female Kage Mei Terumi "How about you Lady Hokage how many do you have?"
"As of five minutes ago we have 453 cases, spread out all over the village." explained the Hokage as the other Kage's eyes widened at the amount.
"Any idea what is happening?" asked Gaara
"One of our doctors believe this could be an attack by Kabuto." Stated A
"If this was an attack then people would be dyeing." explained Lady Tsunade as she took a deep breath "We have reason to believe that this infection is cause by something called the ark which was filled with sealed demons."
"The Ark?" asked Mei Terumi
"The Demon Ark?" asked Onoki "Is that what you are talking about?"
"You know what it is?" asked Lady Tsunade
"The legends go that the nine tailed beasts are only the guards of ark which contains the powers of thousands of demons." stated Onoki "However it is just a legend."
"Doesn't look like it is a legend, since some of those who are infected are talking to demons which are now sealed within them." explained Lady Tsunade
"So this infection is in reality people become Jinchuriki?" asked A
"It seams." stated Lady Tsunade
"What does Naruto say?" asked Gaara
"That is what Naruto has told me." answered Lady Tsunade
"Is there a way to remove the demons and cure these people?" asked Mai Terumi
"We don't know yet but we have to assume one thing at least.' stated Lady Tsunade "That there is going to be more people becoming Jinchuriki before we figure out what is happening."
"Why do you say that? We already have over seven hundred cases." stated Mai Terumi
"The legends say thousands." added Gaara
"We must inform the Daimyo and the lower ninja villages." ordered A
"Agreed.' added Onoki
"Very well, and I will keep working to discover what is going here." added Lady Tsunade as the TV screens went black.
Back in the hospital Shikamaru, Ino, Sakura and Naruto finally reach the cafeteria.
"Here we are." stated Shikamaru as he opened the door as he stepped aside letting the three of them entire the room. Standing in the room waiting for them where people they had known for years all waiting for them. Naruto looked to his right to see his former genin instructor and sensei Kakashi Hatake along with three of his best friends Sai, Choji Akimichi and Neji Hyuuga sitting around a small table. On the other side of the room gathered around a small table talking was the weapon expert Tenten, Shizune, Hinata Hyuuga and his distance cousin and former member of team Taka, Karin Uzumaki.
"They all have demons within them?" asked Sakura
"yes, from what I have seen it looks like the entire Konoh 11 minus Lee and Kiba have demons within them." explained Shikamaru "Everyone woke up to a surprise today."
"Still they probably didn't have as weird of morning as we did." laughed Ino as the sound of a flushing toilet filled the air as the three of them turned toward the bathroom located on the far side of the room. Naruto, Ino and Sakura's eyes widened as out of the bathroom walked a women dressed in hospital whites which until she had been found in a catalectic state in Madara's main base. Her deep brown hair ran down her face framing the two purple squares which marked her cheeks under her brown eyes. She turned her eyes which hadn't opened since Kakashi ran a chidori though her chest years ago toward them.
Flashback 8 months ago
Four ANBU ninjas stood outside of a door in one of the deepest darkest levels of the main Akatsuki base. They had taken the base only a few hours ago and now they were going though the process of checking out all the hidden secrets.
"Three two one." whispered Naruto as he moved in front of the door before kicking it down, the moment he did two other ANBU stormed in followed by himself and his former genin instructor Kakashi. They entered the room only to find it totally different then all the other rooms they had entered, unlike the others rooms which where dark and forbidding this room was painted a light blue with a sitting chair and a warm bed.
"Ok what is going on here, this doesn't look like something Obito would have?" asked Kakashi as he used the real name of the leader of the Akatsuki. 'Then again I would never had thought that my dead former teammate would be alive and the real leader of the Akatsuki."
"Then you are going to be really surprise about this." stated Naruto as he stood at the side of a bed located in the center of the room. Kakashi moved to his student side as his eyes widened at the figure lying in the bed.
"That can't be." Said Kakashi as he looked at the brown haired women who was lying in the bed with a feeding tube attached to her body. "Rin?"
"You're dead teammate Rin Nohara?" asked Naruto
"I don't understand how could she be alive?" asked Kakashi as Naruto walked around his sensei to a medical chart located at the foot of the bed.
"I am not Sakura but according to this, she has been like this for almost twenty years and it looked like Madara was trying to find a way to wake her up but with no use." explained Naruto before looking at Kakashi "Is it possible she didn't die that day?"
"I ran a chidori though her chest, there is no way she could have survived." stated Kakashi as he placed his hand on her check "But here she is."
"Get Sakura down here at once." ordered Naruto to one of the other ANBU as he ran off.
End Flashback
Yes, I brought Rin back. Well I hope you liked the surprise character I brought back and how I did it. I will explain how in more details in later chapters. Also Ino strikes me as the person who would have a cat. Next chapter you will learn how most of the Rookie 12 woke up in the morning and what demons if any they have. Now I would like to thank everyone who reviewed and I would ask that you keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75