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Chapter 8 Brothers
The sun was just poking its head though the thick cloud cover, the rain had come to a total stop but the rain had done its job. It turned the dirt streets in the housing direct turned makeshift prison into a field of thick mud. The one good thing the rain had done was finally breaking the heat wave which had haunted the village for weeks, now instead of the temperature being in the high 80's in the morning it was in the mid 60's. The sudden change of temperature caused Naruto to shiver a bit as he slowly opened his eyes. For a moment he just lied there looking up the dirty mold covered ceiling. For a moment he forgot where he was until he tried to sit up only to have two hands placed on his chest slamming him back down onto the pillow.
"Stay." ordered Sakura's half asleep voice.
"Warm." added Ino's voice as Naruto felt both of them move closer to him. For a moment Naruto just lied there looking down at his two sleeping friends who were using him as their personal heat source. He double checked for a moment before looking down the top of their shirts at their cleavages. Naruto couldn't help but grin.
"You know most of the time they would hurt you for doing that." laughed Kiba as he took a drink of water from one of the plastic bottle, the same type they hand out to refugees. Naruto slowly looked around the room only to see that all the others were gone.
"Where are they?" asked Naruto
"They headed out to see if they can use some fire justus to dry the streets." explained Kiba as he looked out the broken window only to see a ball of flame burning in the street below. After a few seconds the ball disappeared showing to the world a new much dryer street, good enough for people to walk on without sinking down.
"Makes you wish for some better streets?" asked Kiba "but I guess that was one of the reasons why they shut down this area."
"God damn it if you two keep talking how am we suppose to sleep." complained Sakura as released her grip on Naruto and sat up. Her hair was a mess as she rubbed sleep from her eyes.
"Agreed." added Ino as she got up and headed toward the bathroom.
"You do realize that place is a mess?" asked Naruto
"Actually Shikamaru and I worked on cleaning it up a bit while we stood watch. It isn't the greatest but it is passable." explained Kiba
"It's good enough." said Ino as Ino closed the bathroom door
A few short miles away Lady Tsunade was still at her desk, apart from going to the bathroom she hadn't left the room. She had stayed up all night trying to understand what was going on, however everything she found just made her more confused. From the body scans she had ordered before people had left the hospital it was clear that everyone now had two chakra networks one with normal human chakra and the other with demon chakra but it was also clear that the networks wrapped around each other so much it was almost as if they where one. Add to the fact that the brain scans showed activities which was normally seen in people with multiple personality disorders, she had also seen similar brain activity when she did a scan of Naruto's brain activity during a check up last year. This added to the creditability that they really had demons sealed within them, to her at least. That fact could also be seen by others as a sign of the infection and something very dangerous. For a brief moment Tsunade nodded out but a sudden knock at the door caused her to snap back awake.
"Enter." ordered Tsunade as the doors opened as two ANBU walked into the room, before coming to a stop in front of her desk. "You can take the mask off you two."
"Yes, Lady Hokage." responded Mighty Guy as he and one of his students Rock Lee took off their ANBU masks.
"Sorry to force you back into the ANBU core Guy but at the moment I need you there right now." apologized Tsunade
"It's alright Lady Hokage, but how long are we going to hold those people in the slums?" asked Guy
"Yes, Lady Hokage it isn't right." demanded Lee
"And I am with you Lee, but you haven't seen some of the reports I have seen." explained Lady Tsunade as she pulled out a piece of paper from the huge stack which had built up on her desk. "Take a look this came in around 3am."
Quickly Lee grabbed the paper and started reading out load.
"Came across a teenage girl around 16 or 17 years old hanging from a tree dead one quarter of a kilometer outside of the farming community of Shir Lin. Her throat and wrists were also cut and a pitchfork was ran though her chest." Read Lee before looking up "What type of sick person would do that?"
"Read on." ordered Tsunade
"Multiple footprints in the ground, at least 15 different people possibly more did the attack." Read Lee as his eyes moved down the page "When interviewing a nearby farmer we learned that the women had a demon within her that wouldn't die unless she died. When asked how he knew the pointed out the victims silted eyes saying it was a sign of position by dark spirits."
"So they killed a that girl because she became a jinchuriki." stated Guy as he shook his head
" There is more." added Tsunade as she looked toward Lee
"Farmer added that the dead girl was his daughter." read Lee "Then asked if we could burn the body, so that her dark spirits didn't spread to the rest of his family."
"They are monsters." growled Guy
"Lee, I am not trying to imprison them I am trying to protect them." explained Lady Tsunade "It is easier to protect them if they are all in one place. Now if you excuse me I better go talk to Naruto to find out how we can make their stay there as short and as conformable as possible. In the mean time I want you two to take point in their protection."
"Yes, Lady Hokage." responded both of them as they snapped to attention before saluting their Kage as she stood up and headed toward the door however before she could read the door it opened as an aid rushed in.
"Lady Hokage we have a report from the other nations." stated the aid as she handed the paper to her Kage. Quickly Lady Tsunade looked down at the paper as she looked at the numbers of people who now had demons within them her eyes widened as she realized just how many where out there. "The other nations are still collecting their infected so those numbers are likely going to go up. It's going to take months to collect them all."
"Well we sent some Hyuuga search teams to the other nations so we should have total numbers sooner than you think." explained Lady Tsunade as she closed the file before leaving her office.
Back in the makeshift prison camp Naruto had thrown on his normal black jonnin jacket and uniform before stepping out into the now hardened dirt streets. For a moment he looked around at the five to seven storied buildings most of whom had missing railings and roofs. For the first time he noticed the piles of trash and which lined both sides of the street. The piles of trash were what remained in the apartments when the people moved out. The trash hadn't been taken away yet and was starting to smell.
"Welcome to a housing nightmare." said Shikamaru as he walked up to Naruto and while he was still using a cane to walk, he wasn't putting as much force on the cane to walk. "We have almost five thousand people in a housing district designed to hold at most two thousand and to make it even better the housing area was to be demolish for being unsafe."
"Also add to that that we have no long term food supplies, fresh water apart from bottles and a lot of women who haven't had a shower in about a day." added Naruto as Shikamaru nodded his head.
"I hadn't thought of that last one." admitted Shikamaru as he looked around "Where is Ino and Sakura?"
"I asked them to help keep people calm and to find out just how bad this place really is." explained Naruto as Shikamaru nodded his head.
"So do you need me to do anything?" asked Shikamaru
"I hate to ask you this but in case we are stuck here long, I need you to start planning ways improve this place using what we have." ordered Naruto as they started walking down the road.
"Well the first part of making this place livable is removing this trash." explained Shikamaru
"Then start doing that." ordered Naruto
"How?" asked Shikamaru "It is unlikely that they will let us take this trash out of this area."
"If it was an easy job I would give it to someone else." explained Naruto as Shikamaru nodded his head.
"Alright, I'll go see if I can find some help with this." added Shikamaru as he moved off, almost the same moment another one of his old friends appeared beside him.
"Hello Naruto." said his former classmate who seemed to live in large trench coats and who wore sunglass day and night.
"So you're here too Shino." added Naruto
"Yes, and I have information for you." responded Shino as the two of them neared the wall of their prison.
"If it is about the trash or the conditions here we are working in it." explained Naruto as he kept walking.
"Some of the council members are already planning on how best to kill everyone here." stated Shino as Naruto stopped in his tracks as he turned and looked at his friend.
"What are you talking about?" asked Naruto
"Maybe some explaining is in order. The demon that joined with me is Hoshea, the demon beetle in charge of your spy core." explained Shino "To help carry out our mission I left some of my insects behind to spy on the actions key people within the village."
"You are spying on your own village?" asked Naruto
"They where only doing their jobs." pointed out the Kyuubi "However Hoshea always had a habit of going a little bit over board but not in this case however we need this information."
"Because it is my job now." finished Shino as he turned and walked away from Naruto. Slowly Naruto moved toward the large metal gate which was now the only exit from the housing area turned prison camp.
"Stop where you are." yelled a voice over a load speaker. "If you take another step we will kill you."
"They had time to step up a load speaker and not enough time to bring us food?" grumbled Naruto within his own mind as he raised his hands over his head.
"I need to talk with the Hokage." explained Narutoas he started to take a step forward only to have a kunai land an inch front of his foot. Instantly Naruto pulled back as he looked toward the dozen ANBU standing on the wall who where now waiting to attack.
"That will be your only warning." yelled the voice over the speaker system, as six of the ANBU pulled their swords while the other six pulled kunai and other throwing weapons.
"A standard guard formation, six throws to keep the target back and six up close fighters to protect the throwers." thought Naruto as suddenly the speaker system came alive again.
"All ANBU stand down." yelled the voice as the metal gate slowly began to open. Naruto stood there as Lady Tsunade walked through the gate and headed toward him.
"I hope you had a good night sleep last Lady Hokage." asked Naruto sarcastically "Because we have a lot of scared people who just want to go home."
"I don't like it either Naruto but at the moment his is the best place for you." added Tsunade "We have dozens of reports of people hurting and evening killing those who now have demons within them. This is a huge change give people some time to get used to it."
Tsunade watched as Naruto rubbed his temples as he thought about what she had told him.
"Alright but If you aren't going to let us out then why are you here?" asked Naruto
"To see what I can do to make your lives here a little better?" asked Tsunade
"Well we need some food and clean running water." explained Naruto as he looked at the ANBU commanders who where manning the wall, all of them had warm drinks or food in their hands.
"I ordered them to bring you breakfast using the same mobile food stations we used during the war." explained Lady Tsunade as she tried to find the giant tent which was used during the war to feed the armies in the field.
"Well they never showed up." explained Naruto
"I will get them here." reassured Tsunade
"Also we need that shower tent we used during the war." explained Naruto "The running water we have right now is all dirt brown."
"Agreed, I will also get you some building supplies so that you can try and to make some of these buildings safer." added Tsunade
"Thanks, but I will feel better when I am sleeping in my own home again." explained Naruto "Maybe we can start sending people home to get some of their things. Most of these people where ripped from their homes if they can go back and collect some things it will help them."
"I'll arrange it." added Tsunade as she pulled out the a large file "We have the counts from the other nations, now it isn't final count yet since there is still a lot of small rural villages which haven't checked in yet but I wouldn't expect the numbers to go up more then what they already are."
Slowly Naruto took the file which had a list of countries followed by the count, his eyes widened as he began to read the numbers
"Land of Fire 7,038?" asked Naruto as he looked at the numbers "Wind Country 2,026, Lightening Country 1,532, Land Earth 1,432, Water country 1,304 and the other smaller nations has 2,988. Are these numbers correct?"
"Yes, as of an hour ago there are 16,319 jinchuriki out there most of them in situations like you are." Explained Tsunade as Naruto simply blinked at the numbers "It's almost the same population as the Sand village and half of them are from fire country."
"16,319 people?" asked Naruto
"I am just as surprised as you." responded Kyuubi "Only that it was higher than I expected, I expected more loses"
"What does that mean?" asked Naruto
"Well 20,000 demons where sealed away in the ark and I would bet not all of them survived the extended storage. If over 16000 of my people made it I am happy." explained the Kyuubi as suddenly both of them felt a chakra spike which caused Naruto to turn away from the paper and looked toward the source. It was a person he had fought so many times maybe it explained how he was able to sense the chakra.
"Lady Tsunade, we have a bigger problem." stated Naruto as suddenly Tsunade felt the same chakra he felt.
"How can he be here so soon?" asked Tsunade
"You knew Sasuke was coming?" asked Naruto
"We got a report that Sasuke was at the border between Earth and Wind country there is no way he could have covered that distance that fast." stated Tsunade
"First this is Sasuke and second he has demon within him now." explained Naruto
"Even with a demon that shouldn't be possible." added Tsunade
"Lady Tsunade, he probably has the Kyuubi's twin brother sealed within him." snapped Naruto
"By twin you don't mean another nine tailed demon do you?" asked Tsunade
"Yes, I do." snapped Naruto before pushing past Tsunade "I need to get ready."
"Stop!" yelled an ANBU guard as Naruto moved closer until he was right in front of the ANBU.
"I need all your weapons." ordered Naruto as he held out his hand.
"Over my dead body Demon scum." snapped the ANBU
"Give him your weapons unless you want to take Sasuke on." explained Tsunade as slowly the ANBU handed over his sword and weapon pouch.
"If I don't get these back I will make you pay." stated the ANBU as Naruto glared at him for a moment.
"I am going to pretend I didn't hear that." said Naruto as he walked past the ANBU and head out of the prison camp by now even the none ninjas where able to sense the chakra in the air. It was thick with a malevolence which was coming closer that sense of dread sent people rushing back into their homes.
Minutes later outside the Leaf village Sasuke was running at full speed with Temari behind him, deep demon red chakra was flowing out of Sasuke as they ran.
"Do you have to release all that chakra?" asked Temari
"Yes, it is let dead last know I am coming." explained Sasuke
"Dead last, I like that nickname fits the my brother." laughed Katsu inside Sasuke's head "He was last in his class until our third year of combat school, then he meet Aella and became his tutor and they hit it off."
"I see." responded Sasuke as he reached for his sword pulling it just far enough out to block the kunai which had come flying out from in front of him. Sasuke skidded to a stop as he put his sword away before turning his gaze toward the figure which was now standing in the middle of the road. Behind him clearly visible were the stone faces of the Hokage Mountain and the Leaf village.
"So Sasuke what are you doing here?" asked Naruto as his eyes locked on Sasuke's now silted black eyes.
"And here I thought the Kyuubi would be happy to reunited with his brother." explained Sasuke
"Not even the Kyuubi is looking forward to a fight right now, too many other problems to deal with I really don't want to deal with you." explained Naruto
"Admit it you where barely able to beat me last time and that was before I had a demon." laughed Sasuke as a grin covered his face.
"And did you forget that fight which I won was right after I killed Madara or Obito whichever name you want to call him." growled Naruto as he got into a stance "I am not tired this time and I will beat you senseless."
"Well consider yourself luckily I am not here to fight." added Sasuke as Naruto blinked as Sasuke pulled out his sword removed his weapon pouch from his side. He threw the weapons at Naruto feet. "I am here to surrender."
Well I hope you liked this chapter and the number of new Jinchuriki now spread out around the world. I also want to surprise people with Sasuke's surrender without even a fight. Now until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75