A/N: I want to point out I started this, story earlier in the Fall than I did with my other crossover: Arashi Uzumaki of the Blue Plague, but still no where in the beginning, so if you want to know what happened in Blue Plague series before the point I used, you got to read the actual books. Just don't let kids read it.
I'm also censoring curse words as it's too many used in more than just saying usual ways that I can't ignore them all. At least with censoring I'm not going against my usual way of avoiding curse wordsof the Blue Plague series Tomas W. Watson, whose wife is Tina Watson. I should also tell you Watson always based a character after himself in his books, and in the Blue Plague series that's Bruce.
Finally, I don't own the Blue Plague series or the Naruto series or it's characters. But I do know the wife of the writer of the Blue Plague series Tomas W. Watson, whose wife is Tina Watson. I should also tell you Watson always based a character after himself in his books, and in the Blue Plague series that's Bruce.
if you see letters with '-' that's me sensoring curse words in case none of you realized that.
If you haven't read it yet, read this first:
Blue Plague's Nine-Tail Fox's Son: The Fall
Blue Plague's Nine-Tail Fox's Son: The Survival
Debbie Angela and Stephanie Helps Bruce
It was Friday morning at 0320 when Stephanie woke up sweating. Clearing her head Stephanie found herself lying next to Bruce with one arm across his chest and her legs wrapped around his leg. Smiling, Stephanie rubbed Bruce's chest, breathing deeply and taking in Bruce's smell. Stephanie could never remember being this happy.
Taking her arm off Bruce, Stephanie tried to roll over but felt someone under her back. Sitting up, Stephanie saw Buffy roll into the area she put left. Danny had moved to Matt's room after the wedding and gave Buffy her old room, but as Buffy isn't use to having a room to herself yet, she been staying in their room. Reaching up to Buffy's face, Stephanie removed the blond locks of hair covering her face. Looking beside Buffy, Stephanie saw little Angela buried under the twins andCade. Moving over, Stephanie moved the kids off Angela.
Looking at Angela, Stephanie smiled. After Debbie, she was her best friend. Angela never hesitated to tell people what she thought. Leaning down, Stephanie kissed Angela on the forehead. She accepted the idea of sharing Bruce with Angela; she just wished the reason for Angela turning to Bruce wasn't so devastating on Angela and Cade. Stephanie remembers when Alex died. Angela race to the master bedroom and tore the place apart looking for something. Stephanie never asked Angela why as she knew it would only bring up Alex. Maybe one day Stephanie will be able to ask Angela, but for now, she will wait.
Turning her head, Stephanie saw little PJ on Debbie's chest snoring softly.
Moving beside Debbie, Stephanie lay down beside her, putting her arm around Debbie and PJ, then throwing her leg across Debbie's. Squeezing Debbie tight, Stephanie kissed her on the cheek. Stephanie loved thai woman so much that only Bruce could compete with it. Debbie had made her dreams come true, and there was no repaying that, Stephanie thought as she drifted back to sleep.
Debbie smiled as she heard Stepanie's breathing becoming regular Debbie had watched Stephanie wit Angela, and when Stephanie hugged her, it took everything she ad not to hug her back. Debbie leaned over kissing Stephanie on the cheek, which made her smile in her sleep. Debbie drifted back to sleep, with this new family.
Bruce woke up at 0440 and looked around. For the first time in a long time, no one was lying on top of him or trying to crawl under him. Looking across the bed, Sherry was curled up to Buffy while Emily and Cade were lying beside Angela, Stephanie and Debbie were wrapped up together with PJ between them.
Feeling left out and abandoned, Bruce got out of bed, put on some workout clothes, grabbed his rifle and headed to the gym. Although Bruce never see any of the shinobies but he know Naruto does his training outside the gym and so must his friends. Nightly guards hear the sound of Naruto and his friends training every morning before anyone else. After his workout, Bruce came back to the bedroom to find Debbie, Angela, Stephanie and Buffy awake. The other kids were still in the bed asleep.
Debbie came over, putting her hair up in a ponytail to get ready for her workout. "Morning baby. Have a good workout?" she asked as he leaned down to kiss her.
"Yeah, it was a good one," Bruce replied.
Angela came over wearing tennis shoes, shorts and a t-shirt for her workout. Stopping in front of Bruce, she jumped up and wrapped her legs around his waist and arms around his neck. Looking Bruce in the eye, she said, grinning. "You're sexy standing here covered in sweat, big guy." Angel a kissed him and dropped down to the floor.
Bruce just stared at her, caught off guard, seeing the look of bewilderment on Bruce's face, Debbie laughed. Stephanie stepped out of the bathroom wearing a sports bra, shorts and sneakers. Stephanie walked over and kissed Bruce, then said, "Let's get this workout over with."
Bruce looked at Stephanie. "You better put a t-shirt on girl. I don't want people ogling one of my girls when I'm not there to get them straight." Stephanie just looked at Bruce then hugged him tight. Bruce returned the hug and kissed her head. Stephanie opened the drawer and put on one of his t-shirts, smiling in bliss.
Angela stomped her foot. "You didn't say anything about me getting scantily clad."
"You have a shirt and weren't going to work out showing off your package," Bruce replied.
"You mean I can't work out in my bra?" Angela asked with mocked shock.
Not without me there. I have to let everyone know they can look but can't touch," Bruce said. Angela smiled, walking over and hugging Bruce. Bruce looked up at Debbie. I thought one wife was hard. You know that I'm going to go insane with the three of you."
"That's okay, baby. Between the three of us, we can change your diaper and give you crayons to color pretty pictures," Debbie said, smiling at him.
Bruce looked at Buffy, who was standing at the door smiling. "Are you going to let her talk to me like that?" Bruce asked her.
Buffy put a hand on her hip. "She's Mama, and she can do whatever she wants." Angela, Stephanie, and Debbie laughed as they walked out the door carrying their rifles, heading to the gym.
Bruce headed into the bathroom and turned on the shower, steaming up the bathroom. Stripping down, he turned to get in the shower when he heard "Dada" behind him. Looking behind him, he saw PJ standing in the doorway clapping his hands.
"You couldn't sleep another ten minutes, could you?" Bruce asked PJ. PJ just laughed at Bruce, walking over to him and holding out his arms to be picked up. Bruce took PJ's diaper off and picked him up, Opening the shower, Bruce turned on some cold water on figuring all three of the women wouldn't like Bruce giving PJ second degree burns.
When the water cooled down, Bruce stepped in, put PJ down and washed off. When Bruce started washing PJ off, he heard a knock on the shower door. Looking at the shower door, Bruce saw a little silhouette standing on the other side. Bruce opened the door to find Cade looking up at him.
"Bath," Cade said, pointing at the shower.
"Come on in then," Bruce said smiling. Cade jumped in the shower laughing. Bruce pulled off the diaper and threw it over the door.
Like Mindy, Bruce saw Cade as one of his kids. Bruce hates to admit it, but even if Alex died, Cade would of become one of his kids the same way he did with Matt, David and Mary. It was the inevitable from the moment he decided to bring Angela Alex and Cade with them to the farm. But at least that was planned.
Bruce washed the boys and shaved his head. Turning off the shower, Bruce grabbed the boys and sat them on the floor. Drying off Cade, Bruce saw PJ take off into the bedroom. "PJ, come back here," Bruce called, but only heard the reply of laughter as he finished drying Cade. Bruce heard the twins start squealing. Bruce shook his head as he dried off fast and want to rescue the twins from the wet baby.
Walking into the bedroom, Bruce saw a wet naked PJ hitting two lumps under the covers and laughing. Bruce crossed his arms, looking at PJ. PJ saw Bruce and quit hitting the twins. "What are you doing on my bed, wet and beating your sisters?" Bruce asked PJ. Pj actually looked around then back at Bruce like "Are you talking to me?" Bruce walked over and picked up PJ, holding him at arms length. WIth uncertainty on his face. PJ looked at "Dada," wondering if he was in trouble.
"If you weren't so cute, I would have to flush ya down the toilet. So I guess i'll just have to keep you," Bruce said, hugging a wet PJ. PJ didn't understand the words, but he understood the love as he hugged Bruce and kissed him wtih open mouth. Bruce laughed at the kiss, wiping the slobber of his face.
"Flush him down the toilet, Daddy! He got us wet," Sherry said from under the blanket.
Then Emily added under the blanket, "Cade went the bed. Flush him too."
Bruce turned to look at Cade, who just looked at the floor. "It's okay son. Even your mama has wet this bed."
Turning to the bed, Bruce said, "Okay girls, get up and help me get the covers off so they can be washed."
The girls groaned but got up as Bruce pulled off the sheets. Bruce brought back a soapy rag from the bathroom, scrubbed the spot out, then dried it off the best he could. Debbie, Stephanie and Angela walked in to find Bruce scrubbing the bed and the kids jumping around him.
"What happened?" Debbie asked, looking at the mayhem.
"Cade had an accident," Bruce replied.
Angela walked to the end of the bed. "Cade, I took you to pee twice last night," she said in a harsher tone than she meant to. Cade just looked down at the mattress.
Bruce grabbed Cade in his arms, hugging him tight, "How dare you do that to him. You wet the bed just a few days ago if I remember correctly."
"Bruce, you tickled me until I peed myself," Angela said in defense.
"That is irrelevant to the case against you," Bruce replied.
"OKay Cade, tonight you and I will wet Bruce's side of the bed, Angela stated.
Bruce looked at Cade in his arms and asked, "Cade, you want to see Mama get a spanking?" Cade clapped his hands laughing.
"Cade!" Angela gasped. Bruce lunged toward her and pulled her in the bed. He popped Angela on the butt lightly two times, then let her go. Angela rolled off the bed and looked at Bruce.
You turned my son against me," Angela said, rubbing her butt.
"No, just letting him know he has backup now," Bruce said. "Angela laughed and held out her arms and Cade ran to her.
"Hey Debbie, watch this," Bruce said. "PJ, give Daddy a kiss." Bruce picked PJ up, and PJ leaned toward him with his mouth open. Spinning around. Debbie started opening drawers in the dresser looking for a camera throwing clothes up in the air and letting them rain down on the floor.
Finding one, she turned around to see Bruce and PJ watching the crazy, woman. "Do it again, Bruce," Debbie instructed.
Bruce made PJ kiss him again as Debbie snapped pictures. Bruce handed PJ to Debbie and took pictures of him kissing Mama. Then Bruce took pictures of PJ kissing the twins followed by Stephanie and Angela. After PJ's kisser was worn out and he didn't want to kiss anymore, the women showered. Bruce got dressed and dressed the kids while the women got ready.
When everyone was ready, they headed downstairs to the den. Everyone was eating while waiting on Bruce and his group. Susan gathered the kids, taknig them to the hall for breakfast. After kissing all of the kids Bruce grabbed a plate of food and sat down in his recliner to eat.
"What the heck took you so long? Shikamaru was here before you. You're normally the first here," Mike asked sitting in his chair.
"PJ learned how to give kisses and it was picture time," Bruce answered. Everyone went "Aww" at the same time, and Debbie whipped the camera out and started sowing everyone the pictures on the display screen.
After everyone had seen the pictures and sat down, Bruce looked around the den and game room. "Where are the newlyweds and Steve?"
""They're in the hall eating," Millie answered. Bruce called them over the radio telling them to get their a- to the house, including Mindy. In less than a minute they all came running through the door, breathless. After they sat down. Bruce stood up checking off names. Conner, Bill, Willie, Paul, Millie Cheryl, Temari, Shikamaru, Yamato, Naruto, Sakura, and the family were all present.
Bruce started the meeting. "OKay, first, if the temperature is over forty-five degrees, no scavenging inside any big city. We learned a hard lesson yesterday we will not repeat it. I want to have a memorial service for those that we lost." Conner held up his hand and Bruce nodded at him.
"I want to head up to patrol to recover the bodies." Conner said.
Before Bruce could say anything, Mindy said, "There are none."
Everyone except for Naruto looked at her.
Bruce asked, "Are you sure, Mindy?"
"Yes. I watched the blues tear them apart and eat them. I couldn't even shoot any of them as they did it. All I could do was shoot the ones trying to get up the ladder to me." MIndy had tears on her cheeks. David put his arm around her, pulling her close.
"I can believe it," Naruto said. "That horde was huge, Bruce. Bigger than the one we fought in the woods coming here."
"You both did good, Naruto and Mindy. Don't ever forget that?" Bruce said wanting to take the guilt away.
"My team got wiped out. Did I do good?"
"You survived Mindy, and as long as you live, your team lives with you. Your team now this family."
Mindy nodded. Bruce looked at Jake. "Well, since this was started, Jake, I know you have looked at the UAV footage. How many were there yesterday?"
"Almost forty thousand, Dad, give or take five thousand. There was just as much heading to the blast site after Naruto and Mindy left."
"How many tails were you using, Naruto?" Yamato asked.
"Five," Naruto said. :"I couldn't see the end of the horde, so I hoping that was enough. Although now thinking back, that might have been too much. Especially with shadow clones to cover all around us."
"Why didn't you use that Rasen-Shuriken?" Conner asked.
"I didn't think I have enough time to enter sage mode," Naruto admitted. "Rasen-Shuriken is difficult to form completely for ranges without sage mode, and it takes time to gather nature chakra and mix it with normal chakra to enter sage mode==especially for me. And since I would have to sit absolutely still in order to gather nature chakra, being surrounded by that horde leaving Mindy to have to defend me be a bad idea."
"That's fine Naruto," Bruce said. "Mindy, from the time of the start of the attack 'til you had to climb up the tank, how long do you think it was?"
Mindy thought for a minute, then answered, "Five, maybe as long as seven minutes."
"How'd the blues get the gunners inside the strykers?" Bruce inquired, not liking that timeline.
"The ramps were down so we could leave fast if we had to," Mindy answered.
"Okay, from now on, the Strykers are to stay button up once te fire teams are out," Bruce said. "The gunners might have been able to stem the tide, but I doubt it."
After letting everyone have a minute to think, Bruce started again. "Remember people, this is a war. We are going to lose people. Let's just keep the losses to a minimum. Next, Willie have you set up a training program?"
"Yep, I'm ready," Willie said.
"Get your thirty and start monday morning. You have one month, and remember, unless they are completely worthless, all have to make it," Bruce said, and Willie nodded in agreement.
"Mike, home defense. Tell me about it."
Mike looked at his notebook, then back at Bruce. "Shikamaru, Willie and I walked the fence and want a fighting position every fifty yards. The fence line around the property is little under two miles. That's almost eighty positions."
"You got Shikamaru to walk the property line?" Naruto mocked a surprise look.
"Ha ha ha, very funny," Shikamaru responded. "It was troublesome but Mike wanted to test me by seeing what I think of the defenses."
"He actually made some good suggestions to go with mine," Mike added. "Along with assigning people to each position, but Shikamaru recommended holding some back in case a gang attack us from a certain area."
"Dang, that's a good idea," Bruce said.
"Now you see why I answered Shikamaru when you asked who among my friends is the best strategist," Naruto explained.
"Right, so with adjustments for Shikamaru's plan to my own, I think we can have two people at each position, making up one hundred and sixty people with an additional eighty on standby incase of an attack," Mike said. "We can adjust the number for standby whenever we add more people and if we get eighty more people then we can make it three people at each position. Then we need to build some ramps so we can have the Strykers and Bradleys fire over the fence in support of an attack. This will leave us with an additional hundred in reserves==seventy-five to resupply the line, twenty-five on standby in case of gang attack. Next we need to cut back the trees to open up a three hundred yard field of fire around the entire property. This would help with attacks from gangs and blues."
"Seventy-five/twenty-five is so we can make up for having to cut down the guards protecting from blues," Shikamaru said.
Bruce nodded his approval and made some notes.
"I want to make request we use the wood we clear around the fence for Mike's and Shikamaru's use for lumber," Yamato added. "We can save up on trips for lumber."
"We'll need to treat it," Paul said, "But it would be helpful."
"Do it," Bruce said. "Jake, what do you need to get those big UAVs we picked up in the air?"
"A paved runway, three quarters of a mile long," Jake answered immediately.
Bruce gave Jake a startled look. "They aren't that big of a plane, son," he pointed out.
"In the manuals, it says one and a quarter-mile runway," Jake replied.
Bruce sighed. "Okay, we will pave the road in front of the house-"
"It won't work, Dad, unless you're going to use thick concrete," Jake interrupted. We have too much traffic on the road with heavy vehicles and they will rut the surface. The Grey Eagle adn Reaper UAVs can carry Hellfire missiles and I really don't want 'em crashing that close to the house," Jake said.
Bruce turned to Paul. "How long would it take to put a paved road through the east field?"
Paul thought for a minute. "Three days after we gathered all the suppiies."
"Do we have to get them from Shreveport?" Bruce asked, closing his eyes and praying.
"No, the parish road repair area would have what we need, and it's only ten miles from here," Paul said
"Jake, I want you to put together a security crew and scavenging crew to go get what we need Monday. Those UAVs are priority number one. Just one question first, son. Don't we need a satellite for over the horizon function?" Bruce said.
"Dad, Matt and I captured several communication and military satellites in August and September. We're still trying to hack the NOAA weather satellites and more military satellites," Jake replied. Bruce gawked at Jake in disbelief. "Well, no one was using them. If we wouldn't have taken them over, their orbit would have deteriorated. Not being a sissy, but I would really like to know what the weather is going to be like."
"It's okay, son, but keep us informed of the spook department escapades in the future," Bruce said. "Sakura, how is everything with medical treatment since the cold hit?"
"Good actually. I talked to Paul to include a small separate greenhouse just for medical herbs and he can use the portion we're using to increase food production. Since Ino and Hinata joined us, we been treating patients three times as fast and with Hinata's Byakugan and her medical ninja training we have the closest thing to x-ray cat scan and MRI machines, and ultra sound of this world." Sakura said.
"Can Byakugan really do that much?" Nancy asked.
"You would be surprise what someone can do with the Byakugan," Naruto said. "I wish you could meet Hinata's cousin Neji. He's not a medical ninja like Hinata, but he's a prodigy when it comes to using the Byakugan and their clan's jutsus."
"Ino been wanting to start a therapy session for those still suffering from the loss they experience since this infection hit, and especially for anyone you freed from Gang," Sakura continued. "She heard of how rough many had when they came to the farm and she thinks it can help. Father Thomas can even help since we notice many go to him at times."
"That would be a good idea," Naruto agreed. "I can help too."
"I'll take your word for it. If I didn't think you could handle the job Sakura, I wouldn't put you over it." Bruce agreed. "Okay, what's next?"
Paul cleared his throat. "We need another water tower with the extra people here. The eight-hundred gallon one you built is being pushed to the limit. It is emptied every morning and night. We got a lot of quarter-inch sheet steel. I want to build a fifty thousand gallon tank and use the little one as back up. Next, when it gets cold again, the place in Shreveport that makes the fuel storage tanks needs to be paid a visit. I want to put four more here and four at Marcus."
"Don't we have enough fuel here now? Like, what, almost thirty five gallons underground?" Bruce asked.
"Bruce, we are using a lot just to gather supplies," Paul said. "Granted when we stop that our consumption will go down a lot, but we're still building and using heave equipment, not counting the military vehicles. I didn't want to say this, but at the refinery those tanks hold over a million gallons of fuel and we need to finish treating it before it goes 's another refinery south of here that holds about the same, and we need to treat it as well. Plus, the new battery house is ready. I need to use the generators to charge all the batteries full. That alone is going to take two full days."
"How many batteries did you use?" Bruce asked.
"Fifteen hundred."
Bruce nodded with a startled, "Okay, I will drew up that plan with teams to secure the fuel. Now how many people can we feed off the growing area we have now?"
Paul replied without hesitation, "If we use the area we have now-if we add the acres we been using for medical herbs after adding a smaller greenhouse-and put in another forty-acre growing area, pretty close to a thousand."
"We can feed a thousand people off sixty acres?"
"Yeah, with all the new greenhouses and harvesting the fields three times, we will get close to nine hundred tons per year. Growing is it not the problem, Bruce. Storing what we grow is the problem. We don't have enough jars and canning supplies."
"There is a company in east Texas that makes jars. We can get some from there and the glass factory in Shreveport," Bruce said.
"How the heck does this family know where so much stuff is located," Bill asked in disbelief.
"Once a month we would sit and search for places around us to find supplies. Everyone in this family knows the layout of the refineries around here because we knew fuel would be important. If we didn't know where to get it, we made a detailed list of where to find it. It's called "knowing your surroundings," Bruce answered.
"This family is owed so much by everyone you have brought here, it's unbelievable. Most people that prep for disasters close off from the world. But this family tries to save it," Bill said with gratitude.
"Yeah and those that close out the world world will die off. It takes a lot of people to survive an event like this, not to mention the next generation," Bruce told Bill. Bruce looked at Stephanie "When will the inventory be done?"
Stepahnie thought for a minute then said, "Thursday."
"Mindy, you will help them with inventory," Bruce said, then looked at Debbie and Nancy. "What are your plans to schedule people for training and work?"
Debbie looked at her notes. "We are arranging for everyone to have a six-hour workday with four hours of class time. We have worked out shooting, of course, then preparing games, sewing, computers, and basic engines and basic medical care such as first aid and herbal gardening. In the future, we are adding chemistry, machine shop, gardening that doesn't involve medical herbs, livestock, and engineering. Those are what we set up for now. We will, of course, add more later."
"Be sure to include Ino in the teaching roster part time when you include gardening lessons," Shikamaru added. "Her parent's own a flower shop back in the Leaf Village, so she knows a lot about gardening."
"That's true, even now I have her over the herbal garden while I'm at this meeting," Sakura said.
"We have twenty people at any time that can be diverted to a new task on short notice," Nancy added. "We post the work schedule on Sunday morning, and when it is changed, it really screws up the itinerary. Please think about your request before asking for people. I have made notes so far and can cover what has been discussed."
""Okay, when you have a project, make sure you tell them when it needs to be done. From now on, we will meet on Friday morning or evenings to give them a chance to change the schedule for the next week."
Nancy spoke up. "Bruce. We have another problem. We have a lot of people who aren't working out and are shopping up late for work duty."
"Troublesome. Especially since I been showing up for work and training on time," Shikamaru sighed.
"It's true." Mike said.
"Although he's among the last to show up, he's still on time." Naruto agreed.
Bruce shook his head, feeling like a school principal, "Jake, rig up something so people are scanned in the gym."
"Make sure to include something for those of us that train outside," Naruto added.
Bruce nodded. "Food hours are 0600, 1200, and 0000. Those who have not worked out their minimum four times per week have to wait one hour after the food line opens the next week. Only someone from the command group can override that. Those that are late for work will owe pushups to me every evening before supper. One for every minute they are late. Anyone not compliant will be put on s- detail. Anyone refusing s- detail will be thrown off the farm."
"People are getting tired, baby," Debbie said.
"J know they are, but is anyone here being a pussy and wimping out? No, because they know what's at stake. Debbie, I know you know this, so don't give me that look." Bruce saw fire come into Debbie's eyes. "We will not carry anyone here. If they don't perform, they leave. Now that being said, I want all wokr not absolutely necessary to stop on Sunday. Of course guard duty doesn't fall in this category."
When Debbie calmed down Temari cleared her throat.
"If we are considering adding more people to s- detail I think we should consider putting someone incharge of it," Temari said. "I'm not suggesting adding him to the command group, but maybe we should consider putting G- over it and having him only respond to Bill and myself since we're over policing. Anything else that doesn't fall under our job description he can take to someone it is."
Bruce thought of it for a minute and agreed Temari had a good point. They would need someone with authority over those on s- detail and Jim already knows what is expected to be done and have been regaining his place in humanity. Maybe it was time to give Jim a promotion. "That's fine under one condition. If he needs something that falls under Susan's jurisdiction he takes up to Mike or myself. I doubt it would come to that unless one of the kids she is incharge of is put on s- detail, but I want to keep the no contact of Susan or the kids as a reminder where his old self got him."
Mike, Nancy, and Debbie nodded in agreement and Temari made note of it.
"Now, on Sunday I'm telling the clan we are having a dance next Saturday, no work. They will have a whole weekend off. All Christian holidays from now on, no work unless necessary." Bruce stopped, seeing everyone smile, thankful for a reprieve.
"Some are going to want to drink," Bill said.
"Oh, here we go," Temari sighed as though she heard this from Bill hearse;f.
"Those on duty can't drink. If someone shows up for duty impaired, punishment will be swift and severe. I will not tell people what they can and can't do unless it endangers the clan. If they lick a toad'sa- to get high, I don't care, until it compromises the safety of the clan. That being said, the alcohol and medicine we have here is for the clan, and that is how it will be used. After their work is done and they want to go off to get some liquor, they take the responsibility for their actions," Bruce said.
"What if they want to smoke dope?" Bill asked.
"Don't care, as long as they're not doing it on clan time or are impaired on clan time," Bruce answered. Seeing Bill shake his head, Bruce was about to speak up when Temari interrupted.
"He's just being concern of Frank's safety as a new dad," Temari said.
Bruce nodded. "That's fine. I just rather someone get messed up, find out they are worthless and throw them out and be rid of their DNA. People can do alcohol and drugs in moderation."
"Maybe so Bruce, but one of the three sins a shinobi has to watch out for is alcohol for a reason. And from what Bill told me, drugs are the same," Temari said.
"I get where you're coming from, Temari. We're not here to babysit everyone like the government did to this country," Bruce said.
"What about the kids?" Bill asked.
"That is up to the guardian, not us, until it endangers the child. I let seventeen-year-olds get drunk just days ago. If Buffy would've asked for one, I would have given her one," Bruce said. Buffy sat up, hearing that she could have asked for a drink.
"But what happens when we throw them out and they come back or attack us in the field?" Bill asked.
"We kill them," Bruce said.
"I figured you would answer that," Temari said.
"LIsten. Bill, this is why I assigned Temari with you. I put responsibility on you by asking you to adopt Frank. She doesn't have the concerns of a new parent. Yeah Temari has her younger brother, but from what I can tell Kankaro can take care of himself," Bruce explained.
"Tell me about it. He's trying to figure out how to get his puppets to fire bullets instead of throwing needles," Temari said.
"Really how is it going along?" Bruce asked.
"Well, he figured out how to get the firing mechanism to fire one at a time," Temari said. "He's working it on his three main puppets before working it into the Sasori Puppet."
"Wait he turned Sasori's body into his own puppet?" Sakura asked.
"Sort of. Sasori's body technically was already a puppet due to Sasori's own modifications. Kankaro just modified it so he can use it," Temari said.
"Do I want to know what those two are talking about?" Bruce asked.
"Sasori was one of the Akatsuki members after the tailed beast from originally from the Sand Village before going rogue," Naruto said, "Apparently he was known for turning the corpses of his enemy into puppets, and even managed to do so to his own body."
"That's terrible!" Stephanie said.
"That's the Akatsuki for you," Naruto said. "Believe it, Sasori wasn't the only one to do something like that to his enemy."
"As much as I would love to learn more about the Akatsuki, unless they somehow got to our world, let's focus on the enemies in this world," Bruce said. "As for the Sasori puppet, if Sasori did it to himself, there's nothing we can do. Kankaro was just taking an enemy's best weapon and turning it into his own."
"Well, let's hope Kankaro still has some of Sasori's poison," Sakura said. "I could analyze it and make more for him while at the same time make antidotes for the rest of us. It would be interesting to see how Sasori's poison would act against the infected."
"Is it that deadly?" Angela asked.
Sakura nodded. "It was his own concoction he created. It's refined in heavy metal which can get in the muscles and kill the cells. Even just a small dosage can kill someone in two to three days." Sakura said, "There's only one known antidote and I'm the one that discovered it, and that's only because of the training I had from Lady Tsunade."
"Dang." Bruce said. "Even if it doesn't kill Blues, it could come in handy against gangs."
"I think Kankaro has managed to get some samples off the Sasori Puppet incase he can replicate it to help defend the Sand Village, but you'll have to ask him if he still has it on him," Temari said.
Bruce continued the meeting, moving from person to person, asking what they thought needed to be done first. Everyone agreed on weapons first. After that, agreements stopped. They made the list of who could now carry weapons and those that could go on patrol so they could hand out the bandanas and pins to identify. Naruto brought up how his friends should still earn their pins by at least learning how to use a hand gun since their jutsus can work with it, and that the bandanas would just be part of their ACU even though they have their headbands to identify themselves with. Headbands were optional but Naruto argued none of his friends would be asked to remove it since each one of his friends had earned their headbands when they became ninjas. No one argued as it did help settle things out. Discussion continued for another two hours, and then Bruce held up his hand for quiet.
"Jake, I want everyone who goes out on patrol to have a micro recorder on at all times." Jake nodded. "Two more things, first, does everyone here know everyone on the farm by sight? Because I sure don't."
Nobody said they knew everyone by sight. Next, Bruce asked, "Do we have pilots here now?"
"Three," Stephanie answered. "One is an airplane multi-engine and two are helicopter pilots."
"I want to talk to them Saturday night. I want some helicopters here and I want them to train several others to fly."
"Bruce, you have a tank. Do you really need some more toys?"Debbie asked, already knowing the answer.
"Debbie, if we have a helicopter, we can help mow down the horde using air support instead of having Naruto having to use his best jutsus."
"I get it, and if you can fly me into battle, I can gather nature chakra and enter sage mode if needed," Naruto said.
"Well I don't know if that will be possible if we face air turbulence, but we won't know unless we try," Bruce said. "Now, any questions?"
Not receiving any, he finished the meeting.
"I'm inventorying weapons today. Buffy, you'll be with Daddy. We'll meet again Saturday night to go over the meeting Sunday. Now, it's time for lunch. Let's eat."
...
Stepping out on the patio into the sunshine, Bruce put on his sunglasses and saw that the thermometer read fifty-nine degrees. Several people stopped talking as the command group entered the hall and headed to their table. Bruce didn't pay them any attention as he sat down. After shoveling his food down, he left with Buffy in tow to go to the four storage containers beside the shop to begin his count.
Opening the door to the first container, Bruce almost felt giddy as he counted, and Buffy counted behind him. When they finished, Bruce would compare the numbers. If they didn't match, they redid the count. In between counts, Buffy would ask about a weapon and Bruce would show her how it worked. By 1800, they had done only three containers. Bruce locked the doors and headed back to the hall.
"Hey Bruce, I thought I let you know I gave G- the news of his promotion," Temari said. "He wanted me to let you know he won't let us down."
"That's good, and Temari, you can call him Jim if you two are around those on s- detail," Bruce said. "Otherwise I don't think the others will take him seriously if he is called G- in front of them."
"That's good to know because I didn't call him G- in front of the other three," Temari said. "I wanted the others to know Jim is officially in charge of them and I didn't think calling him G- would do any favors with the congressman and the trooper."
"Good idea," Bruce said. "What about the Judge?"
"She's not so much a problem anymore." Temari admitted
"Good." Bruce responded.
They went into the hall and sat down in their chairs, Bruce looked up as Millie sat down his plate and said, "That Jenny woman and her freidns be tryin' to make troubles."
Bruce pushed his plate away from him, folded his arms on the table, and laid his head down. "That's why people try to survive in small groups. They get tired of a-."
Millie patted his back. "I knows, Bruce. If you wants, I'll go over there an' kick her a-."
"No, Millie, I'll take care of it," Bruce said with his head on the table. Millie shrugged her shoulders and walked away. She did not head toward the kitchen but to the table where Jenny Green was sitting with her small group. Debbie, seeing where Millies was heading, tapped Bruce on the arm.
"What?" Bruce said with his head on the table.
"Millie is going over to that b- table," Debbie said.
Bruce lifted his head up. "IF she hurts Millie, I'll kill her."
"Hurt Millie? Yeah right," Debbie said, chuckling at the thought.
"Millie probably decided to go ahead and make Bruce's job easier," Naruto said. "I wouldn't be surprise she takes out the spoon."
A shiver went down Bruce's back. Although he and Mike had countlessly stolen Millie's wooden spoons, Millie somehow got more. But Bruce had to admit, he would be happy if Millie take the spoon out on Jenny just because he wasn't its target for once.
Millie stopped in front of te table and pointed her finger at Jenny. "Listen woman, you best bet is to shut yo mouth and be thankful to be alive. If you don't like it here, leave. Nothin' be stoppin' ya. If you cause any more grief here, I'll be draggin' your a- outside an beatin' the ever living h- out of ya. Don't think I can'ts because I'm almost twice your age."
"YOu have no right to talk to me that way. I'm only trying to make life better for everyone here," Jenny snapped.
"No you not. You only wants to feel important buts you're only a wart on a hog's a-, an irritation to the hog and eye sore to everyone else. Now don't say another word or I'll come over that table and snatch all the hair off your head," Millie warned. Jenny reached up with her hands, cover up her hair.
Millie turned around and headed back to the kitchen.
Bruce smiled, hoping that would be the end of it, but he knew better. He was still happy someone had tried. With his appetite gone, he only picked at his food when he heard a whimper and turn to see Akamaru at the table eying the food.
"He's asking if he can have your food if you're not going to eat it," Naruto told Bruce. "Akamaru, shouldn't you be begging Kiba for food?"
Akamaru woofed which Bruce took it as Kiba let him come here to beg.
"He can have it," Bruce gave his plate to Akamaru. Bruce told everyone he was going to walk around. He stepped outside, breathed in some fresh air, and headed toward the barn. Halfway there, a wave of nausea hit him, making him stagger. Again without warning, the images of torture session flooded his mind. Bruce leaned over, butting his hands on his knees. He tried to control his breathing as the screams filled his head. Unable to hold it any longer, Bruce fell to his knees and threw up. Trying to block the images and sounds, he didn't hear the running footsteps coming up behind him.
When Angela and Stephanie kneeled beside him, they almost gave him a heart attack. Stephanie put her hand on his back. "Bruce, what's wrong?" she asked.
"Nothing," Bruce lied.
"Bruce you just threw up a gallon and you didn't eat anywhere near that much," Angela informed him, like he didn't know.
"I'm just sick and tired of dealing with a- who want to tell others how to live," Bruce said as the images and sound left his mind's eye.
"Bruce, don't let that woman upset you," Angela said. Stephanie watched Bruce's face.
"I just need to be alone for a little while and I'll be fine," Bruce assured her as he stood up. They both hugged him as he headed for the barn, stopping to hold his head under a water faucet. Then he walked into the barn.
"Something is wrong," Stephanie said, staring at the barn.
"No s-, let's go kill the b-."
"He was lying," Stephanie said, still looking at the barn. "It has nothing to do with that."
"How the heck do you know he's lying?" Angela asked.
"Page 202==" Stephanie started to say. "Never mind. I just know he was lying. Let's get Debbie."
Angela and Stephanie went back to the hall. They leaned toward Debbie and whispered in her ears one at a time. Debbie stood up, telling Danny and Buffy to watch the kids and asked Naruto to watch over the kids for the rest of the night as he was still at the table talking to Yamato about the training regime for the ninjas.
Seeing Debbie with a worried look on her face all three nodded, and Debbie turned to leave. Mike grabbed her wrist. "What's wrong?" Mike asked.
"I don't know, but something's wrong with Bruce and he's hiding it. Mike don't let anyone disturb us, okay? And don't try to find out yourself. I'll tell you tomorrow."
Mike nodded his head. "All right Debbie. If you need us, we'll be here."
Debbie thanked him and left the hall, heading toward the house with Angela and Stephanie in tow. Walking in the back door, she headed to mission control, too Debbie's surprise, Sai was there.
"Sai, you're on monitor watch?" Debbie asked.
"Yes ma'am," Sai said. "I was about to call you, anyways. He had thrown up twice since he left the hall. I don't need to read books on it to know that's never good."
Debbie looked at the monitors, she saw Bruce by the catfish pond on his hands and knees, slowly getting up. Bruce walked over to the pier and sat down on his knees, folding his hands in his lap.
Debbie knew Bruce was meditating now. Debbie looked at Sai, "Well Sai, you will not tell anyone about this. Bruce ate way too fast and got sick. He didn't want to throw up in front of me because I knew he ate too fast. Add this to your notes, boys always have to be right and don't want to show weakness in front of others."
"Interesting," Sai said jotting it down.
"Remember Sai, don't tell anyone this," Debbie said.
"No problem," Sai said.
Debbie smirked. Sai's lack of emotions made him curious about the emotions of others, so she knew that would work on Sai.
Debbie left and headed upstairs to the bedroom, followed by Angela and Stephanie. When Angela closed hte door, Debbie turned around. "I think I know what's wrong with Bruce."
Stephanie looked at Debbie, waiting on her to continue. When she didn't, Stephanie said, "Well, tell us."
"I think he is reliving the day he tortured those gang members in the shop. He told Mike when he came in it was worse than he remembered. Bruce also told me if you do something with hate only for pleasure, it will eat at your soul unless you let the hate flow all the time. You have to live in hate so you don't have a conscious. Those bikers killed Alex and the others. I think he went in there to just go get information, but in the end, he wanted to deal retribution and started enjoying it, seeing them as people and not targets."
"How do we help him?" Angela asked, grabbing Debbie's arm.
"I don't know, but I want you two to follow my lead after I get him talking, okay?" Debbie told them, and they both nodded their heads in agreement. "I told you two I needed you," Debbie added. "It could've been months before I knew he was hiding something."
"Thank Stephanie and tat d- book she wrote," Angela said, looking at Stephanie.
"Stephanie, in the hall you whispered that you thought Bruce was trying to forget something. Why did you say that?"
"He just kept blinking his eyes and shaking his head while he spoke very first," Stephanie said.
"Good," Debbie said. "Girls, let's get ready for bed and wait on Bruce."
They got ready for bed and waited on Bruce for over an hour, discussing how they could help him. Debbie was fixing to go to mission control to check on him when Bruce opened the door. Debbie could see he didn't feel good. He was covered in sweat, and he looked pale.. She wanted to kick herself for missing it, but she had backup now.
Debbie got out of bed, cutting Bruce off as he headed to the bathroom. "What's wrong, baby, and don't try the crazy b- in the hall routine with me, okay?" Debbie said, reaching her hand up and rubbing his face.
"Nothing, Baby. I'm fine," Bruce replied, but he wouldn't look her in the eyes.
"Baby, please tell us. What's wrong? I know something is wrong and no do they. We love you, so please?" Debbie pleaded as Angela and Stephanie got out of the bed to stand beside her.
Bruce looked at the three of them and just dropped down on the floor on his butt. "Debbie, I broke the rules when I took those en inside the shop. I was only going to get what I needed out of them, but they killed Alex. They attacked us when we just wanted to survive this s-. I knew I was going too far but I didn't care. I had everything I needed from them in the first few hours, but I wanted them to feel pain. When I had the info, they weren't targets anymore, and I didn't care, I wanted them in misery." Bruce stopped and Debbie could see in his face that he was reliving the event as he started again. "I've done it one other time, in Africa when we were ambushed. I caught one and made him tell me what I wanted to know. Then I gutted him alive and left him so others could see he had p- me off. In the shop, the hate filled me as I made them scream for mercy. Now when the memory htis me, I can actually smell the blood."
"Debbie knelt down beside him. "How many time has it hit you?"
"I don't know, several dozen," Bruce replied, not really wanting to count.
"Tell me when some of them were," Debbie said. Bruce closed his eyes and told her the times he could remember. Debbie smiled as Bruce told her, realizing it only hit when he was exhausted, feeling down, or overwhelmed. That was easy enough to fix, Debbie thought. Now to see if what she thought about the guilt was right. She stood up, looking down at Bruce. "This is my fault, Bruce and I'm sorry," she said.
Bruce looked up at Debbie with a startled look. "How is it your fault? You didn't do anything?"
"Exactly. I haven't given you enough sex, stud muffin," Debbie said as she stripped but naked in front of Bruce. Bruce just gaped at Debbie as if she had lost her mind. He was dealing with his inner demons and she was stripping down, demanding sex. Debbie looked into Bruce's eyes and the haunted look was gone. In that instant, she knew she was right. "I'll tell you what. Since I haven't jumped your bones in several days, Angela and Stephanie are going to help me get those evil spirits out." She pointed behind her as Angela and Stephanie stripped down.
Bruce, who was still sitting on the floor,started backpedaling away from three naked women as they closed in on him. "Have you lost your ever living mind?" Bruce howled as he backed into the door and stood up. The three walked over to him as Bruce tried to climb the door with his butt cheeks
Debbie smiled at him as she continued. "It's a great idea, Bruce. We will work you over together tonight. Then we will take turns tradding off every day. Let's face it, baby, you like to bring a lunch and make a day out of fun time. Now, I have help, so you can take as long as you want."
"It's the end of civilization and you want to started sexual experimentation now?" Bruce cried out, still trying to climb the door with his butt.
"This isn't experimentation. It's game time. Now, get naked baby!" Debbie demanded.
"Wh-no-ah-he-" Bruce stuttered and started to blush, wondering why he couldn't climb the door with his a- cheeks.
Stephanie moved beside Debbie and put her finger on Bruce's lips to make him quit stuttering. "Don't worry Bruce. It'll be fun. In the dirty movie I saw, they used handcuffs. Let's try that," Stephanie said with a gleam in her eyes. Panic flooded Bruce's face as he wondered what the h-he had gotten himself into now.
Angela moved closer to Bruce. I want to watch you play with Debbie's feet." Bruce gave up trying to climb the wall with his butt and slid past Stephanie toward his side of the bed.
"Have you three been taking drugs?" Bruce accused, turning to find the three following him like a pack of wolves. Bruce backed into his nightstand, knocking off the lamp, sending it crashing to the floor.
Debbie stopped a few feet in front of Bruce with Angela and Stephanie on either side of her. Bruce started thinking about jumping out the window when Debbie spoke. "Feeling better, baby?"
Bruce just collapsed to the floor with a thud, sitting up when he noticed Debbie was smiling. His heart was beating out of his chest, and his breathing was labored as he looked up at the three. "I ought to spank each of you until I have hand prints on your a-!" Bruce threatened.
Angela spun around putting her butt in his face, "Me first," she said.
"I'll get the handcuffs," Stephanie volunteered. Bruce fell over on his side, breathing harder, making them laugh at him.
Debbie kneeled beside him. When those thoughts start coming, you remember now know what to look for. I don't care if it's during the middle of lunch in the center. We will strip down and do this again in front of everyone," he promised with a mischievous grin.
Bruce looked at Debbie, calling her bluff. "You wouldn't dare."
Stephanie rolled Bruce on his back with her foot and sat down on his abdomen. "Wanna bet on that."
Bruce smiled at Stephanie. "You know what that would do to my reputation? Everyone here thinks I'm a super stud. What would they think seeing me run from three naked women."
"Not our problem," Angela said, sitting on her knees beside Bruce's head.
Debbie leaned over his face. "Your well being is our concern."
Okay, point taken. Can I get up now?" Bruce asked, feeling uncomfortable as he looked at Stephanie.
Stephanie looked down at Bruce. "Bruce, is that a gun on your hip, or are you just glad to see me?" she asked.
The three fell over laughing as Bruce stood up and began stripping off his clothes as he headed to the bathroom. Throwing his clothes in the corner. Bruce turned around and looked at Debbie. "You play a dangerous game, Sugar Mama. What would you have done if I'd have said yes?"
Debbie grinned. "Well, get your a- in here and find out."
Bruce ran into the bathroom, closing the door, which made them laugh harder.
Stephanie looked at Debbie. "What would we have done?" she asked.
"Put up or shut up," Debbie replied with a wicked grin.
Stephanie shrugged her shoulders. "Okay,"she said as the three climbed into bed.
Angela rolled over to look at Debbie. "I want to watch you and Bruce," she said. Debbie just looked at her with a blank expression.
"Are you serious?" Debbie asked.
"I've never seen a fetish before," Angela said, with excitement on her face.
"That would be cool to watch," Stephanie admitted.
Debbie put her hands over her face. "What have I created?" she said.
"Come on. Where do you two meet up? We can hide and watch," Angela said, making Debbie laugh.
Stephanie bounced over and sat on top of Debbie's thighs. "Now that would be cool."
Bruce opened the door to find the three still naked and Stephanie sitting on top of Debbie. "Now I can watch this." Bruce said trying to get the upper hand back so he could at least still feel cool.
Angela sat up;. "Funny you should mention 'watch.' Stephanie and I want to watch you and Debbie," she told Bruce.
"I'm going to act like I didn't hear that," Bruce replied, losing all sense of being cool.
"Come on, Bruce. I've never seen a fetish before," Angela begged.
"I'm not listening to you," Bruce said, stepping into his closet.
"Well, you can't watch us then," Stephanie yelled out.
"Fine,"Bruce replied flatly.
Angela crawled down to Debbie's feet and put her face beside them. "Look Bruce. I'm rubbing Debbie's feet and breathing on them real hard," Angela called out.
Bruce stuck his head out of the closet. "You had to tell them about me and your feet, didn't you, Debbie?" Bruce asked. Debbie could only nod her head because she was laughing too hard to speak.
Bruce ducked back in the closet. They could hear him moving clothes hanger around in the closet. Debbie stopped laughing and sat up, almost knocking Stephanie off of her. Stephanie wrapped her arms around Debbie to keep from falling back as Debbie yelled, "Bruce, if you come out in those flannel pajamas, we will follow you around naked all day tomorrow."
Bruce stepped out of the closet with the pajamas to his hand to see Debbie sitting up. Stephanie's arms was wrapped around Debbie, pulling Debbie toward her chest. "Jesus, are you kissing her titties?" Bruce exclaimed.
Debbie fought hard not to smile as she looked at Stephanie;s breast, then back at Bruce. "They are pretty, Bruce," Debbie admitted.
"Look Bruce!" Angela exclaimed, "I'm kissing Debbie's feet," Bruce stepped back, grabbing the closet door and shutting himself inside.
Stephanie jumped off of Debbie and ran over to the closet. Debbie just fell back laughing. Stephanie knocked on the door. "Bruce do you have handcuffs in there?" she asked.
"Leave me alone. I'm sleeping in here tonight," Bruce yelled from the closet.
Stephanie stomped her foot. "Bruce, if you don't come out here and get in this bed. I"m coming in there with Angela and Debbie," she threatened. Hearing Bruce moving toward the door, Stephanie stepped back as Bruf flung the door open and stomped to the bed. Stephanie followed him and got in beside him, pushing Bruce toward the middle.
Bruce turned over so he couldn't see her, only to see Angela and Debbie come for him like sharks. "My word, what has gotten in to all of you?" Bruce asked.
Angela stood up at the end of the bed. "If you let us watch, we'll ;eave you alone," she proposed. Bruce just stared at her like she had lost her mind.
Reaching down, Angela grabbed Debbie by the ankles and spin Debbie around, pulling her by her ankles until her feet were in front of Bruce's face. "Here are her feet. I wanna watch."
"What do you do with them? I can't figure it out," Stephanie asked, wrapping her arms around him.
Bruce looked at each of them. "I'm worried about you two."
"Us? You're the one with the foot fetish," Stephanie said.
"Just kiss her feet once, Bruce," Angela dared. Bruce leaned forward and kissed Debbie's feet. The second his lips touched her feet he knew he had made a mistake.
Bruce flipped over on his stomach and no matter what the three did he wouldn't turn back over. They finally gave up and just curled up beside him, drifting off to sleep. Bruce never had to worry about the images ever again after that night. Whenever they would try to start the image of three naked women tormenting him would replace them. Like all boys, naked women would always win in Bruce's mind.
A/N: I want to say NO I did not plan to post this on Valentines day becuase of Debbie's plan to help Bruce. The meeting part of this chapter took longer for me to get through than I thought. But it's stuff like at the end I rate this story M instead of my usual T along with the curse words and violence.
