Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto Past tense ❯ Chapter 2: Demonic ( Chapter 2 )
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By: SDI Hypervelocity 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 02.24.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 291 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 02.24.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 291 | Status: Completed
Chapter 2: Demonic
“So what dose this mean for Konoha?” Iruka asked.
The woman shook her head, “We’re not sure yet, no demons were spotted around this area. Though we don’t know the reasons, we should be safe for now.”
Iruka looked up toward the rock formation over head, keeping his voice devoid as he talked. “What’s going to happen to the people outside of this area?”
“There’s a high demand of private residence requesting missions to exterminate demons that frequently attack.” The man said. “But Konoha doesn’t have the resources to even attempt to take missions right now, not even to hold up appearance.”
Iruka sighed, he couldn’t blame them. At a time like this you’d have to put your own first, and Konoha was defiantly in need to be put first. But his heart when out to them, he only hoped they could survive, chances where that they wouldn’t. Everything seemed to be happening in a domino effect.
“So what’s next for Konoha?” Kakashi asked.
The man shook his head, “We have nothing here, no food, no supplies, no shelter. If we continue like this we’ll be wiped out in 2 weeks.”
“We have no other options but to appeal to other villages for help.” The woman said.
“But…If we do that, they’ll take over the Leaf.” Kakashi said with a hint of surprise in his voice, if they asked for this type of help from other villages then they’d take this chance to expand there territory. The Leaf wouldn’t be the Leaf anymore, whoever gained Konoha would have a monopoly over all of the other villages with this much power and two villages.
“We have no choice.” The counsel woman said “The number one priority right now is to keep the city’s inhabitants alive, not the city.” By the sound of her voice they could tell that the decision had already been made and nothing anyone said could change that. But apparently Naruto didn’t see that, or care.
“No way! You can’t just give away the Leaf!” Naruto shouted. “I haven’t done all of this fighting for Konoha--”
“Naruto.” Iruka called out.
“All of those missions--”
“Naruto.”
“An attack from the Sand village--”
“Naruto!”
“And fight a whole bunch of demons--”
“Naruto!!” Iruka yelled, the tone of his voice making Naruto jump a little, it demanded attention. It was completely unlikely and unexpected coming from him, it was surprising to the boy to say the least. “There’s nothing we can do about it. The Leaf’s honor is important, but keeping thousands of people alive is a greater priority. And the decision has already been made.”
Naruto shook himself out of the surprised daze, his face becoming more determined then ever. “No! We can’t just let this happen.”
“Shut up dobe.” Sasuke said stoically.
Before he could even shoot a reply back, he realized just about everyone was against him. Except for Gaara who wasn’t going to be involved and Konohamaru who was looking away morbidly, everyone was giving him some type of look. Naruto closed his mouth and held his head down, it didn’t make him any less angry about what was happening.
It made him so mad that instead of yelling like he usually would have, he only walked off with his fist clinches and his eye narrowed and anger. Gaara glanced back at everyone else watching the boy, then silently followed.
“None of us like this, but it has to happen.” The man said. “It’s the only way we’ll have a chance to survive.”
They watched as the two Council members turned and walked away. And just as soon as he realized nothing else would be said about the matter, Konohamaru turned and ran off with an atmosphere of quiet anger.
“Konohamaru?” Sasuke watched questioningly as the boy jumped from the monument, moving as fast as he could. Sasuke, clearly confused by the sudden change in mood, went after him.
“Doesn’t look like he likes it either.” Iruka sighed
“And so this is how the leaf finally crumbles, not with a bang but with a whimper.” Kakashi turned to look out on to the village...
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Naruto stopped at the foot of the Hokage monument, growling angrily while he punched the wall over and over as hard as he could. “Damnit!”
Gaara landed on the ground behind him, seeing that he was obviously angry. “There’s no other way it could have happened.” He said in his best attempt to comfort the boy, but it was clear he was bad a this being his first time. Naruto was so much better doing this with him.
“No, There was some other way!” He yelled, punching harder and ignoring the pain that came. “There had to be!”
“There wasn’t.” Gaara only realized after he said it that this could and most likely would start an argument with Naruto.
But it didn’t, Naruto just kept pounding away at the wall. “Weak!” He shouted, clinching his eyes shut. “This is so weak!” And next punch was stopped, Naruto opened his eyes, wondering why he couldn’t move his arm. He found that it was completely covered in immobilizing sand no amount of physical force from Naruto would break.
“Stop it.” Gaara said firmly.
“I stayed here! I stayed here while everyone hated me! I stayed here to be come a Ninja of the Leaf and they just give up!” Naruto shouted, falling to his knees. “All of that work and they just give up…” He could see every hope and dream for his life fading, shattering before his eyes when he heard those words from his own mouth. What was he with out hopes, dreams for the future?
Gaara lifted his gourd off his back and sat down next to Naruto, resting his back against the wall so that he was looking at Naruto’s face. “You want to protect this place don’t you?” He asked, having already seen that this was someplace important to him. “This is what Konoha needs to do to survive, and what is the Leaf without people. What’s going to happen when everyone dies, just to remain independent? Is it really worth it to you?”
Naruto dropped his head, “I guess your right.” he said. Though he couldn’t stop the thought from ringing through his mind that this was the end of the Leaf, it just repeated over and over. Having actually come to the point, someplace he never thought they’d reach.
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“Konohamaru!” Sasuke jumped in front of the boy, watching him run into him and stumble back. “What are you running for?”
“I’m not running!” Konohamaru shouted angrily at a surprised Sasuke. The older boy noticed that Konohamaru looked mad, but didn’t look up at him like he would usual do when he was mad at someone.
“What’s wrong?”
Konohamaru kicked the ground. “I can’t take this!” He yelled “Konoha…Was the only thing my Grandfather left behind. He gave his life for his place, this is way he died!”
Konohamaru clinched his fist, feeling tears burning at his closed eyes “And if we’re just going to give it away…Why did he have to die!! It‘s not fair!” He shouted, letting a few sobs escape.
Sasuke knelt down next to him and hug the boy. “…Your right.” He said softly. “It’s not fair…But there’s nothing we can do about it but survive, Live”
Konohamaru sighed as Sasuke let go of him, “Your right…I’ll just have to stay alive and deal with it.” He said, walking off in the other direction.
“…” Sasuke stood and watched him for a moment, he knew this time when Konohamaru said it that there was nothing he could say to it. Last time it was simple, this time it was complicated.
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“Naruto.”
Naruto tuned around to see Iruka standing behind him, just as solemn as before only with a slightly apologetic look on his face. Naruto only nodded in silent acknowledgement, allowing the man to walked closer without getting any type of hostility. “Sorry about before.”
“..It’s alright I guess.” Naruto said, still on his knees with his head down, he‘d calmed though. “But I know there has to be something we can do about this.”
Iruka sat down on Naruto’s other side opposite of Gaara, letting one leg stretch out and lifting his other knee to rest his arm on. “I wish I knew one.” Iruka said, tilting his head back and looking at the patchy gray sky.
The clouds moved slowly, only letting a few rays of sun out even now. One of the gray clouds move out of the sun’s reach, sending a few more of the golden rays on to the ruined city, One of them landing over the three of them. Iruka closed his eyes, enjoying the warmth and light it brought to this one particular area.
“Naruto?”
The three of them looked to the left to see Konohamaru walking towards them with Sasuke following loosely behind. “What are you guys doing?” He asked, hopping that something was being planned.
“Nothing.” Naruto said, turning is head back towards the ground as a disappointed Konohamaru sat next to him, being sad in a group was better then being sad alone.
“Nobody’s thought of anything we can do save Konoha?” He asked disappointedly.
“It’s just not going to happen.” Sasuke said, standing over Konohamaru “We don’t have the money to rebuild, or even to get food, this has to happen.”
“Money…” Gaara looked off in to the distance forlornly as if he had an unfinished thought.
“What are you thinking about?” Naruto asked.
“Nothing really, I was just thinking it was a shame that there was no missions that paid high enough to help the situation.”
There was a small pause as Naruto’s face raised with an idealistic look, though he didn’t say anything, still forming his thought it seemed.
“What’s everyone doing here?” Kiba asked, walking toward the small group with Neji still behind him. “Well it’s good your all here, did you hear what’s happening to Konoha?”
“Yeah, we heard.” Konohamaru said.
“Too bad there’s nothing we can do about it.” Kiba shook his head, then flinched somewhat when Naruto jumped to his feet in front of him.
“Hey! Why don’t we take some missions?” Naruto said, his solemn tone elevated with the happiness of coming up with something that could actual work.
“Weren’t you listening?” Sasuke snorted coldly. “Konoha doesn’t have the resources to do anything like that.”
Naruto gave him a quick glare, “I meant just us, we could take some missions and build up money. Konoha got alone fine when we were all gone, we could do it again.”
“It sounds like a good plan in theory.”
Naruto jumped when he heard Kakashi’s voice from above him. The man was sitting on a ledge a few feet up, completely inconspicuous as always. “Stop doing that!” Naruto yelled, pointing his finger angrily at Kakashi.
Kakashi jumped down, landing right next to Iruka. “But you couldn’t raise enough money in time to save these people. Let alone save this whole village.”
Iruka looked up at him, able to tell he was still holding on to one last thought. “Unless?”
“Unless these people your planning on taking missions from pay really well.” Kakashi finished.
“The human will to survive is a very empowering thing.” Gaara said. “People will pay anything they have if they’re life is in enough danger.” He said this from experience, many people tried to offer him money not to kill them. Of course he only smiled and did it anyway but now he wished he had taken the money, it would help this situation and make Naruto happy again… He really wanted Naruto to be happy again.
A devious grin spread across Naruto’s face, “Lets do it!”
Iruka looked around at the group, most seemed to like the idea, even thought it could work. Kakashi on the other hand obviously didn’t, Iruka said something before he could object. “It won’t help the city much, but we could use it to help the people. At the lest we could use the money to buy food, we don’t know how long it will take to get help from other villages. For all we know we wont survive that long on our own.”
Kakashi could easily see Iruka’s reason for becoming a ninja now, it was to help people. That was his main goal, and most likely why he didn’t attempt to go past his current rank, he obviously wasn’t one for the assassination missions that came with the next level. And if there was one thing he couldn’t resist was Iruka and the face he made when he wanted to help a cause. It was just so cute.
“Is everyone in agreement on this?” Kakashi asked.
“I’m in.” Kiba volunteered. Neji raised his hand directly after.
“Me too!” Konohamaru said, he jumped at the chance to help.
Sasuke glanced down at the boy, then raised his hand also. He knew he would be spending most of his time protecting Konohamaru, not that he minded. He still enjoyed it, and he sure as hell wasn’t going to leave him alone after he’d lost him to…Itachi of all people.
“So that’s everyone huh?” Kakashi looked around at the 7, knowing that Iruka and Naruto were obviously on board and Gaara was going to follow Naruto. With a small shake of his head, Kakashi disappeared in a wave of rushing wind and debris.
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“Your going to do it, seriously?” Jiraiya looked over at Kakashi questioningly, propping his elbows against the railing of the Hokage monument and leaning back.
“They’re going to do this with or with out me.” Kakashi said, “I’d rather have them do it with.”
Jiraiya sighed, “If I tell you what you want, you have to promise me one thing.” Kakashi looked up at him, waiting for him to speak again. Jiraiya looked directly into his one visible eye, completely serous. “If you do this, you can’t do it as a shinobi of the Leaf.”
“Huh? Why not?”
“Just about every other village has been hit or is in the path of the storm. We, or anyone else, aren’t able to take missions right now. If other villages think that we are strong enough to do so when they aren’t…”
“We won’t have a chance at getting any help.” Kakashi said with a solemn understanding, “Makes sense I guess.”
“Good.” Jiraiya pulled a sheet of paper out of his back pocket and handed it to Kakashi, “Here’s what you wanted, a list of everyone requesting missions.”
Kakashi took the paper, finding it in fact was 5 if them folded together. It was quite a long list, Jiraiya had even highlighted the people who had the most money “Do you know when all of this is going to happen?”
“I don’t know, we haven’t even gotten a reply back from any of the other villages…I just hope we don’t become so desperate that we’d even rely on the Sound for help.”
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It was nightfall, around midnight on the outskirts of what used to be Konoha.
“Finally managed to catch up with all of you.” Kakashi said.
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“So what dose this mean for Konoha?” Iruka asked.
The woman shook her head, “We’re not sure yet, no demons were spotted around this area. Though we don’t know the reasons, we should be safe for now.”
Iruka looked up toward the rock formation over head, keeping his voice devoid as he talked. “What’s going to happen to the people outside of this area?”
“There’s a high demand of private residence requesting missions to exterminate demons that frequently attack.” The man said. “But Konoha doesn’t have the resources to even attempt to take missions right now, not even to hold up appearance.”
Iruka sighed, he couldn’t blame them. At a time like this you’d have to put your own first, and Konoha was defiantly in need to be put first. But his heart when out to them, he only hoped they could survive, chances where that they wouldn’t. Everything seemed to be happening in a domino effect.
“So what’s next for Konoha?” Kakashi asked.
The man shook his head, “We have nothing here, no food, no supplies, no shelter. If we continue like this we’ll be wiped out in 2 weeks.”
“We have no other options but to appeal to other villages for help.” The woman said.
“But…If we do that, they’ll take over the Leaf.” Kakashi said with a hint of surprise in his voice, if they asked for this type of help from other villages then they’d take this chance to expand there territory. The Leaf wouldn’t be the Leaf anymore, whoever gained Konoha would have a monopoly over all of the other villages with this much power and two villages.
“We have no choice.” The counsel woman said “The number one priority right now is to keep the city’s inhabitants alive, not the city.” By the sound of her voice they could tell that the decision had already been made and nothing anyone said could change that. But apparently Naruto didn’t see that, or care.
“No way! You can’t just give away the Leaf!” Naruto shouted. “I haven’t done all of this fighting for Konoha--”
“Naruto.” Iruka called out.
“All of those missions--”
“Naruto.”
“An attack from the Sand village--”
“Naruto!”
“And fight a whole bunch of demons--”
“Naruto!!” Iruka yelled, the tone of his voice making Naruto jump a little, it demanded attention. It was completely unlikely and unexpected coming from him, it was surprising to the boy to say the least. “There’s nothing we can do about it. The Leaf’s honor is important, but keeping thousands of people alive is a greater priority. And the decision has already been made.”
Naruto shook himself out of the surprised daze, his face becoming more determined then ever. “No! We can’t just let this happen.”
“Shut up dobe.” Sasuke said stoically.
Before he could even shoot a reply back, he realized just about everyone was against him. Except for Gaara who wasn’t going to be involved and Konohamaru who was looking away morbidly, everyone was giving him some type of look. Naruto closed his mouth and held his head down, it didn’t make him any less angry about what was happening.
It made him so mad that instead of yelling like he usually would have, he only walked off with his fist clinches and his eye narrowed and anger. Gaara glanced back at everyone else watching the boy, then silently followed.
“None of us like this, but it has to happen.” The man said. “It’s the only way we’ll have a chance to survive.”
They watched as the two Council members turned and walked away. And just as soon as he realized nothing else would be said about the matter, Konohamaru turned and ran off with an atmosphere of quiet anger.
“Konohamaru?” Sasuke watched questioningly as the boy jumped from the monument, moving as fast as he could. Sasuke, clearly confused by the sudden change in mood, went after him.
“Doesn’t look like he likes it either.” Iruka sighed
“And so this is how the leaf finally crumbles, not with a bang but with a whimper.” Kakashi turned to look out on to the village...
! - ! - !
Naruto stopped at the foot of the Hokage monument, growling angrily while he punched the wall over and over as hard as he could. “Damnit!”
Gaara landed on the ground behind him, seeing that he was obviously angry. “There’s no other way it could have happened.” He said in his best attempt to comfort the boy, but it was clear he was bad a this being his first time. Naruto was so much better doing this with him.
“No, There was some other way!” He yelled, punching harder and ignoring the pain that came. “There had to be!”
“There wasn’t.” Gaara only realized after he said it that this could and most likely would start an argument with Naruto.
But it didn’t, Naruto just kept pounding away at the wall. “Weak!” He shouted, clinching his eyes shut. “This is so weak!” And next punch was stopped, Naruto opened his eyes, wondering why he couldn’t move his arm. He found that it was completely covered in immobilizing sand no amount of physical force from Naruto would break.
“Stop it.” Gaara said firmly.
“I stayed here! I stayed here while everyone hated me! I stayed here to be come a Ninja of the Leaf and they just give up!” Naruto shouted, falling to his knees. “All of that work and they just give up…” He could see every hope and dream for his life fading, shattering before his eyes when he heard those words from his own mouth. What was he with out hopes, dreams for the future?
Gaara lifted his gourd off his back and sat down next to Naruto, resting his back against the wall so that he was looking at Naruto’s face. “You want to protect this place don’t you?” He asked, having already seen that this was someplace important to him. “This is what Konoha needs to do to survive, and what is the Leaf without people. What’s going to happen when everyone dies, just to remain independent? Is it really worth it to you?”
Naruto dropped his head, “I guess your right.” he said. Though he couldn’t stop the thought from ringing through his mind that this was the end of the Leaf, it just repeated over and over. Having actually come to the point, someplace he never thought they’d reach.
! - ! - !
“Konohamaru!” Sasuke jumped in front of the boy, watching him run into him and stumble back. “What are you running for?”
“I’m not running!” Konohamaru shouted angrily at a surprised Sasuke. The older boy noticed that Konohamaru looked mad, but didn’t look up at him like he would usual do when he was mad at someone.
“What’s wrong?”
Konohamaru kicked the ground. “I can’t take this!” He yelled “Konoha…Was the only thing my Grandfather left behind. He gave his life for his place, this is way he died!”
Konohamaru clinched his fist, feeling tears burning at his closed eyes “And if we’re just going to give it away…Why did he have to die!! It‘s not fair!” He shouted, letting a few sobs escape.
Sasuke knelt down next to him and hug the boy. “…Your right.” He said softly. “It’s not fair…But there’s nothing we can do about it but survive, Live”
Konohamaru sighed as Sasuke let go of him, “Your right…I’ll just have to stay alive and deal with it.” He said, walking off in the other direction.
“…” Sasuke stood and watched him for a moment, he knew this time when Konohamaru said it that there was nothing he could say to it. Last time it was simple, this time it was complicated.
! - ! - !
“Naruto.”
Naruto tuned around to see Iruka standing behind him, just as solemn as before only with a slightly apologetic look on his face. Naruto only nodded in silent acknowledgement, allowing the man to walked closer without getting any type of hostility. “Sorry about before.”
“..It’s alright I guess.” Naruto said, still on his knees with his head down, he‘d calmed though. “But I know there has to be something we can do about this.”
Iruka sat down on Naruto’s other side opposite of Gaara, letting one leg stretch out and lifting his other knee to rest his arm on. “I wish I knew one.” Iruka said, tilting his head back and looking at the patchy gray sky.
The clouds moved slowly, only letting a few rays of sun out even now. One of the gray clouds move out of the sun’s reach, sending a few more of the golden rays on to the ruined city, One of them landing over the three of them. Iruka closed his eyes, enjoying the warmth and light it brought to this one particular area.
“Naruto?”
The three of them looked to the left to see Konohamaru walking towards them with Sasuke following loosely behind. “What are you guys doing?” He asked, hopping that something was being planned.
“Nothing.” Naruto said, turning is head back towards the ground as a disappointed Konohamaru sat next to him, being sad in a group was better then being sad alone.
“Nobody’s thought of anything we can do save Konoha?” He asked disappointedly.
“It’s just not going to happen.” Sasuke said, standing over Konohamaru “We don’t have the money to rebuild, or even to get food, this has to happen.”
“Money…” Gaara looked off in to the distance forlornly as if he had an unfinished thought.
“What are you thinking about?” Naruto asked.
“Nothing really, I was just thinking it was a shame that there was no missions that paid high enough to help the situation.”
There was a small pause as Naruto’s face raised with an idealistic look, though he didn’t say anything, still forming his thought it seemed.
“What’s everyone doing here?” Kiba asked, walking toward the small group with Neji still behind him. “Well it’s good your all here, did you hear what’s happening to Konoha?”
“Yeah, we heard.” Konohamaru said.
“Too bad there’s nothing we can do about it.” Kiba shook his head, then flinched somewhat when Naruto jumped to his feet in front of him.
“Hey! Why don’t we take some missions?” Naruto said, his solemn tone elevated with the happiness of coming up with something that could actual work.
“Weren’t you listening?” Sasuke snorted coldly. “Konoha doesn’t have the resources to do anything like that.”
Naruto gave him a quick glare, “I meant just us, we could take some missions and build up money. Konoha got alone fine when we were all gone, we could do it again.”
“It sounds like a good plan in theory.”
Naruto jumped when he heard Kakashi’s voice from above him. The man was sitting on a ledge a few feet up, completely inconspicuous as always. “Stop doing that!” Naruto yelled, pointing his finger angrily at Kakashi.
Kakashi jumped down, landing right next to Iruka. “But you couldn’t raise enough money in time to save these people. Let alone save this whole village.”
Iruka looked up at him, able to tell he was still holding on to one last thought. “Unless?”
“Unless these people your planning on taking missions from pay really well.” Kakashi finished.
“The human will to survive is a very empowering thing.” Gaara said. “People will pay anything they have if they’re life is in enough danger.” He said this from experience, many people tried to offer him money not to kill them. Of course he only smiled and did it anyway but now he wished he had taken the money, it would help this situation and make Naruto happy again… He really wanted Naruto to be happy again.
A devious grin spread across Naruto’s face, “Lets do it!”
Iruka looked around at the group, most seemed to like the idea, even thought it could work. Kakashi on the other hand obviously didn’t, Iruka said something before he could object. “It won’t help the city much, but we could use it to help the people. At the lest we could use the money to buy food, we don’t know how long it will take to get help from other villages. For all we know we wont survive that long on our own.”
Kakashi could easily see Iruka’s reason for becoming a ninja now, it was to help people. That was his main goal, and most likely why he didn’t attempt to go past his current rank, he obviously wasn’t one for the assassination missions that came with the next level. And if there was one thing he couldn’t resist was Iruka and the face he made when he wanted to help a cause. It was just so cute.
“Is everyone in agreement on this?” Kakashi asked.
“I’m in.” Kiba volunteered. Neji raised his hand directly after.
“Me too!” Konohamaru said, he jumped at the chance to help.
Sasuke glanced down at the boy, then raised his hand also. He knew he would be spending most of his time protecting Konohamaru, not that he minded. He still enjoyed it, and he sure as hell wasn’t going to leave him alone after he’d lost him to…Itachi of all people.
“So that’s everyone huh?” Kakashi looked around at the 7, knowing that Iruka and Naruto were obviously on board and Gaara was going to follow Naruto. With a small shake of his head, Kakashi disappeared in a wave of rushing wind and debris.
! - ! - !
! - ! - !
“Your going to do it, seriously?” Jiraiya looked over at Kakashi questioningly, propping his elbows against the railing of the Hokage monument and leaning back.
“They’re going to do this with or with out me.” Kakashi said, “I’d rather have them do it with.”
Jiraiya sighed, “If I tell you what you want, you have to promise me one thing.” Kakashi looked up at him, waiting for him to speak again. Jiraiya looked directly into his one visible eye, completely serous. “If you do this, you can’t do it as a shinobi of the Leaf.”
“Huh? Why not?”
“Just about every other village has been hit or is in the path of the storm. We, or anyone else, aren’t able to take missions right now. If other villages think that we are strong enough to do so when they aren’t…”
“We won’t have a chance at getting any help.” Kakashi said with a solemn understanding, “Makes sense I guess.”
“Good.” Jiraiya pulled a sheet of paper out of his back pocket and handed it to Kakashi, “Here’s what you wanted, a list of everyone requesting missions.”
Kakashi took the paper, finding it in fact was 5 if them folded together. It was quite a long list, Jiraiya had even highlighted the people who had the most money “Do you know when all of this is going to happen?”
“I don’t know, we haven’t even gotten a reply back from any of the other villages…I just hope we don’t become so desperate that we’d even rely on the Sound for help.”
! - ! - !
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It was nightfall, around midnight on the outskirts of what used to be Konoha.
“Finally managed to catch up with all of you.” Kakashi said.
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