Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto: The sands of time ❯ Chapter 20 Sands of time part 4 ( Chapter 20 )
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By: SDI Hypervelocity 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.26.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 249 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.26.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 249 | Status: Completed
Chapter 20: Sands of time part 4
Konohamaru wandered around the hallways, the people in the white house were even worse then those on the street. Mainly because they were more familiar with him and took the liberty of to talk more, it was aggravating. Each person pushed him more and more toward the edge, and they thought his reaction of trying to get away from them was because he was still in shock about what happened and didn’t want to face it.
They were right in a sense, Konohamaru was pushing it away and refusing to morn over his parents anymore. But them in their ’sympathy’ was making it worse, he hated being that poor little kid who was too young to have to deal with. And even worse he was the President’s only remaining relative, so he was in the spotlight.
“Konohamaru, I heard what happened--” A staff member, a man named Kabuto who was apart of the security team in the white house saw him wondering the halls, actually trying to make it too his room before this happened.
“AAAAAHHHHHHH!” Konohamaru yelled, clinching his head and making a run for his room… only to run into Sarutobi and be knocked to the ground,
“Maybe it’d be better if you left him alone for awhile.” Sarutobi said to Kabuto, he only looked at Konohamaru concernedly before walking away. Sarutobi look down at his Grandson rubbing his face in pain, “Konohamaru.”
“Grandfather, sorry I wasn’t watching were I was--”
“It’s alright Konohamaru.” Sarutobi finally realized what he meant when he said that he couldn’t take it anymore. Usually after running off with out telling anyone Sarutobi would make him stay in for a day or two. Konohamaru figured he’d be grounded for a while when he went a whole night with out coming back.
Konohamaru headed into his room to his surprise his Grandfather followed him. “If it’s--”
“Konohamaru what’s wrong with you?” He asked, Konohamaru held his head down, after a few moments of silence the boy shook his head in reply. “I know what it’s like to have all of this unwanted attention from people who could really careless about you. Especially around here…So if you want to you can go out for a while, maybe you can find some peace and quite somewhere.”
Konohamaru looked up at the man questioningly, “Really? I’m not grounded?”
“No, contrary to what you may think I do understand what your going through. But make sure you come back this time ok?”
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After a few hours of showing them around, Gai actually got around to showing Lee how the car worked. Both of them where standing over the hood while Shikamaru was sitting against the back wall lazily, at an angle where he could just barely see what they were doing. “I’d like to meet the person who thought of this.” Lee said, looking over the machinery and equipment before him. “What’s this?” He asked, pointed to a particular spot on the left side.
“That’s the engine.” Gai said, and engine that cost a lot of time and money to build himself.
“Gai-sensei--” Lee stopped when he heard a sound behind him, it was him…Lee walking into the garage.
“Hi Lee.” He said, noting that talking to his double still felt strange, it was like talking to himself in a mirror.
Gai looked down at his watch, “I almost forgot. It is time for your training isn’t it.” Gai closed the hood, turning around and seeing the two Lees talking to each other. “How much training have you had in the past Lee?”
The Lee in the green body suit look up at him “A lot.”
“Great, let’s see how much.”
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Konohamaru of course went back to Naruto’s house, he didn’t think he could tolerate anyone else’s house. And it would take to long to find a quiet spot in the huge city, he’d snap at someone before then. “Huh?” He found the door was unlocked so he walked inside, Naruto was digging into a bowl of raman uncharacteristically stoic and Sasuke was probably still sleep.
“Konohamaru, what are you doing back so soon?” Naruto asked.
“I had to get out of there, I couldn’t take it.” Konohamaru asked. “My Grandfather knows this time so Ebisu isn’t going to come after me.” He sat down in the chair opposite of Naruto and laid his hands in his arms. “Where is Sasuke?”
Naruto pointed toward the bed room, “He’s back there with Iruka…” Naruto could easily see that Konohamaru wasn’t happy, he seemed even worse then when he left. “Are you going to be alright Konohamaru? At some point your going to have to face this again.”
Konohamaru looked up at him, it didn’t sound so annoying when coming from Naruto “I feel like I’m going crazy.” He sighed, getting up from his chair and walking to the bed room.
Iruka was sitting on the floor with his back against the bed looking at the TV but it wasn’t sure if he was watching it or not. Sasuke was laying across the bed so that his legs were hanging over the side with his hands behind his head. “Konohamaru?”
“Hi Sasuke, Iruka-sensei” Konohamaru said without his usual cheer, He sat down in-between Sasuke’s legs and Iruka. Sasuke slid down off the bed next to Konohamaru.
“Hello Konohamaru.” Iruka said, he was used to seeing the boy here.
“What are you doing back so soon?” Sasuke asked.
Konohamaru laid his head on Sasuke’s shoulder, happy that he was letting him do this. Naruto walked in and sat on the other side of Sasuke, bowl of Ramen in hand. “I want to go someplace else for a while.” Konohamaru said
“What do you mean?” Sasuke asked.
“I just need to leave this city for a while…” Konohamaru looked down toward the ground and held his hands between his legs. “Just…for a little while.”
Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other, “Us too.” Naruto said.
Konohamaru looked up at him. “Can I go with you guys?” He asked frantically. “I’m going to go out of my mind here, Please?”
“It’s fine with me.” Naruto said, folding his arms “If we make it out of Konoha. We need permission from your grandfather.”
“Wow, that’s going to be tough.” All 4 of them looked back to see Kakashi sitting on the bed. “Hey look the News, I didn’t know there was a storm headed for Konoha. Looks bad”
“How the hell did you do that! How did you get in?!” Naruto shouted angrily.
Kakashi jumped down next to Iruka, pulling his collar down and giving him a kiss. “Where where you?” Iruka asked.
“See, what had happened was--”
Iruka shrugged “Nevermind.”
Kakashi looked over the group, “So, this is where the missing Uchiha Sasuke goes, and the President’s grandson. What are the odds.”
“What are you doing here?” Sasuke asked annoyedly, he had enough of Kakashi for the day after that training.
Kakashi wrapped his arms around Iruka “Looking for my lost dolphin.” He nuzzled in to Iruka’s neck, giving him a few small kisses.
“Kakashi.” Iruka tried to pry him off but his grip was too strong and finally Iruka gave up and let him stay there.
Sasuke, Naruto and Konohamaru just watched uncomfortably for a moment, “We can’t we be like that?” Naruto asked jokingly.
“Because your you dobe and I’m me.” Sasuke said with amused undertones.
“We could be like that…” Konohamaru said just above a mumble.
“Huh?” Sasuke didn’t seem to hear him clearly.
Konohamaru rubbed his head and laughed “Nothing.”
“Konohamaru, can you get us an appointment with your Grandfather?” Naruto asked.
“Yeah, I can probably get one today.” Konohamaru said, trying to be hasty about it because he need this just as much as Naruto did.
“The kids are leaving home, we should have a goodbye party.” Kakashi said, letting of Iruka and pulling up his collar again.
Naruto laid his head back and looked toward the TV “No one would come.”
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Shikamaru lay in the backyard of Gai’s house, watching two tired Lees look over each other. Gai thought it would be a good idea to put both Lees against each other as a measure of strength. Turns out they were exactly equal, which was outspokenly expected. At times it was hard to tell them apart because of how fast they were, you would think because Lee was from the past and could jump really really high that he would be the fastest.
Like in everything else they were equal, expect that their fighting styles were the exact opposite of each other. The Lee’s from the past was much more structured, and the Lee’s from the present wasn’t, it had none at all but it made a strange sense and it worked. Most of the time they canceled each other out with a lot of recoil.
“I think…this is getting us…nowhere.” the Lee from the past said, Shikamaru was thankful for that green body suit or he’d lose track.
“He’s…right…” The Lee from the present said.
“You two are great.” Gai said handing both of them a bottle of water. “You could learn a lot from each other, in fact you should.”
Both Lee’s looked at each other.
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“Thank you for seeing us Mr. President.” Naruto said, being uncharacteristically polite. It was almost funny, to Sasuke at lest.
“No problem, it’s nice to finally meet Konohamaru’s friends.” Sarutobi said, sitting down at his desk and signaling security they could go. With a nod two men, one of them being Ebisu, left the room.
“So what do you two need to see me about?”
“We’re requesting permission to leave Konoha temporarily.” Sasuke said.
Sarutobi looked over the three, Konohamaru seemed especially focus. He’d never seen the boy pay that much attention or look so serous. “How long would this be?”
“How ever long we can go.” Naruto said.
“Hmm…” Sarutobi started considering things. “Well--”
“Grandpa, I want to go with them.” Konohamaru said, cutting in before he could finish his statement.
“What? Why do you--” Sarutobi stopped, he finally realized what Konohamaru meant before. “……I don’t think so.”
“What!? Why?” Naruto asked frantically.
“It’s just not a good time.” Sarutobi said regretfully.
“No you can’t say that!” Konohamaru shouted “You have to let us go, Please!” He was literally begging, and it was completely sincere.
“Konohamaru…”
“We need this…I need this, just for a week, something!”
Sarutobi sighed “I can’t, it’s just not safe. Especially not for you Konohamaru.”
“I don’t care! Just let us take this trip, Please.” By now everyone was looking at Konohamaru, amazed by his desperation.
“I’m sorry, I understand why you want to do this--”
“Then let me Grandpa!”
“I’m not going to lie, I would let all of you go under normal circumstances. But it’s just not a good time right now.”
Konohamaru stood up “Please…”
“I’m sorry but no.”
“AAAhhhhhhh!” Konohamaru yelled in a cry of frustration and anger. “It’s not fair! Why are you doing this!”
“Konohamaru.”
“You don’t even care that I’m going crazy here! It’s not fair!” Konohamaru felt tears of anger coming to his eyes. “This is your fault!”
“Konohamaru calm down.” Sarutobi said
“I don’t care about this stupid war!” Konohamaru yelled completely oblivious to his grandfather’s words or the course his were taking.
“Konohamaru.”
It‘s your fault This is happening! This war is your fault!” Konohamaru yelled.
“Konohamaru!”
A loud, furious sob escaped from the boy as he slammed his fist on the desk separating him from his grandfather. “It’s your fault my parents are dead! “
Sarutobi’s eyes went wide for a second, he didn’t expect to hear that, it made him a little angry “I didn’t put my son in that situation, He was the one determined to go to protect this place! To protect you! This country that your trying to leave! I didn’t force Reedamaru to go out there, I didn’t even want him to, so don’t ever insinuate that this was my fault when I did everything I could to stop it!”
Just for a moment Sarutobi forgot he was talking to his Grandson, a boy who’d just lost his parents the day before, who refused to morn over it. Who just wanted to get away from this for a moment and dissevered too. Being the President’s Grandson subjected him to more than just somebody’s shadow and to be known forever nothing else as such. Because of the war he was put through mental and sometimes physical hell through all of his life.
And Sarutobi felt guilty because that much was his fault. Because he was the Grandson of the President trying to live a normal life but prohibited to go anywhere with out protection. There were numerous times when the Sound tried to kill him to get to Sarutobi. Or tried to capture him to get information about Konoha that he knew a lot of.
His body guards were killed in front of him on occasion, he’d been splattered with their blood. He’d even been covered in his grandfather’s blood 2 years ago when a nearly successful murder attempt happened. All of this had given Konohamaru his general uneasiness from blood, it seemed the only member of his original guards that survived was Ebisu. The man had been nearly killed plenty of times and had grown a general protectiveness of him over because of it.
A 9 year-old shouldn’t be subject to assassination attempts from Sound hunter solders and spies. He deserved this, he needed it, and Sarutobi couldn’t give it to him.
“This isn’t fair, I hate you!” Konohamaru ran out of the room in a furry of anger.
“Konohamaru!” Sasuke and Naruto ran after him.
‘I really am sorry, but since there’s a powerful storm headed for Konoha intelligence is saying that the Sound is most definitely planning an attack and using it as cover. All of you could get caught in the crossfire, I’m doing this to protect you’ Sarutobi sighed, he honestly wished he could have given all of them what they wanted. It was a simple request, Konohamaru was even going to go with them so it was no hassle. All he had to do was say Yes, but he couldn’t.
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Konohamaru ran out of building, out on to the large lawn with full speed, but in usual Konohamaru fashion he tripped over his scarf and fell face first into the ground. With in a second Naruto and Sasuke were over him. “It’s not fair.” Konohamaru said, wiping his eyes with his arm.
“Do you really believe all of those things you said about your Grandfather?” Naruto asked, already knowing the answer.
Konohamaru was silent for a moment. “…No. I know I shouldn‘t have said it but…”
“I‘m sure that there was nothing he could do.” Naruto said.
“Tch.” Sasuke shook his head. “So both of you are giving up now?”
“What else are we going to do?” Konohamaru asked,
“I have an idea.”
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Konohamaru wandered around the hallways, the people in the white house were even worse then those on the street. Mainly because they were more familiar with him and took the liberty of to talk more, it was aggravating. Each person pushed him more and more toward the edge, and they thought his reaction of trying to get away from them was because he was still in shock about what happened and didn’t want to face it.
They were right in a sense, Konohamaru was pushing it away and refusing to morn over his parents anymore. But them in their ’sympathy’ was making it worse, he hated being that poor little kid who was too young to have to deal with. And even worse he was the President’s only remaining relative, so he was in the spotlight.
“Konohamaru, I heard what happened--” A staff member, a man named Kabuto who was apart of the security team in the white house saw him wondering the halls, actually trying to make it too his room before this happened.
“AAAAAHHHHHHH!” Konohamaru yelled, clinching his head and making a run for his room… only to run into Sarutobi and be knocked to the ground,
“Maybe it’d be better if you left him alone for awhile.” Sarutobi said to Kabuto, he only looked at Konohamaru concernedly before walking away. Sarutobi look down at his Grandson rubbing his face in pain, “Konohamaru.”
“Grandfather, sorry I wasn’t watching were I was--”
“It’s alright Konohamaru.” Sarutobi finally realized what he meant when he said that he couldn’t take it anymore. Usually after running off with out telling anyone Sarutobi would make him stay in for a day or two. Konohamaru figured he’d be grounded for a while when he went a whole night with out coming back.
Konohamaru headed into his room to his surprise his Grandfather followed him. “If it’s--”
“Konohamaru what’s wrong with you?” He asked, Konohamaru held his head down, after a few moments of silence the boy shook his head in reply. “I know what it’s like to have all of this unwanted attention from people who could really careless about you. Especially around here…So if you want to you can go out for a while, maybe you can find some peace and quite somewhere.”
Konohamaru looked up at the man questioningly, “Really? I’m not grounded?”
“No, contrary to what you may think I do understand what your going through. But make sure you come back this time ok?”
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After a few hours of showing them around, Gai actually got around to showing Lee how the car worked. Both of them where standing over the hood while Shikamaru was sitting against the back wall lazily, at an angle where he could just barely see what they were doing. “I’d like to meet the person who thought of this.” Lee said, looking over the machinery and equipment before him. “What’s this?” He asked, pointed to a particular spot on the left side.
“That’s the engine.” Gai said, and engine that cost a lot of time and money to build himself.
“Gai-sensei--” Lee stopped when he heard a sound behind him, it was him…Lee walking into the garage.
“Hi Lee.” He said, noting that talking to his double still felt strange, it was like talking to himself in a mirror.
Gai looked down at his watch, “I almost forgot. It is time for your training isn’t it.” Gai closed the hood, turning around and seeing the two Lees talking to each other. “How much training have you had in the past Lee?”
The Lee in the green body suit look up at him “A lot.”
“Great, let’s see how much.”
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Konohamaru of course went back to Naruto’s house, he didn’t think he could tolerate anyone else’s house. And it would take to long to find a quiet spot in the huge city, he’d snap at someone before then. “Huh?” He found the door was unlocked so he walked inside, Naruto was digging into a bowl of raman uncharacteristically stoic and Sasuke was probably still sleep.
“Konohamaru, what are you doing back so soon?” Naruto asked.
“I had to get out of there, I couldn’t take it.” Konohamaru asked. “My Grandfather knows this time so Ebisu isn’t going to come after me.” He sat down in the chair opposite of Naruto and laid his hands in his arms. “Where is Sasuke?”
Naruto pointed toward the bed room, “He’s back there with Iruka…” Naruto could easily see that Konohamaru wasn’t happy, he seemed even worse then when he left. “Are you going to be alright Konohamaru? At some point your going to have to face this again.”
Konohamaru looked up at him, it didn’t sound so annoying when coming from Naruto “I feel like I’m going crazy.” He sighed, getting up from his chair and walking to the bed room.
Iruka was sitting on the floor with his back against the bed looking at the TV but it wasn’t sure if he was watching it or not. Sasuke was laying across the bed so that his legs were hanging over the side with his hands behind his head. “Konohamaru?”
“Hi Sasuke, Iruka-sensei” Konohamaru said without his usual cheer, He sat down in-between Sasuke’s legs and Iruka. Sasuke slid down off the bed next to Konohamaru.
“Hello Konohamaru.” Iruka said, he was used to seeing the boy here.
“What are you doing back so soon?” Sasuke asked.
Konohamaru laid his head on Sasuke’s shoulder, happy that he was letting him do this. Naruto walked in and sat on the other side of Sasuke, bowl of Ramen in hand. “I want to go someplace else for a while.” Konohamaru said
“What do you mean?” Sasuke asked.
“I just need to leave this city for a while…” Konohamaru looked down toward the ground and held his hands between his legs. “Just…for a little while.”
Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other, “Us too.” Naruto said.
Konohamaru looked up at him. “Can I go with you guys?” He asked frantically. “I’m going to go out of my mind here, Please?”
“It’s fine with me.” Naruto said, folding his arms “If we make it out of Konoha. We need permission from your grandfather.”
“Wow, that’s going to be tough.” All 4 of them looked back to see Kakashi sitting on the bed. “Hey look the News, I didn’t know there was a storm headed for Konoha. Looks bad”
“How the hell did you do that! How did you get in?!” Naruto shouted angrily.
Kakashi jumped down next to Iruka, pulling his collar down and giving him a kiss. “Where where you?” Iruka asked.
“See, what had happened was--”
Iruka shrugged “Nevermind.”
Kakashi looked over the group, “So, this is where the missing Uchiha Sasuke goes, and the President’s grandson. What are the odds.”
“What are you doing here?” Sasuke asked annoyedly, he had enough of Kakashi for the day after that training.
Kakashi wrapped his arms around Iruka “Looking for my lost dolphin.” He nuzzled in to Iruka’s neck, giving him a few small kisses.
“Kakashi.” Iruka tried to pry him off but his grip was too strong and finally Iruka gave up and let him stay there.
Sasuke, Naruto and Konohamaru just watched uncomfortably for a moment, “We can’t we be like that?” Naruto asked jokingly.
“Because your you dobe and I’m me.” Sasuke said with amused undertones.
“We could be like that…” Konohamaru said just above a mumble.
“Huh?” Sasuke didn’t seem to hear him clearly.
Konohamaru rubbed his head and laughed “Nothing.”
“Konohamaru, can you get us an appointment with your Grandfather?” Naruto asked.
“Yeah, I can probably get one today.” Konohamaru said, trying to be hasty about it because he need this just as much as Naruto did.
“The kids are leaving home, we should have a goodbye party.” Kakashi said, letting of Iruka and pulling up his collar again.
Naruto laid his head back and looked toward the TV “No one would come.”
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Shikamaru lay in the backyard of Gai’s house, watching two tired Lees look over each other. Gai thought it would be a good idea to put both Lees against each other as a measure of strength. Turns out they were exactly equal, which was outspokenly expected. At times it was hard to tell them apart because of how fast they were, you would think because Lee was from the past and could jump really really high that he would be the fastest.
Like in everything else they were equal, expect that their fighting styles were the exact opposite of each other. The Lee’s from the past was much more structured, and the Lee’s from the present wasn’t, it had none at all but it made a strange sense and it worked. Most of the time they canceled each other out with a lot of recoil.
“I think…this is getting us…nowhere.” the Lee from the past said, Shikamaru was thankful for that green body suit or he’d lose track.
“He’s…right…” The Lee from the present said.
“You two are great.” Gai said handing both of them a bottle of water. “You could learn a lot from each other, in fact you should.”
Both Lee’s looked at each other.
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“Thank you for seeing us Mr. President.” Naruto said, being uncharacteristically polite. It was almost funny, to Sasuke at lest.
“No problem, it’s nice to finally meet Konohamaru’s friends.” Sarutobi said, sitting down at his desk and signaling security they could go. With a nod two men, one of them being Ebisu, left the room.
“So what do you two need to see me about?”
“We’re requesting permission to leave Konoha temporarily.” Sasuke said.
Sarutobi looked over the three, Konohamaru seemed especially focus. He’d never seen the boy pay that much attention or look so serous. “How long would this be?”
“How ever long we can go.” Naruto said.
“Hmm…” Sarutobi started considering things. “Well--”
“Grandpa, I want to go with them.” Konohamaru said, cutting in before he could finish his statement.
“What? Why do you--” Sarutobi stopped, he finally realized what Konohamaru meant before. “……I don’t think so.”
“What!? Why?” Naruto asked frantically.
“It’s just not a good time.” Sarutobi said regretfully.
“No you can’t say that!” Konohamaru shouted “You have to let us go, Please!” He was literally begging, and it was completely sincere.
“Konohamaru…”
“We need this…I need this, just for a week, something!”
Sarutobi sighed “I can’t, it’s just not safe. Especially not for you Konohamaru.”
“I don’t care! Just let us take this trip, Please.” By now everyone was looking at Konohamaru, amazed by his desperation.
“I’m sorry, I understand why you want to do this--”
“Then let me Grandpa!”
“I’m not going to lie, I would let all of you go under normal circumstances. But it’s just not a good time right now.”
Konohamaru stood up “Please…”
“I’m sorry but no.”
“AAAhhhhhhh!” Konohamaru yelled in a cry of frustration and anger. “It’s not fair! Why are you doing this!”
“Konohamaru.”
“You don’t even care that I’m going crazy here! It’s not fair!” Konohamaru felt tears of anger coming to his eyes. “This is your fault!”
“Konohamaru calm down.” Sarutobi said
“I don’t care about this stupid war!” Konohamaru yelled completely oblivious to his grandfather’s words or the course his were taking.
“Konohamaru.”
It‘s your fault This is happening! This war is your fault!” Konohamaru yelled.
“Konohamaru!”
A loud, furious sob escaped from the boy as he slammed his fist on the desk separating him from his grandfather. “It’s your fault my parents are dead! “
Sarutobi’s eyes went wide for a second, he didn’t expect to hear that, it made him a little angry “I didn’t put my son in that situation, He was the one determined to go to protect this place! To protect you! This country that your trying to leave! I didn’t force Reedamaru to go out there, I didn’t even want him to, so don’t ever insinuate that this was my fault when I did everything I could to stop it!”
Just for a moment Sarutobi forgot he was talking to his Grandson, a boy who’d just lost his parents the day before, who refused to morn over it. Who just wanted to get away from this for a moment and dissevered too. Being the President’s Grandson subjected him to more than just somebody’s shadow and to be known forever nothing else as such. Because of the war he was put through mental and sometimes physical hell through all of his life.
And Sarutobi felt guilty because that much was his fault. Because he was the Grandson of the President trying to live a normal life but prohibited to go anywhere with out protection. There were numerous times when the Sound tried to kill him to get to Sarutobi. Or tried to capture him to get information about Konoha that he knew a lot of.
His body guards were killed in front of him on occasion, he’d been splattered with their blood. He’d even been covered in his grandfather’s blood 2 years ago when a nearly successful murder attempt happened. All of this had given Konohamaru his general uneasiness from blood, it seemed the only member of his original guards that survived was Ebisu. The man had been nearly killed plenty of times and had grown a general protectiveness of him over because of it.
A 9 year-old shouldn’t be subject to assassination attempts from Sound hunter solders and spies. He deserved this, he needed it, and Sarutobi couldn’t give it to him.
“This isn’t fair, I hate you!” Konohamaru ran out of the room in a furry of anger.
“Konohamaru!” Sasuke and Naruto ran after him.
‘I really am sorry, but since there’s a powerful storm headed for Konoha intelligence is saying that the Sound is most definitely planning an attack and using it as cover. All of you could get caught in the crossfire, I’m doing this to protect you’ Sarutobi sighed, he honestly wished he could have given all of them what they wanted. It was a simple request, Konohamaru was even going to go with them so it was no hassle. All he had to do was say Yes, but he couldn’t.
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Konohamaru ran out of building, out on to the large lawn with full speed, but in usual Konohamaru fashion he tripped over his scarf and fell face first into the ground. With in a second Naruto and Sasuke were over him. “It’s not fair.” Konohamaru said, wiping his eyes with his arm.
“Do you really believe all of those things you said about your Grandfather?” Naruto asked, already knowing the answer.
Konohamaru was silent for a moment. “…No. I know I shouldn‘t have said it but…”
“I‘m sure that there was nothing he could do.” Naruto said.
“Tch.” Sasuke shook his head. “So both of you are giving up now?”
“What else are we going to do?” Konohamaru asked,
“I have an idea.”
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