"So you are trying to tell me that Sasuke-kun is your twin brother and you know for a fact that he plans on attacking the village sometime in the very near future, and you actually expect me to believe you?" Tsunade asked Kei secepticaly.
"No," Kei sighed, "I don't expect you to believe me, I expect you to do something about the threat to your village! Are you or are you not the Hokage of this village! It's your job to take all threats to this village seriously even if they come from an unreliable source!" Kei threw up her hands in defeate. "Obviously I can't get threw to you people! To be honest, I'm starting to be glad that i wasn't raised in this village or else I would have become as thick skulled and stupid as you all!
"Hey! That is no way to speak to Lady Tsunade!" Sakura snapped at Kei. "I know that you are trying to help us but we don't know if you can be trusted just yet. For all we know you could be working for Sasuke, or the Akatsuki."
"That doesn't mean that you should just blow me off as some loser who doesn't know what she is talking about! If you would just listen to me you would understand! Sasuke isn't going to wait while you rebuild the village, he wants to attack right now," Kei said.
"Grandma Tsunade, maybe she is telling the truth," Naruto said slowly.
"Finally!" Kei exclaimed. "At least one person here has part of a brain."
"What do you expext me to do about this? The entire village is suffering from Pain's attack, we cant just tell then to get ready for another attack," Tsunade said.
"That's it, I've had enough of you epople! I'm gonna go walk along what's left of the wall that surounds the village and watch out for my brother, if any of the people of this village want to help, I'll be waiting." With that she took off out of the tent.
"Lady Tsunade, maybe we should stop her," Sakura said looking after the girl who had suddenly showed up out of the blue with this strange news.
"No, just let her do what she thinks she has to, same with everyone else," the Hokage said calmly.
Naruto walked through the village, thinking about what Kei had told them. He thought that Sasuke understood that they were going to fight each other instead of him just attacking the village. After a bit he saw her sitting on top of the remnants of the border wall. "Hey, you!" he called out to her, but she didn't seem to hear him. "Kei!"
"What do you want Naruto-kun?" she said, sencing him behind her. "I thought you didn't completely believe me."
"Yeah, well, I know what it's like to have no one trust you, to not believe you when you tell them something important," he replied looking out at the setting sun.
"I'm sure you do, being the Kyuubi's host. But how I hear it you are now the villige hero, everyone here loves you for killing Pain," she replied. "But hey, if you know how I feel then everything is all better, NOT! This village, my birth place, it's all in danger. I have to stop my brother, even if it kills me. You don't know his true potential Naruto, you don't really know what he is capable of because he doesn't know. Only I know the full extent of his power." Kei shook her head. "Why do none of you want to believe me? What have I done to betray you? I was told to come and destroy this village years ago, but I couldn't. I saw my brother with you and Sakura-san and Kakashi sensei and I couldn't do what I spent my life training for.
"My entire life I spent training and training, being told that this village was nothing but evil. Then when I am sent to do what I was told was right and true I find out that it was all one big lie. After that I watched you all, all three of you. You were Sasuke-kun's best friend, not to mention only friend. He trusted you when you were on the same team, it crushed him when you weren't able to stop him from leaving. He would never admit it, but he loved you as a brother. His leaving hurt both of you," Kei looked back over the destroyed village. She could feel their pain as if it were her own. it was as if she were connected to them
Naruto looked at Sasuke's sister, how could he not have seen it before. When he looked at her he could practicly see Sasuke in her, his power and will. How could she be so much like him and yet so different. She knew what Konoha had done to her family and yet she still wanted to protect him. "Why, why do you want to help us?" he asked after a few minutes of silence.
"This is the only place that Sasuke was really happy. The people who called him their friend still want to help him, even though he is concidered the enemy. You were told to kill him on sight but you still want to help him and bring him back. The people here still love him even though he wants to kill you all. I can't stand by and let him kill the only people who only really cared about him while I had none of that. Your friend Sai-kun, I grew up much like him, taught that emotions mean nothing and that the mission is all that matters."
Naruto looked at the sad expression on the girls face. How could he not have seen it, it was just like Sai's face after he realized what it ment to live around people and know that he didn't fit in. "I'm sorry about how you were raised, but you said that you tried to help Sasuke-kun, so why are you now wanting to help us stop him?"
Kei spun around and glared at Naruto, "I don't want to stop him, and I don't want to kill him. I do want to help him. I want to help him believe that this village isn't the true cause for his pain. Don't you dare think that just because I told you that he plans on attacking that I have turned my back on him. He is my brother an nothing can ever change that. I would do anything for him, even die, before I let anyone else hurt him."
How could he not see it before, although she had barely even known her brother, she still loved him. Naruto looked down at his feet, then took a deep breath and said, "I know how you feel. I never wanted to fight your brother, but he gave me no choice. He doesn't understand that we all care about him, he thinks that the entire village is against him."
