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Alright, without further ado, here's the next chapter of Naruto's New Life!
After running for a while, Yagura estimated that he was around half the way to Konoha, so he decided it was time to take a break. Lying down under a large tree, Yagura effortlessly placed a henge on himself to look like a young man with brown eyes, brown hair and a plain outfit that any common villager would have no trouble having access to. He had a long black cloak on so that no one would see his weapons pouch and other shinobi gear that would quickly show that he was no ordinary villager.
The Hokage had told him that he would not be attacked by any Konoha shinobi, however, Yagura knew that 'Konoha shinobi' did not include other people that may attack him.
'So I still need to keep my guard up,' Yagura thought to himself. He slowly closed his eyes and saw darkness.
Yagura awoke to the feeling of hostile intent. Keeping his eyes closed and breathing steady, Yagura quickly realised that it was probably a group of bandits or robbers.
'Only three of them at that,' Yagura thought.
"I think you should avoid a battle here, you don't want to attract too much attention to yourself,"
'Only if they leave me alone. They probably don't even realise I'm awake yet, so if they're robbers, they'll probably try to steal from me while asleep but if they're bandits...'
Suddenly, a rough hand gripped him and pulled him up.
'... they would want to intimidate me and then rob me,' Yagura finished.
"So, I'm guessing bandits. What do you think?"
'Ha ha, very funny,' Yagura deadpanned.
"Wake up!" a deep voice commanded.
Yagura cautiously opened his eyes and widened them, to make it look as if he was afraid.
"Y-yes," he stuttered, still in the act.
The man holding him smirked and dropped him roughly to the ground.
Two people gathered behind the man who had dropped Yagura, all were smirking.
"The name's Rujuzo," the man introduced himself, "You are?"
"S-shin," Yagura said, "I'm a traveler, and new to these parts."
"Shin? Traveller? Seriously, that's the best you've got," Isobu laughed.
'Shut up! It was the best I could come up with on the spot,' Yagura angrily thought.
"It's stupid."
"Well then, Shin," Rujuzo continued, "We can do this the easy way, or the hard way. Now, hand over anything valuable you own, if you value your life!"
"I have no valuables," Yagura replied.
"Is that so? Well..." Rujuzo turned to his companions, "I think that we should search Shin here, in case he's lying. What do you... what?" All three of them had suddenly turned deathly pale.
"B-boss," one of them stuttered out, pointing behind Rujuzo.
Rujuzo was about to turn to see what had happened, when he felt something sharp press against his throat.
"What? When did you..."
Yagura grinned, "Didn't anyone ever teach you never to turn your back to the enemy unless you're sure he's dead?" he pressed the kunai a little harder.
"Boss!" the two men cried.
"Why you!" Rujuzo shouted, "Who are you?"
Yagura put on an innocent face, "I told you. I'm Shin, just a lonely traveller,"
"Don't lie to me! Or I'll. .."
Yagura frowned. He hoped not everyone in Hi no kuni was this annoying.
"Listen," Yagura interrupted, "I don't think you're in a position to be making threats, but now since you know I'm not a villager, I can't let you leave this place," he gave the other two men an icy glare, "In fact, I can't let any of you leave."
"You little punk!" Rujuzo yelled, "You're clearly outnumbered. Don't think you stand a chance. C'mon attack him!"
"Yes boss!" the two men said. Grabbing a kunai, they began to charge at Yagura.
Yagura smirked, "You know what they say, the more the merrier,"
With that, the area was filled with the sound of yelling and metal scrapping, but suddenly, it was deathly silent. Yagura walked alone, away from the clearing and pocketed his kunai in the weapons pouch that was hidden behind the black cloak, a grin on his face.
'Hey!' Yagura thought, addressing Isobu, 'What about it is stupid? I happen to like the name Shin,' Yagura asked as he began to race through the trees towards Konoha.
Upon arriving at Konoha, Yagura saw that there were some guards posted at the gate.
Yagura snorted, 'Those two are probably Chunin, or at best low Jonin. How are they supposed to stop intruders?'
Leaving his henge on, Yagura passed through the huge gates at Konoha's entrance. A call forced him to turn and approach the two guards.
Yagura put on a friendly smile. "Is something the matter gentlemen?"
They both looked him over before one shook his head.
"No, there's no problem. We just need to know who you are, what village you are from and what your business in Konoha is. Just standard procedure. We don't want anyone coming here with ill intent, you know?"
Yagura nodded his head. "Yes, of course." Quickly making a story he said, "Well, I'm Shin. I travel a lot so I don't really have a village and the reason I'm here, well like I said, I am traveling, so yeah."
The Chunin glanced at each other but slowly nodded, "Okay. Welcome to Konoha, Shin."
Yagura didn't reply as he turned and began to walk briskly into the large village.
"Why did you lie to them?" Isobu's deep voice asked.
'Well I don't want them knowing that I'm here yet. What's the fun in that?'
"Nothing good will come of this."
Yagura rolled his eyes, 'Yeah I'm pretty sure you said that before.'
A hard wind blew past him, picking up his cloak and Yagura's eyes widened as his weapons pouch was exposed for a moment.
'No one saw that, right?'
"Hey!" a voice belonging to one of the chunin from before answered his question.
"Busted," Isobu sniggered.
'Shut up!'
Yagura's trained eyes quickly scanned the area; he spotted a busy street and made a race for it. Once in the street, he placed the Meisaigakure no jutsu (Concealing Camouflage Technique) on himself. A moment later the Chunin ran right pass him. Breathing a sigh of relief, Yagura dropped the jutsu and started to walk the opposite direction from where the Chunin had gone. Suddenly, a wild grin appeared on Yagura's face.
'That was fun,' he thought.
"Fun?" Isobu's asked in disbelief, "That was not fun,"A pause then, "Where are you going?"
'Dunno,' Yagura replied.
"Why don't you go to meet with the Hokage?" Isobu questioned, "Like you're supposed to," he added.
Yagura rolled his eyes, 'That wouldn't be interesting or fun, that's why.'
Isobu sighed, "Do what you want."
*Cue ending theme*
Tada! Did you like it? Hopefully you did.
Well as you can see Yagura is the main focus for these first chapters but don't worry, Naruto will be appearing soon, very soon.
So, Yagura has finally reached Konoha, will he do anything significant? Of course he will! But no spoliers, you will have to keep reading to find out what happens.
Before I forget, thank you so much to KatiKittyKat for being the Beta Reader for this chapter! You are awesome!
See you in the next chapter!