Chapter 2: prayer of a refugee
'I'll tell you stories of a better time, in a place that we once knew. Before we packed our bags and left all this behind us in the dust, we had a place that we could call home, and a life no one could touch. Don't hold me up now, I can stand my own ground, I don't need your help now, you will let me down, down, down!' –Prayer of the Refugee-Rise Against
Tsunade huffed, and looked toward her assistant. Shizune, depressed at the news made eye contact with a pained smile on her face. She had known Naruto meant the world to the blonde, and now that he was gone it was like losing her hope. She nodded; Tsunade looked back to the teenage ninjas in the room. "The truth is Nar-"the door was thrown open and assistant to the elders was by her side. Tsunade listened to what this man was saying; she nodded and got up knocking her chair back onto the floor. "This will have to wait till later, meet me back here at exactly 12 O'clock am sharp I will tell you everything, but make sure no one fallows you. Now quickly go and assemble yourselves in front of this building I have just been called to an urgent meeting to explain what happened to Naruto." Tsunade walked across the room making her way to the door. "Wait! I don't care about that stupid meeting tell me what the truth is!" Tsunade looked back; anger in her eyes and staring right at the little Uchiha. A shiver ran through everyone's spine at that look, they have never seen her so angry like that before. "I said go, that's a direct Order from the Hokage, Uchiha!" she had put emphasize on the order, malice in every inch of her voice. Sasuke looked back at her wondering if he should respond, he decided against it instead grumbling out a barely audible "fine."
They had all gone outside staring at the spot where the 5th stood, a solemn look on her face. She had started to speak catching every ones attention. "As some of you may already know, Uzumaki Naruto is no longer in the village." A chorus of cheers rang through the village. The select few though, having heard the news a while ago or only minutes ago were looking at those who had cheered. Some they knew, some they don't. Is this why Naruto had left the village? Because all these people! They etched those people who had cheered faces into their mind. Tsunade stood up there watching as all those people cheer at that one sentence she had spoken. She continued on looking at those pathetic people. After what Naruto had done for them, they treat him like this! Safe to say she was beyond pissed and would have liked to strike down all those people who had cheered. But then that would make all the work Naruto had done to go to waste. If only she had looked past those people and on a roof over the 3 Anbu guards that had been posted there, she would have seen the blonde haired boy.
Said boy wiped the blood off his kunai with the anbu's cloak. A man who looked mid 20's had joined him. His white yukata had been soiled by little bits of blood here and there, his fiery red hair flowing in the wind, the fox ears adorning his head, standing straight up, 9 fox tails swaying behind him as he spoke. "Kit do you really think you can catch up with me, you left one alive." Naruto stood up watching as the one he had left alive squirm around in agony, oh so trying to make a sound. Hard to do that when you have a crushed wind pipe and both arms dislocated and crushed beyond repair to do a healing jutsu. Naruto kicked him off the roof and onto a shuriken that had been lodged there before the fight had begun. "Well that was a good workout. Well I'm going back to camp kit make sure the real you isn't messing the camp up."He jumped onto the roof toward the village wall an jumped through the forest disappearing. The Naruto clone shook his head, 'time for a little surprise he he.' He jumped on to their roofs until he was where Tsunade had stood. Shock flooded through everyone as they saw the clone. "How touching a village wide meeting just for me. I'm touched Baa-chan." He said smiling and walking towards her. One of the elders shouted for an Anbu to come and seize him. No one came. He laughed, throwing his head back an looked at the old bastards. "That's a good one." He looked down at the ground to where everyone was standing spotting what were his friends and his teachers. Everybody had regained themselves an panic washed over those who had cheered moments ago. "N-Naruto what are you doing here! You know you're a rouge ninja now why come back!" Tsunade said finally overcoming the shock. "Yes I know bu-"he stopped mid sentence an moved to the side as a kunai came whizzing past him. "Now what kind of sensei would do that to their own student? Whoops previous student, hmm Kakashi?" he turned around catching a shuriken between his fingers. "And so the high and mighty Uchiha joins him. How depressing, oh well." The shadow cloned Naruto rummaged through his pocket, pulling a scroll out and tossing it to his previous sensei. "A parting gift, but also a warning as well ne?" "Dobe, what the hell has gotten into you! I mean I knew you were an idiot but now-""tell me, do you ever shut the fuck up?" Everybody was taken back as he spoke those words. "Well that felt good, finally got that off my back. I mean really though that's all you ever do is talk about what an idiot I am, how you're so much of a better than everyone else. So tell me than Sasuke, why is it that you keep pushing people away, is it cause your bored and you like to play with people's emotions. No? then hmm let me guess is it for more power for that revenge you oh so crave for?" a kunai came whizzing an lodged itself into the shoulder of the clone. The clones eyes went wide an looked at the kunai an closed its eyes. "Make sure you look inside the scroll, Ne." the clone poofed away and the kunai clattered to the ground. The now fumed Sasuke looked at the spot where the clone had just stood, "that damn bastard!" he turned around an quickly walked away ignoring the stares from his sensei. Kakashi turned back to where the now pale hokage stood, walked over an handed her the scroll. "Hokage-sama." "Thank you kakashi." She undid the seal on the scroll an stared at it in horror. Written in blood was an urgent message from a search party she had sent early morning. 'Hokage sama please send help immediately. We had found them but then this man; nothing had come out of nowhere and had started to attack us. Please hel-'it stopped there the letter that was gonna be the p had a line smeared across the rest of the bottom of the page an blood splatter adorning it. What had he done! Most importantly who was this man that he spoke of.