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"Alright, I know what you're thinking," said Naruto as he stood in front of the village leader that he had been brought before. While most children his age would be incredibly intimidated by what had occurred only minutes earlier and the situation at hand, Naruto had a personally logical explanation for it and hence wasn't tense at all. "I don't know how I got here, wherever this is."
For those in the room who had been expecting a proper answer they did their best from facepalming themselves. The village leader had already dismissed the idea that this child was a prodigy from another village that had been sent on an assassination mission. After a search it had been found that the boy carried absolutely nothing on him other than the ocarina which now sat upon his desk.
"So from what you said earlier," he said, cold eyes focused upon the boy in front of him, "all that happened was you woke up in Konoha, went to see the Hokage, played him a tune and as a result you appear hundreds of miles away before my children nonetheless while they were having breakfast."
"Didn't I just say that?" Naruto asked of the children in question who had brought the boy before their father.
"You still think this was a good idea?" the older of the two boys whispered to the eldest child.
"It was at the time," she hissed back before looking towards her father awaiting his verdict.
The elderly man picked up the instrument, quite confident that the blue item wasn't rigged to explode. He didn't quite know what to make of it; he couldn't feel any chakra residing within it so he doubted that it was the ocarina itself which had brought Naruto here, provided that his story was true of course. After inspecting it for a few seconds he tossed it forward, Naruto scrabbling to make sure that it didn't hit the ground. "Play a song," he commanded. "You have one song to prove why I shouldn't kill you and dump your corpse in the desert."
"Okay," said Naruto completely relaxed, it wasn't the first time somebody threatened to kill him and he doubted it would be the last. Being the Hokage meant that he was going to make himself some enemies in order to prove that he was the strongest, he couldn't prove he was the strongest if he didn't have anybody to fight. Lifting the ocarina to his lips, he began to play one of the two songs that he knew and had chosen to pick the one that wouldn't potentially send him off to some other part of the world.
He'd save that one for another time.
Everything was silent in the office before Naruto began to play, the blond closing his eyes once more to put his full attention on the task at hand. The five people in the room (not including the hidden ANBU) listened carefully to the tune that Naruto played and the three children couldn't help but admit that for somebody so young it was quite impressive for somebody so young to not lose their nerve and screw up a note when being looked upon by somebody as strong as their father.
After a minute Naruto's song came to an end and those his own age looked around to see if anything had changed and seeing that nothing had they looked towards their father who held his chin in his hands, his elbows upon the table. While he had been impressed by the level of skill that Naruto had shown, what he had asked for had not been accomplished. Lifting his arm, he had no quarrel with sending the young boy to his death and it would prove to his children that if his orders were to ever be questioned then there would be consequences. Before he could issue the command however, the strangest of noises erupted all around them, the female in the room covering her ears in shock.
"Thunder?" said the village leader as he turned his head to look out the window to see that the previously pale blue sky had become infested with black clouds. He wasn't the only one who was confused by the event, nearly every occupant of the village had turned their attention skyward, none of them able to provide any insight as to why the sun was beating upon their backs like it did every other day of the week.
As the first few raindrops began to fall upon the village confusion turned into awe and as the rain developed into a torrential downpour people began to dance in the streets, loving the feeling of fresh water upon their skin. As for the village leader, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. "Whatcha think?" asked Naruto drawing the attention back to him.
"I have not seen a rainfall of this magnitude here in all my life," said the village leader being perfectly honest. Never before in his life had he witnessed such a spectacle and he knew that this would undoubtedly be the talk of the town for weeks to come. The ability to create a rain storm whenever he played a single song, this boy was something in particular but there were several things he needed to figure out. Was the rain brought forth by the song itself or was it the boy who had used some kind of jutsu via the notes he had played? If so, was it then possible to take the ocarina from him and turn his village into an oasis or did it have to be the boy who played the song? With this power at his fingertips however he was determined not to let go.
Living in the desert meant that the limit of agriculture they could grow was quite limited and traders who came in and out of the village hiked up their prices in the knowledge that people would pay for fresh produce. Even though he was the village's leader there wasn't much he could do about it as if he got them to lower their prices then they wouldn't come back again and choose to sell their products elsewhere. Looking down the track, if he was to utilise this ability for five to ten years he could permanently restructure the desert to one that didn't have to rely on other villages for certain goods.
"Pretty impressive isn't it," said Naruto as he admired his handiwork. "Strange how I only learned how to do this yesterday."
Rubbing his eyes between his index finger and thumb, the leader of the village believed he had had enough of the child for one day. "Kankuro, Gaara, take young Naruto here home," he instructed.
"Yes Kazekage," they responded as one before walking towards the door, beckoning Naruto to follow them. Not really knowing what was happening, Naruto saw no reason not to follow the two kids and thus did so with a smile on his face, closing the door behind him like the Hokage had taught him to when leaving his office. Apart from the hidden ANBU, this left the Kazekage, Temari and her uncle Yashamaru who had been standing silently in the corner the entire time.
"Temari, tell me, what do you think of young Naruto?" asked the Kazekage eying his young daughter.
"I'm not sure to be honest," said Temari as she did her best to try and answer her fathers question. "I mean it was frightening when he appeared out of nowhere this morning and now he's gone and made it rain, I really don't know what to think of him."
"Get close to him, befriend him as much as you can, children his age are often quite susceptible to girls older then them," instructed her father, his eyes never leaving hers. "His skills are needed within this village and I would prefer it if we didn't resort to using force in order to keep him here, note however that if you fail in your task then I will use whatever means necessary to keep that boy in this desert."
"Understood Kazekage-sama," said Temari with a bow, knowing full well that her father didn't appreciate being called anything other than the Kazekage while outside of the home. Without another word she turned and walked out of the office, silently adoring the sound of the rain slamming upon the roof.
Alone with his brother in law, the Kazekage turned his head towards the ninja. "This changes nothing, the plan still goes ahead tonight," he ordered, his voice cold.
"As you command," said Yashamaru with a bow before vanishing, leaving the Kazekage alone with his thoughts. One thing was for certain, the boy's appearance would not prevent him from turning his son into the ultimate weapon.
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"This is the first time I have ever seen rain, I must say it is quite intriguing," said Gaara as he, Kankuro and Naruto walked through the streets of Suna, every so often stepping on a puddle; a strange sensation to everyone knowing that there were puddles in the middle of the desert.
"Do you guys have wells or something to catch the rain?" asked Naruto, wondering what would happen to the rain he had produced.
"Yea, I remember getting shown them a while ago," said Kankuro. "Since it doesn't rain much here, and nothing ever of this size, we have to make sure to collect as much of it as possible."
"So, this really is the middle of the desert then, I'm still confused how I ended up here," said Naruto sheepishly rubbing the back of his head.
"Rocking up in the middle of our kitchen is the better question," said Kankuro as he shuddered slightly, it was unnerving having people appear out of nowhere when he was in the middle of breakfast.
"Sorry about that," said Naruto with a big smile upon his face. "I didn't mean to, I just wanted to play a tune for the Hokage and somehow I ended up here."
Gaara now had his eyes firmly set upon Naruto and couldn't help but be thankful that he didn't avoid him like much of the other villagers. Little did he know that this was something both he and the blond shared with one another along with several other small minor details. "What's Konoha like?" asked Gaara wanting to know just what it was like to be out of the sandy terrain.
"Don't start the explanation without me," said Temari as she caught up to her brothers and her fellow blond. She had taken a little longer in gaining ground on them then she could have and that was simply because she was loving the sensation of the rain hitting her skin. Also she had had to take time considering just what it was that her father wanted from her in order to keep Naruto within Suna. She didn't want anything bad to happen to him and such knew that she had to do something she may not want to otherwise. Since she was soon likely to become a Genin, she knew there would be times where she wouldn't enjoy the mission given to her by the Kazekage and she was aware this could be one such mission.
For her village, she would do it.
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Many miles away in the village hidden within the leaves, Haruno Sakura watched with a mixture of amusement and intrigue as she watched what she assumed was nearly half the shinobi of the village run back and forth in search of something. She sat upon the park bench, her legs kicking back and forth with little care for what was going on. All she cared about was whether or not she'd be seeing Naruto here again today.
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Hope you enjoyed.
Gunslayer12: I know the feeling, I'm having to go back and replay the games in order to relearn the songs. I could simply look them up on youtube but what's the fun in that?
Bloodshot111: If you want to be my beta by all means, my work could probably use somebody looking over it before I post it online.
Mazzax: I wouldn't doubt the mask salesman being immortal, one theory goes that he's the moon in Majora's Mask, which in the Narutoverse means he's the husk of the juubi...my god!
Jarjaxle: Is this story harem...no idea at the moment, I'm just rolling with it and we'll see where it goes.
Til next time.
Peace.
