Alright, it's another chapter, another day, and yet I still don't own any fishcake for my ramen.
Konan's POV
I followed as the boy known as Kiba took me over to the group of Naruto's friends that seemed to have taken a break from… repairing the damage down to the village… by me and my friend…
"Kiba correct?" I spoke up as we got closer to the group.
He sighed out as he responded to me. "Yes?"
"You are friends with the Hinata girl that likes Naruto right?" I questioned.
"Why do you wanna know? Are you gathering information on us for when you go back to your team!" He growled back at me.
"I just wanted to know more about the village, I thought if I started asking about clans you would think the same as you just did." I explained calmly, knowing that getting mad at this boy wouldn't do me any good.
"Whatever, yeah she has always seemed to like him, but I'll make her notice me!" He barked out.
"She has always liked him? I was under the impression Naruto was quite alone whilst he grew up?" I questioned
"Well she gets all nervous and cute whenever Naruto is mentioned, or nearby… Why do you think Hinata was taken?" He asked suddenly.
"Bit of a jump there, but I think it might be Kabuto, Orochimaru had quite a few subjects with kekkei genkai, so it makes sense that the little cockroach is doing the same." I answered, happy to be questioned for something that wasn't mine or Nagato's fault for once.
"Alright, anyway this is where the rest of the guys were when we got the news and I ran off to talk to Naruto and Sakura." He announced as I saw the small group sitting on and around some piles of lumber cut into rectangles and piles up in pyramids.
The first person I saw was a slightly overweight child resting his weight upon the shaven logs that would be used to rebuild the village, or some of them rather, he was wearing a red cloth suit with armour plates for added defence on his upper arms and legs as well as his chest, having the same kanji for "food" (食, shoku) on the front. His forehead protector was shown prominently in its normal position with red cloth behind it and he had studs in his ears, sitting next to him was a girl with another ponytail, this time tied lower with some of the platinum blonde locks covering one of her sharp blue eyes, with a short royal purple blouse that came up to her neck, she had fish net pads on her elbows and knees and a pair of shorts made of the same material below a black skirt that was itself under an open-front purple apron like skirt. She was curiously missing her forehead protector as well as having a bandage on her upper thigh of her right leg. Whilst those two sat on the unconstructed houses the third of them was leaning against a piece of fencing, he was quite tall, with shoulder length shadow black hair tied upwards into a ponytail and his brown eyes were just trailing across the clouds, he wore what I recognised as the dusty-green Konoha chunin vest with all its pockets and a pair of no-nonsense trousers with a wrapping of cloth around his right leg in the same place as the girl.
The Inuzuka ram over to meet them, calling out as he got close. "Oi guys, I told Naruto and Sakura, but look who they had with them."
The collection of the three of them looked over and focused in my direction with looks of confusion with the girl calling out. "Huh, Who's she? I've never seen her before?"
Before I could speak up a fourth person that I hadn't seen before stepped out from behind the logs and spoke. "I can answer that, this is because I fought her with my family where she tried to kill us"
The boy that stepped out wore a mysterious long trench coat with a hood that was a dusty gray colour with a pair of sunglasses covering his eyes, nothing else could really be made out with his outfit covering him, I couldn't even see a forehead protector but I did recognize him and I knew it meant I was in trouble.
The boy wearing red spoke up to say. "Huh? Why would Naruto be hanging around with someone who was fighting the village, maybe she was being controlled"
Before I could correct them the girl chimed in. "Yeah, that makes sense, Naruto wouldn't be hanging out with someone that attacked us otherwise right?"
The boy in the trench coat was about to speak over me again when the one lazing around in the back called out. "How about we let her speak, she seems to want to talk and watching you guys not let her is troublesome"
The boy in red and the girl looked sheepish and apologies. "Sorry Shikamaru and sorry… uhm what's your name?"
With all of them staring at me with gazes crossing from accusing to curiosity. "My name is Yutaka Konan and I was working with Nagato to collect the tailed beasts and… no I wasn't forced into it, Naruto came to us and instead of fighting us he showed Nagato a better way to fix the world… that's why he revived your villagers."
"WHAT." Shouted the chubby boy, girl and the boy named Shikamaru.
"I'm sorry, he thought- we thought it was the only way to save the world" I explained
"Oh and that's supposed to make up for it is it? Oh sorry I killed your friends and family I realized that's a bad thing to do, my bad." Shouted Kiba
"No, of course it doesn't make up for it, but I want to, we did it for peace, he gave up his life because of Naruto's argument." I replied.
"So the guy that did all of this died for it and you just decided that meant you were fine to live here? Guess again." The girl replied.
"You're not listening to me are you? Fine, I'll leave you alone for now, I don't wish to fight." I said, turning around to leave.
But as I turned around I found a wall of bugs from the boy with the sunglasses blocking my path to leave, that circled around me and closed in on a dome, I could use Jutsu to get out but I knew doing that would only make me look worse.
"Whats this for? I just want to leave you be but you're keeping me here." I called out to them.
"I setup my bugs to block your escape, this is because I knew you would try to run and we are going to take you to the hokage." The bug user spoke in monotone.
"Nice job Shino!" Shouted out the boy and girl whos names I didn't know.
"Tsk, I don't think we should take her to the hokage, Naruto let her into the village and the Hokage could make things troublesome by pinning it all on him." Shikamaru argued.
"So what we just let her go around the village until she attacks someone." Kiba contered.
"I don't think Shikamaru is saying that Kiba, just that we can't get Naruto in trouble after what he did for us, even IF he left a mess to clean up" The girl put forth.
"I do not believe we should let her off easily just because Naruto did Ino, this is because Naruto still thinks he can save Saskue even when he is trying to kill him." Shino explained.
"What so we just ignore that Naruto trusts her, sure he wants to bring Saskue back but he wouldn't put us in danger, what if we're overreacting." The fatter boy chimed in.
"Can I make a suggestion." I asked.
"NO!" Shouted everyone back at me.
"So we can't take her to the hokage but we can't leave her be, troublesome, I have a plan though, Shino can you attach some bugs to her and tell them to attack her and find us if she tries to attack anyone." Explained Shikamaru.
"I would rather not, this is because to I would be going around the hokage and I would rather not give him reason to turn on me." Shino said.
"Alright then, have the bugs route back to me, it could've been anyone from your clan even if he does figure out that bugs were used, and I'll do my best to make sure he doesn't." Shikamaru sighed.
I assumed Shino nodded but I couldn't see through the bugs, but a few of them few down and latched onto me. Once they had done that I spoke again. "So do you trust me enough to talk to me now? Or at least to let me leave?"
The bugs dissipated and I saw the fatter boy standing there as he started to talk. "Hey I'm Akimichi Chōji, the girl is Yamanaka Ino, this guy is Nara Shikamaru, pointing to the boy with his brown pony tail, the one with the dog is Inuzuka Kiba and his dog is Akamaru, and finally Aburame Shino is the one with the bugs."
"Well it's nice to be formally introduced to all of you, and you have my word, however little that means, that I don't want to cause trouble, I don't deserve this second chance but Naruto… he really doesn't want to give up on people, I want to help him with that like I wanted to help Nagato to fulfill his goal." I explained.
"So I take it Nagato is Pein's real name?" Asked the Nara.
"Yes, it takes a bit of explaining but let me tell you roughly how we fell down our dark path…" I started.
And there we go guys, another chapter done! I wanna start getting these out quicker and quicker after the long break, but that is going to be a bit of quantity over quality which I don't like. Rest assured every chapter will have been proof read and done to the best of my abilities but without 1Nior thats going to be alot lower, at least until I get better at writing, but that's why I'm doing it faster, to get to the point where I can write better. Please leave a review for how I should improve and if you have any theories as to what my plans for Hinata and Konan are.
I would like to recommend Blindsided by twice the trouble, it's a Naruto story where he gets blinded at the start… it has some really funny moments and they use the blindness well, in my opinion at least so go check it out!
