Chapter 12 Welcome to the Ice Village

Reiji Haruno's was looking at all strange sights around him. He was standing between his sister and Mr. Namikaze as they walked down the street. All around him where people walking on different walkways above them. However instead of a blue sky above there was only a grey stone roof with huge lights on the ceiling. All the streets and buildings where made from stone, off in the distance he could see sun light. Mr. Namikaze looked down at him. "Come on Reiji I have something to show you." said Naruto as they made there way through the streets until they entered the sunlight side of the village. Reiji looked up to see the top of a snow covered mountain.

"Wow." Said Reiji

"That isn't the cool part." said Naruto with a smile as they walked down the street some more until they reached a railing. Reiji's eyes widened as he looked down to see that they were suspended on top of an outcropping. "We are over a mile above the valley floor."

"Cool." said Reiji as he watched some birds fly by.

"That is what I said the first time I came here." said Naruto as he rubbed the little boys head causing him to laugh.

"He would make a great father." thought Sakura with a smile before she remembered. "He is already a father."

"Mr. Namikaze." said Reiji

"Ya."

"Can I send a message to Mom and Dad?" asked Reiji as Naruto smiled.

"Of course, but lets wait till we get to the Ice village. That way your parents will know you got there safely." Said Naruto as Reiji nodded his head.

"Ok." said Reiji "Mr. Namikaze will I go to ninja school?"

"If that is what you want, then yes." said Naruto

"It is, I want to be a strong ninja." said Reiji "But I have never been to ninja school what if the other kids don't like me?"

"Don't worry about that, your have two friends right away in my kids." said Naruto as Reiji smiled.

"Are we going to live together?" asked Reiji as Naruto looked at Sakura.

"It's up to your big sister; I have plenty of room at my house for you two." said Naruto

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"Live with Naruto-kun?" thought Sakura before she smiled "Sure."

Two hours later Naruto and the others where back on the train heading out of the station. "Only four hours until we are in the Ice village." said Naruto for a while they just talked about what all has happened over the years.

"Naruto are you worried about the Akatsuki coming after you know?" asked Shikamaru "They will find out that your back. They may want the Kyuubi."

"Don't worry about that." said Naruto "The Kyuubi isn't in me anymore and with Pein dead they can't summon the extractor anyway. So they have no reason to go up against the guy who killed their leader"

"He has a point." Said Temari

"However they may have replaced there members and they wouldn't know that you don't have the Kyuubi in you anymore." said Shikamaru as Naruto shrugged his shoulders

"What ever it is, it is." said Naruto

Danzo sat behind his desk looking over some paper work before heading to the council meeting. Suddenly Shika walked through holding a letter. "Shika Nara what can I do for the Nara clan today?"

"It's my son, I just got a message from him." said Shika "He has defected to the Ice village."

Danzo leaned back in his chair. "I see so the demon child has taken another of our ninjas."

"No, it was Temari of the Sand village." said Shika as he placed his hands on Danzo's desk.

"They eloped didn't they?" asked Danzo as Shika nodded his head. "Hinata get in here!" he yelled as Hinata walked into the room.

"Yes, sir."

"Add, Shikamaru Nara and Temari of the Sand to the list of S ranked missing ninjas." said Danzo as Hinata nodded as Shika looked at Danzo.

"Lord Hokage, please he is my son just bring him back?" asked Shika

"Sorry Shika but he is a defector and has married a ninja from another village that only is already a Kill on sight order." said Danzo as Shika lowered his head. Slowly Danzo stood up "Sorry Shika but my hands are bound by the law. I hope this doesn't change your clan's council vote."

"No, Lord Hokage it doesn't if I can go to the Ice village and talk some since into my son. If I can get him to leave Temari and come home I want him to live." said Shika

"Fine, Sasuke plans to head to Ice on a tour of the nations after our war with cloud. You may join him." said Danzo as Shika walked out of the room.

"Sometimes I hate these stupid clans." thought Danzo as he threw on the Hokage's robes "If I didn't need them to pass the laws I need and to allow my ninjas to go to war I would remove them." Danzo walked out of his office and down a flight of stairs and entered the large circle room. In front of him stood a half circle table with 9 chairs one for each of the council level clans. All the council members where standing talking only Kane Haruno sitting in the Namikaze spot. The other members refused to even look at him. Soon Hiashi Hyuga the head of the council steeped forward to the small podium that stood at the center of the table.

"Let this council meeting come to order." said Hiashi as the other council members sat down at their clan seats. "We are here to listen to our Lord Hokage and his proposition. Now Lord Hokage the floor is your." With that Hiashi sat down at his clan's council chair.

"Thank you Hiashi and other council members, now our village is the strongest of any nation on this side of the world however there is one nation that stands in the way of us having total control. I request a declaration of War against the Cloud village."

"Do we have a plan to defeat the Cloud?" asked Inoichi Yamanaka

"Yes, we do." said Sasuke Uchiha "We will hit them while there army is away on a training session. We will have total control of the village by the time they return."

"I see." said Nao Hatake "They will not want to risk us killing their families so they will not attack."

"How are we going to keep them in line in a long run?" asked Shika Nara

"Place a new Raikage in charge with some of our ninjas there as a controlling force." said Danzo

"So we will have to leave some ninjas there?" asked Shiba Aburame

"Yes."

"Will that hurt the defense of the village?" asked Choza Akimichi

"No, we have plenty of ANBU and with the mass immigration of people from Wave, Wind and Earth country we can flood the Cloud village with lower clan and no clan ninjas." Said Danzo

"So we don't have worry about deaths." said Hiashi Hyuga.

"I can't believe you guys are talking about sending people to there death with out a care?" asked Kane Haruno as the other council members looked at him.

"I think you should learn to shut up." said Hiashi "If it wasn't for the fact that you traded your daughter for this spot then the Naruto Namikaze wouldn't have placed you here."

"I didn't trade my daughter for anything, she wanted to go with him and that doesn't change the fact that we are talking about peoples lives." Said Kane

"We are talking about lives that do not matter toward the power of the village." said Hiashi. "Now I call for a vote for war. Aburame?"

"We vote yes." said Shiba Aburame

"One vote yes."

"Akimichi?"

"Yes." said Choza Akimichi

"Hatake?"

"Ya." said Nao Hatake

"Alright three votes for war." said Hiashi Hyuga "And my clan votes yes as well. Now Inuzuka clan how do you vote?"

"I don't feel that war is needed at this time and I have a kid on the way. I want to be around to see him or her grow so, I vote No." said Kiba as the other members looked at him.

"Ok then, we have 4 votes for and one against." said Hiashi "How does the stand in for the Namikaze clan vote?"

"No." said Kane

"Alright then Nara clan how do you vote?" asked Hiashi

"Although I hate the idea of war, war is needed to make the village stronger." said Shika "So yes we vote for war."

Danzo could only smile "I have five votes I have my war."

"Although the motion is carried we will run down the rest of the votes." said Hiashi

"I vote yes." said Sasuke

"Same here." said Inoichi

"Alright in a vote of 7 to 2 we will go to war with the Cloud village." said Hiashi

Darkness had fallen as a train was travel out of the mountains and over a large bridge over an even large lake. "Welcome to the Land of Ice." said Naruto as the train went onto land again.

"So this is Ice County?" asked Sakura with her brother asleep on her lap as she looked out the Ice covered mountains that shimmered in the moon light.

"Ya, we should be in the village around four morning." said Naruto as Sakura laid her head on his shoulder.

"Wake me up when we get there." yawned Sakura as she closed her eyes, Naruto could only smile as he looked at the sleeping woman beside him.

"Looks good doesn't it Naruto?" whispered Shikamaru as he looked at Temari who like Sakura was using her man's shoulder as her pillow.

"Ya." said Naruto as he placed his head on top of Sakura's a few hours later the train came to a stop waking up the five people in the train car. "Looks like we are here."

Sakura looked out the window to see a station a large outer wall about the same size as the wall at Leaf Village as two ANBU stepped on aboard the train. "Sorry but they don't let the train go right into the village, without a check point." Suddenly the door opened and the two Ice ANBU entered the car. The two of them looked around until their eyes fell on Naruto. When they saw him they stopped looking at the others and snapped to attention.

"At ease." ordered Naruto as the ANBU went back to normal.

"It's good to have you back sir." said the ANBU

"It's good to be back." said Naruto "Will you do me a favor?"

"Of coarse sir." said the ANBU

"Tell the Aisukage that I have three ninjas, two from the Leaf and one from Suna who wish to join our village and a young kid who needs to be enrolled in school." Said Naruto

"He already knows sir." said a third ANBU as he walked in. "He wants you and the other people to be in his office at 9:30. He wants to see them for himself."

"Ok then." Said Naruto as the ANBU left and the train started moving again. They went though a small tunnel but soon it changed to homes and apartment buildings. "Welcome to the Ice village."

Well they are in the ice village now. However I am going to busy for about a week so I will not be able to update, sorry. I have posted a poll if you want to do it. I thank you for the reviews and I ask that you keep on reviewing. Thanks Wilkins75.