Chapter 2: Break In!
Man that was a good meal! I can't wait to go to bed though. Naruto thought as he fiddled with the lock on his door. Why won't this god damned lock open! Naruto banged on the door in frustration and the door swung open freely.
"What the-, I thought I locked it," Naruto thought out loud. He walked in his apartment and it looked like someone had been going through all of his things. Slowly the door creaked shut. Naruto whipped around and found himself staring face to face with the young man in Kakashi's warning poster.
"GAAUUGGHH!" Naruto shouted, and then swift as a snake the intruder pulled a kunai and held it to Naruto's throat.
"You speak again, I'll kill you!" the young man said in a harsh tone, "If you want to speak ever again work with me, if I get even an ounce of struggle, you'll be talking with your hands for the rest of your life, get my drift?"
"Of course!" Naruto said backing away. Suddenly the voice came from behind the intruder, "But I don't take orders from strangers well!"
Then a figure made a slash at the intruder from behind! Damn! This one's good, I never even saw him make the doppelganger! The intruder thought as he dodged the attack but he was too late; he got a deep slash on his left side.
"Hun!" the intruder fell on his to his knees, "Please, I'm so sorry listen all I want to do is warn your people about the risk of possible war!"
"LISTEN, I don't care about your sappy cover-up story!" Naruto yelled at the intruder, "Your people have already warned us about you, they say you're the one trying to declare war and you're looking for followers!"
"No you have to listen to me! Its Moragar's doing, she's the one who wants to spread war, not me! I'm trying to prevent it!" the intruder yelled.
Just then Naruto struck a spot on the back of the intruder's neck, and he fell limp to the ground.
"He attacked you!? WOW!" Konohamaru said in amazement.
"Yeah, but he was no match for a superior ninja like me!" Naruto said with a grin leaning back in his chair making it stand on two legs.
Team 7, Kakashi, and Konohamaru were all in a room discussing what had happened in Naruto's apartment, and what was said in the intruder's interrogation. The young man who broke into Naruto's apartment was named Gabriel of the village hidden-under-ground; Morelion.
"From what I heard in the interrogation, he never meant to harm you in the first place," Sasuke said with his arms folded, Naruto fell backwards on his chair.
"HOW WOULD YOU KNOW YOU WHEREN'T THERE!" Naruto bellowed in rage, and he got up and sat down again.
"Naruto, calm down," Kakashi said calmly, "Hmmmm, I don't under stand why would Moragar want war against Konoha?"
"He probably was lying, I mean, Moragar said herself that it was Gabriel trying to stir up war," Sakura said shrugging her shoulders.
"No, I doubt it," Kakashi said flatly.
"What do you mean, Master Kakashi?" Konohamaru said puzzled.
"I saw no lies in his eyes during the interrogation, he was telling the truth," Kakashi said looking up at the ceiling.
"Kakashi, what will happen to Gabriel?" Naruto asked uneasily.
"We'll probably take him back to Morelion, and they'll punish him there," Kakashi said matter-of-factly.
"Punish him?" Sakura said quizzically.
"Of course, he became a rouge sence he left his village, that can get you one of the worst punishments" Sasuke said arms still folded eyes closed.
"What could they do to him?" Konohamaru asked worried.
"Well there's: banishment, torture, your ninja-hood taken away, and death," Sasuke said opening his eyes.
"Death?" Naruto gulped.
"Let me tell you, Morelion is one of the more brutal countries. He'd be lucky to get away with torture," Kakashi said looking at Konohamaru.
"Well, that sucks," Naruto muttered under his breath.
"Yeah, and you know what sucks even more?" Sasuke said with a sigh, "Gabriel has a family. And I don't mean just a father, mother, and sibling. He has a wife and son."
"But if he had so much on the line by leaving then why did he leave?" Sakura asked.
"Because if he went to war and died, not just his family would lose someone but thousands would," Kakashi explained, "He thought its better that one man die than a whole nation."
"That's really cool!" Naruto said wiping his eyes.
"Are you crying!?" Sakura asked.
"NO, I just got something in my eye that's all!" Naruto said hiding his face.
"Well, it's been a long day, I'm calling it a night," Kakashi said getting up and leaving. And the rest did the same.