Suiren Uzumaki: The disclaimer: I do not own Naruto cause if I did then Sakura wouldn't be a useless fangirl in pre-shippuden and Naruto would have his Father's smarts while keeping his Mother's personality and knows about seals and how to use to them. I do, however, own Rin Uzumaki (Namikaze). Remember to Read and Review to let me know what you think. Also if you don't like any twist that I might make then stop reading and find something else to read plus don't leave a review that's a flame or I will find a way to block you. Ja ne!
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13: The Land Where A Hero Once Lived!
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After they all had eaten, the group returned to the viewing room to watch one more episode before going to bed.
"Everyone ready?" Kakashi asked as he held the remote this time.
"Yes," they all answered.
"Okay," he nodded his head before hitting play.
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The scene opened to show that it was the early hours of the morning along with Rin pulling her hair out of her custom ponytail and letting it fall down her back just like her Mother before her before she grabbed a basket and then walked out of the house slowly. The redhead then made a reinforced Shadow Clone before heading into the woods to pick the herbs that Kakashi needed to get better.
"Rin-chan!" an excitable voice called out. "Rin-chan! Rin-chan!"
The red hair Genin blinked few times before looking behind her to see the mask Uchiha running up to her while waving.
"Tobi?" she asked surprised as he finally came to a stop next to her. "What are you doing here?"
"Tobi came looking for Rin-chan when he found out that she wasn't in Konoha," the man answered.
"Why?" the redhead tilted her head.
The Uchiha had to swallow while blushing under his mask as the confused and slanted head made the Uzumaki Heiress look like a lost puppy.
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"AWE!" the females all gashed.
Obito blushed brightly at the look making Kakashi and Rin to look at him before sharing a look with small smiles.
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"Tobi wants to get to know Rin-chan better," Obito answered.
This got a soft smile from the young girl.
"Okay, then," she agreed before turning. "You can also help me with picking herbs while we talk."
"YEAH!" he cheered as he moved quickly to walk next the redhead. 'Damn Kakashi. He's so lucky to get to train Sensei's Daughter.'
When the two of them reached a clearing, Rin told him what to pick and what the herb looked like while he asked her questions about herself that she answered.
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"SO CUTE!" the females once again gashed.
"Minato, Minato," Kushina chanted.
"Huh?"
"Don't you think that Obito and our little girl look like cute together?" she asked.
This made the Uchiha pre-teen to blush even more, but also hide as best as he could from his glaring Sensei.
"Not really," the blonde answered with grumble.
This got him the stink eye from his Wife, who then pouted.
"She's not even born yet and already your acting like an overprotective Father," the Uzumaki sighed.
This got laughs from everyone while the Namikaze pouted this time before going back to glaring at his Uchiha student, who tried to make himself smaller.
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Sakura sat on the edge of the partly completed bridge while the Shadow Clone of Rin helped Tazuna with the building which earned her respect from the old man. The redhead let out a sigh as she walked by Sakura carrying 100 wooden planks just as Sakura yawned and she wasn't the only one, who noticed the pink hair freak.
"Are you always this lazy?" Tazuna asked. "Where's that weird blond kid and the one with the attitude?"
"Their training," Sakura answered. "Climbing trees."
"What?" Tazuna asked shocked. "To tough for you?"
"No," Sakura replied back. "In fact I'm the best, so that's why the Sensei sent me here to guard you."
"Your joking?" Tazuna asked. "I understand Rin." He pointed at her as she shot Sakura an Uzumaki glare. "I mean she's stronger then she looks, so I believe her, however, you. Yeah, right."
Sakura got an anger vein as the red hair Genin placed the wooden planks down with ease just as Tazuna placed his own wooden plank down. As she turned to go get more she saw a worker walk up to them looking glumly.
"Tazuna," he called. "I need to talk to you."
Tazuna turned to look at the worker.
"What about?" he asked.
"Uh...the thing is I've been thinking about the bridge and I've decided I've pushed my luck far enough. I want out."
"YOU GOING TO QUITE ON ME JUST LIKE THAT!" Tazuna shouted as Kitsune glared at the worker. "YOUR KIDDING!?"
"No," the worker answered calmly. "I stayed on because of your friendship, but I'm putting my like on the line everyday I stay here." He looked down as Kitsune glared harden. "Gato and his thugs well show up eventually. When they do they'll kill you and the bridge won't get finished anyways. It's a lost cause Tazuna. Why don't we stop now well we can still get out of this alive?"
'Coward,' the Clone thought with a growl.
"No chance," Tazuna answered.
"Huh?'
"This is out bridge," Tazuna went on. "Our island is poor and it's going to stay that way until the bridge connect use to the main land. Commoners, traders, and hope that's what we're building here."
"There's not going to be mush hope if we're all dead," the worker told him.
"It's already noon let's break for lunch," Tazuna told him as he walked past.
"Tazuna, let's not end like this?" the man asked.
"Save you breath," Tazuna told him. "And oh Giiche don't bother coming back after lunch."
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The three pre-teens of Team Minato looked upset before sharing a look with each other wondering what they would do if push came to shove.
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Episode 13: The Land Where A Hero Once Lived!
The scene changed to show Naruto and Sasuke, who were still trying to climb trees with their Chakra.
"Why is this so hard!?" Naruto asked angrily as Sasuke looked up at his tree before the two boys then looked at each other only for them to stand up and glare at each other. 'I'm not going to lose out to you.'
The two of them then started to run up their trees in combination.
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"That won't work," Minato sighed. "Combination isn't going to help with learning Tree Climbing."
The pre-teens looked over at him before sharing a look at that.
"That's true," Fugaku agreed. "Combination is detraction. One needs to be focus to complete it." He crossed his arms. "It's one thing to be competitive once you got the exercise down somewhat, but before that...not a good idea."
The two Chunins and lone Jonin were in awe of that before deciding that they'll keep that in mind for when they get a Genin Team. However, Obito was hoping that he would be able to be the Jonin Sensei of Rin Uzumaki and her Brother while Kakashi didn't mind being the Sensei of Sasuke. Rin, on the other hand, thought that it might be best if she took Sakura in hand to help the girl get over her fangirl nature and be more focus on her ninja career then on boys like the second born Son of Fugaku and Mikoto.
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Rin, Tazuna, and Sakura were walking through the village as the two Kunoichi looked around seeing young kids setting up against walls of the builds and some adults carrying signs saying that they will any kind of work. The redhead looked around feeling sadden by what she was seeing and felt her hatred towards Gato get stronger with the more children they pass by.
"Where are we going?" Sakura finally asked.
"You want to eat tonight don't cha?" Tazuna asked. "I have to pick up some things for dinner."
"THIEF!"
The red hair Uzumaki looked around to see a young kid running throw the crowd as her heart clenched up at the sight.
'What's wrong with these people?' Sakura thought as she looked around.
The Uzumaki Heiress hardly paid attention as they walked up to a store.
"Here we are," Tazuna told them before they walked inside.
"Welcome."
'This is a store,' Sakura thought. 'There's nothing here.' It was then that she felt some one touch her ass making her to spin around and kick the guy in the face. "You Pervert!"
"No, I was just..."
After getting they needed they walked out of the store while Rin and Tazuna walked out, but Sakura stormed out of it making the red hair Genin to sweatdrop at her teammates temper.
'I thought I had a temper,' Rin thought. 'Well I was wrong.'
"Wow," Tazuna said impressed. "You really surprised me back there. Girls around here don't fight like that."
"They should," Sakura told him. "Something is seriously wrong here." Sakura's eye twitched as some one once again touched her ass. 'Again.' She spun around. "Hey, buster..."
The Uzumaki looked back to see what made Sakura to stop talking to see a young child standing there with a surprised look before a smile appeared and the child held out her hands.
"Please?" the child asked.
Both Sakura and Rin looked at each other before they looked inside their bags for food to give the child and was only able to come up with candy.
"Here," they both said as they handed the child the candy.
"Ah," the child laughed as she took the candy. "Thank you."
Both of the Kunoichis nodded as tears came to their eyes while they watched the child run off happy to get at least some kind of food.
"This is how it's been since Gato came here," Tazuna told them. "The children suffer, the adults are afraid to stand up to him. They lost all hope that's why we need to finish they bridge. It well bring commoners and trade, but more importantly it's a symbol of courage. We must restore the spirit of our people. When the bridge is finished people well start to believe again. They'll be able to live their lives with dignity. We can't let Gato stop us."
"Introduce me to this Gato and he'll be dead within no time," Rin growled as her fist clenched.
"I don't whither your brave or stupid," Tazuna told her.
"I'm an Uzumaki," the Uzumaki Heiress told him. "So I'm both."
'Sasuke, Naruto,' Sakura thought as she ignore the other two. 'We have to help them.'
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Everyone gained a sad look on their faces and in their eyes at sight of a child, who smiled at just getting some candy.
"That's wrong," Obito said softly. "For a child just to be happy a few pieces of candy."
Kakashi placed a hand on the Uchiha Chunin's shoulder while Rin took his hand into her own.
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The two boys continued to run up their trees only for Naruto to start to be pushed off forcing him to mark his spot before he landed on the ground and turned to watch again.
'He's still climbing!' the blonde thought. 'That's impossible.'
Sasuke soon felt his control slip, so he marked his place and then jumped down down, but he also looked at Naruto's tree.
'Damn,' the Uchiha thought. 'He's catching up to me. Inch by inch.'
The Uzumaki let out a growl before shaking his head.
'No, no, no,' he thought. 'If I think about Sasuke then I'll lose my concentration, ya know. Come on, Naruto.' The Uzumaki placed his hands in a hand sign. 'Center yourself.'
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"Hey, your good at this," Naruto said as he knelt in front of Rin. "How about some advice Onee-chan?"
"Huh?" the female Uzumaki blinked before sighing. "Alright. Chakra requires spiritual energy, so if you get all anxious and frantic then it doesn't work. You have to relax and totally focus on the tree. That's how you get a steady Chakra flow in the bottoms of your feet.'
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"That's good advice," the Sarutobi said in surprise.
"That little girl of yours is clever, Minato, Kushina," Tsunade said.
Both parents felt pride.
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'Relax,' Naruto thought as he focused. 'Focus on the tree.' A blue glow surrounded his feet. 'Yeah! I can feel it!' He looked at the tree. 'I'm going all the way this time!'
The blonde goes to run at his tree.
"Hey!" Sasuke called out making the Uzumaki to fall. "Naruto!"
"Sasuke!" the younger Genin yelled as he sat up and glared at him. "What are you doing!? I was trying to focus my Chakra!"
"Well...uh...you know the thing is…"
"The thing is what?" Naruto asked as he crossed his arms. 'That's strange. He never talks to me. What's he up to?'
"You...you know, you ask Rin for advice when she was here," the Uchiha pointed out. "What did she tell you?"
Naruto blinked a few times before smirking.
"I'm not telling you," the blonde answered.
This made Sasuke to glare at him as animal sounds where heard.
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Mikoto and Kushina let out a sigh as the felt the disappointment at the fact that their Sons didn't get along with each other while the others either smirked, smiled, or laughed.
"They act more like rival Brothers then anything else," Mikoto sighed.
The Uzumaki nodded in agreement as the rest of the group just looked amused.
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All of Squad 7 were setting at the table eating with Tazuna and his family though Sasuke and Naruto where eating like it won't be there if they didn't take their time making Rin to look at them with disgust.
"This is great," Tazuna said with a laugh. "It's been ages since we've had so many people at our table."
It was at that moment that Sasuke and Naruto stood up at the same time.
"I want' some more!" they said at the same time.
The female Uzumaki along with Sakura looked back at forth between the two of them before they turned slightly purple and turned to puke making the redhead to push away her food with a scowl on her face.
"Don't eat so mush if your going to puke it up!" Sakura shouted.
"I have to eat," Sasuke told her as he came back up.
"And I have to eat more then him," Naruto stated. "It's the possible way I can get strong enough to beat him."
"That's true, but puking won't help you," both Rin and Kakashi said at the same time.
They looked at each other before the Hatake cackled while the red hair Genin glared at him as the others looked at them with raised eyebrows though Tazuna had cackled as well .
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"Gross," Rin groaned at that.
The rest just sighed at the boys behavior.
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The Hatake sat at the table trapped inside his thoughts as he sip his tea quietly while the redhead was going through a set of notes on a seal that she was creating though she almost jumped when Sakura's voice sounded from over by the sink.
"Excuse me?" she asked. "This picture is torn. Is there a reason for that?" The Haruno then looked over at the table. "Inari, you kept glancing at it all through dinner. Looks some one else was in the picture, but they were torn out. It's kinds strange isn't it?"
Rin looked at the pinkette with disappoint when she felt the tension in the room.
"It's my husband," Tsunami answered.
"They use to call him a hero in this land," Tazuna stated.
Inari then got up making everyone to look at him.
"Inari, where are you going?" she asked as he walked out making her to follow, but at the door she looked back at Tazuna. "Father, you can't talk about him in front of Inari. You know that."
The Jonin let out a sigh as he looked at the Client.
"Inari's so…" the pinkette trailed off. "I mean, what happened to him?"
"Hmm," the 27-year-old hummed. "Is there a story behind this?"
"He wasn't his real Father," Tazuna answered. "He came into the family later and he brought so much happiness. He and Inari were very close. In those days, Inari use to laugh all the time, but then…" They all looked at him in wonder. "All that ended. He never laughs or smiles anymore. Ever since that day that everything changed. The word courage was stolen from this island. We were left powerless, hopeless, and Inari suffered the most. Ever since that day. Ever since it happened."
"Tell us?" Kakashi asked. "What happened to Inari?"
"First you need to know about the man, his Father," the bridge-builder answered. "The man, who taught us the word courage. Who was a Hero in this land."
"A Hero? Really?"
"You can decide that for yourself," Tazuna answered. "He came here about three years ago."
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"Hero, huh?" the Uchiha Chunin asked in thought.
"I think we're about to find out what happened to the boy's Father," Minato stated.
Everyone, who was either slouching or lining forward, sat up straight at that.
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"Poochy!" a younger Inari called out as he was held back by two boys. "Poochy no!"
A puppy started to bark.
"That's not his name," another boy said. "Starting today, his name is Shooting Star. And he's my dog now."
"No, he's not!" Inari argued. "He's my dog and his name is not Shooting Star! I had him since he was a puppy! He's my friend and he doesn't belong to you!"
The kid tried to get out of the hold of the two boys that were holding him.
"Just shut up!" the ring leader ordered before looking at the dog, who whined.
The older boy then threw the dog over the docks into the water.
"POOCHY!"
"See what happens when you don't listen to me," the boy stated. "Now I'm not going to lift a finger to help him. Okay, you can let him go."
The other two boys did as told allowing Inari to walk forward looking angry.
"Why did you do that?!" he asked angrily. "My dog is going to drown!"
"If he's your dog then jump in and get him," the older boy stated. "Be a big Hero and save your friend." Inari's angry look turned to a frighten look. "After all that big talk, your not going to let him go under, are you?"
Inari walked towards the edge of the docks before he froze as the other three boys moved to stand behind him.
'I've got to jump in and save him,' Inari thought. 'I've got to, but…'
"He won't even help his precious little Poochy," the ring leader of the boy laughed as he walked up to the younger kid.
'I can't swim,' the young boy thought. 'And I'm scared. I'm sorry Poochy.'
"Hey, you made such a big deal about it then go get him," the older boy said before he kicked Inari over the edge and into the water.
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Everyone gasped in shock, horror, and outrage at the scene.
"That good for nothing little brat!" Kushina yelled.
"It was obvious that the kid couldn't swim!" Mikoto added. "That boy is nothing, but a bandit in the making!"
"He needs to get his ass beat," Tsunade growled.
"Damn straight," Rin agreed.
Kakashi and Obito started to slowly move away from their female teammate, who had a vicious glare on her face. The two boys shared a look with each other as they came to a truce if only to keep her from turning her anger on them.
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"I think you went to far Kayne," one of the other boys said as they walked up. "He could really drown or something."
"HELP!" Inari yelled. "PLEASE!"
"Forget about it."
"I don't know."
"You say one more word and your going in next got it!?"
"I don't want to die!" Inari yelled in fear before he turned to see his dog swimming. "Pooch…" The young boy kept trying to keep his head above the water. "Pooch!"
"Interestingly enough, at that exact moment, Pooch learned how to dog paddle."
The dog managed to get to shore before it shook itself out and then took off.
"HEY! SHOOTING STAR IS RUNNING AWAY! GET HIM!"
The three older boys took off completely leaving Inari in the water without a second thought to his life.
'Oh, no,' Inari thought as he went under. 'Can't breath. I...'
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"Good for nothing little brats," the females all growled.
The males all moved away from them for fear of their lives.
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However, Inari soon find himself walking to the sky and a roaring fire.
"Waking up, huh?" a voice asked. "Finally." The boy gasped as he sat up before looking over to see a fisherman. "I had a talk with those kids. They won't be bothering you again." He then held out a fish. "Here. Eat."
'Am I alive?' Inari thought. 'Is this for real?' "Did you pull me out of the water mister?"
"Have a bite to eat first," the man told him. "And then we'll can talk all about it." The boy did as the older male said and as he eat, the kid explain about what happened. "I see. So, your dog abandoned you, too, huh? In my country dogs are very loyal. They stand by their masters. Then again, you abandoned the dog first, what can you expect?"
Inari stopped eating and looked down at that.
"I really wanted to save him, but I just froze," he informed the older male. "I was just so scared. I guess that I just don't have any courage."
"Hey, come on," the man said as he placed a hand on top of the kid's head. "Don't be so hard on yourself, your a kid. When I was your age, I was scared, too."
"Huh?"
"It's no big deal," the man told him. "But, always remember this. Live your life, so that you have nothing to regret. If you care about something protect it no matter how tough, no matter how sad, you've got to keep trying. Even if you have to put your life on the line protect it with both arms. Never give in."
Inari stared at him in awe.
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Obito also stared at the man in awe as well while the others all smiled as that was the kind of thing that all ninjas should use when the going got touch.
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"He's name was Kaiza," Tazuna told them. "A simple fishermen, who came here from another land, to follow his dreams. After that Inari and Kaiza were inseparable. The boy has never knew his real father, so you can imagine what it meant to him to have Kaiza in his life. He looked up to him and followed in his foot steps like a real Father and Son. Kaiza spent more and more time with us until he just naturally became a member of our family. And then when this town needed him, he became something more."
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"Wow," Kakashi breathed as he can understand Inari a little bit.
While the Hatake had known his Father for 6 short years and he had been on his own since. He can understand as Minato soon came into his life and gave him the Father figure that he didn't know that he needed.
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"Big trouble Kaiza!" a townsmen yelled as he slammed open the door of the house. "The flood gates are open and the waters are rising!" Kaiza stood up from the table where he was talking with Inari. "If we don't stop it then the lower distract will be flooded!"
"What?"
"Father!"
"Inari get me some rope! Hurry!"
"Right!" the boy agreed as he ran to do just that.
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"What is planning?" Jiraiya asked confused.
"We'll be finding out soon, no doubt," Hiruzen answered.
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"See where the gate is," a male townsman stated. "We need to get a line out there to pull it close."
"A line?" another asked. "You'll have to swim out there to do that! It's impossible. No one can make it through that current!"
"If we don't do it then the whole distract will be whipped out!" a third townsman added. "It's the only way!"
"I'll do it," Kaiza spoke up as he walked over to them.
"Kaiza!?"
"Don't be foolish!"
"You'll never make it."
"Father?"
"Don't worry," Kaiza told Inari. "Nothing can stop your Dad. This is our village, so have to do everything that we can to help."
The older male soon took off his hat and tied one end of a rope around his waist while moving to stand on the edge.
"If you care about something protect it. Even if you have to put your life on the line. Protect with both arms. Never give in."
Kaiza then jumped into the raging waters and started to swim through the current as the kid was watching.
"FATHER!" Inari called out. "I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT!"
He then pulled himself up on top of the damn's gate panting before tying the rope around it.
"He made it! He tied the rope on!"
"Alright, let's pull it close!"
"Everybody come on!"
They all grabbed the rope on their end and started to pull it.
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The three pre-teens of Team Minato all gap in shock at that as even a Ninja wouldn't have been able to make even with water walking.
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"After that, Kaiza was considered a Hero in this land," Tazuna informed them. "He taught us all the meaning of courage and Inari was so proud to be his Son. But, it wasn't long after that Gato showed up and took over. He terrorized the whole village. Only Kaiza stood up to him."
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The scene then showed the inside of a warehouse where the sounds of something was hitting the back of a person was heard while grunts were also heard.
"Gato couldn't have a local Hero getting in the way. It took his whole gang to stop one man."
"You over played your hand, Kaiza," Gato stated. "All that talk about how you going to protect this island with your two arms." The short man laughed. "Those arms aren't much good are they?" Kaiza was once again hit in the back with wooden pole of some kind. "Still that got that definite look in your eye though." He smirked. "Will, my men will get rid of that." He then moved his head at the two much taller and heavier men slightly behind him, who smirked, before they lifted up a pair of malletseach. "Get to work."
"Get down there," a thug ordered as he kicked Kaiza down.
They then walked over to Kaiza, who looked up at them, before the two thugs then lifted up the mallets and then brought them down on the man's arms making him to cry out.
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"Yowch!" Obito yelled as his flinched. "That has got to hurt badly."
"Ya think?" Kakashi asked with a deadpan.
This got him a glare from the Uchiha Chunin.
"Shut up, Bakashi!"
Rin and Minato shared looked with each other before letting out a sigh as they hanged their heads.
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A group of people were showed standing behind a fence as Kaiza was tied to a wooden cross with his arms looking like one big burs.
"Listen up!" Gato called out. "This man has defied the Gato Corporation. He has disturb the order of this land. His punishment is execution." This made everyone talk in still anger about Gato. "Let this be an example so that no one will stand in our way again."
"FATHER!" Inari yelled as he sobbed.
"Inari, don't."
Kaiza looked at the young boy and gave him a small smile.
"Do it," Gato ordered.
The one of the bodyguards pulled out his sword.
"Father, no," the kid cried. "DADDY!" The sword was brought down on Kaiza, ending his life. "You told me...that you'll protect me and this land...with both your arms. You made me believe that you could do it...but, it was all just a lye."
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The Hatake's eyes took on a sad shine which got his teammates attention before they moved to provide any form of comfort that they could. Both Rin and Obito knew that this was reminding him to much of his own situation only Inari had a Grandfather and Mother still while the silver hair Jonin was the last Hatake alive.
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"Since then Inari changed," Tazuna told them. "So did Tsunami and all of our people. We've lost our will."
Naruto's eyes were narrow as he thought back to when they meet Inari and after.
"Ha," Inari laughed. "There's no such things as Heroes. Only stupid kids believe that !"
The kid sat on a desk looking out over the ocean crying while holding a picture frame.
With a growl the blonde goes to stand up only to fall flat on his face.
"What are you doing down there, Naruto?" the pinkette asked as Rin got up and went to make sure that he was okay.
"You better take the day off," Kakashi told him. "No more training. You use to much Chakra." The male Uzumaki struggles to get up. "If you push any hard it could kill you."
"I'm going to prove it."
"Prove what?"
"I'll prove that it's true," the 12-year-old male Genin answered as he stood up. "That in this world...there are real Heroes."
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Obito crossed his arms as the screen went black and nodded his head.
"Naruto is right," he agreed. "There are real Heroes. Like the Hokages."
The Sarutobi blushed at that while the rest all smiled at the young 12-year-old.
"Well, it's time for some rest," Hiruzen said as he stood up.
The rest of the group all agreed before they headed off to get some rest.