Kei looked at Naruto, "What I don't understand is why you care about him so much. You two seemed like rivals in everything, especially training." She looked at her twins friend, a tear falling from her right eye. Naruto brushed the away as she turned away at his touch.
"Sasuke and I are a lot alike, we both were outside the rest of our class, having no family to be there for us. Though we never really got along we were close, not like the others but on a deeper level. We helped eachother to get better in a round about way. I didn't want to be out done by him and he wanted to be the best and it's because of that that he became like a brother to me," Naruto explained, catching another tear as it fell down Kei's cheek.
She took a step back from the boy who knew her brother so much better than she did.
Naruto couldn't help but be surprised by Kei's sudden emotionalness. He had been startting to think she was like Sasuke and only showed when she was angery. Naruto wouldn't admit it if any one asked, but he liked that she was opening up to him like this. It made him feel special.
Kei shook her head to clear it. Rubbing her eyes to stop herself from crying more she looked at Naruto. Her face neutral to mask her pain. "We don't have time to talk about this now. I need you to get as many people as you can to help get ready for my brother's attack on the village." Turning away she jumped off the ruined wall and into the forest outside the village and took off running through the trees.
Naruto stared after her for a few minutes before turning to look at what was left of the Hidden Leaf Village. Taking a deep breath he went off to find his friends and convince them to help Kei.
"Why do you trust her so much, Naruto? We don't know anything about her, for all we know she could actually be helping her brother!" Sakura said many of the other nodding in agreement. Naruto had gotten his friends to meet him at the same place they had all met Kei.
"Do you guys trust me?" the blond ninja asked the group. They all nodded slowly wondering what he could be thinking. "Kei just wants to try and help Sasuke, just like we do. She doesn't want to kill him, but she doesn't want him to destroy the village."
Ino jumped off the rock she had been sitting on. "We trust you, Naruto, but we don't trust her. She just seems sketchy if you ask me."
"Well no one asked you!" Naruto snapped, making everyone jump. "Sorry, Ino, it's just. I know what it's like to have no one trust you, to think that at any moment you might turn around and try and kill them. Kei loves her brother, and she knows that deep down, Sasuke loves this village as well as the people in it. I trust her, and I need you guys to trust me that she wont turn on us."
Ino took a step back and leaned against the rock, looking away.
"Um, Naruto, um, h-how are we g-going to be ready for S-Sasuke's attack?" Hinata sked, blushing slightly as everyone nodded in agreement to her question.
