Dear lord.
Who knew Konoha could be so quiet. The villagers, who are currently gathered in the village meeting hall, stood completely silent. Some had glazed eyes while others were fully attentive with horrified expressions on their faces.
Tsunade stood behind a podium, her eyes were hard. Behind her stood the brunt of the Anbu ranks. All were unmasked and solemn.
"I understand," Tsunade started. "The enormity of what I'm asking of you. However I beg for you to understand. Suna is not just an allied village; it is a major trading partner and a military alliance. We must do all we can to preserve what is left of Suna and it's people. We are a village that is under direct control of the Daimyo. We have massive resourses and with help from other allied nations I believe we-"
"Boo!" Someone shouted from the crowd.
"What do you mean 'we'!" shouted another angry villager. "We don't have anything! The ninjas have everything!"
There was a chorus of agreements from the crowd.
A bold woman stepped to the front and glared accusingly up at the Hokage.
"You spread all this talk about us having the resources to fight another villages war and saying its our duty! We are civilians! Our only duty is to keep the economics of this village in tact. You have no idea do you? No idea how it feels to have no way to protect yourself and still be in this war. We have to sit at home every day and hope and pray that the precious little shinobi protect us!"
This caused another massive cheer from the gathered civilians. Behind her Tsunade heard the Anbu grind their teeth. The Hokage guards took up a defensive position incase any overzealous civilians attempted to attack the Hokage.
"ENOUGH!" Shouted Tsunade in her loud booming voice.
The room became silent once again as the civilians looked up into the furious eyes of their leader.
"So that is what you think huh?" Tsunade said in a voice so quiet the civilians had to lean forward to hear it.
"You selfish little bugs!" She shouted. "Do you think this is easy for ninja? Do you think it's easy for a small child to be handed a weapon and be told to kill another human being? Well it's not! These ninja that you see around this room and behind me have seen some of the harshest cruelties and lived through the most dangerous situations. And do you know why they do it? They do it to protect you! To protect the very same whining little brats who are in front of me right now. And all you can do for their efforts is whine and complain because you don't think you get enough attention."
The brave woman who had stepped forward to give her little speech had been slowly moving back to once again be hidden in the crowd.
"The truth is that you are nothing without the ninja of this village. Without them you are just frightened little rabbits waiting to be picked off by the bandits and missing nin of this country."
The villagers didn't seem to like this analogy. Several of them were trembling and a few were attempting to slide across the walls to reach the doors.
"Get out. You people disgust me." Tsunade said, shaking her head. And with that she walked out of the room, the ranks of Anbu following behind her.
Anbu Common Room 3:22 pm
"Wow you really showed them huh?" sang a cheerful voice,
"Shut up Kakashi. I'm finding it hard not to kill you right now." Tsunade said, her head was in her hand and her two blond pig tails were in a rumpled mess.
"Aww come on Tsunade-sama they had it coming." Kakashi said. Obviously he wasn't going to take her earlier advice and be quiet. Across the room Iruka had planted himself on a couch next to Sho, their son, and was chewing his lip nervously. He appeared to be deciding whether he needed to drag Kakashi away before he was beheaded.
Just as Tsunade was going to warn Kakashi of his imminent doom there was a loud knocking on the door.
Confused, Tsunade motioned for an Anbu to open the door.
The minute the door was open the Anbu dropped into a steep bow almost getting hit in the head with the already closing door.
Tsunade stood from her desk just as Gaara, the Kazekage, came in. Behind him stepped in Naruto, who had a small bundle wrapped in a baby blue blanket.
The rest of the Anbu stood and bowed.
"Gaara. Naruto. What can I do for you both?" Tsunade asked although her eyes kept straying to where all the gay male anbu in the room were staring.
Dear god. When had Naruto gotten so …. Attractive?
He most certainly wasn't modest. He wore tight black corduroy miny shorts that barely reached mid thigh. His red strappy sandals accentuated his long tan legs perfectly and his red tank top that stopped about an inch above his belly button was so tight you could see his almost unnoticeable muscles.
Tsunade wasn't exactly sure why Naruto was dressed like this. The day so far hadn't been very hot so temperature didn't seem the cause.
Naruto apparently sensed everyone staring and grinned in his old way. He put his hand to the side of his mouth to prevent Gaara from seeing and mouthed the word 'Anniversary' to the room.
There was an aww of understanding through the room as people returned to normal. Although Iruka still sat on the couch with his mouth hanging open like a fish. He apparently had not been expecting to see his student walk into the Anbu headquarters half naked.
Well he had to grow up sometime.
Gaara nodded to the Hokage and approached her desk.
"Tsunade-sama I wish to speak to the Anbu for a moment please if I could. I feel that before they fight for me they need to trust me."
Tsunade looked into his bright green eyes and became mesmerized.
"Of course." She said.
He nodded and walked to the front of the room to stand behind the podium. Naruto followed behind him.
Gaara stood facing all the Anbu in the room and cleared his throat.
"Well," He said evenly. "I'd like to tell you a story…"
And Konoha was never the same.
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