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"So, what is Sound planning?" Naruto asks looking at me with a raised eyebrow.
Neji and Shikamaru hit their heads with their hands.
"How the hell should I know?" I question him.
Naruto waved a finger at me. "Tsk, tsk, no need for such language," Naruto says.
I scoff. "Whatever.""Honestly, do you know anything?" Lee questions.
I glare at the thick-eyebrow man. "Even if I did I wouldn't tell you," I snap.
"Did your mother not teach you anything about manners?" Kakashi asks.
I turn my deadly gaze to him. "You give me no reason to treat you with respect," I reply.
"Has anyone ever told you that you act just like your father?" Chouji asks, eating chips. What is up with this guy and food?
"A few times," I respond coldly.
"How is he by the way?" Naruto asks.
I think for a moment before answering. "Well, he isn't around much."
"And that would be because…?" Shikamaru questions.
"He's busy with missions," I answer.
"What kind of missions?" Lee asks.
My face turns red in anger. "None of your business!"
"Touchy little thing aren't you?" Shino says in more of a statement than question.
"Feh," I mutter.
Shikamaru clears his throat. "Naruto, what are we going to do with him?" he asks the blonde man.
Naruto scratches his head. "Uh, I don't know. I didn't think that far ahead," he replies.
I sweatdrop. I'm surrounded by idiots.
"Well since I'm Hokage, for now we're just going to…show you around the village. Yeah, that's what we'll do," Naruto decides.
I raise my eyebrow. "Why would you do that?" I ask. Man, this guy really is stupid.
"Because I feel like it," Naruto huffs at me.
"Because he can think of what else to do with you he means," Kiba states chuckling.
"Shut up!" Naruto shouts.
"Hn, whatever," I say to all of this.
"Kid, let's make a deal, if we promise not to hurt you or any of your family, would you tell us all that you know, and I mean all of it?" Shikamaru asks.
I hesitate. Should I betray my village? It's not like I know much of what is going on but I still have an idea. "If you can prove to me that my parents did indeed live here and grow up around you, I'll consider it," I finally manage to muster.
"Good choice," Neji states and I feel the binds tying me to the chair loosen. I sit up.
They lead me outside where I take a good look of the surroundings. It certainly is more peaceful than Sound, I'll give them that. There are kids playing and birds chirping, I'm starting to doubt that my father would ever live in a place like this. But my gut has been wrong a lot recently. I look at the ninjas in front of me. They all are staring at me, but once they see that I'm watching them, they turn away and start whispering amongst themselves.
Kakashi, my parents' old sensei supposedly, walks beside me. I catch him also staring at me and he just closes his eye that is visible. "Why do you wear that mask?" I question, wanting to break the never-ending nerve-wrecking silence.
"It's a secret," Kakashi replies opening his eye.
"Oh, do you ever take it off?" I ask.
Naruto answers for the older man. "No, but your parents and I tried to take it off when we were Genin, but it didn't work," Naruto smiles sadly, "Those were the days. Things seemed like it would always be that way. We always had fun."
I look at my feet. Something about this whole thing doesn't add up. Why would my father ever leave? Maybe he didn't like the calm atmosphere, I don't know.
"Like when we had to save that damned cat, phew, that was one hell of a mission. Dumb cat scratched me though," Naruto reminisces.
"What about when you first came Genin, I thought you guys were never going to cooperate," Kakashi adds to the stories.
Naruto grinned. "We eventually worked together, especially during the Chuunin Exam, in the Death Forest," he states.
Shikamaru frowned. "That was when you had your first encounter of Orochimaru, correct?" he asks, eyeing the blonde man.
Naruto nods. "That was the beginning of the end," he frowns and everyone else does in turn.
That's another thing that puzzles me. What's the deal with this Orochimaru? He's dead, right, so why do we still address him as our leader. I certainly don't know what's going on, but I'm going to get to the bottom of it.
Gomen, it's really short but I wanted to put something up since I haven't in awhile. So how was it? Oh yeah, do you think I should have a prequel to this? You know, to fill up the missing gaps? Just a suggestion.
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