The Path of a Shinobi (Reader x various)

Hidden Cloud Ninjas

My teammates were no where in sight as I was running towards the designated area. Luckily, a mice had appeared and led me in a different direction.

In sight, there was a small cabin and as I rounded the corner, I saw Naruto being pummeled to the ground by a red headed female as her white haired companion watched from behind.

I gritted my teeth as I could hear how loudly her fists connected with his face. I made my appearance and dove right at her and tackled her off of him by surprise.

I sat her on abdomen and grabbed her approaching fist in my hand. My Sharingan was ablaze with fury as I sent her a death glare for laying her hands on Naruto.

"What the hell are you doing to him?!" I growled at her face and as I was staring down at her, I had taken notice of her white forehead protector and appearance.

She was dark skinned with red, spiky hair and bright amber eyes. I looked over at the white haired male who bore dark eyes. He had fairly dark skin and wore a black forehead protector. Both of them wore a white Kumogakure flak jacket and had similar colors in their clothing.

'Hidden Cloud Ninjas huh.'

"Who the hell are you?!" She shouted right at me but I ignored her and placed my hand over her face.

"I'm the one asking the questions here. Not you. You're in our village so you abide to us!" I roughly pushed her head on the ground and she let out a grunt as she tried to push me off.

I don't know where this newfound authority came from but after having our village destroyed and then having this person just beat up Naruto after everything we went through just didn't sit well with me.

Who the hell did they think they were.

I felt two arms grab ahold of my waist and I was pulled off of her. The white haired male helped the red head stand up and had a grip on her arm.

"Calm down Karui," he said to her but she narrowed her amber eyes at him.

"Shut up, Omoi!"

"(Y/n), please stay out of this. This was my choice," whispered Naruto into my ear and I turned around to face him and grabbed him by the collar of his jacket with both my hands.

"But why?! What did you agree to?! If it's because you can't hit a girl then you should've brought me here to settle things for you!"

"It's not that....they wanted information on Sasuke but I couldn't sell him...he's still my friend. So I let her take her hatred out on me." He averted his swollen eye away from me.

"All this....for Sasuke?" I questioned referring to his beaten and bruised face with streaks of blood running down his face.

He slowly nodded his head and I removed my hands from him.

'To what extent are you willingly to go for him?'

"Naruto...you shouldn't do this. You shouldn't get hurt because of him. This isn't right!" Genuine concern was displayed on my face as I stared into his eyes.

"Like I said, it's my choice."

"Yeah it is, but I don't like seeing you get hurt for someone else's actions. Sasuke has changed! He-"

"If he doesn't want to talk, then how about you start spilling whatever info you have on Sasuke! It's the least you could after he kidnapped our master."

'Well that's new to me. Honestly what is Sasuke getting himself into.'

"I don't know what kind of info you're looking for, but we haven't been in contact with Sasuke for a long time," I said while excluding my previous encounter with him.

"You know something! Surely you must be allied with him. I mean come on, look at your eyes. They're the same as that coward!" She took a step forward ready to throw a fist, but Omoi tightened his grip on her.

"My eyes have nothing to do with him. It's better if you leave. We don't have anything for you." I turned my back to them and went to help Naruto get on his feet and maintain balance by placing his arm around my neck as I grabbed his waist.

Karui yanked her arm away from him and dragged him with her towards me. She stopped right in front of me and jabbed her finger at my chest.

"You're not leaving until we get what we want!" She shouted with her embers eyes blazing into my glowing, red eyes.

"You wanna go?" I taunted with a smirk on my lips and my eyes now evolving into my Mangekyō Sharingan. Knocking her down a few times will probably get her to stop pestering me.

My words seemed to rile her up and she let out a frustrated scream as she attempted to beat me to a pulp, but someone appeared right in front of me and stopped her fist.

"Oh, perfect timing Sai."

"Get out of the way unless you want to get beaten up too!" She yelled at Sai but Omoi grabbed her arm and pulled her away from us.

"Beating them up won't get you anywhere," calmly said Omoi.

"Yeah!" I sneered and watched as she narrowed her eyes at me.

After Sai had taken a look at Naruto's face, he helped me carry him as I healed his swollen cheek. As Karui and Omoi we're talking amongst themselves, a busty, blonde woman appeared.

"Captain Samui," they both said and she walked on over to them and asked, "How is the intel gathering going?"

"Apparently not so great for them," I muttered however they heard me and all three of them glanced my way, but I looked away from and acted like I didn't say anything while tending to Naruto.

They looked away and continued on with their conversation and I learned that their master was named Killer Bee and was also a Jinchuriki.

"Take me with you," announced Naruto who was now seated on the ground. "I want to help you guys save your Jinchuriki. And I have something I want to discuss with your Raikage."

But Samui declined to having Naruto follow them and left with the others.

"Guys, take me to Kakashi Sensei and Captain Yamato," said Naruto.

We helped him up and took him to meet them to discuss about possibly meeting with the Raikage.