The lost crow and the runaway fox

Chapter 18 Helping hands

With Team Akata, they were on their way to an old place they would visit every year, it was the hidden Cloud, the first elemental village except for Konoha that Naruto has been to, where he learnt it's ok to have help from others. Naruto still had a weird feeling in his guts but, maybe his teammates were right, he was just feeling sick, or that was what he thought so he just tried to ignore the feeling, but again, he tried, he couldn't get rid of the feeling though.

With the Konoha 11*

The Konoha 11 which includes, Team 7, Team 8 which contains Yuhi Kurenai as the sensei and Inuzuka Kiba, Hyuga Hinata and Aburame Shino, Team 10 which includes Sarutobi Asuma who is the sensei(also the 3rd Hokage's son), Nara Shikamaru(Shikaku's son), Yamanaka Ino and Akimichi Chouji, and lastly Team 2, which consists Might Guy as the sensei, Rock Lee, Hyuga Neiji(Hinata's cousin) and Tenten(I don't know what her last name is) arrived in front of the gate of the small village near the hidden Cloud village which was where Naruto and Shisui's crow was spotted last.

They entered the village and split up into their teams searching for the blond Uzumaki-Namikaze hoping they could find him and bring him back to their village. By now, all the nations know that Naruto was Minato's son and that he could be recognized by the three whisker-like marks on his cheek due to Konoha putting him in the bingo book saying whoever brings him back to Konoha alive, they would get 1 million ryo. Putting Naruto in the bingo book also caused a lot of trouble, for example, Iwagakure( the hidden Rock village) wants his dead because of who his father is in the war and a lot of people wants him on their side. Although this brought an uproar, wherever Naruto goes, people were kind to him recognizing him and they even helped him because his father Namikaze Minato, helped a lot of people, that one time when he was staying next to the room as the Konoha shinobi when they were searching for him, it was a person's help because his father has saved them before so to repay the debt, he helped Naruto.

Team 10, the Ino-Shika-Cho team with their sensei Asuma, stumbled a pon an inn, they went inside because they thought that maybe Naruto was still staying in the inn or maybe he stayed at the inn before he left because there's a chance that he he left but, at least they might be able to get some clues in where he was heading. They searched the whole hotel but couldn't find a single thing then, Ino cheeked the memory of the male worker there.

In his memories it showed that he had helped Naruto hide from the Konoha shinobi that was staying in the room right besides him. In his memories it also showed that Naruto was leaving and Naruto said that he's going to the hidden Cloud.

Team 10 immediately went to tell the other Konoha 11 and they went to the hidden Cloud immediately. They were going at a fast speed catching up then in about a minutes, they saw Team Akata since they were going fast and Team Akata didn't leave very long ago.

Team Akata felt a group of people following them and when they looked behind, they saw a group of Konoha nins, Konoha 11 to be exact. They all jumped down from their branch and landed on the ground softly, Konoha 11 also did the exact thing as them jumping down.

 "Looks like the strange feeling in your gut was right Naruto." said itachi.

"Of course it's right Uchiha." said Karin.

"You don't have to be so mean to him Karin." said Jugo.

"Sorry it's just I don't like how he's related to that arrogant brat." replied Karin pointing her finger at Sasuke.

Sasuke growled while Team Akata roller their eyes.

"Damn, so close to the Cloud as well." said Suigetsu.

The Konoha nins had widened eyes except for Sasuke after seeing the sword that Suigetsu was holding in his right hand, the blast sword, one of the seven swords in the Mist, proving that you're a member of one of the seven swordsman of the Mist.

"T-That sword, you're a member of the seven swordsman of the Mist!" exclaimed Tenten.

"Damn right I am." replied Suigetsu.

"Suigetsu don't be rude." said Jugo.

"I wouldn't be rude if they weren't there." said Suigetsu pointing to the Konoha nins.

"Enough of your chit chat, we aren't here to talk. We're here for the Namikaze." said Neiji.

"Neiji! Don't be so rude." said Kurenai.

"Sorry Kurenai sensei it's just that we're really near the hidden Cloud and they tried to kidnap Hinata-sama when she was little." replied Neij then they all turned back to Team Akata.

"Listen, we aren't handing my cousin over to you." said Karin.

"You can leave now." started Jugo.

"Unless if you want a fight." finished Jugo, you see, they've became close in the past month, they've found a way to fight together joining Jugo's strength and how he can now control hte curse mark and Suigetsu's sword.

"We aren't leaving until we got cutie over there." said Sasuke as arrogant as usual.

"Well then you guys are going to have to go through us." said multiple voices.

"Who's there!?" asked the Konoha 11.

"You should already know, you're in another elemental village's territory." replied a strong voice.

"Raikage." said Kakashi.

"Indeed Hatake, been a while since I saw you in the war along with Minato." replied A steeping out of the shadow with Darui, Karui, Omoi, B and Yugito behind him with their weapons out.

"What do you mean we'll have to get through you first if we want to bring Naruto back?" asked Kakashi.

"It's exactly as it sounds Hatake." said Karui.

"You see, Naruto has become an important part to many villages and a precious person to many people, we aren't going to let you Konoha nins take him like that." said Yugito.

" Naruto belongs to Konoha!" said Sakura.

"He does not, when I first meet him he seemed to not care about your village but he did not hate it either not understanding what you did was wrong but, now, he learnt how to live and understand things more." said Darui.

"Naruto, please come here. You see, Hinata-sama really likes you and I'm sure you like her back and, the hidden Cloud actually tried to kidnap her once when she was little and I'm sure you don't want your crush to have to stay here so too long right?" said Neiji.

Sasuke did not liek this but then, he thought of an idea and whispered to Hinata, "It isn't good to fight over someone, especially if it's an Uchiha and a Hyuga fighting so why not share with each other?" Hinata nodded her head telling Sasuke she agrees to share.

"No offence but, I'm sorry you think I like her back but I don't like people who throws themselves at people and stalk people. I have seen your cousin stalk on me when we were little so she could have seen how the villagers treat me and yet, she didn't help." replied Naruto with a smile trying to not be rude.

Hinata was saddened by this.

"If that didn't work then we'll need to do it by force." said Kakashi.

"So Naruto, what did we teach you?" asked Darui.

"It's ok to have a helping hand." replied Naruto happily remembering what happened.

"Well now it's a good time to not only have a helping hand, but helping hands, this situation is tougher than when you were attacked by rouge nins since they weren't really strong but these guys are pretty decent." said Darui.

"I agree." replied Naruto smiling brightly which also cause a smile to appear on Itachi's face without even realizing it but, everyone except Konoha 11 and Naruto noticed it and they all knew why he smiled, the answer to that even Itachi who is an Uchiha prodigy didn't even know but he also didn't realize he was smiling.

To be continued...

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