The Unwanted Uzumaki

A Weeping Forest

Even though the meeting with the Bone Village Council was a little more hostile than he had wished it was, Naruto exited the Council Chambers feeling quite pleased with himself though he knew that tensions between the three Clans may be higher than they were before his arrival. Since that wasn't something that Naruto needed to concern himself with at the moment, he thought that it would be best to exit the central hub of the village's government to see if he could be of any use within the village. 

As Naruto and his Mage companions as well as the Ninja that followed him from the room he had woken in earlier exited the building; the same Ninja that has been following him started speaking. "That was the most bizarre thing that I have ever witnessed!" the Ninja cried out with barely restrained excitement.

Though Naruto didn't wish to quarrel with the Ninja and he was thankful that she was alive; he was wishing that she would go away so that he and his team could discuss things that didn't involve her. Just as he was about to inform her of this wish, another idea came barreling into his mind. "I could always see what intel she has about the problems that this village is having. I am sure that she would be willing to tell me since I have been sent by the Fire Daimyo to help this village." Naruto contemplated as he stared at the girl before him.

As Naruto was getting ready to speak to this Ninja, he was wanting to call her by her name though looking at her reminded Naruto that he had yet to learn what her name would be. This Ninja must have realized the same thing because soon her voice was echoing around them once more. "I should have done this earlier, but my name is Tara Mabu and it is a pleasure to meet you!" the now named Tara informed Naruto with a smile plastered across her face.

Since Naruto now knew the name of the Ninja that he had saved who had been following him and his people around like a lost puppy, he decided that it was now time to find out intel on what could be troubling the Bone Village. "Though you may already know my name, I am Naruto Kirima and it is a pleasure to meet you as well. If you could do me the honor, I would like to know what problems there are within the village so myself and my companions would be able to help where we are needed." Naruto explained to the female that stood before him. 

Almost immediately, Tara started responding back to what Naruto had said which the blond Mage was thankful for. "We have many problems that the village is facing. Due to the war, we are unable to collect the wood that we need for construction though currently I feel that the biggest issue is that we are running out of food." Tara explained as she continued standing in front of Naruto. 

Hearing this, Naruto figured that while the construction is a problem within the Bone Village; he should focus on finding a way to gather food supplies for the village and even find out what could be causing the shortage since there should be plenty of wildlife within the forest outside of the village that the villagers could hunt.

Now that Naruto had a goal that he could take care of within the village, he focused on the bonds that he had with his Celestial Spirits; so he could inform them of what he was going to do as well as give them suggestions on what they could do to help the village. 

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Hikaru along with every other Academy student was lined up beside the arena that their Sensei were about to have them fight within. Though he knew that he should pay attention, he was unable to keep his mind off the image that was burned into it from the last time that he had hung out with his friends. 

Though Hikaru had never had any interest in females, he had always thought as he grew older that somehow the interest would materialize and from how his body had reacted from remembering how Choji looked in just his briefs; Hikaru know doubted that the attraction towards females would ever happen. 

Due to Hikaru's mind being preoccupied, he didn't hear his teacher call for him which should resulted in a small stone smashing into his forehead. "Shit!" Hikaru muttered as he rubbed the area that was assaulted by the small piece of rock. 

This resulted in laughter breaking out amongst all those around which only caused embarrassment to flood through the crimson haired Ninja trainee though this laughter was soon cut off by the glaring from their sensei. Once their sensei was sure that his student's were firmly placed in check, he turned back towards Hikaru. "Since you obviously seem like you have better things to do then listen in class Hikaru, you can be one of the first combatants in the arena today!" his sensei growled out as he pointed to the center of the arena. 

Knowing that it would be useless to argue with the older Ninja, Hikaru did as he was instructed and made his way into the arena. "Sakura Haruno. You will be joining him." their sensei instructed once more. 

Once both Hikaru and Sakura were within the arena, their sensei called out for them to begin which allowed Hikaru to see that the pink haired female that was brought inside of the arena with him immediately pulled out a kunai. Though they have all been warned to not land any life ending blows since the beginning of the year; Hikaru knew that accidents happened especially when you use weapons in training. Wanting to keep the blade as far away from him as possible; Hikaru decided to use more long ranged attacks. 

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After giving his commands to his companions, Naruto followed by Talis made their way into the forest that surrounded the newest Ninja Village within the Land of Fire. Though Naruto and Talis had made their way into the forest together, they didn't stay together all that long since Naruto had given orders for the bow wielding spirit to hunt down as many animals as he could without harming the population of the wildlife too much. 

Once these orders have been given, Naruto made his own way through the forest in search of what could be scaring the wildlife away or stopping the Bone Village hunters from doing what they need to keep their village fed.

With each step in this unfamiliar place, Naruto felt as if he would be lost if he didn't mark where he was going which is what caused him to form another ice dagger and slash at certain trees within the forest. This also reminded Naruto that he needed to place his sigil within the village so he could have easy access to return though at the moment Naruto knew that he had more important things to worry about. 

Once Naruto had brought himself out of his mind, he could tell that there was something off about the forest that he was in though at first he was unable to place what that could be. Suddenly, as if struck by lightning; it appeared within his mind. "The birds have stopped chirping!" Naruto muttered out in a hushed whisper as to not draw attention to himself. 

The silence that now surrounded him was almost deafening and slightly disturbing to the point that Naruto contemplated turning back the way that he had come though thankfully he was able to gain the courage to go on. 

As Naruto continued through the forest, he eventually made it too a place where he heard noise once more though unlike the animals that he was hoping to hear; he came upon a voice crying out into the wilderness. "Stop!" This voice cried out and as Naruto continued towards the direction that the voice was coming from, he heard more words break out through the area. "I can't tell you anything! I am not invited to the discussions that the Council has!" 

Upon hearing about the Council, Naruto assumed that the individual that was crying out was a member of the Bone Village who must have been captured by the foreign Ninja that Naruto had yet to meet. Knowing that he couldn't allow an innocent to be tortured regardless of the information that they had; Naruto pushed his way towards the noise.