The Future: Naruto Fanfiction

Chapter 181-THE FAYOTH RESISTANCE

South Fayoth

Travelling North a short distance was a small price to pay for Naruto and his companions. This is the town he was told of, one where he was told he may find one of two things. He may have come here to find a large group willing to join the resistance, or he may have come here to find a trap.

The town is not dissimilar to the Hidden Leaf Village, but on a much smaller scale. It doesn't have any of the luxuries the village is said to have accumulated during his time as Hokage, but it is equipped with the bare minimum. There is a doctor's office, with an old lady out the front sleeping. There is a town hall, or at least a building labelled as such, seemingly designed as a residence rather than a hall. There a few small shops which seem to contain the essentials for any such village to survive, and lastly there is a tavern.

They decide to search through the buildings one at a time. Starting with the doctor's office they notice that there is nobody inside. They determine that the old lady sleeping out the front must be a doctor herself. Naruto asks Sakura about the state of the clinic and she answers that it is adequate for an establishment of it's size. Of course Sakura would have gone on to take charge of much larger scale establishments and become a renowned healer.

Next the town hall. There is a gentleman inside sat behind a desk who questions why they are there. Hinata is quick to make up an excuse and it seems to be effective enough. As they look around the town hall, they don't see anything that could possibly lead them to any of their fellow rebels. The town hall appears to be unused with meetings surely taking place once a month or more seldom still.

The shops are the next on their agenda. They head through them in pairs, pretending to be browsing travellers. There is nothing of interest to them here though. Groups of warriors with such talent as they have no difficulty in obtaining food or water. Through the shops there is no sign of any growing resistance movement. Hinata doesn't believe that she's even seen any warriors in the town.

As they leave the last shop on their list, they notice a man with fancy robes entering the town hall. Mana points out that this man is almost certainly the mayor of this town. They each try to guess his strength. All of them believe that he is probably a veteran of the conflict with the dark dimension, but he is no aristocrat. They average a guess of a class 2 warrior. Not very impressive at all, the mayor has done well to avoid being drafted into the military.

Failing to find anyone by looking around was to be expected, now they rely on sensory powers. Himawari and Sasuke are the most experienced amongst them at searching using their senses with Hinata still adjusting to her shinobi abilities. After an initial glance though neither of them can see any hint of anything unusual.

"Why don't you try using the One True Sense?" Himawari asks her father.

Naruto does. There is a harmony in this place. A boring doctor's office with nothing happening. A town hall with almost no commotion within. Shops that serve people at a slow and steady rate. Then there is the tavern, the one exception to the otherwise perfectly normal town. Barely anyone is going in or out of the tavern. The 7th Hokage appreciates well enough that people require activity, and other than social activity there is little to do here. What should be the busiest doorway in the entire town at this hour has not been passed at all since they arrived. With the One True Sense he can tell that whatever is inside is unusual.

"Nothing," Naruto lies, "I thought that the mayor of this town would be someone impressive. The one we sheltered with the day of Hinata's death was much stronger than this guy."