Naruto lead his team back to Konoha, the minute they walked through the gate he thanked his team for their efforts and started walking towards his office. He knew he had to get the worst over, which was dealing with the elders and team of advisors who were probably fuming at Naruto's departure.
Naruto hated dealing with most of them, they usually drilled his head in. He was so different to them, he was more level headed then most of them and their old idealistic views.
Well there was no delaying it, he took a deep breath in and walked towards his office. As he walked towards the office he noticed the beauty which was Konoha, even though he had only been away for roughly 3 days, he couldn't believe how much he missed the place.
He decided to walk through the doors instead of jumping through the windows like most shinobi did. As he walked through the corridors all of the staff greeted him with smiles and handshakes. He opened the door to his office to find Kakashi leaning into his chair, feet on the table and 'make out tactics' book in his hand.
"Kakashi, seems like you have been busy?"
"Naruto!"
Kakashi seemed absolutely delighted to see Naruto again.
"Naruto, I missed you, I don't know how you deal with so much paper work daily. Garra sent us a messenger about what happened in Sunagakure, seems your gut feeling was correct. A meeting with the team of advisors and the elders has already been arranged for later on tonight."
"Yer, I thought it would be pretty soon."
Naruto started wondering how Sasuke was doing, he was still worried about him, he just wanted him to come back to Konoha so he could make sure nothing like this ever happened again.
"Kakashi, did Garra say anything about Sasuke?"
"Hm, no? Why did something happen?"
"Yer, he nearly died Kakashi, it was horrible, I had never been so angry in my life, I lost control for a minute there."
Kakashi looked at him with shocked eyes. "Hm, well he is okay now."
Naruto knew he was okay, but there was still this lingering sensation that something would happen to Sasuke on his way back to Konoha.
"I guess you are right Kakashi, anyways I'll take over for now, but I'll see you for the board meeting?"
"Yep, see you there."
Kakashi left and Naruto took his seat. He wondered if he should go see his family, but he only had 2 hours left till the meeting. He decided it was best to think about what he was going to say to the board.
*Meeting*
Naruto took in a deep breath, his hands where shaking. Dealing with the elders always scared Naruto. He clumsily turned the door handle and walked into the dim lighted room.
"Sorry, I'm a bit late."
The stares that where being directed at Naruto could burn a hole straight through him. Kakashi was in the back leaning against a wall, not giving a care about anything going on or the evil glances being directed to Naruto.
Naruto walked forward to the Hokage's chair and took a seat. He knew this was going to be a tough meeting.
"So, Naruto would you care to explain your immediate departure, without warning us? Could you imagine what would have happened if Konoha went under attacked whilst you were gone? And for what? Sasuke and 3 genin?"
Naruto could feel himself getting hot with rage. He couldn't believe the audacity of some of the people sitting at this table.
"What are you saying, I just let them die? Did you know if I didn't go when I did, Sasuke would be dead right now? Lives were on the line. Are you saying this isn't a good enough reason to go?"
