Chapter 50 - N

They're walking through the trees, moving closer to where the smoke is coming. Michonne motions him to the left and Naruto nods in understanding as they split. Michonne goes with a tired-looking Andrea, a walker trailing behind them, while Clementine follows him. Naruto barely notices the man sliced in two when he hears the sounds of engines near. He shots a look at Michone who's standing across him and they both nod before retreating. Voices are near and a group of people is coming out from working cars.

There's talking but nothing important, he notices. He then sees a man using a knife on the injured man on the floor, killing him. Clementine's nails dig into the floor next to him but she doesn't make a sound while doing so.

"Are they good?" she whispers, strained.

Naruto doesn't look at her as he takes a deep breath, concentrating just enough to sense their forefront emotions so he'd be able to guess their personalities. He doesn't get much of a glimpse as soon as he senses Andrea's surprise and fright next to Michonne's hostility.

"Governor, we seem to have a couple of guests here!" a man shouts, and Naruto tenses when he sees Michonne supporting an almost-unconscious Andrea; a man pointing a gun at their backs. He's ready to step forward but something tells him to attack. So Naruto turns around and throws a shuriken at a random person's gun, making the man shout a curse as his weapon falls from his hand to the ground.

Knowing the attention the sound must have provoked, Naruto moves behind the man, placing the tip of a kunai close to the vein.

"Clem, go behind me and pass me the gun," he says, mostly because the weapon of this world will make some of them stop than the kunai.

Clementine obeys before her own small hands and grabs a gun of her own with determination as they move forward. The people raise their weapons when they see them.

"We don't want trouble; we just wanted to check if there were survivors to help," Naruto says, making a show of the situation their member is in as he uses the gun that fell to aim at the one that the man who found Michonne and Andrea called the governor. "Let me take the members of my group."

"Well, that's a nice way to talk about the one you have, isn't it?"

Naruto smiles sheepishly at the governor person but his grip doesn't lessen. "To be fair, that man was the one who used a gun first. Tell them to lower their weapons and I'll do the same."

The governor seems to think about it before his eyes move to his hand holding the kunai. His head tilts slightly to the side. He looks to the man pointing his gun at Michonne and nods his head to Naruto's before he speaks, looking at him in the eye. "That's an interesting weapon you carry, young man. May I ask where you've got it?"

Naruto blinks slowly before he raises an eyebrow, not understanding where this is going. "It's mine, period. Why do you ask?"

"Nothing, just curious about its origin."

"Yeah, well, I don't think you'll find one here. So don't bother looking."

The governor smiles. "Really? And what if I told you I know a person who uses one similar to that one?"

Naruto narrows his eyes. He's pretty sure no one here would know about kunais. Michone and Andrea were somewhat familiar with shurikens as the ninjas of this world seemed to use them frequently, unlike kunai. For this man to say he's seen another person using them…

"What's the name of the person you're talking about?"

The man behind Michonne and Andrea snorts. "Huh. Wouldn't ya like to know, kid?"

"Is it Sasuke?" Naruto presses because Sasuke would be the only one using them besides him. There's no response from the people, so Naruto adds, "Slightly taller than me, pale, permanent scowl with black eyes and hair that kind of looks like a duck's ass?"

Some of them chuckle, others, like the governor, merely smile.

"Oh, yeah. That's him alrigh'. How do you know our sourpuss?"

Naruto smiles letting out a relieved breath even if he doesn't lower the gun. It's Sasuke he's talking about; he could have pissed them and nothing else. It's better to not lower his guard.

So, hoping Sasuke hasn't annoyed them, Naruto cautiously says, "We're friends."

That seems to surprise them greatly. Naruto doesn't need Kurama's chakra inside him to sense their emotions when they're painted on their faces.

The governor raises an eyebrow, more than slightly disbelieving. "A friend you say?"

Possible enemies or not, if they've met Sasuke, Naruto can understand their confusion. He nods at them in understanding.

"Yeah, I know. How could a nice guy like me be friends with someone indifferent on a good day, and a downright bastard every other moment? Not to mention those bad days where he's downright homicidal."

Naruto sighs deeply, but there's a smile on his lips as he continues. "What can I say, we go way back. I'd consider ourselves childhood friends if not for how we hated each other when we were kids. And teenagers," he adds because it's true. They're lucky they haven't killed each other, though not for lack of trying on Sasuke's part.

"Sasuke, you said?"

Naruto narrows his eyes. "Yeah, Uchiha Sasuke. He didn't tell you his name?"

"No, he didn't," the governor smiles.

Naruto swallows because even if it's been a long time since they've been around each other in the last few years, Sasuke's always been a resentful asshole who knew how to take a grudge to the next level. And if they called him by his name when he hasn't given them that information, well, it spells trouble for him. "Uh… Is there a possibility you won't tell him I told you?"

The governor looks at him with something like amusement that puts him on edge in the way only enemy shinobi manages to do. He walks forward, both hands high to show he's unarmed.

"This all seems to have been a misunderstanding, let's talk about it, okay?"

Naruto glances at Michonne before his eyes go back to the governor. He doesn't seem faced by Naruto's silent accusation.

"You have to understand that we're wary of you as we don't know you. We came for the same reason: to look for survivors and help them." He signals at Andrea's unconscious body. "Your friend here seems to need some professional help. We've got a doctor that could look at her.

"Then you could meet the Uchiha boy. He's currently outside but he always comes early the next day. Wouldn't you like to see him?" the governor offers, nodding to where their cars are.

"Clem?" he whispers and he receives a light tug from the back of his shirt in answer. Then Naruto's gaze drifts to where Michonne is. She reluctantly nods at him even though Naruto can see the wariness in her eyes.

Meeting them has made her less wary around people but not that much. Naruto can't fault her when shinobi are paranoid bastards too.

"Let's all lower our weapons. I give you your man and you let me help Michonne to carry Andrea, okay?"

"That seems fair," the governor says, nodding at the man behind Michonne to let her move forward as Naruto does the same. Their weapons are still high by the time each member is back in their group.

"I hope you know what you are doing," Michonne whispers.

"Have you seen Sasuke fight?" he asks the governor instead of answering Michonne. The stiffness of his shoulders and the other men answer enough. Naruto nods as he gives them a grin. Calling a drop of Kurama's chakra into his hand, Naruto takes the ammo out of the handgun and throws it to the man he took before he crushes the gun with a slightly yellowish hand. "Then I know you won't do anything."

Nodding at the governor, Naruto gives him a bright smile as he throws the destroyed metal to the ground, making his kunai disappear in a small cloud of smoke.

"Let's go then."

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