"We do not what your help from you or your "village" now leav-" said the captain but before he could finish speaking another voice spoke out from inside the tent
"That's enough!"
At which another man came out of the tent.
In which Kakashi, Sakura and Sasuke quickly recognised the man as Tazuna, the old drunken bridge builder that they had protected during their mission in Nami no Kuni.
Although despite the fact that Tazuna had grow slightly older looking, with more wrinkles on his face he still looked the same when they last saw him.
"Why? What I said is true after all we heard all about and what they did as well as the rest of their people did to nii-sama". spoke the Samurai captain angrily
"True, but not all of them are reasonable, remember The Kazekage told use that not everyone treated Naruto badly, there were still some that were on his side and did not turn their backs on him. Do not let your anger cloud your judgements, besides "most" of the people in this group were among the minority that did not turn against him". said Tazuna
At which Ino, Sakura and Kakashi lowered their heads since they knew they weren't among that minority of people after what they did to Naruto.
"Now take off that helmet of yours there no need for you to wear it". spoke Tazuna again to the Samurai captain
At which the Samurai captain sighed angrily but complied, where when he took his helmet off, when he did the Konoha group saw that the Samurai captain was a young man who looked to be about eighteen years of age. The young man had black shoulder length hair and black eyes.
This of course surprised some of the more senior Shinobi's as well as some of the younger Shinobi's as well, since they knew that to reach the rank of captain whether it be Shinobi or Samurai at such a young age was very rare to happen. Hence it showed that the young man must be strong and highly skilled to reach this level at his age.
Although as surprised as most of the Konoha-nins were none were more surprised than Kakashi, Sakura and Sasuke were right now, because it took them a few seconds to realise who the young was.
"INARI?" shouted a surprise Sakura
To which the young man just nodded
"You're the Commander of the Defence Forces here?" asked Sakura in disbelief, since she could not believe that the small little boy who use to cry out about there being no hope, and had told them once that they were going to be all killed by Gato during their last mission here, was now the Commander of Wave Defence Forces and the leader of the Samurai in Wave.
"Yes I' am" answered Inari neutrally
"Well now isn't this an interesting development if I may ask when did you become a Samurai and when did you make captain". asked Kakashi friendly like with his traditional eye smile, since he wanted to keep them talking, since the longer they talk the better chance they had at convincing them to let him and the others help them. Since Kakashi knew that Nami no Kuni stood very little chance of beating the Kiri invasion force by themselves, and if Kiri took over Nami no Kuni then all chance of Konoha surviving this War were gone.
"When I was ten I decided I wanted to be able to protect my family and my people and be more like nii-sama, (this got confused looks from several of the Konoha members until Sakura told them that Naruto was like an older brother figure to Inari). But since there were no Shinobi villages in our Country I decided to do the next best think and be a Samurai. My Grandfather went to our Daimyo, and asked him to send me along with his selection a people who he would send to be trained as Samurai, and since the Daimyo owned my Grandfather for building the bridge and helping to save our Country he agreed. I then spent the next five years training as hard as I could in Tetsu no Kuni to become a Samurai so that I could defend everyone in Nami no Kuni just like nii-sama would have. When I came back I then spent the next three years working and training as hard as I could so to become captain and be leader of the Daimyo Samurai guard". answered Inari
To which Kakashi nodded since he was impressed with Inari, since he knew how hard Inari must have worked and trained to get were he was.
"Just like Naruto huh!", though Kakashi sadly.
"Now about you coming to help us-", spoke Tazuna but before he could finish Inari interrupted him.
"Grandfather could I have a word in private with you?" said Inari casually.
At which Tazuna nodded knowing what this was about as did the others, and he went into the tent with his Grandson.
-Inside The Command tent-
"Grandfather you can't be seriously thinking of letting them stay and accept their help" whispered Inari harshly.
"I' am" answered Tazuna
"But how can we even trust them after what they done, whose to say that when things get ruff that they won't run away and destroy the bridge and leave the rest of use to be slaughtered. It wouldn't be the first time that Konoha has turned it back on someone for their own selfish needs", said Inari.
"We have to trust them since we need their help", said Tazuna.
"We can fight for ourselves my men and I as well as the other volunteers will fight them off", said Inari.
"Inari stop deluding yourself, although you and your men can hold your own in a fight against Shinobi's, especially when you all fight together but there is not enough of you, you know that we're out numbered and most of the men are militia, they won't stand a chance against Shinobi's", rounded Tazuna.
"But what about the message we sent to "them" surly they come after what we offered them", said Inari.
"We don't know that they will come and even if they do they may not arrive in time and Suna can't help us. Since they're too far way to send help and besides they are in the middle in their War against the ones that Konoha fighting against. We need all the help we can get Inari if we want to win this fight". answered Tazuna
"But what about what they did nii-sama how can we simply just forget how they banish him and sent him out to get killed. You know that I'm not the only person here that feels that way; the men will not want to fight alongside with the people from the very village that banish nii-sama away to get killed". replied Inari angrily
"Then you will have to get them to put aside their anger towards them or for now at the very lest since remember most of the people in that group were against Naruto's banishment". said Tazuna
"But what about Hatake, the Uchiha and Haruno, they're as guilty as the rest of those people back at that village for what they did". countered Inari
"Look Inari, I know how you feel I don't like having them here anymore than you do and if this was any other time, I would be among the first people to throw them out of here. But we need them to help us, since with them here we stand a better chance of winning this fight than we do without them. We have to look past our hate and dislike for them and do what is best for our home and our people" said Tazuna earnestly
Inari just sighed knowing that his Grandfather was right even if he didn't like it.
"Fine but I still don't like it and there will be some conditions that they will have to agree to". said Inari
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