章節 64: Chapter 064

Seeing the poor amount of food and the state said food was in made him wonder whether it was better to have food all around you, but not be able to eat it. Or better knowing there was not enough food to feed yourself with.

It probably doesn't matter in the end, he said to himself as Tazuna finished buying his goods and left the store.

Naruto followed soon after and as they began to walk down the street again, felt a small tug on his leg. Stopping the blond turned around and looked down to see a child, who couldn't be more than five or six, he was twig thin and wearing nothing but dirty rags. He had his hands sticking out in front of him, making it obvious what he wanted.

"Hey Tazuna," Naruto said in a soft voice, but still loud enough for the bridge builder to hear. The man turned around to see Naruto looking at the small child. "I'm sorry, but do you think I could stay here for a while…?"

Tazuna looked from Naruto, then to the child and back to Naruto again.

"Sure thing kid," Tazuna said, realizing what was going on.

Naruto smiled as he created a ram seal. "Kage Bunshin No Jutsu," he said, causing a clone to appear next to him, "My clone will escort you back home."

Tazuna nodded to Naruto as the clone caught up with him. When the two of them started leaving Naruto looked down at the awed kid who was looking at his retreating clone and smiled.

"Do you have any friends or family that are also hungry?" Naruto asked.

The kid looked away from the direction his clones took off and looked at him. "Uh huh, I've got my onii-chan, and lots of friends who are…" He trailed off and looked down.

Naruto nodded in understanding as he held out his hand, "Why don't you show me where they are, and I can make all of you some food."

The child looked at Naruto's hand for a second before taking it and leading Naruto to where the other orphans and homeless people he knew were.

"Tsunami! I'm home!" Tazuna called out as he entered the house, taking off his helmet and putting it on the coat hanger next to the door.

Kakashi who was reading over on the couch looked up and frowned underneath his mask, "Tazuna-san, where is Naruto?"

"Oh the kid," Tazuna rubbed the back of his head and gave an excuse to cover for the blond. "Don't worry about him, he made one of those clones to escort me, he said he still had some things he needed to do in the city."

Kakashi's frown deepened, Naruto has grown a lot in the past month, so I don't think he'll do anything reckless. Still, this is Naruto we're talking about, so it may be good to ere on the side of caution…

"Thank you Tazuna-san," Kakashi said as he stood up and made his way towards the door. "I think I'm going to check and see how my other students are doing."

Tazuna watched as Kakashi left before shrugging and moving into the kitchen where Tsunami most likely was.

When Kakashi left the house, he bit his thumb and began to make several hand signs. He sighed as he felt some of the small amount of chakra he had leave him, he would only be able to use this once until his reserves were completely recovered. Slamming his hand into the ground as he called out a jutsu,

"Kuchiyose No Jutsu (Summoning Jutsu)!" As soon as his hand touched the dirt, a seal array appeared on the ground under his hand.

There was a puff of smoke and when it cleared, Kakashi saw a small pug sitting there. The pug was wearing a blue vest with a Konoha headband, and had a lazy expression on its face.

"Yo Kakashi," The pug said as it lifted a paw in greeting. "You haven't called me lately, is there something you need?"

"Pakkun," Kakashi greeted, reaching into his pouch and pulling out a small torn bandage. "I need you to find the person this scent belongs to, come back and tell me if he's alright."

Pakkun nodded as he took a whiff of the scent. Putting his nose to the ground, he sniffed around a bit before looking up, "I got the scent Kakashi, I'll see you later."

As Pakkun took off, Kakashi looked after him before sighing and going back inside.

"… And then the chunin and jonin of our village all started chasing me around the village." Naruto finished telling the story of his grandest prank of defacing the Hokage Monument to the kids who had gathered around him.

The child who had come up to him begging for food, had led Naruto to where a group of fifteen people ranging from the ages of five to twelve had been, all of them wearing the same rag-like clothes that he was and all of them starving from lack of food.

With a talent for showboating that only a prankster of his caliber could have, Naruto had proceeded to wow the entire group by creating fifty clones of himself. He had divided them up into groups. Group one was twenty-five clones who had used his still-fledging water-walking skills to stand above the water with a net and catch as many fish as they could. Clone group two had been twenty clones split into two groups of ten. One group had gone to get fire wood, while the other built several fire pits to cook the food caught. The last group had been five clones who were given the task of helping Naruto play with the children.