A/N – Here is Chapter 10 and the final chapter of the Rescue Gaara arc. This chapter is mainly to wrap up the arc. This story has amazing followers and it has had over 1000 view since I last uploaded. Thank you.

Chapter 10 – Gaara's Rebirth and Return

Hinata's Location –

"Ok Kit here is what you do. Place your hands on his forehead and his stomach, where his seal is. Make sure your mate is a bit away from the both of you. This will hurt her if she is touched by it" Kurama explained.

"Hina-hime, I am going to need you to move out of the way for a second." Naruto said.

Hinata did as he asked and backed away from the two.

Naruto the proceeded to place two fingers onto Gaaras' head and his other hand on Gaaras', now exposed, stomach.

'Ok now what?' Naruto asked.

"Now, I'm going to my chakra into you and you will have to channel it into him. This process will take about 10 minutes and as I said will cause you tremendous strain." Kurama explained.

'I can handle it.' Naruto s thought as he started to channel the chakra Kurama was supplying to him.

"Hinata can you keep a look out while I do this as I am defenceless. It will take about 10 minutes." Naruto said, through gritted teeth.

"Of course Naruto-kun. Byakugan!" Hinata said as her eyes intensified and the veins protruded.

The situation stayed like this for the 10 minutes until Kurama had given Naruto the tails worth of chakra and Naruto had directed it to Gaara.

Once the chakra flow had stopped Gaara shot up and looked around. He stopped the blonde. "Naruto?"

Naruto had a warm smile on his face, seeing his friend alive. "Hey Gaara."

"What happened? The last thing I remember is getting beat by that Deidara guy."

"The Akatsuki extracted Shukaku from the seal."

"What? Then why am I not dead?"

"I gave you a tails worth of chakra that will slowly be converted to your own chakra. This means you be ok."

Hinata then walked up to the blonde and put a hand on his shoulder. "We have to go Naruto." Hinata said.

"Right." Naruto said as he turned to Gaara and got up extending his hand. "Come on we have to move fast."

Gaara nodded and grabbed Narutos' arms and was pulled up by the boy.

"Let's go." Naruto said as the three set off back to the cave.

Unknown Cave –

(Same as Chapter 7 if you want to skip go to the next bold writing.)

They arrived outside the cave to see the roof of the cave was destroyed and Chiyo, Sakura and Kakashi were fighting Sasori and 100 of his puppets.

"Hmm, 100 vs 6. Not good odds." Naruto said as he turned to Gaara. "Fancy giving us a beach?"

Gaara smirked at this and called for the sand in his Gourd and the sand from the desert about ½ a mile away. The sand moved into the open top cave.

"Sand Burial!" Gaara shouted.

Suddenly all of Sasoris puppets were covered with sand.

"Sand Mass Coffin!" He finished

All the sand crushed the puppets into dust.

Kakashi, Sakura and Chiyo were in shock and turned to the entrance of the cave to see Naruto, Hinata and most surprisingly Gaara stood there.

"Impossible. You had the One-Tail extracted, you should be dead." Sasori said in disbelief.

"Yes, should be." Gaara replied.

Naruto then walked past Gaara and into what remained of the cave and whistled. "You really did a number on this place." He then turned to Sasori. "You're going down." Naruto said as he started to run towards Sasori and his eyes whirlpooled into the Kitsugan.

Afraid, Sasori used his last scroll and more arms started to shoot out from behind him and went for Naruto. Naruto just kept running and once he was near started to jump from arm to arm continuing his approach.

He eventually got to Sasori and pushed his hand on the middle of his chest, pushing him back into the wall. "Sealing Technique: Lion Closing Roar!" A white substance came from Narutos hand and spread across Sasoris lower body and midsection and sealed him on the wall and the seal appeared around him.

Seeing him sealed Sakura, Kakashi and Chiyo relaxed and turned to the three new comers.

"You arrived just in time." Kakashi said. "Those puppets were hard work."

Naruto was walking back to the three when he noticed something move near Sakura. Seeing what is was he ran and pushed her out of the way and was stabbed with the sword through his gut.

With the speed the hood came off the assailant to see Sasori. Everyone looked shocked as they looked to the puppet sealed on the wall, Sakura, Kakashi and Chiyo noticed the black talisman missing and turned back to see it in this Sasoris chest.

Naruto grabbed the blade of the sword. "Sealing Technique: Paralysis!" He said as word started to travel up the sword and on to the body. "Quick, destroy him now with this blade in me I can't hold him for much longer."

Chiyo cast most chakra thread out and grabbed two puppets. These puppets raced to Sasori and picked up two swords, once reaching him the stabbed the swords into Sasoris sides, piercing the black talisman, killing him. He slumped down but was kept up by the two puppets, the puppets were The Mother and The Father.

To Chiyo it looked similar to how Sasori used to use the puppets of his parents to hug him; when he was younger.

Kakashi and Gaara got Naruto off the sword and supported him. Hinata and Sakura came rushing over and started to use medical jutsu to heal Naruto. After a few seconds. "That's enough, Kurama will do the rest. You two have used too much charka, let's just get back to Suna and rest. We'll tell you how Gaara is alive on the way." Naruto said.

They all started to walk out of the cave, except Chiyo turned around and sealed the three puppets into a scroll. "They are finally together." She said as she walked out the cave.

Outside the Unknown Cave –

(Continue reading.)

The group had just got outside to find Team Gai approaching. They looked beat up but not too bad.

"So you survived." Naruto asked.

"YOSH OUR FLAMES OF YOUTH WERE SO STRONG THEY RETREATED." Gai shouted.

"Er, good." Naruto said with a sweat drop. "Oh by the way…" Naruto started as everyone looked at him. "…can someone catch me?" Naruto got our before he collapsed.

Kakashi moved quickly and got Naruto on his back. "We have to get back to Suna so we can see if he is ok." Kakashi said. They all nodded and made their way to Suna.

Suna –

The rescue group was running through the desert. Naruto had regained consciousness an explained that it was front losing a tails worth of chakra so fast his body just need to adjust a bit.

They could see Suna on the horizon, but there was also a black mass in front of it that the team couldn't make out.

As they got closer that saw that it was a crowd of Suna shinobi and civilians. Once they saw the rescue group and Gaara alive and well they cheered and three people ran from the crowd, two women and a man.

The man was Kankuro and the two women were Temari and Matsuri. Matsuri got to the team first and hugged Gaara and was crying into his chest. "Gaara-kun, you are ok." She sobbed.

"Yes Matsuri I am fine."

Matsuri then left his embrace and slapped him across the face. "You big jerk, you could have died."

This caused a rare phenomenon to happen, Gaara smiled.

"Crap, run he smiled!" Naruto said as he hid behind Hinata while laughing. This caused the entire group to laugh as well.

Gaara then turned back to Matsuri and kissed her on the cheek, which caused her to blush. "I'm sorry Matsuri."

Matsuri then hugged him again. "It's ok."

Temari and Kankuro both smiled at the scene of their youngest brother in love.

After all that they all walked back with Matsuri hugging Gaara's arm. Naruto tapped his other shoulder and Gaara looked at him. "So you have got a girlfriend?" Naruto asked.

"Yes, she was my apprentice and one of the first people in the village to not judge me for Shukaku." Gaara said, smiling remembering the memories of training Matsuri and having to rescue her from The Four Celestial Symbol Men, for that is when he realized his feeling for her and how much she meant to him. He then came out of his memories and looked at Naruto and Hinata. "What about you and Miss Hyuuga?" Gaara asked.

"Similar to you and Matsuri. Hinata here never judged me for Kurama and were are actually engaged, turns out our parents were good friends and married us off to each other while our mother were pregnant with us." Naruto said as Hinata moved closer into Narutos embrace.

While this conversation was taking place they had arrived at the crowd with people celebrating the return of their Kazekage and were thanking the rescue team for returning Gaara to them.

After the rescue team had got through the crowd it had been decided that there would be festival thrown that night in celebration. Gaara invited the Konoha nin to stay for the festival and they agreed. Naruto summoned Yue.

"Hey Naruto. What can I do for you?" She asked.

Naruto then handed her a scroll. "Can you get this to Obaa-chan for me? Once you are don you can come back here and enjoy the festival."

At the idea of a festival Yue quickly took the scroll and disappeared.

Tsunade's Office –

Tsunade was just relaxing on her couch drinking tea, while two of her shadow clones do her paperwork. 'Life is bliss. I have a loving boyfriend, a wonderful grandson and my job has got 100x easier. Yep I'm doing alright.'

Tsunade was then interrupted from her thoughts when a poof of smoke appeared in the middle of her office. Out of the smoke came Yue.

"Hokage-sama I have a scroll sent from Naruto." Yue said after she placed the scroll on the small table in front of the couch.

"Thank you Yue." Tsunade said as he reached for the scroll. Yue nodded her head and then disappeared.

Tsunade picked up the scroll and read it. "So Gaara is alive and well and Sasori of the Red Sand is dead. They also will be staying at Suna for the night and setting out in the morning. Well at least I know the mission was a success." Tsunade said as she placed the scroll back on the table and went back to her thoughts and tea.

Suna (The Next Day) –

Naruto woke up in his hotel room with a slight headache. He smiled as he remembered the previous night.

Flashback -

Suna had been full on celebration and happiness in the festival last night. Stalls and vendors were put up. Games and shows.

Naruto and Hinata decided to make a date out of it. They couldn't get dressed up as they were on a mission so they only had their ninja clothes but that didn't take away from the fun and romance of the date.

They played a few games, Naruto won Hinata an orange fox plushie which she adored as it reminded her of him. But what she didn't tell him was she could finally snuggle up to something Naruto related at night.

They also spent some of the night at the top of the Kazekage Tower with a bottle of sake and just looked at the stars and talked.

End Flashback

"We are heading back today." Naruto said to no-one as he went into the shower and put his clothes on.

Suna Front Gate –

The Konoha Nin were stood at the gate as The Sand Siblings, Matsuri and Chiyo.

"Well, take care Gaara." Naruto said. "Make sure he stays out of trouble, Matsuri." Naruto said as he tilts his head past Gaara. Making Matsuri blush and giggle.

"I will Naruto." She replied.

Naruto then looked back at Gaara and extended his hand out. Gaara looked at the hand and looked back up at Narutos' face and smirked and took his hand in a hand shake.

Particles of sand then rose from the desert floor and started to encircle the two hands. The caught the attention of all whole group as they were in awe at it but they were even more amazed when a breeze of wind carried some leaves and then they started to do the same as the sand. It was as if it was symbolizing the union between The Leaf and The Sand and the friendship between Naruto and Gaara.

Naruto looked down at the phenomenon and laughed. "Looks like my other bloodline has full awakened so I will have to train even harder now."

After about 30 seconds they released each other's hands and the sand and leaves followed their respective hands. "As I say stay safe Gaara and if you need anything. Just put chakra into that seal I have you and I'll be there as soon as I can."

Gaara responded with a nod. And with that the Konoha Nin left Suna and were headed home.

Unknown Cave –

Walking through the destruction that was once the cave were two Akatsuki members; one was Zetsu whereas the other was unknown but he wore an orange swirled mask.

They looked like they were looking for something. After a few minutes the unknown member picked up Sasoris' purple Akatsuki ring.

"Looks like you will have to come partly out of the shadows now." Black Zetsu said.

"Yes, it looks like I will. Which Tailed Beast has Pain decided to go for now?"

"The Three Tailed Turtle as it doesn't have a Jinchūriki since he was killed by Mei Terumi, the Fifth Mizukage."

"Good."