ok everybody here is the final chapter!!! yay!!! thanks to everyone who wrote reviews, encouraged me, or even just read my story! dont worry there will be a sequal! So make sure you keep an eye out for that too! ok I hope you enjoy it! (it took forever to write)

Kurenai's head was pounding as she sat up, her vision blurred due to the poison. She rubbed her bloodshot eyes, her head ached and some parts of her body felt numb. "ugh" she moaned and grabbed her stomach, "it hurts" she meekly whispered. Kurenai looked over to Kakashi, he was in a bleeding heap on the floor. "Kakashi!" she screamed but fell back down onto the floor as pain surged through her entire body, she felt the blood pulsing through her veins as her muscles constricted and tensed up. "Damnit" she thought "I have to get to them!" Kurenai balled up her fists and gritted her teeth as she slid her body little by little across the floor. Lucky for Kurenai, Kakashi wasn't too far away or she would have passed out from exhaustion. Kakashi was an arm's length away; she pulled herself just a little closer and latched onto his jacket, her right arm surging with pain, "Kakashi" she moaned "Kakashi!" She weakly shook him.

"ugh" he moaned as she shook him, "don't do that, my head hurts." Kurenai examined him through her clouded vision.

"He doesn't look too bad, except for a few gashes" she thought "but what I'm worried about is his head" she looked at the large tender purple bruise that covered the back of his head. "Damn, this is probably a concussion" she thought, "Kakashi" she said weakly, "stay here" Kurenai propped him up against the wall, he didn't object. Next she looked around for Asuma and Yashamaru, she tried to stand up but her muscles once again tensed up and felt like they were on fire. Kurenai winced and bit her lip, "I have to stand up! Come on Kurenai!" she thought, she propped her hands on the floor and pushed up, "aaagh" she screamed at the immense pain, it felt like someone was setting her legs on fire, the burning sensation felt unbearable. She struggled to get up, tears welled up in her eyes "come on, almost there!" she screamed inside her head, she was just about to collapse when she felt two little hands take hold of her shoulder, a few seconds later a tangle of blond messy hair poked out from under her arm and lifted her up.

"Don't worry sensei; it's my turn to help you." He said breathing heavily.

Naruto walked Kurenai over to Asuma, who was still buried in the books.

"Asuma-san" he said picking up a few books that were on top of the pile, "can you hear me?"

Asuma groaned "Damn, I'm gunna kill Kakashi for having such a large collection of nasty books!" He poked his head through the pile and looked at Naruto, he had a wide toothy smile spread across his face as he offered Asuma his hand. "Thanks" he grunted as Naruto pulled him up.

"heh, it's no problem" Naruto said in his trademark position with his hands behind his head.

Asuma attempted to smile, but the pain that pulsated through his skull prevented him. "Ow" he blankly stated, Asuma felt the lump on the back of his head, "jeez" he said with unbelief "did those books really hit me that hard?"

Kurenai smacked his hand, "idiot don't poke it" she hoarsely said "you'll make it worse!"

Asuma looked around "damn, that bastard put a hole in the wall, now I'm gunna have to fix it cause Kakashi will be too lazy to do it himself." He thought to himself.

"Asuma-san can you help me with Yashamaru?" Naruto asked as he struggled with Yashamaru's weight.

"Sure" he replied and absentmindedly walked over to the little boy and heaved Yashamaru upright.

"Thanks!" Naruto flashed him another toothy smile and walked back over to Kurenai.

"Sensei" he whispered "are you ok?"

Kurenai struggled to reply "Naruto, the poison is spreading throughout my body." His eyes widened at the deadly word, "I need to bleed the poison out, so I need you to make a few shallow cuts on my body." Naruto wordlessly nodded his head, Kurenai handed him one of her kunai's, "here use this and make an incision on my right arm, shoulder blade, and stomach, ok?"

"Y-yes sensei" he gripped the kunai so hard that his knuckles turned white, she heard him gulp.

"It's ok Naruto, I'll be ok, just do what I told you."

He nodded his head again and proceeded to make a shallow cut on her right arm.

She gasped at the pain and bit her lip so she wouldn't scream, "Are you ok sensei?" Naruto stopped for a moment.

"Just keep going" she gasped, Naruto went back to work draining the poison from his sensei's body. In just a few minutes later he had all the cuts done and Kurenai was breathing heavily. "Ugh that hurt, good job Naruto, I'm very proud of you."

He helped his sensei up and walked her over to the couch so she could lie down and rest.

Naruto now looked around for Hinata and Gaara, He saw her sprawled out on the floor by the crawlspace. "Hinata!" he said as he ran over to her. Naruto crouched down by his friend "Hinata" he whispered, "say something"

"N-Naruto-kun" Hinata stuttered, she stirred for a moment and her eyes flickered open. "Huh" she sat up and looked around, "Naruto-kun, thank you" she said with a hint of admiration in her voice.

"No problem, are you ok now?" He asked helping her up

"Yeah, I'm ok now" Hinata replied with a small blush on her cheeks

"Ok good, I'm gunna go help Gaara, can you help out Asuma?"

"Yeah sure" she said and scampered over to Asuma who was tending to Yashamaru.

Naruto looked around the room, there were a few holes in the walls, and the stench of blood polluted the air. "Gaara" he said with sympathy as his gaze wandered over to the little red head.

Gaara sat next to his so called father with his knees tucked under his chin. He just sat there staring out into space, "It was for the best" he muttered under his breath "you were a monster and I'm glad you're dead…but why do I feel so empty inside?" a small tear slid down his face, "why do I feel sad, I should be rejoicing, but I feel no happiness." Gaara shifted his weight and continued to stare at his father's dead body; his eyes were glazed over, blood splatter soaked into his robe, his hair poked out from his hat… "Wait!" Gaara thought, "He has red hair like mine…but why is his hair brown?" Gaara got on all fours and crawled to the other side of the Kazekage, "hmmm" he said as he studied the body, panic overcame his emotions as Gaara ripped off the mask that concealed the Kazekage's face. "No" he said "n-no" Gaara felt sick to his stomach, and he sank to his knees. The face under the mask looked nothing like his fathers…it had brown bushy hair and a scar on the left cheek. "My father didn't have brown hair, and never had a scar on his cheek…"

Naruto saw his friends panicked expression; "Gaara" he yelled "is something wrong?" Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked up at Gaara, "Gaara?" Naruto questioned.

"It's not him" He said with tears streaming down his face, Hinata dropped the bottle of medicine she was carrying.

"What?" she said in disbelief "but you, he, that guy is dead!" Hinata said with frustration as she struggled to get the words out.

"It's not him" he said again looking at the floor

"Gaara" Asuma said "why do you think it's not him?" He looked over to the body "it looks like the Kazekage to me…"

"I KNOW it's not him" Gaara yelled "my father doesn't have brown hair or a scar on his cheek!!" Gaara paused to wipe his tears "we killed the wrong person, this isn't him!" He sank to the floor and continued to cry.

"Kakashi" Asuma said "you heard that right?" He looked over to his semi-conscious friend next to him.

Kakashi lifted his head, "yeah" he said quietly "damnit, I thought it was him, then again, none of us has ever seen the Kazekage before…" Kakashi looked up at Asuma, "well, what do we do now?"

"I don't know, I mean the least we could do is burry the poor bastard." Asuma replied

"Alright, we'll give him a funeral later when we have enough strength to dig a hole." Kakashi said as he tried to get up, he looked at Yashamaru, he was just sitting there,

"Asuma…" Kakashi started to say

"Him and Kurenai both are in the same boat." Asuma stated blankly and walked over to Yashamaru.

"I couldn't tell" Yashamaru said "I attacked from a distance; I didn't get a good look at him."

"Its ok, either way he would have died, that man was attacking us…so the only way to protect ourselves was to kill him, Kazekage or not he was going to die." Asuma bent down and offered Yashamaru a hand.

"Thanks" he said weakly as he took hold of Asuma's hand.

He helped Yashamaru over to the couch where Kurenai was resting, for some reason the poison was having more of an effect on Kurenai than Yashamaru.

Naruto and Hinata walked over to Gaara, "Gaara-kun" Hinata quietly said as she put a hand on his shoulder. "It's ok we'll all be ok, we can fix this mess…together, right Naruto-kun?" Hinata looked at Naruto

"Right! We'll get through this!" He said with determination

"But I killed an innocent person…" Gaara stated, Naruto looked down at him,

"Gaara, like Asuma said, he wasn't so innocent, he attacked us and we just protected ourselves." Naruto put a hand on his other shoulder "and if you remember right, it was the two of us who killed him."

Gaara looked up at his friends "But"

"But nothing dead is dead and it wasn't your fault ok?" Naruto said sternly

"Ok" he replied back

"Right now though" Hinata said "lets get some sleep, the others need to rest too, when we wake up, I'm sure we can take care of everything." She gave him a little smile

The three of them stood up "ok then, it's settled, we'll fix this mess after we take a nap." Naruto stated.

They walked over to the crawl space and sat down inside it. "Good night everyone" Hinata said as they all curled up and fell asleep.

A small breeze rustled the leaves on the trees as Asuma filled in the hole with soft dirt. He patted and smoothed it out making a nice grave for the man. "Even though he attacked us, we wouldn't have killed him if we knew he wasn't the Kazekage."

Everyone bowed their heads and silently prayed for the man, after the ceremony was done Yashamaru spoke up.

"Ok everybody I guess this is the part where I leave" he said lighting a cigarette

"What!?" Gaara said in disbelief "but why!"

"heh" Yashamaru said and patted Gaara on the head, "well someone's gotta keep track of the real Kazekage."

"But" Gaara stammered "I-I don't want you to leave"

"I know Gaara, but like I said I have to keep an eye on the Kazekage, and besides think of Temari and Kankuro? I have to keep track of them too, your relatives can't watch them forever…"

"Ok" Gaara said with disappointment, "take care Yashamaru"

"Bye Yashamaru" Hinata said giving him a hug,

"heh, bye Hinata, you take care."

Naruto latched onto Yashamaru as well "bye! Please come visit again!" Yashamaru returned their hugs and stood up; he took a long drag on his cigarette.

"Well Asuma, Kakashi, Kurenai it's been a pleasure." He said turning around and walking towards town.

"Bye ass-hole!" Kurenai said waving her good arm

"Bye" Kakashi mumbled, to engrossed in his book to show emotion.

"See yah" Asuma waved "come on back any time!"

They turned around and guided the kids back to the house "ok well what now?" Asuma said.

"Well I think that it's time for us to go back to the church now" Kurenai said looking at her friends.

"Ah yes about that" Kakashi said "can you come over here please?" Kakashi gestured for them to move away from the group.

"Sure?" Kurenai said in confusion.

The two of them walked away from the group "Kurenai, there is something I wanted to ask you."

"What is it Kakashi?" She questioned

"Weeell" Kakashi said putting a hand behind his head, "I wanted to ask you if it was ok for Naruto and Gaara to stay here, with Asuma and me."

Kurenai smiled "Kakashi have you got a soft spot for those two boys? She joked

Kakashi gave her a blank annoyed stare "shut up."

She looked at him "well, I guess they could stay, but you'd have to ask them."

"Cool" he replied "Hey Naruto Gaara come here!" Kakashi yelled

"Ok Sempai!" Naruto grabbed Gaara's hand and ran over to Kakashi. "What is it?"

Kakashi looked at the two boys, "do you want to stay here, with me?"

Naruto cheered "Yesss!!" he ran over and hugged his sempai "I do! I wanna stay with my sempai!!"

"Heh ok I guess that's a yes for Naruto." Kakashi said as he lifted Naruto up and placed him on his shoulder.

Gaara looked at how happy Naruto was, "I guess I'll stay too!" he said latching onto Kakashi's leg.

He also lifted Gaara up and put him onto his other shoulder. "Hey Asuma! We have two new room mates!" he laughed

"When did this happen!?" Asuma said in disbelief

"Like 5 minutes ago…" Kakashi mumbled so Asuma couldn't hear him

"Huh? Hey we're room mates! You're supposed to consult me on these things!" Asuma yelled as he charged at Kakashi.

Kurenai grabbed Hinata's hand "Come on Hinata, lets go before it gets to rough"

"Ok sensei! Let's go home" Hinata happily said as the two left through the front gate.

"Heh" Kurenai laughed to herself "They're gunna have a handful with those two."

Night fell and Kakashi was tucking Naruto and Gaara into bed, Naruto was already sound asleep and snoring really loud. But Gaara was still awake; Kakashi sat on the end of his bed. "Hey Kakashi, is this what it's like to have a family?" He asked the tired adult.

Kakashi thought about it for a moment "Yeah, pretty much." He replied "now get some sleep ok?" He said pulling the covers over Gaara's shoulder.

Gaara yawned "ok, goodnight…dad?" He said in confusion.

"Eh doesn't work for me, just call me Kakashi ok?" He warmly said

" Ok" Gaara replied and fell Into a blissful sleep, knowing that he finally had a place where he truly belonged.

I hope you all enjoyed it, the sequal will be comming soon! so thanks for reading!