Authors note: I don't own Naruto

Chapter 3 (Dreaded Victory)

Sakura. Ino and Ameduro stared. Although Ameduro was staring in anger. Sakura and Ino were staring in awe. All across the walls were warnings and hate signs. The largest one read: DIE AND BURN IN HELL KYUUBI VESSEL.

Naruto looked away ashamed. "See why I didn't want you guys here. I completely understand if you guys don't want to associate with me anymore." At this tears began to slowly fall down his face.

Ameduro walked up to him and slapped him lightly on the back of the head. "Baka, do you really think that I care about the fact that you 'contain' a demon. I haven't known you for very long but I do know this, you are a kind person who would never abuse human life. To me you are just Naruto, not the Kyuubi" He puts his hand on Naruto's shoulder and gives it a small squezze. "I mean that Naruto. You are my second friend, yet only friend right now so that means we stick together no matter what. Besides what about our promise together?" He adds with a grin. Felling much happier and go-lucky again he turns around to thank Ameduro, but upon seeing Sakura and Ino his heart falls again.

"Naruto" Sakura began "I'm really sorry for all the times I treated you harshly. You've had a rough life, probably worse than Sasuke's and everyone scorns you and yet you still keep a smile on. Even when I ridiculed you, you still kept going and had a smile on. I'm sorry Naruto" With that she embraced him, nearly takling him to the ground.

"I'm really sorry Naruto" she sobbed "I hope you can forgive me and let me become one of your friends, and I promise to treat you better"

Before Naruto could reply, Ino also came up and hugged him. "Naruto, I want you to know that I'm sorry too. I always doubted you and thought that you were a loser and now I know that I was completely off. You're a great guy, one of the few and now that I've seen how you live and look back at Sasuke, I can't believe I fell for a guy who doesn't respect others and wants to do everything himself. You guys both had it rough but he chose to think only of himself while you want to make others happy. That's a great quality Naruto, don't lose it"

Naruto was crying harder than ever now. "I couldn't ask for better people to be my friends because there is no-one better than you guys." He told them while whipping the tears from his eyes. "Oh yeah by the way, the inside isn't much better than out here"

They all let go of him and gave him encouraging nods to show they supported him. With that he opened the door and let them walk past him into the cramped little apartment.

Naruto was very wrong, what they saw on the inside was not better than what they saw on the outside, it was worse. It still had the graffiti all over the walls, but to accompany that was wrecked furniture that was torn beyond repair. On the Kitchen floor were a couple of spots that looked suspiciously like blood, and they also noticed the fact that the closet door was half broken and almost completely off the frame.

"How can you live here Naruto?" Sakura exclaimed.

"Easy" he replied nonchalantly "This is all that I can afford" With that he walked over to the closet and stared at it for a moment. Finally he finished thinking and grabbed the door and ripped it off with ease. Now the closet was completely open.

"Hey Ameduro wear these, it's the only thing I have that's not orange." So he handed Ameduro a pair of baggy jet black pants with pockets everywhere, and a crimson red t-shirt. Forgetting the fact that the girls were there, he changed into his new uniform.

When he turned around he noticed the girls there and immediately blushed. But then he realised that the were looking at something. Naruto noticing where their stares were pointed, decided to fill them in on what it was.

"Oh yeah hehe.. don't worry about that it's just some old dried blood" He stated calmly.

"Naruto, can I ask why there is blood on your kitchen floor?" Sakura asked in a false sweet tone.

"Oh that happened a couple of years ago. Some of the villagers broke through the door and decided to trash the place. Notice all the torn furniture, well that was from them. The blodd came from me, one of the villagers snuck up behind me and hit me in the back of the head with a shovel"

Sakura, Ino and Ameduro all flared in anger. "How could the villagers be so crule and heartless?" All three of them shouted.

"That's it, Naruto you are coming to live at my house" Sakura yelled.

"Ameduro, you're coming with me" Ino screamed at him.

"Wait" Naruto and Ameduro shouted. "Can we at least get some gear for Ameduro before we go?" Naruto asked.

"Oh right" Ino stated.

"Well he's going to need some shuriken and kunai, along with some herbs for healing" Sakura stated matter-o-factly.

"Oh yeah about the shuriken, I won't be needing those. I have somewthing that is exclusively produced in America, it's called a gun"

"What the hecks a gun?" Naruto asked. (anime confusion style)

"It is a weapon that shoots projectiles faster than any shuriken can be thrown. Here let me show you." Ameduro pulls out 4 guns from his backpack.

"These 2 are called Killer 7's. It is a type of gun called a magnum which are very powerful. These other 2 are called Dessert Eagles. They are pistols and as far as pistols go, their pretty damn strong. Now every gun uses bullets which are these" He pulls out a small piece of metal with a sharpened tip. "These fit into the guns according to how many bullets the gun can hold. Rounds are how many bullets that can be fit into the gun at once. Both the Killer 7 and the Dessert Eagles have a 9 bullet capacity which would equal a whole round. Are you guys following me so far?"

He recieves a nod from both Sakura and Ino, however when he looks towards Naruto he notices that he has the most confused expression that he has ever seen on his face. "Here lets finish getting my supplies and when we get to the park I'll show you what they can do"

"That I can understand" When they stood up to go Naruto's stomach growled loudly "Uhh… but can we get some food first?"

Sakura and Ino looked exasperated while Ameduro just clutched his sides laughing.

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