Disclaimer: Naruto doesn't belong to the ever amazing me, please refer to Kishimoto-sensei for it.

'Ku-chan?'

'Yeah kit?'

'Did ya really hafta do it like that?'

'Oi brat! I saved your skin right now, didn't I?!'

'Well, yeah, you did, but… Gaara was a good guy.'

'And so was Shukaku, once upon a time… I think.'

'Ya think?!'

'Now that I think about it, he was pretty rambunctious back in the days. He just love playing Whack-A-Mole… At least his version of it.'

'I'm… not really sure if I wanna know what that means…'

'Nah, nothing too serious… Just think, instead of the moles it was humans and instead of whack it was sand cof…'

'Enough!'

'You get the picture.'

'I do, thankyouverymuch… Didn't ya say Shukaku came back in time with you?'

'He did. All the biju did. I mean, I know I'm fabulous, but time traveling requires more chakra than even I have.'

'Uh-huh. So, why is he… not good?'

'… Dropped too much on his head when he was a babe?'

'Are ya telling me or are ya asking me?'

'Both?'

'… That Hagoromo guy has a lots to answer for.'

'Oh hey, don't go hating on the man now. He was a pretty decent dad.'

'Remind me what happened to his sons again?'

'Not his fault they were douchebags!'

'Uh-huh. And it's definitely not mom's fault I like crisp ra…'

'Oh hells, fine, so he wasn't perfect! He was just a lil' human, you can't expect him to be perfect! Nobody's perfect, and trust me, I would know.'

'I recall you singing a different tune before..'

'Well yeah, I mean, I'm perfect. But not everybody can be me. It would be unfair to the humans, totally.'

'If you say so.'

'Yeah, I say so, and Kurama knows best.'

'Unless Mom's involved.'

'Oh please, I could totally wipe the…'

'Chipmunks.'

'We agreed to never talk about that!'

'Mhm-uhm.'

'Anyways, what are you going to do with Gaara now?'

Naruto gave one look to the moaning mess in the puddle of vomit, on the ground before him, before surveying his surroundings.

Sasuke was hanging from the branch above him, his hands outstretched to the ground, knocked out for.. a while, Ku-chan said. Unlike Gaara, he was drooling. Naruto was certain he did not want to know what that was about.

In the bushes behind him were Gaara's siblings, probably scared to death by Ku-chan's vision from hell… Not that he would know, Ku-chan closed him off in his mindscape whilst he did his thing. Judging from the smell of urine coming from that side Naruto guessed it was probably for the best he did just that.

'First off, I need to find Sai.'

'Why in the name of the great sage would you want to find him?!'

Naruto sighed, rising from his spot of dirt and moving towards the mangled body of his red haired friend.

'Coz then he can take care of Sasuke.'

A sound of understanding passed through his head, and Ku-chan's comments were no more.

Well, just some instructions on how to pick Gaara up without breaking him in half and stuff like that.

After he pushed some of his chakra into Gaara, to revive him a bit, he turned towards the now standing figures of… Tumar and Kanki? Hmmm, he wasn't that keen on the names, but he was pretty sure it went something like that.

'Umm, a little help?' He giggled, holding the trembling form of their little brother.