Chapter 3: Base

I'm not afraid to cry every once in awhile…

It was a month since Naruto rescued Sakura from Sasuke's dungeon and were now on their way to the resistance base hidden deep within Fire Country, everything was going well until…

Naruto sighed as he stood surrounded by all his old friends, Rock Lee, Neji, Chouji, Shino, Kiba, Hinata, Ino, Ten-ten, Shikamaru, even the sand sibs, it was the choose of weapons that had him abit well…he couldn't find the word for it.

Shikamaru, Rock Lee, Neji and Hinata were holding common household forks to his throat, Ino and Chouji had two kunai's each in their hands, Shino had his insects, Kankuro had a puppet out and ready, Temari had her fan also at the ready and Gaara had his sand slowly creeping up around Naruto's ankles and body.

Sakura had only disappeared for a moment when the sudden attack happen, and with his friends being armed, he wasn't going to risk the chance of getting found out, or harm anyone, sighing again, he resigned to his fate of being killed or whatever they were planning to do with him.

"I say we throw him into a dungeon for an x amount of days without food and see if he talks, he smells with pure evil."

"I don't think so Ino, Akamaru says that it's just body odor."

"Arf!"

"Guys! What are you doing? This is the guy who saved me!"

Sakura than walked over to the coward trying to break up the impeding all out brawl, thankfully with a good result than Sakura looked around at all of them.

"Guys, this is Kyu, Kyu this is everyone."

"Hi"

Naruto just waved slightly as he looked at everyone, Gaara looked at Naruto for a few seconds than would smirk some, he knew who it was right of the bat, Naruto looked at Gaara and something in his eyes pleaded silently to Gaara not to say anything, Garra smiled faint than would look at him again.

"It's an honor to meet you Kyu, welcome to our humble house."

"Thanks you guys…but Miss. Sakura is right, I did save her from the Sound Kage, now before you go on and attack me once again, I was just in the neighborhood and somehow or another he would up giving me the grand tour of the village, I offered my knowledge of integration once he talked about Miss. Sakura, but I can't help it when I saw a very beautiful women in that type of condition."

Sakura blushed when she heard her former teammate said that she was beautiful and he was right about what he did to make Sasuke open the cell door and what lead to her rescue.

Soon a sharp cough interrupted everyone's thoughts and all eyes turned to Naruto who was smiling faint.

"I'm sorry; it's been awhile since I had a descent meal, bath and rest, I'm just thankful I haven't collapsed in exhaustion yet."

Garra looked at the person he considered a brother and could tell that he was not lying, every with the demon charka Naruto had from the merging, was extremely low, singling that the poor man has not been able to rest yet.

"I'll show you to a room were you can rest."

"Thanks"

With that, Naruto's eyes rolled into the back of his head and all of sudden collapsed in sheer exhaustion while twelve sets of hands caught him before he did a face plant on the hardwood floor.

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Well I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful Christmas, I know I did. Happy New Years!