The Fox and The Weasel at Red Dawn: rewrite!

Chapter 23: Naruto's family

The next morning, everyone was up, well, except for one person.

"Where's Naruto," Sasori questioned, as he worried about the person that he called his little brother. Everyone was worried about him in Akatsuki now, and they were better because of him.

"Asleep," Itachi answered as he came to get some breakfast as Naruto was dead asleep. He wasn't about to wake him up, as he needed this rest. They had been walking for weeks without adequate rest, thanks to Naruto, and now he was able to sleep as much as he should.

"Good," Pein stated, but before anyone could say more, there was a knock on the door.

"I will get it," Sarutobi said as he walked into the room where all of the Akatsuki were, except for one. They nodded, and he walked to the door. When he opened it, there was the red-head gennin, Gaara.

"Yes," Sarutobi questioned.

"Good morning, Hokage-sama," Gaara greeted with a bow. "I came here to see if I could request the presence of Naruto."

"What about him," Itachi questioned as he came to the door.

"It's just that he's the closest person that I've had in years," Gaara stated. Itachi nodded, knowing how that felt.

"He's asleep right now," Itachi stated.

"But you are more than welcome here," Konan stated, as she came over while she was stirring something to eat for Naruto once he woke up. She had been keeping him on a well balanced diet as much as she could so that the baby would turn out healthy. She knew Naruto hated it though. It took a couple of weeks for her to be able to get Naruto to start eat it, but she finally hooked Itachi in to help her. It seemed to work in the end though. "That is, if it is alright with Hokage-san."

"It'd be my privilege to know more of Naruto's friends," Sarutobi smiled as he escorted the Suna boy inside.

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Naruto at the time was just starting to wake up. He yawned once and stretched as much as he could before he opened his eyes. He looked around, but he couldn't find Itachi, but he knew that Itachi was still in the house. Itachi wasn't going to leave it until the fight, and he didn't want to confront his brother before it. So whenever Naruto wanted to go out of the house, Konan or one of the others, were assigned to watch him. Naruto didn't care really because this was a normal behavior of Itachi's.

Naruto started to rise from his bed, which was a difficult thing to do for him nowadays because of his stomach, but he got up eventually. Then he started to change into his clothes. It was just like every day, he'd wear a kimono. Naruto had just shrugged it off because that was the only thing that would fit him.

After he was done, he started waddling out of the room, with a hand on his lower back. It never did help him whenever he was walking that it hurt unless he put his hand there to support it. He sighed as he remembered the first time that he figured it out. He had taken two months just to think of something that would help, and Konan was the one to suggest it as he had started complaining after 6 weeks of pain. Konan scowled him for it as he should have informed them sooner.

"Fatty," Tobi yelled as soon as he saw him. He had missed Naruto, but he never would say it because it would ruin the teasing. He knew Naruto knew though. "Tobi is here!" Sarutobi stared at him, with a face of concentration.

"Tobi, stop calling Naruto fatty, un," Diedara scowled before walking over to his 'little brother'. "And you should have had more rest."

"Oh, leave Naru-kun alone, DiDi-chan," Sasori said as he wrapped his arms around Diedara. His back pressed into him without Diedara thinking about it, as it usually happened.

"Naruto, you have a visitor," Pein stated. Naruto looked at where Pein was pointing, and he saw Gaara.

"Hey, Gaara," Naruto greeted with a smile. Gaara nodded back in greeting. "How are you doing on the chuunin exams by the way.

"I only have to wait for them," Gaara responded. "Only five more days before they start." Naruto nodded as he thought and he started looking around at his family. He didn't want to lose any one of them. They were his only family that he had, especially Itachi. That thought brought tears to his eyes. Thankfully, no one really noticed, except the loudmouth of the group.

"Tobi want to know why fatty is crying," he stated.

"Shut it, Tobi," Naruto growled, wiping at his eyes furiously as he did so. He felt arms circle his stomach as he was pulled down. He eeped before turning to see it was Itachi. He wrapped his arms around Itachi's neck before resting his face in the crook of his neck. A few tears slid as he remembered his prior statement, but Itachi didn't say anything; he just rubbed Naruto's back. Itachi would get Naruto to tell him what was wrong later, as he always does. Naruto was stubborn about who he told his problems to, a trait he learned since he was very young.

No one had started talking really, just enjoying the silence, especially Gaara. No one really noticed that Naruto had fallen, once again, into his sleepy state while in Itachi's arms.