In a giant building, where hundreds of man laid. So did the singular tailed beast of the village hidden within the leaves.
But do not be mistaken, even if it was the only tailed beast in the land of fire.
It was also undoubtedly the singular strongest creature in this world among those bijuu's.
And this bijuu was sealed inside a boy, naruto uzumaki.
And this host... this jinchuriki for sure was not in the best mood.
Rather it was quite the opposite, probably the angriest mood ever perceived on this boys face...
But he also seemed tired... too tired. As if all Chakra has been drained from his body... but that wasn't it. His body was afterall filled Chakra... his own and that of the bijuu.
His whiskers softly pronounced and his blue animalistic like eyes glaring at the sheets he gripped with strength that could shred it apart with no difficulty in this barren white room.
The reason for this anger was simple...
He has already received a rapport to sign and give to the hokage to confirm what has happened on the mission to retrieve sasuke uchiha.
He doubted tho that granny tsunade was unaware of the situation, probably getting an face to face audience with shikamaru after his return to get the information about the mission at once.
He was torn...
The willingness to save sasuke in his heart...
To fullfill the mission he wasn't capable of doing and to do what Sakura asked him for...
...and more, sasuke was his friend. His best friend Perhaps the only friend...
But also in his mind, his quick, cold and believe or not calculative mind...
He wished him dead at once.
He gazed at the piece of perchament with the details of the mission that he returned from... reading it once over.
Akimichi Choji, cause of death: lack of nutrients causing the bodily collapse.
Hyuga Neji, cause of death: bloodloss, stab wounds.
Inuzuka Kiba, cause of death: bloodloss, stab wounds.
Rock Lee, cause of death: post surgery collapse of the body from lack of rest and unnatural strain.
"..."
Naruto felt hatred and powerlessness... and shame.
He remembered how he treated kiba and neji at the begin of the mission, he wanted to rile them up... get their blood pumping, but it seems that their blood will not pump no more at all...
He wondered...
Could the outcome have been different?
What if he stayed with choji? Would the two of them be able of beating the guy and moving to help the others?
Even as much as he wanted to fantasize he knew that there was nothing he could've done.
To save all meant to not even see sasuke after that weird barrel and possibly have still one of theirs own die...
At that point, abandoning the mission would be a better choice... which a shinobi should never...
Well, in the rule book there for sure were a number of exceptions and reasons for why missions could be abandoned but this mission held no such points to be exploited.
He remembered his talk with jiraya a few hours back, when he woke up...
The sannin's stern advice of simply letting sasuke go, telling the boy that the uchiha has chosen his path and the warning of the akatsuki and their quest to hunt jinchuriki and invitation to train under the writers tutelage.
Which naruto accepted...
In two months time the two would go for a two to three year long training trip...
He hoped to learn, and train enough to surpass sasuke... and mature to make the decision of killing or sparing sasuke...