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[couragetodare]

Who: Naruto couragetodare & Minato yellowkamikaze (possibly Kushina dattebamato later?)
When: August 29th
Where: The ruins.
Format: Paragraph.
What: Pfffft. So. Naruto thinks he can rescue Zack. Turns out he's the one who needs rescuing.
Warnings: Beaten up dire wolves? Angry!Daddy!Hokage? ANGST?

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[couragetodare]

The commotion outside had Naruto freeze. Heart, breath, mind, all perfectly still, as though this stillness could render him completely invisible. He curled, balling up at the upheaval beyond his hideaway, the masonry between him and the outside world not nearly enough to dim the ruckus - a cut off wolf's cry, maybe the sound of something (someone?) hitting the damp earth, he could feel the vibrations beneath him, through him and awareness followed.

Something was happening. Something was happening outside. Something Bad.

He had to get Zack. He had to move and get out and get Zack and save him because Zack was nice and only five.

Don't look don't look don't look. The rock was a lifeline and so small fingers dug into the stone, treating it as such. A weapon, the only one he had. Don't look. He balled up tighter until he had his face buried in his knees, as though protecting himself from falling debris in a bomb shelter, as though he might make himself small enough to disappear through sheer focused will. Don't look don't look.

Outside there was silence. And it was too quiet, like the prelude to something else, or maybe something worse until-

Naruto. Someone knew his name. Someone was out there. Someone was out there and asking him if he was in here. He shook his head, silent, staunch, unseen denial. No, he wasn't in here, he was somewhere else and no one could see him anyway or hear him. He couldn't answer. If he answered then they would know, the things outside and then they would dig him out.

And he had to get Zack.