My Penpal the Kazekage
'It's more difficult than I thought, writing to Gaara.' 'Do you know how hard it is to write anything to Naruto?'
Pairings: NaruGaa obviously, as well as one-sided MatsuGaa.
Chapter one – the Letter
"A letter? For me?" the Kazekage looked up at his sister in surprise.
"Yep. A letter for you, and I'll give you a hint, it's not political," Temari winked, handed him the letter and walked out of the office.
Gaara looked down at the envelope, feeling curious he peered at the untidy scrawl that made his name
Temari had told him it hadn't been political, and you could tell because it said 'Gaara' on the front and not 'Kazekage'.
And so he opened it.
Gaara,
This is harder than I thought it would be, writing to you. I mean, I'm trying to be formal because you're Kazekage, but casual at the same time because you're my friend. And usually my letters are as scrambled as my thoughts, I get distracted and go off on tangents and become really irritating, so I'm trying not to do that with this letter. But now I don't know what to talk about, so what should I say? I haven't seen you in a while, how are you? I'm being run off my feet by baa-chan training me up to be Hokage, not that I'm not psyched or anything but, it's a lot of work. I've been training like crazy too, Kakashi-sensei says if I keep going the way I am, I'd be able to surpass Ero-sennin, but I don't think anybody can do that. But enough about me, how have you been? Your siblings okay? I hope they are, a lot of my friends are injured lately, but no one's died so that's good. Is Kankuro finished his puppets yet? We need him for a joint mission, to help train some of our puppet-masters, he doesn't have to, but he's the best and he'd be a good teacher. Oh, and Shikamaru told me to say hi to Temari. Well, okay he didn't but I know he wants me to, but don't tell Temari that I practically forced him to admit it. Anyway I've gone off topic, what I wanted to say was – HI GAARA! Temari was here earlier this month for the Chuunin Exams, which I finally passed, and said you were working almost non-stop, so take a break every now and then, no one expects you to be a robot 24/7 you know. At least I don't, I know you're only human, but then I guess most people still think you're some kind of non-human thing or something that never needs human comforts. I also wanted to tell you I was proud of you for becoming Kazekage, and at you're age too, I never really said it in our last meeting (mostly because I was still too happy that you were alive to say anything) but I really respect you for that. Not that I didn't respect you before. But anyway this letter is getting way long so I guess I'll to shut up before I bore you to death huh?
Naruto
Gaara felt a curious warmth in his chest when he finished the letter. He knew Naruto detested writing in any form, so he was touched that he would take the effort to write him.
The young Kazekage raised a hand to his heart where the warmth was spreading, wondering on it before he realised it was happiness.
The same feeling he got when he became Kazekage, or was accepted by his siblings, or whenever he thought about Naruto
He picked up a pen and drew a spare piece of paper in front of him, pushing aside the documents on his desk he bent to reply to his friend.
He had just written Naruto's name on the paper when he stopped, what should he write?
I'll start by answering his questions. Gaara thought.
Naruto, he wrote.
Thank you for your letter, it's nice to get mail that isn't Kage related for once. You don't need to be formal with me, you should know that, and if you ever call me Kazekage I will hurt you, Gaara smirked a little at his humour, because to you I am not a Kage, I am simply Gaara. Besides I like talking to you, because I know you'll understand, and you're easy to talk to in general. And don't worry about going off on tangents, I like hearing from you so I don't mind, and you're not irritating. To answer your question I'm doing fine, a little tired but that's nothing new. It's good to hear you're training to be Hokage, you shouldn't call Tsunade-sama old either. I think you'd be able to surpass Jiraiya-sama if you worked at it, after all it's every student's job to one day surpass their mentors. As I said before, I'm fine, Kankuro and Temari too, they've convinced me to eat dinner and breakfast with them instead of locking myself in my office. It's nice to have that time with them. I'm sorry to hear about your friends, I hope they're okay. I'll ask Kankuro about that joint mission for you. And I'll say hi to Temari from Shikamaru too. I don't care what Temari's told you I don't work that much…well maybe I do but it's not like I'm being forced to do it. But you're right, maybe I should take a break. I thank you for your acknowledgement, it is true that many people don't know I need other things humans do, I suppose I'm still an imposing figure to them. And Naruto…thank you, for being proud of me, and for respecting me, I had hoped to gain your respect one day, it's good to know I have achieved it. I've been meaning to ask a few things actually, but I never had the chance beforehand. How is your luck with bringing the Uchiha back for one thing, and please tell me you're eating properly, I know how you go for days with nothing but ramen, it's not healthy Naruto, eat a vegetable every now and then, for my sake at least, so I don't have to worry about your health as well as your safety. And be careful on missions for heaven's sake, I know how reckless you get, just because you're a Chuunin now doesn't mean you're invincible. Congratulations on that by the way.
Gaara.
Satisfied with his reply, he went up to the message station and used the bird from Konoha to send it. He knew he was going to like writing to Naruto.
