This is a Gaara and Naruto fanfic female Naruto. Naruto's powers from the nine tails fox will not be the same they will be a bit like Gaara's. This story will start at the Chunin exam. The Kazekage will not be killed my Orochimaru in this story. Sasuke doesn't have the marks. This is my first Naruto fanfic so review and tell me how I did.

Sakura found her blonde haired friend sitting under a tree with a smile on her face as she watched the river. "Naruto, Kakashi wants us to meet him at the academy." Sakura said as she approached her teammate.

"Oh, ok" Naruto replied as she got up brushing her curly blonde hair out of her face. Her friend turned and started towards the academy. Naruto followed without a word a smile still on her face.

Gaara and his sibling walked into the leaf village. His annoying brother Kankuro was complying about the long journey. Gaara couldn't wait to get to the place they'd be staying so he could be alone until the exams tomorrow. As he and his siblings walked a blonde hair blue eyed girl with a smile on her face ran into him or well a wall of sand that came to protect him. Gaara saw something red push past his sand and knock him backwards.

On her rush to get to the academy Naruto smacked into a boy with red hair and teal eyes wearing a gore of sand on his back. Before they could collide the chakra from the red tails fox came out of her body and pushed toward the boy trying to stop her from hitting him. Instead of pushing the boy it was met with a wall of sand that it pushed through causing Naruto to smack into the sand and be sent falling backwards more of her chakra came out of her and made a could saving her from falling and hurting herself. Looking up she saw the boy sitting on a cloud of sand.

Gaara stared at the girl who sat on the cloud of red their eyes locked as they stared at each other. The girl's eyes left his as a pink haired girl walked over and helped her up. The girl who knocked him over walked over and offered him a hand up. Gaara just stared at it he wasn't used to people this close to him or being kind people always had this look of fear in their eyes when around him so they stayed away from him and insulted him behind his back. "Sorry I wasn't watching where I was going" said the blond girl in a sweet voice. Still holding out her hand to him, Gaara took her hand and pulled himself up ignoring the weird looks his siblings were giving him.

As Naruto pulled the boy up she felt she should repay him for knocking down like that. "Why don't you let me buy you something to eat later?" she offered the boy's who's name she still didn't know. The boy looked at her funny before nodding his head. "Great how about you meet me here at five? I've got to go now it was nice meeting you. Sorry again for knocking you down. I'm Naruto Uzumaki by the way" she rushed out as she ran off with Sakura towards the academy.

Sakura and Naruto got to the academy at the same time as their other teammate Sasuke got there. Sakura looked at Sasuke with dreamy eyes. Sakura had the biggest crush on Sasuke, but no matter what she did he never seemed interested in her. She remembered being so happy when she was put into a group with Sasuke thinking that she would be the only girl that would get to spend time with him. She remembered being jealous when Naruto was put in the same team. All of the guys wanted Naruto yet she didn't even notice their advances. Sakura knew it was wrong to be jealous of her friend, but as she watched the smile Naruto received from Sasuke a new wave of jealousy hit.

Naruto watched her pink haired friend look at Sasuke with longing in her green eyes. She didn't get why her friend looked at him with like that. Sasuke never showed any favoritism towards Sakura or any one for that matter he usually just glared at everyone. He hardly ever spoke to anyone even his own teammates only got short clipped replies. Why would Sakura who was so nice want someone so cold? She just didn't understand. The nicest Sasuke was, was when he would give Naruto a small hug when no one was around and it was just the two of them and when he smiled at her. Sometimes he would let her sleep with him in his bed, because he knew about her nightmares and when they took long trips he made a point of sleeping next to her so that they were touching, but other than that he was usually cold towards others. Sighing Naruto smiled at Sasuke like she always did. Her smile grew bigger when she saw him return it.

Sasuke smiled at Naruto. She was the only one he never glared at. He liked Naruto a lot, but she never seemed to notice. He first started to like her shortly after his brother killed his whole clan. Naruto never once looked at him with pity like everyone else. She knew what it was like to have no family she knew the feeling of loneliness that came with it. Looking at Naruto he saw bags under her eyes. He wished she would just sleep with him every night so she wouldn't have the nightmares that the demon inside her gave her. They had figured out that if she fell asleep touching someone then the nightmares wouldn't come. Naruto wouldn't always sleep with someone though, because she hated relying on others and thought having to sleep next to someone because of bad dreams was showing a weakness something she hated doing. Plus she didn't want to be a burden to anyone else. Sasuke thought that was ridiculous he would happily let her sleep with him. Any other males her age would happy let Naruto stay with them. Sasuke couldn't let any of them touch her and he refused to sit by and watch her suffer through the nightmares alone. Today he was going to convince her to stay over with him every night.

Kakashi-sensei was an hour late as usual. Kakashi looked at his team with caring eyes. The message he was about to deliver was going to be hard on his blonde haired comrade the most. "the Hokage and the Kazekage have decide that because two demon children will be in this test and they don't think it would be fair if the others taking the test didn't know what they were up against. So they are gonna announce who they are and what they are in front of everyone taking the test. The two children will then come forward so everyone knows their faces." Kakashi watched as Naruto's face grew distraught thinking about all the other people who would know what she was and think she was a monster when they knew about the demon. She had just gotten the people in the Village not to hate her. Kakashi couldn't look at Naruto's sad face anymore so he dismissed them and left.

A/N review and tell me want you think -F