Chapter One
"Look, your dolls aren't going to fit in the car."
"They're not dolls! They're puppets."
"Whatever they are, they're not going to fit; put them in the truck."
Gaara Sabaku opened his eyes, blinking a few times, then yawned. The yelling was coming from outside his window; he looked up to it. The light was shining through the closed blinds, dust swirling around in front of it, only visible in the light.
He swung his legs around over the side of his bed, pulling his maroon blankets back. Stretching the tiredness out of him he slugged over to the window, peeking through the blinds. The sun stung his unadjusted eyes. He squinted, holding his hand up to the sun, blocking the worst of it from his view.
Down in the yard he could see his brother (Kankuro) and his sister (Temari) arguing in front of their caravan. The thing had to have been made before the 90's at least. Kankuro said it was vintage… Gaara said it was a piece of crap.
"So you can put your fan in the car but I can't put my puppets in there?"
"My fan doesn't look like a donkey's ass."
"Bitch!"
Gaara stepped back from the blinds, changing into some jeans and a tee shirt. He stepped out of his room; the house was empty. No pictures, no furniture- nothing he was used to seeing everyday was there. He went straight outside to where his sibling were. They seemed to have stopped fighting, and were just giving each other the cold shoulder now. Great, he'd have to deal with them on the trip.
"We done packing yet?" Gaara said to Temari. She jumped and turned around.
"Oh… Hey, I thought you where still sleeping." Gaara shook his head. "Well… except for your things… yeah."
Gaara turned around; he got what he needed out of the conversation. He just needed to get his suitcase and they'd be off on the road.
Temari had declared a month ago that they where moving. It hadn't been a surprise to either Gaara or Kankuro. They moved a lot. Every time that Temari had a bad break up or got fired from her job they packed up and moved on. It was nothing new.
Gaara picked his suitcase from on top of dresser and shoved his iPod into his pocket, headphones already plugged into his ears. He walked out of his room, not bothering to take a look back.
Gaara was not one for sentimental goodbyes.
2 days later.
Naruto tapped his pencil on his desk making a horrible clicking noise, distracting those around him from their test. Sasuke, who was in front of him, turned around and gave him a look that should've killed him.
Naruto gave him an apologetic look. "Sorry," he mumbled. He turned back to his test, trigonometry. Worse yet, multi-step trigonometry. He scratched his hair again frustrated.
Moving on.
The next question was even worse, and the one after that. Naruto gave up. He turned the test over and pushed it to the corner of his desk. He leaned back in his chair and stretched, willing for his pounding headache to go away.
Why wasn't he good at this stuff? Why couldn't he be like Sasuke-teme or Sakura-chan? They both were as smart as hell and excelled at this stuff. His two best friends had both tried to tutor him, but to no avail.
Naruto was in grade 10 now, (he had barely passed last year), and yet Sakura had been able to convince him that he was smart enough to take academic again. Something about 'unlocked potential'. It wasn't that he wasn't smart, he just couldn't focus in a school setting. His A.D.D. always made him fidgety.
The blonde-haired boy looked at the clock-it was still a few more minutes until the end of class. He looked to the front of the classroom; Kakashi was reading his orange books again. Naruto sighed and closed his eyes rubbing his temples.
"Fucking headache," he said under his breath, "hope I have some medicine in my locker."
The bell rang and Naruto winced at the loud noise. Sasuke took his test up to the front of the room dropping it on the teacher's desk before calling back to Naruto, "Hey Baka, you coming?"
Naruto looked up at him and rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah." He stood up and immediately regretted it. He was dizzy, grabbing his desk for support to keep him from falling.
Sasuke took a seat on the desk in front of Naruto, frowning. Naruto looked up to meet his gaze.
"Stop looking at me like that, I'm just a bit dizzy, don't worry about me."
He grabbed his test and put it on the desk, above Sasuke's. He then followed the teme out of the classroom. The dizziness had passed and now Naruto felt fine, besides a headache, but he was sure he had a pill in his locker.
"Hey Sasuke, not going to be walking home with you and Sakura-chan today."
"Hn?"
"Got football practice remember?" Naruto stopped at his locker, unlocking it quickly. "So call on me later. Ok?"
"Hn." Was all that Sasuke would say?
"Hey, you'd better!" Naruto called after him, pulling his locker open. Sasuke waved his arm in the air, to let Naruto know he'd heard him, before turning the corner.
Naruto quickly swallowed his Advil; getting a headache during football practice would be a bad thing and his team needed him.
He shoved his homework into his bag, throwing it over his shoulders and pulled out his football equipment. He slammed his locker shut, grimacing at the sudden loud noise, then he set out towards the locker rooms.
Naruto swung his bag over his shoulder, setting down the sidewalk towards his house. The sun was beating down on him, and his headache was back despite the Advil. He put his iPod into his jeans pockets, the music humming loudly in his ears.
He moved his arms into their normal position behind his head.
5 minutes after leaving the school, Naruto's world began spinning, his stomach was turning and he felt sick. He couldn't see, he couldn't stand, and he fell over onto someone's lawn. Clutching his head, trying not to throw up, he closed his eyes breathing heavily, when he felt someone's hands on his shoulders.
Becoming more oriented to the world, and when he felt like he could move without throwing up, he looked up to see a blonde woman, her hair in four ponytails, bent over him.
"Hey kid, you ok?"
Naruto nodded faintly.
"Here drink this." She held out a glass of water. Suddenly feeling like he was dying of thirst, he took it and downed it in one gulp.
Naruto was only now able to get a clear picture of his saviour: she was dressed in boots and a white tee shirt over top of jean shorts. Her hair was in four distinct ponytails, facing different directions. Naruto thought it looked very odd, though he wasn't going to say anything- his head was still sufficiently hurting.
"I'm Temari Sabaku," she said helping him up off the ground. She waited for him to reply.
"Naruto Uzumaki," He replied finally. The dizziness had disappeared, so he handed her the now empty glass.
"You ok?" She asked taking the glass.
"Yeah, I've just had a headache all day, is all. Thanks for the help."
"No problem, really. Look I was heading to go pick up my brother from his music practice. You need a ride home?"
Naruto considered this; it would get him home quicker, definitely, and he didn't want to the headache thing to happen again, outside.
"That'd be great."
Gaara stood, leaning against the wall of the music building, his guitar on his back, shuffling through his iPod again. He stopped on a different song- the song he was listening to before had been boring him. He stared out into the street again.
Temari was late.
He let his eyes wander looking at the new town he was in. It seemed like an interesting place, to say the least, from what he had seen anyway. They had moved in close to his new school, Konoha High- named after the town of course - which would save him some walking time, though they lived far from the commercial district of town. Not that it mattered to Gaara, but still, Temari would probably complain about it more than once.
He saw his caravan pull up in front of the music shop. He slowly got up off the wall and walked over to the car. Pulling open the door, he saw someone was already sitting in his seat.
"Hi! I'm Naruto!"
Ok... so this is my first fanfiction. I have this whole thing planned out already and i should update at least once a week. if i don't feel free to yell at me in reviews :P.
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