I decided to combine my first few chapters into a large prologue type edition. i will also be adding new content to it then get back to writing the story.
Gaara's prologue.
Gaara sat down on the couch, his eyes darting around, trying desperately to focus on anything other than the therapist before him.
"Gaara, you can lie down if you want some people find it easier that way."
He didn't reply, but slowly slid his shoes off as if in defiance to her.
The therapist let out a sigh, straightened her blouse and set out to once again try get anything from Gaara. He had been to many other therapist's and had seen this particular one on his brothers recommendation, not that he wanted to be here but his elder sister Temari was worried.
'He is prepared for the usual onslaught of questions, I can see it.' Kasumi thought as she flicked through her notes 'Both parents deceased', 'Living with Siblings', 'Insomnia' and 'Refuses to Communicate' "Gaara," his eyes shifted to her and sat there, 'well its a reaction at least,' "isn't there anything you want to say?"
Gaara met her questions with a wall of silence.
"Fine," 'looks like its going to be another one of those days,' "Well mind if I play some music then?"
This question was met with a shrug. "well that's good enough for me." Kasumi put down her clipboard and instead of reaching for her bag she put her hand to her ear and pulled out and pulled out an ear-bud that was hidden in her long hair and pulled out the length of cable trailing to her breast pocket and an iPod came with it.
Gaaras eyes widened slightly
"Its for those times like this where people just refuse to talk, anything you'd like to listen to?"
"Anima Libera," The voice startled Kasumi a little Gaara had never spoken before and was barely more than a whisper.
"Any reason for that particular song?" she asked casually while looking down at her iPod which was connected to her radio but she was met with silence.
After a click and a short wait the speakers crackled to life and the song Gaara wanted came on 'Well almost, its a Nightcore of the song, I hope he doesn't mind'.
"It's different." This was the second time Gaara had ever spoken to her. Twice in one day? Maybe music is his muse.
"Sorry its a Nightcore version, pretty much all my music is Nightcore" (Nightcore is a song sped up, with the lyrics pitched up to sound like female singers and the bass cranked up to the limit)
"not a bad different just" he paused seeming to realise he was actually talking to me. He sat for a while not finishing his sentence.
"Something new?" Kasumi said as she changed the song to a favourite of hers Lithium Flower.
That was the first time Gaara had spoken to anyone other than Temari in years, and in the following weeks he slowly opened up to Kasumi but only her.
Kasumi met with Temari, Gaaras elder sister and caretaker a month before her return to a normal day job in Konoha.
"You know Gaara has actually spent less time locked up away from me and the world since he started going to see you, he is starting to act like he did before the..." Temari stopped and blew her nose on a handkerchief. Temari's long blonde hair made a sharp contrast by her slowly reddening eyes as she started to tear up as she always did when thinking of her parents and what had become of her brother.
"Unfortunately my time is up, I have to return to Konoha next month as the school needs its counselor."
Upon hearing this her face fell.
"I guess it was too good to last, what will happen to Gaara? You were the only one who got through to him."
Kasumi paused for a second and took a bite of the chocolate Gaara had made, the one expressive thing he did was cook which was probbably a good thing as temari would live on Ramen if Gaara werent there.
"Well there is one thing, but it will be hard on Gaara, and you"
"Ill do anything to help Gaara, anything"
And with that Gaara ended up moving to Konoha and living with Kasumi and Her twister partner Tsunade.
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Naruto's Prologue.
The blonde woman's pumps echoed off the alley they had turned into "Hurry up Naruto! We are already late thanks to you."
"Thanks to me? You're the one who had to spend thirty minutes trying to hide your age granny" the younger Blonde boy retorted.
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!" Tsunade spun around and pulled back a fist to punch Naruto
"tsk tsk tsk, you always were touchy about your age Tsunade but, I'd wait to pound him until after he gives me the paperwork." The owner of the voice was an older man with long silver hair and an incredibly perverted attitude towards life.
"Sensei" Naruto said as he ran towards Jiraiya fumbling and nearly dropping the paperwork several times.
"Sorry Naruto but you don't have time to catch up with your old teacher,Tsunade and I need to discuss things privately" Jiraiya said after he had sorted through the files Naruto gave him."
Naruto Scowled in disgust at his perverted teacher 'The pervert probbably means they are going to get drunk again'.
Naruto decided to give them a few hours and wander around a few of the places his friends usually congregated to see if anything interesting was happening.
The closest place was the local comic book shop. The shop looked small from the outside but once you got inside there were walls full of comics, manga and everything in between. on several small tables near the centre of the room a few of his friends sat, Shino and Shikimaru sat opposite kiba with Akamaru on his lap and Ino sitting next to him. there were cards in a semi comprehensible pattern lain out on the table and each person had more in their hand the partners occasionally looking at each others hands and conferring ideas.
"Whats going on here?" Asked Naruto knowing little more than that they were playing a popular card game.
"Just a friendly match before the tournament tonight" Replied Ino the only one who wasnt completely distracted by the card game.
Something clicked in Naruto's mind "Is this where you guys have gone every friday afternoon for the past year?"
"Well duh where else would we be?" replied Kiba like it was supposed to be obvious.
Ino picked up a rectangular purple box and placed it on the table next to her, "So naruto care for a lesson?"
After an hour and more do-overs than previously thought humanly possible naruto was declared to be several magnitudes short of a beginner at the game and defeated in one move by Ino who had been playing the two games simultaneously.
Naruto was then forced to move on from the table beacuse others had arrived for a tournament, so Naruto stalked off to go catch up with Tsunade.
...
Gaara seemed oddly placated.
'Most teens, hell most people period, would complain if they had been forced to move, but Gaara didn't complain he didn't even ask why he was moving, just when we were leaving'
Kasumi was distracted by the sound of a clip from Alice Coopers -Poison it was a text message from Tsunade, after a second of reading Kasumi sent a response and closed the phone "that horny bitch, but then again who can blame her, she has been trapped with Him all this time."
"Kasumi that's not a very nice thing to say about Tsunade," Temari had walked up to the car while Kasumi had been busy with her phone.
"How did you know I'm talking about her? Maybe I'm talking about my sister Nabiki." Kasumi always got defensive when the conversation would steer towards her relationship with Tsunade.
"I noticed the ringtone, Hah" Temari wore a smile but her eyes were red you could see he had been crying. 'She will miss Gaara, A lot. But this will help him and no-one ever said he can't come back'
Kasumi was about to speak, to say something to reassure Temari that Gaara would be okay but he appeared behind her, his long red hair at contrast with the dark rings around his eyes 'Well insomnia does that I guess'
Temari leant down said her final goodbyes to Gaara, she brushed back his fringe revealing for a split second a red mark before kissing him on the forehead and gently pushing him towards the car.
"Don't worry Hun, I'll take good care of him oh and did you explain what I asked you to?" At the mention of himself Gaara looked over to Temari a slightly confused look crossed his face for a split second before disappearing again.
"Nope, I thought it would be a neat first activity for you, as his new legal guardian and all, Bye!" and with that Temari darted back into the house leaving Gaara to pack the contents of his life into the car.
Gaara had decided to bring everything he had but managing to pack it all neatly into several suitcases and bags.
'It will be nice to have another neat person around the house, he is in for a shock when he meets those two' Kasumi thought of the probable mountain of work she would have cleaning up at home.
Once Gaara had finished he got into the car.
"So what did Temari forget to tell me?" This wasn't the silent trip Kasumi had expected, it was unusual for Gaara to speak much directly to anyone but Temari.
'Well crap, why do I always have to do the hard stuff, Because your sleeping with Her' Kasumi wasn't too sure what to think of her inner monologue talking back but had to deal with the more pressing problem of explaining to Gaara her relationship as to not disturb him.
"Well... umm, you see." Was the best she could come up with?
"Then I'll just keep this until you tell me." Gaara said holding up Kasumi's iPod
Kasumi didn't know how to react to this un Gaara like behaviour she decided to let it wait for a minute and listen to her iPod 'Oh damn Gaara has it.'
"Well let's just see who lasts longer then." Unfortunately for Kasumi Gaara had an almost endless patience and her iPod, after about ten minutes she gave in "Gaara when we get home you're going to meet my partner.
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The PUB
'Typical, they are meeting for so called important buisness at a bar'.
However what naruto found was the two sitting in a booth with a small bottle of sake each and a shared pitcher of coke.
"Naruto you can go home now, but you need to do something for me." Tsunade said with an air of impending doom.
"Oh no what is it?" Naruto said dreading what would follow.
"I need you to Clean the house before Kasumi gets home!" The look of terror that cut through Narutos Face as Tsunade said this.
"Please anything but that, why can't Kasumi do it?" He said dropping to one knee and pleading for his life he knew how messy Tsunade could be and he knew he probably wasn't any better.
"Sorry Naruto you can't get out of it this time, didn't Tsunade tell you? Kasumi is bringing someone home." Jiraiya said with an air of smugness that he still knew things his old student did not.
"Wow so she finally decided to trade you up for someone younger, eh granny?" This time Tsunade didn't react with violence but instead
"No Naruto we are trading you up for someone with common sense and manners, now go home and Clean."
...
Gaara's jaw slowly fell lower and lower as Kasumi shocked him even more with tales of herself, Tsunade and the boy they had as Kasumi would say 'Picked up' almost as if he was an unwanted child, Kasumi later explained that both the boy and her partner Tsunade were incredibly messy and unorganised.
"Gaara Please, Please, don't judge me by their mess unfortunately we will probably have a nice time together cleaning, I've been gone a long time its doubtful the house will still be standing let alone clean."
Gaara was shocked by what Kasumi told him. It appeared he would be sharing a wing, a whole wing of the castle sized home Kasumi had described to him with the other boy.
'Looks like it's going to be an interesting new life'
Gaara would be shocked by what he found waiting for him in his new house, but it was Kasumi's turn to be truly shocked.