This is a GaaraxNaruto, NarutoxGaara fanfic so boy on boy action. Don't like don't read. I don't know if anyone's interested in this pairing, but if enough people want me to continue it. No bashing please, reviews welcome. I don't know how the Naruto series ends so please forgive any mistakes. As well as spelling and grammar mistakes. Thank you for reading let me know what you think or any ideas or suggestions you might have. I don't own anything but the plot.(As much as I wish I did)
Chapter 1: Pleasant surprises.
Naruto Uzumaki the seventh Hokage of the Leaf Village stood outside the cosy looking three bed house his friend and personal guard Shikamaru Nara had just purchased a few days prier. The Jonin had asked Naruto to stop by later that evening, so here he stood. With a quick skip and a little jump Naruto landed on the front step and gave a childish series of knocks on the wooden front door. It didn't take long before the door swung open to reveal his long time friend wearing his casual clothes. Suddenly Naruto was glad he ditched his Hokage robes at his office.
"You know you could just knock like a normal person." Shikamaru drawled in greeting.
The blond gave a huge grin. "But then how would you know it was me?"
Shikamaru gave a little shake of his head but couldn't keep the smile from creeping onto his face. "Come on everyone's here."
"Everyone?" Naruto thought as he followed the older male into the hallway. Quickly un-straping his sandals Naruto voiced his question. "Hey Shikamaru who's everyone?"
The brown haired man paused to wait for his guest to remove his shoes. "Temari, Kankuro and the Kazakage."
A new huge grin took over the blonde's face. "Gaara's here? That's great I haven't seen him in like forever."
Shikamaru nodded in response. Gaara was Naruto's long time crush and friend, living in different villages meant they didn't get to see each other as much as the blonde shinobi would have liked. Though the two friends regularly wrote to each other it wasn't enough for Naruto, not anymore. The redhead invaded his mind daily and more vividly every time. The two men made their way down the hallway to the door at the end and entered. The sitting room like the rest of the house was decorated in natural colours making it inviting. Temari was perched on a two seater sofa on the left side of the room, while Kankuro was spread out in the only armchair of the room looking as if he owned the place. Naruto's ocean blue eyes landed on Gaara. The redhead sat on another sofa across from Temari with his black rimmed eyes closed and his arms folded loosely over his chest. A small smile graced the blonde Hokage's lips as he watched his friend. "He meditates in the weirdest places." Naruto thought to himself, but then frowned when he remembered Gaara only meditated when he was tired, stressed or both now days.
"Wait how come I didn't know Gaara and Kankuro were coming?" The blonde asked suddenly.
As the Hokage anyone who wished to enter the village was supposed to be granted permission by him first. Temari had been working at the academy for a couple of weeks, so Naruto had known the sandy haired kunoichi was in town, but Naruto hadn't received a request from the Kazakage.
Gaara slowly opened his pale turquoise eyes. "Really? That's strange I received a letter from Temari asking me and Kankuro to come here. In the letter she said it had already been cleared with you."
Naruto thought for a moment. "Did I sign the request form?"
Just then Shikamaru cleared his throat and moved to stand next to Temari. "Actually you didn't. We decided it would be better that you didn't get distracted by Gaara's upcoming visit." He said gesturing to himself and Temari.
"You do realise Naruto would now be within his rights as the Hokage to arrest us for trespassing without consent?" Gaara asked in his low husky voice.
"What no way, I'm not going to have you arrested your my friend. You and Kankuro are always welcome here." shrieked Naruto in horror.
The Kazakage turned to his friend. "That's good to know. Now as to why my sister and her boyfriend thought it necessary to take the risk that we would not have been welcome."
Temari stood from her seat. "We wanted to talk to you all, but Naruto was way behind on his paperwork again. And like Shikamaru said if Naruto had known you were coming he would have stopped working completely in anticipation of you arrival."
Naruto flushed red at the kunoichi's observation, as true as it might be.
"I was sure Naruto would never refuse you a visit Kazakage or I wouldn't have allowed the letter to be sent."Shikamaru added to Gaara. Who gave a little nod to show he accepted the shinobi's words. "As for why we wanted to talk to you all...well..."
Temari and Shikamaru exchanged a look with each other before turning back to their three friends.
"I asked Temari to marry me." Shikamaru said with a small smile.
Kankuro and Naruto yelled at the same time. "Are you serious?" and "That's great." Temari blushed as Shikamaru took her hand and placed a kiss on her knuckles.
Kankuro grabbed his older sister in a bear hug, while Naruto gave Shikamaru a standard one arm bro hug. Pulling back with a grin Naruto said.
"So you finally found some motivation, huh?"
"It was more trouble not to propose, you know what women are like?" Shikamaru smiled back.
"This is great really. We haven't had a wedding in ages. When was the last one?" The blond mussed out loud.
Shikamaru shot his friend a wide eye look. "Seriously, you don't remember. Naruto you married them. It was Sasuke and Sakura not even two years ago."
The bond grinned in embarrassment and rubbed the back of his head. "Oh yeah, I forgot."
"So when's the big day? And Where? Who's performing the ceremony?" Kankuro asked still grinning ear to ear.
Temari smiled. "We were thinking next month sometime. As for the ceremony we talked about it, but decided to have it her in Konoha. The wimps from this village would never stand the heat in Sauna this time of year."
"Next month what's your hurry?" Kankuro asked in disbelief.
"You got her pregnant didn't you" Naruto joked while poking the brown haired Jonin in his ribs.
"Well..." Shikamaru started.
The smile fell off both Naruto's and Kankuro's faces as they both dropped their gazes to Temari's flat stomach.
"I'm not that far along yet." Temari snapped at the idiot duo.
"So you are? You really are having a baby?" Kankuro cried at his older sister.
Temari nodded at her brother with a soft smile. "I am."
Kankuro "Whooped" jumping in the air, then turned to Naruto. "I'm gonna be an uncle. Can you believe it, an uncle."
Naruto cheered with the puppet master, a moment later the two men were hugging each other bouncing round in circles like teenage girls. Shikamaru cringed a little and Temari pinched the bridge of her nose trying not to chuckle at the ridiculous display in front of her.
"I'm gonna be an uncle. I'm gonna be an uncle." Kankuro sang in glee.
"Your gonna be an uncle and I'm gonna be..."Naruto paused in his bouncing to stare at the two love birds. "..Um..What does that make me?"
Shikamaru started at the question. "What?"
"If Kankuro's an uncle, what will I be when the baby's born?" Naruto asked in genuine confusion.
"Well technically nothing" The Joni replied baffled.
"What." The Hokage screeched.
"Well you're not related to me or Temari so nothing. Maybe a friend of the family. Though I did mention I would like to name a couple of godparents." Shikamaru said casually.
Naruto's eyes blew wide and he leapt at his friend a manic gleam in his blue eyes. "Please Shikamaru. Can I? Can I be a godfather?"
"Well...I kinda of choose Choji."Shikamaru admitted.
The blond visibly deflated. "Oh..I get it...he's your best friend so..."
"You said "a couple"." Kankuro chirped in.
Naruto threw himself at his friend latching tightly onto Shikamaru's shoulders. "Please pick me. Pick me. Pick me."
"I'm sorry Naruto its Ino. I picked Choji because he's my best friend and Ino because she's my teammate."
Naruto fell to his knees and stared at the floor. "I...I understand." He mumbled.
"Then I decided to pick someone too." Temari suddenly said.
Naruto's head snapped up his big watery ocean blue eyes met Temari's deep teal ones.
"I thought if he was going to pick godparents so was I." Temari declared with a nod of her head in her partner's direction. "So I thought about it and here's what I decided. I want someone who is strong, loyal, trustworthy, kind and smart. I wanted someone who meant a lot to me." Temari started to pace back and forward in front of the kneeling Hokage. "I wanted someone who has changed my life for the better. Someone who's made a difference to my life."
Naruto sunk further down with every word the kunoichi said.
"I picked you Naruto." Temari said softly.
Shocked blue eyes stare up at her. "What. But you said...all those things..I'm not.."
Temari crouched down in front of the blabbering male. "Okay so you're not the sharpest kunai in the poach, but you are strong, loyal, trustworthy and kind. And you have touched my life in more ways than you might have realised." Naruto gave her a puzzled look. So she continued. "You forgave our mistakes, you came to our rescue, you saved Gaara's life and you gave me back my family."
"Your family?" The blonde shinobi echoed.
"My family wasn't a family before you came along. I was heartless. Kankuro was cruel. We were both terrified of Gaara. We didn't even class him as family or he us. I and Kankuro weren't even that close. It was your influence that brought us together again. You gave me my family back. For that I would like you to be my child's godfather."
By this point in Temari's little speech Naruto had big fat tears rolling down his cheeks. Using his sleeve to wipe them away he then looked back up at the sand kunoichi with a shit eating grin Naruto cried. "Shit yes. Really..you really mean it. Temari you're the best ever."
With that the blonde launched himself to his feet, spun to Kankuro and yelled. "I'm gonna be a godfather."
Kankuro grinned and shouted. "I'm gonna be an uncle."
The two males started shouting and yelling happily at each other. Shikamaru rolled his eyes and pushed his hands in is trouser pockets.
"So I take it we have your blessing." He asked.
"Sure do, not like it matters either way though." Naruto smiled back.
"Actually it does."
Naruto and Kankuro paused in their childish celebration for the second time.
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked his voice slightly hoarse from shouting.
"Because I and Temari are from different villages we have to have both Kage's blessing to marry. If we were both from the same village it wouldn't matter. But because of our situation and the fact that Temari wants to move here it's more complicated, but if your cool with it"
Naruto scratched a whiskered cheek. "Hmmm, I never really thought about that. I guess it's like if you wanted to live with Temari and I said no, if you left the village you'd be classed as a rouge nin. And if Sauna took you in they'd be classed as breaking the peace treaty."
Shikamaru nodded as he walked over to Temari and wrapped an arm around the blonde woman's shoulders.
"Well in that case no problem, welcome to Leaf village family Temmi." Naruto shouted with a thumbs up.
"Don't call me Temmi." Temari snapped with a glare.
Kankuro burst out laughing when Naruto jumped back with his hands over his head. "Man you're nearly as scary as your brother." The blonde pouted when he was sure she wouldn't hit him.
Just then Naruto realised Gaara hadn't said a word, turning he looked at his friend. The Kazakage was sat ridged in his seat staring at a spot on the far wall.
"Hey Gaara, you okay?" Naruto asked in an uncharacteristically soft voice.
Naruto's question drew the three other people in the room to the stoic redhead. Gaara blinked a few times before meeting Naruto's eye.
"I'm fine."
" You sure baby bro?" Kankuro asked with a little worry in his voice.
Gaara gave a stiff nod before standing from his seat. Naruto gave him a smile.
"This is great news, Hn. You and Kankuro are going to be uncles, I'm gonna be a godfather and Shikamaru and Temari are finally getting hitched."
Temari stepped forward and took both of her younger brother's hands in her own. "Are you okay with this Gaara?"
Gaara untangled his hands from his sisters and took a step back. "I am."
Temari smiled. "So we have your blessing?"
"No."
With that said he strode past the frozen four shinobi towards the door. Naruto was the first to recover.
"What the hell Gaara? What do you mean "no"?" The blonde demanded heatedly.
Gaara paused with his hand resting on the door handle. "Exactly what I said. No. I refuse to give my blessing to this idiotic idea. Temari I expect you ready to return home first thing tomorrow morning." Nobody missed the way Gaara emphasized the word "home"
Gaara opened the door and stepped through and closed it behind him with a deafening click. Naruto glanced around the room at his friends. Kankuro looked pale and was worrying his lower lip. Shikamaru was holding a shaking Temari against his chest. Naruto was shocked when he heard quiet sobs escaping the strict kunoichi's lips. With a frown the blonde turned back to Kankuro.
"What the hell just happened?" The Hokage exploded.
Kankuro gave the blonde a helpless look. Temari stepped away from Shikamaru trying to discreetly wipe her eyes. With a forced smile and red eyes she whispered. "I should go and pack."
"No. Stay right there, I'm going to talk to your brother. Just wait here." Naruto stormed towards the door.
"Do you think you can talk Gaara around?" Shikamaru asked with hope shining in his eyes.
" You bet. Just wait here. I'll change his mind. I give you my word and I never go back on my word." Naruto said holding his hand up with a peace sign. Before disappearing through the door to track down a redheaded Kazakage and find out just what he thought he was playing at.
Stepping out into the crisp night air. "Now where would you have gone?" Naruto thought as he took a fleeting look around the dark, quiet streets. The Hokage stone faces caught the blonde's eye, he and Gaara used to sit up on top of the third Hokage's head and talk for hours when Naruto first took on the title, a satisfied smile tugged at his lips.
"Found you."
