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There was this odd, somehow tired feeling in the air. Yeah. As if air could feel tired, along with the people using it. At the moment, there were just two people using this particularly 'tired', more like 'exhausted' air, and yes, they did feel very, very exhausted.

Why?

Well, when two young, hot-headed ninjas come face-two-face, especially when one decides to test the other with the life of a friend, they have a tendency to somehow start beating the crap out of each other. Odd, yes? Well, not really.

Anyways, so they were very, very, tired. Didn't I go over this already? Oh right, yeah.

The shorter of the two, with his thick blonde hair and bright orange jacket, was occupying himself with somehow dragging his body across the dirt with no hands. See mommy? No hands! He was coming what you might say is 'dangerously close' to the other boy, who widened his dark lined eyes in something like terror.

"D-don't come near me!" he managed to say in a weary voice. He now knew what horrible strength the blonde one held. But he didn't stop. This one, with strength so vicious as to scare whole towns to pieces, was not going to stop here, not now. After everything that had happened… no way.

The dark-eyed one held his gaze upon the terrifying strength that was this boy, crawling towards him, and felt all he could do was tense up. His entire body, as tired as it was, tensed even more so than before. 'What will I do?' he thought franticly, 'could this boy still have anything left in him? Won't he kill me?'. But just then, the blonde scooted right up next to his former opponent, and, no more than eight inches away, passed out.

Relieved, the dark-eyed, red-haired boy dropped his head to the ground in a sigh, and passed out right along with the other.

They awoke the next morning, a warm, breezy day. Sun spots shown through the trees silently and rained their quiet warmth on the young boy's faces. The redhead was first to wake, opening his eyes slowly and shielding the sudden soft light from his eyes, opposed to the darkness he preferred.

Glancing in each direction lazily, he strained to remember why he was lying in the dirt in the middle of some forest. Then his eyes met the orange-clad boy who lay beside him, dirty and sweat-drenched from the previous evening, now sleeping peacefully. His first thought was to run away, but another moment's glance told the teal-green eyes, lined with darkness, of this boy to stay put, as well as his body. "Naruto…" he whispered softly. He didn't feel like leaving now, nor did he feel the urge to run away.

'Haven't my brother and sister come for me yet?' The redhead wondered, 'What about Uzumaki's friends? Shouldn't they have come to help him yet as well?'. The wind blew against his face gently as he began to worry. Not about others, but safety for himself. He knew his siblings should have come to take care of him by now.

"Nnnmmh…" a tired voice awoke from beside the already alert boy.

Startled, he backed up from the waking one and remained silent. "…What? Gaara?" Naruto jumped up, now standing. "Wha- what are you doing here?" also startled, he continued, "Where are Sakura and Sasuke? Won't they be back for me?"

Gaara just stared, as if he were frozen with fear… or glue. Then their eyes met, teal to a bright blue. Naruto didn't stay put for long. "You!" he half-yelled, as he often did, "Why are we still here? What did you do to my friends?" the blonde ranted.

"….. Shut up" Gaara muttered.

Now our little spikey blonde was pissed, 'Who does he think he is?' he thought heatedly "I'm not afraid of you! I beat you up yesterday, didn't I?" getting his feathers ruffled, as always. Gaara didn't pay him very much attention now, ever since he had seen him sleeping like that, Gaara felt no danger being with this particular demon container. He didn't know why, but he wasn't going to complain either.

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