Demonic Adoration

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto if I did then Duck butt (a.k.a Sasuke) would be either dead or would have never left with the hebi-teme. Also Itachi, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Deidara, and Sasori-danna never would have died.

Sasuke:*twitch* Duck butt?

KannoutekiRaku-n: Oh get over it your hair looks like a duck's butt. Right Naruto?

Naruto: Yep dattebayo!

KannoutekiRaku-n: See?

Sasuke: Aghh!! I will kill you!!

KannoutekiRaku-n: -_-; sure you will.

Sasuke: *runs at KannoutekiRaku-n with Chidori* DIE!!!!

KannoutekiRaku-n: O.O ITACHI!!!!

Itachi:*poof* Foolish little brother.

Sasuke: ITACHI!! Today you shall die!

Itachi: hn

KannoutekiRaku-n: Can you get rid of him?

Naruto: Yeah Ita-kun get rid of him, please? *puppy eyes*

Itachi: *blinks* *goes over to Sasuke, pokes him in the forehead, knocking him out of the room.

KannoutekiRaku-n: Thanks 'tachi! XD

Naruto: Yeah, thanks Ita-kun! *glomp*

Itachi: *blushes*

KannoutekiRaku-n: Anyway sorry about the shortness of the chapter. Hopefully the next ones will be longer…

maybe….I'll try not to pull a Shika, as my friend calls it, and just not try to increase the length…so yeah…On to the story, right everyone?!

Naruto and Itachi: (Yeah!) (Hn.)

The sun was setting on the village hidden in the leaves, casting shadows throughout. Konoha's number one hyperactive knuckle-headed ninja was currently headed back to his apartment after giving the report from his latest mission. Many things had happened in the last year. After rescuing Gaara and fighting Orochimaru he finally had a chance to rest. But of course he never took that chance.

He aggravated Tsunade, wanting more and more missions each day. When he had failed to rescue Sasuke yet again he began to throw himself into increasingly dangerous missions. To get him out of her hair Tsunade decided to enter him into the Chunin Exams. Considering that he never had any chances to take the exams after the first one simply because he was always off doing something else, he was very exited. So he was placed with a team not very different from his first one; and broody, silent type and a fangirl. Despite that fact they managed to make it through the exams with little trouble.

During the exams Naruto thought about Shikamaru and the lesson he had taught him: It doesn't matter if a ninja has brute strength or not, if he doesn't have any brains then he will most likely die during a mission. Naruto, remembering that Shikamaru had been the only one to become Chunin the first time, decide to think like Shikamaru would.

It didn't work out too well. For the first few minutes Naruto was knocked around the arena because he was taking too much time to try and think three moves ahead like Shikamaru taught him. He soon abandoned this strategy opting for fighting like he usually does.

Surprisingly, to him at least, this allowed him to win his matches and be promoted to Chunin. After the promotion he was able to go on more missions with his friends, even leading a few of his own. When on these missions with Naruto his friends would use every opportunity they got to try and make him forget about Sasuke. But, sadly, he would always rant about how he was gonna 'save' Sasuke and drag him back to the village.

Unknown to his friends he only did this out of habit, his thoughts far away from the dark-haired avenger. No, his thoughts now rested on a certain red-headed Jinchūriki and had since returning from the mission to rescue him from the Akatsuki. You see, when he had heard that Gaara had been taken by the Akatsuki, his heart started thumping painfully in his chest. He assumed that feeling was just fear of losing the only one who could truly understand him. After bringing Gaara back to life, however, he realized it might be much more than he first thought.

He shoved the feelings deep inside of him denying them, thinking himself a fool. There was no way he could be in love with Gaara of all people. After all they were both boys, it just wasn't natural, right? Also there was no way Gaara would return those feelings, hell he probably doesn't even know what love feels like.

So he just tried to set those thought at the back of his mind. But as of late it wasn't working. While walking back to his apartment his thoughts were plagued by the red-head. Tsunade had just informed him that the Kazekage would be visiting Konoha for a diplomatic meeting or some shit like that. At first when he heard the news he was ecstatic, now he wasn't so sure. He had so many feelings flowing through him it felt like he was going to burst.

He reached his apartment and went in locking the door behind him. Walking through it he shucked off his clothes and took a shower. After he got out he made his standard dinner of ramen before brushing his teeth and climbing into bed.

'Gaara', was his last thought before he fell into a deep sleep.