Outside Looking In

A/N I decided to write another Naruto fic. It's about Gaara finding a child who has a demon in it and was brought to Konoha by Iruka-sensei. I was also inspired to write this after getting the Naruto chapter book the Boy Ninja and I'm really liking it. I hope people like it.

Prologue

Gaara was very sad as he was in his house. He'd moved from Suna to Konoha to be with Naruto. He'd decided to live there and not be Kazekage anymore but Naruto didn't care. He was happy his only true friend was here in Konoha witrh him.

Gaara was sitting on a swing while thinking about his life so far since Naruto and the others had saved him from death.

"Thinking back, things have been better since I was living in Suna. If it wasn't for Naruto-kun, I would still be controlled by anger but he showed me how love makes you stronger than fighting for yourself." he thought as he sat there silently.

Naruto was on another mission with Team 7 and Kakashi but the rest of Konoha were afraid of him except for Naruto and Hinata.

They understood he had a heart.

But then he heard faint crying as he was swinging and was curious. A four year old was in the play ground near the Academy and was curious. He seemed sad. He could feel something from the boy. It was a demon. The boy had shory spiked blue hair, brown eyes, slender and wore a shirt with the Star Village symbol on it. Gaara saw a look of sadness in the boy's eyes that he'd seen in himself as a child.

"I wonder why he's all alone and where his parents are?

Maybe he was sent here." he thought as he got off the swing and found where the boy was. He seemed pretty upset but didn't notice Gaara approaching him. He was amazed to see him.

"Don't be afraid child I won't hurt you.

I know how you feel about other people and how it hurts to be alone." he told the boy softly.

"How do you.... know?

The pain, the suffering I've been through?" the boy asked him bitterly.

"Because I have a demon in me, a very bad one that doesn't let me sleep in case it attacks and I used to be very nasty and cold hearted until somebody saved me from myself.

My name is Gaara." he told the boy softly.

The boy seemed very silent for a moment studying Gaara but felt he could trust him.

"My name is Yazuya.

I used to live in the Star Village until...... they found out what I was. I didn't understand why they were so cold and mean towards me until then but it still hurts.

My demon gets wild sometimes and makes me do things I don't want to do like nearly hurting my friends. But the adults made me leave because they thought I was too dangerous. I was alone until a Chunnin from here found me and brought me here but I'm all alone with nobody to care about me because of my demon, the ten tailed Shukaku.

Why're you looking at me like that for?" Yazuya explained to Gaara.

"I know your pain child. I have a Shukaku in me too which wouldn't let me sleep and my childhood was rough but I lost my mother because of it and my father did it to me so I would be the ultimate weapon for Suna but I was too dangerous to stay so I was treated like a freak but things are better for me now.

I have somebody who believes in me." he told him as an image of Naruto was in his mind's eye.

"He saved me from myself and that dark place of sadness.

You too will find that one person too, I know it." Gaara said.

"I think he just did." a voice told him as Iruka appeared.

Gaara was very nervous seeing him as all the other Konoha Chunnin and Jonin did.

"I think we should talk, okay?" he told the former Kazekage as Yazuya went to class. But then somebody appeared that made him smile. It was Naruto.

"Hey Gaara!

What's going on?

Why was Iruka talking to you?" the spiky blonde haired ninja asked excitedly.

".....It's nothing Naruto-kun, really." Gaara answered shyly. He then saw Iruka wait for him.

"I saw you talking to Yazuya a while ago.

He seems to trust you.

He has no family and the Hokage and I want you to take him in and raise him. We were going to wait but today confirmed it. Besides nobody else in the village ever speaks or looks at him, they're afraid of him but he's only a child.

I know you can do this Gaara." Iruka explained.

"..... I will try but I-I'm not sure.

Raising a child requires love and it's something I'm new to." Gaara replied softly. Iruka smiled seeing him leave. His students wondered what Gaara was doing in there.

He hoped he could help Yazuya find Love and his own friends in this cold world.....