Authors note: Okay. I've been working on this one with a friend of mine. The magnificent Katharine O'Brien!! So yea. I don't deserve all the credit.

This story contains YAOI!! If you don't like YAOI then don't read!!

Kk just wanted to get that outta the way.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto or any of the other Naruto charries.

Chapter 1

Gaara made his way down the dusty, crowded streets of Konoha. About thirteen ANBU guards surrounded the Kazekage at all angles. The Red-Head pushed his bangs away from his face irritably missing the hot sand that typically surrounded him when he was in the sand village.

Gaara made his way through Konoha but he couldn't help getting a lot of attention from the citizens as he walked by. People stared in awe by the Kazekage that passed by surrounded by ANBU members. Gaara came here to speak with someone in particular though. He kept a sharp eye out for a certain yellow-headed idiot, Naruto Uzumaki. Gaara sent Naruto a letter a week before today, telling Naruto that he was coming. But knowing Naruto he probably forgot.

He rolled his eyes, sighing and remembering the last time he'd spoken to the underlie developed ninja. What was he? Twelve? Ah, Yes, that was it. He used to wear that ridiculous orange jump suit and had the worst style in the world. Disgusting was one word Gaara would use to describe Naruto Uzumaki. Or Annoying, Perverted, maybe even Victim; For the simple fact that at all times Gaara was prepared to kill him.
The Kage arrived at the young ninja's home just as Jariya was leaving, the chubby man grinned and gave him the thumbs up before hopping off to probably spy in the Girl's Spa. Once more Gaara sighed and allowed the leading ANBU officer, Koichi, to knock on Naruto's door. Ikuto took his spot in front of the Kage, grim face and all. Koichi and Ikuto were Gaara's most trust worthy guards and would be escorting the kage through his time in Konoha…with Uzumaki.

Ikuto raised his hand and knocked on the door three times. Behind the door in the room you could hear crashing and stumbling. Then came the obnoxious voice,

"Hold on, be there in a second!" The door was swung open and Naruto appeared in the doorway. All he was wearing was a t-shirt and boxers and he looked a little tired but Naruto widened his eyes and looked very surprised to see Gaara right in front of his door. Naruto blinked confused. Just as Gaara thought, Naruto forgot all about the letter. After a few seconds of gawking at Gaara, Naruto finally snapped him self back to reality, screaming,

"GAARA!" And he went to give Gaara a friendly hug but was pushed away by Koichi.
"There will be no personal…favors, so to speak or physical contact to the Kage from a welp like you." Koichi grunted making Naruto's face go red with anger.

"WELP?! I'm gonna become HOKAGE you IDIOT!" Naruto roared, launching himself at Koichi who moved in a fraction of a second; causing Naruto to hit into a tree and slide to the ground. Gaara pursed his lips tightly in irritation, backing out of his crowd of protection to stride over to Naruto. He reached down quickly and grabbed him up by his collar; holding him in the air. This was to show Naruto Gaara was in control and to show Koichi that he did what he want when he wanted. Koichi sighed and muttered something along the lines of 'The insolence of boys these days' causing Gaara to smirk.

"Naruto Uzumaki," he dragged out his speech, still holding the boy in the air. Naruto's hands grabbed Gaara's wrist as he struggled to break away, thought still being several inches shorter and not managing it. Gaara smirked and shoved the blonde's body against the hard bark of the tree he had previously crashed into. Naruto grunted and Gaara went on;

"Are you entirely too stupid to have all ready forgotten? I'm tutoring you to become this Kage. Respect me or I'll snap your throat."

Despite his warning, the infamous Kazekage was glad to see his old obnoxious friend. He set him to the ground and stared down at him for a few moments, noticing that his eyes were a lot deeper than he'd last seen. The blue was more stand-out and his skin was tanner. In this outfit of his he didn't look all that bad actually—

'What is it do you think you're doing?' The monster in Gaara's head growled; Quickly sending his thoughts back into submission. No. He would never. Never. Think like this again. It was wrong, it was pathetic…it was…weak.

Naruto closed his eyes and tilted his head down thinking. Then after a couple seconds he placed his right fist into his left palm.

"Oh! The letter!" Naruto finally remembered. Then he realized how stupid he must have seemed to forget something so important so soon. Naruto stood up straight to make himself look and feel taller. Naruto was short for his age and it irritated him. It made him feel weak. Gaara watched Naruto as he led the way to his house. Naruto quickly went in first shoving the clothes and garbage that was on the floor out of the way. Gaara looked genuinely irritated. He saw clothing; scrolls, empty soda cans and other garbage sprawled all over the house.

'Naruto is going to need a lot of discipline if he wants to be Hokage.' Gaara thought as he made his way through Naruto's house.

"Would you like something to drink?" Naruto asked politely.

"Water" Gaara demanded not even bothering to return courtesy.

"Coming RIGHT up." Naruto yelled out as he went into the kitchen. Ikuto followed Naruto and peered at him over the corner of the empty doorway to the kitchen. He eyed him carefully making sure he didn't slip anything dangerous into the drink. He didn't particularly trust Naruto. Not that he should, Naruto could easily mistaken Water for Cyanide or other such deadly poisons.

A few seconds later he came stumbling out, holding two glasses; one containing water the other maybe…sake, by the scent. Handing Gaara the glass he leaned back against the wall and sighed, nodding toward him. Pooling around his ankles were ramen cups and dessert packages Naruto had missed.

"Ikuto, Koichi." Gaara growled under his breath, the murmurs catching his guard's attention. Each of them looked up and with a nod of his head they hesitantly left the room.

"Uzumaki, Naruto." Gaara called as if it were attendance. It didn't matter, Gaara was his new teacher anyway. Naruto, again, stumbled out of a separate room while pulling a black tee shirt over his head. Despite the voice in his head Gaara swallowed thickly at his appearance. In any case Naruto was glaring at Gaara in a spiteful if not hateful way.
Gaara, getting bored with the situation, pushed himself off the wall and headed toward a small, garbage covered sofa. In an instant sand brushed away all the filth and Gaara sat, beckoning Naruto to sit next to him who did though hesitantly. Frowning and folding his arms Naruto turned away from the Kage.

"I don't need lessons…I can become Hokage on my own!" he protested simply. Gaara chuckled and leaned back, folding his arms and some what imitating Naruto except for the fact that he spoke.

"Your mission for the day is to clean. Since you forgot the letter I'm guessing you don't remember what was in it. I'm staying here for two months, more or less. And in the duration of my stay I don't want to be diseased. So I'm telling you to clean. Now."
By the time Gaara was done with his small speech Naruto was so red with anger that he looked just about ready to explode. He jumped up quickly jabbing his finger in the Kage's face.

"HEY YOU! LISTEN HERE! You're the one staying in MY house so I ain't taking shit from you! You gotta problem with my place then YOU pick up! Don't like it then leave, I don't need you anyways!" Naruto shouted stomping his foot and sending dirt into the air. This shoved him into a coughing fit and in the dusty fog he stumbled around, eventually tripping on a pile of bundled up shirts and hitting his head on a table. When the dust finally settled Naruto looked up, defeated and sheepish.

"Fine…" he grumbled childishly. "I'll clean. But I won't like it and…and YOU'RE HELPING!" Finally reaching his limit the Kyubbi jumped to his feet and began stomping around the room, clothing and junk flying everywhere from his pitiful attempts to pick up.

Gaara went into room after room looking for a basket to put all of Naruto's dirty clothes in. He didn't find one in the kitchen, the bathroom, or the living room. So he went into Naruto's bedroom. He entered the room and looked around curiously.
There was a bed near the window and a computer in the right hand corner. He looked some more and found that the walls were covered in posters of ramen, some women in bikini's, and some women EATING ramen. Gaara shook his head and walked around the room. He made his way to the closet and opened it but as he did a mountain of objects tumbled down on top of him, completely burying him. Gaara's sand pushed everything off of him.

He looked at the pile of junk that attacked him but he didn't see a basket or a bag, or anything to put the clothes and garbage in. he sighed and continued looking in Naruto's room. He saw the computer on and there was a website up. It had pictures of food on it.
'Of course.' The Kage's thoughts were irritable, but amused.

He looked down to see an open drawer in the computer desk and curiously went through it. He found random papers and some more garbage, and he also found something at the very bottom. Something he didn't expect to find. There were at least 10-15 pictures of Sasuke in it.

For some odd reason this caused the Kage to frown, more than frown his stomach turned slightly in disgust at the random shots. There were, like the women on the walls, snaps of Sasuke Uchiha eating ramen…or pictures of him in unfamiliar places most likely from missions. Frustrated, Gaara threw the pictures back into the drawer and slammed it shut before having his sand quickly organize everything inside the room. He could have easily fixated everything inside the house but the irritation he felt made him too mad to do so.
Back in the main room Naruto fussed over a stack of scrolls in his closet, attempting to make them all balance. He would get it for a few seconds and then they would all crash back down again. Eventually…or at least after three tries, the boy's short fuse blew and he began stomping on the scrolls, shouting at them.

Immediately Ikuto burst into the room with kunai between his fingers;

"What's all the commotion about!?" he demanded; eyes darting wildly around the room. Gaara massaged his temple angrily.

"Morons…" he hissed under his breath. "All of you…" with each word his voice rose, Ikuto and now Koichi stared at the one person they were devoted to in shock, they could feel the hatred pulsating off of him but didn't know the reason. Naruto, however, was too angry with the scrolls to notice anything until Gaara shouted with the outburst of
"GET THE HELL OUT!" His demon-marked eyes widening. At that Naruto stared at him. Ikuto and Koichi left the house in a rush.

It had been a long time since Gaara had felt this, so, so long. He wasn't absolutely positive what the emotion was only that it was directed toward Sasuke Uchiha. That bastard…he was always challenging him, in battle…wits, with his "Friends". How dare he? Even now that he had been a traitor he meant more. Naruto couldn't even remember a letter stating that he, Gaara, the Great and Powerful Kazekage was coming to tutor him personally. Why had Gaara even thought the baka blonde would appreciate it? Why did he come?

Why did Sasuke matter more?!

Then, with quick realization Gaara remembered the feeling. The kind he got when he was a little boy, seeing groups of friends playing together or Parents loving their children. It was the same now, now that Gaara's thoughts revolved around the thought that Naruto may actually like Sasuke. He didn't see pictures of Sakura, that annoying little girl, hanging around. Oh yes, Gaara remembered this feeling. He loathed it. It was jealousy.
Naruto stared at Gaara in surprise. It wasn't like Gaara to be like that towards his body guards, right? But Naruto didn't say anything to Gaara. He didn't want to anger the already pissed off Gaara. He continued stacking the scrolls and cursed out loud whenever they fell. Gaara glared at Naruto, and then went back to cleaning.

Gaara successfully cleaned the kitchen and got most of the garbage off the ground. He didn't want to do most of the cleaning, since it was all Naruto's mess. Naruto was busy folding some clothes and putting them in drawers. Gaara noticed that most of Naruto's cloths had a red swirl symbol on them, but he thought nothing of it. He went out of the room and into the hall. Unlike the rest of the house the hall was relatively clean. He walked through the hall and opened the first door he saw. It creaked open and he looked inside, but then he immediately closed it. Gaara looked at the doorknob to the door, his eyes filled with horror. This was one of the few times in his life he's actually been scared. That room was Naruto's bathroom. Gaara decided to let Naruto pick up the bathroom and he walked/ran back to the living room.

He gazed out the window and watched as the sky grew darker and darker. It was relatively quiet; excluding Naruto's cursing and yelling in the background. Gaara tried to concentrate on what exactly he was going to teach Naruto about being Hokage, but the only thing that ran through his mind was the pictures of Sasuke in Naruto's drawer. He pictured the thought of Naruto and Sasuke actually being a COUPLE, but it only made him angry.

'Pointless thoughts…none of these things matter…Naruto Uzumaki? Sasuke Uchiha? Enemies. Don't even attempt to help this—'

Even more annoyed the Kage blocked out the voice in his head. At that moment Naruto bounded into the room and jumped in front of him, grinning recklessly;

"All right! I'm done! It looks great!" Naruto complimented himself, pausing to stare obviously at Gaara who merely rolled his eyes and began walking around the house.
It was clean enough; there was still dirt on the floor and the occasional piece of trash but otherwise it wasn't so bad. It only took Naruto, what, seven hours? For the state it was in before that wasn't so bad at all. After carefully expecting everything the Kage turned to Naruto and simply nodded, in any case it made Naruto grin which was enough to lighten Gaara's mood, if only by a little bit.

Sighing Gaara made his way back to the window with Naruto following like a lost puppy, it was rather amusing to the Kage really, having the boy follow him like that. So, rather than sitting like he originally was going to he kept walking, making a sharp left into the kitchen. Naruto almost walked into the wall at Gaara's sudden movement but followed him into the kitchen. Gaara, finding himself at a dead end, needed a reason for coming in here.

"Er…" he started, widening his eyes in the realization of his falter, and covering it up by clearing his throat, "Uzumaki-San. I want you to make a…meal using purely jutsu."
Naruto stared at him for a moment, mouth agape.

"But that sounds really HARD!! Hey wait did you call me Uzumaki-San?! Teme! Call me Naruto! Naruto, Naruto, Naruto!" he stomped his foot to make his point and Gaara rolled his eyes.

"Naruto?" Gaara muttered, giving in slightly. Naruto grinned and nodded, turning his head and leaning in slightly as though Gaara were about to give away the biggest secret in the world. Instead Gaara's sand pushed him away slightly and he folded his arms.
"Put some pants on and then start the meal."

Naruto huffed, storming into his bedroom. In an instant Gaara's thoughts flickered back to the photos in Naruto's drawer and he imagined Naruto may be in there looking at them. Frustration and Anger boiled over again. In the blink of an eye he was in Naruto's bedroom, standing in front of the drawer.

"Heyyyy! Get out!" Naruto whined quickly tugging back up his boxers. Gaara stopped the rush of blood from going to his cheeks and frowned.

"I'm uncomfortable." He stated with an attempt to cover up his actions.

"Then here!" Naruto groaned throwing a pair of black pants and a white tee shirt at the Kage. He stared at the clothing that had landed on the floor beside him with partial disgust before realizing Naruto had once worn these.

For some reason, that was reason enough to make him bend and pick up the clothing, forming a barrier of sand between them before changing quickly. He set his gorge in front of the drawer which would be too heavy for Naruto to lift if he tried, the sand could be made…heavy, if needed. Being the first time since…Kami knows when, Gaara was wearing actual comfortable clothing. He shifted the hem of the white tee shirt downward, it riding up a bit uncomfortably. The pants were fine, Naruto's shirt though! Kami! How short was this boy!

Gaara watched as Naruto pulled on a black t-shirt with the red swirl symbol on the side of the short sleeve of the shirt and pulled on a pair of baggy jeans. Naruto looked at Gaara and gave a short laugh when he saw Gaara struggling to pull down the shirt so his stomach didn't show. Gaara gave Naruto an irritated glance.

"You wouldn't happen to have a longer shirt would you?" Naruto nodded and gave an amused smile. Gaara didn't know why but that smile of his made his heart race slightly. Gaara made him self relax and watched as Naruto rummaged through some drawers. Naruto threw a dark red, long-sleeved shirt to Gaara. And it was pretty big too. Gaara quickly changed his shirt and gave Naruto the one he changed out of.

"I'm getting tired…. you?" Naruto mumbled letting out a long yawn and looked down rubbing his eyes tiredly.

"Hardly, I never get tired." Gaara replied curtly. Then he suddenly remembered about his ANBU body guards. He slapped himself mentally and headed out of the bedroom, through the living room and to the door to outside. He opened the door and found all 13 ANBU members on the lawn outside of the house looking irritated, but they looked up when their Kazekage come out of the house. Naruto followed closely behind and his head poked out behind Gaara's shoulder. Gaara walked out of the doorway and walked over to Ikuto. The ANBU looked surprised at Gaara's appearance, but didn't say anything about it.

"I will be staying at Naruto's for the time being. You may go back to the sand village. You have done a good job bringing me to Konoha safely. Your mission is done." Gaara reported. Naruto was a little annoyed by Gaara inviting himself to his house instead of getting a room at a hotel. But Naruto didn't stay mad because he wouldn't mind the company.

Ikuto stared at kage and said,

"But why would you stay with this person?" Ikuto gazed at Naruto angrily, hinting that he didn't trust Naruto one bit. "And what about the journey back to the sand village?"
Gaara gave Ikuto a death glare. "'This person' happens to be one of The Sand Villages closest allies. You will treat him with respect! I'll send you a letter 5 days before I'm ready to leave then you may accompany me on the journey home. However, stop treating me as though I'm an infant. I can take care of myself." Gaara's eyes flared angrily and he crossed his arms.

Ikuto was taken aback and bowed respectfully saying,

"Yes Kazekage-sama, my fullest apologies." He waved a hand signaling the others that they were leaving and in a blink of an eye they were gone. Gaara swung around and calmly walked over to Naruto who looked worried.

"Where do I sleep?" Gaara asked coolly, trying to cover up the scene that just took place though he doubted Naruto even noticed the cover.