Summary: Naruto and Gaara are orphans whose lives go from bad to worse when they get targeted by The Sound Yakuza's Lord, Orochimaru. Now they must attend Whirlpool University as girls to escape the demons watchful eye. While there the fall in love with two senior students, Kurama Kyuubi and Shukaku Ichibi. The one problem is that seniors are gay and Naruto and Gaara not allowed to tell anyone who they actually are.
Pairings:
Main- KyuuNaru, ShuGaa
One-sided SasuNaru, NejiGaa
Rated M
Chapter 1: The Sound Yakuza
Naruto Uzumaki and Gaara Subaku were two orphans that had become the best of friends. Since they had been the outcast of the orphan house, they looked to each other for brotherly love and affection. The children were cruel and the old decrepit man of a caretaker hated them. They didn't know why at the time, but they knew now. They were a curse. Anything bad that could happen did happen. Their mothers died giving birth to them and their fathers committed suicide from the overwhelming sadness and despair at losing their soul mates. When Naruto's godmother and godfather came to pick up the two month old, they got into a freak car crash. It happened with Gaara's uncle as well. It seemed the two cars crashed into each other, killing them instantly. Not only that, but every single couple that ever tried to adopt the two boys either died or were severely injured beyond recognition. This caused the kids and caretaker to avoid them like the plague, sending them heated glares and suspicious glances whenever they came within a mile of them. So when they turned eighteen, the caretaker kicked them out into the wild and forcefully shut and bolted the door.
Three months later the two got low wage jobs and moved into an old run down apartment in a nearly abandoned building. The landlord was sadistic and charged the two naïve teens double what the actual rent was and gave them the worst apartment in the whole building. Their room was only accessible by going between the apartment building and the neglected restaurant next door that was about to collapse and head down the dirty, bacteria filled alley. Towards the back was a wide opened area where the old remnants of an attempted construction site for a new building lay. The wooden beams where bent and splintered from water damage and bags of cement lay scattered about. An old tractor was still there and the yellow paint was peeling and showing the rusted metal underneath. The door to their new home was at the center of the back building, one window; dusty and cracked lay to the right. It looked like even if they cleaned it, it still wouldn't be able to let in any light whatsoever.
The inside was dark and dank; a huge water damage stain covered the entire roof. It smelled of rotting wood and different varieties of mold that would only flourish in this kind of environment. One bed, suited only for a single person, lay in the middle up against the wall. A night stand was to the left side of the bed and the two boys were scared to open and see what monstrous things had taken up resident inside. The lamp on the stand was missing the shade so that the light bulb was bare to the world. Naruto flicked on the light switch and the bulb flickered ominously on and off, before it settled on a very dim glow that bathed the room in an eerie dull yellow-orange. Gaara walked over to the bathroom door and slowly opened it, revealing an even more intense smell of fungi growing undisturbed. Different colors of fungus littered the wall and tub, happily growing in the perfect area where their kind could thrive. Gaara's noise scrunched up and his lack of eyebrows knitted together in disgust. He would have thrown up the contents of his stomach had the toilet not have had this strange green and purple fungi growing on the lid and a cockroach curled up dead near the base. Naruto looked sadly at his best friend and rubbed his back pitifully.
"Well get through this, as long as we have each other," Naruto spoke as he hugged Gaara and rested his chin on the redheads shoulder. Gaara nodded reassuringly as he felt the blonde shake, tears leaking from sky blue eyes.
Five months later, the three-room apartment, which consist of bedroom, bathroom and small eating room combined with a family room, were finally cleaned. It still looked like a dump and unlivable by human standards, but Naruto and Gaara could make do. The mold and fungi where gone and insects were not as frequent as before, but still annoying and frustrating. Their jobs paid just enough to pay the rent and buy food. If they received a tip they spent that on cloths and other necessities. The two boys avoided most the people in their building because they were all shady drug dealers and they suspected some of them where pedophiles. The boys only ever interacted with their landlord, a mean, fat and disgusting old man, whom reminded them so mush of their old caretaker, when they had to pay their rent. They were doing fine so far, but it had only been eight months since they were first kicked out and just the thought of them doing this for the rest of their lives made them cringe. Their only hope was that the poor conditions around them sped up their internal clocks. Though despite what they had been through, they still carried out each day with a spark of hope in their hearts, miniscule, but still prevalent, hoping that one day all the shit they went through was worth it. That's why even during those especially tough times, they still managed to laugh and smile, talking innocently about their dreams for the future; A future that didn't involve horrible living conditions and surviving day by day in fear, where they could finally meet their soul mates and live a happy life.
Naruto and Gaara came home after one long day of waiting tables and taking orders. The other employees where assholes, who would rather see you in a panic and in fear of being fired than, even lift a finger to help out. Now with that hectic day out of the way, Naruto and Gaara entered their home and turned on the dull light. Gaara glared at the useless thing but they couldn't waste money on something that wasn't completely broken. Naruto flopped on the undersized bed and kicked off his shoes, bringing one up to massage at the sore sole. Gaara sat down at one of the kitchen chairs, also kicking off his shoes and rubbing at his sore feet.
"What a terrible day," Naruto whined, pouting. Gaara snorted, giving the blonde a you-think-so look.
"It's over though," Naruto sighed.
"Until tomorrow," Gaara bite out. Naruto frowned sadly, cloudy blue eyes misting with unshed tears.
"It'll get better," Naruto muttered. "It has too." Gaara nodded sympathetically and got up to hug the near crying blonde. Naruto started to sob heavily into his best friends shoulder. It has constantly been like this, whenever Naruto needed to vent his sadness through tears Gaara would always be there. Whenever the other orphans were being especially mean Naruto would run to Gaara and cry his heart out. Naruto wore his heart on his sleeve and showed his feelings and emotions more than Gaara did. So it was easier to make the blonde cry than it was to make Gaara, since he was more stoic and reclusive. There had been several times where Gaara hadn't been able to take the constant cruelty and overall unfairness of the world that he would on occasions break down. During those times Naruto would hold him just as he was now, safe and warm in each others caring embrace.
It was around dinnertime, while they ate cheap ramen from a cup that they heard a disturbance outside. They ignored it at first concluding it to be one of their building neighbors loitering around, either buying crack or stumbling in a drunken stupor. They were used to the occasional bums and drug dealers coming back here where they were completely out of the polices range, it was a very bad neighborhood after all, but the two teens just had to learn to live with it. What got them suspicious about this routine was that they could here them talking, but not the incoherent grumbles of nonsense of a drunk nor the rude haggling of a drug dealer with their client. Those sometimes were known to get violent, but the teens still kept to themselves. They doubted that anyone knew they were back here, maybe except the drunken neighbors, but then again they really couldn't think straight enough to remember they were back here. The two supposed it was for the best, as to not have a drunken pedophile banging at their already way to thin wooden door for a fun time.
It was only when they did hear the far off voices of drunken old men, living out the rest of their pathetic lives, that the two figured out that the voices from earlier were unusual. Gaara shushed his blonde friend and walked silently to the single cracked window. Peering out with lime green eyes ringed with dark circles, Gaara saw two men dressed in a black, sleeveless top and shorts, over which they wore a tunic that bore the symbol of a completely white yin and yang, and a purple rope-belt around their waist. The first one had dark skin with black, shaggy hair, and black eyes. What disturbed Gaara the most was that this man had six arms, two of which were resting on his waist while the others just dangled until the time when they would be needed. The other one had dark grey hair with long bangs that covered one of his eyes. He wore a green shade of lipstick, and had dark markings around his visible eye. Another feature that put Gaara on alert was that he seemed to have a conjoined twin attached to his neck. He didn't know if the twin was alive or dead until the head rose and looked in the direction of the loud durnken men. Gaara was lucky that he had pressed himself against his wall at an angle or else they would have seen him. The twins lips opened and closed in speech and the spider freak glared off in that direction. He said something back to the conjoined twins and the two heads nodded at whatever it was that was spoken. The two headed human left in that direction, a sinister smirk streching his green painted lips. Gaara shuddered in fear at the crazy look of muderous intent and sadistic glee in that one visible eye as he walked towards the one way alleyway to confront the drunkards.
It was at this time that Naruto came up besides Gaara to take a peek, already nervous from watching the usually stoic redhead look on in fear and horror. With the twins gone the two teens could finally see what the two, make that three, shady characters were up to and it wasn't pretty. Besides the spider's feet lay a white sack covered in redish brown dried blood, a bloody and bashed head with hair of purple and eyes the same color, lifeless and staring endlessly at Gaara and Naruto, as if asking for help. The eyes were strange with rings and tomoes and the two teens couldn't help but shudder in, not fear, but sadness. Something about those eye protrayed bottomless sadness and hoplessness and it was getting to the young teens, Naruto was visably sheding tears, weither he knew it or not. The two headed man must have had his silencer on because there had been no sound whatsoever when he brought the two drunken men back by the collar of their shirt, dragging them across the ground, bleeding from the gun shots to their hearts. The two men spoke some more before they reached for their shovels and started to dig some holes. They intended to bury their days catch along with the purpled haired man with those sad eyes.
"Naruto call the police," Gaara whispeared to the scared blonde. Naruto turned wide blue eyes to his redheaded friend, swallowed the lump in his throat and nodded.
While Naruto was dialing the police, Gaara kept an eye on them. He didn't care if the police didn't get there before they left, he had a good description of the criminals that he could give them. What he was worried about the most was the purple haired man with the eyes that seemed to just speak to them. It didn't matter if he was dead, Gaara wanted justice done for the man, though he didn't know why. It shouldn't have mattered to him but for some reason it did. As Gaara contemplated why he actually cared so much about the man, he didn't see the new member to the team spot him. From Gaara's angle the two digging couldn't see him but the new member who came from the contruction site ruins was able to spot the vivid red hair and startling lime green eyes that could be seen even in the dark, like a becon. The man was overly heavy with orange eyes and three tufts of orange hair on his head that looked like a Mohawk of sorts that ran down the middle with two similar styled tufts of hair at the side. He yelled out to the other two who immediately stopped what they were doing, dropping their shovels and stalking towards the building like predators, hungry sadistic grins stretching across their faces, twisting their features and making them look like monsters. The kind of monsters little kids were scared of living under their beds or in their closets that would eat them whenever their parents weren't around. It took Gaara only a second to process that they indeed looked like monsters; their entire physical forms no longer resembling anything even remotely human. Gaara screamed just as Naruto was about to hang up.
"Are you two all right, what was that scream," the policewomen on the phone asked. Gaara ran over to Naruto and hastily grabbed the phone from the blondes limp hands.
"Please get help as quickly as possible, they've spotted us," Gaara ordered desperately. The women tried to calm the redhead down and told them to grab any sort of weapon and hide and that they were on their way. Gaara and Naruto did as they were told, grabbed a feeble kitchen knife and hide in their cramped closet behind discard piles of boxes and dirty cloths. The two teens heard the front door blast of its hinges as three sets of footsteps prowled about. Gaara had the police still on the phone, but the woman was just as quite as if she was also hiding from the homicidal criminals. They barely breathed as they heard the trio trash the place in their search, cursing and threatening them with death if they didn't cooperate like good little boys. Naruto and Gaara huddled closer together and tried to look a small as they could, which them being so petite wasn't that hard. They hoped that even if the looked into the closet that they wouldn't see them, but if they did, Gaara squeezed the handle of the knife in his hand. He would fight, anything to protect Naruto, whom he saw as a little brother.
The criminals were getting frustrated at not being able to find the little brats, desperate to get this over and done with so they could finish burying the bodies. The orange haired man growled lowly and picked up the nearest object, the couch, and threw it hard against the wall. Naruto and Gaara trembled at the noise but they didn't make a sound, nothing that would give away their position. The spider freak opened multiple cupboards with his six hands and hissed angrily every time they were empty. The conjoined twins tsked as their twin heads looked in opposite directions, surveying the area for any movement.
"The only place left to check is the bedroom," the heavyset man stated. The other three nodded their heads with maniacal sharp-toothed grins. The three bodies shuffled stealthily into the room, spider man crawling the walls, the twins separating into two different identical bodies while the fat man clenched his fists and glared at the closet door. The monsters conjugated around the attack zone, preparing to strike as the orange haired man forcefully opened the door, the wood banging hard against the wall. Naruto and Gaara remained motionless, praying to a God they didn't believe in that they wouldn't be seen in the crowded darkness of their closet. The separated twins smirked, their fangs glistening with saliva.
"We can see you," the twins roared, laughing manically.
The obese man grabbed at the two and pulled them out, throwing them to the bedroom floor. The two teens stared in fear at the human turned demons in front of them, trembling as they did so.
"Oh how cute," the spider man hissed. "Do you think they would make perfect concubines for Lord Orochimaru?" The other monsters grinned sharply and agreed.
"Maybe then he wouldn't be so mad that we took to long on this job," the fat one muttered, glaring at the twins.
"It's not our fault, do you know how hard it is to kill the Bijuu Lord's brother. Juubi was quite the tough opponent; it's a good thing his brother the Sage of Six Paths wasn't there. We would have died," the twins countered, crossing their lizard-armored hands. The fat man snorted in disbelief but said nothing. Spider man went to pick up the two teens when Gaara finally lashed out at them with the knife and lodged it into the man's grayish skin. He howled in pain and while the others were in a state of confusion Gaara grabbed the blonde's hand and ran towards the door. Naruto followed behind, looking behind to see the four sets of demonic eyes glaring at them. With inhumane speed the demons were on them in seconds, jumping on top of them, holding them down with their weight.
"Just wouldn't cooperate would yah," the spider man hissed. Gaara gasped as he felt the man's claws slice into his skin from holding his arms above his head. Naruto was in the same position with one of the two twins on top of him, holding his arms in a bloody embrace.
"Now be good and stop resisting," they hissed as they covered the teen's mouths and noses with one of their clawed hands. Naruto and Gaara started to lose consciousness and hope, but before they blanked out they heard the distinct shouts of armed cops. The cops charged in as the monsters growled lowly before they disappeared into thin air, relieving the teens of the pressure on their chests.
"Hurry call an ambulance," was the last thing the teens heard before they passed out.
Naruto and Gaara woke up in a stark white hospital room with nothing but the sound of their heart monitor. A policewoman walked in, with beautiful light-skin and long, black, shoulder-length untamed hair with very unique eyes that were red in colour, with an additional black ring in them. She wore make-up consisting of red lipstick and purple eye shadow and her outfit consisted of a red mesh armour blouse with only the right sleeve visible. Over that was a very broad material which resembled bandages with a pattern on it similar to those of rose thorns. She walked over to the the recently woken up teens. She wore a grave yet caring expression as she regarded them with her strange colored eyes.
"How are you two?" she asked in her familiarly authoritative voice. It was the women who had stayed on the phone with them the whole time. She sat down on one of the chairs in the room, crossing one leg over tne other to create a makeshift table for her notepad.
"My name is Officer Kurenai and I'd like you two to answer some questions, if you don't mind," the ravenette stated, clicking her pen so as to write down whatever useful information they had. Naruto and Gaara nodded their heads, maybe by answering her questions they would get some answers of their own.
"We have discovered three bodies at the scene of the crime, are they the bodies you said that stated the criminals were attempting to bury?" Kurenai questioned. The two teens nodded and Kurenai wrote in her book.
"Secondly the officers at the scene described the criminals to resemble monsters, demons if you will, is this true?"
"Yeah, they were humans at first although they seemed to transform into those demons as they advanced towards our home," Gaara replied. Kurenai looked unsettled at that revalation but she didn't comment, just wrote down that information, circling it with the utmost importance; humans transforming into demons was a cause for alarm.
"Lastly, did they say anything that may have given away anything about them? Who they killed? Who their boss is? Anything?" Kurenai prompted. The two teens thought hard before some things came back to them.
"Yeah they said they killed Juubi, the Sage of Six Path's brother. They said that the Sage was the Lord of the Bijuu's, whatever that means," Gaara stated.
"They also mentioned giving us to their Lord, Orochimaru, I believe his name was, as concubines," Naruto added. Kurenai frowned worridely and wrote that down as well.
"Thank you both, this will be quite useful. Please get some sleep, we will decide what to do with you later. We can't just leave you on your own in that isolated area. Our cops were barely able to find your place. Besides, I doubt that those criminals will leave you alone knowing you have all this information about them and have seen their faces. It's better if we arrange new living quarters for you, somewhere where they won't find you and we can monitor you easily," Kurenai spoke, giving the two a kind, motherly smile.
Naruto and Gaara blinked, processing all the information the women had just given them. They were going to be moved to a completely new area, into a new home. Hopefully this one would be nicer and in a better area, where they wouldn't have to live in constatnt fear.
"Will we really be able to leave this place," Naruto asked exitedly. He didn't care at the moment that they had a gang of criminals out for their heads, he was just too happy and nothing could ruin it. Kurenai nodded her head with a smile and the teens would have hugged her had they not still felt so lightheaded.
"Get some rest and we can talk about his later." Kurenai got up from her seat, wished the teens goodbye and left. Naruto and Gaara layed back down with hopeful dreams of a new future, one where they would never have to live in bug infested conditions or see those demons again.
The two woke up to the insistance of one of the nurses, a middle aged female with red hair with bright yellow eyes walked in.
"It's time to eat. Once you're done, a police car is waiting for you outside. Have a nice day," the nurse stated, flashing them a loving smile of shiny white teeth. Naruto and Gaara nodded their heads and thanked her before devouring the best food they had ever had, even if it was the infamous hospital food. It was delicious enough to them anyways. Once done with their soup and dried bread they got out of their hospital gown and redressed into their old cloths. Naruto wore a dirty dark orange t-shirt with baggy balck pants with sneakers that looked about ready to fall apart. Gaara wore a dark red almost black shirt with baggy beige pants with torn sneakers.
After getting dressed, the teens were discharged from the hospital and where going to be taken by the police. Kurenai and another officer waited outside the police car to greet them. Kurenai introduced them to her partner in both work and marriage, Asuma Sarutobi, who was currently smoking with a care free attitude.
"So you're the little guys that ran into Orochimaru's gang and lived to tell the tale," Asuma stated. Naruto and Gaara cringed at the name and how close to death they had been. Kurenai elbowed the man in the ribs and Asuma let out a breathless apology.
"If you would come with us, we would like to talk about what to do with you," Kurenai said, motioning for them to enter the back seat. Naruto and Gaara got in while Kurenai took the passenger seat and Asuma took the drivers seat. The drive didn't take long and they soon founded themselves at Kohona's Police Station. Exiting the vehicle they made their way into the building, where they were met with the head secreatry sorting papers at her desk, while another women with light brown, pupil-less eyes, violet colored hair that was styled in a short, spiky, fanned-ponytail, stood next to her. She wore a tan overcoat with a purple in-seam, a fitted mesh body suit that stretched from her neck down to her thighs with a dark orange mini-skirt.
"Anko Mitarashi, we have been expecting you, these are the boys we were talking about," Kurenai greeted. Anko smirked as she walked over to the two teens, who stared at her in curiosity. Who was this woman?
"Well, well, well so these are the little brats that survived Orochimaru's men, lucky little tykes aren't they," Anko stated smugly. Gaara glared at her while Naruto's eye twiched in annoyance.
"What's it to you, old hag," Naruto bit out. Anko's smirked haughtily as she pulled out her gun and aimed it at the blondes head. Naruto gulped and stared in shock. Gaara growled and stood in front of the blonde, sheilding his friend from the crazed purple haired women's fire.
"Anko that is not necessary, please put your weapon away," Kurenai ordered. Anko kept her smirk but did as she was told.
"Now if you'd all follow me to my office we can get started," Asuma ordered, leading the way to his office, the rest following behind.
Asuma sat behind his desk while Kurenai went to stand next to him. Naruto and Gaara sat in the two chairs in front of his desk while Anko leaned against the wall behind the two teens. Asuma picked up some file reports in front of him, looking them over before speaking.
"You two are either very lucky or very unfortunate, depending on how you look at it. Yes you did survive but Orochimaru will not stop until you're dead, not with the fact that you managed to get this kind of information out of his men. No one has ever gotten away from the Cursed Demon Yakuza, The Sound. With that in mind we believe that you are to flee Kohona and head to the Land of Whirlpool, were Anko will watch over you. Am I clear so far?" Asuma asked. Naruto and Gaara didn't really like the thought of living with that pyscho but they had to admit it was better than living where they currently did. Kurenai laughed at the scrunched up looks on their faces.
"You will only be living with Anko for a month before you are to live at Whirlpool University, were you will be going to school, so don't let that thought stop you. Besides Anko is only their to make sure Orochimaru doesn't get near you, she isn't going to be your new mother or anything," Kurenai clearified.
"Whirlpool University?" Naruto questioned. "But we were barely home schooled at the orphanage as it was, we can't attend a university."
"Yeah we don't even have the knowledge to go to a high school, let alone a university," Gaara added.
"We'll figure that part out, all you have to do is attend and act like a regular student," Asuma stated, taking a drag of his cigarette.
"Do you two have anymore questions?' Kurenai asked. Naruto shook is head in the nagative but Gaara had an important thought.
"Since Orochimaru's gang knows what we look like, won't they be able to track us?" Gaara asked. Anko smirked and backed off the wall, coming around to face them.
"Don't you worry your pretty little heads, I have it all sorted out," Anko stated, grinning sadistically at the teens. Naruto and Gaara gulped and sank into their chairs, uncomfortable with the predatory look on the woman's face.
With no other information from the officers Naruto and Gaara went back home to pack what little things they had. Half an hour later the two teens left their rundown house in Kohona for a regular two story family house with Anko in the Land of Whirlpool. The Land of Whirlpool was a little island off the coast of the Fire Nation, near Kohona. Their house was two stories tall, plain looking with beige walls, a brown wooden door and several clear windows. There were two living rooms, one up stairs and one down stairs, a kitchen, an office, three bathrooms and three bedrooms. It was much bigger and spacious then their old place and the neighborhood was safe and danger free.
"Alright brats, this is where you will be staying with me for the first month. After that you can visit during vacations, if you want, though I definitly don't want you to. Now let's get settled in and we can talk about how we're going to disguise you from the Sound Yakuza," Anko stated, placing her arms around each of the boys shoulders and started to drag them inside. Kurenai and Asuma wished the two luck and offered that if they ever needed anything that they could call whenever.
"Our numbers are in the new phones we gave you, take care alright," Asuma called out. Anko turned her head to face them and replied that she would take care of them and that they would be fine. Naruto and Gaara looked skeptical but nodded and reassured the two officers that they would be careful. With that promise Kurenai and Asuma left in their car back to the airport while Anko locked the wooken door behind her. Naruto and Gaara were now going to start a whole new life, though they couldn't decide if being hunted by a Demon Yakuza gang was really worth it. All they could do now was hope that Orochimaru never founded them and that Anko didn't do anything to drastic with them. The look in her eyes still made their stomachs churn in terrified anticipation.