ha ha, now this is an awsome idea if i do say so myself. i figured i need to get away from that odd bit of romance i was writing, so here is some action and some darker tones for a very plausable story. before you read just stop and think, what if Naruto and Gaara ended up taking each others paths down the road of life, what if Yoshimaru realy cared for Gaara and what if Iruka secretly hated Naruto, give me some ideas in your reviews and they will most likely make their way into my story. You will notice the darker tone i used for naruto and i hope writing upbeat things for gaara wont sound wierd, also i switched aroung some jutsus, many of them of my own (and my 2 brothers) design. and i can't wait until i get my laptop (huzah, only 125 more dollars to go). and sorry for all the gramatical errors that may snake their way in, i lack spell check.
tales from another side.
ch1: The other side of the coin, when yin and yang reverse
(this takes place early on whean naruto and gaara were small)
He sat in an old abandoned building, wraped in a smelly animal skin, angry at the town and its stupid leaves, why did the leaves have to follow him around all the time. Some hokage his dad turned out to be, leaving a little kid with a demon to tend with. And why did Iruka take such a liking to him, it bugged him, why would he, out of the whole village, like him when everyone else wanted him dead. He didn't feel alive anymore, he wanted to be like everyone else, he wanted to live.
As he sat there, about to fall asleep, he quickly dragged his little legs up to stand as he saw a small racoon walk by looking for food, the racoon bothered him, so he had the leaves cut it up. all he did was wisper "leaf urn", and anyone or anything he hated got shredded and burned.
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Gaara sat on the teetertotter all alone as he saw the kids talking about him, how dumb he was, and how spooky he looked. he hated it when they talked about him, it was always when he couldn't take it anymore that his saviors came around the corner to pick him up. He smiled as his uncle Yoshimaru came by with his reluctant brother and sister, and they went home for the night, his siblings picked on him, but it was nothing like what the school kids did to him.
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(jump forward 8 or so years)
He stood there, his partners at either side of him, kunai ready. Naruto enjoyed this kind of training, when even both his partners, Sasuke and Sakura would fail to even graze him. Every once in a while Sasuke would land a kick or graze Naruto's black jumpsuit with a shuriken, but that didn't last long, and Itachi or Gai would always have to break up the training before anyone got killed. Sasuke hated his older brother saving him all the time, expecting him to master his sharingan when he wouldn't teach him how to use it. the only training he ever got was from Kakashi, and he was on ANBU missions all the time, and on top of all that his sharingan was inferior to his brothers, and having to learn a weaker technique made Sasuke sour.
After their harsh training Naruto left as he always did, but today was different, Sasuke had a bone to pick with him, "Hey, Naruto! You better watch our backs at the chuunin exams tomarow, you know what our orders are if you don't."
"HA HA HA! if you think your lives are important to me then you don't know me very well, and if you can't take me in training then you'll have one hell of hard a time killing me! just you better not slow me down at the sand village tomarow, or i'll leave you to die, believe it!"
Sakura hated how he yelled so loud all the time, like he wanted the whole world to hear what he had to say.
He walked out the door to go home when Iruka cut him off down the hall.
"Naruto, you havn't forgoten what today is have you, you should go to her grave before you go."
"Shut up Iruka! she was no mother, i blame her as much as i blame that excuse of a father!"
"you shouldn't say such things, she cared for you, she loved you, even right before her death."
Naruto just gave a nasty look and wandered off.
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Crow came in towards Gaara as he threw several sand shurikens at it and cut its strings.
"Wow Gaara, you have sure improved," said his brother with hidden enthusiasm,"we got tommarowin the bag."
"T-thanks, kankuro."
"Come on you two, uncle Yoshi wants us to get ready for tommarow."
The two brothers began joking and laughing with their sister and as they went to see their uncle.
a lot has happened from the start to the finish of this story, i got my laptop, quit my job, learned to like romance, and shifted the focus of the story a bit. sorry if this chapter wasa bit short, they will get longer and i will include some romance, tell me any ideas for non yaoi pairings you would like to see, i want this to be an interactive story, but i am not begging for inspiration, i just want to see how this turn out if everyone is involved. over and out.