Disclaimer: No I do not own Naruto. I think it's pretty obvious that I don't.
One-shot. FemNaru. Naruto/Gaara with a tiny bit of one-sided Kakashi/Naruto if you squint.
"What should we do?" asked Lee as he stared at the boulder that was in their way.
"First… We have to break the barrier!" cried Gai, indicating the seal that blocked their way.
"How do we do that?" questioned Tenten sceptically.
A figure landed silently on the water behind them and was followed by three others.
"That's a five seal barrier," said the figure and Team Gai whipped around.
"You're late," said Gai slowly, "Kakashi."
"Eh well, we ran into some trouble on the way."
"You're here!" cried Lee enthusiastically and grinned at Sakura, Naruto and Chiyo.
"Right! Let's go for it, Kakashi!" shouted Gai.
"Alright," replied the silver-haired jounin with a smirk.
"So… How do we do it?" asked Tenten again.
"This particular seal is in four other places. To remove the barrier you must remove the others. They should be within a couple of kilometres of here."
The Konoha Teams looked wearily at each other, none of them paying attention to the quiet blonde who stood a few paces away.
"And there is no other way?" asked Neji, preparing to activate his Byakugan.
"Well," replied Kakashi, "If there was a huge amount of chakra that we could channel into a single person's fist and they hit the barrier and the boulder… Then that could work. But the chakra would have to be theirs."
"No-one has that amount of chakra, do they?" stated Neji, even though he already knew the answer.
Just as he started to activate his dojutsu, a huge influx of chakra whirled around them and tossed them metres away.
Kakashi's head snapped up and stared at the blonde who was on his team. She had always been quiet and perhaps even meek but now she stood there with a snarl on her face as the red tornado whipped at them.
Naruto channelled the Kyuubi's chakra to her fist and cocked it back. She ran as fast as she could towards the barrier. As she neared it, she screamed a single name and threw her fist forward.
"Gaara!"
Boom.
Stay with Me.
A GaaNaru one-shot.
Their fingers locked together, twisted even as their bodies pressed against one another. They fit together like two pieces of the same puzzle.
He pressed his lips against hers and he wrapped his fingers in her long blonde hair. In turn, she reached up and tugged her fingers through his red locks.
"Kami… I missed you," he breathed into her ear, "I missed you… Naruto."
She smiled into his chest; he could feel the soft grin that was only for him, nothing like the fake smiles she shot at the people from her village. She was his as he was hers.
Their embrace was passionate, full of love and the feelings they had for one another. Only they could help the other through the loneliness that they both felt tearing away at their heart.
"I missed you… Gaara," she murmured into his torso, her small body pressed against him; so small because of the malnutrition the young woman had suffered when she was much younger just like him.
Gaara untangled their fingers and wrapped them around her back and she did the same to his waist. They were lost to the world around them. All that mattered was each other.
They pulled away from each other after a moment or two and she reached up. Naruto gripped the red hair in her slender fingers and pulled his head down to crash his lips with hers. They passionately kissed, tearing down the masks they showed to others, and revelled in the moment that they shared.
He was a Kazekage, sworn to protect his people, and she was a kunoichi of a foreign village; an ally but nonetheless a different village. None of that mattered now and he couldn't even bring himself to care that had anyone entered his office now they would have seen this sight.
Nothing intimate was going on between them right now; they were just basking in each others' presence.
"I have to go," the blonde whispered reluctantly, pulling away from him, "My comrades need me."
Not friends, comrades, he thought, not friends.
She turned and started to walk away but Gaara's hand reached out and gripped her wrist. She started and Naruto was pulled into his chest once more.
His hands stroked the long blonde locks and she whimpered sadly into his chest.
It's going to be goodbye, she thought, we're going to leave each other again.
"Stay." His black-rimmed jade eyes stared at her filled with a deep emotion.
She started at the single word and stared up at her lover with deep blue eyes.
"I-I can't-" Naruto started to say; only to be interrupted by the man she loved.
"Please," Gaara pleaded, "Please stay with me. You'll be accepted here by the people and you can have exactly what you deserve! You won't have to stay in that shit-hole any longer!"
Naruto stared up at him; her eyes blank with an unreadable expression.
"Really?"
"Yes! Yes!" he cried, not at all like his normal quiet self, "I love you, Naruto! Stay with me, with me!"
"Yes." A single word that would change their fates forever.
Naruto's comrades stood in front of them, pleading for her to return with them.
"Naruto!" cried Sakura, "You can't do this to us. You can't do this to me!"
Naruto shook her head and stared at them with an expression of pity but no love glistened in her eyes. Her village did not matter anymore and she handed the headband, engraved with the leaf insignia, to the man who had been her sensei. He tried to thrust it back into her hands but she reached into her pocket and a single movement stopped him.
She tied the Suna hitai-ate around her neck.
Kakashi's hands fell limply by hands as she turned and walked into him. The man who was taking her away from them.
The-silver haired jounin glared at the other man in hostility and the red-head stared back with something akin to pity in his eyes. She noticed that her sensei was glaring at her lover and was going to glare back only to halt when the red-haired man brushed his hands through her hair.
Her comrades stared at her with pleading eyes and one of them cried out something about the village not being able to cope without her.
And in all honesty, Naruto couldn't bring herself to care.
She told them so herself.