"Sasuke, will you stop being a dumb ass and return to your village?"

Sasuke squeezed his eye's shut as he tried hard to annoy Yuri. The minute he ended up leaving orochimaru and 'accidentally' stabbed himself. That's how he meet the stubborn boy named Yuri, who wouldn't leave him alone till he fixed his wounds. After that he just couldn't seem to get rid of him and at this point in his life he didn't see a reason to anymore.

"Yuri, forget it! I'm not going back. What's the point they've probably forgotten me by now. Why bring back such painful memories for them." Sasuke mumbled as he leaned his head back against the nearby tree. Yuri sighed. They where so close to the so called village Konha, he just knew it. He so wanted to see the village. But Sasuke didn't want to and it sorta got annoying.

Rumors had it that Sasuke was a homicidal maniac. If it was true he must have been crazy his own self cause he didn't see it at all.

"Earth to stupid!"

Yuri shot up off the ground and ended up falling backwards on a tree stump. After blinking back a couple of tears he heard a very faint laughter.

"Yeah Sasuke?" he mumbled as he sat up and rubbed the back of his head.

"I think I wanna go back now...."

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Naruto trudged forward in to the dirty water. Ever since he had given up on looking for Sasuke the village saw no use for him anymore and always seemed to give him crappy D-rank missions.

And that's exactly what he was doing now, he was on another crappy D-rank mission.

This one it turns out was to find some golden necklace in the swamp that a elderly woman had dropped nearby. So far he hadn't seen it.

"Stupid necklace." Naruto mumbled as he dug his hand deep into the dirty water. He couldn't wait to find that so called necklace.

"Yo, Naruto do you have a minute!" yelled a voice behind him. Naruto jumped at the loud voice and turned to face Kiba. Tucked away safely in his hood sat Akumaru sleeping soundly.

Wiping the dirt on his pants, Naruto wiped the sweat from his forehead then turned to look at Kiba fully.

"What's the problem Kiba?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow.

"It seems Kazekage-sama is coming to Konha soon and I have the duty of guarding him while he's here. But you see the problem there is that the same week Kazekage-sama comes here is the same week that Hinata plans to have her C-section. So Tsunade said she thought it would be ok if I choose to let somebody take my spot instead. So that's why I'm here right now!"Kiba said as he took huge gasps of air for saying such a large paragraph.

"I dunno Kiba.....I don't think I can." Naruto whispered with down cast eye's.

"Don't worry I can finish this mission right now for you. Kazekage-sama is gonna be here any minute now so I guess you should get going now!"Kiba exclaimed giving Naruto a thumbs up.

"What! That's awesome Kiba. I'll definitely do it for you. See ya. Tell Hinata hi for me and that I hope to see her baby really soon." Naruto yelled as he took off running for his apartment.

No matter how much he wished to see Gaara at the moment he couldn't risk letting Gaara see him so dirty. If Gaara knew how bad the people of Konha were treating him now he don't think the alliance between the two countries could hold.

Gaara had such a sweet spot for him.

Pulling out his house key's Naruto pushed the key in the hole and pushed open his apartment door.

Dirty cloths littered the floor, paint peeled off the wall, and a foul odor seemed to hang in the air. But all that didn't matter to Naruto because as long as he had know this crappy place had always been his home and he would be okay with that.

Picking up a couple of clothes Naruto flung them onto the sofa and began to search through them till he found something suitable to wear to go see Gaara.

He took off his shirt and soon changed into what he had found.

He looked pretty good if he could say so himself. Now all he had to do was find Gaara.