When Sakura and lee walked in on him trying to bleed himself to death, he had made sure neither of them had any idea what he was doing before he screamed at them to go the hell away and leave him alone. Needless to say they did, and he quickly discovered that the Kyuubi would not let him bleed enough to die, and crossed death by blood loss off his list. Two down…

The next time he saw Tsunade, he pushed every button he knew, and some he didn't, but all he ended up with was a few bruises, so death by Tsunade was out.

It was in the same manner that death by Gaara was strangled out of existence, but he left that encounter without even a scratch. Actually, Gaara had hugged him. No angry glare, no threats, no attack by sand, just a hug. This had definitely frustrated Naruto, why did dying have to be so hard, damnit!

Death by Sakura had also failed; he was running out of options.

He was forbidden to take missions, or leave the village, so that excluded death by mission, death by Akatsuki, death by Sasuke (or Orochimaru), and being hunted as a missing Nin.

He was also not allowed to train by himself, so that erased 'killed in a training accident'. Naruto was down to his last idea. Complete chakra exhaustion.

It wasn't like the concept was new, he'd done it loads of times with Jiraya, it was just that this time he had to exhaust Kyuubi's Chakra too.

He found this a lot harder to do than he had originally thought. He had burned through his own chakra without issue, but Kyuubi refused to let his own be drained. Eventually, though he had no idea how, he managed to overpower Kyuubi and drain its chakra. Perhaps his will to die was just that strong?

The chakra was almost gone, he was so close to sweet darkness that he didn't notice someone had stopped him, wrapped arms around his shaking body. He didn't notice when this person called someone in, didn't notice when they poured their chakra into him. Didn't notice because he was unconscious, dying, as he wished.

He did notice when he woke up in the hospital -again

He did notice that he was alone -again

He -still- knew that no one truly cared about him when there were no small touches of affection in the room -again.

So he completely ignored the door when it opened, turning only when he heard Kakashi sigh after he'd closed the door behind Iruka who, Naruto noted, looked like he'd gotten just about as much sleep as Gaara.

"Again Naruto?" Kakashi's voice was quiet as he pulled up a chair beside Naruto's bed. He looked tired, haggard, though not as severely as Iruka. "We've been talking about you, and we've made a decision." Naruto scoffed, Kakashi ignored him and continued "We are appointing someone to supervise you. We want to help, but this seems to be the only way."

"What, can't have your precious powerful weapon dying on you?" he scoffed again

"Naruto, it's nothing like-" Iruka had begun to panic, but was stopped when Kakashi put a hand on his shoulder and shook his head. Iruka looked away and hung his head.

"Who is it?"

"Gaara. He was in Konoha so we asked, we've made it a mission for him so nothing draws him away. He'll be here in a few minutes so get ready to leave."

Naruto gave a small sigh of acknowledgement before he returned to ignoring them.

Iruka choked back a sob and Kakashi led him from the room.

When Gaara came to fetch Naruto, he was angry enough to make it a near-tangible force. Naruto was fairly certain that if he touched Gaara, he would not only suffer severe burns, but would most likely burst into flames.

Needless to say, he avoided contact. Death by fire had already been a failed experiment.