Author Note: Sorry for any grammar and spelling problems, I sorta revised this in a hurry.
"Naruto! Hey,it's so good to hear your voice, I left you a message since you weren't home."
"Yeah I got it. I was actually calling to give you an answer.
"Oh, so what's your answer."
Naruto took a deep breath knowing Gaara wouldn't like his answer at all. "I don't think I want to leave Kohana just yet,"
"Naruto." He could hear the discomfort in Gaara voice, but before he could continue Naruto started talking again.
"But would you mind staying with me for a little while?" Naruto hoped he would, things would be a lot easier to deal with, with a friend around.
Gaara was still relunctant though. "Are you sure that you don't want to stay with us instead Naruto? It's more peaceful here than even before since my dad became Kazekage and explained it in more detail."
Naruto was thinking again. Should he leave, run away from his fears, attackers, the people who hated him. It would only give them more satisfaction. He then replied after a moment.
"Yeah, I'm sure, even though what happened to me was traumatizing, I still want to finish school here before I go anywhere." It was partically true. He wouldn't give the town the satisafaction, not again, not ever.
"But you can still come to live with us for now and come back to finish your last year of school like you did in the tenth grade, that way you miss nothing."
"Gaara, to be honest, I just want to see how this all plays out, and even if I come to live with you, I will have to wait for the semester to end."
"Yeah, I forgot all about that. Well I will be there for Fall break in about two weeks, also for Thanksgiving. Temerai said you are coming for Christmas though."
"Okay Gaara, tell Temari and Kankaru that I love them...I also love you."
"Yeah, yeah , yeah, love you too, bye."
Talking to Gaara always made him feel secure. It was the kind of bond with a person he always wanted.
After Naruto was done talking to Gaara he went to his room and redid his bandages from where blood had seeped through. He soon laid down on his bed and went to sleep, tomorrow was Sunday and he had work to go to. He worked at a little restaurant called Ichiraku Ramen. He got the job because he was the best customer the owner ever had. When Naruto woke up he went to his closet to pick out some clothes. He decided he would wear his orange T shirt with black cargo pants on and his white converse. After he grabbed a bite to eat he went out the door. He walked about 3 blocks before he reached his destination.
He clocked in and started his shift, besides some people coming in and sneering at him he had a pretty normal day. His boss and his daughter was one of the few people that Naruto liked, that liked him back. His wife had been killed in the incident, but he had learned to forgive, something the town needed to learn how to do.
He said good bye to Ichiraku and his daughter and started his way back home. He was exhausted from his hard day. As he walked back, there were movers moving furniture into the condo next to his apartment. He was so distracted by the movers that he wasn't paying attention and ran right into something hard, not a wall, but pretty damn close.
It took Naruto a moment to get himself together and apologize.
"I am so sorry for walking into you…" Naruto said and looked at the person he had just ran into, and found it was the Son of Fugaku Uchiha; Sasuke. He then became momentarily distracted by Sasuke appearance. He had a plain polo shirt on and skinny jeans that were pulled down to the bridge of his torso. His dark blue hair was spiked into a chicken butt style, but it worked for him as it made his pale skin stick out. His eyes bore into Naruto and he realized that Sasuke's lips were pinkish yet not all out there. He then realized that those lips were moving so he zoned back in.
"Uhh… did you say something?"
"Yes, I said my name is Sasuke Uchiha, next time watch were you are going and don't gawk at the person you run into." Naruto blushed at this statement and nodded. Sasuke was contempt with this and walked up to the condo and disappeared.
Naruto got up and walked into his apartment complex. Once at his door, he unlocked it, and walked inside and turned on his lights. What he saw brung tears to his eyes, his windows were busted, furniture turned over all over the place...he didn't know what to say. On the far end wall, written in spray paint was "Freak! Go somewhere else!"
He ran to his room and there on the floor was his outlet on life, his poems were ripped, torn burned, and ruined. He found his favorite on in the heep of it all and read it out loud.
"Tears of a child is my title,
kids only see what they want to believe.
Shadowing what I've become to them.
I fell so hard from their place of good fortune.
I guess there wasn't room for Tears of a child,
In a world dry of compassion.
Naruto wept as he finished, he had written this in 5th grade when no one would talk to him. It was simple, but it was his favorite.
He got up and walked into his kitchen to get some cleaning supplies. Tonight was going to be a long night. He scrubbed the floors, washed the walls off, picked up the poems in his room, and also picked up the glass. By the time he was done it was 3am, and he had to be at school at 8:00am. He went to his room and passed out on the bed.
He awoke around 7am, got up, showered, and then rewrapped his wounds and got dressed.
By the time he got to school it was 7:45 and kids were forming in a big group, apparently there was some new kid that had the school going bizarre.
Naruto didn't pay attention as he walked to his first period class and went to the back of the classroom. Soon the bell rung and the seats were being filled. The ones around except were being avoided. That's when Sasuke walked in and the teacher told him to introduce himself. Naruto really didn't pay attention but was shocked when Sasuke pulled the seat out right next to him and sat down. Naruto wasn't the only one shocked almost the entire calss was starring at him.
Someone next to Sasuke whispered that he was the freak and he shouldn't sit by him, but he shrugged his shoulders, turned, and sent me a note.
"Aren't you that kid from yesterday that bumped into me?"
"Yeah, sorry about that."
"It's okay, so, why are you the school freak?"
"None of your buisness."
"Why not?"
"Because if I told you…..never mind, no." Naruto was about to pass the note back when the teacher turned and demanded Naruto give him the note. Naruto walked up to him, and handed the note over. When the teacher saw who he was talking, he knew he couldn't punish one without the other so he told Naruto to go stand in the hall for the rest of class and continued teaching.
He walked to the back, collected his stuff, and turned around. That's when someone tripped him and he fell with a loud thud. The class errupted in laughter, except for a few. The teacher soon started yelling at Naruto about making noise and getting out. Before Naruto left, Sasuke saw the tears that had spilled out of his eyes and wondered did anyone else see them.
After a moment he couldn't help but feel sorry for the boy since it was his fault and decided he should go check on him.
"Sensei, may I use the restroom?" Sasuke asked.
"Sure, Sasuke-kun."
Sasuke walked out of the class and saw something that irritated the hell out of him…..