Building up those things broken

'...' is thoughts and "..." is speaking.

Disclaimer: All our base is belong to Kishimoto. In other words; Me no own :(

Pairings: GaaNaru, one sided SasuNaru mentioned KibaHina and KakaIru

A/N: Dudes, I'm reading the awesome Breaking Dawn. Fecking awesome. :D Anyways! On with chapter four! Collective Critisizm is always welcomed, as long as it isn't a flame. Much loves to you all!

Chapter 4 : A really REALLY bad day

Naruto tossed and turned but he couldn't sleep. It was so strange to sleep during the night finally. The days' events kept poking their ugly heads out from under Naruto's subconscious. The weird red-head named Gaara, Sasuke's sudden rekindling of love and the strange confrontation kept playing like an old movie in Naruto mind. Had 'Gaara' stuck up for him because he cared, or simply because he felt sorry for him? And why was Sasuke being so strange? He hadn't cared so deeply about Naruto a week ago. Or two months ago when they broke up. Naruto rolled over again and found a cool spot in the hot bed. It was still lonely, not having Sasuke's usual warmth in the bed. Sighing, Naruto finally felt his eyes drooping and he fell asleep quickly.

Flashback

A tan blonde sat alone in a blue room. When would his father come? He was supposed to be here already… A sigh escaped from the blonde's lips. A knock came from the door and the blonde's face lit up.

"Dadd-" He stopped when a scrub clad nurse walked in. Her lips were tight and her eyes held no compassion for the boy.

"Your father has just died in an accident. A speeding car on the freeway struck him. He was pronounced dead at the scene." She looked at him icily.

"Everyone knows. You should be ashamed of yourself! Forcing him to come here every day. Your selfish whims…you stupid monster-" A loud slap came from the door. A plain looking man with a scar across his nose held his hand suspended in the air.

"Is that something you should really tell a child? You should leave. I can't stand to look at people-, no vermin like you." The nurse looked shocked and stumbled out the door. The other man turned to the blonde. His head was down and his shoulders shook dangerously fast. The scarred man walked over and sat beside the shaky child. He put his hand on the shaking shoulder and said,

"It isn't your fault. The other driver, he-"

"It is! If I hadn't of told him to come quicker he would've...he would have…" Two large arms wrapped around the small blonde, silencing him.

"No it's not. That silly nurse said untrue things. Sometimes things, good and bad, happen. What happened today was an accident. Nobody has any fault to this." The blonde looked up to the scarred man with teary eyes.

"I don't even know you, why are you pretending like you're my friend?…you're weird." The little boy said blushing and wiping his nose on his sleeve. Iruka smiled and patted the boys' back.

End Flashback

Naruto woke up, startled he had had that dream. It was all this stress, causing him to have weird flashback dreams, he reasoned with himself. He got up and checked his alarm clock. It was barely past 10 am. He looked through the clothes scattered on his floor and pulled on some dirty old jeans and an orange band tee. He also shrugged on a large black sweater and did up the zipper.

Naruto came into the empty kitchen and saw a note on the table.

'Hey kiddo,

I have three meetings today, but after work I'm free. You want to see a movie with me? We haven't spent time together in a long time. Give me a call around lunch okay?

Love,

Iruka. Xoxo'

Naruto sighed. Typical of Iruka to be so parental, even if Naruto was 26… Deciding that he was going to head into work and eat something on the way, Naruto left the house, locking the door on his way out. He passed by the empty mailbox and noticed a large bouquet of sunflowers, his favourite. They stood out predominately. He snatched them out of the mailbox and threw them onto the ground and crushed them beneath his faded orange converse.

Only Sasuke knew his favourite flowers were sunflowers.

When Naruto arrived at the hospital, he wasn't surprised to find the black haired Uchiha standing by his usual work station. Was he back to receive another verbal beating? Had he finally succumbed to his inner masochist? Naruto shrugged off the disturbing thoughts. Today was supposed to be good. Today, Naruto and Iruka would spend some bonding time together. As Naruto walked by, Sasuke lifted his head.

"Ah, Naruto. Did you get my gift?" Naruto looked at the smiling teme and lifted his shoe from the ground. On the bottom were the remains of what looked to be a sunflower. Sasuke winced and folded his arms.

"I see…" Naruto didn't wait to see if he has anything else to say, he was already 10 minutes late for work. And now he was grumpy. Was today really going to be his day?

At around noon, Naruto took his lunch break to give Iruka a call. As the day had proceeded, he had been scolded twice by ward-master Tsunade, slipped on spilled floor water and had his finger slammed in a door. Said door slammed by Sasuke. Insult to injury much? Naruto was nearly in tears as Iruka picked up the phone.

"Hello?" A professional sounding voice answered.

"I-iruka? It's me Naruto." Naruto hiccupped.

"Naruto? Whats the matter? Are you okay?" Naruto tried to compose himself. He never liked to hear Iruka worry.

"Nothing sorry. I haven't had a drink of water in a while and I am sooooo parched. Anyways, about that movie tonight? I was thinking we could go and see Tropic Thunder. I heard its supposed to be funny an-" Iruka cut him off.

"Oh Naruto I'm so sorry! My meetings are going to run late! You see this ditzy client of mine has had his trial bumped up earlier and well, we really need to work on his case as it's tomorrow and, and…well…and-"

"Iruka, Iruka its okay! I mean I can always get a friend to go with me, or like just go by myself." Naruto riled up a fake smile and chuckled into the receiver. There was a hesitant pause, so Naruto continued.

"I mean, I'm nearly 30. I'm pretty sure I can take care of myself." Iruka sighed and answered.

"Okay. Well, don't stay up waiting for me. I'm going to be out a bit longer than usual."

The two said their good byes and eventually hung-up. Naruto sighed and leaned against the pay-phone beside him and slid down the wall dramatically. He was so close to tears when he heard the slapping of a feet on the tile floor. Someone was running? In a hospital. Was there an emergency? Naruto arose immediately and stuck his head around the corner rather incautiously. A large smack was heard as two forheads collided. Naruto lay on the floor, arms sprawled and a odd look on his face.

"Good job Naruto! You caught him!" Naruto tried to open his eyes, but everything was spinning as he struggled to keep conciousness...