Disclaimer: I don't own anything

Warning: Yaoi! harem, AU, OOC, OC's and Character bashing especially on Sakura and Sasuke.

Ages: Yashamaru- 20, Shisui-10, Itachi and Kagome-8, Gaara-6, Naruto-5

Chapter 3

Shisui stopped and looked around, "This is a good enough place for a break, there is water with fishes and a good amount of trees for cover. It's good enough for several hours."

Itachi nodded his head and placed his bags against a tree. "I'll go get us some fishes." turning the heir of the Uchiha clan glanced at the blond, "Do you want to come with me, Naruto?"

With a grin, the Kyuubi jinchuriki nodded and bounded ahead of Itachi towards the body of water while Kagome giggled. "Good luck watching him Ita, I'll go get us some firewood and branches to cook the fishes with. Shisui can you get the pit ready and a fire going."

Shisui smiled, "No problem!" he replied as he went to set the pit up.

(A few hours later)

If the heat wasn't bad enough then the sand strom combined with the blazing sun made things unbearble for the quartet. Hidden beneath their cloaks, a hood over their heads, googles protecting their eyes and a face mask like Kakashi's covered their nose and mouth from the sand being blown around. Naruto was on Shisui's back, having just switched off with Itachi, hidden under beneath his hood.

Kagome narrowed her eyes and turned her head, "We're nearing the Suna gates soon, Just a few more miles." she yelled trying to be heard over the roaring in their ears. Nodding the two males picked up their speed and covered the distance in a few minutes.

Two guards leaped down in front of the trio. "Halt! State your name and your reason for being here." one of the guards yelled out,

Kagome stepped forward, "Name's Namikaze Uzumaki Kagome, my younger brother Naruto." she motioned towards the blond boy that Shisui set down, "Those two are Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi. We are chunin's from Konohagakure and we're here to show my brother what Suna had to offer and stay for a week or so before moving on." she explained holding out her and Naruto's identification papers while Itachi and Shisui did the same.

"Everything seems to be in order." guard number two nodded, "Welcome to Suna and we hope you enjoy your stay here." he smiled at them as the gates opened allowing the four enterance.

Kagome grabbed Naruto's hand, "What don't you two find us a hotel we can stay at. I'm going to take Naruto to the park to play with the other children. He never got to do that in Konoha so this will be something he'd enjoy."

The Uchiha cousin's nodded their heads in agreement and they separated.

Arriving at the park, Kagome smiled as followed after her brother who went to play with some of the other kids who were playing with a ball. Turning she looked around and frowned when she saw a small red headed boy sitting on the swings, his green eyes were practically drowning in tears of sorrow. Walking towards the swing, she took a sit beside him.

"Hello my name is Namikaze Uzumaki Kagome, that's my brother Naruto, the one with the blond hair. What's your name?" she questioned. The red head looked at her, his hold on the brown teddy bear tightened which didn't go unnoticed. "Sabaku no Gaara." he whispered.

"Hey!" a voice yelled and everyone turned in the direction to see a boy and a girl a few years older then Kagome's eight year of age, walking towards them. "You shouldn't talk to him. My mom said that his a demon and we shouldn't play with him or he'll kill us."

Standing up, Kagome watched as the red head flinch and lowered his head but she could see the tears sparkling in green eyes and how the boys lower lips trembled. His knuckles were white because of how tight he was holding his bear, she narrowed her eyes, a look of uderstanding entered her eyes. A jinchuuriki. Turning back towards the two in front of her. "Yeah, well, I think your mother is stupid."

A gasp rang out and Kagome and Naruto, who ran towards her when he saw the two older kids near his sister, turned a woman who had the same coloring as the two kids. "How dare you call me stupid." she screeched.

"I call them the way I see 'em." she retaliated, placing a hand on the red heads shoulder, she rose the boys head so he was facing the group, "Does this look like a demon to you, to me he resembles a little boy whose been denied everything even the right to live but idiotic fools like you who can't see the difference between a monster and the cell which contains it." the dark haired girl hissed out, eyes narrowed. "Let me put it simple and in a way that all of you can comprehend." she grabbed a kunai and held it up, "This is Shukaku." holding up a sealing scroll in her other hand, "And this is Gaara. Now watch carefully." Kagome sealed the kunai in the scroll and rolled it back up and tossed it to Naruto who smiled. "Can you tell me what just happened?"

"You sealed a kunai into a scroll and gave it to the blond, and so." a man replied.

Kagome nodded her head "Exactly what I did. I sealed 'Shukaku' into 'Gaara' and tossed to my brother. Did anything happen to my brother when he caugt the scroll. Is he wounded? Did the kunai someone leap out of the scroll and attacked him? No it did not." Kagome yelled pointing a finger, "In other words Gaara is as harmless as that teddy bear his holding. His a small boy who doesn't deserve all this bullshit your spewing, You want a monster, well just keep treating Gaara as you are and maybe your wish will be granted." placing her brother on her back, and lifting the red head into her arm, Kagome made a seal and vanished in a swirl of wind, leaving behind a dumbstruck group of people.

On the roof, over looking the crowd were two shadowed figures who smiled at the sight before they disappeare in a swirl of feathers.

(Somewhere else)

Kagome set Gaara and Naruto down before taking a seat beneath a tree in one of the training grounds that wasn't in the open. And turned to look at the red head, "Do they treat you like that all the time, Gaara?"

The green eyed boy nodded his head, "Only my uncle Yashamaru will talk to me, not even my nee-chan or nii-chan will, there scared of my sand." he whispered as grains of sand twisting around the teddy bear.

Smiling Kagome ruffled Gaara's hair, wrapping one arm around Naruto's shoulder who sat himself down in her lap. "That's pretty interesting Gaara, If you train more, I bet you'll be able to make a sand armour to protect yourself from attacks."

Naruto turned to look at the red head with a smile, "Your just like me then. The people in Konoha call me monster and they won't let their kids play with me either. They beat me up to, even when Hokage-ji-chan, Kag-nee-chan, Shi-nii-chan, Kaka-nii-chan, Iru-nii-chan and Ita-chan threatens them not to." the blond five year old exclaimed.

Gaara nodded, "Your like me."

Kagome smiled at the red headed boy, "How old are you Gaara? You look like your the same age as my Naru-chibi."

"I'm six."

Naruto grinned, "I'm five, I'll be six in October."

"And I'm eight." Kagome put in, "Itachi is the same age as me and Shisui is ten. You'll meet those two later, they're getting us a room at the hotel. Do you want to stay with us, Gaara or does your family want you at home?"

Gaara shook his head, "My father doesn't care, my siblings are to scared off me to check to see if I'm in my room and my uncle Yashamaru is out on a mission."

"Okay then your coming with us." Kagome grinned, "We'll be starting Naruto's training tomorrow and you can join in as well, if you to."

Naruto beamed and faced his new friend with sparkling blue eyes, "It'll be lots of fun Gaara. Kagome, Shisui and Itachi are the best in the Konoha. Their already chunin's."

"Really!" Gaara's eyes widened, "My uncle said the chunin exams are hard and most people don't even past the test until their fifteen at least,"

"That's true, but it's a good thing that we were good enough to pass between Itachi's intelligence, Kagome's tenacity, my speed and our excellent teamwork, we had out opponents beat even before we started."

The three turned to see Itachi and Shisui walking over. Itachi sat beside Kagome while Shisui sat beside Gaara and ruffled the boys hair, "Hey chibi, did Kagome kidnap you from the park. She has a habit of taking things that are cute."

Kagome just blushed at what her friend had said, it was the truth so there was no use in trying to deny it, beside Gaara was adorable and if she could she'd definitely take the red head with them. 'That's not a bad idea and beside it's not like the people here will miss him all that much and by the sound of it, not even the boy's family, sans his uncle, seemed to care for him. "That's not a bad idea." she whispered, glancing at the red head with a small smile. "Hey Naru-chan, why don't you take Gaa-chan over there and teach him a game. Prehaps tag."

"Yeah!" the blond cheered, jumping up, "Come on Gaara." he called wrapping one of his hand around the red heads and tugging him to his feet before pulling him away.

Shisui frowned and glanced at Kagome, "What's going on?"

"Sabaku no Gaara is the jinchuuriki for the Ichibi no Shukaku, you can just guess how his been treated thus far." the dark haired girl narrowed her eyes to slits, "The worst part is his own family doesn't seem to care, well his mentioned his uncle being the only one to look after him and his never mentioned a mother so I assume she's dead, probably died the day Gaara was born."

Itachi crossed his arms and looked at the two kids, "It's horrible how some people treat the kids who should be praised as heroes for saving their miserable existence from the demons."

"Humans are wretched and fearful beings, save for a few, who will always seek to destroy what's different even if it was made by their own hand." Kagome pointed out softly, blue eyes softened as she watched the two boys laugh, "There going to be something special, I can tell."

Itachi and Shisui nodded their heads in agreement.

As the sun sank lower and the moon began to awake, Kagome stood up and told the two boys they had to go already. Naruto opened his mouth when he closed it as seeing the look his sister was giving him. "No, Naru, we are going to get some dinner and take it back to our hotel room, after which you'll take a shower and get to bed, training begins early."

Gaara lowered his head, thinking he had to leave his new friends and return to his cold and lonely room, when a hand touched his head, "Hey didn't I tell you already. your coming with us and joining Naruto in his training." a smile broke out on the red heads lips as he nodded his head.

"Let's go my faithful minions!"

(Konohagakure)

Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed and removed his gaze from the window. It's been half a day since the four kids left and he hope they were alright. If everything went alright, they should've made it to Suna by now. Or he hope they did. He narrowed his eyes when he saw several civilians laughing and having a good time, it had been that way since everyone had found out Naruto had left the village and won't be back for a few years.

A smile made it's way to his face when he remembered Iruka's reaction earlier that day when some guys walked up to him and started talking as if they were best friends.

Flashback

Umino Iruka sighed and trudged down the street. It had only been an hour since Naruto had left and he only missed the little blond boy. I guess it was to be expected seeing as the brunet had helped raise the blond so it was only natural to feel worred and concern.

Sighing heavily, the academy instructor made his way towards the Namikaze estate but stopped when two guys walked up to him throwing their arms over his shoulder and started laughing, loudly.

Narrowing his eyes, Iruka stared at them in confusion, he had never seen these two before and had no idea who they were or why they near him. Glancing around he saw alot of people, mostly civilians laughing and having a good time, "What's going on?" he questioned.

"Eh, you don't know!" one exclaimed.

Iruka rolled his eyes, "Of course not, if I did, I wouldn't have asked."

The second guy waved his arm in front of his face, "Woah man, no need for the hostility on such a joyous occasion." he grinned, "Well a lot of people witnessed the demon brat leaving the village with that Ice bitch Namikaze heir and those two Uchiha who is always with them. Good riddance I say."

The two guys began laughing unaware of the evil aura emitting from the usually kind and gentle man. And in an impressive burst of speed and strength, Iruka and thrown the two guys into several people and glared at those around him who had stopped what they were doing to stare at him.

"You've got some nerve! Does the Hokage know what your doing? He Most likely doesn't or you'd be with Ibiki and Anko faster then you can say. 'who'." he hissed. "And you better watch what you say about Kagome, you low life son of bitch." he snarled at the crowd who was staring wide eyed at him, "You beat the poor kid while his in the village and now you celebrate when his not here, I bet your real proud of yourselves aren't you." he glared at them. "When you die, I hope Minato-sama and Kushina-sama get their revenge on you for your treatment of their son." with that said he stormed away, shoving people as he did so, not caring if they had fallen over or got hurt. They deserved it for everything that they had ever done to Naruto and Kagome.

Unaware that the Hokage with Iruka, Anko, Ibiki and several other masked shinobi were standing on the roof about ready to arrest the masses.

A sadisic snicker escaped Anko's lips. "Who would think a guy like Iruka would blow up like that."

"I did." Kakashi eye smiled and glanced at the Hokage, "Now can we arrest them and stop this party."

At his nod the shinobi's left in blurs of speed.

End flashback

Sarutobi shook his head and looked down at the desk but blinked when a 'caw' interrupted his reading and he turned and glanced at the window. A raven sat perched on the window with a scroll tied to his leg. Standing up the elderly Hokage opened the window allowing the bird to fly inside. "Is that from Itachi, Kagome, Shisui and Naruto?" a caw from the raven was his answer as untied the scroll from the birds leg, after unrolling the sealing scroll and applying blood to the seal, several letters popped out. There was one for Kakashi, Iruka, Shikamaru, Shino, Neji, the Ichiraku's and him. Picking up the one addressed for him, the hokage opened it and began reading it's contents."

Hokage-sama,

Seeing as we have just left Konoha today, we didn't get into any major fight. We are currently in Sunagakure and we're planning on staying here for a minimum of two weeks before we leave. You'll never guess what we discovered here, in the second that we were inside. A jinchuuriki. The Ichibi no Shukaku to be exact and the container is just so cute.

His a few months older then Naruto with bright red hair and teal colored eyes with these black circles around each one. He looks like a panda, it's just to precious. And before you even ask, Sabaku no Gaara, is treated just as bad as Naruto, but the boys family couldn't care a rats ass about him, well beside his uncle anyways. We'll be starting Naruto's training tomorrow and Gaara's going to join him, I wanted to better analyze the Sabaku's seal, just to make sure everything is alright.

Shikamaru, Shino, Neji, the Ichiraku and Iruka was written by Itachi, while Naruto is telling him what to write, he couldn't wait to tell them all about Suna and his new friend. Kakashi's letter was written by Shisui. That's practically everything, so I'll write to you when we leave Suna that way I can tell you about how Naruto's trainings been.

Talk to you later,

Kagome.

(In Suna - Two weeks later)

Things didn't get better for Gaara in Suna as they people still feared him. It was day the Konoha chunin's and the blond ball of sunshine were leaving the sand village.

"I don't want you guys to leave." Gaara's lips trembled at the thought of his first real friends leaving him alone.

Kagome smiled and grabbed his hand, "Your coming with us Gaara and there is nothing your father can do about it unless he's going to come after you himself. As a civilian you can go where ever you want with no risk but as a shinobi you'll be marked as a rogue and have hunters after you but your not a shinobi and thus you can come with us." the dark haired girl patted the the green eyed boys head. "And Shisui, Itachi and I will protect both you and Naruto with our lives."

Tears filled Gaara's eyes and he smiled, "Thank you Kagome-chan."

"Alright let's go." Kagome picked the red head up and headed towards the gates of Suna where Itachi, Naruto and Shisui was already waiting to leave. As soon as she passed the enterance, a hand grabbed her shoulder and she turned. "What?"

Gaara turned to the man and smiled, "Uncle Yashamaru!"

"Gaara what's going on here? Who are these people? And where are you going?" the blond man questioned, a confused look entering his eyes.

Kagome placed Gaara on his feet and watched as her team and younger brother walked over towards her, "We are taking Gaara away from ungrateful place who can't or won't see the difference between a demon the container."

Yashamaru nodded his head, a boyish smile on his face, "Well that's good. I hope you don't mind me tagging along with you." the man turned and glared at the gates, "I just returned from a month long mission and reported in to the Kazekage, Gaara's father, when he told me I was assigned to assassin Gaara tonight because I was the only one the boy trust. I couldn't do it. I returned home, signed a letter of resignition and gave it to the secretary and left my headband at my apartment. I was going to get Gaara and leave, so this works out great."

Kagome stared at the man with a critical eye before nodding her head, "Alright, and don't worry about anyone coming after us. Itachi placed the village under a sharingan induced genjutsu that won't be released for at least a day, that will give us a day to get far enough away where they can't track us."

Yashamaru blinked and nodded, "So where are we going?"

"We are going to stay at Ichigakure for a while to further train Naruto and Gaara before we head to our next destination." she retorted with a smile.

"And where is that?" the sandy blond questioned, he turned to glance at his nephew and smiled at the red head. He wanted to know what they taught Gaara but decided it could wait until they reached the borders between kaze no kuni and tsuchi no kuni where Ichigakure was located.

Kagome smiled, "We're going up." she held up a scroll to allow Yashamaru to see what was written on it. She already shown Itachi and Shisui the map she found in her father's study, and they agreed that taking Naruto there would be a good idea.

"That's..." Yashamaru gaped in disbelief, he knew that place had been destroyed during the second great shinobi war by Konohagakure, so actually seeing proof that the place survived was surprising."

Positively grinning, Kagome pulled her hood up and ran to catch up with Itachi, Naruto and Shisui while Yashamaru carried Gaara, "Yes, we are heading to Soragakure!"

To be continued

Yes, I did make Yashamaru at least seven years younger, I just don't believe his 27, he looks a lot younger then that, so I cut his age down and yes he is good and not faking it, at first I thought about having Gaara's uncle try to kill him like canon but decided I liked the idea of Yashamaru being the only one in Suna that cared for Gaara. So his staying. He'll be like the father/ older brother of the group.

The two shadow figures do pay a role in the story but you don't find out who they are until later in the story.

Pairings: Naruto: Itachi, Shika, Shino...

I want to add Haku and Kimimaro, what do you think?

Kaka/Iru

Neji/Gaa - Does anyone want this pairing, someone said they didn't like ts one. So let me know what you think...

And who do you think should end up with Shisui.

OMC, Utakata (love him) or someone else.

Next chapter: You'll see what Kagome, Itachi and Shisui taught the two boys while in Suna. They meet two people while in Ichigakure who joins the group before they head off towords Sora no kuni, and find out more about new Soragakure in the next chapter and just why Minato had a map and a scroll about that village hidden in his study.

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ItaNaru