hello everyone! see i betcha thought i wouldnt update this fast! haha! i fooled all of you! ok so please enjoy chapter-o 4-0
"Its hot out" Gaara said wiping the sweat off his brow.
"Yeah" Naruto replied, the two were sitting under the shade of the tree looking out at the water. Pakkun waded in the shallow water occasionally dunking his head into the water to cool him off. "Hey Gaara" Naruto said looking at the red head.
"Yeah?"
Naruto gave him a toothy smile "Wanna go swimming?"
Gaara looked back at him with a wide smile and feverishly nodded his head. "You betcha" the boys quickly got undressed laying their pants and shirts on a bush so they wouldn't get wet. Gaara cautiously dipped one toe in the cold water "It's chilly"
Naruto looked at him "ok" he said before he splashed into the water.
"aaah" Gaara squealed as he covered his face from the spray of water, he pushed aside a few strands of waterlogged hair that dangled in front of his face.
"Come on Gaara!" Naruto yelled as he splashed his friend. Gaara stood there for a moment and then decided that a little swim couldn't hurt.
"Ok" he smiled as he walked out into the waist deep water, "happy?"
"Yup" Naruto dove under the water and grabbed Gaara's legs
"Eeeeiyee" he squealed as he was pulled under the water, bubbles floated up to the surface all around him. "Cool" Gaara thought as he opened his eyes underwater, the ground was lined with sand and smooth stones, but no fish for some odd reason. He swam back up to the surface taking a huge breath, then once again submerging himself in the water. He swam around looking at the rocks and how thin rays of sunshine penetrated through the water. Gaara passes his hand through the ray looking at how the sunlight gathered on his palm. Once he was out of breath he rose to the surface and wiped the water from his eyes.
"Cool huh?" Naruto said as he watched his friend rise from the water.
Gaara walked through the water to Naruto and sat down in the shallows, "yeah, we never had anything like this back home either."
Naruto's eyes widened "you didn't have water?" he said exasperated
Gaara chuckled "no we had water, just not in this natural form, it evap-o-rated if we put it outside." He replied, annunciating the word evaporated the best he could.
"ooooh" Naruto said "I get it." They sat in the water watching Pakkun romp around weather it was attempting to catch a frog that was lazily sunning itself on a rock, or rolling in the grass. He shook the water from his fur and trotted back over to the boys.
"We should get going" he said as he turned around and grabbed the leash in his mouth.
The boys just looked at each other with gaping mouths, "Whaaaa?" they said at the same time.
"So he can talk!" Gaara said astounded, "I thought I was just imagining it before!"
Pakkun cocked his head so one of his ears flopped over "of course I can talk" he said in an annoyed tone. The boys stood up and pulled on their clothes still staring at the dog. "What? What is it?" He said again as they started to walk back to the path,
"How come you never talked to us before?" Naruto asked
Pakkun paused for a moment "Eh 'cause I didn't feel like it."
"Ok" Naruto said, still a little confused,
"Hey Naruto?" Asked Gaara
"hmm?" He replied as they were half way through the forest
"Can we go back there again?" he asked in a small voice
"Yeah sure, I like going there, next time we'll have to being our swim suits and maybe Hinata-chan."
"Yeah" Gaara cheered "I think she'll like it there too!" They stopped talking for awhile, birds could be heard chirping and twittering, the whole forest smelled like sap and crushed pine needles. Gaara admired at how pretty the place was when the sun was setting through the trees, projecting light onto the path.
"Owwwwwwww!!" Pakkun howled as he rolled off the path and onto the grass.
They both snapped out of their trance and rushed to aid the little dog. "Pakkun what's wrong?" Gaara asked as he kept howling.
Between sniffles he replied "I s-stepped onto a pine cone and hurt my little paw pads"
Naruto looked up at Gaara who was trying to suppress a laugh, but it didn't work, they both busted out laughing.
"Paw pads?" Naruto howled with laughter as Gaara joined him, Pakkun growled and wiped a small tear with his good paw.
"Shut up … they're soft and I like them very much" he retorted.
Gaara scooped up the little dog, "sorry Pakkun, it was just funny how you said it" he said apathetically.
"Yeah" Naruto agreed, "sorry"
"Eh" Pakkun snorted "I don't care, its fine"
"Good" they said in unison, after a while down the road Naruto noticed something laying in the grass. "Hey what's that?" he questioned, without waiting for an answer he sped up the road to examine it. Naruto huffed as he came to a stop.
"Hello" a small boy with an I don't care expression said as he stared up into the sky.
"Hi, who are you, what're you lookin at?" Naruto asked
"I'm Shikamaru, and I guess I'm lookin at the clouds" Shikamaru stared at Naruto for a moment "haven't I seen you before, like around the play ground or something?"
Naruto nodded his head "Yeah you probably have, I spend a lot of time there." Once the boy didn't say anything back Naruto offered his hand "I'm Naruto"
Shikamaru transferred his gaze from the clouds to Naruto, "Hello Naruto, care to join me?" he offered
"Yeah that'd be fun, but do you mind if someone else comes too?" Naruto asked
"Is it him?" Shikamaru pointed to a red haired kid running up the road.
"Yeah! That's my friend Gaara and our dog Pakkun" he replied
"Well this certainly is an event-full day now isn't it?" Shikamaru rhetorically said to himself.
Gaara slowed down and walked over to Naruto and Shikamaru, "hi" he said in short gasps waving at Shikamaru, turning to Naruto he said "why do you have to run so fast, that's been twice today!"
Naruto put his hands behind his head and gave his friend a toothy smile, "oops sorry, oh by the way Gaara, this is Shikamaru" he said pointing to the boy.
"Nice to meet you Shikamaru" Gaara said happily
"Likewise, so you guys live around here 'er something?" He asked as the two boys sat themselves in the grass.
"Yeah" Naruto said "just up the road" he pointed to the horizon.
"Do you live around here?" Gaara asked his new friend
"Somewhat, I live on Nara farm, we raise deer" he said "it's a drag sometimes, so I come out here to just watch the clouds go by and clear my thoughts."
The three sat in the grass watching as the clouds lolled by idly chatting about random things until the sun started to sink behind the horizon.
"Well Shikamaru, we should be getting home" Naruto said
Shikamaru sat up "yeah me too, I'll probably see you both around since I always come here."
"Yeah, I hope so" Gaara said as he picked up a sleeping Pakkun, "Bye!"
"Bye!" Shikamaru said stuffing his hands in his pockets and turned to walk the opposite way.
Pakkun twitched in his sleep "Well" Gaara said "I'm kinda hungry, what do you think Kakashi sempai made for dinner?"
"hnn, I dunno I hope it's good though 'cause I'm starving!" The boys unlatched the gate and walked into the front yard "do you hear that?" Naruto said confused
Gaara was silent for a moment "yeah, yeah I do… what is that?"
They opened the door and soon found out what the noise was, "oh my god, oh my god, I lost my kids, I LOST MY KIDDDSS!!!" Kakashi was screaming running around in frantic circles. When his eyes fell upon the two he stopped in confusion and was silent for a moment "myyy kiddddsss!!!" he ran and scooped them up, one in each arm. It was quiet "Soooooo" Kakashi said "this is…awkward." He put them down on the ground and stared at them for another minute. Suddenly out of nowhere his mood instantly changed "So who's huuungry?" he said in a sing-a-song voice, beckoning to the table, which had a heaping amount of food on it. They rushed to the table and sat in their chares waiting for Asuma and Kakashi to join them.
After everyone was seated Asuma said "So where were you two anyway?"
Gaara swallowed his food "Naruto took me to this place in the woods."
"mmhmm" Kakashi hummed motioning for him to continue
"Then we umm went swimming aaand" Gaara fell quiet "if you don't mind I think I'm done, thank you for the meal Sempai and Asuma." Gaara slid off his chair and padded towards his room.
"Huh?" Asuma said as he looked at Gaara's half eaten dinner "something's not right…"
"Naruto" Kakashi said softly "What's troubling Gaara?"
Naruto thought for a moment "I think he misses Temari and Kankuro."
"Who" Asuma and Kakashi said in unison
"His sib-a-lings"
Kakashi's expression fell "…siblings" he said distant tone "I'll talk to Kurenai later we'll figure something out."
"Maybe we could take a vacation to his town 'er something" Asuma suggested
"Yeah…yeah that sounds good, like I said I'll talk to Kurenai in the morning" Kakashi said and then went back to eating his dinner, pondering about possible things he could do for his new child, but Asuma's idea seemed like the best suggestion, "So a vacation it is…"
Ok so here offically is where the story gets its name, i had to put that part with Pakkun in there because it made me laugh in the anime. So i hope you all enjoyed this chapter and remember...REVIEW! or else you'll make me cry...no really, i was just kidding.
