TDA: Hey everyone! Thank you for the reviews! And sorry it took longer than I thought to make this chapter. I have workat night and school during the day. Also I take naps in between both...... I literally mean naps i don't actually get to fall asleep unless it's a weekend. Oh right, thats not going to happen for me this saturday.

You see, I work 5/6 to close, which at my work could be anywhere from midnight to 3 in the morning. and that's everynight. But I was taking a nap and took someone's morning shift for saturday, too tired to be awake at this point.

Anyways, so now on friday I have work from 5 to close and work 1130 to 445 on saturday morning with my original shift 5 to close that same day.

I am going to die. T_T

I hope you like this chapter!

"speaking"

'thought'

*action*

Flashback


Morning came too soon for Gaara, which in his case could be a sigh of relief or a known feeling of awkwardness that has yet to come. The sun shinned on him as he lazily leaned on the building across the street of the blonde's house. He wasn't scared about going back in, he was… confused, to say the least. He looked up at the balcony door with an intent gaze and an invisible eyebrow raised. There was something that he was missing, that he wanted; it was enticing, inviting, and addicting.

When he became the Kazekage, there were all sorts of battles inside the village and outside about who had what drug and what one's were better for whatever the reason. For the longest time he did not know what it was like to want an object so badly that they would do just about anything to get their hands on it.

That was until last night.

It however, was not an object. It was the sound that traveled through pink lips that called out, as if it was meant for his ears only. Gaara tried to suppress the shiver that wanted to travel through his spine and failed.

"Gaara!"

Gaara looked at the happy blonde jumping down from the balcony and tried to keep his face calm and collected. However his mind was a complete wreck.

"Hey Gaara, why weren't you inside?"

"I don't sleep remember?"

"Right, then what did you do all night?"

Gaara just looked past him to the building. Naruto noticed his gaze and fallowed it. The house was cleaner than it had ever been in a long while. After what had happened last night he hadn't dared to enter the building. He had spent the whole night wondering what had happened and, for lack of clearing his mind, cleaned the paint and graffiti off of the walls and the door instead. He finished up probably an hour before the sun came up to wake the village for the day.

And for once, Naruto was speechless.

Gaara turned to see his reaction about his work, only to have his eyes widen slightly as he saw tears at the brim of the blonde's eyes. Naruto turned to Gaara, eyes now closed trying to hid said tears. His big toothy grin on as he said, "Thank you" His voice wavered and brought the redhead into a short but very much needed embrace. Eyes widen even more at the sudden action as Gaara slowly brought his arms around to give the blonde a reassuring rub on his back before they parted. The goofy grin became even goofier as the blonde backed up.

"Let's go get breakfast" Naruto stated as he grabbed Gaara's hand starting to pull, "My treat".

Gaara couldn't help but blush just the slightest bit as he was pulled in the direction of Ichiraku's ramen hut. "Naruto you don't have to you know. I have more than enough money to---"

"It's the least I can do. You cleaned my home after all" Naruto interrupted as he smiled back towards Gaara.

"………… Okay." Gaara caved.

They talked about random stuff as Gaara had one bowl of ramen with vegetables, and Naruto's bowl of everything in one, five times. The red head wondered how the blonde could stay so thin now knowing how much he eats. He remembered how his stomach looked well toned when his shirt was ruffled up last night. Eyes wandered down to the teen's stomach and waist. Somehow he managed to keep the blush from showing. 'He's really athletic, how much does he actually train?'

"How much do you actually train?" he asked out loud, surprising himself.

"Huh?" Naruto looked up at the question. Chopsticks with noodles, hung from his mouth.

'Cute'

His eyebrows furrowed just a bit.

'WHAT?!?'

"Since you're eating that much, I was wondering, how long do you train for?" he said quickly remembering that Naruto was waiting.

Naruto slurped up the rest of the noodles, "Well, I train almost every day. Usually I'll train before I eat, but today I'll make an exception."

"Mhmm…"

"Oh yeah speaking of training would---"

"I'd thought I'd find you here."

"Huh?" said Naruto.

Both the teen's looked behind them to find a hooded figure with glasses standing eerily close.

"Shino!" yelled Naruto as he jumped out of his chair, startled. "I told you not to do that!"

Shino just raised an eyebrow as he continued, "Lady Tsunade wishes to see you."

"Tsunade?"

"Yes she has called for you both to see her"

"Both?" Naruto asked. He looked over to Gaara.

Gaara simply rose from his seat and headed towards the Hokage building.

"Wait for me!" Naruto said as he turned to pay for the meals and ran to catch up with Gaara.

Little while later

"Are you sure?" Gaara asked seriously.

"I'm afraid so"

"……"

"I'm sorry to ask you this Kazekage, however under the circumstances; do you think that you could stay with Naruto for another night?"

'Another night with Naruto? It's not the worst thing; I'd be fine with that. I just hope that what happened last night was a onetime deal.' Gaara thought for a moment before giving his answer.

"Anything to help."

"Are you positive that they were telling the truth?" Shikamaru asked.

"I understand your concern but believe me the ANBU used the 'Back to the Past Jutsu' and they are positive that the one who had the knife had replaced himself the moment you four went to ambush them."

"That's impossible though! How could he disappear without us noticing?"

"Calm down Konkuro, we'll find him." Temari said reassuring.

Gaara looked at Naruto from the corner of his eye to see what the blonde was thinking. Naruto's bangs however, covered his eyes as if protecting them.

"Who was the replacement?" Shikamaru asked.

"Utsegari, Shimimari. He was brought in from a different village, one that had died out long ago. However, the family was forced to live as thieves in order to survive."

"Did he know who or where the one with the knife is or went?" Konkuro asked angrily.

"No. the man has never even seen his face before, since all of them were wearing those cloaks every time they had met up. They go by codenames, such as Shimimari's is Fingers"

*Chuckle* "Fingers? You've got to be kidding me. That's the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of."

"You wouldn't be laughing if it was your life on the line, Konkuro." Tsunade stated bluntly, eyebrows furrowed towards the teen. Laughter immediately stopped. Konkuro looked around the room to ignore Tsunade's glare and was met by three other ones. 'Shikamaru could be scary if he really wanted to and Temari is just plain scary altogether.' He looked over at Gaara who by far was the scariest out of all of them. 'Oh geez… I haven't seen that look since before the Chunnin exams those few years ago.' Konkuro involuntarily shivered at the thought. He looked over at Naruto, regretting it and looked to the floor, ashamed.

"There are more, aren't there" Naruto said more as a statement than a question.

"Yes" Tsunade replied.

"………"

"It seems that 'Fingers' is one boss, the other six were his own lackey's."

"One boss? You mean there are more?"

"There are three others that he had met, but they are not the leader of this organization. That is as far as we got to interrogate him."

"What do you mean 'as far as we got'?" asked Shikamaru.

"Shimimari had swallowed a pill that instantly killed him. Autopsy has not been conclusive yet but I believe we'll find that one of his teeth was replaced with a fake so that it could hold that pill until he was ready to use it."

The others were silent as she paused to give them time to take the information in.

"Naruto, I want you to be very careful until the ones responsible have been caught."

Naruto nodded in understanding.

"You are all dismissed."


Naruto was silent as he kept on walking. He knew that things would be difficult for the next couple days at least. However he didn't want to think about it at all. He put on a cheerful expression and turned to face Gaara who was following.

"You want to go train together?"

"…"

"Let's go!" He ran towards the training grounds making sure that Gaara was following. After a little ways they came to a clearing in the middle of the woods, there on the other side of the field was a stream that floated down to the waterfall just a short distance away. Naruto took off his jacket and shoes laying them near the tree they had just passed. He then asked Gaara if he wanted to spar.

"Since Shukaku is no longer inside of me, some of my power had been taken away"

"How do you mean?"

"My ability to control sand. It was so easy for me to control it and now I have to use a lot of chakra to be able to use the sand in my gourd."

"So what do you want to do?"

"I would like to try and build up some more chakra control, if that's okay." Gaara sat under the tree that Naruto had placed his belongings next to in an Indian style and started to concentrate.

"Sure, sounds good. I guess that I'll be sparing against myself then" Naruto said as he turned towards the field. Gaara closed his eyes and tried to concentrate, as he heard Naruto poof up some clones to fight against.

Thinking about it though, Gaara decided to make his third eye and scout the area. It seems that it was like last night, no one in sight or any lingering presence. He let his eye wander through the woods in the two hundred yard radius that it could go. He could see the branches that held nests of birds with their young ones trying to teach them how to fly; the moss that grew from the damp tree trunks and ground; the unusual foreign plants that grew nearby the stream off in the distance; as well as the waterfall itself to the left of them.

It was only a half hour later did he call back the sand to where he and Naruto were.

Somewhere along the way Naruto had decided to practice in the middle of the field. Gaara tried to call back his third eye but was having trouble concentrating. He could see Naruto fighting the twenty copies of himself left. Gaara had to admit it, the way Naruto moved fighting was… poetry, in its own way. He decided to let his eye wonder around a little bit.

He noticed that the blonde was breathing hard from moving around so much. Sweat was visible as his blonde hair stuck to his forehead. A serious look in his eyes, that seemed to pierce through any attempt trying to read his next move. Aggravated, he removed his black shirt that was clinging nicely to his stomach and tossed it to the side.

Gaara forgot to breathe. He looked over Naruto's well toned muscles that seemed to fit him perfectly. Gaara involuntarily licked his lips. Naruto's stance showed that he was ready to fight, as his clones came forth to throw a few punches. Naruto took a hold of his clone's arm and tossed him overhead into another clone, making both disappear. Two more came with Kunai in each hand. Naruto Jumped backwards taking one kunai from each clone and fired them back into their backs making them disappear before he landed on his feet again. After catching the shuriken that had come flying towards him, he dodged the clone that had tried to kick him and slit that clones throat with one of the shuriken. Before the clone disappeared, Naruto threw the rest of the shuriken at the clones at the left and right side of him, making them disappear as well. The rest of the nine clones charged at Naruto punching and kicking. Naruto deflected them all as he attacked them one at a time. First one in the stomach, second one under his chin. The third, his spine with a fierce kick. The fourth, his neck with the hidden Kunai. Fifth, sixth, and seventh were swept kicked and stabbed in midair. The last two were creating a Rasengan, however they failed as a Kunai was thrown towards the one who was holding it in place. The pressure tossed the other one back a few yards back, making the last one disappear.

Naruto slowly stood upright, staring at where his clones were just standing. He looked over Naruto's body, eyes wondering one inch at a time. His eyes seemed glazed as he traveled over Naruto's face then down his shoulders, chest, and hips. He found it difficult to pull his gaze away from Naruto's body. Gaara stared as he felt a heating sensation travel through his own body. Naruto started to walk towards and into the stream nearby. Naruto splashed as much water onto his face so he could cool his warm body. Gaara almost lost his composure when Naruto did this. His gaze then traveled down further to Naruto's butt. He licked his lips again and now he could feel a certain part of his pants getting smaller. The images came floating back to him from last night. He was about to get up and walk over to Naruto when a figure came and beat him to it.


TDA: I have a special request for my audience! (And no I can't spell)

I need a rival, more specifically, Gaara's rival.

I would like to know who you guys would like to flirt with Naruto and make Gaara jealous. Sorry not to diss anyone's prefrence but, NO SASUKE! There is only so much stuff that the story could go with him and Naruto pairings, and everyone has already thought of them. With the others though there could be a lot more to go on with the imagination.

These are the one's that I like:

Neji

Shikamaru

Kiba

Shino

The reason I'm having trouble is because of how in certain episodes, they all have this look they give to Naturo that makes me think that there are more feelings there. Such as:

Neji making fun of Naruto's fear of ghosts (Filler Episode)

Shikamaru stating that he thought that Naruto would be like himself. (Chunnin Exams)

Shino laughing episode and him showing concern in a different episode (Filler Episodes)

Kiba's fight and him cheering for Naruto (Chunnin Exams)

Plus I just like them all too much XD

Anyways I'll give everyone till the 22nd at 2 in the morning to put in their votes

(That will give me enough time to type in other chapters and situations as well)

ALSO AS A BONUS!

I will make a threesome oneshot (of the winners choice) for the one who can give me either the episodes or time frame of when everyone found out about Naruto being a container of the Kyubbi.

Ja-Na!

X3